Jack Wellborn: Developers using first party tools from Apple shouldn’t have to swim upstream to build cohesive Mac versions of their apps. I am not saying that the existence of any incongruous Catalyst ports is worrisome — incongruous ports are inev…
Lees meerCasey Johnston (tweet): Looking up “lined leather gloves” yields 40,000 results. On the first page, there are two different gloves listed, one for $17 and one for $60, that look exactly identical and come in the exact same colors. Both have the same…
Lees meerCade Metz (via Hacker News, Slashdot): Mr. Brooker joined the Manchester lab in October 1951, just after it installed a new machine called the Ferranti Mark 1. His job, he told the British Library in an interview in 2010, was to make the Mark 1 “usa…
Lees meerBill Atkinson (Hacker News): I wanted to port the UCSD Pascal system to the Apple II. We needed to build software in a cumulative fashion with libraries of reusable modules, and Apple BASIC didn’t even have local variables. My manager said "No", but…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: The hip and cool property-wrapper implementations on the web so far ignore the registerDefaults layer completely and provide a local fallback if no value for the key is persisted for the current user. The problem I see here is that…
Lees meerWeston Hanners: SwiftUI is really fun and the data flow is just awesome. It makes building new screens super quick and opens the door to a ton of prototyping. I am sure these will all be fixed in time, but many of these are deal-breakers and as it i…
Lees meerLawrence Abrams (Hacker News): With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.[…]Many users, though, felt…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Thomas Grove Carter has since demonstrated that the iMac Pro can in fact drive the Pro Display XDR, but only at a 5K resolution. This is likely because the iMac Pro uses Intel’s older “Alpine Ridge” Thunderbolt 3 controller without en…
Lees meerHorace Dediu: This analysis helped me conclude the Apple Watch overtook the historic “peak iPod” which occurred in the fourth quarter of 2007 at $4 billion. My Watch revenue estimate was $4.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018. […] Looking forwar…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple plans to launch a high-end iPhone without a Lightning connector in the second half of 2021, according to a new prediction from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The device will supposedly offer a “completely wireless experience,” suggesting…
Lees meerJack Dorsey: Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standar…
Lees meerAnil Dash (Hacker News): We don’t even notice it anymore — “link in bio”. It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web link can be found on that user’s profile. Its presence is so subtle…
Lees meerThe Iconfactory (tweet): We tried hard to avoid a subscription, but the costs to maintain the app are much higher than the income from new sales. This is obviously not a sustainable situation! […] A majority of that time was not even spent adding ne…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: Executives in the online publishing industry speaking with The Information say that Apple has been “stunningly effective” with its goal of Intelligent Tracking Prevention stopping websites from knowing what users are doing on the web…
Lees meerDave Nanian: In order to replicate this new volume setup, system backups of APFS volumes must be to APFS formatted volumes. SuperDuper automatically converts any HFS+ destinations to APFS volumes for you (after prompting), so you won’t have to do an…
Lees meerApple: Restores the column browser view for managing the music library […] Addresses an issue that may cause Mail preferences to open with a blank window I’ve heard a lot about both of these. From what I’m hearing, 10.15.2 doesn’t fix the Mail data …
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): More than two years after Apple promised a new modular high-end desktop machine for its professional users, the new Mac Pro is now available for purchase, as is its companion display, the Pro Display XDR. Apple is acceptin…
Lees meerShaun Nichols (Hacker News): In a complaint filed in the Santa Clara Superior Court, in California, USA, and seen by The Register, the Cupertino goliath claimed Gerard Williams, CEO of semiconductor upstart Nuvia, broke his Apple employment agreemen…
Lees meerChaim Gartenberg (tweet): The remote that comes bundled with the Apple TV is infamous for its difficult-to-use design and controversial touchpad for navigation. It’s so bad, in fact, that Swiss TV and internet provider Salt — which provides Apple TV…
Lees meerJessica Lessin (tweet): The last two weeks have been a crash course in Apple’s gatekeeper status over consumers’ digital lives. Apple rejected our app four times. Some of the pushback we received was so specific—such as not being allowed to underlin…
Lees meerJim Matthews: Fetch 5.8, the 64-bit version of Fetch, is now available for download. The primary feature of this release is compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina. Fetch 5.7 users should only upgrade to Fetch 5.8 if they have moved, or will soon mo…
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