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what's good Brian song here and welcome to the apple buy for everything good bad inside the world of Apple let's get to the show and there's more news about iOS 8 from nine to five Mac with the new report showing off recreations of screenshots from Apple's new health book app that is the next area they're hoping to reinvent in iOS 8 now it takes cues from Apple's passbook app and the internal versions of health book are able to track several different health and fitness data points like heart rate hydration blood sugar sleep respiratory rate and others that can be arranged by the user now when you look at these mock-ups it just can't be a phone that gathers all this data thanks to the m7 chip steps miles walked and caloric data can be tracked by the phone but things like blood hydration and respiratory stuff has to come from another source like a wearable device not that one yeah something more like this alright 9to5 mac also reports more possible iOS 8 tweets including a change to the Notification Center to only include today's events and notifications view because honestly how many of you actually even look at all three tabs better interact communication yes that's actually a word now we're apps can share data like a third party photo editing app being able to push content more easily through Facebook or Instagram there's also the potential that the messages app will auto-delete a message thread after a month or a year so that it frees up more storage space and you wouldn't believe how useful that could be their sources also say game center could just go away and be found inside the actual games using the service and car play which will initially only work over a lightning table in iOS 7 is testing versions in iOS 8 that will work over Wi-Fi now sometimes what is old is new again because every fad comes back right well except for scrunchies but apple recently reintroduced the 4th gen ipad with only a 16gb model for 399 replacing the aging ipad 2 in a move they should have done when the ipad air was announced but really the most pathetic part apple's press release describing it as their most affordable 9.7 inch ipad with improved cameras and enhanced performance over the ipad 2 uh duh and that's a bad apple but uh better late than never I guess and in another lame duck move Apple brings their least popular phone the iphone 5c with an even smaller capacity of eight gigs to only five markets including the UK France Germany Australia and China and it still costs about 712 US dollars well the 16gb model costs seven hundred and seventy nine dollars now I'm not gonna say anything because some of you Apple biters are really sensitive when I keep it real toss them out the big egg so I'm not gonna say a thing except for bad apple ah sorry guys couldn't help it and if you do anything this year do not buy an eight gig iphone 5c but before we go you know um let's reflect on the iPad we lost microsoft making a cameo on the alpha bite this week the long-rumored microsoft office will officially launch for the ipad on marks the 27th according to the verge microsoft launched a version for the iphone last year that requires an office 365 subscription and the ipad version will require the same thing and you know what you can always trust someone on twitter to post an alleged screenshot of the software as well and microsoft also recently released its through digital notebook app called one note on the mac app store that can share info between platforms and their iOS version of the app as well now the app also allows for collaboration like sharing notebooks and real-time editing okay guys a lot of you been asking me lately what does apples product release cycle look like this year you want to buy something but you're not sure so I figured it would be a good time to kind of give you a little breakdown of what we foresee now this is not a guarantee at all but based on past trends and what we know today so my first hunch based on reports Apple's first new product release in 2014 should be there Apple TV sometime in April not March but April and it looks like it will definitely be there set-top box and not a TV TV well then my gut tells me they'll use WWDC in June to set up the announcement of iOS 8 and the new iPhone 6 along with the iWatch or the iWatch will have its own event shortly after that now the reason being is that iOS 8 is going to have a lot of data hooks with some kind of wearable that we talked about earlier and they can't just talk about it and then ignore that wearable the other factor is that this I watch them a jigger thing is also going to be dependent on the phone to exchange data so the timing of all these announcements for all three will be relatively close together within a month of each other but the actual launch dates we separate you know to extend that height now rumors say pegatron is starting iphone 6 production earlier than normal so I'm leaning towards an earlier iphone 6 launch this year with the iWatch to follow shortly after it also macbook refreshes you guys ask about that typically happen right before the back-to-school season around the July timeframe even though they were late in 2013 and I'm leaning also towards imax performance upgrades in sep timber now iPads finally came out in late October right before the holidays in 2013 so expect that to be its time slot for the foreseeable future and again you guys this is just a rough prediction if I'm wrong please remind me at the end of the year and i'll let you do my job all right let's get to our giveaway thanks to my friends at design by humans and their kick butt t-shirts we're giving away five shirts to you the Apple biters all you guys have to do is tell us how many bad apples were in last week's show it's just that easy and email me at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and i will pick five of the luckiest people in the whole wide world next week plus we're also doing a special promo code just punch an apple byte five off to get five dollars off any shirt on the website and is good through april to four all right that's going to do for this week's show i'm brian Tong thanks so much for watching I will catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple