Google has been found in court to be a monopoly, but there is to be a trial to plan how to remedy the situation, and the judge has now refused to accept Apple intervening, saying it waited too long.

A federal judge last summer ruled that the $20B+ Google pays to Apple to be the default search engine on the Cupertino company’s devices was illegal. Several Apple execs testified in the case, but a request to present an additional three witnesses has been refused by the judge, saying Apple left it too late …

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Apple had waited too long to file their motion and granting the company's request would cause significant delays to the case's already packed schedule.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta today denied Apple's last-minute request to allow it to represent itself in U.S. v Google.