Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

I have been and iOS developer for many years and my main problem with Apple is that it treats small and big developers very differently. Their policies are not applied to all, just like with Google.

But as far as I understand Apple is not a monopoly. So why should they allow users to install app from any source if they made their OS specifically in a way that doesn't allow it? It is a product feature.

And pricing policy - sure I'd love do get 10% cut of 30%. But again, they made a product and allow you do develop apps just take a cut. A big cut? Sure. But shouldn't it be their right to price their products as they see fit as long as they don't have a monopoly?

I am thinking that if I start a company, why should the court force my price policy or tell me what features to implement (obviously as long as they don't harm users, break laws etc) if a consumer has many alternatives?

The monopoly Apple has is the paid mobile software market. The difference between software sales on the Google play store and and the iOS App Store are pretty staggering. I have no expertise in the law so I can’t tell you that’s it a monopoly in the US legal sense (if i had to guess, no) but it absolutely is one in practice. It makes sense that developers, particularly powerful ones like epic, would argue that it is.

That's a good point re the fact that Apple offers the only viable mobile paid software market place. For me it raises the question of whether forcing them via law/regulation to change their model would in practice have the knock on effect of destroying that market, making iOS more android like in terms of developer profitability for all but the Epic-like titans.