https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210910/09445547538/apple-mostly-not-entirely-wins-against-epic-no-antitrust-violation-must-tweak-practices-to-comply-with-ca-law.shtml

If there's something that's been made clear over the last year or so in the world of antitrust it's that just because some people don't like big companies and their practices, that doesn't mean it's an antitrust violation. It rarely is. In the well, rather epic lawsuit that Epic brought against Apple, we initially described it as a contract negotiation by lawsuit and predicted that it didn't seem likely to actually meet the bar for an antitrust violation. It seems that District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers agreed with us, rejecting the antitrust claims entirely. As the judge wrote:

Given the trial record, the Court cannot ultimately

finds that Apple enjoys considerable market share of over 55% and extraordinarily high profit

margins, these factors alone do not show antitrust conduct. Success is not illegal. The final trial

record did not include evidence of other critical factors, such as barriers to entry and conduct

decreasing output or decreasing innovation in the relevant market. The Court does not find that

it is impossible; only that Epic Games failed in its burden to demonstrate Apple is an illegal

monopolist.