Juli Clover (Hacker News): Apple today announced that it has acquired classical music streaming service Primephonic, and will be folding it into Apple Music.Primephonic offers an “outstanding listening experience” with search and browse functionalit…
Lees meerKaroy Lorentey: The public API of Swift Atomics is now considered source stable. […] The low-level (pointer-based) atomic boolean operations are now public. Previously: Introducing Swift Atomics
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann: Announcement for Mac developers:utis.cc - where shared UTIs find a homeIt’s also the home of the “.paths” file spec, which is meant to store a list of files and might be supported by any Mac app that can show a file browser or ope…
Lees meerZoë Schiffer (tweet, Hacker News): Jacob Preston was sitting down with his manager during his first week at Apple when he was told, with little fanfare, that he needed to link his personal Apple ID and work account. […] Three years later, when Prest…
Lees meerSarah Perez (August 2020, via Hacker News): Apple is expanding its program that provides parts, resources and training to independent repair shops to now include support for Mac computers. […] To date, however, the program was only focused on iPhone…
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers. The terms of the agreement will help make the App Store an even better business opportunity f…
Lees meerSamantha John: We submitted a bug fix update to Hopscotch this weekend. We wanted to get it out quickly to get ahead of the school year--schools don’t update their apps very often after downloading them.The app was rejected because “our promoted in-…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (Hacker News): In the JavaScript framework used by Safari and other parts of Apple’s products, there is a tool called jsc. It’s a command line interface for JavaScript that uses the same code as the rest of the system. You can find…
Lees meerApple: The News Partner Program is designed for subscription news publications that provide their content to Apple News in Apple News Format (ANF). ANF enables an exceptional reading experience on Apple News and unlocks the full benefit of the platf…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman (tweet): Why would Apple ask for the password or passcode for one of your other devices? Could it be some sort of scam? What exactly is going on here? […] Apple has chosen to protect some data that it views as highly secure or very p…
Lees meerApple: Due to changes in local regulations, the bank account holder’s address is now required if you have bank account information in App Store Connect. Account Holders, Admins, and Finance roles can now provide a valid address in the Agreements, Ta…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Today, we’re announcing the all-new Club MacStories featuring two additional tiers: Club MacStories+ and Club Premier. The new plans offer extra content, a brand new, powerful web app to read Club articles on the web with advanced …
Lees meerChrista Mrgan: The original Asheville concept was for a device that pretty faithfully recreated Game & Watch-style games, which are composed of LCD segments, which Neven explains are, “…kind of like an old-school clock, where it just has shapes that…
Lees meerRichard Blumenthal (Hacker News): New bipartisan antitrust legislation that targets Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store was today introduced by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Marsha Blackburn, and Amy Klobuchar.The Open App Markets Act [PDF…
Lees meermthoms (via Kosta Eleftheriou): Most people don’t know this but the “Parent” (read:credit card holder) of a family sharing account can’t see, let alone cancel, any subscriptions a minor on the account has purchased.Let that sink in for a second. App…
Lees meerGoogle (via Hacker News): In light of spam causing potential issues with SMS forwarding, text message forwarding to linked numbers will stop on or after August 1. If you’re using a Google Voice number for 2FA, presumably you can still get the text m…
Lees meerFlickType (Hacker News): It’s with a heavy heart today that we’re announcing the discontinuation of our award-winning iPhone keyboard for blind users.Apple has thrown us obstacle after obstacle for years while we try to provide an app to improve peo…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet, 2): I’ve heard from several other people who started noticing the same issue yesterday too, one of whom helpfully referred me to this reddit thread with even more reports. On investigation, I found that the nsurlsessiond process…
Lees meerreimertz: Every time I do a screen recording, I have to go trough the hassle of converting the video to MP4 on my Apple computer. Even my iPhone can export to MP4 so I there is no reason for it not to work on my computer. In my experience, at least,…
Lees meerReed Albergotti: Apple has dropped its lawsuit against Corellium, which was scheduled to go to trial and was being closely watched by a security industry that feared it would have a chilling effect on research tools used to make software safer. Sami…
Lees meerMike Isaac (via Hacker News): Reddit, the virtual town square of the consumer internet, has raised a fresh $410 million in funding, valuing it at more than $10 billion, the company said on Thursday. The financing, which was led by Fidelity Investmen…
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