I don't have much sympathy for anybody who helped Google and Apple into the monopoly position by making their products available on those platforms. If we all banded together and made sure that all the best apps were only available on a truly open phone platform then everybody would buy a phone on that platform.
Epic could pump a few million into making sure their games ran well on Linux platforms, then partner with Asus, Razer, and others to make Gaming Phones a real thing with support for Linux on those phones. (or a Google free Android if that will lower the bar).
I think the railways and airports are not a good analogy because those are physical things that need a lot of land. (and investment)
We are just talking about software, and what we can and cannot run on our phones.
You are shipping "bits" to phones, just as boats and trains shipped cargo to stations and ports. Its fundamentally analogous as a legal argument; whether it's corporeal items being moved (physical goods) or not doesn't really matter. The principle is the same.
I cannot ever advise a company like Epic to burn its business model overnight on a such a huge risk as you suggest, I'm sure many would agree. You of course are free to continue to disagree and advocate for a new Epic phone platform to sell.
Epic today have 116 million users by their count playing Fortnite on an iOS device. That's a lot of users to convince to pay likely at least several hundred dollars to move to a platform that doesn't exist yet. I didn't even bother to look up the Android count, the iOS user base is enough to illustrate why this is likely a pretty bad business decision.
Epic could pump a few million into making sure their games ran well on Linux platforms, then partner with Asus, Razer, and others to make Gaming Phones a real thing with support for Linux on those phones. (or a Google free Android if that will lower the bar).
I think the railways and airports are not a good analogy because those are physical things that need a lot of land. (and investment) We are just talking about software, and what we can and cannot run on our phones.