Sami Fathi: Apple today announced that TestFlight, which allows developers to public test their apps before launch, will be coming to the Mac as part of wider tools meant to improve app development. Apple: Learn how you can manage builds and testers…
Lees meerAlex Guyot (iOS 15 preview, features, iPadOS 15 preview, features, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Hartley Charlton): This year’s updates include significant improvements to core first-party apps, new controls for maintaining focus, system-wide text and object …
Lees meerApple (features, John Voorhees, Mitchel Broussard): Connect, share, and create like never before. Say hello to exciting new FaceTime updates. Explore a redesigned and streamlined Safari. Discover and invent powerful new ways to work using Universal …
Lees meerMy thanks to Emerge for sponsoring the blog this week. Emerge helps teams build better, smaller apps. It offers binary profiling to enable developers to see the full impact of their changes as they make them and actionable insights to provide sugges…
Lees meerGeneral: Keynote Sessions Videos Beta Downloads Videos Downloader and Unofficial App Sample Code Customer Stuff: Documentation: What’s New: Release Notes: Key Sessions: Podcasts: Other: This post will be updated as I find new links. If you see anyth…
Lees meerJoanna Stern: All it takes is some bedtime reading of Epic’s 365-page findings document to see just how aggressive Apple executives have gotten in carrying out Steve Jobs’ 2010 vision to, as the finding document quotes him, “tie all our products tog…
Lees meerDaniel Martín: Just found that the old Apple conceptual documentation is still available for offline searches. Extract the .docset from the .dmg and load it in a tool like Dash. There’s a lot of good stuff in here that has been removed without repla…
Lees meerThis is really cool, and I just realized that I forgot to link to it after last year’s WWDC. Pierre Habouzit: Faster, priority-inversion-less GC (speed)@mikeash wrote about it a long time ago, however it turns out this was relatively slow and could …
Lees meerMr. Macintosh (tweet): Let’s go over a quick example of why you might want to downgrade BridgeOS. You updated to macOS Big Sur 11.4 from 11.3. After the update, you’ve found that something is not working right. The T2 chip handles many things includ…
Lees meerHector Martin (tweet, Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): A flaw in the design of the Apple Silicon “M1” chip allows any two applications running under an OS to covertly exchange data between them, without using memory, sockets, files, or any other normal…
Lees meerBen Sandofsky (tweet): There’s powerful App Store features only supported though subscriptions: a paid app has one price, that is more or less the same around the world. With subscriptions, you can set per-country pricing. […] Half the challenge of …
Lees meerStuart Ashenbrenner, Jaron Bradley, and Ferdous Saljooki (via Juli Clover, Dan Goodin): In the latest macOS release (11.4), Apple patched a zero-day exploit (CVE-2021-30713) which bypassed the Transparency Consent and Control (TCC) framework. This i…
Lees meerMarco Arment (tweet, Hacker News): Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers came to our ap…
Lees meerRyan Jones: Here’s all the Apple vs Epic court files OCR’ed. […] I also converted all the PPT to PDF, so they can be searched now too. Steve Troughton-Smith: Ooh there are plenty of interesting documents I missed from the Epic trial, like this 2015 …
Lees meerAdi Robertson: For Apple it’s a win if Nvidia is providing an amazing service through the Safari browser outside the App Store, obviously. “Has Apple done anything to stop Nvidia from offering GeForce Now on Safari?” lawyer asks. Patel says no. Nila…
Lees meerOlKir1143: When running app in iOS 14.5 simulator launch takes incredibly long time (more than 30 seconds). In comparison launching installed app in simulator - 2 seconds, launching app on the real device (iOS 14.4) - 6 seconds.[…]When running again…
Lees meerJoel Spolsky: Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overflow is joining Prosus. Prosus is an investment and holding company, which means that the most important part of this announcement is that Stack Overflow will continue to operate independe…
Lees meerApple: The Apple Design Awards honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. It’s surprising to see Nova on the list because lately only apps in the Mac App Store have been eligible. (And no Mac apps ha…
Lees meerJerry Krinock: I have been going through hell trying to maintain Full Disk Access for my apps’ background agents. I think something has changed with Full Disk Access[…] […] Before Full Disk Access became a thing in macOS 10.15, my apps’ background a…
Lees meerParker Ortolani: Every WWDC has its moments, but there are some moments in particular that are impossible to forget. From earthshaking announcements to retrospectively goofy quotes, there are so many memories that bring a smile to our faces. As we a…
Lees meerBecky Hansmeyer: I really enjoy reading wishlists and predictions, so this year I’ve compiled a WWDC 2021 Community Wishlist. You’re welcome to contribute, just submit a pull request (or send me a note on Twitter and I’ll add it for you). […] Abilit…
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