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Explore Four Historic Apple Stores with The Apple Store Time Machine

Yesterday, Michael Steeber released The Apple Store Time Machine, a Mac app built with the Unity game engine that recreates four historically significant Apple Stores:

  • Tysons Corner, the first ever Apple Store
  • Sanford Shopping Center, a mini version of the Apple Store
  • Fifth Avenue, Apple’s flagship New York store
  • Infinite Loop, Apple’s on-campus store featuring exclusive merchandise

As Steeber explains, the free app, which also accepts user donations:

…is a celebration of the places and products that have shaped our lives for more than twenty years. This interactive experience recreates memorable moments in Apple history with painstaking detail and historical accuracy.

The detail of each of the stores in the app is really quite remarkable. Clearly, a lot of work went into getting the details just right.

The Apple Store Time Machine is available to download on Steeber’s website.

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Last Week, on Club MacStories: Retro Gaming on iOS and Managing RSS with Multiple Services

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Remote Mouse & Keyboard: Control your Mac with All Your Devices [Sponsor]

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Remote Mouse & Keyboard is the perfect solution for controlling your Mac from other devices on your home network. The app works with the iPhone, iPad, another Mac, the Apple Watch, and even the Apple TV, enabling a wide variety of new uses for your Mac. Whether you’re running a Mac as a media center, want to launch or quit apps remotely, or control your Mac’s system settings while doing something else, Remote Control for Mac can handle it all.

Remote Mouse & Keyboard works with AirPlay for screen and sound mirroring and Siri so that you can control your Mac with your voice from anywhere on your network. The app’s AirPlay controls are a fantastic way to integrate your Mac with an Apple TV without having to sit down at your Mac to AirPlay its screen or audio. Instead, with Remote Mouse & Keyboard, you can use whichever device is available to you.

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MacStories Unwind: Music Discovery with MusicBox and Apple TV+’s Black Bird

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This week on MacStories Unwind, John and Federico discuss MusicBox, one of the newest ways they keep up with newly-discovered music, and Black Bird, a new Apple TV+ mini-series that John’s been watching.

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AppStories, Episode 287 – 2022 OS Preview: The System Apps (Part 1)

This week on AppStories, we continue the MacStories Summer OS Preview Series with part one of our in-depth look at changes coming to Apple’s system apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including Weather, Clock, Safari, Mail, Messages, and Photos.

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On AppStories+, John reports on his Stage Manager and Sidecar experiments on the Mac, Stage Manager’s bugginess on the iPad, Federico is itching to try Ventura, and a discussion of third-party iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets.

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Last Week, on Club MacStories: Using Messages as a Notification System, Processing Links with Shortcuts, and a Reader Setup

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MacStories Weekly: Issue 329

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MacStories Unwind: Ambulance and Mad Men

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This week on MacStories Unwind, John escapes with Ambulance, an action-packed Michael Bay movie, while Federico enjoys a classic TV period drama: Mad Men.

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Apple Music Sessions Kicks Off with Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes

Today, Apple introduced new exclusive live sessions on Apple Music. The music streaming service kicked off Apple Music Sessions with performances by country music stars Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes.

The sessions with Underwood and Townes, which include both audio-only and video components, were recorded in Spatial Audio at Apple’s Nashville, Tennessee studio. Apple has more coming from other country artists too:

Apple Music Sessions kicks off in Nashville with a host of incredible country artists already lined up, including Ronnie Dunn, Ingrid Andress, and many others.

According to Apple’s press release, the company will also expand the new Studio Sessions exclusives to other music genres in the future.

I’m looking forward to seeing where Apple takes Apple Music Sessions. With music libraries essentially being identical from one streaming service to another, it’s features like this that companies can use to set themselves apart.

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AppStories, Episode 286 – iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura Public Beta Previews→

To kick off our Summer OS Preview Series on AppStories this week, cover the top new features of iOS and iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura, that are now available as part of Apple’s public beta program.

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