★ Apple Appeals EU’s March Ruling on ‘Interoperability’ Requirements Under the DMA

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/02/apple-eu-interoperability-appeal/

Separate Expressions for +alloc and -init

Ronald Oussoren: The following code will crash hard when compiled using ARC: #import int main(void) { NSOutputStream* stream; stream = [NSOutputStream alloc]; stream = [stream initToMemory]; NSLog(@"%@", stream); } This is split calls to alloc and …

Apple in China

Issie Lapowsky (Amazon, Reddit, John Gruber): But Cook was in Beijing that day to do the opposite: to impress upon President Xi Jinping’s government that Apple was so committed to China that it planned to spend $275 billion in the country over the n…

Sketch Athens

Pieter Omvlee: In the latest Sketch we’re taking an idea from Apple: Naming our releases.At Sketch, we’re a proudly European company and we’re naming our releases after European cities from now on.And we’re starting with Athens. Sketch (tweet): Our …

WhatsApp for iPad

Script Debugger Retired

Script Debugger Retired

Grammarly Raises $1 Billion

Krystal Hu: Grammarly has raised $1 billion in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, aiming to grow into a comprehensive productivity platform, the companies said on Thursday.Grammarly, kn…

The Talk Show Live, Without Apple

John Gruber (Mastodon, MacRumors, Hacker News, Steve Troughton-Smith): But in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since…

Xcode 16.4

Apple (downloads): Fixed: Users may see excessive CPU utilization from diskimagesiod which reduces simulator performance, increasing boot time, process launch times, and test execution times.[…]The command devicectl diagnose now obtains a sysdiagnos…

Arc and Dia

Wes Davis: The Browser Company has said repeatedly that it’s not getting rid of the Arc browser as it moves onto its new AI-centric Dia browser. But what the company also not going to do is develop new features for it. Josh Miller: Back in 2019, it …

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025: Tuesday June 10

The Talk Show: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025: Tuesday June 10

SpamSieve 3.1.3

SpamSieve 3.1.3 improves the filtering accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter. It works with the new MailMaven e-mail client and includes enhancements for notification and server junk filters, along with various other fixes and improvements. Some int…

Apple Operating System Version Years

Mark Gurman (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple will announce its biggest ever software rebrand at WWDC, tied to operating system redesigns. Apple is moving from version numbers to years (like Windows in the 90s). The new OSs: iOS 26, iPadOS 2…

MacInTouch Paused

Ric Ford: Website traffic is overwhelmingly dominated now by “bots” executing sophisticated cyberattacks and sucking up every scrap of content; only a tiny fraction of our traffic comes from legitimate human visitors. Unfortunately, these rampant an…

Trump’s Entire Tariff Endeavor Ruled Illegal by U.S. Court of International Trade

Apple’s Annual App Store Scam and Fraud Report

Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With iOS 26, MacOS 26, tvOS 26, Etc.

DropDMG 3.6.9

DropDMG 3.6.9 is a maintenance update to my app for creating and working with Mac disk image files. It fixes a conversion bug, works better with macOS security/privacy features, improves the help, and more. Some interesting issues were: TCC continue…