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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite for everything good a bad inside the world of Apple let's get to it and the whole pod reviews are in and the reviews are very positive when talking about the sound quality it's exactly what Apple said they were going to do and they delivered it with C nuts Megan will Orton calling it sound outstanding across all genres of music now the home pod also easily outperforms the echo Google home the Google Max and Sonos one but like we expected it's still the dumbest smart speaker like Siri on the home pod can't even do the same things as Siri on your iPhone and you still can't set multiple timers so that's a deal-breaker for a home chef like me yeah I know it's still extremely limited but this might as well be a product made exclusively for Apple's ecosystem there is no Bluetooth music streaming support whatsoever from any non iPhone nada again overall reviews are very high on its sound quality just like we thought it would be but that's about it and I'll be dropping my full in-depth review next week because again I buy my own stuff now we have also learned that stereo sound with two home pods will be officially called full room and it better be full room if you're dropping $700 on that you heard now you'll also be able to select the left channel speaker from the right and according to TechCrunch it will be coming soon even before airplay - and Apple's promised multi room capabilities all right an iPhone news recode reports Apple is considering offering rebates to customers who previously purchased full priced iPhone batteries before Apple revealed it was slowing down older devices Apple says we are exploring this and we'll update you accordingly so we'll wait and see the big a also dropped the second betas for Mac OS High Sierra TV OS 11.3 and the second beta as well for iOS eleven point three this new iOS beta introduces the battery health feature for the first time it tells you the maximum capacity of your battery and whether or not it's operating at peak capacity now if your battery is operating at full capacity you won't have the option to turn off the throttling feature that causes degraded batteries to run more slowly now Apple also says the iPhone iPhone 8 plus an iPhone 10 use a more advanced hardware in software design and uses a different performance management system that will be less noticeable on these three iPhones and this story is something that we've got to keep an eye on the Financial Times is highlighting a growing issue with some iPhone 10 users that say they're unable to answer phone calls with their 10 because the display won't wake up when it's ringing and they can't access the accept and the client buttons it's unclear if it's software or hardware related but restoring the phone hasn't made a difference and then a follow up to Apple's earnings report from last week research firm Kanellis estimates Apple watch shipments topped an all-time high of 18 million units in 2017 Apple never reveals sales numbers of their own unless they're worth bragging about but CEO Tim Cook said Apple watch had over a 50 percent growth in units and revenue and that's what happens when you finally get a product right with great hardware and software you know I'm all in on the series 3 and speaking of great software you don't have to wait for Apple to release a podcast app of their own if you're like me and you want to listen a podcast directly on your Apple watch series 3 now check this out it's called outcast for Apple watch that's a $0.99 standalone app just for the watch and allows you to directly download your favorite podcast over Wi-Fi or LTE to your series 3 Apple watch and take them with you on the go I'm using it all the time and we're gonna break it down for you in a follow-up video but check it out right now if this is something you're into and in iPad news and another follow up from their earnings last week research firm IDC says Apple's iPad is still the most popular tablet and outsold Samsung and Amazon combined last year that's just beast Apple sold a total of 40 3.8 million iPads last year while Samsung shipped 24 point 9 million tablets and Amazon ship sixteen point seven million total that up and the iPad bested them by 2.2 million see being a mathlete is actually cool and that's a good apple yeah now we're expecting this new iPad pro sometime this year with slimmer bezels and face ID but what about the Apple pencil we know it's going to get some new software features but a new filed apple patent describes an Apple pencil like device with four sensors and some a motion and orientation sensor that's external to this stylus and could allow it to draw on any flat surface translation for my mom the Apple pencil could be used without a screen oh wow Brian that's a good yeah sorry ma this might not even happen yet because it's a patent but yeah it's cool all right that's gonna do it for this week you can email me at the Apple byte @c Netcom or tweet me at Brian Tong but I probably won't respond because I'm playing Shadow of the Colossus ps4 a remake so I'll try thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple