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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR. Back now to the

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Speaker 1: WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry MINTI.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. There is a TikTok revolt. A record number

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Speaker 2: of people are canceling TikTok because of their new terms

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Speaker 2: of service. Rich de Muro from rich on Tech explains, Rich,

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to talk to you about this. I am

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Speaker 2: a big air tag fan. I have air tags on everything.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there are two air tags

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Speaker 2: within handreach of me right now. So what is this

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Speaker 2: new update for the AirTags.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning to you, Larry. I hope you're thawing

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Speaker 1: out from the storm. Air tags have been very popular.

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Speaker 1: They were released about five years ago, if you can

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Speaker 1: believe it, and there has not been a new model

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Speaker 1: since then. Now we have the new air Tag two.

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Speaker 1: Apple of course doesn't call it that, They just say

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Speaker 1: it's the next generation air tag. And here are the

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Speaker 1: new features. Number one, it has a better chip inside,

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Speaker 1: which is going to mean you're gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: find it up to fifty percent further away than before.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Bluetooth range is longer as well, so better chance of

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Speaker 1: locating it that way. And the speaker is fifty percent louder,

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Speaker 1: so that means if it's under a couch or it

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Speaker 1: fits far away, you'll be able to hear it. And

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Speaker 1: then they added a new feature. You can actually use

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Speaker 1: precision finding from your Apple Watch, so you don't have

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Speaker 1: to pull out your phone if you want to track

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Speaker 1: something down. The prices are the same, the size is

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Speaker 1: the same, which means if you have any accessories, and

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Speaker 1: all the accessories out there still work with the new

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Speaker 1: air tags, but you don't have to replace them if

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Speaker 1: you already have these things. Like you said, Larry, you

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Speaker 1: got two of them right there, No need to replace them.

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Speaker 1: This is just when you're looking for some new ones.

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Speaker 1: Here are the new features.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's great. Just in case anybody doesn't know what

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Speaker 2: air tags are, they are these little tags. There are

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Speaker 2: little metal discs that you can put in your wallet

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Speaker 2: or your bag, or hook onto your keys or put

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Speaker 2: some on your kids to know where they are, so

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Speaker 2: you can track something is in case you lose or

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Speaker 2: you want to know where it is. That summed it up.

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Speaker 1: Pretty well, right, Yeah, you did a great job. You

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Speaker 1: could take my job.

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Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, let's talk about the shakeup

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Speaker 2: at Amazon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so Amazon, big, big, announcements this week, number one,

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Speaker 1: eliminating sixteen thousand jobs. Now the company still has over

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Speaker 1: a million employees, so well, you know what, I don't

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Speaker 1: quote me on that. That sounds like a very high number.

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Speaker 1: I need to look that up, but sixteen thousand jobs.

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Speaker 1: As part of a restructuring effort, they say they want

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Speaker 1: to speed things up, they want to cut the red tape,

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Speaker 1: they want to reduce players. And this is what Amazon

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Speaker 1: is all about. They're constantly evolving their system and their

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Speaker 1: efficiency to focus on customers. And that's what they do.

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Speaker 1: They try things. If it doesn't work, they don't do

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Speaker 1: it anymore. And so we saw that again this week

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Speaker 1: with Amazon announcing that they're closing all of their Amazon

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Speaker 1: Go and their Amazon Fresh physical grocery stores. And so,

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Speaker 1: if you have one of these in your neighborhood, it's

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Speaker 1: either going to shut down as early as this weekend,

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Speaker 1: by the way, unless you're in California. They're leaving them

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Speaker 1: open a little bit longer, but some locations will turn

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Speaker 1: into whole foods, which I think would be a pretty

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Speaker 1: good thing. If you have one of these in your neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's funny you said, don't quote me on that,

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Speaker 2: and then I looked it up. It's one point five

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Speaker 2: six million to one point six million people worldwide work

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Speaker 2: for Amazon. That is, that's wild credable. I learned something

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Speaker 2: new there. What about what about the TikTok backlash? I

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Speaker 2: know TikTok has been a little controversial because it's ties

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Speaker 2: to China. Does this backlash have anything to do with that?

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Speaker 1: Well, now it is. You know, they made the change

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Speaker 1: to being owned by US entities and so, but people

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Speaker 1: still don't like it. And the reason I don't like

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Speaker 1: it is because Number One, they say that the people

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Speaker 1: that own this this app now they don't like Larry Ellison,

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Speaker 1: It's Oracle, It's linked to some other people that some

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Speaker 1: people don't appreciate. Number too, the new terms of service

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Speaker 1: they collect precise location now and all kinds of data

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Speaker 1: about the users that people don't like there. And then

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Speaker 1: people are saying they're being censored. They're saying some of

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Speaker 1: the stuff they post on there is being censored, not

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Speaker 1: shown to people, or they can't even search for certain

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Speaker 1: things on there anymore. And so people have been deleting

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Speaker 1: the app. They've been vocal about their unhappiness with TikTok.

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Speaker 1: But I will tell you, Larry, I think at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, this app is going to survive.

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Speaker 1: This is just a bump in the road, right.

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Speaker 2: Because there's so many users, they can lose twenty percent

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Speaker 2: and still be extremely popular, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm not even sure they're going to lose

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Speaker 1: that many people. I mean, people are emailing me saying, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I'm deleting this app. I don't want to accept the

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Speaker 1: new terms of service. But you know, we've heard this

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Speaker 1: before with a lot of these social media apps that

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Speaker 1: change things, people generally come back because they like the product.

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Speaker 2: You know what, This is a perfect story that you

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Speaker 2: have here for what we're going through right now. We

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Speaker 2: just had a big winter storm. We have another one.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows if it's going to hit us or not.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be great if you have a app you

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Speaker 2: can count on to tell you the weather on your phone.

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Speaker 2: But who knows. There's so many of them out there.

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Speaker 2: Which one do you get?

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Speaker 1: There are so many? I mean, I like people have

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Speaker 1: a very interesting relationship with their weather apps. Like my

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Speaker 1: wife loves weather. She checks it every day, all day,

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Speaker 1: all the time. I mean, she she's like a forecaster basically,

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Speaker 1: but you know, all these apps are different. My friend

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Speaker 1: over at nine to five Google Ben shown he actually,

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Speaker 1: you know, he lives in North Carolina where all these

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Speaker 1: you know, the storm was hit pretty bad. So he

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Speaker 1: downloaded a whole bunch of apps, ACU Weather, Weather Underground,

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Speaker 1: hyper Local, dark Sky, UH Forica, which I haven't really

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Speaker 1: heard of, the Weather Channel, and then Google's Pixel weather app.

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Speaker 1: And he said that the Pixel app that they've hyped

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Speaker 1: so much with this AI forecasting actually was the worst.

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Speaker 1: He said that ACU Weather and Weather Channel turned out

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Speaker 1: to be the best. And I discovered on the aciweather

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Speaker 1: app they actually offer a ninety day forecast, which is

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Speaker 1: just insane. I've never heard of that, but you do

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Speaker 1: have to be a paying subscriber. Apple was not part

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Speaker 1: of this, but they did buy a company a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago called dark Sky, which people love for

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Speaker 1: their hyper local forecasts. So that's part of Apple Weather now.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just going to toss one more out there

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Speaker 1: that I personally love, especially for storms approaching. It's called

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow Tom r row Io, and this one is great

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Speaker 1: for not only storms but storm tracking like hurricanes. It

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Speaker 1: is my favorite Tom In fact, when we had a hurricane,

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Speaker 1: a major storm here in Los Angeles, in the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles area. They actually I saw it there first, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what's happening here? We're having a

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Speaker 1: tropical storm come near us, And it was on that app.

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