If you’re working on a groundbreaking, unreleased game and would like it to be considered for Apple Arcade, we’d love to hear from you.
Apple Arcade - Apple Developer
Apple allows developers to apply for Apple Arcade. I am really curious about who gets in.
Mozilla on the new copyright regulation:
With a chance to bring copyright rules into the 21st century the EU [has] […] handed the power back to large US owned record labels, film studios and big tech.
TechCrunch, citing Julia Rede’s speech in the European Parliament
“The most tragic thing about this process is a new generation who are voting in the European elections for the first time this year are learning a lesson: Your protests aren’t worth anything, politics will spread lies about you, and won’t care for factual arguments if geopolitical interests are at stake,”
The EU had the chance to create a modern copyright legislation for the web. Instead, they chose to ignore the concerns of (mostly young) voters and pushed through with the lobbyists agenda.
What a great way to teach young people about democratic values.
I am absolutly unenthusiastic for todays Apple event. There won’t be new hardware and the last thing I need are even more subscriptions.
I’m not super happy with my final Playground but it’s worth a try. Best of luck to everyone else who applied.
Not it’s 3 weeks of waiting for the results. In the meantime, I hope to publish a blog post or two about my work.
Today the German Wikipedia is unavailable to protest against the EU copyright reform.
My WWDC scholarship submission is starting to flesh out. I don’t think I will win again and I don’t even know if I could attend if I’d did, but it is fun little project.
Showerthought: Would customers benefit if Apple were forced to build there services on top of publicly available APIs? That could mean real Siri integration, alternatives to iCloud backups and more. I feel like the answer could be yes.
I can’t wait to try them out! – 9to5mac: Apple AR headset reportedly starting production later this year
It’s been a great year 2018.
I took the holidays off to relax a little but I have set myself some ambitious goals for 2019. Can’t wait to get started.
Is Apple making the right map?
Finally had time to read Justin O’Beirne excellent post about Apple’s new Map, an in-depth dive into all the changes (the good and bad) Apple Mad this year in California.
As much as I like the new iPad Pro hardware it would be over 1200€ to replace my iPad Pro 9.7. Maybe next year
Finally updated my Mac to Mojave. Not sure how I like it.
The Marzipan apps are just bad, it took me a while to get my tools work with the new privacy dialogs and I don’t like dark mode. But I have orange as my accent color, wich is nice!
This Micro Monday I’d like to recommend @sattelknecht, where Max and Philipp will document their 80 day bicycle tour through South East Asia.
Nearly done with automating my packing list with Shortcuts and OmniFocus. Thanks @rosemaryorchard and @macsparky!
