Yes, absolutely. But there are 2 major issues here:
- Apple is controlling their platform in a monopolistic way. They want to ensure they’re the only middle man, and profit off that monopoly. This is anti-consumer and has to be regulated.
- Apple went further then just banning Fortnite with essentially Unreal Engine ban. Clearly no longer about what Epic did with payment system, it’s directed at people using a specific set of tool, not because these tools became suddenly an issue, but because they want to attack the company that made those tools.
And lawsuits aside, for the developers community and consumers, we can’t allow this. And this isn’t only software, look at Amazon for example. It seems like big companies found a loophole to control and exploit the market by essentially owning the market, buying out any startup competition they might have, monopolizing the basic software that devices use etc.
Let’s say you want to sue a company you work for over something. They fire you, but it doesn’t stop there, because they monopolized electricity, housing, water etc, and you get all of those as a part of big “terms of service” and now they deny you all the basics you need, and they also deny them to your family and friends, guilt by association. This is what’s happening in Epic’s case but in the business, not individual aspect.