What's up everybody, welcome to the show, it's the Apple Bits XL, Ryan's on here, A-K-A-B-T-Z,

I'm doing it nice though, and easy, welcome everybody, welcome it's the Apple Bits XL for

everything, good and bad inside the world of Apple, this is the show where we talk about

kind of the big stuff happening in that Apple ethos and the greater world at tech as well

now, we are in the holiday season, we're gearing up for CES, which I will be attending, I'll

actually be working the event on behalf of CES, so I'm excited for that, so if you're

an attendee or I think you follow them on social media, you'll probably see me on some

other stuff, which is cool, but what we're here to talk about this week, this is episode

199, which is also crazy to think about because I guess next week, technically it is, going

to be episode 200, 200 episodes of the Apple Bits XL podcast, that's insane, and it's been

a long journey, being independent, and I've got to thank all of you all for allowing us

to get this far, which is crazy, so what we're going to do this week, in episode 199, I got

a special guest, a returning Ray Wong from Input Magazine, we're going to talk about the

highlights of this year, let's call them the good apples, and maybe the low lights, whether

you want to call them man apples or bad apples, this is what this show is going to be all about,

we had a long conversation, I think it's a great one that kind of really summarizes

everything happening with Apple this year, all right, but before we do that, let's get

to some orders of business, you know the drill, if you've been here before, first of all,

if you want to be a part of the show, I think it would be kind of awesome, I hope we get

enough in time, I don't know if we will, but I would love to hear from you all directly

to be put in our 200th episode, I would just love to hear your thoughts, and you know,

maybe something about your take on your favorite Apple product this year, and the thing that

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