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what's happening Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple it's a short week for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US and guess where I'm going yeah it starts with an H and ends with an I and I'll read your comments and the guest is below now let's get to the show in the biggest story in the Apple world is all about the antennas in the iPhone 7 and don't start screaming and tenha gate right now now we've been talking all about on the Apple white extra crunchy audio podcast so check it out if you want to dig even deeper inside the world with Apple but here's the breakdown of what we know so far Apple is using two different LTE antennas inside the iPhone 7 an Intel modem is inside AT&T and t-mobile phones while a Qualcomm modem is inside the Verizon and Sprint iPhones now independent testing by cellular insights found that the Qualcomm base phones like the Verizon iPhone 7 outperformed an AT&T iPhone 7 by 75% when it came down to data speeds with a low signal think about something like one dot on your phone and I knew something was different especially on my daily commute even before this was revealed that hasn't been disputed now a recent report from Bloomberg claimed Apple might be throttling Bryson's LTE performance with a Qualcomm modem in order to make it perform similarly to the Intel chip that's in other phones the qualcomm hardware is theoretically capable of a maximum 600 megabits per second for download speeds compared to the Intel modem that tops out at 450 megabits per second recode has now confirmed this to be true but really there's nothing we can do about Apple holding back the Qualcomm modem chip because it's in their best interests to have all phones performed similarly even with LTE connectivity you know you have location signal strength number of users on the network the demand for data depending on your task it's going to change so here's Apple's official statement in all of our rigorous lab tests based on wireless industry standards in thousands of hours of real-world testing and an extensive carrier partner testing the data shows there is no discernible difference in the wireless performance of any of the models now I'm more curious how much better would i phone 7sv across the board if all of them been equipped with the qualcomm modem and the answer is we'll never know but again this is not another antenna gate I know you might be kind of frustrated but you're gonna have to get over it it's more like a what could have been but it's not so you know what let's just move right along all right a bloomberg report also says Apple has completely disbanded its wireless router division in order to sharpen its focus on products that can make them more revenue according to their sources the decision hasn't been publicly announced we haven't seen an airport refresh since 2013 you know what I'm just gonna throw a bad apple on that one yeah and it's likely we'll never see a new airport Express Airport extreme or airport time capsule so don't buy one right now and let's be honest they may look pretty ish but companies like d-link or Netgear our head in the game now Apple also recently stopped making its own external monitors and instead announced new displays in a partnership with LG but come on they're really LG displays we won't give airports the Apple bites send-off until they are officially announced as gone so we'll just have to wait for that and apples now stepping up the handle iPhone issues that we've criticized them for ignoring Apple has launched an iPhone 6 plus Touch disease repair program they call it the multi-touch repair program where you can get your 6 plus repaired for 149 dollars but you know what it's a little too late for me especially for an issue that's started popping up a year later and guess what we're now at year 2 now most people have already taken the most popular Apple iPhone repair out it's called buying a new iPhone and the big a has also opened up another repair program for iPhone 6s users whose devices may be unexpectedly shutting down it only affects certain devices manufactured between September and October of 2015 you'll need to contact Apple to see if your phone serial number is within this range but Apple will replace the battery of your device free of charge and just a fun video we're checking out we've already ripped on the Apple book enough and yes I know it is still pretty but 512 pixels bloggers Steven Hackett created this fun video with some of the actual products side by side with the book and I liked it so I'm telling you about it so you can watch it all right that's going to do it for this week's show you can email us at the Apple bye to see Netcom or tweet me Brian Tong they so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple Wow oh yeah watch out for that cliff hope and water nice peaceful dududu not the branch oh okay oh hey there yeah so are we doing this I guess we are hi grandma what's going this person's apartment I'm right behind you hey pick up your phone pick it up happy birthday