Linked List: September 10, 2019

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Uber Lays Off 435 People Across Engineering and Product Teams ★

Typically bad news gets announced on a Friday afternoon. In the tech industry, there’s an even better way to bury bad news: announcing it on the day of an iPhone event.

New Apple Developer Tech Talk: ‘Metal Enhancements for A13 Bionic’ ★

If you want nitty-gritty details on what’s new with the GPU in the A13 Bionic chip, Apple already has a 35-minute developer tech talk. For an overview, graphics driver team manager Gokhan Avkarogullari posted a short thread on Twitter.

Release Dates for OS Updates, New iPhones, and Apple Watch ★

So glad John Voorhees put this list together — there are a lot of dates to keep track of here. Some oddities: iOS 13.0 is coming September 19, and 13.1 is scheduled to drop just 11 days later. iPadOS 13 isn’t shipping until September 30, which presumably means it’s going straight to 13.1. Unusual schedule for WatchOS 6, too: “September 19, 2019 for Series 3 and later Apple Watches and later this fall for Series 1 and 2.”

Federico Viticci has a list of iOS/iPadOS features that are slated for “later this fall”, presumably in iOS 13.2.