Sean Hollister: But also, one app developer revealed to Congress that it — just like WordPress — had been forced to monetize a largely free app. That developer testified that Apple had demanded in-app purchases (IAP), even though Apple had approved …
Lees meerFrank Illenberger: After some sweat and tears we have found the reason for the installation failures in the Mac App Store: At some point in the last weeks, Apple has changed the format of the date values in its ASN.1 receipt files.They used to look …
Lees meerSam Curry (via Steve Troughton-Smith, Hacker News): Between the period of July 6th to October 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program. […] During our engag…
Lees meerNate Cook: I’m excited to announce Swift Algorithms, a new open-source package of sequence and collection algorithms, along with their related types.Algorithms are powerful tools for thought because they encapsulate difficult-to-read and error-prone…
Lees meerDan Thorp-Lancaster: Alleged source code for Windows XP leaked online this week. The leak was spread in a thread on the anonymous forum 4chan, which linked to archives of both the alleged Windows XP source code along with source code for other Micro…
Lees meerJuli Clover (also: James Vincent): Apple has decided to temporarily waive the 30 percent cut that it takes from in-app purchases for Facebook’s in-app paid event feature, reports CNBC. Facebook had accused Apple of hurting small businesses by collec…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: The House Judiciary subcommittee that held a hearing with the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google back in July has issued a 449-page report on its findings and recommendations. The report is here. Some of the parts I found inter…
Lees meerNiels Hofmans (Hacker News, MacRumors): The mini operating system on the T2 (SepOS) suffers from a security vulnerable also found in the iPhone 7 since it contains a processor based on the iOS A10. Exploitation of this type of processor for the sake…
Lees meerRoben Kleene: Text editors, on the other hand, are a software category where the most popular options are not the oldest. According to the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey, Sublime Text was the most popular text editor available on the Mac fro…
Lees meerKickstarter: Tens of thousands already use Luna Display for Mac and now we’re bringing that same magic to Windows. Whether you’re working remotely, looking to maximize your workspace, or seeking more creative flexibility - Luna has you covered. As t…
Lees meerNicolas Fränkel (via John D. Cook, Hacker News): Ever since then, it would be an euphemism to say XML has been losing in popularity. Other formats, such as JSON and YAML, have replaced it in the hearts of developers. In this post, I’d like to:Explor…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The description of Disk Utility’s First Aid command therefore appears incorrect. How this currently works is that performing First Aid depends on the item which is selected. If that’s a disk, then First Aid checks and repairs at that …
Lees meerDrew McCormack (tweet): Unlike a freemium model, this is not an ála carte selection of features — it is all you can eat. When you purchase to move your unlock date forward, all features on or before that date get unlocked, forever. Customers appreci…
Lees meerEarlier this year, Fullpower Technologies discontinued MotionX-GPS: After years of offering a top-rated GPS app for the iPhone, we have made the difficult decision to remove MotionX-GPS from the iTunes App Store. We realize MotionX-GPS has a large f…
Lees meerJesper: The Mac gets a lot of flack from people who are nose deep in technical specifications and price matchups. What they don’t see — or aren’t interested in — is the intangible: the culture that people with big dreams and small means have made th…
Lees meerJames Tapsfield (also: Hacker News): The extraordinary meltdown was caused by an Excel spreadsheet containing lab results reaching its maximum size, and failing to update. Some 15,841 cases between September 25 and October 2 were not uploaded to the…
Lees meerMarco Arment: The Big Sur auto-hidden document-proxy icon is so frustrating — it hides functionality behind an invisible mode, and introduces a delay for anyone trying to use it. How does this help usability? What problem does this solve? It looks c…
Lees meerJoe Groff: With its eclectic mix of AppKit, Catalyst, iOS, SwiftUI, and web apps, macOS should consider rebranding to “Five GUIs” Helge Heß (tweet): 5 GUIs is a simple file analysis tool that detects which of these 5 GUI frameworks a Mac app uses: A…
Lees meerAlexander George (via Tim Hardwick): In the newest update to iPadOS, when you write with the Apple Pencil ($129), the iPad can understand your scrawl and, with Scribble, convert it to typed text. It works like most machine learning—examples inform r…
Lees meerKaroy Lorentey (Hacker News): I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start buildi…
Lees meerFree Pascal (via Frank Reiff): macOS 11 Big Sur introduces many user interface changes that update the appearance of applications and make them more iOS-like. It also adds support for familiar iOS features — such as SF Symbols and text styles. […] B…
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