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what's happening Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to the show and there's a whole lot more to that mysterious Apple minivan story from last week BusinessWeek reports that an Apple employee recently contacted them about Apple's vehicle development at the company and claims apples project is too exciting to pass up and it will give Tesla a run for its money now those are big words especially with what Tesla has been able to do so far because that Tesla s is so smooth now a few years back before apple's carplay platform even existed I was all about Apple doing a car down the road get it down the road okay but it now sounds like it could really be happening the Business Week source also said Tesla employees were jumping ship to work with Apple but that conflicts with earlier reports that Tesla has hired at least 150 former Apple employees and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Apple has hired very few people despite offering $250,000 signing bonuses and a 60 percent salary increase now LinkedIn also shows that Apple has about 50 employees who previously worked at Tesla with most specializing in mechanics manufacturing and robotics now we still don't know exactly what Apple is working on is it an actual car or is it some new iPhone 2 car experience but we'll keep track of this story see what I did there again okay I'll stop now Apple CEO Tim Cook recently spoke at the annual goldman sachs technology conference and surprise he spoke more about the Apple watch that he cannot live without Cook said there are several things that are called smart watches but I'm not sure you could name any well actually there's the pebble steel the Moto 360 the LG G watch R and more then cook added there hasn't been one that changed the way people live their lives at Apple that's our objective we want to change the way you live your life see Apple is really trying to hype this thing up I'm still not that high on it and I'll save my judgment after I really try it but Cooke added that apps will make the Apple watch as essential as the iPhone which is true because you need an iPhone to even use the app all right we missed it because of the timing of our show but Apple released the first version of photos for OS 10 for developers I've had a hands-on with it and it's a whole lot cleaner interface compared to iPhoto if you're someone who uses iCloud photo sharing its integrated right into the app and you'll love that there are more photo editing tools that will cover the basis for most users except for people that use higher-end products like Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop sharing your photos has been cleaned up in you can still order books and prints overall it's really a big improvement over iPhoto it also takes away a lot of features from aperture and follows really somewhere in between the two the final version of photos for OS 10 will be available sometime in spring of 2015 and when it launches aperture will be removed from the App Store as well all right Apple has already made claims that Apple pay is responsible for two of every three dollars spent on contactless payments and called 2015 the year of Apple pay well Apple pay is moving to the skies as JetBlue will be the first airline to accept Apple pay on select flights next week passengers will be able to use their iPhone 6 and 6-plus to buy food drinks and even upgrade to premium seats if they want to now JetBlue flight attendants will be equipped with this iPad Mini outfitted with a special case that will accept both credit cards and Apple pay as forms of payment now we've all heard the phrase just because you can doesn't mean you should actually some people have written the Apple byte with something like that we have one more thing to clean well a lot of people were thinking just that after HTC threw down the hammer on Apple and Samsung with our own rap video called hold the crown get it H T C now this is with rapper Doc G and an ACC employee named David Bruce now I want to let you know that what you're watching is real so let's roll some of the video for you your smartphone scared they don't wanna clash with a titin they saw that m8 debut they became enlightened where I'm from you don't ever get respectful fightin if you see wanna miss the best you know what this isn't bad apple bad this is bad all right guys you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Kong and I'll respond during the commercial breaks of empire because that show is fire extreme thanks for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple get now if you see cannot be beat let me see it now you see I say it loud and she CEO that we hold she see if she sees I see