“We’re always inspired by the talent and perspective young developers bring to the Swift Student Challenge,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “This year’s winners show exceptional skill in transforming meaningful ideas into app playgrounds that are innovative, impactful, and thoughtfully built — and we’re excited to support their journey as they continue building apps that will help shape the future.”
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Many of this year’s winners took inspiration from their local communities, creating powerful tools that are designed to make an impact on a global scale. Below, Distinguished Winners Taiki Hamamoto, Marina Lee, Luciana Ortiz Nolasco, and Nahom Worku delve into their app playgrounds and the real-world problems they’re aiming to solve, demonstrating the power of coding to drive lasting change.
Apple executives contend that the firm made a series of proposals to Brussels over the course of 2024 but was met with silence as to whether those proposals would put them on the right side of the law, according to correspondence seen by POLITICO.
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Apple’s appeal potentially sets up a court fight in Luxembourg that should clarify what exact responsibilities the Commission has to engage in dialogue with firms under the DMA, said Kay Jebelli, a legal adviser to the Chamber of Progress, which is partly funded by Apple.
Apple is at its best when it is focused on building great products that serve its customers well. I am a two-fold Apple customer. I buy many of their consumer products and services and enjoy using them in my personal life. I also own a business that is an Apple customer, which has paid Apple a huge amount in the last 17 years for the developer services it has sold me. I don’t begrudge them those fees at all, they have provided the basis and means of my building a business I’m proud of, and I am genuinely grateful to Apple for that.
Where I see Apple’s biggest mistake in their current line of thinking is that while I pay Apple huge sums of money each month, they don’t view me as a customer to be served. They don’t seem to see the benefit of making my experience and offerings better and better. They aren’t trying to win me over by being excellent; they are assuming my loyalty through strong-arm tactics and intransigence.
"The Studio," Seth Rogen's new Apple TV+ comedy, is stuffed with cameo appearances from real famous people playing themselves. But one guest star is more surprising than the others: Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Apple TV+'s streaming rival, Netflix.
Apparently, Apple had some notes on that casting, but Rogen didn't take them.
What’s funny is I was at the actual Golden Globes a few months ago, and it was after we had filmed this episode. Ted was sitting literally like seven feet away from me. And Zoe Saldaña won very early on in the evening, and as she was thanking people, she was clearly getting down the list and he hadn’t been thanked yet. And he looked back at me and gave me a look like, “Oh no, is it gonna happen?” And then like, right at the wire, she thanked him, and he gave me a look of immense relief.
Apple today shared a new spatial video that's designed to highlight the Vision Pro headset, demonstrating how the device can be used to make and preserve memories.
Figma is expanding its creative software ecosystem to allow product designers to complete entire projects without jumping to third-party apps. Four new products for website building, AI coding, branded marketing, and digital illustration were introduced at Figma’s Config event today, aiming to fill in any gaps holding Figma back from being an all-in-one platform that supports the entire product design lifecycle.
SwiftUI offers several approaches to building lists of content. You can use a VStack if your list consists of a bunch of elements that should be placed on top of each other. Or you can use a LazyVStack if your list is really long. And in other cases, a List might make more sense.
At 3.12pm on a sunny spring afternoon in St Albans, Yasser Afghen reaches for the iPhone in his jeans pocket, hoping to use the three minutes before his son emerges from his year 1 primary class to scroll through his emails. As he lifts the phone to his face, Matthew Tavender, the head teacher of Cunningham Hill school, strides across the playground towards him. Afghen smiles apologetically, puts his phone away, and spends the remaining waiting time listening to the birdsong in the trees behind the school yard.
A one-storey 1960s block with 14 classrooms backing on to a playing field, Cunningham Hill primary feels like an unlikely hub for a revolution. But a year ago, Tavender and the school’s executive head, Justine Elbourne-Cload, began coordinating with the heads at other primary schools across the city, then sent a joint letter to parents and carers across St Albans: the highly addictive nature of smartphones was having a lasting effect on children’s brains. The devices were robbing children of their childhood. Could parents, the letter asked, please avoid giving them smartphones until they turned 14?
I am not sure if the Apple execs asking for a Tim Cook cameo in The Studio understood what they were getting into.
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