WEBVTT - Alexa gets AI skills 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:06.280 iPhone fifteen now available. Maybe you're using one right now. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:12.000 Plus iOS seventeen brings new features to older models. Amazon 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:17.479 gives let's just call her call it alex a a 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.200 new voice complete with AI and on Veil's a ton 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.040 of new products, plus the AI feature that can tell 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.880 you the year that old photo was taken. Your tech 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.680 questions answered, and much more. What's going on. I'm Rich 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.880 Demiro and this is Rich on Tech broadcasting live from 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.559 Los Angeles, coast to coast. This is the show where 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.840 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.080 know about, and it's the place where I answer your 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.839 questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.640 and fun. And boy do we get a lot of 0:00:54.680 --> 0:01:01.760 technology this week. Major announcements from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.839 so many things to talk about this week. Phone lines 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.000 are also open. We'll take some of your calls at 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:11.240 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.280 seven four to two four one zero one. If you 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.959 have a burning question about technology, give me a call. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.240 I'll do my best to help you answer it. Email 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.000 also an option. Just go to Rich on tech dot tv, 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.920 hit the contact button, send me your email there. Get 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.720 it in for the feedback segment at the end of 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.000 the show, or if you just want to comment on 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.399 something or email your question, you can do it at 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.959 rich on tech dot TV hit the contact button. Guests 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.800 this week brought to you by the letter J. I 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.400 just noticed this in my notes. All of our guests 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:49.400 this week's their first name starts with Jay. Jefferson Graham 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.640 of Photo Walks TV is going to share his thoughts 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.640 on the iPhone fifteen cameras. Jamie simmonof the founder of 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.800 Ring he's now chief doorman at door Dot. We're gonna 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:05.080 talk about his new uh, his latest venture. And John Faulkner, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.520 road test editor at Clean Fleet Report, will discuss the 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.799 car that I've been driving around for the past week, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.920 the Ford mock E Mustang EV and boys at a 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.400 fun Car. I've been having a lot of fun in 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.560 that car. I love how it makes, uh, the sound 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.200 of a gas car, just that rumble, but it's not. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.400 It's electric. You would never know the difference. All right, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.160 So this week lots and lots of iPhone Apple news. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.760 My photographer at KTLA yesterday was saying, Rich, can you 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.040 believe we did a full week of iPhone stories like 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.040 how wild is that? And I said, I know, and 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.840 not one person complaint. I mean, it's just like you 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.280 take for granted when the iPhone comes out, there's gonna 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.280 be a lot of coverage. Apple sort of commands the uh. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.600 They just take all the uh. I don't know, why 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.119 do you say that. It all just the all eyes 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.040 are on them. That's what it is. And so I 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.240 get it. It's a it's a very popular phone. It's 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.600 a very big deal for the new iPhone to come out. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.600 Some people have been waiting a year for the new phone. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.320 Some people have been waiting three years. Some people are 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.400 upgrading from the eight No matter what, it's an individual 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.640 thing that if you want the new device and you 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.360 get it, it's very exciting. And it is in general, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.800 even though the iPhone hasn't substantially changed. I mean, it's 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.440 evolved over time, but I mean when I set it up, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.520 I was setting up the new device and I was like, wow, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.120 this is like it's the same iPhone. Like I didn't 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.520 just copy everything over this time. I set it up 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.200 from scratch just to see what the process is like 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.960 and all that good stuff. And it's just interesting. It's 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.560 like a lot has changed but a lot has not 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.640 changed over the year, So we'll talk more about the 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:45.040 iPhone in iOS seventeen and all that stuff. But Amazon 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.200 this week lots and lots of news. They did an 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:52.360 event at their new headquarters in Virginia and they gave 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.760 a look at the future of I'm gonna call it 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.840 alex A. I don't want to I don't want to 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.520 trigger your speaker, so let's just call it alex A. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.560 And they gave a look at the future of alex A, which, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.440 of course, as you might expect, is going to include 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.760 a healthy dose of generative AI. So if you want 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.040 to try this in your home and you have an 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.680 Echo speaker, it may not work just yet, but this 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.760 is happening very soon. So if you're like me, if 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.520 you're a nerd, you're going to be asking this every 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.720 single day until you get this new feature. But you say, 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.800 alex A, let's chat, and magically you will now get 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.680 to try out this new AI alex A. And so 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.640 what does that mean. It means that it's going to 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.720 be more conversational. It's going to mean that you can 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.279 combine multiple requests into one, so you can say, hey, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.240 close all the blinds, turn off all the lights and 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.880 start the vacuum. And before it wouldn't understand that. Now 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.279 it will. You can say I'm cold, and it will 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.160 turn up the temperature. And you could create and make 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.200 these routines all by voice. And routines are really fun. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.080 I actually created a couple of them this morning for 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.040 some of our Halloween lights. I've got this little home 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.719 Depot sent me. You know how during the holiday season, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.919 like Christmas time, they have those little like houses, like 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.440 people make those little like it's like a little town, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.880 like a main street, USA, kind of like houses and stuff, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.599 and they have the little lights inside. They're almost like 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.160 a ceramic house. Well, I guess Home Depot did that 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.360 for Halloween, and so it's like a home depot that's 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.200 all spooky and halloweeny and it's really cute. But you know, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.800 it has like a little light bulb inside. And I said, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.560 you know what, let me put a smart plug on 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.320 this thing, and let's make a routine to have it 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.680 turn on at night and turn off by the morning. 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.599 And so I did that this morning. I guess you'll 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.320 be able to do that very easily by your voice 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.560 very soon. All right, So some of the other things 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.479 that they announced is this new I Gaze feature. So 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.200 this is for customers with mobility or speech disabilities. Now 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.279 you'll be able to use alex A with your eyes 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.159 instead of your voice or touch. So this is going 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.760 to premiere on the fire Max eleven tablet, and I 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.800 guess they'll use the camera in the tablet and you'll 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.080 be able to control things just by looking at the tablet. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.480 So you'll be able to play music and shows, control 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.480 your smart home, and even communicate with loved ones hands free. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.120 Now it's going to be not every action you could 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.760 typically perform with the Voice assistant, but a subset of those. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.840 And so if this works on the Firemax eleven tablet, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.960 which is probably the most powerful tablet, it could be 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.400 a pretty neat new feature, So that's exciting. There's also 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.719 another feature called call Translation. This when you're using audio 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.240 and video calls, they can be captioned in real time, 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.559 but in different languages. So if you're chatting with someone 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.000 over in France and you want to they speak French 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.400 and you speak English, they can just talk in French 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.680 and you'll see the English translation on the bottom. That's 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.280 pretty cool. I think one of the most important new 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.840 features they are introducing is called ALEX, a emergency assist, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.839 so you can just say ALEX a call for help, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.520 And if you have an echo speaker in your house, 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:04.000 if it's a supported speaker, you can get directly connected 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.039 to an emergency response center. Now this is not going 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.400 to call nine will one directly, but it's going to 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.560 call sort of a call center with a dispatch that 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.840 can then relay your information to the right people. So 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.840 whether that's fire, whether that's emergency ambulance, nine one one, police, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.560 whatever it is. So that's going to cost five ninety 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.720 nine a month or sixty dollars a year. So it's 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.480 kind of interesting because I feel like this is one 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.680 of those features that if you have a loved one 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.760 that lives alone, why would you not get them this? 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.200 And it's kind of weird that they didn't go all 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.640 the way and just make the speakers dial nine one 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.760 one directly because that would be free. But I understand 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.160 there are some limitations. And also this is supposedly better 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.480 because the dispatch officer will be able to get your 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.640 call to the right place, and also they will have 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.960 information about you, so if you have an allergy or 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.840 a medical history that they that will pop up on 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.280 their screen. Plus all of your information will pop up, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.160 like your address and you know whatever if you have 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.040 a pet at home. So I guess it's a better 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.280 way than just dialing nine one one directly. Some of 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.480 the devices they introduced, the Echo Show eight. This is 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.520 just a new smart display. Then they've got this new 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.120 one called the Echo Hub. This is sort of an 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.680 iPad that you mount on your wall, so it's thin. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.080 It's got an eight inch screen, it's touchscreen, and it's 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.760 kind of like a dashboard for your house, so you 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.720 can manage your smart home devices. You can arm your alarm, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.000 start a routine, check out your security cameras, and when 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.840 it's not in use, it can show your personal photo collection, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.680 which is kind of cool. Let's see, And that's something 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.439 that used to cost a lot of money back in 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.840 the day to get sort of the smart home automation 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.160 controller installed in your home. They've got a new version 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.280 of Echo frames. These are their smart glasses which I've tested, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.560 not the new ones. I tested the last version. I 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.160 fell in love with them. I thought they were great. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.640 The only thing is they let's see, did I really 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.320 have any problem with them? Not really, I thought they 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.040 were excellent. So these are slimmer, they've got better battery life, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.000 better speakers, and you can hear them better. But I 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.000 thought these were really cool when I tested them. So 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.720 echo frames haven't really caught on in a big way, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.480 but I do think that this idea of smart glasses, 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.960 you know, Facebook is doing it, and they're doing it 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.840 so some of the other things I thought were pretty cool. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.600 Fire TV is getting AI powered search, so now you 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.480 can ask for movies and TV show recommendations, kind of 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:29.960 like the way you might have used to ask a 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.560 Blockbuster clerk. So you can say, hey, what about some 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.520 movies you know by this actor or this director, or 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.440 you know, I want to watch something for just a 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.280 rainy day, you know, animated movies, whatever. And another cool 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.240 feature is you can take all thanks to AI. Of course, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.920 you can take one of your photos and say, hey, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:51.480 can you change this into sort of a cyberpunk situation 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.400 or can you make this into a watercolor photo? And 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.760 the fire TV will use AI to change your picture 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.160 into you know, cool looking photo that you can have 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:03.840 on your screen. And that's the other thing that they're 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.760 doing that's really cool. And this is something that I 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.560 can't wait to get a new Fire TV to take 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.800 advantage of. Is the fireTV stick. The top of the 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.600 line stick will now give you this ambient experience, which 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.440 means even when you're not using your TV, it can 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.640 show information on your TV screen, it can show your photos, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.959 it can show the weather. And that's a feature that 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.520 Samsung kind of pioneered with their Frame TV and then 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.200 Amazon offered it on some of their top of the 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.640 line omni TVs. But now it's coming to any TV 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.680 as long as you can plug in the fireTV stick. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.040 Let's see what are they calling it. It is the 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.480 It's a Fire TV stick four K Max second generation. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.320 Say that twenty times fast. But that's like a fifty 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.760 dollars maybe a sixty dollars plugin for your TV. And 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.120 now you can have your artwork and all kinds of stuff. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.240 I am definitely going to do that. I cannot wait. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.120 I've wanted that feature on my TV for so long 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.040 and I think that's going to be a great one. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.840 They also introduced if you have bad WiFi home, the 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.360 Eero Max seven. This is like, oh my gosh, the 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.240 best Wi Fi mesh system you've ever seen. Is supports 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.920 Wi Fi seven ten gigabit Ethernet can download a four 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.400 K movie in ten seconds or a fifty gigabyte video 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.440 game in less than a minute. This will be available 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.600 in a one to two or three pack starting at 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.560 six hundred dollars. So if you really want some maximum 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.000 Wi Fi for your house, that's going to be at 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.960 the Eero Max seven. All right, So that's what Amazon announced. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.240 Lots and lots of stuff from Amazon, so be on 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.120 the lookout for some of those new products. I'm sure 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.240 they'll be on the Amazon Home screen very very soon. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:39.560 All right. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.600 Coming up here on the show, the phone numbers are 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.760 open triple eight rich one one eight eight eight seven 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.839 four to two four one zero one. You want to 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.560 talk tech, give me a call. Coming up, we're going 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.800 to talk about what's new in iOS seventeen. My name 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.280 is rich Damiro and you are listening to rich on tech. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:05.880 Come back to rich on Tech. Rech Deemuro here hanging 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.000 out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.680 on one eight eight eight seven four two four one 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.360 zero one. I'm like, is this thing on? I had 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:21.000 my volume turned down. Let's go to Gloria in Pacoima, Gloria, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:21.720 you're on with Rich. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:27.040 Bye. Rich. I'm having trouble. I have a new Samsung 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:33.000 Galaxy and I started with Verizon. But the service with 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.200 Verizon is terrible. I thought, after all these years that 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.080 it should be better, but it's not. So I thought, Okay, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.280 I'll switch over to their alternate service, which is Visible. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.880 I have been talking to this chat butt and it 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.760 sent me right back to the same problem in the 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:59.760 first place. I don't think I think that Visible is 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.679 that they're just not doing a good job. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.079 Well, they're not new, they've been around for a couple 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:11.200 of years, and it's fully owned by Verizon. So number one, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.760 I would not recommend going with Visible because if you 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.400 had bad service through Verizon, you're gonna get the same 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.880 exact level of service, if not worse, from Visible because 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.200 it's the same exact network with the added fact of 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.960 Visible has no stores. They have no customer service in 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.160 a meaningful way, and for someone like yourself that's having trouble, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.360 you may be in this trouble area forever and not 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.920 really get any meaningful help. They are all through chat, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.720 they are all through online, they are all through the app, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.560 so you can't really get help if you need it. Now, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.560 I'm not saying that Visible is bad. I'm saying, in 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.720 your circumstances, Gloria, it sounds like this is not a 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.880 good fit for you. The network is not the network 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.480 that you want, because, like you said, Verizon's not working 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.920 for you. This is the same exact network that Verizon 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.800 on and you don't have a store to go into. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.880 You can't go into a Verizon store and get help. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.320 With Visible. You can't even really get someone on the 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.440 phone as far as I know. With Visible, it's all 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.000 done through chat and email. So, oh my god, this 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.240 is this is really a service that's aimed towards millennial 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.920 users that are very very hip and they want to 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.920 do everything sort of like without human interaction, and so 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.040 there's nothing wrong with it. It's you know, and you 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.480 save a ton of money. I mean, this is twenty 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.440 five dollars a month or thirty five dollars a month, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.080 so it's it's really a money saving move. But okay, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.520 it's forty five, got it. So here's what I'd recommend 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.600 for you, Gloria. Have you heard of Mint Mobile? 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:42.800 You know what? 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.320 I had Mint and then T Mobile took over and 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.440 I've had nothing but trouble with T Mobile. Well, took 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:56.040 over my phone and so on, I'm I switched, and 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.520 I'm like, I'm in a world of trouble because right 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.840 here in the foothills, sure, and I have difficulty getting 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.000 good receptions. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.680 Okay, Well, so here's what I would recommend. If you 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.000 have difficulty getting good reception. Number one, you know, I 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.440 would talk to some neighbors and see what service works 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.600 for them. That's that's what I would do. Because if 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.960 you're in an area where it's tricky, like there are 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.760 portions of the US where only one network is very strong. 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.040 Sometimes that may be AT and T. And here in 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.160 the US we only have three networks to speak of. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.880 We have AT and T, we have Tea Mobile, and 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.360 we have Verizon. Everything else you hear about is one 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:41.080 of those networks what they call MVNOs mobile virtual network operators. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.640 So they just lease the network space from a Verizon, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.640 from an AT and T, from a Team Mobile, and 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.800 then they resell it and they repackage it with their 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.480 own marketing and their own plans. So what I would 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.360 do is talk to some of your friends in the area. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.520 Just knock on your neighbor's doors and say, hey, what 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.760 service do you use and does it work in the 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.040 same Maybe it's AT and T. It sounds like it's 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.560 not Verizon. It sounds like it's not T Mobile. Now 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.840 if T Mobile was just issues with sort of like 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.520 customer service and things like that, I think that Mint 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.640 Mobile is a really strong deal for you can get 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.520 unlimited through them for thirty dollars a month, which which 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.800 I really really enjoy. So that's what I would do. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.480 I would check to see who has the best service 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.960 in your area and go with that. And it sounds 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.000 like if you're having a lot of trouble and you 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.280 need a little bit more help with your service, you 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.440 may want a full service carrier, and that is directly 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.800 dealing with a place that has stores and that would 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:42.120 be Metro BYPC Metro PCs, that would be Cricket, that 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.080 would be Verizon, that would be AT and T. You 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.400 could even go into Walmart and get one of their plans. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.680 They have a lot of prepaid plans you can get. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.120 But it sounds like that may be the route you 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.680 want to go is figure out what works best in 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.560 your area and go with that carrier. And you may 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.720 want to go with one that it could be a 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.720 little bit more expensive, but if you can walk into 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.520 a store and get the help that you need with 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.640 your phone, that may be the best scenario for you, Gloria. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.879 So I hope you figure it out. Gloria, thanks for 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.880 the call today. Triple eight rich one O one eight 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.520 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:18.320 Uh. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.200 Coming up, we are going to talk to Jefferson Graham. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.520 He runs a website called photo Walks TV. He's always 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.200 testing the latest smartphone cameras and he got his hands 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.359 on the iPhone fifteen Promax. We're going to talk to 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.720 Jefferson Graham to see how the pictures look on this 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:39.000 new iPhone. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.880 back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.919 and uh, do you have the new iPhone fifteen? Many 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.560 people got it on launch day and putting it through 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.680 its paces, checking out all the new features. So even 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.800 if you don't have a new iPhone, there's iOS seventeen 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.600 and there's a t there's new software for the Apple TVs. 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.879 Let's see, there's new software for the watches. So I 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.320 mean there's a whole bunch of new stuff. If you 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.560 have the iPhone fifteen. So I actually interviewed someone from 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.960 Apple about this, one of the product managers, and he 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.679 was saying and I was very surprised that he said this. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.240 So a couple takeaways. Number One, you can use any 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.400 USBC cable to charge the phone. The one that comes 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.639 in the box is going to be the standard USBC. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.600 If you have an iPhone fifteen Pro and you want 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.679 to get faster data transfer speeds, you can get a 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.920 USBC three cable and that will give you really fast 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.480 data transfer that's only on the Promax. And then when 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.919 you want to charge the phone, would you want if 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.760 you want to use a third party charger, you want 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.320 to get the USB c PD that's power delivery. So 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.919 a lot of people are thinking that the iPhone fifteen's 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.480 are going to charge faster because you're USBC. That is 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.920 not the case. It does not look like Apple has 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.800 improved the charging speeds on these phones now that could 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.960 you know. That's one of those things that Apple doesn't 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.359 really give us all the specs. In fact, one of 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.120 the things that the product manager said, he goes, look, 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:10.680 we don't really want you to care about any of 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.399 the specs on these phones. We just want you to 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:17.000 have that magical experience of the phone just working. Let's 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:21.520 bring up Jefferson Graham here. Jefferson is uh with Photo 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:26.800 Walks TV. Longtime at the USA today. Jefferson, welcome to 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:27.160 the show. 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:28.960 Thank you for having me. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:29.359 Rich. 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.680 So you got your hands on the iPhone fifteen Promax? 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.199 Which one? Did you? Which one? We're using the Promax right? 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:36.800 Which color? 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:37.520 Which? 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:41.000 I'm a photographer, There's no way I would use the 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.560 other one got I actually did the other one a 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.639 little bit, but it's the prom accident I'm most interested in. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:51.639 I don't think in previous years they were as heavy handed. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.240 Is basically saying this is the one, all the best 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.840 features on the pomp of the lying one, with the 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.960 with the FI, the zoom, you know, and there's a 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.600 few other features in there as well. But I've been 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.159 using it for two and a half days, and you know, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.879 it's a cliche that every person in the interview is 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.920 a rich It's best him what it is. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.280 And well, of course it is. It better be they 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.399 better not go back in time and give us a 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.439 worse iPhone in the last year. I hope you're not 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.960 talking on it right now because the connection's not very good. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:27.920 I'm talking to you on the fourteen. 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.520 Okay, good, So of the fifteen would probably sound a 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.679 lot better. All right. So you took it to Venice 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:37.959 Beach and you tried the ultra wide, the telephoto lenses, uh, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.560 and the new zoom which is five x. But you 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.360 were kind of sad that you couldn't find the three 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:44.280 X zoom anymore. 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.840 I don't think I'll be the only one. I mean, 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.960 their marketing materials and the leading they said there's seven 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:56.359 lenses and there's only three, and then people say, okay, well, 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.840 and they've mentioned three xs being a bunch of the marketing, 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.440 and three x is what anybody who had the Icon 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.960 fourteen Pro Max had, which was a seventy seven millimeter. 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.400 And also it's not there. It's not on the new one. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.360 It's I think it's on the fifteen Pro, but it's 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:16.760 not on the fifteen Pro Max. 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:17.119 Yeah. 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.080 And the only way you can get to with digital zoom, 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.119 which is basically just crop in the image, and that's 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.040 not that's not anything that I want to do. No 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.679 so bad. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.320 Yeah, I mean, look so on the on the new 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:35.280 iPhone fifteen Pro Max, they kind of diverge the fifteen 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.520 Pro goes up to three X zoom. The pro max 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.000 goes up to five and so the seven lenses they're 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.960 talking about are all sort of optical zoom ranges. So 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:47.359 you get a white ultra wide angle at point five, 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.639 then you get one at twenty four millimeters, then you 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.879 get twenty eight millimeters. You can tap it again at 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:54.960 one point two X. You can tap it again to 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.600 get thirty five millimeters, which is one point five X. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:21:59.680 Then you can tap two X, and then you can 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.920 tap five X. So those are the seven lenses they're 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:04.800 talking about. I know it's a little odd because you 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:06.120 look on the back and you say, hold on, there's 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.200 only three lenses. But they're saying that they're cropping in 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.640 because the processor the sensor is so big. Even when 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.320 they crop in at these different kind of predefined ranges, 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:17.720 the photos are going to look like they were taken 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:22.439 with that dedicated lens. So what are the pictures any different? 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:25.520 Are they meaningfully different than the previous model? 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.359 I thought, well, you know, I've only had to do it, 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:32.120 But the I thought the telephono stuff I got close 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:36.400 up of the skaters were particularly good. Okay, I mean, 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.120 I'm not photographed. That's gonna go to work for him. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:42.960 But I thought they were sharp, and those are hard 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:45.240 to get somebody skating in front of you really bad. 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.160 They were there and they were good. And I thought 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:50.480 the low lights stuff was good. 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.400 And the lens flare. I know that they talked about 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.040 the lens flair. I in my limited testing. I you know, 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.320 I aimed it at some lights at our studio at KTLA. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:01.359 I still saw a pretty big lens flare. 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.119 Sure so did I. It's less than on the fourteen, 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:09.560 but it's still there. And the hip the solution they 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:12.200 always tell me. If you're shooting a sun set and 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:15.200 you get the lens flare and it bothers, you reposition 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:18.800 the phone the camera to get that lens flare into 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:21.840 the sun and the sun will make it. 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:26.120 Oh that's a good idea. Okay, you tried the USB sport. 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:29.040 Now did you use did you use the cable they 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:30.840 gave you or did you try one of the speedier 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:34.560 cables they gave me? Oh, they gave you the speed here, 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:36.480 so you did get a chance or was it really fast? 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:42.360 Or what I hit? And this? So right now I'm 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:46.600 having a hard time calling up image capture and making 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:49.840 it work. What they did was that what I was 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.600 able to do, which would connect my external sc drive 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:56.600 to the phone. And I think your listeners should hear 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:58.960 about what you have to go to do this because 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.920 they don't cont So you take it to terabyte, one terabyte, 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:05.720 whatever and you plug it into the UFC and that's great. 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.919 Now what Okay, So first of all, you have to 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:12.240 reformat the hard up before you put it and you 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.720 have that. You do that in utilities, just utilities, and 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:22.040 you have to format it to x back. I always 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:25.000 had my drive format it the mac os journals. 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:28.760 So x fat will work across uh pretty much Windows 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:30.879 and Mac. It's more universal than the journal. 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:31.880 Yeah. 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:34.200 So once you do that, then you put it back 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:38.040 into the phone and then you open the files and 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:41.120 in the file tap under locations you will now see 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:41.560 the DROST. 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:42.800 Great. 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:45.760 Now you want to back up a bunch of photos 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.240 and videos that you took that day on your iPhone, 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.439 You go to the photos app, you select them, then 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:54.000 you go to the share menu and you call it 0:24:54.080 --> 0:25:01.760 and you click exports unmodified the original. Wow, that was 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:04.280 a lot of steps, but it worked. 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:07.840 Okay, it sounds complicated, but I know I know, it's 0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:10.080 it's a look. That's that's kind of a pro thing. 0:25:10.160 --> 0:25:12.760 That's something that pro people will do. I was also 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:14.920 testing out the feature where you can make an edit 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:16.800 to one photo and then copy it to a bunch 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:19.240 of photos, which I thought was kind of cool. But 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:22.119 you should watch Jefferson's video he made. He made it 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:25.280 at Venice Beach. Quick turnaround. You got your phone, you 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:27.800 headed to Venice Beach and you took a whole bunch 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:29.879 of pictures and videos. And I like to tip about 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:32.119 the burst mode because that was not turned on on 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:35.119 my phone. So you can go into settings and the 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:38.080 camera and turn on burst modes. When you press the 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:41.240 volume up key, it will take a burst of pictures. Right. 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:42.200 Yeah. 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:46.920 I mean your alternative is you could lightly lightly press 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:50.080 the shutter fly the shutter. For most people when they 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:55.000 touched the shutter the white button end up clicking record videos. 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:58.920 It's very hard, but the side buy in buttons fantastic. 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:00.760 Yeah, that's a good to do it. And then of 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:02.520 course you got the action button too, which you can 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:05.040 use as a shutter. Jefferson, thanks for joining me today. 0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:08.960 Photo walks dot tv is Jefferson's website. He does a 0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:14.040 lot of great oh photowalkstv dot com. No wonder what, Okay, Well, 0:26:14.040 --> 0:26:16.920 I just go to Jefferson Graham dot com. So that's 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:18.720 that's the other way to get it. So again, tell 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:22.920 me the website again photos dot com dot com. Okay, 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:25.800 And you can follow Jefferson on YouTube and see his 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:28.920 video the UH shot at Venice Beach with the new iPhone. 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:32.399 So I took out the new iPhone UH yesterday and 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:36.120 I compared it against the old iPhone iPhone fourteen, and 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:38.080 you know, there's a little bit of improvement. But then 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:41.080 I took it out against the Samsung, and I fully 0:26:41.119 --> 0:26:43.200 expected the iPhone to just sort of like blow away 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:45.640 the Samsung S twenty three Ultro because it's a brand 0:26:45.680 --> 0:26:48.560 new device. The Samsung's been out for you know, eight 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:51.800 months now, whatever it's been. And so when I got 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:55.280 home and started comparing the pictures, I was like, wow, 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:58.160 these are not like it was not just cut and dry, 0:26:58.240 --> 0:27:00.639 like one is better than the other. There are certain 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:04.000 circumstances where the iPhone performs better, there are certain places 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:07.480 where the Samsung performs better. But in general, they kind 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:10.560 of took very similar pictures and in some ways the 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:14.120 Samsung even looked better in various support in various pictures. 0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:16.720 So I ended up posting all these to my Instagram. 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:18.080 If you want to check them out, just go to 0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:21.240 at rich on tech. If it disappears by the time 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:23.480 you see it, it is available as a highlight on 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:27.520 my profile page. It says iPhone fifteen versus And I'm 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:29.919 going to continue to update this with all the different 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:31.520 phones that I can. So I'm going to do like 0:27:31.560 --> 0:27:33.440 the Pixel, I'm going to do some of the other 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:36.679 phones that I can find to compare it to, because 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:39.840 I think it really it gives you a little perspective 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:42.960 that you know, the iPhone is great and people get 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:45.320 really excited about it, but it's not the end all 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:49.080 camera out there. Like people love their iPhones, but when 0:27:49.080 --> 0:27:51.520 you look at these other phones, they like the Pixel 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:54.520 and the Samsung. They do a really nice job too 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:57.159 in a lot of circumstances. So if you got something 0:27:57.200 --> 0:27:59.760 that you like, you don't need to feel that fomo 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:02.400 of like, oh, I'm not with the latest iPhone or whatever, 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:06.000 even eve an older iPhone. According to the product manager 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:09.399 that I spoke to, he said, basically, if you have 0:28:09.440 --> 0:28:12.880 an iPhone thirteen or fourteen, you don't necessarily need to upgrade. 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:14.879 He said. If you're on an older phone like the 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:17.600 iPhone eleven or twelve, that's when you'll start to see 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:21.199 some of the improvements with the camera quality. Now, by 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:24.960 the way, I had people respond with their thoughts about 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:27.760 the comparison of the different types of photos, and I 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:31.000 got tons of responses, and so I went through the 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:33.560 painstaking process. There's no easy way of doing this. I 0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:37.040 copied and pasted all of their responses into one giant document. 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:40.600 Then I fed that into AI and I had AI 0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:43.320 analyze what people said and to see the trends, and 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:45.720 so I posted that on my Instagram and it was 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:49.600 quite interesting what people said. Overall. I'll just give you 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:51.400 the main takeaway that it said, because I thought this 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:55.320 was pretty interesting. It said, if I can find it here, 0:28:55.920 --> 0:28:58.800 I'm going live to my Instagram right here. I know, 0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:01.800 very compelling to search through my own Instagram while I'm 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:04.480 on the radio here, But let me see what I said. Okay, uh, 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:08.440 it's said in summary, the consensus seems to be that 0:29:08.520 --> 0:29:12.200 this Samsung camera produces superior image quality and performance compared 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:17.920 to the iPhone, even amongst iPhone users and fans. Oh 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:25.920 there we go. Uh, some iPhone loyalists still prefer the 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:31.440 iPhone despite admitting Samsung's technical superiority. So what it comes 0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:33.760 down to really again, and this is something I've noticed 0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:35.880 over the years, is that people just have a loyalty. 0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:38.880 They like what brand they have. All right, Triple eight 0:29:38.920 --> 0:29:41.040 Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two 0:29:41.280 --> 0:29:43.800 four one zero one. You have a question, you have 0:29:43.800 --> 0:29:46.200 a comment about technology, give me a call. This is 0:29:46.280 --> 0:29:50.240 Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:54.240 DeMuro here talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one. 0:29:55.680 --> 0:29:58.480 Later in the show, we're going to talk about Oh, 0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:01.400 we're going to talk to the founder of Ring and 0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:05.080 he's going to talk about his latest venture. Plus, we're 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:07.440 going to talk about some of the Microsoft announcements, some 0:30:07.480 --> 0:30:11.520 of the Google announcements, and a cool photo tool that 0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:14.880 can take an old picture and using AI tell you 0:30:14.880 --> 0:30:18.000 what you're that picture was taken. Kind of fun. Let's 0:30:18.000 --> 0:30:20.520 go to Daniel and receive that. Daniel, you're on with Rich. 0:30:21.240 --> 0:30:23.440 Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call. 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:23.680 Man. 0:30:23.840 --> 0:30:28.280 Yeah, so I live an apartment building. It's pretty sketch 0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:34.360 and I've been meaning to place a doorbell cam. Sure, 0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:37.720 but we're not allowed a drilling to the walls or 0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:38.480 the doors. 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:41.920 Some people do it and they have been getting their 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:42.760 units stolen. 0:30:43.080 --> 0:30:46.080 So I have kind of two questions. 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:50.000 One is, do you know any way to actually secure 0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:53.200 the camera without having to drill into the door. And 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:57.040 I really don't want to pay in another subscription for 0:30:57.120 --> 0:30:57.920 like a wind. 0:30:57.640 --> 0:30:58.480 Door bill or anything. 0:30:58.560 --> 0:31:02.840 Yeah, something that can record locally, any idea? 0:31:03.760 --> 0:31:07.360 Yeah, so I think, I mean on your first thing 0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:11.120 with the uh, you know, the the doorbell being taken, 0:31:11.320 --> 0:31:13.440 there's not much you can do if you're if you're 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:16.840 not able to drill into the wall. I mean, no 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:19.520 matter what however you place it, it's going to be, 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:21.000 you know, removable. 0:31:21.760 --> 0:31:24.640 Now I've seen so it kind of looks like a 0:31:24.680 --> 0:31:28.120 metal case that of patches onto the traditional width of 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:28.680 the door. 0:31:28.760 --> 0:31:30.880 I don't know, Okay, Yeah, I mean there might be 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:33.080 an accessory on Amazon, and I'm sure there is like 0:31:33.120 --> 0:31:35.280 that that actually probably sounds like the best way to 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:38.240 do it is some sort of like almost like a strap, 0:31:38.320 --> 0:31:40.840 like a metal strap that somehow connects and then you 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:44.520 connect the device to that. You could probably get something 0:31:44.560 --> 0:31:46.440 like that, I would, Yeah, that's something that you could 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:48.720 probably get. But the the video doorbell that i'd recommend 0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:50.920 because you want something that you don't want to pay 0:31:50.960 --> 0:31:55.160 for the subscription. I think probably the best brand is Blink. 0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:55.840 Have you heard of them? 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:57.120 Yes? 0:31:57.560 --> 0:32:01.400 So Blink is kind of Amazon on sub brand for 0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:04.680 their you know kind of like it's kind of like 0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:07.400 Ring but it's a little different. So the deal with 0:32:07.480 --> 0:32:10.400 Blink is that they're claim to fame is that a 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:13.520 couple of batteries in this thing last like two years. 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:16.360 Like I don't know how they do it, but yeah, 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:18.920 so you don't have to replace the batteries very very often. 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:23.400 And I actually interviewed the you know, the guy founded 0:32:23.400 --> 0:32:24.880 Blink or whatever, and I was like, how do you 0:32:24.960 --> 0:32:28.080 doing this? And that's like there, That's why Amazon paid 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.120 so much to acquire this company because it's like their 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:32.760 magic sauce is the fact that they've somehow figured out 0:32:33.080 --> 0:32:35.040 how to like sip a triple a or double a 0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:38.040 battery over two years versus like you know, for me 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:40.360 with my video doorbell and replacing the battery like every 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:43.560 three months at this point. So I think that's the 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:46.240 one to go with. It's sixty bucks. But here's the thing, 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:52.520 So it doesn't have local storage. You have to get 0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:56.160 this little module. It's called a sink module, and so 0:32:56.600 --> 0:32:58.720 this blinks. Now here's I think this is on the 0:32:58.920 --> 0:33:00.960 pro side of what you're talking about earlier with your 0:33:01.240 --> 0:33:04.200 you know, this thing getting stolen. So this little so 0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:06.280 you have the doorbell, you put that on your door, right, 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:08.760 however you want to attach it with that accessory or whatever. 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:12.040 And then you get this sink module that sits in 0:33:12.080 --> 0:33:14.719 your home and that connects to your WiFi, and that 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:19.240 sink module kind of powers this device and also stores 0:33:19.280 --> 0:33:21.800 the SD card or a flash drive, so that the 0:33:21.880 --> 0:33:25.320 video goes from the doorbell to this sink drive, right, 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:28.280 and so it's off it's off site. It's off of 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:31.640 the doorbell, which means if someone actually stole this doorbell, 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:33.520 you'd have a little video of them. Not that you're 0:33:33.520 --> 0:33:35.360 really that. You know, police aren't going to go after 0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:39.360 someone that stole a doorbell, I don't think, but I mean, 0:33:39.560 --> 0:33:41.480 but you'll at least have a little video that you can, 0:33:41.520 --> 0:33:43.000 you know, print out and put on your front door 0:33:43.040 --> 0:33:46.920 and be like, hey, give me this back. But I 0:33:46.920 --> 0:33:49.400 think that's the way to go. So in that sink module, 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:51.320 I'm not sure. I got to look up the price 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:53.560 on that but you know, it's probably another fifty sixty bucks, 0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:55.840 but you're looking at maybe one d one hundred and 0:33:55.880 --> 0:33:58.920 fifty dollars including a little accessory for the door, and 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:01.440 that way you won't have to pay subscription fee, but 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:06.520 you will have local storage of your videos in your 0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:08.480 house as well, and of course you can access them 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:10.040 through your phone and all that good stuff. But I 0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:12.520 think that's the way to go. If you go Ring, 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:15.680 if you go Whys, I believe is all wired. I 0:34:15.680 --> 0:34:18.400 don't know if they have a wireless one. There's another 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:26.359 brand called Kangaroo, but I believe that they. I don't 0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:29.319 believe that that's a solution that you need. I think 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:31.480 that they don't have the local storage that you want, 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:32.879 but I think that's the way to do it. Check 0:34:32.880 --> 0:34:36.239 out the Blink camera. Check out a way to install it. 0:34:36.280 --> 0:34:38.160 I'm gonna look up some ways now I'm curious. I 0:34:38.200 --> 0:34:41.640 know that Ring has like a peephole cam for exactly 0:34:41.640 --> 0:34:43.440 what you're talking about, so that you can install it 0:34:43.520 --> 0:34:46.600 without drilling or making any holes in your door. You 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:50.440 just use the existing people that's on your door, and 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:52.400 you can just replace that with the camera, and then 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:53.920 when you move out of the apartment, you can just 0:34:53.960 --> 0:34:57.399 put the peopole back. But you know, I was I've 0:34:57.440 --> 0:34:59.440 lived in apartments for many years, and I was always 0:34:59.440 --> 0:35:02.640 so like hesitant to drill into the walls because of 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:05.080 these big fees and stuff like that. And honestly, if 0:35:05.120 --> 0:35:07.680 you've ever painted a wall, it's really not that big 0:35:07.719 --> 0:35:09.960 of a deal. You seal it up, you paint over it. 0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.160 It's like, a hole is not the end of the 0:35:12.200 --> 0:35:14.080 world in a wall. And if it makes it more 0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:16.880 secure to install this thing, maybe just go for it 0:35:16.920 --> 0:35:19.719 and deal with the repercussions later. That's what I would do, 0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:21.759 because that's what I decided to do. I like my 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:24.880 old apartment. I was like so careful about every single 0:35:24.880 --> 0:35:27.040 like I was using like those command strips for everything. 0:35:27.520 --> 0:35:28.920 And then when I got into my house, I was like, oh, 0:35:28.960 --> 0:35:31.720 I'm drilling everything into the wall, and you know who cares? 0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:33.680 And now I just you know, I did that in 0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:35.640 one room and I have so many holes in the wall. 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:37.719 I finally painted over all of it, but you know, 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:40.640 you little spackle, little little sandpaper, and it's all good 0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:43.640 to go. Let's see what else. Oh, I want to 0:35:43.640 --> 0:35:45.479 tell you about one feature that I thought was pretty cool. 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:49.880 On the new TV OS. So this is on the 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:52.040 new Apple TV. If you have an Apple TV four K. 0:35:52.160 --> 0:35:55.359 For the first time ever, you can use FaceTime on 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:58.520 your TV. So Apple TV will let you FaceTime. I 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:01.520 don't know why this wasn't available years ago, but the 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:04.080 trick is you can't just use any old webcam. You 0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:06.759 have to use like an iPhone to be your webcam. 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:09.239 So of course, you know, Apple loves to like, you know, 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.239 do all that kind of stuff. The other thing that's 0:36:11.280 --> 0:36:13.880 kind of cool is you can now locate your remote control. 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:17.600 So if you have a newer remote and a newer 0:36:17.640 --> 0:36:19.879 Apple TV, you can use your phone to find your 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:24.840 SERI remote. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:36:25.320 --> 0:36:28.399 rich on Tech. This is the show where I talk 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:30.960 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:36:31.360 --> 0:36:35.320 It's also the place where I answer your questions. My 0:36:35.400 --> 0:36:37.440 name is rich Demiro. You can find me on social 0:36:37.480 --> 0:36:42.440 media at rich on Tech. I'm on Instagram, Facebook X 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:47.560 sometimes threads, mostly on Instagram Stories. That's really where I 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:50.480 put a lot on my effort. But I realized it's funny. 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:54.520 I realized with Instagram Stories, you can't share my stories. 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:57.799 So I share a lot of like useful information, and 0:36:57.840 --> 0:37:00.000 it's great if you're a follower of mine, but if 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:02.279 if you're a follower, you can't share that out to 0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:06.080 other people. And so I've started to actually share stuff 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:08.960 that I wouldn't typically share in the feed, like in 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:10.759 the regular feed. I always thought that was just for 0:37:10.800 --> 0:37:13.839 like pictures and videos, but now I'm doing like tech 0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:16.920 stuff because you can actually share that information. So if 0:37:16.920 --> 0:37:19.959 you see something useful that I share, you can send 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:22.680 it off to your friends on your stories, whereas if 0:37:22.680 --> 0:37:24.640 I share that on my stories, you can't do that. 0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:26.799 So it's a small little change. But if you do 0:37:26.840 --> 0:37:30.200 follow me on Instagram, that is the reasoning behind why 0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:32.120 I'm starting to share more of my stuff on the 0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:35.359 main feed, because it just makes it easier. I guess 0:37:35.440 --> 0:37:36.920 the other way you'd have to do it is like 0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:39.319 take a screenshot of my story and then post that 0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:41.440 on your stories. But who does that? I don't two 0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:44.440 people do that. Maybe you can also listen to this 0:37:44.440 --> 0:37:47.080 show as a podcast. Be sure to subscribe. Just go 0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:51.399 to richontech dot tv click the podcast icon. There's also 0:37:51.480 --> 0:37:54.000 show notes and links to everything I mentioned. You can 0:37:54.080 --> 0:37:56.760 also just search rich on tech in your favorite audio 0:37:56.840 --> 0:37:59.759 app of course you can listen right here as well. 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:02.480 Own lines are open triple eight rich one O one 0:38:03.000 --> 0:38:06.919 eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:10.239 Let's go to uh Stephen in San Diego. You have 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:11.440 a suggestion, Stephen. 0:38:12.880 --> 0:38:14.080 Yeah, Ty, how you doing? 0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:15.399 I'm doing great? What's up? 0:38:16.480 --> 0:38:19.520 So this is a you had a couple of callers ago, 0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:23.279 Gloria when I was listening itself so bad for I 0:38:23.360 --> 0:38:27.880 had a same similar situations where I have T Mobile 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:31.520 and a lot of the time like I'm in foothills 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:36.480 and you have zero service, but they offer you a 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:40.279 device for free that you've connected to your Wi Fi 0:38:41.120 --> 0:38:45.120 and has a little wired transponder that you put on 0:38:45.160 --> 0:38:48.440 the wall and it's for satellite. 0:38:47.960 --> 0:38:50.920 And then boom, you have perfect helf service. 0:38:52.120 --> 0:38:54.879 In your home and you can turn Wi Fi off 0:38:55.200 --> 0:39:01.200 on your phone and have full bars LTE five everything 0:39:01.280 --> 0:39:01.919 that you made. 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:06.839 Yeah, that's a good, good idea. These were popular back 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:09.600 in the day. I feel like I'm surprised if they 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:11.400 still do these. I'm trying to think of what the 0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:14.399 term is that they and what you would do is, yeah, 0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:18.040 you would plug it into your home Internet and then 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:21.880 it would put out basically would replicate the cellular signal 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:25.480 in your home, and that's how it would work. You know, 0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:29.080 a booster, I guess they're called, but those have really 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:32.400 gone out of favor, largely because so many people have 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:34.920 now what's called Wi Fi calling on their phone. So 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:39.920 I was going to suggest that to Gloria earlier, to 0:39:40.000 --> 0:39:42.200 turn make sure she has Wi Fi calling on, which 0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:45.399 you can turn on on Android or iOS by going 0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:48.400 into your cellular settings. But the thing about Wi Fi calling, 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:51.279 that only works when you're at your home. So if 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:53.560 you're in sort of like the foothills, or you're in 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:55.960 an area that doesn't have strong signal to begin with, 0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:58.440 the Wi Fi calling is not really going to help. 0:39:58.920 --> 0:40:01.120 Or these boosters aren't going to help because they're really 0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:05.160 just for your house. And so with the booster, it's great, 0:40:05.280 --> 0:40:08.200 but it's you know, it's largely replaced by the Wi 0:40:08.239 --> 0:40:10.880 Fi calling. So it's a great suggestion, Stephen, Thank you. 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:14.960 I appreciate that, but it doesn't get to the bigger 0:40:15.040 --> 0:40:18.760 issue of you need a signal that works in your area, 0:40:18.960 --> 0:40:21.160 and so I was trying to come up with some 0:40:21.200 --> 0:40:23.960 ways of figuring that out. I think asking friends and 0:40:24.040 --> 0:40:27.319 family that are in the area is the best way. So, 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:31.440 for instance, where I work, there are certain carriers that 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:34.040 work really well and certain that don't. And the way 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:36.560 I've figured that out over the years is well, I've 0:40:36.560 --> 0:40:38.360 had test phones that I can test them on, but 0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:40.800 I've also just asked people like, hey, is your service 0:40:40.840 --> 0:40:43.800 work well here? And who do you have? And people 0:40:44.000 --> 0:40:46.600 they love to share that information. But a couple of 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:49.600 other places you can look. There's a website called open Signal. 0:40:51.000 --> 0:40:53.520 They have an app that you can kind of it's 0:40:53.560 --> 0:40:57.640 a crowdsourced coverage map, and so basically, if you install 0:40:57.719 --> 0:41:01.719 this app on your phone, you you can kind of 0:41:01.960 --> 0:41:05.440 submit some of your tests of your network to the app, 0:41:05.520 --> 0:41:07.560 and then they use that and share it with other people. 0:41:08.280 --> 0:41:10.239 And so you can also go on the app and 0:41:10.320 --> 0:41:13.560 see who has the best data in your area. Now, 0:41:13.640 --> 0:41:15.200 I was just doing a little search to see if 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:19.000 there's anything similar online, and there's one called coverage map 0:41:19.040 --> 0:41:21.960 dot com. I've never heard of this one, but they 0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:25.080 seem to have coverage maps for all the different carriers. 0:41:25.480 --> 0:41:27.600 You can pop in your zip code and see what 0:41:27.760 --> 0:41:30.000 Verizon looks like, what AT and T looks like, and 0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:33.279 what T Mobile looks like. It's all color coded and 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:36.719 you can then narrow down by five g LTE and 0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:40.239 you can also click best and see which carrier has 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:43.400 the best coverage in your area, and then if you 0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:47.960 click it'll give you all the information about that carrier speed. 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:51.879 So again that's coverage map dot com. The other one 0:41:51.920 --> 0:41:55.920 I mentioned is called open signal dot com. So thanks Steven, 0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:59.520 great question, great comment, and there's so many. Look, I mean, 0:41:59.560 --> 0:42:02.360 I think at the end of the day, signals have 0:42:02.400 --> 0:42:06.520 gotten really good in most places, Like people have a 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:10.520 pretty good cellular signal, and people don't mind dealing with 0:42:10.560 --> 0:42:12.600 a bad signal for a little bit, and then they'll 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:14.680 kind of reconnect. They'll say, hey, let me you know, 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:16.520 I've got a bad signal, let me call you back. 0:42:16.840 --> 0:42:18.719 So it's not like the old days where we used 0:42:18.760 --> 0:42:21.040 to just deal with like really bad signals for like 0:42:21.200 --> 0:42:23.520 entire conversations. Now, if you have a bad signal, you say, 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:24.520 you know what, let me call you back when I 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:26.359 get to a better signal. And most of the time 0:42:26.400 --> 0:42:28.879 that's only maybe one hundred feet or a mile away, 0:42:28.960 --> 0:42:30.840 or you know, depending on where you are. You just 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:32.520 have to get to a better place, or you switch 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:35.239 carriers all together and you just find the one that's 0:42:35.280 --> 0:42:38.680 best for your house. I always say to people, find 0:42:38.680 --> 0:42:41.000 the carrier that works best at your house, where you 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:43.720 work and where you live, and that covers like ninety 0:42:43.760 --> 0:42:46.600 percent of the time that you spend. For instance, my 0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:50.280 dad just switched carriers recently because he was so tired 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:53.800 of his carrier not working where he would spend his weekends. 0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:57.680 And so he finally said, hey, which carrier works up here? 0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:00.960 And he got it and now it works great. Triple 0:43:00.960 --> 0:43:03.680 eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four 0:43:03.719 --> 0:43:07.760 to two four one zero one is the phone number 0:43:08.480 --> 0:43:11.359 Google Bard this week. If you're familiar with Google Bard, 0:43:11.400 --> 0:43:14.160 we've talked about it on this show. Google Bard is 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:19.040 Google's answer to chat GPT. It's free, go to bard 0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:22.399 dot Google dot com to access it, and this week 0:43:22.440 --> 0:43:25.240 it got a new feature. And the big difference between 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:27.960 Google Bard and chat GBT is that Google Bard has 0:43:28.040 --> 0:43:30.680 access to the real time Internet. Chat GBT does not. 0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:34.160 Everything that you're searching on there is back from like 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:36.879 twenty twenty one. So it's still great and it still 0:43:36.880 --> 0:43:39.040 does a lot of stuff. But Bard, you can ask 0:43:39.080 --> 0:43:40.640 it like what was the score of the game last 0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:43.400 night and it can tell you. So Google Bard got 0:43:43.400 --> 0:43:45.400 a new feature this week where it can now integrate 0:43:45.480 --> 0:43:50.080 with Google apps including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps 0:43:50.080 --> 0:43:53.200 and YouTube. So now you can ask it to search 0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:55.160 your Gmail. And I know it sounds kind of scary 0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:58.920 because we also think about these AI services as sharing 0:43:58.960 --> 0:44:02.040 what we talk to them about with other people, and 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:03.600 so you're like, wait a second if I put my 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:06.200 Gmail on here, are there people going to see my Gmail? 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:09.239 And Google says no, anything that you're doing that requires 0:44:09.239 --> 0:44:12.319 your own data like Gmail or Drive, they're not going 0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:14.600 to share with other people. But this allows you to 0:44:14.640 --> 0:44:17.160 get sort of personalized information. So you can say, hey, 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.320 can you tell me Bart what's the main things I 0:44:20.360 --> 0:44:22.279 need to know about my kids' school this week? Or 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:25.920 I asked it to analyze all of the conversations between 0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:28.239 me and my wife over the years, and I said, 0:44:28.520 --> 0:44:30.680 can you tell me some of the main takeaways? And 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:33.200 it's it like analyzed our entire relationship. I thought that 0:44:33.239 --> 0:44:36.440 was pretty wild. So this is a new feature that 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:39.799 is free. You can enable it the first time you 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:42.760 go to bard dot Google dot com, and the idea 0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:45.359 is just to give people a reason to access this. 0:44:46.080 --> 0:44:50.280 It's odd that Google was so far advanced with their AI, 0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:53.600 but they sort of fell behind because chat GBT came 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:56.600 out of the gate so strong and everyone was just like, oh, 0:44:56.680 --> 0:44:59.160 chat GBT is where it's at. And so Google's like, 0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:02.680 hold on, We've been doing AI forever, and so they 0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:05.480 really had to kind of get into a position of 0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:08.440 let's show people what we can do with our AI. 0:45:08.560 --> 0:45:10.000 So now they have it in so many of their 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:14.360 different products, not just Bard. You can also do AI 0:45:14.520 --> 0:45:17.680 search on Google. You can enable that, you can do 0:45:17.760 --> 0:45:19.960 AI in your Gmail, you can have it help you 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:23.120 write your email, AI and docs and Drive, you can 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:25.480 have it help you come up with slideshows and all 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:27.799 that kinds of stuff. So again there's a lot of 0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:30.560 different things you can do with Google with AI. It's 0:45:30.640 --> 0:45:36.200 just people just they kind of identify AI as chat GBT, 0:45:36.360 --> 0:45:38.400 but there's many of them out there. You've got Bing AI, 0:45:38.960 --> 0:45:42.200 You've got Claude, which is one of my favorites by Anthropic, 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:45.080 and of course you've got Google Bard, So lots of 0:45:45.120 --> 0:45:48.280 options for AI. I'm finding it to be very useful 0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:51.160 in my life to summarize things and to also kind 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:56.080 of analyze a large amount of data. And Bing is 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:59.160 good just like Bard for sort of real time search 0:45:59.239 --> 0:46:03.800 results that all so include AI check it out Google 0:46:03.840 --> 0:46:06.040 bard Bar dot Google dot com. All right, give me 0:46:06.080 --> 0:46:08.279 call Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:46:08.320 --> 0:46:12.960 seven four to two four one zero one. Welcome back 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:15.920 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:46:16.080 --> 0:46:20.160 talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:23.279 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:28.600 Coming up this hour, Jamie simmonof the founder of Ring Yeah, 0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:31.359 the guy who basically put a video doorball on many 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:34.960 doors across America. He's got a new gig. He's now 0:46:35.080 --> 0:46:38.960 chief doorman at door dot com. So we're gonna explain 0:46:39.000 --> 0:46:40.680 what that means. He's gonna tell us all about his 0:46:40.719 --> 0:46:43.320 new venture. Plus, this is why I love this show. 0:46:43.800 --> 0:46:46.520 I love this show because of you. It is not 0:46:46.719 --> 0:46:49.760 a one way street. This is a two way street. 0:46:49.840 --> 0:46:53.120 And I love the immediate feedback I get from you 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:57.879 as the listeners. Uh So, Kelly just wrote in and 0:46:58.080 --> 0:47:02.640 she on Amazon sent me a link to an anti 0:47:02.680 --> 0:47:08.239 theft doorbell doormount for Blink video doorbell. No drill does 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:11.600 not block the doorbell sensor, and it's basically a little 0:47:11.680 --> 0:47:15.480 kind of a strap of metal that it looks like 0:47:15.560 --> 0:47:19.560 it kind of screws onto your door like with a 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:21.560 just a you know, kind of like a vice gript 0:47:21.719 --> 0:47:23.839 kind of thing, and so you mount it. It goes 0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:26.560 around the back of the door and around the side 0:47:26.600 --> 0:47:28.319 of the door, and then the front has like the 0:47:28.360 --> 0:47:31.279 plate that you put the blink video doorbell on. So 0:47:31.840 --> 0:47:34.600 there you go. Twenty one to ninety nine. That's for 0:47:34.680 --> 0:47:37.960 our caller earlier, Daniel and Rosita was asking for a 0:47:37.960 --> 0:47:42.279 way to mount his video doorbell without drilling into the door. 0:47:42.360 --> 0:47:44.080 So thanks for sending that along, Kelly. I'll put it 0:47:44.080 --> 0:47:47.080 in the show notes at richontech dot TV. Let's go 0:47:47.160 --> 0:47:51.320 to Joe in Glen Dora. Joe, You're on with rich Oh. 0:47:51.280 --> 0:47:51.959 Hi you Rich. 0:47:52.440 --> 0:47:55.239 I have an old Wolverine media player that has a 0:47:55.239 --> 0:47:59.160 little screen to view videos and pictures, and I've got 0:47:59.200 --> 0:48:01.120 a whole bunch of picktures that I put on there 0:48:01.160 --> 0:48:04.399 a long time ago, because it has slots for SD 0:48:04.560 --> 0:48:07.600 cards and things to put stuff on there. Sure, and 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:10.920 now I'd like to take stuff off and get it 0:48:10.920 --> 0:48:15.239 to my computer and I connect the USB drive or 0:48:15.239 --> 0:48:17.880 the USB cable that comes with it to the computer 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:24.680 and it's supposed to automatically work with McIntosh and Windows. 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:26.440 But yet it's. 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:30.959 Really so old that it has drivers for Windows ninety 0:48:31.000 --> 0:48:33.680 eight and it doesn't say anything about Windows ten. It 0:48:33.719 --> 0:48:37.839 says it's supposed to automatically work with Windows XP and 0:48:37.880 --> 0:48:43.440 it's the old it's an MVP nine thousand series media player. 0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:47.480 Wow, and so you've got and this is called a Wolverine. 0:48:47.520 --> 0:48:48.480 I've never heard of this thing. 0:48:49.680 --> 0:48:52.279 Oh yeah, yeah, they've got a line out now. They've 0:48:52.360 --> 0:48:55.360 upgraded it now where it's even attached to a DVD 0:48:55.480 --> 0:48:58.600 player and you can it's got a bigger screen and everything. 0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:03.200 Now, okay, I'm looking at this Wolverine data MVP nine 0:49:03.200 --> 0:49:06.600 thousand with built in seven to one memory card reader 0:49:06.640 --> 0:49:09.239 and writer. So that's the one you've got. And I'm 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:11.080 trying to see do they have a picture of the connection. 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:14.680 So you connect it to your computer and via USB 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:16.200 and nothing happens. 0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:21.560 Yes, that's that's true. Actually, what's weird though, is if 0:49:21.600 --> 0:49:27.719 I run a particular disc utility that does see it, 0:49:27.920 --> 0:49:30.680 and it says there's no media on it at all, 0:49:30.800 --> 0:49:35.200 it's not partitioned or anything. And yet it's supposed to 0:49:35.200 --> 0:49:39.840 automatically mount with Windows and Mac and I use Linux, 0:49:39.880 --> 0:49:42.040 and it says it's supposed to work with Linux also, 0:49:43.000 --> 0:49:47.399 and you know, the disc utility programs seem to see 0:49:47.440 --> 0:49:51.319 it as a drive, but yet it doesn't mount on 0:49:51.400 --> 0:49:54.080 the desktop for me to copy files off it. 0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:59.560 Interesting. Okay, well, so you've tried connecting this to which computers? 0:50:00.960 --> 0:50:05.160 Well, I've tried a Linux machine, a Windows machine, a 0:50:05.280 --> 0:50:06.120 Macintosh and. 0:50:06.160 --> 0:50:09.520 None of them see it, right wow? Okay, so they 0:50:09.560 --> 0:50:11.279 see and some of them see the device, but it 0:50:11.280 --> 0:50:12.839 doesn't see any of the data on there. 0:50:13.960 --> 0:50:18.680 Yes, there's utility programs on Windows and Linux that both 0:50:18.760 --> 0:50:22.720 see that the Wolverine is attached as a hard drive. 0:50:23.880 --> 0:50:26.520 But yet you know, all I can do is format 0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:29.400 it or partition it. I can't copy files off of 0:50:29.960 --> 0:50:32.960 But when I go to file manager for Windows ten, 0:50:33.040 --> 0:50:36.560 it doesn't see it, and the McIntosh desktop does not 0:50:36.760 --> 0:50:37.200 mount it. 0:50:37.680 --> 0:50:41.719 That's frustrating. What now, this is kind of random, But 0:50:41.800 --> 0:50:44.440 have you tried maybe plugging it into like a smartphone, 0:50:44.480 --> 0:50:46.920 like an Android smartphone and seeing if that sees it? 0:50:50.760 --> 0:50:52.440 You mean via USB? 0:50:52.800 --> 0:50:54.960 Yeah, I mean they have a file you know, a 0:50:55.000 --> 0:50:58.359 file viewer on Android and on iOS. Now, I mean 0:50:58.520 --> 0:51:00.000 it might you know, you might be able to see 0:51:00.120 --> 0:51:02.799 on those just out of curiosity, like I'm just trying 0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:05.520 to get through all the different things that might be 0:51:05.560 --> 0:51:08.280 able to identify this. My guess is that it's formatted 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:10.040 in a way that these things are just not reading 0:51:10.080 --> 0:51:13.640 it because it's so old. Now I'm looking up this company. 0:51:13.680 --> 0:51:16.440 They're based in Irvine, they're still around. Have you gotten 0:51:16.480 --> 0:51:19.400 in touch with them about why you can't see this stuff? 0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:23.799 I've gone to their site and they don't really have 0:51:23.920 --> 0:51:27.760 any way to you know, ask them any questions or anything. 0:51:27.880 --> 0:51:30.040 And I'm going to in fact, that's my next step, 0:51:30.080 --> 0:51:31.880 is to go to their site again to see if 0:51:31.880 --> 0:51:34.000 there's some way that I can contact them. 0:51:34.280 --> 0:51:36.200 Yeah, so that is my next step. 0:51:36.239 --> 0:51:39.280 And they've got an email address. They've got an email 0:51:39.280 --> 0:51:40.719 address and a phone number. I don't know about the 0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:42.400 pone number. They're probably not going to be tech support 0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:43.960 over the phone, but you might be able to email 0:51:44.000 --> 0:51:45.440 them and just tell them that you have this older 0:51:45.480 --> 0:51:48.920 model and see why it's not, you know, being shown. 0:51:48.960 --> 0:51:51.399 I'm guessing it's the way it's formatted. Now. The other 0:51:51.440 --> 0:51:54.080 thing I would ask is this does have an SD 0:51:54.200 --> 0:51:56.120 card slot, right or a media card slot? 0:51:57.000 --> 0:51:57.200 Yes? 0:51:57.440 --> 0:52:00.880 Can you go? And everything's on the internal on this device? 0:52:01.880 --> 0:52:02.240 Yes? 0:52:02.360 --> 0:52:04.960 So is there any way to copy from the internal 0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:09.160 drive to a memory card through the device. 0:52:10.160 --> 0:52:12.839 I've tried that and I put in an old two 0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:16.480 gigabyte Fat thirty two s D card and it says 0:52:16.880 --> 0:52:20.120 reading card and then it says failed to innit. And 0:52:20.160 --> 0:52:22.799 it's supposed to mount on the hard you know, the 0:52:22.840 --> 0:52:23.400 hard drive. 0:52:23.640 --> 0:52:28.760 Well, maybe maybe you format that drive that little card. 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:32.440 Maybe you format that. It's saying that this according to 0:52:32.520 --> 0:52:34.880 the facts on their website. They're saying, you know, it 0:52:34.920 --> 0:52:37.440 has to be format as FAT thirty two or ntfs, 0:52:37.480 --> 0:52:40.080 which are two different, you know formats. Obviously x fat 0:52:40.120 --> 0:52:43.319 is the newest one that's not really supported according to 0:52:43.360 --> 0:52:46.400 this fact, but that might be the way to do it. 0:52:46.440 --> 0:52:48.839 So format the drive is FAT or FAT thirty two. 0:52:48.880 --> 0:52:51.600 I know it's an older format, but pop that in 0:52:51.680 --> 0:52:53.600 and see. And also you might be able to see 0:52:53.600 --> 0:52:57.920 if the Wolverine itself can actually format the SD card 0:52:58.000 --> 0:52:59.759 and then you might be able to copy stuff over. 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:01.839 The other thing is if you can connect this to 0:53:02.120 --> 0:53:05.440 a TV screen, you might be able to connect it 0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:08.239 to a computer and just record this stuff like that. 0:53:08.360 --> 0:53:13.400 But that's not the best solution. It sounds like you 0:53:13.440 --> 0:53:15.280 got to get in touch with this company and see 0:53:15.360 --> 0:53:17.399 if they have any updates to the software, if there's 0:53:17.400 --> 0:53:20.359 a trick to getting this to display and to mount 0:53:20.400 --> 0:53:22.680 on your computer, because you've tried a lot of different things, 0:53:23.040 --> 0:53:24.799 none of them seem to be working. I've got the 0:53:24.800 --> 0:53:27.319 same issue at home. I've got this old device that 0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:28.920 I have a whole bunch of pictures on that I've 0:53:28.960 --> 0:53:31.399 been meeting to get them off for many, many years now, 0:53:31.440 --> 0:53:33.200 and I just don't because I know it doesn't connect 0:53:33.239 --> 0:53:36.000 to my computer, it doesn't mount, and it's frustrating because 0:53:36.040 --> 0:53:37.480 you know the stuff is on there that you want, 0:53:37.840 --> 0:53:41.120 but you can't get to it. So again, this is 0:53:41.360 --> 0:53:43.480 a good reason to back up stuff when you can, 0:53:44.000 --> 0:53:49.279 because formats change, connections change, but we don't we continue going, 0:53:49.600 --> 0:53:51.719 all right, Coming up, we're gonna talk to Jamie Simmonoff, 0:53:52.080 --> 0:53:57.120 founder of Ring and now chief doorman at door dot com. 0:53:57.239 --> 0:54:01.959 You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:54:02.040 --> 0:54:06.600 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 0:54:07.000 --> 0:54:09.640 Phone lines are open triple eight rich one oh one. 0:54:09.680 --> 0:54:12.719 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four to 0:54:12.719 --> 0:54:17.360 one zero one. Website's also an option rich on Tech 0:54:17.480 --> 0:54:19.640 dot TV. Hit the contact button if you want to 0:54:19.680 --> 0:54:23.200 email me something, get in your feedback for the feedback 0:54:23.239 --> 0:54:25.439 segment at the end of the show. Always a fun 0:54:25.480 --> 0:54:29.319 time there. Well, you know our next guest as the 0:54:29.480 --> 0:54:33.759 founder of Ring, he is the person that put a 0:54:33.800 --> 0:54:38.239 doorbell or video doorbell on many many doors across the 0:54:38.320 --> 0:54:41.319 United States, and uh pretty much came up with that 0:54:41.520 --> 0:54:45.759 entire genre of the video doorbell. Jamie Simmonoff is now 0:54:45.880 --> 0:54:50.240 chief doorman at door dot com. Jamie, Welcome to the show. 0:54:52.120 --> 0:54:54.600 Thanks for having me Rich, good to be with you again. 0:54:54.800 --> 0:54:56.960 Yeah, so it's been I mean, you and I met. 0:54:57.000 --> 0:54:58.680 Oh my gosh, it must have been. I mean I 0:54:58.680 --> 0:55:01.360 remember so Ring started out. You first called it what 0:55:01.560 --> 0:55:02.520 like Doorbaugh. 0:55:02.200 --> 0:55:05.359 I think it was called it was it was, Yeah, 0:55:05.400 --> 0:55:07.279 it was not a great name, but I started out 0:55:07.280 --> 0:55:07.880 with Doorbot. 0:55:07.920 --> 0:55:09.480 I improved from there. 0:55:09.760 --> 0:55:12.160 So yeah, I think you improved in a pretty good way. 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:14.799 We we did the story back in the day for 0:55:14.920 --> 0:55:18.200 KTLA when you did the video doorbell, when it first 0:55:18.200 --> 0:55:20.640 came out, you pretty much came up with that idea, right, 0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:23.160 was there something on the market that was similar before 0:55:23.200 --> 0:55:24.200 you came out with that or No. 0:55:25.960 --> 0:55:29.000 The funny thing is, I actually I did come up 0:55:29.000 --> 0:55:32.319 with the idea, But I looked for something, Like I 0:55:32.360 --> 0:55:34.840 was actually looking for one. I couldn't find one, so 0:55:34.880 --> 0:55:37.600 I just built it for myself. But I to your point, 0:55:38.160 --> 0:55:40.560 like I actually thought one would exist. I had an iPhone, 0:55:40.600 --> 0:55:42.400 I couldn't hear the doorbell, and I felt like, I 0:55:42.520 --> 0:55:45.600 just will buy a video doorbell that's Wi Fi connected. 0:55:45.640 --> 0:55:47.319 It didn't exist, so I just kind of built one, 0:55:47.360 --> 0:55:48.640 and then that became a thing. 0:55:49.360 --> 0:55:51.920 Did you ever imagine it would become as big of 0:55:51.960 --> 0:55:54.920 a force that it did? I mean, did you have 0:55:54.960 --> 0:55:57.000 an idea when you kind of like started along the 0:55:57.000 --> 0:55:58.839 path in that thing, like developing it? 0:56:00.560 --> 0:56:05.560 Absolutely not. You know, I think anyone's hopeful that something. 0:56:05.680 --> 0:56:07.640 I would say, even in my wildest dreams, I could 0:56:07.719 --> 0:56:09.759 have hoped for it to get to where it did, 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:11.719 which is you know, Ring is now, as far as 0:56:11.760 --> 0:56:14.320 I can tell, the largest home security company in the world. 0:56:15.080 --> 0:56:17.520 Wow, And it does, and of course you know many 0:56:17.560 --> 0:56:20.879 more products. Now you have left Ring and you are 0:56:20.920 --> 0:56:25.440 now chief doorman at door dot com. Can you tell 0:56:25.480 --> 0:56:26.000 me about this? 0:56:26.080 --> 0:56:26.200 So? 0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:28.480 What does what does that mean exactly that you're the 0:56:28.560 --> 0:56:29.280 chief doorman? 0:56:30.080 --> 0:56:31.120 Yeah? 0:56:31.160 --> 0:56:33.080 Well, I you know I do, like I always had 0:56:33.080 --> 0:56:34.560 my email on every box at ring. 0:56:34.719 --> 0:56:36.719 I like to be sort of with the customer and 0:56:36.760 --> 0:56:39.960 customer centric and so the chief Doorman is also like 0:56:40.000 --> 0:56:44.040 aligning myself, you know, with the customers. What door dot 0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:46.759 com does is we have we started with locks for 0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:51.440 apartment buildings and doing the software around that, so that 0:56:51.560 --> 0:56:55.120 was called Latch, and then the rebranding to door dot 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:58.360 com is expanding the vision into other things and services 0:56:59.280 --> 0:56:59.880 other than. 0:56:59.760 --> 0:56:59.960 Just like. 0:57:01.840 --> 0:57:05.080 Maids and dog walkers and things like that. 0:57:05.000 --> 0:57:07.520 And sort of having an app that the access control 0:57:07.600 --> 0:57:08.760 and the services together. 0:57:09.320 --> 0:57:11.440 So explain what that means. What's the vision for this. 0:57:13.360 --> 0:57:15.480 So the vision is that you're living in an apartment 0:57:15.480 --> 0:57:17.280 and you want to book a maid or a dog 0:57:17.360 --> 0:57:21.360 walker and you can book, schedule, pay through the app 0:57:21.560 --> 0:57:24.040 as well as the access control like the lock. If 0:57:24.080 --> 0:57:26.640 someone wants to come to your house, come to your apartment, 0:57:27.080 --> 0:57:29.400 that that will let them in automatically at that time. 0:57:29.480 --> 0:57:32.720 Even with the best electronic locks, today people are basically 0:57:32.760 --> 0:57:35.840 copying and pasting codes or going into another app to 0:57:35.880 --> 0:57:38.959 give them access, and I think that services and lock 0:57:39.120 --> 0:57:42.720 need to be put together. We launched our first service, 0:57:43.200 --> 0:57:47.160 which is actually a driver's app called James, which which 0:57:47.240 --> 0:57:49.560 sort of does that we were already working on that 0:57:49.600 --> 0:57:52.040 before we combined with Lads, so that's why we did 0:57:52.040 --> 0:57:54.600 that one. But we were always building the technologies that 0:57:54.600 --> 0:57:56.960 we could combine all of this together into sort of 0:57:56.960 --> 0:57:58.280 services and locks. 0:57:58.640 --> 0:58:02.560 And so James the James App. As I understand it, 0:58:02.560 --> 0:58:04.320 it's like, okay, so let's say you take an uber 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:06.000 and you like love the driver, but you never see 0:58:06.000 --> 0:58:08.840 that person ever again because of the way the platform works. 0:58:08.880 --> 0:58:11.480 But with this you can kind of pick your favorites 0:58:11.560 --> 0:58:13.640 and continue to use them over and over. 0:58:15.360 --> 0:58:16.000 Exactly. 0:58:16.200 --> 0:58:19.440 And the real benefit to the drive we call these 0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:22.920 drivers the honest day's worker. The benefit to them is 0:58:22.920 --> 0:58:26.040 that they get to keep most of the economics of 0:58:26.040 --> 0:58:29.720 the ride. So we charge a five percent service fee 0:58:29.760 --> 0:58:31.520 to the rider, but the driver gets to keep one 0:58:31.600 --> 0:58:33.840 hundred percent of what they want to charge for the ride. 0:58:33.880 --> 0:58:37.720 So kind of for everybody, you get quality and trust, they. 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:39.560 Get more of the economics, and they're able to be 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:43.439 sort of a true independent worker through the James App. 0:58:43.480 --> 0:58:45.400 And we believe that that is a great thing. 0:58:45.280 --> 0:58:47.960 For the honest day's worker what people would call, you know, 0:58:47.960 --> 0:58:49.760 the gig worker independent contractors. 0:58:50.160 --> 0:58:53.120 So it's interesting because the quality part, let's say, you know, 0:58:53.160 --> 0:58:56.200 because you are sort of your own boss in that aspect, 0:58:56.960 --> 0:59:00.120 you and you want these repeat customers, you're actually going 0:58:59.960 --> 0:59:02.920 to perform a higher level of service because you know, 0:59:03.080 --> 0:59:06.120 you want to earn that trust in that relationship versus 0:59:06.640 --> 0:59:09.680 and look, Uber is very popular, but sometimes you don't 0:59:09.760 --> 0:59:12.760 know what you're gonna get. And the drivers could be 0:59:12.840 --> 0:59:15.640 kind of all over the place sometimes because they know 0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:18.040 that they'll never see you again. You know, they can 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:20.200 have a hundred rides that are just kind of not 0:59:20.400 --> 0:59:22.760 very good, but they still did their hundred rides and 0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:24.760 they made some money. But what are you going to 0:59:24.800 --> 0:59:25.760 do at the end of the day if you had 0:59:25.800 --> 0:59:27.440 a bad ride? I mean, give the person a bad 0:59:27.520 --> 0:59:30.600 rating and move on, right, And. 0:59:30.880 --> 0:59:33.000 I think what we're seeing is that again. 0:59:33.080 --> 0:59:35.200 I think one of my favorite sayings right now is 0:59:35.200 --> 0:59:37.280 show me an incentive and I'll show you the outcome. 0:59:37.880 --> 0:59:41.560 And the incentive on all of these different platforms is 0:59:41.600 --> 0:59:44.440 to basically do the minimum amount to be on the 0:59:44.480 --> 0:59:45.960 platform and be successful. 0:59:46.200 --> 0:59:49.160 But it's not to do the maximum. And with James 0:59:49.200 --> 0:59:51.400 it aligns you the other way, which is you get. 0:59:51.240 --> 0:59:53.440 All the economics and so that you can also invest 0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:55.760 in delivering the best service, which means people will book 0:59:55.800 --> 0:59:59.160 you more. So it's like this, it's this nice flywheel 0:59:59.200 --> 1:00:02.600 effect that happened when you do that, because on these 1:00:02.600 --> 1:00:05.600 other platforms, I will get, you know, a service worker, 1:00:05.680 --> 1:00:09.840 a driver that is great at the whatever level you picked, 1:00:10.080 --> 1:00:12.840 and then on the same level, same day, you get 1:00:12.880 --> 1:00:15.600 someone who's not great, and so you're paying the same amount. 1:00:15.640 --> 1:00:17.440 Both those people are next to each other in the 1:00:17.440 --> 1:00:17.920 same thing. 1:00:17.960 --> 1:00:20.840 And so I think allowing the person that really wants 1:00:20.880 --> 1:00:22.720 to again I call it the honest day's worker, allowing 1:00:22.720 --> 1:00:25.720 that person that wants to focus and hair is about 1:00:26.240 --> 1:00:29.640 the experience that they're delivering, giving them the ability to 1:00:29.760 --> 1:00:31.200 truly make the economics of it. 1:00:31.240 --> 1:00:33.320 That's that's kind of what's behind all the the stuff 1:00:33.320 --> 1:00:34.080 that we're doing. 1:00:33.960 --> 1:00:35.360 And it makes a lot of sense. Where is that 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:36.360 available right now? 1:00:38.240 --> 1:00:40.720 So James is in the app store. It's you can 1:00:41.040 --> 1:00:43.600 search James Rider and that will give you the app. 1:00:44.480 --> 1:00:45.680 Right now, we're going. 1:00:45.440 --> 1:00:49.680 More towards like drivers telling riders about it. So if 1:00:49.680 --> 1:00:51.280 you if you download it, if you do have a 1:00:51.320 --> 1:00:54.360 favorite driver, you can certainly download it and then just 1:00:54.440 --> 1:00:56.640 contact your favorite driver and say, hey, do you want 1:00:56.640 --> 1:00:59.400 to use this. It's certainly much easier. A lot of 1:00:59.440 --> 1:01:02.120 people are doing this today, but they're texting. So a 1:01:02.200 --> 1:01:03.760 driver will give you their number and then you have 1:01:03.800 --> 1:01:07.280 to text them. Certainly not efficient for the rider or 1:01:07.320 --> 1:01:08.200 the driver to do that. 1:01:08.720 --> 1:01:12.040 M interesting, all right, So back to door dot com. 1:01:12.080 --> 1:01:15.560 So this service it sounds like it's more. Is it 1:01:15.600 --> 1:01:18.800 more B to B because you're installing it on apartment 1:01:18.840 --> 1:01:21.480 buildings or is this going to also be for people's homes. 1:01:23.200 --> 1:01:25.040 So everything we're doing right now is B to B. 1:01:25.200 --> 1:01:27.880 So James is targeting the driver. Again, they have a 1:01:28.400 --> 1:01:31.760 there's like a consumer side obviously, but that's really what 1:01:31.800 --> 1:01:34.120 we look at is that we are providing technology to 1:01:34.200 --> 1:01:37.120 superpower our honest day's worker to deliver the best experience 1:01:37.160 --> 1:01:40.200 of their customer. Same thing with our locks in an 1:01:40.200 --> 1:01:42.479 apartment building, you know, the honest day's worker, that person 1:01:42.480 --> 1:01:45.720 that's building that building, that's that's you know, from three 1:01:45.840 --> 1:01:50.440 units to three thousand units. We are superpowering them with 1:01:50.520 --> 1:01:55.400 this you know automated uh, you know, Bluetooth enabled lock 1:01:55.480 --> 1:01:57.840 that allows people to have the best experience there and 1:01:57.880 --> 1:02:00.800 allows them to manage the building better and then layering 1:02:00.840 --> 1:02:01.720 the services above that. 1:02:02.840 --> 1:02:05.400 All right, so you know you're you are like the 1:02:05.400 --> 1:02:09.080 eternal entrepreneur. You have been in this world now, you know, 1:02:09.160 --> 1:02:12.320 doing these entrepreneurial things for you know what, at least 1:02:12.360 --> 1:02:16.760 a decade, fifteen years now. So what's your advice? Since 1:02:16.760 --> 1:02:19.560 I graduate college, since you graduated college. Okay, so you're 1:02:19.560 --> 1:02:22.000 doing stuff before even the ring, So what's your advice? 1:02:22.080 --> 1:02:24.080 You know, someone's out there, they have an idea. I 1:02:24.080 --> 1:02:25.919 mean it takes a lot. We've all watched Shark Tank. 1:02:25.960 --> 1:02:28.600 You are on Shark Tank obviously, but like, what does 1:02:28.640 --> 1:02:32.320 it take to really get something from idea to reality 1:02:32.320 --> 1:02:33.320 in this world? 1:02:34.480 --> 1:02:36.880 I think, you know, realistically, it takes a lot of luck. 1:02:36.920 --> 1:02:38.160 So I wouldn't want to look. 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:41.760 I wouldn't want to You know, everyone gives advice of 1:02:41.800 --> 1:02:43.479 all these different things, but in the end, like there's 1:02:43.480 --> 1:02:44.200 a lot of luck. 1:02:44.240 --> 1:02:47.240 Timing is luck. People you run into all that, so 1:02:47.280 --> 1:02:48.200 there is luck to it. 1:02:48.600 --> 1:02:52.200 I would say, doing something that you're passionate about and 1:02:52.240 --> 1:02:56.120 that is going to in some way improve the world. 1:02:56.680 --> 1:02:58.680 If you're able to do something with passion and that 1:02:58.960 --> 1:03:01.760 has a benefit to the world, I feel like you 1:03:01.800 --> 1:03:04.680 know that's it actually, and you work hard. Those sort 1:03:04.680 --> 1:03:09.280 of three pieces seem to lead to successful outcomes for. 1:03:09.280 --> 1:03:11.000 People, and then obviously you have to go do it. 1:03:11.040 --> 1:03:14.040 A lot of people talk about business, they talk about 1:03:14.040 --> 1:03:15.600 what they want to do, they talk about ideas. 1:03:16.040 --> 1:03:17.720 You know, at the end of the day, you have 1:03:17.760 --> 1:03:18.320 to execute. 1:03:19.000 --> 1:03:21.840 Ah. I love that. Good advice. And uh, we'll be 1:03:21.880 --> 1:03:24.560 looking forward to seeing more about what door dot com 1:03:24.640 --> 1:03:28.760 does and also the James app sounds really interesting. Jamie Simonov, 1:03:29.040 --> 1:03:30.840 thanks so much for joining me today. I appreciate it. 1:03:34.000 --> 1:03:35.760 Thanks Rich good to good to talk to you again. 1:03:35.880 --> 1:03:39.360 All right. Uh oh, such a such so many fond 1:03:39.400 --> 1:03:43.200 memories of meeting up with Jamie in Santa Monica when 1:03:43.200 --> 1:03:45.440 he was running ring. I remember like the first time 1:03:46.160 --> 1:03:47.840 that he was showing me. I mean it was just 1:03:47.880 --> 1:03:49.560 like a kid in a candy store showing me like 1:03:49.600 --> 1:03:53.120 the whole like lab where they tested these video doorbells. 1:03:53.120 --> 1:03:55.080 I mean, he had like this. They would literally like 1:03:55.160 --> 1:03:56.760 melt them because they knew they were going to be 1:03:56.800 --> 1:03:58.680 like in the sun all day, so they'd have like 1:03:58.720 --> 1:04:00.520 this box where they put them in there and just 1:04:00.560 --> 1:04:02.840 like see how hot they can get it before this 1:04:02.920 --> 1:04:05.240 thing like stopped working, and it was just like it 1:04:05.280 --> 1:04:07.120 was so cool. And then he'd had like people around him. 1:04:07.120 --> 1:04:09.200 It was a small operation when I first met him, 1:04:09.440 --> 1:04:11.360 but he'd have people around him be like James, you know, Jamie, 1:04:11.360 --> 1:04:13.080 maybe you shouldn't show Rich that right now. You know 1:04:13.120 --> 1:04:14.640 he is a reporter, like he was just showing me 1:04:14.680 --> 1:04:17.640 like everything, so really really neat to see. And of 1:04:17.640 --> 1:04:20.320 course Shark Tank. You can still see the clip of 1:04:20.360 --> 1:04:23.440 that online on YouTube to see exactly what happened with 1:04:23.560 --> 1:04:26.680 Ring and Shark Tank there. But and the first one 1:04:26.720 --> 1:04:29.240 we you know, this was the thing about the first 1:04:29.320 --> 1:04:31.840 ring doorbell that we tested. You know, you have to 1:04:31.880 --> 1:04:36.480 remember Wi Fi was not the strongest back then we're talking, 1:04:36.840 --> 1:04:38.760 you know, at least ten years ago at this point. 1:04:39.000 --> 1:04:41.760 So people had their one little WiFi router that their 1:04:41.760 --> 1:04:44.040 cable company gave them, and a lot of times that 1:04:44.120 --> 1:04:46.919 signal did not reach to the front door. So people 1:04:46.960 --> 1:04:50.200 would install these doorbells, these video doorbells, and it wouldn't 1:04:50.240 --> 1:04:53.120 be that great of an experience because the Wi Fi 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:56.040 hadn't caught up to sort of the technology that they invented. 1:04:56.440 --> 1:04:58.040 And it took a while, and of course you know 1:04:58.120 --> 1:05:00.840 that Ring ended up you know saying company as Eero, 1:05:00.960 --> 1:05:03.560 which is Amazon, and so it all kind of came 1:05:03.600 --> 1:05:06.120 together and it was just fascinating to watch that as 1:05:06.160 --> 1:05:10.480 a tech observer. So very cool stuff. Jamie Simmonoff you 1:05:10.520 --> 1:05:14.200 can find him at door dot com. You have a question, 1:05:14.240 --> 1:05:16.080 give me a call. It's triple eight rich one O 1:05:16.080 --> 1:05:19.680 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:26.840 zero one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:05:27.280 --> 1:05:31.600 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology at triple 1:05:31.640 --> 1:05:34.800 eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven 1:05:34.920 --> 1:05:39.800 four to two four one zero one. Be sure to 1:05:39.840 --> 1:05:43.040 watch my segments that I do for TV. I cover 1:05:43.080 --> 1:05:45.200 a variety of tech topics. You can go to richon 1:05:45.280 --> 1:05:48.360 Tech dot tv to see that. Also, I mentioned earlier 1:05:48.440 --> 1:05:52.560 that I am very I spent a lot of time 1:05:52.560 --> 1:05:54.720 on Instagram posting a lot of stuff and I posted 1:05:54.720 --> 1:06:01.040 something pretty interesting yesterday on iOS seventeen. There is now 1:06:01.080 --> 1:06:06.520 a mental health questionnaire. So this is a new feature 1:06:06.560 --> 1:06:09.360 in iOS seventeen, part of mental well being. So not 1:06:09.480 --> 1:06:13.800 only can you log your state of mind during the day, 1:06:13.880 --> 1:06:17.560 but also your daily mood. This is something you can 1:06:17.600 --> 1:06:22.160 do on your iPhone now, so you can log your emotions, 1:06:22.720 --> 1:06:24.480 you can log your moods, and I think that this 1:06:24.600 --> 1:06:28.000 is really really valuable to gain insights onto how you 1:06:28.080 --> 1:06:32.640 might be feeling and what's contributing to what is making 1:06:32.680 --> 1:06:34.959 you feel that way. So, for instance, you can log 1:06:35.000 --> 1:06:37.720 that you're happy and they'll say why are you happy, 1:06:37.800 --> 1:06:39.840 and you can you know, has like different options. You 1:06:39.880 --> 1:06:42.440 could say it's because of work or family or kids 1:06:42.560 --> 1:06:45.880 or whatever. And on the flip side, if you log 1:06:45.920 --> 1:06:48.560 that you're not feeling so great, you can explain why too. 1:06:48.640 --> 1:06:51.760 Now this all goes into your private database on your iPhone, 1:06:52.160 --> 1:06:54.320 but you can see the trends over time, so you 1:06:54.360 --> 1:06:57.200 can see if you're getting into a mood when you, you know, 1:06:57.280 --> 1:07:00.120 maybe go to work every day. You can understand why 1:07:00.120 --> 1:07:02.000 that's happening because you're going to work and maybe you 1:07:02.000 --> 1:07:04.760 need to figure out why your work is causing you 1:07:04.840 --> 1:07:07.040 to feel that way, or maybe family gatherings or friends 1:07:07.160 --> 1:07:09.640 or whatever it is. But the other interesting thing they 1:07:09.720 --> 1:07:14.200 have is a depression and anxiety assessment. So this is 1:07:14.200 --> 1:07:16.560 the same assessment that's often used in clinics. You can 1:07:16.560 --> 1:07:19.360 now do this right from your iPhone. It's inside the 1:07:19.360 --> 1:07:22.320 health app. You open up the Health app, you tap brows, 1:07:23.400 --> 1:07:26.360 then you tap mental well Being and it's the mental 1:07:27.320 --> 1:07:31.120 Mental Health questionnaire and it will ask you sixteen questions 1:07:31.200 --> 1:07:34.840 about how you're feeling, whether you feel nervous, anxious, or 1:07:34.920 --> 1:07:36.480 on edge in the past couple of weeks you have 1:07:36.520 --> 1:07:39.560 trouble relaxing all these different questions and then it will 1:07:39.560 --> 1:07:43.640 give you an assessment at the end and tell you 1:07:43.680 --> 1:07:48.520 basically your level of anxiety risk and depression risk. And again, 1:07:48.560 --> 1:07:50.880 this is all inside the health app on the iPhone, 1:07:51.760 --> 1:07:55.360 and these are some big, big things and this is 1:07:55.400 --> 1:07:58.320 not something to be taken lightly. So if you do 1:07:58.400 --> 1:08:01.760 need help in that aspect, obviously we seek a trained professional. 1:08:01.840 --> 1:08:06.920 This is more for kind of understanding your own feelings 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:10.000 and emotions throughout the day. So that's new in iOS seventeen. 1:08:10.040 --> 1:08:12.440 And if you want the link to that, you can 1:08:12.480 --> 1:08:15.720 go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. My wife 1:08:15.760 --> 1:08:20.000 obviously is a counselor and she is big into mental 1:08:20.040 --> 1:08:22.400 health and awareness and I feel like it's getting better 1:08:22.400 --> 1:08:25.439 in America, but we're still just at the beginning of that. 1:08:25.640 --> 1:08:28.519 So I'm doing my best to spread the word about 1:08:28.520 --> 1:08:30.720 all this stuff. All right, let's go to Greg in 1:08:31.080 --> 1:08:41.840 Des Moines. Greg, you're on with rich Welcome to the show. Greg. You' there. Nope, okay, 1:08:41.960 --> 1:08:45.320 let's go to Linda. Linda is in Anaheim, Linda, you're 1:08:45.360 --> 1:08:45.880 on with Rich. 1:08:49.320 --> 1:08:49.479 Hi. 1:08:49.640 --> 1:08:49.880 Rich. 1:08:50.680 --> 1:08:56.160 I have a problem with facetimed group called that It's 1:08:56.200 --> 1:09:00.000 happened to me twice to my family, and I'm sorry, 1:09:00.200 --> 1:09:02.000 I'm old. I don't even know how to do a 1:09:02.040 --> 1:09:06.400 FaceTime group call, and of course they don't think that 1:09:06.520 --> 1:09:08.760 I did it. I was three feet away from my 1:09:08.880 --> 1:09:12.720 phone and I received a phone call, I thought, and 1:09:12.800 --> 1:09:16.639 it was almost all of my family, and they said 1:09:16.760 --> 1:09:17.400 I made. 1:09:17.240 --> 1:09:17.960 The phone call. 1:09:18.520 --> 1:09:19.639 Oh wow, And of course. 1:09:19.439 --> 1:09:21.080 They thought that it was an emergency. 1:09:21.320 --> 1:09:22.400 Oh no, one time. 1:09:22.640 --> 1:09:24.280 Once Now it happened again. 1:09:24.320 --> 1:09:26.160 The other time. I was on the. 1:09:26.120 --> 1:09:31.080 Phone speaking to someone and all of a sudden, I go, oh, 1:09:31.160 --> 1:09:31.920 let me call you back. 1:09:32.000 --> 1:09:34.840 I have a call for my grandson. And again it 1:09:34.880 --> 1:09:37.400 was a whole group of the family and a couple 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:38.000 of friends. 1:09:38.160 --> 1:09:40.719 Okay, well, I think I know what's happening. I think, 1:09:42.080 --> 1:09:45.320 well there is Okay, so this is happening when you're 1:09:45.360 --> 1:09:46.160 on the phone. 1:09:46.960 --> 1:09:50.120 It happened one time when I was not on the phone. 1:09:50.439 --> 1:09:52.880 And it happened one time when I was on the phone. 1:09:53.000 --> 1:09:57.120 Okay. So there is a group FaceTime feature that is 1:09:57.240 --> 1:09:59.720 on the iPhone, relatively new as of a couple of 1:09:59.760 --> 1:10:01.639 years where you can have up to I think thirty 1:10:01.640 --> 1:10:04.479 two people in the call. And so a couple of 1:10:04.560 --> 1:10:07.280 ways you can start this is obviously from the FaceTime app, 1:10:07.280 --> 1:10:09.360 and that would take some time to open up the 1:10:09.400 --> 1:10:11.960 app and set up the call. But one of the 1:10:11.960 --> 1:10:15.759 other ways you can do this is through the Messages app. 1:10:16.360 --> 1:10:19.400 And so no, no, I know, but I'm saying, this 1:10:19.439 --> 1:10:21.200 is how it's happening to you, and I think this 1:10:21.280 --> 1:10:23.760 is this is my theory on what's happening. So I 1:10:23.920 --> 1:10:27.240 feel like when you're on your phone, this is just 1:10:27.280 --> 1:10:28.640 a theory. By the way, I don't know if this 1:10:28.680 --> 1:10:30.360 is the exact way, but I feel like when you're 1:10:30.400 --> 1:10:34.519 on your phone, there is a FaceTime video button in 1:10:34.560 --> 1:10:38.719 the upper right hand corner, and that FaceTime video button 1:10:39.240 --> 1:10:41.840 could be pressed by your ear when your phone is 1:10:41.960 --> 1:10:44.240 up to your face, and I think that's what's happening. 1:10:44.240 --> 1:10:45.599 And so when you have a bunch of people in 1:10:45.600 --> 1:10:48.960 that group text, your ear is hitting that button and 1:10:49.000 --> 1:10:51.880 it's starting, it's initiating that call. So that's one theory. 1:10:52.400 --> 1:10:54.920 Another way you can start these calls is when you're 1:10:54.920 --> 1:10:57.840 in a text. If you tap the people up at 1:10:57.880 --> 1:11:01.439 the top, there's like a little kind of like an 1:11:01.560 --> 1:11:04.080 info area where it says you can call them, you 1:11:04.080 --> 1:11:07.080 can video chat them, you can mail them. So that 1:11:07.120 --> 1:11:10.120 could be another way that that is getting activated, and 1:11:10.160 --> 1:11:12.639 that's up at the top. So those are the two 1:11:12.680 --> 1:11:15.679 ways I think it's being initiated. If you don't want 1:11:15.720 --> 1:11:18.439 to use FaceTime and you don't want this to happen, 1:11:19.400 --> 1:11:21.479 you know, you can also set the autolock on your 1:11:21.479 --> 1:11:24.840 phone to be to be less of a time, so 1:11:24.960 --> 1:11:29.640 a lock quicker. You could also turn off FaceTime completely 1:11:30.200 --> 1:11:33.080 if you want, and you can turn off FaceTime by 1:11:33.120 --> 1:11:36.040 going into settings and then FaceTime and you can turn 1:11:36.080 --> 1:11:37.519 it off now. Of course that's going to make it 1:11:37.560 --> 1:11:40.320 so that you can't use FaceTime until you turn it 1:11:40.360 --> 1:11:42.680 back on. But that's one way. I don't know of 1:11:42.720 --> 1:11:44.920 a way that FaceTime is initiating. There could be a 1:11:44.960 --> 1:11:49.479 serie command that that's starting the FaceTime call. I don't 1:11:49.520 --> 1:11:52.120 know if there is one. Let's see. Yeah, you could 1:11:52.120 --> 1:11:55.280 say something like make a FaceTime call to Siri, and 1:11:55.320 --> 1:11:57.800 so that could be happening. She could be misunderstanding you. 1:11:58.479 --> 1:12:00.120 So there's a bunch of different things. If if you 1:12:00.160 --> 1:12:02.639 don't want that to happen, you can keep your phone 1:12:02.680 --> 1:12:06.639 in the face down position and that will stop any 1:12:06.920 --> 1:12:09.720 Siri listening. So if you have an iPhone and you've 1:12:09.760 --> 1:12:11.760 ever had this thing where Siri will chime in when 1:12:11.760 --> 1:12:14.519 you say something because it thinks it hurd the term Siri. 1:12:14.600 --> 1:12:16.919 And by the way, with the new iPhone iOS seventeen, 1:12:17.360 --> 1:12:19.320 you no longer have to say hey Siri, it's just 1:12:19.400 --> 1:12:22.080 Siri and she'll respond. So if you don't want that 1:12:22.120 --> 1:12:24.320 to happen, you can put your phone face down. But 1:12:24.400 --> 1:12:26.160 I think Linda, those are some of the ways that 1:12:26.200 --> 1:12:29.320 you can try. I'm just trying to next time it happens, 1:12:29.400 --> 1:12:32.400 just be aware of like what's happening on your phone screen, 1:12:32.600 --> 1:12:34.679 and that way you can keep that from happening. Again. 1:12:35.280 --> 1:12:39.840 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:12:40.040 --> 1:12:44.360 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 1:12:44.360 --> 1:12:48.200 Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 1:12:48.320 --> 1:12:51.040 four to two, four to one zero one. Coming up 1:12:51.080 --> 1:12:54.040 this hour, We're going to talk about the Ford Mustang 1:12:54.320 --> 1:12:58.200 mock E. This is the electric car I've been testing recently, 1:12:58.400 --> 1:13:01.200 and uh wow, it's a fun one. I know it's 1:13:01.200 --> 1:13:04.080 been out since like twenty twenty, and I didn't drive 1:13:04.120 --> 1:13:07.240 it until the last two weeks, if you can believe that. 1:13:07.479 --> 1:13:09.600 And I've been wanting to get into this thing, and 1:13:09.640 --> 1:13:12.240 I gotta say I I'm a fan. By the way, 1:13:12.280 --> 1:13:14.160 the song you just heard, we were listening to it 1:13:14.160 --> 1:13:16.200 in the car yesterday and my nine year old just 1:13:16.200 --> 1:13:18.800 starts singing the words. We're like, how do you know 1:13:18.840 --> 1:13:20.519 this song? He's like, oh, hear on the radio. I 1:13:20.520 --> 1:13:23.160 mean he just belted out all the words. It's a 1:13:23.160 --> 1:13:27.120 good song. It's very soothing and relaxing. Also, coming to 1:13:27.200 --> 1:13:31.160 this hour, I'll talk about the price increase. Well, okay, 1:13:31.200 --> 1:13:33.840 it's a Amazon's doing something kind of fishy, so we'll 1:13:33.880 --> 1:13:37.120 talk about that. Microsoft has some new devices. Plus there 1:13:37.280 --> 1:13:41.479 is a free photo tool that can estimate the dates 1:13:41.680 --> 1:13:46.160 of your historical photos using AI. Vladimir writes in on 1:13:46.160 --> 1:13:48.240 my website. Rich on tech dot TV, Hey, Rich, would 1:13:48.280 --> 1:13:50.720 you talk about why Apple changed the notification sounds on 1:13:50.800 --> 1:13:54.280 iOS seventeen. My brain was already wired to the notification 1:13:54.439 --> 1:13:57.200 sounds on Instagram, and now they're defaulted to a much 1:13:57.240 --> 1:14:01.240 lower notification default that's so low, oh, it doesn't even work. 1:14:01.600 --> 1:14:04.000 And Apple doesn't allow the user to set different notification 1:14:04.080 --> 1:14:06.000 sounds for different apps, so it's a dead end for me. 1:14:06.080 --> 1:14:09.000 It's a huge minus point for iOS seventeen. Thanks for 1:14:09.040 --> 1:14:12.800 all your hard work, Vlad. Yes, getting a lot of 1:14:12.880 --> 1:14:17.000 emails about this, and after like the third or fourth message, 1:14:17.000 --> 1:14:18.479 I always kind of like, I'm like, all right, let 1:14:18.479 --> 1:14:20.680 me see what there is to this, because you know, 1:14:20.760 --> 1:14:23.240 sometimes you're ahead of me, Like I always have my 1:14:23.240 --> 1:14:25.640 phone on silence, so I never hear the notifications. But 1:14:25.680 --> 1:14:27.840 sure enough, after I got all these messages about it, 1:14:27.840 --> 1:14:30.160 I said, let me see what's going on, and yeah, 1:14:30.439 --> 1:14:33.559 you can't change the default notifications for a majority of 1:14:33.560 --> 1:14:37.479 the apps in iOS seventeen. And the default notification sound 1:14:37.600 --> 1:14:41.599 is now this weird, really low sound that doesn't make 1:14:41.600 --> 1:14:45.080 any sense. So I have a feeling this I actually 1:14:45.200 --> 1:14:48.840 mark my words. Let's say it right now. End of September, 1:14:49.400 --> 1:14:51.960 Apple will come out with an update that will change 1:14:52.000 --> 1:14:55.479 the way notification sounds work in iOS seventeen because this 1:14:55.560 --> 1:14:58.640 system that they changed to is just not good. The 1:14:58.680 --> 1:15:01.040 fact that you can't just go ahead and change notifications. 1:15:01.040 --> 1:15:03.600 I couldn't believe that I could not change the default notification. 1:15:04.400 --> 1:15:08.120 And if you go it's it's app by app, which 1:15:08.160 --> 1:15:10.080 is really weird. So like some apps have like the 1:15:10.120 --> 1:15:13.840 notification sounds in their app settings, and then some are 1:15:13.880 --> 1:15:15.719 in the system settings, and some of you can't change 1:15:15.720 --> 1:15:18.920 at all. And the new system settings for the notifications 1:15:18.920 --> 1:15:22.200 are really really low. So I have a feeling Apple 1:15:22.200 --> 1:15:24.000 will change that. So just hang in tight there, of 1:15:24.120 --> 1:15:27.320 lad keep up with the software updates. And this was 1:15:27.320 --> 1:15:31.320 a miss by Apple. The change to the sounds. Okay, fine, 1:15:31.640 --> 1:15:33.759 but people, you know, they kind of know their iPhone 1:15:33.800 --> 1:15:36.880 sounds and they don't really want those messed with, whether 1:15:36.920 --> 1:15:38.360 you want to change them or not. You know, that 1:15:38.360 --> 1:15:40.240 should be up to the user, not up to Apple 1:15:40.320 --> 1:15:42.800 changing it for everyone. They should at least leave it 1:15:42.880 --> 1:15:45.080 the same, and then if you want, you can opt 1:15:45.120 --> 1:15:50.200 into the new changes. Let's go to uh oh, Greg 1:15:50.320 --> 1:15:52.240 is back? Greg and des moines. You're on with Rich? 1:15:52.920 --> 1:15:53.920 Yeah? Can you hear me? 1:15:54.080 --> 1:15:54.240 Yeah? 1:15:54.360 --> 1:15:55.200 Here you go. What's up? 1:15:55.840 --> 1:15:59.240 Oh yeah, we're on Mudeheacidently I'm the buying guy that 1:15:59.400 --> 1:16:03.880 called you Germany. Oh Hi, how you doing? I got 1:16:03.960 --> 1:16:07.840 my d flip tree walking. Now the question I have 1:16:08.880 --> 1:16:12.360 I don't upload and I had to have some my 1:16:12.600 --> 1:16:15.880 download for me because I don't know Lord Place doing 1:16:16.000 --> 1:16:22.200 all that bounty stuff. Sure should I My phone is December. 1:16:22.680 --> 1:16:25.240 I mean I'm trying to talk fast like you. 1:16:25.600 --> 1:16:28.080 Oh sorry, I know I do talk fast. I gotta 1:16:28.160 --> 1:16:30.080 I gotta learn. I gotta learn to talk slower. 1:16:32.280 --> 1:16:35.160 February, my phone will be two years old and it 1:16:35.240 --> 1:16:41.320 will be paid off. Okay, okay. Should I wait? This 1:16:41.479 --> 1:16:42.559 phone's working good? 1:16:42.680 --> 1:16:42.840 Now? 1:16:42.920 --> 1:16:48.639 Should I wait for a year or two and get 1:16:48.640 --> 1:16:51.760 a better gallarity? Or should I go to an iPhone? 1:16:51.840 --> 1:16:52.040 Now? 1:16:53.760 --> 1:16:57.360 I'm not sure how you walk the iPhone. Excuse me, 1:16:57.920 --> 1:17:02.479 I'm not sure how you walk? You know iPhones. I 1:17:02.520 --> 1:17:07.960 thought it out in nineteen eighty one, eighty two when 1:17:07.960 --> 1:17:10.639 they had the bullet phone that came out. Oh wow, 1:17:11.160 --> 1:17:15.960 the little flip phone and you got that. Yeah, I'm 1:17:16.280 --> 1:17:19.600 in my you know mine, I'm passed. Doan me? 1:17:20.280 --> 1:17:23.559 Wow? Okay, Well, I mean so should you'd have to 1:17:23.600 --> 1:17:26.800 learn some new things when it comes to the iPhone. 1:17:26.840 --> 1:17:29.920 So your first question, should you keep the Flip three? 1:17:30.960 --> 1:17:33.240 This is the Samsung. You said you have the Flip three? 1:17:34.000 --> 1:17:34.719 Yes, okay. 1:17:35.320 --> 1:17:38.040 So I mean what I would do is I think 1:17:38.040 --> 1:17:41.000 that the Flip five is a sizeable upgrade from the three, 1:17:41.560 --> 1:17:44.000 mainly to do with the outside screen. And I believe 1:17:44.040 --> 1:17:47.160 we talked about do we talk about this a little bit. 1:17:47.160 --> 1:17:49.120 The screen was bigger, that it would be more valuable 1:17:49.120 --> 1:17:49.280 to you. 1:17:49.439 --> 1:17:52.240 Yeah, yeah, you did outside, Yeah you did it. 1:17:52.320 --> 1:17:54.679 We did, so I would say, I mean, you still 1:17:54.680 --> 1:17:56.439 have a couple of months before this is paid off. 1:17:56.479 --> 1:17:59.080 So I mean, if you got a trade in value 1:17:59.160 --> 1:18:01.600 for it, you might you know, do the math and 1:18:01.640 --> 1:18:03.360 see it might be a couple of hundred bucks to 1:18:03.360 --> 1:18:06.280 get the new upgrade. I I think if the phone 1:18:06.320 --> 1:18:08.920 is working for you and there's not a main feature 1:18:08.920 --> 1:18:11.200 that you're you're wanting out of this phone, then maybe 1:18:11.240 --> 1:18:12.200 just stick with what you got. 1:18:12.280 --> 1:18:17.439 It's already take pictures and I call y'all. Yeah, I mean, 1:18:17.600 --> 1:18:21.000 I uh, this a Pandora. 1:18:21.640 --> 1:18:24.519 Yeah, it sounds like it's set up like that. Sounds 1:18:24.560 --> 1:18:26.360 like it's set up the way you want it to work. 1:18:26.439 --> 1:18:29.120 And so the fact is to have to go to 1:18:29.200 --> 1:18:30.920 a new phone and to change it all and to 1:18:30.960 --> 1:18:34.320 set it all up is you know, just I hear 1:18:34.400 --> 1:18:36.920 the stress in your voice, just by the idea of 1:18:36.960 --> 1:18:37.720 having to do all that. 1:18:38.840 --> 1:18:42.120 I don't know how they didn't have a computer when 1:18:42.200 --> 1:18:45.479 I went to do you know, I'm showing me too. 1:18:45.680 --> 1:18:48.120 So well, now now the kids just skip the computers. 1:18:48.120 --> 1:18:49.559 They go right to the phone. They don't even they 1:18:49.560 --> 1:18:51.479 don't even use a computer anymore. It's just all about 1:18:51.520 --> 1:18:54.360 the phone. So it's it's kind of come full circle, 1:18:54.400 --> 1:18:55.000 I guess. 1:18:55.320 --> 1:18:58.240 But now my phone a computer. I mean he did 1:18:58.280 --> 1:19:00.320 a phone computer, Well. 1:19:01.040 --> 1:19:03.200 I mean it's it's yeah, it's I'd say it's a 1:19:03.240 --> 1:19:07.160 pocket computer. So I think, yeah, I mean, these these 1:19:07.200 --> 1:19:09.320 things can do. Let's put it this way. You said 1:19:09.320 --> 1:19:12.640 you're seventy one when the computers came out first in 1:19:12.680 --> 1:19:15.280 your lifetime, the phone that you have is more powerful 1:19:15.320 --> 1:19:18.639 than those computers that first came out. So these phones, 1:19:18.760 --> 1:19:21.439 these phones that we have are very very powerful. How 1:19:21.439 --> 1:19:24.080 are you with the accessibility features on the Samsung side? 1:19:24.080 --> 1:19:25.400 Are they working for you? 1:19:27.160 --> 1:19:32.200 When I, let's say I call you call somebody, I 1:19:32.360 --> 1:19:38.920 just say, well, calldy body, because you're in my time. 1:19:39.000 --> 1:19:41.599 Pat okay, you know, it's not like that. 1:19:41.880 --> 1:19:43.920 So it works. So it's not like you're needing a 1:19:43.960 --> 1:19:46.840 feature that the iPhone offers. Now, the iPhone does have 1:19:46.880 --> 1:19:51.599 some good accessibility features for folks with low vision or 1:19:51.680 --> 1:19:55.320 you know, uh dexterity issues, things like that, so it does. 1:19:55.479 --> 1:19:59.000 They do have a fair amount of accessibility features built 1:19:59.040 --> 1:20:01.920 into the iPhone. But it's all up to you. Do 1:20:01.960 --> 1:20:04.120 you really want to learn something new? If if you 1:20:04.160 --> 1:20:06.200 feel like that's a challenge and you want to do it, 1:20:06.240 --> 1:20:10.599 then that's great. Otherwise I think you stick. 1:20:12.000 --> 1:20:16.040 Not all. It'd be nice if I can learn that, 1:20:16.240 --> 1:20:17.960 but wow. 1:20:17.960 --> 1:20:20.000 Well yeah it might, it might take a little bit. 1:20:20.120 --> 1:20:21.960 But I think I think you're good with what you 1:20:22.040 --> 1:20:24.599 got right now. I think pay off the phone, enjoy 1:20:24.640 --> 1:20:26.439 the paid off phone for a bit, as long as 1:20:26.520 --> 1:20:29.240 it's not you know, frustrating you in any way or 1:20:29.280 --> 1:20:31.680 not doing something that you want it to do. But 1:20:32.280 --> 1:20:36.160 the only benefit I will say of Apple is, you know, 1:20:36.200 --> 1:20:38.680 if you do end up going with the iPhone, is 1:20:38.680 --> 1:20:44.080 that their stores really do have some great like sort 1:20:44.080 --> 1:20:47.720 of lessons that you could go to in person. If 1:20:47.720 --> 1:20:49.960 that's something that you're able to do, you could go 1:20:50.000 --> 1:20:52.760 to the Apple store in person and learn and and 1:20:52.840 --> 1:20:55.240 kind of understand the different features. So they have a 1:20:55.240 --> 1:20:57.479 lot of these classes at the Apple Store. I think 1:20:57.479 --> 1:20:59.679 they call it like Today at Apple or something like that. 1:20:59.760 --> 1:21:03.479 So great question, Greg, thanks for I'm honored to be 1:21:03.520 --> 1:21:05.680 on your speed dial. Thank you so much. But I 1:21:05.720 --> 1:21:08.479 say stick with what you got unless there's a reason 1:21:08.520 --> 1:21:10.439 why you need to switch to the new phone, but 1:21:10.720 --> 1:21:13.160 appreciate the call today, Greg in des moin thank you 1:21:14.320 --> 1:21:19.080 before we go to break here Amazon Amazon is you know, 1:21:19.200 --> 1:21:22.519 Prime Video has been ad free for many years and 1:21:22.560 --> 1:21:25.280 it's been a perk of your Prime membership. Well guess what, 1:21:25.760 --> 1:21:29.479 Starting next year, twenty twenty four, Amazon is going to 1:21:29.560 --> 1:21:32.760 put ads in your movies and TV shows that you're 1:21:32.760 --> 1:21:35.720 watching on Amazon Prime Video. So yeah, if you have 1:21:36.000 --> 1:21:38.680 a show that you watch that's ad free, that is 1:21:38.720 --> 1:21:43.280 going to end. And if you want to continue having 1:21:43.280 --> 1:21:46.200 an ad free experience, you can pay an additional two 1:21:46.240 --> 1:21:49.240 dollars and ninety nine cents a month. Now, if you've 1:21:49.280 --> 1:21:52.240 been following this show since we started in January, you 1:21:52.320 --> 1:21:55.120 know that we have talked about pretty much every major 1:21:55.360 --> 1:21:58.519 streaming service has raised prices. And this is a real 1:21:58.560 --> 1:22:01.240 head scratcher because this is a supposed to be included 1:22:01.280 --> 1:22:04.479 in your Amazon Prime membership as a perk that you 1:22:04.600 --> 1:22:08.040 pay fifteen dollars a month or one hundred and thirty 1:22:08.120 --> 1:22:11.160 nine dollars a year for an Amazon Prime membership. Now 1:22:11.200 --> 1:22:15.200 they're saying, oh, you can continue this nice system that 1:22:15.280 --> 1:22:16.800 you have, but you're gonna have to pay an extra 1:22:16.800 --> 1:22:20.719 three dollars a month. That is not something Prime members 1:22:20.800 --> 1:22:23.400 want to hear. Now, Amazon knows that Prime members are 1:22:23.400 --> 1:22:25.479 not just gonna go ahead and cancel their membership when 1:22:25.520 --> 1:22:27.479 they hear this, and a lot of them are just 1:22:27.479 --> 1:22:31.599 gonna put up with the Prime Video ads. But let's 1:22:31.640 --> 1:22:34.240 be quite honest here. Maybe you found a show that 1:22:34.280 --> 1:22:36.880 you love on Prime Video or a movie. Yeah, there's 1:22:36.880 --> 1:22:38.479 some things that I've found and I'm like, oh, that's 1:22:38.520 --> 1:22:41.120 cool that that's on there. But it's not like Prime 1:22:41.240 --> 1:22:44.640 Video is a prime destination for you know, like a 1:22:44.680 --> 1:22:47.680 Netflix or a Max or anything, or a you know, 1:22:47.800 --> 1:22:50.680 Hulu whatever. This is kind of like you give it 1:22:50.840 --> 1:22:53.679 a fair shake because it's included in your Amazon membership, 1:22:53.680 --> 1:22:55.760 and you're like, all right, if I find one good 1:22:55.760 --> 1:22:58.720 thing to watch in there, sure it's included. But three 1:22:58.760 --> 1:23:01.120 dollars a month for something that is like already on 1:23:01.160 --> 1:23:05.479 the fringe of like, it's not that great. Amazon, You're 1:23:05.520 --> 1:23:08.599 putting us in a really tough position here. Now, they 1:23:08.600 --> 1:23:12.040 do say the base Prime membership price is not going 1:23:12.080 --> 1:23:14.280 to increase in twenty twenty four, So they're kind of 1:23:14.280 --> 1:23:16.800 throwing people a bone there saying, look, you're not going 1:23:16.840 --> 1:23:19.000 to pay any more for this, But it's one of 1:23:19.040 --> 1:23:22.040 these things where you can no longer sell Prime Video 1:23:22.160 --> 1:23:24.559 as being a part or a perk of my Prime 1:23:24.600 --> 1:23:27.280 membership when you are now putting ads in this just 1:23:27.320 --> 1:23:29.360 like any other place on the Internet where you find 1:23:29.360 --> 1:23:32.880 stuff with ads, this is no longer a premium perk. 1:23:33.080 --> 1:23:37.080 This is now just an everyday kind of thing. So 1:23:37.479 --> 1:23:40.120 that's happening starting in twenty twenty four. If you want 1:23:40.880 --> 1:23:42.679 ad free, you got to pay an extra three dollars 1:23:42.720 --> 1:23:45.960 a month. 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Seniors, you know, 1:24:29.439 --> 1:24:32.960 anyone who is on these government benefits that you know, 1:24:33.040 --> 1:24:34.799 wants to kind of join the rest of the world 1:24:34.800 --> 1:24:37.400 and getting stuff delivered the way that so many of 1:24:37.479 --> 1:24:41.280 us are, so snap EBT payments twenty twenty four for Uber. 1:24:41.760 --> 1:24:45.439 They're also looking to accept healthcare payments like flex spending 1:24:45.479 --> 1:24:48.400 cards starting in twenty twenty four as well. So if 1:24:48.439 --> 1:24:51.360 you order something like, you know, over the counter medication, 1:24:51.439 --> 1:24:53.240 anything that's covered by that, you can use your Flex 1:24:53.240 --> 1:24:56.320 spending card kind of the way Amazon does it. If 1:24:56.320 --> 1:24:58.280 you don't know that, yes you can. You can put 1:24:58.280 --> 1:25:00.680 your Flex Spending card in Amazon and they will let 1:25:00.760 --> 1:25:04.800 you use it for approved items. I also like, what 1:25:04.960 --> 1:25:08.280 is it Target and I think CVS they mark your 1:25:08.360 --> 1:25:11.519 receipt if you buy something that's covered under Flex spending, 1:25:11.520 --> 1:25:13.439 and they'll put at the bottom. So if you do 1:25:13.520 --> 1:25:16.080 have access to a flex spending account, look at the 1:25:16.080 --> 1:25:18.120 bottom of your receipt. You can submit your receipt your 1:25:18.120 --> 1:25:21.080 Flex spending. They'll reimburse you for that. So it's I 1:25:21.080 --> 1:25:23.120 don't know why every retailer doesn't do that, but it's 1:25:23.160 --> 1:25:26.320 really handy. And then later on they're also launching an 1:25:26.360 --> 1:25:30.000 AI assistant, so you can of course everyone's launching AI 1:25:30.160 --> 1:25:32.679 with everything, but Uber eats is going to have AI 1:25:32.800 --> 1:25:34.240 so you can ask them for you know, I don't 1:25:34.280 --> 1:25:36.679 know what you'd ask, Hey, what's the best flavor of cupcake? 1:25:36.720 --> 1:25:39.000 I don't know. And then they're also adding a sales 1:25:39.000 --> 1:25:41.080 aisle so you can find the promos and deals in 1:25:41.080 --> 1:25:45.240 one place. I mean, it's the irony of sales and 1:25:45.280 --> 1:25:46.960 deals on Uber eats because it is probably the most 1:25:47.000 --> 1:25:49.760 expensive way to eat. But I get it. This is 1:25:49.840 --> 1:25:51.320 kind of what we do in our world. We get 1:25:51.320 --> 1:25:54.559 things delivered, but it is a very very expensive way, 1:25:54.960 --> 1:25:56.880 and I'm not knocking it, believe me. My wife and 1:25:56.960 --> 1:25:59.600 I the other night we had like two hours to 1:25:59.640 --> 1:26:01.040 our cells, so we're like, do we go out for 1:26:01.040 --> 1:26:04.280 dinner or do we just like have something delivered? And 1:26:04.320 --> 1:26:06.599 we just you know, it's like it's expensive to get 1:26:06.600 --> 1:26:08.680 the stuff delivered, but it's actually cheaper than going to 1:26:08.680 --> 1:26:11.400 eat out because you know, less of a tip. I 1:26:11.439 --> 1:26:14.040 guess less, you know, I don't know, just less stuff 1:26:14.080 --> 1:26:19.600 you have paid for. Let's go to Vanessa. Vanessa in 1:26:19.680 --> 1:26:22.519 Great Falls. You're on with Rich Great Call Great I 1:26:22.560 --> 1:26:25.320 should say Great Falls, Montana. 1:26:25.600 --> 1:26:29.840 Yes, I years and years ago. 1:26:29.960 --> 1:26:31.919 My first computer ever bought was a gateway. 1:26:32.240 --> 1:26:37.479 Oh nice, I love gateways the cows. 1:26:36.040 --> 1:26:39.880 And ye that started my oldest son on his pet career. 1:26:41.080 --> 1:26:45.400 And now I see that they've someone is making gateways again. 1:26:45.439 --> 1:26:50.640 And I recently bought two and one tablets laptops for 1:26:50.800 --> 1:26:52.760 my grandchildren that are three and five. 1:26:53.600 --> 1:26:57.920 They can get started. Sure, what is the best way 1:26:57.960 --> 1:27:00.600 to set that up? So they only have access to 1:27:00.640 --> 1:27:04.240 the educational programs that we're putting on there for them. 1:27:04.520 --> 1:27:07.439 So this is a this is a Microsoft tablet or 1:27:07.479 --> 1:27:09.360 is it a computer? Microsoft? 1:27:09.640 --> 1:27:13.880 It's it's a two and one. You can fold the 1:27:13.960 --> 1:27:16.759 keyboard all the way back. It's almost like the surface 1:27:16.880 --> 1:27:20.720 go and you can fold the keyboard back and use 1:27:20.760 --> 1:27:23.240 it as a tablet or use the keyboard as a computer. 1:27:24.040 --> 1:27:27.000 Okay, So I've got this set up for my kids, 1:27:27.080 --> 1:27:30.360 and I believe so on iOS you've got what's called 1:27:30.400 --> 1:27:34.000 screen time. On Android, you've got what's called family Link. 1:27:34.520 --> 1:27:38.320 And with Microsoft, I believe it is called family Safety. 1:27:38.920 --> 1:27:43.280 And so you can set these up as you know, 1:27:43.320 --> 1:27:44.840 you can set them up as a parent or a 1:27:44.880 --> 1:27:48.240 grandparent to just allow them to do the things that 1:27:48.280 --> 1:27:51.000 you want these kids to do on there. So in 1:27:51.080 --> 1:27:52.920 most cases, and it's been a bit since I set 1:27:52.920 --> 1:27:55.479 these up for my kids, but I believe that you 1:27:55.560 --> 1:27:57.599 put in kind of like the age of your child 1:27:57.640 --> 1:28:01.240 that's accessing it, and it will we'll kind of, you know, 1:28:01.240 --> 1:28:03.759 it'll set some defaults like here's the stuff will allow, 1:28:03.800 --> 1:28:06.040 here's the stuff we won't allow. But then you can 1:28:06.320 --> 1:28:08.599 also go further and you could say, let's say they 1:28:08.680 --> 1:28:11.080 like a certain website like PBS kids or something. You 1:28:11.120 --> 1:28:14.280 can allow that specifically on the list of websites. But 1:28:14.320 --> 1:28:16.960 it also gives you a rundown of what they search 1:28:17.000 --> 1:28:19.040 online if you choose to allow that, or you can 1:28:19.080 --> 1:28:21.920 of course block searches. You can limit the time that 1:28:21.960 --> 1:28:24.479 they spend on these different apps and things, and of 1:28:24.479 --> 1:28:27.280 course just make it so they can't install anything new. 1:28:27.720 --> 1:28:30.320 But that's really what it starts with, is this Microsoft 1:28:30.360 --> 1:28:34.400 Family Safety is getting that installed, setting it up. You 1:28:34.439 --> 1:28:36.840 may have to create an account for the child, but 1:28:37.080 --> 1:28:39.120 once you get that on there, you know you're in 1:28:39.200 --> 1:28:42.640 control now for the most part, because sometimes it can 1:28:42.720 --> 1:28:44.720 be a little tricky. It can be a little frustrating 1:28:44.800 --> 1:28:47.200 because once you set this up, there may be something 1:28:47.240 --> 1:28:49.479 the child wants to do on there where they can't 1:28:49.479 --> 1:28:52.799 easily do it because it has all these restrictions in place, 1:28:53.240 --> 1:28:55.160 but no matter what, if you are setting up. I 1:28:55.200 --> 1:28:56.640 know there's a lot of parents that sort of give 1:28:56.760 --> 1:28:59.360 up on this stuff because it can be a little 1:28:59.360 --> 1:29:01.360 complicated to get set up, and so they say, you 1:29:01.400 --> 1:29:03.599 know what, never mind, I'll just hand them the tablet 1:29:03.680 --> 1:29:06.360 or the phone or their laptop. But please do not 1:29:06.479 --> 1:29:08.800 do that, because there is just too much that they 1:29:08.800 --> 1:29:12.479 can happen upon if you don't have these things locked down. 1:29:12.520 --> 1:29:14.800 And I'm not saying they're even looking for stuff, but 1:29:15.240 --> 1:29:18.440 it's a matter of things can be presented to them, 1:29:18.680 --> 1:29:20.840 or they may search for something and it may just 1:29:20.880 --> 1:29:23.479 bring up something that you don't want them to see 1:29:23.600 --> 1:29:26.200 or they shouldn't be seeing at their age. So Family 1:29:26.240 --> 1:29:29.120 Safety is Microsoft's version, and I think that's the place 1:29:29.160 --> 1:29:31.680 to start with this. Now, by the way, Vanessa, there 1:29:32.120 --> 1:29:34.000 are other means of doing this. You can use a 1:29:34.040 --> 1:29:37.960 third party app like Bark. You can use something like 1:29:38.600 --> 1:29:42.160 a secure app, like a family Safety app like that, 1:29:42.600 --> 1:29:44.800 and that's another way of doing it. I have two levels. 1:29:44.840 --> 1:29:47.519 I've got at the network level in my home and 1:29:47.560 --> 1:29:50.439 also on the individual devices. But the fact that you're 1:29:50.479 --> 1:29:52.719 calling me and getting these things set up and wanting 1:29:52.720 --> 1:29:54.760 to set them up in this way is a good thing. 1:29:54.840 --> 1:29:57.600 So two thumbs up to you, Vanessa. But check it 1:29:57.600 --> 1:30:01.080 out Microsoft Family Safety. Get them set up Gateway two thousand. 1:30:01.160 --> 1:30:03.519 Oh my gosh, that was the original name. But the 1:30:04.000 --> 1:30:06.960 spotted boxes the cow boxes. Ugh, that was one of 1:30:07.040 --> 1:30:10.760 my first computers ever. You are listening to rich on Tech. 1:30:10.800 --> 1:30:17.200 Coming up next, we're talking Mustang mock e ev. Welcome 1:30:17.200 --> 1:30:21.240 back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking tech. 1:30:22.479 --> 1:30:24.599 If you have any Apple devices, you might have updated 1:30:24.640 --> 1:30:27.519 your software this week with the iOS seventeen and the 1:30:27.840 --> 1:30:30.080 tvOS that was talking about, but there's also the new 1:30:30.080 --> 1:30:33.000 Watch OS ten. So if you have an Apple Watch, 1:30:33.160 --> 1:30:36.320 I believe four and up, it's got new software available. 1:30:37.160 --> 1:30:39.160 It's got this new They actually changed one of the 1:30:39.160 --> 1:30:41.720 buttons functionality, which I know a lot of people are 1:30:41.760 --> 1:30:44.000 going to be surprised at. When you press that side button, 1:30:44.400 --> 1:30:46.840 it no longer brings up your recent apps. It now 1:30:47.360 --> 1:30:50.160 brings up your control center. And there's a reason for 1:30:50.240 --> 1:30:51.920 that because now when you swipe up from the bottom, 1:30:51.960 --> 1:30:54.280 which used to bring up the control center, that brings 1:30:54.360 --> 1:30:56.880 up something called the smart stack. This is kind of 1:30:56.920 --> 1:30:59.920 like a stack of widgets that contain information. You can 1:31:00.120 --> 1:31:04.160 customize that by swiping up and then pressing down. It 1:31:04.280 --> 1:31:05.800 took me a minute to figure that out, but that's 1:31:05.800 --> 1:31:08.400 how you can customize what is seen on those widgets, 1:31:08.439 --> 1:31:11.400 like the weather and things like that, your calendar. There's 1:31:11.439 --> 1:31:15.800 also five new watch faces. Snoopy is now a watch face, 1:31:15.840 --> 1:31:17.559 so if you like Snoopy, you can switch to a 1:31:17.560 --> 1:31:23.560 Snoopy watch face, Palette, Solar, Analog, Nike Globe, which is 1:31:23.640 --> 1:31:26.400 kind of cool. It counts down the seconds on the screen. 1:31:26.760 --> 1:31:29.160 And then if you have an Apple Watch Ultra, you 1:31:29.200 --> 1:31:32.280 can use this new Modular Ultra, which is the one 1:31:32.280 --> 1:31:34.880 that I'm using, and it is just like the most 1:31:34.960 --> 1:31:37.880 information I've ever had on an Apple Watch screen. I've 1:31:37.880 --> 1:31:42.280 got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight little 1:31:42.400 --> 1:31:45.200 widgets of information. I've got the weather, I've got my 1:31:45.240 --> 1:31:48.760 activity rings, I've got a place to take memos. I've 1:31:48.800 --> 1:31:51.040 got the time, I've got the date, I've got a 1:31:51.080 --> 1:31:54.000 well being check in, I've got the sunset, I've got 1:31:54.000 --> 1:31:56.960 the UV rays, and i've got the seconds counting down. So, 1:31:57.479 --> 1:31:59.960 needless to say, my wrist is the most stressful thing 1:32:00.080 --> 1:32:02.040 you could ever imagine because there's just so much going 1:32:02.040 --> 1:32:04.839 on it's like a little mission control right here. So anyway, 1:32:05.280 --> 1:32:08.400 that's only if you have the Apple Watch Ultra. Let's 1:32:08.479 --> 1:32:08.880 go to. 1:32:10.320 --> 1:32:10.360 This. 1:32:11.640 --> 1:32:15.040 John Faulkner is no stranger to the show here. He's 1:32:15.080 --> 1:32:18.639 been on several times. He is with a Clean Fleet Report, 1:32:19.320 --> 1:32:24.040 and recently he wrote a review of the Mustang mach E. 1:32:24.880 --> 1:32:29.960 This is Ford's EV. He drove one ninety six miles 1:32:30.000 --> 1:32:33.040 across four states. And this is also the car that 1:32:33.080 --> 1:32:35.679 I've been driving for the past week and a half. John, 1:32:35.720 --> 1:32:40.880 Welcome to the show. Oh, I gotta bring John up here. John, 1:32:40.960 --> 1:32:44.720 Welcome to the show. There we are. Well, you think 1:32:44.720 --> 1:32:46.720 it's my first time doing this, it is not. I 1:32:46.760 --> 1:32:50.880 swear so you have been driving. You drove the Mustang Machi. 1:32:51.080 --> 1:32:53.320 I gotta say this thing came out in like twenty twenty. 1:32:53.400 --> 1:32:55.439 I never got a chance to drive it until now. 1:32:55.920 --> 1:32:57.519 I gotta say. It's right up there with one of 1:32:57.560 --> 1:33:01.080 my favorite evs, the Tesla. What do you make of 1:33:01.120 --> 1:33:01.519 this car? 1:33:02.479 --> 1:33:05.000 It was the fourth time that I reviewed the Maki, 1:33:05.400 --> 1:33:09.080 and I've never been disappointed in any way with the vehicle. 1:33:09.640 --> 1:33:09.960 It is. 1:33:11.640 --> 1:33:14.400 It's just it's a pleasure to drive. It's not all 1:33:14.439 --> 1:33:17.599 the power you need and a lot of room inside 1:33:17.840 --> 1:33:19.000 and I think it looks great. 1:33:20.080 --> 1:33:23.599 What kind of range were you getting on this car? 1:33:26.080 --> 1:33:29.000 I was the one that I drove to Moab from 1:33:29.080 --> 1:33:34.720 southern California was the extended batteries and it and it 1:33:34.760 --> 1:33:39.200 had right around three hundred miles of range. And since 1:33:39.560 --> 1:33:42.880 I didn't know the vehicle, the temperature was warm. I 1:33:42.920 --> 1:33:46.760 was doing almost all freeway driving. That means that your 1:33:47.160 --> 1:33:49.080 efficiency is going to be lower than if you were 1:33:49.200 --> 1:33:53.000 in town using regenerative braking and recharging the battery. So 1:33:53.200 --> 1:33:59.520 we never let it go past about thirty a battery remaining, 1:33:59.640 --> 1:34:03.839 and so we we timed out all of our stops 1:34:04.640 --> 1:34:09.120 based on using the forward Pass app and blew Oval 1:34:09.200 --> 1:34:12.360 charging network, and so we were able to just it 1:34:12.520 --> 1:34:14.400 just it was absolutely seamless. 1:34:14.400 --> 1:34:15.840 It was so simple to do this. 1:34:16.640 --> 1:34:19.479 So that's an interesting note that I wasn't really aware of. 1:34:19.520 --> 1:34:21.960 So when you drive in town with an EV, you're 1:34:22.000 --> 1:34:25.320 getting more mileage or more like efficiency than driving on 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:26.439 the freeway or highway. 1:34:27.000 --> 1:34:27.839 Well, every time. 1:34:27.680 --> 1:34:33.559 That you slow, the motors then regenerate kinetic energy back 1:34:33.600 --> 1:34:36.760 into the battery. So yes, you are you're putting you're 1:34:36.760 --> 1:34:41.559 putting it back into the battery. Electricity, and so it's 1:34:41.560 --> 1:34:45.639 a yeah, it's a good it's called one pedal driving, 1:34:45.960 --> 1:34:47.479 and it's it's have you been. 1:34:47.360 --> 1:34:48.639 Doing that this week? 1:34:49.840 --> 1:34:52.799 Not as much. I don't actually saw that in the options. 1:34:52.840 --> 1:34:54.360 I don't think I have that turned on. So you're 1:34:54.360 --> 1:34:56.040 saying you just kind of instead of using the brake, 1:34:56.080 --> 1:34:57.200 you let the car slow down. 1:34:57.720 --> 1:34:58.479 That is correct. 1:34:58.520 --> 1:35:01.040 Oh wow, that takes a little getting used. I've got 1:35:01.080 --> 1:35:03.600 to say this car really has surprised me in so 1:35:03.640 --> 1:35:06.200 many ways. Like number one, I feel like, I mean, 1:35:06.280 --> 1:35:08.639 the screen in the middle is this big giant screen. 1:35:08.760 --> 1:35:10.760 Everything looks good on there, like car plate, it's got 1:35:10.800 --> 1:35:14.000 wireless car plate. It's got this great panoramic sunroof that 1:35:14.080 --> 1:35:16.920 doesn't open, but it's still a nice big glass roof. 1:35:17.680 --> 1:35:21.479 The styling on the car is excellent. The blue Cruise. 1:35:21.560 --> 1:35:24.040 Did you have a chance to try that the autopilot 1:35:24.120 --> 1:35:25.080 kind of situation. 1:35:26.000 --> 1:35:26.240 Yeah. 1:35:26.360 --> 1:35:29.599 Out of our seventy and ninety six miles we drove. 1:35:30.280 --> 1:35:32.280 My wife went with me on the trip. I would 1:35:32.320 --> 1:35:38.240 say that we drove seventy five percent Hansbury and took 1:35:38.280 --> 1:35:40.680 a little bit getting used to. Now I've driven other 1:35:40.760 --> 1:35:46.719 manufacturers as well as Forward on the Lightning pickup also 1:35:47.040 --> 1:35:49.599 using their system, so I'm familiar with it. But it 1:35:49.640 --> 1:35:53.000 was really it was really a pleasure to drive so 1:35:53.160 --> 1:35:56.439 many miles and not having to be holding on the 1:35:56.479 --> 1:36:00.519 steering wheel and you have to build eat your relax 1:36:00.720 --> 1:36:02.160 when when you're driving like that. 1:36:02.840 --> 1:36:05.280 Yeah, I mean that takes a big paradigm shift because 1:36:05.320 --> 1:36:07.600 we're so used to you know, obviously you're supposed to 1:36:07.640 --> 1:36:10.280 always have your hands on the wheel. I was surprised 1:36:10.320 --> 1:36:13.800 that it says hands free, like it tells you when 1:36:13.840 --> 1:36:16.240 it's ready to take over, and so you do not 1:36:16.479 --> 1:36:19.040 Like now there is sort of a camera system there 1:36:19.040 --> 1:36:22.000 that that wants you to look at the road ahead right, Well, 1:36:22.120 --> 1:36:23.160 it'll warn you if you're not. 1:36:24.080 --> 1:36:24.840 Yes, what will. 1:36:24.720 --> 1:36:26.759 Happen is that if you're if you take your eyes 1:36:26.840 --> 1:36:29.040 off of the road for any like a short amount 1:36:29.040 --> 1:36:31.920 of time, it will it will let you know that 1:36:32.439 --> 1:36:33.640 the hands free. 1:36:33.760 --> 1:36:35.800 System is gone. It turned off. 1:36:35.920 --> 1:36:37.640 But the things you put your eyes back on, it 1:36:37.920 --> 1:36:38.880 pops back on again. 1:36:39.680 --> 1:36:40.599 Now there are. 1:36:40.600 --> 1:36:45.360 Other manufacturers don't have that exact system, but I found 1:36:45.360 --> 1:36:48.400 that once I once I got in the habit of 1:36:48.439 --> 1:36:51.599 making sure that I was always looking forward, then I 1:36:51.640 --> 1:36:52.000 was fine. 1:36:52.040 --> 1:36:53.839 Now I could look over my wife. 1:36:53.720 --> 1:36:55.599 You know, for a second or two and say something 1:36:55.640 --> 1:36:57.680 to her then then look back out the windshield and 1:36:57.680 --> 1:36:58.679 that that was all good. 1:36:59.040 --> 1:37:02.080 So, but it's like what they don't want is someone. 1:37:01.840 --> 1:37:06.040 Driving along end and looking down and you know, doing 1:37:06.120 --> 1:37:10.000 text or or reading a book or doing something that 1:37:10.000 --> 1:37:10.920 they shouldn't be doing. 1:37:11.960 --> 1:37:13.960 They want you to keep your eyes on the road. 1:37:14.080 --> 1:37:16.479 Yeah. All the shenanigans we see on the news of people, 1:37:16.640 --> 1:37:19.320 you know, they I've heard of people. I actually saw 1:37:19.360 --> 1:37:22.800 one time someone on on Twitter, like was boasting that 1:37:22.840 --> 1:37:25.280 they put something on their wheel, like they some sort 1:37:25.280 --> 1:37:27.920 of like attachment that would that would trick the Tesla 1:37:28.000 --> 1:37:30.120 autopilot system so that they didn't have to keep their 1:37:30.120 --> 1:37:31.960 hands on the wheels. Like, I don't really think you 1:37:31.960 --> 1:37:35.320 should be, uh saying that you did that, because that's 1:37:35.320 --> 1:37:38.559 not something you should really do. Okay, So you went 1:37:38.760 --> 1:37:42.720 across these four different states. Now, tell me about all 1:37:42.760 --> 1:37:46.960 these manufacturers are switching over to the Tesla superchargers. What 1:37:47.000 --> 1:37:49.000 effect do you think that's going to have on this, 1:37:49.200 --> 1:37:52.280 you know, on just the EV landscape in general. And 1:37:52.400 --> 1:37:54.519 is Forward one of those manufacturers. 1:37:54.760 --> 1:37:57.400 They are one of those manufacturers, and that's going to 1:37:57.439 --> 1:37:57.960 be coming. 1:37:57.960 --> 1:38:00.800 They're going to have the adapter and. 1:38:00.760 --> 1:38:02.960 Right around the end of this year and then they're 1:38:03.000 --> 1:38:07.920 going to go strictly to the to the Tesla charging 1:38:09.120 --> 1:38:14.360 protocol starting in twenty twenty five. What my opinion on 1:38:14.400 --> 1:38:18.120 that is that every place that we charge looks back 1:38:18.160 --> 1:38:18.720 up a little bit. 1:38:18.960 --> 1:38:19.920 I only used the. 1:38:20.000 --> 1:38:23.719 Electrify America charging network on this trip. 1:38:24.200 --> 1:38:27.479 It just made it easier for me. And they are 1:38:27.560 --> 1:38:29.479 part of the with. 1:38:29.640 --> 1:38:32.800 Ford where all you do is you pull up, you 1:38:32.880 --> 1:38:36.519 put in the charger, it recognizes the vehicle, it charges, 1:38:37.360 --> 1:38:41.360 You're done, no payment, no pen, no nothing, You're just done. 1:38:41.439 --> 1:38:45.160 It's a wonderful system. But I stayed with EA on that. 1:38:45.760 --> 1:38:50.679 But every single place that we stopped there were. 1:38:50.720 --> 1:38:54.880 Maybe at the most a dozen EA. 1:38:54.920 --> 1:38:57.559 Chargers, and there was a there was twenty or twenty 1:38:57.560 --> 1:39:01.360 five or more Tesla chargers. So what it's going to 1:39:01.400 --> 1:39:04.400 do is it's going to open up the possibility of 1:39:04.439 --> 1:39:08.879 being able to find more chargers. And the Tesla chargers 1:39:08.920 --> 1:39:16.120 have a far better reliability record than do wortri By America, 1:39:16.520 --> 1:39:19.160 Charge Point, EVgo and all the other brands. 1:39:20.240 --> 1:39:23.240 So do you think we're at the point where evs 1:39:23.320 --> 1:39:26.559 can do road trips now that are non teslas or 1:39:26.600 --> 1:39:28.400 do you think it's sort of it's still hit or miss. 1:39:29.240 --> 1:39:32.559 Well, you put on the number one issue, and that 1:39:32.760 --> 1:39:35.840 is that in the states that has that have that 1:39:35.960 --> 1:39:39.680 believe that electric electric vehicles as the future of propulsion 1:39:40.200 --> 1:39:46.280 in this country, they are aggressively building out public charging systems. 1:39:46.320 --> 1:39:49.680 California has the most robust in the country. There are 1:39:49.720 --> 1:39:52.800 states in this country that the and again for the 1:39:52.840 --> 1:39:54.720 political reasons, they're not doing it. 1:39:55.080 --> 1:39:56.439 So therefore. 1:39:57.479 --> 1:40:02.960 The trip that I took is made possible by the 1:40:03.000 --> 1:40:07.360 fact that there was a lot of electrifying America chargers 1:40:07.880 --> 1:40:13.400 and because in the states that I drove through, California, Arizona, Nevada, 1:40:13.439 --> 1:40:19.320 and Utah, those four states they believe in electricity propelling vehicles. 1:40:19.840 --> 1:40:20.040 Uh. 1:40:20.080 --> 1:40:23.440 And finally, is this up there with your favorite evs 1:40:23.960 --> 1:40:27.200 Oh by far. Yes, it's a fun car and it 1:40:27.240 --> 1:40:29.559 feels like the best way I can describe it is 1:40:29.640 --> 1:40:32.960 it feels like a gas car. It makes the propulsion sounds. 1:40:33.080 --> 1:40:36.320 It is like I think, I think Ford nailed it, 1:40:36.360 --> 1:40:37.920 and this is pretty much their first EV. 1:40:38.080 --> 1:40:41.920 Right it is, and they they actually right mail was 1:40:41.920 --> 1:40:42.840 a really good word on this. 1:40:43.080 --> 1:40:46.120 And it's again built in America, so it's qualified for 1:40:46.240 --> 1:40:52.920 all of the IRA Fedral tax rebate programs. And it's 1:40:53.040 --> 1:40:56.760 and it's when you go buy your Ford dealer, you 1:40:56.760 --> 1:41:00.120 can actually see inventory. You don't have to go in 1:41:00.080 --> 1:41:03.639 and wait for one to be delivered. So down where 1:41:03.640 --> 1:41:06.400 I live, we have four dealers nearby, and you can 1:41:06.439 --> 1:41:09.479 see that there's several sitting there that are available to purchase, 1:41:09.600 --> 1:41:12.040 which is which is really good for consumers. 1:41:12.439 --> 1:41:16.479 John Faulkner of Cleanfleet Report dot com check them out. 1:41:16.520 --> 1:41:18.080 He does a lot of reviews on these things. What 1:41:18.080 --> 1:41:19.400 do you test driving next? 1:41:20.720 --> 1:41:27.200 Well, I just got out of a Maserati Grkale Modena. 1:41:27.360 --> 1:41:31.000 Which is a mile hybrid. And I just got out of. 1:41:30.760 --> 1:41:34.200 The range Row or Sport PHV plug in hybrid. 1:41:34.800 --> 1:41:35.920 What a wonderful vehicle. 1:41:36.000 --> 1:41:39.639 Fifty one miles on pure electricity on this vehicle. Man, 1:41:40.560 --> 1:41:45.840 it's we are rich. We're getting so close that gasoline. 1:41:46.520 --> 1:41:48.439 You know, it's still going to be sold. If you 1:41:48.479 --> 1:41:50.960 got a fifty five Chevy, you're always going to get 1:41:51.000 --> 1:41:53.960 gas for it. But we're really getting to that tipping point. 1:41:54.360 --> 1:41:56.599 Yeah. And when I filled up my I have an 1:41:56.600 --> 1:41:59.280 EV but I filled up my wife's car yesterday. Oh 1:41:59.360 --> 1:42:02.960 those gas in California are no joke right now, so 1:42:03.479 --> 1:42:05.880 I'm sure anytime the prices go up we see more 1:42:05.920 --> 1:42:10.320 interest in these evs. John Faulkner of Cleanfleetreport dot com, 1:42:10.320 --> 1:42:13.280 thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it and go 1:42:13.439 --> 1:42:15.760 check it out the Machy. I gotta say, I'm very 1:42:15.960 --> 1:42:18.599 very impressed. All right, coming up here, we are gonna 1:42:18.640 --> 1:42:21.680 do the feedback segment. We're gonna talk about some of 1:42:21.720 --> 1:42:23.360 the emails you sent me throughout the week, some of 1:42:23.400 --> 1:42:26.639 the feedback on the show, all that fun stuff right 1:42:26.640 --> 1:42:33.800 here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:42:33.960 --> 1:42:38.800 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Microsoft 1:42:38.840 --> 1:42:41.479 this week announced a bunch of new things at an 1:42:41.520 --> 1:42:44.960 event in New York City. Microsoft had kind of a 1:42:45.000 --> 1:42:49.400 weird thing happen there. The guy who's been in charge 1:42:49.400 --> 1:42:52.400 of their surface devices for a long time, panos Pine, 1:42:52.840 --> 1:42:54.680 he just kind of up and left. He's like, you 1:42:54.680 --> 1:42:57.519 know what, I'm out, and there's you know, people are 1:42:57.560 --> 1:42:59.880 like speculating why he would do this right before a 1:43:00.040 --> 1:43:03.439 big event, and of course, you know, the rumors came 1:43:03.479 --> 1:43:06.120 out that maybe they were cutting some budget in his 1:43:06.200 --> 1:43:08.600 department and he just didn't like the direction. And so 1:43:09.320 --> 1:43:12.360 now the rumor is he's going to Amazon. We had 1:43:12.360 --> 1:43:15.439 the chance to interview him. I'm not kidding. This was like, gosh, 1:43:15.439 --> 1:43:18.920 when the Surface first launched, he came to KTLA to 1:43:18.960 --> 1:43:21.280 bring a Surface and this was a Now we take 1:43:21.320 --> 1:43:23.400 for granted this whole idea of a touchscreen kind of 1:43:23.479 --> 1:43:26.519 laptop tablet hybrid, but back when he brought it to us, 1:43:26.760 --> 1:43:28.880 it was something we had never seen before and it 1:43:28.960 --> 1:43:31.479 was just like so different with a little, you know, 1:43:33.240 --> 1:43:36.120 angular kind of stand you can pull out from the 1:43:36.160 --> 1:43:38.760 back and only had like one angle back then. Anyway, 1:43:38.840 --> 1:43:41.200 he did a good thing at Microsoft, and it'll be 1:43:41.280 --> 1:43:44.960 interesting to see what he does at Amazon if that's true. Anyway, 1:43:45.680 --> 1:43:47.720 I know that's inside baseball, but I just thought it 1:43:47.760 --> 1:43:52.880 was interesting. But Microsoft announced a copilot. Their AI assistant 1:43:52.960 --> 1:43:55.320 is now going to be making its way into Windows 1:43:55.400 --> 1:43:58.720 Office and Edge. And this is going to bring all 1:43:58.800 --> 1:44:04.200 kinds of AI experiences to Windows eleven, Microsoft three sixty five, 1:44:04.280 --> 1:44:07.559 and bing An Edge. So there's gonna be a Windows 1:44:07.560 --> 1:44:11.160 eleven update on September twenty sixth, and that's gonna bring 1:44:11.400 --> 1:44:14.120 over one hundred and fifty new features, including that copilot. 1:44:14.200 --> 1:44:16.280 So if you see an update, you like the idea 1:44:16.280 --> 1:44:18.760 of AI on your computer, then go ahead and get 1:44:18.760 --> 1:44:22.160 that update. On September twenty sixth, they also announced three 1:44:22.240 --> 1:44:26.919 new surface devices, a surface Laptop Studio two, a Laptop 1:44:27.000 --> 1:44:29.320 Go three, which a lot of people are saying looks 1:44:29.360 --> 1:44:31.559 pretty awesome, kind of like the their version of the 1:44:31.600 --> 1:44:37.479 MacBook Air, and then the Surface Hub three so or 1:44:37.479 --> 1:44:40.400 maybe it's the MacBook just Pro. Who knows. I haven't 1:44:40.400 --> 1:44:42.320 got hands on with these things yet, but hopefully I 1:44:42.360 --> 1:44:45.880 will soon. So a lot of info from Microsoft. If 1:44:45.880 --> 1:44:49.040 you're looking for a way to charge your iPhone, your 1:44:49.080 --> 1:44:51.679 Apple Watch, and your air pods, check out the high 1:44:51.760 --> 1:44:55.640 Rise three Deluxe had a chance to check this thing out, 1:44:55.680 --> 1:44:58.320 and it's pretty cool because it's the first time that 1:44:58.360 --> 1:45:00.840 you can mag safe charge your iphe but change the 1:45:00.920 --> 1:45:04.320 angle that it's charging at. So this includes the adapter 1:45:04.360 --> 1:45:06.679 and it can let you charge all three of these things. Also, 1:45:07.080 --> 1:45:09.920 you might be looking for a stand because iOS seventeen 1:45:10.000 --> 1:45:14.160 introduces this new standby mode that lets you see information 1:45:14.200 --> 1:45:16.240 on your iPhone screen when it's not in use and 1:45:16.280 --> 1:45:19.160 it's charging on its side. That's one hundred and fifty bucks, 1:45:19.160 --> 1:45:22.360 but it is a cool device. Twelve South, high Rise 1:45:22.439 --> 1:45:27.320 three Deluxe and then finally, my Heritage Photo Data. If 1:45:27.360 --> 1:45:29.000 you have an old picture, you can pop it into 1:45:29.000 --> 1:45:32.000 this AI and it will use clues in the picture 1:45:32.120 --> 1:45:34.599 to try to figure out when that picture was taken, 1:45:35.080 --> 1:45:38.960 anywhere from eighteen sixty to nineteen ninety with accuracy within 1:45:39.040 --> 1:45:42.320 five years. It'll look for people, events, and things in 1:45:42.360 --> 1:45:45.000 the pictures to try to figure out what date that 1:45:45.080 --> 1:45:46.720 picture was taken. This could be a good thing for 1:45:46.800 --> 1:45:49.800 like maybe an old picture of Grandma or grandpa, old 1:45:49.840 --> 1:45:51.880 black and white photo you have around the house. It 1:45:51.920 --> 1:45:55.000 also works with color pictures as well, but kind of neat. 1:45:55.160 --> 1:45:59.040 So again it's called my Heritage Photo Data. I have 1:45:59.120 --> 1:46:02.920 not tried that out personally, but I'd like to. Okay, 1:46:03.000 --> 1:46:07.120 let's get to some of your feedback here. Let's see 1:46:07.400 --> 1:46:09.280 Bob and San Diego says, I heard your segment on 1:46:09.360 --> 1:46:12.360 KFI today about Bard. I decided to search myself. It 1:46:12.360 --> 1:46:14.479 shows a lot of good information, but also says I 1:46:14.600 --> 1:46:18.840 died last year. There's also some am I laughing? I'm sorry, Bob. 1:46:19.160 --> 1:46:21.240 There's also a second listing that says I volunteer at 1:46:21.280 --> 1:46:23.800 Elboa Park, but then says I also volunteer at to 1:46:23.880 --> 1:46:27.160 other places. I never have I called Google Customer Service 1:46:27.280 --> 1:46:28.720 and I'm on hold with them, and the person I 1:46:28.720 --> 1:46:30.960 spoke to doesn't have a clue what bard is. He's 1:46:31.000 --> 1:46:34.160 trying to transfer me, but it's totally confused. Bob, be careful. 1:46:34.680 --> 1:46:37.360 You don't have Google on customer service. They don't have 1:46:37.400 --> 1:46:39.879 a phone number like that. So I think you googled 1:46:40.439 --> 1:46:43.280 Google Customer Service and some random phone number that's trying 1:46:43.280 --> 1:46:44.640 to scam you. You are on the phone with them, 1:46:44.720 --> 1:46:47.320 so please be careful. But yes, what you're talking about 1:46:47.360 --> 1:46:52.719 is called hallucinations. These things literally make up stuff. Adrian says, 1:46:52.760 --> 1:46:56.080 I have passwords saved on Google Chrome and I've lost them. 1:46:56.320 --> 1:46:58.760 How can I get him back? Oh? Wait, I went 1:46:58.960 --> 1:47:02.200 to delete my search history and I had the option 1:47:02.320 --> 1:47:05.719 to delete save passwords checked as well. Ooh, be careful. 1:47:06.080 --> 1:47:08.479 I didn't even realize you could do that save delete 1:47:08.520 --> 1:47:11.080 all your passwords when you delete your search history, So 1:47:11.120 --> 1:47:13.320 be careful. The place to check to see if you 1:47:13.320 --> 1:47:18.240 have passwords stored on Google is passwords dot Google dot com. Oh. 1:47:18.360 --> 1:47:20.240 If you got them all, I guess it's a good 1:47:20.280 --> 1:47:22.880 chance to start over with some fresh new passwords. Paul 1:47:22.920 --> 1:47:25.360 says you recommended voicemap a few weeks ago. We were 1:47:25.400 --> 1:47:27.479 visiting a large US city and gave it a try. 1:47:27.520 --> 1:47:30.639 We loved it. Thanks for the recommendation. Yeah, voicemap lets 1:47:30.680 --> 1:47:36.120 you do audio tours in different cities. Let's see through Instagram. 1:47:37.000 --> 1:47:38.840 I don't have the person's name, but they said I 1:47:38.840 --> 1:47:41.160 was listening to you last Saturday and heard you struggling 1:47:41.200 --> 1:47:44.360 how to describe the new Apple watch band. FYI, there 1:47:44.400 --> 1:47:47.120 are two parts of Velcrow, the hooks and the loops. 1:47:47.560 --> 1:47:49.919 The fuzzy parts are the loops. Have a great weekend. 1:47:50.960 --> 1:47:56.120 Let's see here. Oh my gosh, so much. Debbie says, 1:47:56.120 --> 1:47:59.000 I got a new iPhone fourteen. I installed a lens protector, 1:47:59.040 --> 1:48:01.360 thinking it was a thing to do, but the glass shatter. 1:48:01.439 --> 1:48:02.960 Now I can't get it off. If I checked YouTube, 1:48:03.000 --> 1:48:05.120 it says to soften with the hairdryer, but that hasn't helped. 1:48:05.160 --> 1:48:06.679 I don't want to scratch up my new phone. Help 1:48:06.720 --> 1:48:09.400 me Rich, Thank you, Debbie. Debbie, I do not recommend 1:48:09.600 --> 1:48:12.880 lens protectors on phones. I recommend a screen protector and 1:48:13.000 --> 1:48:17.519 a case, but lens protectors I think are unnecessary. Apple 1:48:17.640 --> 1:48:20.160 and other phone companies spend a lot of money on 1:48:20.200 --> 1:48:21.679 the optics. Why are you gonna put like a little 1:48:21.680 --> 1:48:25.080 plastic or glass protector between you and like millions of 1:48:25.120 --> 1:48:27.960 dollars of R and D. So just take your chances 1:48:27.960 --> 1:48:30.479 with the lenses. They do shatter from time to time, 1:48:30.560 --> 1:48:32.519 but I think just take care of your phone, have 1:48:32.560 --> 1:48:34.880 a good case, and you should be okay, all right, 1:48:34.880 --> 1:48:36.160 if you can believe it, that's going to do it. 1:48:36.160 --> 1:48:38.160 For this episode of the show. You can find everything 1:48:38.160 --> 1:48:40.639 I mentioned on my website. Go to richontech dot tv. 1:48:41.200 --> 1:48:43.679 You can find me on social media. I'm at rich 1:48:43.760 --> 1:48:46.120 on tech. Next week we'll talk about more tech stuff, 1:48:46.120 --> 1:48:49.400 anything that happens in the tech world, tips, tricks, whatever. 1:48:49.920 --> 1:48:51.840 Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways 1:48:51.840 --> 1:48:54.240 you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending 1:48:54.280 --> 1:48:56.840 it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes 1:48:56.880 --> 1:49:00.639 this show possible. My name is rich Demiro. I will 1:49:00.680 --> 1:49:02.120 talk to you real soon.