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TechFan 416 – Keep it Positive

Tim and David try and keep it positive this week as we discuss file management  and updating app on the iPhone. Primal, Terminator Dark The post TechFan 416 – Keep it Positive appeared first on MyMac.com.

The RCS Messaging Thing Is Working Out as Well as I Expected, Which Is to Say Terribly

Congress Looking Into Anticompetitive Behavior in the Digital Library Market

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Is the Most Talented Grifter of Our Time

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Is the Most Talented Grifter of Our Time

United Airlines Suggests That Apple Is Helping Design Terminal Upgrades at SFO

Tim Cook on the Five-Year Anniversary of His Coming Out as Gay

Christopher McQuarrie: ‘Focus Entirely on Execution and Not on Result’

★ The Curious Design of Mail’s Message Action Toolbar in iOS 13

What’s the point of having only two buttons and all that unused whitespace on the left side?

GameClub Revives 70 Classic iOS Games

John Vorhees (via Federico Viticci): There’s a terrific GameClub app that organizes the company’s catalog of titles in one place, which I’ll get into shortly, but the games can be downloaded separately, and you can subscribe whether you use the Game…

Apple TV App for Amazon Fire TV

Jacob Kastrenakes: With a week to go before its TV service launches, Apple has brought the Apple TV app to Amazon’s streaming devices. The Apple TV app is now available on three different models of Fire TV devices — the Fire TV Stick 4K, the Fire TV…

Firefox 70 for Mac

Tim Hardwick: Mozilla has launched Firefox 70 for macOS, which continues to enhance the browser’s privacy features as well as bringing significant improvements to performance and power efficiency.[…] Firefox 70 also introduces a Privacy Protections …

Direct to SwiftUI

Helge Heß: Direct to SwiftUI is an adaption of an old WebObjects technology called Direct to Web. This time for Apple’s new framework: SwiftUI. Instant CRUD apps, configurable using a declarative rule system, yet fully integrated with SwiftUI. […] W…

HKmap Live Removed From the App Store

CNBC (tweet, Hacker News): Apple on Wednesday removed an app that protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements from its app store, saying it violated rules because it was used to ambush police. […] Apple rejected the crowdsourcing app…

The Kindle Is Fine

Dan Frommer: Amazon’s approach to the Kindle product remains befuddling. Talk about entering a market, quickly achieving dominance, and then coasting with feet up for more than a decade — random, bizarre updates and bracingly mediocre software. Jaso…

The Talk Show: ‘iPhone-Colored Glasses’

‘Perfectly Cropped’

Zuckerberg Testified Before the House Financial Services Committee and It Did Not Go Well for Him

‘Perfectly Cropped’

Modern AppKit File Permissions

Ben Scheirman: There is no API for saying “Please prompt the user to access this folder”. Instead, this is done in one of three ways:Full Disk AccessPrompting the user to open a file/directoryDragging & Dropping a folder onto the application […] By …