Business My App Is Dead in the Water This week, I came across this article from @MattStanford3 recounting the issues he's having with getting his Hacker News client through app review following a minor update and despite the app being in the store for 5 years. Whilst expecting the whole review process run smoothly and consistently all of the time would obviously be naive, I can … [Read more...]

News Swift Community Awards If you haven't seen it already, @twostraws is once again organising the Swift Community Awards, a celebration of everything that makes the Swift community so vibrant. I'm honoured that Swift Developments has once again been short-listed in the 'Best Newsletter' category, something that wouldn't be possible without you all reading each week so it's a … [Read more...]

News Apple Fall Event So the rumour mill wasn't far off with Tuesday's event with the arrival of a revamped Macbook Air, a new iPad Pro, a shiny new Apple Pencil, an updated Mac-Mini (finally) and iOS 12.1 out in the wild. If you haven't seen it already Apple have also released a bunch of new development material to accompany the new hardware including new videos and various … [Read more...]

Welcome to this weeks issue of Swift Developments! Only a couple of hours now until Apple's fall event kicks off with the promise of new iPads, updated Macbooks, iMacs and a potential phoenix-like resurrection of the Mac Mini line. With the rumour-mill inevitably in high-gear, it will be interesting to see what they announce. In the meantime though I've got some great links … [Read more...]

News ‘There’s more in the making’ So Apple have announce that October 30th will be the date for this years Autumn Apple event via a great lineup of Apple artwork. Obviously no concrete details yet of what's going to be announced but according to Zac Hall of 9to5Mac we'll likely see updates to iPad, Macbook and potentially updates the wider Mac line up. You never know, they … [Read more...]