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what's happening Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple and boy do we have a lot of iPhone goodies to jump into now you all know it started over the weekend when Apple accidentally pushed their firmware for their home pod speaker ahead of its launch in December and sure it revealed new things about the home pod which we'll get to but the firmware that Apple released was for iOS 11 0.022 full patches ahead of what's been released to the public it was a treasure trove of iPhone 8 details straight from the source that Gayle her Rambo and Steven trounce Smith dug deep into now the biggest leak you've seen it everywhere the apparent confirmation of what the next iPhone will look like that aligns exactly with the rumors and renders we've seen with a minimal bezel design and the top area is sticking out around the camera and sensors the icon also confirms the lack of a physical home button on the front the first time ever for an iPhone and thanks home pod firmware and guess what the hits keep coming the firmware includes multiple references to infrared face detection within the biometric kit framework that's where touch ID information is usually stored and it confirms the next phone well at least partially rely on facial recognition the biometric it also references face detect and different conditions like being too close or too far away from the camera infrared sensors on the front of the iPhone will also be used to capture images for authentication instead of using visible light through a traditional camera wow that's a lot of info but wait there's more trounce myth kept on digging into the home pod firmware and says there is nothing to suggest any type of under display touch ID functionality on the iPhone 8 squashing the idea for all you dreamers that it will come this year that discovery supports what rumor mills have been saying about the iPhone moving towards a facial recognition system and if you don't like the idea of that blocked out area on the top of the phone crown Smith and developer Jeffrey Grossman have found new references to a new split visual option for the status bar which means utilities like Wi-Fi Bluetooth your cell signal and battery could be displayed on either side of the camera area giving us the smooth streamlined status bar at the top of the phone that we all want now Smith also says the status Mar seems a lot more complex and powerful in design and could even have some interactive features you want more oh yeah you'll get more without a home button the iPhone could also support a tap to wake feature a feature found in Windows Lumia phones where you double tap on the screen to wake them crown Smith also found the home button looks like it's being referenced as the home indicator with the virtual area that may be for hidden full screen apps and videos plus there's evidence in the OS that the iPhone will bring an even higher resolution screen at 11:25 by 2436 for a functional section of the screen that measures at 5.15 inches giving it a 521 pixel per inch density now the other portion would be for the virtual home area we just talked about and would make up the remainder of the rumored 5.8 inch screen in total whoo that's a lot of meat and potatoes everybody and remember years ago it was Tim Cook who said Apple would be doubling down on secrecy on products but the reality is that it was Apple Apple and no one else that's revealed the most concrete details about the iPhone 8 to date see the Cupertino kids can't be happy about that and you know what that gets that's a bad apple but it's kind of good for me because we just had a whole lot of show to give to Apple by nation all right the iPhone wasn't the only thing we learned about remember the home pod yes the firmware also revealed new details about the home pot we mentioned it will run iOS hence the iPhone leaks but according to the firmware posted online it won't support third-party apps or extensions which means we probably shouldn't expect to support any other music services other than Apple music on launch but come on they've got to realize that's just stupid so hopefully that changes now the firmware also revealed that top center surface area of the home pod isn't just a big LED but appears to be an LED matrix and if that's the case it could show off basic things like temperature time or weather icons things you'll only see if you're standing you know directly above it in staring down on it now developer Avery McNally discovered some of the new home pod UI sounds and posted them for everyone to hear like this one for an alarm oh that was Pleasant or this one for a timer hey MA the ribs are ready and this dope one called WOC audio Pasco tone Oh do it again man here play that again oh yeah I'm taking that all right clearly uh I need to go outside a little more now the home pot is scheduled for a release sometime in December for 349 okay Apple is up after they announce their earnings results for the third fiscal quarter of 2017 which is the second quarter of the calendar year Apple posted revenue of forty five point four billion dollars and a net quarterly profit of eight point seven billion now Apple iPhone sales were up 41 million units compared to last year's quarter Mac sales were up with four point two nine million sold and the curse of the iPad has ended after thirteen straight quarters of declining sales now iPads jumped up fifteen percent to eleven point four two million units sold and you can think my best friend the iPad pro and the low-cost iPad for that also Apple watch sales jumped up 50 percent and is the number one selling SmartWatch in the world but they still won't report units sold come on Apple just man up show us the numbers unless you know you're having performance issues Apple services business which includes the App Store Apple pay Apple music and iCloud storage and more at an all-time high of 7.3 billion dollars in revenue making it the size of a fortune 100 company and if you want to know how much cash Apple is sitting on right now they told us two hundred sixty one point five billion dollars cash that's a whole lot of legs now there's also some fun tidbits from the earnings call Tim Cook said Apple has increased production capacity for the air pods who are still on a six-week wait time but they still aren't able to meet the strong level of demand I think a blockbuster music video might have had something to do with that why'd you take the headphones there's so many things I can't - oh now cook also addressed Apple is working on its own autonomous system for cars he said we do have a large project going and we're making a big investment in this autonomous systems can be used in a variety of ways a vehicle is only one but there are many other different areas of it and I don't want to go any further with that okay Tim just you know sprinkling a little few crumbs for us to pick up there like south bay light alright he also continued to push for a Ark it calling augmented reality big and profound for Apple and the early demos kept getting better with everything from this mind-blowing take on aha eighties music video take on me using a Ark it and then we saw this demo of a virtual robot commando in the streets pretty cool stuff alright that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong we didn't even get to talk about the fast and furious style iPhone heist from a moving truck so just have to listen to our Apple byte extra crunchy podcast for that thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple