Allen Pike (tweet, Hacker News): The most popular analytics SDKs are free because they’re owned by companies that sell ads, or share data with those companies: Google Analytics, Flurry, and Google’s Firebase. Paid competitors like Mixpanel and Ampli…
Lees meerAnne Drewa (also: MacRumors, tweet): A free Indigenous language app developed by a first-year UBC student from Prince Rupert, B.C. is up and running again after Apple mistakenly accused the young developer of dishonest and fraudulent acts. […] Eshom…
Lees meerMegha Rajagopalan (Hacker News): Over the last two years, the government of Pakistan has forced Google and Apple to take down apps in the country created by developers based in other nations who are part of a repressed religious minority.The move is…
Lees meerStu Maschwitz (via Hacker News): When I watched the announcement of this display, I was curious how Apple would handle an HDR video monitor that was also tasked with the mundane duty of displaying your email and a web browser. Was Apple planning on …
Lees meerCasey Newton (The Verge, Hacker News): But Signal’s rapid growth has also been a cause for concern. In the months leading up to and following the 2020 US presidential election, Signal employees raised questions about the development and addition of …
Lees meerThis past Sunday, a 10-year-old girl in New Iberia, Louisiana, was reported missing. The Louisiana State Police issued an initial alert, saying that they believed her to be in imminent danger, but they did not have much information to go...
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Big Sur 11.2.1 addresses an issue that could prevent the battery from charging in some 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro models. Juli Clover: According to an Apple security support document, the bug, CV…
Lees meerAustin Carr and Mark Gurman (tweet, via Josh Centers, MacRumors): Biden’s question put Cook, who’d become Apple’s CEO the previous August, in an awkward position. He was the architect of the strategy to outsource Apple’s production to China, a trend…
Lees meerJay Peters (tweet): But users who have already installed the beta discovered another great feature: you’ll be able to select a third-party default music service when you ask to play a song using Siri — including Spotify (via MacRumors).When you ask …
Lees meerWatchChat Alex (tweet, Dave Mark): I have spent the last four years of my life working on my very successful app only to have it ruined by scam apps with very obvious fake reviews as well as false advertising claims that Apple does not take action a…
Lees meerAfter staying on Mojave for an extra year due to the large number of issues with Catalina, I started using it on my main Mac with macOS 10.15.7. This post lists some of the problems I’ve run into that were not present in Mojave. These are user-facin…
Lees meerRecorded 7th February 2021 We are back – sorry there wasn’t a show last week but I hurt my back and was laid up… The post Essential Apple Podcast 208: TravelPod and other rumours appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: The macOS Big Sur upgrade is not checking for available HD space. The upgrade will run out of space and fail. Even worse, if FV2 encryption is enabled, you will be locked out of your data! […] This isn’t the first time I’ve reported o…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Nearly three months after the launch of Apple’s rave-reviewed M1 Macs, Intel has fired back, but there are some asterisks involved.In a slideshow shared by PCWorld this week, Intel highlighted what PCWorld described as “carefully craf…
Lees meerVictoria Song (Hacker News): Enabling Apple’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter in the iOS Screen Time setting will block users from seeing any Google search results for “Asian” in any browser on their iPhone.[…]The search result exclusion was initially…
Lees meerEcamm: Call Recorder for Skype is not compatible with Apple’s M1 Macs. […] Call Recorder for Skype will not be updated for compatibility with M1 Macs. Jason Snell: Over the past year, nearly every Skype update has broken compatibility with Call Reco…
Lees meerTim and David discuss Jeff Bezos leaving the CEO position of Amazon, the short sell story of GameStop, and WikiTrolling returns with Bose. The post TechFan Podcast 449 – Shorting Bose appeared first on MyMac.com.
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