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Amazon has created an interesting conundrum with this move, your purchase information should be private as should any communication sent to your email and there should be much greater awareness of companies mining your private communications for their own use...
Very nice! Looks like you really nailed the benefits of getting printed music into MusicXML.
Very cool, I put in a project I've been toying with converting sheet music to MusicXML, surprisingly dismal lmao.
Sounds like one of those "BIG HELPS" Trump tweeted about doing for Tim Apple in his retirement tribute, Brazil has been trying to get their fee-less payments on iPhone for nearly two years now to no avail.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/09/apple-nfc-fee-probed-in-brazi...
If this is your situation then go back to your 9-5 or change your field if you can - consider the full journey between where you are right now to this SaaS actually sustaining you in-lieu of a job or career. The time frame on that journey might be 6 or 12 months, or never. This is a lottery ticket at best and that's if you even ship a product.
It's $980 if you buy it through Apple... and the crazy thing is Plex is actually losing $75 if you buy it that way!
This is long overdue for games too, imagine how long a retail store would last if they let kids spend a thousand bucks no questions asked... but this is like a noble goal if it's an app or game.
xAI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material in breach of the company’s terms of service. It is understood to be the first case an AI company has brought against a user over what its own system produced.
The irony of this after publicly smirking for months last year while Grok was generating copious amounts of CSAM in open and sustained defiance of the law, app platform policies, basic decency etc.
Truly master-level trolling.
They succeeded in spite of their tech choices.
Or those choices just don't matter, it's fundamentally just "tabs vs spaces".
My Logitech mouse does this but it prompts to install their crapware and adds that to the startup programs, it's not automatically installed.
This is the second time [1] that analytics in period apps have been problematic, and also follows the recent hack of MixPanel [2] exposing OpenAI usage data. Seems like 3rd-party analytics are becoming a new frontier for security issues.
[1] https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-09-03/met...
“enhanced crowds, historical battle sequences, and worldbuilding establishing shots.”
Sounds like filler-material nobody would look too closely at.
It matters in the context of trusting their review process, and certainly "seems small" considering these 500 people oversee 2 million apps while scams and fraud have been prolific for years.
I think if they didn't have immunity for all the scams and fraud - and that's being challenged by both the EU regulators and in US courts - they'd probably have a lot more than 500 people. Multiples of it.
The thickness / durability of the cable is a pretty good indicator, if it's thin and flexible it'll only do basic charging if it's thick and durable it's because it's packing enough wiring to do power delivery, video etc, everything except probably Thunderbolt.
Why doesn’t the equivalent USB-C charger exist?
Isn't this just a USB 3.x hub?
They only have 500 reviewers for the whole App Store, and in fact, they were chastised by the judge in the Epic case for investing very little in the review process six years ago when they also only had 500 reviewers for the whole App Store. This isn't cat and mouse it's theater while they're shielded by section 230 immunity and pocketing enormous profits.
My strong belief is they want apps because they can spam you with notifications to get your attention.
My strong belief is they realized people were prone to spending absurd amounts of money in Facebook games, so they hijacked "social gaming" and spent 20 years deteriorating in defense of it.
Consider this timeline:
- Apple launches iPhone in 2007 with web apps central
- Zynga launches "Zynga Poker" on FB in 2007
- Apple launches App Store in 2008 with single-purchase apps
- Zynga hits 40 million monthly users in 2009
- Apple implements IAP and defensive policies in 2009
- Hundreds of millions of people playing Facebook games in 2010
... Apple goes to war with, bans and eventually kills Flash, the core technology to these games, and all of it moves to mobile and IAP
... web apps deprioritized, arms race with other browsers prevented
You can imagine what happens next.
Section 230 immunity baby!
If they were actually doing a good job this would make sense.
Just weeks ago they published a sanctioned Russian bank's app masquerading as a pomedoro timer lmao.
You can get the equivalent of a 2 hour strength session in just 20 minutes
Assuming this works as described that saves a lot of time.
Some good history of the JS ecosystem here but the underlying message is all the same, frameworks scale and provide structure but you don't need them. Very easy to agree up to this point.
Author then elaborates in the absence of using a common-knowledge framework you can create some tighter solution that achieves just the part you need. This is "fun" programming, and the author is suitably impressed with themselves for solving problems they created just by convincing themself not to use a framework. Sometimes that's fine, although I don't think there's much appetite for this anymore.
Article doesn't really elaborate on what "scaling" and "providing structure" means, I think it downplays the benefits because when you use <framework> you are really establishing ground rules for how all future developers are going to work on that software. You don't know exactly what they'll write, but you know they'll always gravitate towards the top 2 or 3 solutions for that framework at any given time.
When you bust out a bespoke solution that carves out that one thing you needed and does it oh so elegantly and perfectly, you're creating art but most of the canvas is left blank for future developers and they're effectively going to scribble on it with crayons.
I’d guess phone, anything else is too compute-constrained and just an accessory for them, plus has to pay 30% of subscriptions and can be disadvantaged strategically.
Or a lift full of people.
I would guess these days Apple probably has more lawyers than engineers.
Judge's ruling.
To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.
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Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now obvious, lies. They did not seek to withdraw the testimony or to have it stricken (although Apple did request that the Court strike other testimony). Thus, Apple will be held to have adopted the lies and misrepresentations to this Court.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...
You can trust Apple. I mean they openly lied to a judge last year under oath, but you can trust them.
Yep this will be massive for google theres 2+ billion active iOS devices… only question is if users will pony up the cash for it, but even if they don’t it still puts Google in a hugely privileged position in mobile.
They just conquered mobile hot off losing an antitrust case but getting away with it because AI exists, so they’ve never been in a stronger position. Both Google and Apple are fighting the EU to keep rival AI assistants at bay, they are on the brink of locking everyone else out almost globally.
I don't think this has anything particular to do with "slopcode", you make a thing and throw it out for the world to see, and the default outcome is nobody even cares enough to shrug. They didn't measure the "other" projects, but I would bet there's also a significant % that get abandoned.
Smartphone app stores should be paying 30% of it for their complicity.