joining us is bloomberg's mark gurman, chief correspondent.esting data point because it is counter to the commentary that apple gave us an earnings for the end of the june quarter. iphone would accelerate. we thought the iphone 15 would be a hit. what have we learned? mark: these are data points pointing towards the iphone going down double digits in terms of sales in mainland china. june quarter was very strong for apple and china, one of the strongest in the company's history. there been a few things that happened. there was discussion of government agencies banning the use or expanding the bidding of use of iphones. there were concerns around nationalism and consumers in china souring on the iphone. we saw when the new iphone 15's went on sale there was a tremendous amount of early demand. there were credible lines for the iphone 15 in china. these are two data points. we are not sure what is going on with the iphone, not even this earning cycle. we will not get a full picture of how the iphone is doing in china until the end of january whe

bloomberg's mark gurman has more. : on the eve of halloween, apple rolled out two more among -- two more max as well as a new chip processor. the m3 has eight cpu cores while the m3 probe cranks it up for 12 cpu cores as well as 18 gpu cores. and the m3 max have up to 40 gpu and cpu cores. the base m3 chip is coming to two products. a new lower end macbook pro as well as a refresh to the 24 inch imac. the m3 pro and the m3 max are coming to the 16 inch macbook pros. all of the new machines go on sale in the coming weeks. from bloomberg news, i am mark gurman. kriti: bloomberg's mark gurman en apple's latest lineup. i will stick with the tech sphere. sam bankman-fried has told the court he was aware that alameda research did not take steps to properly hedge its risks, even as he proved billions of dollars of investments before both companies collapsed last year. big been freed had previously tried to distance themselves from the hedge fund. he also denies charges of fraud. x is worth less than half of what elon musk pai

mark gurman, who has all the inside track around these products, give us your thoughts. did you make of the updates, the camera and the way they look and feel? mark: i think google is continuing to push out pretty impressive ai driven crop -- products, the new pixel phones, the pixelate, impressivw camera ftures, a g3 tensor processors and a few upgrades that makes it look like a iphone and the facial recognition on the previous pixel phones, they were not great security wise, high enough to be processed for payment using the banking apps. they up to the security for that. the design of the pixel phone continues to be some of the best smartphone designs of the market but the trend continues, google is pushing out night -- nice hardware and probably some of the best android phones you can get globally but that has not translated into strong amounts on market share. that is the problem google will grapple with at least for the foreseeable future, making good phones and hardware products that are not selling as well as their competitors from samsung and apple. that is what

for more, let's dig into this scoop with mark gurman. e day, mark. how will these changes help them compete? mark: this is a big upgrade coming to the tv app on apple tv. a new sidebar and interface makes it look more like netflix. the current tv app, it is not very intuitive. the idea is to aggregate content from a number of sources -- tv plus, which apple announced this morning is getting a price increase from seven dollars a month to $10 a month, and we will talk more about that over the course of the day. it integrates from there -- apps like espn, amazon prime, live news, other live sports networks, but it is confusing to navigate. this is designed to simplify it. they will also be removing the itunes movie and tv show apps. the reason you can do that, you can buy that content in the tv app and they want to push anyone looking to watch video on their devices to the tv app, the center of their video strategy. that is where you can sign up for these subscriptions, both apple tv add-on packages and the $10 a month tv plus. ed: the break

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let's bring in mark gurman who has been following these lines.oes this tell us about how much samsung is improving from the trough? >> we are seeing improvement. on the consolidated net, double the estimates. we are not liking what we are seeing. we are seeing annual declines across the board, consumer electronics sales down 7%, display sales, that's the situation where they actually sell their components to other phone makers and computer makers, down 12%. network sales down 7%. chip sales of course improved. still down 30%. we are not nearly out of the woods yet. it is an improvement but we are not going to like what we are seeing until we are back in the green. >> how do you weigh the competition? when it comes to samsung, things are getting tougher. >> things are certainly getting tougher but samsung is in the unique position where they are so vertically integrated, not only did they make their own appliances, they sell components to other consumer electronics companies. apple of course is a big customer of samsung. even that samsung plays in

tom: that article out of our asian platform, not mark gurman and i.t.t is a discrete statement. jon: if it is real, it is the reality of things, is that because of consumer spending in china or competition? tom: our christian -- competition was in the article. this is the same angst six crises ago on apple. the shares --jon: -- scarlet: we have --tom: we have a ways to go and we will do this with terence haynes, he has been a huge bout -- value on how inside the beltway is amending to what he calls geopolitical risk in half -- a half-century high. it is a sobering statement. i don't know where to begin. i guess i will begin with the immediacy of a president considering going to israel. lbj did not do that with vietnam. what is new about this new prosecution of war? >> there is a lot of personal diplomacy involved here and one of the things the white house was considering almost certainly is the president's presence in israel might help that to happen and there is that on the one side and on the others, the president was interviewed on 60 minutes from a