Sandboxing a Command Line Tool With Paths As Arguments

Alexandre Colucci: In order to get access to random files outside of the app container, you can ask the user to select a folder using an Open dialog. The app will then be allowed to access any file inside this selected folder… as long as the app is …

Clip Studio Paint Switching to Subscriptions

Celsys (via Jonathan Deutsch): Customers with an Update Pass or a Monthly Plan (purchased through app stores or the Clip Studio Paint site) will be able to use the most up-to-date version of the app for as long as their plan or pass is valid. Versio…

The Talk Show: ‘The Creaturest of Habits’

Father Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor; They Were Flagged by Google as CSAM

No Matter How Damning the Twitter Whistleblower Report Is, It Might Not Help Elon Musk Get Out of His Agreement to Buy Twitter

Sales of Different iPhone 13 Models

canalys: The North American smartphone market reached 35.4 million shipped units in Q2 2022, down 6.4% yearly amid economic challenges, high inflation, and poor seasonal demand. Apple grew 3% and has dominated over half the North American region for…

Twitter Whistleblower Peiter Zatko

Casey Newton: On January 21, a moderately surprising headline hit the New York Times: in one of his first official acts as Twitter CEO, Parag Agrawal had fired the company’s chief information security officer, Rinki Sethi, and its head of security, …

Rejected for Being Too Similar to a Web Site

Alin Panaitiu (via Hacker News): I tried to launch a simple, no-frills iOS app for party-goers and music festivals in 🇷🇴 Romania.[…]The app is simple, fast, does what it says without any BS unneeded complexity. I thought subsequent features would be…

Design the Next iPhone

Kara Swisher to Host On-Stage Interview With Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tim Cook

‘Far Out’ — Apple Announced September 7 Event

Kara Swisher to Host On-Stage Interview With Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tim Cook

The Washington Post on Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko’s Whistleblower Report on Twitter Security

Ex-Twitter Security Chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko Files Blockbuster Whistleblower Report Over the Platform’s Security

‘Far Out’ — Apple Announced September 7 Event

Ex-Twitter Security Chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko Files Blockbuster Whistleblower Report Over the Platform’s Security

See What JavaScript Commands Get Injected Through an In-App Browser

Felix Krause (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Last week I published a report on the risks of mobile apps using in-app browsers. Some apps, like Instagram and Facebook, inject JavaScript code into third party websites that cause potential security an…

Apple’s Use of AppKit, Catalyst, and SwiftUI in macOS

Alexandre Colucci (tweet, Hacker News): As you can see in the graph: AppKit apps account for a huge percentage of apps After a slow start, the number of apps using SwiftUI is quickly growing The number of Mac Catalyst apps reached a ceiling [but see…

Apple Car: Software and Money

Jean-Louis Gassée: Initially, one asks why Apple, whose average Gross Margin is in the 54% range (40% for hardware, more than 60% for services), would want to enter a hundred-year-old entrenched industry whose gross profit margins are in the 7% rang…

Removing the iOS Dictation Button

Jeff Johnson: I consider it dickish behavior by Apple that they force you to enable dictation first in order to remove the unwanted dictation button, especially since enabling dictation seems like it might send your private information — such as con…

Yoink Rejected for Mentioning Old iOS Feature

Matthias Gansrigler: Got a rejection for @YoinkApp for #Mac for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not. They didn’t give an example or any info where I’m allegedly mentioning it, either. Turns out they didn’t like that his app mentions …