My apologies if you're a former co-worker, old friend or distant relative finding out that I'm #transgender from this toot and you think I should have told you sooner.
But I know a LOT of people and it's simply not practical for me to have that many intimate conversations first.
So I'm telling you all now about the joy I feel. 💖
First they require in-person #returnToOffice, then they relocate business units from one location to another, and force those who can’t uproot their lives to leave.
The Apple location in #SanDiego isn’t going away. But they intentionally forced 121 people to choose between moving to #Austin, or lose their jobs. Make no mistake, this is a layoff.
Never mind the fact that #Texas is hostile to anyone with a uterus, or is not cishet—why the hell anyone would move to that state? If anything, Apple should be shutting down their Austin office, and paying for people to relocate to a state that better ensures their safety.
“Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization”
Oh and for folks wondering why #Apple is insisting that people work in #Austin#Texas: I can’t speak for their actual motivation, of course, but this much is true:
In 2018, Apple received $25M in grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund, as well as a $16M property tax abatement from Williamson County for building their new campus, contingent on Apple bringing in 4,000 new workers to Williamson County over 12 years.
I’m sure those financial considerations come into play.
Yes, #Apple will demote WebApps to bookmarks on iOS 17.4 in the EU. Yes, they claim the EU is to blame. And no, that is not true IMHO. What is right is that under the DMA (Digital Market Access) rules WebApps could become a real escape route for Apps to avoid the Apple App Store tax. So better to close that possible loophole and blame the evil EU. IMHO. Reminds me a lot of the Cookie Banner stuff. Same story. Same blame game.
Apple can rely on the tech media and social networks algorithms to blow this out of proportion with people fighting over „Apple is evil“ and „Apple is always right“ while both sides will unconsciously support the wrong „The EU is evil“ argument. And THAT is what the spindoctors want you to believe.
Ask yourself. If it really was EU regulations, why is this action from Apple limited to iOS? Why is it not announced nor implemented on MacOS and IpadOS at the same time?
I signed this, along with more than 160 Jewish leaders calling on #apple#disney#google & #amazon to stop doing business on Twitter. I encourage others to leave that platform & stop giving Musk any legitimacy by your presence. #antisemitismhttps://www.xouthate.org/
i've got an oldie iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5. this has some expired root certificates which results in several apps not working properly. Plex will load, but it won't be able to negotiate with your plex server, for instance.
since apple doesn't offer new iOS updates for it (with refreshed certificates).. it seemed like i was kinda stuck.
as it turns out, and is documented nowhere aside from a post on reddit, you can manually download your own root certificate - and iOS lets you install it without complaint.
If you scroll down a bit there's a section named "Installing a CA's Root Certificate on Your Test Device". I went through that last year when adding my own root cert to all my devices. IIRC only the Apple Configurator method worked then.
Apple is not your friend. The company that used the governments to become a monopoly, is now crying because the government told them to allow iPhone users to install applications from other sources.
We live in a world where we need government regulations to allow us to run whatever code we want on our computers.
Oh and stop calling it 'side loading'. It's just called 'installing software'. 😪
@promovicz@hukl@saili I care about my phone and since it’s not clear how optional or not this is going to be I am stating I do NOT want side loading or whatever it’s called. I didn’t want USB-C either but I got no choice now!
@bowreality@hukl@saili Why should it not be optional? Even Google took that step. My preference is for open vendor-lock - give users alternatives. All will be well in your version of the story.
If #Apple continues on this path I’m going to have to switch back to Android. The idea that they deserve a fee from developers for people simply running programs on their operating system is unhinged. The App Store fee is justified because it’s a distribution channel. But whatever this is, is nonsense.
Come test out your #visionOS app at one of our labs and check out Vision Pro for yourself. Or — if you have a really great idea and need more time with hardware to make it reality — apply for a developer kit!
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OG Macintosh team will gather today at the Computer History Museum to talk about the Mac at 40.
All star cast:
Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, Mike Murray, Chris Espinosa, Guy Kawasaki, Steven Levy, and David Pogue.
It'll be live on-line, register for a free virtual ticket here, scroll to the bottom of the page (pass it along)...
Ten years ago today #Apple launched the #iPhone 5S and announced the #arm64 CPU inside. It was the first public disclosure of a 64-bit ARM architecture, and it was available for you to buy in a phone. Nobody else was even close to having a chip ready to tape out, much less put in a product, and it was a performance monster.
For many of us it was the culmination of years of effort creating this chip and porting all of our software to it. I was working on the kernel and EL3 monitor. When we started we had no compiler, no assembler, no debugger, and really no documentation and the ISA still in flux. Someone wrote a macro-based assembler. Code gen bugs were a huge problem as clang was adding support. LLDB never caught up so someone on my team did a port of GDB.
@dougall The ISA was designed by Arm. It was commissioned by Apple to align with its microarchitecture goals. Other customers were involved in the design process. I have little insight into their contribution, but Apple was clearly doing the driving in the early years.
Double size pointers hurt us a lot. It was about 15% increase in heap usage IIRC. But TBI pointer tagging was a big perf gain for ObjC and JavaScript.
I was noticing many weird, histrionic posts from the Apple blogs about an ex-employee being convicted of a federal crime - but always smearing the employee about worrying about Apple spying on him. Many posts also called it a "short trial." I got curious.
PACER showed a 21 month long trial, across two states, with over 180 docket entries. Motions to suppress evidence exposed the FBI illegally spied on the employee, illegally searched his property, & illegally arrested him -at referral of Apple.
A federal jury has convicted a former #Apple software engineer for threatening to injure FBI agents after a short trial.👀 image of docket
The employee was attempting to report alleged misconduct by Apple & claimed he had evidence
In June 2022, FBI tracked the employee (via illegal surveillance) to Alabama, & sent a Marshal to arrest him
FBI then got an illegal search warrant for employee's Tesla where they seized "over 21 electronic devices, including laptops, smart watches, thumb drives, & external hard drives."
Despite the illegal seizure, the FBI refused to return the devices for over 15 months or say what they did with them
@flowerpot Yeah they kind of Barbara Streisand Effect'ed their own cover-up with their absolutely wild behavior on this one. Honestly I probably would have never looked into it if they didn't also get Apple blogs to shamelessly smear him over the last 48 hours. They're bad at cover-ups.