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it's something you see every day something's so simple you didn't think you needed it until today it's a circle a perfectly circular circle and the perfect companion for your home pod the apple Costa what's good Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple hold on to your butt's for this one Apple fans Apple has confirmed the home pod can leave white rings on some wood surfaces what come on guys are you killing me or what reviews published by wire cutter and Pocket lint and even customers online revealed the issue or I mean maybe they'll call the feature now Apple reps told pocket-lint it was not unusual for a speaker with a silicone base to leave a mild mark when placed on certain oil or wax based wood finished surfaces so why'd you make it out of silicone then you guys had six years and Apple reps also told wire cutter the Mars can improve over several days after the speakers removed from the wood surface but what if they don't do you have an answer for that Apple's response try cleaning the surface with the manufacturer's suggested oiling method brough you're asking us to basically go and refinish our own furniture because Apple's response can't be you're putting it on the wrong surface to listen to music wrong and you know what's coming that's a bad and thank you for that hand-drawn bad Apple mr. Alberto V Alta I'm accepting submissions and come on Apple biters the Apple coaster coming soon you know what's gonna happen alright the whole pod sounds great but you'll get different opinions from different people Fast Company decided to put it to the test by using NT eyes Excel 2 recording device to capture its audio data from four different locations in a room and they found the whole pod had the best consistency of overall sound this is backing up apple's claims of how to adjust depending on where it's placed in a room and that's nice and all but you can check out our review where the home has great sound its booming bass for its size but when you compare to other speakers you know it lacks the subtle details and vocals and other instruments and it can also sound muddy at times now Consumer Reports came out with the same observations that stirred the pot up claiming the home pod sounds good but the Google home accent Sonos one sounded better but come on don't get wrapped up in all this this is totally subjective and data points aren't gonna tell me what sounds good guess what my ears are and my ears aren't the same as your ears and the music I listen to might sound better on different speakers compared to the genres of music you listen to so don't listen to anyone but yourself unless you like to do horrible things yeah don't listen to that person alright bloomberg reports iOS 12 is on track to bring new features like single sets of apps that will work across iPhone iPads and Macs a new digital health tool to show parents how much screen time their children have had and improved an emojis because come on that's what we all really care about now Apple is approaching development differently focusing more on key features and deciding to push others to the following year until they're ready after you know the mess of iOS 11 Apple realized their schedules were not being met and features were being released with bugs mostly because we were screaming about it now a design to home screen for iPhone iPad and carplay and a revamp Photos app that would suggest which images to view have been put on the back burner for now but there is one thing that Apple can be proud of because they developed something that they beat Samsung - and emojis see it's probably going to end up being my least favorite word of 2018 especially after Apple completely killed the viral an emoji karaoke trays by making a produced commercialized version for their own TV ads good job guys a new report from et News claims Samsung will be revealing their own 3d emoji characters Allah and emojis and the name will be revealed at the announcement of their new Samsung Galaxy S 9 phone on February the 25th my bet is that they go with samajis that sounds horrible but maybe you guys have a better idea throw them in the comments I will try to read through them if I can get through it without crying and a recent change will affect people trying to get unlocked iPhones from Verizon the company told CNET Verizon devices will be locked to their network from now on the move was made to deter bad guys from stealing their phones to resell them or send them to be used overseas good guys like us would buy them so we could get them an unlocked phone to use on another carrier and get the iPhone with the better performing LTE antenna now later in the spring Verizon will allow you to unlock them but they have not shared how long the phones will remain locked all right let's take a break and check out the party game that you've got a track and guess what it's free all right Apple fighters check this out you know we show you the hottest apps here this is emoji charades and what does this think of is like a trivia game with your friends I type in emojis they guess the category what it is so we're gonna check this out and see how dope it is hey are you guys all ready to play let's do this emoji charades uses an Apple TV and a phone or tablet but you'll need at least two of the three to play and some friends now pick a category for everyone to get so let's do TV shows guys here we go oh yeah then all right top level player like myself hold the phone and drops recommended emojis on screw for everyone to guess this is cops they gas the switch out with someone in the group so you can be a guesser instead of an emoji and if you're really talented you can play this by yourself we go let's go old man super here Professor X that's a good one Brian it's good one all right let's try this one more time you guys want to play emoji charades Mogi emoji okay sometimes you get carried away but the game is free and available starting today an additional game packs will cost you but they haven't announced pricing yet all right that's gonna do it for this week you can email me at the Apple byte SC Netcom or tweet me at Brian Tong and I'll respond after my daily olive oil bath thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple you