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what's up Brian song here and welcome to the apple buy for everything good at-bat inside the world of Apple lots of big things happening this week but let's start off with the Apple TV now Apple continues to insist on calling it the future of television but the future might have to wait that's after bloomberg reports CBS CEO les Moonves who also owned cnet said that Apple has put its live TV plans on hold at a conference this week now Rico is peter kafka reports the main issue was apple's push for a skinny bundle of channels priced at less than thirty dollars per month Apple is interested in a base package of about a dozen channels but the report says content owners didn't want their additional networks to be left out of the base package now Moonves added that it will eventually happen but media companies are still showing resistance to apple's plan now if Apple can't get this together by 2016 it will be a huge fail and will show us really the lack of power they have with TV studios sling TV and Sony's PlayStation view did it Apple should be able to do it as well but for now the big a is pushing their app store and allowing media companies to deliver content through their apps a feature that's been around for years on roku amazon in the chromecast unfortunately that doesn't sound like the future of television to anyone alright if you're thinking of getting an Apple watch with those 100 dollar off holiday deals you've seen them you might want to hold off on that 9to5 mac reports Apple is planning a march 2016 event to unveil the second generation Apple watch the Apple watch two would then ship out sometime in April nearly a year after the original Apple has been working on the next watch before the first one even shipped with some prototypes including a FaceTime camera its own Wi-Fi to be independent of the iphone and a thinner form factor with similar battery life this could make new Apple watches a more worthwhile purchase but I would highly advise you to wait it out for now the report also says the rumored iphone 6c that we've talked about in the past could also appear at the event alright Apple released some new hardware this weekend if you saw it you know it wasn't pretty this is the $99 Apple smart battery case for the iphone 6s this is also what it looks like when the iphone 6s swallows an iphone 5 now this eyesore is from a company that was believed to have one of the best design teams ever until now Apple biters own spry flies on Twitter called it the Hunchback of Apple DOM and we've already had battery cases from mophie and incipio for at least four or five years but come on Apple there has to be some technical benefit for the user if you made something this ugly right well you can see the battery status of your iPhone end case together in the notifications pull down but the apple case only gets you eighty percent additional charge compared to a juice pack air from mophie that gives you a one hundred percent charge for this same $99 price this isn't inventive at all slapping on an apple logo and hoping users will buy the apple branded version come on let's be real it's also just plain fugly and you know what that gets a bad dirty rotten apple I'm literally embarrassed for this company right now Apple the one obsessed with making their phones as slim as possible is now making their own battery case because their phones are too thin to get quality battery life yeah okay another piece of hardware that I'm actually happy about the big a has released a lightning to SD card reader that supports the iPad pros faster USB 3.0 transfer speeds to import photos and videos you can also use the adapter with iPhones but it won't get the faster transfer speeds it costs twenty nine dollars and is available now there's also a lot of software updates across all Apple hardware this week i OS 9.2 fixes the issue where ipad pros would become unresponsive after charging thank you you can also take advantage of the mail drop feature that allows you to attach files up to five gigs in size and it makes iphones compatible with the adapter we just talked about but Apple still hasn't fixed the fact that video podcasts in the podcast app cannot be viewed in full-screen I mean what are you doing Apple this is a simple fix and you're still getting a bad apple for this All Right Watch OS 2.1 gets mostly bug fixes and improvements with arabic language support for Siri and TV OS 9.1 now allows Syria to play Apple music for users but an even bigger deal support for the remote app is back for the new Apple TV and I know a lot of you will love that all right that's going to do for this week so we're getting close to the end of the year so if you have any questions you'd like to ask to our good friend no show Tongass for the Apple bites prediction show send them to the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and will include your questions in next week's show this question thanks so much watching we'll catch y'all next time 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