The new online stores are advertised prominently on the respective country-specific main Apple pages, which display welcome messages on top of confetti in each country's national colors.
Czech Republic, Hungary Poland
The new stores allow users to purchase directly from Apple, offering standard Apple pricing for the markets and integration with Apple sales and support services. With the four new stores, Apple now offers online stores for 37 countries, with several of those countries seeing their stores offered in multiple languages.
Tuesday November 5, 2024 5:02 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Apple News is providing Live Activities support for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, allowing iPhone and iPad users to track electoral results in real time directly from their Lock Screen.
The feature is rolling out for U.S. users over the course of Election Day, November 5, providing continuous updates of the electoral count. So if you're interested, you don't need to repeatedly check...
Monday November 4, 2024 10:54 am PST by Juli Clover
With the second beta of iOS 18.2 that's available for developers today, Apple has further fleshed out the ChatGPT integration that's available with Siri. In the Settings app, there's now a section that shows the ChatGPT daily limit, and offers an option to upgrade to the paid ChatGPT Plus plan.
The beta includes an Advanced Capabilities section with a "Daily Limit" reading that shows up as...
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Find My
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Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment,...
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This means we can expect new M4...
Thursday October 31, 2024 7:06 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol
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Here is a comparison of the results:
Mac mini with M4 Pro (14-core CPU): 22,094 multi-core score (average of 11 results)
Mac Studio...
This is the moment I, and many people in Poland, have been waiting for. No more waiting, higher prices and wanky support. Thank you Apple. It took you like 25 years but here you are. Dzięki!
Great, finally Czech Republic has an Apple Online Store. Now just give me the iTunes Music and Video Store, the iBookstore, Photo Book printing, GarageBand lesson purchase, etc., and it will be magnificent :) Hope Apple Online Store today is just a start.
This is the moment I, and many people in Poland, have been waiting for. No more waiting, higher prices and wanky support. Thank you Apple. It took you like 25 years but here you are. Dzięki!
Are the prices better? When Apple launched here in NZ a few years ago, there were immediate price drops across the board :)
The confetti was made to look like real hole-punches. Cute. :D
Interesting how the colors are different but the arrangement of confetti is identical in each graphic. ...And how each country has at least red and white included in their national colors.