Brad Smith: This regulatory process begins while many governments are also moving forward with new laws to promote competition in app markets and beyond. We want regulators and the public to know that as a company, Microsoft is committed to adapting…
Lees meerArnout Boks (via Cédric Luthi): A long-standing objection to making bulk changes to code using automated tools (e.g. to conform to a given code style) is that it clutters the output of git blame. With git 2.23, this does not have to be the case anym…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): The second beta of iOS 15.4 addresses an iOS 15 bug that was allowing the iPhone to upload some Siri recordings to Apple even when users had previously opted out of doing so, Apple said in a statement to ZDNet. […] There is no w…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): In an upcoming software update, every user setting up their AirTag for the first time will see a message that clearly states that AirTag is meant to track their own belongings, that using AirTag to track people without consent i…
Lees meerJuli Clover (download):Some affected users saw their Mac's battery life drop from 100% to 0% while in sleep mode overnight after installing the macOS 12.2 update, with both Intel-based Macs and Apple silicon-based Macs affected. The problem stopped …
Lees meerManton Reece: We are a small team, and maintaining so many different versions of our apps is difficult. On top of that, why invest so much time in Apple-only frameworks when Apple could upend our business with a new App Store tax or other disruption…
Lees meerMartin Thomson: For the last few months we [Mozilla] have been working with a team from Meta (formerly Facebook) on a new proposal that aims to enable conversion measurement – or attribution – for advertising called Interoperable Private Attribution…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: Apple’s published several new Developer Technical Notes, many of which draw on content that was previously published as Developer Forums answers. It could use an RSS feed. The old technical notes are still available in the archive. Pr…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Apple today announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone. The new capability will empower millions of merchants across the US, from small businesses to large retailers, to use their iPhone to seamlessly and securely accept …
Lees meerDerek Selander: To celebrate Apple’s “opensourcening”, I’m releasing a beta, executable-only release of dsdump.0 time spent on Swift, but lots of ❤️ with the dyld shared cache, Objective-C… and it can run natively on your M1 Mac or your checkra1n/Co…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: CalDigit has unveiled the latest iteration of its popular Thunderbolt Station series and it’s really gone all out. The TS4 Thunderbolt dock comes with an impressive array of 18 ports for Mac (and PC) to offer what the company calls “…
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet, Hacker News): It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Ap…
Lees meerPeter Ammon: The sideloading debate is really about Chrome. Sideloading Fortnite is about money, but sideloaded Chrome is an existential risk, threatening to do to iOS what it has done to Windows and Mac. Peter Ammon: So many users live in Chrome an…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): A recent order from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) will allow developers of dating apps on the Netherlands App Store to use alternate payment processing options. These changes will compromise the user …
Lees meerKif Leswing (Hacker News): Facebook said on Wednesday that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature would decrease the company’s 2022 sales by about $10 billion. […] Meta shares sank 23% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company warned abo…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: By my reckoning (and your mileage may vary), the 12.1 update was 2.8 GB for Intel and 3.2 for M1, which are about 1 GB smaller than the equivalent updates for Big Sur. macOS 12.2 update was smaller still, at 2.4 (Intel) and 2.75 GB (M…
Lees meerFabián Cañas (via Zev Eisenberg): The scroll view property, which should be nonnull, or in Swift, not optional, is never given a value on initialization. So what happens when we use if from Swift? […] Any Objective-C things we want to do with these …
Lees meerChance Miller: First and foremost, Spotify is indeed much faster and more reliable than Apple Music when it comes to loading and searching for music. […] The number one reason my experiment is over is because of Spotify’s absolute insistence that if…
Lees meerEric Benjamin Seufert: The presence of certain apps is so imperative to the App Store’s broader consumer appeal that Apple has no choice but to allow those apps to defy its various platform rules and restrictions. These apps are too big to fail: if …
Lees meerBrian Krebs: Many security-conscious people probably think they’d never fall for a phone-based phishing scam. But if your response to such a scam involves anything other than hanging up and calling back the entity that claims to be calling, you may …
Lees meerJesse Squires: More importantly, Decimaldoes not conform to either BinaryFloatingPoint or FloatingPoint, but begins its protocol conformance at SignedNumeric, which has the single requirement to implement func negate(). This reveals why Decimal cann…
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