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what's happening brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple and yes we have a bad apple this week now on to the show the big news comes directly from apple in response to a business inside a report that claimed Apple was planning to launch their own mobile virtual network operator service or MVNO for short and said the apple branded cellular carrier was targeting to launch both in the US and Europe well the big a responded with a flat-out denial then said that it has not discussed and is not planning to become its own cellular carrier so papal denied it then it must be true all right Apple rarely ever pretty much never responds directly to rumors but they did this time to squash the chatter now I was immediately enamored by the initial report because just imagine if they leased enough cell coverage from all the different carriers and using their own universal sim card your phone could then switch off to the service with the best signal depending on where you are it sounds too good to be true and for now according to Apple it is also we're hot on the heels of the iphone 6s and you know how you know this leaked images galore of production parts Mac fixit's shared pictures of what's believed to be the display assembly and one of the photos features a quality-control label showing a past date of july 29th perfect timing for a sep tember lunch chinese repair company geek bar shared three of its own super spy pics with that grit that makes them look more sneaky and us twitch tech showed off what's believed to be the rendered schematics featuring the design point two millimeters thicker than the current iPhone in anticipation for the rumored force touch panel coming to the iphone 6s now Business Insider reports apples also testing a voicemail service that will allow Siri to answer your calls and transcribe your messages now how many of you still have plenty of voicemails you've never listened to me right here well with this iCloud voicemail service you will potentially never have to listen to your voicemails again and I love it now Apple employees are still testing it out and it's expected to launch in 2016 with iOS 10 and this is just one of those cool things Apple is working on and getting right but how about completely screwing up with their latest back to school promo in the past with an educational discount on hardware for back to school Apple is offered cash back to customers then over time change it to an itunes or apple store gift card but now in the year 2015 the back to school promo when you buy a new computer is an instant 199 dollar credit for a pair of beats solo2 on your headphones am i completely out of the loop like do you all really want this seriously Apple not even a store credit as an option not even a gift card that could actually be used to purchase educational apps well that in angry birds too but the best you guys could do is a pair of headphones that become an instant brandy commercial on your ears this is easily the worst back to school promo in the history of Apple and you Apple biters know what's coming a bad apple I'm sorry I'm so worked up about this but this is horrible it's wrong ok guys and gals let's end the show on a high note with you know some good warm fuzzy feeling stories I'm juiced up for dr. Dre's first album in 16 years inspired by the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton the album titled Compton a soundtrack is slated for release on August the 7th this friday on itunes and streaming on Apple music and you know what is gonna be fire now there's plenty of Apple watch accessories on the market but how about a watch for an Apple watch friends this is actually real it's the work of california-based watchmaker Nico Girard and it's just what you wanted a watch connected to an Apple watch all in one piece this makes no sense at all but if you're interested pre-orders start at an affordable 9300 dollars their slogan be uncompromised or absolutely idiotic and finally in my favorite story of the week the good people at George Fox universities IT department figured out what to do with all their empty imac boxes and made the I wheel it's 36 empty imac boxes it weighs 130 pounds and stands nearly nine feet tall look at this thing and because it's the internet you know they went to town with Photoshop for example here's the running of the I wheel or the I wheel is right alright everybody that's going to do it for this week's show you can always email us at the apple bite at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong they so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple