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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple by for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple it's been a pretty quiet week on the Apple front but there's been a lot more happening outside the world of Apple now Google i/o 2013 kicked off in San Francisco focusing on a lot of new development tools and services that are directly competing with Apple Google isn't exclusive to their own hardware and they showcase their new app called hangouts which is a cross-platform messaging service that can be used with iOS and Android devices it's available now for free on the iPhone and what also makes it unique is if you're plugged into Google services it brings group video chat and yeah I know their spring it isn't as tightly integrated and this is something FaceTime users have been waiting a long time for now google also showed off significantly improved voice recognition and Google now will support more information cards for movies TV shows and public transit hitting it directly against Siri and the big one we all know how Apple maps and google maps have been going at it well the googs also previewed their reworked maps that will hit iOS with a cleaner new UI that goes edge to edge with tablet versions like the iPad taking advantage of the larger screen real estate now it will integrate a zagat restaurant ratings into the app and it will include real-time dynamic rerouting for traffic and transit options while you're driving now this is probably the biggest announcement that affects most of you the Apple biters in I'm excited for its summer release now I know you're all waiting for some sort of news from Apple but this one will probably hold you over for a little bit we talked about iOS going with a flatter design a couple shows ago and the team at simply zesty took information from the latest rumors and built this awesome video concept showing off what a flatter iOS 7 might look like it incorporates cleaner look and a flatter design I'm just gonna enjoy some of this oh and even widgets oh oh yeah I feel that too yeah kind of catchy all right guys let's follow up with a story from last week and it looks like the 50 billionth app was downloaded and the lucky app was paper from the team at 53 apple also included this fun little thanks to announce the milestone but the name of the winner hasn't been announced because I will track them down and for those of you that have been waiting for over four or five years to finally message with your friends on blackberry messenger well blackberry announced that the BBM app for iOS and Android is coming this summer so now you can message with your one buddy that's still using a blackberry and we need to make a correction from last week's show there's a story where I mentioned how a bit of 605 thousand dollars for coffee with Tim Cook was equivalent twelve thousand and ten jack-in-the-box tacos well even Trevor Burnett wrote in with that's like fifty dollars a taco I know it was a total brain fart and many of you pointed out that it would actually be 1 million two hundred and ten thousand tacos at fifty cents per taco so I just wanted to say I'm sorry I'm human and see not all Asian people are good at math me too Brian it's good to know i'm not alone alright let's do a quick giveaway I'm excited to hook you the Apple biters up with this sweet aluminum frame case called the AL 13 for my buddies at em that's the name of the company now this frame comes in different colors it's real sturdy and it adds a classy design element to your phone it comes with a screen protector and the packaging is pretty insane so we're giving away a total of five in either blue or gunmetal for the iPhone 5 now all you have to do is send me a tweet at brian Tong or an email to the apple byte at cnet com and tell me who was the Apple beta tester we identified from last week's show and i'll randomly pick five you all right that's going to do it for this week's show keep sending us your questions and i'll get to as many as i can i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you