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Daring FireballChecking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/16/checking-in-on-the-ios-continental-fun-gap-drift
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/16/checking-in-on-the-ios-continental-fun-gap-drift
Valter Hemmi
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Indie app developer of @LiftinApp.
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I’m still a great fan of the *concept* of the European Union.
But at this point I‘m wondering who are these policies for? I get the *idea* of the DMA; in practice, I don‘t see *any* European AI provider or phone maker benefiting from the DMA; rather, the EC policies would only benefit *other* US or Chinese tech companies with horrible track records like Meta, Grok, OpenAI etc.
Has any of these DMA decisions actually made my life as a European citizen better? No.
I’m still a great fan of the *concept* of the European Union.
But at this point I‘m wondering who are these policies for? I get the *idea* of the DMA; in practice, I don‘t see *any* European AI provider or phone maker benefiting from the DMA; rather, the EC policies would only benefit *other* US or Chinese tech companies with horrible track records like Meta, Grok, OpenAI etc.
Has any of these DMA decisions actually made my life as a European citizen better? No.
The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/washington-post-dma-folly
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/washington-post-dma-folly
Liftin' Workout TrackerReally cool to to see Liftin' being featured on the App Store as App of the Day today! 🎉
A new update for Liftin’ is now live on the App Store! 📣
✅ 5 new themes: Blue, Purple, Red, Orange and Green
✅ Strava uploads include HR-data
✅ Export workout screenshots to apps like Bevel
Get Liftin’ 👇
apple.co/3jHuxQI
The 50th major update to Liftin’ is now live on the App Store! 📣
✅ New visual: Heaviest set
✅ More tracking customization option with tap to edit and custom swipe actions
✅ Unified reps and RPE-tracking view
Get Liftin’ 👇
https://apple.co/3jHuxQI
Steve Troughton-SmithRE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116417361543773836
Review prompts are the difference between a great app getting five positive reviews, and thousands of positive reviews. I would never recommend to a developer to not implement the APIs. It’s App Store Editorial suicide for most apps, since Apple tends to only pick things up when they have that body of review data. Microsoft did it first on their platforms (RIP Windows Phone), and we all laughed, but once Apple followed everybody saw how much of an impact it makes
A new version of Liftin’ is out! 📣
50 new exercises has been added to the library, and search has been revamped to handle typos and alternative names. As an example, searching for rdl will now find Romanian Deadlift.
Get Liftin’ 👇
https://apple.co/3jHuxQI
Looks like the CloudKit sync issue in *OS 26.4 is real (I can repro with all of my apps), and has the very distinct potential to lead to catastrophic data loss and/or sync conflicts across effectively all apps. Apps only receive changes from the cloud after being quit and relaunched.
If Apple hasn't pulled 26.4 already, it should do so immediately until there's a fixed build
App Store Connect had a big scary overhaul yesterday and now everything is in the wrong place 🫠
