WEBVTT - You Can Now Tell Facebook to Stop Tracking You 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.119 Facebook. Let's you turn off those creepy ads for the 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.040 stuff that you just looked at online. Apple and Samsung 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.240 duke it out. That's nothing new, but there is a 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.680 new part to that, a way to get free calls 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:26.079 and texts, Yes, including cellular service and the Peloton experience 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.240 for half the price. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.880 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.640 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.879 Plus it is the exclusive place where I answer the 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.240 questions that you send me. Joining me as producer Megan 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:48.159 as always. Hey, hey, oh it's back and we have 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.880 a guest as well. Will is shadowing for the day. Welcome, 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:52.479 how's it going. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:53.199 Thanks for having me. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:59.040 I heard that you just recently switched from Android to iPhone. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:00:59.960 This is true. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:00.880 Why did you do that? 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.440 Let's see. So I'd had my Samsung Galaxy S seven 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.880 for a little bit and I just decided to see 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.080 what was going on with uh on the Apple side 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:10.479 of stuff. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.320 Okay, I made the switch. And interesting. Will is a 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.240 student in high school and you're just doing kind of 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.759 a career week where you're shadowing different people to see 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.720 what you might want to do in the future. Yeah, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.920 how's it going so far today at the TV station? 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.320 It's been pretty fun, just getting ah, you know, quick 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.679 rundown of how things operate a little bit. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.240 How would you describe in two words what the atmosphere 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.720 here is like besides tense? 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.160 Oh boy? Uh I guess last minute? 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:38.920 Oh nice? 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:41.000 What does that say about? 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.600 That's good? Last minute is because TV is like always changing. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.560 Yeah, especially with news where it's like constantly running. It's 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.960 always it's interesting to see how like parts that you'd 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.920 think would be you know, planned out for over like 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.760 a long period of time has to be carried out 0:01:54.800 --> 0:02:00.040 in like you know, very you know, crunch time, Yes, situations. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.400 It is. And that's the beauty of news is that 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.840 if you like change, if you like being on the 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.040 edge of your seat all day long, then this is 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.200 a really good business because nothing is like you're not 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.600 just sitting around twiddling your thumbs waiting for the clock 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.080 to hit five o'clock. Ever, for us, when we're watching 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.440 the clock, it's because we have a deadline at five 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.160 am or six am or seven fifteen or whatever it is. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.360 So that's a nice part about it. And do you 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.679 like the iPhone so far? I do? I do. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.080 It's it's nice because I have a MacBook Pro at 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.720 home that I use for school and whatnot, so it's 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.119 nice to have, you know, a more like seamless integration 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.160 of like texts and FaceTime and whatnot. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.000 Yeah, that is the one thing I noticed is when 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.040 I try to go back to Android, is that the 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.400 way Apple just gets you in with everything working so well, 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.920 it's really tough to go back between air Drop and 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.800 I Message, even though I love Shotgram. But let's start 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.600 with our first story and we'll feel fit to chime 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:00.280 in whenever you want, as long as I'm not talking nice. Actually, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.400 this is a new thing from Facebook. So you've been 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.839 on Facebook, you know that a lot of times you're 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.320 on there and you see ads for stuff that you 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.120 literally just looked at online. So you're shopping for a 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.600 toothbrush and I feel like we've talked about this before, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.720 but you're shopping for something online, and next thing, you know, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.560 all your ads on Facebook and by extension, Instagram become 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.800 ads for these things that you just recently looked at. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.240 And the way they do that is because every website 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.359 that you go to is sort of reporting back to 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.840 Facebook that you visited. So that they can sell ads 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.560 against your visit. They say, oh, we just had Megan 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.360 come here and we know that she almost bought a toothbrush, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.760 So if we show her two more ads on Facebook, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.880 maybe she'll be pushed over the edge and buy that toothbrush. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.600 And that's what happens. That's the new advertising world we 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.880 live in. And I did a blog post about this 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.880 on my website, rich on tech dot tv, as well 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.520 as a little video that shows you how you can 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.280 now turn this off. And this is part of Facebook 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.760 trying to be more trained parent. Facebook trying to make 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.000 us feel like we have some control in our lives, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.680 which we really don't. But they have this new tool 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.000 called off Facebook Activity and when you toggle there's two 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.640 things you can do. You can just view your activity. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.360 You can clear that activity out so they will show 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.479 you all. When I looked at mine, it was I 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.720 think they show you the last six months, but it 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.040 was every app that I opened on my iPhone, like 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.599 even my workout app Aptive. It was like, oh, it 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.560 sent information to Facebook that I just worked out. You know, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.920 every little app sends information every website. There was no 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.800 surprises in there. I mean everything I saw I was like, Okay, yeah, 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.599 I visited those sites, some of the little sites that 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.000 my kids visit on my phone, some of the games 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.400 they play. Of course they were reporting back information. But 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.279 again it's all to build this profile of you so 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.320 that advertisers can target their ads. And it totally makes 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.640 sense from an advertising standpoint, because do you want to 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.920 sell your ads to someone who's interested or expressed interest 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.640 in toothbrushes, like Megan because she just visited a toothbrush website, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.800 or do you just want to put your toothbrush ad 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.000 out there for everyone and hope that people are in 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.200 the market for a new toothbrush, which is the way 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.200 broadcast TV in the past has worked, and also magazines 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.600 and newspapers. But this is why people love internet advertising 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.560 because it's been so targeted. Now you can turn that 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.840 off if you go to a section of Facebook under 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.640 the site. It's really complicated, but you go. It's easy 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.880 to do, but a hide it. You go to settings, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.160 You go to Facebook your Facebook information and then tap 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.000 off Facebook activity and under that you can tap clear 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.680 history to delete out the data. Or if you don't 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.320 want websites setting information in the future, look for the 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.760 option labeled manage future activity and you can toggle that 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.040 blue switch off. I know this a podcast. You're not 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.280 writing this all down. Just go to my website rich 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.920 on tech dot tv. I wrote all of the steps 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:54.000 out very clearly, so you can do this and you'll 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.000 see less ads that are super targeted because they just 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.560 won't have as much data on you. They'll still get 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.200 all the data about what you're doing on Facebook, you know, 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.080 and that's the whole reason they had you like stuff 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.839 like your favorite bands, like your favorite TV shows, so 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.080 they could build a profile about you. Now it's just 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.520 gotten to the point of anything you do online reports 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.640 back to Facebook. But you can turn that off now. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.000 So good to know off of Facebook activity, Megan. First question. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.760 Okay, so if you want to send in your question 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.840 to Rich, go to his website rich on tech dot 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.760 tv and hit the contact button to send your question. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.200 Our first question today comes from and Hi, Rich, I 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.320 suspect that someone is reading my texts by using spyware 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.960 of some kind. Is there a way to protect against this? 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.760 I know it's illegal, but what can I do? 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.320 I wonder why she thinks she's being stocked her text? 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.560 Also, how do you get spyware to read people's text. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.200 Well, that's what I'm trying to think. I would think 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.120 on Android it would be well, we know that Jeff 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.040 Bezos had his phone packed, so if it can happen 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.200 to him, we've talked about this, it can happen to anyone. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.840 I often get this question in various forms, and I 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.720 think what it comes down to, there's several ways that 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.000 people can do this. If you have an iPhone, the 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.120 easiest way is if they have access to your iCloud. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.840 So a lot of couples will share iCloud login information 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.680 and sometimes that will also give deliver your text messages 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.320 realistically your I messages to their phone and vice versa. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.240 A lot of families tell me this, They say, oh, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.240 I've got my whole family signed up on the same iCloud. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.840 We're not using separate accounts. We just all sign in 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.640 with one account, and a lot of information gets shared 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.880 between the phones that is meant to be for one person. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.320 So I would say that's probably the first way, is 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.000 that someone might be logged in with her iCloud account 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.360 and looking at her messages in the cloud. That could 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.960 be one way. I don't know of an app, like 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.040 if they installed spy were on her phone, I think 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.080 it'd be really tricky because umber one, Apple doesn't really 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.760 give you access to text messages on the iPhone no 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.760 matter what I mean. You'd have to be a real 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.560 hacker to get into those. Now, if she's on Android, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.400 it's much easier, and there's a lot of different ways 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.840 you can do it on Android because pretty much any 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.120 app that you download can have access to your text 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.000 messages on Android if you grant that access. So someone 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.680 could have installed an app that's lurking in the shadows 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.280 on her Android and reporting all those texts back to them. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.600 But the bottom line is, I don't think any of 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.160 this is happening. It might be something that she thinks 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.559 is happening, right, because she. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.199 Said, I suspect that someone is reading my text. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.920 But those are the scenarios that I think could lead 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.600 to someone looking at her text right right. And if 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.839 you do suspect this, I would go with the nuclear option, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.360 which is reform at your phone and just clear everything 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.040 off and start over and sign in with a new account. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.000 Whether it's Google or Face or Apple, just sign up 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.240 with a new account, and that way, no one's going 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.119 to be able to get access to those new messages 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.640 unless they're getting access to them at the network level, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.200 which would be really tricky. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:05.400 Yeah, it's intense. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.160 Yeah, that's a really intense first question, I like. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.800 To start it off. Yeah, really really intense question. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.480 So this kind of plays into what we just talked 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.200 about with Will and switching from Android to iPhone, and 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.360 it's something that I recently did as well with the 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.480 iPhone eleven. I went kind of all in when I 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.520 got the iPhone, and I usually switch phones several times 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.240 a year, but I've pretty much been with the iPhone 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.040 exclusively for a while now, and it's kind of crazy 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.520 because there's not much on Android that's like trying to 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.479 get me back. I love the way Android is super flexible, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.200 and I love the control I have over my Android. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.720 But at this point, between the Apple Watch and the 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.880 AirPods and the iPhone and my Mac, everything just sort 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.440 of works together. And I really like that aspect. And 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.840 when I go back to Android, I feel like I'm 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:57.240 cobbling together in experience that's trying to match what Apple has, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.880 and that means even something as simple as my remind 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.040 I'll sit there and I'll say, Hey, Siri, remind me 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.280 to do this and on Android you can do that, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.160 but you have to find an app to do it with, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.199 and it's not as integrated with your computers. You have 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.840 to now download that app. With all that said, Apple 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.040 is really selling a lot of iPhones. To the tune 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.240 of I usually said they sold about fifty five to 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.880 sixty million in a quarter. That's three months or no, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.000 a quarter is what? Yeah? Three months? Yeah, they sold 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:28.719 seventy two point nine. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.520 Million four months, because there's four four. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.280 Quarters, so it'll be three months in a quarter. Oh yeah, right, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.440 I always get that confused. And apparently Samsung only sold 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.080 about seventy million Galaxy phones, which is still Both of 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.160 those are very respectable numbers, but it's wild that that 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.600 is a lot of phones and Apple kind of beat 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.720 Samsung in the last quarter, which historically Samsung usually beats 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.440 Apple because think about it, Samsung on a global level, right, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.920 probably sells more phones. In the US were very iPhone centric, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.240 but in the rest of the world it's very Android 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.400 and Samsung centric. So this is kind of big and 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.320 I just find it very telling that when I saw 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.040 the iPhone eleven come out, I called it, and you 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.920 probably remember this, I said, this is a killer device. Yeah, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.560 it hits every single point that people have wanted with 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.560 their devices. It came at a time when people were 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.880 kind of growing tired of Android and all these promises 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.160 that you would get from the thing like the Pixel four. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.400 Everyone wanted the Pixel four to be this amazing phone 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.080 and it comes out and immediately every tech person was 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.800 disappointed because it didn't have the wide angle lens, the 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:43.360 camera didn't really improve very much, and it's slow, it's laggy. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.560 The apps just don't have the same support. And I 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.040 feel like what I'm hearing over and over from people 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.240 is they're saying, Rich, I'm going to the iPhone because 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.240 I feel like it's the experience that people just talk about. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.679 It's that iPhone experience, and I'm not going to sit 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.440 here and extol the virtues of iPhone. I still love 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.080 Android for the fact that you can set default apps. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.360 When I want my links to open up in a 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.320 web browser of my choice, I can do that on 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.160 the Android when I this is my thing. I feel 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.480 like on the iPhone it's almost like landmines. Like I'm 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.200 sitting there and I'm like, oh, I can't click the 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.480 map link in Yelp because that's gonna take me to 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.000 Apple Maps and I don't want to go there, or oh, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.240 I can't open this in Safari because it's not gonna 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.600 work nicely with it, you know. I'm always trying to 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.599 use Chrome or whatever. So it's just this experience on 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.080 the iPhone that's really good, but it's very siloed, right, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.520 and I think that's what I love about Android. But anyway, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.120 but people are loving the iPhone, and that's clearly happening 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.480 because they overtook the Samsung sales for the first time 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:44.040 in a while. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.440 And you suggest to most people when getting the iPhone 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.000 to go with the eleven, right, yes, if you don't 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.160 need uh, you don't need. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.280 The eleven Pro. For most people, I don't think they 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.160 need the eleven Pro because with the eleven you get 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.360 the wide angle lens, which is the cool new feature. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.320 You just don't get the zoom line. Now, if you're 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.960 taking pictures of your kids at their holiday play or 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.280 some sort of recital, the zoom is always nice, but 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.200 the zoom is not enough to warrant itself because most 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.920 people just pinch to zoom anyway, and they're getting like 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.800 really close in on their kids and it's not a 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.080 good picture no matter. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.000 What, you need a really nice and that's the only 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:24.320 difference besides this and the screen, the screen, and yeah, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.800 that's basically it now or something. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.760 Battery I believe is better on the pro. And we've 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.120 talked about this before on the podcast, where at this 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.080 point battery is not even a thing on the iPhone, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.800 Like it's just so good. It's so good. I went 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:43.040 through CS literally not even thinking about my battery. See yes, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.280 the big convention in Vegas, and I just didn't. It 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:47.760 wasn't even a thought in my head that I was 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.079 going to run out of a battery at all. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:50.320 That's really impressive. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.560 At night I go to sleep again, my phone is 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.240 at like seventy five percent most nights. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.079 Is that from charging a little bit? 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.959 Yeah? Sometimes, but still most people are near an outlet 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.920 at least sometimes. I was saying, I don't, it's not 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.840 even a thought anymore in my head of oh am, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.160 I gonna run out of battery, Megan, I think it's 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:07.360 your turn for a question. Okay. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.880 Our next question is from Mona. The eb photo storage 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.960 you mentioned, I got one and downloaded all my photos. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.720 Is it safe to delete them now? From the iCloud 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.119 I need to free up space for backups. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.640 Mona is referring to the EB storage device we talked about, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.400 which is pretty much a hard drive with Wi Fi 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.080 connected to it, and at night, it has an app 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.800 that goes on your phone at night when your phone 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.240 is charging. It takes all the pictures off your phone, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.400 and not off it just makes a copy of them 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.040 to the EB. And so she's asking if she can 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.040 now delete those off her phone. My recommendation is no, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.960 because you want your pictures backed up in two places. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.920 And if she's saying she wants to free up her 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.320 iPhone storage and her iCloud storage as well. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.240 Because no, I think she just needs space in her iCloud. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.680 So yeah, that means she's had to delete them out 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.960 of her eCloud as well, which you can't do. You 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.440 need your photos in two places, and so just having 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.200 them on that hard drive on EB. Let me just 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.320 give you a scenario. Let's say God forbid, your house 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.120 burns down and the EB is in it. Now you've 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.880 lost all your pictures. That's not a good solution for backup. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.840 Let's say there's a flood and all the in that 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.280 hard drive gets messed up. Now you have no pictures, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.440 so you always want your pictures in two places. Now, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.400 if she wanted to do this, if she wanted to 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.440 buy a second EB and set it up at a 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.880 friend's house and she has one at her house one 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.960 at a friend's house, I would say that's probably fine 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.160 because if something happened to your house, you can be 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.400 like a friend, I need that EB with all my 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.520 pictures on it. That's kind of funny, but you can't 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.000 just have it in one place. You have to have 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.160 your photos in two places. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.960 And to buy some more storage, I mean, isn't it. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:50.760 The hundred gigabytes is like one dollar. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.480 I pay three dollars for two hundred gigs. Okay, three 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.120 dollars a month. Now, over the long term, you know, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.320 three dollars a month is a lot of money when 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.360 you think about that's thirty six dollars a year. Two 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.120 years is seventy two dollars. A hard drive with like 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.280 two terabytes of data is about fifty nine dollars on Amazon. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.880 So it is expensive, but you're not What you're paying 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.000 for is that peace of mind and the fact that 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.080 Apple is maintaining these servers. It's off site, it's a 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.680 secondary backup the other options I would tell her is 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.760 just put your photos in Amazon Prime Photos. If you 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.000 have a Prime account, is that free, totally free, unlimited. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.680 Okay, I have a Prime account, Yeah, you can. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.640 Totally free and unlimited. Now the trick with that is 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.960 that if you cancel Amazon Prime now, all of a sudden, 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.080 your pictures are in danger because you have to pay up. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.480 Or you can just switch to something else. Google Photos 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.200 is totally free. You can use that. But again, pick 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.040 two either iCloud and your phone, your phone and eb 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.960 iCloud and eb eb and Google Photos. Just pick two 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.120 things and get on with your life. New app that 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.560 is really cool for the iPhone eleven is called double Take. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.720 We had a lot of phone with this app. What 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.440 it does is it gives you a two camera shoot 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.159 with just one phone. So if you have an iPhone eleven, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.919 it takes advantage of all of the cameras in that phone, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.359 the wide angle lens, the telephoto lens, the ultra wide 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.000 and the selfie camera. So when you turn on this app, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.480 you get an option with those four cameras, it shows 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.800 you a live feed of all four. You pick two, 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.520 any two you want, and now you can record both 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.200 of those feeds at the same time, you can merge 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.240 them into one video, so you can have side by side. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.840 So let's say for me personally, I think and I 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.840 might start this as a thing. I interview a lot 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.320 of people for TV. A lot of those interviews go 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.840 to waste because we only use you know, thirty seconds 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.040 forty seconds on TV. Well, these people have a lot 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.359 more to say that's interesting. So if I can stand 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.159 there with my iPhone, have a mic on them, a 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.440 mic on me, a camera, one camera facing me, one 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.280 camera facing them, I do a quick five minute interview 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.840 and now I've just created something in real time that's 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.720 easily postable to YouTube, and it shows my reaction, my questions, 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.280 and also them and their reaction and their answers. That 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.960 is something that is really cool. Yeah. Again, it's something 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.160 that used to take two cameras to do. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.840 Do you think it looks funny if you have the 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.480 camera close to your face though. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.400 Well, you have to figure out I was thinking about Yeah, I. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.120 Was gonna say, maybe it's like you need a third 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.520 person to hold it so like it kind of balance 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:25.920 it out. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:26.359 Yeah. 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.440 Yeah, I was thinking about the setup, and I think 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.800 you can get it right with a tripod. If you 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.239 put a tripod in between you and you stood in 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.320 one place because as the interviewer, you have to stand 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.960 back because the iPhone camera is so close up. Yeah, 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.520 so you just have to stand back and kind of 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.119 stay there and then the other person. You know, depending 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.800 on the lens you use, you could be close up, wide, whatever. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.560 It's just a really cool app. It's called double Take. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.760 It's free. It's from Filmic, which they're known for making 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:56.320 a really high end recording app for the iPhone, and 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.919 eventually this will be built into the Filmic app, but 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.320 right now it's a standalone app. You can do side 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.600 by side, you can do picture and picture, or you 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:08.359 can do yeah, those two things. It's really cool. Have 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.359 you seen this app? Well, actually, it's really fun because 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.000 as a journalist that's been doing this for so long, 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.280 to get the two shots at once on a smartphone 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.280 is just something that is just such a cool idea. 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.840 And I think it opens up an entirely new genre 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.400 of interview style where you're just kind of like, hey, 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.080