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what's going on brian Tong here and welcome to the apple byte for everything good and bad inside the world of apple lots of action this week after John pics cow skis BuzzFeed report claims apples fall event will happen on sep tember the 9th and will feature not only new iPhones but new iPads and the new Apple TV now that's a whole lot of apples so what are we hearing about each of these products right now well the iphone 6s is expected to bring force touch to iphones for the first time and a 9to5 mac report says it will be used for shortcuts or faster actions and not a new screen for more button options like the Apple watch with its smaller screen now according to their sources it's known internally as orb and an example of a shortcut action would be forced touching on a map destination and immediately launching turn-by-turn directions or even force touching directly on a home screen icon like let's say the phone app and you can take you directly to voicemail now forest touch looks to be a nice touch but I don't expect Apple will be using this as a big-time selling point for the success there's a lot of back and forth on whether or not we'll see an iphone 6c but recent developer logs from feek su has revealed two new iPhones into web traffic logs over July labeled iPhone 81 and iPhone 82 now the first iphone 5c was labeled 73 but there's no phone with the number a 3 that is shown on their logs with the majority of hits coming from the United States so really all we know is this is what's being tested right now so uh maybe the 6e could still live on now you all remember the video that confirmed been gate for last year's iPhone 6 from unbox therapy well this time around with an alleged iphone 6s case in hand Lou measured it out and confirms the new back plate is slightly taller wider and thicker but actually lighter in weight supporting apple using their new 7000 series aluminum use in the Apple watch now the areas around the volume and power buttons really the weak points on the six plus are now thicker as well measuring out to 1.9 millimeters compared to the previous one point one four millimeters and after all this there was no attempt to bend this case so you know just milk it out to make another video in a few weeks all right an iPad news developer Hamza suit has discovered in the resource files of el capitan that a split screen view exists in safari for the ipad mini now currently only the ipad air 2 supports his feature in the developers release but the expected faster processor and this new evidence shows the ipad mini could be getting the same feature set also Eveleigh has been a reliable source in the past and released what's believed to be the dimensions for the new iPad Mini for measuring in and only 6.1 millimeters thick with a similar look and feel to the ipad air 2 s design now the current iPad Mini 3 is 7.5 millimeters thick and you all know I'm thirsty for the iPad pro so we'll just wait to find out all the iPad details in September as for the Apple TV we haven't heard much for a while but in an interview with Jimmy Iovine and wired I'll being talked about the prospect of applying music curation to the television he says discovering content on the TV is technically good but the curation of content for the TV is still not that great now the apple TV is still expected to bring a brand new set-top box a new touch remote and Siri capabilities as well as an app store and more content with the recent signings of local TV stations but a better curation system could be part of the mix as well now we also acknowledged in the interview that Apple musics connect needs a lot of work to make it a better platform for artists and fans and like I said from day one it's not very compelling at all also a while ago you might remember that CVS and Rite Aid decided to make the move to block Apple pay because they were part of a group supporting another form of e-payment called currency which now may or may not be launching in 2016 so what did they decide to do well rite aid will now turn back on support for Apple pay also google wallet and android pay at almost four thousand six hundred locations after they realized how stupid they were while CBS will continue to hold out for current see if it arrives by 2016 alright that's going to do for this week's show you can always email me at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and we'll answer when we can thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple you