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Good morning! This Tuesday, Apple gives developers a to-do list for the summer, President Trump extends the H-1B visa ban, and NASA's getting ready to train everyone to be astronauts.
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An ad-driven business model eventually becomes a problem, says Google's former head of advertising Sridhar Ramaswamy:
President Trump's expanded ban on H-1B visas is bad for the American economy, Twitter's Jessica Herrera-Flanigan said:
More than 1,600 Google employees urged their employer to cancel police contracts:
and it's a long time coming:
Over the course of a nearly two-hour WWDC keynote, Apple announced a lot of new features yesterday. Most of them were the sort of things users, concept makers and developers have been asking for for years. 凯发k8官网下载手机版homescreen widgets FTW! (Also I was wrong about FaceTime! Ugh. I guess we're stuck with Webex.)
The biggest changes were reserved for the Mac, with its operating system finally getting to version 11.0 after 19 years stuck on OS X. Not only is Apple redesigning the Mac's software to make it look much more like iOS, as the two platforms continue to look and feel more alike, it also confirmed it's making the switch to using its own chips. Buh-bye, Intel.
The section on silicon was by far the most developer-focused part of Apple's keynote, which was in general aimed much more at consumers. But hidden in the presentation were plenty of important features:
Throw in App Clips and widgets, and that's a lot of new stuff for developers to invest in. The Arm transition in particular likely won't be as easy as advertised: One developer told me they're worried that things like Electron apps won't make the transition well, pointing out that Microsoft has been experimenting with Arm chips for a while now, and it hasn't been easy.
What did you make of yesterday's event? What feature or announcement jumped out at you most? I'd love to hear from you: david@szjqgzf.com.
Long keynote, 20 presenters, tons of slides and demos, and an answer to the big question on developers' minds during WWDC was buried 13 paragraphs deep in an unrelated press release on Apple's website. The rub: Apple's changing the way it handles developer disputes.
David Heinemeier Hansson, the CTO and co-founder of Basecamp who's been leading the torch-carrying against App Store policies regarding the Hey email app, said it made him feel a bit better. "There's a path forward here where Apple goes back to being a friend of developers, not a big bully they're all terrified of speaking out against," he tweeted.
If Apple approves Hey's new app, that particular saga is basically over. But if the stories I've heard from developers the last several days are any indication, there are plenty of frustrated developers still fighting with the app reviewers. And with a new way to fight, they might get louder.
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As expected, President Trump put out an order yesterday suspending new green cards, H-1B and other visas through at least the end of 2020. The order expands the ban Trump put into place earlier this year — and applies only to those not already living and working in the U.S. Still unclear: what it'll mean for anyone renewing their visa in the next six months.
Tech leaders railed against the order, continuing a fight against Trump's immigration crackdowns that they've been waging for years.
Steve Wood is Slack's new developer platform VP. He ran product at Dell Boomi for the last few years, and he'll now report to Slack Chief Product Officer Tamar Yehoshua.
Steffan Tomlinson is Confluent's new CFO, after running finance at Google Cloud since last April. Confluent is getting ready to go public, and Tomlinson's got plenty of experience from his time at Palo Alto Networks and Aruba Networks.
So let's put some pieces together here. Virgin Galactic and NASA just announced a partnership that includes building a training system for an "orbital astronaut readiness program" to get regular people like you and me up to the ISS. NASA also said it'll cost you $50 million for the ride there. (Plus $35,000 a day to stay on the ISS, but that's only a third the cost of the best suite in Vegas. What a steal!) There's even a $23 million space toilet aboard the ISS, for your pooping pleasure. Supposedly all this is for "researchers to go to space" or whatever. But what I'm hearing is this: When you sell your next startup to Facebook, there's a new coolest-possible thing to do with the proceeds.
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Today's Source Code was written by David Pierce, with help from Shakeel Hashim. Thoughts, questions, tips? Send them to david@szjqgzf.com, or our tips line, tips@szjqgzf.com. Enjoy your day, see you tomorrow.