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Misguided Apple Intelligence Ads

dinsdag 12 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst (Hacker News): A pair of new ads for Apple Intelligence portray the Writing Tools and Memories movies as tools for those unwilling to put in any effort.In the first ad, Apple Intelligence enables a goof-off who wastes time and annoys his …

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Bodyreader v. Apple

dinsdag 12 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Bloomberg reports that the case – the first of its kind to be heard in Beijing’s intellectual property court – bears similarities to Epic Games’ 2021 lawsuit against Apple. Bodyreader claims Apple unfairly removed their app citing “dis…

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John Geleynse Retires From Apple

dinsdag 12 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Geleynse: Being a part of Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a lifetime. […] We released the platforms and tools that helped bring incredible products to life. We inspired developers to do some of the best work of their…

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No Refund for Undelivered MacBooks

maandag 11 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Six0Four (via Hacker News): Ordered 2 Macbooks for $2500 from Apple (Canada). Paid for their same day delivery service which they use Uber for and it says delivered but it wasn’t. Driver stole them or he delivered to the wrong person that stole them…

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Sega Delisting Classic Games From Steam

maandag 11 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kevin Purdy (Hacker News): Sega has put dozens of its Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and other console titles onto modern game stores over the years. But, like that Dreamcast controller stashed in your childhood garage, they’re about to disappear—a…

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The Ongoing Battle for Vestibular Accessibility

maandag 11 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Grannell: I vividly remember getting a wonderful surprise on the sole WWDC I was flown out to, on attending a developer session on accessibility and seeing someone on stage proudly noting that slide transitions in menus had been added to Reduc…

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Why % CPU in Activity Monitor Isn’t What You Think

maandag 11 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: When macOS loads two of those E cores with low QoS threads, it sets them to run at a low frequency to make the most of their energy efficiency. When it loads two E cores with threads that were intended to be run on P cores, as they ha…

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iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves

vrijdag 8 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for forensic examination to spontaneously restart, reports 404 Media.iPhones that are under…

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Lost iCloud Notes

vrijdag 8 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Benjamin Mayo: Some iPhone users are reporting a scary bug with the Notes app on iPhone. After agreeing to new iCloud terms and conditions as prompted by the system, the Notes app appears to disconnect from iCloud and instead presents users with a s…

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High Power Mode for M4 Pro Macs

vrijdag 8 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Andrew Cunningham: Last year’s M3 Pro chip was a departure from the M1 Pro and M2 Pro. Compared to the M2 Pro, it came with more E-cores but fewer P-cores, as well as fewer GPU cores and less memory bandwidth. As we wrote at the time, this meant tha…

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iPhone 18 Pro Variable Camera Aperture Rumor

vrijdag 8 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton (Ming-Chi Kuo): Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro models will feature an upgraded main rear camera with a variable aperture for the first time, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.[…]The iPhone 14 Pro, 15 Pro, and 16 Pro’s main cameras feat…

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CloudKit Reference and Index Issues

donderdag 7 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kuba Suder: CloudKit also automatically creates indexes for each field in each record type - when you’re done with development, you can delete some indexes that you won’t need so they don’t waste space in the production database. Apple: A request to…

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Problematic Swift Concurrency Patterns

donderdag 7 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Massicotte: I think the vast majority of the time, a global actor should be applied to the type as a whole, not to individual properties.[…]But, while detached does prevent isolation inheritance, it also does other stuff too. Detached tasks do …

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iOS 18: Health App Medications

donderdag 7 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rosensteel: It doesn’t list interactions for things that are not in the medication app, like vitamin supplements, antacids, NSAID painkillers, etc. All of which had very clear, urgent warnings in the prescription paperwork, but because they aren…

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iOS 18: Screen Sharing With Remote Control

donderdag 7 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: When you start observing another person’s screen in iOS 18, the system will tell you that you can now tap and draw on their screen. Taps are drawn as purple circles that disappear quickly – they’re subtle, but noticeable. […] With …

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Swift Format in Xcode 16

woensdag 6 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sarah Reichelt (Mastodon): In Xcode 16, Apple quietly introduced the ability to format your Swift files using Swift Format. I’m a long-time user of SwiftLint, but having such a tool built into Xcode would be a great convenience, so I decided to give…

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Data Tracking and Notifications in Core Data and SwiftData

woensdag 6 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Fatbobman (Mastodon): [prepareForDeletion is called] when the managed object is about to be deleted, typically used for cleaning up resources or manually managing relationships. Note that this method is triggered before validateForDelete. If the del…

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Swift Proposal: Integer Generic Parameters

woensdag 6 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SE-0452 (via Steve Canon): Swift does not currently support fixed-size or fixed-capacity collections with inline storage. (Or at least, it doesn’t do so well, not without forming a struct with some specific number of elements and doing horrible thin…

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Hypertextual Writing and Social Media

woensdag 6 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber (Mastodon): It also brought to mind how social media has largely kneecapped true hypertextual writing by not enabling it. You can, of course, add links to web pages in social media posts on any of the various basically-the-same-concept-a…

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Sequoia No Longer Supports QuickLook Generator Plug-ins

dinsdag 5 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Prior to macOS 10.15 Catalina in 2019, the display of Thumbnails was supported by the QuickLook framework. From Catalina onwards, this is provided by a new framework named QuickLook Thumbnailing. The older framework is documented here…

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How to Highlight Text Fragments When Linking

dinsdag 5 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Paul Kafasis: In recent months, I’ve begun to notice that results from web searches often highlight specific text on the page to which they’re linking. The web page is also scrolled to the relevant content. It’s quite helpful! A quick investigation …

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