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There’s no need for Apple to allow non-App Store programs onto its hardware, but restrictions on developers accepting payments must loosen up. That was U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California’s take on the antitrust showdown between Epic Games Inc. and Apple Inc. on Sept. 10, which saw the Fortnite developer allege Apple was behaving like a monopoly.