★ The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty
https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/eu_reaping_what_it_sows

@dimillian the EU is way too heavy handed - and the perception to me is that it’s heavily anti-American. I think feature and product limitations like this will continue into the future as long as the status quo continues.

@jensimmons I have a feature request for Safari, if at all possible: I’d love to be able to set my default search engine to Kagi. Thanks!

YouTube wouldn't build an app for the Apple Vision Pro, so I did! Introducing Juno, an Apple Vision Pro app for YouTube, now available at http://juno.vision 📺🥽

Happy 40th Birthday Macintosh! 🎉

@marioguzman I miss this. Tiger is what brought me over to the Macintosh.

I feel like some macOS apps would be a little nicer looking (and easier to use) with variable size items in the source list. The Apple TV+ app would look snazzy with some big boy top items:

Let’s talk about design in Software Update… This is SU in Mac OS X Tiger. It was a delight to use.

It was simple and clean in the sense that it was as Albert Einstein once said: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

The UI & UX of SU these days is cheap design. It’s “clean” & “simple” in the sense most UI is removed. There’s no thought behind it other than to show as much white background as possible.

Real design is purposeful & deliberate.

And it worked.

Happy New Year! 🙏🏽

@Argyle13 ¡Feliz año! 🎉

@dimillian perhaps also include your Threads profile link?

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history

Here's my pitch

You know how some websites have a little progress bar highlight across the top of the page to show how much of the page you've read?

Imagine a similar tool that shows you how much of the page is in view and how much remains, but persistently visible on every window on your computer, along the right side, integrated into a user interface tool that's wide enough that you can click on it, and not a moving target that disappears sometimes

I call it the "scroll bar"

@marioguzman the lack of colour and contrast these days makes UIs feel so sterile. It’s like a regression compared to UIs from just a few years ago.

@CM30 thanks! I sure will! But I think I need a few months away from Zelda before jumping into TOTK to avoid fatigue. 😅

It took me about 5 months to get through it, but I finally finished The Legend of #Zelda: Breath of the Wild last night. What a genuinely great game!

@dimillian @thai_d_v thank you! 😊

@dimillian the new multi-post UI is 👌🏽

Two important Threads updates 🔔🔔

First, Threads is expanding to more countries across Europe, so people there can follow and join the conversations they care about. We’re starting to roll out in more countries now on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store; www.threads.net is live everywhere now.

@IceCubesApp @thai_d_v @dimillian this is amazing!