Hamish McKenzie: But creators aren’t Apple’s traditional customers. They’re not app makers or game developers. They don’t actually have a piece of real estate in the App Store. They instead find their distribution through media platforms, including …
Lees meerJay Peters (Slashdot): But in July, Apple reversed course and approved UTM SE, and earlier this month, it added the words “PC emulator” to guideline 4.7, which is seemingly why iDOS 3 has now been allowed on the App Store. Filipe Espósito: As for iD…
Lees meerDavid Barnard: For almost 16 years now, tweet after tweet, blog post after blog post, I’ve implored Apple to do better by developers and App Store customers in a million different ways. And implied (if not said directly) that if they didn’t, the imp…
Lees meerSarah Perez (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple has threatened to remove crowdfunding app Patreon from the App Store if creators continue to use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple’s o…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Mastodon, tweet, Hacker News): The Mac is a platform where you need to be able to shoot yourself in the foot. Increased protections that make it less likely that you’ll shoot yourself in the foot are, obviously, a good idea. Many of the…
Lees meerApple (PDF, Hacker News): We present foundation language models developed to power Apple Intelligence features, including a ~3 billion parameter model designed to run efficiently on devices and a large server-based language model designed for Privat…
Lees meerJuliana Kim: Susan Wojcicki, a Silicon Valley visionary who helped shape Google and YouTube, died Friday after a two-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer, according to her husband. She was 56.[…]In 1998, Wojcicki rented her garage to Larry Pa…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: A peculiar app called “Collect Cards: Store box” has been available on the App Store for over a year. The App Store description doesn’t say much about it, while the screenshots show a simple interface with what appears to be an app …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: There are a bunch of fake Mac App Store reviews for the Safari extensions Wipr, Dark Reader, and Vinegar. They are #1, 3, and 5 top paid. Vinegar, at least, is a legit good app. Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): I’ve now checked the reviews for…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple is putting pressure on Tencent and ByteDance to make significant changes to two of China’s most popular apps in order to remove loopholes that circumvent Apple’s typical 30% commission, Bloomberg reports.The loopholes are linked …
Lees meerApple: Updated 4.7 to clarify that PC emulator apps can offer to download games. They’ve also changed the notarization guidelines: 4.7 Mini apps, mini games, streaming games, chatbots, plug-ins, and game emulators Apps may offer certain software tha…
Lees meerApple: We’re introducing updated terms that will apply this fall for developers with apps in the European Union storefronts of the App Store that use the StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement. […] Developers can communicate and promote offers …
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler (Mastodon): As a macOS engineer, what do you do when you’re told by Apple’s security team you have to turn it even more into Windows Vista and place even more useless alibi-security permission dialogs somewhere, but you’ve run ou…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, no security, no developer, no enterprise, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 fixes an issue that prevented the enabling or disabling of Advanced Data Protection. Apple says there are also other “important bug fixe…
Lees meerApple (full installer): This update addresses an issue that prevents enabling or disabling Advanced Data Protection. Previously: macOS 14.6.1 macOS 13.6.8 and macOS 12.7.6 Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 17.6.1 update addresses an issue that could prevent the enabling or disabling of Advanced Data Protection.[…]Those who tried to turn Advanced Data Protection on and weren’t able to get it enab…
Lees meerIvan Mehta (Hacker News): Safari’s newest feature, Distraction Control, can remove distracting elements from a website. The feature follows Arc Browser’s addition of Boosts last year, which similarly lets users remove features from a site and furthe…
Lees meerNeil Long: Some studios now wait up to six months to get paid, which almost put one indie dev out of businessThe Apple Arcade team do not respond to routine emails for weeks or even months, if they respond at allOne developer who had semi-regular me…
Lees meerZac Hall: As noted by Vedant, the official Twitter for Mac app is currently missing from the Mac App Store. While it hasn’t been confirmed, the most obvious guess is that X, formerly Twitter, finally got around to delisting the abandoned software.Tw…
Lees meerChris Welch (via John Gruber): Spotify’s brief attempt at being a hardware company wasn’t all that successful: the company stopped producing its Car Thing dashboard accessory less than a year after it went on sale to the public. And now, two years l…
Lees meerLauren Feiner (Hacker News): A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court rea…
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