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what's good brian tong here and welcome to the apple bite for everything good and bad inside the world of apple now last week we had to get a little real with you all about the state of apple but this week it got really real a report from axial says apple has decided to delay key features for iOS 12 that were originally planned for this year now that's in order to improve the performance of iphone software after we called iOS 11 the worst iOS we could ever remember with update after update and bug after bug for more than a one month stretch now you can also go back to our worst Apple moments of 2017 to see how bad it really was like it was ugly now there's two ways to look at this good Apple you know get it together just get it right but it's just another example of Apple dropping the ball yet again with another major product now the yearly iPhone in tandem with the new iOS upgrade has been the killer combo to convince users to upgrade each year and do I still need to remind you of the days gone by when Apple used to be able to innovate and deliver a quality product at the same time now this is the new Apple we talked about last week they're spread thin and I really can't remember a six month period where so many cracks across multiple product categories have shown themselves all at one time now Bloomberg also reports some of the features iOS 12 has been working on include a redesigned home screen app grid a multiplayer mode for augmented reality apps and a merger of third-party apps running on iPhones and IMAX some of these and others have been put on hold now including a possible delay to a revamped photo management app as well so according to Bloomberg other tweaks that are still on track include the combined apps platform for iOS and Mac OS better parental controls to monitor kids use on apps and improvements to Apple's FaceTime and hey Apple we're still waiting for a multi-user FaceTime call to help us out here and yes I know they are in the iOS 11.3 beta but we still don't have I clawed messaging sinking or airplay to just yet the report also says this will affect the yearly Mac OS software update to a lesser degree but Apple watch and Apple TV upgrades won't be affected by this shift at all so we can all treat iOS 12 kind of like a Snow Leopard year back in the day when it was still called Mac 10 it'll be a year of fine-tuning for iOS so just do it right because you need to Apple alright in some more not so fun news the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating if Apple violated security laws after release their software update that slowed down some iPhones without telling consumers they were doing it now Apple released a statement about the investigation and said we have received questions from some government agencies and we are responding to them now my favorite part of this overall statement we have never and would never do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades that's until Geekbench found out that you were actually doing that all right the news this week just hasn't been that good for the big a and the latest report from The Wall Street Journal isn't any brighter according to the report Apple is slashing their planned iPhone 10 production for the first quarter of 2018 in half from the originally planned 40 million units to 20 million units their supply chain sources also say Apple is cut orders for components used in the iPhone 10 by 60% now those are just numbers but they're big ones especially so early in the iPhone tens lifecycle but this isn't rocket science think about your premium $1,000 phone needs to do more than an emojis have a better selfie camera and bring a face idea that works consistently compared to the iPhone 8 like there's more people I know that have decided to either pass on the iPhone 10 or get an 8 or 8 plus and in the past everyone had to get the newest iPhone well that didn't really happen with the 10 now the iPhone 10 design isn't a failure it's not horrible but it's little to me their concept car phone and it needs to get better but don't worry Apple is still sitting on over 250 billion dollars in cash and you know they're gonna ride this one out to make sure it succeeds alright in other news bloomberg reports Apple is developing at least three new updated Macs with their own custom coprocessors currently only the MacBook Pro with touch bar and the iMac pro include Apple's custom processors now the report says new Macs with these Co processors will include updated laptops and a new desktop with a plan to release them as soon as this year Apple's a4 for the iPhone 4 that was their first processor designed in-house and we've always said you know it's only a matter of time before Apple designs their entire CPU from one of their machines like look they're already doing it with the iPad pro which is just as powerful as a computer what's a computer oh I hate her so much like that's some arrogant Apple stuff right there and you know what that's a bad apple and I can't believe it took two months for mainstream people to get completely turned off by that ad who got mad about it first yeah we did and that's something to be really proud of and just in case you were wondering yes i pre-ordered the home pod for review because I didn't make this clear to you I buy my own stuff it's not from Apple and it's not a work expense either but one week later you'll still be able to get a home pod on time for its February 9th release date now I can't remember the last time that happened with any new Apple product on its launch in an interview with sounded vision Phil Schiller said Apple is in a position to create a new kind of music experience that not only sounds incredible but is also fun to interact with so home pod everybody still available alright that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email me at the Apple bite se Netcom or tweet me at Brian Tong and I'll respond you know when I'm super bored thanks so much for watching and we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple you