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Some high-profile app updates are getting roasted. Here's what I think happened (members post)
A few high-profile app updates have recently gone down like a lead balloon. I have a lot of sympathy for the developers involved, and today I wanted to explain what I think happened with Overcast specifically.
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It’s bad for consumers and it’s bad for Patreon, but what are you going to do, not ship on iOS?
John Gruber: Nick Heer on Patreon Creators Paying the Full 30 Percent App Store Rate for New Subscriptions
The whole
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Power tools and RSI
John Gruber: The Mac Is a Power Tool
Safety by default, but don’t get in the way of power
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Apple gets its pound of flesh from struggling creators
From the Patron blog today:
As we first announced last year, Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing
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Choose your fighte…billionaire!
M.G. Siegler: A Time to Kill... Xitter
This has all been instituted under the guise of free speech, but
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The opposite of claim chowder
Ezra Klein back in February 2024: Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
Everybody I have talked about this, literally
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You thought that was good news? Sucker!
M.G. Siegler on his relatively new Spyglass blog (running on Ghost, which always makes me happy): Apple Introduces Revolutionary
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Telling users how to save money will soon be allowed on iOS 🥴
Apple: Updates to the StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement
Developers can communicate and promote offers for purchases available at a
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Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure?
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s permissions features are out of balance
But what Apple’s testing in the
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AGI is miles away, don’t believe the hype
Benj Edwards: Major Shifts at OpenAI Spark Skepticism About Impending AGI Timelines
The moves have led some to wonder just
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NVIDIA is consuming a lifetime of YouTube per day and they probably aren’t even paying for Premium!
Samantha Cole on the always lovely 404 Media: Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day
What the "can't do real work on an iPad" narrative is really about
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…a Mac user wants to use an iPad but they can’
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Tech products are usually a temporary relationship (members post)
What makes a product last forever? What tech products do you own that you'll never have to replace?
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What if Google just didn’t pay Apple?
David McCabe writing for the New York Times: Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge Rules
The government argued
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The M1 MacBook Air still rips
Kev Quirk: Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air
Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon
Shout out to the best way to make a cup of coffee
This is a simple appreciation post for the AeroPress coffee maker. If I want to make a single cup of
The Rings of Power comes back next month, and yes, it’s been good all the time
I’ve started rewatching The Rings of Power in preparation for the second season, and just 2 episodes in I’
