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good morning everybody good afternoon my name is Steven Beach I mean you were watching the hottest Apple podcast on the web that's true the Apple byte extra crunchy pod guess with your host mr. Brian Tom what's up everybody welcome to the show I went to the Skype channel cuz I'm so used to that these are brian dong I'm here people that are listening have no idea what's going on welcome to the show everybody look this is less than 24 hours before the Apple Keynote drops but there's so much stuff that happened over the weekend we decided to give you episode 99 and a half $9.99 and a half we're gonna jump through everything that we have learned over the weekend for those of you who weren't we're like actually enjoying your weekend I think around like 8 or 9 o'clock at night on Saturday in the in the u.s. I would just happen to look at my phone and all of a sudden 9 to 5 Mac dropped a bomb because they exclusively were able to get their hands on they released gold master so this is the final basically for public consumption version of iOS 11 it was leaked specifically to them from all indications it's not anywhere else and they broke down so many things that we're gonna talk about we're giving them all the credit for all these findings and at the same time kind of made me sad because we know I'm still excited for the keynote but now we know more than ever and some of these things would have been really cool surprises it's like potatoes right yeah it's like learning about Han Solo before you see Star Wars 2 in the last Star Wars movie right which was like about what about Empire Strikes Back yeah like I'm sorry I don't want to spoil anything but something happens with Luke and Darth Vader so let's jump into this oh we're not gonna take any calls we're just gonna get into it and this was this is a bomb okay so basically the iOS 11 gold master leaked out for people that are saying oh the developers betas have been out before we talked about the home pod firmware leak that happened about maybe two weeks ago and this is the iOS 11 gold master okay so first of all the biggest news that dropped from it is that the iPhone the OLED iPhone is expected based on code and direct references to be called Beecham what did we call it literally like eight nine months ago almost right after the orig the iPhone 7 came out what did we call it the iPhone and the iPhone X do we do we see that we firm did we do that we joked saying it would be either the iPhone the iPhone future was our affectionate name yeah but we actually outright called out they should make it the iPhone exude we totally did and we because not only and people now will be like Oh duh is the 10th anniversary but we we called it out because look the the letter X is the most identifiable letter when you comes down to branding the X there's no other letter that that stands out more like an X it's a 10th anniversary it sounds cool but at the same time you wouldn't think is Apple gonna really do that because they're always stuck to their iPhone 3G 3GS 4 or 4s they're calling it they'll at least the OLED phone the iPhone X and they're planning to skip the iPhone they're not gonna call the other two iPhone 7 & 7 7 s and 7s plus they're gonna call it eight and eight plus that has been that was like kind of the first big drop confirmed by this leak the other part about it is when I heard that I was like dude Apple byte extra crunchy dude we does that we roll man I'm shocked I'm really surprised I didn't know that till right now I was seeing a lot of people talking about the iPhone X on Twitter and like on the internet over the weekend and stuff just you know just glancing here and there but I had no idea that like we had that right it's been confirmed all right so we have that news that dropped about the iPhone X um I even wanted to I did this fun Twitter poll because remember when Apple had OS 10 it was an OS X and they always called it OS 10 they didn't pronounce the X like an X they pronounce it like a 10 so I I pulled the Twittersphere on my account at Brian Tong cheap plug we asked real important how do you think Apple will pronounce iPhone X 15% of respond it's out of to over 2,500 votes so this illegitimate sample size 15 percent said iPhone 10 44 percent said they would respond iPhone X 41 percent responded who cares I had to throw that in because sometimes people get mad at my polls they're like I don't care so I'm like I'm gonna throw it out who cares yeah and the answer was so clearly everyone thinks they're gonna pronounce it iPhone X but we will have to wait and see how how that all comes together here's some other things direct specs about the actual iPhone X this is some this is just crazy that we know these details digging deep into again the gold master of iOS 11 it suggests that the new iPhone X will have an a 11 fusion chip but this chip is a 6 core processor it'll pack for high performance processors or what their code naming mistral cores and to battery life efficient cores nicknamed monsoon or Monsen hmm so it's gonna be a 6 core processor if you want to compare that to what was in the 810 fusion processor in the iPhone 7 and 7 plus that packed to high performance cores and to high efficiency cores so it was a 4 core processor if you want to compare it to the a 10x which was in the iPad pro name-drop iPad pro that had a 6 core setup three high performance and three high efficiency so this when you compare all this stuff it means that the new iPhones the 8 the 8 plus and the X will clearly have apples most powerful processors to date which is not a surprise but I don't think it's gonna be by a little based on that spec setup it's gonna be by a lot we're talking about this 6 core processor in the iPhone I remembered is he gonna be a beast I remember seeing you like demo your your iPad Pro and it was like the fastest thing I've ever seen I've never seen an iPad or any iOS software move that so you're saying that we're gonna have this in the iPhone in the next iPhone X yes you like you that fast does this sound cool say iPhone X yeah man they better Tim cool give it to you no that would be awesome but they have like this DMX they got update if they know what's going on they have got to give us a flashy dope high energy quickly edited music video that starts dogs so that's some of the specs inside also the iPhone 8 is expected again all this is pulled from the code so I'm not gonna keep on saying that just know this moving forward but I like to give credit again this is all 9 to 5 Mac iPhone 8 will feature 2 gigs of RAM the iPhone 8 plus and the iPhone X are expected to pack 3 gigs a ram so you're gonna get a little performance boost there as well this is just a beast of the phone I'm gonna go back Beach so maybe you can follow along from the very first article because we're kind of jumping around but we want to talk about a lot of different features this phone is expecting to get one of the new features is portrait lighting so essentially there's gonna be some special mode or adjustment specifically through the camera when you take photos in portrait mode that will optimize the lighting for those pictures in this phone nice also it's expected to be getting a true tone display for the iPhone X the same true tone display in my iPad pro ok so that's where it basically based on the lighting it has ambient light sensors that change the color temperature of your screen to match your environment so it's not like you have this super crazy it just look white looks like white based on the environment that you're in so now I have to turn off there's not gonna be like a sleep mode or what is that called uh you know I'm talking about when you change the color of the night the night nights are still gonna there's it's just that in regular daylight on the fly it's going to be able to adjust I see it's me I made it sound like it was gonna be an automatic thing it is automatic okay and then night shift you can schedule that which I do and it's helped me actually has helped me a lot before I would be reading comics that like 1 a.m. at night yeah and I couldn't go to sleep and now if I'm tired I'm like because it has kind of the warmer tones with your you know your biorhythm it sets it up so it's gonna have it's gonna have that as well as we scroll down there's been images and animations inside the gold master just kind of showing off that silhouette of the iPhone X and then we'll we're gonna talk about these things called ant emojis in a second but not not just yet you haven't heard about these an emoji I have heard about okay fine not really excited about find you you read you read it you read it you read too much I forgot to tell people to begin the show if you don't want to hear about this and you want to be surprised tomorrow you probably should stop stop listening don't listen this yeah okay here's more information about the iPhone 8 and iPhone X stat I'm sorry about the iPhone X status bar and how it's going to really accommodate this notch at the top that everyone has been talking about a little I don't want to say controversial but some people like it some people don't I just like the idea of it just being a smooth line across but we know the knotch will exist they put out kind of a little quick video animation and like the rumors have said the time on the top-left corner will be there but on the right hand side you'll have things like your Wi-Fi signal as well as your battery power and it'll actually do these kind of cool animations that switch between some of the information that it shows just kind of these cool smooth slick animations on those ears remember Apple is internally calling those two little bigger spots around the notches the ear so that they've showed off kind of some animations there as well and then really the biggest feature that I want to see in action presented by Apple is the face ID that that is officially what it's going to be called Martin gurmann called it out his face ID I feel like maybe a month and a half ago he was the first person that said Apple's gonna call it face ID and so what happens in this face ID is the ability and I think Beach it'll be the next is it the next one the next one the next article yeah so in the face ID they have revealed literally the entire set up like what it looks like on the phone where you hold up your face to it and it has if you remember kind of what that that that finder face looks like on on Apple way back and they it looks similar to that but it's just kind of like a flat image and when you set up your phone for the first time with face ID it says oh move your face around or kind of rotate it around so can see all the different edges or angles of your face it'll be able to detect that and then once it saves that or stores that to memory it'll kind of create your first face ID scan and then moving forward that is how you use it we don't know every application of how this face ID recognition is going to be used but we do know at least what the initial setup looks like again the this is the biggest leak in Apple history yeah there is no doubt about it and they were totally talking you know just a few months ago how they're gonna lock everything down they're gonna be highly secretive and and then this happens this is this is a huge problem for Apple yeah you know a lot of people aren't happy like I'm even reading the periscope comments going by really fast like face ID is not good for privacy this is really bad again Apple is gonna have to tell us a story of how good it is why is it better why is it faster indications also for people that are curious we've talked about how the power button or the lock button on this new iPhone is going to be longer in size one of the reasons was to be able to hold it with one hand and be able to turn on the power on and off easily in the code it also indicates that that power button with a quick DoubleTap will allow you to invoke Apple pay and then if you hold it down it'll be able to bring up Siri so that that physical home button that's longer that's gonna take over some of the functionality that the home button used to have so I think people that were worried about it I do trust me I like it at the bottom but people are going to be able to use the power button for that functionality that has been confirmed again in this firmware drop and you know what before we go on I want to kind of bounce it back to this whole firmware drop and I really feel like this was some one people have been just started talking about but when I saw this I this was intentional this was not you know it was given over to nine-to-five Mack whether or not they paid for it or it was just handily given over I don't know this for a fact so I'm not gonna say but for someone to put out a leak like this knowing that this was a real big moment for Apple it's their 10th anniversary phone you know Apple is completely pissed off at headquarters they aren't happy about this but this comes off to me as someone internally that felt spite adore mad and decided to leak it out to the public yeah I just don't think in previous generations of how Apple's culture was that they would that their employees would be okay with doing this and maybe part of that is a company getting bigger and larger in size and maybe it's part of how the company has changed where I feel that there was a fear associated with how Steve Jobs made everything wanted everything to be a secret and the reward of that and I don't think that's the case as much anymore like we benefit from it we get a cover it but at the same time there's a lot of surprises that have been lost because of this yeah I mean you know we did that Scott Scott Forstall thing and a lot of things Apple did was based on like how they don't like somebody or you know anything like there's all this like bad blood between companies and that might even extend into their culture inside there inside their building or something so someone clearly it was like I'm gonna show that that's what I'm saying I feel like it was someone that that was pissed off and wanted to get back at Apple internally yeah and it wasn't like an Android mole it was someone that consciously decided to do this this was not a strategic leak by Apple for all those people that liked to be like oh they're trying to build the hype machine the home we're home pod firmware was not a a marketing ploy and this was not a marketing ploy no so I think you guys and gals to just squash that idea in her mind now talking about some of these cool bells and whistles that were revealed from the gold master we talked about a lot of stuff but I thought this one would have been kind of a fun cute quirky one I use the word cute I did should she are you gonna take my man card away because I said no no I say cute all the time when you have kids so another feature that will be part a software feature that will be part of this face recognition face ID platform is the iPhone will feature and emojis a and I M Oh J I basically you will be able to send 3d animated emojis based off your facial expression they have some examples here in the article there's like a monkey there's a robot so if you scrunch your face one way it'll actually reflect that in the an emojis like I'm not saying this a game-changer but I'm gonna be sending an emojis like holla I don't know about you are you gonna be sending it I'm gonna take work to do so I have to like put the phone up to my face you'll probably have to hold your face and then do some like expression then it'll take a little it'll calm me I might try it like once or twice and I don't know it really depends on how easy it is to do so check this out just in case inquiring minds want to know the poo poo emoji is one of those okay emoji will be able to be used as an an emoji I can see my kids using that oh I wish they did have an eggplant emoji you know what I mean oh yeah oh yeah I can get x-rated real quick oh yeah the squirt squirt yeah little combo there so there's also separate assets and you can scroll down lower in that article Beach for people that want to see this there's separate assets that highlight the variety of expressions that this will be able to support in the an emoji functionality things like left and right eyebrow movements cheeks raising the chin opening or squinting eyes moving the jaw lips as well as mouth movements like frowning and smiling these are all things that will be able to be incorporated into this an emoji cool I mean but see that's the thing that you would have been like if you first heard it I probably would have made fun of it at first but then I'd be like oh my gosh I would totally do that yeah I mean there's like these weird animation apps that you can use or you know it's like the face filters really but then you have like a whole cartoon character that you can move with your face and like talk and like talk through it or whatever my kids love to play with that stuff so they're gonna play with this all this they're gonna be Adam animo animo disease yeah all right we're gonna talk about also it wasn't just the iPhone that was leaked out of this what about the Apple watch the new iOS 11 gold master that was leaked to and again for people that are just listening in it is the final version of the operating system that is sent out that you and I will publicly be able to get our hands on in the Apple watch setup they decided to run the Apple watch app and this is video and this is video that nine mi5 Mac posted but they're able to post okay let's go on the Apple watch app and just see like hey what what does it look like did they show anything and revealed what the new LTE series three Apple watch will look like now it looks very similar but what they also showed is there's an indication where there's like a red dot on the digital crown and that may or may not that may or may not exist in the final iPhone they might just be trying to point that out but also in in the images you can see there's a there's a cellular site there's a like a you know the cell signal not a cell signal sorry like a call signal like that signals the top top left is one of the complications on the watch which most likely will jump you into the cellular functionality of the actual Apple watch yeah a long time ago Tim Cook was actually even what was spotted wearing an Apple watch with a red dot on the crown and everyone thought oh it might be just a limited version for him we don't know if the final final physical Hardware will have a red dot I honestly hope it does not like I don't care about I don't want a red dot on my on an Apple doesn't light up though no no it just looks like it's well we don't know actually I shouldn't say that I doubt it lights up I highly doubt it lights up but it's there so you know we've talked about the LTE watch the expectation again revealed is that the LTE Apple watch will use the same phone number as your iPhone and some carriers are working on offering at free or cheaper trial plans to pair your Apple watch Series 3 with your phone and again we'll see how much of this data it'll actually be able to use how in the pendant it will really be because earlier rumors had said we won't be able to use the Apple watches like a direct to call at least not initially at that time and it would be oh you could maybe use FaceTime audio or VoIP apps like Skype but maybe they've got it resolved by the time this keynote happens we'll wait and see but it's another kind of really that's one of the things I want to say it would it would be super cool if it just was a part of your plan that you already have you know and you know they gotta make you pay more for a bro I hope not if they just add the Apple watch to your current plan where it's pulling from your data it's pulling from your minutes the same that would be the bomb I would go buy one seriously you know I'm dreaming but if they're gonna make it like another LTE $20 a month or whatever $10 a month come on I'm gonna I you know what it won't be either of those it's gonna be 15 so we have that also the firmware points to new Apple watch finishes blush Gold is one of them that was also a rumored cult one of the color options for the new iPhone as well as a gray ceramic right remember the first gen one was a sir was a gray was a ceramic and white so it looks like they'll be bringing a gray ceramic to the Apple watch this time around again all types of crazy stuff just thrown out Beechum I'm sorry I totally was jumping around but I did forget that new ohlet's OLED specific and I think you're on that page OLED specific wallpapers we're also found in the firmware for the iPhones as well okay so let's don't worry you don't have to worry about it um we're gonna go on and talk about the Apple TV the official name looks like it will be the Apple TV 4k according again to the revelations from this massive leak the other kind of cool nuggets about this is yes it'll support HDR Dolby vision will be part of the support these have been confirmed in the firmware the other thing that may be a part of this is a new Siri remote it's been noted with a separate new part number but the Siri remote could feature some sort of a haptic feedback or even 3d touch functionality and there's an indication that there will be in additional button on this Siri remote that's a part of this new Apple TV 4k haptic feedback yeah a haptic feedback hmm we will see the other thing that I find interesting about this Apple TV 4k is that for the very first time our own David Katz Meyer who is our TV reviewer and like set-top box reviewer he was invited to the Apple Keynote which means they plan on doing something big like just don't think about it they've how many Apple TVs have they released announced they haven't invited him ever before this year they're inviting him I saw him I saw him lingering around he had like a group of people following around was sold I think that's a big deal and also I've got to imagine they need to tie this in whether it's with the remote they've got to tie this to the home pod somehow yeah yeah has to have some sort of interaction you know they have they talked about the surround sound and all that stuff it has to yeah so that that'll be part of it the other thing is in the details of the firmware the a 4k Apple TV appears to feature an a 10x fusion chip with systems on the tip with three gigs of ram so remember the previous Apple TV was at a nine chip this one appears to have an a-10 the a9 was not able to stream or power 4k video at least that's what Apple had kind of pushed and claimed and we all knew that the a-10 could because that was in the iPhone 7 so an a-10 chip and three gigs of ram are expected to be in here and also there were reports of kind of the different codecs a video or sorry different video formats that it would be supporting that will also include 4k so the Apple TV will get a boost as well and then this one was kind of I wanted you guys to show that if you can show people that are watching this Beach there's actually a video clip revealed of a default Apple TV 4k screensaver we know how Apple kinda has these cool nice picturesque screen savers and I into five Mac pulled this one out from the firmware again this is a one over there 4k it's a for those listening it's a snowy landscape with a great like kind of Scott you can see the sky all the way down with the Blues oranges and and these nice clouds it's it's really pretty and it's just kind of panning across it nice and slowly yeah it's cool and you're watching it right now in 720p if you're watching yes I'm the last bomb from this whole drop again we just wanted to kind of jump in there's just so much stuff going on is this is the last piece of the puzzle this is loose but according to Benjamin Gaskin who has also been digging into the gold master there were references in the firmware of a potential 7th gen iPod touch with face ID nice so he says in most likely it's referencing them kind of future proofing the iPod touch line and that and he doesn't expect an actual iPod touch to come out with face ID but it exists in the code so that that reference is the fact that we may or may not see something like this we'll see cool I'll probably be my kids first phone it might be iPod touch um I'm sorry because there's so much stuff and I've been jumping around I also forgot to mention and if you can pull up the revised to air pods gifts that I have jiff gif whatever you want to call it again in the firmware we don't we don't know if this is actually an entirely brand new air pods but in the code there's a animation of new air pods the reason why we call them new if you look really carefully where the power right now the current air pods in the carrying case the power dot the status of it is inside the cover there's actually a dot on the outside of the cover now we indicate at least this is some type of revised air pods we can't tell if the stems are shorter or not they look the same to me but ultimately we might actually see at the very least a revised version of air pods at this keynote or a revised air pod case that comes with the current air pods nice this is crazy this is I've never seen so much official this is official stuff leaked ever before an Apple Keynote it's yeah so uh Beach Omar you know why we had to come out here I'm a little overwhelmed that like I feel like the party's been spoiled for tomorrow but we had to come out here you know Brian he texted me really early this morning he's like so much stuff dropped over the weekend like we have to get in front of it you know what I mean because we can't like look like we don't know what's going on tomorrow so yeah it's stupid it's stupid you know yeah so that's that's why we're here and we're we're trying to get out in front of the story and tomorrow we'll see if it all is true but it's it's looking like it's this is where we're gonna see people in the Chad that's there that are saying Apple leaked them Apple did not leak this stuff there is no reason there is no good reason for Apple to leak this stuff it makes no sense whatsoever so I'm curious like are you guys and gals less excited or still hyped about the event I got to tell you because so much is dropping and there's still a lot to see I'm excited about it we want you to call our show because we're waiting to hear your impressions about we're gonna do a podcast right after the keynote like later in the day to get our hot take raw reactions but the number you guys and gals can call us at is 1-866 two six three eight we kind of want to hear what you think of the keynote after it happened so I know you'll hear this you'll listen to us the loyal listeners that are out there we know that you're gonna call us so we love that but just be a part of the show just a reminder our coverage for the keynote at least here at CNET will start at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time 12:00 p.m. eastern time the actual keynote takes place at 10:00 a.m. but like we always do we talk about everything everything you heard here we're gonna have Lexi savita's here patrick hall in and stephen Beecham kind of the 18 that's gonna talk about all this stuff we'll do the keynote we'll do a post show that'll all happen like it normally does tomorrow less than 24 hours from now and be time I'm sorry let you so I'm sorry you know more than you ever did it's all good man I'm happy to I'm happy to help out but I'm yeah tomorrow 9:00 a.m. and leave some call us we're gonna have a phone line up and let us know what you guys think yeah sounds good okay so I think we're gonna strap this up no calls this week or 490 there are no calls whenever you do a 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