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Apple’s Q1 2024 Results

vrijdag 2 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $119.6 billion, up 2 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.18, up 16 percent year over year. “Today Apple is reporting revenue growt…

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Amazon Charging for IPv4 Addresses

donderdag 1 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Amazon: As you may know, IPv4 addresses are an increasingly scarce resource and the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address has risen more than 300% over the past 5 years. This change reflects our own costs and is also intended to encourage you…

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The End of Adobe XD?

donderdag 1 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brody Ford (via Hacker News): Adobe Inc. will end its effort to create a web design product to rival Figma Inc. after the collapse of its proposed $20 billion acquisition of the startup. When it agreed to buy Figma, which helps users design app and …

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How to Mount HFS Classic Drives

donderdag 1 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthew Hughes (via Colin Cornaby): Drives using the antiquated vintage HFS file system appear in Disk Utility, but you cannot mount them. Attempting to do so will produce the following error code: “com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 49153“.For…

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How to Choose and Customize a Mechanical Keyboard

donderdag 1 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Henri Robbins (Hacker News): Linear switches have straight “legs” on the sliders that allow for a smooth and consistent key press. Because of this, they have no bump and will be faster to type on, but they won’t have a physical indicator to tell you…

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Apple Vision Pro Reviews

woensdag 31 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nilay Patel (Hacker News): Apple’s settled for building a headset with real-time video passthrough — it is the defining tradeoff of the Vision Pro. It is a VR headset masquerading as an AR headset. And let me tell you: the video passthrough on the V…

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Castro Sold Again

woensdag 31 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Castro Team: We are excited to announce Castro has been purchased by Bluck Apps. Castro is a great app with a long history on iOS and many passionate fans, and it will continue to operate in its current form. This is a return to its independent root…

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NSA Buying Logs From Data Brokers

woensdag 31 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Charlie Savage (via Hacker News): The National Security Agency buys certain logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers, according to an unclassified letter by the agency.The letter, addressed to a Democratic…

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IFTTT Killing Legacy Pro Plan

dinsdag 30 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Patterson (via Hacker News): Remember when IFTTT said it would allow its legacy users to set their own prices for the service’s “pro” plan, and that it would honor those prices “forever”? Well, it turns out “forever” has an expiration date.In a …

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In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

dinsdag 30 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nikita Prokopov (Hacker News): As you can see, even the checkmark wasn’t always there. But one thing remained constant: checkboxes were square.Why square? Because that’s how you can tell them from radio buttons[…][…]You see, people on the Web think …

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Portable EPUBs

dinsdag 30 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Will Crichton (via Hacker News): Despite decades of advances in document rendering technology, most of the world’s documents are stuck in the 1990s due to the limitations of PDF. Yet, modern document formats like HTML have yet to provide a competiti…

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Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches

maandag 29 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Victoria Song (via Hacker News): The company has been one of the most prolific makers of Wear OS smartwatches over the years, and its absence will leave a large gap in the market.[…]This shouldn’t come as a huge shock if you’ve been paying attention…

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App Marketplaces: AltStore and Epic Games Store

maandag 29 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

AltStore: We’ve started the process of becoming a legitimate “app marketplace”, allowing our European friends to download @delta and other AltStore apps officially for the first time ever!See you in March ☘️ Jacob Kastrenakes: Epic plans to launch t…

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Apple Podcasts Transcripts

maandag 29 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: This spring [with iOS 17.4], Apple is introducing transcripts on Apple Podcasts, making it easier for anyone to access podcasts. With transcripts, your audience can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or p…

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Platform Tilt

maandag 29 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mozilla (via Mike Rockwell): This dashboard tracks technical issues in major software platforms which disadvantage Firefox relative to the first-party browser. We consider aspects like security, stability, performance, and functionality, and propose…

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Sign in With Apple No Longer Required

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: In line with Apple’s mission to protect user privacy, Apple is updating its App Store Review Guideline for using Sign in with Apple. Sign in with Apple makes it easy for users to sign in to apps and websites using their Apple ID and was built…

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Streaming Games in a Single App

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Available for developers’ apps around the world, Apple also announced new options for streaming games[…] Apple (MacRumors): Apple is introducing new options for how apps globally can deliver in-app experiences to users, including streaming ga…

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DMA Compliance: Default App Controls

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Apple will introduce new default controls for users in Settings for:App marketplace apps — Users will be able to manage their preferred default app marketplace through a new default setting for app marketplace apps. Platform features for find…

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DMA Compliance: Alternative Browser Engines

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: The coming changes to iOS in the EU include: […] New frameworks and APIs for alternative browser engines — enabling developers to use browser engines, other than WebKit, for browser apps and apps with in-app browsing experiences. Apple: To us…

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DMA Compliance: Interoperability Requests

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Today, developers can ask questions or share feedback or suggestions to Apple in a variety of ways — such as developer support, the Apple Developer Forums, and Feedback Assistant. To reflect the DMA’s changes, Apple has created an additional …

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DMA Compliance: App Analytics and User Data Portability

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Apple will expand the analytics available for developers’ apps both in the EU and around the world to help developers get even more insight into their businesses and their apps’ performance. Over 50 new reports will be available through the A…

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