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what's good Bryant on Kieran welcome to the Apple bite for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple and yeah you know I'm kind of on the hype train pouring life baby all right the wait is finally over ladies and gentlemen the Amazon Prime video app is here on Apple TV hallelujah now it's probably the number one thing Apple byte nation has been asking about right now the TV OS version of the app supports 4k HDR it will also support Universal Search and prime content will show up in Apple's TV app unlike Netflix you know the one that's on Apple TV where you can watch TV shows and movies but it's still called the TV app now getting this in time for the holidays come on that deserves a good Apple TV os also received an update to 11.2 which brings new HDR and frame rate options but still no dolby atmos switches coming soon and come on how long should coming soon really mean because three months is not coming soon to me now you can match the frame rate and the dynamic range of video content this is great because it won't force non HDR content to look blown up anymore it also finally brings the long-awaited sports feature where you can pick your favorite teams now watch their games when they're happening in connected apps overall I'm happy with these updates that makes the Apple TV feel almost like just almost complete two and a half months later alright and more updates the flip was finally switched on for Apple pay cash in the United States after Apple released the iOS 11.2 update before without Apple pay cash over the weekend and why weren't they released at the same time well that's because iOS had another bug related to a crashing loop on iPhones when December the second hits so they pushed out iOS 11 - le to address that bug yeah now you're going to definitely use Apple pay cash but it's only available in the US right now and it's iOS only right now this is no venmo killer because that works on both Android and iOS and if you'd like to try out Apple pay cash you can send some cash my way I just want to make sure it's working properly for you I'll write a new statistics shared by we'll say iOS 11 is now installed on 59% of iOS devices iOS 11 adoption has been slower than iOS 10 and would honestly be less if users could revert back to iOS 10 easily on their earlier phones but come on iOS 11 has been the buggiest and least polish release we've ever seen from apple with bug after bug getting updates you know week after week it wasn't bad it was just pathetic you know going from the eye bug then after that fix there was the it and is bug and then after that the looping crash on December 2nd bug back-to-back-to-back now one of the good things from Iowa's 11.2 I've heard some of Apple by nation telling me that their battery performance has finally improved on earlier iPhones like the 6s so let me know if that's the case with you too and we're still waiting to get messages in iCloud syncing that existed in the original iOS 11 beta but was taken out back in August after its announcement at WWDC this year all right if you've been waiting patiently for the iPhone 10 you know what its gonna pay off for you Apple is finally selling an unlocked SIM free version of the iPhone 10 not tied to any specific carrier with the same one-week delivery time in the United States there were ways to technically get an unlocked version of the phone before but you would have to have a Verizon or Sprint account and what's the big advantage in all this getting an iPhone 10 with the better performing Qualcomm modem it's been tested and proven once again by cellular insights that the Qualcomm base modem performs better than the Intel based modem found in AT&T and t-mobile versions of the phone now you'll feel the performance difference the most in weaker cell signal areas this isn't just a made-up stuff like I felt this before I even knew there were different modems inside the iPhone 7 now that same trend has continued for the 10 and you can read the nitty gritty of it all in this PC Mag article and no I'm not trying to make you feel bad about your iPhone but this has been true since the 7 ok fashionistas alert Apple's released new color options for the Apple watch sports bands in flash which is really a canary yellow a dark teal there's also a soft white which isn't as white as white because someone needed that and spicy orange Apple iPhone 10 silicone cases get these colors as well and you know what we can't leave the show without talking about emojis this is important the Unicode consortium announced the beta version of 2018 emoji lineup including things like a softball this party face emoji a bagel and yes representation for gingers okay I'm sorry redheads we've got to be PC about everything these days users also might be given the option to changed the direction of an emoji like the gun or train or runners which can really change the context of what you're typing and I'm sorry to tell you the frowny poo poo emoji has been removed from the list of 2018 along with these other crappy emoji faces all right before we go we have an awesome giveaway and deal from our friends at Mophie we're doing a giveaway for two Mophie wireless charging bases that work with the iPhone 10 8 and plus all you have to do is tell me what did I think was the worst offense of the iPad ad in last week's show and you'll get one of these two bad boys and they're also hooking up Apple by nation with a 15% off on their entire website you know except for these hot bad boys just use the code Apple byte and it's good through December the 14th all right that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email me at the Alpha white at cnet.com or to me at Brian Tom thanks watch your watch it will catch all next time another bite of the Apple