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Apple's Website Has Hidden Easter Egg to Celebrate Euro 2016

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Apple quietly updated the "choose your country" selector on its website a few weeks ago in the United Kingdom and other European countries, adding Euro 2016 country groups and a bracket to celebrate the ongoing football tournament in France.

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Apple also temporarily added a handful of countries and regions that it does not have regional websites for, including Albania, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Ukraine, and Wales, to ensure that the groups and bracket are filled out properly.

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The fun "easter egg" discovery is for the 2016 UEFA European Championship currently being held between June 10 and July 10 in France, where eight teams remain: Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Wales.

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France has won the World Cup, the Euro Cup, and the Confederation Cups once each (I was at two of these in Paris). Coincidently these Cups were all played in France. Hmmm....................

Personally, I am hoping for Germany!
 
That's a really cool idea actually.
I love this!

Cuban Missles said:
France has won the World Cup, the Euro Cup, and the Confederation Cups once each (I was at two of these in Paris). Coincidently these Cups were all played in France. Hmmm....................

Personally, I am hoping for Germany!
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Hah, yeah I'm rooting for Germany as well... I wonder why... :D

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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RichTeer said:
Umm, no. The game is called football because feet are what's used to manipulate the ball, unlike American football where the players' feet rarely touch the ball. I think soccer is largely an north americanism. Hence the FA Cup: Football Association Cup.
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"soccer" comes from the world "association". Both are OK. Soccer in American English, Football in British English (also the first name of the sport, given to it by those who invented it).
C'mon guys. We've all been to that already. :)
 
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TheMacApple said:
Not needed, when apps go to the app switcher, they use zero anything instill you go into the switcher
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Significant1 said:
Yes, if facebook app has Background App Refresh in Settings enabled (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202070):
Settings>Facebook>Settings>Background App Refresh
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Treq said:
Football?... I think you mean soccer.
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keysofanxiety said:
No ... no ...
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RichTeer said:
Umm, no. The game is called football because feet are what's used to manipulate the ball, unlike American football where the players' feet rarely touch the ball. I think soccer is largely an north americanism. Hence the FA Cup: Football Association Cup.
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kyjaotkb said:
"soccer" comes from the world "association". Both are OK. Soccer in American English, Football in British English (also the first name of the sport, given to it by those who invented it).
C'mon guys. We've all been to that already. :)
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keysofanxiety said:
More like Soccer in American English, Football to the rest of the world (excluding Australia).
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For those ACTUALLY interested in the etymology and not just dogmatism and ethnocentrism, here's an article explaining it all:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/soccer-not-football-_n_5492714.html

Cheers from a "Yank" across the pond in the States. :)
 
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Can we throw in some EU referendum jokes, or is that too political? Something about England leaving Europe twice in one week? Of course the joke doesn't quite work as Wales are still in the competition.

I was disappointed to see the Welsh players celebrating England's terrible performance with such gusto. As an England supporter I genuinely feel that Iceland won the game fair and square and we were truly, truly awful. I wish Wales all the best and, despite the fact that Welsh supporters will be expecting England supporters to be cheering on France I for one will be hoping Wales do very well. Fair play to them. :)

Anyway, that had nothing to do with Apple's Easter Egg so I'll shut up...
 
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keysofanxiety said:
More like Soccer in American English, Football to the rest of the world (excluding Australia).
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The sport is commonly called "soccer" here in Canada too, but I used "football" in this article due to the context:

(a) Euro 2016 is being hosted by France, where the sport is called "football";
(b) Euro 2016 only consists of teams from Europe, where the sport is called "football"

If it was a U.S.-centric article, I would have used "soccer."

Plus, I included a link to "association football" on Wikipedia for those who are still mind-boggled. ;)

But it's always fun to debate!
 
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I wonder if Apple interns worked on this... Seems like small enough project for a 4 month student.
 
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