Indie developer Manton Reese linked to this interview with Basecamp’s Jason Fried that gets to the heart of how independent developers respond to Apple’s heavy-handed approach to the App Store. Here’s Fried, as heard on This Week in Startups (Overca…
Lees meerIf you’re wondering if App Review’s approach to WordPress was an isolated incident, I point you to the release notes to a recent GitHub app update: Improvements: • Updated design of repositories on the Home tab. • Introducing a new sidebar-st…
Lees meerThe legal filings from Epic Games just keep on coming, as Kim Lyons and Russell Brandom report at The Verge: Epic has asked the court to restrain Apple from revoking that access while the case is ongoing. Apple responded to the request on Friday,…
Lees meerTen years ago this weekend, The Incomparable began. To celebrate a decade of whatever this is, Jason gathered a dozen of the podcast’s top panelists for a round of toasts.…
Lees meerApple had made numerous attempts to sell server hardware, including a strange non-Mac server that Steve Jobs likened to a bizarre dream. But in the early 2000s, Jobs decided to take another crack at it, and vowed that this time things would be diffe…
Lees meerAre you a tech hypocrite? What’s a social media feature you want on other social networks? Do you listen to the radio? What do you think of Dropbox’s new features? Kathy Campbell, Dan Sturm, and Jason Snell join Mikah Sargent to answer these questio…
Lees meerThree BitBar plugins in action.I really can’t recommend Mat Ryer’s BitBar enough. It’s a free Mac utility that lets you put more or less anything you want in your menu bar. I keep finding more uses for it—at this point I’ve got four separate BitBar …
Lees meerDon Giller is the unofficial archivist of David Letterman’s talk show career. It’s a crying shame that a curated sample of Letterman’s output from his NBC and CBS shows isn’t on a streaming service somewhere, but all of it is in Don Giller’s archive…
Lees meerEpic takes on Apple and Google’s dominance of smart phone app stores with an app update and corresponding legal filings and publicity campaign. What’s Apple’s next move, and more importantly, what do we wish Apple would do to change its App Store po…
Lees meerThough it might still only be mid-August, fall is rapidly approaching. That’s not only significant because it will hopefully mean the end of the heat that’s been barraging my home for the last several weeks, but also because it’s traditionally Apple…
Lees meerJust another sleepy week in August, other than an Epic showdown. Jason gets to play Spider-Man and Dan doesn’t.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerThe very first time Apple made a laptop that compromised in numerous ways, all in the question of being as thin and light as possible.…
Lees meerBloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple may be ready to unleash a bundle of subscriptions alongside the iPhone this fall: There will be different tiers, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private plans. A basic pac…
Lees meerIt’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since Apple introduced AirDrop as a part of Mac OS X Lion and iOS 7. I consider AirDrop to be one of Apple’s best moves of the past decade. It’s a feature I have used hundreds of times and have come to …
Lees meerDavid Sparks wrote an article in VR: I recently tried out a new Oculus app that is intriguing. The app is called Immersed, and it is quite a trip. With the app on your Oculus Quest and the host software loaded on your Mac, you can have your Mac’s…
Lees meerAs a person of routine, part of my morning regimen for the last several decades is settling down with my morning cup of tea and reading some comic strips. As a kid, I’d dig through the newspaper to find the funny pages, and the full-color Sunday sec…
Lees meerJason reviews the new iMac (with nano-texture display) and the public beta release of macOS Big Sur. Myke thinks Apple’s making a big mistake in keeping game streaming services off of its platforms. And in Upstream, the transformation of the film in…
Lees meerAugust tends to be right in the middle of the summer doldrums, the time when everybody goes on vacation and thus news—including tech announcements—are few and far between. Then again, 2020 isn’t your average year, so perhaps it’s not a shock that th…
Lees meerThe classic “cheese grater” design of the Power Mac G5 influences the design of the modern Mac Pro, and also represents (in the worst way) the last time Apple embarked on a chip transition.…
Lees meerSo here we are, at the end of OS X. Two decades ago Apple parked the sixteen-year-old Classic Mac OS and leaped to version 10.0, but four years ago the company rebranded the software that drives the Mac as macOS, and the writing was on the wall. And…
Lees meerGiven the frequency with which I have to deal with audio, Rogue Amoeba’s apps are amongst the most indispensable tools in my arsenal.1 And one that I’ve grown increasingly fond of in recent years is SoundSource, which has just gotten a massive upgra…
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