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  • Apple announces new and upcoming 3D content for Apple Maps

    Apple announces new and upcoming 3D content for Apple Maps

    This could definitely help you find your way around the monuments the next time you visit the nation’s capital.

    On Thursday, Apple announced that a new 3D map of Washington, D.C. in the Apple Maps app will allow users to explore the city’s landmarks and memorials, such as the World War II Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, and Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The new mapping experience does not appear to be visible yet, but it likely will be soon.

    Alongside the launch of iOS 15 in September, Apple Maps gained a new 3D maps feature, which offers more detail and custom-designed landmarks in select cities, including Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and London. Apple said the 3D maps would be rolled out to additional cities later this year, including Philadelphia, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., and Apple previewed the feature in Washington, D.C. Thursday in honor of Veterans Day.

    The company also announced that it is honoring Veterans Day with special content in the App Store, Apple Books app, Apple TV app, and more. Users can also find a Veterans Day-themed Activity Challenge that Apple Watch users in the U.S. can complete by recording any workout for 11 minutes or longer today with the Workout app or any app that adds workouts to the Health app.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via MacRumors and Apple

  • Rumor: Apple may have changed the date for its FY16 fourth quarter earnings announcement to simultaneously announce next-gen MacBook Pro

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    This is an interesting rumor.

    Apple may have rescheduled is FY16 fourth quarter earnings to Tuesday, October 25th to accommodate the announcement of a new MacBook Pro.

    Moving the earnings call to earlier in the week also gives Apple a chance to quickly move past a potentially-disappointing quarterly earnings. Otherwise, the company would risk overshadowing a flashy new product announcement with news of less-than-stellar iPhone 7 sales.

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  • Apple posts Steve Jobs memorial web site

    Compiling some of the many e-mails the company has received since the passing of Steve Jobs, Apple launched a new feature on its website on Wednesday called “Remembering Steve.”

    Per AppleInsider, the tribute site, at apple.com/stevejobs/, continuously scrolls with personal messages sent in by customers and admirers of Jobs. Submissions are still being accepted at the address [email protected].

    “Over a million people from all over the world have shared their memories, thoughts, and feelings about Steve,” the site reads. “One thing they all have in common — from personal friends to colleagues to owners of Apple products — is how they’ve been touched by his passion and creativity.”

    The memorial page arrives as Apple is set to hold a celebration of the life of Jobs at its Cupertino, Calif., campus today. Apple’s retail stores will temporarily close from 10 a.m. Pacific to 11:30 a.m., allowing employees to watch a live broadcast of the event.

    Another, more private tribute to Jobs was held on Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church, attended by Apple executives, family, friends and dignitaries, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton. It also included performances from cellist Yo Yo Ma, singer Joan Baez, and U2 frontman Bono.

    Jobs passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long bout with cancer. A smaller service, featuring friends and family, was held just a few days after the Apple co-founder died.

  • Larger memorial held for passing of Steve Jobs, CEOs and celebrities in attendance

    A private memorial for Steve Jobs, held Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church, was attended by a long list of notable people, including politicians, actors, musicians and peers of the late Apple co-founder.

    Though Apple was “tight-lipped” about the hundreds of people who attended the event, Apple 2.0 obtained some of the names of those who attended. They include former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Google CEO Larry Page, and Adobe co-founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.

    Per Fortune, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who also remains a member of Apple’s board of directors. Actor Tim Allen, who plays the character Buzz Lightyear in the “Toy Story” films by Pixar — a company acquired by Jobs in 1986 and sold to Disney for US$7.4 billion in 2006 — was also present.

    Bono, lead singer of the band U2, was there as well. U2 and Apple have been closely tied for years, with songs by the band appearing in Apple’s commercials, and a special U2-branded iPod was released by the company in 2004.

    Others present included actor Stephen Fry, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, former California first lady Maria Shriver, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, and singer Joan Baez.

    Sunday’s memorial was an opportunity for a larger number of people to pay their respects to Jobs. A smaller service, featuring family and friends of the late Apple co-founder, was held earlier this month, just a few days after he passed away.

    Jobs died on Wednesday, Oct. 5 after a long bout with cancer. He was 56 years old. The list of some memorial attendees follows in alphabetical order:

    Tim Allen, actor

    Joan Baez, folksinger

    Bono, U2 frontman

    Bill Campbell, chairman of Intuit

    Bill Clinton, former President

    Ron Conway, founder of Angel Investors

    Tim Cook, Apple CEO

    Michael Dell, CEO of Dell

    Rahm Emmanuel, mayor of Chicago

    Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle

    Scott Forstall, Apple senior vice president

    Stephen Fry, actor

    Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft

    Chuck Geschke, Adobe co-founder

    Al Gore, former Vice President

    John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Pixar

    Jon Miller, chief technical officer of News Corp.

    Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp.

    Larry Page, CEO of Google

    Maria Shriver, former first lady of California

    Larry Sonsini, Silicon Valley attorney

    John Warnock, Adobe co-founder

  • Mint Digital Foundry Team converts MacBook Pro parts into portrait of Steve Jobs

    This is weird.

    But also kind of beautiful.

    Per Gizmodo, the Foundry Team over at Mint Digital disassembled a MacBook Pro and converted it into a portrait of Steve Jobs (full size image available here).

    This may not be the way Steve Jobs thought he’d be memorialized, but it is amazing.



    Take a gander and if you have any cool Steve Jobs stories of your own that you’d like to share, please send us an e-mail and we’ll have the best ones up on Monday.