Comment by WarmWash

Epic games sued both Apple and Google for anti-competitive behavior.

Apple was found not guilty.

Google was found anti-competitive.

In the appeal, Google asked the judge why Apple wasn't anti-comptitive and the judge told them that Apple wasn't anti-competitive because there were no competitors on their platform to compete with.

Google lost the appeal, an inflection point in tech was created, and Google wondered why the hell they tried being open when xbox, playstation, nintendo, apple, all get to do whatever they want on their closed platform.

It's incredible how little coverage that ruling gets despite how damning and detrimental to tech it's implications are.