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Apple Byte - New Apple TV arrives next week. Plus, the taco emoji is here!

2015-10-22
how's it hi brian Tong here for the Apple Biden we're back with your regularly scheduled programming for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to it and the new apple TV is coming next week after Tim Cook announced that wsj deal I've that apple will be taking orders on Monday October the 26th and shipments will begin at the end of the week it's 149 for the 32 gig model and 199 for the 64gb model and just a reminder there will be no 4k support so you'll just have to wait for the new new Apple TV to bring that now just ahead of the launch new channels have arrived to the current Apple TV including NBC CBS all access and the fashion focused made-to-measure channel they'll also be available for the next gen apple TV now Cook was also asked about Apple watch sales numbers @wsjd live and still declined to reveal a specific number saying customer satisfaction is off the charts translation sales are still really low compared to anything we've made and we won't talk about it now coach said Apple music has six and a half million paying customers and 8.5 million still on free trials so for 6.5 million subscribers at ten dollars a month for 12 months that's 780 million bucks a year they'll only need to convert 1.8 million more trial users to make it another one of apple's billion dollar businesses joining the iphone ipad mac itunes and Apple TV Kretsch ah and I just had to do that to honor back to the future day that happened this week and did you know nike has finally made an actual pair of the self-lacing nike mag shoes from Back to the Future to insane okay back to the show and what about Apple's car ambitions there will be no flying DeLoreans anytime soon but cook didn't say much he admits software is important at the core and in the short term Apple wants people to have the iphone experience in the car Cook says we'll see what we do in the future so what about products that are here right now a lot of you been asking me about if it's the right time to buy an imac and I've been telling you to hold off and now Apple updated its imac line with the new 21.5 inch retina display model starting at 1499 and an upgraded 27-inch 5k display model that starts at seventeen ninety nine plus an all new lineup of magic accessories with a new magic keyboard magic mouse to a magic trackpad to that all bring rechargeable lithium ion batteries connect via bluetooth and can be charged with lightning to USB cables all right apple's ipad pro still says available november on the website with no specific date but Macotakara supply chain sources have targeted november the sixth as the official release date FCC filings state that the ipad pro has already been approved for sale in the united states and early november is still the rumor time table with no confirmation from Cupertino just yet there's also a whole bunch of software updates across the board this week from the big a I OS 9.1 is finally here bringing us the long-awaited new emoji set supporting Unicode seven and eight including burritos and tacos oh it's a big deal plus live photos won't record those unnecessary moments when you either raise or lower your phone during the picture and I know you all do it also watch OS 2.0 point one gets new emojis performance improvements and bug fixes Apple's TV OS gold master has been seeded to developers so it's ready to roll and Mac os10 El Capitan gets bug fixes office 2016 compatibility and the new emoji support as well including popcorn the unicorn head and the middle finger all very important but even more important I learned a really cool trick that I had no idea about sent to me from el rob diaz on twitter with iOS 9 in the messages app just hold down the camera icon and it gives you a quick option to take a still picture or a video that will go directly into your message pretty slick and that proves i actually do read the messages you send me and before we go I haven't shown you all the love in a while so we're doing a giveaway from my friends at belcan with my favorite doc for the Apple watch an iphone it charges both at once it looks really slick and it's all for you all you have to do is tell me what your favorite new emoji from the iOS 9.1 update is and why I'll pick my favorite one and announce the winner next week alright that's going to do for this we show you can send me your email to the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching and we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple
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