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what's good for ayan Tong here and welcome back to the Apple bite it's episode 420 so take a deep breath and get ready start off the new year all right Apple starts 2017 with good news for the air pods yes the ones that I gave a positive review but I still would buy them for myself just yet new data from research firm slice intelligence found that for December in the u.s. seventy-five percent of revenue from head phones sold online were wireless models now that's up from 50% in December of last year so yeah that's a big jump now even more surprising Apple's new air pods led the way capturing 26% of those sales and topping all of their brands since launching on just December the 13th it even took the top spot from the Apple owned beats which made up 15.4 percent of online revenue so add those two together and Apple makes up over 41% of online revenue since launching the air pods and you know what that's a good apple see contrary to popular belief people are willing to wear toothbrush heads in their ears alright Consumer Reports can now recommend the new MacBook Pros after Apple released a software fix for Safari now a couple weeks ago they failed to earn a Consumer Reports recommendation for the first time ever due to battery life inconsistencies with the results ranging from 19 hours to 3 hours on the same machine now the fix is still only available through the Apple beta software program at the moment so we'll see how this works out for you ok the Wall Street Journal reports Apple is still aggressively working to create original scripted content that could be either premium TV shows or movies the plan is to make the programming only available on Apple's music service that costs $10 a month Apple acquired the rights to carpool karaoke and they're producing dr. Dre's auto biographical drama vital signs so you're going to put other TV shows and movies not related to music on Apple music come on stop Apple you're drunk C why don't you do this just acquire Netflix with you know some of your two hundred billion dollars in cash are sitting on let them continue to produce killer content roll your shows into that platform and there you have the destination for content you always wanted but you know what you couldn't do now I'm not going to Apple music to watch this stuff just so you can boost your subscription rates to compete with Spotify here you go Apple execs have told people in Hollywood that they hope to offer original scripted content comparable to West's world and stranger things by the end of 2017 so we will see now this week was also the tenth anniversary of the announcement for the very first iPhone you know the phone that changed really everything I still have the original it still works and that was truly a special time in tech now a video posted by sunny Dixon shows off the two early prototypes of the OS the iPod click wheel based OS from the iPods Godfather Tony Fadell that one is on the left and the icon based iPhone prototype which ended up becoming the foundation for iOS by Scott Forstall is on the right both were running what was called internally acorn OS but the scrollwheel version runs faster because it was a slimmed down version but I want to show you this it's just a fun peek at the past and how far the iPhone has come but what about the next iPhone the latest claims from digit times says Apple will abandon its long-standing aluminum back cover design and bring back arguably one of its greatest designs similar to the iPhone 4 you know without antenna gate please the report says Apple's new design will use to reinforce glass panes and a metal frame in the middle the metal bezel will be made of stainless steel using a 4G process to enhance its sturdiness and reduce costs now recent rumors have claimed at least one version of new iPhones released this year will have an all glass body and this could be that premium version the OLED model with the fingerprint sensor embedded into the display as well so we'll just have to wait on it now Tim Cook has made it clear Apple is super high on augmented reality a new report from Robert Scoble during CES says Apple is working with German optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss on creating a new pair of augmented reality glasses Scoble says it would be a light pair of augmented and mixed reality ones that may be announced this year based on what he's seen but uh let's just hope he doesn't try them on in a shower like he did for Google glass because that was one of the images of what you don't want to look like that instantly killed any cool factor they might have had and finally President Obama gave his farewell speech this week everyone was using their phone to take pictures but I couldn't end this show without calling out the dude in the crowd taking pics with an iPad but that wasn't just an iPad that's a freaking iPad pro holy crap that's a bad apple but I salute you you head up the damn thing with just one hand all right that's gonna do it for this week's show we're back to our weekly schedule you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tong thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple