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what's going on brian Tong here with the Apple bite it's your weekly visit for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to it and it's a first-ever from Nintendo this week after they announced me tomo will be coming to smartphones for the very first time welcome to 2012 Nintendo now they famously resisted making mobile games for years focusing on its gaming consoles but those days are over me tomo is basically a social networking game for meez seriously that's the best they could do for their first smartphone gamer app this is a total disappointment it's your first game Nintendo and we're throwing a bad apple at you now 9to5 mac reports Apple stores will begin selling the new Apple TV in stores starting this friday i know iOS is actually different from TV OS but if Nintendo is smart they should be doubling down on this now Monday's online pre-orders will start shipping this week with priority deliveries arriving friday and standard deliveries coming after the weekend now the US Senate passed the controversial cybersecurity information sharing act this week with the house passing a similar bill known also as C is a it's designed to allow companies to share information on cybersecurity threats with one another and the government now companies like Apple Google Facebook Amazon and Microsoft do not support the bill as it's currently written and says it hides new government surveillance mechanisms in the guise of security protections Apple has taken a strong stance on privacy and has noted in the past that the government does not have access to its servers and it's even impossible for Apple to unlock iPads and iPhones under police request because they do not store the encryption keys for those idevices see privacy matters Apple understands that and that's a good Apple see so many of you keep bugging me insane hey Brian what about a good Apple so that's all of them for this year and since we're talking about good apples the tech giant reported another record quarter for the 3rd calendar quarter or fourth fiscal quarter of 2015 with a record revenue of 50 1.5 billion dollars and a net quarterly profit of 11 point 1 billion dollars 48 million iPhones were sold up from 39 point two million from the year-ago quarter max were up 5.7 million compared to 5.5 million but iPads continue to decline at nine point nine million units sold compared to 12.3 million a year ago so what's the lifeline of Apple it's still the iphone and they report thirty percent of iphone buyers in q4 this year switched from an Android phone it's the highest rate ever since they started measuring switchers now only one-third of their customer base has actually upgraded to a 6 6 plus 6s or 6s plus so there's still a large group that Apple is salivating over now the Big E is facing a five-million-dollar class-action suit over the fact that their Wi-Fi assist feature is using too much data and resulting in significant data overages for some customers the argument is that Apple failed to educate us properly about the feature that gives permission for your cell phone to use cellular data if Wi-Fi connectivity is poor now we'll see how this all plays out but the biggest mistake Apple did here was turn it on by default with the iOS update instead of giving it to people as an option to activate themselves and you know what that deserves a bad apple and where do you even find it well here in the settings inside cellular and all the way down down at the bottom of your app see that's real easy to find so if you want to turn it off right now that's where you need to go all right many of you know I'm a warriors fan remember the world champion Golden State Warriors well just in case you forgot my yeah now you remember well apples on board too with a couple of commercials featuring the reigning MVP Steph Curry launching a no-look three in slow motion wait for it splash or a live photo step just taking a steph court shot and absolutely splashing it see that Stepford 'less now arguably the best to Apple commercials in the history of Apple just barely being edged out by the iconic 1984 commercial you know known as one of the greatest TV commercials ever made its really close call and before we go it's time to announce our winner for the awesome belkin charge dock for the Apple watch an iphone I asked you all for your favorite new emoji and why and I got some fun responses like this one mark owen who got creative with Netflix and chill Zachary Mardon email said obviously the best emoji is this because who wouldn't want to barf money but the winner goes to dawn burn gasser on Twitter who said in case oh you wondered the taco emoji is my favorite it's all I can talk about yeah she went there people she absolutely did it I love it so congrats done and we'll be in touch all right that's going to do for this week's show you can send me your comments and questions to the app Evita cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple you