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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to the apple byte for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple Apple just reported its highest order ever in the history of the company this week thanks to yes the iphone now in its first fiscal quarter for 2017 which represents the 4th calendar quarter of 2016 Apple posted 78.4 billion dollars in revenue compared to 70 5.9 a year ago it may not be the most innovative phone right now but there is no denying the power of the iphone and specifically the iphone 7 plus apple sold a record 70 8.3 million iphones up from 70 4.8 a year earlier and Tim Cook said the iphone 7 plus was a larger part of the iphone sales mix compared to any plus model in past years and that means oh I love that show and for you young uns look up in living color with this amazing tool called YouTube ok Mac sales rose slightly to 5.4 million from 5.3 which is surprising after the release of the all new Mac Pro and a sign that it really didn't provide a significant bump in sales with the new model and my good friend the iPad it was another negative quarter selling 13.1 million units compared to 16.1 last year ouch and I don't even know if they can ever turn that shit back around now during the earnings conference call Tim Cook was asked about apple's next moves in the television space and original content he responded in terms of original content we have put our toe in the water doing some original content for Apple music and that will be rolling out through the year we are learning from that and we'll go on from there the way that we participate in the changes that are going on in the media industry that I fully expect to accelerate from the cable bundle beginning to break down uh toe in the water I know Apple typically comes late to the party but dude put your whole foot in the water already like this company you might have heard of called Netflix now we did add that Apple does have more things planned for the Apple TV would offer no details hold on let me guess it's going to be a new processor with 4k support no TV subscription service a new people shows that you can only watch on Apple music with a subscription yes I'll write a new report from Bloomberg says Apple is working on a new chip for future max that would take on more functionality that Intel chips currently handle oh really now the chip went into development last year and is similar to one already used to power the keyboards touch bar it's internally codenamed t310 and is being built using arm technology it would handle some of the computers low power functionality and will work alongside an Intel processor the new t310 ship could make it into new MacBook Pros this year Apple's first arm based mac tip the t1 was part of the new macbook pro update and helped power the touch bar for things like emojis shortcuts for apps and the computers fingerprint reader now according to the report there are no near-term plans for Apple to completely ditch Intel chips in their mac laptops and desktops and you know I've been lukewarm on the touch bar you all know this but for anyone taking the bar exam it's just a big note that's because multiple states are telling law students they either have to disable the touch bar or leave their macbook pros at home entirely if they plan on using them while taking the bar exam in February the reason the touch bars predictive text feature could compromise the exams integrity now North Carolina you'll be asked to disable it but in New York and Colorado if you show up with a touch bar macbook pro you'll have to write your answers by hand instead of using the exam soft software on your machine or you'll have the option to download it on another machine yeah sounds like fun all right Apple earpods get bug fixes in a firmware update but it's not clear exactly what they address and there are no new features hopefully it fixes the random times the audio just cuts out when I've used them apple also stopped making their own Apple displays and instead they now recommend LG's ultra-fine 5k display but there's just one problem the hardware can become completely unusable when it's within two meters of a router that's just 6.6 feet away now sometimes the display will consistently disconnect or even freeze the macbook pro reconnecting it means you also need to reboot your computer LG has acknowledged the issue exists and it may or may not affect you depending on your setup but this is the only display that Apple recommends you to use on their website huh you know what's coming that's a bad apple and remember Justin Long the actor who used to be in one of the most memorable Apple TV commercial series of all time he was the mac guy and now he's in this Huawei out here take a look I have a ton of experience in tech have I ever directed anything before no do I have a director outfit a star a half to the vest yes holy crap that's a bad apple too now I'm not sure what's worse this or the verizon guy doing sprint ads because they're both pretty bad but let's end on a high note according to a report from the New York Post Prince yes Prince will finally come to Apple music on februari the 12th the late artists and legends music is only on title at the moment but his songs will now come to Apple music Spotify Pandora who will play and more now it doesn't mean as an entire collection will be available and come on if you're a real fan you actually bought Prince's music this is great news but I also can't play anything related to prints on the show because you know as people will try to take down this video like they did to that dancing baby in 2007 all right that's going to do it for this way you can email us at the alpha x 10 cnet com or to me a Brian song base want to watch it we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple you