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Myke Hurley talking about Apple opening the NFC chip to other payment apps on the iPhone during today’s episode
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My movies tier list for 2024 (members post)
Today I'm attempting the impossible: 71 movie tiers handed out in half an hour. Can it be done?! Well, I did it already, so yes, but it was a lot of fun along the way.
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Shareshot is my new favorite way to share screenshots
Marc Palmer: Launch Day! Shareshot 1.0 Is Live in the App Store 🎉
Today we launched Shareshot! We’ve been
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What is X in 2024?
Casey Newton on Platformer: X Is Just a Political Project Now
The Trump years were characterized by constant (and almost totally baseless) criticism on the part of Republicans that platforms had abandoned their political neutrality to promote Democrats. During those years, had Mark Zuckerberg hosted a friendly interview with Joe Biden on Facebook Live, Congress
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Is this the slow decline of the Apple “cult”?
My “quirk” on this blog years ago was the fact that I, an Apple fan, would try using Android and Windows devices for extended periods and share my thoughts on those products. Whenever I tried to go all-in on one of these other companies’ products, I’d look around for indie bloggers and enthusiast
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Apple opens up NFC to payment apps world wide, not just in the EU
Apple today: Developers can soon offer in‑app NFC transactions using the Secure Element
Starting with iOS 18.1, developers will be able to offer NFC contactless transactions using the Secure Element from within their own apps on iPhone, separate from Apple Pay and Apple Wallet.
So just like they were going to be forced
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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 notion of a platform like Patreon just doesn’t fit with the App Store’s model of taking a fee out of every single transaction for digital goods or services. It could, perhaps, if Apple
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just closing down my twttr
Not going to make a big deal of it, but today I decided to officially close my Twitter (sorry, X)
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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 users doing their jobs. And when the user needs an override for the safety features, there is an override, and the situation will make clear to the user that needing to use the override is
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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 system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024.
This has two major consequences for creators:
1. Apple will be applying their 30% App Store fee to all
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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 that is, of course, bullshit. If Xitter wants to be the haven of truly free speech, it should be a completely open source and un-monetized network that no single company controls. When you have
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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 everybody, has brought up the same fear. Call it the Kamala Harris problem. In theory, she should be the favorite. But she polls slightly worse than Biden. Democrats don’t trust that she would be
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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 New Fees for EU Developers
Basically it feels like Apple is making the changes that the EU clearly is angling for, but doing so in the most pedantic way possible, all but ensuring that the
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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 destination of their choice. The destination can be an alternative app marketplace, another app, or a website, and it can be accessed outside the app or via a web view that appears in the app.
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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 latest macOS Sequoia betas is brutal because there’s no end to it. It’s a subscription you didn’t buy and can’t cancel. Yesterday, I was prompted to give temporary permission by an
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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 how close OpenAI is to a long-rumored breakthrough of some kind of reasoning artificial intelligence if high-profile employees are jumping ship (or taking long breaks, in the case of Brockman) so easily. As
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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 to Train AI
When asked about legal and ethical aspects of using copyrighted content to train an AI model, Nvidia defended its practice as being “in full compliance with the letter and the spirit of