When Apple unveiled the iOS App Store in 2008, FileMaker devotees were sure that Apple’s very own purveyor of fine database software would be among the first to place products in the App Store. And nowhere has the distance between the two corporations been more clear than on the iPhone. In fact, only Bento, Filemaker’s personal database, is available on the Mac App Store while its grown-up stablemates are not. While you can find reference to FileMaker, Inc., at the Apple Web site if you search for it, it’s not easy to find. Since 1998, Claris has been FileMaker, Inc., a company so utterly separate from its sole owner that one could easily be forgiven for imagining that the two companies have no connection at all. In many ways, FileMaker (the database program) is an anomaly in that universe, a throwback to the days when Apple’s software bore the Claris label. The direct successor to Claris, FileMaker has, to a degree that saddens its main product’s many dedicated users, become something of a red-headed stepchild within the Apple universe. It’s easy to forget that FileMaker, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple. #1610: Avoid hacked email scams, disable a known AirTag's alerts, battery technology tricks, industry support for passwordless login.#1611: OS updates, RIP iPod touch, iCloud Drive shared folder data loss risk, KDEConnect links iPhone to Linux.#1612: OS suggestions, new accessibility features, higher cellular prices, Chrome OS Flex for old Macs, Memorial Day hiatus.
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