If you need a svelte USB-C charger that won’t weigh you down on your commute or your next flight, Anker’s new 45W Nano charger is on sale for the first time at Amazon, where you can pick it up in either black or white as part of a lightning deal for $25.99 ($9 off). At […]

SE 0481: Currently, Swift classes with weak stored properties cannot be Sendable, because weak properties have to be mutable, and mutable properties are not allowed in Sendable classes[…][…]In fact, wrapping weak references in a single-property struct is a viable workaround to the var restriction in both properties and captures[…] The existence of this simple workaround […]

Juli Clover (Hacker News, Jay Peters, Zac Hall): In a victory for Epic Games, Apple was today found to be in violation of a 2021 injunction that required it to allow developers to direct customers to third-party purchase options on the web using in-app links. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Apple’s response to the Injunction strains credulity. […]

Dan Moren (Mastodon): Stay Foolish debuted ten years ago, almost to the day, but I’ve been writing regularly for Macworld for nearly twenty years. When I first started out, we were all excited about what the latest in technology—Intel-powered Macs—would mean for Apple’s long-term prospects for survival. Two decades later, nobody ever even whispers that […]

Reuters (via Ric Ford): Apple must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, in the latest stage of a long-running legal battle.Texas-based Optis Cellular Technology LLC sued Apple in London in 2019 over its use of […]