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what's going on Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple lots of good stuff this week including Apple's rumored smart speaker but let's start off with the latest from Apple's recent earnings results and don't fall asleep it's actually important all right Apple posted a quarterly revenue of 52 point nine billion dollars and a net quarterly profit of 11 billion apple sold fewer iPhones this quarter fifty point eight million compared to 51 point two million units a year earlier but iPhone revenue bumped up one percent to thirty three point two billion from last year because of the demand for its pricier iPhone 7 plus you know the one that can take pictures like this oh that's so cute and cuddly now in fact the iPhones overall average selling price across all models was 655 dollars up from six hundred and forty two dollars a year ago so those rumors of a starting price of one thousand dollars for the next iPhone 8 that won't scare Apple at all and yes we know the seven plus with 256 gigs already costs nine hundred and sixty nine dollars in the US before tax it's only the fourth time ever iPhone sales have dropped and Tim Cook even chimed in during the earnings call to say Apple was seeing a pause in purchases of the iPhone that could be attributed to earlier and much more frequent reports about future iPhones have you heard of a weekly show that covers iPhone rumors almost every week guilty as charged now Mac unit sales rose slightly to 4.2 million compared to 4.0 3 million and iPads continue to decline dropping the eight point nine two million units compared to ten point two five a year ago that would mark the 13th quarter in a row with declining iPad sales we call that major shrinkage now we still haven't heard anything about new iPads and they're way past their normal spring announcement which lines us up for WWDC but we could see something entirely new at Apple's developer conference KGI reports Apple will likely announce an echo like speaker with our own Siri and it will be Apple's first home AI product and will go on sale in the second half of the the report says the device will feature excellent sound with seven tweeters and a subwoofer will be positioned as a more premium product than the echo which also means a premium Apple price tag Apple leaker Sonny Dixon added that Apple marketed as a siri airplay device that will carry some form of beats technology he also says it will take design cues from the Mac Pro and have a concave top with controls and a mesh speaker can't innovate any more my ass oh I had to just throw that one in there because you know it will look similar to a product they haven't updated in three plus years going on for now earlier reports from CNET also claimed their echo like speaker might include a built-in camera that would make it self-aware and detect who's in the room with facial recognition and guess who already has a smart speaker with a built-in camera that's Amazon's echo look although right now it's being used more to take pictures of your OOTD that's outfit of the day for the grown up Apple by ders so if you have an echo right now would you swap it out for an Apple Smart speaker it will definitely have the benefit of the ecosystem but Apple is super controlling about its partners it only gave a handful of specific apps Siri integration and how long has there been around they're just too controlling while Amazon opened up their platform for everyone and now has over 10,000 skills that's not in Apple's DNA to be like that but we'll see how they can bring something more compelling beyond just being a part of the ecosystem but we all know people are going to buy it now merriam-webster even used Apple fanboys to help describe a new word they just added to the dictionary that word is sheeple defined as people who are docile compliant or easily influenced people likened to sheep now goes on to use a sentence as an example of how to use the word apples debuted a battery case for the juice sucking iPhone an ungainly lumpy case that sheeple will happily shell out $99 for really merriam-webster now that's a bad apple I'm sorry really I couldn't help myself there you know bad get it all right if you want a chance to sit down with Apple CEO Tim Cook charity buzz is back at it again this time it's more than coffee it's a lunch meeting with Tim Cook inside Apple's brand-new Park now the auction has already reached its estimated value of $100,000 but past auctions with cook hit as high as six hundred and ten thousand in 2013 or as low as two hundred thousand in 2015 see somebody overpaid in 2013 the auction lasts until May 16th now you also all know how much I love my iPad pro so let's check out my app of the week and this week it's Marvel's color your own for the iPhone and iPad now if you're a fan of adult coloring books like this and not the dirty ones and you love comics you're going to love this there are a few pages that you can color for free from classic comics but if you want to get access to the entire collection of content it's a subscription service now I get it Marvel can't just give us everything but a subscription service for $39.99 a year and that's 58 percent off alright I'll just start off with the free ones in I wanted to share a few of them with you here so here's my Doctor Strange I like to bring out the detail in his face in this one and then here's my Rey Vereen it's my take on Wolverine but with like rave colors so you see his claws all like you know like pink and green is super cool Yeah right that's horrible Aurel okay let's get to some of your feedback and I think I really lit a fire under the eye works and pages community because I was hammered on Twitter and email with plenty of Apple byte nation that uses pages John Towell says there are many more than two folks out there who adore Pages chips t95 on twitter writes I use I work and listen to Apple byte extra crunchy take that sad Apple away okay I just erased it now David James then responded to chips t95 and says I also use pages find them there are now four of you who use pages I'm kidding with you all all right that's going to do it for this week you can email us at the Alpha byte at Cena comm or tweet me a bryan song thanks much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for bite of the Apple