• Apple reports record Q2 2026 fiscal results while Mac mini supply faces constraints due to AI demand
• Company plans US manufacturing expansion through tariff reinvestment and potential Intel/Samsung partnerships
• iOS 27 introduces custom Wallet passes from QR codes and Apple Intelligence model swapping capabilities
• Grok Voice mode arrives on CarPlay and Apple Vision Pro expands into medical applications including cataract surgery
• Epic Games Supreme Court case and App Store commission dispute developments
Regarding maps, I only ever use maps when I need to drive or go somewhere new, which is a couple of times a year. I’ve never used maps to try and find a business. To be honest, it would never occur to me to look for a business in maps.
When I go to maps, I want to look at a map of the area I am driving to, what I don’t need is all the existing cruft around the map, let alone filling it up with irrelevant pins and popup windows with ads for businesses in the area.
My gym doesn’t do QR Codes, it’s barcode… I hope I can still use the feature to add my pass to my Apple Wallet. It would be very upsetting if it’s just QR codes. I already have some things in my wallet using PassKit where it’s a barcode; so I know it should work. My LEGO Insiders card is a barcode in Apple Wallet
I don’t talk to Siri a lot but whenever I do use voice dictation on iOS it’s been very good for me ever since Apple made the change where you can hit the mic button without removing the keyboard. I use it when there’s a word I don’t know how to spell, or maybe it’s rainy so my screen isn’t registering my taps correctly.
I don’t know why you’d want to use Notepad++ on any platform in 2026. I’d say ever since Atom arrived on Windows, there has been no reason to use Notepad++ anymore. I never really liked Atom, I just use that as an example of the shiting of the times. Sublime Text 2 was my go-to text editor on the Mac before moving to VS Code.
@Leo Just in case you didn’t know: there exist a utility on the Mac called TinkerTool where you can change settings Apple exposes via terminal but not via any UI in settings. There’s a setting which allows you to change the padding levels of the menubar items. so you can get a lot more space back. I like a dense menubar.
I started using Pedometer++ but with the free version… I’m struggling to see what this gives me that I don’t already get from Apple Health. The data is all already there anyway. I do see the appeal if you’re using the paid version with maps on the watch and offline. And the feature that saves power is pretty cool but I am not a hiker anymore (maybe I will be again in the future).
I’ve never had an issue pulling health data from my iPhone about my steps. But I think maybe I am an exception. I know where to look for it on the Watch but also in Apple Health on the iPhone itself.
I like the UI of Pedometer++, it looks fun. I’m trying to see if it fits in my life. I’m not a big app user in general
I use Card Safe for storing things like a gym pass or membership cards.
Notepad ++ is a great, lightweight editor. It loads quickly and uses very little memory or processor. VScode is a very heavy web application, in comparison. For writing scripts etc. N++ is still my go to.
Sorry to be pedantic, but a QR Code is just another [2D] bar code If I were coding such a thing, I would produce it in the manner of: scan the bar code to get the underlying data, which is what you store in the app, along with the data representation. Then when requested to show the data, you would reconstitute the bar code according to what you stored. That would make storing the data take far less space, at the expense of more code in the app. It would have one downside though… QR Codes are highly error checked, and so you can intentionally destroy some of the redundancy to make logos into the QR Code, and my approach would “fix” the bar code and lose the logo.
If I were coding such a thing, I would produce it in the manner of: scan the bar code to get the underlying data, which is what you store in the app, along with the data representation. Then when requested to show the data, you would reconstitute the bar code according to what you stored. That would make storing the data take far less space, at the expense of more code in the app. It would have one downside though… QR Codes are highly error checked, and so you can intentionally destroy some of the redundancy to make logos into the QR Code, and my approach would “fix” the bar code and lose the logo.