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what's happening i'm brian Tong and welcome to the apple byte it's all the good and bad inside the world of apples so let's get to the show including a special visit to Macworld 2012 now our lead story might not be the sexiest to start off with but it's important after the New York Times published an extensive story on the working conditions at Foxconn one of apple's largest manufacturing partners it's not a pretty picture with harsh working conditions underage workers people clocking in 60 hour plus weeks and a factory explosion in May that killed four people and injured 18 now Apple is not the only major company who uses Foxconn others like IBM HP and Lenovo also have their products built there the big a has addressed some of the issues and has audits with its suppliers but the takeaway here is that we really need to be aware of how these products that we purchased are being produce just think about if Apple had fifty percent of all iphones come out of their factories defective you know they would immediately make changes and in light of their record earnings and the amount of products they pump out they can also make changes in the way their products are made and they really need to address this again now I'm the first person who loves his tech but it's worth taking back a step to bring this to your attention and really it's your move now Apple now we talked about those earnings and it was another Apple best quarter ever for q1 of 2012 posting revenue over forty three billion dollars and a net quarterly profit of over 13 billion highlights were the announcements included a record 15.4 million ipads sold and CEO Tim Cook said the company hadn't seen any slowdown in ipad sales after the introduction of the Kindle Fire who earn now a record 37 million plus I phones were sold and that hobby of theirs the apple TV it sold 1.4 million units in q1 of 2012 apple sold 2.8 million in all of 2011 alright guys we know that Matt goal that is happening just down the street so we wanted to send my twin brother to give you the report on the floor alright Brian we are here on the show floor at moscone center this is Mac world 2012 i like to call mackerel I world so what we're going to do is we looked around to try and find out what is some of the hottest stuff here today this is Sydney this is iOS recharge stations before so as you can see you can fully recharge it to four devices at once simultaneously without compromise each port provides you to pull intense it's a full recharge so the 2.1 amps is going to able enable it to be a faster charge you also have this kind of nice stack where you could fit what about three ipads and then additional device definitely you can fit three ipads but you can recharge it before at the same time and then who do you think this is really going to target specifically yeah we're looking at not only households we chose for ports for a family of devices but you're looking at work offices hospitality settings educational health care everyone's starting to incorporate tablet you so we're really targeting elbows alright a Mac world also we like to find friends and family zaki you had some interesting for you back about her yeah I think it's a little too scatological you know I give me too many public jokes you know Joe florid soul that's so he likes I'm you joke but still watching it no I don't know i don't like poop you know that's that's what i want to fast-forward I'll a of a fan you know you with some of us over 50 people watch to watch the wackiness this is a special made system to add lenses to your iPhone it comes with the case and this handle within the handle are housed the two lenses this is a magic trick you got going on here that's right the century wide-angle lens is right there and on the bottom part o.o the fisheye lens that's when everybody likes to see all right now this is the ipro lens how much does it retail for right now currently with everything that includes the case to handle the two lenses 199 then you guys just announced a new telephoto lens right that like kind of doubles the image just today we announced our brand new two times tele extender thank you for that I'm out my mac all the time so this will be released in mid-february we announce them at CES they feature integrated ports so you've got your me display port and USB passthrough right here and we've got a nice rubberized cradle and the whole unit ships just as this you pull out of the box is ready to go drop it down connect your power and your two accessories and you've got yourself a docking station now how much is going to retail for these are going to start at 55 for the 11 inch models and go up to 60 for the 13 inch models I just like him a lot because they're really clean and how they look that's something that's the best part about now also I didn't I didn't know you guys had this but the click tell me about this because this is probably another really hot designed product of you guys it's called the click it joins apples bluetooth keyboard and magic trackpad together into a single streamlined unit and you can use it on soft slippers so you still retain your clicking functions here in the trackpad which is really important if you like to use your computer say it's part of a home theater setup or on your lap I know a lot of people type in the labs too so it also keeps it from wandering off and a desktop environment all right there you guys have it a look at the show floor from Mac world 2012 we didn't want to show you all the cases that were here but we did want to show you some of the unique things that we found in you know what I'm just going to enjoy watching this back to you Brian alright Brian it looks like you're having a little fun over there but let's wrap this up with a couple more stories and rumor news with ipad 3 rumors pretty much dried up 9to5 mac is reporting from their own source at that factory called Foxconn that Apple is gearing up to begin production for the iPhone 5 now the latest rumor says we can expect a 4 plus inch display that's longer and wider than the current iPhone and there will be no teardrop design at all the source also says there are various sample devices floating around and none of them have an iPhone 4 or 4s form factor and none of the devices are final versions translation the only thing we know is that an iPhone 5 is coming out in 2012 and a more Apple TV news tidbits that will get your juices flowing a recent patent application reveals Apple is flirting with the idea of a universal touch screen controller that can control multiple devices including a TV a video tape player video disc player a stereo a home control system or a computer now could be the iPad or it could be something completely new but I know some of you already busted out your wallets in anticipation all right that's going to do it for this week's show remember to send us your emails to the apple bita cnet com I'm Brian Tom thanks for watching and Lloyd 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