Let’s start with Apple’s own announcement at Apple Developer News:
The European Commission has required Apple to make a series of
additional changes under the Digital Markets Act:
Communication and Promotion of Offers
Today, we’re introducing updated terms that let de...
Apple Developer:
By default, apps on the App Store are provided Store Services Tier
2, the complete suite of all capabilities designed to maximize
visibility, engagement, growth, and operational efficiency.
Developers with apps on the App Store in the EU that
communicate...
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Banger of a post by “tarltontarlton” on Reddit:
That same process is happening now with stupid people. They’re
transcending their individual limitations, finding each other and
becoming out-and-proud Stupid-Americans. [...]
How individual stupid Americans are becoming t...
Beth Mole, reporting for Ars Technica:
The vaccine panel hand-selected by health secretary and
anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday voted
overwhelmingly to drop federal recommendations for seasonal flu
shots that contain the ethyl-mercury containing pr...
Joe Rossignol:
The company has promoted its Brad Pitt racing film with
advertisements across at least six iPhone apps leading up to
today’s wide release, including the App Store, Apple Wallet,
Apple Sports, Apple Podcasts, iTunes Store, and of course the
Apple TV app.
...
This is a funny gag from Claude Zeins, but if you think about it, it shows just how destructive Apple’s decision was to send a push notification from the Wallet app promoting F1 The Movie.
It’s a fact that no company can inject an ad into your physical wallet. It just can...
This is a funny gag from Claude Zeins, but if you think about it, it shows just how destructive Apple’s decision was to send a push notification from the Wallet app promoting F1 The Movie.
It’s a fact that no company can inject an ad into your physical wallet. It just can’t...
Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch Tuesday:
Apple customers aren’t thrilled they’re getting an ad from the
Apple Wallet app promoting the tech giant’s original film “F1 the
Movie.” Across social media, iPhone owners are
complaining that their Wallet app sent out a push n...
Some sad news. The San Francisco Chronicle (News+ link):
The eight people killed in a sudden storm while boating on Lake
Tahoe over the weekend were a close-knit group of friends and
family members who had gathered for a birthday celebration,
according to a spokesperson ...
Stephen Hackett:
Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of Developer Beta 2, the
Finder icon in macOS Tahoe has been updated to reflect 30 years of
tradition:
I’m going to strongly disagree here. The Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon is slightly better, but seeing it this...
From iyO’s home page:
The iyo one is a revolutionary new kind of computer without a
screen. it can run apps just like your smartphone. The key
difference is you talk to it through a natural language interface.
Like I wrote yesterday, I’d never heard of iyO before. But ...
Apple today provided developers with the second betas of iOS 26
and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming two
weeks after Apple seeded the first betas following the WWDC
keynote.
Brooks Barnes, writing for The New York Times:
Pixar knew that Elio, an original space adventure, would most
likely struggle in its first weekend at the box office.
Animated movies based on original stories have become harder sells
in theaters, even for the once-unstopp...
Hayden Field, reporting for The Verge:
OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famous Apple designer Jony Ive, from its website and social media channels. The sudden change closely follows their recent announcement of OpenAI’s nearly $6.5 b...
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Joe Rossignol at MacRumors:
Apple has marked its day-old The Parent Presentation video
on YouTube as private, meaning that it is no longer available to
watch. Apple has also moved The Parent Presentation to the bottom
of its College Students page, effectively burying it....
Tom Nichols, writing for The Atlantic (gift link):
President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not
do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East. His
supporters will tie themselves in knots (as Vice President J. D.
Vance did last week) trying to ja...
Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors:
A bit of sad news for old iPods: Macs might be losing FireWire
support.
The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy
FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according
to @NekoMichi on X, and a Redd...
Julian Chokkattu, writing for Wired:
You can’t mount a cinema camera on a Formula One race car. These
nimble vehicles are built to precise specs, and capturing racing
footage from the driver’s point of view isn’t as simple as
slapping a GoPro on and calling it a day. Tha...
Cynthia Littleton, in a long profile for Variety:
When pressed about what Apple’s investments in movies and TV shows
have meant for the company as a whole, Cook explains that Apple is
at heart “a toolmaker,” delivering computers and other devices
that enable creativity i...
“This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away — to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. What he was doing. Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!”
—Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
My b...
Peter Kafka:
So in March, when Gruber announced that Something is Rotten in the
State of Cupertino — focusing on Apple’s botched plans to imbue
its ailing Siri service with state-of-the-art AI — lots of people
paid attention. Including, apparently, folks at the very top ...
Nicolas Lellouche, writing for the French-language site Numerama (block quote below is from Safari’s English translation) (via Joe Rossignol at MacRumors):
What is the problem with Europe? Apple does not explain it very
clearly, but suggests that the European Union’s req...
John Voorhees, writing at MacStories, regarding a new command-line transcription tool cleverly named Yap written by his son Finn last week during WWDC:
On the way, Finn filled me in on a new class in Apple’s Speech
framework called SpeechAnalyzer and its
SpeechTranscribe...
