At the onset of the Epic lawsuits, I thought the Apple lawsuit would have some merit, because they tie users' hands behind their backs, but that the Google laws

At the onset of the Epic lawsuits, I thought the Apple lawsuit would have some merit, because they tie users' hands behind their backs, but that the Google lawsuit was a baseless attempt to fragment the Play Store with Epic microtransaction nonsense. All the things coming out of the Google case have shifted my opinion significantly. Google wasn't actually playing fair while Apple was cheating; they both were cheating. Google was just hiding it under a veneer of "open source" and "open platform". The Apple lawsuit failed primarily because, well, it's not illegal to use a legal monopoly (copyright) in the intended manner. Nor is it illegal to merely be big[0]. Epic's lawsuit against Google may succeed purely on the basis of "well, Google opted in to competing app stores and payment methods, Apple didn't", which is not at all the outcome I wanted or expected. [0] Or at least, it stopped being illegal after the neoliberals rewrote history with the "consumer welfare" argument.