Web extensions got a big overhaul for the Mac last year, and though the uptake has not exactly been gangbusters, the potential for a bigger impact landed this year when Apple announced that they would be available on iPhone and iPad as well. Why is …
Lees meerHow one can define what a “Mac app” is has gotten more complicated as time has gone on. In the early days of Mac OS X, developers could choose between Cocoa, Carbon and even Java. As the latter two faded, we saw the rise of wrappers around web apps …
Lees meerI’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more machine-learning based audio analysis. The bulk of Tuesday’s WWDC session, “Discover built-in sound classification in SoundAnalysis,” is going to appeal to developers who want to write code into th…
Lees meerTestFlight on the Mac at last.Apps don’t spring, full-featured, onto our devices. App developers have to put the code and all the other assets together and create that thing—and it’s a whole process. Developers rely on beta testers to take their in-…
Lees meerWith watchOS 8, Apple isn’t setting out to radically change the experience of using an Apple Watch, but the new capabilities the release will give developers will make it feel more dynamic and useful throughout the day. The biggest change in this re…
Lees meerShazam! It ain’t just a movie starring Sinbad.1 Apple integrated the song-recognition service into Siri back in iOS 8; four years later, it bought the whole company. Last fall, iOS and iPadOS 14.2 added a button for Shazam to Control Center, and as …
Lees meerArs Technica’s Jon Brodkin: The FBI teamed up with Australian Federal Police to target drug trafficking and money laundering. They “strategically developed and covertly operated an encrypted device company, called ANOM, which grew to service more…
Lees meerWhen Apple’s latest operating systems debut this fall, many of their users will benefit from a whole new kind of built-in privacy protection in the form of iCloud Private Relay. While your actual web traffic has long been generally secured by encryp…
Lees meerFor years, automation on the Mac has been an onion of sorts. Automator and its ability to create Quick Actions, Folder Actions and even Applications has given Mac users the ability to create workflows with drag-and-drop efficiency since its introduc…
Lees meerLast month I wrote about how I’ve been building automations on iOS that were hard to replicate on macOS, and why that led me to believe the Mac needed to adopt Shortcuts: The more I use Shortcuts, the more I realize that in many ways, user automa…
Lees meerThere was a time when Apple rolled out the next versions of its operating systems and the story went like this: The iPhone and iPad added a bunch of new features, and the Mac got a few of its own and, if it was lucky, a subset of what the iPhone and…
Lees meerMyke and Jason break down the WWDC 2021 keynote, which brought Apple’s various devices together in some surprising ways. Were the changes to iPadOS exciting or disappointing? Are we excited about Shortcuts on the Mac? Will Focus modes keep us focuse…
Lees meerSpeaking to Fast Company’s Michael Grothaus, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi detailed a little more about the privacy-related announcements Apple made at its WWDC keynote, including iCloud Private Relay: When y…
Lees meerWhile Apple’s keynote focuses largely on the company’s consumer audience, the Platforms State of the Union is where things start to get technical, really targeting the core WWDC audience: developers on Apple’s platform. Apple made a ton of big annou…
Lees meerEven with a nearly two-hour keynote, Apple didn’t have time to discuss all the new features coming to its platforms in the next major updates. So I’ve gone through and pulled out an even half-dozen of my favorite features that didn’t merit screen ti…
Lees meerWith just hours to go before the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off, I find myself wondering if Apple—a company that has long maintained an unparalleled mastery of storytelling—can indeed narrate its way out of the drama in w…
Lees meer[This is a piece I wrote last month for Six Colors members. With WWDC coming Monday, I’ve unlocked it for everyone to read.] For a few years now, it’s seemed like the iPad has been on the precipice of a huge change. It can drive external displays, a…
Lees meerIf you ask a bunch of people in Apple community if WWDC is a hardware event or not, you’ll get a bunch of different answers, but I think most people consider WWDC to be a software event mostly aimed at developers. I don’t think that’s wrong. The bul…
Lees meerWill new MacBook Pros be announced at WWDC next week? Your guess is as good as mine. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t mind thrilling developers with new power laptops, since they are so often those very developers’ tool of choice. But new MacBook Pros would …
Lees meerTwitter: Starting today, we will be rolling out our first iteration of Twitter Blue in Australia and Canada. Our hope with this initial phase is to gain a deeper understanding of what will make your Twitter experience more customized, more expres…
Lees meerOur hopes and dreams for Apple’s WWDC, feelings on the iPad’s Center Stage feature, ephemeral social media feelings, and who we’re rooting for in the Apple Design Awards.…
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