There are very few reasons to consider buying a Series 7 other than the reasons why anyone ever buys a new watch: because you like the way it looks. Apple Watch is a watch that happens to be a computer, not a computer that you happen to wear on your…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: One would think the URLSessionTaskDelegate would have some affordance that calls you back when new bytes come in, but if that exists, I couldn’t find it. However, iOS 15 brings a new API that can be used for this purpose — a byte-by…
Lees meerJason Snell: What if someone built a tablet that could run a wider selection of apps but still had the crisp, clear look of an E Ink screen? In fact, a few companies have been trying to marry E Ink with Android for a while now. Recently I got a chan…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: What’s always confused me is that the timer makes “I’m done with this” the primary action, while the alarm makes “I need more time” the primary action. Why is this? Even after years with this UI, I still get it wrong sometimes because…
Lees meerDiana Prodan (release notes): 15 years ago, the small team of developers at Smile acquired the core product we now know and love called TextExpander. In those 15 years, we’ve been through many iterations and changes to the product, and our small tea…
Lees meerMozilla (via JP): Last year, during lockdown, many discovered the importance of PDF forms when having to deal remotely with administrations and large organizations like banks. Firefox supported displaying PDF forms, but it didn’t support filling the…
Lees meerDave DeLong: Every year as new OS and Swift versions are released, the question comes up over and over again: “how do I use this new thing while also supporting older versions?”. While we have a bunch of “availability” tools at our disposal (and I’l…
Lees meerJeff Verkoeyen: This year my team shifted the open source Material components libraries for iOS into maintenance mode.Since 2012 and the original launch of Google Maps iOS, my team has supported the creation and maintenance of shared UI components a…
Lees meerJay Peters and Sean Hollister (PDF, tweet, MacRumors): While Apple largely won that case (the company went so far as to call the ruling a “resounding victory”) with Judge Gonzalez Rogers ruling in favor of Apple in nine of the ten claims Epic brough…
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