News for developers: about Chrome extensions, Windows updates, and the App Store

30 April 2019

Some time ago, Apple released its feature to help track the time spent by users on any services. After the release of this update, the company began to remove from the App Store applications that had the same features. For example, you can no longer find the Russian antivirus Kaspersky in the company's official store. It got under the squeeze because of the parental control function.

Apple commented on the situation as follows: "programs violate the rules of the platform and threaten the security of devices. According to company experts, such software can provide access to the smartphone and user location to third parties.

However, the owners of the applications put forward another version. In their opinion, Apple thus gets rid of competitors, because developers now have to rewrite their services and remove some key features from programs.

Новости для разработчиков: про расширения Chrome, обновления Windows и AppStore

Michael Leggett, the former lead designer of Gmail, released an extension for Chrome. It can make the mail interface cleaner.

The specialist left the company back in 2012. Despite this, he still makes some useful things for Chrome.

For example, the recently released Simplify Gmail extension gets rid of the icons on the right and left sides. Chats, folders and add-ons are removed. Once the extension is installed, even Gmail disappears.

If you are a fan of minimalism - you will definitely like this extension.

Новости для разработчиков: про расширения Chrome, обновления Windows и AppStore

Windows representatives said that the new version - 10 will weigh at least 32 GB.

Recall that some time ago the company announced that it would use 7 GB of the user's hard drive for storing updates. The upside of this approach is that it guarantees the fact that the space won't run out in the middle of an update. The downside, however, is that not-so-powerful tablets and laptops won't have enough space for updates.

Новости для разработчиков: про расширения Chrome, обновления Windows и AppStore

Before, Windows 10 required 16GB of minimum storage space for a 32-bit installation. Now, the requirements have been tightened and the minimum storage space is now 32GB for 32- and 64-bit versions. This is enough to install updates on inexpensive devices. In addition, this motivates gadget developers to increase the amount of built-in memory even on inexpensive devices.