February 2018

@marcoarment So, in a way, Apple is incentivizing indirect and less privacy friendly methods of app payment such as ads.

1:43 PM, Feb 28th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to marcoarment

@zcichy No doubt true for many. But Apple also did excellent work in the late 80s and early 90s without Steve, and… https://t.co/KTiPnmpM4b

1:39 PM, Feb 28th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@leebennett Looks like I made that change in July 2014. Glad you like it.

10:45 AM, Feb 28th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to leebennett

@leebennett No, haven’t touched it in a long time.

8:59 AM, Feb 28th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to leebennett

@OhMDee Yup, that’s exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks for the link.

3:52 PM, Feb 27th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to OhMDee

@ericyoung_1 @reneritchie @gruber @nickheer That makes sense in the U.S. But what happens when there’s an inevitabl… https://t.co/KN2ZKrqrV2

7:57 AM, Feb 27th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nickheer @reneritchie Even if they were stored in Canada, presumably the U.S. could compel Apple to edit the accou… https://t.co/BCuXVbw3wJ

1:00 AM, Feb 27th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nickheer @reneritchie Separately, the idea of different jurisdictions seems murky because even if there were count… https://t.co/PvLmKltLNO

12:36 AM, Feb 27th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nickheer @reneritchie I get that, but Rene seems to be saying that there’s no news here because Apple must obey lo… https://t.co/us1KnzGCGW

12:33 AM, Feb 27th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nickheer @reneritchie Having trouble following this line of thought unless you’re saying that you think the U.S. i… https://t.co/0Vp1eegVN0

11:33 PM, Feb 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OhMDee Sorry, saw it but slipped through the cracks. Will add tomorrow.

10:57 PM, Feb 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to OhMDee

@jgordonshare https://t.co/W2g6TF6sCs

9:58 AM, Feb 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@DSHowell Had a lot of reliability problems with ours, and the coverage was never great. Wi-Fi calling works much better.

9:52 AM, Feb 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to DSHowell

@jemostrom Yeah, no shortcuts for Desktop 3 work, even when enabled.

3:10 PM, Feb 25th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@iljawascoding It’s definitely in 4.0. Maybe earlier.

9:34 AM, Feb 24th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to iljawascoding

@iljawascoding Possibly a candidate to use the new Data.subscript(bounds: Range) that avoids copies?

8:51 PM, Feb 23rd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to iljawascoding

@bob_burrough @OhMDee Do you mean spinning off the major product lines that already exist or for the creation of new “hobby” products?

8:35 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bob_burrough

@OhMDee @bob_burrough Also, it’s not just a matter of finding a customer advocate with good taste. Steve had a uniq… https://t.co/j0cYPSyYWS

8:31 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@bob_burrough @lapcatsoftware Do you search the Twitter site or have some sort of local archive?

8:24 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bob_burrough

@OhMDee @bob_burrough Agreed, but how do they get one? There doesn’t seem to be an obvious internal candidate. Is t… https://t.co/UFuqjXrFDv

8:22 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@lapcatsoftware @bob_burrough I wonder what the Apple University curriculum had to say about the linchpin.

8:20 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@bob_burrough What should Apple do to try to fill that gap?

8:06 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bob_burrough

@MuellerSimhofer @steipete And Messages effects on the Mac are waiting for Marzipan…

8:02 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@eli_schiff Makes me think of our local hospital, under fire for getting big and corporate, long waits for appointm… https://t.co/vbd7ocqh8H

4:57 PM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@erikjohansson I don’t know. The warning said something like it was dangerously low. I took that to mean less than… https://t.co/6CN7t9jBud

9:34 AM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@LashaKrikheli @steipete Hmm. Always been like this for me with both iMacs and Magic Mouses that I’ve used.

9:24 AM, Feb 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to LashaKrikheli

@meghafon Dylan was really cool. I posted a bit about it here https://t.co/JjWfTBRBSw and here… https://t.co/pUX7mHbsxI

9:40 PM, Feb 21st, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@NSExceptional Won’t we run out, anyway, since most wouldn’t be reused, anyway?

7:40 PM, Feb 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NSExceptional

@nickheer Yeah. It’s confusing with several different comparisons at once. And I’m still not 100% clear on the scra… https://t.co/icPV1vGxUh

9:43 AM, Feb 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nickheer @siracusa In searching about this just now, I also came across claims that the iPhone 6 and 7 *also* used… https://t.co/coWvLgtYb2

9:32 AM, Feb 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nickheer @siracusa I thought his point was that Apple hasn’t talked about iPhone X being more scratchable, but the… https://t.co/opTQ1TXdc3

9:31 AM, Feb 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nickheer @siracusa Thanks for finding the timestamp. Sounds to me like @siracusa was not confused and was referrin… https://t.co/TKBqRHkhwQ

9:22 AM, Feb 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@mattbirchler @zcichy @nicklockwood @jeffinitelyjeff Yeah, would be good to compare. Part of the difference I recal… https://t.co/ic0OH8faYA

7:40 AM, Feb 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@zcichy @nicklockwood @jeffinitelyjeff Well, certainly the problems with services predate the privacy talking point… https://t.co/9BxtCbcGkk

8:13 PM, Feb 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@tedtodorov @marcoarment Personally, I don’t even mind the dongle. It’s actually an improvement because I only have… https://t.co/hCGdvzfZz1

7:31 PM, Feb 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@jcscaliger I have AirPods. But directly plugging into my car’s line-in is much better than dealing with a Bluetooth adapter for it.

4:35 PM, Feb 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jcscaliger

@adriel @marcoarment Yeah, even assuming a good dongle exists, which I don’t think is true in all of the categories… https://t.co/oKEZcjD5iZ

2:17 PM, Feb 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@olebegemann @zkrige @brentdax At the time I wrote this, it had to be escaping, but looks like that’s fixed now in… https://t.co/UfEgO1CqQN

10:04 AM, Feb 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@zkrige @olebegemann func sync<T>(_ block: @escaping (MJTManagedObjectContext) throws -> T) throws -> T {
var r… https://t.co/X0NagxbN60

9:34 AM, Feb 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@olebegemann I don’t know. I wrapped it to handle return values and errors.

9:20 AM, Feb 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to olebegemann

@jjlin So is the lesson here that App Review is inconsistent (again)? Or that if you’re Omni you can get pre-approved?

9:02 AM, Feb 18th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jjlin

@invalidname Except that they do comment in cases where there’s damaging misinformation.

9:56 PM, Feb 17th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to invalidname

@invalidname I would like the believe that, but then where did the rumor come from, and why didn’t Apple squash it?

9:16 PM, Feb 17th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to invalidname

@andymallins @mdrockwell More complicated than that because The Wirecutter reported that, on the same surfaces, Hom… https://t.co/r8VHyVrir5

3:16 PM, Feb 16th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@handcoding Yeah, this does seem like a bug that could have been caught through black box testing. And I guess this… https://t.co/gunUcCzd6v

4:41 PM, Feb 15th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@jgordonshare Of course I had to initiate the APFS conversion from diskutil in Terminal because Disk Utility kept erroring out.

10:36 PM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@EggFreckles Reminds me of this guy who took notes in 10-250 with a Palm Pilot in a dock attached to a Newton keyboard.

10:35 PM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to EggFreckles

@EggFreckles Yeah, I guess it knows the blocks aren’t in use yet, and they’re also available for the other volume i… https://t.co/PLpEDUKu1K

10:32 PM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@ClarkGoble I don’t know. The speed hit doesn’t seem to be bad enough that I notice it for backups.

10:22 PM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to ClarkGoble

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble Perhaps it’s more like medicine where there’s a range of reactions to a n… https://t.co/UBiTdQLzh8

1:23 PM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble Yes, tricky. So best not to make blanket claims. But I do think there is… https://t.co/Yl85cvZp0r

1:16 PM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble Agreed, people shouldn’t assume they are representative. But logically, I… https://t.co/lspADhdUD6

11:13 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble I’ll agree with “can be argued to support.” But we all know there are man… https://t.co/hMDQPvyJrG

11:03 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble The denominator is only relevant if you are looking on the Internet at li… https://t.co/6JQmZTaK8Z

10:42 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble It’s not even a falsifiable claim because he doesn’t accept user experien… https://t.co/glRpYrCVFw

10:40 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble I acknowledge that more users means more bugs revealed. But just knowing… https://t.co/s4de6DtgJy

10:36 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble At points he seems to be talking about big bugs like crashes and data los… https://t.co/9fbbxBMVE7

9:14 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble In fact, he almost seems to be implying that his products, which people t… https://t.co/LnAB9rTVom

9:12 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare @ClarkGoble The only reason what he said is interesting is because of his former job.… https://t.co/mZFHx2jjcj

9:07 AM, Feb 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@mdrockwell Volume.

4:18 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to mdrockwell

@NSExceptional Yeah, unless I say otherwise I’m implicitly thinking/talking about the Mac side. I’m not as familiar… https://t.co/V8B0Ct2YBI

3:55 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@NSExceptional Of course, this was also around the time when Steve died and Bertrand left, so there were lots of other changes, too.

3:52 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mjtsai

@NSExceptional In my view, the decline started pretty much with the switch to the annual cycle, but it took a while… https://t.co/SO4okfKk5u

3:48 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@chrisltd @zcichy I don’t see that as what he was arguing. He actually said that quality is better now than it’s ever been.

3:42 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to chrisltd

@NSExceptional In another tweet, which I didn't quote, he called for Craig to be fired: https://t.co/Pt5WhJ9hlb

2:47 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@NSExceptional I see that tweet as taking for granted that things are bad now and arguing that the proposed fix is… https://t.co/0vcsVwpD8h

2:46 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@NSExceptional Interesting that we have such different perceptions. It never would have occurred to me to label him… https://t.co/CIHXCgc2p9

2:20 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@NSExceptional I don’t recall him making any excuses for Rogue Amoeba, nor am I aware of anything at that company that’s getting worse.

2:03 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NSExceptional

@NSExceptional Thanks. (But surely you don’t mean Jeff, who’s an indie looking for a job.)

1:54 PM, Feb 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NSExceptional

@brentsimmons Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that I don’t think it’s that they hate sets, but that this… https://t.co/wOBgJjMK7z

8:38 PM, Feb 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@brentsimmons Sorry, you’re right. To use the protocol in a set it has to be Hashable, and that adds a Self requirement.

8:35 PM, Feb 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to brentsimmons

@brentsimmons My understanding is that plain protocols work in all of these places (arrays, sets, dictionary keys/v… https://t.co/hjfEwFqRca

8:24 PM, Feb 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@brentsimmons Sets are great. I think protocol limitation you’re referring to also applies to arrays and dictionaries.

8:05 PM, Feb 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to brentsimmons

@OhMDee @agilethumbs @apple_observer I wonder if that’s just iOS 11. I get app freezes all the time on me SE now.

8:02 PM, Feb 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@MarkkClifford That’s not possible for iOS apps.

7:58 PM, Feb 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to MarkkClifford

@cocoadog Yeah, I’ve long wondered why tweets don’t have next/previous links or something…

8:04 PM, Feb 8th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to cocoadog

@jsnell That was a good book.

11:17 AM, Feb 8th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jsnell

@nubero It’s not slow for me to launch. You should probably contact their support.

5:27 PM, Feb 6th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nubero

@nubero If it was the only 32-bit app you had, the system would have to load all the 32-bit versions of the frameworks.

5:15 PM, Feb 6th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nubero

@Jonnebob @chartier @mdrockwell That would be great if it works (and when it gets out of beta).

5:14 PM, Feb 6th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@bbedit Congrats!

1:34 PM, Feb 6th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bbedit

@chartier @mdrockwell That assumes that AirPlay works reliably: https://t.co/QglNXmIirU

1:33 PM, Feb 6th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@steipete How do you manage to get credits? They used to credit me when they couldn’t help, but not recently.

9:45 AM, Feb 6th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to steipete

@McCloudStrife :( Not my area. I assumed it was accurate since Gus recommended.

9:50 PM, Feb 1st, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to McCloudStrife