Juli Clover (tweet): iOS 15.2 adds App Privacy Report, a feature designed to let you know how often apps are accessing permissions-restricted info like the camera and the microphone, plus it lets you know the domains that apps and websites are conta…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released a new “Tracker Detect” app on the Google Play Store, with the app designed to allow Android users to locate AirTags that might be nearby.Apple says that Android users can scan to find a nearby AirTag if they think t…
Lees meerApple: Product page optimization. Try out alternate versions of your app’s product page with different icons, screenshots, and app previews to find out which one gets the best results. Each version is shown to a percentage of randomly selected, elig…
Lees meerQuill: Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal — to make online communication more thoughtful, and more effective, for everyone. Quill will be shutting down, but its spirit and ideas will continue on. […] On 1pm PST, Satu…
Lees meerSean Hollister (Reddit, MacRumors): Remember when Apple pretended like it would let cloud gaming services like Microsoft xCloud and Google Stadia into the App Store, while effectively tearing their business models to shreds? Know how Microsoft repli…
Lees meerDave Abrahams, former lead of the Swift standard library and SwiftUI contributor: My Rebase 2021 talk, “a retrospective on the design of Swift,” is up at [YouTube] This is a very interesting talk containing some very strange example Objective-C code…
Lees meerFree Wortley and Chris Thompson (Hacker News): A few hours ago, a 0-day exploit in the popular Java logging library log4j2 was discovered that results in Remote Code Execution (RCE) by logging a certain string.[…]Many, many services are vulnerable t…
Lees meerJonathan Bell (Hacker News): Ive was intensely involved with the building’s design (as was Steve Jobs during the project’s early stages). The team before us now very much reflect the realisation of the two men’s aspirations for a bespoke Apple build…
Lees meerQuinn the Eskimo: So, let’s start with some history: macOS programs have been able to read log messages since the introduction of OSLogStore on macOS 10.15. This API is not available on iOS-based platforms. In iOS 14 beta we added the OSLog framewor…
Lees meerCasey Liss (tweet): In [effectively] 2022, there are four options for retina-quality monitors to attach to your Mac. […] Only two are 5K or greater. The LG still seems to have problems, and the Apple Pro Display XDR costs $6,000. Over the last year …
Lees meerJon Keegan and Alfred Ng (Hacker News, Reddit, MacRumors): Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their children’s movements using their cellphones. The Markup …
Lees meerQuinn Comendant (Hacker News, Reddit, 2): Apple permanently disabled my account today. I’ve lost access to $1200+ of apps that I have purchased through the App Store, my App Store balance, and my music collection of thousands of CDs uploaded to iTun…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Apple is undertaking legal action in Russia to prevent developers from promoting alternative payment methods for in-app purchases that bypass the company’s payment system, RT reports.Apple’s lawsuit attempts to challenge Russia’s F…
Lees meerJosh Sisco: As the U.S. government tries to put together an antitrust case against Apple for the way it controls iPhones, prosecutors are looking for instances in which the company is unevenly enforcing rules for app developers in ways that could hu…
Lees meerLuc P. Beaudoin et al.: We recognize that an immense amount of useful information is available digitally, and that tremendous value can be gained by connecting this information. Connected knowledge enables people to create great products, solve impo…
Lees meerAdam Gordon Bell (Hacker News): The team where people roll their eyes at UX feedback will not have as simple of a product as a team where the user experience is highly valued. If software performance isn’t valued, the end result won’t be performant.…
Lees meerLaura Nicolle (via MacRumors, Hacker News): Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Brand name ‘air tags’ are pla…
Lees meerSayan Sen (Hacker News): In the latest related news, when someone is trying to download Google Chrome from Edge, Microsoft seems to be reminding such users with a popup (image below) that its own browser is built upon the same (Chromium) technology …
Lees meerTyler Hall: At any time, from any app, whenever I need to remember something, I can tap the back of my phone three times. An input dialog will appear, wait for me to type in what I need to do, and file away those items into OmniFocus for later. What…
Lees meerAmazon (MacRumors, Hacker News): The availability (in preview) of EC2 M1 Mac instances lets you access machines built around the Apple-designed M1 System on Chip (SoC). If you are a Mac developer and re-architecting your apps to natively support Mac…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo (motion): Although the appeal of the Apple-Epic lawsuit is ongoing, Apple is currently subject to the judge’s decision and will have to allow app developers to show links to external payment platforms inside from December 9, unless the…
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