But Apple’s timid iPad tweak doesn’t suggest an eagerness to improve. If anything, it suggests a design team wondering: what’s the bare minimum we can get away with to quiet the complaints?
If you’re using iPadOS 26 and noticing that the saving/syncing/exchange of data is not happening, there’s a stupid trick you need to do to get things working.
The new fee structure is undeniably convoluted, and I think downright confusing. Seemingly no one can figure out exactly what commissions apps that use alternative payments or distribution are going to pay. It’s a natural consequence that an overly complicated law (the DMA) has resulted in an ever-more-complicated set of guidelines and policies (from Apple). It’s all downright byzantine.
12 years ago, I warned on this very site that if we don’t pay for what we love, we’ll be left with garbage. On mobile, we’re nearly there, knee-deep in shovelware, and waving goodbye to the good stuff.
All I did today was to go shopping for plants, go shopping for chairs, and buy some sushi for dinner. And I am so tired now.
Old.
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