Howard Oakley: One of the less-recognised benefits of SIP was that it effectively prevented this from happening, although improvements in system installers undoubtedly played their part as well. The signed and sealed System volume in Big Sur and Mon…
Lees meerMichael McWhertor (via John Gruber): Sony is buying Bungie, the developer of Destiny 2 and the studio that originally created Halo, in a deal worth $3.6 billion, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Monday.Bungie will remain a multiplatform stud…
Lees meerStijn Huijts, on the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s interim report: When it comes to gaming on mobile devices, the great advantage of cloud gaming is that it can far exceed the technological capabilities of even the newest model smartphone, …
Lees meerBecky Hansmeyer: Reflecting on the whole iCloud kerfuffle, I think one major issue is that none of us know how to escalate a critical problem to the right person. Support folks usually lack an understanding of the context, the dev forums aren’t moni…
Lees meerMike Rockwell: I’ve since deleted the Instagram app from my iPhone and have only jumped back into my timeline once or twice through a web browser. Each time I came out of it feeling worse than when I went in. I don’t want to do that anymore.But it g…
Lees meerKillian Bell: It’s not uncommon to see certain things blurred out inside Apple Maps and Google Maps. Both services regularly conceal things like faces and license plates. However, it is rare to see entire buildings hidden behind big, blurry walls. B…
Lees meerCory Bohon (Hacker News): As we begin 2022, it has been almost 20 years since Apple released Xcode to developers as the predominant way to create Mac apps. […] This was a revolutionary idea, and Apple put itself in direct competition with the commer…
Lees meerApple (via mikeymikey, MacRumors): Release your apps that aren’t suited for public distribution as unlisted on the App Store, discoverable only with a direct link. Unlisted apps don’t appear in any App Store categories, recommendations, charts, sear…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): The Company posted an all-time revenue record of $123.9 billion, up 11 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.10. Jason Snell (transcript, also: John Voorhees, Malcolm Owen): Mac revenue also reac…
Lees meerLuke Plunkett (via Dave Mark): Unpacking was one of the best games of 2021, not just make my personal GOTY list, but the entire site’s as well. It is currently available on PC, Mac, Switch and Xbox One. It is most definitely not available on Apple’s…
Lees meerRicky Mondello: Notes for Passwords are available in the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS betas. I know a lot of you have asked for this; it’s really versatile. :-) The password manger’s search field searches them. The Mac password manager can import and expo…
Lees meerJuli Clover: The iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 betas that Apple released today introduce support for Universal Control, the long-awaited feature that’s designed to allow multiple Macs and iPads to be controlled with a single mouse and keyboard…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 15.4 is the biggest update that we’ve had to iOS 15 to date, and it brings Universal Control, Face ID with a mask, new emojis, and tons more. […] After the iPhone 13 Pro models came out, users noticed that third-party apps were not …
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The Apple system status page is best known not for displaying the actual status of Apple services, but rather a pageful of green indicators that only change once a problem is so widespread and severe that the company can no longer hide …
Lees meerJuli Clover (download): macOS Monterey 12.2 is a bug fix update, and Apple’s release notes have no information other than generic bug fix information. We don’t yet have a full list of security updates, but we do know that macOS Monterey 12.2 address…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple will have a full list of security updates on its website, but today’s iOS and iPadOS 15.3 updates specifically address a recently publicized Safari exploit. Previously: Safari 15 IndexedDB Information Leaks iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2
Lees meerKeith Harrison: Unfortunately the documentation is not great so here’s a summary starting with date formatting.[…]In iOS 15 you apply the formatting directly to the Date without the need to create (and cache) a formatter. For example, the formatted(…
Lees meerJames Fallows (via Jason Snell): This post is a basic who-what-why primer on the controversy involving new 5G wireless networks, and airline operations at major U.S. airports. […] Short version: 5G versus the airlines is potentially a real issue, ra…
Lees meerTom Harrington: What is an “optional” anyway? It depends who you ask. Swift will give you one answer, but Core Data has other ideas. So what happens when you bring them together? […] Guess what, you just broke Swift’s initializer rules! Specifically…
Lees meerSami Fathi: The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has ruled that Apple’s plan to allow App Store dating apps to use third-party payment methods for in-app purchases does not sufficiently meet the requirements of a previous ruling. As a…
Lees meerEric Meyer: A few people, including Jen Simmons, gave credit to Igalia for implementing :focus-visible by means of a crowdfunding project (more on that in a moment). […] Nobody at Apple asked the crowd to fund anything. Nobody at Apple asked Igalia …
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