I dont know if ensuring fairness was part of my job i never thought of it that way

Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court

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Posted Nov 15, 2023 at 6:28 PM UTC

“I don’t know if ensuring fairness was part of my job. I never thought of it that way.’

Epic is not being a good friend back to Rasanen, though. It just pulled up an old deposition where she seemed to admit she wasn’t actually “in the developer’s corner” the way a Google developer-facing presentation portrayed.

Today, she says, “I would disagree with the characterization that I didn’t want to have a fair developer ecosystem.” But after seeing her old deposition, she clarifies, “My job wasn’t to ensure fairness.” She says it was to help developers create great apps and make sure they follow Google’s policies.

She’s in a corner, that’s for sure — the one Epic just painted her into.

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