Browse the Web from Your Wrist with µBrowser

Josh Centers: Have you ever looked down at your Apple Watch and thought, “I wish I could browse the Web from my wrist!” OK, probably not. But now you can anyway, thanks to the $0.99 µBrowser from developer Arno Appenzeller, who specializes in fun li…

Xcode 13.2

Juli Clover: Alongside iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2, macOS Monterey 12.1, and watchOS 8.3, Apple yesterday introduced an updated version of Xcode, Xcode 13.2. Developers who are updating should be aware that there’s a bug with the Mac App Store version of …

CT Scans of AirPods

Sami Fathi (Hacker News): New detailed CT scan images of the first-generation AirPods, AirPods Pro, and third-generation AirPods have revealed in detail what internal design changes Apple had to accomplish to include new features in every generation…

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Denied the Coalition for App Fairness’s Motion to File an Amicus Brief

Wallpaper Goes Behind the Scenes With Apple’s Design Team at Apple Park

‘How Apple Is Organized for Innovation’

Apple University Dean Joel Podolny Leaves for Startup

Detecting the Mac TestFlight Environment

Lukas Kubanek (tweet): To detect the TestFlight environment on iOS, a trick that checks the receipt file name seems to be commonly used. Unfortunately, on macOS, the receipt file name is the same regardless of the environment, meaning that this appr…

iPad Needs a Better Oleophobic Coating

Rado Minkov (via Meek Geek): But a day or two after using it, a ray of sunshine hits the iPad’s display and you realize a horrifying fact about it – under light it looks disgusting, smudged up – it’s somehow collected all the fingerprints in the wor…

Opacity Precision

Marc Edwards: While easy to understand, using integer percentages for opacity does not map well to what typically happens at a technical level — opacity values in 8bit per channel images have a range of 0 to 255. A design tool that uses a 0 to 100 r…

Retiring Alexa.com

Wikipedia: Alexa was founded as an independent company in 1996 and acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stock. Alexa provides web traffic data, global rankings, and other information on over 30 million websites. Alexa estimates website tra…

Tim Cook’s Secret $275 Billion Deal With China

Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): In an extensive paywalled report based on interviews and purported internal Apple documents, The Information revealed that Tim Cook personally forged a five-year agreement with the Chinese government during a series o…

Apple Wins Delay on Anti-Steering Injuction

Stephen Nellis (Hacker News): But with just slightly more than 12 hours remaining before the deadline, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted Apple’s request to pause the order. The appeals court order means Apple will not have to make the …

An Exquisitely Well-Told Story of a Nightmarish Meal

Wallpaper Goes Behind the Scenes With Apple’s Design Team at Apple Park

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macOS 12.1

Mr. Macintosh: Apple just released the first major update to macOS Monterey. The update comes a month and a half after the October 25th release. Juli Clover: macOS Monterey 12.1 adds a major missing feature to the Mac -- SharePlay. With SharePlay, M…

iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2

Juli Clover (tweet): iOS 15.2 adds App Privacy Report, a feature designed to let you know how often apps are accessing permissions-restricted info like the camera and the microphone, plus it lets you know the domains that apps and websites are conta…

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Tracker Detect Android App for AirTag

Juli Clover: Apple today released a new “Tracker Detect” app on the Google Play Store, with the app designed to allow Android users to locate AirTags that might be nearby.Apple says that Android users can scan to find a nearby AirTag if they think t…