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  • Apple says less than 1% of App Store rejections are appealed

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    The fact 1% of people appeal doesn't mean that much. If the rules are stacked in Apple's favour, of course you're not going to appeal... to Apple.

    The fact most appeals are rejected suggests they didn't make many accidental mistakes. This doesn't, however, say anything about whether their judgments are fair and reasonable. It just means I stick to my guns. Having the same lawmaker, judge, jury and executioner inevitably ends up in "100% success rates".

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  • Apple extends deadline to stop using UIWebView, introduces new server notifications

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    mcdave said:
    Odd why they delayed this as SafariViewController has been around a while. Perhaps that has tighter privacy controls and Apple’s customer protection plans are coming under fire from nefarious app developers.
    There were some edge case behaviours that UIWebView supported that WKWebView didn't. Those gaps have mostly been closed in recent years, but the backward compatibility issue held devs back. Now, there's pretty much no excuse though. UIWebView is dead and buried, and is a security issue. It should have gone a while ago.

    SafariViewController doesn't help in cases where you want to embed content in existing UI, which is what UIWebView/WKWebView are for, but the security architecture of WKWebView is significantly different.
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  • Apple is now collecting donations to help with Australia's bushfires

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    Really appreciate seeing the support from all around the world for this cause. It can be hard to appreciate the scale of devastation, how many people are affected by it, and how this is expected to continue for months to come. I’m lucky enough to be in a safer spot in Australia at the moment, but it’s very heartening to see the international care and support for our corner of the world at a time like this. I’m sure those affected and involved in fighting these fires appreciate the support even more so.
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  • Apple's Swift developers discuss enhancements coming in Swift 4.1

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    georgie01 said:
    Ok ... this is one thing I don’t like about Swift being open source. Progress is great, but it’s updated frequently enough that it’s a little bit of a pain without a lot of gain. Not everyone is a geek who feels they constantly need the latest and greatest in language developments. Swift is great and I really like the updates, but I don’t like having to alter code and wonder about deprecated or changed syntax as much as I’m having to.
    Such a nascent language was always bound to have these types of changes. In maturity languages find their stability. Considering how much Swift pioneered in joining so many different programming techniques into a cohesive, unified language, there was a lot of early learning that could only come through use. This is unrelated to the fact the language is open source - most of these changes, eg the Generics Manifesto and Constrained Conformances were driven by Apple themselves, not the open source community. And the additions from the community have tended to be additive, not changing things that break you. Those changes were driven by the Swift Core Team in pursuit of their goals for the language.
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  • Google ships first beta of Flutter framework for developing both iOS and Android apps

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    Cross platform tools generally always suck. I will take quite a bit to be convinced that this one bucks the trend set by literally every cross platform tool. It's a dev-focused solution, not a user-focused solution.
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