My thanks to DetailsPro for sponsoring last week at DF. DetailsPro brings SwiftUI to designers working on Apple platforms. (What a perfect week for a developer/designer tool to sponsor DF.) Without writing a line of code, you can bring your next idea to life in SwiftUI right from your iPhone. Design apps for the iPhone, on your iPhone. Or use it on...

Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter: Pixar’s tentpole earned a massive $62 million on Friday, well ahead of expectations and putting the movie on course to open in the $140 million to $150 million range domestically over Father’s Day weekend, one of the top three starts ever for an animated film and the second-best for Pixar....

Kyodo News: Japan’s parliament enacted Wednesday a law to promote competition in smartphone app stores by restricting tech giants Apple Inc. and Google LLC from limiting third-party companies from selling and operating apps on their platforms. The law will prohibit the providers of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone operating...

Ken Kocienda, who was Humane’s head of product engineering, has left the company. his Twitter bio and LinkedIn profile both state “working on something new”: Working on something new. Past: Humane, 15 years at , inventor of iPhone autocorrect, author of “Creative Selection” Kocienda’s book Creative Selection is one of the best insider...

This listing for a vintage Samsung VR400G VHS VCR doesn’t state what year it came out, but it’s a pretty safe bet it was after May 6, 1998.  ★ 

Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024. 3D video with spatial audio: Exclusively in Sandwich Vision’s Theater app on Vision Pro, available on the App Store....