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what's happened to Brian song here and welcome to the Apple why for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple and we start the show with the new macbooks and according to MacRumors Apple is likely aiming for a late October launch for the redesigned macbook pro with rumoured OLED touch bar and touch ID sensor now the report says Apple is moving quickly with development work on Mac OS 10.2 point one with its main focus on preparing the operating system to support the new hardware features of the new macbook pro apple will seed one more beta version of Mac OS 10 12 14 public beta testing next week finalizing it to them be loaded onto the new hardware apples also said to be shifting to the Polaris and the graphics chip on the higher end 15 inch models plus new MacBook Airs with USB seaports and new imacs with an AMD graphics chip that are expected before the end of the year now there are still no rumors surrounding the Mac Pro and mac mini that are still desperately in need of new updates and in products of the future that you know i really want to see bloomberg reports Apple is pushing forward with development of their own echo like smart home device based on this eerie voice assistant the project started more than two years ago and is now in the prototype testing phase think of it as Apple's own Amazon echo and the device is designed to control appliances locks lights and kearns via voice activation now to differentiate from the competition apple smartphone device will have more advanced microphones and speaker technology even including prototypes that are using facial recognition sensors it would also be able to process siri commands so you can read emails text messages tweets and stream content from Apple music the project hasn't been finalized and could still be scrapped but they need something like this like I love my echo and one made for the Apple ecosystem you know it could be really special for Apple users now the big a is also looking to expand the reach of health kit for the Apple watch to be a diagnosis tool giving advice for users doctors and others according to Bloomberg the team is working on new apps for the Apple watch such as a sleep tracker app and one that measures a user's fitness level by measuring the time it takes for the heart rate to fall from its peak level to resting level the goal for apple's medical technology team is to turn the Apple watch into a tool that improve the diagnosis of your health and can then be easily transferred over to physicians on site easily really the next step is to prove that the data being collected is reliable and can be used to be really helpful for doctors and a JD Power customer satisfaction survey has ranked Apple music as the highest in overall customer satisfaction among the seven main music streaming brands based on about 4,500 people who have paid for a music service in the last six months scores were based on performance and reliability ease of use cost of service content communication and customer service Apple scored the highest with a score of 8 34 out of 1000 Rhapsody had an 8 26 Pandora and 825 and Spotify at 824 so really there's barely a difference between services two through four but title wasn't even included on this the survey also found that exclusive content improves customer advocacy of a service so again where was title also in music drake's album views recently became the first to surpass of 1 billion streams on Apple music and they celebrated by giving him this nice plaque Congrats drizzy drake you know we also celebrated a song from that album last year you used to make the greatest iPhone innovation number also a Business Insider report claims Apple is using an office in Israel to develop hardware for the rumored iphone 8 according to an employee at the site now this could really be any part of the phone but we've heard all the rumors about the edge-to-edge glass display with a fingerprint sensor embedded into it calling it the iphone 8 though is kind of suspect considering Apple would have to change their naming conventions by skipping the 7s name but if they make a jump they should just go directly to iPhone X you know for the 10th anniversary if you ask me so come on stay with me iphone X sounds cool huh we've also talked about this for several weeks but in a report for motherboard Apple Genesis are saying that Apple knows about the iphone 6 is touch disease but won't admit it publicly it's the engineering flaw that has made too many to count i phone sixes touch displays completely inactive and unresponsive to touch now that many of these phones are out of warranty it costs three hundred and twenty nine dollars to make the repair on site there's a class action lawsuit with more than 6,500 people who have contacted law firm about it so keep on ignoring the Apple because until you acknowledge that issue that's a bad apple very bad and if you want to see the genius patent Apple is working on feast your eyes on this it's one of apple's latest innovations a paper bag see apple store bags currently tend to be a little flimsy and according to this patent application the paper bag may include a bag container formed of white solid bleach sulfate paper with at least sixty percent post-consumer content Thank You Apple this bag will most definitely improve the quality of my life it is real innovation all right that's going to do it for this week's show you can email us at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me up brian Tong a so much for watching timile catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple ever since that SJ left us poor I for watching doing what I hope for