Apple is in a stronger position than Android or MS Windows, because it owns HW, FW and OS, just like a console maker. Android and Windows OTOH are just pieces of SW, albeit very important, PC makers, or DIY end users, put together with HW and other SW, the resulting systems were eventually recognised by laws and judgements to be essentially born free and as open as possible, without the makers of any part allowed to seize total control of the marketplace.
Anyhow, if it happened that judges determined iPhone is too big to be treated as a simple competitor regarding antitrust laws, then its monopoly on marketplace could be questioned. But Epic challenging the current situation with a blatant breach of contract, furthermore done not for a free market, but for its own closed marketplace, isn't doing any favour to the freedom front.
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