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icev··on Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups
Apple has no issue with tricking children into paying for worthless virtual goods, they will happily host your Coin-Dosing-Clash-Of-Shadow-Fortnights if they get their 30% cut.
icev··on US shoots down two of its own Navy pilots over Red Sea
What? The publicly acknowledges their role all of the time, they even post about it in Twitter https://x.com/CENTCOM
icev··on Moonlight
I love moonlight, I use an ipad with a gamesir controller for streaming from my ... perfect for passing the time while trying to get my 6 month old to sleep in his ergobaby.
icev··on Show HN: Affordable text-to-speech for long-form content
Interesting, I read epubs on Android using aiTTS as TTS engine using Google cloud voices.

What I would really like is an option to download the whole book as mp3 for offline playback, and different voices for each character.

icev··on iOS 17 sideloading support is coming, and Apple can’t stop it
Same here.

And also Firefox with uBlock origin.

Sideloading in iOS might finally convince me to move away from Android.

icev··on Xcode 14 unintentionally increases app size
It used to matter in the past, but it seems like these days the effect is not very significant...

Last year we ran a test which involved artificially bloating one of our IPAs from 160mb to 260mb* and compared the app performance metrics* before and after the change, we saw no meaningful difference between the two versions.

By using the app thinning mechanism, you can create a different IPA sizes for different devices.

* CPI, CPS etc.