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what's happening Brian song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple now there's lots of news this week so let's get to the show the Taiwanese newspaper The Economic Times reports that apple is lining up suppliers for the next gen macbook air that will launch in the third quarter of this year now that's been the typical pattern for new apple laptop announcements now according to the report the next heir will receive internal performance upgrades with Intel's latest Haswell platform but also a facelift with new external features that were not explained in any way shape or form and the possibility of a Retina Display we know the retina display requires a lot more power so if they can figure out the battery life issues I think we'll see it and if they can't well we won't but you know what they say once you go retina you can't go back in all right now apple says that a small group of their employees computers were hacked recently through a vulnerability in the Java browser plug-in after they visited the popular iphone dev SDK forum there were no reports of them visiting naughty sites now apple says the infected machines were also isolated and there was no evidence that any data left Apple which is really a big disappointment for people just begging for any i watch information Apple then released a java update for mac OS 10 that includes a malware removal tool now early reports suggested the hackers who targeted apple were from china but then investigators now believe the criminals were based in Eastern Europe instead you know we're good at bootlegging and hacking but China Eastern Europe you know pretty much the same thing now rumor news didja Times reports that apple supplier AU Optronics has improved their poor ipad mini display production there now caught up and working on their next project the new display for the next gen ipad mini digit I'm says they have already begun work on the new panel which is believed to be and really better be a retina display and you guys know what they say about retina it's sharp now new data from Strategy Analytics that apple's iphone 5 and iphone 4s are the world's two most popular smartphones the numbers found that the iphone 5 shift more than 27 million units during the holiday quarter the 4s is believed to have shipped more than 17 million and the samsung galaxy s3 shipped more than 15 million phones but just because you're the most popular phone doesn't mean you're the best phone on the market and I still shouldn't have to tell you guys that the s3 is really still a better overall phone so maybe you're tired of your iphone 5 and it's screen is still too small and you use iOS 6 almost exactly like you used a OS 5 well you guys should give the iphone 5 inch papercraft model a chance to see if you really want that bigger screen now the good people at macrumors work with cheese redesign to create a really cool papercraft mock-up you can download at the link on the screen and just make sure you print it to actual size but check this out all Apple has to do is scale up the current 4-inch iphone screen to 5 inches the display would end up the same 1136 x 640 resolution but it's pixels per inch would drop down at 264 which is the same as the current full-size ipad now you know I enjoy arts and crafts and I still want a larger screen and really enjoyed the size of the iphone but I just wasn't a fan of its durability and there could be another threat to Apple a recent rumor report says google plans to open its own retail stores across the united states to show off their growing number of products now Google has already set up chrome mini stores inside of us best buys and retailers in the UK and it's an interesting move to expand its brand even more and you know we can probably expect to see Chromebooks and Google's Nexus tens 7s and fours and the rest of the space will sell advertising now check this out a really cool segment on the BBC's children show Blue Peter featured Apple designer Jony ive who has awarded their highest accolade a gold badge by the show it's the longest-running children show for over 50 years and encourages kids to make things from ordinary household objects I've watched it as a child during the segment I've talked about the thinking that goes into naming a product if we're thinking of lunch books would be really careful about not having the word box already you know give you a bunch of ideas that could be quite narrow because you think of a box as being square and like a cute and so we're quite careful with the words we use because those can sort of determine that the path that you go down well that's kind of odd because I just how do you put the letter I in front of everything alright guys that's going to do for this week's episode email us at the apple byte at cnet com or hit me up on Twitter and we'll read some of your questions or really any personal comments you would like to express next week i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple