Paul Hudson: For a number of years my #1 WWDC wish was that Apple would do something to dramatically rethink its approach to developer documentation. […] The top 500 most popular APIs (measured by page views) should have example code attached, ideal…
Lees meerTim Cook (starting at 2:00): We treat every developer the same. We have open and transparent rules. Leah Nylen: Forrest is asking Fischer about an Oct 2018 email. “Hulu is part of the set of whitelisted developers with access to subscription cancel/…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): Is an iPhone more like a PC or an Xbox? […] Epic called up Microsoft’s Xbox business development head Lori Wright as a sympathetic witness. In response to a line of questioning, Wright divided computing devices into “special-p…
Lees meerAlexander Osipovich (via Hacker News): Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is trading at more than $421,000 per Class A share, and the market is optimistic. That’s a problem. The price has grown so high, it has nearly hit the maximum number that can be stored i…
Lees meerJason Snell: I’m getting a lot of tweets and emails saying the same thing: the latest episode of (some podcast I’m involved with) hasn’t shown up in Apple Podcasts. Unfortunately, right now my only answer is to say, “It’s displaying properly in ever…
Lees meerMicrosoft: Visual Studio 2022 will be a 64-bit application, no longer limited to ~4gb of memory in the main devenv.exe process. With a 64-bit Visual Studio on Windows, you can open, edit, run, and debug even the biggest and most complex solutions wi…
Lees meerChance Miller (tweet, MacRumors): As part of the Epic vs. Apple trial, a detailed new email thread has come to light showcasing internal communication at Apple once the company became aware of Netflix’s plans to roll out an A/B test focused on use o…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: In addition to making AppleCare+ available for the Apple TV for the first time, Apple is now allowing AppleCare+ coverage for Macs to be extended indefinitely in the United States, according to an updated support document. Joe Cieplin…
Lees meerSami Fathi (also: Ashkan Soltani): As a way to convince users to enable tracking across other apps and websites, Facebook is deploying the tactic of telling users that they must enable tracking as part of the App Tracking Transparency framework in i…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Now found on most smartphones in some form, Night Shift is based on studies that have demonstrated that blue light can negatively impact sleep by altering the body’s circadian rhythm. However, the results of a new study from BYU publis…
Lees meerEdmund Lee and Lauren Hirsch (via Hacker News): Yahoo and AOL, kings of the early internet, saw their fortunes decline as Silicon Valley raced ahead to create new digital platforms. Google replaced Yahoo. AOL was supplanted by cable giants. Now they…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): Apple did support cross-wallet play before banning Fortnite last year — and on the trial’s second day, that fact became a serious pitfall for Epic. Apple continued a long cross-examination of Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, whose hours …
Lees meerLate Night Software (full release notes, press release): Script Debugger’s appearance has been updated to fit nicely into macOS Big Sur. Script Debugger 8 runs natively on Apple’s new M1 Macs, and generates universal Intel/ARM applications when runn…
Lees meerJason Snell, quoting Tim Cook: The App Store and other parts of Apple are not cast in concrete. And so we can move and are flexible with the times. Nick Statt, Ben Brody, and David Pierce: On Monday, Apple and Epic Games will meet in court to decide…
Lees meerMr. Macintosh (also: MacRumors): Surprise!!! Apple just a new macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 Update. The release comes only one week after 11.3. Apple: Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of …
Lees meerDave Nanian (tweet): As such, we can finally release a Beta that works as expected on both Intel Macs (now) and M1 Macs (assuming you have installed 11.4 Beta 1 or later). To be clear, this is only possible because Apple made it possible in macOS 11…
Lees meerTom Warren (MacRumors, Hacker News): The European Commission is issuing antitrust charges against Apple over concerns about the company’s App Store practices. The Commission has found that Apple has broken EU competition rules with its App Store pol…
Lees meerMy thanks to Oak Snow Consulting for sponsoring the blog this week. Do you want to teach your kids to program? Help them take their first steps with SeaTurtle, a turtle graphics–oriented programming language built for macOS. SeaTurtle is an extremel…
Lees meerDave Verwer: I lost about two hours yesterday to this tweet from Davide Di Stefano. Xcode 2 was the first version I used, but this video of Xcode 3 from Kevin Vinck took me on a delightful trip down memory lane, which ended in finding this YouTube c…
Lees meerVMware (tweet): However, for those that need to run another operating system like Linux or Windows, Rosetta 2 doesn’t support Virtualization, and Apple silicon Macs don’t support Boot Camp. That means it’s time for us to innovate and rebuild our bel…
Lees meerGus Mueller (tweet): Core Image, another framework by Apple and one that Acorn relies on heavily, uses OpenCL to process images when its renderer is set to “software” mode (the other mode is to use the GPU). Core Image tries to use OpenCL and then f…
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