How: The new beta of Apples development platform, Xcode, added this feature. Now, however, Apple is helping app developers create one app for all devices. Get started by building and testing your apps using a single bundle ID with Xcode 11.4 beta. Original Image: Unsplash
This is much likeSpotifys Play Button, only more powerful and focused. And it may help Apple in its unexpected podcasting war. The iTunes podcast directory is the de facto universal catalog of podcasts. Its a fantastic resource that Apple has left alone for years. And thats a very good thing. What Is a Podcast, Really? This might seem like a dumb question, but a podcast has quite a specific definition....
iPad orders have seen delays for several months, even when buying directly fromApples website. Even if it were a bigger issue, other tablets cant fully replicate what the iPad can provide. There’s no denying that the iPad is being affected by prioritizing the iPhone 13 over the iPad. Ming Yeung / Getty Images But what happens when manufacturing starts to pick up again? Will it be difficult for Apple to rekindle consumer interest once its tablet is easier to find?...
Our phones are loaded with personal information, and they also know where we are and what were doing. Its a little scary, but its also Apple at its best. “I hope this might help anyone dealing with intimate partner surveillance or stalking by someone you trusted.” Daviles / Getty Images If you are included in a family administered by someone else, you’re free to easily leave. The document is a great read, and digs deep while still being interesting and easy to follow....
Now, as we shall see, the choices are clear. But what about the weird in-between 13-inch MacBook Pro? “To the average consumer, the main difference between Airs and Pros is the size and general design. Moritz Kindler / Unsplash It showed pro and regular on one axis, desktop and laptop on the other. That structure has been stretched to the breaking point in recent years, but its coming back. Right now, the lineup is still unfinished....
Itll have to go eventually, but what will take its place? The answer is another question: “Maybe nothing?” Why Is Lightning So Great? Steve Johnson / Unsplash First, it was way smaller than the huge dock connector. Lightning connectors were good because they were faster and smaller than the 30-pin dock connector… Lightning is also extremely robust. Apple There are no moving parts, nor any bits that stick out. As a charging standard and as a basic data-transfer plug, it’s perfect....
But what makes it so good, and why do you need it? But some users want more. They might need super-accurate colors for editing photos or color-grading movies. Apple They might need the extra brightness that HDR requires. These new MacBooks offer some crazy customizations to make all these folks happy. ThatDisplay First, lets check out what this baby can do. Apple Switching this on only when needed saves energy, gives better contrast, and provides better blacks....
It won’t even make iPhone chips. The facility was completed earlier this year, and manufacturing is set tobegin in 2024. Chip manufacturing is measured in nanometers. rioryan / Unsplash Or rather, the term nanometer (nm) is used to name successive generations of chip-making tech. For example, the current iPhone 14 models use chips made using the 5nm process. Thats important because smaller transistors mean faster processing and less power required to do it....
Known asLockdown Mode, the new feature is designed to help protect users devices from spyware. Back then, security researchers told Lifewire that such zero-click attacks werent going to die anytime soon. The Lockdown Mode is designed to curtail any such snooping attempts. Francesco Carta fotografo / Getty Images “How they havent hardened the App Store against these bad actors is beyond me.” Short of not using a rig, there is no way to prevent exploitation by a ‘zero-click exploit....
The M2 Max continues to follow Apple’s chip naming convention by pushing the numbers even further. Apple Apple
So why did it just launch and confuse the heck out of everyone, users and developers alike? There are two main points of an operating system beta. One is to get everything in the beta fixed up before pushing it to millions of users. A software developer considers Apple’s absurd 2024 beta program.Peter Dazeley / Getty “Developers install 18.1 because its the new hotness. Skynesher / Getty And now we know when at least some of these features will arrive....
We had photos on our computers, on our cameras, and stuck in our phones. Gathering them all together in one place was a strictly manual affair. Photo Stream was a one-way trip. Apple’s Photo Stream shown on a vintage Apple TV.Apple If you wanted to keep those photos on your Mac, you would have to save them. It was a precursor to modern cloud sync, where everything we have is everywhere, all at once....
To comply, Apple has to somehow open up its iOS platform to allow more competition. For followers of Apple, there is a beautiful irony here. Good Standing Bagus Hernawan / Unsplash Therules are as frustratingly arbitraryas ever. White man in white shirt on white phone.NordWood Themes / Unsplash This is clearly designed so that only large, established companies can take part. This restriction simply won’t work," writes iOS and Mac developerSteve Troughton-Smithon Mastodon....
