Apple, Appealing €500M DMA Fine, Contends It Made a Series of Proposals to the European Commission Throughout 2024 but Did Not Receive Feedback

More Old Mac Font Memories

CarPlay Ultra, the Next Generation of CarPlay, Is Now Available in New Aston Martins

The App Store Shows a Warning for EU Apps That Use External Purchases

Trump Says He Has ‘A Little Problem With Tim Cook’ Regarding Apple’s Plans to Increase iPhone Production in India

The App Store Is Showing a Warning for EU Apps That Use External Purchases

Trump Says He Has ‘A Little Problem With Tim Cook’ Regarding Apple’s Plans to Increase iPhone Production in India

HDR in Forthcoming Halide 3

Ben Sandofsky (tweet, Hacker News): Then the algorithms combined everything into a single “photo” that matches human vision… a photo that was useless, since computer screens couldn’t display HDR. So these researchers also came up with algorithms to …

Microsoft Layoffs

Jordan Novet: Microsoft on Tuesday said that it’s laying off 3% of employees across all levels, teams and geographies, affecting about 6,000 people.[…]The company reported better-than-expected results, with $25.8 billion in quarterly net income, and…

2025 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card

Jason Snell: Of those expressing a preference, a third said they’d only be comfortable with allowing on-device running of AI models; nearly half said they’d be okay with on-device models and those that run in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers. O…

SQLite Databases in App Group Containers (Don’t)

Brent Simmons (2020): The crash logs were not identical, but they had this same thing:Namespace RUNNINGBOARD, Code 0xdead10ccThis meant that the system was killing the app because, after the background task was complete, the app still had references…

CarPlay Ultra, the Next Generation of CarPlay, Is Now Available in New Aston Martins

‘Max’, the Dumbest Name Ever, Changes Back to ‘HBO Max’

The App Store Is Showing a Warning for EU Apps That Use External Purchases

Apple Developer App 10.8

Juli Clover: As WWDC 2025 approaches, Apple has updated its Developer app to prepare for the week-long event. The refreshed version of the developer app will host the WWDC 2025 session videos, 1-on-1 labs with Apple engineers, and more. It’s still u…

External Purchase Conversion Metrics

Jacob Eiting (Mastodon): Turns out, in-app purchases are good for conversion rates. In fact, at least 30% better. That’s one of the things we found while running the first large-scale, side-by-side test of in-app vs web purchases in history.[…]The i…

Critical Warning for External Purchases in App Store

Viktor Maric: first time seeing this. Apple will punish the apps with external payment system Swift Dev: Yup it’s real, you see this warning if the app doesn’t use IAP. Also it says external purchases next to the “get” button It’s confusing to follo…

Apple’s 2025 Accessibility Feature Preview

Apple: Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Accessibility Nutrition Labels, which will provide more detailed information for apps and games on the App Store. Users who are blind or have low vision can ex…

★ Single-Story a’s in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1

A single-story “a” in Chicago feels more blasphemous than that AI image Trump tweeted of himself as the new pope.

★ Single-Story a’s in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1

A single-story “a” in Chicago feels more blasphemous than that AI image Trump tweeted of himself as the new pope.

Pete Rose and ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson Among Players Reinstated by MLB in Historic Decision