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what's going on Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to it and the big story this week comes from a Bloomberg report that says Apple is talking to Hollywood studios to get early access for movies on iTunes 20th Century Fox Time Warner Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures are confirmed to be looking to offer higher priced home video rentals of new movies just two weeks after their debut in theaters it would be a huge change from the normal 90 days or more window that studios have typically given exclusively to theaters and a big boost to Apple and iTunes and I know there's plenty of you that would love to stay at home be able to talk during a movie you know get all cuddly and flirty on the couch while you're in your jammies well you're probably doing that right now watching the show hi now according to the report premium price to online rentals could be somewhere around twenty-five to fifty dollars and the report says this service is likely happening in the next 18 months the biggest concern is to make sure these movies cannot be pirated and there's a fear that footage and spoilers could be leaked online but come on those same issues have plagued movie theaters for years now I'm a fan of this idea it would make Apple look good by just giving consumers another option but you know what I'm still going to a theater to watch row 1 they are requesting a call sign it's um Rogue rogue one till I get that 75 inch 4k OLED TV which is not happening anytime soon all right in the latest iPhone rumors of the week Mac o Takara reports that Apple's updated iPhones next year will be called the iPhone 7s and 7s plus and they will not get with the super cool iPhone X name that really they should just steal from us for its 10th anniversary now Mac o Takara says the next iPhone will come in an all-new red color alongside the current lineup it also refutes KGI reports and claims the next iPhone will still retain its aluminum body and won't be glass and it will not include wireless charging now this is also the same site that said a glossy white color was coming but we haven't seen it yet and this is also what we call a rumour story okay we're getting really close to the official release of iOS 10.2 after the 7th developer and public beta version was released we've already talked about the new Unicode emojis the new TV app and you can even get these three new wallpapers at this link right here thanks to nine-to-five Mac if you're one of those people that just likes to get that stuff early so you know what you're welcome and billboard reports Apple music has just passed 20 million paid subscribers 18 months after the service was launched in June of 2015 Spotify still leaves at 40 million paid subscribers but it's also a service that launched back in 2008 now apples growth has been impressive they've launched the number one albums including Drake's views Frank ocean's blonde and DJ Khaled's major keys and you know what that deserves a good Apple okay Tim Cook thinks things are going pretty good for the Apple watch as well after he responded to a Reuters email and said during the first week of holiday shopping our cell through of Apple watch was greater than any week in the products history we're on track for the best quarter ever for Apple watch and see that sounds all great in all Tim but just to remind you Apple still has never released actual sales numbers for the Apple watch like never ever translation we brag about all of our big sales numbers unless they aren't big enough to brag about and let's keep you all updated on some of the issues that MacBook Pro touch bar users are facing users are complaining on Apple support communities and reddit that they aren't getting anywhere close to the 10 hour battery life Apple has promised for the 13 and 15 inch MacBook Pros now some users are reporting numbers in the 3 to 6 hour range of battery life yikes now battery estimates that are displayed are one thing but people are reporting actual battery life that is significantly lower so we'll have to see when and how Apple addresses this plus the new MacBook Pros of ultimen giving some users these unwelcome graphical glitches on screen see that's not modern art it's random red bars that some users are seen including other things like carrying transparency issues and see this this isn't a rave that's a new MacBook Pro it's not affecting everyone leading people to believe it might be a hardware issue but according to a posting by Craig federighi the graphical glitches have been fixed in Mac OS 10 point 12 point Tuesday deceit that will eventually roll out to everyone when it goes live so again we will wait and see but let's leave on a good note with this new Kickstarter project if you're looking to give back all the functionality that your MacBook Pro lost you probably want to check out the hyper drive hub for the new MacBook Pro it will only cost you 49 bucks it uses two of the USB C ports and you get back to Thunderbolt 3 USB C ports a microSD and standard SD card slot for media HDMI output for video and 2 standard USB 3 ports you know those rectangular guys that almost all of your accessories still use it pretty much fixes everything that's wrong with the MacBook Pro and you can check out the details here on their Kickstarter page and hyper team you get a good Apple for apples bad apple 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 tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple