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Apple’s Third-Party SDK List for Privacy Manifests

maandag 6 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Starting May 1, 2024, new or updated apps that have a newly added third-party SDK that‘s on the list of commonly used third-party SDKs will need all of the following to be submitted in App Store Connect: Required reasons for each listed API P…

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Swift’s Native Clocks Are Very Inefficient

maandag 6 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Wade Tregaskis (Hacker News): In a nutshell, the problem is that Swift’s Clock protocol has significant overheads by design. If you look at a time profile of code like this, you’ll see things like[…]That’s a lot of time wasted in function calls and …

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Error -609 Launching App From the Mac App Store

vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthias Gansrigler: Does anybody here know what macOS’ error -609 is when launching an app from the App Store? “The application “XYZ” can’t be opened. -609” And, maybe more importantly, how to fix it? Relaunches, re-installs and restarts have not h…

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Apple’s Q2 2024

vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $90.8 billion, down 4 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.53. “Today Apple is reporting revenue of $90.8 billion for the March qua…

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Beats Solo Buds

vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chance Miller: Alongside the launch of Beats Solo 4 today, Apple has also announced new Beats Solo Buds earbuds. The new Beats Solo Buds pack a truly wireless design with an incredibly impressive 18 hours of battery life and $79.99 price. […] While …

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Tracking Through MarketplaceKit

vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mysk: @brave for iOS just got updated to support the new “marketplace-kit” scheme. Brave only calls the scheme when trackers blocking is disabled. As we reported earlier, Apple implemented the new scheme in a way that allows tracking across websites…

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Core Technology Fee Exemptions

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): Today, we’re introducing two additional conditions in which the CTF is not required: First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to…

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EagleFiler 1.9.14

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

EagleFiler 1.9.14 is a maintenance release for my Mac information organizer app. Some interesting bugs were: EagleFiler uses NSXMLParser to read Evernote’s ENEX files, which it then converts to standard RTF/RTFD files that any app can read. Some cus…

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Delta Emulator in the App Store

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kyle Orland (MacRumors): Apple’s decision earlier this month to open the iOS App Store to generic retro game emulators is already bearing fruit. Delta launched Wednesday as one of the first officially approved iOS apps to emulate Nintendo consoles f…

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AltStore PAL

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Riley Testut: I’m thrilled to announce a brand new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — is launching TODAY as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the EU. AltStore PAL is an open-source app store made specifically for independent develop…

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Core Technology Fee Exemptions

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): Today, we’re introducing two additional conditions in which the CTF is not required: First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to…

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EagleFiler 1.9.14

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

EagleFiler 1.9.14 is a maintenance release for my Mac information organizer app. Some interesting bugs were: EagleFiler uses NSXMLParser to read Evernote’s ENEX files, which it then converts to standard RTF/RTFD files that any app can read. Some cus…

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Delta Emulator in the App Store

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kyle Orland (MacRumors): Apple’s decision earlier this month to open the iOS App Store to generic retro game emulators is already bearing fruit. Delta launched Wednesday as one of the first officially approved iOS apps to emulate Nintendo consoles f…

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AltStore PAL

donderdag 2 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Riley Testut: I’m thrilled to announce a brand new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — is launching TODAY as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the EU. AltStore PAL is an open-source app store made specifically for independent develop…

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Photos Syncing With iCloud Paused

woensdag 1 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I just ran into an iCloud issue I’d not seen before. Photos on my Mac now shows “Syncing with iCloud Paused. Optimizing System Performance” at the bottom of the photos grid. It’s not clear to me what this means because the Mac is essentially idle an…

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The Joy of Shortcuts

woensdag 1 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jarrod Blundy: I love building shortcuts. I have 579 of them in my personal library at the moment, and I’d guess that I built or modified about half of those at some point or another. Between my HeyDingus Shortcuts Library and my old home on Routine…

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Qi2 Battery Packs and Chargers

woensdag 1 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Christian Selig: Qi2 was supposed to be a glass of ice water to those in hell of Qi1, and I was hyped! Apple stopped making MagSafe battery packs themselves, and their old pack used Lightning instead of the newer USB-C, so I was excited to see third…

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Compelled to Unlock With Fingerprint

woensdag 1 mei 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jon Brodkin: The US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not …

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Ive Drives Icons

dinsdag 30 april 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Louie Mantia (Mastodon): It’s been 15 years since the original and 12 years since the sequel. Volume 3 contains a staggering 125 hard drive icons, comprising of 25 metal colors (most—if not all—of Apple’s modern product colors), with 5 varieties of …

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iPadOS Also a Digital Gatekeeper in EU

dinsdag 30 april 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): EU antitrust officials on Monday identified iPadOS, Apple’s operating system for iPads, as a significant digital gatekeeper under the EU’s new tech regulations, which carry strict requirements that aim to promote fair com…

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Swift Proposal: Synchronous Mutual Exclusion Lock

dinsdag 30 april 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SE-0433: Not all code may be able (or want) to adopt actors. Reasons for this can be very varied, for example code may have to execute synchronously without any potential for other tasks interleaving with it. Or the async effect introduced on method…

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