Joe Rossignol: Apple this week lowered its estimated trade-in values for select Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models in the United States. iMacs are down from a maximum of $1,200 to $850. When I traded in my iMac a month or so ago, I was surprised to f…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Apple has agreed to settle a long-lasting six-year class-action lawsuit that accused it of knowingly slowing down iPhone 4S devices following the iOS 9 update in 2015, agreeing to pay some iPhone 4S owners who had experienced poor perfor…
Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi: Universal app: same features and same services are supported on iOS and macOS. Brand new macOS application with new design and improved functionality. New supported services on macOS: BazQux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, The Old R…
Lees meerStephen Warwick (Hacker News): A group of Apple employees has penned an angry letter to the company’s executive team over its office-bound work policy that doesn’t let them work remotely for more than two days a week.[…]The group says the most impor…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (Hacker News): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people vis…
Lees meerEric Slivka: In line with a report late last week, the European Commission today officially announced that it has issued a Statement of Objections to Apple over its restrictions that prevent third-party services from accessing the NFC capabilities o…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released a second beta version of new 15.5 firmware that’s coming to the Studio Display, with the software coming one week after the launch of the first beta. The Studio Display firmware is designed to improve the function o…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: While working on that feedback panel that comes up when resizing a shot, or changing its transparency (see above), I needed an overview of the different appearances an NSVisualEffectView can have. During testing, I discovered th…
Lees meerJason Meller (via Hacker News): The problem, it seems, is that Grammarly is only willing to perform this magic trick on their cloud. That means, the text you enter into an app when the Grammarly widget is visible is sent to them. Grammarly: Grammarl…
Lees meerDave Teare: We created an entirely new design language, code-named Knox, to unleash the power and productivity we’ve been dreaming of – all while preserving the heart and soul of 1Password. 😍 […] Quick Access is a floating panel that is always avail…
Lees meerDr. Drang: A couple of days ago, Federico Viticci tweeted his wish list for a new or updated Reminders API and asked for other people for theirs. Stephen Hackett answered with this: parameters for repeating tasks Stephen’s simple request is exactly …
Lees meerEric Migicovsky (via Hacker News): I started Pebble with some friends from the University of Waterloo in 2008. We were the first company to work on smartwatches. Pebble defined what a smartwatch was meant to do — vibrate and display incoming calls a…
Lees meerDave Mark: Ever own a Canon camera? Below is a link to the Canon museum, which has details on every camera and lens they ever made. The pic shows one of their earliest models, the J II. Apple is, I guess, not sentimental about stuff like this. There…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): As part of the App Store Improvements process, developers of apps that have not been updated within the last three years and fail to meet a minimal download threshold — meaning the app has not been downloaded at all or extremely f…
Lees meerI started using an Apple Watch SE in December. I’d always thought that I’d get a watch eventually, but I’d long expected to wait for it to mature for a couple more generations. In the end, I gave in to the frustration of not being able to use Face I…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Before going any further, allow me to reiterate: unless you’ve got a compelling reason, only ever boot your M1 Mac from its internal SSD. That’s how it’s designed to work, and that’s how it works best, even when it’s not working prope…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: But yeah, people do complain, and even the guy who created the feature – Ken Kocienda – admits that sometimes it can be more of a hinderance than a help. Indeed, if you think that it’s gotten worse rather than better over the years, tha…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): The Company posted a March quarter revenue record of $97.3 billion, up 9 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.52. […] “[We] set an all-time revenue record for Services and March quarter revenue …
Lees meerOle Begemann: The problem is that the character offsets that define the runs aren’t guaranteed to be stable. The definition of what constitutes a Character, i.e. a user-perceived character, or a Unicode grapheme cluster, can and does change in new U…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today announced Self Service Repair is now available, providing repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools through the Apple Self Service Repair Store. Self Service Repair is available in the US and will e…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple in March promised a firmware fix for the Studio Display to address an issue with the webcam, and according to an Apple spokesperson that spoke to The Verge, the firmware beta released today does indeed fix the webcam problem.[…]Th…
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