Jody Godoy (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple has asked to participate in Google’s upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send the iPhone maker billions of dollars each y…
Lees meerThe Talk Show (transcript): Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion. Here are some highlights of w…
Lees meerAdobe (Reddit, 2): For more than a decade, we’ve brought photographers hundreds of innovative features in Lightroom and Photoshop without changing the price of our photography plans. Today we’re announcing an update to these plans to better reflect …
Lees meerI’ve been trying to reduce the storage that the Photos app uses, both on my Mac and in iCloud. I use Lightroom for my photo library, so I would like to delete all the photos that are not referenced by projects (calendars and photo books). Unfortunat…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today said that Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union, which is more than any other company.In a statement provided to Reuters, Apple said that Meta is asking for chan…
Lees meerReuters (via Hacker News, Court Listener): U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platforms’, WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing unauthorized surveillance.…
Lees meerDag Spicer (via Hacker News): Bitzer studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), obtaining a PhD in 1960. Following graduation, he joined the UIUC faculty, where he learned of efforts to bring lessons to …
Lees meerAriel Michaeli (October 2024): I see Disney’s choice of leaving the App Store as a long-term mistake that would cost them even more than the 30% they were giving Apple. Ariel Michaeli: Now that we have enough MRR data I think the reason is a bit cle…
Lees meerleazhito: Around 4 hours ago developer posted that the app was once again rejected by Apple for weird reasons regarding adding games during testing.They later posted that they submitted another appeal.And shortly after this (see image) thread of two…
Lees meerAshley Belanger: Thousands of victims have sued Apple over its alleged failure to detect and report illegal child pornography, also known as child sex abuse materials (CSAM).The proposed class action comes after Apple scrapped a controversial CSAM-s…
Lees meerBryan Jones: Consider this code, wherein we create a custom NSTableColumn that uses an image instead of a String as its header. Holly Borla posted a fix that special-cases NSObject.init(): Now, overriding NSObject.init() within a @MainActor-isolated…
Lees meerJohn McCall (forum): However, this approach has significant problems. The biggest is that the get accessor has to return an independent value. If the accessor is just returning a value stored in memory, which is very common for data structures, this…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Delta, the MacStories Selects App of the Year, received an important update today that allows users of the game emulator to support its development via Patreon from inside the app. Existing patrons can connect their Patreon accounts f…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: Welcome to my new series on things I don’t understand about Apple’s premier user interface framework.[…]To be clear, these are things I don’t understand, not necessarily things that are “wrong.” They sure look wrong (or at least “subo…
Lees meerDaniel Kennett: I’ve been shipping apps to the App Store for well over fifteen years now, and although there are App Review horror stories aplenty, I’ve always hoped I’d never be in a position to write one myself.[…]What you just scrolled past was t…
Lees meerGus Mueller (release notes): “Select Subject”, “Mask Subject”, and “Remove Background” are new commands which use machine learning (or A.I. if you prefer) to find the most important parts of your image, and then perform their respective operations.[…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Starting in macOS 12 Monterey, clicking an update notification did nothing. Before that, it opened the App Store app, though only to the main screen, not the Updates screen. It was frustrating, and unnecessarily so.In Sequoia, however, A…
Lees meerMike Wuerthele: In a report on Sunday morning by Bloomberg, Apple is said to be prototyping new versions of the Magic Mouse internally. On the top of the list of changes, is a relocation of the charging port, and perhaps new ergonomics, but that poi…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis: In 2020, the disaster foreshadowed literally one sentence ago struck. Beta versions of MacOS 11 broke ACE, our then-current audio capture technology, and the damage looked permanent. When we spoke briefly to Apple during WWDC 2020, our…
Lees meerI’m in the process of migrating from XCTest to Swift Testing. The basic stuff is pretty easy to translate, and in many cases I don’t even need to change the code inside my test methods. I’ve long been writing what Swift Testing calls expectations in…
Lees meerTake Control (via Kirk McElhearn): Back in 2019, Apple replaced iTunes for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS with three apps—Music, TV, and Podcasts—with audiobooks handled by the Books app. Take Control of Apple Media Apps is your guide to this post-iTunes worl…
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