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from the CBS interactive studios in san francisco california it's the apple byte extra crunchy podcast with your host Bryan tom yes sir yes sir welcome to the show everybody episode 20 of the apple byte extra crunchy going strong throughout the end of you wet 2015 2015 2015 you know what today is it's today officially the force awakens day or was that yesterday tada today a message ollie they swim they did it yesterday so it's especially the 18th soft launch yesterday is that what they call you saw the movie last night I did I'm not we were like dead silent in the beginning of the entire prep of the show Rock I don't want to talk to him about anything and therefore you guys won't hear anything about it either no which is a good thing we're gonna let you all watch it I'm gonna go see it tonight at midnight with my bro so I'm pretty fired up for it we'll see what happens I'm not sided for you that's all we're not gonna be jerks that's all we're gonna talk about star wars force awakens go see it I heard it might be good everyone's gonna be see I think that if you don't see it in the next three days you're pretty much gonna get everything spoiled your some you're screwed I tried so hard not to get spoiled and somehow I got spoiled lots of hearts on periscope for what we're time out we're gonna we're gonna be good to you we aren't gonna say anything if anyone writes anything in the comments I will literally seek you out and kill you oh I'm being I will find you young people I will find you and I will kill you I'm not even kidding so let's talk about all the stuff in the Apple world this week we've got a lot of cool stuff going on I always love things like this we start off the show with a report from Bloomberg talking about apples secret lab well it's not really secret anymore when they've revealed this secret lab so the story in the report from Bloomberg talks about how Apple opened up production laboratory in northern taiwan where they have engineers working on developing new display technologies according to the report so can you hear oh that thing oh yeah I just kind of put it up a little bit just you know I've some ambience oh just to give some ambien guy talks news ambience so this facility is located in the Science Park area somewhere in Taiwan engineers on site are developing LCD and OLED technologies for the actual apple devices no one knows exactly what they're trying to do other than make these screens thinner brighter more energy efficient but the actual reporter walked right into the lobby yeah there is no signage or I solve this with Charlie Rose footage and he's just walking through with Johnny I well that's something different that's 60 minutes that's something different did you just want to go to the last story the show should we descend the show right now I got confused this isn't that another story it's a different story another secret oh my god they have secret lives everyone then I was totally gonna be like at the end of the show basically segue that that's two secrets that Apple can't keep because apples not gonna keep meeting us but you spoiled that oh man good thing it wasn't star you didn't leave the room no no do not leave the room we cannot do the show if he's not here this show is broke man the show was broken so that that lab was revealed and I do appreciate it we talked about on the actual apple byte video podcast my hope and dreams or that Apple actually has another secret lab that we don't know about that is dedicated to battery technology because we saw what they've been cooking already and it ain't Freddie yeah it's disgusting man I wish you still had a picture of that from yesterday it's the worst case ever it is it's ugly it is so I you know I think I don't know people need to tell us how they feel about that case meeting I'm sure it's helpful but I guarantee you a lot of people that bought that case invest in it have never purchased a battery type case before and that's why they like it more yeah you don't I mean it also has the apple logo on it that's the apple logo so my humps my humps my humps my lovely lady humps looking at six yeah she's got me spit apples got me spanning buddy buddy that's what it's all about it's all about that cheddar other stories coming from digit times out of the same kind of piggybacking on that Apple Taiwan lab there'd also on site according to these stories and their sources they're developing flexible OLED technology which makes me think that let's see we've we've seen Apple make a larger screen phone Allah Samsung yeah now they're working on curved OLED tech allah samsung come on oh yeah I don't want to see the iphone 6s edge iphone galaxy success they're gonna call it something I was thinking it let's let's let's um it'll be the iphone 7 curve oh man it's gonna be something crazy like that anyways the curved TVs actually don't get very good reviews either I don't think they're good yeah they give you bad reflection if you sit at one angle too then you kind of you're looking at a weird curvature of your screen I don't I don't like the idea of a curved screen at all no just give me a big do we do curved screens in a movie theater no big so that why am I gonna do it at my home it it looks really sexy in your home if you have like a home that's designed from the future plus if I put my phone down and it's like rocking on my table I'm gonna go insane yeah someone on periscope just said I need to fire my barber I just saw it flash up real quick I saw that you can I'm gonna if I can block them I would block them all right we'll keep on talking about more Apple gear we're going strong here also in addition to these stories about apple screen technology apple is expected to debut a scalable 3d touch tek for ipad sized screens which is awesome right it we haven't seen the ipad air three we have the ipad pro I'm a big fan of 3d touch I think it's going to be a huge subtle thing that over time is going to get better better we already have heard rumors that Samsung themselves is also developing a pressure sensitive screen tech but here we go this 3d touch tek for these ipad sized screens are expected to come after the ipad air three and are expected to come after the iphone 7 based on these rumors and ports there's a couple sources that are talking about this which means we're at least a year away till we see 3d touch in any way shape or form on an iPad that's a long time that is a long time and one of the things is that they actually can't take that same 3d touch tek that's in an iphone 6s right now it's not scalable so that's why they're developing their own similar tech that can serve that same purpose for larger screens like an ipad or an ipad pro yeah because if you're scaling up pictures on the ipad which is going to look like crap right also you know that i've got to imagine the maybe the thickness of the tech or being able to make it on a larger dimension and having those sensors work as accurately as some of the stuff that they're coming across so we aren't going to see any 3d touch tek anytime soon in any ipad models we're kind of expecting the ipad air three in the first half of next year so other than a faster touch ID maybe a slightly better screen and a faster processor the ipad air is just going to be a mediocre upgrade quite honestly yeah it sounds like and i actually really hope apple doesn't does not put a better camera in it because the last thing we need is a better camera on a big-ass ipad i haven't seen someone using ipad pro at a concert yet i have i've seen it I've seen that happen no not an iPad pro ok just a large I've oh yeah yeah large ipad for sure ipad pro haven't seen that's so that's um you know that's very fragile to to take to a concert i've i've taken the ipad pro everywhere it's nice as a consumption device I don't do anything else on it it is lacking compared to a surface people like beat me up to throw you stop innovation because you chose to get an ipad instead of a surface pro I'm sorry I'd be the first to admit the surface pro is a superior product hands down but I don't have three thousand dollars to buy one in one right now I know I buy my own gear not all reviewers do and they always have to send those back to allegedly allegedly I'm not gonna get into it too much here okay let's talk you know what there's some good things as some interest things happening around Apple music it's a it's a long time you know coming but Apple music has been estimated according to a report by our friends from media research they expect apple music will have nearly 8 million subscriptions at the end of 2015 in just a short amount of months app I think around four months Apple hit around 6.8 million subscriptions they're already push them up I believe they said number two or number three overall out of all music services the estimate here now is that 8 million by the end of the year and 20 million by the end of 2016 which would definitively put it at number two slightly behind Spotify based on the estimates of the Apple music service rolling out more and based on their percentage of conversion that's kind of crazy to me yeah i'm actually not surprised because they have so many you know they have a captive audience already here's all on itunes and you know they have a huge library of music so i'm not i'm not really surprised but that that's pretty impressive 8 million in how many months has it been out 6 mar 6 months 6 months pretty dang good yeah that is good so the estimates according to media research is that they'll hit 20 million by the end of next year we will see if that is true or not that sounds a little high to me I didn't renew my sets I tried it out I didn't renew yeah neither did I that does seem like a high number I mean but you know they always shoot they always shoot for high number shoot for the stars I'm good things if your sonos user sonos really one of the first companies to really brand that whole multi speaker room ecosystem finally you'll be able to use Apple music on a sonos music system they're using it you'll be able to get access through it through a beta program that you'll sign up for it's used in their connector app and there's an option to use Apple music so that you can play get access to your music library and your playlist and use it on multiple speaker devices playing multiple speakers in your home so that was probably the number one number one thing a lot of people complain to me about it like where's the so no support hmm it's in beta they're not saying it's gonna work flawlessly yet yeah that's always a good you know because it's in beta but i think that's that's cool for sonos fans that system has been out for a while it's super popular yeah it's usually pop yeah super popular I've never put down the coin for it yet no neither by right it's like oh my house is cuz like each of those speakers are like 200 bucks yeah it's kind of for rich people yeah right I don't know anyone that has a sonos system casually let's just put it down the only one I know of is Baba Booey from the Howard Stern Show and he talks about it all the time talked about his solos always suck it he buy it or did he get you up I don't know the only question i mighta got it I'm just saying you might have been given it given 24 you know add support I'm not even hating on that but a lot of times you come across people that like devices more and then I ask them to do buy it they say no I'm like old yeah of course you're gonna like it more also if you're an apple retail employee good news for you Apple is also gifting you a nine month subscription to the Apple music service so that's for the retail employees they recently also gifted all them a pair of your beats headphones or kind of like the earbuds from beats by dre I curious if you're a seasonal apple retail employee could you just like work there for the Christmas season get hooked up and I get out of there yeah that's pretty good man I would be stoked I would allocate those too I would be super stoked people that done not so much on the headphones but the music subscription I would that would actually like I'd be like that's pretty good yeah it's like what is it is it ten bucks a month for so it's uh even from a dollar standpoint what's like a $80 thing you get head bud earbuds head buds who has head buds what are those so that's pretty cool as well and then really the thing that caps us all together Apple music known for exclusives they've had tracks from a variety of artists Pharrell mmm uh denied Inch Nails put out an exclusive track for them for a little while I think he'll like thank you later did ya feel like it as well but over over time if you have a favorite artist that puts out a single exclusive track on I to on Apple music you're probably gonna want to check it out so this is really important very important once you tell them sure yeah Taylor Swift what has announced that she will have an apple exclusive video of her 1989 world who were t-swizzle t-swizzle what yes God look at her so this is a backstage behind-the-scenes film exclusively available on the 20th uh on Apple music only I'm already in trance it's worth just to watch it cuz she's so hot teach their own Steven I'm gonna I'm gonna let you roll on that one I'm a whole back I'll pass but uh yeah if you're an apple subscriber you can watch her for free your iTunes account oh she got Fetty WAP she got she got all country is more said gonna talk to whizz whizz Mary J she's like I'm gonna get every awesome artist known to man to make me even more awesome yeah alright people can like start calling this the tailor bite I already know we've been called the Bieber bite when we call the tailor bite I prefer the Bieber bite I do did you hear the album yet no I slept me album I know I've heard two songs okay yeah yeah yeah I'll check out the album all right so there you go just some cool developments in Apple music we're also going to transition over to it's the end of the year there's a lot of top lists that get released by different companies so we wanted to check out google's top list oh yeah right this is their year in search and they put out a list for a consumer tech right there's a variety of topics let me actually while we're doing this I'm gonna pull up this this other link and just tell you about some of the biggest moments right you have some of the tragic stuff like Paris under attack star wars had 155 million searches if we compare that to somewhere like the Paris attacks 897 million plus google searches which is pretty pretty insane but obviously very significant um but in consumer tech let me see if I can pull this up right now all right here we go in consumer tech what do you think do you look at this list don't look at this is I don't want you to look at this list I already saw it you did I saw it hahaha what did you what did you think the number one product I'm gonna let people on a YouTube and yeah let her skull answer tell us what they think what was the number one consumer tech product that showed up in the google trends based on the year in search will give you guys a couple seconds to just spit it out yeah one two I see a periscope people saying Apple watch Adele hahaha chromecast the answer is the iphone 6s oh yeah number one perfect for the Apple ID number two samsung galaxy s6 wait did I called iphone essex iphone 6s success samsung galaxy s6 Apple watches 3 iPad pro is for LG g4 was 5 to show you how much of an apple loser I am I own three of the top five google search products that's pretty good so if anyone doubts that i actually use or care about Apple products I do I don't think anyone doubts there's people that are like this guy hates up why are you due to show any more to love hate it's a love-hate you've got to keep it real also if we transition over to Twitter hashtag the trending topics that captured their attention this year um this is what I was actually very happy about if you look around I'm just going off the cuff right now sorry Steven the section that says stars like celebrities yeah can you see that right now I'm yeah I'm looking look what name doesn't appear on that list that you thought would almost indefinitely beyond that i'm almost definitely be on that list under stars for twitter searches oh definitely um what's her name adèle oh really i thought kim kardashian cuz all our dashing crap would show up on the list I almost feel validated that the people of the world and Twitter there are other hashtags like ariana grande number one dulce maria pity I don't even know who paid ET demi lovato there there are so many other names and Kardashian to make the list I'm so happy about this it gives me hope that we as a society are moving forward and are starting to recognize more talent yeah although she's got the business side down I'm not gonna hate on that I'm shocked Bieber's not on there yeah he's not on there either okay tech let's talk tech guys what do you think the number one thing was for the list of tech on Twitter I'm gonna give we're gonna give you guys a few moments to think about this i wish i had some thinking music ding ding ding ding ding ding ding I can't stop it okay people we want to keep people here number one tech item on Twitter's a trending topics hashtag iPad Wow hash tag iPad we have something appropriate for that later the show number two hashtag soundcloud that surprised it doesn't surprise me is because a lot of people promote their soundcloud will just share their music yeah and it puts in a default soundcloud hashtag that's actually okay that makes it yeah that's good uh number three hashtag android number for hashtag periscope periscope is big this year man we gotta love Leah you know we got what we had we had earlier 550 we have 450 people hanging out with us on periscope nice if you like that I want you heart that and then people on YouTube say stop timeout periscope youtubers we got nothing but love for you live streamers we got nothing but love for you go down the list number for periscope number five I phone number six amazon seven is you now what's unit it's a I think that's another video network actually really yeah there's actually like you now stars um apple hash tag apple is eight number nine startup and number ten Twitter hmm so we've got some interesting things there so yeah those are kind of the searches and the trends for the year um the last story that I was gonna talk about that Steven Beecham spoiled was the fact that you know Apple has their secret lab in Taiwan now Apple is showing their secret secret design studio 0 to 60 minutes to Charlie Rose he's gonna go inside the labs underground with Johnny I I look I was putting his fingers together he's going it used to be this big but now we made it this big the tolerance of the iphone 6s to the iphone 7 ism is so impressive what we've been able to do he's also I want to see what that secret lab look like cuz I want to see the dumbo that made the stupid smart battery case in that stupid secret lab yeah I can't get over that show me that guy I can't get over that lab it's horrible no but this is this looks great i love 60 minutes and this is gonna be this is gonna be interesting we have to watch this absolutely ok guys and gals ladies and gentlemen listen the show i forgot to promote it the begin of the show it's my mad our phone callers right we've got to make sure you guys keep calling us it's a holiday season the number is 1 800 61 62 63 8 leave your name tell us where you're from put out your comment or your question but I actually want to challenge you guys we're gonna do a wrap-up show of the end of the year predictions and what we think I want to hear some of your predictions I want to hear what you guys think just give me one don't give me 10 give me one thing that you think we'll see in 2016 from Apple good or bad I want to hear it we'll talk about it on the show the number again 1 800 61 62 63 8 yeah all right you all let's listen to some voicemails so here's the number one voicemail i'm not sure who it's from but we will guys um I was wondering um for my mom whether to get her an iPad pro or maybe a macbook air for a desktop replacement but something on the go to maybe dock with the computer I was wondering if you guys thought that ipad pro could be be use his full desktop replacement for someone that needs to do basic work on the go but also plug into a full display tell me you guys think love the show all right that he said one word he's asking about the macbook and an ipad pro he said one word desktop blacksmith replacement don't get the ipad pro no don't it's not even close it has nothing equivalent to any type of desktop replacement you could get her the ipad pro of all she's going to do is maybe email and word processing web browse yeah like on a basic level that's kind of what he what he was said in the message that she was just gonna use it for very basic stuff so if you want to drag yeah it might work no but I'd recommend getting something a lot cheaper yeah like a macbook air yeah a macbook would be cheaper than an ipad pro hundreds of dollars to you can even get a Chromebook yeah for sure you know what I mean they could do a lot of different things so anytime you say desktop and ipad pro yeah that those things just don't it doesn't work that way no no all right next call all right hey guys this is eric from Los Angeles I want to let you know that the banksy film banksy documentary that you guys were talking about on your show last time it's called exit through the gift shop and it is available on netflix very good documentary very good tax minaret highly recommend it highly recommend as well we were trying to you know what the stupid thing about it is I actually there's so many things going on the show like while we're talking we're looking up stuff for I actually pulled it up and then completely forgot to tell people what it was oh really so that's why we have callers like you reminding us that hey Dumbo's its exit through the gift shop I think I said like exit through the front doors like I think that's what I said it was a last week so thank you for that killer film worth it and he said it's on netflix so it's basically free for you oh yeah that's free have you seen it a beat oh I've seen this one I haven't seen that one but there's another one on HBO called Banksy does New York okay and you got to see that one too really it's all we do yeah that well he goes around New York and he does like a piece of day and then he puts it on social media then all the people go and like you know all these people who are banking hunters they'll see it like posted on Instagram and then they go try to find it based on the coordinates on Instagram and it's it's really funny that's like a treasure hunt totally and then they get there and people are always like stealing it or yeah we're like just like at a girl like tag right next to retire over it so it's pretty crazy but that one's a good one too it's on HBO all right I'm digging it yeah and we have one more call today while we're gonna go all we get a lot of calls guys actually our voicemail was full so we had to let's be real our voicemail system was so full like because we haven't basically unloaded it since the beginning right beginning yeah so there's Lily probably hundreds of calls with 300 calls and we forgot to delete those 200 yeah so that's why you guys weren't able to leave messages so I cleared it out so now you can just leave messages it's our bad it's our bad my bad it's our bad no I take what happens that what happens I take responsibility for you you take responsibility for me so if I like say something horribly offensive then I'm gonna put on you that's all good okay last call hi this is Patrick in Nashville one of the show and I don't listen to it alive they should come across much better as a comment a week ago but Brian you really should not put your name with your Apple watch if he put it on sale because everyone will know that you looked it he's got a good point he's got a point there that might make it worth more money though no I'm not there's no there's no like hey on ebay hey this is she nuts Brian told Apple watch is Bryant I'm not gonna write back crap that is just stupid it's funny but I will I do have a fun little follow-up story and people don't believe me I mentioned in the show the actual video show so I was in Vancouver Airport ok I was eating lunch and I left the table and I literally didn't know but my Apple watch allegedly like unbuckled slipped off my wrist as I got off the table oh my god i left about 20 minutes later this guy came up to me who said he watches the show saw that my watch fell off and found me at my gate Wow his name is Kyle he's from Houston Texas and he returned my freaking Apple watch that's amazing Kyle you should be commended and I wanted to take a picture with him so I could tell him thanks and so people like this is the man and he didn't want to so that is my way of thanking him i was wearing kind of this uh whatever i know on top of this nike this nike tech fleece jumpsuit i look off no look alike oh yeah whatever want to be athlete guy right it's like though you know those people that were the full sweat suit it's like I'll tapered and stuff yeah so I was wearing that and maybe that's why I didn't feel it because it's the way that it's around my wrist it just slipped right off Wow but he tracked me the thing is he tracked me down that in his southern hospitality at his Vancouver he's from Houston he's from Houston Sorry Sorry Sorry I tell he was getting confused the i will tell you though why this is good karma before i sat down at that table there's a family of five that wanted to sit next to me but they only had one table and I like had all my food situated and I saw them and I said here let me move over one so you guys can have both of these tables nice so to me that's like that's the whole karma thing really good to people do good or sure so yeah move tables to make an extra chair for someone and you might get an Apple watch it's kind of crazy though to think about it but it's crazy cuz like i was just symp easily put it in this pocket and the thing is the battery was dead on it you know how we talk about my battery's always then I'll watch so wasn't like he could verify whose it was it was just like I think he said that's why I think this Jersey happen to be an apple biter that's oh wow that is cool so that's what's crazy so Kyle if you're out there got nothing but love for you man that's all I'm gonna say okay uh we do want to wrap things up with the show with something at the end we're gonna I guess we just sign off and then or how do we do that should we talk about it and then play it yeah sure just okay set it up and I'll play it okay well you said how about you set up cuz I want to hear from your perspective just how we okay let's together I think it's good so mr. brian Tong he's a very talented singer what many of you may not know that yogurt you could sing I've seen him sing with what did you sing with uh hello Cool J that's true haha oh yeah that's right what did your uh yeah when I when I don't have to like emulate a song I actually feel like I can sing better right cuz we're trying to emulate these songs anyway sorry so anyway we make these music parodies music video parodies and we did what was the first one iphone 6 iphone 65 on it 15 on iphone 5 iphone 5 95 on it and they uh color me badd i wanted iphone thank you yeah yeah we did that one and now we have produced the weekend and what's totally fun about these is that we're trying to recreate the song and try to make it sound as much you know as close to the song as possible so we kind of go in and we like break down every vocal part like just really pick it apart and then recreate it so this is brian Tong performed ipad feel your face feel my face ipad feel my face i know i don't know the name but wait before you go to the video and i know we're like drawing this out I have to make people understand like Steven Beecham who is an audio engineer expert professionally works on the side mixes legitimate recording like albums for legitimate recording artists so he makes this work like without him it's gonna sound like I recorded on my iPhone so i need to give credit where credit is due to him uh dude you know how much you know how i got so much love for you know what I mean um and so I have to thank you for sure and then also the cnet video team where yeah we took this idea we wanted to emulate the video in a silly way and we just went crazy with it so for people that are listening this is ipad feel my face you can stop when you want to but for people watching you can seek it out on youtube or if you subscribe to the Apple by video podcast it's all there oh for sure and it we had fun doing it so yeah it's a blast okay so we're gonna sell my sign-off say goodbye we will have one more episode before the break that'll be our predictions episode again call us 1 800 61 62 63 8 name where you're from and your prediction for the year we'll see you next week and we're gonna show you off with a little bit of ipad feel my face and I know you'll be the death of me my friends think that I'm toe toe point nine inches a pad screen the thought just makes me know it's the only advice I know that will reject my palm I've been from justice Johnny you know my face when I'm with you know you'll be the death of me my friends big a fun little speakers is a trans dinner date for one hour with your best to be your last me all night long Penza 169 a keyboard case that's gone just the same