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Apple's revised plans for San Francisco store save historic fountain
Apple has provided the City of San Francisco with revised plans for its forthcoming flagship store, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Earlier this year Apple proposed to move its Stockton Street store to the Union Square shopping district. However, plans necessitated the demolition of a historic fountain, which created an uproar among area residents. The new proposal calls for the fountain to be moved about eight feet from its current location, rather than demolishing it. The new plans also feature a revised glass wall along Post Street and an eight-foot glass window in front of Stockton Street. Apple spokesperson Amy Bessette told the San Francisco Chronicle, "We've been working with the City of San Francisco as they review our ideas for an Apple Store on Union Square. Our latest design includes a store with more natural light and a plaza on Stockton Street that includes the fountain by Ruth Asawa, just a few feet away from its current location." Though the revised plans have met with acceptance among locals and government officials, they still need to be vetted fully before being approved by the city. [Flickr image by Ray Bouknight]
TUAW predicts WWDC '08: How did we do?
The dust has settled from the stampede of announcements from yesterday's WWDC Keynote so it's time to take a look back at our predictions and see how we did! First, let's take a look at what was released at this year's WWDC: Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) seeds for developers MobileMe iPhone 3G iPhone 2.0 firmware ship date Let's see what we predicted: .Mac rebranding (with support for iPhone/PC) iPhone 3G Mac OS X 10.6 seeded iTablet Mac nano Flash on the iPhone Video on the iPhone Enterprise solutions for iPhone Over-the-Air syncing for "MobileMe" Redesigned MacBook Pro iPhone 2.0 delayed / ship date So, how did we do?Many of the things we predicted did actually come true (to our amazement!). We are extremely pleased with our predictions this year as we guessed everything that was released. All in all, we were 54.5% (6 right, 5 wrong) correct with our predictions. But we were spot on with the .Mac rebranding ("MobileMe"), 10.6 "Snow Leopard" preview, and the iPhone 3G / iPhone 2.0 announcement / delayed release. %Poll-15454%
