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what's happened to Brian song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple and the hot rumor this week is new evidence of a 13-inch macbook pro with a Retina display now digit times continues to tap into its supply chain and claims that Apple is back on track for retina display 13-inch macbook pro after reported manufacturing delays and now has a chance to debut before October this year to add more fuel to this fire a geekbench to benchmark submitted late last month identified as MacBook Pro tend to appears to be the retina display 13 inch pro in question but has not been confirmed now last month an online battery test also identified an unreleased computer known as MacBook Pro 10 to that was believed to be the same machine the new macbook pro listed is shown running a 2.9 gigahertz intel core i7 ivy bridge processor with a specific billed amount line but only for gigs of ram it's geekbench score came in at 7806 which is lower than the current 15-inch retina macbook pro but higher than early 2011 13-inch MacBook Pros so we'll just wait and see if this will be the next retina display computer now an iPod news yes I said it iPod news the ipod nano might be going retro according to Japanese blog Macotakara they report the new ipod nano will not be square shaped like the current model instead the new nano will allegedly have a rectangular screen that will probably be a touchscreen and we'll also have a home but it's also rumored to feature a new dedicated iTunes service bringing new features and ditching ping wait you don't remember ping oh my gosh ping what's up dude I haven't seen you so long like I'm Daniel well not that ping but I pretty much hated the square nano design a lot of people loved making it into a watch nerd alert so if this is legit I'll welcome it back with open arms now Apple has also ceded the gold master of OS 10 mountain lion to developers this is the final version of mountain lion that will be available publicly to users some time in jail by now there's a rumor date of July 19th that hasn't been confirmed by anyone and I know there's a lot of you that can't wait for this cat to get out of the bag i crack myself up sometimes alright in that so great news apple recently pulled all 39 of its products from EP removing the green certification from its products now EP is a non-profit group backed by manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency the decision might have been related to the new design of the new Retina Display MacBook Pros that have their batteries glued into the case and can't be disassembled for recycling cities like our own San Francisco where we hug trees and separate our compost have gone on the record and said they will no longer buy Apple products because they require epeat computers now I know this isn't the sexiest story it probably won't stop all of you from buying new machines but we'll see if they change their stance if more cities do the same all right to the quick bites a few key apps have new updates the Google+ iOS app now includes full iPad support integration of the new Google+ events feature for picture uploads and you can now join and start hangouts directly in the app and even stream it to your TV / airplay which is pretty slick also the Twitter app received an update with expanded tweets improved search and my favorite new feature the ability to now get notifications from specific accounts directly through the app instead of over text messages now we've also talked about Apple's I travel application concept in the past and the Cupertino kids have been granted the patent for their NFC enabled I travel transportation ticketing app that was filed back in 2008 it's a very detailed filing for implementation and used for I travel and even with NFC being adopted slowly it hints at the feature being really taken seriously by Apple for the future alright guys it's going to do it for this week so it's a short one i'm off to comic-con but we will return next week with a fully loaded one email us at the alpha beta cnet com I'll write you back i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you