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'An Apple spokesperson requested to speak off the record about browser choice screens. When WIRED declined and asked for an on-the-record comment, all further requests for an interview went unanswered.'

wired.com/story/browser-…

I've really been enjoying the DROP CTRL short mechanical keyboard, replacing my old WASD code keyboards. It's pricey but extremely sturdy and has great LED lighting and tight high-tension springs.

amazon.com/Drop-CTRL-High…

UEFN: Festival Pinball is live
fortnite.com/@roguethirteen…
I turned the shooter game into a top down pinball game. You don't drive around in the game, you let it bounce you around. Just like proper pinball.

Video is a sample of the game with the 3 different camera options.

Update: The EU announced today that this also applies to iPads!

Fortnite will return to iPhones in the EU pretty soon, AND iPads later this year! 🎉

This is fantastic news, and makes iOS app store competition in the EU relevant to iPad owners (who Apple previously intended to freeze out of access). A fantastic move by the European Commission to open markets to competition.

BREAKING: The EU Commission designates iPadOS as a gatekeeper under the Digital Market App. Apple will have to allow alternative marketplaces on the iPad too.

ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

A long time ago...

5.3.24

Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers (William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log)

fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-2…
techmeme.com/240427/p5#a240…

At GDC I delivered a talk on Stylization in Unreal Engine 5. We covered Post Processes, Material Overlays, using RVTs for pretty looking grass and a paint-the-world style effect. You can find the talk as well as the graphs I made here! #UETips dev.epicgames.com/community/lear…

The privacy-friendly Brave Software web browser now supports iOS App installation in Europe where the new DMA law requires Apple to open up. Sadly, Apple built its 'marketplace-kit:' URI as a toxic privacy-invasion vector for cross-site tracking. Hope an honest mistake they'll fix...

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iPhone users in the EU will soon have multiple app marketplaces to choose from despite all the hurdles in place. appdb is expected to launch in May. ✌️

interest.appdb.to

Another iOS app store coming to the EU!

Do the #DMA rules have something for us about redeeming gift cards and vouchers right from iOS apps?
For example, Apple Music shows an option to redeem gift cards in the app. But other apps such as Spotify aren't allowed to do the same and their users have to redeem codes on the…

Exciting news: RealityCapture 1.4 is here! Download it today and capture the world in 3D.

What’s new:
▪ Updated pricing model
▪ Now available in the Epic Games launcher and Epic Developer Portal
▪ Sign-in updates and bug fixes
capturingreality.com/realitycapture…

#RealityCapture14

Big news in the Epic v Apple anti-steering injunction!

Whether you use Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, GameMaker, Bevy, Roblox, PlayCanvas, Defold, UEFN, Construct, GDevelop, Flax Engine or anything else — I've made thousands of 2D sprites and 3D models you can use, for free.

kenney.nl/assets

Amazing news! Meta is opening up their virtual reality OS to other hardware makers, and it’s an open platform!

Life is Last of the Mohicans: you can’t be sure who are the good guys and the bad guys until rather late in the film.

By blocking citizens from installing apps from competing stores and the web, Apple has created this geopolitical controversy: China exploits Apple’s monopoly to block secure messaging apps from all iOS users in China, and the US Congress wants to use Apple to block the Tik Tok…