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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to the show and the big a has officially sent out their colorful invitation for their october twenty second event in san francisco with the headline we still have a lot to cover seriously Apple do you have to make it that easy for us look I'm pretty smart and it's real obvious they're going to announce a whole new bunch of Apple cases get it lot to cover or it could be iPads new macs and OS 10 Mavericks but I let you guys decide now French website mattg claims to have had the release dates for the new hardware we expect to see they say we'll see the new macbook pros available on October the 24th or 25th the ipad 5 and ipad mini 2 on october the 30th or 31st and the new mac pro on november the 15th but based on what we know in all the leaks we've heard and seen what can we expect well the ipad 5 is expected to bring an all-new design similar to the ipad minis beveled edges the new a7 chip that's in the iPhone 5s and an improved 8 megapixel camera and there's still no confirmation about touch ID integration now the ipad mini 2 is expected to bring a Retina Display finally but there are rumblings at a version without one have also been tested possibly as an entry-level model according to 9to5 mac and a variant of the a7 chip will be used as well now according to Macotakara the retina display mini might even end up slightly thicker to accommodate the new display now with the new macbook pros they're expected to bring Intel's Haswell processors and give it a huge boost in battery life that almost doubled for the macbook air line and a front-facing camera could be upgraded at 1080p but we don't expect to see a new body design we've also seen pretty much all the new beefy hardware for the new mac pros and it's the entry-level price point in specs that we're waiting to see so that's a lot of stuff already but we have to imagine a release date for OS n Mavericks will be the icing on the cake mm now Apple has already released the final gold master release of OS n Mavericks to developers and it started asking developers to submit their apps optimized for mavericks so we're getting real real close for a final release date now an iphone news Apple has kept mum on the sales of the late I phones but that didn't stop localytics who used iphone connections to mobile and web apps and estimates a three-to-one ratio in favor of the iphone 5s over the 5c now the wall street journal then followed up with a recent story that apple is reducing its component orders for the iphone 5c by a third and they're curtailing iphone 5c production they also report Apple has raised orders for the 5s you know the phone with new technology in it all right let's check out our App of the Week this week it's an app for your Mac called Control plus it's real slick and think of it as control center for your mat it's a sweet fun utility that appears on your menu bar you can change your display to do things like adjusting your brightness or setting your wallpaper easily you can also control itunes or even set a timer it's 99 cents for the first couple of days and 4 99 after that but it's an app we're checking out that has a really slick and useful interface alright guys onto the quick bites it looks like some iphone 5s users are suffering from the blue screen of death reports from forums say it happens to people using the numbers app in apples iWork sweet and some have said it happens with ESPN scorecenter as well not a good thing but one possible workaround is to disable I cloud syncing with I work for now but there hasn't been a fix issued yet also Apple search for a new VP of retail is over with the hiring of Angela Ahrendts with the CEO a fashion retailer burberry and I think I have a pretty good idea what the next Apple store is going to look like now all right in before we go we wanted to hook you guys the Apple biters up with another killer giveaway thanks to my friends at mophie check it out we have five mophie juice pack helium switch are there slimmer iphone 5 and 5s battery packs that give you eighty percent more juice for your phone so all you guys have to do is tell me why you deserve one of these cases or what you'd be willing to do to win one send us your responses to the Apple by to cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and i'll pick my favorites all right that's going to do it for this week's show we'll find out everything that Apple reveals next week so come back to find out what we think thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you