Tom Warren (Slashdot): The PC was supposed to die 10 years ago, but it’s just experienced its first big growth in a decade. Market research firm Canalys reports that PC shipments reached 297 million units in 2020, up an impressive 11 percent from 20…
Lees meerShane Stanley: Native code for Apple silicon Macs has a new, inviolable, requirement: it will not run unless it is code-signed. In practice, that means all universal apps have to be code-signed. […] Script Editor running on Big Sur will produce univ…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: macOS 11 Big Sur has a bug that prevents some apps from appearing in the “Default web browser” menu in the General pane of System Preferences, which of course makes it difficult to set one of those apps as your default web browser.[…]T…
Lees meerI love that it is so easy to give an Apple Watch a new look simply by changing the band. After using an Apple Watch for over five years — since it first went on sale — I've had lots...
Lees meerNathaniel Popper (via Matt Levine): The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is s…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: On January 10, 2001, Steve Jobs went on the stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco and presented a new app that would change the course of Apple. iTunes would become Apple’s most important app, not only because it was the companion …
Lees meerThe Economist (via Hacker News): The site has no shareholders, has generated no billionaires and sells no advertising. Today’s aspiring tech giants burn vast quantities of investors’ money subsidising taxi rides (Uber) or millennial messaging (Snap)…
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger that claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, is giving its 2 billion plus users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with the social network or delete th…
Lees meerAdobe (MacRumors): Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Fl…
Lees meerRecorded 11th January 2021 A very special show this week as we are humbled to have a giant of the tech industry as our The post Essential Apple Podcast 205: Talking to Jean-Louis Gassée appeared first on MyMac.com.
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