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Cydia Appeals Apple Lawsuit

donderdag 6 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol (tweet): Cydia parent company SaurikIT, LLC has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed the company’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple last month, a…

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USB Simplifies Branding But Reintroduces Active Cables

woensdag 5 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jon Porter (via Hacker News): The SuperSpeed USB branding is no more thanks to a new set of guidelines currently being rolled out by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the body that manages and maintains the USB standard. It’s part of a rebranding…

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Anker Soundcore Liberty 4 Earbuds

woensdag 5 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Anker’s new earbuds feature a stemmed design reminiscent of Apple’s AirPods, while the right-hand earbud includes a special sensor that can monitor your heart rate continuously or just when you’re working out. The HR data is linked to …

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South Korea Raids Apple Offices

woensdag 5 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Mueller (MacRumors, tweet): On Monday (September 26), it was confirmed that Apple’s Korean headquarters in the city of Gangnam-gu were subjected to a dawn raid by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), which is Korea’s antitrust authority.[…

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Developer Account In Limbo Due to Popularity

woensdag 5 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Felix Krause: This is unacceptable: A seemingly automated system flags @sindresorhus Apple Dev Account, threatening to close his account if he won’t resolve “unspecified metric”I can’t believe it’s legal for (in this case a monopoly) to suspend acco…

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Accidentally Quadratic KVO

dinsdag 4 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Saagar Jha: Here’s an interesting instance of quadratic complexity: adding and removing KVO observers on an object (FB11644022). A graph of its performance as I scale the number of observations is so perfect it could probably feel right at home in a…

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Spark Switches to Electron and Subscriptions

dinsdag 4 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Readdle (MacRumors, Hacker News): Now people who use Windows can focus on what’s important and enhance their productivity with Spark. […] Please be aware that Spark is working hard towards feature parity between platforms and the experience across i…

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1Password Meets Git

dinsdag 4 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Simon Sickle: Enable the SSH Agent and optionally biometrics if you wish. Now, we must add a snippet of code to our SSH configuration file to tell the SSH command we wish to delegate key management to 1Password. […] At work, we have some complex con…

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Musk-Twitter Deal Back On?

dinsdag 4 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adi Robertson: Elon Musk’s deposition for the Twitter v. Musk suit may have been rescheduled for next week, but the public got some more inside dirt about his plans for Twitter, thanks to the release of two slideshowpresentations and a slew of Musk …

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BBEdit 14.6

maandag 3 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bare Bones Software (tweet): Added settings to the “Editing” preferences to specify alternative characters for Show Invisibles, for tabs and for line breaks.[…]The low-level text rendering in BBEdit’s editing engine has been reworked to improve perf…

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Bypassing IAP With In-Game Currencies

maandag 3 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Mueller: One of the world’s largest games companies, China’s Tencent (which is also Epic’s largest shareholder besides founder Tim Sweeney), has just doubled down on its efforts to circumvent the infamous app tax. Finland-based Supercell is …

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Kindle Scribe

maandag 3 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Pierce (via Hacker News): The newest Kindle is the first truly new Kindle in years. It’s called the Kindle Scribe, and it’s both a reading device and a writing one. With a 10.2-inch E Ink screen, a stylus that attaches to the side of the devic…

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Darkboard

maandag 3 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Ronge (last October): We launched Astropad in 2015, and rapidly bootstrapped the business to just shy of 20 people. In 2017 we launched our first hardware product Luna Display. Things were going well. Sales were strong. We made more in a month …

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Lock Screen Widgets From Apple Notes URLs

zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: Without rehashing what I wrote eight (!) years ago about the Content Graph in the Workflow app, it is essentially the engine that tells Shortcuts how to interpret data that gets passed in and out of actions. The beauty of this appr…

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Google Maps Improvements

zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Phillips: Soon, with our new neighborhood vibe feature, you’ll be able to select a neighborhood and see the most popular spots come to life thanks to helpful photos and information from the Google Maps community right on the map. […] Today, we…

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Discussions in Google Search

zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Abner Li: At Search On 2022, Google announced that “Discussions and forums” will be getting their own sections in results, while translated news coverage is also coming next year. Google frames “Discussions and forums” as originating from people’s d…

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Sunsetting Google Stadia

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Google Stadia (3 months ago): Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we’re always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Jennifer Elias: As Google tries to navigate an unfamiliar environment of slowing growth, cost-c…

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Microsoft Discontinuing SwiftKey for iOS

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Emma Roth (via Tom Warren): Microsoft confirmed that it’s removing SwiftKey from the Apple App Store and ending support for the iOS version of the keyboard app on October 5th. […] The move to discontinue SwiftKey on iOS comes after months of user co…

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Check Your App IDs for Unused Capabilities

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: When I submitted the app to App Review, Apple silently added the game center entitlement to my app, even though the app didn’t have the entitlement when I submitted it. And then App Review rejected me for it![…]While I was looking thro…

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App Store Rules for NFT Apps

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Aidan Ryan (tweet): With NFT volumes tanking along with the broader crypto market, marketplace startups could use a boost from using mobile apps to sell their wares. So far, though, most see some obstacles, including the up to 30% commission Apple c…

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DALL-E Now Available Without Waitlist

woensdag 28 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

OpenAI (tweet, via Hacker News): Starting today, we are removing the waitlist for the DALL·E beta so users can sign up and start using it immediately. More than 1.5M users are now actively creating over 2M images a day with DALL·E—from artists and c…

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