Apple (MacRumors): Sidecar lets you extend your workspace by using your iPad as a second Mac display. Work in one app while you reference another or view your artwork on your Mac while you use tools and palettes on your iPad. You can also mirror the…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: As one of many updates to its App Store Review Guidelines this week, Apple has indicated that parental control app developers are again permitted to use Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology in their apps, so long as they do not s…
Lees meerSwiftUI: SwiftUI is an innovative, exceptionally simple way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. Build user interfaces for any Apple device using just one set of tools and APIs. With a declarative Swift syntax…
Lees meerApple: Power to change everything. Say hello to a Mac that is extreme in every way. With the greatest performance, expansion, and configurability yet, it is a system created to let a wide range of professionals push the limits of what is possible. F…
Lees meerGeneral: Keynote (Goodnight Developers Video, Hacker News) Schedule Videos Beta Downloads Videos Downloader and App Customer Stuff: iPadOS Preview (my post) iOS 13 Preview (my post) macOS 10.15 Catalina Preview (my post, Catalyst, backup) watchOS 6 …
Lees meerNeil Sardesai: “AppKit is our primary native framework and it takes full advantage of all the Mac has to offer. And in no way are we de-emphasizing that.” —WWDC 2018, Platforms State of the Union Craig Hockenberry: Cross-platform frameworks have a l…
Lees meerCameron Faulkner: Of the two sizes, the 13-inch model bears the closest resemblance to Apple’s MacBook Pro, with its keyboard arrangement and center-aligned trackpad, and well, just about everything else about it. The 15-inch laptop’s design dashes …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Over a dozen parental control app developers have come together with a shared message for Apple: it’s “time to put kids first.”Together, they have launched a new website called Screen Time API that urges Apple to release a public API …
Lees meerMark Gurman: iTunes has been the way Apple users listen to music, watch movies and TV shows, hear podcasts, and manage their devices for almost two decades. This year, Apple is finally ready to move into a new era. The company is launching a trio of…
Lees meerW3C: Today W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications. The Memorandum of Understanding jointly published as the WHATWG/W3C Joint Working Mode gives the specifics of…
Lees meerGab (Hacker News): Progress on our new codebase is going well. For those who don’t know, our plan is to fork existing open source software, Mastodon, which is based on the ActivityPub social networking protocol. […] You’ll be able to log into and us…
Lees meerBruno Rocha: To put it short, autoreleasepool is still useful in iOS/Swift development as there are still legacy Obj-C classes in UIKit and Foundation that call autorelease, but you likely don’t need to worry about it when dealing with Swift classes…
Lees meerMark Gurman (tweet, 9to5Mac): Apple Inc.’s former head of App Store approvals said he’s worried about competition between the company and developers, and even recalled board member Al Gore asking about a controversial app approval. Phillip Shoemaker…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Last week, in a research note shared with MacRumors, a team of Barclays analysts “confirmed” that 3D Touch “will be eliminated” in all 2019 iPhones, as they predicted back in August 2018. The analysts gathered this information from Ap…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today announced a new iPod touch with headline features being a faster A10 Fusion chip and a new 256GB storage option. That’s the same processor as the iPhone 7, up from the iPhone 6–era A8. It has the same 4-inch screen size as…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I don’t know why, but one of those things has been bugging me a lot in recent months: the drab gray color that indicates tapdown state for list items and buttons. Putting aside skeuomorphic textures like woodgrain and leather and the 3D…
Lees meerFilippo Cavallarin (Hacker News): To better understand how this exploit works, let’s consider the following scenario: An attacker crafts a zip file containing a symbolic link to an automount endpoint she/he controls (ex Documents -> /net/evil.com/Do…
Lees meerMovist (via Leo): This is because Apple has refused to update the app, and they have also removed from the App Store the already accepted version.What Apple pointed out was that Movist has a feature of “downloading 3rd party media”. So we removed th…
Lees meerFelix Krause: If you get the email, this is your chance to give feedback about: - Binary processing time - Code signing - Lack of API endpoints - Inconsistent rejection reasons - Managing app metadata and screenshots - TestFlight review times Tyler …
Lees meerMichal Necasek (via Hacker News): Microsoft reportedly wanted to use the forward slash as path separator, but IBM nixed the idea because it would have created an incompatibility with DOS 1.x, which already used the forward slash as a switch characte…
Lees meerGoogle (via Kevin Beaumont): We found that an SMS code sent to a recovery phone number helped block 100% of automated bots, 96% of bulk phishing attacks, and 76% of targeted attacks. On-device prompts, a more secure replacement for SMS, helped preve…
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