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what's happened in brian Tong here and welcome to the apple byte for all the good stuff the bad stuff and everything else inside the world of Apple I'll be your tour guide plus the winners of our design by humans t-shirt contest but first let's get to the stories and last week Tim Cook stoked the apple TV fire rumors when he appeared on Rock Center for an interview and respondents of questions about Apple getting into the TV business it's a market that we see that has been left behind it's an area of intense interest I can't say more than that so apples getting into rabbit ear antennas you it now a few days later the wall street journal published an article about the big a's development of their rumored TV set it's a lot of what we've said before and the report that Apple's still in the early stage of testing it's also in the process of evaluating several TV set designs with component suppliers and one of those suppliers is sharp their sources also add that the apple TV is not considered a formal project yet translation they're not even remotely close yet now wouldn't you guys rather spend your saved up money on a bunch of blu-rays like Disney's secret of the wings for your nieces now during Tim Cook's chatty week he also told Bloomberg that factories in the US will start handling some of the Mac production currently being handled internationally and production will ramp up in 2013 the Cupertino kids are investing 100 million dollars to produce max here in the US and analysts estimate it will create about 200 jobs now sticking with desktops the first batch of 27 inch imacs have begun delivering to customers who pre-order them I'm still waiting for mine but a report from vr-zone claims to show Intel's plans for its new fourth generation Haswell processors there's a lot of numbers here but these are likely to follow up to ivy bridge for apple's next Mac refresh now the top-of-the-line CPU is a three point five gigahertz core i7 processor with a 3.9 gigahertz turbo boost that might be the next Mac Pro's BFF now an apple iphone 5s rumors yep I said it Peter Misek a Jefferies analyst who's made up lots of apple stories in the past expects the next iPhone 5s to have a new Super HD camera and screen a better battery and NFC technology he also makes up more things and says it could potentially have 128 gigs of storage a Retina plus display and my favorite the 5s will come in six to eight colors sure dude now let's just say I won't even get into his iphone 6 predictions all right let's check out this week's app of the week you know what it is it's google maps now available for iOS on the iPhone legit and accurate maps have finally returned from google with a really clean interface you'll also now get turn-by-turn voice directions in the app the return of street view that works whatever way you hold your phone and for city people like myself public transit returns as well it's really fast and responsive but the two main drawbacks right now is that it's currently only for your iphone and it doesn't integrate with your built-in contacts but it's still worth it and hands down it's our app of the week so go and get it let's jump into the quick bites Apple recently fixed an error in their Australian maps that caused police to issue a warning to avoid using Apple's maps earlier this week after the town of mildura was placed 45 miles away from its actual location leaving several motorists stranded in a remote National Park then they're good old buddy Samsung made sure to capitalize with a marketing stunt that seen that Australia took pictures for us with a setup and a sign that says oops should have got a samsung galaxy s3 also Apple and Google have decided to make peace temporarily and have teamed up to offer more than 500 million dollars to buy patents from Kodak that relate to capturing manipulation and sharing of digital images Kodak has put them up for sale to fund a turnaround for the company long live Polaroid baby and t-mobile and Apple have agreed to sell products together next year in 2013 which is great for the carrier people on tmobile that have been wondering when can they get to use an iPhone on the network without any workarounds now it's not confirmed though if it's for apple's entire lineup or just its tablets and a report from glassdoor that lists the best places to work for every year great Apple this year as the 34th best company to work for now last year they were 20th Facebook was named number one for the second year in a row but Cena didn't make their list and I have no idea why I can't hold this side shot anymore you need that shot hold it Jimmy it hurts Charlie give him the plus' 12 volts beautiful printed that's a wrap that's a thing of beauty all right let's announce the winners of our design by humans t-shirt giveaway I asked you the Apple biters to find your power animal unfortunately not a single asian person one but congrats go to Michael bola Genie whose power animal was an evil Carlos Garcia on Twitter was a zebra Gill Cabrera here's a unicorn that's totally awesome Andre josephs power animal was the ever so masculine butterfly and Lynn Heiser on Twitter who was a cougar and I'm sure you are now thanks for everyone who wrote or tweeted and remember you can still use the exclusive code apple byte at their website for twenty percent off all your t-shirt purchases and it's good through the end of December so get one so you know we could be twins alright that's going to do it for this week's show email us at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and I'll catch you next time for another bite of the Apple