Juli Clover: Following signs of new Side Button functionality in the iOS 26.2 beta 3 update, Apple developer documentation has confirmed that assigning a third-party voice assistant to the Side Button will be a feature available to iPhone users in J…
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.2.2 is a maintenance release of my Mac e-mail spam filter. SpamSieve 3.2 had a bunch of changes to deal with Microsoft’s plan to sunset Legacy Outlook on November 1, however in early October they announced a new plan to keep supporting L…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple’s high-end Mac Pro desktop computer is currently “on the back burner,” according to the latest word from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said he heard that Apple has “largely written off” the Mac…
Lees meerAnthony Ha: A federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen-monitoring technology.Reuters reports the jury found that the Apple Watch’s workout mode and h…
Lees meerSlava Pestov (Hacker News): This is all, of course, about the dreaded the compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time error. This error can appear with both valid and invalid code, and the various workarounds are unsatisfacto…
Lees meerDavid Pierce (Slashdot): When the iPad Pro came along five years later — it went on sale 10 years ago today — nothing much had changed. The Pro ran all the same apps, did all the same things, had pretty much the same things in pretty much the same p…
Lees meerJason Koebler (Slashdot): The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content,…
Lees meerI have some old code that uses NSNotificationQueue to coalesce notifications. I think this is an underappreciated class. (Even in the old days, I saw a lot more talk about +cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:selector:object:.) My newer code use…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, MacStories, Hacker News): Today, we’re introducing the Mini Apps Partner Program, which expands on the App Store’s ongoing support for apps that offer mini apps. Mini apps are self-contained experiences that are built using web tec…
Lees meerI’ve frequently noted my frustration with Apple’s Xcode release notes, how lately they simply don’t tell you what’s changed in a given release. Changes from multiple releases are merged together, and Apple deletes and renames old pages so that you c…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Today I received a shipment notification via text message to my phone number from a company unrelated to Apple. The shipped product was not ordered with my iPhone, and in fact the product manufacturer doesn’t even know that I own any A…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News, The Verge): Apple today announced the launch of Digital ID, a new way for users to create an ID in Apple Wallet using information from their U.S. passport, and present it with the security and privacy of iPhone or Appl…
Lees meerThe Analysis Group (MacRumors, Slashdot, Hacker News): Despite commission rates typically falling by about 10 percentage points, current evidence shows that developers kept the prices of what they sold through the App Store the same or increased the…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, Slashdot): ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.[…]“The design of i…
Lees meerApple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.1.1 includes Swift 6.2.1 and SDKs for iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, macOS 26.1, and visionOS 26.1. Xcode 26.1.1 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and vision…
Lees meerDropDMG 3.7.1 is a maintenance update of my app for disk images and archives. I continue to run into AppleScript problems with Tahoe. This script: tell application "Finder" tell window 1 set statusbar visible to true end tell end tell no longer does…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli: The App Store icon is made up of three app icons supporting each other (like apps on the App Store do). Just like the Shortcuts is two app icons, connected in the middle (like shortcuts connecting your apps together). All these y…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis: Apple updated their own app icons on Tahoe, for both the squircle shape as well as the new “Liquid Glass” interface. Mostly, these icons seem dumbed-down, with a loss of detail. For example, here’s Safari’s old icon from MacOS 15 (Sequ…
Lees meerZeyi Yang and Louise Matsakis (Bluesky): Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes …
Lees meerFree Software Foundation Europe (via Hacker News): The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims for a structural reset of power in digital markets, a shift from corporate control toward device neutrality, where users decide what runs on their devices. Fo…
Lees meerUnder the Radar: In our final episode, we reflect on how indie app development has changed over the past decade. Marco Arment: We’re incredibly proud of our ten-year catalog of 30-minute discussions on development, marketing, monetization, work/life…
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