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what's up Brian Tong here back from vacation and back for your weekly dose of the Apple bite and first you know I would like to thank no show Tongass for holding down the floor last week although newcomers to the show probably thought I was on acid which I was not so let's get to the Apple versus the FBI situation it's big and gets more complicated by the week according to the New York Times Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government or even Apple to break into a locked iphone if Apple succeeds in doing this it would make it even more significantly challenging for law enforcement agencies to crack into the iPhone now it all started with the FBI's court order for Apple to build a backdoor into iOS so they could gain access to data that was locked on the iPhone from one of the now-deceased San Bernardino terrorists they basically want their own FBI OS clever huh now Apple said no Tim Cook said it would be a major setback to online privacy and a dangerous precedent I'm onboard with Tim and Apple and the tech world like Google Twitter and Facebook agrees so how did this come about it's been confirmed by BuzzFeed that government officials actually reset the iCloud account password to the terrorists phone once it was in their possession Apple said this prevented an auto backup on iCloud that could have potentially given them more information but of course it doesn't stop there in addition to the San Bernardino phone The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department is pursuing court orders to make Apple help them extract data from about 12 of their phones so where are we now as of this show will the deadline for Apple to respond to the court order will be Friday February the 26th and Apple is expected to argue that its fight with the FBI should be settled by Congress it's Apple versus the FBI national security versus user privacy on the surface but it has really far more reaching implications that could go as far as weakening data encryption overall which makes this a fascinating and important case now in a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center it found that 51 percent it's respond incited with the Justice Department to unlock the iPhone versus 38% who said Apple should not unlock it well 11% are still twiddling their thumbs and said they don't know I conducted my own survey on Twitter and with nearly 1000 respondents 85% of you all said Apple should not build a backdoor in iOS well 15% of you said yes now I honestly see many sides of the argument so where do you all stand this is a real chance to have some great dialogue between us so I'd love to hear what you think and why and we'll get a few of Apple byte nation's responses next week which my result and you winning an Apple bite sticker so email us at the Apple bita cnet.com or tweet me at Bryant Tong if you can fit it in 140 characters all right in other news 9 to 5 Mac reports as siri is finally set to make its way to the mac in OS 10 10.12 and will be part of its yearly update this fall the report says Apple has been testing versions of it internally since 2012 it started on the iPhone and has now graduated to the Apple watch and the new Apple TV with the Mac coming up next also early betas of iOS 9.3 freaked out iPad pro users after removed the ability for the Apple pencil to be used for navigation on the iPad pro like a stylus hmm now report suggested the move was intentional but Apple confirmed to the birds that navigation was temporarily pulled improvements are being made and it will return in the next beta so you will still be able to use the pencil like a stylus alright the Apple TV could be even more important to you after the FCC recently took the first big step towards completely changing the cable business in a 2 to 3 vote the FCC has decided to move forward with a proposal that would allow cable customers like us to go through third parties for the cable set-top systems so think about this how about a Roku or Xbox one or Apple TV branded box instead of being tied to the same one that comes with your cable service this is huge now we're still months away after revisions are made to the proposal and then a final vote but this is happening so you all should be going cuckoo for cocoa puffs right now we could finally get an experience combining TV with apps with the same cohesive look and feeling without a monthly subscription fee to use a box now tech companies should be thrilled but cable companies should not consumer choice that's what it's all about and the new Apple TV has four new universal search options on the latest for Chen and now works with watch ABC disney XD Disney Channel and my favorite Disney Junior iTunes Netflix and Hulu were a handful of the apps that supported it on launch so it is growing and I do need to address something from last week where I said the new Apple TV doesn't play a video podcast and sometimes my brain is like all over the place and my head was thinking iPad pro not having full video screen podcast and somehow you know I applied it to the Apple TV so yeah maybe I was actually on acid you know what that deserves a bad apple I'm sorry okay alright that's gonna do it for this week's show remember to email us at the Apple Vitus cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks for watching and we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple