Faking an iPhone Reboot

Bruce Schneier: Researchers have figured how how to intercept and fake an iPhone reboot[…] […] I see this as another manifestation of the security problems that stem from all controls becoming software controls. Back when the physical buttons actual…

PUBG Developer Sues Apple Over Alleged Rip-offs in the App Store

José Adorno (PDF): In the US, PUBG’s developer sued the maker of another popular battle royale game, Free Fire. Not only that but Krafton has also named Apple and Google in the lawsuit, alleging that Apple and Google have refused to stop selling rip…

★ Seeing Green

People — including teenagers — don’t buy iPhones because iMessage is cool or good. People use iMessage because iPhones are cool and good.

Tesla’s Dogecoin FAQ

David Sparks Goes Full-Time on MacSparky

Bloomberg: Apple VR Headset Might Be Pushed to Next Year

ToDon’t — First App Created and Published Using Swift Playgrounds on an iPad

I Need a Five-Letter Word for ‘This Story Is Fantastic’

Fortnite Is Returning to iOS as a Web App to Be Played in Safari

An Approach for Migrating From Objective-C to Swift

Steve Barnegren (tweet): It was difficult to gracefully integrate new Swift code into existing Objective-C classes and systems. A year down the line we still had a mostly Objective-C code base. Almost anything of any real importance was still in Obj…

iOS App Library Is Drunk

Jesse Squires: Periodically, the order of folders in App Library changes. Why?! It is incredibly disorienting. I’m not sure if this is a bug or a “feature” where recently-used or most-used categories move toward the top? The order of category folder…

Uber Removes Watch App

Chris Welch: Uber has quietly shut down its Apple Watch app, with the software now showing a message that instructs people to “please switch to the Uber mobile app.” The company is “no longer supporting the Apple Watch app,” according to the text, w…

iCloud Private Relay Incompatible With T-Mobile Parental Controls

Chance Miller (tweet): Earlier today, a report indicated that some European carriers were blocking the Private Relay feature introduced by Apple with iOS 15. This feature is designed to give users an additional layer of privacy by ensuring that no o…

Review: Eve Weather -- monitor the weather at your house

There are lots of iPhone apps that will tell you the weather in your city. If you want to know the weather at your specific house, you need a device that can provide you with temperature and other readings. Back...

First-Dose Vaccinations Quadruple in Quebec Ahead of Restrictions at Liquor and Cannabis Stores

Local Note: Tonight Is Jim Gardner’s Final 11 PM Newscast on ‘Action News’

Catching Native Apps

Daniel Jalkut, in 2010: If you imagine a world where the sum of all things you can do with a computer is exactly matched, and locked down for all time with what you can do inside a browser, then the arguments for the web are persuasive. Why write fo…

Wordle Clones

John Gruber: Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…

Apple Presents Plan to Allow External Payment Processing in Apps to South Korea Regulator, Details Currently Scant

★ The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake

As of today, Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…

★ The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake

As of today, Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…