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what's good 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 the biggest news of the week Apple is taking its trademark filing for the term i watch worldwide now bloomberg reports that Apple filed for the iWatch trademark in Japan according to a June third filing with Japan's Patent Office that was made public the very first eyewash trademark report came from russian newspaper Izvestia on june 3rd as well now 9 to 5 mac also reports that Tim Cook and company have expanded their eyewash trademark take over to Mexico Taiwan Turkey and Colombia with the same filing date of June 3rd so what does this mean well I think it's pretty much a no-brainer that the iWatch comes out this year and before Apple's new TV now if we look back at history when Apple filed for the very first I pad trademark in early January of 2010 in Canada Europe and Hong Kong Steve Jobs then announced the iPad on January the 27th and the first gen iPad went on sale on April the 3rd now the iWatch is probably not coming out that soon but I've talked to people working on the project they never give me some acidic details of course but the iWatch product is significantly further along and they're genuinely excited and giddy about the interface so you guys could pretty much expect it in 2013 and especially with the content deals still holding up the Apple TV let's say Apple TV in 2014 now there's still a lot of action around iOS 7 and boy genius report says Apple will be sticking to the two-week cycle for iOS 7 beta releases with the third beta expected to be available on July 8 Apple retail employees are also just as excited about iOS 7 but Apple management is cracking down on them and making sure they're going through an official developer account because they're concerned that they're sharing it with all their co-workers can you say bad maybe you guys could at least provide it to employees on phones in the break room so they can educate themselves about your next OS that they're supposed to champion see well that's a good idea all right I'm not gonna call this next one a bad apple but it's a lame one Apple just announced their back-to-school promo that's good through September 6 if you buy a Mac computer you get a $100 gift card to the App Store iTunes Store and if you buy an iPad or iPhone you get a $50 App Store gift card now remember the days where you actually got 100 to 150 dollars off a computer but now they're basically telling you to spend that money on the App Store come on sir all right lots of leaks coming from China with some sketchy photos from the wave phone forums showing off more pictures of the back plate of the rumored low-cost iPhone I'm gonna go out on a limb and hope that highlighter yellow watermelon and neon green aren't going to be final colors and a new set of detailed design schematics claiming to be for the 5th gen iPad from website nowhere else FR show a thinner profile compared to the fortune and reduced width for the thinner bezel that matches up with all the earlier rumor leaks and cases being made in China and since we're talking bezels let's check out some of Apple's patents the big a has been granted a new patent that could bring touch controls to the bezel of a device with a small display the technology would allow a bezel to dynamically change by holding down on a specific area and an area with controls would show up now what a coming product could this be perfect for there's a small display and a watch has a really small display but now that's probably not it so yeah wait and see now I know we've all been in a situation where there's a single iPhone that just doesn't get enough light in a dark setting but a handful of them remotely controlled just might do the trick that's the idea behind a patent filed by Apple called the illumination system where an iPhone could take a picture figure out how much light is needed and then team up with other iPhones or multiple devices to act as camera flashes so how would I use this Apple has also applied for a patent on a computer port that combines two connectors such as a USB port and an SD card reader and they're calling it the combined input port now who wouldn't want this it's like text version of Smuckers and crust the bowls you know those like crustless bread pockets that have the peanut butter and jelly stacked on top of each other oh they're so good just like apples combined input port all right now Apple buyers we want to do something a little different here in this week's show and a lot of you asked me all the time is this a good time to buy an iMac MacBook Pro iPad and all that so we wanted to put together a quick reference for you so you can make the best decision based on what we know and we call it our app so what's the safe bet to buy right now if you've been following the news MacBook Airs and Airport extremes were just announced and even people wondering about the Apple TV we don't expect to see any major changes there so we're giving you the green light go go go for those but the products to pump your brakes on start with the MacBook Pros they didn't see an update at WWDC they're due for a processor upgrade at the very least around the back-to-school season so we're expecting to see them then don't buy anything until the next refresh happens if you take my word for it then we have the redesigned IMAX of Mac minis they were last updated over seven months ago you can still buy these if you want it's more of a yellow light yield honestly but my heart advice is to wait on these even if it's a little more than a couple months I expect to speed bump before the end of the year now if any of you buy an iPad or an iPhone in the next two months I might have to slap you silly it's simple see that stop sign do not buy respecting updates around the early September timeframe even throw in the iPod Touch which might get a slight price drop but it makes no sense at all to buy these now unless you're desperate and if you're wondering about the Mac Pro's don't make me answer that for you just start saving up for it a lot as in over 3000 a lot that's what we're guessing the price will be so pretty much it's the airs the Apple TVs and airports that are the safe bets and finally we asked you about the top buy features you want to see in the next an iPhone but we're gonna save those for one more week so keep sending your responses to the Apple bite at cnet.com or my twitter at Brian Tom it'll be worth the wait with a surprise prize or I could call it a surprise and spell see but we'll do the giveaway to you the Apple biters that we feature on next week's show all right that's gonna do it for this week I'm Brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple