Apple gets sneaky in battle with Epic Games Strategy is to use a long-time collaborator to undermine Epic’s star witness 13 May 2021 - 17:14 Stephen Nellis and Paresh Dave Apple argues that it is just one of many competitors in a healthy market for video game purchases. Picture: DADO RUVIC/REUTERS In its ongoing case against Apple, Fortnite creator Epic Games is counting on this week’s testimony from its star expert witness David Evans, chair of Global Economics Group, to make its case that Apple is an anticompetitive monopolist over app developers. Apple has called its own experts to rebut Evans’s views on the market, but with an added personal twist: It called MIT economist Richard Schmalensee, who has authored numerous books and academic papers together with Evans, to accuse Evans of contradicting his own prior research.