The Streets 4.6 update just published on the App Store has been optimized to run on the new Macs with Apple Silicon processor. Now you can virtually travel the world right from your M1 Mac. To display the Street View panorama for any location in the Maps app, just drag & drop the pin over to Streets.

We also simplified this task on iPhone where drag & drop between apps is not an option. The new Share extension “Open Location in Streets” allows you to view a nearby panorama for any location from the Maps app or any other app allowing to share locations. We tested apps such as Yelp, Tripadvisor, booking.com and many others. In fact, you can even mark an address in Mail and share it with Streets to view nearby 360° panoramas.

Download Streets 4.6 from the App Store and please keep your ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ratings coming if you like the update!

My stance on the Apple/Epic drama: Epic deliberately broke App Store rules every developer has to follow. Why have they done that? It looks foolish to intentionally break the rules just to launch a huge campaign when faced with the foreseeable consequences.

However, they’re certainly not dumb and lose $25,000 per hour for fun. It was a well orchestrated campaign instrumenting their user base in a PR fight against Apple and suing them at the same time. They wanted to get kicked out of the App Store in order to portray themselves as the David fighting against the Goliath and have a reason to file an already prepared lawsuit. They try to compel Apple to a better deal. Certainly their timing is good since Apple is under increased scrutiny with the current App Store antitrust investigations.

As an indie dev I certainly welcome any reduction in Apple’s fees. While I do appreciate what an amazing platform Apple has created with the App Store in the last dozen years and while I do think Apple should make fair money running it, their 30% cut is no longer appropriate in my opinion.

So Epic fighting the 30% cut should be more than welcome for us indie devs? Not so fast. I’m not sure this will be the outcome of this Epic/Apple tug of war. Epic is a multi billion business and their interest is most likely not aligned with us indies. So while I hope for change, I hope there will be change that everyone benefits from, not only the big guys. Epic wants to legitimize their payment infrastructure outside of the App Store. That’s certainly not what most smaller developers want to build and operate.

Drew McCormack wrote an interesting proposal how a new App Store sales model could look like. I think it would be fair to let every commercial app pay their share for the cost of running the App Store, and not only tax App Store revenues. Currently, multi-billion dollar companies with ad-based business models pay nothing for the App Store platform while every purchase is taxed with 30%. By requesting a fair share from everyone based on download volume, the “sales tax” could be lowered substantially.

We should also not forget there are quite a few issues besides the sales model: unclear and overly broad rules, incoherent application of those rules, the lack of an independent ombudsman or panel to resolve disputes – to name just a few.

The best aspect of Epic (and others such as Facebook) picking a quarrel: There’s quite a momentum now to achieve meaningful change of the App Store. I’ll be watching closely how this will unfold.

In Streets 4.5, we revised the Apple Watch app and introduced a true sphere viewer without distortion. You can now look around in all directions, not just horizontally. Either move your arm or just pan around using the finger to turn around or up and down in the panorama.

Tap the panorama once to select it (visualized with a green border) and zoom using the digital crown.

The update also includes the latest round of bug fixes.

Download the Streets 4.5 update from the App Store and if you like the update, we’d love to see a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review!

The Where To? 10.9.8 update published today supports Magic Earth for directions by car, bike or walking and NS Reisplanner for the Dutch railway and public transport system.

The update also addresses a few bugs.

Download the Where To? 10.9.8 update from the App Store.

Just in time for iOS 13, a new Streets update has landed. As you probably know, iOS 13 adds a system wide dark mode. Streets adopts the new look if you enable dark mode on your iPhone or iPad.

Grab the Streets 4.2 update from the App Store and if you wanna help us get out of our dark mood, enlighten us with a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review!

The Where To? 10.9.5 update published today supports the myAudi app to send destinations to compatible Audi vehicles. myAudi is the successor of the Audi MMI connect app.

Users with a standalone Garmin navigator device supported by Garmin Smartphone Link can now send destinations to the Smartphone Link app in order to transfer them on their device.

We also redesigned the search bar and improved Voice Over support for the blind and visually impaired.

Download the Where To? 10.9.5 update from the App Store.

Where To? 10.9.4 is available. The update adds more than 100 new brands such as supermarket and restaurant chains in various worldwide regions.

We also added support for public transport directions apps VRR (Rhein/Ruhr, 🇩🇪) and FahrPlaner (Bremen/Niedersachsen, 🇩🇪) and fixed several bugs.

Download the Where To? 10.9.4 update from the App Store.