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Depends how you view them. If you consider them to be each rather separate ecosystems with limited exchange between them, they could perhaps be two monopolies?

I'm unconvinced by the argument that "iPhone apps" and "Android apps" are the relevant categories, rather than just "smartphone apps". It seems like it leads to a slippery slope where every company that's not selling in a completely-generic category holds a monopoly over its own products. Ford holding a monopoly over F-150 pickup trucks, etc.

The argument Apple has a monopoly on "iPhone apps" was already considered in Epic v. Apple and the judge rejected it.

That should set a precedent for Apple in the US, but it has no bearing on Europe's verdict.

Apple has a total monopoly of iphone's apps. The devices and the marketplace inside the devices are two different markets

Maybe we should change that law.