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what's happened in bryant on here and welcome to the apple byte for all the good and bad inside the world of apple now we told you they'd sell a ton of iPads and the big a announced they sold three million iPads in the first three days now it's a combination of minis and ipad fours appleton revealed the breakdown but it doubled their previous record of 1.5 million units sold for the Wi-Fi ipad 3 just seven months ago now Tim Cook said they're practically sold out of iPad minis but not actually sold out so if you're one of the people holding out for a Retina Display ipad mini you're in luck do news reports that au optronics the company that currently supplies the 7.9 inch displays for the first gen mini are already working on the display for the 2nd gen mini and will reportedly have double the resolution at 2048 x 1536 now i think it's still a great product if you're willing to drop the cash on it and guess what i don't have to lust after every apple product it can't even fit in my pants yeah comfortably and who said the ipad mini isn't a good size is perfect for the guys at sound man who are already installed one inside the dashboard of a 2012 volkswagen CC look at how it fits so perfectly ok now i'm getting one i'm kidding guys but one product i'm going to have my way with are the new imacs that are expected to be available to order starting with the 21.5 inch model this month and then the 27 incher in december but the future of the guts inside of the imac could look very different bloomberg reports their sources tell them that apple plans to one day abandon intel chips and it will be mobile chips that eventually run inside its computer lineup Bob Mansfield senior VP of Apple's new technologies group is apparently leading the chipped research and the article says Apple has ambitious plans for the future with their desktops but Apple will still continue to rely on Intel for at least a few more years another thing you probably still won't see on an imac blu-ray in an interview with time Phil Schiller said native blu-ray support will likely never come to the Mac his blu-ray alternative is iTunes and blu-ray comes with complex issues that make it I'm not so great technology according to Schiller now all he really had to say was hey dummy we can't fit a blu-ray in our five millimeter thin iMac all right guys in iOS news apple has released iOS 6.1 to developers one of the new features will allow you to now get movie tickets through Siri using data and information from fandango which is pretty slick now there aren't any other major new features here but some behind-the-scenes improvements to maps let developers search for map based addresses and points of interest as well now we all know Google is still developing their own map app and they plan on submitting it to the app store later this year according to the Guardian it took a long time for their Google Search app to get approved and we'll see how or if apple approves google's app since maps can already be accessed in safari in it's a direct competitor to Apple's own Maps we also told you guys to expect microsoft office for iOS in 2013 the verge is officially reporting that it will come in early 2013 and included a few small screen shots that will allow users to have basic access to view offline documents on the go but if you want editing capabilities you'll need a paid office 365 subscription all right onto the quick bytes we know about Apple and Samsung yeah they've had their beef but it was vernet X that was able to pull off what Samsung couldn't a Texas judge ruled that apple's facetime function for the iphone ipod touch and ipad infringed on for Vernet x patents and apple has been told to pay 360 8.2 million dollars in damage Burnett X also is planning on seeking in order to block further use of its inventions it really means they want more money in a settlement and in a great way to pay tribute to the late Steve Jobs pics our headquarters recently named their main building in honor of SJ it was job too invested 10 million dollars to purchase pics are from Lucas Films in 1986 the animation studio was then later sold to Disney 47.4 billion dollars all right guys let's wrap things up with a giveaway that may not be for all of you but you know me I'm a huge NBA fan and I have some of the craziest dribbling skills and jump shots that you've ever seen that's what I actually wear when I play so to celebrate the start of the season i'm giving out five codes for the game NBA 2k13 on iOS devices all you guys have to do is email us at the apple byte at cnet com tell me who your favorite player of all time was and don't say Kwame Brown because he's mine but to make this even bake them better we're also giving away a copy of my favorite game NBA 2k13 for the xbox 360 and one big daddy dynasty edition for the ps3 so do something amazing with Photoshop in the NBA to make me laugh in you might be the lucky winners alright guys that's going to do it for this week's show email me at the Apple bita cnet com and I will answer you i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple