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What a week! I hope you all enjoyed WWDC as much as I did. I made time to watch quite a few session videos this year, and of course, seeing our work on Ready for Swift 6<\/a> in the Platform State of the Union<\/a> absolutely made my year<\/a>.<\/p>\n As I always say, I won\u2019t try and recap everything from the conference in today\u2019s issue. We have the whole summer to explore this week\u2019s announcements, so let\u2019s take our time. \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n I want to write about this article on Private Cloud Compute<\/a> today. The article is published on a security research blog, and as you\u2019d expect it\u2019s a detailed piece, but it\u2019s designed to be much more than just<\/em> a technical overview, this is also a marketing document.<\/p>\n There are so many obvious examples of Apple being great at marketing, from the iconic<\/a>, to the funny<\/a>, to the clever<\/a>. But that marketing has to be backed up with great products to be effective. The iPod was an amazing portable music player, they got away with being cheeky with the Mac vs PC adverts because the Mac is a great computer, and there really was no step three!<\/p>\n Apple centres a lot of current marketing around privacy<\/a>, and claims around privacy are much harder to prove than how good an mp3 player is. It comes down to trust at some point, but that\u2019s built on years of taking the subject very seriously. From differential privacy to the secure enclave\u00b9, Apple talks about privacy at every opportunity and it was at the heart of Monday\u2019s Apple Intelligence announcements.<\/p>\n For Private Cloud Compute and Apple Intelligence to be successful Apple needs everyone to believe that it\u2019s meaningfully more private than the alternatives, and for everyone who uses it to believe that privacy still matters.<\/p>\n We are constantly challenged to give up aspects of privacy with each cookie permission click-through and every pundit saying that privacy is dead. Apple\u2019s first job is to show that it doesn\u2019t need to be that way. Once that\u2019s done, it must prove that Apple Intelligence is meaningfully different from the competition and this document and others<\/a> are a key part of that. Even if your average consumer will never read documents like these, they influence people who write about Apple. You could call it full-stack marketing, and it\u2019s very effective.<\/p>\n It also helps Apple say \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is unique so it can\u2019t be compared to our competition\u201d, but talking about that will have to wait for another day<\/p>\n \u00b9 Note that these features both have names so good that I could recall them without looking them up. That\u2019s also part of great marketing.<\/p>\n Dave Verwer<\/p>\n The Fallacy of \u201cFull-Stack\u201d Observability Tools<\/a><\/p>\n Discover why mobile teams cannot achieve full-stack observability with a single, all-in-one solution and what they actually need to achieve true observability over their mobile apps and reliably deliver optimal performance. Learn more in this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n WWDC Notes 2024<\/a><\/p>\n There have been some changes to WWDC Notes for this year. I almost missed this, because the old site has no links to the new one<\/a>, which is very strange! However, the project is alive and well, which is great news! This year\u2019s notes are hosted with DocC, and I must say it makes a fantastic host. The notes look amazing, and this remains a valuable community-run resource.<\/p>\n Documentation and sample code from WWDC24<\/a><\/p>\n WWDC Notes aren\u2019t the only people using DocC to organise the updates coming out of this year\u2019s conference, Apple is, too! \u263a\ufe0f As with the past few years, this summary page is a great place to start if you\u2019re looking for documentation of the new APIs and features introduced this year. \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project<\/a><\/p>\n Did you notice this year\u2019s conference had more than a few mentions of using Swift with other tools and on alternative platforms? Swift has been more than \u201can Apple language\u201d for a long time, and Ted Kremenek<\/a> announced that the Swift project is moving to a brand new GitHub organisation. The evolution repository and some others have already migrated<\/a>, and the language and remaining repositories will follow later.<\/p>\n From what I saw on social media, the various community events this week have been hugely successful. It\u2019s hard to know how things were in Cupertino from 5,000 miles away, but watching from afar, the One More Thing (OMT) conference<\/a> was a huge success and brought some focus to the community events throughout the week. I reached out to J\u2019aime Ohm<\/a>, organiser of OMT, and it looks like my hunch was correct. They welcomed hundreds of attendees and volunteers from all over the world, including a local dairy farmer who provided complimentary milk as refreshment for everyone! \ud83d\udc2e In addition to being a great conference, providing a \u201cbase\u201d for people during WWDC week is truly valuable. I\u2019m so happy it was a success and hope to see it run for many years!<\/p>\n Also, if you\u2019re still in the Cupertino area today, it\u2019s not over. There\u2019s a closing party from 1:30pm to 5pm (Pacific time, obviously! \ud83d\ude02) at the Residence Inn TODAY<\/strong>. Join the OMT conference team, all the OMT attendees, and James Dempsey for his famous \u201cRecap of the Week\u201d song, and finish your week in style! \ud83c\udfb8<\/p>\n Helm for App Store Connect<\/a><\/p>\n This may be the only non-WWDC link in today\u2019s issue! I\u2019ve followed along with this native App Store Connect interface app during its beta, and I\u2019m very pleased to see that Pol Piella Abadia<\/a> and Hidde van der Ploeg<\/a> released it this week. I\u2019m always surprised Apple doesn\u2019t make an app like this themselves, but there\u2019s no need for them to now! \ud83d\udd7a<\/p>\n Installing macOS Sequoia in a Separate APFS Volume<\/a><\/p>\n Friends don\u2019t let friends install brand new macOS betas on their main development machine. Adrian Sch\u00f6nig<\/a> shows us the way.<\/p>\n What\u2019s new in Swift 6.0?<\/a><\/p>\n The best thing about Paul Hudson<\/a>\u2019s new Swift language version posts is the playground<\/a> that he always includes, and this one covering Swift 6 makes no changes to that formula. Strict concurrency checking is not the only<\/em> new feature in this release, so be sure to read all the way to the end.<\/p>\n A New Direction for Testing in Swift<\/a><\/p>\n As expected, Xcode 16 now supports the new Swift Testing framework<\/a>, and it\u2019s looking good<\/a>. You may already have watched that session, but you\u2019re more likely to have missed this recently accepted<\/a> vision document from the team. This is how Apple thinks about testing, and I like what I read.<\/p>\n Using iOS 18\u2019s new TabView with a sidebar<\/a><\/p>\n My favourite new enhancement to SwiftUI this year is sidebar adaptable tab views. I\u2019m happy to see such a common UI issue fixed. Here\u2019s Donny Wals<\/a> with an overview of how they work, especially if you have sectioned content.<\/p>\n Dark Mode App Icons<\/a><\/p>\n If Widgetsmith<\/a> taught Apple anything, it taught them how important home screen customisation is to quite a large set of people, and it surely led to the addition of dark mode and tintable icons for apps to this year\u2019s iOS release. I absolutely adore this article from Louie Mantia<\/a> on how to think about these new icon types. Don\u2019t miss this one!<\/p>\n The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024<\/a><\/p>\n If I hadn\u2019t been so slow preparing this week\u2019s newsletter, I\u2019d have missed that John Gruber<\/a> just released the recording of his interview with Craig Federighi, Greg Joswiak, and John Giannandrea. I have no idea what\u2019s in here as the video is brand new, but these are always great.<\/p>\nNews<\/h2>\n
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