WEBVTT - Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra is everything all at once 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.000 Zoom comes to smart displays, Bundling is the new old 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.840 thing to do. Instagram copies yet another TikTok feature. Plus 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.160 your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.040 and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.120 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.440 It's also the place where I answer the questions that 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.840 you send me. And I've said this before, but during 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.720 this pandemic, you are sending me a lot of questions. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.959 You know, I get it, your home, you got tech issues. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.560 There's all kinds of stuff going on. And I'm here. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.239 I'm here for you to see me on TV. And 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.280 you say, hey, let me send that guy a question. Sure, 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.880 I'll take it. My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.760 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, coming to you 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.840 from home as usual. I have now been working from 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:05.080 home full are a grand total of five months. I 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:09.160 can't believe it. Can you believe it? I can't. Now 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.959 at this point, I've got myself working from home, I've 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:17.160 got my wife working from home. I've got my five 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.160 year old doing kindergarten from home, and I've got my 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:26.400 nine year old doing his school from home. So it 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.959 looks like we run a small office here in the 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.679 DeMuro House, with everyone on computers, everyone on headphones, everyone 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.760 trying to coordinate their schedules. And it's unlike anything I've 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.840 ever experienced in my life. And I'm sure you are 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.319 going through something very similar no matter what you're doing, 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.520 whether you have kids, whether you don't have kids, whether 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.680 you're working, whether you're not working. It's an odd time. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.840 In fact, I was in Santa Barbara again. I know 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.560 I was in Santa Barbara last time I talked to 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.320 you when I did last week's podcast, but I went 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.400 once again. And I've realized that Santa Barbara is not 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.840 very far from Los Angeles, and so now I'm expanding 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.200 my reach of doing stories up there because there's some 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.680 tech companies up there. So I've been going up there. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.480 So I was up there yesterday and at the end 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.000 of my interview, I decided to get a haircut because 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.240 it's much cooler in Santa Barbara than it is in 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.640 Los Angeles, and they were doing the haircuts outside, and 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.720 it's really tough to get a haircut in California right 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.160 now because everyone has to be outside. And so I 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.040 went to this barber shop. They said, okay, we could 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.079 take you, you know, at this time, And I came 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.880 back and I got my haircut, and I'm sitting there 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:38.400 outside getting my haircut, just thinking, this is a time 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.400 that people will talk about for the rest of their 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.200 lives when I'm an old grandpa talking to my grandkids, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:51.560 sitting hopefully outside in a beautiful lake or beach somewhere, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.680 and my grandkids are hanging out and hanging on me, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.200 and I will be like, you know, I got a 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.959 haircut on the street once because you couldn't go inside 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.720 get a haircut, and there's hair everywhere, and there's just people. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.919 I mean, it was a whole It is a whole scene. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.359 It reminds me of something that someone would come by 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.440 and snap a black and white picture of in like 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.320 the twenties, and we would look at it and think 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.120 how silly it looks. But there I was, in color, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.000 sitting there on the street in twenty twenty, getting a haircut. 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.440 So it was just a really interesting experience. And this 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.440 whole thing has really made me very introspective on life 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.360 and what we're all doing here, and what we're doing 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.880 for our jobs and our families and just Oh, it's 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:39.080 just quite quite quite interesting when you really break it down. Well, 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.320 let's start with the first story, which directly relates to 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.200 this whole pandemic, and it is zoom. Zoom is coming 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:51.320 to smart home displays. Zoom is coming to Amazon, Echo 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:56.640 Show Portal from Facebook and Google, Nest Hub Max. This 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.000 is brilliant. This is something that I'm so glad as happy. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.760 Not that everyone has these in their homes, but a 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.280 lot of people do, especially probably the Amazon Echo Show 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.880 Portal from Facebook, not so much Google, nesttub Max, probably 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.800 to a lesser extent. But the good news is you 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.160 will be able to do zoom on these smart displays, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.560 which is fantastic because it frees up your computer screen 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.080 so you can do other things on there while you zoom. Now, 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.240 it's not going to be ready just yet. Zoom on 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.919 Portal is coming the soonest in September, but that's probably 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.400 the least useful because people don't really have portals. As 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.520 far as I know, zoom On, Echo Show and Nest 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.840 are going to be available by the end of the year. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.280 And this is going to be all integrated with Alexa 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.800 and also with Google Assistance. You can just say, hey, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.480 h Google, join my next meeting and it will join. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.880 It's great and I love that these companies are actually 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.960 opening up these devices to third party software where it's 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.159 not just Google Meet on the nesttub Max, and it's 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.520 not just well Alexa had Zoom or Amazon Echo had 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.080 Zoom to begin with. Portal from Facebook had Messenger, but 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.640 I'm not sure they had anything else. So good job, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.440 and I think that this will actually hasten the adoption 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.320 of some of these smart home displays. The one I'm 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.880 most excited for is actually the Facebook Portal TV, because 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.800 I can't believe that there's no way to zoom on 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.719 TV right now, and that would be the ultimate. So 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.080 you can just sit there, probably not for work so much, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.440 but for personal just sitting down on a Friday night 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.279 having sort of a little happy hour with family or friends. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.160 The TV is the place to do it, and hopefully 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.200 we'll see that as well. All right, let's get to 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:49.200 our first question, and this question comes from Sharon. She says, 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.159 I want to get the ring doorbell from my house. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.680 Is it secure? I saw the video cameras on TV 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.440 that people can hack. There is a ring doorbell and 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.000 second generation and a third I don't know which one 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.920 is the best for me. My doorbell is now wired. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.240 And if you want to submit a question, by the way, 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.200 just email me hello at richontech dot tv and we'll 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.200 get your question into the show. So what's the difference 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.720 between the Ring Video Doorbell two and Ring Video Doorbell three? 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.120 I had to actually look this up on the website 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.000 because I was not aware that they had a third 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.560 ring doorbell. I have the two, I did have the one. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.200 The two gave me slightly better video, and the three 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.240 is one hundred and seventy nine ninety nine. Oh wow, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.880 there's a video doorbell three plus? I mean, how many 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.240 different doorbells do you need? What's the plus do? Now? 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.600 The plus is two hundred dollars are premium battery power 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.120 doorbell with advanced security features, including improved motion detection, with 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.840 an additional four second preview of each motion event. You'll 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.400 automatically start recording before you even receive an alert. So 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.120 what is that mean? That's that's interesting that it's like 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.680 recording twenty four to seven anyway, So do you need 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.920 the two or the three? I would say I personally 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.280 would go with the three, not because the two is bad, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.560 but the two's been out for a while, and if 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.600 you're installing one of these things, it's the kind of 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.600 thing that you keep for a while. You're not sitting there. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.240 People are not sitting there upgrading their video doorbells every 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.080 year like their smartphone, or every even every two years, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.480 or even every three years. This is the kind of 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.720 device that you put outside your front door and you 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.080 leave it there until it stops working completely. So for 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.080 that reason, I would go for the third generation of 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.560 this doorbell, because even though the second one is going 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.400 to be cheaper at one hundred dollars, I would probably 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.320 pay the extra hundred dollars so that you can have 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.280 the latest and greatest that that ring has been working on. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.440 Because why get something that's two years old. I don't 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.680 know when the second generation came out, but why get 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.640 something that's that old when you can have what's new 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.040 and keep it for long hopefully, So I think the 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.360 three what it adds is better Wi Fi. So the 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.800 two only has two point four gigahertz Wi Fi connectivity, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.920 five gigaherts is going to give you a more consistent 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.440 and higher quality Wi Fi signal. So that's one reason 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.800 for the three, and Let's see what else does a 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:25.120 three do. Let's see the three also gives you, let's 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:32.000 see here, advanced motion settings, so rechargeable, quick release. Oh okay, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.560 so there's a The battery also comes out faster on 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.959 the three. Yeah, I'd go with the three, just because 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:39.559 you know that way you have the newest one, You're 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.320 gonna leave this thing on your door till it fails. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.680 So that's what I would do, Sharon. And when it 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.000 comes to security, I think, you know, a little bit 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.360 of this security stuff was overblown in the media because 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.800 it's easy. You know, it's scary. Oh, someone could tap 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.240 into your doorbell. I think that Ring has done a 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.720 pretty good job of securing these things in various ways, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:03.440 including they now require two factor authentication, which means when 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.320 you sign up for a Ring account, you have to 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.040 put in some sort of secondary verification, which is usually 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.640 a text message or I'm not sure if they support 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.560 two factor authentication apps, but no matter what, it's gonna 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.520 be secure. The problem is a lot of people are 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.200 using their same tired, old password when they would set 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:22.960 up one of these devices, whether it was a Ring 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.280 or any sort of video doorbell, and people hack into 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.120 them because they figure out that your password is password 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.720 one two three. Don't put password one two three on 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.760 something that's securing your home. That's just not smart. Don't 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.920 do it. Let's talk about the Galaxy Note twenty Ultra. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.160 Last week I said that I was loving this phone. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.960 This week, I have my actual review since the embargo 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.320 on the review is up, and I can finally talk 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.240 about it for real. Let's just put it this way. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.280 The Galaxy Note twenty is the best Android phone out there. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.320 There's no doubt about it. It's the ultimate Android. You 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.480 can't get better. In fact, my only issue I have 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.960 two issue use with this phone. One is not even 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.719 related to the phone, it's really just an Android thing. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.000 And the other is just that it's so honk and 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.320 big that it's not comfortable to manipulate in a way 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.960 that I like to use my phone a lot. And 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.160 I have to think about it when I'm using the 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.760 Note twenty Ultra because it's just so big. And I'm 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.080 not going with a Note twenty because it's got the 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:26.120 plastic back, it's got the lesser camera, and it's got 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.079 no microSD card slot, which I don't really care about, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.920 but I want the best of the best, and that's 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.559 why I want the Ultra. But let me tell you 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.360 about it. So I've been using it for a couple 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.600 of weeks. I dropped it once very hard. I did 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.880 have a case on it. It got a little scratched 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.600 up on the screen. It's got a twelve megapixel ultra 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.120 wide camera, one hundred and eight megapixel old wide angle camera, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.240 and a twelve megapixel telephoto camera. The camera is so 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.120 flexible and so awesome that you will just have I 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.520 just couldn't stop taking pictures with it. It was that great. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.400 Now a lot of the problems with the AUTOFOK have 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.000 been fixed. I still find that it's a little tiny 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.680 blurrier for closer up pictures than the iPhone and phones 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.360 that don't have this camera setup. So the iPhone, the 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.800 pixel even the one plus shares the same problem that 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.320 the S twenty Ultra does. It's just a little bit 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.440 blurry when you take these kind of pictures at close range. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.600 I'm not sure why it's. It's you have to take 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.440 a bunch of pictures and compare a lot of cameras 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.320 like I do to really notice it, but it's there. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.480 The spen is super improved. It's got reduced latency, which 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.600 nobody's I don't notice that. Samsung app Notes app is great. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.920 You can write on PDFs. They've got this cool audio 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.800 recording feature that lets you sink what is being said 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.520 to what you're writing. So you can just tap the 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.720 word you said and you'll hear whatever that person said 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.800 at that point. So if you're writing down a phone number, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.840 for instance, in a or you know you're in class 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.720 and you're writing down notes, you can tap to that 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.680 portion of that whatever you wrote down there and you 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.319 can hear what the professor said. If you missed a 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.800 name or something. It's auto straightens your handwriting. It sinks 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.599 to the cloud back to the camera. Excellent. Point and 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.160 shoot photos that look like a million bucks. I mean 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.960 the pictures I was taking on this thing, they're just gorgeous. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.720 I mean they really are. Low Light was a little 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.800 bit of a challenge, but I find that it still 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.200 does pretty good. It's just not necessarily going to get 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.520 it on the first time every time in low light, 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.640 especially on the selfies, but most cameras can't. Let's be honest, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.160 it's a problem. Low Light is a problem. Video quality 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.840 is awesome, does a really good job with that battery life, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.720 no problems there at all. Five G kind of a 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.200 non starter right now. I have not tested at and 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.120 T five G in this phone, which I need to do. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.160 But T Mobile, I love the idea of five G 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.040 in this new network that T Mobiles building. I just 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.400 did not see performance that was worth subscribing to T 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.760 Mobile five G four or switching to a five G 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.760 or anything that really impressed me, to be honest. In fact, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.400 it was actually quite painful. The five G network in 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.559 Santa Barbara in Los Angeles where I live. Clearly they 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.240 just don't have it yet. So it's or maybe they do, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:04.839 it's just not at my house. I don't know. It's 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:06.240 just five G is not that big of a deal 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.560 right now. It will get better. So here's my biggest problem. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.520 Social media. I am on social media. I'm on Instagram, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.640 I'm on Twitter, I'm on Facebook, and I'll be honest, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.120 it's painful to use social media on the Note twenty 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.360 on Android. And this is every Android phone compared to 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.120 the iPhone. The iPhone, social media is so beautiful, it 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.600 just works perfectly. I don't know what the problem is 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.200 with social media on Android. In fact, I did a 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.839 Instagram Live at a place called Blaze Pizza. I was 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.400 shooting a story there and it was so terrible looking 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.320 when I looked at the video after I had gone 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.720 live that I had to delete it because it was 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.360 so bad. It looked horrendous. Now I'm wondering if it 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.040 has to do with T Mobile and the Tester SIM 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.080 that I have. T Mobile default to four EIGHTYP video 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:02.200 for most things. I'm wondering if it has to do 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.520 with that. So if it's if it's just not sending 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.440 through full quality video when I upload, because it's somehow 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.640 limiting it. Now, I thought that was maybe on just streaming, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.600 like if you're watching YouTube and stuff, but I don't know. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.560 Maybe it's on the uploads as well. So I'm gonna 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.640 test it out. I'm gonna put in my Verizon SIM 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.880 and see if it helps. But I'm not sure. And 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.200 if it does, great, then all this is moot point. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.240 But I'm not sure because it seems like every Android 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.440 phone I test social media just does not look as good. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:34.920 And let's see what else, So what I recommend it? No, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.920 twenty Ultra is not for everyone because it's so big, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.080 Like would I give my wife this phone I'm not sure. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.120 I think she would say, Rich, you're crazy. This thing 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.600 is so enormous that you can't use this day to day. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.880 I drop it. It's too big. It's like it's not pocketable. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.880 So I think this really appeals to a certain type 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.960 of person who sort of wants that really powerful device 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.160 that does everything, but is maybe going to replace their 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.840 you know, maybe at times their laptop and also a tablet. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.160 It's a great device, but I'll just leave it at that. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.440 It's a great device if it appeals to you. I 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.840 find really no flaws with it, and the only thing 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.760 is it's big. When you put a case on it, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.200 it's even bigger. Starts at one thousand bucks for the 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.880 Note twenty, thirteen hundred bucks for the Note twenty Ultra, 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.040 but you get it all and it really is the 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.320 best Android phone. Before I move on to the next question, 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.360 let me just say one thing. The Galaxy S twenty 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.360 lineup is getting a lot of the features of the 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.760 Note lineup, which is really cool. They're coming out with 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.520 one I are one UI two point five and with Samsung, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.400 and this really annoys me with them. I don't know 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.200 why they do this, but they announce and they've gotten 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.200 a lot better with it, but they announce the software 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.680 updates and then it takes forever for it to reach 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.240 your phone, whereas with iPhone they're like, oh, I always 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.040 fourteen's available today, You go into your settings and boom, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.400 it's there. Samsung not the same. You could wait they 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.080 announced this today, as I record this on August twenty first, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.560 and you could be waiting till September fifteenth, and you 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.000 might not see it on your phone. Now hopefully that's 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:09.040 not the case with this, but anyway, they are adding 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.360 the twenty one to nine aspect ratio in eight K. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.120 They're adding the ability to control your smartphone's mic direction 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.600 and also use Bluetooth mics with the S twenty lineup 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.120 the whole notes thing I just told you about with 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.600 the writing on PDFs, the audio bookmarks, the wireless decks, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.160 and some Wi Fi things where you can share Wi 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.840 Fi if you have an iPhone friend, you know you 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:32.920 can share. Like if you're trying to log onto a 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.760 Wi Fi network and you have an iPhone and a 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.280 friend is nearby that has that password on their phone 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.800 that they've already logged into that Wi Fi, I'll be like, hey, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.560 do you want to share with Rich he's nearby, and 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.000 you just tap and boom. So that's that's now on 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.400 the Samsung's and then apparently a reminder app you can 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.920 preset time and location for upcoming meet. I didn't even 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.080 know there was a reminder's app on the Samsung, but 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.000 there you have it. I think Samsung's doing a really 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.120 nice job. Let's put it this way, and I the 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.920 state of affairs when it comes to Android. There's a 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.119 lot of like Android devices out there. I think Samsung 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.560 is killing it right now. At this point in time, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.960 I think one plus is killing it. They're so close 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.399 with their camera, the pixel I am severely disappointed in 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.840 except they seem to be really taking the low end 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.199 of the spectrum with their Pixel four A. And I 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.280 haven't tested it yet. I have not gotten one yet, 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.159 so but I'm sure it takes amazing pictures. And for 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.400 three hundred and fifty dollars, that is the Android phone 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.120 to get if you want a cheap Android phone that's 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:41.320 just gonna take amazing photos. Let's see. Next question comes 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.639 from Martha. Martha says, hey, Rich, I hope you're well. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.760 I've attached a screenshot of the MacBook my son just purchased. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.160 He didn't really check into spec, so I'm wondering, how 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.639 can we make the storage last? Because of course we 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.879 can add more, but uh with let's see, it's not 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:02.160 as easy on laptops as is desktops. No matter how 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.640 big the storage is, things are eventually going to get filled. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:10.120 Can you share a review or personal tips on this MacBook? 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.280 Was this a smart purchase? He's using it for college 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.320 classes are just getting started. On a side note, I 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.800 did tell my son to email you this question before 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.760 he purchased it, but of course he didn't listen. Lol. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.720 We love your reviews or we watch your reviews on 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.880 KTLA all the time. Two thumbs up, Martha. I'm looking 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.240 at this screenshot. Let's see, you got a thirteen inch 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:35.440 MacBook air Space gray Retina screen, Core I, three eight 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:41.000 gigs of memory, two fifty six SSD Intel graphics, backlt 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:47.040 Magic keyboard, touch ID trackpad. Yeah, a thousand bucks. I 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.080 think this is going to be just fine for college 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.679 as long as he's not doing you know, even if 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.120 he is doing video editing, it'll be fine. The storage, 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.840 I mean on my laptop, I only have I've told 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.879 this story before. But when I bought my new MacBook, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.159 the sixteen inch model that came out with a new keyboard, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.320 I wanted it so badly. I am an impatient, impatient person, 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.679 not an impatient like I'm not doing surgery on myself, 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:13.440 but I am an impatient person. And I of course 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.760 you know when you did the when the computer first 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.760 came out, if you wanted a one terabyte drive, you 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.560 had to wait because you would have to get it 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.159 shipped from Apple. Well, of course I can't wait, so 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:24.840 I just had to go into the store and get 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.479 the off the shelf version, which was only five twelve gigs. 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.240 And of course I'm not happy for myself for doing that. Wait, 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.080 am I telling a lie right now? Maybe I did 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.880 get the one terabyte. Let me check. Maybe I wanted 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:41.760 two terabytes I got. Let's see, where is my storage? Yeah, 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.960 I did get a terabyte. Okay, I'm totally lying. I 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:49.480 wanted two terabytes. Okay, just scratch everything I said. I 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.840 don't edit this podcast, so I'm not gonna edit that out. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.959 But I totally lied. I got a terabyte. I wanted 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.400 two terabytes, so I was able to download my entire 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.800 Google drive on here. I still can't do that whatever. 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.000 So maybe it was the memory I wanted more of. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.360 I can't remember at this point, but I the good 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.439 news is when you're buying a laptop, this is the 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:14.960 advice for everyone, spend your money on the hard drive 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.639 and the memory, because especially with Apple, it's tough to 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.240 upgrade those later with a lot of their devices. But 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:23.919 it's you know, it's just one of these things where 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.240 you're never gonna be like, oh, I wish I had 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.000 this hard drive space. No, you're always gonna want more. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.880 Even with the cloud, which even with this two fifty six, 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.720 I think he's gonna be fine. Eight gigs is fine. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.359 Sixteen is of course better because the more gigabytes, the 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.400 more memory you have on your computer, the more programs 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:43.040 that you can keep open, and you're not going to 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.000 slow your computer down to a crawl. My computer, even 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:51.159 though it's a brand new MacBook Pro Core I nine, 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:53.639 it's you know, sixteen gigs of memory and a gig 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:59.280 a terabyte of hard drive, it's still just literally stops working. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.000 Sometimes I can't handle what I have open. Right now, 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.600 I have open Chrome, this little notes app called Bear 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.840 that I love. Ever note mail, let's see what else. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.199 I've got messages, I've got Telegram, I've got Microsoft to 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:17.080 do quick Time preview and Zoom. And sometimes I have 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.399 Safari open as well because I use that for my 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:24.159 The word press on Chrome has gotten so slow I 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.960 actually physically can't use it anymore to do my posts 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.320 for ktla dot com. So I open Safari because it's 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.440 just cleaner and it doesn't have any extensions on it anyway. 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.120 Just spend the most you can on your memory and 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:42.080 your processor. Obviously Core I three at the minimum. You know, 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.639 the higher that I five, seven, nine, whatever is always 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:49.360 going to be better. But you know RAM and hard 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:53.360 drive always always always get the most you can. Speaking 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.120 of buying a computer, I got this little email from CompUSA, 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:02.359 remember that place, comp Usa, when we used to have choices. 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.679 The pandemic has really it's just opened my eyes to 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.879 the fact of how reliant I am on Amazon. I 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:15.080 have been trying to purchase another euro Pro for the 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.760 longest time, and it's just out of stock at like 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.240 the three stores I can think of to order it online, 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.840 which is best Buy Amazon, And I even use like 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:24.760 Google shopping to see I'm like, maybe there's a place 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:28.880 of not thinking of and it's really tough to think 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:31.600 outside like Walmart, dot comden. I mean, what are the 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:35.000 places to shop online at this point for like electronics, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.320 and there's only a handful. And so CompUSA was a 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:43.200 store that went out of business. Now they are a 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:49.200 comparison website and I guess they launched last year. Let's 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.240 see we blast oh two years ago. I guess they 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:54.600 relaunched their website two years ago and they just got 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.480 blasted by I'm guessing all the blogs saying it was 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:01.200 just a sad affiliates affiliate deals. Well, they went back 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:02.520 and they kind of said, you know, what, what can 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.159 we do to really make this better? And I think 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:06.960 they did a good job because I'm looking at it 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.760 and it's kind of a cool website. Now. So here's 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:14.000 what they did. They are now creating a value engine 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:17.280 for every tech product category. So, for example, for laptops, 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.520 they break them down to their individual components, and then 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:23.440 they break those components down into benchmark scores and they 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:28.439 convert those scores into a value. Then they compare that 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.239 value to the actual sale price of a laptop, and 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:33.679 then they order them by that. So what does that 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:36.920 all mean? It means that they break down the components. 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:40.600 So maybe a computer that has four gigs of RAM 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:44.720 and a one terabyte hard drive is selling for five 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:48.760 hundred dollars, but a computer with sixteen gigs of memory 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:51.520 and a one terabyte drive is selling for fifty dollars more. 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:53.640 That's actually going to be a better deal because it's 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:55.960 only slightly more expensive, but you're getting a lot more. 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:58.200 So if they're doing what they're saying they're doing, which 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:00.960 it looks like they are because I'm on Compus Slash 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.359 Laptops and their top model right now one hundred percent 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:08.000 for their amazing deal calculation, and then it gets a 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.680 little fire, which I'm guessing it means that's hot. This 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:15.800 is a Lenovo Idea Pad three fifteen point six inch 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:19.440 Windows laptop with an AMD rise In seven, eight gigs 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:22.840 of RAM, five twelve gigs of hard drive, and a 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:26.520 Vegas seven model for five hundred and forty nine dollars, 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:29.919 which I think sounds like a fantastic deal, so I 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:32.640 think their little system is working. And then you have 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:35.480 the next model on their list. This is from eBay, 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:38.399 which I personally wouldn't buy a computer from there, but 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:41.040 the next one, and that's from office depot. And the 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:44.080 next one is another Idea pad five fifteen point six 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.000 with a rise in five two fifty six eight gigs 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:50.479 and it's got that's only four to seventy nine. Anyway, 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:52.720 I think they're doing a good job. So they say 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:56.359 that this is highly automated, and some of the deals 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:59.480 are getting to their homepage even before places like slick Deals. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:01.880 So you can go here to their homepage and see 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:04.520 kind of what their little computers think are the best deals. 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:08.560 And right now some of their top deals are top 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:12.679 phone is an iPhone tenns max unlocked sixty four gig 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:15.480 for six hundred and twenty dollars, which sounds pretty good. 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.280 That's an eBay that's somewhere I probably wouldn't well, I 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:22.040 guess I would purchase a phone from there. Then they 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:25.560 have top products from Amazon. I don't know. I think 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:28.159 this is pretty cool, so CompUSA dot com, if you 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.560 want to check it out, tell me what you think. 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:32.479 I am going to add this to my list of 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:35.240 sort of places where I check for deals on a 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.840 daily basis because I love seeing deals like Microsoft Xbox 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:42.240 one wireless controller forty six eighty eight, and I know 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:44.840 that's a good deal because I paid sixty dollars for that, 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:46.520 so I can hook it up to my Apple TV. 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:49.560 And let's see one more thing. I just want to 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:51.800 make sure that when I actually click the deal it 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:54.160 is working. Oh, it even gives you a little when 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:56.000 you go to the deal, it tells you how much 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:59.520 it's it's priced at various sites. So I can see 0:25:59.520 --> 0:26:02.600 that it's four seven bucks at Amazon, sixty at BNH, 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:05.639 and at a stock at best Buy. Now let's just 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:09.639 double check those because sometimes these sites, when you go 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:16.440 to the website, it's not real and yep, hmmm, well 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:19.120 they probably sold out. But it does say at Amazon. 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:21.560 See when you go there, the price is not really there. 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:27.119 It's still sixty bucks, and BNH is sixty bucks, and 0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:29.679 so it's actually not the price that it says it is. 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:33.000 So anyway, I'll have to do some more research and 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:34.879 kind of just follow that for a little bit. But 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:38.520 I do love my deal sites for sure, and so 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:41.040 I will be checking that out, and you know, if 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:42.840 you find a good deal on it, hey, not everything's 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:45.159 gonna work. And I'm not saying that this is something 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:47.560 that I should discount, because even if I go to 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:51.720 the best sites out any aggregator site right now. Sometimes 0:26:51.760 --> 0:26:54.320 when you go there, the price is just gone. And 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:57.199 that happens with Honey with all their price comparisons. That 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:00.679 happen sometimes with not so much Slick Deal because they're 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:03.720 pretty good. But some of the other websites, it's just 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:05.760 you go there and the deal is gone, and that's 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:09.679 just the way it is. So anyway, all right, let's 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:21.000 do another question. Oh, there's the sound question from Greg. 0:27:21.400 --> 0:27:24.720 Greg says, hi, Rich, hope you and yours are well. 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:27.600 Quick question? Is there a way to not use the 0:27:27.640 --> 0:27:30.639 mail that comes installed on iPhone? When I click on 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:32.960 an email link on a website, it sends me to 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:36.160 the mail app. I wonder if it's possible to link 0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:42.439 to my Gmail app. Thanks in advance for your help, Greg, Greg. No, 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.520 there's not a way to do that, not right now, 0:27:45.560 --> 0:27:48.960 at least in iOS fourteen. There will be a way. 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:52.000 In iOS fourteen you will be able to set a 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:55.679 default email app and also a default browser app, and 0:27:55.720 --> 0:27:58.160 that's going to be pretty handy. I wish they would 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:01.960 have done fault. What was the other one? I want? Oh? 0:28:02.080 --> 0:28:06.399 Default maps that they need to do for sure, but 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:10.159 it's a start. So in iOS fourteen, which will probably 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:14.159 launch in let's see September October, you'll be able to 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:16.520 do that, and so far, even on the betas, I 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:19.160 haven't seen anyone that this feature hasn't rolled out yet 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:22.360 on the betas, but it's a start and I'm curious 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:25.120 to see. I mean, I don't really click a lot 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:28.000 of email link I guess it would help if you're 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:30.600 trying to go from an anyway, so you'll be able 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:32.880 to do it soon. Let's put it that way right now. 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:35.280 The best way if you want to do this is 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:38.920 you'd have to download the Chrome browser on your iPhone, 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:42.120 and I think if you clicked a link in Chrome browser. 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:45.000 Google has gotten really good with what's called deep linking. 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:49.000 So if you're using Gmail, Chrome, and Google Maps on 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:53.280 your iPhone, pretty much it's a seamless experience between those 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:57.560 apps to boomerang you between them. So if you click 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:00.360 a link in Gmail, it will bring you it will 0:29:00.440 --> 0:29:04.360 open that link in Chrome if you click I'm assuming 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:06.720 if you click an email link in Chrome, it'll bring 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:09.640 you to Gmail. And same thing with Maps. If you 0:29:09.680 --> 0:29:13.600 click any sort of mapping link in Chrome or Gmail, 0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:16.200 it will bring you to Google Maps. Versus Apple Maps, 0:29:16.680 --> 0:29:22.240 but that's where they're starting iOS fourteen defaults, so you 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:25.000 be able to do the browser and again the browser 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:28.040 and mail. I think they really need to do that 0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:33.720 with the navigation app, especially because right now on iOS 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:39.080 you can't say, you know, navigate to wherever on the 0:29:39.120 --> 0:29:41.640 maps app, It'll just bring you to Google Maps. And 0:29:41.720 --> 0:29:45.760 also music will also just bring you to Apple Music. 0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:47.720 But there is a way around it. You can say, 0:29:48.400 --> 0:29:53.160 h SERI play Taylor Swift on YouTube Music. You have 0:29:53.200 --> 0:29:54.760 to say that at the end, and I find it's 0:29:54.800 --> 0:29:57.160 not very good, but it's still it is there, So 0:29:57.200 --> 0:30:00.880 you can say on Spotify, on Google Music or YouTube Music. 0:30:00.880 --> 0:30:03.520 You just can't set a default wor it'll just do 0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:09.880 that automatically. All right, let's talk about another story, bundling. 0:30:09.880 --> 0:30:12.280 I'm gonna do two stories in one because these bundles 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:14.960 are just getting out of control. And the reason why 0:30:15.000 --> 0:30:17.680 these big companies like you to bundle is because they 0:30:17.680 --> 0:30:20.160 think we're dumb, and we kind of are because it's 0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:24.280 really tough to keep track of bundles, and bundles make 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:27.800 things very sticky. For instance, I have a bundle with 0:30:27.920 --> 0:30:33.280 my Verizon account of Disney Plus and also Apple Music, 0:30:33.720 --> 0:30:36.600 so I get those for free. Disney Plus was only 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:40.480 for twelve months, but that's changing. And everyone has a bundle. 0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:44.840 I mean AT and T does Spotify and HBO Max. 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:48.920 You've got let's see, T Mobile does Quibi and Netflix 0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:53.800 they kind of started it, Sprint did Title, Hulu, and 0:30:53.960 --> 0:30:56.560 I don't know what else, so they're all doing it. 0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.160 And then you've got the bundles from everything else, so 0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:02.800 you know, does your There's just so many bundles to 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:05.200 keep track of. But they do that because it's confusing 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:08.240 and it also keeps you subscribe to these things because 0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:11.400 I'll give I'll give you an example. When I sign 0:31:11.520 --> 0:31:16.040 up for my Internet they switched my my HBO Max 0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:18.239 from me paying for it to now I got it 0:31:18.240 --> 0:31:22.240 for free. But I was very hesitant to do anything 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:24.480 with my HBO Max account because I didn't know how 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:26.240 it work. I was like, ah, if I switched it over, 0:31:26.320 --> 0:31:27.800 like do I have to sign up for a new account? 0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:30.600 And they actually AT and T was pretty good about 0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:32.720 my email address. As soon as I popped it in, 0:31:32.760 --> 0:31:34.360 they said, oh, we noticed you already have an account. 0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:36.720 We're just going to cancel that and now give it 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:39.160 you for free with the same email so they were 0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:41.640 pretty good. But with some of these other things, I 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:43.920 don't know, like right now with Hulu. So let me 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:46.200 give you the news and then i'll explain. So now 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.480 on these Verizon plans, they now include Disney plus Hulu 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:53.840 and ESPN plus Forever and that's a Disney bundle and 0:31:53.920 --> 0:31:56.520 this is in the Play More and Get More Unlimited, 0:31:57.080 --> 0:31:59.800 and they also ditched the ten dollars monthly fee for 0:32:00.040 --> 0:32:03.200 access to five G But the problem is on their 0:32:03.240 --> 0:32:07.200 plans they show four lines, so the Get More Unlimited 0:32:07.280 --> 0:32:09.520 for four lines is fifty five dollars a month, but 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:12.880 realistically it's eighty dollars. Like for me, I have two lines, 0:32:12.880 --> 0:32:15.600 so it's eighty dollars each. They should really show the 0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:18.840 different line prices, not just four, because fifty five is like, 0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:21.240 oh my gosh, that's amazing. No, it's not fifty five. 0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:24.000 That's if you have four lines, fifty five times four 0:32:24.120 --> 0:32:26.720 is two hundred and twenty bucks, right, do I do 0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:30.680 my math? Right? So anyway, if you have the bottom 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:33.240 line is if you have a Verizon plan like I do, 0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:36.320 you have to go in and kind of see you 0:32:36.400 --> 0:32:38.040 might as well if you're already on the Get More 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:40.600 unlimited like I am. You might as well get ESPN 0:32:40.640 --> 0:32:43.920 Plus and Hulu included, as well as Disney Plus. The 0:32:43.960 --> 0:32:47.440 problem is, I pay for Hulu with no commercials, so 0:32:47.480 --> 0:32:49.240 I'm not really sure how that's gonna work if I 0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:51.680 sign up for this bundle. Do I just have to 0:32:51.680 --> 0:32:53.640 pay extra five bucks a month or whatever it is 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:56.240 the differential to get the no commercials? I don't know. 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:58.400 But again, it's like it takes brain power, and it 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:00.960 takes time, and it takes research, and it takes effort, 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:03.920 and you got to log in and so these things 0:33:03.960 --> 0:33:06.480 sound great, but it's for the consumer. It's just a 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:08.720 lot of work. But if you do it right, you 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:11.720 can get things for free. The only thing they did 0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:16.680 change was Apple Music is now not necessarily included with 0:33:16.720 --> 0:33:18.800 every plan. Some of them I think drop down to 0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:21.760 just six months. So if you have Apple Music included, 0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:24.400 you might want to just be careful before you sign 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:26.480 up for one of these new plans. You may not 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:30.120 get that included anymore unlimited like I do forever. It 0:33:30.200 --> 0:33:32.760 might just be for six months, which would not be good. 0:33:33.560 --> 0:33:36.680 The other thing is Apple TV Plus now has a 0:33:36.720 --> 0:33:40.040 bundle if you subscribe to Apple TV Plus, which I'm 0:33:40.040 --> 0:33:42.240 not sure there's any paying subscribers out there. I think 0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:44.360 everyone's still on a free plan like I am, because 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:48.280 I bought the iPhone last October, so mine's coming up 0:33:48.320 --> 0:33:50.960 in October. Probably. Be honest, I'm probably not going to 0:33:51.000 --> 0:33:53.719 pay the five bucks a month for this because I 0:33:53.720 --> 0:33:56.000 don't have a show on Apple TV Plus that I'm 0:33:56.520 --> 0:33:59.320 liking right now when I was watching Morning Show. Fine, 0:33:59.720 --> 0:34:02.280 but I don't know. We'll say, but if you have 0:34:02.280 --> 0:34:06.160 Apple TV Plus, you can now get a bundle including 0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:10.240 CBS All Access and Showtime for cheaper than you would. 0:34:10.480 --> 0:34:13.280 It's kind of two and one. So CBS All Access 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:16.000 is ten dollars a month, and that includes, by the way, 0:34:16.080 --> 0:34:18.160 the no commercial version, which is kind of cool, and 0:34:18.200 --> 0:34:20.560 then Showtime is eleven, so that'd be twenty one dollars 0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:23.800 if you purchase these separately. If you subscribe through Apple 0:34:23.840 --> 0:34:26.520 TV Plus, it would only be ten dollars a month, 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:30.399 so you would save if you have both of these 0:34:30.640 --> 0:34:33.440 ten dollars. But again with that caveat that, you have 0:34:33.480 --> 0:34:36.360 to be an Apple TV Plus subscriber, and you also 0:34:36.440 --> 0:34:39.080 have to figure out how to log in. It looks 0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:41.800 like you can log in using your Apple TV account 0:34:42.120 --> 0:34:45.799 on let's see iPhone iPad. I don't know. You gotta 0:34:45.840 --> 0:34:48.520 log in through Apple TV, the Apple TV app, which 0:34:48.560 --> 0:34:52.960 is available on certain devices like Samsung and LG Smart TVs, Rokus, 0:34:53.000 --> 0:34:57.200 and Amazon fireTV devices. Apple TV app is launching on 0:34:57.280 --> 0:35:02.560 Sony and Visio later this summer. See how complicated this 0:35:02.600 --> 0:35:05.200 all is. It's like just keeping track of all this 0:35:05.239 --> 0:35:09.880 stuff is a lot for me. And again, if you 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:12.040 are on that bundle, you're saying to yourself, well, that's 0:35:12.040 --> 0:35:14.480 a pretty good bundle. I'm not gonna cancel Apple TV Plus, 0:35:14.520 --> 0:35:17.000 but do you really need the five dollars a month 0:35:17.040 --> 0:35:25.800 for Apple TV Plus? I don't know. Next question from Mark. 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:29.000 Mark says, hello, Rich, I'm still working during this pandemic, 0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:32.520 except I am in my home office. My adventurous side 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:35.520 wants to hit the road still knowing I can open 0:35:35.560 --> 0:35:39.160 my laptop in places that don't that typically don't have 0:35:39.280 --> 0:35:42.120 cell phone service. Is there a device that would provide 0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:44.800 me data or Wi Fi in places like a national 0:35:44.840 --> 0:35:49.080 forest that typically a signal that typically cannot catch a signal. 0:35:50.200 --> 0:35:53.640 I don't think so. If you're you know, my immediate 0:35:53.640 --> 0:35:55.520 thought was, oh, just get a hot spot and I 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:57.960 will tell you about a hot spot that I recently 0:35:57.960 --> 0:36:01.520 featured on KTLA, which I think is really it's called 0:36:01.520 --> 0:36:03.200 the I don't know if I mentioned this last week 0:36:03.239 --> 0:36:08.320 on the show, but it's called the ZTE max Connect. 0:36:08.960 --> 0:36:11.440 And what I like about this hotspot is that it's unlocked, 0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:13.560 so you just buy this hot spot and you just 0:36:13.600 --> 0:36:16.319 pop a SIM card, prepaid whatever, as long as it's 0:36:16.320 --> 0:36:18.880 a GSM. I think I did mention this, and you 0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:20.600 can pop it in and it you know, you can 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:23.120 use wireless internet from this provider, and you don't have 0:36:23.160 --> 0:36:26.360 to have a contract per se. That's called the ZTE 0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:30.400 max Connect. Now that was my initial thought as an 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:34.200 answer to this question, but he's saying he wants like 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:36.239 a national forest that you can't get a signal, and 0:36:36.320 --> 0:36:37.719 now there's not really gonna be a way to get 0:36:37.719 --> 0:36:41.600 a signal outside of a cell phone signal. In the future, yes, 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:45.360 maybe we'll have the laser or sorry the yeah, is 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:49.120 it laser delivered satellite I don't know, satellite delivered laser 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.560 internet Maybe in the future, but right now, no, if 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:54.560 you can't get a data signal, you're not gonna be 0:36:54.560 --> 0:36:56.600 able to get data as far as I know. If 0:36:57.000 --> 0:37:00.279 someone knows anything different that I don't. I mean, yes, 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:03.000 there's via SAT, but I don't think you can have 0:37:03.480 --> 0:37:05.880 you know you could do that, Okay, all right, I 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:07.960 guess you could do it if you had an RV 0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:12.920 with a satellite that got the signal via SAT. But 0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:14.920 I don't think. I mean, I guess you could do that. 0:37:16.320 --> 0:37:21.320 Let me see viasat if you had how let's see internet. 0:37:22.160 --> 0:37:24.520 I guess if you had one of these on your 0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:29.080 there's probably is home or there probably is RV satellite Internet. 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:34.200 I'm gonna just google that that you could install on 0:37:34.239 --> 0:37:38.400 your RV and then you could use that as a 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:42.879 hot spot. But again, it's expensive. I'm sure it's very Yeah. 0:37:43.120 --> 0:37:45.400 The first line of this this website I brought up, 0:37:45.400 --> 0:37:47.560 getting satellite internet with a mobile satellite dish for your 0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:50.239 RV is not a simple process. It's possible, but you're 0:37:50.239 --> 0:37:52.879 looking at thousands of dollars in equipment and a long 0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:55.120 term contract with up to four hundred dollars a month 0:37:55.200 --> 0:37:58.600 or more and subpart internet. So I don't think this 0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:00.520 is the way to do it. They do have some 0:38:01.040 --> 0:38:03.960 various ways of getting it. But the other thing I 0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:06.960 would recommend in this article satellite Internet dot Com recommends 0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:11.600 it as well. Is from a company called we Boost. 0:38:12.239 --> 0:38:15.960 I thought it was, yeah, we Boost, which makes cell 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:19.160 phone boosters we Boost, and I thought it was called 0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:25.960 Wilson Internet Booster. Maybe it is we Boost. No, Wilson's 0:38:25.960 --> 0:38:29.880 signal Booster. So check out those as well. Yeah, Wilson 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:34.080 Signal User, uh Booster. So those are the ways that 0:38:34.160 --> 0:38:38.000 I think you can probably get around that. So yeah, 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:40.600 I mean it's not Look, it's not gonna be expensive. 0:38:40.640 --> 0:38:42.920 It's not gonna be cheap. It's gonna be expensive, and 0:38:42.960 --> 0:38:44.640 it's gonna be too much work. And I get it. 0:38:44.680 --> 0:38:47.920 You have this idea of driving around anywhere and just 0:38:47.960 --> 0:38:50.640 picking up a signal. But look, you know, if you're 0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:53.359 in the National Forest, enjoy the national forest, and when 0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:55.440 you get out of the National Forest, find a Starbucks 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:57.680 and work from outside there if you need a signal 0:38:57.840 --> 0:39:01.080 or you know, I went to Zion months ago and 0:39:02.200 --> 0:39:06.400 the signal was fantastic everywhere, including pretty much even in 0:39:06.480 --> 0:39:09.440 the forest. I mean there's it's pretty rare these days 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:11.720 that you don't have a signal. I mean, you really 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:14.640 have to be out there to not have a signal. 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:19.680 So that's what I'd recommend all right, let's see what 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:21.319 we want to talk about next. I'll talk about this 0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:23.280 because I thought this is kind of fun. Another Apple story. 0:39:23.360 --> 0:39:27.960 Apple renamed. They introduced two new radio stations and they 0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:30.919 renamed their Beats One. I don't know if you listen 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:33.839 to Beats one. I'm guessing you don't, because they say 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:36.160 it's very popular. Maybe people do listen to it. It's 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:38.000 really cool and they have a great guy that does it, 0:39:38.120 --> 0:39:40.560 Zane Low is like their main I don't know if 0:39:40.560 --> 0:39:42.719 you call him a DJ or personality, but it's really 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:45.160 cool and they do a great job. I mean, this 0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:49.040 guy knows everyone in the industry, and you know, he 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:51.320 calls them up on FaceTime. Of course because it's Apple, 0:39:52.560 --> 0:39:55.600 I messages them, so he's connected. And they do a 0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:59.360 great job. Apple Music are Beats one broadcast you know, live, 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:01.840 and they really do a good job of getting behind 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:04.960 the music. Well that's gonna be renamed Apple Music One. 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:08.600 And then they're also launching two new live streaming radio 0:40:08.640 --> 0:40:11.719 stations called Apple Music Hits and the one that I'm 0:40:11.760 --> 0:40:14.640 excited about called Apple Music Country. And for the past 0:40:14.680 --> 0:40:16.600 couple of days since they launched this, I've been listening 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:21.080 to Apple Music Country NonStop and it's awesome. They're broadcasting 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:24.280 out of Nashville. If you have Serious XM, it reminds 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:26.680 me a lot of the Highway, but it reminds me 0:40:26.719 --> 0:40:30.240 of the Highway yet run by kids in high school 0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:33.120 or college, like almost like a college radio station. Because 0:40:33.160 --> 0:40:35.520 all of the DJs right now are so excited that 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:38.000 they have this new job with Apple and so it's 0:40:38.000 --> 0:40:40.080 like it's very It's not like the guys you have 0:40:40.200 --> 0:40:43.839 on on Serious XM, Stormy Warren and you know these 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:47.000 other guys that are very you know, you know, everyone 0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:49.200 knows them in Nashville, and they're kind of they've been 0:40:49.200 --> 0:40:51.960 doing it for a long time. These new folks on 0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:54.399 Apple Music Country are kind of like excited that they're 0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:58.239 there and doing this new cool way of broadcasting. And 0:40:58.239 --> 0:41:01.560 it's not really broadcasting because it's through the iPhone or 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:04.479 however you have Apple Music. So anyway, I've been listening 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:06.520 to it. I love it. It's great. I don't know 0:41:06.560 --> 0:41:09.280 if I'm gonna get my wife to switch from the Highway, 0:41:09.320 --> 0:41:12.120 but what I love about this it's also free, so 0:41:12.160 --> 0:41:14.480 you can listen to Apple Music Country, Apple Music Hits, 0:41:14.520 --> 0:41:17.400 and of course B to One even If you don't 0:41:17.400 --> 0:41:20.440 have a subscription to Apple Music, you just open the 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:23.640 Apple Music app and you can do it. You can 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:26.000 also install it on Android, but when I noticed on 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:28.560 Android when I installed it there is that it does 0:41:28.640 --> 0:41:30.080 look like you have to sign in to be able 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:34.920 to access the stream. So it's free, but it mostly 0:41:35.040 --> 0:41:41.240 seems free on Apple devices iPhone, iPad, car play Apple Watch, 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:44.279 Apple TV, Mac HomePod, and you can ask Siri to 0:41:44.680 --> 0:41:48.720 play Apple Music one, Apple Music Hits or Apple Music Country. 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:51.839 I'm a country music fan, so I like that and 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:57.319 I love. What I've realized about listening to playlists is 0:41:57.640 --> 0:42:01.000 I've always loved radio. I'm a radio guy, and I 0:42:01.080 --> 0:42:03.799 love DJs. Not the Hey, I'm Jack the Whack and 0:42:03.840 --> 0:42:06.960 we got another set of fifty minutes of NonStop commercial 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:09.399 for eight meals like coming up. I'm that. I used 0:42:09.440 --> 0:42:11.959 to like that, but now what I like is more 0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:14.839 of Hey. Bring me behind this music a little bit. 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:17.239 Tell me about this song, give me an interview with 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:21.520 this soundwriter or this songwriter. Tell me what the message 0:42:21.560 --> 0:42:24.520 is behind this music. Explain this music a little bit. 0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:27.200 My biggest problem when you're listening to these playlists on 0:42:27.280 --> 0:42:31.279 Spotify and all the various music services. It's just one 0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:34.319 song into the next, and I have no idea if 0:42:34.360 --> 0:42:37.719 that's a new song, it's a song that's fifteen years old, 0:42:38.200 --> 0:42:41.600 if it's an experimental song they downloaded off SoundCloud, I 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:45.160 have no idea. There's no reference point when you're listening 0:42:45.160 --> 0:42:48.959 to a playlist, and so by listening to a live 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:54.400 streaming station with someone behind the microphone, you can actually 0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:57.799 get a little bit more information about what you're listening to. 0:42:58.360 --> 0:43:02.080 And maybe it's just getting older, but I like that. 0:43:02.200 --> 0:43:04.680 I want to hear what the story is behind this 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:07.319 song and why I'm listening to it, and so that's 0:43:07.320 --> 0:43:09.000 what Apple Music Country is all about. That's what the 0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.600 other stations are about. That's why I do love Sirius XM. 0:43:11.600 --> 0:43:14.000 When I'm in my wife's car, I don't have it 0:43:14.040 --> 0:43:15.719 in mind, but she's got it in hers and I 0:43:15.760 --> 0:43:17.759 do like it. I like every time I listen, I 0:43:17.760 --> 0:43:20.600 get a little snippet of something. And that's also why 0:43:20.640 --> 0:43:24.279 I like terrestrial radio, because it is that exact thing. 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:28.239 You're hearing a live person tell you something and you're 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:31.040 just getting little snippets here and there, and so for 0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:33.920 that reason, check it out. I think it's really cool 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:36.640 and hopefully you do too. All right, Let's see if 0:43:36.640 --> 0:43:42.719 I can get to one more question. Let's see. Fred says, Hey, Rich, 0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:45.480 I watch your segment on a local station in Sacramento, 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:49.000 must be Fox forty. And I used to use wonder 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:51.640 List as a two do app. What do you recommend 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:55.680 as an equivalent for personal use on an iPhone? Thanks? Fred, 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:58.800 I would recommend wonder List went out of fashion because 0:43:58.960 --> 0:44:03.400 Microsoft purchased them. They were a fantastic to do app 0:44:03.440 --> 0:44:04.920 and I love them and I used to use them 0:44:04.960 --> 0:44:08.480 as well. But Microsoft bought them. They kind of, you know, 0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:11.640 dismantled it. I think it's gone by now. And they 0:44:11.800 --> 0:44:14.120 actually came up with a really good app that's very 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:18.440 very similar called Microsoft to Do and I love it. 0:44:18.800 --> 0:44:21.800 I use it. I actually write out my to do list. 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:25.200 But I to Microsoft to Do is the best to 0:44:25.280 --> 0:44:27.959 do list that I've found. And let me explain why 0:44:28.280 --> 0:44:31.120 they don't nickel and dime you. When you download Microsoft 0:44:31.160 --> 0:44:33.479 to Do List, you get all the features without having 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:36.440 to unlock in app purchases or pay up this or 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:38.919 do that. I mean, I'm not even sure if there 0:44:39.080 --> 0:44:42.960 is a way to get extra features for paid products. 0:44:43.000 --> 0:44:45.279 I don't know, maybe there is. But I also use 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:48.720 it because I can have my team member team members 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:50.719 on here and I can assign things to them and 0:44:50.760 --> 0:44:53.759 they can see their to do list and complete them 0:44:53.760 --> 0:44:55.319 and I don't have to see you know, I can 0:44:55.400 --> 0:44:57.399 remember what I assigned them to do or ask them 0:44:57.400 --> 0:44:59.160 to do, and I can oh yeah, let me let 0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:02.640 me ask them about that. So Microsoft to do. It 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:04.680 works on iPhone, it works on Android, it works on 0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:09.920 your desktop, MACPC. It's fantastic, highly highly recommended. It recommend it, 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:13.080 and you can also attach files you can I mean, 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:14.839 there's just so many. The other thing I love about 0:45:14.880 --> 0:45:17.200 it they have this feature called my Day. So let's 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:18.719 say you put all in this the way I do 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:20.520 my to do list. Let's say you put a whole 0:45:20.520 --> 0:45:22.480 bunch of stuff in your to do list, and then 0:45:22.480 --> 0:45:25.239 the next day, all that stuff just lingers there. What 0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:28.279 I love about Microsoft to Do is that they move 0:45:28.320 --> 0:45:30.719 all that stuff to kind of like your tasks, but 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:34.080 then your day is clean again. So it's just a 0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:36.880 really nice way of kind of remembering the things that 0:45:36.920 --> 0:45:40.320 you need to do and doing them on a daily basis. 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:43.080 It's just really really well done. So Fred that's what 0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:48.279 I'd recommend, and it's inspired by wonder List. So all right, 0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:49.600 that's going to do it for the show. Let me 0:45:49.640 --> 0:45:53.520 just do two more quick little bites here. Instagram rolled 0:45:53.520 --> 0:45:57.120 out this feature called suggested Posts, which no one likes, 0:45:57.120 --> 0:45:59.879 but I called it on this podcast many months ago. 0:45:59.880 --> 0:46:02.040 I can't find the clip because I don't really think 0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:04.640 about these podcasts once I'm done, and I don't do 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:07.799 any sort of organization for remembering what I've said. But 0:46:08.880 --> 0:46:10.880 they have a feature that I called it. I said, 0:46:11.320 --> 0:46:13.840 Instagram is going to get more like TikTok, where you 0:46:13.880 --> 0:46:16.480 can just continuously scroll and see a whole bunch of stuff. 0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:18.719 Well that's exactly what they did. So now when you 0:46:18.800 --> 0:46:20.719 reach the end of your feed, which is the end 0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:22.560 of all the stuff that you've been look you know, 0:46:22.600 --> 0:46:25.720 the people that you follow, there are now suggested posts 0:46:25.840 --> 0:46:28.640 from people you don't follow, but it's in the stuff 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:30.839 that you kind of like to look at. So there 0:46:30.920 --> 0:46:32.960 you go. You can now search. You can now scroll 0:46:33.040 --> 0:46:36.839 forever on Instagram, which, you know, it's kind of a 0:46:36.840 --> 0:46:39.080 weird thing because Instagram used to have this feature and 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:41.279 they still have it that says, hey, you're all caught 0:46:41.360 --> 0:46:43.080 up at the end of your feed, and that was 0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:45.080 an idea, you know, that was a feature to keep 0:46:45.120 --> 0:46:48.640 you less glued to the app. Well they still do 0:46:48.800 --> 0:46:51.920 that now. After that, they do suggested posts like oh 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:53.600 you're all caught up, but here's some other stuff if 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:55.360 you want to just keep scrolling forever and waste your 0:46:55.400 --> 0:47:00.840 life on Instagram, Netflix is testing. Speaking of wasting your life, 0:47:00.840 --> 0:47:07.080 Netflix is testing a shuffle play button. I mean, really, folks, 0:47:07.680 --> 0:47:11.279 are you this wasteful with your time that you need 0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:15.160 to just click a shuffle play button on Netflix? Now? 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:19.319 If you're saying rich, well you loved it on Hulu. Yes, 0:47:19.440 --> 0:47:22.879 I loved it on Hulu for Seinfeld and even other 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:24.640 shows like Friends, Like I said, they should have an 0:47:24.680 --> 0:47:27.399 NHBO Max, they should have a shuffle button. Yes. If 0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:29.719 I love a show like a sitcom and I want 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:31.520 to sit down and just waste a half an hour, 0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:33.200 I want to press shuffle because I don't want have 0:47:33.239 --> 0:47:36.880 to think about what episode to watch. That works. But 0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:40.440 Netflix testing it is like, okay, so it can. It's 0:47:40.480 --> 0:47:42.960 a test, so not everyone sees this, but it's on 0:47:43.000 --> 0:47:45.880 your home screen and it will randomly play content it 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:48.120 thinks you like. According to tech Crunch, This could be 0:47:48.200 --> 0:47:50.480 a movie or a show you're currently watching, something you've 0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:52.400 saved in your list, or a title that's similar to 0:47:52.400 --> 0:47:54.920 something you've watched that is too wide of a swath 0:47:55.000 --> 0:47:58.399 of stuff for me. So just because I bookmarked a documentary, 0:47:59.000 --> 0:48:00.520 all of a sudden, I'm gonna say shuffle and I'm 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:03.200 gonna start watching like an hour and a half documentary. 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:07.960 No way, I think this is totally bananas, Like we 0:48:08.040 --> 0:48:10.160 need to be a little bit more mindful of how 0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:12.720 we use our time in this world. And a shuffle 0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:16.400 button just to let Netflix, you know, Carte Blanche play 0:48:16.440 --> 0:48:18.799 whatever they want in front of my eyes for as 0:48:18.880 --> 0:48:20.600 much time as they want to take up a mind 0:48:20.600 --> 0:48:25.960 No way, no, no no, And yes there's a time 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:28.160 and a place for all this stuff. But for me personally, 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:30.839 I want to be a little bit more directed with 0:48:30.920 --> 0:48:34.279 my use of time. And so for that reason, give 0:48:34.280 --> 0:48:38.359 me shuffle on the shows on Netflix. And if you want, 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:40.239 maybe even the hour long show is fine. If you 0:48:40.239 --> 0:48:41.480 have an hour to kill you just want to watch 0:48:41.480 --> 0:48:43.520 an episode of Law and Order, fine, that makes sense, 0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:46.720 But don't just shuffle everything on the service. And maybe, 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:49.319 since this is a test, they will come up with 0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:53.439 that situation. But for me, I mean, come on, that's 0:48:53.480 --> 0:48:56.040 that's like a little bit too much of an abuse 0:48:56.120 --> 0:48:59.440 of my time. But I see, I see the reasoning 0:48:59.480 --> 0:49:01.920 for it. I mean, I'm not totally saying it's terrible, 0:49:02.239 --> 0:49:05.120 but I to me, I want a little bit more direction. 0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:11.440 So all right, oh wow, oh no, what does that 0:49:11.560 --> 0:49:15.080 music mean? That music means? It is the end of 0:49:15.400 --> 0:49:19.320 the show. That went fast and I even went longer 0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:22.160 than normal. Oh let's see what do I say at 0:49:22.160 --> 0:49:25.160 this point? That's gonna do it for this episode of 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:26.680 the show. If you'd like to submit a question for 0:49:26.760 --> 0:49:29.359 me to answer, just go to richon tech dot tv 0:49:29.520 --> 0:49:33.000 and hit the email button at the bottom of the page. 0:49:33.360 --> 0:49:35.720 And I'd also love it if you rate and review 0:49:35.760 --> 0:49:38.000 this podcast to help other people discover it. Just go 0:49:38.040 --> 0:49:41.440 to rate this podcast dot com. Slash rich on Tech 0:49:42.520 --> 0:49:47.319 What did m Let's see? Mjm Blues two four eight said, 0:49:47.320 --> 0:49:49.680 I've been listening to rich for a few years, and 0:49:49.880 --> 0:49:51.640 I love that he talks directly to you, like he 0:49:51.680 --> 0:49:54.440 wants to help you and not necessarily help promote a product. However, 0:49:54.760 --> 0:49:56.680 if he's passionate about a product, you will certainly. I 0:49:56.719 --> 0:49:59.640 haven't read this yet, by the way, he will certainly 0:49:59.680 --> 0:50:01.680 stand behind it and help you get the most out 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:05.040 of it. Well, thank you, Oh a Jersey guy with 0:50:05.080 --> 0:50:08.359 a world of technical knowledge. Great headline as well. All right, 0:50:08.400 --> 0:50:12.359 you can find me everywhere at richon Tech. My name 0:50:12.400 --> 0:50:14.840 is rich damiro On, behalf of everyone that gets this 0:50:14.920 --> 0:50:17.760 show to your ears. Thanks so much for listening. Stay safe, 0:50:18.280 --> 0:50:20.680 We will get through this, folks. I feel like we're 0:50:20.719 --> 0:50:23.680 getting there. I'll talk to you real soon.