Adi Robertson (tweet): Massively popular game creation tool Roblox is now a massively popular experience creation tool Roblox, possibly in response to the ongoing Epic v. Apple trial. […] The “Games” tab now reads “Discover” on the web, although it …
Lees meerElizabeth Lopatto: On the stand is Lorin Hitt, professor of operations, information, and decisions at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton, looking uncomfortable behind his face shield. During his direct examination in the ongoing Epic v. Apple tr…
Lees meerWayne Ma: The industrial park is surrounded by walls and fences with only one way in or out.And next to the park was a large compound identified by a satellite imagery researcher as a detention center where the factory workers lived. The researcher,…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Many of us have just installed the largest macOS update ever released by Apple (as far as I can tell), and there’s a few Macs which haven’t fared well. My iMac died while making a copy of the macOS 11.3 installer, before I actually in…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): Apple says iOS users benefit from a locked-down, curated platform. It rejects “stores within stores” like the Epic Games Store, which could allegedly expose users to harmful and unvetted software. It’s also, however, fighting …
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type designs into a particular file format—will lose full support in Adobe Photoshop this year, and gradually disappear from othe…
Lees meerGoogle (via Hacker News): We’re updating the way Google Docs renders documents. Over the course of the next several months, we’ll be migrating the underlying technical implementation of Docs from the current HTML-based rendering approach to a canvas…
Lees meerApple: In May 2022, iCloud Documents and Data, our legacy document syncing service, will be discontinued and completely replaced by iCloud Drive. If you use iCloud Documents and Data, your account will be migrated to iCloud Drive after this date. Vi…
Lees meerKen Kocienda (tweet): Over the next fifteen years, I wrote code in ObjC just about every day. The language offered me a small collection of rules on the surface and a deep well of flexibility underneath. This combination facilitated and encouraged q…
Lees meerBrent Simmons (tweet): Apple likes to claim that the App Store replaced the system of selling software in physical boxes in stores and over the mail. But it’s not true. My experience selling apps before the App Store was not unique or new — it’s onl…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (tweet): The if-let syntax discourages long variable names because there’s no autocomplete for optional variables that are in scope. It’s not uncommon to see things like this because programmers are notoriously lazy:if let favc = f…
Lees meerSketch: Over the past few years, we’ve evolved Sketch to be more than the Mac app. It’s now a fully integrated platform for design and collaboration, combining the best native Mac editor with tools that work in any web browser. Today we want to shar…
Lees meerMichael Buckley (Hacker News): Unfortunately, like Transmit iOS and Status Board before it, we’re discontinuing Code Editor as it doesn’t generate enough revenue to cover its continued development. […] The churn of new web tools and tech is rapid an…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): And while Epic itself has focused on explaining why web apps aren’t a good substitute for native ones, its expert witness David Evans brought up another major issue: anti-steering rules.Anti-steering rules (in this context) re…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): The trial’s sixth day began with testimony from Matthew Weissinger, Epic’s VP of marketing. And Apple used its cross-examination to offer the court an exhaustive tutorial on Fortnite, beginning with its title screen and one of…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet, also: Nick Statt, Elizabeth Lopatto, Ian Sherr): On the fifth day of court, however, Apple tried to turn Itch.io into a liability — by telling Epic Games Store general manager Steven Allison about “so-called adult games” that w…
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith has compiled some really interesting court exhibits from the Epic trial: It seems like they create a trust score of your app based on a list of binary & metadata criteria, and then review what’s changed between versions […] App…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): Epic spent the fourth day of trial offering its counter-narrative: the iOS App Store isn’t actually very good. Calling two Apple executives to the stand, Epic’s attorneys took jabs at everything from the update review process …
Lees meerLockdown Privacy: If Apple actually cared about privacy, they’d stop tracking users without consent in their own apps. […] Screenshots of the Apple News third party tracking behavior, blocked by Lockdown Privacy on iOS 14.5, plus description of the …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Longtime readers know I have a thing for good iPhone weather apps. I find weather apps to be an evergreen playground for design ideas — and that’s more true than ever now with iOS 14 widgets. One of my very favorites in recent years is …
Lees meerJeremy Provost: A few months back I was surprised to see that Zoom had somehow been able to tap into using the camera during iPad Split View multitasking. This is an obvious feature for a videoconferencing app so that you can keep one eye on your me…
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