Rather than decrease regulatory tensions, Apple’s new guidelines seem to intentionally escalate them.
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Lees meerBruno Brito: While accessing a branch’s history, you can now toggle the “Compare” icon to compare that branch against a different local branch, so that you only see the commits that have been made on the feature branch.[…]By comparing your local bra…
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Lees meerDave Winer: I’ve been feeling pretty good lately, but when I have an interaction with Apple, I think seriously I should just write off the $1300 I paid for the iPhone 13 Pro and get a high-end Android phone. I probably won’t because I’m locked in to…
Lees meerCraig Grannell (also: MacRumors): Kevin Archer is an indie developer who makes Authenticator App by 2Stable, a feature-rich, premium and suitably named take on, well, an authenticator app. There are of course other, similar, apps on the App Store. B…
Lees meerThe Apple Watch Series 7 was released just a few months ago, and it is a fantastic device for all of the reasons that I explained in my review: a larger screen than ever before, faster speeds so that it...
Lees meerThe Apple Watch Series 7 was released just a few months ago, and it is a fantastic device for all of the reasons that I explained in my review: a larger screen than ever before, faster speeds so that it...
Lees meerT he Apple Watch Series 7 was released just a few months ago, and it is a fantastic device for all of the reasons that I explained in my review: a larger screen than ever before, faster speeds so that...
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: If a movie is located within a service that I’m already paying for, then I’d like to get that. I don’t want to browse all of the services, and I don’t use websites that claim to have a complete catalog of where movies are available b…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a streaming video app. Follow it, and your app…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Documents stored in user folders created by the user in iCloud Drive appear to be backed up most reliably, and appear in both snapshots and backups. That assumes, of course, that they aren’t evicted and left as stub files. Documents s…
Lees meerIvan Drucker: For desktop Macs, it’s easy to keep an external Time Machine drive permanently connected. But, speaking from my experience as a consultant, I find that the vast majority of laptop users, myself included, are unlikely to plug in a drive…
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