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what's happened in Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite it's all the good and bad inside the world of Apple the week before Apple's big keynote event in a I'm all dressed up for it now as we get closer more pieces of the puzzle are coming together and it looks like Apple is finally positioning the iPhone to be your wallet according to Bloomberg Apple is finalizing the deals with payment networks banks and retailers to be the digital wallet I've been asking for the agreement includes Visa MasterCard and American Express and the report says it will be unveiled at Apple September 9th event the touch ID fingerprint scanner was the first piece of the puzzle and now Russian vendor Feldon Volk has acquired the complete logic board for the device that specifically shows the rumored NFC chip from company and XP that will support Apple's push into mobile payments and for those of you that haven't heard me talk about this the technology has been working flawlessly as far back as 2005 in Japan when I had a chance to use it at am/pm s movie theaters and arcades now when the right pieces are in place it's pretty amazing you'll also need retailers to be a part of the equation and bank innovation reports that department store Nordstrom's is in talks with Apple to be one of Apple's early merchant partners when it unveils their new payment platform according to Nordstrom employees in the report the department store chain recently upgraded its mobile point-of-sale terminals a few weeks ago with hardware that will allow it to work with the most recent iPhones see it's all coming together people and just a little factoid Apple already has roughly 800 million global iTunes accounts and most of them are linked with some sort of payment information and if anyone is really going to push the digital wallet forward in the US Apple has the best chance to do it now I know you want to see more of that iPhone 6 goodness so here's the latest video from youtuber rosette Kidd showing what looks like one of the best-looking assembled iPhone 6 videos we've seen so far comparing it to the current iPhone and also showing off details like the metallic Apple logo the other big thing we're expecting to see at the keynote is their vision of the wearable or little bird I watch if that's what they caught every major manufa Nature has announced something in this space and it's the big A's turn now according to recode Apple execs have discussed charging around $400 for the wearable pricing has yet to be finalized and all reports pointed to shipping next year it's still not for certain if they will announce the price of the keynote but their sources say we should expect a range of prices for different models including lower priced versions and if they're thinking of $400 right now a lower price for Apple is probably 399 all right I know some of you are going to say fanboy right now but this is arguably the most exciting keynote with the most buildup I've seen since the first iPhone in 2007 we know Apple is doing something but we have no idea what this I watch wearable looks like at all we don't even know what it will do and I'm hoping it will at least tell us the time on top of that add on the unveiling of the new iPhone 6 if there's any key note where Apple can regain their mojo and be perceived as a real leader in innovation once again this is the keynote now there's also some curious happenings for the September 9th event that will be held at the Flint Center at De Anza College in Cupertino this is where it all began when Apple unveiled the first Macintosh 30 years ago the iMac was also unveiled here and there's really a sense of historical significance around coming back to the Flint Center that raises the hype up another level on top of that this a huge three-story construction project that's been going on for several weeks on the DeAnza College campus with security surrounding the secret project now it's most likely a staging area for media members to check out the new products but this isn't a tiny space it's a big boy covered in white cloth and maybe we'll see dr. Dre and a concert or something like that and since we're on the topic of Apple building stuff check out this sneak peak at Apple's spaceship campus in Cupertino thanks to this awesome video by youtube user JMC min who used a DJI phantom 2 quadcopter to capture it all it's just a really impressive and unique perspective of Apple's campus you really get a sense of the scale of this thing in the building that will really be part of Steve Jobs as legacy alright I know some of you are saying what no bad apples for the leak of celebrity photos from Apple well the big a released a statement that it was a very targeted attack on the usernames and passwords and security questions for celebs like Jennifer Lawrence Kate Upton and ariana grande but there was actually no breach in any of apple systems including iCloud or Find My iPhone the biggest issue here is Apple's really lame security questions to get access to an account if you know the email address things like the name of your first pet or your childhood nickname people can find these things out especially if you're a celebrity so Apple you can start fixing that aspect do a little more and for everyone at home stop taking compromising pictures of yourself and then leaving them on your phone which reminds me okay delete that delete that yeah definitely delete that all right and yes a lot of attention is on Apple but they aren't the only ones with the product release IKEA is releasing their 2015 catalogue Anna it's kind of amazing you know once in a while something comes along that changes the way we live a device so simple and intuitive you see it fits almost there introducing the 2015 yet it's not a digital book or anything it's you know I swear I've seen something like some Apple product that kind of looks like that before oh well alright that's gonna do it for this week's show it's going to be a big big keynote in will have all our reactions from the product announcements next week send me your emails to the Apple by to see Netcom or tweet me at Brian Tong you can even do it during the keynote I'll tweet back when I'm not streaming around like a girl and an usher concert which I have never done thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple