New Apple Store Guidelines for Outside Payments

Apple: 3.1.3(d): Person-to-Person Experiences: If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person experiences between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may …

New Apple Store Guidelines for Reader Apps

Apple: 3.1.3(a): Reader apps may offer account creation for free tiers, and account management functionality for existing customers. I wonder whether Netflix will start offering a free tier. 3.1.3(f): Free Stand-alone Apps: Free apps acting as a sta…

New Apple Store Guidelines for Streaming Games

Apple (also: Federico Viticci, John Voorhees, Juli Clover): 3.1.2(a): Games offered in a streaming game service subscription must be downloaded directly from the App Store, must be designed to avoid duplicate payment by a subscriber, and should not …

Essential Apple Podcast 189: The Preshow is the Aftershow… or something

Recorded 7th September 2020 No Jim this time as he is back at work, but I am joined by Nick to actually do a The post Essential Apple Podcast 189: The Preshow is the Aftershow… or something appeared first on MyMac.com.

Poolside FM for Cellular

‘The Repeated and Prolonged Failure of Mainstream News Outlets to Include Basic Climate Science Facts in Extreme Weather Coverage Is an Abdication of Their Core Responsibility’

‘The Repeated and Prolonged Failure of Mainstream News Outlets to Include Basic Climate Science Facts in Extreme Weather Coverage Is an Abdication of Their Core Responsibility’

The Apocalyptic Red Western Skies Caused by Climate Change-Fueled Wildfires

From the Department of Just Send Pictures Next Time

The Apple Watch Sport Band Design Is Now Commonly Copied

From the Department of Just Send Pictures Next Time

‘Why Are Conservatives Obsessed With Pedophilia Right Now?’

‘Why Are Conservatives Obsessed With Pedophilia Right Now?’

New Version of Apple Music for Android Reveals ‘Apple One’ Bundle Name

The Apple Watch Sport Band Design Is Now Commonly Copied

Facebook and Australia’s News

Kim Lyons: The country’s proposed News Media Bargaining Code law, which is in draft form at present, stemmed from a 2019 inquiry that found tech giants like Facebook and Google take too large a share of online advertising revenue from media organiza…

Design and Implement macOS 11 Document Icons

Apple: By default, if you don’t specify a document icon for a file type in your app, macOS will automatically create one for you by compositing your app’s icon together with the correct extension name. This is a common pattern for imported document …

IFTTT Pro

Linden Tibbets: Out of the gate Pro launches with many of your most requested features: • Multi-step Applets • Queries and conditional logic • Multiple actions • Faster Applet execution […] Another change we’re announcing is that only Pro plan subsc…

A Step Back

Nick Heer: I see these back buttons as a sort of cop-out — an easy way of covering for a lack of deeper consideration. You can see this most clearly in iTunes running on Mojave, in which there are two very different implementations of every view: th…

Coda to Become Nova

Panic: Our next text editor — the follow-up to Coda 2 — couldn’t just add a few features and call it a day. It had to change dramatically. It had to catch up to where things are today. And it had to consider where web development will be tomorrow. P…

‘Blade Runner: San Francisco’