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what's good Brian Tong here with the Apple bite you can all recite it with me it's everything good and bad inside the world of Apple so let's get to it now the iPad pro is still headlining the latest news especially after the results of testing by display mate categorized it as a top-tier display the iPad pro rated very good or excellent in many categories but it fell short to the iPad Mini 4s display that set performance records for the best absolute color accuracy color gamut image contrast record low reflectance and more now Microsoft Surface pro 4 earned an overall better grade than the iPad pro display as well display may says the iPad Mini 4s display unquestionably is the best and most accurate display of any LCD tablet they've tested but display mate the pro is the only iPad that can use a pencil the Apple pencil that maybe 5% of all iPad users are really going to use daily and I know I'm being generous come on that has to count for something or nothing look I was trying to make people who got one feel better now some iPad pros are becoming unresponsive after charging overnight and are requiring a hard restart to turn them back on how do I know this because I'm one of those people see I thought it was broken at first and it's happened multiple times Apple is not officially commented on the matter and stories like this one only get real when they affect you and guess what it affected me so you're getting a bad apple Apple all right you know I read the comments and it feels like some of you just watch the show just for the bad apples and you don't care about anything else so you know what that's a bad apple on you now I feel better all right some Apple stores are receiving super limited stock of the Apple pencil and the early online pre-orders should be arriving by the end of next week that's good for people who want the thing that makes the iPad pro unique but how durable is it it's the internet and we know people love destroying tech all the time just cuz Kozak's Tralee kept pushing on it and bending it and seeing what it took to break the Apple stylus I mean pencil so in conclusion if you Bend something hard enough and enough times it probably bends and ends up breaking okay we know the iPad pro comes in silver gold and Space Gray but do you believe that the silver iPad with a gold touch ID ring exists well believe it there is such thing as a multi-cultural iPad pro a nine-to-five Mac reader shared what Apple calls an extremely rare manufacturing error and what did he do do what anyone else would and sell it on eBay apples selling a magnetic Apple watch dock of its own for $79 your Apple watch can lay flat on it or rest on its side and be docked it's design looks like a white UFO and will only really match your home if you live in an Apple Retail Store speaking of 79 bucks people who listen to our Apple byte extra crunchy audio podcast yes that's a long-form version of the show with more stories and we're talking and more everything you all should just check it out well the question came up if Apple sold the new Apple TV touchpad remote separately and they do for 79 bucks so get this bundled together for 149 means the new Apple TV remote cost more than the entry-level Apple TV box I repeat the remote cost more than the Apple TV holy crap that's just horrible and yes that's another bad apple alright a Wall Street Journal report says Apple and banks are in talks for its own mobile person-to-person payments service is basically like PayPal or venmo specifically for Apple pay and Apple devices Apple has granted a patent for a person-to-person payment system using devices that communicate wirelessly earlier this year it's not clear how Apple expects to make money off this but a launch for the feature could get off the ground next year Apple pay is also making some progress globally in the UK Tesco bank and TSB have launched Apple pay support Apple pay is also finally available in Canada and for my friends down under in Australia but only if you're using American Express I know baby steps but it's better than nothing for now and most importantly to meet Apple pay will roll out to Domino's and Cinnabon locations by the beginning of next year seriously Cinnabon it's my secret to keeping me all you know sleek and slim and in a story that deserves attention some of you might have seen the video clip of a group of black teams who were asked by an Apple store employee in Australia to leave the store because employees were worried they would steal something they just worried you might steal something oh yes it's as bad as it sounds in disgust yeah I need to ask you a question now the senior manager at the store later invited the teens back to apologise and made it clear they were welcome anytime The Sydney Morning Herald reports one of the teams said she apologized to us and told us that we are welcome here any time it feels like we have justice now Tim Cook then sent an internal memo to employees making it clear what happened was unacceptable and the video does not represent apples values the message Apple is open now this type of stuff happens every day everywhere in this world and yeah it's wrong but kudos to the store's manager an Apple for handling this correctly and I seriously hope there is something that we can all take away from this really just be good to people all right that's gonna do it for this week's show you can send me your questions and comments to the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tong thanks so much for watching it will catch you all next week for another bite of the Apple you