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we are live from the Giant Bomb podcast studio in San Francisco California it's the Apple byte extra country podcast with your host mr. Brian Tom what's up everybody welcome to the show it is episode 67 we just want to make a note the holidays are coming up seeing that completely shuts down so you arguably won't we're not gonna do one from CES are we I don't think we are you probably won't hear from us honestly for arguably about three weeks to four till month I mean maybe if Apple does something like crazy crazy and predictable then we might have to do something but uh you know the holidays are coming scene that shuts its doors then we go straight to Las Vegas so we wanted to let you know this is the holiday episode but if you still want to be our friend and you want to call us because we continue to get tons of calls from you on we love it you can leave us your name where you're from and what you want to talk about on the show 1-866-376-8255 December if you're here in the u.s. the 21st of December were the initial starting days if you got in early on the pre-order you can still pre-order but I know at least for us customers that has been pushed out to six weeks but a report here also claims that the air pods if you run into your store early enough according to Mac rumors and their sources some stores will begin selling air pods starting on Monday actual Apple retail stores now we have been able to get a pair of these from our friends at Apple believe it or not although they don't invite me anymore to any keynotes although I was wondering like how did you get those yeah you don't need to tell everybody but I killed somebody I literally killed somebody I am NOT I am I'm actually making a mask out of his skin that I'll be wearing to the next keynote awesome Yuki you can find me in the front row I'm Johnny bribe so we got these ear pods air pods in her hands and I did want to talk about them because people have given their initial impressions their initial reviews I'm gonna hand these over so that Beechum has never touched these before I'm gonna let you touch these okay you're gonna touch these but I will talk a little bit about them feel them if you feel like putting in your ear I don't really buy it yeah they're very light so here's the thing I'm gonna do a quick review and then the things that I wish were better first thing that I like if you use Apple's wire to ear pods you're going to like the fit of these if those for your ears well these are going to fit your ears well okay also the syncing is amazing the first time you open up this little dental floss kit pop it open a panel pops up on your screen no less and maybe one or two seconds yeah model does offer me well while we're talking about this Beecham about one or two seconds and then they sync to your phone what also is nice that that syncs to the iCloud services that you use therefore on my iPad and my macbook pro it gives me an option to sync to them later on that's just sounded really spoiled like also on my iPad and MacBook Pro that's disgusting boy but we are blessed and you know I got acknowledge that cuz it just sounds disgusting alright you know when I put them in I heard a tone yeah because it so there are accelerometer and proximity sensors on here you'll see little dots when you put them in your ear it detects that you're wearing them and then it so dududu so therefore it will then hear the audio okay so air pods we got them right here right looks like the wired earpods the other thing I like is that true to what they said when you put cables or cords in them like I bought a third party from I think it was like spigen because I'm OH to hold them just because I'm gonna reviews and I'm disgusted by how they look there's no honestly but I'm not gonna rip on them anymore because some people like them it's a choice so what I did is I put this little cable on because I want them to look a little better right you put on this little basically it's a tendon that holds them together and believe it or not when you shake your head side to side violently they instantly pop out oh really but when you just wear them as they should be without any cords or anything connected to them because no there's no weight on it they don't fly out they don't fly out they stay in your ear so what about have you used him outside yeah I know there was an issue was did you have any problems with that I mean they were they were talking about this you know one of the issues we talked about last week was they might have been delayed because of bluetooth syncing between the two headphones Apple I was on a phone call with Apple they did not confirm exactly why that is you know what they told me during the process of a developing a product we find that there can be improved in both software and hardware and that's what we found with the air pods they'll never tell you exactly what happened right yeah nice guys no doubt and I appreciate that they got these out to us the other thing I like is what is it the other thing that I like it's oh not a big deal everyone wants to know what's the sound quality on these it is slightly like ever so slightly better than the ear pods just it's just a subtly a little audio quality better than the original originally at the rim yeah these are the I I need to enunciate and pronounce air pods are the wireless ones ear pods are the ones that come with your phone for free so they're slightly they're slightly better than them but if you're in a loud area which you mostly are if you're walking around you're commuting you're doing things it literally won't make a difference you know what about like changing tracks and you know pausing and stuff like that have you had any problems with that okay so now I guess you segue me perfectly you know what I'd like them to fix antastic okay so the number one thing we talked about it but people are not talking about this even some of my favorite youtubers are completely missing this because I don't think they've actually done it okay yeah seriously because they got it in three days these air they show how you can DoubleTap on one of the sides to prompt Siri and you can but you also can tap on the side to pause and play your music the problem is you have to go into the settings of your of the Bluetooth device the air pods and select whether you want one or the other your only either gonna say I can only do Siri or I can only use this to pause and play tracks the other thing it these do not have you have no volume control whatsoever on the air pods you have no tracks skipping forwarding or advancing whatsoever on the air pod so you only have one option either Siri or to pause and play and I want to make that very clear so you're losing a whole lot of functionality and again when you pop these in the thing is that they do look dorky but you don't see what they look like you just feel it so I think a lot of people that are Apple fans that are already excited about these I honestly think you're gonna really like them yeah but I still think they look kind of ridiculous in the prices hi 159 so the number so when I talk about that functionality Apple has to fix that and there's ways that they can do that the other thing that I wanted to talk about what they can fix is I mentioned that double tap where you just tap it right in your ear so when you tap it you actually have to push it pretty like it's not like a light tap it's like a tap tap and when you do that you're kind of pushing the earbud into your ear yeah and it's annoying like I don't like how that feels I actually could be uncomfortable it is and so I did I asked Apple are you gonna make it less sensitive is there a way to fix that they're like well you will get used to the pressure that you need to put on it over time right saying oh it's me who's typing it too hard but I've used these for four days and I still have to tap it harder than I'd like so I don't like that I think what they could do in the next gen is these aren't like multi-touch air pods they're just tapping that's its uses I basically think the accelerometer gets jarred with a double tap and that's how they know Oh prompt Siri it takes a second to delay so what I think they should do if you really want to make these even more special is these long annoying ugliest stems right mm-hmm they need to put some sort of multi-touch functionality on it so I talked about it doesn't have functionality what if you could swipe down and swipe up for volume that on one side what if you could swipe down and swipe up on the other side to change the tracks that would be awesome and then instead of double tapping really hard maybe you find you still keep the double tap what if you just touch on the top of the air air pod and then that's Siri on one side and then that's pause and play on the other like you that would give it all the functionality you need right here so they don't have to change the form factor so that's something that I really hope that they could fix I think it would actually make them a lot better now could you bypass that Siri prompt decision they have to make by having enabling hey Siri on your phone so you could just talk to it instead of having it prompted with the thing you know that's funny I haven't actually the thing is that when you say you know what the magic a chess phrase it's supposed to by default have your phone you know if you turn it on on your phone it should so yeah I'd actually never try that with the air pods at the same time and I can't because my phone is being used for you know our stream right now but that's that's an interesting point like I guess you could the the thing is that no matter what when you say hey you know who it takes longer to talk to her to tell you to turn down the volume and to turn down the track than just either going directly to your phone or using those actual wired remote the wide remote which is a lot better so that actually slows down how you do things it doesn't simplify it so this is a good try I think there's a lot of people are gonna that again if you're an Apple fan you want to try these I think by default you're already sold on them you already know if you want these you're gonna get these but someone like me uh I'd accept them as a gift me too honestly without a doubt but right now I would not personally buy them further up for variety reasons but again I'm not knocking these I think it's a great first step and they do the syncing is untouchable but they need to improve that lets so there you go that's I could say a couple other things about the singing but I don't want to linger on this too long I think know people wanna you're you're saying that sometimes the tracks don't skip forward I mean that happens with the regular headphones to you you miss the clicks like I you have to double click it to triple click to go back yeah and then sometimes you'll double click and then nothing happens and you're like did I pause the track oh yeah I paused it quite that happens to me all the time yeah quest question on here someone's asking can you tap on either pod the answer is yes also another subtle thing in the settings for the actual air pods you can use them independently so for example it actually knows when you take one or the other off which one you want to use is the microphone for hey s or you can default it and select it manually to be okay I only want the left one to always be my mic so because some people may not want to use this as a permanent headset they might just want to use it really as a Bluetooth headset which you can the other caveat is you can this actually does connect to other Bluetooth device like you could sing this with other phones you just won't get all the crazy functionality and the syncing won't be as hot oh that's cool but you but you can't do that then what since we're on it and I guess people the fact is that we're on a podcast so we can talk about in an extended way yeah the syncing is different weather here's the thing that I like and don't like you sing at your phone for the first time it puts all that data into the iCloud so then I can access it on my macbook pro or my iPad the problem that I have is that on my macbook pro i click up into the bluetooth panel and then I go down to my air pods and I connect them on my iPad I go into the music options and then I find it and I said it they they really need to make it a cohesive unified one any product in proximity just show that cool panel that shows up on your iPhone and then just be able to select iPhone iPad or Mac Book Pro depending if those devices are nearby and if that showed on every device you had it would just alleviate and make it just a simple clean boop-boop-boop instead depending on your device you have to go into different settings to access it so it's connected that sounds like a good ten minutes of work to get it set up on all your device well it no here's the thing it actually is literally like 30 seconds to get it set up yeah but it's just once you want to switch using it from let's say I'm on my phone uh I now want to use these specific with my macbook I just have to change an option I'm just saying changing them looks different on each device and it's something you just see right yeah oh really I want to listen no yeah iPad now so someone's asking how do you change them it's in the Bluetooth settings on your menu bar on the MacBook Pro at the top and then on your iPad you have to swipe to your music player and then it'll show like you know you can choose the output of where the audio plays so it's it's a little different if it's on your phone it's pretty much it's like ready to roll pop him you're you're good to go so how is your battery life man have you run into any issues I would see the thing is I've been charging them constantly right you know how they say oh they have about a five hour battery life I've been charging them constantly the oh the other cavi the other thing I wanted to bring up to people specifically with this is repairs and services everyone's asking what happens if you lose one what happens if the battery dies so Apple has their support page and I put the link up on the show for you Beach this one right here it's um it's the next one actually and you can scroll all the way down um yeah scroll it's called the iPhone service there's a link okay so scroll all the way down until you see the air pod section I'm gonna read this and describe it to people that are listening okay so the air pods right again this this dental floss guy is the charger it's the charger for the air pods which is cool so you can take it wherever you want now here's here's how they break it down if you are under warranty and let's say the air pods or the charging case no longer functions within that one year so right it's just an actual defect they will replace it but then here where is where it gets tricky there's two other aspects of this that arse battery service or out of warranty service so let's say you completely damaged an air pod or you lose one no matter what whether you're under that one year warranty and this makes sense if you lose it or completely like roll over in a car or something like that or get smashed it's going to cost $69 for a single replacement of an air pod well we're in the air pod one air pod cost sixty nine dollars to replace okay okay whether you're under warranty or out of if it's damaged or lost now even if you have a warranty it well let's say I'm saying if you lose it or it's like smashed by God let's say you have it it just not functioning properly you know they'll probably they'll probably replace it okay but if you like took it and you uh like Roy a hammer Nate or something right some someone's calling us on our on our Skype I really I can't go don't want to say dong haha okay so here's the other aspect about that let's talk about the battery service this is the battery service is a little gray and I actually talked to directly to Apple to try and find out a little more specifics let me just read really briefly how they describe it our warranty this is on Apple's website our warranty covers a defective battery but it doesn't cover wear from normal use if the battery capacity on your ear pods or charging case decreases over time you can replace them for a battery service fee now on this breed out it says to replace air pods for battery service a single one will be $49 to replace the charging case it will be $49 as well but then I said to myself well so what exactly what are how do you define really you know what is is it if the batteries just completely dead or if the battery's not functioning properly what is the real definition so here's the actual words directly from an email that is okay to talk about that I got from Apple and it is a little PR e but it does at least give a little more introspection of what they're thinking about all batteries change in performance over time however if there is a defect in the product that causes an unusual decrease in battery performance which includes pretty much any noticeable charge within the first year of ownership then it would be covered by the one-year warranty sorry my voice is correct for replacements not covered by warranty the 49 battery of placement is applicable now I asked them directly is this just if the battery naturally fades or if it's actually a defective dead they said they'll swap it out if it's defective dead but like all things the battery does dissipate over time and so let's say towards the end of the year your battery is only maybe at three hours and not five and it's just I kept that last end of the year I think they're gonna make you pay for a new air pod yeah I just the way that they described again they didn't make it cut and dry but they they at least got into a little more nuance the statement was all batteries change of performance over time no Sherlock right yeah so just to let you know if it's damaged or lost $69 if it's a battery performance issue it's around $49 got it got it 49 49 not too bad after a year I guess yeah so there you go I mean that's just the overall take on the air pods and they are coming out let the 19th of the UK the 21st in the US and then right now again the pre-orders are like what is it six six weeks backed up so it's gonna be a while to get them totally but I honestly you know I I think they're they perform better than I thought but I just don't like how they look quite honestly yeah they look kind of silly and they need more functionality and then then I'll then I'll be like okay I'm paying attention to you but I think there are better solutions even a someone that calls in about the beat X that I've been delayed in will will answer that in the voicemail so let's keep on rolling through the show we know that also earlier this week iOS 10.2 for iOS devices watch OS 3 point 1 point 1 was released as well as TV os 10.1 the we've talked about iOS 10.2 for over and over about the emojis and the TV app and blah blah blah so I'm just gonna gonna gloss over that one thing that Apple doesn't always have the most flawless track record is with the Apple watch OS 3.1 one update it actually bricked completely bricked some Apple series 2 watches that's awful ok what do you do when that happens so you want me tell you what's even worse you want me to get into this please under Apple's warranty coverage they cannot restore an Apple watch via the diagnostic port in store at an Apple so you can't even go to an Apple store and get it fixed you know what you have to do you have to mail it in if you have a brick Apple watch series so you got to mail that in bro that is frustrating man dude so I wonder how long that price happens anyone let us know how long that process takes I feel for you feel like probably a couple weeks three weeks maybe a month you gotta mail it in like Oh hopefully they send you a pre you know a prepackaged well case or something that's the thing right even if they send you a replacement battery or sorry an Apple watch now your replacement Apple watch it's like a box to ship it in yeah yeah yeah I would assume so that's what they've done in the past but even just like they can't your backup of your Apple watches on your either on your iCloud or your computer at home yeah right so even if they just sent you a new watch like oh I got a single it's just a pain in the butt right is so fearful to update in the future that's why I always tell people wait a few days even though we got to be on top of this wait a day or two for any of these software updates yeah any it's they've no I'm just waiting for Apple to come out clean just one time like it's been a while since they've come out clean I know more iOS devices Moe iOS devices mo problems yeah famous words a P dating notorious b.i.g alright we'll stop singing next up the Apple TV TV app I just wanted to talk about it briefly this is Apple's kind of new really they're their new interface over all over anything for the new Apple TV this is that whole TV app that allows you to it's the goal is for you to watch all your video through via these TV apps that you're sorry via your different TV network apps like AMC Hulu HBO now food network things like that they want you to just have one destination watch it all and that's contained in this TV app from Apple TV right yeah movies TV shows people's tables now the issue that I have is I set this all up one of the advantages of TV OS 10.1 is this whole thing called single sign-on Beach so that's right you site you have a cable provider yeah you sign in and then it basically unlocks this so all of your apps you don't have to sign it individually it just works right that's really cool that's a big right right right right you feel that no matter what you always set up everything individually yep okay this is a great idea in theory but then when you go into the settings of your Apple TV and you go to single sign-on there's like eight cable carriers and three of them do not include Xfinity do not include Time Warner does not include Verizon FiOS really those are three major networks I'm sorry major cables provide so the whole dream of single sign-on that's like all west coast yeah no there's no Bay Area no LA do you know they get here because they didn't cut the deal so what does that mean now right if you don't have single sign-on that means you have to individually like go into every app and you know it gives you a code you go to a website you type in the code and unlocks and you're like okay fine but then even at that some networks that are even part of your Comcast Xfinity setup like mine aren't and haven't signed on board like Comedy Central doesn't it won't won't unlock for me Food Network won't unlock for me purely because of these different rights deals and everything that's so it's like look this is a really nice thing if you're if the networks and the shows you watch like really if you buy Apple stuff through their iTunes Store movies and TV shows you're gonna be fine and if a few of those networks on the side like HBO now and AMC and stuff like that you got your Walking Dead your West world your Game of Thrones yeah then you're pretty good but when it comes to like everything not everyone is gonna be happy about this yeah so is that so those at ours is yeah they exist exist but you can't log into them currently some of them will how about this depending on your cable company will how about this they won't be compatible with the TV app which is an aggregator that tries to combine them all in one Apple's trying to make this one-stop shop but again if you can't unlock the credentials for some of these network apps they aren't gonna be part of it yeah that's interesting so it's funny that they would allow the app to exist on there I mean I don't know well they can walk I don't know you can watch free stuff on them sometimes right so I like promoted exactly yours and sometimes they'll let episodes that are old I show up on there so that's that's that's what you just need to be aware of and then there's other aspects like they changed the home button on the Apple TV used to go to the home screen now it defaults to the watch TV section of the app which is like that's not my home screen so you can actually change that in the settings I think we had a caller asked about that so I'll talk about it then so there you go some quick other bullet points I don't know if you're excited about this Beach Amazon coming to the Apple TV Amazon like the shopping app oh not the prime not the prime video I have so many different ways to use Amazon I don't really care do you care about Amazon Prime video on your Apple to you I mean no I don't have Apple TV I mean I don't care have I already have a Nintendo Wii U oh yeah and a ps4 so there's no reason for me yeah you know I have Amazon on those you have what you need yeah also like one quick reminder Netflix and Amazon Prime are not part of this whole watch TV app thing it combines everything the goal is for them to basically say hey you have this one place you watch the show on your computer now when you pick up your iPhone or iPad you can watch it there that's something to do that in this day and age yes absolutely I want everything it was so many networks and like channels and YouTube you know how they would have really done this if they actually got a TV streaming subscription service true they were able to land it so they have the right idea but I'm not gonna knock on them maybe maybe magically every network and every video on-demand service says Apple here take our customer data let will let you know what they watch how long they watch when they watch what demographic is here take this we just want to help you out it's not gonna happen no because every every network is building their own place for that now so just gonna become even more difficult yeah well tinder for Apple TV also coming up do you want to want to see what it looks like sure sure yeah tinder or an Apple TV okay here I have the blog post there's a there's a youtube link that I put on the side of it that I haven't even really seen it I don't for the record I don't use tinder even to set up an account I would get in lots of trouble so I don't use tinder I never have neither I buy I've downloaded it but I didn't use it so what's better I mean before you could swipe away people like worthless cards on your phone now you can humiliate people with your friends and family while you do it I think that's a great bonus SWE's who who asked for this I don't know did you ask you relay to do it on a bigger screen you kind of want it on a private little screen right they're making it like a party game and it's just basically rip on port you know what I'm saying hot or not although yeah it gets hotter not on your TV you know what they're like they're like serving up all their tinder people you know every all their tinder users are serving them up for for people to just ridicule it's messed up it's so it's this is not come on tinder putting it on the Apple TV they're like hey what you want us to tell them what should what should you throw at them Steve what are you gonna give them I have no idea I'm gonna give him a bad apple it's a bad apple it's a bad apple that's funny why would a tinder even I guess tenders yes they wanted like get their profile out more that's fine I mean is looked in everyone knows what tinder is you put them other platforms if it creates a press release okay true I mean maybe people that are watching I mean let us know do you like the idea that tinder is on your Apple TV so I know people listening to have tinder profiles how would you like to know that your profile is like yes wiped on it this be like a party game I mean I see a lot of hearts on the periscopes I don't see any chat I hope that I hope the chat is working right now but uh that's Lucy I don't know what's what people are saying okay well we're asking for that well we'll get your opinions we'll get you drunk people like tinder like nah no they're coming into just a little bit of delay you know from the time I speak to the time it streams okay here's some cool finger finger stuff fingerprint scanner stuff for the future I phone companies cement synaptics sy n AP T ICS synaptics debuted their new fingerprint sensors capable of scanning through display glass dude cool so we know that the really the galaxy s 8 and the iPhone potential iPhone future iPhone X iPhone 8 if they really want to be boring so goodbye to the home button everybody say la vie I'm kind of stoked on that because I ride casual carpool in the morning yeah and my home button makes a noise oh and I'm wondering like sometimes I've sinned there I'm like am i annoying everyone in this car except pushing my own but hey that's just me I like that's my paranoid yeah that's your OCD paranoia but it does it makes a noise so you know you're okay with this I'm okay with it so check out some of the tech behind this the Cape the sensors of the for this thing it's called the FS 9 oh sorry it's the FS 9100 it's a natural ID optical fingerprint sensor capable of scanning a fingerprint through one millimeter of full cover glass so obviously it allows for a free button design here's the other information that you might not know about the sensors eliminate the need for cutouts but cut because they're under glass what does that mean the sensor itself is scratch proof it's waterproof and responds well to wet fingers that's good because we all have wet fingers no comment wet finger users you should be happy about the upcoming that's a feature there's there's times after you do the dishes or you totally you're like I can't unlock my phone crap totally I got a dry my finger that's the only time my fingers are wet all right moving on to the next so anyways this tech is expected to come out and be available for manufacturers and basically consumer electronic companies sometime during the second quarter of next year it's great it's another cool way to get our finger all our finger prints Omar yeah in the NSA NSA data why is someone sending me kiss lips when I just talked about a wet finger on periscope I'm really I think you know why bruh I think I'm I think I dunno what I'm gonna add them to my buddies listen really not all right next up article LG has said to supply apple with foldable displays for future iPhones are you ready for this LG's division this is according to ET news LG's division is developing and will start mass producing the foldable displays I put a video link in the in the notes if you want to see some of this don't don't stop this start mass producing foldable displays for smartphones in 2018 they'll supply them to Apple Google and Microsoft according to the South Korean website LG has shown off a lot of these futuristic looking kind of curved and foldable displays over the past years we're going to CES umer Electronics Show in the first week of January at CES this past year they just wrapped a phone on a wrist like a cuff with a screen baby it's pretty cool but the best part of this video is the acting hold was that voice real real real or not what do you think real nah nah nah I like pictures of adorable kitties so she's showing off like a foldable oh no you gotta fall pictures of kitties again turn the volume down before I used my eye my ears melt that's awesome no crazy I gotta show love for her she's she's doing her job I just she did a great job very very unique voice there but again foldable displays whether they're for you know like a book type tablet option or rapa belong your wrists come on that's crazy that's like those toys that you know like they slap and like land you know I'm talking about the flapper is what do they call that thing the slap bracelets or whatever yeah what exactly I was like I love those things but it's gonna have what to do that with my phone and be like okay I gotta get out here someone needs to call in next week or at least I guess a month from now tell us what are those bracelets going he'll tell us in the chatroom yeah they will all right should we go check out our voicemails let's check out some voicemails y'all got some good ones we always have great ones you guys are badass here we go hey guys it's my clunking which UK I've been waiting episode after episode after episode for somebody to touch upon this small aspect of the new MacBook and by the way happy ere pause today a you know the larger trackpad obviously that signals you know the company is thinking about perhaps a tablet with more with the 3d touch capability I'm just wondering if you guys have boosting the information about that anyway have a great holiday in the next few weeks thanks bye alright thanks for the call I did want to touch upon he's asking about just the idea of bringing 3d touch to the laptops I think the way the 3d touch has been made up to this point is made for you know like a mobile device like a phone because it fits your hand you can press on it pressure-sensitive there you go right the way that a desktop OS at least apples right now is is structured you could put 3d touch on the trackpad or maybe you should just give me a touchscreen laptop please just touch screen laptop me but again I think that the actual interface of how you would use your laptop more Allah iPad mode maybe like a hybrid OS on who has high who has a hybrid OS that does touch and like a desktop remember you can't remember off the top of my head it's really difficult yeah yeah so anyways mots the applesauce maker I got the mods I got that much so um they needed the OS would be able to complement that also having 3d touch operate on a phone differently than how it operates on a laptop just would feel even more disconnected yeah yeah you gotta use it exactly the same way like sometimes you get kind of like stuck in a you know in a movement with a mouse yeah you know sometimes you're like swipe and then the whole screen moves you're like oh I gotta get back would you say Beach you know what humans say when they mess up but something bad happens they usually say that word that starts with that that's that's just naughty but yeah like I can see that being kind of a pain in the ass even the trackpad it's so big yeah it's so big that people I have a couple buddies of mine that a complain like look I'm still trying to get rid it get used to it but they don't feel that it has really good palm palm rejection oh really technology hmm yeah that's always awkward to say palm rejection okay so it's like how about this so it's like when you're when you're touching it but then your palm is resting on at the same time you know register it as multiple touches instead of you just like they have a gate your mouse right that's bad yeah palm rejection alright next call alright thanks Carl ciao hey Brian this is Javier from the Metroplex up here in North Texas I'm calling in regards to the new beats X wireless earphones I was wondering if you knew when they were going to be released since they are owned by Apple thanks I love yourself guys keep it up when they call beats axe beats axe oh it's so apple also released through their beats part through their beats you know they own them who their beats brand or line of headphones they also released other earpods earbuds headphones that have the w1 chip technology inside them as well so those beats acts are like super minimalistic they you know have a kind of like almost that I don't know if you're familiar with a jaybird headphones but they're similar in just how small and how compact they are so I heard something that was really interesting so first of all rumblings are pointing to that we might see the beat X headphones actually come out these are their true earbuds or your pot earbuds they're connected with a wire and they have physical remotes on them they might be coming out sometime in February but I got even something even crazier so I know someone who has used them and it has tried them and has access behind the scenes to Apple stuff and he told me he's like he really thinks they're delaying the beat X headphones for a couple reasons one of the main reasons is that he says they sound better than the air pods and he says that he feels they're delaying it a not to take some shine away from them not to come not to basically have them compete but also to kind of recap the narrative that makes the air pods different from the beat X headphones cuz they are sold from the same company yeah yeah at the you know ultimately and I just found that really interesting I'm like okay how much better are they he just said they have a fuller deeper sound and the fact that they have you know the actual wired controls are really light and I'm like dude but he said they literally sound better and again they use the w1 chip so they have that awesome syncing capability with your iOS products they're only like 10 dollars cheaper than the air pause which is kind of interesting you think they'd be a little more do you think names cuz they sound better that's the scoop that we have so thanks for calling that's all I know right now okay next call hey guys happy holidays this is James from Washington so Apple I have the iPhone 6s with the battery issue last month I was told my phone didn't have any battery issues even though I went to the whole process erasing the whole thing per Apple and took three hours to get my backup put back on the phone and now I'm being told that it is a phone with the battery issue my Apple TV is totally messed up how in the heck do you get rid of the Apple TV app I hate that it goes back to that app every single time and none of my channels seem to be our apps seem to be loading they're having lots of issues now and I'm just I'm not sure I'm starting to begin to have a hate love relationship to the Apple products and I was just wondering aside from Tim Cook being the CEO if you guys think that there's more going on internally with Apple that's causing all these issues and there yeah well so that was there's a lot of things to touch upon okay first thing let's talk about the Apple TV issues like they always get me back into that Apple TV app so there is a way in the settings of the Apple TV to change that so what you want to do is you go into settings and then you go into I think it's devices and remotes and then from there you'll see remote and by default after the update happened it says TV app what you'll want to change it back to is the home screen and guess what my friend once you do that you'll know it'll now whenever you hit that home screen button that it was intended to be in it will take you back to your front-facing home screen and not the TV app so for all of you that are wondering like what the heck how can I fix that jump into the settings it is there and you can change that the other aspect of some some apps not working in some not I had to reconnect all of my apps are you serious yeah I had to so that whole sign-on thing I had to go into every single one to reconnect them Oh after this update after the update yeah it wasn't like apps still worth the same like it just wasn't so that's something that you should be aware so that might be definitely some time aside yeah so that might be the issue and then the question to talk about just what's going on with Apple again what about is about his battery on his phone yeah oh yeah I'm sorry I'm sorry I I like I like how the funny thing about is that was a cold event because he didn't he said he started his comment or his his talk about he started like this so Apple and I really like that so I think if you have gripes or issues that are hurting you emotionally I want you to Conte so Apple like let's talk to them let's this can be our voice to them cuz I gotta get some sad music for that yeah so Apple it's very sad so uh anyways best of luck keep your head up but from the innovation standpoint side look we'll see what happens in 2008 in 2017 hopefully they get they get some stuff together because everything we predicted this year happened which was and people weren't happy when I called it out last year but it happened yeah don't mess with no shirt on his baby we didn't predict that the air pods would be delayed for a few months and we didn't predict that Apple watches will get break didn't predict a lot of things that's sorry yeah you can't predict everything but you can do the big stuff so alright you have one more call yes we do awesome okay hey Brian and Beecham this is Mark from Portland Oregon I'm wondering about the Mac Pro line or are we ever going to see an improved model after the 2013 version if so is it going to cut down on performance just for design or what can we expect in that regard Thanks jump in here man something that's interesting about this call is that he's learnt already preempting like he's already has it in his mind like Apple's gonna like get rid of something for the sake of design and that's kind of like we're all Apple fans are right now they're like what is up on and get rid of next what do I have to you know what do I have to not live with that I'm used to living with on the next iteration so that's just very interesting it's a sad state of affairs it's like they're conditioning there oh they're their clientele to think like this now no it's what is it what are they gonna take away from me next it happened with the iPhone it happened with the MacBook Pro oh how about they're getting rid of the airport wireless routers yes that's been reported the Mac Pro has not been updated in three years Wow a product that when Phil Schiller went onstage he bragged and said can't innovate my ass well he actually was right haha they haven't done anything different to it for three this is their powerhouse desktop quite honestly I wonder if they're just gonna let it fade away and not actually build the desktop other than the iMac that's that's completely possible I mean it is and what's the problem with that I mean they pitched the Mac Pro as a computer for power users for graphic designers for artists engineers bla bla bla bla bla people that need that power yeah it has not lived up to that at all hmm I mean we have we have them in our office right when they came out three years ago was like oh it's gotta get the latest Mac and we never none of us did right well some I mean what I'm saying like people are using them they're not happy with them yeah yeah they really aren't yeah I've only really seen one in the Y and not even in the wild here yeah we have I think we have one or two we - yeah so I just I just the way he phrased his question and his phone call was just totally interesting to me like Apple users are like okay what are they gonna are they gonna screw us on the next or that right wedding in it what are they so I would tend to feel like that's not a way to win over your like there's a lot of people that finally after you okay I got my buddy my buddy I'm not gonna name drop here noob D ed boon Mortal Kombat trader he's like dude you're legend legendary and he's awesome he's a great guy I shortened that I know what the song sounds like you don't want me to do the whole thing but he's like dude you're she's like you're pretty hard on Apple we started talking well and we started I said look you've you've seen Apple during the heyday so if we look how different they are now and then he started talking about yeah when are they gonna do this they have an update that Mac Pro in three years he's like I'm like really mad at I'm like look you're sounding like you know like everything you told me you are sounding like me now I mean he he represents a die-hard loyal fan like many of you are that listen to this that are fresh train so if our show becomes a place to vent and it's a cathartic release then then that's what it is that's what it is it's funny because people in the chatroom we weren't saying like what are you guys gonna take away from the show next year what is good what are you guys gonna do this show to like make it less you know like I don't know there's making jokes you mean like what can we do for this we're gonna we're gonna strip down the show next year just like Apple does to other products over last offer you know well we could remove a piece of clothing in each episode oh yeah strips strips extra crunchy until Apple adds a new feature well we'll remove just like that every time I hear you know every time they remove a feature from a product next year we'll have to just wear one less thing it could be a ring it could be a shirt it could be a sock and we'll see what we get down to you until we can no longer pass FCC rules yeah we're gonna like consuming dude no ports we're not gonna do that it's Mortal Kombat out here all right everybody that's gonna do it for this week again for the holidays we'll be gone so don't worry we didn't leave you all you can call us at 1-866-376-8255 I extra 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