Matthew Panzarino (also: MacRumors, Hacker News): “You download the app and it doesn’t work, that’s not what we want on the store,” says Schiller. This, he says, is why Apple requires in-app purchases to offer the same purchasing functionality as th…
Lees meerNilay Patel (tweet, MacRumors, Hacker News, David Heinemeier Hansson): Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully, according to the chairman of the House antitrust subcommittee. […] “Because of the market power that Apple has, it is charging exor…
Lees meerSummerFest: Many of us need to reimagine our workplaces and our workflow. We have kids to raise, degrees to pursue, new jobs to find. Summer is the time for new plans and fresh projects and great new ideas. Whether you’re mapping out your next novel…
Lees meerBrendan Shanks: On May 7-11, 1990, Apple Computer held the second-ever [or fourth?] Worldwide Developers Conference at the (then-new) San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. A newsgroup post indicates that the attendance fee was $195 per day, an…
Lees meerMatthew Guay (tweet): Of all the things the App Store offers, SaaS finds perhaps two things helpful: Discovery and downloads. And they could live without either. Subscription software businesses have to build a customer relationship, with unique acc…
Lees meerApple (also: MacRumors): The Apple Developer Forums have been completely redesigned, so they’re more engaging to use, automatically surface the most relevant content, offer simpler navigation, and make it easier to categorize and search for content.…
Lees meerEric S. Yuan (via Bruce Schneier, Hacker News): Today, Zoom released an updated E2EE design on GitHub. We are also pleased to share that we have identified a path forward that balances the legitimate right of all users to privacy and the safety of u…
Lees meerSharad Mangalick: A new hue editing control is available as a local adjustment control. Local Hue can be used for both corrective and creative purposes. Local Hue gives photographers the ability to subtly nudge hue to clean up uneven skin tones. […]…
Lees meerAdobe (via John Gruber): Adobe will be removing Flash Player download pages from its site and Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date. […] Customers should not use unauthorized versions of Flash Play…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: DuckDuckGo still uses JavaScript to intercept your link clicks, and there’s no good reason for it. One consequence of this clickjacking is that your Safari browsing history gets messed up.[…]Today I’ve released version 15.3 of my Safar…
Lees meerJuli Clover: The Mac version of the Apple Developer app will mirror the iOS version, offering up a Discover section with new and relevant developer news, a videos section with sessions created by Apple engineers, and a WWDC section. The WWDC section…
Lees meerDavid Heinemeier Hansson: We celebrated too soon with getting Apple’s approval for HEY in the App Store. Yes, v1.0 was approved, but now we’ve been denied our v1.0.1 update, which has important bug fixes, because we don’t do IAP. It’s really sad tha…
Lees meerWill Oremus (tweet): It’s a function of Apple policy. With some exceptions, the company doesn’t let users pay app makers directly for their apps or digital services. They can only pay Apple, which takes a 30% cut of all revenue and then passes 70% t…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: But we quickly realized that getting custom fonts onto iOS is much harder than on the Mac. There is no Font Book app and our initial research indicated that an Adobe CC subscription was required to download fonts. But even with a …
Lees meerJosh Centers: There are all sorts of apps that add various capabilities to your Mac’s menu bar, but I’ve stumbled across one that can add literally anything to the menu bar through a plug-in system. It’s called BitBar, and it’s both free and open so…
Lees meerApple, in an e-mail sent to developers: We love feedback. Tell us about your experience managing, marketing and distributing apps for the App Store. Wil Shipley’s feedback hits most of the big issues. (He doesn’t discuss the guidelines or App Review…
Lees meerAdam Engst: I had no idea that Apple deleted iCloud backups after 180 days, and a quick poll in the TidBITS Slack channel showed that it wasn’t common knowledge among other TidBITS staffers and contributing editors.[…]It’s not quite as hidden as the…
Lees meerMark Gurman: Apple Inc. removed podcast apps Pocket Casts and Castro from its App Store in China at the request of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the apps’ developers said this week. “We believe podcasting is and should remain an open mediu…
Lees meerBradley Chambers (tweet): iBooks Author will no longer be updated, and iTunes U is being discontinued at the end of 2021. iBooks Author will continue to work, but you’ll need to make preparations to transition to Pages in the near future. Much of th…
Lees meerCraig Mod: This sense of a decline in software craft has been building for years, but it wasn’t until Apple released the iPad Magic Keyboard that I felt the pain of this hardware-software gap so acutely. […] Apple’s hardware is ever-more refined. Wh…
Lees meerAll I really wanted was an updated version of my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro that was faster and had a larger display (preferably matte). It’s definitely faster. Here’s how long it takes to build SpamSieve on my different Macs: MacProcessorBuild Time Ma…
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