“I just spent a significant amount of my time and my energy helping launch our game product on Google Play,” he testifies under oath. “I had hoped that we could pursue that option... and this email led to that not being possible.”

Tim Sweeney is watching his testimony with an open mouth. He seems surprised or amused. That’s new: I haven’t seen Tim with an expression on his face any time I’ve checked for a reaction so far during several weeks of trial.

“I understood what Tim was ultimately trying to accomplish,” Stolfus says.

Ah yes, I forgot we already knew Stolfus was internally skeptical about the plan. We’ve just been reminded about (and the jury has just seen for the first time) what he wrote internally: “I mean, everything we’re attempting is technically in violation of Google’s policies.”

I believe I saw that same email in Epic’s complaint filed in 2020, or perhaps when I was sifting through docs in the Epic v. Apple trial.