Does Apple actually claim that its "rules are [en]forced evenly w/o exception", or is it merely implied by their (carefully crafted) public statements?
The importance isn’t that the rules aren’t enforced evenly / fairly, but that the rules are only enforced against small companies. Enforcing the rules against Facebook and Amazon would be competitive. Enforcing the rules only against companies that are too small to compete with Apple is anti-competitive. We don’t see a suit from Facebook/Amazon, because they are also beneficiaries of Apple’s illegal conduct. I wasn’t convinced until I saw this, but this is strong evidence for Epic’s case.
