Nathaniel Strauss (tweet): Two months into the beta cycle, Big Sur is still not education ready. Today marks the release of beta 5 and Apple has not implemented a way for standard users to enable screen recording. As a result they can’t share their …
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): Applebot is the web crawler for Apple. Products like Siri and Spotlight Suggestions use Applebot. Traffic coming from Applebot is identified by its user agent, and reverse DNS shows it in the *.applebot.apple.com domain, ori…
Lees meerJordan Rose: The way Swift’s flavor of automatic reference counting works is that destruction of the object happens synchronously when the last reference goes away. So while swift_retain ends after updating the reference count, swift_release has to …
Lees meerTim Cook, in July: We want to get every app we can on the Store, not keep them off. Apple, August 13: We will make every effort to work with Epic to resolve these violations so they can return Fortnite to the App Store. But I missed, when writing ye…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Today has seen the announcement of the second Apple antitrust investigation in two days. Just one day after Italy announced that it was investigating the fairness of iCloud terms and conditions, Australia says that it is launching a bro…
Lees meerDavid buys the uglies little PC, while Tim upgrades his auto audio system. Also a look at high-end gaming monitors, and if they are The post TechFan Podcast 439 – Sbmiprzx appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerDave Nanian: At present, it’s not possible to make bootable copies of Big Sur, even with asr, Apple’s own built-in replication utility. As such, we haven’t released a Beta, or even an internal Alpha, because it wouldn’t meet our own requirements.[…]…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (tweet): A threat intelligence firm called HYAS, a private company that tries to prevent or investigates hacks against its clients, is buying location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones around the world, and us…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Bloomberg reports that some developers in the Japanese gaming market have been emboldened by the dispute and are becoming more vocal about their own concerns, which including Apple’s 30% commission rate and inconsistent enforcement of …
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: The preliminary injunction hearing on the same two issues--can Epic force Apple to tolerate a version of Fortnite that bypasses its in-app purchasing (IAP) system in contravention of App Store business terms, and can Apple terminate…
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