Ingrid Lunden (in 2017, via Hacker News): TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the startup has conducted a substantial number of layoffs across the company as it looks to steer the business more towards its core Q&A products and away from areas…
Lees meerRiley Testut (tweet): AltStore is an alternative app store for non-jailbroken devices. Unlike other unofficial app stores today, AltStore does not rely on enterprise certificates, which Apple has been cracking down on more and more recently. Instead…
Lees meerDan Moren: No, the only place you’ll find the multicolored flag options is, somewhat nonsensically, under the Reply button from a message itself. iOS needs a menu bar or something. Tap the Flag button there and you’ll get a sub-menu that lets you ch…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Removed support for Legacy Safari Extensions 1Password: Moving forward, the use of 1Password with Safari will require 1Password 7, which fully supports the latest Safari and macOS releases. […] We’ve been asked if it would be po…
Lees meerApple: You can use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up all of your files, including apps, music, photos, email, documents, and system files. Maxwell Swadling: Time Machine backups skip a bunch of files. So…
Lees meerRaymond M. Soneira (via MacRumors): The iPhone 11 Pro Max has an impressive Top Tier display with close to Text Book Perfect Calibration and Performance! Based on our extensive Lab Tests and Measurements the iPhone 11 Pro Max receives our DisplayMat…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: After Apple announced at its iPhone 11 event that its newest phones have the “toughest glass in a smartphone” it’s no surprise that we’re seeing that put to the test on launch day. The first drop tests show how the iPhone 11 Pro and …
Lees meerMalcolm Owen (Hacker News): In a patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday titled “Keyboard assemblies having reduced thickness and method of forming keyboard assemblies,” Apple seeks to do just that. In Apple’s filing, the c…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Avid, Hacker News): Variety reports this morning of a possible computer virus attack or critical software failure affecting Mac Pro workstations across Los Angeles.According to social media chatter, Hollywood Film and TV editors discov…
Lees meerAmanda Farough (via Dave Mark): As it turns out, Apple is fronting development costs. This makes the relationship closer to a traditional publisher/developer deal. And Apple stepping in means these weird, interesting, oddball mobile games that might…
Lees meerAlex Guyot: This is a year for iteration, and Apple has been iterating on all cylinders. watchOS 6 is a quiet giant, adding or redesigning more first-party apps at once than we’ve seen in years, dropping the largest batch of new watch faces since wa…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Third-party keyboard extensions in iOS can be designed to run entirely standalone, without access to external services, or they can request “full access” to provide additional features through network access. Apple has discovere…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: For the first time since I started reviewing Apple’s annual iOS updates, it feels like the company is now keenly aware that a new iOS version has to cover an array of themes that can’t be pushed back for scheduling reasons. […] As …
Lees meerManton Reece: Apple’s private email relay server is almost completely undocumented. In this blog post I’ll describe how I got it working. The key issue is that the “return path” of your emails must be using a subdomain that can be verified by Apple.…
Lees meerJohn Wilander: By limiting the ability to use any script-writeable storage for cross-site tracking purposes, ITP 2.3 makes sure that third-party scripts cannot leverage the storage powers they have gained over all these websites. […] Our research ha…
Lees meerTed Kremenek: Swift 5.1 builds on the strengths of Swift 5 by extending the stable features of the language to compile time with the introduction of module stability. With module stability it’s now possible to create and share binary frameworks that…
Lees meerMike Bombich: My APFS-formatted rotational disks have always felt slower than when they were HFS+ formatted. The speed of copying files to them felt about the same, but slogging through folders in the Finder was taking a lot longer. At first I shrug…
Lees meerdoo (tweet): To start with the most important point: none of our users gets taken away something they have had before. That means that every feature that was unlocked by purchasing the ‘Scanbot Pro’ upgrade before the release of Scanbot 9 will stay …
Lees meerApp Store Review Guidelines: 3.1.1 In-App Purchase: If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you mus…
Lees meerMorgan Wynn (via Jeff Perry, Hacker News): Starting today, podcast fans all over the world can download Pocket Casts for free. Known for its beautiful design and robust set of controls, Pocket Casts is making the entirety of its existing features av…
Lees meerNick Lockwood: Something I’ve spent time on recently is the problem of serializing heterogenous arrays (arrays containing multiple types) in Swift using Codable. Here’s a pattern I’ve found that works pretty well, using a protocol and a type-erased …
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