The costs and investment are not unrealistic or unreasonable. Apple paid those costs. Google paid those costs. There’s a difference between saying “it would be

The costs and investment are not unrealistic or unreasonable. Apple paid those costs. Google paid those costs. There’s a difference between saying “it would be really hard for Epic to recreate an ecosystem and hardware like Apple’s distribution channel” vs “it is structurally intractable or unrealistic in any way.” If Apple & Google slogged through a decade of developing devices, app stores, manufacturing, etc. then so can Epic. If that’s really hard and Epic doesn’t want to do it, they can play by app store rules and use existing app stores. The fact that it’s hard and expensive for Epic to do it their own way is no excuse to call other businesses monopolies. They aren’t doing anything that structurally stops Epic from building its own thing if it wants different policies. Your argument is specious. It’s like saying the suggestion of building your own toll road is too hard, so some other toll road operator (who sunk capital into making their toll road) suddenly has to let you use it for free. If they built the toll road, and they aren’t structurally sabotaging you from going and building your own if you don’t like the tolls, then this is your problem, and the other party exists as living proof that “this is hard” is not an adequate excuse. You can’t cry monopoly just because you don’t like something and feel it would be hard for you to do it a different way on your own.