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Archive for May 9th, 2025

Epic Games v. Apple: Apple has never lost this hard before – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09

For my link archive: finally Apple had to broadly accept apps to allow other forms of purchases than through Apple itself.

[Wayback/Archive] Apple has never lost this hard before – YouTube

focussing around this quote from the court order (full PDF below):

Apple willfully chose not to comply with this Court’s Injunction. It did so with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers which would, by design and in effect, maintain a valued revenue stream; a revenue stream previously found to be anticompetitive. That it thought this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation. As always, the cover- up made it worse. For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple.

More details in for instance:

--jeroen

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How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09

The delete trick below not just works for the Chrome Omnibox, but for any autocomplete list in Chrome.

[Wayback/Archive] How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] cmcculloh, [Wayback/Archive] Gaff and [Wayback/Archive] User 张 源 – Super User):

Q

I’ve got a URL in Chrome “local.mysite.com” that autopopulates when I start typing “local.my” into the URL bar.
Note that this URL DOES NOT EXIST in my browser history (at chrome://history/#e=1&p=0) because it isn’t a real site and therefore couldn’t ever be successfully visited and therefore never shows up in my history.

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