Salesforce buys Slack

Saleforce, a cloud computing giant will acquire the Chat service - Slack - for $27.7 billion. Slack is one of the most popular communicator in the computer industry.

It is still unknown what are Salesforce's plans for the application, but it is quite possible they will be related with enterprise customers.

Most popular applications from the App Store

Apple announced the most downloaded apps and games from the App Store in the 2020.

The top 3 free apps:

1. Zoom
2. TikTok
3. Disney+

Top 3 paid apps:

1. TouchRetouch
2. Procreate Pocket
3. FaceTune

Top 3 free games:

1. Among Us
2. Call of Duty Mobile
3. Roblox

Top 3 paid games:

1. Minecraft
2. Plague Inc.
3. Heads Up! Best Charades game

Apple's Best App of 2020

Apple also announced the best apps of 2020:

• iPhone App of the Year: Wakeout!
• ‌iPhone‌ Game of the Year: Genshin Impact
• iPad App of the Year: Zoom,
• iPad‌ Game of the Year: Legends of Runeterra
• Mac Game of the Year: Disco Elysium
• Mac App of the Year: Fantastical
• ‌Apple TV‌ App of the Year:  Disney+
• ‌Apple TV‌ Game of the Year: Dandara Trials of Fear
• Apple Watch App of the Year: Endel
• Apple Arcade Game of the Year: Sneaky Sasquatch

Also, winners will get a physical trophy.

Dope links

• The future of SwiftUI navigation (?)
• Developers resorting to giving away apps to help them make more sales is insane
• New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps

Image credits: Slack

Dope links

• Build a Search Bar and Responsive Grid Layout with SwiftUI
• Google, Apple and Other Users of Vue.js
• NET Conf 2020
• Windows on ARM Mac
• Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

Image credits: Timothy Eberly

Zoom's security issues

• Zoom quickly fixes ‘malware-like’ macOS installer with new update
• Zoom has disabled a feature that was exposing users’ LinkedIn profiles
• Thousands of Zoom recordings exposed because of the way Zoom names recordings
• Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues
• Image Credits: Kaspersky

Intel's 10th Gen CPUs

• New 10th Gen Intel Core H-Series Processor Launch

Apple acquires Dark Sky

• Dark Sky Has Been Acquired by Apple and Its API Will Be Discontinued at the End of 2021
• Image Credits: Dark Sky

AirTag Confirmed?

• Apple references unreleased AirTag item trackers in new support video
• Image Credits: Guilherme Rambo

Dope Links

• 5 Must-Know Xcode Shortcuts for Unit Testing
• Use Web Workers in your Vue.js Components for Max Performance
• How to protect Serverless (Open)API's?
• Announcing AWS Lambda support for .NET Core 3.1
• Pluralsight's Free April Month
• Virtual Disney World

Photoshop for iPad

Almost a year after it was first announced, Photoshop for the iPad has been released. And it is not just a psd viewer. It is fully featured Photoshop optimized to touch interface. Of course it doesn't have all the futures that desktop brother has, nevertheless it is one of the most powerful image editing applications for the iPad.

One other fact worth pointing out is that Adobe now have the ARM engine for the Photoshop. This might be important in the future, when Apple decide to transition from Intel to ARM processors.

Office app for iOS & Android

Microsoft launched new Office app for mobile devices. It combines Word, Excel and PowerPoint into single download. Beside from the ability to read and edit Office files, it will allow to browse documents and create a new ones using ability to scan text and tables.  

At the moment Office app is still in Beta, but soon it should replace Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the AppStores.

Interesting links

• How to build a Spotify clone for iOS with AutoLayout programmatically
• 22 short tests of Combine -  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Static Types in SwiftUI
• .NET Core 3.0 AWS Lambda Benchmarks and Recommendations
• You Don't Know JS (book series) - 1st Edition
• 10 Good Practices for Building and Maintaining Large Vue.js Projects
• DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers
• How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
• iOS 14 Concept
  

Image credits: Adobe