Drew McCormackHere is what SwiftData will be (…and what it could have been)Twitter: @drewmccormack8 min read·May 28, 2021--5--5
Drew McCormackMy Steve StorySteve’s anniversary was a few days ago. I always pause, at least for a moment, to remember how great those times were after his return to…3 min read·Oct 7, 2020--2--2
Drew McCormackCash Cow RevisitedFor a while now, the other half of the Agenda team, Alex, has been pushing me to write a follow up to my post on our sales model, which we…10 min read·Oct 2, 2020--6--6
Drew McCormackIt’s Time for Apple to Change the App Store Sales ModelYou’ve been hearing about it for months now. Developers — and governments — are fed up with Apple’s App Store sales model. It started with…5 min read·Aug 16, 2020----
Drew McCormackApple’s New CloudKit-Based Core Data SyncTLDR; At WWDC19, Apple entered into another chapter in their struggles with getting Core Data to sync reliably. Is it a case of “third…6 min read·Jun 17, 2019--5--5
Drew McCormackValue Semantics, Copy-on-Write, and Multi-Threading went into a Bar…TL;DR When you pass data between threads, whether you are using value types or not, you can very easily run into undefined behavior with…4 min read·Feb 2, 2019--1--1
Drew McCormackFree Trials from Apple’s PerspectiveThere has been a lot of criticism over the years of Apple’s stance on free trials in the App Store. This has come to a head in the last few…4 min read·Jun 13, 2018--3--3
Drew McCormackA ‘Cash Cow’ is on the AgendaUpdate: There is a follow up post about this sales model, told from the perspective of 3 years on the market.8 min read·Jan 15, 2018--21--21