Felix Krause (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Last week I published a report on the risks of mobile apps using in-app browsers. Some apps, like Instagram and Facebook, inject JavaScript code into third party websites that cause potential security an…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci (tweet, Hacker News): As you can see in the graph: AppKit apps account for a huge percentage of apps After a slow start, the number of apps using SwiftUI is quickly growing The number of Mac Catalyst apps reached a ceiling [but see…
Lees meerJean-Louis Gassée: Initially, one asks why Apple, whose average Gross Margin is in the 54% range (40% for hardware, more than 60% for services), would want to enter a hundred-year-old entrenched industry whose gross profit margins are in the 7% rang…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I consider it dickish behavior by Apple that they force you to enable dictation first in order to remove the unwanted dictation button, especially since enabling dictation seems like it might send your private information — such as con…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: Got a rejection for @YoinkApp for #Mac for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not. They didn’t give an example or any info where I’m allegedly mentioning it, either. Turns out they didn’t like that his app mentions …
Lees meerMattt Thompson: SwiftSyntax is a Swift library that lets you parse, analyze, generate, and transform Swift source code. It’s based on the libSyntax library, and was spun out from the main Swift language repository in August 2017. Douglas Gregor: We …
Lees meerAndrius Gailiunas (MacStories, AppleInsider, MacRumors): Pixelmator Photo will now cost $4.99 per month, $23.99 per year, or $54.99 for a lifetime license but existing paid users get unlimited access for free. Also, Pixelmator Photo for Mac is comin…
Lees meerLily Hay Newman (Hacker News): Wardle found that he could change the name of the software he was trying to sneak through to contain the markers Zoom was broadly looking for and get the malicious package past Zoom’s signature check. […] Wardle found …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: There are currently three major apps to run macOS as a guest on an Apple silicon Mac with Monterey 12.5 as a host:Parallels Desktop version 18,UTM version 3.2.4,VirtualBuddy version 1.2.1.There’s also my free app Viable now in beta 3.…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Self Service Repair for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro offers more than a dozen different repair types for each model, including the display, top case with battery, and trackpad, with more to come. Customers who are experienced wit…
Lees meerSheon Han: Blindness made working as a mechanical engineer difficult. When he consulted Florida’s Division of Blind Services, a counselor told him that computer programming was becoming a popular career for people who are blind. […] In 1987, they fo…
Lees meerKashmir Hill (Hacker News): With help from the photos, the doctor diagnosed the issue and prescribed antibiotics, which quickly cleared it up. But the episode left Mark with a much larger problem, one that would cost him more than a decade of contac…
Lees meerManton Reece: I continue to think that my devices are now too secure. Face ID shouldn’t freak out multiple times a day, requiring a pin. Safari shouldn’t scrap cookies every week, requiring needless extra web sign-ins. Any security beyond unlocking …
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