Episode 436

436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door

More WWDC tidbits, John's lucrative App Store career, Sega VR, and the risks of sideloading on iOS.

June 24, 20211h 54m

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Show Notes

Pre-show:
Follow-up:
- Safari page reloading
  - Pull-to-refresh
  - John’s extension
  - Finn Voorhees’ experiment
- Safari on iOS 15 & Monterey automatically upgrades HTTP → HTTPS… kinda
- iCloud Private Relay
  - Rauli Rikama’s observations
  - What about embedded browsers? (via Maarten Hazewinkel)
  - Private Relay is always used for known trackers (via Renaud Lienhart)
  - FLoC
- You monsters that use unnatural scrolling
  - Scroll Reverser
  - Mos
- Avara source code is available (via Dan Watson)
- Apple Podcasts & our show notes
- SSD wear reporting in macOS
- Mailo
StoreKit refund API (via Jake Mor)
Per-app text size slider
tvOS 15 will allow sign-in via iPhone/iPad
#askatp:
- Have we cut the cord? (via Ian)
  - OTT
  - Channels
    - TV Everywhere
  - CableCard
  - JustWatch
- What keyboard do we use? (via Kyle Matson)
- What’s the deal with “side-loading”, anyway? (via Lewis O’Neil)
  - Apple’s FUD PDF
  - Daring Fireball
  - Gui Rambo tweets 1 and 2
Post-show: