Kuba Suder: However, I was surprised to see how many of those things I wrote down don’t work anymore.[…] And the problem is that all those old APIs are still there in the WWDC videos from last year. But WWDC videos are usually a very good source of …
Lees meerJonas Downey: This is an existential threat to indie weather apps. We’re now forced to: A) Find a new provider that’s comparable and integrate it instead of Dark Sky. B) Create a new set of widgets that are at least as good as Apple’s (preferably be…
Lees meerOculus: Today, we’re announcing some important updates to how people log into Oculus devices, while still keeping their VR profile. Starting in October 2020, everyone using an Oculus device for the first time will need to log in with a Facebook acco…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Some people claim that Mac users can “just right click” to run unsigned software. But what does that mean exactly? Let’s look at the user experience, in a series of screenshots.[…]This alert mentions the possibility of malware, and the…
Lees meerApple: New in macOS 11 on Apple silicon Mac computers, and starting in the next macOS Big Sur 11 beta, the operating system will enforce that any executable must be signed with a valid signature before it’s allowed to run. There isn’t a specific ide…
Lees meerBBC: The co-creator of the computer mouse, William English, has died aged 91.[…]His first version was a wooden block with a single button - and underneath, two rolling wheels at 90-degree angles that would record vertical and sideways movement.[…]He…
Lees meerDrew McCormack (tweet): But that is not the app world of 2020. It has become a huge, multifaceted market, with multiple platforms, crossover with the web, and a multitude ways to make money. Very few companies now live solely within Apple’s city wal…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (tweet): If you think Epic is right in principle about iOS and Android, then they ought to be making the same argument about Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. A computer is a computer. “Consoles” are a business model and user experience des…
Lees meerMahmoud Hafez: Today I found out an email I wrote to @tim_cook in 2015 was part of the congressional record in the antitrust hearings earlier this month. My email was about App Review gaining too much power (back in 2015!)[…]Apple removed our popula…
Lees meerJuli Clover: As Apple battles with Epic Games over its App Store fees, Facebook is joining the fight over its new Paid Online Events feature, which allows small businesses in 20 countries to charge Facebook users to attend online classes and events.…
Lees meerEpic (also: MacRumors): Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store and has informed Epic that on Friday, August 28 Apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools. We are asking the court to stop th…
Lees meerDavid Shayer: They didn’t actually work for the Department of Energy; they worked for a division of Bechtel, a large US defense contractor to the Department of Energy. They wanted to add some custom hardware to an iPod and record data from this cust…
Lees meerIBM (via Hacker News): Frances “Fran” Allen, a pioneer in the world of computing, the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the Turing Award, died on August 4, 2020, the day of her 88th birthday. […] In debt with student loans, Fran joi…
Lees meerRussell Brandom (Hacker News, MacRumors): Epic Games has filed suit against Google over alleged antitrust violations, just hours after seeing Fortnite dropped from the both the Google Play Store and iOS App store and filing a similar lawsuit against…
Lees meerKatyanna Quach: Within hours of the browser maker laying off a quarter of its staff this week, a well-placed source told The Register Moz had signed a three-year agreement with Google. […]However, our source told us Moz will likely pocket $400m to $…
Lees meerTrend Micro (via Dave Verwer): We have discovered an unusual infection related to Xcode developer projects. Upon further investigation, we discovered that a developer’s Xcode project at large contained the source malware, which leads to a rabbit hol…
Lees meerJosh Centers: At this critical juncture for the company, we wanted to take the opportunity to analyze the complaints against Apple regarding how it runs the App Store. We’ve spent a long time observing and considering these issues, and you may agree…
Lees meerThe Fortnite Team (via Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, we’re also introducing a new way to pay on iOS and Android: Epic direct payment. When you choose to use Epic direct payments, you save up to 20% as Epic passes along payment processing savings t…
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher (also: MacRumors, Mike Schmitz): Having launched back in 2017 with just 61 apps, Setapp is a continually growing subscription service which gives users access to paid-for apps for one monthly fee. Currently hosting around 190 Mac a…
Lees meerFrederic Lardinois, in January (via Hacker News): Mozilla laid off about 70 employees today, TechCrunch has learned. In an internal memo, Mozilla chairwoman and interim CEO Mitchell Baker specifically mentions the slow rollout of the organization’s …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: The obvious downside to a paid subscription podcast ($5/month — cheap!) is that some prospective listeners naturally want to know what the show is like before paying. We’ve been thinking about this since we initially conceived of the sh…
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