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Steve Troughton-Smith

@stroughtonsmith …
251 posts
2026-02-17
New API for encrypted video players to let users screenshot or screen record, I guess?  —  [image]
2026-02-17 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, and a Smart List for Reminders

iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers.  The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.

iOS 26.4 already looks to be walking back some of the more-controversial tab bar changes in some apps, like the bottom-aligned search bar 🥲
2026-02-17 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, and a Smart List for Reminders

iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers.  The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.

2026-02-16
New API for encrypted video players to let users screenshot or screen record, I guess?  —  [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Variety

Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows

Apple Podcasts is finally giving video a full embrace.  —  The tech giant, which pioneered the podcast audio format …

iOS 26.4 already looks to be walking back some of the more-controversial tab bar changes in some apps, like the bottom-aligned search bar 🥲
2026-02-16 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more

iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers.  The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.

New API for encrypted video players to let users screenshot or screen record, I guess?  —  [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more

iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers.  The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.

iOS 26.4 already looks to be walking back some of the more-controversial tab bar changes in some apps, like the bottom-aligned search bar 🥲
2026-02-16 View on X
Variety

Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows

Apple Podcasts is finally giving video a full embrace.  —  The tech giant, which pioneered the podcast audio format …

2026-02-09
It didn't take 20 years, it took less than 3 🤡 [Quotes his post from 2023: “As a software developer, I think GPT-3 & friends and beyond is the real next-gen step-change in software development, not SwiftUI.  In 10, 20 years, I could see a future where that's how all programming is done, with ‘low level’ languages like SwiftUI(!) acting as merely the assembly language beneath high-level prompt-based compilers."]
2026-02-09 View on X
Financial Times

How Anthropic's bet on enterprise users is paying off; sources say Anthropic's investor guidance claims annualized revenue will exceed $30B by the end of 2026

Start-up's bet on enterprise users is paying off as coding tools fuel revenue and investor frenzy

I thought Xcode developers like me were some of the very last to come to the realization that Claude and co had already taken over the industry, but nope, there are plenty of FOSS developers and adjacents right here living under a rock too 😅  —  This switch has already happened, we're just the last to know
2026-02-09 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality at 2.5x faster but costs 6x more

excited that we're making it available outside Anthropic too.Dean W. Ball /@deanwball:I would like to know more about the experimental Claude scaffold that caused Opus 4.6 to more ...

It didn't take 20 years, it took less than 3 🤡 [Quotes his post from 2023: “As a software developer, I think GPT-3 & friends and beyond is the real next-gen step-change in software development, not SwiftUI.  In 10, 20 years, I could see a future where that's how all programming is done, with ‘low level’ languages like SwiftUI(!) acting as merely the assembly language beneath high-level prompt-based compilers."]
2026-02-09 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality at 2.5x faster but costs 6x more

excited that we're making it available outside Anthropic too.Dean W. Ball /@deanwball:I would like to know more about the experimental Claude scaffold that caused Opus 4.6 to more ...

I thought Xcode developers like me were some of the very last to come to the realization that Claude and co had already taken over the industry, but nope, there are plenty of FOSS developers and adjacents right here living under a rock too 😅  —  This switch has already happened, we're just the last to know
2026-02-09 View on X
Financial Times

How Anthropic's bet on enterprise users is paying off; sources say Anthropic's investor guidance claims annualized revenue will exceed $30B by the end of 2026

Start-up's bet on enterprise users is paying off as coding tools fuel revenue and investor frenzy

2026-02-06
It feels *crazy* to me that a company as conservative as Apple is letting Claude loose on the source code to its frameworks and apps.  I know @markgurman has been reporting on it, but I've heard the same from a couple of different places now. …
2026-02-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's “deeply distraught” with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told employees that he's “deeply distraught” with the US's current approach …

2026-01-21
Clear indicator that Apple's DMA implementation never actually met its obligations under the DMA in the first place.  Apple scared developers away from ever signing up to their poison pill Core Technology Fee terms, so alternative app stores simply have no apps to offer. …
2026-01-21 View on X
MacRumors

Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming “still-evolving and complex business terms”

2026-01-20
Clear indicator that Apple's DMA implementation never actually met its obligations under the DMA in the first place.  Apple scared developers away from ever signing up to their poison pill Core Technology Fee terms, so alternative app stores simply have no apps to offer. …
2026-01-20 View on X
MacRumors

Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming “still-evolving and complex business terms”

Ukraine-based developer MacPaw is set to close Setapp Mobile, its alternative app store for iOS devices in the European Union, next month.

2026-01-14
People have been asking Apple to provide a ‘Photoshop’ as part of its pro tools for literal decades, and now we have it, as Apple Pixelmator Pro.  And it's on iPad, too.  And it comes bundled with Final Cut Pro and Logic, on subscription, for both platforms  —  /via https://www.apple.com/... …
2026-01-14 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $13/month or $129/year

The iWork apps are getting a ‘premium content’ and ‘enhanced AI’ feature-unlock subscription service add-on 👀  —  https://9to5mac.com/...
2026-01-14 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $13/month or $129/year

2026-01-13
The iWork apps are getting a ‘premium content’ and ‘enhanced AI’ feature-unlock subscription service add-on 👀  —  https://9to5mac.com/...
2026-01-13 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $13/month or $129/year

Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, which it describes as a “groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed …

People have been asking Apple to provide a ‘Photoshop’ as part of its pro tools for literal decades, and now we have it, as Apple Pixelmator Pro.  And it's on iPad, too.  And it comes bundled with Final Cut Pro and Logic, on subscription, for both platforms  —  /via https://www.apple.com/... …
2026-01-13 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $13/month or $129/year

Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, which it describes as a “groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed …

2026-01-06
If the Mac is really getting touch support over the next year, as rumored, there's very little chance of UI metrics or iconography going back to how it was in earlier releases.  Those are the before-times now, no matter who is in charge of design.  —  It's way more likely to *inherit* iOS's forms of interaction... …
2026-01-06 View on X
tonsky.me

Apple's macOS Tahoe adds icons to every menu item, resulting in menus that are hard to use and go against the long-standing Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

accompanied by explanation:  —  Fast forward to 2025.  Apple releases macOS Tahoe.  Main attraction?

2025-12-04
Apple's entire leadership team is cycling out lately, which hints that the future of the company may look very different going forward compared to the past couple of decades.  Whose pet projects are going to be Old Yeller'd in the turnover?  —  (Please be SwiftUI.)
2025-12-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms that VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Apple UI Designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye

Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …

Are you happy now?  Y'all bullied him out 😝  —  https://mastodon.social/...
2025-12-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms that VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Apple UI Designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye

Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …