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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple it's official apple released their invitation to the press for their next keynote on October the 16th that's a thursday with the title it's been way too long now the event will take place at the town hall auditorium on apple's campus so it won't be anything close to the massive set up for the iphone 6 and Apple watch so what's on tap for the event well we're expecting new iPad Air's minis and possibly an ipad pro mention or sneak peek at the very least I mean that's the product I'm most excited about if it happens now I know I also might be the only one so we're also expecting some speed bumps to the Mac line unfortunately no broadwell chipset sightings just yet and could the retina display imax make an appearance well we'll see but if there is one product that hasn't been updated in ages that fits this title the best it's the mac mini but you're not going to hold an event just for a Mac Mini or would you now the title could also be referring to the fact that it's been way too long for Apple to fix the widespread Bluetooth connectivity issues in iOS 8 that has prevented people from pairing their phones to their car audio systems that still hasn't been fixed now it could be referring to that I don't know so let's talk about all those iPads were expecting to see Vietnamese blog tint a has posted pictures and a video of what they claim is the ipad air 2 showing a thinner overall design touch ID capability and a curiously missing mute switch it may look almost exactly the same but there's two holes next to the camera one on the back side and one on the side where the mute hold switch used to be you'll also notice speaker holes at the bottom are now a single row instead of two rows of holes now it's a little strange that the mute lock screens which would be completely removed just to make a thinner product because Apple would never make something super thin while sacrificing battery life just to make it super thin right so yeah we'll see what happens next week Thursday now we aren't hearing any updated rumors surrounding max but didja x is now reporting that quanta computer has begun production on Apple's ultra slim 12-inch MacBook and is looking to ramp up its efforts in November but don't get ahead of yourselves the report says the notebooks will not be ready for the holiday season and that's a Bad Santa see you didn't see that one coming Kris Kringle now their supply chain sources say component makers are having issues with the newer ultra slim chassis that's thinner than the current 13-inch and 11 inch macbook airs and they also claim the 12 inch macbook air will come with a touch-enabled retina display that sounds like a real stretch there but again these are rumors all right the coop town kids have released the second gold master candidate for OS 10 to developers getting us closer to the official release we haven't seen any major changes but most likely under the hood bug fixes this time around apple also released the second beta for iOS 8.1 and developer Hamza said has found the Apple pay setup screen in the passbook app we're expecting the software update for Apple pay to arrive with the release of iOS 8.1 by the end of the month in we might even get the green light from Apple at the keynote as well and do you believe the children are our future I believe change teach us well according to a piper jaffray survey sampling about 7,200 teens sixty-seven percent of them currently own an apple smartphone up from 61 percent in the spring and seventy-three percent expected to buy one as their next smartphone and Android dropped five points in their survey over the same period of time but what about all the hype for the Apple watch well when asked if they were interested in buying the SmartWatch only sixteen percent of teens said they were interested now that's not much so yes there is some hope young people aren't brainwashed by everything apples trying to sell them oh hey right yeah what's up Mitch did you know that a new iPad for all you want my didn't cost you money yeah I don't care I am just going to buy it whatever it costs alright guys just a reminder our apple byte exclusive design by humans promo to get shirts iphone cases hoodies and everything there for fifteen percent off is still going until October the 11th using the code below alright that's going to do it for this week's show you can email me at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and remember to join us for cnet's live coverage of apple's keynote on october the 16th starting at ten a.m. pacific time and our coverage will start at 9am and we'll be taking your calls and live tweet so come hang out with me because uh I could use a friend thanks so much for watching and we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple