Apple Maps finally gets transit directions
Apple’s Maps app has been lacking one of the more important turn-by-turn directions features since its launch. Today at WWDC, Maps finally got transit directions. The new feature will offer directions for buses, trains, subways and ferries. The app will also surface nearby restaurants, shops and activities. Maps also now tells commuters which subway entrance to enter and exit. Helpful in large cities with huge stations. Maps will launch in the United States in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, and Baltimore. Internationally it’ll launch in many cities in China including Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai and others. Other international cities include Mexico City, London, Berlin and Toronto. More cities are expected in the future.
Apple News app brings ‘beautiful’ personalized content to iOS
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Today at WWDC Apple announced a Flipboard-like news curator called, wait for it, Apple News. Like Facebook’s Instant Articles push, it includes articles specifically built for the app by partners like ESPN, the New York Times, Wired and others, but can also pull in content from elsewhere on the internet. The New York Times will push 30 free articles through the app every day, while other partners like ESPN will bring videoclips and infographics. As we’ve seen throughout the event, Apple is pushing privacy as a feature, promising your preferences won’t be used in other Apple services.
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Apple Pay will make shopping easier in the UK
Apple Pay’s made life easier for iPhone 6 and Apple Watch users in the US since last fall. The contactless payment service is now going to surpass one million locations in the country. Now, as predicted in the weeks leading up to WWDC, Apple’s introducing its tap-to-pay service in the UK next month. In addition to retailers like Boots, Costa Coffee and Marks & Spencer’s, the service will also be available on the London transit system for daily commutes.
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Grab this award-winning Bluetooth speaker for half price
In a pinch and don’t know what to get dad for Father’s Day? Do him and yourself a solid by picking up the Sound Kick Bluetooth Speaker. He’ll love the sound and features and your wallet will thank you in the process.
For a limited time you can nab the highly acclaimed portable speaker for only $49, a savings of 50% off the normal sticker. What’s more, you can also enjoy free shipping on the unit, too. And, if you order today it’s guaranteed to get to you in time for Father’s Day.
Gizmodo named this the “Best $100 Bluetooth Speaker” while iLounge said it was the “Overall Best of Show at CES.” What will day say about it?
Features include:
- Enjoy up to 7 hours of playtime with the built-in rechargeable battery
- Stream music wirelessly via Bluetooth
- Control the volume & playback functions directly from the speaker
- Quickly connect to any device w/ a simple line-in option that works with a standard headphone jack
- Enhance your playlist w/ full sound, natural bass response, vocal clarity & UQ3™ spatial enhancement
- Charge your mobile devices w/ the USB power port even while Sound Kick is running on battery power
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OnePlus One sticking with $50 price cut, Dropbox Pro offer with 64GB version
Did you miss that $50 off sale on the OnePlus One last week? Well don’t fret, looks like it was so successful that OnePlus is keeping the price that way, at $249 for the 32GB and $299 for the 64GB version.
“We were blown away by the response in sales and took a hard look at the numbers to make sure we were maintaining our commitment to our users.“
It’s great to see continued interest in the OnePlus One. It made quite a splash last year, offering flagship specs at a budget price. Even with its age, it’s a better deal than new budget offerings at the $249 price-point.
To recall, we have a quad-core Snapdragon 801 SoC, 5.5″ 1080P display, 3GB RAM, 13 MP rear and 5 MP front cameras, 3,100 mAh battery, and Android 5.0 Lollipop (with UI options of either Cyanogen OS 12 or Oxygen OS).
Also, to complement the news, Oneplus partnered with Dropbox to make a bundle with the larger capacity One. This deal gives you one year of a Dropbox Pro and a 64GB OnePlus One for $349. Note that this offer is not permanent. It starts on June 10th for “a limited time only” in the US, Canada, and EU. Dropbox Pro gives you 1TB of cloud storage, secure sharing, and more.
Are you finally enticed by the $249 starting price or going to hold out for the OnePlus Two?
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Apple Pay to Support Retail Store Credit Cards [iOS Blog]
Apple is expected to announce that Apple Pay will support retail store credit cards at its annual WWDC keynote today in San Francisco, according to The Wall Street Journal. The private label cards, which typically offer customers special offers and rewards, so far have not been compatible with the mobile payments service since its U.S. launch last October.
Many retailers in the United States, such as Walmart, Target, The Home Depot, Macy’s, JCPenney, Sears, Bloomingdale’s, Old Navy and Staples, offer store-branded credit cards in partnership with major credit companies including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. The credit cards typically offer loyalty programs where customers can collect points and receive instant savings on their purchases.
Apple Pay is also expected to launch later this year in Canada, China and the United Kingdom, and it is possible that the company will provide more details about the international rollout of the service today. MacRumors will be providing live coverage of the WWDC keynote, which starts at 10 AM Pacific, through our live blog and @MacRumorsLive on Twitter.
Apple Announces OS X El Capitan With Split View, New Spotlight, Updated Apps and More, Launches in Fall [Mac Blog]
Apple today announced OS X 10.11 El Capitan, the latest version of its Mac operating system. OS X El Capitan features new versions of multiple stock apps, including Safari, Mail and Notes, improved Spotlight search with natural language enhancements and contextually aware results, Metal for Mac and other features and refinements that Apple introduced during its WWDC keynote in San Francisco.
OS X 10.11 El Capitan includes a new version of Safari with pinned sites and a universal mute feature, an updated Mail app with an enhanced full-screen mode and more. OS X 10.11 El Capitan will be available in public beta in July and will publicly launch in the fall as a free software update for supported Macs.
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Apple Announces Metal for OS X El Capitan [Mac Blog]
Apple today announced a boost to performance coming to users with OS X El Capitan in the form of Metal, previously available only for iOS. The company promises the inclusion of Metal onto OS X will boost performance and battery life.
Showcasing Epic’s forthcoming game Fortnite, a few Epic developers showcased how the graphics engine will be perfect for high performance games, combining the computing power of OpenCL and graphics power of OpenGL into new API that does both.
LG G4 gets the tear down treatment including X-ray blasts
LG’s latest flagship, the LG G4, is bucking a recent trend among smartphone manufacturers in continuing to give users access to the battery via a removable back cover. That in itself should help the smartphone achieve a good iFixit teardown score. The question remains though as to whether the rest of the device would be as easy to work on. The iFixit team has their answer and in the process they blast a G4 with some X-rays.
Starting out on their teardown, the iFixit team starts with removal of the back cover and battery, easy steps in a world of increasing complexity. The team did decide train some X-rays on the back cover to get a view of the NFC antenna encased in the plastic. Unfortunately, for owners hoping to use a wireless charger, this mean getting a special case to handle that function.
As the team continued, the process of removing the midframe was the first step that required the use of a tool, a standard Phillips #0. Continuing on with removal of components like the cameras or the headphone jack just requires simple tools like a spudger or tweezers. iFixit found everything came out relatively easy as LG stayed away from glue and adhesives, opting for spring contacts.
In the course of the teardown, the team trained the X-rays on the LG cameras to get a little look at what the inside of one of these units looks like. This provided an interesting view of the frame for the camera and the circuits used to power it.
Overall, the iFixit team awarded the LG G4 an 8 out of 10 for a Repairability Score. The modular nature of the components and lack of adhesives helped the smartphone achieve a good score. The one negative the team found was the display assembly which has the glass and LCD fused together, meaning the entire unit will have to be replaced if damaged.
source: iFixit
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Apple Announces iOS 9 With Proactive Siri and More [iOS Blog]
Today at WWDC, Apple announced iOS 9, the latest version of its mobile operating system. iOS 9 has four central areas of improvement: intelligence, apps, iPad and foundation. Intelligence includes updates to Siri, which has a brand new design similar to its Apple Watch interface, and a new proactive assistant called Proactive.
The new, more proactive Siri is contextually aware and can offer you more information than ever. For instance, if a user runs every morning Siri can offer music to listen to when the user plugs in their headphones. The music is context sensitive and is dependent on time and place, so if a user is in the car Siri may offer an audiobook or podcast instead of music if that’s what the user usually does. If someone calls a user with a number not in their address book, Siri can now look through email to see if it can identify the number. If it can, it’ll display it.
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