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what's happened in Apple biters brian Tong here it's all the good and bad inside the world of apple and i'm back and baked like a fresh cookie from the oven like a snickerdoodle now apple just announced their recent earnings report for the first fiscal quarter of 2013 that covers the holiday season and it was another record quarter posting 13 21 billion dollars of profit on revenue of 50 4.5 billion dollars now they sold 47.8 million iphones compared to 37 million in the same quarter last year 22.9 million iPads were sold versus 15.4 million last year but I max dropped from 4.1 million compared to 5.2 a year ago and the big a blamed the lower sales on iMac supply constraints now the record numbers still did it beat Wall Street's high expectations but Tim Cook addressed the supply chain rumors that Apple may have cut iphone 5 orders on weak demand for the product Cook said because of the complex supply chain and its multiple sources it's really impossible to interpret a single data point and make a general assessment about the overall business he also danced around the Apple TV question again now the iphone rumor mills have been making sure to keep it in the headlines with recent talks of an incoming 4.8 inch screen iphone called the iphone math according to the translation in the china times and come on guys the name iphone math makes total sense to now russian website Apple digger even went as far as to create a video render of what the larger screen iphone would look like and look at that it looks really good but then reality hit and digit times one of the sites that started the rumor is now backtracking that claim and is now saying that Apple only plans to launch two new four inch models in 2013 a next-gen 5s and an iphone 5 that is cheaper to produce with possibly a plastic body and that's if you believe that story or not now in more future plans from Apple according a chinese website called my driver's a foxconn insider has revealed that the ipad 5 will sport a new design with the slimmer side bezels of the ipad mini and chamfered edge corners but brian what does that mean well Jamie chamfer refers to an angular cut referral in woodworking you might refer to it as a beveled edge thanks charlie now you guys could have guessed the big a's plans and we said the same thing when the ipad mini design was revealed setting up the future full-size ipad look as well also reuters reports that production for the regular ipad screen has nearly halted by sharp core as the man has shifted over to the ipad mini it also potentially points to a different screen moving forward for the next gen full-size ipad all right now we don't have an app of the week this week but this is an app you guys should all be paying attention to it's called mailbox from the orchestra team it's launching for free in the coming weeks and it's an all new take on accessing and using your mailbox it has this really cool swipe functionality that allows you to keep or trash emails and the best is a snoozed email feature with a left swipe that then lets you deal with specific emails later for a time that you set so you can focus on what's important and if you're at zero mailbox type of person this is we're checking out now i'm super amped about this app and you can reserve your spot in line for the roll out of this free app at the link you see here and learn more about the mailbox app all right to the quick bites an apple insider has discovered job listings on apple's website looking for a new engineer to test the next version of iOS is new api's and frameworks and we know iOS 6 saw the least amount of change in Apple's mobile OS has a lot of catch-up to do these days and in a little fun story from the past verizon had plans to make Siri and Android exclusive on all their Android devices on their networks until Apple swooped in to purchase Siri the story in The Huffington Post says verizon actually signed a deal with Siri in two thousand nine months before apple bought the company there were also unreleased commercials made by the big V 2 show serie as an Android feature now that probably worked out for verizon with Google's top-notch voice recognition but are you the Apple biters still even using Syria regularly let us know at the Apple by to cnet's comment will read your thoughts next week and finally you know we like to monkey around here on the show but check this out the Smithsonian zoo along with 12 other zoos is participating in a program called apps for apes now it's leveraging the touchscreen interactivity of the iPad to enrich the lives of apes and captivity 10 apps were identified as key apps including music drawing and game apps and koi pond was one of the popular apps what a coincidence because my favorite app is koi pond now this might sound familiar from a previous story but they've taken it to the next level and their hope is to tap into the creative outlet of the Apes minds and one day even connect orangutang across the continent with facetime have you guys seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes you don't want to do that and yes but those are you rolling your eyes earlier monkeys are different than Apes because they have a tail where apes don't but they're both primates I didn't know that see you learn a lot when you watch the show all right that's going to do it for this week's episode and it's good to be back with my family you the Apple biters email us at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me brian Tong and we'll read some of your responses next week thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you