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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple it looks like wireless charging will be finally finally coming to the iPhone let's just forget that it's three or four years later than it could have been now Apple is officially one of the 213 companies that are part of the wireless power consortium that promotes a single standard for wireless charging called Qi and no it's not pronounced Q I now previous patents have shown Apple's desire to use long-range wireless charging and older patent by them even showed off using an iMac as the central charging station is one idea but they just couldn't wait on it any longer now this doesn't mean Apple will support the Qi protocol that every other company uses in fact Apple already uses their own tweaked version of it with their Apple watch and that's why it actually doesn't work with any other wireless charging pads the thinking is that Apple will do the same with the iPhone because guess what their Apple now the report also jives with more rumors about the next iPhones digit times now claims the current 4.7 inch model will have an aluminum casing the 5.5 inch iPhones material is still not determined but the premium 5.8 inch iPhone with the OLED display we keep hearing about will have a glass casing reinforced by a steel frame but the big thing here that glass casing will allow it to support wireless charging now who will likely benefit from the move to OLED displays come on Apple's best friend and rival Samsung according to the Korean Herald Apple has purchased 60 million flexible OLED display panels in a multi-billion dollar deal with Samsung now Apple also reportedly purchased 100 million in April from Samsung bringing that magic total to come on you kids can do the math 160 million OLED panels that would likely make Samsung the main supplier of displays for the iPhone x8 or future whatever they end up calling it but maybe they even just screw with us and jump to 10 because it's the biggest jump Apple has made in the history of the iPhone see you can't even make this stuff up that's literally what they would say Samsung has provided Apple with plenty of components for iPhones in the past so this is nothing new let's just make sure they don't have them May the batteries Oh burn all right for all you Samsung owners who just got mad I did that get over it or some messing with you and as for the idea of paying for a $1000 plus premium iPhone from last week's show the majority of you said you wouldn't pay that much but at least a third of you had no problem dropping the dough so here's what some of you said zorb on twitter says I've seen apple trees but not money trees Jarrod sparkin on YouTube says you mean the same $1000 that I paid for a 256 gig iPhone 7 plus yeah he's definitely in to remote says he'd be down if they don't put courage into this and actually do some innovation that's real talk right there Jonas says Siri find me the nearest banks that are easiest to rob yeah I don't think she can do that Jonas and Eric is probably the smartest person out of all of us if my dad will fund it I would most certainly use the iPhone X all right after teasing us as far back as fall Apple is finally showing us their two new shows coming exclusively to the Apple music service they unveiled the first trailer for planet of the apps think of it as Shark Tank Meets The Voice meet screen app developers app traders will make their pitches to celebrities like Jessica Alba will.i.am Gwyneth Paltrow and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk each judge will then mentor their picks to make a final pitch of the app for that venture capital moolah now all the app developers are hoping to make their dreams become a reality on a reality show apple also released the spot for carpool karaoke a spin-off series that will pair different celebrities with each other singing and doing other wacky things James Corden most likely will appear in just the first episode to get things rolling now plan of the apps looks intriguing and can have some real drama carpool karaoke will always be a good romp but the real question is would you actually sign up for Apple music to watch these two shows now I asked the Apple byte nation on Twitter and with over 500 responses only 8% of you said you would sign up for Apple music while 75% of you said no way and 17% of you already have Apple music I would most likely check them out see this is just the start but it'll get really interesting once Apple gets enough a few musty shows and then you're getting a streaming music service on top of that for 10 bucks that's when you start getting my attention but until then I'm still Team Netflix and before we go people are sending me pics of them wearing ear pods you know what it's kind of becoming a thing like my man here a poet on Twitter he says you can hate on ear pods all you like but I make these look good all right poet I see you but I don't hate ear pods I really don't also you have something in your ear brah okay so in the spirit of all this I love you Apple byte nation to send me pics of yourself rocking your ear pods looking good and I have this stack of ten I phone seven and seven plus cases from spec I'm gonna give it to you if you think you can top arm and poet shoot them in landscape that's sideways include a caption and let's have some fun here will showcase the winners in a future show all right that's gonna do it for this week you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple