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live from the cnet studios in san francisco california it's the apple byte extra crunchy podcast with your host Bryan Todd yo Beecham yo if I've heard correctly everyone listening here right now right today this is seen that's number one most lists in the podcast Oh number one podcast by San Francisco but I'm saying cnet proper we are ya we are the number one podcast people are listening to slamming it what we aren't even a year deeper like we've done this for like four months ya know I think we started when do we start like last fine i'm gonna make july i find nine months seven months anyways everyone guys and gals thank you so much for listening to meet a part of this tell your friends tell your friends tell your neighbors tell your wife tell your kids hide your kids hide your wife tell your dog tell your cabin we're coming for you apple byte extra crunchy episode 29 you can also be a part of the show we also love your voicemails your comments ways to participate call us at one eight hundred 61 62 63 eight leave your voicemail name where you're from your question or just your commentary well I I really enjoyed some of the calls this week now you'll hear them we're getting commentary from you guys we want to hear your thoughts you're just as much of an expert as we are so we're going to jump into this on this 29th episode and we start with this week the big kind of announcement from apple they have officially revealed like we've been talking about for like two or three weeks that their apple event will be held on March 21st that is a monday in the past days yeah they've normally don't like on a Tuesday but it's a Monday it'll be held at their headquarters in Cupertino California not their new headquarters that crazy UFO but the Cupertino headquarters March 21st of course I'm not going to be a spoiler here but I am we're expecting to see a 9.7 inch iPad pro and again a 9.7 inch iPad pro the iphone s ii they're taking the five out from all reports that that was actually from nine to five mac a couple weeks ago it'll be a 4-inch iphone and then Apple watch bands Apple watch bands different colors different styles see this is one of those events that you wish they kept a secret because I'm going down the line just saying that out loud and my soul is hurt doesn't sound it's like this is sound too exciting it's like I'm gonna be curious how many of you all tuned in we are going to be here live as usual seen it does a live show coverage at live cnet com we also do in our YouTube channel on livestream during the keynote before and after but man that you can just release that stuff without even a keynote I was reading the article Scott Stein wrote about the invitation he's like the loop you in what does that mean could it mean a little loop added back to your phone again a little like a little protective loop thing yeah that's cool like that's not exciting at all that's our shattering a lot of you have been asking me on the twitters and just over email yeah people still use email these days create believe it or not they've been asking about what's going on with the macbooks everyone's hoping to see macbooks but we don't expect to see any macbooks at this event just yet so it's more likely gonna happen at WWDC so I'm just trying to brace you all in case you're really looking forward to something and you're hurting inside yeah just brace yourself this is not innovation this is just vation it's just it's there so this is for the stockholders may be right man that's talking going up with that I know also just a quick thing just give you a peek about what's going on with the ipad pro 9.7 inch a lot of rumors are pretty much taken the fact that this is an iPad that will be just a miniaturised version of the pro the one that I love and like with speaker for speakers and we have a case here that's been leaked out by a French website I Jen that is believed to be the case of the ipad pro 9.7 inch with holes specifically for the smart connector that is the connector that allows you to dock it into their keyboard there have been no revelations of a keyboard case that we've seen yet but logically there will be one thats sized for the 9.7 inch ipad pro so that's going on there confirming everything to believe also pencil capability very important very and rumblings of a improved I think it's a 12 megapixel camera that is better than the camera on the iPad pro which hurts my soul because i bought the ipad pro my love the ipad pro for its very specific uses which i've talked about for me just reading comics basic quickly it's like a big improvement in the camera like a like a real big enough where you could record 4k video oh yeah that's a big one cinnamon scent cinematographer from my ipad pro yo oh man i'm feeling sorry for you right now what a jerk what a jerk so we expect to see that and then obviously iPhone se cases they're the kind of leak in online similar shape to the iphone 5 rounded edges but no one's have no one has really there's been ideas and renders but no one's really shown off enough to be like this is exactly what the iphone 5 e is gonna look like alright this is probably um maybe to me the most exciting story of the week this is Intel's a new obtained memory technology just recently announced that a branded as obtained expected to launch in 2017 now why why should you even care about this reportedly it could lead to 1,000 times faster macbook storage based on this new technology now here's what's going on with Apple right now they recently released an update a software update for their 12-inch MacBook that's super slim one that would be able to support what's called the protocol is that nvm e so this is like non-volatile memory express support it's a faster way you know to access and get your memory now the previous technology exists in some of the older macbooks but why is this important thousand times faster memory on your macbook not only is it supported right now in the macbook 12 but we know that new macbooks are coming out in the summer most likely in june and this technology will be compatible with that and most likely in these new macbooks so 1000 times i don't even know what that feels like yeah what does that feel like so you go to drop like a large video file and just boom it's done what have you done anything in your life that was a thousand times faster than before no I have actually yeah yes it's a piece of / it's a personal thing let's not get into that may be flying on a plane before that you were like there were like wagons back in the day now just flying on a plane so thousand internet moto moto like a 28 8 modem yeps and compared to now that's like that's like thousand times faster okay so I have experienced that in two instances in my life one that we will not care to talk about them your beams I know I've never experienced so this is coming out again in 2017 the technology should be available and already like I said the new macbook 12 inch macbook is enabled with this support for non-volatile memory express with that software update that happened last april so what a time to be alive it's pretty cool science stuff love it not going to affect us now but will come into play in the future let's talk more future let's talk way down we haven't even seen the iphone 7 but the big rumors coming to us from our friends at digit times we like to mix the pot up i don't know if you've read this heard this a five point eight inch iphone with an oled display is rumored for launch in 2017 or 2018 now we heard a maybe about a month ago remling that apple was going to finally use oled displays in their iphones around 2018 so this story piggybacks on that but why a five point eight inch screen everyone that sounds just enormous just the two but do you want a five-point a niche phone nah man nah man not man big my ice eps i need to work out my ice eps this is a real thing man I said I SEPs so here's here's one way though how this could make sense and it's not by that much of a stretch either you have apples patents they have a variety of patents from the past that might indicate maybe what they were thinking and one of their patents first of all talks about how there would be a iphone that was buttonless right it would have no physical buttons and used the edges of the display there would be a ton set touch sensitive layer inside that those edges that would allow you to do things like change the volume use as a music player on the edges of your iPhone very cool what would that require something like this a screen that is large enough that would have to wrap around the edges but then if you look at another pad that they have that was kind of for multiple different shapes designs these are patents that have been granted to Apple Apple is has already put into their thinking caps of how they could wrap o display entirely around a phone or to the edges I haven't seen a phone like that where the screen goes all the way to the edge don't know what someone would call a phone like that with an edge yeah kind of baffles my mind yes but check out the review on cnet seen that Samsung s7 edge so these are things that Apple's been thinking about a five point eight inch there's no way in my mind that you make a five point eight inch phone that is flat like that's just the current design it would have to have some sort of edge capability so that might be where they're going the other thing that is interesting to me is the whole oled display conversation Apple has been using lcds for quite some time we've talked about how oled you know perform versus lcds once more power efficient when you have more you know of a white when the screen is dominated with lighter colors or white ones more efficient with colors and battery and energy efficiency but see the real underlying thing behind this is that at Samsung's keynote Mark Zuckerberg remember do you remember when he kind of ripped on the iphone yeah definitely yeah so he he basically ripped on them because he said the right now the gear VR only supports Samsung phones because they have the best screen technology the best which is oled display yes that support this with rear end that they were going to eventually put OLED screens into the oculus too right exactamundo so so apples like you know they've been putting the caps on Apple's watching very carefully okay we need a do vr is i think only it was literally I mean of course they've been looking at vr let's not be silly or AR augmented reality or virtual reality depending on what we played argue they've been doing AR but with with app app developers have been doing AR yes the iphones abso absolutely yes so then then they're really pushing an OLED display if Apple wants to be part of this conversation with VR they've got to have the tech but to support it and so no wonder all of a sudden and OLED in 2017 I mean my goodness how long has have other phones had 0 leads for years don't tell about lee three lads him I mean AB absolutely absolutely we're gonna wear you know whenever we say the word absolutely I it's a dim it's a man date on this show you have to say it absolutely absolutely if you call in this show and you leave a message what's our phone number I have to always look it up 1 806 ick 16 to see 638 you have to say app absolutely so there you go Apple 55.8 inch OLED displayed iphone rumored launch 2017 2018 we'll see how that all comes together if it actually does have seems so far away I don't know I don't know what the people I'll ask the people that are watching here live what they think you know is it really something that they really believe Apple is going to do would they create a third phone in their family i ho iphone 7 iphone 7s iphone 7 oled like special edition oh that would be would they actually do that I don't think so yeah I don't know okay let's keep on going iphone 7 this is actually a phone that is expected to come out this year amazing that we can actually talk about this an early iphone case has been shown on the interwebs this is a thanks to steve hoffman i cant even my eyes are a what does it say Steve hema Stoffer hammer staff reversed offer again so a lot of times people are we gonna say look at all the holes on that thing man but look there's actually less holes than you would want there is no headphone jack port in there only a single Lightning port on that case there's only there are two speakers on the bottom of the grill so you're actually getting speaker you get here we get your getting stereo audio from your phone at least if you hold it from the coming from the bottom so you're getting that but again only one single Lightning port and a lot of times that it's a big lightning port though it is a case yeah so I don't know which lends us to the guy always that I think I made a did I make a prediction that there might be two lightning port that's true you did oh are you trying to tell me that there might big look at that look how big this thing is I don't know it's not hard to tell what the scale is on a image on the computer but you're all dude this thing looks huge on my 16gb yeah like I always get the whole dude I I thought you're a lot taller than you are I'm like yeah it's cuz you're watching me on a TV screen yeah I thought you're a lot bigger than you were not really like seven inches tall sorry brah iin six feet I ain't six feet um so if you a lot of times these leaked case rumors though are pretty accurate so lending credence to the fact that will probably get a no headphone jack it's gonna happen I'm so I'm still curious what the price of that adapter is gonna be if you lose it 20 2013 19 that is brutal it's the classic that is so brutal I know alright if you guys like them the show MythBusters this might be the show ended its wrapped up yeah we actually had a Adam Savage here in our headquarters at seen that recently talking about that but why is this a myth why are my saying myth busted Apple software senior VP says quitting multitasking apps is not necessary and won't offer improve battery life so we know I've done it I know you've done it where you're like hanging out and all of a sudden you're like swipe your your double tapping your home button and you're swiping away at all those apps are in the background because you think they're using more power right yeah I do it cuz I think they're just slowing my phone down correct right that's you know they're occupying ram you know they're they're taking their taking up resources on the phone someone from nine to five maca reader basically emailed Tim Cook directly saying do you quit your iOS multitasking apps frequently and is this necessary for battery life just writing just wanting you to put this controversy to rest because there's always been a debate instead Craig federighi the man with the world's way viest hair jumped in and said no and no lie just that's like Steve Jobs style answering emails just like three basically get it done in three words right three words occasional smiley face occasionally and there have been stories that i've talked about if you actually swipe up and quit out some of those apps remove some of those apps what happens is it technically resets the app so some of the resources it needs to download to start up again ends up in the long run requiring you to use more battery life to essentially like reboot that app get it back up to speed download the music glad you put the story in the news yet does it gonna help you is this actually happened to me yesterday when my phone died when we were coming back from a video shoot and I went to start a nap and my phone just died right there as the app is starting I'm like maybe like it used power to start that app you know so that's funny so uh friend on the periscopes all but the app is still open its using the internet when it's there i'ma no it's it's actually in a frozen state yeah it's literally frozen enough that's so interesting so don't do that just don't do that that's why your video stops playing when you do that right cuz it would keep playing if it was running on the background you are correct videos that you can also watch on great websites like cnet com yes they will pause for you so they can continue them later so that we get that what's that metric we want completion rate pletion rate the solution right to us this is some insight serious inside baseball so just for the record if you decide to stop the podcast now don't just let it play out and listen to it so that we get a completion please let it finish it's very important alright here's a fun story very classic apple apple approved this past week an app called flex bright for iOS that adjusts your display temperature why is this really cool well in iOS 9.3 and their beta that they've shown off they've shown at this feature called night shift on the night shift you know that's all oh that nice I think it's a Lionel Richie song could be yeah or is it a Commodore song I was it wasn't a come-on yeah he was well you guys are the commoners i think it's i think it's the Commodore it's the Commodores but anyways they approve this app which allows you to change the color temperature of your screen but then they have this right really cool because we know how they talk about how when you stare at your screen that the blue light messes with your biorhythms and you get crappy Slee you can't sleep it keeps you up I know this for a fact I do it all the time still to this day I think I was up to like 130 last night that's why can't well that's why I came into work late and you were like are you coming in yeah I was like his Bryant on here today maybe we're not going do a show we always bring the crunch man we always bring that crunch so Apple then was like oh wow we well we actually put this feature in iOS 9.3 let's take down the app oh my why would they do that's take it take it down so it's such a but hang on a second hang on bro well what what what could this possibly be just tell me hang on just I'm hanging on I'm waiting on hey man what is that that's a bad apple Brian she'd be screaming in the back it's a bad apple so they took it down and then they made a statement that says iOS apps that adjust display temperature aren't allowed well then why did they improve in the first place mr. Brian Tom because they had this cool guy working for them that was like I'm gonna push this up to I'm gonna push this after uh and he pushed it through and then not cool guy saw it and said no you're gonna do that is that that's a whole wing damn it's so crazy based on my sources what exactly how went down Wow anyways flex bright if you got it you were lucky also for the record apples night shift feature is a rip off from efflux which is you know outside of the parameters of the app store oh man hang on Brian hang on are you getting second tired of this oh I needed it I need another one of those I'm sorry okay it's just it's just a bad situation all right so I knew have for developers I mean I know you know I got it I got good news for you though okay we've got a story for all you basketball fans March Madness actually don't have to be a basketball fan of like march madness because a lot of times is just all about picking who wins and who makes money finally a use that makes the appletv the new Apple TV compelling you know you got to have these little nuggets you have to have these apps that kind of bring it bring it to the top March Madness 2016 coming to the apple TV with an exclusive split screen feature that's a big deal this is awesome that's a huge win I love this I love this so basically if you have a cable subscription you sign in with your credentials you use the NCAA march madness live app you'll be able to then obviously log in and watch multiple games at the same time I'm ground so that's what the split screen is its multiple games it's not like stats and stuff on the other screen also there is app support for the Apple watch so users get alerts an update sent straight to their wrist it supports I the iOS app supports airplay as well but at least the dedicated Apple TV app does a split screen I know this is probably the biggest piece of information that i can't find right now but it I believe it's going it doesn't say if it's just for the new Apple TV it appears to speak for the Apple TV in general hmm so if I'm wrong you throw a bad apple out at me but from what this article says it looks like it just supports the apple TV it's going to also be the split screen is exclusive though to the apple TV hmm that's cool pretty sick yeah if you like march madness you know what's also sick hmm phone calls phone calls are sick phone call we love the calls you guys continue to make this show pop come alive I know one of you told one of your friends to listen because based on who's listening there's a lot of people listening now yes we're digging it so um let's just get the phone calls and see what people have to say the number again for you guys to be a part of this show and gals we love it we got to represent our ladies as well because I know there's some apple by two ladies out there yeah we got some we do 1 800 61 62 63 it's phone lines let's just go at it all right here we go oh this is the this is Lynn from denton texas talking about how he uses his ipad and how he needs a fancy ipod camera so here we go hello Brian Steven this is Lynn from denton texas i get a little bit of an insight as to why you might want any actual really good camera or maybe even up / on my pad I know somebody taking using it for taking pictures of the video this seems absurd but I have a visual difficulties and I use an iPad as a magnifying device and the better quality the camera the better magnification I can get the clear the picture is so then I can see for my school work in college and even to see a presentation across the room I can hold up an iPad and use it in that respect now keep in mind i'm not snapping pictures out in public with it you know getting in everybody's way it's for studying and usually held right in front of me so it's not anything crazy like that so un just thought I'd pass it along guys great show that's pretty awesome I you know using it for that application is great but you don't have to lie Lin I know you've taken pictures of your iPad he's like I don't I don't I pray to someone and some people like dude why are you hating on people that take pictures of with iPad so much and it's just one of those things that is just funny and silly to me I don't have anything personal against you I just think it looks ridiculous to hold an iPad and block basically the vision of everyone behind you because you're taking this picture with your iPad yeah you're only a giant computer in your hand up in the air it's funny I come I can rip on that you can too no that's that's that's very interesting Lin had no idea ipads are being used in that way so that's cool yeah okay let's check out the next call from Jack Gaffney i buy I Stephen this is Jack Daphne and I'm a longtime listener of the Apple buy extra country podcast and I was calling to give a bad apple to Apple I recently went online and complete the apple sales training program and reached a level Apple product professional but they don't give out Apple product professional kits anymore where you get a certification in a label pin in the mail anymore and they stop doing that after the end of last year into this year and I just think that deserves a bad apple okay Joe yeah I'm gonna fulfill Jack's wish here as I queued this up so there you go Jack wow that was a forceful one so Jack in honor of you we are going to celebrate you're passing of the apple sales training online program with a round of applause congratulations congratulations jack you are the man you are the man people are just tuning in not tuning in watching they're like wait you can actually call in with bad apples yeah you could call them whatever you want if you want dating advice on the show will help you out too yeah he was like yeah I've been dated yea years but I even like I'm the one that has to filter through these calls thanks thanks Brian really appreciate I love it i'm laughing at my dad and giggling inside of my desk when I hear this so yeah bat out we want it again this is your part of this show just as much as we are watch our next show it's gonna be like it's got a bat out before you were just talking about a bad apple we like good apples to give us some good apple yeah we like we like it all oh you can help yeah I don't think we'll be hearing any after this March twenty first event though just for the record oh yeah that's gonna be a fun one all right okay last call is from I don't think he left his name hey Brian what will happen it's obeys the FBI hmm if we learn we don't know either we don't know Congress why they're throwing it out to Congress to make a decision on this whole Apple versus FBI case we don't know if they'll rule in favor of Apple or the FBI and also sounded like you were eating an apple while did you hear that crunch eating something sure something yeah something was going on while he was eating but uh do you think is it possible that i mean if Apple really is just like no we're not gonna do this like can someone go to jail if it if they rule in favor of it be I don't know who would I how about this we don't know the actual penalty right cuz you can be held in contempt try would be called being held in contempt i but they can't necessarily say you're going to jail it would be it would be something else we actually need our league line or something maybe if I'm we need we need someone who actually has some legal experience that's please or a friend to chime in actually I have a buddy that I might we might be able to talk to uh maybe we can line them up as a guest that'd be cool no he's a legit lawyer oh I think I know you're talking about g-money Gil yes see we have another pressing oh my god so um but anyways if you if you have any knowledge on what really can happen potentially there's probably multiple permutations that are going on yeah just give us a call give us a call people are saying the scope crash periscopes been crashing on me a lot recently really the latest update might suck maybe that's what it is could be I need maybe I'll just use a different phone maybe yeah houses all right everybody um I'm good right now are you gonna think I think we've handled all of our business we have handled all the business today here on the Applewhite extra crunchy again we will be back every week sometimes Thursday sometimes Friday it just depends on our workflows don't worry we'd get it done all for you it's the apple byte extra crunchy we'll see you guys next week peace