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live from the scene at studios in San Francisco it's the apple byte extra crunchy podcast with your host Bryan tall what's up everybody we're back I know we took like a week break Steven beat him are you feeling better cuz we feeling much better I was out last week sorry guys I'm sick you can hear my voice I dont still here really here but I'm happy that you're here we can't do the show without you he like sacked up and he's like we've got to do a show so that's what we're doing it's episode 25 we made it quarter work work order old man 25 act apple byte extra crunchy coming to you from San Francisco like Stephen said again this the show we talking about everything Apple good and bad we expand on the topics that we talked about we add new information because as the week goes on news stories come up new things drop we're here to talk about it all with you we have people watching live on livestream we have people watching live on periscope participating we have people live on youtube so we really make this a super engaging collaborative experience yes also for you all make sure you call us we got plenty of calls every week 1 800 61 62 63 8 we get calls when we haven't done a show I know right you had like a giant stack of calls this week so that's awesome Apple by nation runs deep all your Apple biters okay so let's get to the show we're gonna we know the Super Bowl has passed but I think there's one great story that came from the Super Bowl and this was tim cook's Super Bowl pic fiasco so like after after the game right Tim Cook put up a tweet and it said something along the lines of Rocky Mountain Colorado congrats Rocky Mountain High congrats to the Broncos so he posted this picture now those of you that are aren't watching you're gonna have to bear with me but it was arguably the worst framed glorious picture of all time is horrible like he had to be running he there's no way he was using an iphone with image optical optical image stabilization it was a bad it was a bad like he was in a hurry or something he was like running across the field looks like it was a bad look for Apple so like everyone started like butchering them online you're like a nice phone nice camera hey my android phone doesn't do that hey my motorola razr takes a better picture than that I it was that bad okay it's terrible I even I mean I saw it I instantly started laughing needs act like tweet that side sorry Treena thought it was hilarious like how do they do that oh right and then quite honestly I thought with a little magic of photoshop maybe you know it could be part of the next iPhone shot on an iPhone campaign I've the people that are watching I i put this billboard together it's very powerful and impactful don't adjust your screen that's a blur that's a really blurry picture I can't believe how long do you how quick do you think is PR people were texting and being like hey can you take that picture down you just we two mr. cook so Tim Cook literally took down the photo like to extend the story he was getting hammered so much about it he took it down and I think by taking it down even more people were like what what just happened yeah right you you end up talking more about because he took down the photo so ultimately look we all know well I like I don't know what what drove him to even post that I know wasn't drunk he was at the super busy drugs you know you got the Super Bowl you have to tweet a picture but like I don't have you had picture yeah I mean my mom could take a better picture if she was falling down I've seen my pic my kids take better pictures ever seen anyways uh it it was not it was not the prettiest look for Apple but they took care of it by deleting the tweet I'm sure someone in the PR chain told them you need to do that also in not so hot news surrounding the world of Apple really specifically I phone sixes the stories continue to gain momentum and gain steam you may or may not have heard of what's called a what's called error 53 now why is this important to you if you have an iPhone 6 what happens is that touch ID and Apple's iPhone has this kind of validation that happens and when people have repaired their phones and replace the screens and use third-party parts the phone isn't able to make a validation that says these are authentic apple parts and I know some people are rolling their eyes but how many times have you broken do you have a shattered screen on your phone for a while no no my wife did though yeah yeah so how many times I know people that have broken their screens to three times they're not gonna go to an apple store to get it fixed right they're gonna go to like a third party guy oh yeah and just a place like way cheaper right yeah you might buy some on ebay and install on yourself I had a dude come here and fix my Apple my iPad in this office beautiful right beautiful now here's the thing this is what happened now by replacing your screen and if it it's unable to validate this and air 53 pops up after you've updated the software so let's say you you got your screen in place a long time ago and you went to the latest operating system it would then to completely break your phone it would break your phone so bad that you would not even be able to recover anything from it was just a brick that's a nightmare a straight-up brick that's a big problem now people took their phones in the stores initially and what happened is that Apple said oh we can't help you you're going to need to buy a new phone could you imagine that sure let me be mad on another seven eight hundred bucks seeing that guy or girl could you imagine that no don't you have that like that sounds horrible at the same time I understand exactly what Apple is doing much like a car or much like a valuable thing that you have no company is going to it voids its warranty right we all know that as soon as you drive it off the lot it loses some value right and I don't want if I was a major a multi-million dollar company I don't want to be responsible for someone's third party screen who might cause other problems right it makes sense the only thing that bugs me is the fact that this is the first time we've ever seen Apple completely brick a product I completely break it because of this we didn't know about it until now now its surface it's it's it's reared its ugly head so now we know okay I'm not throwing out any bad apples actually think this is the right way to handle it from a policy standpoint don't repair third-party products or third party or repairs what Apple is now done moving forward though according to MacRumors is that some stores are actually doing repairs on error 53 iphone 6s oh wow that's good but you will have to pay an out of warranty fee to get it repaired as well as replacement parts for them to get it back in line that sounds like it's gonna be a pricey fix man it's gonna be pride it's going to be pricey I don't like what but I get what's happening so this is the first time that's happened it's never happened on any of the older model phones well the iphone 6 they've never taken a stance where they've completely bricked the phone yeah I've never I've never heard this story before Apple commented on it and basically said look there is secure there is sensitive data basically meaning your fingerprint authorizes payments it's linked to credit cards and they say that they don't want that information to be tampered with hence someone you know potentially trying to be able to then a quiet let's say make sense grab someone's phone and somehow because you were able to access the parts or swap them out blah blah yeah to me it's it's a little flimsy but ultimately Apple has the right to only work on products that have their parts that makes sense but they need to get the message out to their people buying the phone exactly that's the biggest issue you just you have no idea and then you go to a third party person then all of a sudden you find out you just spend money to fix your your screen from a third party and now you have to buy a new phone altogether no you know like a total lie exactly an apple has never done this before now it's now it's happening they should have let us know a little bit but you know I'm ultimately gonna find out the hard way and people like right now I'm reading them like on periscope they're like oh that's a BS excuse using security I actually don't think it's completely BS I at it makes sense after you talk about the fringer your fingerprint is in there your credit cards it makes it makes more sense I just think look a company BMW is not going to repair their car under warranty if you replace multiple parts from a third party company yeah they're just not so um another issue about breaking your phone that is just surfaced is a on an apple phone I can't remember exactly I believe it's January one nineteen seventy or it's either january seven someone just refreshed me but what happened is another bug has been found allegedly don't do this on your phone but if you turn the date back to nineteen seventy jan one it will break your phone as well that's weird it's gonna why is it don't go to nineteen just don't go to 1970 that just started surfacing today I'm like what is going on with the Apple bricks today like this week error 53 1970 get out of town the world's collapsing just want to let you know BB care what was it called in two thousand when everything uh y2k white together cuz Apple y2k so uh just don't Matt dead don't be a jerk and do that on your friends phone don't why would you do that anyway exactly because you're a jerk that is why you don't be a jerk be nice people that this is all karma this is all gadget tech good love people karma don't do stupid things okay just to follow up a thing that they're doing in store we're talking about the brick phones apple is also i just want to let people know they're offering belkin a belkin screen protector application now they couldn't have chosen a shorter name this is the name of the program you ready for this i'm going to actually to actually repeat what I say okay I'm gonna say it once in cd-rs belkin's screen care plus application system belkin screen care plus application system say that five times fast I can barely talk belkin's screen care plus applications is a belkin screen care plus application system okay it's actually easy I said it twice really cleanly so what they're doing is they're allowing you if you buy a belkin true clear and visit glass screen protector or their anti-glare screen protector you have the ability to they will install it in store there's actually like this device that you seed your phone in it puts on the screen protector so that it's you know it's not like your hand doing and it's all angled all stupid and then it covers part of the touch ID button and you're like I have this sucks it's actually you know down to the micron so it's lined up I like that okay that's cool yeah have a professional do it sure nope sure that that's a cool service fine whatever I just think it's funny that all of a sudden this just happened in like in a timely way like pop up right like oh we're gonna offer a screen protection service your screen that might have broken that you might have replaced for a third-party screen then voided your warranty and then did not validate your touch ID now won't you know looking out for you we're looking out for you it sounds to me like a recall like what the car companies do when something in their cars broke in and they say bring it back to the dealership will fix it for you sounds like that without calling it a recall it's like a preemptive strike Yeah right it's trying to get ahead of the curve so just to let you all know belkin screen protector application belkin screen care plus application system get it up available to you right now all right let's talk about apple TV some really killer news coming around the world of Apple TV I like hearing about this stuff TV OS 9.2 their third beta has just been released they've done a few improvements on it that i am down with dictation support now instead of us having to type individual letters two words while we're using the search yes i know there is see research but specifically in that text field or text box when you're looking for things you can actually now dictate into it which is nice right instead of having to learn specific commands the other thing that you can also do is a in app search for apps by using dictation as well so like searching the store you have to usually scroll through everything now i can say like crossy road remember i was so anti cross the road when i first saw it and I probably do it yeah I know I'm into it man when I first thought I was like dude that's just a frog a ripoff and then I came back the next week I'm like dude it's a frog or ripoff man it's awesome I got a right cross erode legit so TV OS 9.2 beta 3 showing us what is coming down the line once they officially update the OS but we've talked about Apple TV and how really there's no TV streaming subscription service right now and yes people are clamoring right now look these features should have been here day one you're right a lot of stuff bluetooth keyboard support should have been there day one uh what else third party room Oh iphone as the app remote should've been there day one I said is little half-baked they're working on bacon it all the way through no I'm not making excuses for them it's just I've just kind of accepted like a that's the way it is so this is kind of interesting Apple has been considering many reports have come out of Apple looking to secure their own exclusive content much like netflix has exclusive shows much like amazon has exclusive shows they are apparently according to The Hollywood Reporter they will be doing their first scripted television series featuring none other than dr. Dre the doc dr. Dre I you know what it's very interesting because he doesn't have any experience producing television as far as I know well he's not really producing it as much this is going to be like a scripted show that is supposed to be taking on um it's called vital signs it's going to be taking on like kind of like aspects of his life but not really be something about his wife no they said its scripted it's going to be a six-episode vehicle called vital signs they believe that the show will be exclusively distributed through Apple music which then to me is like what don't put it just directly through Apple music that makes no sense but then what I also thought was a little you know suspect or maybe interesting depending on what you want the show itself has been described as a dark drama with no shortage of violence and sex in fact filming from Monday and Tuesday featured an extended orgy scene ooh just like dr. Dre video but here's the thing like root you know after Straight Outta Compton came out there were reports that started surfacing about how you know dr. James past with women yeah not so positive yeah and for them to just basically say okay we're gonna do a series with dr. dre they were apple kind of distance themselves from that right to try and stay away from the controversy Trey said oh that was a long time ago you know I'm a different person is he publicly apologized women no one really got on him about it as much but then you're jumping right in and then doing a series like this and the Apple is behind it I find that those two messages and ideology there's a disconnect reconnect for sure they're there something's and at the same time I've got to also say this is the best show that you could come out with your first your first show Apple yeah like this is the kind of lag refers show this the best thing you can do what is that other hip-hop show mogul show I time I Empire and pie let's not talk about any try they trying to like ride those coattails empire and nothing can top empire not i know there's a what's the other one honest stars is it called a power something yeah yeah fifty central power no no no empires where it's at like for those you wanna watch empire well here's the thing what i like the most about Empire is that they give attention to groups that have not been able and i'm not just timeout african-americans or blacks there they showcase like you know the lesbian gay community they they show aspects of culture that we haven't seen explained thoughtfully smart fully smart fully i can't even say that makes sense partly out smartphone in a smart way they're exploring different avenues of life and culture that we'd never have seen on a network television show so I appreciate that let's go it has nothing to do with my culture I just like the fact that they're showing these things because it opens doors for other programming in the future to be able to explore these ideas and be like hey a national audience will actually watch this stuff yeah where they haven't before I'm just surprised like Apple didn't go after like a huge very successful TV producer or something in that movie producer just dr. Dre just seems like okay Weezy he's already part of beats we already have them on the payroll so thank you it's a big TV to you made that good movie so that's the rumblings of whatsapp I just think it's just a little curious and unfortunately sure you can tag a big name to a show and everyone's like Oh dr. Dre's doing a show it's only six episodes it's basically a pilot I'm gonna be curious to see how well received it is and if this chatter about draya's past comes back to kind of I don't want to say give this show a black guy but I did but if that's going to you know hurt this show yeah they didn't they didn't need to do that so we'll definitely hear more about it but I'm not gonna knock on the show yet I am always one to don't not gonna let you tried it right ipad pro apple watch don't knock it unless you tried it I tried and I knocked it I'm not gonna little noggin this that's on ebay right now um so we will see how that all happens but just kind of some other news about Apple and involving the apple TV is the NFL is pretty much like not auctioning but they're talking to a riety of different digital partners to be the official digital streaming partner for thursday night football now why is this interesting look at these names and involved here this is from variety Apple Google Amazon and Verizon these are for non-traditional content providers will amazon I guess you could say it has original programming yeah but these are tech companies that are getting into the content business that's amazing as media has changed content is king yes so Apple is basically in a bidding war Google apparently looks like one of the frontrunners to to do NFL thursday night football now anyone that knows football knows that Thursday games are pretty much the worst product the NFL can only choose okay that weakest teams on a short week everyone is beat up and it's just like it's honestly like the last football game you want to watch yeah tough totally Thursday night I mean like I was shocked that they even started doing thursday night football and when they first did you know I was like I get monday night football but I don't know I'm just funny I'm a 49ers fan who's in pain this year i think that the Thursday night game was like Niners bears one time and I'm like I'm like I am not watching around that was that the one game than I don't think they won though it there was I think I can't remember it was something like I was just like and change the channel I'm gonna funny though they're in a bidding war for thursday night football who had it before i was like and be so those on it was on TV but this is yeah exclusively digital so in the past you know you sign into an app like an NBC app or a CBS app or NFL network type you know dealio and it gives you you use your cable credentials and allows you to watch it so they're actually saying no we're gonna give Apple or Google or Amazon the exclusive digital streaming right so you don't even really need to sign in with any carrier or a cable operator you just sign in to your apple account which is probably already signed in and you start watching Thursday Night Football hmm so we're gonna see where this dolly charge a premium on they will they may they may or may not though depending on if Apple by Apple sitting on two hundred billion dollars they pay enough maybe that's the other way to get people to come to apple TV exactly knows so this is what these companies are thinking um and like we've said Apple is also still looking to develop more original TV content CBS is CEO Leslie Moonves says he has had not had any recent talks with Apple over the past three or four months and that's actually probably bad news if you're looking for apples TV streaming service to come around anytime soon if they haven't talked to the CBS now what chairman of CBS now our parent company for the record let me just throw that out there so y'all don't get crazy on me which also by the way broke the record for most streams at the Super Bowl this year CBS com cbssports com gotta gotta pimp that out you can't see my eyes everybody i just gave Stephen beachy guy rollick I'm like big eye roll really that's pretty cool though this is cool now let me something you gotta watch everything online now so that's true makes sense transitioning over to some iphone tidbits the iPhone 5se according to a report from Macotakara Japanese based website may come and silver may come in Space Gray may also come in bright pink that's not shocking like not rose gold oh but it's not like rose gold dude this is like t-mobile pink like pretty and pink legally blond pink hot pink hop you like this yeah I mean they did that with the the imax and ipod touches nana iphone 5c was not discolor to maybe or is like bright yellow and blue I remember so I mean my whole thing is that I watched you know I feel like look this is a lower end phone it's not gonna be the flagship phone so a lot of parents might get this for their kids right oh yeah that makes sense yeah right how many of you out there wouldn't would want to get an iphone a a pink iphone for you for your young daughters or a young young man i mean it's it's it's a it's a different world now so anybody can get a pinko phone yeah i just think that it really more appeal to the hello kitty market yeah we like kitty style sticker bling be jewel all that why not yeah why not I know my niece's would love that okay also just to kind of branch over to some other phone use iphone 7s processor expected to be manufactured solely by TSMC the reason why this is interesting is in the past apples that other manufacturers work on their a 9 processor but according to this report TSMC will be doing that and then if you want to look down to the future AT&T has started testing 5g five-point networks yeah we're 4g home fo fo g where would you fo de right now see they're turning on a few of the towers around here making them 5g basically so they're testing this out coin reports it's 10 to 100 times faster than 4g LTE depending on your area let's be real it's probably more like 10 * not even close to a hundred I know it's like it's a hundred times faster in an isolated room when you're sitting right next to it right yeah like when you're 10 feet away like three bars of like 4g it's still slow I'm like well why is it so maybe it's cuz it's 18 I know this sounds exciting uh it's not coming anytime soon i think that the report says I'll 18teen themselves might be around three or four years until we actually see 5g in our phone ah so stick without Wi-Fi yo 2020 Wi-Fi unless it's bad Wi-Fi actually yeah home Wi-Fi with a comcast business plan that works that works a business Wi-Fi that you like like starbucks Wi-Fi uh not know it's like 50 people on it not as good no not as good bus Wi-Fi so don't work I've actually never been on a bus with Wi-Fi and havin attempted to try it all the buses that go to ala me to have Wi-Fi and it's like it's hit or miss it'll work really good or it won't so you know all right um another quick note Apple music officially on sonos so knows the super dope but not the most affordable multi-room speaker system actually really want to get a so no setup eventually when I get a house oh yeah I think it's cool just put speaker all over here every room lane different songs in different rooms and that's a first that's that's a rich guy thing basically oh yeah yeah I'm thinking about I'm like yeah I really want a soda in my room like yeah but that's a that's a rich guy problem yeah outside in the bathroom oh yeah my music in my bathroom is playing different than one of my living room while my wife is cooking or my significant others gig that is a rich person problem we know that what am I talking about this is stupid okay and I don't know if this is related at all I guess I'm sure it is I just show it so for all you that follow kanye west easy Jesus he recently had a at madison square garden right he was showing off Yeezy season 3 like his fashion line and he was also plain tracks from his latest album which has now been is officially called the life of Pablo you know he had a twitter contest where he said name of the album he's changed the album like five times from like splash two waves or I don't know what it is like oh yeah yeah I would waste Twitter when I with always Khalifa yeah so there's like it's TLP if you guess it whatever okay people like shut up are you talking out Kanye West well he's kind of following the footsteps of Kim Kardashian and he he showcased at the easy season three like this new game okay this new game it's called only one that of allegedly reportedly will be available on the App Store and it's like supposedly his mom that passed away like on a on like a Pegasus like flying through the clouds and it's gonna be a game like it's gonna be there's an app for that action there's an app for that it looks pretty interesting he's totally playing off to like you internet unicorn yeah yeah so I just we'll just want to let y'all know what a kanye west is up to in the tech world yeah here he is in his 480p video of you know this is the only video we can find it so or ATP they streamed it exclusively on title and it was having streaming problems the only way to watch it no the only way you could watch it was like to turn it down to 20 20 to 40 p 240p to watch the stream i think i saw a headline about that has a bad read up to the live stream yeah alright we're having fun here we're gonna let's go let's go get some phone calls like last two weeks ago we all joked about the iPhone 5se and we wanted you all to come up with your ideas maybe what you think the five the SE and the iphone 5s he stands for so we're gonna play some of those responses right now because you guys are awesome got a lot of good ones here we go hi this is jacob from the LA area I think my prediction for the iphone SE the SE stands for super expensive home peacham what's going on hey the 5s decently the five Steve edition this is calvin instead se style for super economical hi this is jason from Kansas City SC I think might mean theory evolved to bring it more up to par with Alexa hey this is Beth from Hartford Connecticut i believe the S models are models but I'm guessing that as actually stands for a successor and and the iphone 5s e accenture successor enhanced iphone 7s e equals suck edition suck a dish I brown eyes diva oops stop this one okay the the the final the final say was a the suck addition according to that guy like I was like successor successor addition success like what like what Steve addition same position yeah they're they're gonna do that thank you yeah yeah okay okay that's good too so yeah those are some of your fun little by iPhone 5se entries we appreciate we like we just like to have fun and throw that out there but we do have a few calls so let's get to them and we'll talk about it and then we'll wrap things up hi Brian I Steven callin to let you know what my opinion is on the iPhone 5se name is my name is Jack and I'm from rantoul illinois and i think the iphone 5s see the SE and that stands for specially enhanced especially my badge updated version of the iphone 5s okay specially enhanced hey guys it's matt from framingham massachusetts and i was wondering if anybody has else had noticed the stagnant apps development i guess you would call it on the Apple TV but they want I've noticed no past couple weeks there hasn't really been in new apps disappeared and I was wondering if you thought that maybe yeah this was going to be at render gave just underdeveloped long longer show thanks guys hi you're right on the money that the Apple TV app store has really not been refreshed with anything new anything compelling I think what it comes down tonight we alluded to this a while back Apple's now pretty much built so many devices that developers have to develop for that they have to choose how they're going to invest now you can always scale up and add like a sorry a game like Jetpack Joyride right that's easy but new innovative apps I haven't seen it I thought I'd see a flood of more you know shopping interactive based app so we still haven't seen a real true you know some of that teaser they gave us with MLB interacting with scores and stats while watching it we haven't seen that I think when it comes down to is Apple's conundrum of where are you going to put your resources for developers and developers are responding why haven't we seen that many apple watch apps they're like dude we have the iphone we have multiple sized screens for the iphones we have the Apple TV we have the ipad pro like people aren't really making specific apps for space for specifically for the ipad pro still right yeah you're seeing the same thing happened with the Apple TV and ultimately the largest platforms that we have out there is just the basic iOS phone and Android yeah and that's where they're gonna put them on I'm sorry I'm sorry you know windows mobile like Windows Mobile is a great iOS they don't have developers jumping on board because the market isn't there and their apps all look really cheesy too and like very simple you know yeah the developers just have to get excited about it that's why they have the world developers worldwide developers conference get them all pumped up you know so but you like you can see how that marriage between developer and hardware it doesn't mean anything if no one's developing on your platform yeah you could have the greatest phone of all time the greatest product and if no one develops for it it doesn't mean squat yep so what typically when you see a game for the first time come out typically they'll put it on iOS first where do you see kind of some of these crazy apps that gain steam like a periscope for example you see it on iOS first they bring android support a little later but that's what has happened and what continues to happen yeah so it's a bummer but yeah I agree with you I I haven't seen much I keep on searching hoping but nothing has popped up all right let's give our next call this is the last call by the way hello um I'd like to know if maybe it would be worth it to upgrade from my iphone4 to an iphone success thank you by clicking on ends call which is why you should update upgrade good success cuz you cannot end your call wait wait how long how this goes on for another minute Brian it's another 56 seconds I'd be like hey come on hang up the phone okay it's your own an iphone 4 which arguably for the record I have said was one of the best designed iPhones I love it- antennagate right yeah it was before but that was right it was sturdy it i just thought it had a killer design if they just took that design and made it the current size of screen a little thinner i would be all over it i love the iphone floor design yes if it fits so perfectly in your hand to know yeah yeah we do everything in one hand it was a good deal yeah so um yeah upgrade your phone man i think that that's yeah that's a good call mmm i think i think i'm gonna lean towards that direction all right is that going to do for this event doesn't man awesome so then everybody thank you so much for listening to continue to support the show we continue to do it we have fun doing 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