Lilbits: Tariffs on Chinese shipments take effect, Apple opens up the App Store (a bit), and first look at Google’s Pixel Desktop mode Now that a US District Court judge has ordered Apple to loosen its restrictions on apps that direct users to pay for goods and subscriptions using non App Store billing, a growing number of developers are starting to update their apps to let users find other ways to pay. Patreon, and Proton are among those who are already planning to do so, and Spotify's…

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Epic Games Store moves to attract app developers with 0% developer share on the first $1 million in revenue Last year Apple responded to a ruling in an antitrust case that required the company to allow app developers to collect payments from users without going through App Store by allowing developers to provide links to alternate payment methods in their apps. But the system that Apple rolled out was pretty onerous. Users who followed those links would see a scare screen noting that Apple couldn't guarantee the security of those payments, and then Apple 

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