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Today’s Apple Insider Roundup
How to get into retro gaming on Apple TV with RetroArch
You can play classic computer games from the comfort of your couch by using RetroArch with the Apple TV. Here’s how to get retro gaming on Apple’s streaming box.
Retro gaming on Apple’s ecosystem enjoyed a revival in 2024, as Apple updated its App Store Review Guidelines to allow emulators into the App Store. The change led to a gold rush of emulators arriving in the digital storefront, providing ways to play classic titles on your iPhone or iPad.
The change also made it possible to do the same on the Apple TV. The set-top box in the living room seems like the perfect bit of kit to play retro games on, being connected to a large TV and in the comfiest chairs of the home.
March 4 international Apple Experiences may follow week of online launches
Apple may return to its marketing playbook, delivering multiple press releases of big products in just a few days, then highlight them all at the international March 4 “experiences.”
The announcement of a special event on March 4 has led to wild speculation of what Apple could introduce at the time. However, with so many oddities surrounding it all, it may not be as straightforward as people think.
On Tuesday, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber proposed that Apple’s reference of it as an “experience” day is unusual. The choice of holding the event on a Wednesday is also unexpected, especially when you factor in Apple’s preference for Tuesday product announcements.
Apple Music Connect is reborn as a marketing tool for the music industry
Apple’s failed social media platform Apple Music Connect is back, but this time not for fans. Instead, it’s a set of promotion tools for record labels.
It’s not as if Apple starts up and abandons social media programs as often as Google kills off apps, but it feels close. Alongside better-known failures such as Ping, there was Apple Music Connect, which started in 2015 and died in 2019.
Now Apple has brought it back — or really just reused the name — with Apple Music Connect for record labels and music distributors. It still has a social media element in that its tools include what Apple calls social templates for promotion on Twitter, Instagram and so on.
End of today’s Apple Insider roundup.
