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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to another juicy episode of the Apple buy for everything good a bad inside the world of Apple and let's get to it and you know what we start off with the iPhone and Donald Trump yes you heard me right so we're not gonna get all political here but the Donald recently made a promise that in order to make America great again he would get Apple to start manufacturing its products in the US instead of China now according to the New York Times a Foxconn employee gets paid roughly $400 a month now if you assume Apple could manufacture the phone in Wyoming or Georgia which have the lowest minimum wage at $5.15 an hour that US worker would make more than double at eight hundred and twenty four dollars a month so all right after let's say shipping marketing and research and development you're talking about an iPhone that currently costs around $650 will now cost around 1300 at the minimum and you know what I'm all for jobs here but the number one way to scare away voters is to tell them their iPhone is going to cost them two to three times more I'm just saying all right we showed you the iOS 9.3 beta last show but Apple's iOS 9 point two point one update dropped this week and it's a must-have for security updates but even better it appears to have given older iPhones like the iPhone 4s and five speed boosts now this clip comes from a YouTube channel that ripped off the name of our show and put an I in front of it but I'll still give them credit because no one watches them now Apple is typically ignored older phones and past iOS updates have made them slower and lag here but today is not that day and it's worth the update if you have an earlier iPhone all right new music apps have been released from Apple including a really cool one called music memos that let you make quick recordings with instruments or your voice CNS Dan Ackerman shows us what it could do Apple has a brand new app called music memos and it's sort of a voice recorder memo app but for musicians so it wants you to play your guitar player piano maybe sing-along it's gonna record what you do in a very simple memo format after you're done recording it takes that audio recording and tries to figure out what chords you played puts down the bars the tempo that you played and even lets you add some basic bass and drums based on the chords and the timing it gives you a nice little demo package that you can then either play around with in this app or export it's got a tuner built it first so if you want to tune up you can do that and it seems to work best if you do big ringing open chords basic four over four time kind of like this I could play it back and follow along with it if I had the drums and the bass based on the chords and then I can go in after I'm done trimming it and I can edit the actual chords and then when you want to do something more of the song you can take it and export it into GarageBand or logic or just send this audio file to someone by email post of YouTube whatever you want it's a free app for iOS that is music memos by Apple thanks for that that's some really cool stuff Dan and also GarageBand gets an update with new loops tools and a smarter drummer feature so check them both out plus I've got to give props to Apple music that now has over 10 million subscribers after just six months according to the Financial Times I honestly did not expect that see it took Spotify around 6 years to accomplish that same goal and yes the times were different when music streaming was just starting out but that's just flat-out impressive so there you go plenty of great news in the music space but guess what there's also bad news especially when Apple announced they would be ending their ad supported iTunes radio feature at the end of January look I use it all the time it's free think of it as their Pandora like service and the only way you can use it now is if you're a pain Apple music subscriber which I am NOT and their beats one channel will now be the only free music option moving forward for iTunes users are you kidding me Apple you're sitting on 200 billion dollars and you're taking away a service we actually listen to for your beat ones radio station that people barely listen to you know what that is everybody that's a bad apple told you is bad all right we all know Apple has its eyes set on the smart automobile MacRumors recently discovered that Apple registered a trio of top-level domain names including Apple car Apple cars and Apple auto back in December none of these domains are currently active now Apple's been very active with our carplay platform as well and released a list of over 100 compatible cars on their own website rumor still the biggest project tightened car will be ready sometime around 2020 so we're still not anywhere close but I always look at other projects they've done as points of inspiration for others ladies and gentlemen this could be the first Apple car and look there goes that Apple car again yes I know I battled them constantly about that battery case but it's literally that bad you know that the execs were in a room talking about how crappy looking of a product they could make and still convinced Apple loyalists to buy it they had to be asking how far can we push them well I think they found how low that bar goes and it's the iPhone battery case all right that's going to do it for this week's show you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me a Brian Tong and I'll answer them after I'm done dehydrating my homemade beef jerky thanks for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple