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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by carbonite welcome back to another episode of rumor roundup I'm your host Jon wrenches the show we round up all the rumors from the week of this week we got a ton of good stuff we got rumors of verizon's five-inch droid DNA make an appearance that apple fire Scott Forstall because he wouldn't sign the Google Maps apology forget quad-core that's so yesterday 48 core phones and tablets are coming and the Nexus Q this is a thing of the past jon rettinger it's rumor roundup go ahead and get started so let's start with the big bone room or both literally and figuratively we've been hearing rumors of an HTC may droid DNA sometimes being referred to as the droid DLX for a few months now it looks like it is finally going to be coming to fruition if you've been looking at that galaxy note and thinking either it looks awesome 5.5 inches is too big or it looks awesome but i wish i had HTC Sense and HTC's build quality you are going to be in luck droid-life earlier in the week found the droid DNA name on verizon support pages and they're not gonna support advice that they're not gonna carry well it's not always a sure thing it'll make it to verizon's airwaves it is a pretty good indicator that we can see it let me refresh your memory from what this thing is going to be packing it's going to have a 1080p HD display an 8 megapixel camera or possibly even 12 2 gigs of ram quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro beats audio and Android 4.1 jelly bean on board this guy is going to be packed to the gills with awesomeness think of this as the j butterfly but for the US market earlier in the week Apple announced that Scott Forstall was going to be leaving out but what technically is going to be an adviser to Tim Cook but that's just code for we don't want you to go anywhere else so we're gonna pee gobs of money and stop doing your job rumor has it that forestall the brain behind iOS whose main software engineer behind the operating system was forced out because refused to sign the maps apology that Tim Cook ultimately signs refresh your memory with iOS 6 gone was Google Maps an apple unleashed Apple maps offering pretty awesome turn-by-turn navigation was also met with a great deal of warranty criticisms because points of interest weren't there landmarks were all wonky I think just weren't working Apple products usually do a few weeks later Tim Cook issued public apology and Scott Forstall did not issue an apology now rumor has it that he told the folks at Apple this Maps applications not ready to go quite yet but Apple forced ahead with it anyway if those rumors are true then maybe he shouldn't have been forced to apologise if those are not true then you know the operating system is under his watch he probably should have put his name on it this might not be the worst thing for iOS users they've been to bring in a new engineer we're gonna have Johnny I have sort of taking over some of the software stuff so we should see some new updates to iOS and my opinion Scott Forstall suffers from what's called the innovators dilemma the folks at innovate first and really bring a huge innovation to the world that really change its way things are done I think iOS certainly is sometimes fail to innovate again or keep the innovation up but eventually get passed by competitors and I'm not saying iOS has been passed by Android but in a lot of ways they're on par and sometimes they go back and forth depending on the feature you're talking about so hopefully we will see a fresh revamped iOS if anything it'll be a new set of eyes looking at Iowa which can only being good things for the consumer so you know that shiny new quad core dual core phone and got in your pocket that you're super excited about that thing is slow how about forty eight cores coming sometime in the next ten years computer world is claimed that Intel is working on a 48 core chip coming out in the next decade which is absolutely insane you think about it the reason quad core is faster than dual core is all those processes can be split up over more course imagine what 48 freaking cores can do it probably just be smarter than us take over the world it's our company called Skynet kill us and it all would be started from like a nexus phone play a super Nexus phone is just to see if they can is a proof of concept how many cores do we need and today it's still just a phone it can only play games so good graphic only look so good going make phone calls so well you know you can only do so much with a smartphone but maybe in ten years technology will change maybe I've holographic displays and it can be you know like we saw in Star Wars delay a pop out of your phone asking obi-wan for help you know who knows what 10 years gonna hold for technology but it's awesome to see that trend already starting and sort of see the work that's going into it I hope computer world is right and I hoped we could see a forty-eight chords if nothing just to say boom 48 cores my pocket what up now so let's take a real quick break and thank our friends and sponsors at carbonite carbonite online backup is automatic cloud backup for the computer files in your home office or small business just set it up once in carbonite will protect your computer files no hardware required at all this is totally software with carbonite getting lost files back is easy your employees can even access their backed up files on the smartphone ipad with the free Carbonite app carbonate is the best backup plan for your home office or small business start your own free trial at carbonite.com an offer code techno and you'll get two three months if you decide to buy again go to cover a calm enter offer code techno it two free months if you decide to pick it up a great way to go make sure you don't lose jokes doc the Nexus Q was unveiled at Google i/o and folks on attendance had a chance to take one of those shiny little round objects home and we were one of the lucky few we plugged it into our TV all excited and then realize yeah it doesn't really do much apparently google also realized it didn't really do all that much and they postponed it and now it's completely gone from the Google landing page so what does that mean is it gone what resurrect itself another format I'm inclined to believe the design that really cool global design with the glowing LED light around it I will make a comeback in some form but the Nexus Q as we know it essentially a way to get all the content from a google play store in a television is gone it wasn't much of a need for it with DLNA gives you almost exactly the same thing there was Google TV this is very much a redundant product it looked awesome crazy expensive made in the US but it was absolutely a redundant product so much as I hate to admit it probably good riddance but hopefully that design will somehow come back thank you for watching another episode of rumor roundup we're back here every week we rounded up all the latest rumors be sure to check us out at technobuffalo calm for the latest and greatest tech news reviews rumors everything else i'm jon rettinger see you next video