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what's good Brian Chong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's start off with Amazon's new a smart speaker the echo show and don't worry for those of you thinking hey this is an Apple show because it will all tie back to Apple now the echo show was announced this week and it's an echo device with the touch screen and video camera that can be used for video conferencing or a home intercom system at 230 bucks now in an interview by gadgets 360 with Apple's Phil Schiller just a few days before the echo shows release he was specifically asked about Amazon's echo and Google's home Schiller replied my mother used to have a saying that if you don't have something nice to say say nothing at all seriously Phil as the VP of one of Tech's biggest companies that was your response you ever wonder why people think Apple is a Khakee company that's full of themselves and why we bring them down to earth with those bad apples it's exactly because of this the smart speaker just happens to be one of the most exciting categories in the consumer tech space that you have nothing to offer two years later with rumors claiming apples actually working on a series speaker of their own Schiller in fact pushed for voice assistance to have a screen saying there's many moments when a voice assistant is really beneficial but that doesn't mean you'd never want a screen so the idea of not having a screen I don't think suits many situations well Phil they just brought a screen thanks to your wisdom and insight now I'm really curious how much better a series speaker will actually be from Apple they have the ecosystem folks that'll be great but the first thing they need to do is make a smarter Siri because you're behind Google Amazon and Microsoft's Cortana when it comes to voice assistance now in other Apple in Amazon you just feels like an eternity but a report from recode says Apple and Amazon are close to an agreement for the Amazon Prime video app to finally be on Apple TV the report says Amazon employees are expecting the app to be available on the Apple TV in the third quarter of this year and the catalyst was a meeting between CEOs Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos and that deserves a good apple yeah finally now we know Apple continues to tout its focus on health and wellness with the iPhone and Apple watch it looks like they're adding another piece of that puzzle after beddit and iPhone connected sleep monitoring system announced they have been acquired by the big a now bed it is a thin flexible sensor that's placed under the sheet and on top of a mattress it collects and analyzes sleep related data like your heart rate respiration movement and sleep time but you know my readings keeps showing a lot of late night vigorous activity yeah yeah yeah it's actually not happening now all the collected data can be viewed through the beddit iPhone app and it looks like Apple is still planning to sell it in their stores and it can be utilized in the future with the Apple watch all right the iPhone is doing just fine according to Strategy Analytics new data shows the iPhone 7 was the top-selling smartphone in the first quarter of 2017 even if it had a drop in year-over-year sales you can see the breakdown iPhone 7 sold 21.5 million units while the 7 plus sold 17.4 but the surprise the Oppo r9 slid into the third spot but you won't see the galaxy s 8 here which didn't launch until this quarter all right y'all ready for iPhone 8 news you know you love it but it can also be redundant with the same stories over and over you've seen a lot of these but new renders of the iPhone 8 from on leaks and here India show up the best look at the new iPhone based on the latest schematics I'd like to take a moment and really thank Tim Cook for doubling down on secrecy you'll still see the vertical camera the touch ID sensor on the rear is up for debate but if you look carefully there's a new detail included on the front panel where the cameras and sensors are located that has been circulating now it's not a straight line at the top and designer Benjamin Gaskin makes it more clear how it will look like based on the current rumors where the camera and sensors on the front will stick out when the phone is in its lock screen but the OLED screen will create a black bar when the phone is in use now it's a little surprising to me if this is really what happens because that just isn't the clean apple lines were used to seen and I'm actually hoping they just keep the top edge as a black bar entirely but we'll see and a few more quick iPhone 8 rumors JPMorgan reports the new iPhone will get an Enhanced receiver with further improvements to the waterproofing and stereo sound quality for the phone let's just get this phone up to an IP 68 rating for dust and water you know so it's in line with other phones that still have the headphone jack and an ip68 rating and this one has been a popular 1 kg I report that iPhone production ramped up will be delayed as late as October or November missing its normal September timeline due to production difficulties which gives us an extra month or so to talk about another extra month of rumored delays now Apple still has a big chunk of time to show us the new MacBooks new Macs in general iPads Apple watch more so there is plenty of stuff they can throw at us until then all right that's going to do it for this week you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks so much for watching we'll catch all next time for another bite of the Apple