John Sutter: At some point you reach a threshold where this infrastructure is too important and it becomes kind of a public good to a degree. And I definitely think that the app store is at that point without question, he says. 'I completely and utterly agree with you saying that Apple is looking for us to kiss their feet,' Sutter adds. "Even still, I kind of wonder if regulation would be necessary"
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- Pre-show:
- ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
- Colonial Pipeline
- Follow-up:
- Overpriced AirTag mounts
- Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
sudo fdesetup authrestart
- Or, optionally,
sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
softwareupdate -ia
- AppleTV and spatial audio
- AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
- Apple’s bad hire
- Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
#askatp
- Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
- Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
- How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
- Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
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