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Sean Hollister
Epic starts with a chart.

Epic’s lead attorney Gary Bornstein’s opening argument revolves around green bars — 12 of them, representing the months January–December 2020, showing the Google Play Store counts for well over 90 percent of app installs on Android that year.

Bornstein says Google will argue that the Samsung app store comes installed on 60 percent of all phones, but it’s only an orange sliver on the chart.

“That is all that Samsung, the largest OEM by far, has been able to achieve.”

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