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The main thing Google got in trouble for is all the emails and deals they sent to device manufacturers to prevent competition with Play Store.

Apple inherently never sent these emails. There’s no deals they made because they were closed from the get go.

Google created a market of “android app distribution”, and then put its thumb on the scales so it always wins. That is why Google lost and Apple didn’t lose (as much).

Because the law isn't written the way fairness is written in our heads, and judges decide based on the law.

follow the money. Which judges handled which cases in which location?

but the non-partisan bailey answer is along the lines of "android promised freedom, IOS never did".

So it's better to be bad than to try to be good and fail?

Based on the legelese here, yea. I guess an equivalent is how you can be a for profit corporation with no issue, but if you're a non profit and you honestly mismanage some $10k as an accounting error, you get the book thrown at you.