Down Dog (Reddit, Hacker News): Apple is rejecting our latest update because we refuse to auto-charge at the end of our free trial. They can choose to steal from their customers who forget to cancel, but we won’t do the same to ours. […]We’ve experi…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet, Hacker News): The privacy protections system (also known as TCC: Transparency, Consent, and Control) was introduced in macOS Mojave, and one of its purposes is to protect certain files on your Mac from access by unauthorized app…
Lees meerJason Snell (also: MacRumors): With the advent of Macs running Apple-designed processors, things will get a whole lot simpler. As described Wednesday in the WWDC session Explore the New System Architecture of Apple Silicon Macs, these new Macs will …
Lees meerUpgrade: This week we welcome Apple’s Bob Borchers and Ronak Shah to the show to discuss macOS Big Sur, including all the new features in Safari. There’s also an awful lot of follow-up from the busy WWDC week that was, and we discuss the possible fe…
Lees meerMark Gurman and Jason Schreier (also: MacRumors): Apple Inc. has shifted the strategy of its Apple Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some games in development while seeking other titles that it believes will better retain subscribers. […
Lees meerCurtis Herbert: Sim Genie is a Mac app that is built for those of us that spend our days in Xcode. Apple has been adding a lot of hidden capabilities to the Xcode simulator, but they haven’t been making those capabilities particularly easy-to-use or…
Lees meerRico Becker: Apple has restricted access to ~/Library/Containers/ in Finder on macOS Big Sur. It’s only showing one folder in my case. In Terminal I can see that everything is still there. This was quite a shock when I first saw it, because it looke…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Taking the recent years’ trend toward ignoring Mac apps to its logical extreme (see our Apple Design Award series), there wasn’t a single winner for the Mac. John Gruber: Such a great year for the Mac at WWDC, but not one ADA winner. B…
Lees meerJeff Hunter (Hacker News): We agree with Apple that privacy is a fundamental human right, and understand that the “Hide My Email” option in Sign in with Apple is well-intentioned, but it feels like Apple didn’t really think through all of the implic…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: APFS in macOS 11 changes volume roles substantially. The System volume within a boot Volume Group is now sealed using a tree of cryptographic hashes, as I have detailed here.[…]As 9to5Mac has already reported, Big Sur is the first ver…
Lees meerOle Begemann: as? and as! perform downcasting at runtime. […] as? and as! are the same operation, the only difference being that as! force-unwraps its result. […] In contrast, as coerces a value to a type at compile time. […] A syntactic nuance: whe…
Lees meerJulian Rothkamp: Tower now lets you show or hide whitespace changes with a single click. […] Tower not only displays diffs of new/untracked files, it even allows you to stage/unstage/discard parts of their changes - even though they are still untrac…
Lees meerMike Wuerthele (also: MacRumors): This Mac mini is outfitted with Apple’s A12Z processor which was originally designed for the 2018 iPad Pro and then reused with the 2020 iPad Pro. […] To get more specific on performance, let’s take a look at Geekbe…
Lees meerKellen Browning and Jack Nicas (via MacRumors, 9to5Mac): The Times is one of the first media organizations to pull out of Apple News. The Times, which has made adding new subscribers a key business goal, said Apple had given it little in the way of …
Lees meerDries Buytaert (via John Gruber): I learned that when I embed a YouTube video in my blog posts, Google sends an HTTP cookie to track my site’s visitors.[…]After some research, I discovered that YouTube offers a privacy-enhanced way of embedding vide…
Lees meerMarques Brownlee (tweet, MacRumors): Some insight with Craig Federighi about the iOS 14 and the more controversial 2020 announcements! He starts off with a question about why iOS 14 doesn’t let you set the default maps app. I like the way he intersp…
Lees meerMicrosoft (via MacRumors, Hacker News): The company’s retail team members will continue to serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely providing sales, training, and support. Microsoft will continue to invest in its digital stor…
Lees meerApple: New in macOS Big Sur 11 beta, the system ships with a built-in dynamic linker cache of all system-provided libraries. As part of this change, copies of dynamic libraries are no longer present on the filesystem. Code that attempts to check for…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: What makes me most angry at what has happened to the log and Console is that Apple’s concepts and engineering are outstanding: the log has a remarkably low latency, retains a great deal of invaluable data in structured and compact for…
Lees meerThe Talk Show: John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2020: the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon, MacOS 11 Big Sur, iOS and iPadOS 14, and more. John Vorhees: In response to commentators who believe …
Lees meerMarco Arment: I bet they come to a compromise where neither side has to lose face and “back down”, such as Hey adding some free functionality such that the app can do something without a purchase but also without adding IAP. (Apple’s letter effectiv…
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