Notices by Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura you can do that with Shortcuts, and you can put an icon on the home screen to trigger it. That is kinda what Stage Manager is for too, but I wouldn't use that

The glass material introduced with Liquid Glass may be over the top in this seed, but it is remarkable that it can still render smoothly at 120fps on a seven year old iPad Pro even with the lensing effect

(Not reflected in video capture, of course)

#wwdc25

I know creators are going to get carried away over the summer, so I'll say this. iPadOS 26 elevates iPad into a new category of power & flexibility. It's great. But it's still an iPad — you don't get real versions of Photoshop, Blender, Xcode, Terminal, etc. Apps cannot make major use of multiwindowing any more than before. You cannot download an IDE and build apps on-device to install locally. You cannot even use virtual machines to have a real OS on tap. Temper those expectations somewhat

It looks like Apple *nailed* the API for its on-device LLM. It looks easy, powerful, and flexible. Virtually every app is going to want to add this stuff this year

"The first 12 or so years that I was writing Mac OS X apps, it was always exciting to anticipate what new features or frameworks would be announced and how I could leverage them to improve my apps. The last 12 or so years, Apple has given speeches about how much they love developers and then gone on to make changes that felt like they were meant to kill my apps, make them harder to use and harder for customers to discover, and drown us all in rising sea of bugs."
https://mastodon.social/@mjtsai/114643869152468626

‘Between iOS 18 and iOS 26, Apple was unable to ship its announced Apple Intelligence features’ hits different

Hate to break it to you, but the OS version numbers will probably stay the same in the APIs even if the marketing names change, or else everything might break in weird ways 😅 So we’ll likely still have to keep track of versioning per platform

We take it completely for granted these days, but Duolingo is kinda awesome isn’t it? There’s a reason everybody uses it. Since I’m in Brazil for a few weeks I figured I’d learn some Portuguese, and for the hell of it I checked up on the French I haven’t spoken in 20 years. Neat how it can evaluate where to put you when you drop in from nothing. I wish I had the brain space to put languages into

If anything, the last few years have taught us so much about Apple and the people who lead it. The company cannot be trusted

They've lied, they've cheated, they've bullied, strongarmed, and mislead, they've lobbied and bribed authoritarian leaders for support, they've faked 'independent reviews', they've intentionally degraded their products and their product user experience, they've broken laws and spurned lawmakers, shook down developers, and they will continue to do all of these things

If I haven't been talking about app development for a while, there's a reason for that: a very close family member has recently been diagnosed with late-stage Lewy body dementia, and things are rough and snowballing fast. We've been completely blindsided by the speed and severity. I have very little energy left over to think about Xcode, but if there are sweeping OS redesigns announced at WWDC I will do my best to handle them. Other than that, my app update schedule will be quiet for a while ✌️

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura nobody wants to wear a pin, especially with the train wreck that Siri is

You know, I'm not sure the world needs a specific day where everybody lies to each other

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura are you scraping computers out of the dumpster??

A delaminating screen is going to frost over as it gets worse

@WarnerCrocker @mikecane @doctorlaura he's an ‘arbitrary excuses’ kind of guy. There will always be some invented reason he’s only window shopping 😜

@gruber @thomholwerda there are features *every year* that Apple doesn't launch in the EU. It's been 20 years and I don't have TV Shows in iTunes. They just fooled the eager tech press into believing *this* round of half-finished, delayed features was somehow the EU's fault, and not because multiple divisions at Apple are in now crisis mode because of a decade of bad decisions

ChatGPT didn't need access to all your local or sensitive data to be incredibly useful. It didn't need to be wired into every corner of the OS or outside of the sandbox. It didn't need special privileges or entitlements given to only it. It didn't need the biggest and most powerful Apple chips, or the latest OS to run on.

Apple has lost itself completely in the weeds, when a Siri app and API that works just like ChatGPT’s would have done 90% of what anybody is actually looking for

⚓️ Realistically, this AI race is a giant ship anchor Apple has willingly strapped to its own neck, that will mire it dreadfully. A game they can’t ever win, and a distraction that is eating up all the OS engineering energy that some of their product lines desperately need. It has added literally nothing of value to this year's OS releases.

Apple needed to do two things: make Siri not suck, and provide an LLM through API so that devs could make their own features and choices. It did neither

There's a new budget phone from the company whose CEO funded a venue where one dude pledged to eradicate trans people and another dude did some nazi salutes, and that's about as much coverage as it deserves

Apple, fuck right off. *You* decided notarization would be an approval process, and you inserted yourself in it, which means yes *you approved this app*.

Much like you didn't approve a bunch of other apps, like emulators.

Shame on Apple-affiliated sites for regurgitating this crap, once again. You're knowingly and willingly lying to your readers on behalf of a company that would happily eat you for breakfast

https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/03/apple-forced-to-approve-porn-app-on-eu-iphones-due-to-dma/

Your favorite big tech CEO (pick one) just sat on stage behind and in support of somebody who defined trans people out of existence, side by side with some motherfucker who later did nazi salutes from behind the seal of the POTUS.

There is no going back from that