That was quick. Two days after my last post suggesting that Japanese public transit for Apple Maps would arrive with iOS 10, Apple confirmed it with a Japanese site refresh […]
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Apple Maps Preps Tokyo Public Transit Info
Apple Maps in the iOS 10 and macOS Sierra developer beta builds adds Tokyo train station and traffic information in a ramp up similar to the recent Nearby search rollout earlier […]
Japanese Typography
macOS Sierra Bundles New Japanese Fonts
Japanese IT journalist Nobi made a good catch finding new unannounced Japanese fonts in the macOS Sierra developer beta. All seven new fonts, ten if count by font weights, were […]
Japanese Typography
Stroke Fonts Redux
In 2010 Steve Jobs wrote the then infamous, now famous “Thoughts on Flash”. In it and in his last appearance at the “All Things D” conference that summer, he explained […]
Maps
Google vs. Apple – Comparing Map Cartography
Former Apple lead for cartography Justin O’Beirne kicks off the first installment of his three part essay comparing the cartography of Google Maps and Apple Maps, which will promote his […]
Maps
Digital Map Hell in the Mind
Kashmir Hill’s article on the dark side of digital maps is making the rounds on the tech blogs today. It’s a good read about how bad information becomes entrenched, repeated and […]
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