Allen Pike: Each time a cross-platform app has found itself in the crosshairs of the internet, I hear a variant of this question: “What is it about enterprise companies that make so many of them abandon native apps, when they could surely afford to …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: When you attempt to run one of the developer tools, the _xcselect_invoke_xcrun function must look up the actual path of the tool. The paths of Xcode and the developer tools are cached on disk in a database file named xcrun_db located i…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, 9to5Mac, MacRumors): Apple today announced an update coming to the App Store that closes an investigation by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC). The update will allow developers of “reader” apps to include an in-app link to t…
Lees meerSami Fathi (Hacker News): South Korea today passed a bill that bans Apple and Google from requiring developers to use their own respective in-app purchasing systems, allowing developers to charge users using third-party payment methods, The Wall Str…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (tweet): The trend of declarative UI on mobile began in 2013 with React Native, which started as a Facebook hackathon project. The goal was to improve the developer experience by bringing everything people loved about the web—rapid…
Lees meerSommer Panage: On Mac, you can do ⌘+T to bring up your Tapback responses in Messages and then you can use the number keys, 1-6, to select your reaction. 🤯 Get ready for lots of ❤️ and 👍🏻 everyone… It also works on iPad. What I’d really like is to be…
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith (tweet): I thought it would be a good idea to round up the various pieces of sample code I've created for Mac Catalyst just to get everything in one place. These are by no means step-by-step guides, merely illustrated examples …
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple today announced that it has acquired classical music streaming service Primephonic, and will be folding it into Apple Music.Primephonic offers an “outstanding listening experience” with search and browse functionalit…
Lees meerKaroy Lorentey: The public API of Swift Atomics is now considered source stable. […] The low-level (pointer-based) atomic boolean operations are now public. Previously: Introducing Swift Atomics
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann: Announcement for Mac developers:utis.cc - where shared UTIs find a homeIt’s also the home of the “.paths” file spec, which is meant to store a list of files and might be supported by any Mac app that can show a file browser or ope…
Lees meerZoë Schiffer (tweet, Hacker News): Jacob Preston was sitting down with his manager during his first week at Apple when he was told, with little fanfare, that he needed to link his personal Apple ID and work account. […] Three years later, when Prest…
Lees meerSarah Perez (August 2020, via Hacker News): Apple is expanding its program that provides parts, resources and training to independent repair shops to now include support for Mac computers. […] To date, however, the program was only focused on iPhone…
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers. The terms of the agreement will help make the App Store an even better business opportunity f…
Lees meerSamantha John: We submitted a bug fix update to Hopscotch this weekend. We wanted to get it out quickly to get ahead of the school year--schools don’t update their apps very often after downloading them.The app was rejected because “our promoted in-…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (Hacker News): In the JavaScript framework used by Safari and other parts of Apple’s products, there is a tool called jsc. It’s a command line interface for JavaScript that uses the same code as the rest of the system. You can find…
Lees meerApple: The News Partner Program is designed for subscription news publications that provide their content to Apple News in Apple News Format (ANF). ANF enables an exceptional reading experience on Apple News and unlocks the full benefit of the platf…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman (tweet): Why would Apple ask for the password or passcode for one of your other devices? Could it be some sort of scam? What exactly is going on here? […] Apple has chosen to protect some data that it views as highly secure or very p…
Lees meerApple: Due to changes in local regulations, the bank account holder’s address is now required if you have bank account information in App Store Connect. Account Holders, Admins, and Finance roles can now provide a valid address in the Agreements, Ta…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Today, we’re announcing the all-new Club MacStories featuring two additional tiers: Club MacStories+ and Club Premier. The new plans offer extra content, a brand new, powerful web app to read Club articles on the web with advanced …
Lees meerChrista Mrgan: The original Asheville concept was for a device that pretty faithfully recreated Game & Watch-style games, which are composed of LCD segments, which Neven explains are, “…kind of like an old-school clock, where it just has shapes that…
Lees meerRichard Blumenthal (Hacker News): New bipartisan antitrust legislation that targets Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store was today introduced by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Marsha Blackburn, and Amy Klobuchar.The Open App Markets Act [PDF…
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