Comment Sometimes, not having to write about the latest Apple developer news until Friday is a blessing. If an announcement drops early in the week, it gives me a few days to think about how I really feel about…
Lees meerComment As I write this, the first Apple Silicon Macs are making their way across oceans labelled with the names and addresses of lucky, or impatient, people all over the world. We got a glimpse at the future …
Lees meerComment It’s (presumably) Apple Silicon time! Of all the events that Apple have held since WWDC, this is the one I’ve been most looking forward to. That’s not to say that the new iPhones and other products aren…
Lees meerComment Pricing is a vast, complex topic, and it’s hard to talk about in generic terms – it’s far too dependent on the product being priced. Business models are easier to talk about, proven by the multitude of…
Lees meerComment Let’s talk a little more about the App Store, shall we? Fear not though, I’m not going to talk about problems this week, but opportunities. Specifically, an opportunity offered by iOS 14 that you might…
Lees meerComment I really enjoyed reading Riley Testut’s article “Thoughts on the App Store” this week. He talks about the legal challenges Apple are facing and how sideloading might be in the platform’s future. His pi…
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Lees meerComment It’s been a joy to hear to the story behind Widgetsmith direct from David Smith this week. I don’t often link to podcasts, mainly because I don’t listen to tech podcasts anymore (I stopped because I spe…
Lees meerComment It’s always hard to tell which features of a new iOS release are going to be a hit with your app’s users. Should you spend time creating a widget, an App Clip, adding support for Siri, or any of a multi…
Lees meerComment Over the years, the cadence of the annual iOS release schedule has settled to become very predictable. First betas arrive in early June, then update every few weeks until the mid-September event where t…
Lees meerComment I wasn’t ever really excited about “Sign in with Apple”. Yes, it’s a step forward compared to the alternatives, but it’s still giving some level of control of your app’s user accounts to a third party. …
Lees meerComment There’s been more App Store talk this week after Apple posted news about “App Review process updates” on Monday. As far as I’m aware, this isn’t anything new. Instead, it’s the execution of the promise…
Lees meerComment One thing a few people noticed in my piece about the current App Store issues, was that I didn’t even mention the option of Apple allowing other store apps or side-loading (which would lead to a prolife…
Lees meerComment Just six weeks ago, Sven and I launched the Swift Package Index - A site dedicated to helping you make better decisions about your dependencies. Today, we’re releasing our next major feature — comprehe…
Lees meerComment There’s no other way to describe what happened yesterday other than to say that Epic declared war on Apple. They pushed very specific buttons, with full knowledge of what would happen, and they carefull…
Lees meerComment You’ve likely seen Kane Cheshire’s post this week talking about his experiments with NSProcess and a Swift package manifest file. If not, read that before continuing here. It’s not surprising to see th…
Lees meerComment “My new project is 100% written with …” I see this phrase everywhere in the iOS/Swift community. Most recently the ellipsis is replaced by SwiftUI, but it has been many other things too. It may seem li…
Lees meerComment I usually write my comment for this newsletter on Wednesday or Thursday during the week, and this week was no different. Except, you’ll have to wait another week to read what I had drafted because Apple…
Lees meerComment It's been quite a quiet week in iOS development, which always happens at around this point in the beta cycle. The excitement of the new shiny things has started to fade, and everyone always goes a littl…
Lees meerComment Every day is a great day to remove (or advocate for the removal of) the Facebook SDK from your apps, but today is an especially... great... day... 🙄 How many times will Facebook get away with causing ha…
Lees meerComment I wanted to write something about sponsoring open-source projects a couple of weeks ago when this post appeared, but WWDC dominates everything! But I didn't forget, and I'll talk about it now instead. …
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