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Apple Prepares for 2024 Summer Olympics With Updates to Maps, TV Coverage, Featured Apps and More

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Apple this week updated the Apple Maps app in Paris in preparation for the 2024 Summer Olympics, which are set to begin on Friday, July 26. All permanent venues, such as the Parc de Princes and Centre Aquatique Olympique, are displayed as custom, hand-built 3D landmarks.

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Iconic sites like Gare de l'Est, Pont d'Iéna, and Place de la Madeleine are also rendered with more detail, and for the first time, the Maps app is displaying pop up locations that include temporary venues, souvenir shops, and public gathering sites. support for pop up locations will help attendees find important places for the summer games.

All game locations and ceremony sites have special icons to help visitors find where they need to be, and Apple says that Maps displays all of the latest updates on road closures and advisories due to the games to help users navigate the city. There are curated Maps Guides for restaurants, hotels, and shopping, with dozens of new Guides from Le Bonbon, Le Fooding, Radio France, Madame Figaro, and My Little Paris.

Along with the Maps updates, Apple plans to feature stories spotlighting popular events like gymnastics and swimming in the App Store, and it recommends that people download the official Paris 2024 Olympics app to follow along. Sports-themed mobile games and health and fitness apps will be highlighted as well.

Full coverage of Olympic events will be available through the Peacock and NBC Sports apps, which can be downloaded from the App Store. A daily Olympic recap will be available on Peacock for fans in the U.S., offering customized playlists of highlights from relevant events from the prior day.

There is a dedicated NBC Olympics Hub in the Apple TV app for quick access to NBC coverage.

Apple Podcasts will feature shows and episodes celebrating sports and the power of gathering together in Paris, while Apple News will have curated coverage of the events and the stars of the games along with a schedule of events. Apple Music also plans to publish a Guide to French Music, which is an in-depth editorial feature of all the musical genres in France. It will go live later this week.

The Summer Olympics will begin next Friday with an Opening Ceremony that begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time or 7:30 p.m. Paris time. Soccer games will begin on July 24, with badminton, handball, rowing, volleyball, fencing, field hockey, shooting, diving, and gymnastics set to begin on July 27. Events will continue until August 11.

Article Link: Apple Prepares for 2024 Summer Olympics With Updates to Maps, TV Coverage, Featured Apps and More
 
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Will this dedicated NBC Olympics Hub in the Apple TV app be accessible on the 4K Apple TV?

On a side note, it's kind of criminal that the Peacock app will not have any 4K broadcasts of any kind. The only 4K will be through the USA Network so you better hope your provider broadcasts the USA 4K feed if you want to see anything in 4K.
 
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List of cities with detailed city experience (as mentioned in the article, Paris will be further enhanced with temporary Olympics info):
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Boston, MA
  • Chicago, IL
  • Hamburg, Germany
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Miami, FL
  • Montréal, Canada
  • Munich, Germany
  • New York, NY
  • Paris, France
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • San Diego, CA
  • San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  • Seattle, WA
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Toronto, Canada
  • Vancouver, Canada
  • Washington, DC
 
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nutmac said:
List of cities with detailed city experience (as mentioned in the article, Paris will be further enhanced with temporary Olympics info):
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Boston, MA
  • Chicago, IL
  • Hamburg, Germany
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Miami, FL
  • Montréal, Canada
  • Munich, Germany
  • New York, NY
  • Paris, France
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • San Diego, CA
  • San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  • Seattle, WA
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Toronto, Canada
  • Vancouver, Canada
  • Washington, DC
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I wish they would expand these features to more places. I mean, they employ people all around the globe. Get them to work! 👏
 
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Gator5000e said:
Will this dedicated NBC Olympics Hub in the Apple TV app be accessible on the 4K Apple TV?

On a side note, it's kind of criminal that the Peacock app will not have any 4K broadcasts of any kind. The only 4K will be through the USA Network so you better hope your provider broadcasts the USA 4K feed if you want to see anything in 4K.
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The entire state of media distribution today is, pardon my French, ****ing ridiculous.

Content owners should not be streaming companies and vice versa.

It's like local loop unbundling all over again. Telcoms shouldn't lay cable and vice versa.

It sounds socialist but we need companies dedicated to producing, and companies dedicating to distributing, and they should not be allowed to be the same company.

Hell, we already do it for alcohol. Google (Bing? DDG? LLM?) "three tier system." If it's good enough for beer, it's good enough for TV!

Content producers should solely focus on producing the best content possible, AKA getting all that 4K video produced.

Content distributors should then be buying that content and focusing on distributing it in the best way possible, AKA in 4K with a streaming application designed for the viewer, not the streaming company's executives to increase engagement.

I suppose I had just better let go of this dream to save myself the frustration, because this situation is only getting worse.
 
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CarAnalogy said:
The entire state of media distribution today is, pardon my French, ****ing ridiculous.

Content owners should not be streaming companies and vice versa.

It's like local loop unbundling all over again. Telcoms shouldn't lay cable and vice versa.

It sounds socialist but we need companies dedicated to producing, and companies dedicating to distributing, and they should not be allowed to be the same company.

Hell, we already do it for alcohol. Google (Bing? DDG? LLM?) "three tier system." If it's good enough for beer, it's good enough for TV!

Content producers should solely focus on producing the best content possible, AKA getting all that 4K video produced.

Content distributors should then be buying that content and focusing on distributing it in the best way possible, AKA in 4K with a streaming application designed for the viewer, not the streaming company's executives to increase engagement.

I suppose I had just better let go of this dream to save myself the frustration, because this situation is only getting worse.
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Unless there is a widespread move away from subscriptions and the model shifts to one that is primarily a-la-carte (like the iTunes Music Store once was) I don’t see these as being in any way analogous. And while for beer it is understood to be good for the consumer (according to the industry’s research…) it is very hard to reach the same logical conclusion for streaming.

Let’s take an example of something I care about. Andor. Season 1 was on Disney+ so logically Season 2 will be on Disney+. It is made by Disney. I like Disney.
Now imagine there’s a 3 tier system and Disney made Andor but the first series was on Netflix because Disney+ doesn’t exist. Disney make the second series and sign a deal with a distributor. But the distributor, CAPITALIST FILMS INC, gets an amazing offer from Amazing Video, of double the $$$ to stream Season 2 exclusively. But Netflix still has season 1. So Netflix subscribers who liked season 1 need to… cancel their subscription and subscribe to Amazing Video? Pay twice?

If Walmart doesn’t have the alcohol you like, it doesn’t prevent you buying your milk there and going to another store for another specific item later. The subscription model messes this up way too much to make sense.
 
Good to know the about the update to Apple Maps. Will be good if the detailed maps expand to more cities.
 
Great Apple keeps investing in Maps with temporary POI. Would be even nicer if their permanent POI were up to par. Because a lot of POI and business data are outdated.

Business owners also don’t seem to care about updating the info of their listings themselves. Seems Google’s approach has been far more successful.
 
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antonrg said:
I wonder if they would include the fences the mayor has installed all over the city that have been making the lives of us, the locals, miserable for a a few weeks already…
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It's a massive nightmare and will continue to be all summer. What a ridiculous palaver. Everyone must of course continue their normal lives and yet can't due to an event they potentially have no interest in and almost certainly have no benefit from.
 
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maps really needs a few super basic changes.

one, if you have a downloaded map, it should default to using that map over data and still allow you to use traffic. Currently, if you want to use the online map to save data, you cannot have live traffic, pretty darn stupid.

two, with regards to traffic, why does my 20-year-old Garmin show me traffic on all nearby routes but my iPhone hides everything except the traffic on the route it has selected giving me no option to see what’s going on?!
 
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phuklok1 said:
maps really needs a few super basic changes.

one, if you have a downloaded map, it should default to using that map over data and still allow you to use traffic. Currently, if you want to use the online map to save data, you cannot have live traffic, pretty darn stupid.

two, with regards to traffic, why does my 20-year-old Garmin show me traffic on all nearby routes but my iPhone hides everything except the traffic on the route it has selected giving me no option to see what’s going on?!
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Your second point I totally agree with. It’s a mystery what happens on nearby streets or alternative routes, making it impossible to make informed decisions. And Maps algorithm has its own issues so you can’t rely on it 100%.

But your first point has me baffled. You mean I download offline maps for nothing, when I still have reception???
 
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hagar said:
Your second point I totally agree with. It’s a mystery what happens on nearby streets or alternative routes, making it impossible to make informed decisions. And Maps algorithm has its own issues so you can’t rely on it 100%.

But your first point has me baffled. You mean I download offline maps for nothing, when I still have reception???
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sorry, i meant using offline (previously downloaded map). Why deny live traffic updates if data is available? it should at least be an additional option like the following:
1- use online maps/data (current default - high cellular data usage)
2- use offline map with online traffic updates (proposed option - low cellular data usage)
3- offline only (current option - no cellular data usage)
right now, we only have options 1 and 3. option 2 would allow someone to download a map at home on wifi (the biggest data usage), but allow the use minimal cellular data just for traffic, incidents, cameras, etc. I hope that makes sense. This helps people who don't have or can afford the luxury of unlimited data, travel the same region over and over (why download the same map daily when it's already stored, and supposedly automatically updated via wifi on the device), or perhaps they just have spotty coverage on their routes or area and this provides automatic redundancy.
 
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nicho said:
Unless there is a widespread move away from subscriptions and the model shifts to one that is primarily a-la-carte (like the iTunes Music Store once was) I don’t see these as being in any way analogous. And while for beer it is understood to be good for the consumer (according to the industry’s research…) it is very hard to reach the same logical conclusion for streaming.

Let’s take an example of something I care about. Andor. Season 1 was on Disney+ so logically Season 2 will be on Disney+. It is made by Disney. I like Disney.
Now imagine there’s a 3 tier system and Disney made Andor but the first series was on Netflix because Disney+ doesn’t exist. Disney make the second series and sign a deal with a distributor. But the distributor, CAPITALIST FILMS INC, gets an amazing offer from Amazing Video, of double the $$$ to stream Season 2 exclusively. But Netflix still has season 1. So Netflix subscribers who liked season 1 need to… cancel their subscription and subscribe to Amazing Video? Pay twice?

If Walmart doesn’t have the alcohol you like, it doesn’t prevent you buying your milk there and going to another store for another specific item later. The subscription model messes this up way too much to make sense.
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I guess I haven't fully thought this out. It's not that Andor season 1 would be from Disney and 2 from Netflix, it's that Disney wouldn't then use their ****** player to show it to me. And then I have to go over to Netflix and use their ****** player for their shows. And worst of all, the Peacock app. Anything Comcast owns can only be viewed in that app.

I just wish there was one third party company that distributed the video for all the video producers. That company could then focus on the user experience that is purposely destroyed by the streaming companies in the name of engagement.

But who that company is and how they would make money, I guess I haven't thought out. I just want to see the content separated from the video viewer, because the content owners are using it as a user hostile weapon.
 
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It's a massive nightmare and will continue to be all summer. What a ridiculous palaver. Everyone must of course continue their normal lives and yet can't due to an event they potentially have no interest in and almost certainly have no benefit from.
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Until September yep, we are all going to have to put up with it. Also, the restaurants are severely affected by all of this.
 
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