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'Pokémon Go' Gets First Update With Much-Needed Bug Fixes

ericwn said:
It's just one of the millions of Apps on the App Store and has no relevance to Apple's business. Sure, some kids play it right now, and the rest of us will move on. Pure clickbait content in lack of relevant tech news and no, if memory serves well this site does not usually write front page articles for many apps that happen to be popular someplace.
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Not really. The VR / AR crowd has been screaming for years that geo-tagged Avatars showing up in AR environments can be used as a form of entertainment and advertising. Now that a big house has finally done it, this will become yet another marketing windfall of multiple AR overlay universes into real space hosted by several competing companies. The Mad Men finally get it.

Now you'll see serious efforts into other fandom fed franchises doing "GPS-based AR" for a bunch of things. The superhero franchises, entertainment promotion, seeing a new model car AR drive down your nearby street, hell I can even see being in a stadium and using your phone to AR overlay a playing field showing stats and arrows of game-play with the right tracking devices around.

We'll be seeing a lot more in the next few years since the AR watershed is finally broken open thanks to Pokemon Go.
 
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redheeler said:
This is not Apple news though, and like any 3rd-party app news it certainly doesn't belong outside of the iOS Blog. But as usual, MacRumors' priorities are all mixed-up.
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It, actually, very specifically is Apple news.

The update specifically eliminates an issue only present on the iOS version with logging in thru Google giving it full access to your google account, rather than using it only for name as the usual google universal sign-in stuff does. A problem that was not present on the Android version where it only used your name details for the sign-up process.
 
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I can't update because I got it in the UK by the totally unofficial region switch method and because I've gone back to my usual account in the UK store it won't find the update.

I could log out again but don't want to have to redownload all my Apple Music :( lol. Thankfully the older version still works.
 
cosimm said:
Does AR still not work on iOS 10 beta?
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Also not working properly on iOS 10 beta is Low Power Mode. That's supposed to dim the screen and display a faint Pokemon Logo when you hold the phone upside down. I imagine it's the same problem - no gyro, no knowledge you are holding it upside down.
 
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BuffaloTF said:
It, actually, very specifically is Apple news.

The update specifically eliminates an issue only present on the iOS version with logging in thru Google giving it full access to your google account, rather than using it only for name as the usual google universal sign-in stuff does. A problem that was not present on the Android version where it only used your name details for the sign-up process.
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It's one 3rd party (Niantic Labs) communicating with another 3rd party (Google). To me that is not even close to Apple news, and only belongs on the front page as something iOS users should know about. Hence we got yesterday's article on the subject, which was since updated to note the fix.
 
redheeler said:
It's one 3rd party (Niantic Labs) communicating with another 3rd party (Google). To me that is not even close to Apple news, and only belongs on the front page as something iOS users should know about. Hence we got yesterday's article on the subject, which was since updated to note the fix.
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Then look elsewhere for your Apple news you Pokehater! BE GONE!
 
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redheeler said:
This is not Apple news though, and like any 3rd-party app news it certainly doesn't belong outside of the iOS Blog. But as usual, MacRumors' priorities are all mixed-up.
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I better see you complain on EVERY article on this site about Samsung, Lenovo, Microsoft, etc. and EVERY Friday giveaway as well.
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EM2013 said:
Where did all these Pokemon 'fans' come from?
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From the game series being popular for nearly 20 years and selling nearly 300 million copies over that time period.
 
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Couple of observations - to people saying "since when do we put articles about apps up?" - two words "Flappy Bird".

Second this is a great leap in AR - personally I missed the Pokemon phase in the 80s/90s - I was too old to be a normal player/watcher and too young to be one of those weird older dudes that like Pokemon. I imagine all sorts of AR in the future - say for example watching the Man of Steel movie on the iPhone with the final battle overlaid over Sydney's skyline, looking out over the Blue Mountains and seeing Gandalf ride into helms deep in the real world.

For me this is where google glass should be - being suck head down into a screen and bumping into things isn't a great look - having the AR right in your eye would be amazing - whilst still being able to see where you are going.
 
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azfalcons said:
Is it? Several people have been robbed and one killed so no its dramatic at all. You'll see more occurrences happen
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Could you link to someone being killed or are you referring to the girl that found the dead body where Pokemon Go is essentially helping policework.
 
If I've already found Buggy-Lug and BugBugBuggy and Bugle-Bug do they still get fixed or do I have to catch them again? Bugle-Bug was especially difficult, I had to tight-rope walk along a washing line and nearly broke my neck on the fall down. Also that lady didn't appreciate me knocking her washing off the line until I explained what I was doing on her property, and then she was just excited to know I had captured Bugle-Bug. But will they get fixed?!

I should probably add I have not played Pokémon Go, and the above paragraph is merely a location-based suggestion made to me by myself based on my past history of sarcasm. Perhaps I will try the game when it is launched in the UK.
 
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