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Apple is expanding its App Bundles feature to allow developers to partner with one another on discounted subscription packages.

Apple will now recommend apps based on your downloads and behavior.

As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads.

Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.

This open-source community project lets you create a StumbleUpon-like experience for recommending your favorite sites.

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them.

For a long time, I thought productivity was about effort. Work harder. Focus more. Stay disciplined. Manage time better. Most productivity advice is built around some version of this idea. Then I noticed something strange. Some days I could spend ten hours at a desk and accomplish almost nothing. Other days I could spend three hours working and make more progress than I had all week. The difference wasn't effort. The difference was context. The Most Expensive Thing Is Not Time Ask people what their most limited resource is and most will answer: Time. But for knowledge workers, engineers, researchers, writers, and designers, I think the scarcer resource is often something else. Mental state. The ability to hold a problem in your head. The ability to remember why a decision was made. The ability to see connections between ideas. The ability to continue a train of thought without interruption. That's the state where meaningful work happens. And it's surprisingly fragile. Every Context Switch Has a Cost Imagine you're debugging a difficult issue. You've already: read the logs inspected the code traced the requests formed a hypothesis You're finally starting to see the shape of the problem. Then: a Slack notification arrives someone schedules a meeting an email requires attention a different task becomes urgent The interruption itself might only take two minutes. The real cost is what disappears. The mental model. The momentum. The partially constructed map inside your head. The next time you return to the task, you don't continue where you left off. You rebuild. Software Often Creates The Problem It Tries To Solve One thing that surprised me after building products for years is how much software exists primarily because other software creates friction. A note-taking application exists because memory is limited. A task manager exists because priorities change. A research assistant exists because information is fragmented. Many tools are not solving fundamental problems.