no further questions for M, we're now in a break.
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Google (Van Nest) asks for additional time to prep for the next witness, since Oracle has decided to shuffle their witness list b/c time
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We all stand up for jury. Alsup looks at us. "Before this case is over you should let me take my iPhone out and take a panoramic picture."
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Alsup: Then you can have something to show to your grandchildren.
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Someone (at Oracle?) quips that it "won't be as nice as last time." Alsup laughs a little.
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An economist is now testifying: Adam Jaffe.
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Jaffe is from Harvard, he also served on POTUS's Council of Economic Advisors.
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I imagine this is expert testimony that goes to the market effects of Android (e.g., Factor 4 of fair use).
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Jaffe: Economists like to measure things, and rank things. So there's a website...
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that ranks all the economists in the world based on their scholarly publications. On that website I'm ranked in the top 1% in the world.
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BTW, this is fair use in the United States. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107 …pic.twitter.com/bdM1878jj2
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Jaffe's analysis says that Android would not have been as successful and that Java was "poised to enjoy continued success in mobile"
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After the vein of Google questioning last time, Oracle takes a moment to establish that it's normal for economists to work with other people
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like Keystone consultants, for example.
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Oracle: Please explain intellectual property for a non-economist. Jaffe. ... we can think of it as property of the mind. Oh thanks dude
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that was like, something a man on Twitter with an avi of himself wearing bad sunglasses would say to me
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Jaffe: I'm not a lawyer, but from an economics and business perspective . . . . [proceeds to describe what licenses are] WTF
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Now he's explaining how device manufacturers and developers are dependent on each other, and "Java sits between them"
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says that Java sits between them, goes into platform economics
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Jaffe: There are three key concepts [in platform economics] that are important to understand what happened here.
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Jaffe: In economics they are called network effects, expectations, and tipping points.
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Network effects: Java value affected by how many people are writing Java
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Expectations: you care about how big a platform is going to be in the future
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Tipping points: "when you bring together network effects and expectations... success feeds success and failure breeds failure"
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Jaffe: There's a point where everyone believes someone is going to be the winner.
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Oracle: What is the importance of timing on network success?
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Jaffe: It's a huge advantage to be there early, if you come late, you're playing catch-up.
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man doesn't this just point to like Oracle frittering away a huge head start despite holding a weird monopoly over a ubiquitous platform
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Jaffe: The size of the developer network is what makes Java valuable. ...They've spent a lot of money in [expanding the dev community]
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this is so weird
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