Michael Tsai - Blog
OpenAI (MacRumors, Hacker News): It became clear that our ambitions to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products demanded an entirely new company. And so, one year ago, Jony founded io with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan.We gathered together the best hardware and software engineers, the best technologists, physicists, scientists, researchers […]
Meek Geek (tweet): If you migrated to a new Mac running Sequoia using Migration Assistant instead of a clean install:Notifications from iPhone will stop showing upWidgets from iPhone will still be there based on the state before the migration, but will never update anymore Previously: macOS 15.5 iPhone Mirroring
Chance Miller (MacRumors): After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States. Epic Games announced the return of the battle royale gaming app this afternoon, and you can head to the App Store now to download it. Fortnite is also back in the […]
Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett (Reddit, Hacker News, 9to5Mac, Dithering): As for the Siri upgrade, Apple was targeting April 2025, according to people working on the technology. But when Federighi started running a beta of the iOS version, 18.4, on his own phone weeks before the operating system’s planned release, he was shocked to find […]
Riley Testut: Delta’s latest update with our revised Patreon sign-up flow has been approved! We can now freely mention our Patreon without giving Apple 27% of donations 🎉 Of course Apple still requires we offer in-app purchases…so we shoved them away at the bottom of Delta’s settings under “Alternate Payment Methods” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Riley Testut: It’s […]
JR Farr (Hacker News): At Stripe Sessions, we announced something we’ve been quietly crafting for months: Stripe Managed Payments — a new merchant of record experience, built directly into Stripe and launching this summer in private preview.This is a big step forward. Stripe Managed Payments is designed to handle all the heavy lifting for digital […]
Epic Games: Yesterday afternoon, Apple broke its week-long silence on the status of our app review with a letter saying they will not act on the Fortnite app submission until the Ninth Circuit Court rules on the partial stay. We believe this violates the Court’s Injunction and we have filed a second Motion to Enforce […]
Craig Hockenberry: We’ve entered day 10 of waiting for a TestFlight beta app review on macOS. Have tried all the tricks, like submitting new builds, but there has been absolutely no movement.While Apple is doing everything it can to maintain the tight control it has over the App Stores and a huge revenue stream, we’re […]
Graydon Hoare (Slashdot): Rust turns 10 today, or at least it’s been 10 years since the 1.0 release. In this decade (and the near-decade of development before!) it has undergone growth and change I can barely comprehend the scale of. To say I’m surprised by its trajectory would be a vast understatement: I can only […]
Adam Chandler (Amazon): Right now, the iPad mini with an A17 Pro and 8Gb of RAM is $399 through some retail partners. […] Something surprising happened since picking this up. Following setup, I’d start casually grabbing it and carrying it around the house. The mini fits in my cargo shorts and pants pockets of my […]
Dominic Preston (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot, TechCrunch, The Register): Fortnite maker Epic Games has announced that Apple has blocked the game’s return to iOS. Following the rejection, Fortnite is no longer available on iPhones and iPads even in the European Union, where it had previously been available to download through the Epic Games Store.“Apple has […]
Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Starting today, CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, is available with new Aston Martin vehicle orders in the U.S. and Canada, and will be available for existing models that feature the brand’s next-generation infotainment system through a software update in the coming weeks. CarPlay Ultra builds on the capabilities of […]
Andy Masley: It’s not bad for the environment if you or any number of people use ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, or other large language model (LLM) chatbots. You can use ChatGPT as much as you like without worrying that you’re doing any harm to the planet.[…]Throughout this post I’ll assume the average ChatGPT query uses […]
Ben Sandofsky (tweet, Hacker News): Then the algorithms combined everything into a single “photo” that matches human vision… a photo that was useless, since computer screens couldn’t display HDR. So these researchers also came up with algorithms to squeeze HDR values onto an SDR screen, which they called “Tone Mapping.”[…]HDR and Deep Fusion require that […]
Jordan Novet: Microsoft on Tuesday said that it’s laying off 3% of employees across all levels, teams and geographies, affecting about 6,000 people.[…]The company reported better-than-expected results, with $25.8 billion in quarterly net income, and an upbeat forecast in late April.[…]In total, it’s likely Microsoft’s largest round of layoffs since the elimination of 10,000 roles […]
Jason Snell: Of those expressing a preference, a third said they’d only be comfortable with allowing on-device running of AI models; nearly half said they’d be okay with on-device models and those that run in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers. Only 18% said they’d be comfortable with everything—on-device, Private Cloud Compute, and third-party AI in […]
Brent Simmons (2020): The crash logs were not identical, but they had this same thing:Namespace RUNNINGBOARD, Code 0xdead10ccThis meant that the system was killing the app because, after the background task was complete, the app still had references to a SQLite database (or sometimes another file). Apple: 0xdead10cc (3735883980) — pronounced “dead lock”The operating system […]
Juli Clover: As WWDC 2025 approaches, Apple has updated its Developer app to prepare for the week-long event. The refreshed version of the developer app will host the WWDC 2025 session videos, 1-on-1 labs with Apple engineers, and more. It’s still unreliable at working offline. I launched the app, and all of the screens were […]
Jacob Eiting (Mastodon): Turns out, in-app purchases are good for conversion rates. In fact, at least 30% better. That’s one of the things we found while running the first large-scale, side-by-side test of in-app vs web purchases in history.[…]The initial conversion rate for variant B is between 27% and 30%, while the equivalent web flow […]
Viktor Maric: first time seeing this. Apple will punish the apps with external payment system Swift Dev: Yup it’s real, you see this warning if the app doesn’t use IAP. Also it says external purchases next to the “get” button It’s confusing to follow all the changes, but apparently—unlike in the US—external purchases in the […]
Apple: Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Accessibility Nutrition Labels, which will provide more detailed information for apps and games on the App Store. Users who are blind or have low vision can explore, learn, and interact using the new Magnifier app for Mac; take notes and perform calculations with […]
Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple today released tvOS 18.5, the latest version of the tvOS operating system. Juli Clover: The tvOS 18.5 update that Apple released yesterday adds support for synchronizing Dolby Atmos playback to speakers over AirPlay or Bluetooth, according to Apple’s release notes for the update.The feature could help address […]
Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sequoia 15.5 is light on new features, with Apple listing only a change to Screen Time in its notes. I still haven’t been able to get this update to install on an external drive. The former workaround of manually setting the Startup Disk […]
macOS 14.7.6 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 13.7.6 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. Previously: macOS 14.7.5 and macOS 13.7.5
Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 are on the smaller side, featuring a limited number of new features. There’s an update to Screen Time that lets parents know when a Screen Time passcode is used on a child’s device, and there is support for carrier-provided satellite features […]
Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): The watchOS 11.5 update adds a new Pride Harmony watch face and it fixes an issue that could prevent the iPhone from showing a notification when the Apple Watch battery is fully charged. Previously: watchOS 11.4
Apple: This update includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 18.4.1
Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): With visionOS 2.5, Apple added a Vision tab to the Apple TV app to make it easier for users to find content created for the Vision Pro. Previously: visionOS 2.4.1
Apple (via Jeff Nadeau): Prepare your app for an upcoming feature in macOS that alerts a person using a device when your app programmatically reads the general pasteboard. The system shows the alert only if the pasteboard access wasn’t a result of someone’s input on a UI element that the system considers paste-related. This behavior […]
Hartley Charlton: Apple is looking at reworking Safari to directly support AI-powered search services, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.[…]Cue said that searches on Safari dipped for the first time in April 2025—a change which he attributed to users switching to AI services. He added that he believes AI services such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude will […]
Adam Engst: Lauri returned her iPhone 16 Plus, replacing it with an iPhone 15 Plus. She was driven to such a seemingly nonsensical move by insurmountable problems getting the iPhone 16 Plus to pair via Bluetooth with her 2019 Toyota RAV4. The iPhone would initially pair with the RAV4 with no problem, but when she […]
Under the Radar (David Smith): I maintain a sense of optimism that this situation could ultimately lead to a meaningful reset in the developer relationship. Maybe that is naive optimism but I think it is the best chance we’ve had in a while. Bruce: This situation could ultimately lead to a meaningful reset. But reading […]
Joe Rossignol: Apple acquired Canadian startup Mayday Labs in April 2024, according to a European Commission listing, spotted by French blog MacGeneration.[…]Mayday Labs founder Jeremy Bell confirmed that his company had been acquired in a since-deleted April 2024 blog post, but he did not mention Apple at that time.[…]Mayday Labs had developed an AI-powered calendar, […]
Davo: The Macintosh Repository is a community driven effort to preserve old software from the classic Mac OS era.It has ~18k entries of software images from floppys & cds, scans, fonts, icons and everything in between. The Macintosh Repository: If you’re planning on running the treasures of the past you’ll find here on real old […]
Damien Erambert (via Hacker News): Mac Themes Garden is dedicated to showcasing schemes made for Kaleidoscope and celebrating the customization and expressiveness it enabled on Classic Mac OS.[…]What I call “recording” here involves taking “live” screenshots of the themes being used on a Mac OS 9.2 installation running in UTM and combing through each archive […]
Christian Tietze: Is NSCache still a thing we like to use? I’ve discussed this several times, but I don’t think I ever blogged about it. The problem I have with NSCache is that its eviction strategy is not defined, and it’s definitely not LRU. When I tried to use NSCache, it would destroy the performance […]
Fatbobman: In the process of creating predicates for Core Data, the predicate expressions do not have a direct link to the type code. The properties used in these expressions correspond to those defined within the model editor (data model), and their “optional” characteristic does not align with the concept of optional types in Swift, but […]
Connor Jones: Stenberg said the amount of time it takes project maintainers to triage each AI-assisted vulnerability report made via HackerOne, only for them to be deemed invalid, is tantamount to a DDoS attack on the project.Citing a specific recent report that “pushed [him] over the limit,” Stenberg said via LinkedIn: “That’s it. I’ve had […]
Riley Testut: Guess what — you can now self-publish your apps on AltStore PAL completely FREE! Just connect your Apple Developer account with PAL and make an AltStore source. Then you can distribute notarized apps by simply uploading them to your web server like the good ol’ days 👌 AltStore: The only major difference is […]
Thomas Claburn: A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to allow developers to use alternative payment systems.The complaint [PDF], filed on May 2 in California Northern District Court by law firm Hagens Berman on […]
Jeff Johnson: The problem is that what Apple means here by “free” as opposed to “paid” is simply that you don’t have to pay before downloading the app, but Apple’s counterintuitive definition tends to obscure what is most important to consumers: how much you have to pay to use the app. The range of allowed […]
Sarah Perez: Creator platform Patreon has rolled out an updated version of its app that now allows users to make purchases via the web, in the wake of the Apple-Epic court ruling that forced Apple to allow app developers to include links to alternative forms of payment without being subject to Apple’s commission.Previously, on version […]
Juli Clover: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said over the weekend (via The Verge) that Epic will use its Epic Games Sweden account to submit Fortnite to the App Store in the U.S. Apparently, Sweeney has spoken to Apple about the issue, and based on his wording, it sounds like Apple could allow the plan, […]
Joe Rossignol: Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today said that iPadOS 19 will be “more like macOS.”Gurman said that iPadOS 19 will be “more like a Mac” in three ways:Improved productivityImproved multitaskingImproved app window management Previous discussion of the rumored redesign had focused on fears of macOS becoming more like iOS or iOS becoming more like visionOS, […]
Andrew Liszewski: Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange “Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings.[…]Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a feature you’d find in the Kindle mobile app following app store rule changes Apple implemented in 2011 that required developers to remove links or buttons leading to alternate ways […]
Juli Clover: PayPal today announced that it is planning to debut contactless payments in Germany, allowing German iPhone users to make tap-to-pay purchases in stores using their PayPal accounts.PayPal is able to offer this feature because Europe’s Digital Markets Act has forced Apple to open up the NFC chip in its devices to third-party apps. […]
Rosyna Keller (Mastodon, tweet): At the time, Apple only allowlisted specific menu extras by class name (checked in -[SUISStartupObject _canLoadClass:]). Any attempt to load a menu extra that advertised a different class name in its Info.plist’s NSPrincipalClass entry would fail. Menu extras were first-class citizens. You could hold the Command (⌘) key down to move […]
Adam Engst: Sharon started writing professionally about the Macintosh at its inception in 1984, with articles in the earliest issues of Macworld and the premiere issue of MacUser. She contributed to The Macintosh Bible for its second edition in 1989, served as the lead author/editor for the third edition in 1991, and reprised that role […]
Scott Morrison: For a number of years we have been working on MailMaven: A new macOS email client that picks up where we left off after Apple killed Mail Plugins. Today we are opening access to a wider audience than our small group of private beta testers. Apple made it impossible for MailTags (and SmallCubed’s […]
John Siracusa: The first release of Hyperspace mitigated these risks, in part, by entirely avoiding certain files and file system locations. I knew lifting these limitations would be a common request from potential customers. My plan was to launch 1.0 with the safest possible feature set, then slowly expand the app’s capabilities until all these […]
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