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what's happening Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite and you know we'll talk about everything good and bad from WWDC 2013 and let's start it off with the rock star of the event iOS 7 now we finally saw the new fresh coat of paint Apple has been working on and it looks like a cleaner and flatter iOS and the use of the slimmer font called skinny jeans it's apples modern take that should make most Apple fans happy since it's a fresh look for them and they're finally starting to catch up with their hand roid peers now even our own CNET poll showed that with over 30,000 respondents over 66% of people liked what they saw in iOS 7 now my first impressions I like it and where they're going with this but I don't love it Apple's sexy video sure they're one thing but using it right now it's a little too bright overall even the icons kind of look kiddush and text can be really hard to read at times and let's just keep it real it takes a quite a few cues from Android Windows Phone 8 and others now I'm not gonna judge it too hard right now it's still just the beta and it's coming out this fall but I think the biggest thing that sticks out to me was the lack of any game changing features now the iOS and car interface might end up being the standout but we've seen something similar from Samsung already now Siri is better integrated for telling it things like turning on Bluetooth but it's still the same Siri at its core it hasn't shown it's improved and it's a technology that's still behind - Google's speech recognition then you have apple's map it's getting better and iTunes radio also made an appearance with little fanfare as an addition to the music app iTunes Match users will get an ad-free version and everyone else will still be able to use it for free with ads then we have here control center to get quick access to your services it's finally here and that might be the biggest thing for iOS users that aren't jailbreakers well Android users they're kind of laughing alright guys one cool feature that hasn't been talked about is that iOS 7 will include support for standardized my game controllers which will finally enable a handheld Gaiman experience with iOS devices and really this has a lot of potential and one hidden feature that people have found is the ability to use a panorama picture in your lockscreen here like Jeff Qin did and you can spin around and around to look at it until you throw up now iOS 7 will be available in fall and surprisingly work with the iPhone 4 and higher the 5th gen iPod touch the iPad 2 and higher and the iPad Mini now Apple also showed off what they've been working on with OS 10 and they're moving away from cats and calling this one OS 10 mavericks no not after the dallas mavericks basketball fans but the surfing location in northern california where waves like routinely crested over 25 feet they get like top out at 80 feet that's gnarly um Thank You Wikipedia now some of the cool new features were finder tabs that consolidate all those Finder windows into one I love that multiple display support with Doc's on every screen the ability to tag files to help you sort them and a dedicated OS 10 Maps app where you can send the directions you found directly to the maps on your phone and a bunch of other features and performance tweaks to increase your battery life so Apple here is really hoping they can make some waves in the OS and it's also expected to release sometime in fall now we predicted a refresh for the pro and airlines but surprisingly we only saw new MacBook Airs there were no cosmetic changes and we didn't get a Retina display even when there are plenty of other competitors out there with higher res laptop displays like the Toshiba Kirra book and the Chromebook pixel so that's pretty much a bust now the main upgrade will be battery life they'll come loaded with the new Intel Haswell processors the 11 inch air starts at $9.99 and goes from five hours of juice to nine and the 13-inch goes from seven hours to 12 hours and starts at 1099 which is $100 cheaper but it looks like for whatever reason we'll have to wait for the MacBook Pro retina updates probably around the back-to-school season in the july/august timeframe and there is a new airport extreme and time capsule that looks like a squarish paper towel roll shape it supports the faster 802 11 AC standard that's three times faster and strong than current Wi-Fi and starts at $1.99 but really for me the biggest surprise was the sneak peak at the Mac Pro yes Apple's powerhouse desktop finally showed itself with one of the most unique form factors that we've ever seen in a desktop well unless you use this coffee grinder now you know the internet went to town on this one with some amazing let's just call them Mac Pro mock-ups like the Mac Pro tissue box or it could be a home for a seal and I'm all for protecting animal habitats check out this one it's really classy for you shabu-shabu fans out there and you know I love this one and dim sum but seriously this is a radical design that is really unlike any other using next-gen intel xeon e5 processors with up to 12 cores to AMD FirePro GPUs and the top-of-the-line PCIe flash-based storage that's ten times faster than desktop hard drives plus you get four channel ECC ddr3 memory this beast can edit full res 4k video while rendering the effects in the background it has expansion with the next-gen Thunderbolt 2 it's one-eighth the size of the previous Mac Pro 1/8 dry creek and coming later this year now Phil Schiller wanted us to make sure we knew what we were looking at can't innovate anymore my ass but Phil hold on hold on now don't get too ahead of yourself because then the interweb isn't going to remind you that iOS 7 pretty much took elements from Windows 8 like the call screen the control center is pretty much like the notifications cool down with access to services from Android the multitasking is almost a carbon copy of webOS and the weather app yeah this is Yahoo's weather app and this is Apple's in iOS 7 so let's just slow your roll down a little bit now overall if I had to give WWDC a grade I'd give it a b-plus they really delivered with a new refreshing OS it's solid most of you guys will be happy but I don't see it luring over android users and it's enough to keep the Apple users then we're getting frustrated on team Cupertino see I just say Cupertino kids that YouTube guy now MacBook Airs we're solid bump but current owners won't be racing to get one iTunes radio is nice but nothing special and the Mac Pro well we might as well call that thing beast mode if you're in the market for one so I asked you what do you guys think well Karin Stevens writes in with I know I know iOS 7 isn't original but the overall aesthetic has changed an apple needed to reflect that change or die out like the dinosaurs could it be less girly and pastel yeah it's almost 2 hello kitty even for me is there even such thing as too much hello kitty no Julian on Twitter says as a dev I was hoping for a lot more than we got failed to see how this is the game changer Apple needed and the ever optimistic Alex Carroll writes in with I can't wait to get iOS 7 just waiting on the announcement of the iWatch and the iPad Mini 2 so there you go guys that's gonna do it for this week's show send me your email through the Apple bita cnet.com and your tweets at Brian Tong and let us know really what you thought about WWDC as well I'm Brian Tong thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you