Speaker 1: The real answers on iTunes, going Away, a rundown of
Speaker 1: the new features coming soon to the iPhone, Apple Watch
Speaker 1: and more, a new way to shop for what someone
Speaker 1: is wearing on Amazon, Spotify's new music app, and tires
Speaker 1: that Don't Pop. Plus of course, your pressing tech questions.
Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro. This is Rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: the podcast where I talk about this stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about happening in the tech world. Plus
Speaker 1: I answer your tech questions. Joining me as always is
Speaker 1: producer Megan. Producer Megan, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1: I am good. You know this week was a big one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it was WWDC Worldwide Developers Conference from Apple, and
Speaker 1: I went up there on Monday. It is very quick
Speaker 1: trip when up there Monday morning, came back Monday night.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to stay all week, but with
Speaker 1: our broadcast schedule that's kind of tough. But it's just
Speaker 1: to me, it's like being a kid in a candy
Speaker 1: store because Apple announces all stuff that's gonna happen with
Speaker 1: all their products, and at this point they have so
Speaker 1: many that I use I mean the iPhone, the Mac computer,
Speaker 1: the Apple watch Apple TV. I don't really use but
Speaker 1: iPad I don't really use that either, Okay, but they
Speaker 1: made a lot of They announced a lot of new
Speaker 1: features that are really cool. The biggest thing, and I've
Speaker 1: never seen a reaction like this in my life, well
Speaker 1: I have, but this was a big one. They announced
Speaker 1: that iTunes is going away. So I'm gonna break that
Speaker 1: down for you because I've gotten so many emails, so
Speaker 1: many questions on my Facebook. I mean, I'm talking when
Speaker 1: KTLA did it. So what happened was to give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of a backstory. The story broke on
Speaker 1: like Friday afternoon, I believe, and it was bloomberg. Someone
Speaker 1: wrote about you know, iTunes was probably gonna go away,
Speaker 1: and next thing, you know, what happens. It gets picked
Speaker 1: up everywhere and of course mixed into a million different
Speaker 1: like playing a game of telephone. Right, iTunes is dead
Speaker 1: bloom blah blah blah boom, And so next thing you know,
Speaker 1: people are going nuts. What happens to all my music?
Speaker 1: What happens to all my this? That thing? And so
Speaker 1: here I am to break it down because Apple is
Speaker 1: not very happy about how this has been portrayed, because
Speaker 1: it was confusing, Right, iTunes means a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: It means iTunes the software, but it also means iTunes
Speaker 1: the store, right, and the iTunes store. Let's be clear,
Speaker 1: is not going away. iTunes software is being split into
Speaker 1: three different pieces, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple TV,
Speaker 1: and almost all of the functions that you're used to
Speaker 1: will be inside those three different apps. Now, when it
Speaker 1: comes to synking your phone, that will be handled by
Speaker 1: Finder on the Mac. Are you familiar with Finder? Yes,
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I don't even know how you describe it.
Speaker 1: It's like the.
Speaker 2: The basic like the window on Window.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I guess Windows is Windows is not a
Speaker 1: good way to describe it.
Speaker 2: Can also search on Finder.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's Finder. It's like where everything happens,
Speaker 1: all your files live. Right. So that now when you
Speaker 1: put your plug in your iPhone, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: one was last time you plug your I phone into
Speaker 1: your computer.
Speaker 2: It's been a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you never, I mean you do it all through
Speaker 1: i Cloud now. So, but there are still a lot
Speaker 1: of people, especially in our audience, that still do things
Speaker 1: kind of an older way, right, and that is purchasing music.
Speaker 1: So again, let me just go through some of the things.
Speaker 1: Number one, the music that you have, it's all gonna
Speaker 1: be there. It's going to be in the Apple Music app, okay.
Speaker 1: And that is music that you've imported, which means you
Speaker 1: rip CDs it'll still be there, or music that you purchased,
Speaker 1: the playlists that you created will all still be there again.
Speaker 1: They'll move to the Apple Music app. They will not
Speaker 1: be in iTunes, They'll be in Apple Music. You have
Speaker 1: an iTunes gift card that will still work, that will
Speaker 1: still work on all the different platforms. That's not going away.
Speaker 1: The iTunes store is not going away. iTunes credits not
Speaker 1: going away. iTunes subscriptions you subscribe to something through iTunes
Speaker 1: not going away. The backup, the restore, the sinking, all
Speaker 1: that stuff is moving to Finder. Like I mentioned, movies
Speaker 1: and TV shows that you rented or purchased will now
Speaker 1: be in the Apple TV app. And this is really
Speaker 1: confusing because Apple has Apple TV, then they have the
Speaker 1: Apple TV app, which I find will be really weird
Speaker 1: because are you talking about Apple TV, Are you talking
Speaker 1: about the you know that the TV app, the little
Speaker 1: app that's on your iPhone and on your Apple TV.
Speaker 1: It's so weird.
Speaker 2: Which I never use.
Speaker 1: Well, they want you to use it more.
Speaker 2: What about Apple TV plus, that's just going to be there, That's.
Speaker 1: Going to be inside the Apple TV app. Got it, Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's there. Now here's one thing that is changing,
Speaker 1: it seems. It seems according to this support document that
Speaker 1: Apple put out that you will no longer be able
Speaker 1: to purchase or rent movies and TV shows through iTunes
Speaker 1: the iTunes store on your Mac. You will now have
Speaker 1: to use the Apple TV app for Mac. So whatever it.
Speaker 1: Basically you can still rent.
Speaker 2: It makes sense.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for stuff to watch, you go to
Speaker 1: the TV app, right.
Speaker 2: I always thought iTunes was like too much, too much
Speaker 2: going on. You have just switched to like these different
Speaker 2: toggles on the top to get to movies, to get
Speaker 2: to music.
Speaker 1: Like absolutely, this.
Speaker 2: Actually is so much better and so much simpler for everyone.
Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent. Audiobooks will be in iTunes.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, Megan, in also many words, is
Speaker 1: that nothing's really changing, it's just the places you go
Speaker 1: to access stuff. So again, now here's the one caveat
Speaker 1: if you're on a Windows computer right now, iTunes is
Speaker 1: staying the same, So they're not going to change it.
Speaker 1: They're not splitting it up as of right now. Who
Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen in the future, but right now,
Speaker 1: if you're on Mac, yes, you're gonna have three new
Speaker 1: apps when Catalina, the new Mac operating system, comes out
Speaker 1: in September. Until then, everything's gonna be the same. And
Speaker 1: then once things change, they'll still sort of be the same.
Speaker 1: They'll just be doing things in different places. Now. One
Speaker 1: thing that Apple did not really mention that I think
Speaker 1: is the best about all this is that you will
Speaker 1: now be able to plug in your iPhone. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned I don't really plug in my iPhone, but I
Speaker 1: might do this now. It will kind of act act.
Speaker 1: Let me say that, right when you plug in your
Speaker 1: iPhone on your computer, it will pretty much act as
Speaker 1: a flash drive, so you can store documents on it.
Speaker 1: You know, you have this iPhone with a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of storage on it. A lot of my storage on
Speaker 1: my phone is not used. If I can throw some
Speaker 1: files on there and just use it as a flash drive,
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. So you'll be able to drag
Speaker 1: and drop anything basically onto your iPhone, right cool.
Speaker 2: One question about Catalina.
Speaker 1: Sure. Will we have great island.
Speaker 2: Great island, beautiful place?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Will we have to pay for that or is it
Speaker 2: just no, it's a free update.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It used to be used to have to pay
Speaker 1: back in the day to.
Speaker 2: Download the software and go pick up the disc from
Speaker 2: app the Apple Store.
Speaker 1: Okay, back in the day, that was like I think
Speaker 1: it was like twenty dollars to upgrade. Then they decided
Speaker 1: to make it free. And on the iPhone back in
Speaker 1: the day, I think it was five dollars to upgrade
Speaker 1: your iPod Touch or whatever it was. It was like
Speaker 1: five bucks for the new operating system. It's all gone away.
Speaker 1: Now it's all free. The reason it's free is because
Speaker 1: a security security wise, they want you to update and
Speaker 1: new feature wise, like basically, the more they can update
Speaker 1: and sell you stuff, the more you know, like on
Speaker 1: the back end, right.
Speaker 2: Better for them to have the latest software on.
Speaker 1: Your Okay, all right, Megan, let's get a question on there.
Speaker 2: Okay, So our first question comes from Larry Turner. The
Speaker 2: subject is iPad. I need a new iPad? Should I
Speaker 2: wait until September?
Speaker 1: Ooh? So I will tell you the place I go
Speaker 1: for anything Apple related that I need to know if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy something. So now, my theory on Apple
Speaker 1: products is you want to buy them as close to
Speaker 1: the first day that they come out as possible. Why
Speaker 1: do I say that because if you look at the
Speaker 1: history of Apple products, they all get updated, whether it's
Speaker 1: an iPod touch, while those take longer, whether it's an iPhone,
Speaker 1: it comes out like clockwork. Every year. MacBooks get updated,
Speaker 1: the iPads get updated. So if you're buying it on
Speaker 1: the first day, to me, you're getting the full use
Speaker 1: of that price that you're paying until the price drops
Speaker 1: when they launch the new product, because generally when they
Speaker 1: launch the new product, the prices come down. So there's
Speaker 1: two ways of looking at this. To me, if I'm
Speaker 1: paying five hundred dollars for a new iPad, to me,
Speaker 1: I want to get the maximum use out of that iPad,
Speaker 1: like the day it's fresh and available. To me, that
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars, I'm dividing that by how many days
Speaker 1: I'm using it, right or how many years. Or you
Speaker 1: can look at it second way, and you can always
Speaker 1: buy things the day the new one comes out, because
Speaker 1: you're going to get a discount on the old one, right,
Speaker 1: So you can buy the old one and get the
Speaker 1: cheaper one. But my point is, what's the person's same again,
Speaker 1: Larry Larry always look at Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com,
Speaker 1: Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com. What they do is
Speaker 1: they give you a very simple way of knowing how
Speaker 1: long it's been since an Apple product came out. So
Speaker 1: right now I'm looking iPhone ten s. They're saying caution
Speaker 1: because the new one's coming out in September. So they're like,
Speaker 1: if you buy that right now at full price, you've
Speaker 1: gone six months of that price. You know, you could
Speaker 1: have gotten six more months of use out of that.
Speaker 1: This makes sense. It's kind of this weird thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I've been doing it backwards.
Speaker 1: You buy it later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I bought my Iphoney Plus like six months
Speaker 2: after it came out, right, But it's always around the
Speaker 2: same time of year.
Speaker 1: So that's fine. You're in that middle cycle and hopefully
Speaker 1: you get a deal now. iPad air right now, iPad
Speaker 1: pro is neutral, iPad pro as neutral, yeah, iPad pro,
Speaker 1: iPad air by now, and iPad MANI buy now, iPad
Speaker 1: don't buy. So if you're looking at the standard iPad
Speaker 1: it's been four hundred and thirty six days since they
Speaker 1: released a new one. The average is five eighty three,
Speaker 1: which means you only have one hundred days of use
Speaker 1: before the price drops. You see how I'm figuring this out.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Larry great resource. It's the Mac Rumors Buyer's Guide.
Speaker 1: I always consult it and for me personally, like I
Speaker 1: like to buy stuff the day it comes out, because
Speaker 1: like my kid's iPad minis, I bought them literally the
Speaker 1: first week they're out because I was like, okay, and
Speaker 1: it's been three years, so we've gotten a lot of
Speaker 1: good use. Now. If you look at the iPad Mini,
Speaker 1: it was just updated recently, it's only been eighty days.
Speaker 1: Before that, it's been three hundred ninety days, and so
Speaker 1: I had it for three hundred and ninety days of
Speaker 1: basically I paid full price, but divide it by three
Speaker 1: ninety and now it's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he should if he wants the new iPad,
Speaker 2: he should wait until it comes out.
Speaker 1: It depends on the iPad he wants. If it's the
Speaker 1: iPad Pro, it's neutral. You can make your own decision,
Speaker 1: iPad Air or Mini. Buy him right now. iPad don't
Speaker 1: buy got it? All right? Cool? Great question. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: talk about some of the new features coming to the iPhone.
Speaker 1: So I talked about WWDC. iOS thirteen is the new
Speaker 1: version of the operating system. And if you know me, well,
Speaker 1: you know that I wrote a book on iOS twelve,
Speaker 1: which was one hundred and one handy tech tips for
Speaker 1: the iPhone.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did.
Speaker 1: They should have a buyer's guide for that because that's
Speaker 1: about to sunset. Because when the new software comes out,
Speaker 1: a lot of the things will still work. But it's like, rich,
Speaker 1: you need a new book, right, So I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: writing the new version, which I probably will. So main
Speaker 1: features I'll just go through quickly dramatic new look dark mode,
Speaker 1: which kind of fun. Yeah, I mean it's just kind
Speaker 1: of fun to have a.
Speaker 2: Different you're going to use that?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'll put it on schedule so i'll have
Speaker 1: it go. I'll have it go on automatically at sunset
Speaker 1: and off at sunrise, so yeah, which will give me
Speaker 1: like maybe five minutes of use because I go to
Speaker 1: sleep before the sunsets most nights. Okay, face ID is
Speaker 1: going to be faster, thirty percent faster to unlock. Now
Speaker 1: you don't have face Idea on your iPhone, but I do,
Speaker 1: and it is noticeably amazing, but it's also noticeably slow.
Speaker 1: Like I could definitely take the thirty percent improvement and
Speaker 1: really be happy with that. The operating system itself is
Speaker 1: faster and more responsive, the apps are smaller. Photos is
Speaker 1: totally going to change to help you curate your pictures
Speaker 1: in better ways. Apple Maps, which you use right, Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't, I know, but it's been getting better and
Speaker 1: Apple says they drove four million miles to completely rebuild
Speaker 1: the database, so it is getting a lot better. Personally,
Speaker 1: Google has the market on this. They really know what
Speaker 1: they're doing and it's very smart. So except for CarPlay,
Speaker 1: which used to only be maps, now it supports Google Maps,
Speaker 1: I pretty much do not have a use for maps
Speaker 1: in my life. So the new maps, though, will be better.
Speaker 1: It's going to roll out to the entire US by
Speaker 1: the end of twenty nineteen, and basically there's more detail
Speaker 1: on the maps. So it's pretty dramatic the level of
Speaker 1: detail that Apple has been able to build into maps
Speaker 1: compared to when it first launched, and it has been
Speaker 1: getting better over time. Let's see what else they also
Speaker 1: have This new look around View, which is basically street view.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with that on Google? Yes, So it's
Speaker 1: basically now Apple has their own version. So in a nutshell,
Speaker 1: Apple has been doing a really good job with maps.
Speaker 1: Will it be enough to get people to try to
Speaker 1: go back to it? Probably not to me. The people
Speaker 1: that use maps are people that don't understand that it's
Speaker 1: not Google Maps, don't really care, or don't really navigate
Speaker 1: that much like you. I don't know if you navigate.
Speaker 1: I navigate a lot, and I'm always like using Google
Speaker 1: Maps to like see exact times to get places and
Speaker 1: go places. If you're not using that, it's not that
Speaker 1: bad of a deal, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I use Google Maps on my computer and then
Speaker 2: I use Maps on my phone.
Speaker 1: Gosh what it's just how you do it, how I
Speaker 1: do it. Messages, I'm very excited about this feature. So
Speaker 1: I Message is kind of the de facto messaging app
Speaker 1: in America. It will now let you set a username
Speaker 1: and profile photo, which is a small thing, but it's
Speaker 1: so cool because if you look in your list of messages,
Speaker 1: you know, I've got pictures. One that really bothers me.
Speaker 1: My agent shows up as a picture of his dog,
Speaker 1: and I have no idea where that picture is being
Speaker 1: pulled from. And it's really annoying because like I want
Speaker 1: him to look like him right right, and I can
Speaker 1: go through and change it manually. But who does that, right?
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes I do. Yeah, I've done that. It
Speaker 1: takes a lot of time effort. So anyway, so you
Speaker 1: can on your end, on your phone, you can set
Speaker 1: how Megan looks to other people when you I message them. Interesting,
Speaker 1: that's really fun.
Speaker 2: That is fun.
Speaker 1: Siri has a new voice. She's going to be more
Speaker 1: natural sounding and also one hundred percent computer synthesized. So
Speaker 1: they used to put actors in a voice booth ask
Speaker 1: them to say a thousand million different little terms like
Speaker 1: turn right, turn left, or they'd say turn and then
Speaker 1: you go right, left, up, down, around, and then Siri
Speaker 1: would blend those things together. Now she's one hundred percent
Speaker 1: made by a computer.
Speaker 2: So voice is made by a computer, it's not humans. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's crazy.
Speaker 1: And she sounds pretty good because they showed a little
Speaker 1: demo and she sounds great. Car Play is getting its newest,
Speaker 1: its biggest update ever. It's getting a whole new dashboard.
Speaker 1: I love car Play. I think it's the best Google
Speaker 1: for their side of things is actually updating Android Auto
Speaker 1: as well, So it's clear that we need an evolution
Speaker 1: with these two systems that I really love. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I love car Play, I love Android Auto.
Speaker 1: So again car Play is getting an update, and Siri
Speaker 1: is now going to support third party navigation and audio apps,
Speaker 1: which is huge because again, Apple Music, why do I
Speaker 1: love it? Because Siri works with it. So if Siri
Speaker 1: was to work with Spotify, maybe I'd take another look
Speaker 1: at that, right, even though I think Apple Music is better.
Speaker 1: QuickPath is the iOS keyboard is getting swiped to type,
Speaker 1: which I know is a small thing, and again you
Speaker 1: can get it with third party apps, but why if
Speaker 1: you can get it on the regular keyboard, that's fine.
Speaker 1: And Files will now let you access external storage devices
Speaker 1: like SD cards and USB flash drive, so you will
Speaker 1: be able to plug a USB flash drive into your
Speaker 1: iPhone and it will be able to see the files
Speaker 1: on there, which is something that's never been done before.
Speaker 1: That will also work on the iPad, which is really cool.
Speaker 1: So a lot of new features. iOS thirteen is going
Speaker 1: to be a big one. I got to start writing.
Speaker 2: That book, Yes you do. That's exciting. All right, Megan, Okay,
Speaker 2: so this I thought this was kind of a funny transition.
Speaker 2: This next comment comes from John Nielsen and the subject
Speaker 2: is android phones. He says, all you seem to talk
Speaker 2: about is Apple phone. How about something for the millions
Speaker 2: of Android users who don't care what Apple is doing.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love the irony that you do that, Like
Speaker 1: all afin just talked about Apple.
Speaker 2: But the reason why I think we had just gone
Speaker 2: to like we've gone to so many Android events in
Speaker 2: the last few weeks. I just think it's funny because
Speaker 2: it sounds like he just catches you at the wrong time.
Speaker 1: Right, or he gets really annoyed when I talk about Apple.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, you know me, Well, yes, am
Speaker 1: I an Apple fanboy? No? Right, you're so.
Speaker 2: He rich changes his phone Like every month he'll go
Speaker 2: back to an Android and he'll say how much he
Speaker 2: loves it, and then he'll get bored of it and
Speaker 2: he'll go back like he switches it up. So I
Speaker 2: just think it's funny that this person thinks he's a fan.
Speaker 1: Boy, right, And so it's fine. And this is the
Speaker 1: joke among all tech folks is that if you talk
Speaker 1: about Apple, you're paid by Apple, and you're an Apple
Speaker 1: fanboy and you're an Apple lover, you talk about Android.
Speaker 1: Oh well, Google's paying you and Samsung's paying you. How
Speaker 1: much you being paid by Samsung to talk about Samsung.
Speaker 1: The reality is things come and go in waves. Last
Speaker 1: month we had a bunch of Samsung news because we
Speaker 1: had the Samsung event where we had the new Samsung phones,
Speaker 1: and then we had the new Galaxy Fold and I
Speaker 1: talked about that. Then we had the one Plus, which
Speaker 1: is the Android phone. I went to that event in
Speaker 1: New York. By the way, flew there to go there
Speaker 1: because I wanted to out of the kindness of my heart,
Speaker 1: even though they paid thank you, one Plus. But my
Speaker 1: point is I wanted to be there because I love
Speaker 1: what one plus is doing, and I love Android, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate Android, and I also appreciate what Apple's doing.
Speaker 1: And yes, I do switch my phones up a lot,
Speaker 1: like a lot of tech people, and I do try
Speaker 1: things out. There's a lot of things that iPhone does
Speaker 1: that's really good. There's a lot of things that Android
Speaker 1: does that's really good. So I'll direct you to some
Speaker 1: of my coverage, but I talked about a lot of
Speaker 1: Android stuff in the past month. But again this is
Speaker 1: Apple's week. They're having their Worldwide Developers Conference. Of course,
Speaker 1: somebody talking about Apple a lot. And speaking of Apple,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Apple Watch because at WWDC they
Speaker 1: also talked about what's going to be new for the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. And I'll just go over some of the features.
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, by the way, one percent the best wearable
Speaker 1: out there today. There is nothing better. I know you
Speaker 1: want one so badly. The Apple Watch is just quite
Speaker 1: simply amazing. And I'll be honest. When I go to
Speaker 1: Android and I use my Android device, the thing I
Speaker 1: missed the most is my Apple Watch because I love
Speaker 1: the health functions. There's just so many little things that
Speaker 1: I do on it. When I go for a run
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, I sit there, I pop in my AirPods.
Speaker 1: I literally just walk out the door. I don't need
Speaker 1: anything except my key to my house because I have
Speaker 1: music on my watch. I can stream music on my watch.
Speaker 1: I have cellular on my watch, which means if I
Speaker 1: need to make a phone call or if someone needs
Speaker 1: to get a hold of me while I'm running, I
Speaker 1: can do that. I have GPS, all these analytics. It
Speaker 1: all drives back to my health app, which means I
Speaker 1: can see exactly, you know, how many calories I've burned,
Speaker 1: or what I'm doing or how you know my move
Speaker 1: for the day. It's amazing and so Apple Watch is
Speaker 1: continually getting better. A couple of new features in Watch
Speaker 1: os six, by the way, is first off, they have
Speaker 1: a new cycle tracking app for women, so something you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not personally excited about, but you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's very good for women. Yeah, I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1: There's a new noise app, and the noise app will
Speaker 1: actually alert you if you're in an environment that's for
Speaker 1: your hearing. So if you're at a concert or you're
Speaker 1: construction worker, it will tell you, Hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: It'll give you hints, just like it does for your fitness,
Speaker 1: like hey, by the way, you should probably stand up
Speaker 1: and you know, move around a little bit. Hey, by
Speaker 1: the way, if you're in this place for four hours
Speaker 1: the way you're listening to this music at this at
Speaker 1: this loudness, it's going to mess up your ears. So
Speaker 1: isn't that smart?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really smart.
Speaker 1: And so it's just kind of stuff like that that's
Speaker 1: just brilliant. For the first time ever, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: an app store directly on the Apple Watch, which means
Speaker 1: you think about an app that you want, you can
Speaker 1: download it right to your watch without your phone being nearby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously you'll need Wi Fi or cellular for that to happen.
Speaker 1: There's new watch faces. There's an API to stream music,
Speaker 1: so right now the only music you can stream or
Speaker 1: the only audio you can stream on the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: is through Apple Music. Well, they're opening up their API
Speaker 1: so now others can do the same. So they showed
Speaker 1: the example of a Major League Baseball game, which total
Speaker 1: yawner for me, But I'm sure some people like that.
Speaker 1: But I have a baseball is really fun in person,
Speaker 1: but to watch a baseball game on TV.
Speaker 2: I totally agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I know any any sport is
Speaker 1: fun in person, some are more fun on TV. Voice
Speaker 1: Memos app is now available or will be available on
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. Your audio books will be available. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a new calculator app which really appeals to the sixth
Speaker 1: grade nerd in me that used to wear the Calculator watch.
Speaker 1: That will be right on the on the watch and
Speaker 1: it will help you do tips and split bills right
Speaker 1: from your wrist. So that's kind of cool. If you're
Speaker 1: at a restaurant you got six friends, you all want
Speaker 1: to split the bill, or like when Lindsay and I
Speaker 1: go out for dinner, like we always split the bill.
Speaker 1: So oh still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. Oh. I was like, okay, no,
Speaker 2: but that's okay if it was true, I think that
Speaker 2: that's Uh.
Speaker 1: Lindsay works very hard, so she she it's it's all equal.
Speaker 1: In the Tomurro household, Siri will display full web page
Speaker 1: results as well in the Apple Watch, so again, uh
Speaker 1: and this, by the way, all these updates, I believe
Speaker 1: we'll be going all the way back to the original
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, like the first generation, which is pretty cmazy.
Speaker 2: So okay, well, I think it's timed now to really
Speaker 2: switch gears to this next question from Stanley Dent. He
Speaker 2: wrote on your Facebook page. He said, Rich, your segments
Speaker 2: are great. I have a question. My cousin gave me
Speaker 2: his old Surface Pro, but for some reason kept the keyboard,
Speaker 2: so I didn't know it was one hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 2: but I went on Amazon and I saw one that
Speaker 2: was sixty dollars. Should I get the Microsoft keyboard for
Speaker 2: one fifty or should I go the cheap route, which
Speaker 2: is sixty. Thanks keep up the great work.
Speaker 1: It's a good question. And this is the thing that
Speaker 1: people kind of forget when they buy these little like
Speaker 1: tablets that can become computers. And we talked about this
Speaker 1: in the last episode. I believe is that even when
Speaker 1: you buy those things, you still have to purchase a
Speaker 1: lot of accessories like a keyboard case, which are not cheap.
Speaker 1: So he says, how much did you say it was
Speaker 1: one hundred?
Speaker 2: He said it was one fifty one to fifty, okay,
Speaker 2: the actual So for the.
Speaker 1: Official one, so I'm looking on Amazon, which okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like one thirty seven. Yeah, it depends on which
Speaker 1: one you get, so they can be up to one fifty.
Speaker 1: But yeah, go for the cheap one, Like why why
Speaker 1: would you not? I mean it's not gonna be as
Speaker 1: like as like made for the thing, but like, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this one. They have one for forty three dollars,
Speaker 1: sixty dollars, that's probably the one he's looking at. The
Speaker 1: sixty dollars one has great reviews, and why not? I
Speaker 1: mean you can always return things on Amazon, like most
Speaker 1: of the like ninetynine percent of the time free of charge,
Speaker 1: So why would you not try the cheap o one.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal. The reason I'm saying that is because
Speaker 1: he's getting this as a hand me down to begin with.
Speaker 1: So clearly this is something that he didn't invest his
Speaker 1: own money in. So it's like he's gonna be fine
Speaker 1: with something that's like this, the keyboard that's not the
Speaker 1: official one, right, yeah, so this is kind of like
Speaker 1: a bonus in his life, and so I think the
Speaker 1: keyboard doesn't need to be super duper expensive. One thing
Speaker 1: to look out for. By the way, when you're shopping
Speaker 1: on Amazon, they have these new little tags. They're very controversial,
Speaker 1: but they it's called Amazon's Choice.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, doesn't that just mean Amazon wants you to
Speaker 2: buy it?
Speaker 1: It does. But here's the thing, this is why I
Speaker 1: love it. Amazon in the background is using big data
Speaker 1: to figure out where to put that tag. It's not
Speaker 1: just on the product that they think like they want
Speaker 1: to push. They're using return data. They're using customer purchase data.
Speaker 1: So let's say that the most popular Let's say you're
Speaker 1: buying a I don't know, let's say you're buying a
Speaker 1: case for the iPad, right, and they notice that the cheapest.
Speaker 1: You could put a case on there for seven bucks, right,
Speaker 1: and a million people are gonna buy it, right because
Speaker 1: it comes up super cheap. You're like, oh seven bucks okay, Well,
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, everyone starts returning that case. Amazon
Speaker 1: doesn't want to recommend that case because guess what, it
Speaker 1: actually costs them more to keep selling that case. So
Speaker 1: Amazon's choice is gonna be the case that is fifteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine that they notice that people buy but actually
Speaker 1: you really like and they give it higher reviews. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's what Amazon's choice means. They're using all this data.
Speaker 1: They don't explain exactly what the data is behind it,
Speaker 1: but from what I've pieced together, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Well, I was just checking to see the I just
Speaker 2: got a phone case and I bought it on Amazon,
Speaker 2: but I didn't like I got a cheap case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 2: Curious because normally I look at the choice thing and
Speaker 2: I always thought it was a push. But I did
Speaker 2: actually buy the Amazon's choice case, which was like twelve dollars.
Speaker 1: And are you happy with it?
Speaker 2: I love it?
Speaker 1: See, And that's what.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, it's fine, let me say, it's just
Speaker 2: like a simple rippy.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the it's like the Apple silicone case,
Speaker 1: but it's it's like a cheaper version. And it's because
Speaker 1: the Apple will be like fifty bucks or forty bucks whatever.
Speaker 1: This is like how much twelve ninety nine, twelve ninety Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's perfect and it feels great. So again, look
Speaker 1: for those Amazon Amazon Choice cues. You don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to buy that, but it definitely helps. And I know
Speaker 1: they're controversial because people are saying, well, Amazon's just pushing
Speaker 1: the stuff like you were saying.
Speaker 2: That they want to and they actually but they were right.
Speaker 1: It's a sales tactic, but it works to me. It's
Speaker 1: helping you, and they are using big data and it's
Speaker 1: I'm sure they continue to tweak it, but again, just
Speaker 1: look for these little these little cues. All right, I
Speaker 1: know we got a lot of Apple stuff, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep going through it because there is a lot
Speaker 1: of Apple stuff this week. So let's talk about the
Speaker 1: new mac os Catalina. This is the new desktop operating
Speaker 1: system for your Mac. I love the fact that it
Speaker 1: is named after Catalina Island, which is just off the
Speaker 1: coast of Los Angeles. If you have not been, definitely
Speaker 1: take a visit. So when I first met my wife, Lindsay,
Speaker 1: her family would go every year for Fourth of July.
Speaker 1: So I went many years when I first met her.
Speaker 1: I have very fond memories of going there because I
Speaker 1: never I was from New Jersey. Well I'm still am,
Speaker 1: but to go to this tiny little island that her
Speaker 1: family was like they always just rent a house for
Speaker 1: the summer for like a week or whatever, and we'd
Speaker 1: all go and it was just I have some great
Speaker 1: memories from there. And so I personally love Catalina. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that they named it after that. But
Speaker 1: again Catalina. The things you need to know two things.
Speaker 1: Number one, this is what's going to happen with iTunes
Speaker 1: when it's going to be split up. The second thing,
Speaker 1: and the feature I'm very excited about, is called sidecar,
Speaker 1: and this will enable you to use a iPad as
Speaker 1: a second display on your computer. So for me, I
Speaker 1: have my computer, my little laptop and a lot of
Speaker 1: times I'm editing video. I think it'd be so cool
Speaker 1: to have like I message or my email up on
Speaker 1: a secondary screen. And you can do this with an
Speaker 1: app right now called Duet duet and I think it's
Speaker 1: a fifteen dollars app but it's called duet display, and
Speaker 1: so I've used that before. You plug in your iPad
Speaker 1: and it becomes a secondary display. Wasn't perfect. I think
Speaker 1: Apples is probably gonna be a little bit better than
Speaker 1: what they're doing. But again, well they say zero lag,
Speaker 1: so maybe it does work perfectly. I used it when
Speaker 1: it first came out. But yeah, I mean that's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. I like that.
Speaker 2: So you would get like I mean, depending on where
Speaker 2: your computer is, you could get like something to hold
Speaker 2: your iPad.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so funny you say that I saw. So
Speaker 1: you can get a little stand, you know, like a
Speaker 1: little kind of tripod for your iPod or tripod for
Speaker 1: your tripod for your iPad, so you can get that
Speaker 1: on the iPod. Yeah. I love how my brain like
Speaker 1: just rhymed it because I'm so used to reading like
Speaker 1: kids books at night that like, yeah, my brain is
Speaker 1: like Doctor Seuss. You can get a tripod for your iPod.
Speaker 1: And there's a redfish, bluefish, green fish, yellowfish. But the
Speaker 1: other thing I saw when I was at WWDC, someone
Speaker 1: was already using the secondary screen. I think they just
Speaker 1: used it with duet maybe, but they had a clip
Speaker 1: that somehow clipped to their MacBook screen and then the
Speaker 1: other side of it clipped to their iPad, so their
Speaker 1: iPad was actually just hanging off their screen. So I
Speaker 1: thought looked kind of dangerous because it's a clip that
Speaker 1: clips to your screen and seemed kind of dicey. But yeah, anyway, interesting,
Speaker 1: and then let's talk about tvOS. This is what powers
Speaker 1: Apple TV. The things you need to know about that
Speaker 1: is you're getting a new home screen that I am
Speaker 1: very much against because it has one of my least
Speaker 1: favorite features of Netflix. Oh no, what do you think
Speaker 1: that is? When you're scrolling through looking for something to watch, what.
Speaker 2: Happens, Well, it gives you the percent.
Speaker 1: No things start auto playing. Oh I hate that and
Speaker 1: I cannot stand It's so annoying. So that's going to
Speaker 1: now come to Apple TV. And I get why they
Speaker 1: do it because they want to sell you on a show.
Speaker 1: Like if you watch it, if you look at a show,
Speaker 1: what do you get? You get a title and a
Speaker 1: thumbnail And ninety nine percent of the time there are
Speaker 1: all these shows you've never seen a word about.
Speaker 2: They have to do that.
Speaker 1: They have to do it because they want to show
Speaker 1: you what the show is and you're right, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's a murder mystery. Oh my gosh, I need to
Speaker 1: watch that. Yeah. They're also getting multi user support so
Speaker 1: when you're watching on the Apple TV, you can, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone could has their own kind of personalized recommendations. And
Speaker 1: they're getting new four k HDR screensavers that were filmed
Speaker 1: under the c So you know, people love these screensavers
Speaker 1: on Apple TV because they're so beautiful and I like
Speaker 1: to have my own pictures.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was thinking of like my desktop background.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we do a good job. People love backgrounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And finally enough with the Apple News. But I'll give
Speaker 1: you one more thing that I'm personally very excited about
Speaker 1: is that on iOS thirteen, you will be able to
Speaker 1: ask Siri to play over one hundred thousand live radio stations,
Speaker 1: so basically all the radio stations from iHeartRadio, tune In,
Speaker 1: and radio dot com, which is all the CBS stations.
Speaker 1: So if there's a radio station that you like, you
Speaker 1: can ask Sirira to play it without third party software.
Speaker 1: Right now, if you say, like, you know, play one
Speaker 1: on two seven KISSFM, you may have to go it
Speaker 1: may open iHeartRadio or whatever. This will just play it natively,
Speaker 1: which is a small but very interesting feature because of
Speaker 1: the fact that now it's just kind of you can
Speaker 1: see radio stations almost like promoting the fact of like, hey,
Speaker 1: just ask Siri to play us. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: you can do this on Google Assistant right now, like
Speaker 1: on Google Home they already do that, but this on
Speaker 1: Siri is kind of big because right now, as far
Speaker 1: as I know, the only thing she does is like
Speaker 1: basically CBS News and Beats one, so you know, you're
Speaker 1: kind of limited. But the fact that you can just say, hey,
Speaker 1: play one on two seven KISSFM or KFI AM six
Speaker 1: forty or Z one hundred or whatever station you can
Speaker 1: think of, that's kind of cool. And it's very powerful
Speaker 1: for in the car because as more people use CarPlay,
Speaker 1: you can just pull up the station that you want.
Speaker 1: Radio stations sort of have a fighting chance of competing
Speaker 1: with all the other stuff.
Speaker 2: This is good for radio. Yeah, for sure, I love that.
Speaker 2: That's really cute. Okay, so my next question is from Mike,
Speaker 2: and it's about the Samsung eight plus update. My phone
Speaker 2: updated itself yesterday and I hate it. I'm afraid The
Speaker 2: answer is no. But is there any way to reverse
Speaker 2: this improvement and go back to a phone I know
Speaker 2: how to use. I always watch your spout on keytla
Speaker 2: and follow you on Facebook.
Speaker 1: NOPs, Mike answers. No, Mike, I'm just gonna go right
Speaker 1: through this one. Let's just take another question, because no.
Speaker 1: The thing is, these phone manufacturers they change things up.
Speaker 1: You got the one UI update. There's no way to
Speaker 1: go back easily. And my advice is that you will
Speaker 1: get used to it. As someone who tests a bazillion phones,
Speaker 1: and you know, I go from phone to phone and
Speaker 1: I see what they do and what they don't do,
Speaker 1: you'll get used to it. Mike. I know it's it's tough,
Speaker 1: and it's unfortunate, and yes, some features do go away,
Speaker 1: but there's really no way around it. It's kind of
Speaker 1: the evolution of things. All right, One more questions.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna ask you another.
Speaker 1: Question, shorty, it's very short.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's I'm gonna get a similar response from you.
Speaker 2: This is from Norma and the subject is annoying group text?
Speaker 2: How can you remove yourself from group text messages on
Speaker 2: an iPhone?
Speaker 1: There's not a way I know to do that. So
Speaker 1: I tried to remove myself from my I'm on my
Speaker 1: family's group text, which is pretty amazing. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: when they start texting, it's like it's like rapid fire. So,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, if you go into like
Speaker 1: the info, you know, you can tap at the top.
Speaker 1: I don't see a way of removing yourself. Oh you
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sorry. I have a group text open. So
Speaker 2: if you click on the info at the top of
Speaker 2: a group text, you see you can add a contact.
Speaker 2: But if you keep going down, it says leave this conversation.
Speaker 1: Oh what hold on? So see, why don't we have that?
Speaker 1: I don't have that, see, so I think it's only
Speaker 1: if everyone is on I message. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: That's the difference. See, because I've got a mix of
Speaker 1: I message and not I message. Oh interesting, So let
Speaker 1: me go to a conversation with you and Louis because
Speaker 1: we're both or here's a message. Here's a conversation with
Speaker 1: all three of us on I message. Yes, and yes,
Speaker 1: you can leave.
Speaker 2: And by the way, when you leave, it will say
Speaker 2: that you left left. So I'm just saying that because
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like people get offended. I
Speaker 2: think the best way to do to handle something like
Speaker 2: that if you are sick of getting alerts, is just
Speaker 2: to hide the alert.
Speaker 1: So swipe from right to left on the message in
Speaker 1: the message pain like on the list of messages, swipe
Speaker 1: right to left, and it will say hide alerts. And
Speaker 1: if you delete it, it doesn't it just comes back
Speaker 1: when the next message comes back. So hide alerts will
Speaker 1: give you the option to hide for basically indefinitely. It
Speaker 1: kind of silences that. But again, if they're all on
Speaker 1: I message, see I learned something new today, you can leave.
Speaker 1: And if they're all I message they're not, then you're
Speaker 1: kind of screwed.
Speaker 2: So sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way it works. Okay, Megan, I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna love this. And I love it and I'm
Speaker 1: not even into fashion, and I love this. This is
Speaker 1: like the dream of kind of what we've wanted from
Speaker 1: the internet for so long. Okay, this is something new
Speaker 1: from Amazon. It's called style Snap and so what it
Speaker 1: is is you take a picture of what someone's wearing
Speaker 1: and it will search for that similar visually looking outfit
Speaker 1: on Amazon.
Speaker 2: I love it already.
Speaker 1: Isn't this amazing? I tried it. So I upload a
Speaker 1: picture of myself wearing a T shirt and it found
Speaker 1: just like a bunch of T shirts, so it didn't
Speaker 1: find the exact style I was wearing. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really cool. It's inside and it's already there. It's inside
Speaker 1: the Amazon app. If you go in the Amazon app,
Speaker 1: click the camera icon in the upper right hand corner
Speaker 1: of the app, and then at the bottom you'll see
Speaker 1: a bunch of options, just like you do on Instagram,
Speaker 1: where you swipe between the options. This one is called
Speaker 1: style snap. You open that up and then here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You can either upload a picture, take a picture, or
Speaker 1: you can upload a screenshot. And let me explain why
Speaker 1: the screenshot is so important. I know why.
Speaker 2: Why because if you screenshot something from Pinterest that you like,
Speaker 2: drag it because I was like, what if I see
Speaker 2: something whoops?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, that is exactly And here's not just Pinterest,
Speaker 1: Instagram influencers, right, this is all about And here's why
Speaker 1: I love this, even though I'm not a fashion person.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing because how easy is it. You like
Speaker 1: what someone's wearing and you want to get the same
Speaker 1: or similar looking thing, and you can find on Amazon
Speaker 1: and buy it within like two seconds. So this is
Speaker 1: something that's been a long time coming. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the dream of all shopping. Yes, right, you see
Speaker 1: something you like at someone's house, a light, a magnet,
Speaker 1: whatever on a white see a magnet but whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not just for clothes. Well, this I think
Speaker 2: is just okay because I was going to say, you're
Speaker 2: talking about lamps.
Speaker 1: But they have this like Wayfair has something like that.
Speaker 1: You know, like all these apps have like similar things.
Speaker 1: I think they work to different extents, but this is amazing.
Speaker 1: So again, it's called style Snap and basically what people
Speaker 1: are gonna do is they're gonna screenshot their favorite instagrammers
Speaker 1: wearing whatever outfit they're wearing and then upload it to
Speaker 1: Amazon and purchase it. So I think that's brilliant by Amazon.
Speaker 2: I don't buy clothes on Amazon, though.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the reason this will miss Megan. This
Speaker 1: is what will make you buy clothes on Amazon. This
Speaker 1: is why I don't buy a lot of clothes on
Speaker 1: Amazon either. But I would gladly if I could figure out.
Speaker 1: Clothes are a little tricky because once I have my sizes,
Speaker 1: I like to go to the same place, which is
Speaker 1: Gap H and M and Old Navy in Wondering and Banana. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Gap family there. I'm like the
Speaker 1: boringest person when it comes to clothes.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you didn't say Ja Crew.
Speaker 1: No. I worked there for one day and I had
Speaker 1: to buy all their stuff to like work there, and
Speaker 1: then I never worked there again. But A Crew's too
Speaker 1: expensive for me. Banana Republican is now they always have
Speaker 1: like forty fifty percent off, except for the jeans I like,
Speaker 1: which never go on sale. Oh the travelers.
Speaker 2: Got it all right. So this next message is from
Speaker 2: ad Montenegro on your Facebook page. He wrote, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 2: I currently have Verizon, but I feel like I'm overpaying
Speaker 2: for three lines. I do have reception everywhere I go,
Speaker 2: But is there any other network out there with the
Speaker 2: reliability like Verizon but less expensive.
Speaker 1: This is a fantastic question, And you know what my
Speaker 1: answer is going to be because this was one of
Speaker 1: the first stories that you did here when you joined.
Speaker 2: Oh I no, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you the best service if you
Speaker 1: want to switch from Verizon is to switch to Verizon
Speaker 1: Verizon's Visible that is and Visible is Verizon's sort of
Speaker 1: secret prepaid plan, and it's kind of I guess this.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you call prepaid. It's just
Speaker 1: I don't even know why they're doing this, but it's
Speaker 1: so smart. It's kind of underground. It's forty dollars a
Speaker 1: month for the same exact Verizon network, Okay, and it
Speaker 1: is amazing. You're going to get this same features that
Speaker 1: you have pretty much. Some things change, you know, there
Speaker 1: are you know, like internationally, you're not going to get
Speaker 1: international calling, but that's you know, like not many people
Speaker 1: need that, right, But you're gonna get the same network.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be high quality, it's gonna work in all
Speaker 1: the same places. If you have an iPhone. He didn't
Speaker 1: mention what phone he has, but if he has an iPhone,
Speaker 1: you just pop their SIM card in the new Visible
Speaker 1: sim card. And the difference is that you have to
Speaker 1: sign up online. There's no stores, so they're saving money
Speaker 1: in these different little ways. But the customer service is fantastic.
Speaker 1: We did a big story with Visible when I heard
Speaker 1: about them, and I couldn't believe that this was like
Speaker 1: a thing, and so I'm telling you it was one
Speaker 1: of the most popular stories of twenty eighteen because and
Speaker 1: I actually talked to a guy today who we're going
Speaker 1: to do a follow up with who switched because of
Speaker 1: my story, and he saved like over like one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a month and he loves it and he said
Speaker 1: it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Isn't there a new update? Though? With Visible?
Speaker 1: There will be it's the it's on the DL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there will be some changes that I can't talk
Speaker 1: about just yet. But I think if you're a subscriber
Speaker 1: or you're thinking of subscribing the subscribing, you will like
Speaker 1: it Visible. I'm telling you. It's like I'm if I
Speaker 1: was a CEO of Verizon, I'm like, wait, you're like
Speaker 1: eating our young Like why are you letting us? Like why?
Speaker 1: But again, people are switching from Verizon to Verizon, so
Speaker 1: it's probably fine, yeah, but still pretty amazing. Anyway, check
Speaker 1: out Visible, and I think you will really like it.
Speaker 1: Something else to check out is Spotify's new app called Stations.
Speaker 1: And this is Spotify's answer to Pandora. So and you
Speaker 1: might be wondering, well, why do I need that if
Speaker 1: I have Pandora, Well it's Spotify. I mean you could
Speaker 1: try something new, right, So and I think Spotify might
Speaker 1: have more music than Pandora, like actual more songs in
Speaker 1: their library. I don't know that for a fact, but
Speaker 1: I think they do. So. Spotify Stations is this new app.
Speaker 1: It's a brand new app that just launched in the
Speaker 1: US on iOS and Android. It's a lightweight app and
Speaker 1: it's so simple, Megan, you've tried it. Yeah, you download it,
Speaker 1: you open it up, you sign in if you have
Speaker 1: a Spotify account. If you don't, you create one, and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, it is playing music. It's got
Speaker 1: some stations that are already kind of pre populates based
Speaker 1: on your previous profile. If not, you can go through
Speaker 1: you can choose an artist and it kicks off with
Speaker 1: that and starts a station just like Pandora. Or you
Speaker 1: can search through genres and start a station just like Pandora.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, when you open up the app,
Speaker 1: it just starts streaming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot cleaner looking than Pandora. And I
Speaker 2: think lightweight is actually the perfect word to describe it
Speaker 2: as fun colors.
Speaker 1: But it's so simple, so simple, and you will hear ads.
Speaker 1: If you're a free user, you will be able to
Speaker 1: thumbs up and thumbs down songs. You can skip up
Speaker 1: to six an hour, just like Pandora, and if you
Speaker 1: are a Spotify Premium subscriber, you will get which you are,
Speaker 1: you'll get the full experience, which means no ads and
Speaker 1: unlimited skips. So why would you want to use this
Speaker 1: if you're a Spotify Premium Well, because ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of the time when I open up Spotify when I
Speaker 1: was a subscriber, what did I do? I just started
Speaker 1: a playlist?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's overwhelming to pick, like what song am
Speaker 2: I gonna? I'm yeah, I love I love this.
Speaker 1: And the UI is really cool because it's just it's
Speaker 1: swipe up, swipe down to scroll through your stations. It's
Speaker 1: just super You kind of have to download it see
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, but it's very easy and it's
Speaker 1: super simple. So Spotify calls this an experiment, so it
Speaker 1: could go away at anytime. But I think in general
Speaker 1: they're just trying to get Spotify can be intimidating because
Speaker 1: and also I'm sure there's an element of people that
Speaker 1: don't understand that Spotify has a free version inside the
Speaker 1: main app, So they're probably appealing to people that search
Speaker 1: for Spotify free and then this comes up and then
Speaker 1: they open it up. They're like, Oh, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I wanted. It's just like Pandora, so and you don't
Speaker 1: have it's just simple. Yeah. I don't think there's offline
Speaker 1: though right now. So if you're on a plane, you
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be able to use it. But maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: Maybe they do it. Yeah, test it tomorrow. Got another question. Yes,
Speaker 1: this question is, Oh, this's got to be a really
Speaker 1: quick question.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, then I won't ask this one because it's
Speaker 2: kind of long. Okay, This next question is from Sherry Cortes.
Speaker 2: Subject is home WiFi. For the last month, my Spectrum
Speaker 2: WiFi disconnects randomly on different devices smart TV, iPad, PlayStation four.
Speaker 2: Some devices in the same room will be connected while
Speaker 2: others are not. Spectrum did some over the phone troubleshooting,
Speaker 2: but it didn't help. Since we now since we own
Speaker 2: our own router ter router, we may get charged if
Speaker 2: they come out to repair. How can I tell if
Speaker 2: the problem is with our router or with the Spectrum service?
Speaker 2: Do you have any suggestions?
Speaker 1: Oh, this is kind of a tricky one because I'm
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume it's her router, it's her WiFi,
Speaker 1: like it's Spectrum is providing the service to their house,
Speaker 1: and on their end, they can actually tell if the
Speaker 1: signal is good, like if they're providing you a good signal,
Speaker 1: and what happens to it once it dissipates through your
Speaker 1: WiFi they can't control. And especially since she said she
Speaker 1: owns the Wi Fi that's being popped out, like the
Speaker 1: whatever router, either she bought it themselves or you know whatever,
Speaker 1: Spectrum is gonna be like, uh, if we come over there,
Speaker 1: we're gonna charge you because it's not our built in
Speaker 1: Wi Fi. I think if you pay them like five
Speaker 1: bucks a month or whatever it is to like rent theirs,
Speaker 1: then you know, maybe they would fix that for free
Speaker 1: if you complain. But since it's her own, there's really
Speaker 1: nothing she can do or nothing Spectrum can do without charging.
Speaker 1: That's understandable, right, because they Spectrum can't be held liable
Speaker 1: for like the thousands of different Wi Fi routers that
Speaker 1: are available. Right, my advice is to probably get a
Speaker 1: mesh network system like euro or Google. I would probably
Speaker 1: in this case, I'd probably recommend Google Wi Fi because
Speaker 1: it seems like she has a pretty simple setup just
Speaker 1: need some better coverage. But I'd probably recommend Google Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: Check it out. It's sold at Costco or net Gear Orb. Right,
Speaker 1: those are the ones that we recommend, so check those out.
Speaker 1: I think it's unfortunately it's probably a problem on your end. Also,
Speaker 1: before you do any of that, just kind of move
Speaker 1: your your Wi Fi. Whatever spits out your Wi Fi signal,
Speaker 1: take that and physically move it to a higher place
Speaker 1: in your room and make sure it's not blocked by anything.
Speaker 1: A lot of times people with these in cabinets they
Speaker 1: put them behind a TV or behind a picture frame.
Speaker 1: Make sure it's out in the open and kind of
Speaker 1: on a higher level, and see if that helps dissipate
Speaker 1: the signal, because Wi Fi signals are not very good
Speaker 1: at moving around things.
Speaker 2: Do you recommend putting Wi Fi like in the center
Speaker 2: of your house.
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And also if there's two stories.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, get it as close to the center as
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, oh wow, we really need It's actually.
Speaker 1: Almost it's actually almost better to put it on the
Speaker 1: second floor because it can Wi Fi travels down like
Speaker 1: it kind of falls down, it kind of goes out,
Speaker 1: it emanates in almost like a donut. So if you
Speaker 1: can think of it that way, you want it in
Speaker 1: the center and you want it to fall down rather than.
Speaker 2: Ryan definitely have the same problem machinery.
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