Here are your Apple Rumors for today:
Queens: Apple (AAPL) is planning to open its first Apple Store in Quees, New York on Saturday, reports MacRumors. The new Store in Queens will be the eighth one it has located in New York City. The Store will be open from 10:00 AM and 9:30 PM Monday through Saturday and 11:00 AM and 8:00 PM Sunday. It will be located in the Queens shopping mall in Elmhurst. The comapny is also planning to open its first Store in Brooklyn.
Swimming: An app developer is working on a swimming app for Apple Watch, Digital Trends notes. The new swimming app is created by the developers behind Active in Time fro Pebble. The app was able to monitor a swimmer’s 200-meter trip around an Olympic swimming pool. The Watch is only considered resistant to splash damage, but it survived the four-lap endevor without being negatively affected. The data it collected during its dip in the pool included distance, length of tracks, time and heart rate.
iOS: Apple is working to bring Home Sharing back to mobile devices in iOS 9, reports 9to5Mac. Eddy Cue, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services for the tech company, told a Twitter (TWTR) user that the company wants to bring the feature back in its next mobile operating system. The feature was removed with the release of iOS 8.4. It’s believed that the feature was removed due to restraints with music labels. The feature allowed users to stream music from a computer with iTunes on it to an iOS device via a Wi-Fi network.
