Apple CEO testifies in Epic lawsuit that says App Store is an unfair monopoly

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday told a court that threats to iPhone security and privacy required tight control of the App Store, which Fortnite game maker Epic Games says is a monopoly that Apple illegally abuses.

The testimony constitutes Cook’s most extensive public remarks on the App Store, which anchors Apple’s $53.8 billion US services business, at a time when the company that once urged the world to “think different” is criticized as too big and too powerful.

Epic has waged a