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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for all the bits and bytes good and bad inside the world of Apple now do you all know that today we are shooting this on national hugging day so if there is someone near you yes I'm talking to you you have to give them a hug I'm waiting oh okay good job now as for me I just have to hug myself but it still feels nice all right let's get to the show in one of the new products we expect to see this year is the unconfirmed 12 inch iPad pro according to a report from KGI analyst ming-chi Kuo who makes sure he gets in the Apple rumor news at least once a month well he says that an apple stylist will be available as an optional accessory to the iPad pro and not bundled to keep the total price down there's no word if the stylist will be compatible with other I devices but it better be some special magic wand if it actually ends up costing too much to bundle it now we all know how Steve Jobs felt about a stylist who wants a stylist you have to get him and put him away and you'll lose him yuck nobody wants a stylist and yes I know he was talking about a phone in 2007 but the Galaxy Note pretty much squashed that thinking now the rumored iPad pro is still expected sometime in the second quarter of 2015 all right iphone sales have surged in Asia according to counterpoint research where Apple made gains in China Japan and South Korea for the month of December now obviously the new big screen iPhones were the reason why but the biggest surprise happened in Samsung's own backyard in South Korea where apple's market share exploded to thirty-three percent more than doubling its fifteen percent market share prior to the launch of the iphone 6 and 6 plus now even bigger no foreign brand has gone beyond the twenty percent mark in the history of Korea's smartphone industry and Apple currently sits in the number two spot ahead of LG but behind Samsung whose market share dropped from sixty percent to 46 in the same period ouch so what else can Apple do to keep their iphone line relevant well patently apple recently posted a patent application from the big a that reveals apple is hoping to have their current home button on I devices to double as a gaming joystick so check this out in the first mode the home button would act like it always has but in the second mode the home button would transform into a pure gaming stick and the transition would be simple by pressing hard enough on the home button with the help of a pressure sensor to pop it up who wants this anybody yeah I do and if you want to control your mac or iphone or ipad with your eyes that could be coming in the future as well the US Patent and Trademark Office recently granted Apple a patent for a specific I tracking technology that can be used to control a user interface on a computer or smartphone now it's different from Samsung's that tracks eye movement to pause the video or scroll through web pages this invention make sure that users would not lose their cursor while controlling the devices with eye tracking movement again all these patents aren't guarantees but it's a peek inside the minds of the smartypants in cupertino all right to some quick bites Apple posted a new photo of its spaceship campus to that's still currently under construction just to you know keep us in the loop you get it one infinite loop is up their address okay never mind and for all of you that want to make your own Blythe or Barbie dolls all fitted with Apple products check out etsy com and the good people from lelu miniature they've created a one-eighth-scale set of Apple devices that include an imac macbook pro ipads and iphones for this 45 bucks so you know maybe you're just a collector or someone who really loves playing with dolls hey Brian hey what's up Charlie hey John Lennon darling the moody talked about um ya know uh this is jobs Steve Jobs you can um go now thanks Jen liner notes Steve Jobs okay a good amount of you have been riding in asking what happened at Apple's free single of the week on iTunes well I'm sorry but Apple has quietly decided to end that promo I stopped downloading them after a while because really they did add some value the service but I don't really care about all the songs but really we'd like to take a moment to remember the itunes free single of the week now apple also went a little cheapy by discontinuing the 12 days of gifts chroma as well and yeah for all of you that weren't happy about it I'm giving them a bad apple for you but you know who really deserves a bad apple these people from a recent episode of The Price is Right the other goes over if it's closest to the actual retail price without going over and uh Kenisha 7,500 what seven thousand dollars with a one-year contract are you kidding me but wait it gets better over 7500 7501 no no come on you dum-dums you guys have failed humanity and I get it it's the heat of the moment you're on the price is right but you know what I'm thrown out at you bad apples oh alright that's gonna do it for this week's show keep emailing me at the Apple by to cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and i'll answer when i can thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple oh there you go little Stevie yep I'm getting it all those hard-to-reach places I know it's a little cold but oh that a little lint in your belly button here let me get that out okay oh no no no did we get soap in your eyes again knows oh stop struggling with me okay and now Stevie we have one more thing to clean you