[threeseed]

By that definition every app developer is a competitor.

And Apple is basically a trillion dollar company. Tens of millions in lost revenue from Epic isn’t going to cause them to lose any sleep at night.

[troupo]

> By that definition every app developer is a competitor.

In a sense, yes. The term "sherlocked (by Apple)" exists because Apple routinely releases its own version of various apps

[_aavaa_]

It's not about these tens of million, it's about control over all of the money, and about control of everything on the device more broadly.