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what's good Bryant song here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple but maybe this week gets a lot of bad for Cupertino after Apple's earnings really they just aren't good in fact they're just ugly after they posted their first year-over-year decline since 2003 now how long ago was that that's when Apple finally released iTunes for the iPod on Windows the first piece of Apple software ever on Windows and Steve Jobs joke that he'll finally froze over now everything for the big a was down they posted a fifty point six billion dollar quarterly revenue with a profit of ten point five billion a year ago those numbers were at fifty eight and thirteen point six billion now iPhone sales were down ten million units from a year ago Mac sales were down half a million units and iPad sales were down over two point three million units from a year ago now our predictions show told you 2016 would be a down year that were plenty of you that get all upset when I criticized Apple for their missteps and lack of innovation but maybe you'll realize we speak the truth here now no new products are taking off there's a lack of innovation and flattening or declining sales and their flagship categories all bad apples so what can Apple do to shake things up at this point not that much of these iphone 7 pro schematics from Japanese magazine Mac fan are real the image is believed to be Apple's rumored flagship iphone 7 pro with a 5.5 inch screen that shows no sign of a headphone jack anywhere the schematics show the iphone 7 pro will have the same thickness as the iPhone 6s plus at 7.3 millimeters and the same dimensions there's a spot for the rumored dual lens camera and a smart connector on the bottom rear side which we know can be used for data transfer or charging so there are still potentially three different iPhones coming this year an iPhone 7 iPhone 7 plus and an iphone 7 pro now this helps but there's nothing radically different here and if you're waiting for the potential all glass body iPhone in 2017 or 18 that's a long ways away so what about the Apple watch maybe that can change their fortunes well the Wall Street Journal reports Apple is working including cellular connectivity and a faster processor in the Apple watch to independence from the phone is nice if you want it and if you're ok with buying a separate data plan for it but that's not compelling enough for me to immediately go and buy the next-gen one for keeps I want Wi-Fi I want FaceTime video that makes it the only Dick Tracy watch on the market and I want apps that are useful until then I'm still passing okay how about the Apple car project that has been rumored to be targeting 2020 that's an eternity in the tech world and will probably have flying cars by then kidding but you know hoping Apple continues to hire automotive industry execs and reports claim that Apple is prototyping car parts at its product realization lab the facility has been known for prototyping new Macs iOS devices and other Apple products now the big a is still having trouble finding a manufacturing partner to work with after a handles blot reports Daimler and BMW have both walked away from talks to help build the Apple car the report says talks dissolved after being unable to determine who would lead the project and who would own the car data Apple obviously wants the AI car to be built into its iCloud platform now Apple is looking at Canadian Austrian firm Magna International and surprise Apple making a car from scratch isn't all that easy bloomberg reports the FBI has decided to keep the iPhone hack they used a secret from Apple the FBI paid 1.3 million dollars for the method but they claim they never purchased the rights to the technical details of the hack and therefore don't have the necessary information a review process known as the vulnerabilities equities process allows flaws to be submitted and then it's determined if these security flaws should be disclosed to the company in this case Apple in order to fix them but none of that will happen and finally are you rich enough for lunch with Tim Cook for the fourth year in a row Apple is participating in an auction through charity buzz for a chance to have an hour-long lunch at Apple headquarters with Timmy just like Apple's earnings the auction is brought in less money each year bringing in six hundred ten thousand dollars in 2013 330 K in 2014 200k last year and right now it's sitting at two hundred ten thousand and you know what in about ten years so I'm guessing Tim Cook will be paying to have lunch with me all right that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email me at the Apple by-the-sea Netcom or tweet me at Brian Tong or send your trolling comments questioning my sexuality on YouTube thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple