A low moment in Apple history, and a sadly iconic moment for Tim Cook. I hope avoiding those tariffs is worth it.
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Lees meerGuilherme Rambo (tweet): After about two weeks of waiting, I decided to call developer support, which sounds easy, but I couldn’t find any phone number to reach them anywhere on the public part of the developer site. The only way to get on the phone…
Lees meerMatthew Gault (via Jason Koebler, MacRumors): Tuesday, Kyle Andeer, Apple’s Vice President of Corporate Law, answered those questions. In its testimony, Apple repeatedly denied accusations it was making it hard for people to repair their own phones …
Lees meerSpeaking of outsourcing and contracting what should be a core competency, scott writes: It’s important to know that once you drop your devices off at the Apple store, they’ll ship them off to a subcontractor for repairs. These facilities are run lik…
Lees meerAlexis Beingessner (tweet, Hacker News): For those who don’t follow Swift’s development, ABI stability has been one of its most ambitious projects and possibly it’s defining feature, and it finally shipped in Swift 5. The result is something I find …
Lees meerWe shouldn’t be celebrating the return of longstanding features we never should have lost in the first place. But Apple’s willingness to revisit these decisions — their explicit acknowledgment that, yes, keyboards are meant to by typed upon, not gaz…
Lees meerThe battle over encryption is very much an us vs. them issue. We citizens of the world want privacy. Governments of the world want access to that privacy. It’s that simple. Apple has ramped up its effort to become the most public of all privacy advo…
Lees meerOne of the benefits, some might call it a side-effect, of being a Mac user since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had hair, is, well, we’ve seen it all. Film to DSLR to smartphone. Videotape to digital videography and video editors to iPhone ... Continue…
Lees meerMany Tricks: The biggest new feature is that you can now create independent sequences based on some common metadata, such as parent folder name. Now each set of files within a folder can have a sequence number that starts with “1,” instead of contin…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Backups now include three volumes: the read-only System volume, the Data volume, and the Recovery volume. Strategies for determining what needs to be backed up now include both FSEvents and snapshot differences for APFS volumes. backu…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The moral of the story? If you have, for some reason, resisted getting the free airline apps, I can say that using them is absolutely worthwhile. From what I can tell, both the American and United apps provide similar features, and other…
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