Sean Hollister: There was never any question what Epic Games wanted when it took Apple to court: the 48-second “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite” made it clear App Store hypocrisy was the agenda. But the justification for a parallel case against Google wasn…
Lees meerHarley Finkelstein: To our partners: on Aug 1st we are removing all revenue share on your first $1M. That means you will keep 100% of your first $1M when you sell on @Shopify’s app store. The best part? At the end of every year, the numbers reset. E…
Lees meerJeffrey Knockel and Lotus Ruan (tweet, Hacker News): We analyzed Apple’s filtering of product engravings in six regions, discovering 1,105 keyword filtering rules used to moderate their content. Across all six regions we analyzed, we found that Appl…
Lees meerI often mention stories of folks using the Find My app to catch a thief. For example, here is a story from AppleInsider this week about a man in Washington using Find My and an AirTag to find his stolen...
Lees meerJoseph Cox et al. (Slashdot, Hacker News, Reddit): On Wednesday, GitHub user AsuharietYgvar published details of what they claim is an implementation of NeuralHash, a hashing technology in the anti-CSAM system announced by Apple at the beginning of …
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: Over the years the system’s support for Touch Bar changed in ways that made Touché slowly become less reliable and, finally, to more or less not work on any Macs at all. I recently had some insights about how the Touch Bar support on …
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): Throughout the beta testing period, Apple has been tweaking the design of the Safari browser on the iPhone and in beta 6, there are further refinements. The bottom tab bar has been redesigned to appear below page content, and Ap…
Lees meerPDF Expert, my go-to app for working with PDF files on my iPad, was updated to add what the developer Readdle is calling construction tools. And while I'm sure that these tools would be useful for contractors and architects, I...
Lees meerKeith Smiley: sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunchThis works fine locally, but when updating remote CI machines, entering the password can be troublesome. Furthermore if you want to support having CI machines automatically switch between Xcode versions w…
Lees meerHadi Partovi: 25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, its first real salvo in the “Browser Wars”. This launch taught taught me how a giant corporation could move at the speed of a startup. […] To motivate us more, I plastered the hall…
Lees meerTwitter: Today, we released a few changes to the way Twitter looks on the web and on your phone. While it might feel weird at first, these updates make us more accessible, unique, and focused on you and what you’re talking about Derrit DeRouen: In t…
Lees meerDave Verwer: Say hello to iOS Dev Jobs version 2.0! 🚀 It’s entirely new, and it now has native apps! 🎉 […] Whether a position is remote or on-site is by far the most important factor affecting whether you’ll consider it, so you can now filter by tha…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple’s desire to move to a single jack that could do double-duty for power and communications was the beginning of the end for MagSafe. USB-C offers those capabilities with a generally well-designed connector that is both slim and bidir…
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