FTC (PDF, TidBITS, NBC, NY Times): The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. Following a lengt…
Lees meer“Oh, that’s a nice button. It has a good click.” “Is it a $550 click?” I asked. He clicked it a few more times. “It’s not *not* a $550 click.”
Lees meer“Oh, that’s a nice button. It has a good click.” “Is it a $550 click?” I asked. He clicked it a few more times. “It’s not *not* a $550 click.”
Lees meerThe good: Overall, this is my favorite iPhone in a long time, and possibly ever. Design is about tradeoffs, and this particular phone is well balanced for my needs. It feels great in my hand and in my pocket. I can once again hold it securely withou…
Lees meerMcLaren Stanley (via Steve Troughton-Smith): The reason the Uber app is that large [331 MB] is because of Swift. The Objective-C version was a third of that size. […] Library bundling is not the problem (swift system libraries are only a few MBs per…
Lees meerMatt Christensen: I use Text Edit all the time for ephemeral notes. I’ve never liked how in recent macOS versions you get a file picker instead of a blank document. No more! defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitle…
Lees meerTanya Verma and Sudheesh Singanamalla (Hacker News, MacRumors): Today we are announcing support for a new proposed DNS standard — co-authored by engineers from Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly — that separates IP addresses from queries, so that no sing…
Lees meerJon Levine (Hacker News): In September, we announced that we’re building a new, free Web Analytics product for the whole web. Today, I’m excited to announce that anyone can now sign up to use our new Web Analytics — even without changing your DNS se…
Lees meerHoudah Software: Starting with macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple Mail messages are no longer available through the Spotlight index used by HoudahSpot. HoudahSpot 6.0 can nonetheless find your Apple Mail messages. HoudahSpot installs a plug-in that runs wi…
Lees meerJuli Clover: As part of iOS 14, Apple is introducing a new App Store feature that will provide privacy details for each app that you’re downloading, which the company has said can be likened to a “nutrition label” for apps.In a new Developer Support…
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