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02/03/2021

Apple introduced new privacy policy rules for mobile apps. Now developers have to go through huge questionnaire with complicated forms to fill out all the needed data.
The most important part is that you also have to do it for all third-parties your app has. The easies way to do it is to actually google "AppStore privacy policy THIRD_PARTY_NAME" and use related topics as how-to-dos.
It's pretty painful, but there is no other options rather than that, otherwise Apple might remove your app from AppStore.
Be patient and good luck! :)

The App Store is designed to be a safe and trusted place for users to discover apps created by talented developers around the world.

01/28/2021

How reddit millennials manipulated stocks and outplayed big market players.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/27/gamestop-stock-market-retail-wall-street

01/21/2021

Don't forget to follow on Apple's updates from time to time. They might look minor, but in the end they mostly important.
For example, since the beginning of 2021 if you have an iOS app with in-app purchases, it's pretty crucial for you to follow SCA requirements, which forced by Europe Union.

Make sure your app can properly handle interrupted transactions by initializing a transaction observer to respond to new transactions and synchronize pending transactions with Apple.

12/28/2020

On December 9, 2020, Starship serial number 8 (SN8) completed a high-altitude flight test as it successfully ascended, transitioned propellant, and demonstrated a first-of-its-kind controlled aerodynamic descent and landing flip maneuver – which will enable landing where prepared surfaces or runways do not exist, including the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

On December 9, 2020, Starship serial number 8 (SN8) completed a high-altitude flight test as it successfully ascended, transitioned propellant, and demonstra...

12/21/2020

A US company has launched a platform for observing the entire world from satellite even through walls.

Capella Space technology does not have the usual restrictions like weather or time of day, because it doesn't have a camera: instead, the satellite itself emits a radio signal from space at a frequency of 9.65 GHz and catches its reflections.

As a result, you can observe any place on the globe, day or night, in fog or rain, and even "shine through" buildings like a Superman.

12/14/2020

We cannot pass by the theme of Cyberpunk 2077 and show you one interesting case. The author downloaded the reviews of the first day of the game from Steam, ran it through the algorithms, and got the basic meaning of each review. He not only analyzed the data himself but told how he did it, so those who wish can repeat it.

As a result, after the analysis, he was able to group all the reviews according to the top 5 most relevant in meaning, he even got a group of those who separately think that it is 10 out of 10 because you can stroke a cat there.

In general, a cool way to analyze a huge amount of data using a real-life example.

https://int8.io/are-you-ok-cyberpunk-transformers-diagnosis/

12/10/2020

Try to avoid pixelating passwords on your screenshots, since it can be pretty easy to restore.
https://github.com/beurtschipper/Depix

12/03/2020

A cool example of how to make static pictures of water into the looped videos.
Official website with examples https://eulerian.cs.washington.edu

11/30/2020

Super fun telegram bot to play with – "Get your comic character". Try different seeds, the best one is "/seed 8892629" so far.
https://t.me/face2comicsbot

11/23/2020

Another example of how Apple community improved device using experience

Experience AirPods on your Mac like never before.

11/16/2020

Another face-swap application and looks like you can use it on Zoom calls. You can even not use any special character's face, just the best version of yourself.

Become anyone on Zoom, Twitch, or any streaming video

11/13/2020

For last couple months we've been fought Apple to pass a review for our eNotes app. We have this app live for couple of years, but during one of the updates we found out that we were breaking their rules for years already because:
"our auto-renewable subscription promotes the free trial or introductory period for your subscription more clearly and conspicuously than the billed amount". Spoiler: the whole thing was because we had "Start free trial" button title.
We made around 10 updates trying fit their needs, and still got rejected until we put a big price on a "Subscribe" button on paywall and moved "Start Free Trial" title somewhere aside main button.
The saddest part is that Apple completely ignored our concerns that most of the apps do the same and still somehow live and working.