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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
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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
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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
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Fortnite is coming soon to AltStore
Epic Games in a press release today: Epic's New Game Strategy for Mobile Stores
In exciting news, we
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A good story doesn’t require homework
James Mangold, director of films like Logan, Ford v Ferrari, and Walk the Line, on the MCU-ification of most of
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The one way wired earbuds still beat AirPods
Brendon Bigley on his Wavelengths blog: EarPods Rule
I’m not about to wax poetic about all of the ways
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Severance was more expensive to produce than Game of Thrones
Lucas Shaw for Bloomberg: Apple Tries to Rein In Hollywood Spending After Years of Losses
All told, the cost of[
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How Puzzmo makes crosswords
Madison in the Puzzmo newsletter: 🃏 We're on the Path to a Trillion Dollars!
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