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Speaker 1: What the heck is happening with Twitter? Gmail gets a

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Speaker 1: handy feature just in time for the holidays. Spotify might

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Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about

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Speaker 1: Hope you are having a fantastic day. Ah Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I've seen nothing absorb the the talk of the town

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Speaker 1: faster than Elon Musk taking over Twitter. And it's been

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Speaker 1: kind of a rough ride. I don't think the media

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Speaker 1: is helping, but it's it's really been interesting, to say

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Speaker 1: the least. Now, I will say that I feel like

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Speaker 1: my personal experience on Twitter has not changed substantially, and

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Speaker 1: I was kind of holding off on, you know, making

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Speaker 1: any judgments or really you know, getting kind of all

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Speaker 1: bent out of shape with the changes or you know whatever,

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Speaker 1: all the all the kind of chaos that's been happening

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Speaker 1: because a lot of this stuff happens in a vacuum,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I was waiting to see kind of like,

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Speaker 1: what's what's going on here, what's going to change for

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Speaker 1: the average person. And I feel like we've now surpassed that.

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Speaker 1: It's gotten to the point where I you know, and

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Speaker 1: I've said this before, I don't think the average person

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Speaker 1: Twitter is that it's not you know, if this kind

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Speaker 1: with Facebook, probably a big deal. Twitter not so much.

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Speaker 1: Twitter is a very inside baseball It's like a very

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Speaker 1: clubby place, and so it's used by a lot of journalists,

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Speaker 1: used by a lot of tech people, but it's not

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Speaker 1: these things, all these growing pains, all these things that

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Speaker 1: you know, Elon's trying to get through. It's like, well,

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Speaker 1: nobody's really seeing that except the inside baseball people. The

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Speaker 1: But I do feel like there's been some developments in

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Speaker 1: you know, they're having this major issue with number one,

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Speaker 1: how to monetize the website or the social media platform.

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Speaker 1: Number two, like, what do you do. You've got this

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Speaker 1: You know, you pay eight bucks a month, you get

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Speaker 1: a blue check. Well, the problem with that is that

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Speaker 1: first question of the podcast. Valories says, I have a

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Speaker 1: very long time. But it's it's very apparent to me

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Speaker 1: when I travel or if I'm out on a very

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Speaker 1: long shoot throughout the day. So let's say I go

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Speaker 1: to convention, or let's say I go, you know, out

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Speaker 1: out and about on a vacation. You're out all day,

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Speaker 1: out of your house all day, or out of your

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Speaker 1: hotel room all day. Good example, Hawaii, you know you're

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Speaker 1: out sight seeing, you're hiking, you're taking pictures, you're taking videos.

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Speaker 1: You come back to your hotel room before dinner, your

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00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: phone's at fifteen percent. You say, cool, I'll plug in

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00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: while I go take a shower, get cleaned up, ready

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Speaker 1: for dinner. And you come out in your phones at

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00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,439
Speaker 1: thirty five percent. It's like, wait, what shouldn't this thing

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00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: be way more charged? So here's the problem. Number one,

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Speaker 1: if you're using the old brick that you got with

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00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: your original iPhone, you got to stop doing that. So

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Speaker 1: if you're using the original plug in charger for your iPhone,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty small, it's got a big USB plug

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Speaker 1: on it. It's basically a five watt charger, and then

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00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: you're plugging that into a standard USB cable, you know,

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Speaker 1: the big one USBA, and then on the other end

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00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: of that is lightning. That's going to be the slowest

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Speaker 1: possible charge. That's really a trickle charge at this point.

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Speaker 1: For the modern iPhones, I think it's iPhone eight and

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00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: up that can handle faster charging. So if you're using

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Speaker 1: that original brick along with that original cable with the

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Speaker 1: original USB plugging into it, that's gonna be really slow.

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Speaker 1: So here's what you need. You need two things. Number one,

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Speaker 1: you need a lightning to USB C. USBC is that

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Speaker 1: tiny USB connector that you can flip up and down.

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00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: It goes in either way. That's what you need for

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00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: your cable. And then you need the plug that goes

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Speaker 1: into the wall that is USB c as well, and

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Speaker 1: not just a you know, you need a faster USBC.

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Speaker 1: Most of them are you know, twenty watts and up.

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Speaker 1: You need a twenty watt charger or you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: a thirty watt charger and that will charge your phone fast.

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Speaker 1: The fastest ones that I found are I like this

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Speaker 1: one from Spegan. It's like a thirty wat brick and

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Speaker 1: it's really great and it charges the phone very very fast,

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Speaker 1: noticeably fast. So those are the two things. Now, do

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00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,879
Speaker 1: you need the Apple brand charger? No, you don't. You

468
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: can just use any brand that you find on Amazon

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Speaker 1: that seems legitimate. I like something like a you can

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Speaker 1: go with Amazon Basics. You can go with a Spegan cable.

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Speaker 1: You can go with a Belkan cable. You can go

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Speaker 1: with the you know, whatever cable you want that looks reasonable.

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Speaker 1: Look for something that has a lot of reviews. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it says Amazon's choice on there, or just you know,

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Speaker 1: most popular, something like that. So that's it. When I

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Speaker 1: was in China, I remember these cables were about a dollar,

477
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: and here they sell for twenty thirty bucks for a

478
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 1: nice one, a braided one. But yeah, these things, you know,

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00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go for the super super cheap, like the

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Speaker 1: dollar you know, the ones that you see at like

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Speaker 1: the checkout counter at like certain convenience stores or like

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Speaker 1: a quick you know, quick convenience store. I would maybe

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Speaker 1: go with something a little bit more high quality. But really,

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Speaker 1: any of these things will work. But you need that

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00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: one two punch of USBC and then USBC cable to

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00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: lightning that will get the fastest possible charge for your phone.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the third biggest tech story

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Speaker 1: of the week. Meta first time in history, first mass

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Speaker 1: layoffs in the company's eighteen year history. According to Reuters,

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Speaker 1: Meta told employees on Friday that eleven thousand jobs would

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Speaker 1: be cut, thirteen percent of its workforce. And you know

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00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: this is not something again news you can use, but

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00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: it just goes to show the current state of affair here.

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Speaker 1: We've seen more tech layoffs in the past couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks than we've seen in all of the past couple

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Speaker 1: of years combined. I mean, this is a real indicator

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Speaker 1: of things are changing with our economy, things are changing

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Speaker 1: with these companies, that the tech kind of party is over.

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Speaker 1: People are turning on the lights and realizing that there's

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Speaker 1: a big mess to clean up. And that mess is

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00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people that are employed at

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Speaker 1: these companies, that the growth isn't there anymore, the profits

503
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: aren't there anymore, and so they need to kind of

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00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: make some changes in a big way. And when you've

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00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: got Meta doing this' that's really kind of wild because

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00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: these companies are just printing money for the past couple

507
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: of years. But we've seen inflation, we've seen prices rise,

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00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: we've seen you know, all the revenue of these major

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00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 1: tech companies has been clipped not just by the economy,

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00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: but also by changes in the greater ad marketplace. And

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00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: a big part of that change is really, you know,

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00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: people realizing that their privacy is more important to them,

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00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: and things like Apple changing the way the iPhone lets

514
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: these big companies like Google and YouTube and Instagram and

515
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: Facebook target people and just regular ads. So long story short,

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00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: first mass layoffs in the company's eighteen year history. You know,

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00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: people aren't at home anymore for work from home, so

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Speaker 1: there's just a lot of these things that they thought

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00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: were going to continue forever. You know, some of these

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00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: advancements we saw in kind of work from home and

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00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: how people adopted things and all remember the rush on

522
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: like webcams and computers and laptops and you know, outfitting

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00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: your house. When people had the opportunity to get back

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00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: to work, a lot of them did and they kind

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00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: of dropped all these things, like you know, I went

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00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: from using Zoom every day to using zoom you know,

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00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: maybe once every other week. So there's a lot of

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00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: big changes there. Two things in this Reuter's article kind

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00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: of interesting executives during a town hall meeting with employees,

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00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: told told employees that the company was going to exit

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00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: its portal smart display business. Those are the the Facebook

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00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: kind of branded smart screens. You know, they had something

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00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: that would compete with the Echo Show and the Google

534
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: Nest Hub. So I guess Facebook is getting rid of those.

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00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: I was at the launch event for that, and those

536
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: never really took off in a big way because even

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00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: though there were really good products, I think that people

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00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: didn't like the privacy aspect of, you know, having a

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00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: camera and microphone in their home from Facebook. And you know,

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00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of sad that that is. You know that

541
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: that kind of was a quick demise for those products.

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00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: They never really took off in a big way. They

543
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: weren't so bad, but you know, there you go. And

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00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: then they're not going to work on smart watches either.

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00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: I don't think Facebook ever came out with a smart

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00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: watch that I remember, but I know there's been a

547
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: lot of rumors about them coming out with a smart watch,

548
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: so I guess that's not happening. But it says the

549
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: wind down work on smart watches. So it's kind of

550
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: sad that some of these big companies, you know, there's

551
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: so many like Facebook went from you know, the the

552
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: real tech darling to kind of now they are in

553
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: a really tricky place because people just don't trust Facebook

554
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: like they used to. They've got a lot of good businesses,

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00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: They've done a lot of interesting things. They connect a

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00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: lot of people on a daily basis, but people just

557
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: don't trust them, and that's a problem. When you have

558
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: that sort of major barrier in your relationship with customers,

559
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: that's not a good thing and it's going to take

560
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: a lot for Facebook to get over that. If they

561
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: ever do. I'm not sure they can ever recover from

562
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: kind of that whole situation with the you know what

563
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: was that company, the Cambridge Analytica, that kind of scandal.

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00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't know, We'll see. I mean,

565
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: I think they have a lot of good things going on.

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00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: I mean, Instagram has been tricky lately because it's changed

567
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: so much to kind of compete with TikTok. Facebook Messenger

568
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: is still there, but is that really a big growth

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00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: area for the company. Oculus is a huge growth area,

570
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: but it's kind of installed the metaverse. You know, they're

571
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: spending so much money on trying to make the metaverse

572
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: a thing, But is that gonna happen anytime soon. I'm

573
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: not sure. There are many many question marks in Meta's future,

574
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be interesting to kind of watch them

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00:30:53,280 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: work through it. Patricia says, we are being charged sixty

576
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: four ninety nine twice a month on the same visa card,

577
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: but two different Google accounts since for one twenty twenty two,

578
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: with two different email addresses my one my husband and

579
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: one myself. I've tried everything to contact them to no

580
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: avail the phone number and they give a phone number

581
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: is always busy, no answer, please help, and no live

582
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: chat in my account. Thank you, Pat in Huntington Beach,

583
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: and I believe uh oh, YouTube TV that's what okay.

584
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I knew the price sixty four

585
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: ninety nine because I just subscribed. Sounds like YouTube TV.

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00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: Uh Pat, You're not going to reach someone at YouTube TV.

587
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: You're not gonna any of these things that you subscribe

588
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: to online. You know, these new tech forward companies like

589
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: a YouTube TV, like a Spotify, you know, any app

590
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: that you subscribe to. It's very rare that you will

591
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: reach a person to actually cancel these accounts with Now.

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00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: The good news is that's the bad news, especially if

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00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: you are of a certain general that remembers that you

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00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: would subscribe to something and then you'd have to call

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00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: in to get rid of it. That doesn't happen anymore.

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00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: Ninety nine point nine percent of companies that you subscribe online,

597
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: you're able to cancel online. In fact, that is the

598
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: way to cancel. Now, there are a few exceptions. You know, gyms,

599
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: you still got to you know, you can easily sign

600
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: up online, but oh, you got to come in and

601
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: you got to fill out paperwork, and you got to

602
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: do all this stuff. And the whole point with a

603
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: lot of these things that they don't let you cancel online,

604
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: like cable companies, let's see what else, a lot of newspapers.

605
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: The point is that by the time you finally get

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00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: around to canceling, they have squeezed an extra three to

607
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: six months out of you. Now you're talking April first,

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00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. It's now November, So I don't know

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00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: if you were trying to cancel since April or if

610
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: you've just been charged since April. But I'll give you

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00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: a great example. My I'll just I'll leave it at

612
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: a family member every time I go home. I would

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00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: kind of review my family's subscriptions on their iPhone and

614
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: I'd say, hey, family member, you know you're still paying

615
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: for Hulu. Oh no, I'm not. I canceled that a

616
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: long time ago. People think that when they delete the app,

617
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: it cancels. No, it does not. Now on Google Play,

618
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: I know when you cancel an app or delete sorry,

619
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: when you delete the app, it will say hey, red

620
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: flag you know that this does not cancel the subscription,

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00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: or it says would you like us to cancel the

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00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: subscription as well. I think they do that, so that's good.

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00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: On iOS, there's no real indication as far as I know.

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00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: Maybe they have changed that in iOS sixteen. Maybe when

625
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,479
Speaker 1: you delete something now it says, hey, do you want

626
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: to delete the associated subscription? I'm not sure. But I

627
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: even know myself, and I find myself to be very

628
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: or I believe myself to be pretty tech savvy, and

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00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: I will tell you, in the last month or two,

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00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: I have fallen victim to this. It's not a scam,

631
00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: it's just it's very smart and shrewd business price. Let's

632
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: put it that way. You know, you subscribe to something,

633
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: it's so easy, you sign up, you get thirty days

634
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: free and on the thirty first day up, you forget

635
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 1: to cancel. And so now I do use a website

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00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: called privacy dot com to help me with one time

637
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: credit card numbers, so that even if I forget the

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00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: person on the other side, the company is going to

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00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 1: get a decline charge. And so that at least gives

640
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: me enough time when I get that decline notice saying,

641
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: oh shoot, I forgot to cancel that, let me go

642
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: and cancel. And this happened recently with a company, and

643
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: you know they actually this was a very very aggressive company.

644
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 1: It was something I subscribed to. It was an airline

645
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: thing where you would actually like alert you when the

646
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: seat you wanted on the plane would open up. And

647
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: so it was like a couple bucks a month I subscribe.

648
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: It was like a month free. Well, sure enough, I

649
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: forgot to cancel it and on on that first day, boom,

650
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: they tried to charge me. I got an email from

651
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: privacy dot com saying, oh, we declined this charge. I

652
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: got an email from the company saying, oh, you're your

653
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: credit cards declined. Please submit a new credit card so

654
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: we can you know, make sure you have no laps

655
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: in your subscription. And of course I didn't thinking it

656
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: would just go away. And I'm not kidding. They tried

657
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: that credit card pretty much every day for you know, indefinitely,

658
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: maybe a week before I finally emailed the company and said, hey,

659
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: I've been getting this charge every single day. Can you

660
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: please cancel this completely and please stop charging me? And

661
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: they said, oh, okay, no problem, We're sorry, like everything's

662
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: been cleared up, and sure enough it went away. So

663
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: and don't discount the power of email. By the way,

664
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: you can many many times email customer service and they

665
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: will take care of a lot of these things for you,

666
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: Like if you really can't find a way to cancel something,

667
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: you know, send an email. The main thing you have

668
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: to watch out for when you call these phone numbers

669
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: is that you need to be very careful. There are

670
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: many many scams where you google YouTube TV phone number

671
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: and the first search result maybe a sponsored scam. Literally,

672
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: scam artists will buy ads on Google with that phone

673
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 1: number that seems official or seems you know, or sorry,

674
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 1: not the phone number, but they'll buy a keyword YouTube

675
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: TV customer service phone number. They will literally bid for

676
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: that keyword their phone number. It'll say call one eight

677
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: seven seven whatever. To cancel YouTube TV, you call that

678
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: number and that's actually a scam artist on the other end,

679
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: or they're trying to sell you something, a bigger subscription, whatever,

680
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: So just be very careful calling random numbers. In fact,

681
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: it's much safer to cancel online. So to answer your question, Pat,

682
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: because I always like to give you a little bit

683
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: more more basis for why I tell you the things

684
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: that I tell you. You can just go into the YouTube app.

685
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: Typically if you're on iOS, sometimes a little trickier because

686
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: iOS is so weird about stuff. But if you're on Android,

687
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: it'll let you assays sent for my iPad, so I

688
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: feel like that's you're probably on iPhone. I would go

689
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: to YouTube tv on the desktop up and literally go

690
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: into your account, and I guarantee you there's a way

691
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: to just cancel your account. Now, if you subscribed through iOS,

692
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,959
Speaker 1: it's a different process. If you subscribe through iOS, which

693
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: I'm not sure some companies let you, some companies don't.

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00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if YouTube TV lets you subscribe through iOS.

695
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: But if you anything that you subscribe through iTunes Store, iOS,

696
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: whatever you call iPhone, you can go into your iCloud

697
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: and then you go into subscriptions and it will let

698
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: me see if that's how you do it. Let me

699
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: check this out here, because they changed it recently. I

700
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: think they made it easier to find. So you go

701
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: into settings, you tap your name at the top or

702
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 1: it says iicloud, and then you go subscriptions and it

703
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 1: will show you all of the subscriptions that you are

704
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: currently subscribed to. Many of them have gotten more expensive

705
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: in the past couple of months. But what you need

706
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: to do is just you can delete any subscription that

707
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: you have in there. Just tap it and just say

708
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: cancel subscription, and you will be able to cancel that

709
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: and typically you'll get to use it throughout the end

710
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: of your subscription. Let me actually have YouTube TV on

711
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: my iPhone, so let me see if you can cancel

712
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: it from the iOS app. I doubt you can, but

713
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: let's see. Let's just see for fun. By the way,

714
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: YouTube TV is so good. I mean it's really really slick. Okay, Settings,

715
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 1: Oh wow, refer a friend, get forty five dollars. That's

716
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: quite impressive. All right, Settings, Okay, membership Nope, base plan.

717
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 1: Please go to YouTube tv on the web to manage

718
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: your account. So yep, you gotta do that, So just

719
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: go to the YouTube TV on the website and literally

720
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: go to your account press cancel. You should be able

721
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: to take care of that. No problem. All right, let's

722
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: get to the next story of the week. What do

723
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: we want to talk about. Let's talk about Gmail. Gmail

724
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 1: is getting a handy feature just in time for the holidays.

725
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: It will help you track your orders placed in order today.

726
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: I don't think my wife listens to this podcast, so

727
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I got, But I got her

728
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: a pair I am. I'll just be quite honest. I

729
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: am the worst gift giver in the world. I really

730
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: am horrible at giving gifts. My wife is amazing at

731
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: giving gifts. And there are some people that are just

732
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: really thoughtful gift givers. My wife's mom my mother in

733
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: law is also and my mom are very thoughtful gift givers.

734
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: You know, there's two types of gift givers, right There

735
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: are the people that just listen in everyday conversations for

736
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: any clue as to what you might need in your life,

737
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: and when they hear that, they lock it in their

738
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 1: brain and they go rich needs a new belt. Next

739
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: time there's a holiday, you have a brand new belt.

740
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,479
Speaker 1: That's amazing. There are other people that do this, Hey,

741
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: what is your kid like these days? What do you need? Rich?

742
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: Is there anything you could use? And they do their

743
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: gift giving like that. It's almost like a last minute thing.

744
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: Then there are people like myself who are just completely

745
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: clueless and I just go to the mall looking for

746
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: ideas of what to buy. Oh, perfume, that's a gift

747
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: that a lot of people give during the holidays. Let

748
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: me give her that. It's terrible. It's a terrible way

749
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: to give gifts. So I don't know if you can

750
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,479
Speaker 1: change that about yourself. Maybe you could be a little

751
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: bit more thoughtful and write things down. That's what I've

752
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: tried to start doing. So when I hear a family

753
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: member or a friend, or my wife or my kids

754
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: say that they want something, I'm like, oh, a little

755
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 1: bell goes off, and I kind of try to write

756
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: it down. So anyway, my wife has needed new slippers

757
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: since last Christmas when we bought slippers for each other

758
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: and she got a hole in it immediately, like her

759
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: toe popped out of it. Like the first day. We

760
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: should have returned these things. Actually we probably still can.

761
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: They're wellbean now, that I think about it, why not

762
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: a new pair? Anyway, So today I got a thing

763
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: like one of those catalogs from Llban in the mail,

764
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: and I had a fifteen percent off discount, and I said, oh,

765
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: I am buying It's my first gift of the season.

766
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: I am purchasing it right now. And so I went

767
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: to my computer. I purchased a slippers, which, by the way,

768
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: LLBean slippers. How in the world are they ninety dollars?

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00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think they're pretty good. I mean,

770
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: I have a pair might have lasted many years, so

771
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: I guess maybe they are worth ninety bucks. But I

772
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: bought them. And anyway, so I was very proud of

773
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: myself because this is a gift that I know she

774
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: needs and I know she wants, and it'll probably be

775
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: something she buys for herself by Christmas, but I may

776
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: even give it to her early because just to make

777
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: sure that she doesn't get it for herself. Anyway, I

778
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: tell you that story because this will be a very

779
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: handy feature inside Google, probably be the first time I'll

780
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: use this. Where now, if you get in order with

781
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: a tracking number, Gmail will display that status of that

782
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: tracking number right in your inbox. So for instance, my

783
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: LLB and email will say congrats, your order has shipped,

784
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 1: and right underneath it'll say arriving you know, November twenty second,

785
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: and you'll see that live updates. So what they're doing

786
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: is they're looking in that email, they're seeing the tracking number,

787
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: they're going out, they're requesting the tracking information from the carrier,

788
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: and then they're putting that data in the email and

789
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: they'll probably update that, you know, in live time, so

790
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: you always see, you know, if there's a delay or whatever.

791
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: And in fact, they say if there is a delay,

792
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: they will actually bring that email back to the top

793
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: of your inbox with the word you know, delayed, and

794
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. It'll also say label created

795
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: arriving tomorrow, delivered today. So it's just very handy. It's

796
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: very simple. It's a very it's a very basic thing,

797
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 1: but pretty handy. Now. I think there's gonna be one

798
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: big exception because this says it works with all the

799
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: major US shipping carriers. I don't think that Amazon actually

800
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: puts shipping numbers in their orders. Let me see. I

801
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: don't think they do. So let's see Amazon your Amazon order.

802
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: Here we go, here's an Amazon order, and yeah, it

803
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: does not give a tracking number. It gives an order

804
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: and in fact, it doesn't even tell you, by the way,

805
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: what you order on Amazon. And the reason they do that,

806
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: and again I'll just give you a little background. The

807
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 1: reason why Amazon does not put items that you order

808
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: in your email is because they've gotten hip to so

809
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: many of these scraper companies that scrape your email inbox.

810
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: You sign up with a company like I think it's

811
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: like Raccoton or whatever however you say that name, but

812
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 1: what they do is a big part of their business

813
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: is like scraping your inbox. I don't know, maybe it's

814
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: not Rakoton, whatever, but there are companies when you grant

815
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: them access to your email, which you need to be

816
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: very careful about, they will scrape your inbox for different things.

817
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: But part of their business is kind of selling the

818
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: data of the stuff that you buy, the stuff that

819
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: you order, how much things can costs. So there's a

820
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: lot of intelligence companies out there that do this and

821
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: it's not a dirty thing. It's it's a business. But

822
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: you know, you're getting a business, you're getting a product,

823
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: but they're getting information, they're getting data, and so That's

824
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: why Amazon doesn't do this, because they've gotten hip to

825
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: this and they say, you know what, we're just gonna

826
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: mess with like, you know, we're the biggest retailer out there,

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00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: biggest online, probably the biggest retailer in general, and we're

828
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: just gonna mess with everyone. We're just gonna not put

829
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: tracking information in your email. And we're also not gonna

830
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: put order information in your email because we just don't

831
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: want you know, these scraping companies. You know, if they

832
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: notice that number one, they can use the data and say, oh,

833
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: a million people order this product today, or we noticed

834
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: there is a big price drop, or we notice that

835
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: the price generally goes up on this product around November.

836
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of different reasons why Amazon doesn't

837
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: want this order information in their emails. Being the biggest

838
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: retailer out there anyway, ninety nine point nine percent of

839
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: other re tailors, when you order something, puts the package

840
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: information in there, the tracking number, and also what you ordered.

841
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 1: So cool, cool new feature by Gmail that you can get.

842
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: It's rolling out, so you may not have it immediately.

843
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: I don't have it just yet, but it just came

844
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: out this week, so you should have it soon. All right,

845
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: let's get to the next question of the podcast. All right,

846
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 1: Apple TV four K first generation versus third generation. Paul says,

847
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: I love your show and I listen every week on overcast.

848
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's a great app to listen to. Overcast is

849
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: a fantastic podcast app. It's only on iOS, but it's

850
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: it's very thoughtfully designed. I think I think it's Marco

851
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: ament m A R C O A, M and T overcast. Yeah,

852
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: it is so. Marco ament is a is a pretty

853
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: prominent developer and very very sort of in sort of

854
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: the iOS like Apple, you know, very what's the word

855
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. He doesn't just do stuff like he's

856
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: very thoughtful about the design of certain things. And that's

857
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: why overcast is a real good kind of you know,

858
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: it's a it's a really slick podcast player, probably the

859
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: best or one of the best that you know anyway.

860
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 1: So he's a very prominent, uh you know, iOS developer.

861
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: Follow him on social media and you know, you can

862
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: kind of see what, you know, what he's up to.

863
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: But he you know, I think it's just is it

864
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: just overcast? He doesn't even say what he does interesting anyway. Okay,

865
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: so what is the question. Okay, love your show listen

866
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: every week in overcast. I currently have a first generation

867
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: Apple TV four K with the A ten chip and

868
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: it's used for streaming videos and Apple Arcade games by

869
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: the grand kids. In your estimation, what upgrading to the

870
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: third generation Apple TV with the A teen chip bring

871
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: a noticeable performance improvement? The first gen is starting to

872
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 1: lag a little but still does the job. Okay, thinking

873
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: more of future proof for iOS upgrade or OS upgrades

874
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: and head off price increases. Thanks for your help. Paul

875
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 1: in Columbus, Indiana. Paul, Yes, I've been testing the Apple

876
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: TV third generation and I will tell you that it is.

877
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: Look I was using the second generation and I'll tell

878
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: you that. Can I tell a big difference. No? Is

879
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,760
Speaker 1: it improved? Yes? Do the apps load a little bit faster?

880
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Actually, this weekend I'm going to be

881
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: testing the second generation versus the third generation, and we're

882
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: going to open up I told my son we need

883
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 1: to get the stop Watch out. So what we're gonna

884
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: do is we're going to open up a couple of apps,

885
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: like the popular apps like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, you know,

886
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: close them all out and then open them up and

887
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: see how long they take to load. Now, there is

888
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: one defining factor. You know, people really are not very

889
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: discerning when it comes to a streaming device. They just

890
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: think like, oh, you buy the cheapest Fire TV stick

891
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: or you know, whatever's cheap, you know, a cheap rocou stick.

892
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: But what they don't realize is that they are really

893
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: slow when it comes to opening up the apps. And

894
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's not a big deal, you know, it's not

895
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: something that you notice, but I notice as a reviewer

896
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: when I test various devices for streaming, there is a

897
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: big difference in how long it takes different devices to

898
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: open up these apps. A Netflix app, you know those

899
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: little like intros they have on Netflix. You know, that

900
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: little thing might linger for like five, six, seven seconds

901
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: on some of these like really substandard and slow devices,

902
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: whereas on a brand new device like the Apple TV

903
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: four K third generation, it's super duper fast and it

904
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: just happens instantly. So anyway, this weekend, I'm going to

905
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: do a little speed test Where'm going to open up

906
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: a couple of these apps and then open up a

907
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: couple of popular games on Arcade and just see how

908
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: long it takes to load. I'm assuming the difference is

909
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: only going to be a matter of seconds from the

910
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: second to the third. I think on the first of

911
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: the third there will be a noticeable difference, especially if

912
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 1: you're saying it's starting to lack. The other main thing

913
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: that is changed on the Apple TV third generation is

914
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: the remote control. So the remote control on the Apple

915
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: TV the new one is that the remote control is

916
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: now USB C and so that's the big thing with that.

917
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: And then it's also got more base storage. It's got

918
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: two versions. You've got an Ethernet version and you've got

919
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: a Wi Fi version. The Ethernet version has support for

920
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: what's called Matter. So if you're doing anything with smart

921
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: home in the near future, I would definitely go with

922
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: the Ethernet version because Matter is this new standard for

923
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: home interconnectivity where all of the smart home stuff is

924
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: going to work together no matter what brand it is,

925
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: which is it's a pretty big deal actually, So Apple

926
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: the new Apple TV, the high end one, the Ethernet

927
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: one has that built in, which is, you know, it's

928
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: not that much more than the other one. I think

929
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: it's like twenty more dollars or something, so go with that,

930
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: and then it's faster. There's no fan on it. It's

931
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: a little bit smaller, and you know, Apple says it's

932
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: twenty percent less in volume side by side. You know,

933
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: I showed it to my kids. They didn't really notice,

934
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: Like what's the difference? I said, I know, but the

935
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: remote has USB C and so maybe it's easier to charge,

936
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, as Apple makes that move to USBC with everything.

937
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: And also Apple says it consumes thirty percent less power.

938
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I said that or not. Anyway,

939
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: so that is the main difference is for Apple TV

940
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: four K. But should you upgrade? I mean, look, do

941
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: you need to upgrade today? Probably? Not. What I would

942
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: do if I were you is I would set a

943
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: price alert on the Apple TV four K third generation,

944
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you over the holidays here there is

945
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: going to be some sort of that you can get,

946
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: not from Apple. I don't think it's gonna go on

947
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 1: sale from Apple, but I would do. What I would

948
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: do is set either a Google alert on news and

949
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: I would do like Apple TV four k deal and

950
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: just make sure that you're getting the you know, the

951
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: newest model. Because a lot of times, because Apple products

952
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: in particular are kind of tricky and they all look

953
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: the same, and they all don't have this, they all

954
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 1: have the same name, and it's all about a generation,

955
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: which I really don't like. It could be very tricky

956
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: for purchasing. So a lot of these Black Friday and

957
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 1: Holiday deals are going to be for the last generation

958
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: of Apple products, not the current generation. But sometimes you

959
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: will find some sort of special off or whatever for

960
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: the current generation. And that may happen with the Apple

961
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: TV four K, because you know, they want to move

962
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: these things, they want to sell them, and so you

963
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: know retailers like a best Buy might do it. Apple

964
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: may not do it, but best Buy might or Amazon

965
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: someone like that. So you can set up a Google

966
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,760
Speaker 1: search for Apple TV four K deal in the news

967
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: and bloggers will always blog about deals, and so you

968
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: can do that. Or you can go to slick deals,

969
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: set a set an alert for Apple TV. You know,

970
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: there's various ways of doing it, so just just or

971
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: you can even go to a website and use like honey,

972
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: put it on your watch list and see if the

973
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: price goes down. Let's see if the if it's going

974
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: if its Apple TV four K twenty twenty two, let's

975
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: see if the new one. Uh yeah, so look at this,

976
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: it's already a couple bucks off. So the Apple TV

977
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 1: four k uh, it's yeah, so it's already five dollars off.

978
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: So there you go. Oh whoops, wrong one. There you

979
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: go five bucks. I just saved you five dollars. Okay,

980
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: so there you go. All right, Uh, let's see what

981
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: are we doing. Let's get to another story here. Okay,

982
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: let's talk about Windows eleven. So I told you earlier

983
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: that I've been playing with when on the laptop and

984
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. The feature that I was playing with

985
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: today is the iCloud integration. So there's always been some

986
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:13,479
Speaker 1: level of iCloud integration on Windows, but now it's gotten

987
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 1: a lot better because I tested this couple weeks ago

988
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: at the event, but now I got to try it

989
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: for myself. And basically, if you log into iCloud on Windows,

990
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: you have to have the iCloud app downloaded, and then

991
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: the newest version of Windows software, which is Windows eleven,

992
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: and the newest version of their Photos software. Now your

993
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: pictures from iCloud will show up inside the Photos app

994
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: on Windows. That is pretty cool because it makes it

995
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: easy to manage. It will show up with all your

996
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 1: other pictures they're designated. You can kind of look at

997
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: just your iCloud photos. You can look at all your

998
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: photos across various services. It's just this nice, kind of

999
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: like consolidated place where you can see many of your photos.

1000
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,280
Speaker 1: I say many because I'm not sure that Google Photos

1001
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: is part of that situation. Google Photos is really really

1002
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: bugging me because they have made themselves such a silo

1003
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: and it's so tough to like manage Google Photos from

1004
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: any other app or any other thing except Google Photos.

1005
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 1: And maybe Google has a good reason for this, but

1006
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: it's really annoying to me because I've talked about this before.

1007
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 1: But I want to back up my entire collection somehow,

1008
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: and as far as I know, there is no easy

1009
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: way to do that. Google Photos. You need to be

1010
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: able to sync to a hard drive. Give me a

1011
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: WiFi hard drive. I don't care if you sell it, Google.

1012
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: I want to be able to plug it in to

1013
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: my house, connect it to Wi Fi, and say, continuously

1014
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: sync my entire Google Photos collection to this hard drive.

1015
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: Please give me that feature, Google Photos. It is a

1016
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: million dollar feature. It is You'll sell millions of hard drives.

1017
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: It'll be peace of mind for people to have a backup,

1018
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 1: a local backup of your photo collection in case anything

1019
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 1: ever goes wrong with Google Photos. Believe me, it'd be

1020
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: very very nice. Anyway, Windows eleven, if you want to

1021
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: try this, just update the Photos app on Windows eleven,

1022
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: make sure all your apps on Windows or your your

1023
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: software on Windows eleven is updated, and then basically just

1024
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: log in and click sync iphot iCloud photos on the

1025
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: iCloud app and boom, all of your photos will start

1026
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: to show up in the app. And it's a two

1027
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: way sink, so if you delete something from the photos app,

1028
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,280
Speaker 1: it's going to delete off your iCloud. And it's actually

1029
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: kind of cool because I went in there. I don't

1030
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: use iCloud for photos, but I went in and found

1031
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of old photos that were lingering, and

1032
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: I went in and deleted those. I copied them over

1033
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 1: to Google Photos and then I deleted them. So it

1034
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: was kind of a nice little housekeeping thing. Kind of cool.

1035
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 1: But again another another way, I'm impressed with Windows. And

1036
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: you know, these these tech companies, they could either choose

1037
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: to be silos for everything, or they can choose to

1038
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: kind of be helpful to the consumer and actually do

1039
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 1: things that are helpful for us, and that's always nice,

1040
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 1: and it always surprises me when they actually do that. Okay, uh,

1041
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: let's see what else? What else? What else? Let's do

1042
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: this one? Oh, another question here. I got two more

1043
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 1: things before I close out the show. Here Instagram. John says,

1044
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: I have an iPad and I lost access to my

1045
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 1: Instagram account. They asked for a phone number, gave them that.

1046
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: Now they want me to write my name on a

1047
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: piece of paper and take a photo of my face

1048
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: and send it to them. Do you think this is safe?

1049
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: Thanks for any help or advice on this matter. Sent

1050
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: from my iPad. Yes, John, as long as this is

1051
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,320
Speaker 1: Instagram doing this. This is a major major issue. The

1052
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: amount of emails I get from people that have had

1053
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 1: their Instagram account hacked or their Facebook account hacked is incredible.

1054
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 1: It happens. I'm not kidding. I get a dozen emails

1055
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: a week just on this topic. And it's gotten so

1056
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: bad where I really feel bad for the people that

1057
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: are emailing me. But also, hackers are not necessarily hacking

1058
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: your account. What they're doing is they're just running scripts

1059
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: that find your password that you've reused a thousand times

1060
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: on a different website. And they run it on Instagram

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00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: and boom it lets them in, and so you don't

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00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: have two factor authentication turned on. And that's the big problem.

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00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: Got to turn on two factor authentication. Now, there are

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00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: a million other ways that hackers can get in, but

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00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: nobody is like trying to like, you know, get into

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00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: your Instagram account to like take it over so that

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00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: they can tweet things from your account or you know,

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00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: Instagram things from your account. It's an automated thing. It's

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00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: because eventually they might try to hit up your followers

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00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: to scam them, and that's really what they're doing. The way,

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00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: you know, and the other way that they get in

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00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: is for you actually handing over your password. So I've

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00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: had people tell me stories where they will literally either

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00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: log into a text message that says, hey, your Instagram

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00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: account is uh is that risk? Please log in to

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00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: confirm this was you, and they quickly log in and oh,

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00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: that's a mistake because the website was a phishing website,

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00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: or someone texts them something and says, hey, I need help,

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00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: can you please just some of your password? And people

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00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: actually do it. Believe me, they actually do this stuff.

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00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: So John Facebook, you know, I feel for them. In

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00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: a little bit because they have to figure out ways

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00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: of like verifying who people are. And a lot of

1084
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: times they'll ask you to hold up, you know, a

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00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,959
Speaker 1: newspaper with a date on it, or a picture, or

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00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 1: a phone number or an ID or some sort of

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00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: supporting information. It's really kind of wild sometimes. But I've

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00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: had people tell me this personally that have gotten access

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00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: to their account again, So yes, they do. They do

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00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: that for sure, So do what they ask. But you know,

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00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: just be careful because you don't, you know, you want

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00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 1: to be careful about what you do. All right, All right,

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00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: let's get to the final story, because I tease this one,

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00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: Spotify might finally work properly on the Apple Watch. Now.

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00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: I am no longer a subscriber to Spotify. I've actually

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00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: switched over to a combination of Apple Music and YouTube

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00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: Music and now Amazon Music because they gave all the

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00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: songs away for free, even though you have to shuffle them,

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00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: which is fine for my so nos, you know, it's

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00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: totally fine. And don't listen to specific music when I

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00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: come home. I just listened to like a playlist, so

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00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: I've been I've been almost exclusively listening to Amazon Music,

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00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: not I mean, I subscribed to other things I pay for,

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00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: so I should probably use those. But I just kind

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00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: of like the playlist. They're basic, they're simple. I've got

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00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: this like relaxing, you know, modern country that's just like

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00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: a nice playlist when I come home. It's got easy

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00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: listening songs. I like it. You know, call me old

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00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: fashioned whatever. Anyway, I say that all because I got

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Speaker 1: rid of Spotify, because you know, why pay for another thing.

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00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: Even though I really really liked it. I was very

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00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: impressed with Spotify. I think it's probably the best music

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00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: service out there overall, but I just, you know, I

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00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: can't justify paying for it when I've got two more

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00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: that I'm paying for three more if you count Amazon. Anyway, Spotify,

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00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: the one thing that bugged me about it is that

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00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: it never properly worked on the Apple Watch. I mean,

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00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm talking horrible, really really bad. I was basically I

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00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: was able to download offline music. You know. My whole

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01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: thing is that, you know, I have an Apple Watch

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Speaker 1: with cellular, which, by the way, never works. The cellular.

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01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if I live in an area with

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01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: a bad signal, but the cellular on my Apple Watch

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01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: never works. It's really annoying. Like I go anywhere and

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01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: I think, oh, my watch is gonna work. No, it

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01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: just doesn't. So I've gotten to the point where I

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01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: don't leave the house without my phone because I can't.

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01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: I need my phone with me because the cellular on

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01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: my Apple Watch is like never guaranteed to work. I

1130
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: don't know why, but it's just it's just really really

1131
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: hit or miss. So with Spotify, you know, I thought

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01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: maybe you could stream music when you're out and about

1133
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: which you might be able to, but I've never gotten

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01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: that to work because again the cellular thing. So I

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01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: downloaded music for offline listening, but there's so many restrictions

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01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: on the Apple Watch and iOS and how the architecture

1137
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: of this that basically your phone and your watch never

1138
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: have a chance to download the offline music because like

1139
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: it never triggers it. Like Apple Music. Oh fine, because

1140
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: everything with Apple just seems to work so easily, like

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01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: Apple Music never had a problem. You say, hey, download

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01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 1: this playlist to my Apple Watch, and the next time

1143
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: you charge your Apple Watch, it's there. Spotify that never

1144
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: seems to work. I think it's because you have to

1145
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: like open the apps, go to deep sleep, you know,

1146
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: the third party apps, and so Spotify just goes to

1147
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: deep sleep and it forgets to actually upload or offline

1148
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: you know, get that music. So anyway, now that's all

1149
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: behind us, because Spotify says they have a new and

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01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: improved listening experience on Apple Watch. You can more easily

1151
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: browse and choose your favorite music and podcasts, and more

1152
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: quickly download music to listen offline from the watch itself.

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01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 1: There's larger artwork, animations, and added functionality like swiping to

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01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: like a song. There you go. That is welcome. So

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01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: if you have an Apple Watch and you haven't used

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01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: Spotify in a while because it's just been the worst

1157
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: experience in the world, go ahead give it another spin.

1158
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: Because this is what's so wild to people like me

1159
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 1: that test stuff for a living. I never know if

1160
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm crazy and just like totally not really understanding this

1161
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: stuff or doing something wrong, or if there's actually a

1162
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: problem with it until something like this comes out and

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01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: this is your going on like two years or a

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01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: year after Spotify has been on the Apple Watch for

1165
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: me to say, oh, I was right, it never really

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01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: worked properly. Did I go off enough on this show?

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01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:17,280
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1168
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:18,800
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Speaker 1: Twitter just yet. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend an hour of your time.

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01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: I do appreciate you spending it with me. I'll talk

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