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what's good brian tong here and welcome to the alpha byte for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to it and right now the phone getting the biggest buzz has been the Samsung Note seven and the tech inside it is amazing but do not fear Apple fanboys your iPhone 6s is better than the note 7 now check this out in a real world app speed test YouTube channel phone buff open the same apps on each phone perform the same tasks and then relaunch them for a second time in a display of how important it is to integrate hardware and software together the iPhone 6s with its dual-core a nine processor and two gigs of RAM outperformed the note 7 Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor with four gigs of RAM finishing in one minute and 51 seconds compared to the note sevens two minutes and 49 seconds now this comes right before Apple drops the next iPhone 7 on us in September so if there's one thing we're confident about its the fact that the iPhone 7 will be significantly faster than a note 7 in real-world speed but it's not all peaches for the iPhone after a growing number of iPhone 6 and 6 pluses are being affected by what is being called the touch disease the bug appears has a grey flickering bar at the top of the screen and a display that is unresponsive for less responsive to touch the heart of the problem appears to be the touch integrated circuit chips that over time start to lose contact to the board and result in the display becoming unresponsive now a hard reset can temporarily fix it but users notice the issue becomes more prevalent over time and the only way to fix the problem is to either replace the phone the logic board or the IC chips on the logic board now the other issue a lot of people now have iPhone 6s that are outside their warranty period and can't go to Apple to get them fixed until this issue is officially acknowledged so why is it affecting the 6s and 6s plus well that's because Apple strengthen the body and change the position of the touch IC chips in that generation hmm now what a coincidence it's almost as if they knew so we'll keep following this this clearly smells like a rotten apple to me but we'll wait if they decide to address it and what perfect timing is about two years just around the time for a new iPhone seven to wash all your problems away all right in Apple watch news over the weekend a Bloomberg report says battery life concerns have delayed apple's plans to release an Apple watch with cellular connectivity the current cellular chips consume too much battery life for Apple's liking and even on their most aggressive schedule the earliest possible time frame for cellular Apple watch models would have been in December now we can still expect to see new models this fall that have improved health tracking and integrated GPS base location tracking but complete independence from the iPhone will have to wait so that's a bummer all right the latest report from me cases Apple is planning to release at least three new iPhones next year for the 2017 edition on its 10th anniversary the idea floating around from them and kji securities claims we'll have a five point eight inch iPhone with a curved AMOLED display and glass casing and then the standard 5.5 inch in 4.7 inch iPhones with their standard LCD displays reports also say the curved AMOLED one could be for the 5.5 inch version and not a larger 5.8 inch model but this is all speculation for a phone that is still two generations away now Apple music has been locking down the exclusive deals with artists like the release of Frank ocean's hugely anticipated album blonde on Apple music for its first two weeks and now the music services muscle is starting to show music business worldwide reports some of Spotify contracts are up for renewal and the higher rates that apple pays record labels is now affecting Spotify sneh goshi a shion's spotify pays record labels fifty-five percent of its revenue while apple pays 58 percent and apple also pays more to music publishers now we've heard about talks for Apple to acquire title music mostly for its relationships with its artists but title has suffered from mediocre growth and many exclusives have ended up on Apple music after a short period of time Apple strategy hears that they don't need a buy title they can just wait it out and eventually force the artists to come over because of the power of the brand oh and before I forget Apple released the seventh beta for macht la sierra see we do that with love just for you now I think we've all noticed Siri has improved over the years and it's going to get even better in iOS 10 thanks to machine learning technology that Apple is implementing in a story by back channel Apple is swapping out some of its licensed technology in favor of a deep neural network now Siri moved to a neural net based system in July of 2014 but Apple didn't publicize it responses will still be stitched together from a central database of recordings but the head of development for Siri Tom Gruber says machine learning is going to help smooth out sentences and make Siri sound more human this should also make a big difference for music legend Barbra Streisand in one of the largest pressing issues Apple has ever faced Streisand recently called Apple CEO Tim Cook to complain that Siri pronounces her last name with a Z in the middle of Streisand and it has annoyed Babs since its launch in 2011 so Tim Cook then promised her to fix this first world problem and before we go we wanted to reward all of you Apple biters with an amazing CNET sweepstakes that could get you yes you one of two brand new Apple TV's so go to the link right here you'll have to register to create a CNET account if you don't have one I know it's annoying but it takes a few seconds and it's worth it because you could win a brand new Apple TV the sweepstakes goes out until is September the fifth where we'll announce the winners right here on this show all right that's gonna do it for this week you can always email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple