Apple has expanded its Self Service Repair program to include the MacBook Pro and iMac models powered by its M3 processor. That means users with the company’s latest Mac hardware can now access the tools, parts, and repair manuals they need to fix their devices from Apple’s self-repair website.
Ahead of iOS 17.4 being released in March, MacPaw has announced its plans to offer an alternative app marketplace in the EU. According to the company, it will launch a beta version of Setapp Mobile in the EU in April.
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On the Mac, Setapp is a popular app subscription platform that gives users access to dozens of third-party apps for one $9.99 per month subscription. The new changes in iOS 17.4 mean that Setapp can offer a very similar experience on iPhone.
The app allows you to build status bars, which are narrow, horizontal windows reminiscent of the Mac’s menu bar that you can place around your environment. Status bars come in three text sizes and can have no background, be translucent, or use a colored background.
Luna The Shadow Dust is an animated point and click puzzle adventure game that delivers a magical gameplay experience as you navigate a young boy and his companion through an enchanted world as they have to solve puzzles.
Apple TV+ has greenlit the new science fiction series Neuromancer, a 10-episode drama based on William Gibson’s debut novel of the same name. A co-production between Skydance Television and Anonymous Content, Neuromancer will also be produced by Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment.
But as much as tech is interesting for its own sake, as much as it’s made our current lives possible, it’s people who are actually interesting. And limitations. You meet people at a slow, local coffee shop or a conference in a way you never would in an airport or mall. We love an open-world game, the freedom to do anything, but maybe we need the boundaries of a path to guide us, a bit.
If you build a web site, remember you are not building for a particular browser or even a particular operating system. And by nature being a web site -- no matter what your web site is doing and how your web site looks like -- you have to remember you are on the web platform. That means your customers should be able to visit your web site from any browser from any device -- perhaps with a login -- and continue using your web site. Graceful degradation is a key philosophy of the web.
So, if your customer deletes your little home screen icon on a particular operating system, and instead visits your web site via a 'traditional' web browser, and your customer loses data -- the problem is with you the web site, not the customer, not the web browser company, and not the operating system company.
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Just like a Windows app should not pretend to be a Mac app (I'm looking at you, iTunes), a web app should not pretend to be anything but a web app.
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