I'm not sure a country where they're forcing a company to take down apps would allow them to then get sued for the act of compliance being considered anti-competitive. Obviously whatever Apple does in a specific country can't be used to prove anti-competitiveness in another country since that country doesn't have jurisdiction.
Not quite sure I follow that logic. The point is an iphone can be configured to use a VPN (operated by anybody, not limited to Apple) without requiring the use of apps.
> The point is an iphone can be configured to use a VPN (operated by anybody, not limited to Apple) without requiring the use of apps
A very specific type of VPN, which is easily blocked.
I don't know if it's monopolistic as the comment you replied to says, but in the context of the thread, the build-in support doesn't fix the problem banning apps from the app store creates.