Benjamin Mayo: Apple’s services tick the boxes, and they mostly do what they promise. However, nothing comes close to the quality of experience I expect to have from things branded with the Apple logo. When I am using these apps, I am not filled wit…
Lees meerOle Begemann: @MainActor is a Swift annotation to coerce a function to always run on the main thread and to enable the compiler to verify this. How does this work? In this article, I’m going to reimplement @MainActor in a slightly simplified form fo…
Lees meerTroy Hunt (via Nick Heer): Ah, now we know the cert has been issued to DigiCert Inc. in the US. So, all good right? No, because who are they? I mean, all we know is that the cert has been issued to an entity with that name, we don’t know if they are…
Lees meerJames Vincent (Hacker News): Early Saturday morning, after hours of negotiations, the bloc agreed on the broad terms of the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on thei…
Lees meerMitchell Clark: Microsoft has announced a lineup of adaptive accessories which are meant to augment or replace the regular keyboards and mice that people with disabilities could struggle to use. The lineup consists of three different devices: the Ad…
Lees meerNick Heer: Here are the two ways I most frequently use AirPlay through my Apple TV: I want to listen to music on my living room speakers, so I play albums — local and streamed from Apple Music — from my iPhone or my Mac. I want to watch a movie I pr…
Lees meeralgalgal: I recently learned that some USB-C hubs, with power pass through and an Ethernet port, seem to destabilize a wired network when they are connected to ethernet and to power but not to a computer. They do this by flooding the network with ba…
Lees meerZach Lloyd (via Hacker News): If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level? Getting to the next level unlocks a lot – more money, more responsibility, more re…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Since its introduction over 20 years ago, iPod has captivated users all over the world who love the ability to take their music with them on the go. Today, the experience of taking one’s music library out in…
Lees meerDalvin Brown (via Joanna Stern): Apple iPhone Users Got Alerts About Strangers’ AirTags. The Trackers Were Never Found. The company alerts users when an unknown AirTag is ‘near you.’ When those people don’t appear to be in the path of any rogue trac…
Lees meerNilay Patel: Tony’s written a new book called Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, which, I’ll be honest, is total bait for Decoder. It’s one part memoir, one part tech industry gossip, and one part org charts and decision-makin…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: In a statement obtained by journalist Nando Kasteleijn, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) said that while Apple eliminating its requirement for Dutch dating apps to create a separate app binary in order to accept alternati…
Lees meerTo me, that moment exemplifies the heyday of the iPod Touch. More than just an iPhone without the phone, it was a preview of the iPhone’s future.
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