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what's happened in Bryan song here and welcome to the Apple by for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple we have stories and of course the winners of our logitech ipad keyboard giveaway so let's get to the show and according to reports from Japan sharp one of apple's primary display partners will begin manufacturing LCD panels for the iphone 5s beginning in june it was expected to start production in March but we talked about the rumor delays from the fingerprint sensor tech in previous episodes now cnet is also reporting that production of the display for the retina iPad Mini should start in june or july according to NPD DisplaySearch analysts LG is believed to be one of the major manufacturers for the retina mini and it's reported that samsung won't be involved in production of the upcoming mini or the one after that it's still expected to bring a 7.9 inch screen with four times the pixels and double the resolution but both of these production timetables fall in line with Tim Cook's announcement that we shouldn't expect any new hardware until fall and for all of you who keep asking if you should wait to get a mini the answer is absolutely wait now I never thought the current mini was even worth it in the first place alright websites and developers have been seen low-level hits from iOS 7 devices over time but last week a significant surge hits sites like macrumors and more now the sites haven't seen the same type of spikes with mac OS 10 hello kitty yet but it indicates iOS 7 is getting closer and closer to prime time now mobile website on swype was actually able to analyze what iOS 7 beta testers were looking at and the major topics that surfaced were finding out what turntable to buy how to take selfie videos with vine and kid cudi's latest album indicud so the average Apple beta tester basically looks like this alright let's check out some cool stuff that's been revealed on the apple patent side future iPhones could come with invisible buttons and slider controls that blend into the background the granted apple patent reveals how input devices and display systems may become visible when illuminated from behind through micro perforated holes that aren't visible to the naked eye it shows how the invisible button or slider could be illuminated and then used and would appear depending on the context of how the phone is being used it also talks about how the entire keyboard of a macbook could be replaced with an array of invisible buttons so there's some pretty cool stuff there now another granted patent for the Cupertino kids describes an accessory that's basically an advanced headphone splitter and allows each headphone to have independent volume control independent remote control of content and a microphone feature where users can talk to each other and hear each other while watching the same video together now I would use that to fast forward through the naughty parts on Game of Thrones just can't handle it an apple has put up a new contest on the app store offering a ten-thousand-dollar gift card for the person who downloads the 50 billion app from the App Store I would just hold onto that if you win maybe sometime you know around the fall now apples also giving five hundred dollar gift cards to the next 50 people who download an app after the 50 billion so you're telling me there's a chance yeah and just a charity buzz update from last week coffee with Tim Cook has now hit six hundred and five thousand dollars with less than a week to go that's twelve thousand and ten jack-in-the-box tacos alright so let's announce our winners of the logitech ultrathin keyboard cover contest we asked you to send us what's the one question you would ask tim cook if you could have coffee with the cook so congrats go out to David Shen on email he'd ask would you ever make a red iphone so brian Tong can call it pink very funny David now manish suresh kumar on twitter he would ask what do you think about I in changtung the guy who owes the Apple bite manish that's not even my middle name like who makes up someone's middle name well you're still a winner and Yuki asakura would ask does apple have any plans to make cars if so would it have windows wow that was really bad like really bad Yuki alright that's gonna do it email us at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and will include some of your deep or not so deep questions in the next few shows thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple