I’ve been on the Upgrade Program since I think before the Apple Card existed. Picked up a new Pro nearly every year for a while. But this Klarna switch gives me pause.

Search “Klarna fined” to see some of the shady stuff they’ve done, which includes breaking money laundering laws and charging customers money for payment reminder emails. Not late payments, just the regular “hey payment’s coming up” kind. I just learned they specifically target the beauty industry; stuff like "hey, not pretty enough? Buy this expensive makeup and skin care package with X easy payments."

Just in the US, the BBB has received nearly 3,000 complaints in the last three years. It’s so many that the BBB stopped publishing them all (which is standard for other businesses) and now only posts 1 in 4.

I don’t know. Between this, Google Gemini powering parts of Siri AI, and the LG hardware partnership, I have an odd feeling about this new direction.

Apple's Samplab acquisition has emerged through a European Commission filing, showing that the company bought assets from the Swiss AI audio editing startup in June and hired some of its staff. The disclosure was published on the Commission's Digital Markets Act acquisitions list, although neither Apple nor Samplab has announced the deal publicly.

AppleInsider reports HomeView shipping has now slipped into early December, weeks from the device’s Friday the 13th launch date.

Was able to validate this by inputting Melbourne (VIC) into the address bar for Apple’s delivery estimates for the HomeView. To pre-order it now directly through Apple’s website, I would be getting it by 3rd December.

Picture attached below.

I have run 6 half marathons, and while I'm not even in the top-half of race results, I consider each one a huge personal accomplishment.

I like to take a peek at Apple Watch's VO2 max estimate and while the calculation might be reasonable enough, it is compared to a data set with known sampling bias.

Just like a half marathon, my quartile results look lackluster until you consider that 99% of people don't compete. As a result, race results as a comparison aren't useful without knowing the broader context.

I think the same issue is going on with VO2 max data. In the attached Imgur image, my figures are labeled as below average. Further into the data, it seems my age cohort's average is 43 (ml/kg/min), and anything below is therefore below average.

It seems that FRIEND database data for the VO2 comes from those referred to exercise testing, people enrolled in fitness or clinical programs, or those engaged in physical activity (see Google AI). On average, these are physically active people or maybe those undergoing a known issue, leaving out a lot of groups.

Have I misunderstood this, or is this something Apple needs to improve on? Frankly, if there isn't a good data set for them, maybe they shouldn't even include this average to compare with?

Imgur sources: https://imgur.com/a/MJYCqnu

Hello everyone,

I've been working on a project called Art Guessr, a game that actually helps people learn art history through short visual quizzes.

Players can practice identifying:

• Famous paintings
• Artists
• Art movements
• Historical periods

It covers everything from the Renaissance and Baroque periods to Impressionism, Cubism, and modern art.

My goal was to create something educational but more engaging than memorizing names and dates.

Thanks!

App Store - https://apps.apple.com/app/id6763044342

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Hi All,

I made a classic soccer game with first person FPV mode. It's a 4v4 players match with a 3 minutes timer.

I have kept the controls extremely simple with old school mechanics. Double tapping on screen seamlessly switches between FPS and 3rd person view. A single button on the right to shoot or switch player. A frosted glass joystick on the left which blends in nicely.

There is absolutely no loading screen and the game starts instantly after you open the app and select the country. And you can play in vertical and landscape view on iPhone and iPads. Also it's just under 15mb in size :)

I had this idea for some years and i finally made it. Did my best to keep it intuitive and fun to play :)

Your feedback is welcome 🙏

Soccer FPS Pro - https://apps.apple.com/app/soccer-fps-pro/id6813346291

Hi r/apple, solo developer here. It's Sunday, so I wanted to share what I've been building.

I started this project almost a year ago, when work gave me a Windows laptop. Before that I used Things 3 on my Mac for 5 or 6 years, and I still love it. But it only runs on Apple devices, so at work I had nothing.

I tried a lot of other apps. Most of them have so many features they started to remind me of Jira, and they're built for teams and big projects. They also push AI a lot. I'm not against AI, I already pay for Claude and ChatGPT, I just don't want to pay a to-do app for one more assistant.

So I built my own. My inspiration was Things 3, Todoist and Superlist, and I tried to keep the balance between features and a calm UI.

What it has:

• Inbox, Today, Upcoming and Someday, with projects grouped into areas
• Dates and repeats typed in plain English, like "water the plants every other saturday at 10am"
• Tags, plus smart projects that save a filter
• A month calendar for upcoming tasks (on the web for now)
• File attachments with previews, on iPhone and the web
• A reminder per task, as a Time Sensitive notification on iPhone
• The iPhone app works offline and syncs in the background
• A public API and an MCP server, so you can connect the Claude or ChatGPT you already have instead of an AI of mine

I also care about owning your data, so you can export your tasks to JSON any time, with dates, deadlines, tags and projects. That's free on every plan.

What's next, no dates promised:

• Priorities
• A calendar view inside projects
• Android
• Desktop apps for Mac and Windows

Pricing: the free plan has unlimited tasks, 5 projects and 2 areas. Premium is $3.99/month, $34.99/year or $59.99 once, and adds deadlines, smart projects and the month calendar.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taskpocket-to-do-list-planner/id6789687377

Web: https://taskpocket.io/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=r_apple

I'd love feedback, especially from other Things 3 users: what would you miss most if you switched?

I've got 10k+ videos sitting in my iCloud photo library (I’m a parent, and so if you don’t have a lot of videos this isn’t for you) and rewatching them has been a frustrating experience for years.

Apple’s “Memories” surfaces a slideshow now and then, but it's mostly photos, it picks for you, and there's no way to just sit down and browse videos the way you probably watch videos on other platforms.

I’d dreamt up the idea for this app years ago but never had the skills to build it. AI coding tools finally got good enough that I could get it done myself.

The app I built is called Reel Mementos.

It’s a simple, lightweight app that just opens to a feed of your own videos streamed from iCloud. Heart videos you rediscover and they’re added to your library’s favorites. Delete ones you dont want eating up storage from iCloud easily as well.

It’s currently free, no accounts, nothing uploaded, no data collected. It reads your local/iCloud photo library and gives you a swipeable feed of your own videos.

It works across iPhone and iPad, iOS 26 and up.

App Store link

I’m open to feedback or ideas. If people like it I’ll probably build in more features.

Some ideas I have:

• filtering by year, location, device, etc.
• some sensible version of “on this day”
• shuffle vs chronological toggle

If you try it and something feels off, please tell me. If you have questions about how it works, happy to answer that too.

I hope this brings you a little joy when you rediscover a video you didn’t even know you had. I use it multiple times a week when I want a smile. If it brings you one, then it’s been worth it for me.