Tim Hardwick: Microsoft today discontinued its Cortana mobile app. As a result, the company has ended all support for third-party Cortana skills and eliminated the Cortana app for iOS and Android devices. […] The eponymous mobile app was originally …
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Lees meerBecky Hansmeyer (tweet): Turns out, if you want to sync Core Data-backed data between devices and have those changes reflected in your UI in a timely manner, you have some more work to do. To figure out what that work is, you can’t look at Apple’s C…
Lees meerApple Frameworks Engineer: Set in Swift is an immutable value type. We do not recommend making Core Data relationships typed this way despite the obvious convenience. Core Data makes heavy use of Futures, especially for relationship values. These ar…
Lees meerApple Frameworks Engineer: Additionally you should almost never use NSPersistentStoreCoordinator’s migratePersistentStore method but instead use the newer replacePersistentStoreAtURL. (you can replace emptiness to make a copy). The former loads the …
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple’s Independent Repair Provider program will soon be available in more than 200 countries, nearly every country where Apple products are sold. Launched originally in 2019 and expanded to Europe and Canada last yea…
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format. Free for all developers, WWDC21 will offer unique insight into the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvO…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Increasing numbers of files written by all sorts of different apps and services consist of large voids, between islands of meaningful data. Storing lots of void data is wasteful, so what APFS tries to do is store only the real data.[……
Lees meerJason Snell: Long-time Mac storage utility maker ExpanDrive has launched StrongSync, a $50 utility that… sort of does what ExpanDrive already does? Like its big brother, StrongSync allows you to view cloud storage services as if they were hard drive…
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