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what's happening Brian song here with the Apple buy for everything good a bad inside the world of Apple and let's start the show with the latest MacBook news now if you're still unsure if you want to get one KGI securities reports all mac books will be upgraded to Intel's latest cabby Lake chipset that was announced at CES 2017 they'll bring a 20% performance increase for laptops and lower power consumption but on top of that the 15 inch model will also get the 32 gig ram option many pro users we're looking for in the first generation see that's exactly why you should wait now the report also says the 13-inch model without the touch bar has performed worse than expected and Apple will cut its price in hopes to improve that also the latest fourth beta of Mac OS Sierra 10-point 12.3 brings a new feature and will warn you if the display brightness affects your MacBooks battery life hold on hold on uh-huh okay um I've been informed we did not pronounce that correctly it's actually Michaels yeah okay we're good now the warning only appears if your brightness is anything higher than 75% we know about the new MacBooks battery issues Apple says they've fixed it but it's still only available in the beta and we haven't seen how much it actually fixes for regular day-to-day users now we'd love to hear any of your stories or experiences with your new MacBook Pro overall there's no way I was gonna get the first gen but are you happy with it are you not let us know at the Apple bye to see Netcom and we'll post some of your comments in next week's show okay an iPhone rumors according to Cohen & Company the next iPhone could have facial recognition thanks to a new laser sensor it's the first rumor we've heard of any kind of depth sensor as part of the package but Apple has never had face recognition on their phones Apple's acquisition of primeSense in 2013 the team behind the Microsoft Kinect camera could help with Apple's push for augmented reality in the future as well the multiple reports are on board with the idea that we'll see 3 iPhones this year the standard 4.7 and 5.5 inch iPhone upgrades and a premium 5.8 inch Lyne phone with wireless charging see just what the people want a phone that doesn't fit into any of its hipster skinny jean wearing fanboys I'll write in a follow-up to the airport from last week's show the numbers probably aren't as good as we thought MPD says the slice intelligence numbers with a 26 percent market share for air pods we're only based on online sales and pretty much misleading MPD data includes brick-and-mortar sales and online sales altogether they found apples air pods market share is more like a two percent share see Q the sad trombone now MPD did mention it's pretty impressive for Apple to even make a dent like that in such a short time Beats led with 25% of unit sales LG had 10% and Bose brought in 8% of sales but Apple is already neck and neck with Plantronics and jaybird at 2% after only one partial month of sales see that my friends is the power of the Apple brand now a sketchy rumor says the Apple pencil 2 will launch alongside new iPad pro models this year let me guess it will be thinner and take away features people still use come on I'm messing with it all you diehards who always get their feelings hurt when I say stuff like that now patent filings have shown potential new capabilities like being able to draw on the Smart Cover like a drawing pad Apple's been testing it to work on an iPhone with iMovie and different apps you know exactly what Steve Jobs never wanted No who wants a stylus you have to get them and put them away and you'll lose him yeah plus there's also been patents filed by Apple for it to work on a Mac's trackpad as well now Apple is expected to keep the 12 point 9 inch iPad pro a lower-cost nine point seven inch one and bring in a new 10.5 inch model with reduced bezels this year as this we're talking iPad pro we need to go back to last week's show where we featured a dude holding it with one hand at Obama's farewell speech now lots of you were freaking out how he was holding it upside down as well I saw that too but I have to point out it was actually smarter for him to do that to get a steady picture since the camera lens would be closer to his hand instead of being further away at the top and swaying a whole lot more while he held it up right so you know what for that he deserves a good apple but there is still no excuse no damn excuse for him or anyone to use an iPad to take pictures in public you know how I feel about that and yeah that's a bad apple all right that's going to do it for this week's show you can email us at the Apple bye to see Netcom about your mac pro experiences for next week's show or just tweet me a bryan song if you need a friend in 140 characters or less thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple