The monopoly argument is weird because iPhone global market share is around 14%. iOS is not a public need like water, electricity and such. They can do with their product whatever they want. iPhone buyers want this closed platform with curation and security without bloatware.
Did you know that Epic controls 100% of Unreal Engine? Shocking, i know.
For small Devs like us, we are again a leaf in the wind. At the mercy of bug fixes and neglected frameworks (AR). Epic gives and Epic takes away.
We wanted to release on iOS end of this year and now are screwed.
Fortnite kids do not know the original apple ad from 1984. This is for media and really funny. People who thinks this is hateful don’t get the joke, perhaps because they don’t know the original apple ad. Epic is now very prominent in mainstream news. Free publicity. Preparing a stock market launch? Pure speculation.
Why not spend some of their dev grants and team up with partners to support an open source alternative OS (Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch and others no one ever heard of).