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Question

When one person sent a personal e-mail with suggestions for this platform, the recipient amusingly didn’t recognize him and asked “Is this the guy that was at one of our rehearsals?” In a baffling event, execs like Phil Schiller claimed that nobody knew if this platform was profitable, and the CEO (15[1])only had a gut feeling it was. A variety of companies including Basecamp, ProtonMail, and Spotify formed a “coalition” abbreviated CAF that targets this platform. In 2021, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that this platform’s (*) “anti-steering” policies were in violation of the (-5[1])California Unfair Competition Law, though it was also not an illegal monopoly. A notorious conflict was started by a company bypassing this platform’s (10[1])thirty percent revenue (-5[1])cut by letting users directly purchase V-Bucks. For 10 points, Epic Games sued Apple after Fortnite was removed from what platform? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: App Store [prompt on “iOS” with “what specific platform on iOS?”; prompt on “Apple” with “what platform run by Apple?”]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Corry Wang	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	50	15
Earthflax Geologybuzzer	Macro Editors	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	91	-5
Henry Cafaro	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	Dianetics for Diabetics	114	10
Ashvin Srivatsa	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	117	-5
Dan Ni	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	139	10
Swapnil Garg	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	Macro Editors	139	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
EMACS at CO	08/06/2023	Y	4	100%	25%	50%	110.50
EMACS Online	10/01/2023	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	117.00