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what's happened in brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple plus our JBL poles giveaway winners and you don't want to miss that so let's get to the show in Apple's biggest rival Samsung just revealed the galaxy s5 but let's be honest it kind of feels like a galaxy s4 s now the screen gets a slight bump in size at 5.1 inches it brings a fingerprint scanner this time around and a heart rate scanner placed on the back side under its improved camera its body retains an almost identical plastic design but this time the back looks more like a band-aid than it does a phone samsung fans overall had lukewarm reactions after expecting the next big thing but Samsung really left an opening for other android phones and the iphone to get back that psychological edge and consumer minds that Samsung's really had for the past year now they're here to watch was nothing to write home about and their gear fit their coolest piece of hardware really should have been the new gear SmartWatch instead of a fitness band and a user interface that can only be used horizontally which is pretty uncomfortable for anyone with a neck now I'm still not even sold on the idea of a SmartWatch yet but without even seeing what Cupertino is cooking you almost have to give the big a and edged out of the gates now even if they just do with this concept video from Todd Hamilton does they'll already be ahead also this week the big bad apple news was a security vulnerability known as go to fail which allowed an attacker on the same network to capture or modify data transfer from Safari mail iCloud and other Apple apps that we're supposed to be securely encrypted pretty much everything you do on an Apple device now Apple released patches for iOS 6 and iOS 7 first but then still left desktop and laptop users vulnerable until the most recent 10.9 point to update now everything has been patched up to our knowledge but this affects iphones ipads and macs so if you haven't already you need to run these updates on all your devices also in some iOS 7 use apples pushing for wider ibeacon adoption it's their location sensing technology that delivers information when a user is within 100 feet of an ibeacon now can provide anything from indoor navigation of a store to product information or relevant promotions or discounts apple recently released specification requirements under the made for iphone program for third party companies looking to incorporate the technology Apple has rolled out its tech at its US retail stores and macy's flagship store in New York is running a pilot test as well now Major League Baseball has installed ibeacons in Dodger Stadium mm-hmm and petco park to deliver ballpark information and points of interest and plans to rolled out in over 20 ballparks before the 2014 opener in March now a lot of you have been asking me about when we'll see a legit standalone controller for iOS devices it's coming soon with the recent mad catz announcement for their iOS 7 controller called control I that will release an April for around eighty dollars bringing what they call a premium experience to iOS now it's a Bluetooth controller so you can either mount an iphone or ipod touch to it or use it separately with an ipad it uses to triple-a batteries and will provide about 50 hours of gameplay alright guys so the quick bytes The Hollywood Reporter says the social network director David Fincher is in talk to a Sony to direct the Aaron Sorkin scripted Steve Jobs biopic now Sorkin completed the script last month and it's supposed to take place across three 30-minute scenes at three different Steve Jobs keynotes based on the Walter Isaacson biography now you know fincher and Sorkin would be the perfect team to make this happen I mean did you see the social network they made a movie about facebook it won three Academy Awards it was nominated for best picture and best director in 2010 as well now think about it it was about Facebook so make it happen Sony now apple recently released an update for iTunes with bug fixes and compatibility improvements so get on that but even cooler if you use iTunes radio upcoming albums from Pharrell Rick Ross and Lea Michele are also available to listen to in their entirety before they're even released so you guys can just check it out on iTunes radio in the featured stations and the WWE announced their WWE Network that's available as a channel on the Apple TV and is also available in their own iOS app it will give you full access to pay-per-view events like WrestleMania replays of classic matches and original programming it's 59 99 for six months which is basically the price of one pay-per-view event and you know how WWE fans feel about this all right it's time to announce our winners for the JBL pulse bluetooth speaker giveaway I told you it wouldn't be easy and we had over 1,500 submissions so we asked you guys how many times did I sing me in the warm-ups and then add that to the number of pipes I personally flew through in flappy bird and for all you that were wondering the correct answer is 29-27 out of 27 be easy and I flew through two pipes all though some of you said it was actually four because the pipes were separate which is a good point but I'm going with 29 so congrats go to our twitter winners Lanita and stanley wong but i'm sorry Brian Kadena who actually did the correct math but wrote the wrong number and on email kevin ruddy who asked me not to give him the one I had in my pants so don't worry you're all getting brand new ones congrats again and we'll be in touch all right that's going to do for this week's show email us at the apple byte at cnet com or just tweet me at brian Tong and i'll answer when i can thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next week for another bite of the Apple you