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Brazil Rules Against Apple’s Anti-Steering Rules
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Reuters: Brazilian antitrust regulator Cade said on Monday that Apple must lift restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases, among other things, as the watchdog moved to proceed with an investigation into a complaint filed by Latin America e-commerce giant MercadoLibre.[…]MercadoLibre’s complaint, filed in 2022 in Brazil and Mexico, accused Apple of imposing a series […]
Watch Out for Counterintuitive Implicit Actor-Isolation
Jared Sinclair: I ran into some unexpected runtime crashes recently while testing an app on iOS 18 compiled under Swift 6 language mode, and the root causes ended up being the perils of using @unchecked Sendable in combination with some counterintuitive compiler behavior with implicit actor isolation.[…]What occurred to me instead was to find a […]
Mini vMac for iOS Rejected via Notarization
Jesús A. Álvarez: Mini vMac for iOS won’t be coming to #AltStorePAL, it was just #RejectedByAppReview for notarization after an initial rejection and appeal. You can of course still get it from GitHub and build it with Xcode or sideload the ipa with AltStore Classic. Via Riley Testut: Apple’s complete abuse of Notarization is going […]
App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices
Mysk: This is an example of what the App Store app shares with #Apple when you search for an app. Everything you type in the search field is recorded as an event and associated with your Apple ID before it is sent to Apple. When I search for “Google Authenticator,” events are recorded as I […]
Apple’s Movie Theater Beef With Hollywood
Mike Fleming Jr.: Jon Watts, the filmmaker who stepped out of the Spider-Man franchise with Tom Holland and Zendaya to script and direct George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the film Wolfs for Apple, created a press dustup yesterday when he let slip that he and they would not be doing a sequel, even though […]
Swift Vision: Improving the Approachability of Data-Race Safety
Holly Borla (via Mastodon, forum): This document lays out several potential paths for improving the usability of Swift 6, especially in simple situations where users aren’t intending to use concurrency at all. […] A key tenet of our thinking in this vision is that we want to drastically reduce the number of explicit concurrency annotations […]
Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires
John Gruber (Mastodon) has gone through the list of Apple acquisitions: The bottom line is that what we, as users, hope for after a big company acquires a beloved app is for an outcome where the users of that app remain happy. That might mean just keeping the app going, like with Logic. Or it […]
The End of Delicious Library
Wil Shipley: Amazon has shut off the feed that allowed Delicious Library to look up items, unfortunately limiting the app to what users already have (or enter manually). I wasn’t contacted about this. I’ve pulled it from the Mac App Store and shut down the website so nobody accidentally buys a non-functional app. Previously: Amazon […]