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Phones are tools so why is it that whenever those tools are used in a way where money changes hands, the maker of that tool gets some of the revenue? Imagine a tool company demandi…

Yeah that's true. Microsoft really needs to push forward with a new architecture at the core of windows. Stuff like what has happened today is inevitable under the current model wh…

As far as I understand, yes. It's kind of astounding to me that the world has self-inflicted what is essentially a cyber attack trying to protect a poorly architected OS from actua…

*Cydia was the first app store [on iPhones]

Does it seem like this was the plan all along to anyone else? Apple gave us the worst possible outcome so that this now seems like a win.

Does anyone else think that this was the plan all along? Apple gave us the worst possible outcome so that this now seems like a win.

I make a free mac utility and would be fine with notarizing it if it wasn't $100 a year. I don't want to pay $100 a year to give away something for free. And the message that pops …

I know it's unrelated. I have a Mac and was unable to do any work for around an hour, had no idea why. Windows has smart screen, but if the service is unreachable you get a popup. …

There goes any temptation I had to buy an M1 Mac. Thanks for the warning Apple!

Lets say theoretically PC gaming didn't exist. If the only way to play games was with a console from Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo do you really think they would be selling consoles…

Yes exactly. From the perspective of the user, macOS treats you fairly. Apple carefully words everything to shift the blame to developers for things like notarization. The message …

Microsoft isn't the only provider of certificates. It's more like the web where there are many authorities, not just one. If Epic were getting their cert from Microsoft and Microso…

I made a Mac app a few weeks ago that got to the front page here on HN[1]. It isn't notarized by Apple since I don't want to pay Apple just so I can give my work away for free that…

Exactly! Ars Technica usually does a pretty good job.

That's actually where I got the idea from! My app works the same way except uses Swift instead of Objective C.

Looks like it, yes. I don't use any special private APIs, just the public ones that you can use in apps on the app store. They need the accessibility permission to "Control your co…

I think the magic mouse is treated like a trackpad under the hood so all the gestures work. If someone with a magic mouse tried to uncheck the natural scrolling box under mouse the…

I don't know much about macOS development, 72 hours ago I had never done any at all! But as far as I can tell anything you could do in Objective C you can also do in Swift. I would…

This is actually Apple's fault more than anyone. I was originally planning to release on the App Store but decided not to after thinking about the $100 a year fee to be in the deve…

You can actually change the scroll direction of a mouse in Windows with a registry edit: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...

I could probably get used to it if I used only macOS, but I use Linux and Windows most of the time and switching scroll directions when I use macOS gets frustrating. That and physi…

You're welcome! Scroll Reverser no longer working well in Catalina is one of the main reasons that led me to create my own solution to the problem.