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what's going on Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple it's another packed show with the Apple watch and the iPhone but let's start with the latest it's all about the Apple TV now The Wall Street Journal reports Apple has set a budget of roughly 1 billion dollars to produce original content over the next year we've been asking for something like this forever and we've said it over and over again content is king now 1 billion is about half the amount HBO spent on content last year and just happens to be the home of the show you might have heard called Game of Thrones Jack Harris I've always wanted to say that now all it takes is a couple legitimate hit shows to get people's attention and it's about time they dip into their two hundred and sixty plus billion dollars of casts are sitting on Apple becomes an instant player because of its size but they have a lot of catching up to do for example Netflix they spent 6 billion dollars on content in 2017 alone and they're putting out so much good stuff you can't even keep up anymore but what were the hits that started it for them all how about house of cards and orange is the new black and come on now Shonda Rhimes just left ABC for Netflix that's how powerful they've become plus those scandal scenes can get really steamy at least that's what I have been told now we've seen the leaks about a potential 4k Apple TV coming this year as well so put this all together and there's some nice momentum in the Apple TV space Plus ESPN just launched a new version of their Apple TV app that allows you to watch up to four live streams simultaneously perfect for college football season now there will be other modes like split-screen picture-in-picture or three games at a time ESPN is also considering using one of the screen tiles for stats and scoreboard updates in the future but these are the types of apps we want to see on Apple TV things that you can't do anywhere else but it's taking a long time to get there all right another video services coming a native Vudu app for the 410 Apple TV is expected to arrive on August 22nd the video service has more than 100 thousand titles to rent and buy but the best part it supports 4k streaming of many titles with Dolby vision and Dolby Atmos audio and this could line up perfectly again for the rumored 4k Apple TV and if you want to see a leaked that could be totally true or totally false and this is a real reach but a user on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo released pictures of what he described as Apple's OLED TV spy photos it still doesn't make sense for Apple to jump into a low margin and crowded TV set business but you know what I'll just leave those right there and tons of Apple watch news this week the economic daily news reports the series three Apple watch has entered the final testing phase in the manufacturing process with mass production starting soon after that and everything lining up for a September release a new report from KGI securities Ming Chi Kuo claims that the new Apple watch will bring LTE support for the first time but it's unlikely to support direct phone calls now Kuo says it probably won't support phone calls this year because Apple wants to improve the user experience with making calls before they roll it out instead it could support voice over IP services like FaceTime audio or Skype now he also adds that the Apple watch is likely to use an e SIM or what we call an imbedded sim instead of a physical slim slot due to the lack of physical space in the Apple watch now rumors have also pointed to the new LTE Apple watch being supported by major carriers in the US but that may not be the case with international carriers on its launch Kuo says the form factor and watch faces will stay the same size at third millimeters and 42 millimeters with LTE really being the main selling point also CNBC reports we can expect to see the new Apple watch announced at Apple September iPhone event no one else has confirmed that and we don't even have a date for Apple's event yet so we'll just have to wait and see all right let's jump to the iPhone 8 we saw the Apple TV leaked earlier but if you're really into low quality looking videos from inside a factory another leak from Weibo allegedly shows rear shells for the iPhone 8 from a production line getting polished with the little you know wax on wax off and then another video where they're hanging on racks now the one thing to pull away from this if they are true is that there's no sign of a touch ID button on the rear shell I'm also curious like what type of spy cameras are we using these days is 2017 and I'm not expecting iPhone quality but I know we can do better than this can't we you know what that is there's a bad apple alright and look at this these images claim to be the wireless charging pad components for the iPhone 8 earlier claimed said it would be sold separately might even arrive late alongside in iOS 11.1 update after the iPhone launches so with the next iPhone just around the corner I thought it would be a good time to see what does Apple by nation think they'll end up calling the new iPhone now here's the result from over 1,700 respondents on the Twitter and it was really close between iPhone Pro and iPhone 8 with the iPhone Pro getting 31% of the votes and iPhone 8 getting 29% now you know me I also gave people a chance to send in their write-ins Douglas Jones called it the iPhone dollar-plus I'm down with that Marco Don Juan wants it to be called the I fate net what the heck is that and I would tie here they should definitely call it iPhone future and give me a cut all right let's not forget about the iPhone 7s or what's believed to be called the 7s alleged design schematics reveal that the 7s design will be slightly bigger by less than a millimeter for all dimensions of height width and thickness now the speculation is that it's related to the new iPhones glass backing that's needed to support wireless charging the lens bump is believed to actually shrink a little from eight point one eight millimeters to seven point nine two as well now there's been no leaks related to measurements for the 7s plus up to the point and iOS 11 received its sixth beta released this week alongside watch OS TV OS n you know Mac dos hi Sierra but the biggest thing that stuck out to users in iOS 11 Apple changed the App Store icon for some reason and left it to the Internet to compare it to popsicle sticks or you know arts and crafts at your local preschool this guy said hey it's the same logo as my wife's company now no matter what you do Apple guess what sometimes you just can't win on the interwebs alright that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple