This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie. Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all? Oh wait, that’s already what happens. Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder. They truly have no standards anymore.

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The tab bar is comically unreadable.

I already have as many users on iOS 26 as I do on iOS 17. Developer beta 1. 🤣

We've known for decades that translucency in UIs looks really cool, but is extremely difficult to design in a way that works with arbitrary content across versatile situations. With the glass-redesign rumors, many of us thought, “If anyone can do it, it's Apple! They must've finally solved it." They haven’t. It still looks cool in some contexts, and utterly fails in others.

First swear word in Apple's official documentation?

Apple Developer Documentation

SpeechTranscriber.TranscriptionOption.etiquetteReplacements | Apple Developer Documentation

Replaces certain words and phrases with a redacted form.

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shit, I'm screwed

This looks awesome as long as you don't need to read any of the text in the glass blobs with stuff behind them

Not new (2023), but this exemplifies Apple’s culture of arrogance and entitlement. By their logic, the local electric company “facilitates” a large portion of my Apple-device use. They should claim that they created the platform that lets Apple devices exist, and demand a third of their revenue. What about my ISP? Cellular provider? Router manufacturer? The wires in my walls? The pizza place down the street, for fueling my body as I type? Institutional delusion. From:

TechCrunch

Appfigures: Apple made over $10B from US App Store commissions last year | TechCrunch

Apple made over $10 billion from U.S. App Store commissions last year, according to an Appfigures report.

There is no “safety in numbers” with Apple’s IAP demands — at least not until you're the size of Uber/Meta. The entire market of podcast apps outside of Apple/Spotify is peanuts to Apple. They’d crush us all without a second thought if they thought we weren't giving them every cent they *deserve* (in their view) for graciously enabling our businesses to exist (in their view) that provide zero value to their platform beyond fees we pay (in their view). Tim Cook is great https://bne.social/@james/114345835921533046