Applause (Reddit):
After years of working on Strongbox independently, Mark McGuill has made the decision to entrust the future of this exceptional product to our team at Applause.
Applause is a team of indie developers who’ve been building iOS and macOS apps since 2010.
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Our goal isn’t to change what makes Strongbox special—it’s to build on it.
Joe Rosensteel:
At least they said what was happening this time… that’s an improvement, I guess
Previously:
Update (2025-03-17): Mark McGuill:
I started working on Strongbox as my first ever iOS app a very, very long time ago (more than 10 years!). It has obviously grown far beyond my wildest expectations. What originally began as an app purely for my own use, so that I could open those old Password Safe .dat files on my iPhone, has turned into my (and many others) indispensable password manager app.
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However, ten years is a very long time, and, for me personally, it is time to move on to something different. I’ll continue to use Strongbox every day and look forward to the developments and passion the team at Applause will bring. It is hard to maintain motivation for a project for so long and recently I began to feel that Strongbox needed more attention and resources than I could ever hope to bring to it. It has orders of magnitude more users now than what it had even in the last 2 or 3 years and really requires a very dedicated team. Even someone with the most generous imagination in world would struggle to call me a great product manager. I’m a dev at heart. I’m not the right person to properly build out an enterprise like Strongbox. Our users deserve a professional, dedicated team and an enthusiastic and fresh approach.
See also: Hacker News.
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Joe Rossignol:
The upcoming iOS 18.4 update introduces an option to set a default navigation app, other than Apple Maps, but unfortunately this new setting is limited to users in the EU. There, you can now set an app like Google Maps or Waze as your default navigation app on the iPhone by opening the Settings app and tapping Apps → Default Apps → Navigation.
Apple made this change in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
This one seems kind of spiteful. I get that Apple doesn’t want to make sideloading available throughout the world just because the EU and Brazil have mandated it, but they’re going to hide the very useful maps setting in countries that don’t have a DMA?
Previously:
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Anders Hejlsberg (tweet, video, Hacker News):
To meet those goals, we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools.
The native implementation will drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10x, and substantially reduce memory usage.
By porting the current codebase, we expect to be able to preview a native implementation of tsc capable of command-line typechecking by mid-2025, with a feature-complete solution for project builds and a language service by the end of the year.
You can build and run the Go code from our new working repo, which is offered under the same license as the existing TypeScript codebase.
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Again using the Visual Studio Code codebase as a benchmark, the current time to load the entire project in the editor on a fast computer is about 9.6 seconds.
This drops down to about 1.2 seconds with the native language service, an 8x improvement in project load time in editor scenarios.
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Brandon Titus:
Instead of rejecting apps over tiny wording disputes, mentions of android, and business model disagreements could Apple PLEASE enforce 4.5.4:
“Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them”
Ole Zorn:
Apple has just rejected my beta of Pythonista Lab because they have “recently identified that the app is subject to US sanctions regulations”. No real further explanation. 🤬
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I suspect that it was this Iranian URL in the source code of the faker module that triggered it, and I’ve re-submitted without it, still waiting though…
Matthias Gansrigler:
Hey Apple AppReview, over 5 days of “In Review” for an app that has a single button that does a single thing is a bit much, wouldn’t you agree? Approve, or approve not. Kthxbye.
Previously:
Update (2025-03-19): Manton Reece:
- Wait for Apple to approve TestFlight beta.
- Wait even longer if the build is stuck “processing” for unknown reasons.
- Wait for Apple to approve final version.
- Release to customers.
Just a stark difference. ☹️
EmulationOniOS:
Yoshi and team are creating their own ROMs for review to work around Apple’s insane demands that they limit the emulator to ROMs they own the license to.
Via Craig Grannell:
There’s no way this is going to get past app review, surely?
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