Tim Cook, in 2015: I think the lack of gaming (along with lack of native productivity apps) are the main reason the Mac App Store is dormant. Phil Schiller: The Mac App Store matters for distribution of Apple software and 3rd parties that can’t crea…
Lees meerI updated my main Mac to Big Sur a month and a half ago, so I’ve been using macOS 11.2.3 through 11.3.1. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that it fixes any of the Catalina issues that I mentioned, and it introduces a variety of new ones: Several times my…
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet): Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stand on Friday for the final day of testimony in the Epic v. Apple antitrust trial.[…]“When they buy an iPhone today, they buy something that just works. I think they buy into a total ecosystem when t…
Lees meerRob Griffiths: In theory, upgraders and new customers for a new release funded all the work we did between initial release and the major update. In reality, that model is broken for us—and for you, our customers—and it’s been broken for quite a few …
Lees meerCERN (via Hacker News): The first website at CERN – and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer. In 2013, CERN launched a project to restore this first ever website: info.cern.c…
Lees meerNick Statt: CEO Tim Cook is up first thing tomorrow. But today we’re back with experts and third-party witnesses. UCLA’s Dominique Hanssens Ocean Tomo CEO James Malackowski Aviel Rubin, JHU technical director Adi Robertson: Hanssens’ survey assessed…
Lees meerMike Bombich (tweet): We’ve completely rebuilt our file copier to take advantage of the performance characteristics of modern storage.[…]CCC can now tap into the macOS FSEvents service for a list of folders modified on the source since the last back…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger: If you’re familiar with Objective-C, you likely know about selectors, but they only contain the name and number of parameters. The type each parameter has is stored in the method type encoding, which is encoded as a simple string.…
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet): Epic and its lawyers have throughout the trial pointed to the freedom consumers have on macOS to download applications outside the Mac App Store and to largely do what they please on the macOS operating system. Epic has held up t…
Lees meerMichael Steeber: Twenty years ago this week, Apple opened its first brick and mortar retail stores to applause, cheering, and seemingly endless lines of smiling faces. What started at two malls in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California bec…
Lees meerDave Jacobsen: We know you’ve been using “The Ultimate Guide To iPhone Resolutions” from PaintCode that’s outdated, but trust me this new one is where it’s at.It has TONS of useful stuff and even supports iPads, Apple Watch, TV, and CarPlay! See als…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): Tweaks for Twitter is a macOS web browser extension that improves the user interface of twitter.com in many ways. Tweaks works in Safari for Mac, Google Chrome for Mac, and any other Chromium-based web browser for the Mac, such…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): “Product marketing works hand-in-hand with engineering on all of our projects,” Schiller explained. Different parts of Apple simply aren’t siloed into neat divisions; it’s one tight-knit company that makes a many-featured prod…
Lees meerJack Nicas, Raymond Zhong, and Daisuke Wakabayashi (tweet): Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has said the data is safe. But at the data center in Guiyang, which Apple hoped would be completed by next month, and another in the Inner Mongolia region…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (Hacker News): Benchmarks are all very well, but one almost universal comment made about M1 Macs is how much faster they feel, even when performance measurements don’t show as big a difference as we might like. One very effective way o…
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News, Dave Mark): With VoiceOver and Image Descriptions turned on, you can hear a description of what you’re taking pictures of in the Camera app. This is pretty impressive, with much more detailed descriptions than seem to be avai…
Lees meerQuinn the Eskimo: Parsing fixed-format date strings is tricky. For an explanation as to why, see QA1480 NSDateFormatter and Internet Dates. However, there’s an extra gotcha when you try to parse fixed-format date strings that don’t include a time.[……
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet): Apple spends about $50 million hosting its annual developer conference, known as WWDC, every summer. That is until the event, which has been held in recent years at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, went all-virtual last ye…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors, The Verge): Spatial Audio gives artists the opportunity to create immersive audio experiences for their fans with true multidimensional sound and clarity. Apple Music subscribers will also be able to listen to more tha…
Lees meerRyan Mac et al. (via Nick Heer): On Friday, following a passing mention in the New York Times that the president had sent his grandchildren money on Venmo, BuzzFeed News searched for the president’s account using only a combination of the app’s buil…
Lees meerJuli Clover: After updating to version 8.65, which adds Spaces support, Twitter users will begin seeing a popup that asks them to “keep ads relevant” by allowing Twitter to track data from other companies like apps used and websites visited. Previou…
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