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

[9081094]

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

Nice, but that’s a very short list… how long does it take for Apple to get a few thousand cities like that?

 

[mjs916]

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.

“Palaver”. Thanks for introducing me to a new-to-me word.

As for the content of your post, I’ve seen how hosting the Olympics can ravage an area once it’s abandoned and leave it worse for wear. Not to mention the inconvenience to locals already discussed.

The California International Marathon and the Amgen Tour of California were thorns in my side when I lived in downtown of the capitol city.

It’s a gigantic spectacle and then it isn’t. I don’t feel the “Olympic spirit” as I used to, but I still like to read about or see people’s attempt to perform at the very edge of human ability every few years. It just doesn’t mean as much to me as it used to.

 

[hagar]

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.

It definitely makes sense. As I assumed option 2 is how Maps operates since iOS 17. Glad you’ve pointed this out.

Why does Apple always have to do something weird.

 

[MareLuce]

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.

Great to know thanks for posting this

 

[tennisproha]

ah, like what ? (just by curiosity).

VPNs are a great tool