Jean-Louis Gassée: Initially, one asks why Apple, whose average Gross Margin is in the 54% range (40% for hardware, more than 60% for services), would want to enter a hundred-year-old entrenched industry whose gross profit margins are in the 7% rang…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I consider it dickish behavior by Apple that they force you to enable dictation first in order to remove the unwanted dictation button, especially since enabling dictation seems like it might send your private information — such as con…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: Got a rejection for @YoinkApp for #Mac for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not. They didn’t give an example or any info where I’m allegedly mentioning it, either. Turns out they didn’t like that his app mentions …
Lees meerMattt Thompson: SwiftSyntax is a Swift library that lets you parse, analyze, generate, and transform Swift source code. It’s based on the libSyntax library, and was spun out from the main Swift language repository in August 2017. Douglas Gregor: We …
Lees meerAndrius Gailiunas (MacStories, AppleInsider, MacRumors): Pixelmator Photo will now cost $4.99 per month, $23.99 per year, or $54.99 for a lifetime license but existing paid users get unlimited access for free. Also, Pixelmator Photo for Mac is comin…
Lees meerLily Hay Newman (Hacker News): Wardle found that he could change the name of the software he was trying to sneak through to contain the markers Zoom was broadly looking for and get the malicious package past Zoom’s signature check. […] Wardle found …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: There are currently three major apps to run macOS as a guest on an Apple silicon Mac with Monterey 12.5 as a host:Parallels Desktop version 18,UTM version 3.2.4,VirtualBuddy version 1.2.1.There’s also my free app Viable now in beta 3.…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Self Service Repair for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro offers more than a dozen different repair types for each model, including the display, top case with battery, and trackpad, with more to come. Customers who are experienced wit…
Lees meerSheon Han: Blindness made working as a mechanical engineer difficult. When he consulted Florida’s Division of Blind Services, a counselor told him that computer programming was becoming a popular career for people who are blind. […] In 1987, they fo…
Lees meerKashmir Hill (Hacker News): With help from the photos, the doctor diagnosed the issue and prescribed antibiotics, which quickly cleared it up. But the episode left Mark with a much larger problem, one that would cost him more than a decade of contac…
Lees meerManton Reece: I continue to think that my devices are now too secure. Face ID shouldn’t freak out multiple times a day, requiring a pin. Safari shouldn’t scrap cookies every week, requiring needless extra web sign-ins. Any security beyond unlocking …
Lees meerRon Amadeo (Hacker News): Handling data during a mail-in repair process is tough. You could wipe your phone, but that’s a big hassle. You don’t want to just send in a completely locked down device, as technicians can’t thoroughly test it if they’re …
Lees meerBjörkus Dorkus (tweet): What’s in C23? Well, it’s everything […] present in N3047.[…]The new constexpr keyword for C means you don’t have to guess at whether that is a constant expression, or hope your compiler’s optimizer or frontend is powerful en…
Lees meerYonghao Jin: Google Search has a special operator for that: quotation marks. Put quotes around any word or phrase, such as [“wireless phone chargers”], and we’ll only show pages that contain those exact words or phrases.Now we’re making quoted searc…
Lees meerHaoran Xu: The garbage collector in JSC is non-compacting, generational and mostly–concurrent. On top of being concurrent, JSC’s GC heavily employs lock-free programming for better performance. […] The inlined metadata cellState is easy to access fo…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Hacker News): Third-party VPNs made for iPhones and iPads routinely fail to route all network traffic through a secure tunnel after they have been turned on, something Apple has known about for years, a longtime security researcher has…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Monterey 12.5.1 improves the security of macOS and is recommended for all users. The update addresses kernel and WebKit vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple says th…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli: Today, Apple released updates to their iWork suite of apps that adds actions in Shortcuts for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on macOS, bringing powerful first-party actions that Mac users can take advantage to automate their work[…]…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: In the past, Gatekeeper has primarily been concerned with checking apps and other executable code which have been put in quarantine; once an app has passed those first run checks and its quarantine flag has been cleared, its notarizat…
Lees meerJack Wellborn (tweet): Nightly Time Machine is a collection of bash scripts that limits macOS’s Time Machine to once per night by only mounting Time Machine disks just before backing up and then unmounting them when Time Machine is finished. Prevent…
Lees meerneverminder: i can’t log in to any of my banks without my phone. Most of the systems in my workplace also require phone app authentication. I can’t do any of those things with just a PC or laptop. Smartphones being the smallest and portable are sure…
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