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what's happening brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for the good the bad and everything else you could think of inside the world of Apple now there's plenty of stories to talk about plus the winners of our gelaskins giveaway so let's get to it and no one still really knows what apple will do to respond to the galaxy s4 one of the most feature-packed phones ever when it hits the market in April or May but a new patent awarded to the Cupertino kids describes an augmented reality system for connected devices that can overlay info about the multiple objects it's pointed at there are plenty of apps that already do some of this and before you start yelling Apple can't patent that it's specific to being interactive and you will also be able to create your own annotations by writing or drawing them on your device remember apples last killer feature with Siri and if this is the killer feature for the next iPhone I'll be changing the name of the show to the Samsung bite right alright guys in ipad mini news CNET's own checks with DisplaySearch and the supply channel point to the ipad mini 2 with Retina Display launching in the third or fourth quarter of 2013 the display search analyst says they're expecting a display resolution of 2048 x 1536 that's four times the pixels and double the resolution but we shouldn't expect it in the first half of this year which is fine for those of you who were able to control yourselves from buying the first one unlike my brother so he could let his son Jake use the regular iPad but look how cute it's so precious now there's still chatter about Apple having two different phones this year and KGI securities analysts continue to press that the low-cost phone will still have a 4-inch screen with a super thin plastic casing mixed with fiberglass for more nutrition and making it stronger and thinner compared to other smartphone plastic casings plus it's still rumored to be coming in four to six different colors Martin Hajek even created these sweet renders of what a colored iPhone might look like for iphone Club NL in red and aqua blue and they look pretty sweet and you know everyone likes colors and this is pretty much a slam dunk Belov oh my goodness that was so nasty he was like who's like as oh alright I got a little carried away with that one now Apple has added a new member to its team and its former Adobe chief technology officer kevin lynch you might not remember him but Lynch was the face for Adobe that insisted and continued to defend flash four years against apple's desire to prevent it from running on its mobile devices now he'll be working under Bob Mansfield so he'll probably just blend into the background but you might be asking the question would SJ even hire someone that was so outspoken against Apple well maybe you should ask him yourself thanks to this pretty ridiculous lifelike action toy of Steve Jobs from the team at legend toys now it has multiple points of articulation and they even got it down to the details of his stare mock turtleneck detailed blue jeans and the laces look at the laces on his new balance shoes now you can also swap out his hand so you can recreate that s J's point or make them do something really cool like hold my handi snacks before I dip them in cheese the action figure retails for 200 dollars and comes with the replica chair he used at his ipad presentation but really he could just be that friend who's always by your side all right to the quick bites another apple patent that's been submitted reveals the evolution of the iPad Smart Cover that would include built-in inductive charging to allow the iPad to continue to be charged on the go by the Smart Cover now the smart cover itself would need to be charged from an external power supply but the patent also shows that it could be charged by resting near something like an imac to wirelessly charge the cover on its own now this doesn't mean it's happening but this stuff is real interesting also in some quick software updates the latest Apple TV software has been updated a five point two point one including security and bug fixes but also completely redesigns the hulu app with better navigation and discovery also iOS gets an update to six point one point three which fixes the passcode bypassing bug on phones and makes improvements to maps in Japan all right let's get to our gelaskins winners we asked you the Apple biters one thing you would change and a lot of you said nothing at all which is the right answer but you know I like to have fun so our winners from Twitter Caleb mal he said you need a co-host but Caleb I don't remember taking that picture no God will a says if I could change the apple byte Brian would have dreads and an iced out grill but I don't drink sizzurp all right guys on email mansur read rights I would love to see noshit August featured every episode I miss him already next question now there's a lot of you and I mean a lot that ass like Jacob rera 779 to did I would have Brian do the show shirtless see there's a reason why I write the show and you guys don't and Alex I wrote more Jamie less Brian thanks Alex I appreciate the feedback all right congrats to our winners for the fifty-dollar gelaskins gift card and a lot of you also asked me to change up my hair so I'm leaning towards this style alright that's going to do it for this week's show send us your emails to the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong I'm Jamie Lee thanks for watching and I'll catch you and you and you for another bite of the Apple this is such an easy job you