The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

  • My badges

  • Twitter Updates

  • My Flickr Stream

  • Pages

  • All categories

  • Email Subscription

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 717 other subscribers

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

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Google, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »