App Store External Purchase Fee: 27%

Apple (Hacker News): A recent order from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) will allow developers of dating apps on the Netherlands App Store to use alternate payment processing options. These changes will compromise the user …

Facebook Blames Apple, Usage Declines

Kif Leswing (Hacker News): Facebook said on Wednesday that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature would decrease the company’s 2022 sales by about $10 billion. […] Meta shares sank 23% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company warned abo…

Steve Jobs Introduces the App Store

Essential Apple Podcast 251: Talking to Aidan Fitzpatrick of Reincubate

This week Simon is joined by special guest Aidan Fitzpatrick, a serial app inventor and data privacy evangelist who has the distinction of being The post Essential Apple Podcast 251: Talking to Aidan Fitzpatrick of Reincubate appeared first on MyMac…

Review – Dorico Pro 4

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Steinberg’s Dorico family is the world’s leading music notation software for composers, arrangers, orchestrators, educators, performers… musicians of almost any The post Review – Dorico Pro 4 appeared first on MyMac…

Let’s Talk Apple 101: January 2022

This month Bart is joined by Chuck Joiner from Mac Voices and Rosemary Orchard from various podcasts. The show starts with the usual followups The post Let’s Talk Apple 101: January 2022 appeared first on MyMac.com.

Facebook and Google’s Dependence Upon Advertising

Facebook Stock Tanks, Company Says Apple iOS Privacy Change Will Cost Them $10 Billion This Year

Snap, Facing Same ‘Headwinds’ as Facebook, Reports First-Ever Quarterly Profit

Facebook Accuses Apple of ‘Browser Carve-Out’ on Tracking Prompts, Hoping No One Will Remember That Safari Is Heavily Biased Toward Privacy

Zuckerberg and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Facebook Stock Tanks, Company Says Apple iOS Privacy Change Will Cost Them $10 Billion This Year

Zuckerberg Holds Company-Wide Meeting

Facebook Stock Tanks, Company Says Apple iOS Privacy Change Will Cost Them $10 Billion This Year

Have Monterey Updates Gotten Smaller?

Howard Oakley: By my reckoning (and your mileage may vary), the 12.1 update was 2.8 GB for Intel and 3.2 for M1, which are about 1 GB smaller than the equivalent updates for Big Sur. macOS 12.2 update was smaller still, at 2.4 (Intel) and 2.75 GB (M…

Optionals in Swift Objective-C Interoperability

Fabián Cañas (via Zev Eisenberg): The scroll view property, which should be nonnull, or in Swift, not optional, is never given a value on initialization. So what happens when we use if from Swift? […] Any Objective-C things we want to do with these …

How Well the Spotify App Works

Chance Miller: First and foremost, Spotify is indeed much faster and more reliable than Apple Music when it comes to loading and searching for music. […] The number one reason my experiment is over is because of Spotify’s absolute insistence that if…

Too Big to Fail App Review

Eric Benjamin Seufert: The presence of certain apps is so imperative to the App Store’s broader consumer appeal that Apple has no choice but to allow those apps to defy its various platform rules and restrictions. These apps are too big to fail: if …

Hang Up and Call Back

Brian Krebs: Many security-conscious people probably think they’d never fall for a phone-based phishing scam. But if your response to such a scam involves anything other than hanging up and calling back the entity that claims to be calling, you may …

‘It’s Almost as if One Company Shouldn’t Simultaneously Be the Market Leader in Three Separate Industries: Search, Advertising, and Web Browsing’

Decimal vs. Double

Jesse Squires: More importantly, Decimaldoes not conform to either BinaryFloatingPoint or FloatingPoint, but begins its protocol conformance at SignedNumeric, which has the single requirement to implement func negate(). This reveals why Decimal cann…