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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.



> 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


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.




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