Sean Hollister

Jim Kolotouros, who’s currently on the stand, suggested it wasn’t just Raja’s two cents in a follow-up email — that it was a good idea and that Raja’s “last paragraph is the key.”

(He’s slightly wrong, as far as we’re aware: Huawei still sells some phones outside China.)

We’re live from day 5 of Fortnite court in the Epic v. Google trial:

That contract is called a MADA: Mobile Application Distribution Agreement.

“Google requires Google Play to be on the default homescreen, as opposed to any other homescreen, because users are more likely to see it and use it than when it’s on any other homescreen, yes?”

Yes, Kolotouros agrees.

We’ll be back Monday.

Moskowitz is presenting a seemingly unending string of instances in which Lam asks her colleagues to turn off chat history — including one where a colleague repeatedly insisted he was on a legal hold, and thus the documents needed to be preserved. “Ok maybe I take you off this convo :)” she wrote.

To her credit, it looks like she went looking for better guidance after that conversation. She claims she was given bad advice — “it was an open question” after her first call with lawyers as to what needed preserved — and now understands she did not comply with her legal obligations.

That seems plausible. But initially, she said a lawyer never explained her obligations after the legal hold.

Lam says she didn’t get that sort of training.

Here’s another chat message from Lam to a colleague:

“Would it be too much to ask you to turn history off? lots of sensitivity with legal these days :)”

Lam says that her colleague did turn history off, and they had a discussion about Google’s contracts with Android device makers that was, in fact, deleted.

Lam testified earlier that no attorney explained her obligations to preserve documents after Epic’s legal hold.

It also included passages like these:

We’ve moved on to Margaret Lam, a head of strategy for the Android platform and ecosystem. She’s being grilled about her deleted chats.