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kkolakowski

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iOS & games developer, solo army of oneminutegames@gamedev.place 🙂

Also interested in retro computing and various other tech stuff 🤓

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dimillian, to random
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Mackup is such a lifesaver when switching Mac. I just install the apps I want and the preferences are already there. It took me under an hour to have the computer exactly as I wanted.

https://github.com/lra/mackup

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian But... why not just use built-in migration tools? They’ve always worked for me, and switching to the new Mac was basically a matter of waiting ~1h to move everything from the old one to the new one, and then I basically have everything: settings, apps, docs, files on the new Mac. Like magic 🪄

Including apps settings 🤔 Maybe with those rare cases where some login is needed.

craiggrannell, to television
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app devs/fans: I’m very shortly writing up a piece on Apple TV apps. The aim is to go beyond broadcaster apps and see what other great apps exist for Apple TV, and that are particularly suited to the platform. This doesn’t have to be new apps – any age will do (as long as they’re maintained). One caveat: this is for a consumer readership.

Any thoughts, let me know.

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell With recent Apple opening to games streaming apps - I think AppleTV might be quite appealing for this purpose!

But right now... we used yoga apps once, and I think fitness is more or less sensible niche on this platform.

Can't think of anything else, even games as it's constantly underpowered and basically forgotten right now.

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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When Apple remembers to make new iPads again (any day now.), one thing I'd really like to see is an end to the baby apps. I don't want a stripped-down, half-assed 'iPad experience’ for anything. It's been fourteen years and I'm so over it. Give me real desktop-class apps across iPadOS and visionOS, feature for feature, that can scale all the way up to power a 5K External Display or spatial computing workstation.

A reorderable toolbar doesn't make for a 'desktop-class app’.

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell @stroughtonsmith We now have to add „and a spatial computer" to this list 😉

kkolakowski, to SwiftUI
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There's something iffy with (all? most?) native apps on

In theory - they look ok, controls are native, but "something" feels wrong wih them: they're usually slow, with some weird margins and behaviors sometimes, with choppy scrolling, etc.

☹️

simonbs, (edited ) to random
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Would you pay $5-$10 per app per year to be automatically notified when your app is featured on the App Store?

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs I think that's also because there're services already that are doing that + much more, and not that more expensive, for example: https://appfigures.com/

At least, that was mine reason to vote "No" 🤔

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs Ok, I misunderstood the price as $5/month - per year is of course more sensible.

Simplicity is good on the one hand, but it never can be be too simple.

Maybe an app that:

  • displays ranks & feature lists for all apps by default, allows you to add your apps to quickly poke at their rank position
  • allows (paid) subscription to add monitoring of your own apps and notifications about featuring (+ maybe more things? like rank up/down?)
  • maybe a bit more? 🤔
christianselig, to random
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Can a SwiftUI pro help me out? I have a Menu on screen that seems to be updating even though an unrelated variable is the one updating 🤔 I think I'm doing something silly

Gist: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/32bd8742500a7ed9f35f78406a89c16e

kkolakowski,
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@christianselig Oh yes, yet another "magic" solution out of nowhere to SwiftUI issue 😅

christianselig, to random
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Anyone else finding Bluetooth pretty rough in Sonoma? My AirPods get really crackly (only on my Sonoma Mac) and I end up runnning sudo pkill bluetoothd multiple times daily

kkolakowski,
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@christianselig Isn't that basically the story of every macOS release ever? 😅 I literally never encountered a release without Bluetooth issues.

Truth though that Sonoma seems to have more of those issues.

It's better than other desktop platforms anyway though 🤷‍♂️

chockenberry, to random
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Remember when I said you wouldn’t be able to test your web products on alternate browsers in Europe?

Well guess what? You can’t see this Apple bug/feature outside of Europe either.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/08/ios-17-4-nerfs-web-apps-in-the-eu/

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell @chockenberry Firs of all, it's a vengeance pointed to the users, even if I'm not a massive PWA user, nor even a web apps advocate - I still use few of them, for example a niche local transport authority web-app to check location of vehicles and delays in real time 🤷‍♂️

macrumors, to random
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iOS 17.4 Nerfs Web Apps in the EU https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/08/ios-17-4-nerfs-web-apps-in-the-eu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

kkolakowski,
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@macrumors If that would make into the final release... this could be a ridiculous and stupid "vengance" not on EU, but on users 🤷‍♂️

Pride comes before a fall...

macrumors, to random
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Apple Officially Splits iTunes for Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/07/apple-splits-itunes-for-windows/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

kkolakowski,
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@macrumors Huh, are those a native WinRT apps? 🤔

stroughtonsmith, to random
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There's a convergence point for AR and AI: glasses. That's why I think AI devices intended to replace your phone are a dead end; Apple, and its peers, may not get there first, but they will get there with their entire ecosystems in tow. Glasses make the most sense of all the form factors because they're socially acceptable, see what you see, and you don't have to give up another device to slot them into your life. Whether you think AVP is dumb or not, it is a very clear preview of the final form

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith I can see relation of Vision Pro to such glasses similar as iOS is to watchOS - a "bigger" brother, trimmed down to smaller device.

I can imagine such 1st gen, glasses focused only on hi-end AR displays and sensors. They might even be wired to smartphone, maybe even getting power out of it (or having some kind of small battery on its cable, like some headphones). And then, iPhone would run "visionOS" with glasses basically a display. Much more feasible with current tech 🤔

dimillian, to random
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I don't really get the point of some doomsayers showing photos of people walking the street with the Vision Pro asking if this is the future we want. Bruh, it’s just the Gen 1, and yes, it’s a very probable evolution of our current technologies. Tech has always augmented our lives, and the current smartphone form factor is definitely not its final form. 10 years from now I can totally see light AR glasses to be the only piece of technology we’ll wear and need. It’ll probably be unnoticeable.

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian Can't really agree with this vision 🤔

Smartphones are "invisible" - glasses, no matter how small, will be incredibly invasive. For me it would be a natural upgrade, but for many people, wearing an intrusive device on your nose for all day would be a no go.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Vision Pro is a ticking timer, a doomsday clock for the rest of the industry; if Apple can take visionOS, and all this technology, and put it in glasses, it will change the world and daily life as we know it

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith I think the only way to reliably do that, would be to wirelessly stream content from the phone (or some other device?) in the pocket - leaving for the glasses "just" display, sensors and cameras. Something like CarPlay but for glasses 😅

Still - I think it's not possible to do nicely with the current tech 🤔

christianselig, to random
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Dying to know the capacity of the Apple Vision Pro battery. In MKBHD's video he lists 3166 mAh on the back. I'm really curious what the Volts are, because if it's ~4V like the iPad that would be very small (12 Wh) so I doubt it

For reference the 12.9” iPad has a ~ 10000 mAh battery at 4V for a total of 40 Wh, so if the Vision Pro battery is around that, that would put it at 12V or so. That would be awesome because you could then triple your battery life with a normal 100 Wh external battery

kkolakowski,
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@christianselig Thinking logically - Vision Pro probably consumes more power than MacBook Air. That seems logical: "bigger" screen, an R1 coprocessor with unknown TDP, full M2 and entirety of a computer.

So I would guess that battery would have more or less parameters of a laptop battery at 11-12V

dimillian, to random
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Now it’ll be interesting because we’ll know who is interested in such changes.

I can name two: Spotify and Epic. And that’s about it.

From: @stroughtonsmith
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/111839643217437089

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian Oh, I can name more if they will feel they could make a profit:

  • Netflix: they already have games in their offer, why not to curate them in their own store? (especially that they will be able to do both: you can publish your app on both Apple AppStore and other stores, even the same binary!)

  • Valve: Steam mobile games store? Could be viable even with CPF if there'll be only paid games

I bet there're more…

dimillian, to random
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Here is the link if you want to try Arc Search on iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arc-search-modern-ai-browser/id6472513080

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian I would love to use Arc full time, but lack of iPad version (desktop browser) prevents me from that 😔

For iPhone I could definitely live with this kind of approach 🤔 But I would need access to my "tabs-bookmarks" from the main app as well. As well as history sync.

Right now I can't even disable those excessive haptics 😅😅

Migueldeicaza, to random
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I am a
⚪️ woman
⚪️ man
🔘 passenger

looking for
⚪️ women
⚪️ men
🔘 any flights on airplanes not produced by Boeing

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boeing-passenger-jet-nose-wheel-fell-off-takeoff-rcna135410

kkolakowski,
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@Migueldeicaza You must move back to Europe I guess 😅 Most planes here are Airbuses I think 🤔 At least on short distances - so I guess you would have to take a ship first to get here 😉

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Real bad feels for the HoloLens folks; here Apple comes, with basically the same product, eight years later, but that instantly demonstrates fairly strong developer adoption and looks like it will be a vibrant, supported ecosystem, and virtually nobody even brings Microsoft's headset up in the discourse — not in price comparisons (same price!), weight comparisons (same weight!), OS comparisons (same app model, interaction model!), nothing. Nobody remembers, nobody knows you're still on sale 🥲

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith A difference in "believe" from the parent company I think? 🤔

stroughtonsmith, to random
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With Apple's proposal to comply with EU's DMA fast approaching, I should lay down what kind of solution I’d be happy with:

• Apple should be able to charge devs a one-time fee to develop apps outside the App Store ($500–$1500 wouldn't be crazy)
• Apple should maintain control over the signing/entitlement system, keeping iOS secure and allowing malicious apps to be revoked
• Apple should never take a cut of sales outside its Store
• An expensive ($xxM?) ‘alternative app store' permit is fine

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith I would simply like to be able to sideload apps just like I can do that with enterprise provisioning 🤷‍♂️

  • No extra fees beside dev account as I won't be using AppStore and any other Apple services (like push notifications)

  • Of course signing (and notarization?) required, Apple can still revoke certificates (like with Enterprise signing)

  • Obviously no review and moderation of the content: signing & notarization fully automated

  • Not enabled by default on devices

icanzilb, to random
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Wow, those side projects costs add up ... I ought to cancel a bunch of domains before I end up spending 500$ / year on domains for a dozen apps with total audience of 8 🥴

kkolakowski,
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@icanzilb Maybe consider putting thise smaller tools under the one domain? 🤔

Migueldeicaza, to random
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Nobody likes the 30% AppStore fee, but it has never been a credit card processing cost.

It has always been a marketplace access fee.

That’s the principle of building malls and other commercial public spaces: they invest to create a space for people to flock into and advertise and maintain it.

That’s what you are paying for.

kkolakowski,
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@Migueldeicaza I'm definitely fine paying that fee. But I also would like a possibility to NOT use the fancy mall access if I don't want to, and sell my stuff privately in the alley nearby 😉

Sadly without sideloading it's not possible 🤷‍♂️ You need to use the mall and obey to all the rules, which sometimes are arbitrary.

kkolakowski,
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@Migueldeicaza @BartWronski Yes, but this is one big hack basically (with great kudos to @rileytestut to actually did it!) - why I can't just copy an .ipa - let it be signed, notarized, disallowed from using Apple services like push notifications.

stroughtonsmith, to apple
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Also have you seen Game Room? This looks like a winner

/via https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1642897935

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kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith For any kind of VR/AR headset - a ping-pong game will be a winner and system seller 😉

dosnostalgic, to random
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It has happened. A grown ass adult Mac user told me they had no idea how to "make a folder". Damn. Phones ruined people.

kkolakowski,
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@dosnostalgic There's much more to this... Many people are not even using computers other than smartphones. No surprise they have no idea what "folder" is.

And even if they have computers, they use them more like a bigger phone: concepts of files & folders is quite complex for them. It's very interesting...

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