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Apple Announces New Apple Watch Sport Loop Bands Representing 22 Countries
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"The team is officially known as the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team,[3] and the use of Team GB as the BOA's branding is seen as inadequate by some, as it suggests the team is drawn from Great Britain alone, which only consists of England, Scotland and Wales, while omitting the rest of the territories where BOA athletes are eligible for selection, most notably Northern Ireland, as well as the Crown dependencies (Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey), and those British Overseas Territories (BOT) that are not represented by their own National Olympic Committee."
....for those having issues downloading watchfaces from your phone - its quite buried away.
Do this:
1. Go to the Apple Store in the Safari browser on your phone and tap the button at the top left:
2. Choose 'Watch' :
3. Scroll quite far down until you see this and then tap 'See the countries' :
4. This then takes you to the watch faces and you just then tap 'Add Apple Watch Face' :
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I’ve just noticed that the GB one might not be accurate. The lines going at an angle have more white to them, but the watch face has even white on both sides
I’ve just looked at other flags & they’re all turned sideways, so it’s the middle line with even white lines on both sides that’s the watch face
I’ve just looked at other flags & they’re all turned sideways, so it’s the middle line with even white lines on both sides that’s the watch face
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Sound observation but I don’t think it’s meant to correlate directly to the diagonal lines on the union jack (all the Watch faces feature diagonal stripes after all, even though they’re not present in their countries flags). That said, it is a fairly accurate depiction of the horizontal and vertical stripes. By playing around with the ‘stripes’ watch face you could potentially make it even more accurate
Curiosity got the better of me and so created my own variation on the GB watch face using these rules for the diagonal. Achieved with 8 total stripes (note the diagonal is made up of 6 equal parts) with an angle of 150 degrees
...that just looks uneven in my eyes!!!!
Surely it should look something like this:
Yep, can see why Apple haven’t followed true flag dimensions. Looks weird
None of the watch faces are really custom. They're all just exploiting the stripes face with country colors. So little effort was put into this and no good reason more countries are not represented with watch faces.
😂 This would be a good coffee mug statement in the style of “#1 Dad!”.
....for those having issues downloading watchfaces from your phone - its quite buried away.
Do this:
1. Go to the Apple Store in the Safari browser on your phone and tap the button at the top left:
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2. Choose 'Watch' :
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3. Scroll quite far down until you see this and then tap 'See the countries' :
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4. This then takes you to the watch faces and you just then tap 'Add Apple Watch Face' :
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For some reason I’m not able to expand on “see the countries”.
Ah the Italy one is so good. Really makes me think "ITALY" with all the blue from the Italian flag there on the band.
I doubt Apple is a party to the IOC Charter.
Plus I don’t see why article 60 would be relevant. Or are we talking about some contract to which Apple is a party or some law that is binding on Apple?
Doesn't work.. No biggie a forum member sent a link and all is good..
I’m actually Greek and Great would not be the word I would use. I’d still consider buying one though.
I doubt Apple is a party to the IOC Charter.
Apple has a documented history of ambush marketing around the Olympic Games. While they have avoided violating the US federal law protecting the USOPC’s interest in the Olympic trademarks, they have indisputably come as close as possible, and they’re doing it again as Tokyo approaches, just as they did at Rio.
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