Let's see how this ages: The first Apple device that bridges the artificial gap between iPadOS and macOS will be called "iPad Studio" and use a hybrid operating system that behaves lika tablet and runs mainly iPadOS apps when no keyboard with trackpad is present and runs macOS apps when a keyboard with trackpad is attached.
Tip of the day: There are many times we have to deal with documents that aren’t in our native language and in those cases, a translator becomes invaluable. For this, Apple provides a built-in translation you may not know or think about sometimes. Here is a short introduction. #ios#macos#tipofthedayhttps://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230124-translation
“To use for await item in streamOfItems {...}, you need an AsyncStream. It is very common that you already have an existing Combine publisher, and you want to use the nice Swift Concurrency syntax.”
Apple AirDrop has gotten much less reliable in the last year. It used to always work like magic. Now, it seems to fail half of the time on transfers between me and friends and between my own devices.
Also, the bump mega vibration screen ripple thing sends a contact card instead of the thing someone is trying to share often enough to never use it.
The only fix is both sides doing an airplane mode toggle. Annoying. Not magic.
Can someone at #Microsoft be kind enough to remind us again of the reason why, in #macOS, when you quit and relaunch #Word, it refuses to remember which documents were opened and to reopen them automatically, even though the “Close windows when quitting an application” option is NOT enabled in System Settings?
Bit of an odd one, but can any other #macOS#Safari users confirm the following behaviour?
If you pin a tab in a regular personal tab group, the tab will shrink to a small square, but if you pin a tab in a named tab group it’ll stay the same size as the others.
If this is expected behaviour, why?
I’ve tried with a Personal and a Work window, and it happens across both.
The new iPads are once again mind-blowingly amazing hardware showcases, hamstrung by software and an extractive App Store gatekeeper that limits what users can effectively do.
There is now such a large overlap of prices between iPad and MacBooks that we’ll probably never see a touchscreen Mac, because it would be a superior choice over iPad in most cases.
What I want, really, is macOS running on desktop, laptop, and tablet form factors, with a relatively open software environment not solely owned by the App Store.
I think Microsoft actually got it right with Windows 11 (minus the #enshittification ads). If only they pushed more strongly on the Surface lineup…
Heads-up, #iOS/ #macOS devs: if you get failed builds due to a "Command CompileAssetCatalog failed with a nonzero exit code” error in #Xcode 15.3, it's probably one of the SVGs in your asset catalog. The SVG likely uses <feGaussianBlur/>, making Xcode throw a tantrum
The new version of EasyJoin for macOS is ready to go - v4.0
The new native version based on SwiftUI is out of beta testing and ready to replace the previous version....