438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Apple’s Movie Theater Beef With Hollywood
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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 […]
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 […]
Black Friday 2024
My apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Aeon Timeline Affinity Akismet AllTrails Apparent Software Appfigures (BF2450) Astro Backblaze BetterTouchTool Bezel BoltAI Brewer X Browser Deputy Bike CleanClip CleanMyMac CleanShot X CompressX Creaceed CYME Corel Dada Mail Darkroom Dash (BLACKFRIDAY) […]
The App Store Era Must End
Jason Snell (tweet, Macworld, podcast): To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices are locked down—for […]
Apple Directly Selling Apple News Ads
Sara Fischer: Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It’s pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for itself and its publishing partners.[…]Beginning next year, Apple will sell premium sponsorships of editorially curated content for relevant events, such as the […]
Unreal on Internet Archive
Timothy Geigner: But it just doesn’t have to be like this. Companies could be willing to give up their iron-fisted control over their IP for these older games they aren’t willing to support or preserve themselves and let others do it for them. And if you need a real world example of that, you need […]
Type to Siri
Tim Hardwick: With the introduction of Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1, communicating with Siri has become more flexible since you can easily type your requests instead of speaking them. It’s a subtle but powerful change that’s perfect for those moments when you need to be quiet or [discreet].Enabling Type to Siri is straightforward. Head to […]