> It isn't like Epic doesn't have legal control over how Fortnite is distributed regardless: if Epic doesn't like Apple's terms for their App Store in the current model, they can choose to just not give you the software at all. You are just hoping to play a super dangerous game by assigning a single negotiator between your community of users and Epic in order to try to convince them to develop their software differently

Not exactly. I'm hoping that at least one popular smartphone platform exists that exerts some leverage against software developers on behalf of users, so that users who value that feature can choose that platform. But it's also crucial for customers to be able to choose that platform (in this case, iPhone) for that reason, and to also have viable alternatives if they're not interested in this feature of a smartphone platform. I don't want Apple to do monopolistic things, and I absolutely wish there were more viable smartphone platforms, and I condemn Apple for the things it does to attempt to lock people in to the iPhone platform.