Michelle Bu (via Patrick McKenzie): It’s unlikely that a developer believed a production-ready payments integration involved literally only seven lines of code. But taking something as complex as credit card processing and reducing the integration t…
Lees meerDaisuke Wakabayashi: Google holds a significant leg up on Microsoft in more than market share. British competition authorities said Google’s index included about 500 billion to 600 billion web pages, compared with 100 billion to 200 billion for Micr…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (tweet): There’s a detailed article coming next in our series about Continuous Integration for Small iOS/macOS Teams that goes into more detail on this setup. Of course, there have been a few issues along the way to make the automa…
Lees meerTodd Spangler (also: Google, MacRumors): Google and Apple reached an agreement that will bring the Apple TV app — including the Apple TV Plus subscription service — to the newest Chromecast device. Google didn’t provide specific timing on when Apple…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple’s redesigned Maps app is now available in Canada following a test of the feature that kicked off back in October. The Canadian expansion comes 11 months after Apple finished the rollout of the revamped Maps app in the United State…
Lees meerThis is the final In the news for 2020, and give everything we have gone through this year — like pretty much everyone else — I am very much looking forward to the future. But of course, there are always...
Lees meerOle Begemann: In a December 2020 video recorded for the European Data Protection & Privacy Conference, Apple’s Craig Federighi touts end-to-end-encryption for iMessage[…] Apple has been using this self-congratulatory tone about their encryption effo…
Lees meerNormally, the delta and combo updaters are available for download here within a day of the macOS update becoming available via automatic software update. There was never an updater posted for macOS 11.0.1, but I didn’t think much of it because 11.0 …
Lees meerGitHub (Hacker News): Starting today, GitHub Code Search will only index repositories that have had recent activity within the last year. Recent activity for a repository means that it has had a commit or has shown up in a search result. If the repo…
Lees meerObjective Development (tweet): There has been a lot of turmoil about Apple excluding some of their own processes from third party firewalls. This release focuses on the problem and adds an option to uncover whitelisted connections in Network Monitor…
Lees meerHank Green: On Android, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, the moment you hit backspace it changes back. On iPhone, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, and you delete it and retype it IT WILL CHANGE IT AGAIN TO T…
Lees meerRussell Brandom: In a bizarre video posted to the office’s verified Twitter account, Texas AG Ken Paxton says the company “repeatedly used its monopolistic power to control pricing” in online ads. “These actions harm every person in America,” Paxton…
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