Some very surprisingly candid comments from Apple’s Jim Cook on allowing non-App Store apps on your iPhone.

Some very surprisingly candid comments from Apple’s Jim Cook on allowing non-App Store apps on your iPhone.

Cook, and ZDNet, point out how few Apple users actually want this feature.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-users-dont-care-about-sideloading/

“Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn has been working on a documentary called Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone”

“Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn has been working on a documentary called Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone” Before almost everyone else, there was the Handspring, one of the first attempts at creating a smartphone. https://www.theverge.com/22762088/handspring-documentary-smartphone-iphone-android-appletv-roku-firetv-decoder-podcast I think I still have my old Handspring Trio PDA in a box somewhere.

Wow! Not the highest ever paid for an Apple 1 (that was just short of a million), but still wow.

Wow!  Not the highest ever paid for an Apple 1 (that was just short of a million), but still wow.

I don’t have one, but my office shelf has the artwork made from the US Patent for the computer.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/original-apple-1-computer-sells-for-500000-at-auction

Patent Artwork (they have other Apple products too): https://www.patentartwork.com/patent-art/apple-woz/

Former Apple leader Jean-Louis Gassée comments on what the next 10 years may bring.

Former Apple leader Jean-Louis Gassée comments on what the next 10 years may bring.

What area will Apple expand into? How will the leadership change? What tech is next?

https://mondaynote.com/apple-ten-years-forward-10dfabf00706

I have a feeling that Spatial Audio will be an important feature in the future, but we have yet to see the “killer app” use for it.

I have a feeling that Spatial Audio will be an important feature in the future, but we have yet to see the “killer app” use for it.

PC Mag excellent article on the details of Apple’s new 3D sound.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-spatial-audio-for-airpods-how-it-works-and-what-it-sounds-like

There are legitimate & ethical reasons to reverse engineer a program. For these cases, here is a great article on how to do it with an iOS program.

There are legitimate & ethical reasons to reverse engineer a program.  For these cases, here is a great article on how to do it with an iOS program.

Thanks Zafar Ivaev for this article.

https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-reverse-engineer-an-ios-app-313a95950aff

Ok, the “Hacking scenes in movies are crap” made me laugh.

Ok, the “Hacking scenes in movies are crap” made me laugh.

Enjoy!

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/12-things-thats-weird-to-people-but-normal-for-programmers-97235dbaeaf8