Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, May 24th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Well, guess what?

Just like that the Apple versus Epic trial is already over.

Closing arguments are today in fact, but what we missed because

of the weekend was the headliner, Tim Cook's testimony on Friday quoting Tech Crunch.

Rather than a fiery condemnation on Friday, quoting Tech Crunch.

Rather than a fiery condemnation of EPIC's shenanigans and allegations,

Cook offered a mild carefully tended ignorance

that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered or unanswerable.

The facade of innocent ignorance began when he was asked about Apple's R&D numbers, 15 to 20 billion dollars annually for the last three years.

Specifically, he said that Apple couldn't estimate how much of that money was directed

toward the App Store because, quote, we don't allocate like that,

i.e. research budgets for individual products

aren't broken out from the rest.

Now, that doesn't sound right, does it?

A company like Apple knows down to the penny how much it spends on its

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