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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple by for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple now I know last week kind of felt like a Google bite but we have a bunch of stories this week so let's get started now we've heard all the talk about Apple working with music labels to lock in deals for their upcoming I radio service but according to cnet one of the issues holding up negotiations has to do with the economics of skipping songs now Apple and sony are still trying to hammer out details for how much Apple would pay for songs that people listen to a fraction of and then skip see the big a service resembles Pandora more than anything else but has the iTunes machine and advertising that will give labels more revenue streams and this is the real sexy stuff that goes on behind the scenes now Apple's reached an agreement with universal music they're close with warner and they've been pushing hard to get their service out this summer but with Pandora Spotify and even Google getting into music streaming we'll see how different this service really is now there's also new tidbits about iOS 7 from nine to five Mac they report that Apple plans to increase its integration of third-party social networks including Flickr and Vimeo now Twitter and Facebook are already plugged into the iOS and users will be able to sign into the social networks through the settings and we'll have full sharing access vmail would be the first video partner plugged into iOS after Apple remove their preloaded YouTube app also you guys heard about this Tim Cook recently appeared at a Senate hearing to dress claims that Apple uses gimmicks and tax loopholes you swear that the testimony you're about to give now the hearing didn't lead to any real resolution and there was a lot of back and forth but we do have footage from inside the event we recommend a dramatic simplification of the corporate tax code we don't depend on tax gimmicks we don't move intellectual property offshore and use it to sell our products back to the United States to avoid taxes we don't stash money on some Caribbean island this reform should be revenue neutral eliminate all corporate tax expenditures or corporate income tax rates and implement a reasonable tax that allows the free flow of capital back to United States we know Apple isn't the only major company withholdings or operations in Ireland known for their friendly corporate tax rates and the hearing wrapped up when John McCain jokingly asked why the hell I have to keep updating the apps on my iphone all the time and why you don't fix that everybody who are senior public servants hard at work all right let's do a quick rumor mill update we're still expecting to see a macbook speed bump refresh at WWDC this year it's happened the past couple of years so there's no surprise there and don't buy one right now please also didja Times reports that production of apples fifth-generation 9.7 inch iPad will begin soon with volume production in July the iPad will still have the same retina display resolution but it will be built on a thinner piece of glass at 0.2 millimeters compared to 0.25 on the last gen and it will only use one LED for backlighting instead of to the report claims the changes will contribute to making the 5th gen ipad twenty five to thirty three percent lighter than the fourth gen and even if the iWatch hype has died down some which I'm totally okay with Japanese blog Macotakara says Apple is currently testing 1.5 inch o LED displays for the rumored iWatch that could possibly launched in december will see also apple said they intended to manufacture one of its existing Mac lines exclusively here in the US and Tim Cook revealed it will be in Texas the Longhorn state now cook added they're investing 100 million dollars the product will be assembled in Texas it will include components made in Illinois and Florida and rely on equipment produced in Kentucky and Michigan they also say the new name of the product line will be the ameri map alright let's announce the winners of our al13 aluminum frame cases worth 80 bucks a pop we ask you the name of the person we identified as the Apple beta tester and it was the one the only DJ Pauly D but some of you guessed like really bad but it's okay so congrats go out to our winners from Twitter Lewis becerra and share in nin with 2 n's and our email winners are Christopher car Kathie Lee and Nathan smart who went the extra mile and said DJ Pauly D has nothing on DJ B Tom and I like that one plus we'll be in touch with the winners and congrats go out to you but before we go we get some really interesting emails once in a while like this one the email reads hey Brian could you wink in your next episode of apple byte and I will know it's for me um seriously you know that would be really unfair to all the Apple biters in kind of awkward so no I'm not going to do that in now look feel all weird all right that's going to do it for this we show send me your emails to the apple byte at cnet com and I'll keep answering them i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you oh hey there aren't you glad you didn't leave yet now look I got all dressed up for this oh yeah now I save this for the very end because I wanted to make sure no one else was watching and I didn't want to make anyone jealous so here's what you asked for just like that just for you and no one else