> The US legal system seems quite broken.

Indeed, sometimes the courts don't just get it wrong, they get it backwards. Compare how Google was punished for allowing Android to sideload apps, while Apple wasn't punished for not letting any apps outside the App Store on iOS.

That’s very different, as discussed at the time.

Apple never allowed it, Google did then had secret deals to squash it.

It was the secret deals to squash competition they got in trouble for.