Nick Heer: I see these back buttons as a sort of cop-out — an easy way of covering for a lack of deeper consideration. You can see this most clearly in iTunes running on Mojave, in which there are two very different implementations of every view: th…
Lees meerPanic: Our next text editor — the follow-up to Coda 2 — couldn’t just add a few features and call it a day. It had to change dramatically. It had to catch up to where things are today. And it had to consider where web development will be tomorrow. P…
Lees meerMark C: Side-by-side, you can actually see the reflective differences between the two screens. Previously: iMac 2020
Lees meerEpic (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple will no longer allow users to sign into Epic Games accounts using “Sign In with Apple” as soon as September 11, 2020. If you have previously used “Sign In with Apple”, please update your Epic Games account…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News, 9to5Mac): In a court filing today [link], Apple says that Epic’s lawsuit is “nothing more than a basic disagreement over money,” highlighting the revenue that Epic Games has earned through the Fortnite iOS app and Apple’s d…
Lees meerSaagar Jha (via Jeff Johnson): In January I discovered a flaw in the implementation of the sandbox initialization procedure on macOS that would allow malicious applications distributed through the Mac App Store to circumvent the enforcement of these…
Lees meerNathaniel Strauss (tweet): Two months into the beta cycle, Big Sur is still not education ready. Today marks the release of beta 5 and Apple has not implemented a way for standard users to enable screen recording. As a result they can’t share their …
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): Applebot is the web crawler for Apple. Products like Siri and Spotlight Suggestions use Applebot. Traffic coming from Applebot is identified by its user agent, and reverse DNS shows it in the *.applebot.apple.com domain, ori…
Lees meerJordan Rose: The way Swift’s flavor of automatic reference counting works is that destruction of the object happens synchronously when the last reference goes away. So while swift_retain ends after updating the reference count, swift_release has to …
Lees meerTim Cook, in July: We want to get every app we can on the Store, not keep them off. Apple, August 13: We will make every effort to work with Epic to resolve these violations so they can return Fortnite to the App Store. But I missed, when writing ye…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Today has seen the announcement of the second Apple antitrust investigation in two days. Just one day after Italy announced that it was investigating the fairness of iCloud terms and conditions, Australia says that it is launching a bro…
Lees meerDave Nanian: At present, it’s not possible to make bootable copies of Big Sur, even with asr, Apple’s own built-in replication utility. As such, we haven’t released a Beta, or even an internal Alpha, because it wouldn’t meet our own requirements.[…]…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (tweet): A threat intelligence firm called HYAS, a private company that tries to prevent or investigates hacks against its clients, is buying location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones around the world, and us…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Bloomberg reports that some developers in the Japanese gaming market have been emboldened by the dispute and are becoming more vocal about their own concerns, which including Apple’s 30% commission rate and inconsistent enforcement of …
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: The preliminary injunction hearing on the same two issues--can Epic force Apple to tolerate a version of Fortnite that bypasses its in-app purchasing (IAP) system in contravention of App Store business terms, and can Apple terminate…
Lees meerTom Warren (Hacker News): Pregnancy tests used to be fairly simple sticks you peed on, but the move to digital versions has transformed them into tiny computers almost as powerful as the original IBM PC. Fascinated by the digital era of pregnancy te…
Lees meerGikken (also: Filipe Espósito): Tokens not only generates promo codes 13x faster than App Store Connect but also provides you with a bunch of entirely new features. It’s mind-boggling how slow and clunky App Store Connect still is. The pricing is in…
Lees meerApple (PDF): We believe that dialogue and engagement are the best ways to work toward building a better world. In keeping with the UN Guiding Principles, where national law and international human rights standards differ, we follow the higher standa…
Lees meerMatt Ronge: The reality is most people won’t sign up for your subscription even at a low price. Most people dislike subscriptions, and many won’t subscribe at any cost. The recurring nature of subscriptions provides a major mental hurdle and makes t…
Lees meerMilen Dzhumerov: Auto Linking works by inserting linker flags in object files. When the linker creates the final executable, it’s as if those linker flags were passed as arguments.[…]I recently added support for LC_LINKER_OPTION to MachO-Explorer, s…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: The task was even more challenging this time, however, as the default macOS Big Sur wallpaper showcases the dramatic rugged mountainous area of California’s Central Coast region from an elevated vantage point 4,000 feet over the ocean.…
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