I know a thing or two about AirPods. App developer, security researcher.
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ALT A screenshot of an Apple Developer webpage with the message “Access Unavailable” in bold. The text states that one or more apps have surpassed the 2 million first-time download limit, and PCC access is restricted to apps with fewer than 2 million total first-time downloads from the App Store. It notes that the limit is evaluated per app under the Apple Developer Program membership.
ALT Screenshot of a Virtual Machine Setup window showing configuration options. Skip Setup Assistant is enabled with options to automatically create a macOS account, log in automatically, and enable remote SSH login. Next to Skip Setup Assistant settings there's a button titled "Account Details"
ALT A dark-themed virtual machine setup window shows a section for configuring a Mac user account. The pop-up form displays fields for Full Name set to “John Doe,” Username set to “johndoe,” and Password and Confirm Password fields filled with masked dots. At the bottom, there are two buttons: a gray “Cancel” button and an orange “Save” button. Behind it, part of the Boot Disk settings and Display configuration sliders are visible.
ALT Screenshot of a Github pull request page for the project "ChibiStudio - iOS app". The title of the pull request is "Removed iMessage Extension" and the description is "RIP"
ALT Screenshot of the Shortcuts app on macOS showing a shortcut named "Toggle Head Tracking" which uses "Get Spatial Audio Mode" and "Set Spatial Audio" actions from AirBuddy
ALT Screenshot of a window with a green battery icon displaying "Charged alert for AirPods Pro 2" with two sliders: "Notify me when case charged to" with the value 95% and "Notify me when buds charged to" with the value 98%
ALT Screenshot of Apple's security release notes: Core Bluetooth Available for: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 5th generation and later Impact: An app may be able to record audio using a pair of connected AirPods Description: This issue was addressed with improved entitlements. CVE-2022-32946: Guilherme Rambo of Best Buddy Apps (rambo.codes)
ALT Screenshot of a circular notification on the macOS desktop displaying an icon representing an AirPods Pro charging case with the message "AirPods Pro Case - Charged to 100%"
ALT A second-generation AirPods Pro charging case sits on top of a table. The case has the message "Not Engraved" engraved into it. The message ends with a laughing emoji.
ALT Screenshot of TextMate with the line “alias mate equals nova”
ALT Resolved in Xcode 14.1 Beta 1 Starting in iPadOS 16.1, developers can turn on Stage Manager in the Simulator by using the appropriate setting in the Home Screen & Multitasking section of the Settings app. (95712631)
ALT Screenshot of QuickTime inspector showing Apple Event stream video with "Dolby Digital Plus" audio
ALT Screenshot of Control Center on macOS showing "Mr. Rambo's AirPods Max" with Spatial Audio available
ALT Screenshot of a quote: "It was really well-engineered, but the UX left a lot to be desired. They clearly had skiers on the team, but it felt like something got lost in translation... I thought, 'You know, I can do better than this.!"
ALT Screenshot of Xcode's scheme and destination selection showing the scheme "MobileAirBuddy-Beta" and the destination "J407" with an iPad icon
ALT Screenshot of the VirtualBuddy VM settings sheet where settings can be configured for CPU/RAM, Storage, Displays, and other virtual machine options.
ALT Screenshot of an iPhone Lock Screen showing a banner at the bottom with the message "Hello, Live Activity. Test State"
ALT A couple of orange/red wavy lines blur together with a slight gradient
ALT Screenshot of the screen mirroring module in the iOS control center.
ALT Screenshot of XML metadata from a video file showing metadata from Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro
ALT Screenshot of a Mac app displaying a sidebar with a list of CoreImage filters on the left, and a video of a Beats Fit Pro charging case on the right. The sidebar shows the morphology rectangle minimum, lanczos scale transform and color controls filters in boxes with sliders for the individual filter parameters.
ALT Screenshot of a xcconfig file in Xcode. The path bar shows the project "AirBuddy", the folder "Config", with the "Versions" file selected. The contents of the file are the following: VERSIONING SYSTEM equals apple-generic, MARKETING VERSION equals 3.0, CURRENT PROJECT VERSION equals 700
ALT Screenshot of a code comment at the top of a file: "AirFormView.swift AirUI Created by Guilherme Rambo on 30/05/22. Copyright © 2022 Guilherme Rambo. All rights reserved.”
ALT Screenshot of a Mac preferences window with the “Widgets” tab selected showing a series of form controls including a switch, pop up buttons and checkboxes, with labels aligned to the left of the controls, but with each label aligned so that the right side matches the right side of the label before it.
ALT Screenshot of a Github comment: "There are some good features in here. Perhaps it would be better to instead focus on adding those features to UTM?"
ALT Screenshot of the Apple reminders app showing a reminder titled "Open-source VirtualBuddy"
ALT A macOS alert shows a stop sign and the message “Setapp.app would like to modify your apps” with two buttons: “Don’t Allow” and “OK”
ALT Screenshot of the Settings app in macOS ventura displaying a table named “Add Login Items” with the item “Dropbox” and a plus and minus button below. A list below the table titled “Login Items Added By Apps” lists several apps including “1Password 7”, “AirBuddy”, and more. Each item has a toggle next to it.
