Apple (Hacker News): Today, Apple Maps on the web is available in public beta, allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their browser.[…]All developers, including those using MapKit JS, can also link out to Maps on the web, so th…
Lees meerRyan Christoffel: Building on the existing Guides feature, Maps in iOS 18 lets you save places with a quick tap of the + button on their Maps listing. Saved places are accessible from the new Library menu, where you’ll also find your Guides, Pinned …
Lees meerEagleFiler 1.9.15 is a maintenance release for my Mac information organizer app. This version greatly improves the quality of imports from X/Twitter and expands the import-tweet-via-hotkey support to more browsers. Preserving the selected text when …
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, no security, no developer): We do not yet know what’s included in the update. Previously: tvOS 17.6
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, no security, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the watchOS 10.6.1 update fixes an issue that could prevent access to the Apple Fitness+ service. Previously: watchOS 10.6
Lees meerMatthew Ball (via Hacker News): During the average day, more than 80MM people log onto Roblox. As a historical point of contrast, this means that more people log onto Roblox every 10 or so minutes than used Second Life in a month at its peak. On a m…
Lees meerProton (via Hacker News): We have received multiple reports today from users in Brazil having difficulties installing the Proton VPN app on iOS devices via the Apple App Store. We can confirm that the issue is not on our side, but likely with the Ap…
Lees meerLuana Maria Benedito (via Hacker News): Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X Global Government Affairs: …
Lees meerEuropean Commission: X designs and operates its interface for the “verified accounts” with the “Blue checkmark” in a way that does not correspond to industry practice and deceives users. […] Second, X does not comply with the required transparency o…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: The latest addition, the Epic Games Store, now offers iOS-using Euro-folk access to entertainment titles like Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and Fall Guys.[…]The process for installing the Epic Games Store on iOS in the EU is rath…
Lees meerEpic Games (tweet, MacRumors): Epic also plans to bring our own mobile games including Fortnite to other mobile stores that give all developers a great deal. And, we will be ending distribution partnerships with mobile stores that serve as rent coll…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): Apple today announced that developers will soon be able to offer NFC transactions in their own apps for the first time – something that is mostly exclusive to Apple Pay at present. Starting with iOS 18.1 later this ye…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: I think I will need to be leaving FastSpring as the sole shop for my apps and ebooks and stuff.At the very least, I’ll need to set up an alternative as a fallback:2 days ago I received an email that one of the shop backends was bei…
Lees meerBen Sandofsky (MacRumors, tweet):Today, we are launching something unlike any tech product in 2024: a product that uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce natural, film-like photos. We call it Process Zero. It lives in Halide, and…
Lees meerChance Miller (MacRumors): With the latest betas of these updates, Apple has added a new feature to iPhone Mirroring: the ability to enter “jiggle mode” and rearrange your iPhone’s Home Screen.With iPhone Mirroring enabled you can now long-press on …
Lees meerFlickr: The “Albums” tab now gives you the ability to search your albums based on keywords used in album titles and descriptions. Click on the search icon near your album covers to activate the album search. […] You can now reorder your albums and c…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed (MacRumors, Slashdot): Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple. In an update to an old blog post, Spotify says that…
Lees meerHamish McKenzie: But creators aren’t Apple’s traditional customers. They’re not app makers or game developers. They don’t actually have a piece of real estate in the App Store. They instead find their distribution through media platforms, including …
Lees meerJay Peters (Slashdot): But in July, Apple reversed course and approved UTM SE, and earlier this month, it added the words “PC emulator” to guideline 4.7, which is seemingly why iDOS 3 has now been allowed on the App Store. Filipe Espósito: As for iD…
Lees meerDavid Barnard: For almost 16 years now, tweet after tweet, blog post after blog post, I’ve implored Apple to do better by developers and App Store customers in a million different ways. And implied (if not said directly) that if they didn’t, the imp…
Lees meerSarah Perez (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple has threatened to remove crowdfunding app Patreon from the App Store if creators continue to use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple’s o…
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