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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple plenty of good stuff this week but let's start off with iPads now French website console Mac has found that Apple has registered new tablets with the Eurasian Economic Commission try saying that 10 times fast and that suggests an iPad refresh is coming soon with March being the likely target in the past similar required filings with the EEC have been submitted for air pods iPads iPhones and Apple watches all within one to two weeks before they were released now two of the model numbers a one eight ninety three and a one nine five four don't correspond with any current iPads the best guess at the very least we'll see the rumored refresh nine point seven inch iPad the iPad Mini hasn't seen an update for a few years and we've heard plenty rumors about the all-new designed iPad pro with face ID but that could be held back even until WWDC in June either way this is a strong indication something is cooking real soon all right let's play a little catch-up with some home pod news that happened since last week's show yes the home pod isn't the only smart speaker that leaves marks on some wood surfaces the sonís one has shown it does the same thing as well and this is not just a home pod thing now leather accessory company pad and quill jumped on this real fast and is offering a leather coaster that's described as state-of-the-art surface protection for 1995 now you can always take apples of advice from their cleaning and taking care of your home pod support page they say if you're concerned about this we recommend placing your home pod on a different surface see people are telling me you can just like rub some mayonnaise on them and the Rings will go away like does that really work but what if you're a Miracle Whip kind of person does that work too like these questions need answers in the comments all right Fast Company put out their list of the world's most innovative companies for 2018 and who's at the top of that list and number one drumroll please it's Apple of course it's Apple now fast company says they're earpods Apple watch Series 3 air kid and iPhone 10 were the reasons and they were praised for their ambitious software and hardware projects they also say artificial intelligence is a point of advantage for Apple where they have made major inroads despite competition from Google and Amazon now I'd like to celebrate their reasons but I'm sorry are we talking about the same company here like all the apple juice drinkers you can at me but let's be real they have the sales numbers no doubt but their products are more like evolutionary with one of Apple's buggiest software years ever in 2017 so much that they're prioritizing quality and slowing down feature development and AI is an advantage for them okay maybe privacy is with that but have they even used an AI other than Siri come on let's be real that's a bad apple and we know who's going to get the next big exclusive interview with Apple Fast Company now Netflix came in second square in third and 10 cent and fourth Instagram came in at 12 so I guess I mean an innovative company also means deliberately copying features from another platform and taking their audience alright apple just released the third beta for iOS eleven point three and TV OS eleven point three for developers but it's removed airplay to functionality that was in the previous betas used to be able to try it out by playing music from an iPhone to two different rooms with Apple TVs and it also allowed you to add an Apple TV to the home kit setup that's completely gone now we're not sure when it's coming back it was buggy and not fully functional but airplay to is a big part of the home pod features for stereo sound and multi-room audio that's been delayed now you're probably prompted to update to this iOS 11 point two six this week it's the 11th official update to iOS 11 this fixes the Telugu bug that causes messages or other messaging apps to crash because it was unable to render a specific character that one that looks like this in the Indian language Telugu all right Mac rumors reports WWDC 2018 we'll be heading back to San Jose in June San Jose's McHenry Convention Center is already booked every week in the month other conventions except for the first week of June where WWDC would most likely fall on June the 4th to the 8th now WWDC attendees go through this random lottery to get tickets and if you're lucky enough to come back to San Jose make sure you go to live victorious for the orange sauce trust me on this okay and this story is a real headline Apple employees keep walking into the glass walls of the new spaceship campus see sometimes the jokes just write themselves sure this spaceship is perfect looking with its forty five-foot tall curved glass panels but according to Bloomberg employees with our heads buried in their own iPhones are walking directly into the glass panels ouch some staff even started sticking post-it notes on the doors as a visual cue but they were removed because they detracted from the building's design of course they did and you know what that's a bad apple thanks for that one Niko Garcia you're awesome bro and you know what I honestly don't know anyone who'd be stupid enough to do that that's crazy that dude looks just like me and before we go the Apple byte is hooking you up with that smart speaker that you would am I getting for free just go to this link on screen right here fill out the form and you'll have a chance to win one of two home pods thanks to seeing it and the Apple bye see after all these years it finally pays off to watch this show alright that's gonna do it for this week you can email me at the Apple byte SC Netcom or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple here we go let's do this raised an economic commission Eurasian Economic Commission Eurasian I come on finishing all right I'm good