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iPhone Duo: Four Questions Its Own Developer Site Still Cannot Answer
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (365+ words) Apple has told app developers a great deal about building for iPhone Duo since the September 9 keynote. It has not answered four practical questions that decide whether an ordinary app works well on it, and five weeks before the October…...
Apple Sets an April 2027 SDK Deadline for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS
20+ hour, 10+ min ago (324+ words) The Mac Observer New Touch Accommodations for iOS and iPadOS, and Larger Text for tvOS Name Recognition and a MagSafe Grip Accessory Are Already Available From Apple Hearing Aids Get Easier Pairing and Handoff Across iPhone, iPad and Mac MacBook…...
Six Developer Announcements Clustered Around WWDC26, From Design Kits to a Retired Class
20+ hour, 2+ min ago (439+ words) Apple’s developer news feed carried six platform-facing announcements in the ten weeks around WWDC26, its Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park, June 8 through 12, 2026. They range from a deprecated class in one of Apple’s frameworks to a new developer center opening abroad,…...
Apple's Developer Program License Agreement: Two Updates Due Before October 1
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (329+ words) Apple’s Developer Program License Agreement: Two Updates Due Before October 1 The Mac Observer Apple’s EU App Store Deadline: What Developers Must Do Before October 1 Apple’s EU Link-Out Rule: Only Sales Within 7 Days of a Tap Face a Commission Apple’s New…...
Xcode 27's Release Candidate Targets Six Platforms That Don't Share a Build Number
19+ hour, 26+ min ago (294+ words) On September 9, 2026, Apple shipped release candidates for all six operating systems due September 14, plus the Xcode 27 Release Candidate developers need to build against them. Apple’s own developer release index lists twelve builds across September 8 and 9, and their version numbers share…...
Omarchy M: Linux on Apple Silicon Macs
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (354+ words) Omarchy M is targeting M1 and M2 Macs with a native installer, GPU support, Touch ID, external displays, disk encryption and MLX. Omarchy M is the new team behind Omarchy’s push to bring its Linux desktop to Apple Silicon Macs, with M1 and M2 machines…...
Open-Source Project Brings Full iOS 27 Virtualization to Apple Silicon
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (270+ words) The open-Source project vphone-cli enables a full iOS 27 system to run as a virtual machine on Apple Silicon. Built on Apple's own Virtualization.framework rather than traditional emulation, the proje...
What WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram actually do to your photos
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (802+ words) I spent a month measuring it, one round trip at a time, on a real phone. Here is what came back. A JPEG carries the quantization table it was encoded with. Most software uses a scaled version of the reference…...
Apple just shipped a foldable iPhone. Our websites are not ready.
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (540+ words) The iPhone Duo is real now. 7.6" inner display, 5.4" outer, preorders already open. And somewhere out there a product manager is about to ask a frontend team “so what happens to our site when someone folds this thing,” I spent a…...
I built Gridly: a Mac window manager controlled by title-bar swipes
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (220+ words) I’m Michael Yang, a solo indie maker at yangbyte. I built Gridly, a title-bar swipe window manager for macOS 14+. Instead of reaching for a menu or memorizing shortcuts, swipe a window’s title bar to move it into place. Gridly is…...