Aaron Bushnell: You wake up to an email from Phil Schiller that you’re on the new Pro Workflow team for a complete overhaul of macOS, iPadOS and iOS. What suggestions would you provide for the next generation of Apple operating systems? I enjoyed th…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple subsidiary FileMaker today announced it has returned to its original name Claris from the late 1980s. […] Now, the company plans to expand its portfolio again, leading it to readopt the Claris name. FileMaker Pro will remain one…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple Card got its first group of public test users today. A limited number of customers who signed up on Apple’s website to be notified about the release of Apple Card are now able to apply for the card in their Wallet app as well as …
Lees meerMark Bernstein: You can get away with murder. Going by the book, you’ve got to use extreme caution and you’ve always got to get it right. In practice, Tinderbox Six took all sorts of risks and accepted that it was Doing It Wrong in order to get stuf…
Lees meerAdrianne Jeffries (via Jason Koebler): Even though restaurants are capable of taking orders directly—after all, both numbers are routed to the same place—Yelp is pushing customers to Grubhub-owned phone numbers in order to facilitate what Grubhub ca…
Lees meerThomas Brewster (via Patrick Wardle): Later this week, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Apple is to announce plans to give security researchers special iPhones that will make it easier for them to find weaknesses in the smartphone,…
Lees meerMatthew Prince: We just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time. The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths. Ev…
Lees meerJean-Louis Gassée: When the iPhone grew to represent more than 50% of Apple’s revenue, critics worried that the company was overly dependent on the device. Now, critics fret because the percentage fell to 48% in the quarter ending in June. The decli…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: Basically, BBEdit was remarkably fast at opening the file, being 4x faster than Visual Studio Code and 20x faster than Sublime. And then in terms of saving changes to the file, most apps were in the same ballpark, which I assume is be…
Lees meerJohn Sundell: When converting Data into a String, like we do above, we pass the encoding that we want the string to be decoded using — in this case UTF8 — by passing a reference to that type itself. That’s really interesting. If we dive a bit deeper…
Lees meerquickbirdstudios (via Peter Steinberger): This project contains a benchmarking test suite for comparing the performance of the most commonly used components and operators in RxSwift and Combine. For a detailed comparison of RxSwift with Combine have…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple’s online store in the United States is now carrying a new 5K 27-inch LG UltraFine Display, which joins the updated 4K 23.7-inch UltraFine display Apple began selling in May. Available for $1,299.95, the new LG UltraFine 5K Display…
Lees meerKen Case (tweet): At that time, there was no built-in document browser, or even a rich text editor: if we wanted those features—essential to apps like OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner—we had to build them ourselves. […] In 2019, we think it’s time to re…
Lees meerPaulo Andrade: Note how on one end of the spectrum alerts are useless for users that don’t understand the implications of allowing such access and on the other end experts want to turn them off. So for the benefit of a few power users in the middle …
Lees meerBare Bones Software (tweet): If you see this alert, it’s because you previously purchased a perpetual license from us for the current major version of BBEdit, but have since installed and begun using the same major version of BBEdit from the Mac App…
Lees meerFraser Speirs: The problem with Apple’s iOS education offerings that started to really make me wonder what the future held came when I realised that iTunes U was clearly just being left to die a slow death. At the time of writing, iTunes U still doe…
Lees meerHugo Gutiérrez (Google translation, via Adrian Tineo): The listening of private recordings is carried out through a company subcontracted by the apple company, just as Google does, as EL PAÍS already advanced. These reviewers are responsible for ana…
Lees meerAndrew Griffin (via Phil Schiller, Hacker News): “I can tell you that privacy considerations are at the beginning of the process, not the end,” says Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. “When we talk about building…
Lees meerKif Leswing (via John Voorhees, MacRumors): Unlike content moderators at Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook or YouTube that rely on tens of thousands of contractors, Apple’s app reviewers work for Apple, people familiar with the process said.…
Lees meerApple (Intel, MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple and Intel have signed an agreement for Apple to acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment …
Lees meerIt’s late in the iOS 12 cycle, but with iOS 12.3.1 I’m seeing a resurgence of an old bug from the iOS 7 days. Specifically, iOS is letting apps such as OmniFocus and Overcast use cellular data, even though I have them unchecked in Settings > Cellula…
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