(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (CN) – The first day of the three-week trial with profound implications for the future of competition in the technology sector got underway as the CEO of Epic Games Tim Sweeney testified that Apple is running a monopoly through its App Store function in its operating system. “I wanted the world to see that Apple exercises total control over all software on iOS, and it can use that control to deny users’ access to apps,” Sweeney testified at the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, on Monday. Apple attorneys argued Sweeney is using the lawsuit as a scheme to increase Epic’s profits while taking advantage of a sophisticated ecosystem invented and built by Apple to disseminate its popular video game Fortnite to consumers.