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let's shake and a bacon brian tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to it and last week we talked about the plans for Apple's touch ID to potentially be replaced by 3d face scanning that's Apple is currently testing well a new report from Barron's claims Apple is struggling to perfect the new under glass sensor and has just a couple of weeks to figure it out the report says Apple has until August to either place orders for the new fingerprint sensor components or miss that window and have no fingerprint ID at all which would delay the release of the iPhone now we know Apple always has a plan B every company does but even the prospect of having to angle your phone to capture a face can accurately while you're at a point-of-sale terminal just isn't ideal for Apple pay and I know I don't want to do that now it's really the biggest mystery with the iPhone right now will it or won't it have touch ID now the majority of comments from last week's show that Apple by nation supports an embedded touch ID over any other method now after last week's episode an Apple patent application was published describing how their 3d face scanning could potentially work using three parameters for detection including face detection skin tone detection and even movement to tell if the face at scanning is a living person now the same method could be directly applied to unlock a Mac in sleep mode as well but it's clear that Apple is looking to move forward with this all right two new iPhone 8 rumors dropped this week the first one comes from leaker Benjamin Gaskin who says that the next iPhone will come in four different colors and one of them will be a mirror-like finish eScan posted a picture of an iPhone in a mirror case to give you an idea of what it could really look like and you know what I'm down for that all right wireless charging is still expected to come to the iPhone but a tweet from Darian fireballs John Gruber claims the wireless inductive charger accessory will be sold separately which is no surprise but it might be late to the party and could arrive with an update to iOS 11.1 you know I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping this isn't another case of the air pods which is still at a 6-week backorder like nine months after it was originally expected to launch ok Apple has also taken some ELLs this week the first hit comes a report from the Wall Street Journal that says Apple is losing ground in its digital movie business thanks to Amazon and Comcast the big a claims 20% to 35% of digital movie rentals and sales but that's down from 50 percent in 2012 based on the journals estimates Amazon now claims 20 percent market share and Comcast accounts for 15% of digital movie rentals and sales now overall sales across the industry were up 12 percent to 5.2 billion dollars but more competition and streaming services continue to take a bite out of Apple okay app analytics company verso reports that Syria is still the most popular intelligent assistant with 41 million users in May of this year but fewer people are using it Syria is almost twice as popular Samsung's s voice which came in second but it lost nearly fifteen percent of its users from a year ago now in general the reports still found that people really aren't using smart assistance and widespread adoption has been sluggish at best okay and some quick bites the third beta for iOS 11 and Mac OS hi Sierra have rolled out to developers and for the first time you can now sign up for Apple's public beta for Apple TV now go and sign up at beta Apple comm to get features like automatic pairing to air pods in iOS 11 or changing its appearance from dark to light mode and more and for all you early adopters if you have a first generation Apple watch kind of like this one right with a separated back cover you don't want that Apple or an authorized service provider will repair it free of charge up to three years from its original purchase date the issue is happening to some users when they remove it from the magnetic charger so this is an example really where Apple is watching out for accusers yes I'm on a roll today and before I leave let's dig into the Apple by YouTube's feedback of the week cam sauce jr. says bruh is that a skunk on your head brah I have no idea what you're talking about alright that's it for this week's show we'll be taking a break next week and there will be no show like I just wanted to let you know because I don't want you to be looking for the latest Apple bite and then leave disappointed well you know I'm surfing eating ridiculous food and turning Ted shades of brown while I'm on a beach why now you can email us at the Apple buy to cnn.com or tweet me at Brian Tom but I probably won't see it so we'll see in a couple weeks thanks so much for watching and we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple