WEBVTT - Apple debrief: iPhone 13 models, Apple Watch 7, new iPads and more 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:15.040 Apple unveils new iPhones, a new Apple Watch, and new iPads. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.720 Kindle gets a fresh new look. Google answers my storage prayers, 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.400 plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.560 Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.000 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.199 know about. It's also the place where I answer the 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.840 questions you sent me once again. My name is Rich Dmuro, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:42.360 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, coming 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:48.159 to you today from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Why am I in Chattanooga, Tennessee? 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:53.120 Will I am here to see Volkswagen's electric car plant. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.960 So they are making their new ID four electric car 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:02.600 here in the US in Chatta Nuga, Tennessee. So h yeah, 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.880 I'm here for like twenty four hours to check this 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.400 thing out. So I'm very excited. I took a run 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.360 this morning in this fine little town and it is beautiful. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.160 It reminds me of living in Louisiana. So I used 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.320 to live in Shreveport, Louisiana for a couple of years 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.479 as a reporter, and it's it's so interesting because when 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.320 I lived in a small city, I did not respect 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.000 this small city lifestyle. So I grew up just outside 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.960 New York City. So even though I lived in a 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.800 suburban area, it was very much you know, an urban 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.160 area because it was just a community for New York City, right, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.440 people commuted in from my city to the city. In 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.760 the city we call New York City the city. And 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.319 then I moved to Los Angeles for college. Then I 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.120 moved to Louisiana, well, Washington State, Louisiana, back to New 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.720 York and then back to LA. So a lot of 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.720 my time has been I guess most of my time 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.600 at this point has been spent in big cities. But 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.040 I did spend you know, four years in small cities, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.280 and I didn't I didn't like them back then because 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.720 I was young and I wanted to you know, go 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.480 out and do stuff and you know, hang out. And 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.280 now that I'm older and have a family, that stuff 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.720 is not as important. Like I want a nice family place, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.519 and LA is fine, but it's definitely, you know, not 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.920 the easiest place in the world to raise a family 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.600 and also to live. I mean, you know, small smaller 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.480 cities like this are just so much more geared towards 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.600 you know, working and raising a family. So anyway, beautiful place. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.200 This run this morning totally reminded me of living in Louisiana, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.000 fresh clean air. I ran across the river and then 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.840 I ran back on this like pedestrian bridge they have here, 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.600 which apparently the driver from last night told me that 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.280 this that's the longest pedestrian bridge in the US. I 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.880 don't know, I have to fact check that, but it 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.799 was great, and so here I am. I actually if 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.200 this if you're sitting there thinking rich the podcast actually 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:01.240 sounds pretty good, it's because I actually lugged all of 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.480 my podcasting equipment with me this time, so I made 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.720 sure that I wanted it to sound really nice, and 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.560 I wanted all of my bells and whistles literally bells 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.519 and whistles, to make this podcast sound as good as possible. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.440 All Right, So here's the deal. I've got a couple things. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.840 I'm gonna tell you something that I did personally, little 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.160 personal news that's exciting. I'll get to that a bit 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.040 later in the show. But this show is primarily going 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.919 to be focused on Apple's announcements. So if you don't 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.320 like Apple, if you're not an Apple fan, or you 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.760 don't want to hear about iPhones and iPads and all 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.200 that good stuff. It's probably not the podcast for you, 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.640 so go ahead, see you later. Pick it up the 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.680 next episode. Because Apple announced a lot they were small 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.960 changes to some of their devices. But when it's Apple, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.400 they kind of suck all the air out of the 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.360 room in the tech world, and you know, they command 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:54.760 the respect that they get. I mean, a lot of 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.720 people in the US have these phones, so I'm gonna 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.800 give it the respect it deserves. I'm gonna go over 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.360 all that stuff. I've got a couple of other things, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.240 and I'll still take questions from you, but this will 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.560 primarily be about the Apple event. So let's get started 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.800 with the with the first news. We got news about 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:15.280 the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and Apple Fitness. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.400 Let's start with the iPhone thirteen and the iPhone thirteen Mini. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.640 So here's the deal. A lot of the changes with 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.760 the devices with the iPhone specifically, are you know this 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.359 might be an S model right in iPhone twelve S 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.640 and they do call it the iPhone thirteen. But and 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.760 some of the improvements, especially on the iPhone thirteen Pro 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.000 and Promax are definitely big improvements to the cameras but 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.960 in the battery life. But the rest of these improvements 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.520 are pretty minor, so I'm going to go through kind 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.960 of the biggest things that I noticed. So iPhone thirteen 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.960 and thirteen Mini same size as before, six point one 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.640 inch screen and a five point four inch screen. The 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.880 cool thing is what they did with both of these 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.640 phones now, the dual phones, they're basically the same, so 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.800 you only have to choose the size you want, so 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.240 you either want to go with Mini or regular, or 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.400 regular and Max. So the cameras are pretty much identical 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.680 now across the board, which I like. They made the 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.279 true depth camera sensor a little bit smaller, so the 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.240 face ID area at the top, I mean, it's still 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.320 a pretty big notch. It doesn't bother me. I don't 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.520 really know why people are so bothered by that. Battery 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.520 life improvement pretty big on the iPhone thirteen and thirteen Mini. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.719 It's got this new A fifteen bionic, so the battery 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.080 is up to two and a half hours more on 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.479 the iPhone twelve than the iPhone twelve, and the iPhone 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.960 thirteen Mini you get up to an hour and a 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.520 half more than iPhone twelve Mini. So that's a pretty 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.080 big improvement, especially because these phones last year took a 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.840 pretty major hit, so I feel like maybe we're just 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.640 getting back to old battery life on the iPhone, but 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.720 Apple still says this is some of the best battery 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.359 life we've seen now on the iPhone thirteen and Mini. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.760 The wide camera is the one that's improved, so just 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:00.800 one of the lenses, and the wide is kind of 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.039 your everyday camera, so that's the most important, and that 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.400 has the biggest sensor ever, so forty seven percent more 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.640 light it captures, which is really good. So when you're 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.400 taking your everyday pictures, that's the lens that you use 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.800 the most. It's gonna be a lot better. Now I 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.920 haven't tested these, so I can't say that for certain, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.560 but that's kind of what they're saying. The other thing 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.119 they did is they brought this censorshift technology, which means 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.400 it stabilizes the sensor instead of the lens, which you know, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.960 it's kind of it gets a little in the weeds there, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.440 but the reality is your shots, even if you have 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.560 a shaky hand, should be more steady, and that means 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.040 that they'll be more in focus, and that means, especially 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.719 in low light photography, things will be more in focus. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.560 They've got this new cinematic mode across all the phones 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.359 that kind of brings portrait mode to video. So if 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.960 you're thinking that, you know, you like these portrait mode photos, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.680 now you can do that with your videos. Now. I 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.760 think this is kind of cool, but I don't think 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.640 it's feature that I have to rush out and upgrade 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.880 my phone for. If you think about smartphone video, it 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.080 kind of just you want everything to be in focus. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.160 That was always the goal. Right now it's gonna be 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.560 where you can kind of have the background blurry and 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.880 the subject is in focus, but if you move the 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.240 camera to someone else in the background, it will now 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.800 focus on them and the foreground will be blurry. So 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.600 it kind of gives you that look that you see 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.080 in movies versus just a flat, kind of clear look. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.960 Across the board, the A fifteen processor, they're not saying 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.960 that it's a lot faster, but I guess it does 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.240 certain things faster, like the graphics. But that's about it 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.400 all right. So the colors for the iPhone thirteen and 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.880 thirteen many pink, blue, midnight, starlight, and red, and they 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.720 also did double the entry level storage, so it's one 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.800 hundred and twenty eight gigs that gets a ding. I 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.880 have this video on YouTube from a couple of years 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.840 ago called Apple Math, and I kind of went through 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.240 the reality of what Apple has been doing with customers. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.720 They've been playing games with them with iPhone storage for many, 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.000 many years. For many years, the entry level storage was 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.200 not half of the middle storage. It was like almost 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.680 a quarter. So it used to be like sixty four, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.160 then two fifty six, then five twelve, which is not right. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.960 So if you do the math, you're actually paying way 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.840 more for the entry level phone. Now it's the right way, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.640 So it's one twenty eight, two fifty six, five twelve 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.920 On the thirteen and thirteen Mini. These phones start at 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.880 six ninety nine for the Mini, seven ninety nine for 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.640 the thirteen and they will be available on pre orders Friday, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.160 September seventeenth, and then the phones will be in stores 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.280 on the twenty fourth of September. So that's pretty much it. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.600 So do you upgrade if you have the iPhone twelve, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.880 I don't think you need the upgrade to the thirteen 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.520 or thirteen Mini. When it comes to the iPhone thirteen 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.560 Pro and Pro Max, that's where it gets a little 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.880 more interesting. That's where we're seeing a bit more improvement. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.120 But if you're on one of those upgrade plans anyway, 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.880 of course, it's always nice to get the new phone, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.400 especially for the new battery life. But we'll talk about 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.120 the iPhone th thirteen and thirteen pro after this first question. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.640 All right, first question from Dan. Hey Rich, I need 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.280 to join a Zoom conference as a participant for the 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.480 first time ever. I will be using my computer, a PC, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.320 and I'm concerned about security. So if I have any 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.680 if I have Chrome or Edge, can I join the 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.120 conference and not need to open a Zoom account or 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.400 download any software on my computer? And if that's possible, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.800 then can I be sure nothing will be downloaded by 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.960 Zoom without me knowing it. I would hope they don't 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.280 get my IP address or any other information. There have 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.040 been so many stories about Zoom and security. Thank you, Dan. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.360 All right, Dan, So couple things here. Number One, Yeah, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.080 they're going to get your IP address. I mean, that's 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.319 that's pretty standard for any website that you visit, unless 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.200 you're using a VPN. Number Two, I don't know what 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:54.080 kind of Zoom you're doing, but I mean, is it 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.439 really that secretive what you're talking about or what you're doing. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.800 I mean, this is a free service on the public Internet. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:07.040 So there's only so much, so many precautions you can take. Now. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.360 Number one, you don't need to download Zoom to run 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.080 a Zoom to run a zoom like to be a 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:20.880 participant on Zoom. Now. The thing is they use what 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:25.079 do they call this, They call this dark dark patterns? 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.240 Is that what they call it? Where Zoom tries to 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.800 convince you you have to download software to join. So 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.319 when you click that Zoom link immediately it will say, oh, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.360 we just put the installer on your computer. Make sure 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.480 you press run to join your meeting. And if you 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.720 don't do anything, you wait a little bit. Now it'll say, oh, shoot, 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.320 they didn't fall for our tricks, so hold on. Oh 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.160 let's give them a link now on their web page. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.839 So they refresh the web page and then it says, oh, 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.040 do you want to join from browser? And then you 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.480 can join from your browser. But they really hide that 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.840 and they make it, you know, they force you to 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.319 or they try to force you to download the software 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.080 and make you think that's the only way to join. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.640 That is not the case. WebEx does the same thing. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.200 It's all these video conference apps because they want the 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.040 software on your computer because then you'll probably use it again. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.079 And it's just easier. I mean, I get it. It's 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.920 just easier to join from the software. They get a 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.000 better experience. But you can join from just your browser, 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.320 but you have to kind of just wait and wait 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.040 for that link to come up that says join from 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.800 your browser, and you will see it. You might have 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.640 to scroll down to the bottom of your screen to 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.599 see it, but will it will show up eventually. Just 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.880 don't run the software that they download your computer automatically. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.280 Now with that said, can you join a zoom without 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.560 logging in? I do believe you can, because typically you 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.400 just have to give a person a link which includes 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.880 the user kind of like the one time user and password. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.560 But it depends how this zoom is set up. Sometimes 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.520 you will have to log in. I believe. I don't 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.800 know because I kind of forget. I do know that 0:11:54.840 --> 0:12:00.520 I log into WebEx without signing up for a WebEx account, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.719 so I think Zoom lets you do the same thing. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.040 So that's that. Now. The other thing, the IP address 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.800 um or other information. I mean, they're gonna get your 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.080 IP unless you use a VPN if you want, just 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.800 use a VPN and log in that way. But that's 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.200 about it. Zoom insecurity Zoom is it's not. I don't 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.480 believe it's end to end encrypted by default, but you 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:26.319 could enable that in the settings. But it is encrypted 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.280 in transit, so whatever you're saying, no one else can 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.800 see theoretically, but I will tell you if you're putting 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.400 personal information out there on the Zoom call, yeah, there's 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.000 always a chance that someone could could sniff that information out. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.040 But I do believe it's encrypted so that it should 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.880 be fine. And if the if the Zoom itself is 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.280 password protected, you should be okay. But in general, look, 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.240 if you're using a public service that is free, there's 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.319 only so much expectation of privacy that you can have 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.400 when you use that. So just keep that in mind. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.280 And I think the big thing is just to join 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.320 it without signing up, and to join it without downloading 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.680 the software, and you should be fine. So good question there. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.480 All right, Now, let's talk about the iPhone thirteen Pro 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.520 and Pro Max. These are the iPhones that got a 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.600 much bigger leap than the standard iPhone, and the reason 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.200 they do this is because Apple kind of like the 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.440 way Samsung does it. They do kind of an ultra model. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.880 This would be their Ultra and they put all of 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.320 their newest technologies in the Pro models and then they 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.720 trickle them down to the regular models later on. Now 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.720 with the Max this year, I like what they did 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.240 and thank you Apple for doing this. They made the 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.559 iPhone Pro and Promax the thirteen models the same. They 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.439 are identical except for the screen size, so you no 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.880 longer have to choose. Last year you had to choose 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.840 the Promax had slightly better specs in certain aspects. This 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.160 time they're the same. So all you need to do 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.040 is say do I want that big screen or do 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.960 I want the standard size screen? And so last year 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.679 I went with the standard size. This year I may 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.679 be tempted to go with the Pro Max just to 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.720 get a bigger screen. I was watching Stuff, a little 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.080 movie yesterday on the airplane No Sudden Move on HBO Max, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.280 which by the way, was pretty good. I didn't watch 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.800 all of it, so don't tell me anything. No spoilers here. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.640 But I was watching my tiny iPhone because I love 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.280 packing really lean, especially for a trip like this that's 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.920 less than twenty four hours, and so I was watching 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.000 on my little tiny iPhone screen. It was just horrible, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.240 like so small I could barely see what was going 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:37.600 on on the screen anyway. Aside, so what's new on 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.760 the iPhone thirteen pro models. They've got a new what 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.840 they call super Retina XDR display with promotion. I mean, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.760 all that means is that it's a really good screen 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.560 that's brighter than before, and it has an adaptive refresh 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.000 rate up to one hundred and twenty hurts, which means 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.800 that when you're scrolling through things especially like Twitter, social media, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:03.440 watching videos, and playing games, the refresh rate should be better, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.480 so it will be buttery smooth versus a little I 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.760 noticed yesterday on my iPhone. Of course, now they announced 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.520 it that it's a little bit choppy when you scroll. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.960 Not a deal breaker, it's not that big of a deal. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.000 But most videos in the US at least are thirty 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.720 frames per second, maybe sixty, and so you probably never 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.720 noticed on videos. But when it comes to gaming and scrolling, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.600 that's when the adaptive refresh rate will come in handy. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.280 Let's see, so the camera's got improvements in a big way. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.680 All the sensors and lenses for all three of the 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.000 rear cameras are new, and so you've got much better 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.840 low light performance up to two times two and a 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.360 half time, two point two times when compared to iPhone 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.600 twelve Pro and one point five when compared to iPhone 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.560 twelve Pro Max. You see what they did there, So 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.160 now they're revealing that the Pro Max was a little 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.720 bit better. You also have that sensor shift optical image 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:02.000 stabilization on both models. And let's see what else. The 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.080 Ultra wide Excuse me, the Ultra wide camera features a 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.880 much wider one point eight aperture and autofocus. So this 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.160 is we're talking the ultra wide lens. That's the one 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.200 that you can take in a lot more wide frame 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.360 on your photography. So ninety two percent improvement for low light, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.360 which means if you took an ultra wide, So a 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.160 lot of times if I'm out and about at night, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.800 I want to take a cool cityscape photo and I 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.280 go ultra wide. Immediately on the iPhone twelve Pro, you 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.520 notice that the whole screen went dark because it just 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.600 didn't take in very much light on that Ultra Wide. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.520 Now it's going to take in almost one hundred percent 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.280 more so that's really really cool. So that means that 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.680 your ultrawide photos are going to be a lot better. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.160 They also have auto focus on the Ultra Wide, which 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.160 is really cool, and that unlocks macro photography. Using the 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.240 Ultra whites, you can take macro pictures from a distance 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.600 of two centimeters, which is really close up. Now. I'm 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.520 not a huge macro photography guy, but you know, it's 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.280 kind of cool. I'll use it once in a while, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.680 take some pictures of the flowers or whatever. Bugs. There's 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.240 also a new seventy seven millimeter telephoto lens. So the 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.320 telephoto lens now lets you do three times optical zoom. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.879 It used to be two or two and a half. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.800 Now it's three, and so that's nice. Now if you 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.160 look at Samsung, they're doing like I think, ten times 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.520 and obviously up to one hundred times on the Ultra. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:28.000 I think the Ultra there, I can't remember. Don't quote me, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.840 but I think it was thirty times optical. But maybe 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.400 it was ten times. I can't remember at this point, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.040 it's been too long. But so the fact that iPhone 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.639 is pretty far behind in the optical zoom, you know, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.880 but they're getting there three times is a good thing. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.359 So you know, the more you can get with zoom optical, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.720 the better. And quite frankly, when you zoom in, even 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.840 with the you know, the software assistance, it still looks 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.560 pretty good. On the iPhone, let's see, night Mode is 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.280 now available on all three cameras on the Pro models, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.560 including the Telephoto. That's the first first time ever. So 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.840 when you take nightmode on all those cameras, it will work, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.959 and it will capture more light and make your photos 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.760 look better. They've got this new thing called photographic Styles, 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.000 which I'll probably never use, but if you're a pro 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.600 photographer maybe you would. They've got pro res Video which 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.399 is coming later, and that's going to be a better 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.760 format if you're like a pro videographer. But again, if 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.480 you notice I keep saying the words pro, this new 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:30.040 Promax and Pro are really aimed at the person who 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.440 is very much interested in really really the best photos 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.199 and videos you can get, which aka is not the 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.840 average consumer. So when someone asks me rich do I 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.920 need to upgrade? I mean the iPhone, even the iPhone 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:43.880 like from a couple of years ago, cakes really good 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.280 pictures in everyday light when you get in those challenging 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.879 lighting situations when you're in a darkly lit bar or 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:55.000 restaurant or action with your kids, that's when these newer 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.240 phones will shine. So if you feel like your phone 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.119 is lagging those areas, that's where these would be a 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.080 good upgrade. Battery life definitely improved to the iPhone thirteen 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.359 Pro is gonna get you one and a half hours 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.760 longer than iPhone twelve Pro, up to two and a 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.879 half hours longer than the Pro Max on the twelve. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.200 So if you have an iPhone twelve Pro like I do, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.280 battery life has been a very sore issue. So I'll 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.520 take an hour and a half longer for sure, I'll 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.560 take two and a half hours longer, which would be 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.600 even longer. I mean, that's that's really good. That means 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.480 less charging for me, all right. Availability iPhone thirteen Pro 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.120 and Pro Max available in graphite, gold, silver, and Sierra Blue, 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.960 which would be my choice that Sierra blue one twenty 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.840 eight again two fifty six five twelve, and a new 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.919 one terabyte storage option. Now, this one terabyte storage is 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.439 great if you're shooting a lot of video, like for 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.320 me personally, I'll be shooting my entire story on the 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.480 iPhone here in Chattanooga, and so I would need a 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.280 lot of storage, but I bumped it down to ten 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.320 EP because we don't air in in four K anyway. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.680 So it's fine to just do ten ADP because I 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.200 don't need all that extra storage gobbling up my phone. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.600 So the one terabyte do you really need it? Know, 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:12.439 some people get it because they just want it. And 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.439 if you're a pro videographer, fine nine ninety nine for 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.600 the Pro, ten ninety nine for the Promax in one 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.240 twenty eight. I would not recommend getting the one twenty eight. 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.920 If you're going pro, you probably want to go two 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.800 fifty six minimum because one twenty eight is just going 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:33.600 to be way way too little storage. That's it. I 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.720 think that's it for the for the iPhone thirteen pro 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.119 in Promax. So am I impressed? I mean, obviously Apple 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.760 does a nice job of improving these phones. This is 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.560 what I call an S improvement. We didn't get a 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.600 major new feature like mag safe or Touch ID or 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.000 face ID or Apple Pay on these phones, but they 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.639 are really nice improvements, especially if you're interested in the 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.800 best video and audio. Are sorry, best video and pictures 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.159 you can get on a smartphone. And if you're on 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.200 one of these upgrade plans. It's great. I think ninety 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.520 nine point nine percent of people will be perfectly happy 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:11.600 with the iPhone twelve standard model Mini if they want 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.440 just a little tinier phone, and the Max if they 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.000 want or Pro rather if they want the best videos 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.760 and pictures, and Max if you want the best videos 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.760 and pictures with a big screen. All right, let's get 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.720 to a question, and we'll go to an audio question 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:27.200 this time. 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:34.000 Hey, Rich, my name is Andrew. I'm just wondering, you 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:38.679 get all those texts for contests and you get a 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.040 free gift card or something. How legitimate are those? I 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.520 always delate those. Are they very legitimate or are they 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.560 just scams and fishing trying to get your information? 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:56.560 That's my question, Andrew, great question, and this is my 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.960 answer in one sound. Click on the links that you 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:05.879 get through texts. Let me say that again, do not 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.840 click on the links that you get through texts. In fact, 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.520 this is the way that hackers have been known to 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.760 take over iPhones. I don't think that the texts you're 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.880 talking about is that's what's going on here, but that 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:23.640 has been the infiltration method in the past. If hackers 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.120 figured out a way into the iPhone. It's through I message, 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.119 and what they do is they send malicious code. The 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.679 best code that they can send is code that doesn't 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.960 even need to be tapped. That's These are taps that 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.360 are like zero click exploits, which means you don't even 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:41.919 have to click the whatever they send in the attachment 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.639 for it to infiltrate your phone. And that's really bad. 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.080 And that's kind of the patch that we saw with 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.680 iOS fourteen point eight. That's the one that you saw recently. 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.080 If you haven't updated your phone, definitely update it. Because 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:58.920 the ways that hackers were able to get into these 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:02.640 phones was through I message and also through web pages 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:05.840 that had malicious code in them, and you really didn't 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.320 have to do much. In fact, I believe that all 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.240 they had to do was send the message to your 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.480 phone and that was it. Whatever the phone did to 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.320 like process the message would be enough for them to 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:17.520 gain access to your phone. Now, I don't think that's 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:19.919 happening here with these spam texts that you're talking about. 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.960 They are just mostly annoying, But what the endgame is 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:26.399 with these spam texts is that they are trying to 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.360 get your personal information which you know, if you click 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.480 the links, it tells them that you have an active 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.800 phone number, and it also if you follow the links, 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:37.480 it will you know, they'll just either try to get 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:41.120 your personal information, your personal data, or they will try 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.399 to say that you won something like I and I 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.040 do this stuff for you and I you know, I'd 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:49.439 click these links just to see what the deal is. 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:54.520 And the last one I clicked was it led me 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.960 to a website where I won a free pair of 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.160 I think they called them air phones, which looked strikingly 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:04.360 similar to air pods. And all I had to do 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:07.680 as the winner of the hour was to pay nine 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.880 to ninety nine for shipping for these air pods. So 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:15.040 do not fall for those kind of tricks. Don't even 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:20.120 reply stop. Now there are legitimate texts that you can 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:22.040 get to your phone and a lot of companies now 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:24.080 you do use text to get in touch with you. 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:27.800 But if it's a legitimate company, it will respond to 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.400 the word stop. So if you get a text from 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:34.639 a company like you know, I don't know, let's say 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.080 you sign up. You sign up for Wendy's Text Alerts. 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:39.120 You want to get some coupons in your in your 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:41.440 text and you know, once you sign up for these things, 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.520 they really take advantage. Once they get a hot number, 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:45.280 they're like, all right, we're gonna we're gonna text you, 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:47.600 and you'll get a text every day from Wendy's about 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:50.159 you know, trying the spicy chicken nugs or trying the 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:54.680 new baconate or sandwich or whatever. And so they'll they'll 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:58.120 text you over and over and you know, until you say, 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:00.879 oh gosh, I'm really craving Wendy's. But at some point, 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:02.800 if you get sick of those texts, you can just 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:06.320 text the word stop back and they will respect that 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:09.399 and they will stop texting you. That's a legitimate company 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.360 sending legitimate texts that you signed up for. If these 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:15.000 are not legitimate texts, if they are just scammers, you 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:17.920 do not want to respond at all. You can block 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:20.040 the number, but it doesn't really matter because they generate 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:23.200 random numbers anyway when they text you. But you can 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:26.240 just go ahead and delete that message. Do not respond, 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:28.719 do not reply, and definitely don't click the link in 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:33.879 that message. Andrew, great question, and thanks for texting in 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:37.800 or sorry calling leaving a voicemail I think you used. 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:40.199 There's two ways you can leave a voicemail. If you 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:42.879 want to email me, you can just email record it 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:45.440 on your phone and then email me the video the 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:49.639 voice message to hello at Richontech dot tv. Or you 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:53.040 can go to podpage dot com slash rich on Tech 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:55.240 and you can look for a microphone in the lower 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:58.320 right hand corner and you can send mic a message 0:25:58.359 --> 0:26:03.159 that way. All right, next story is iOS fifteen. I 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.120 just talked about iOS fourteen point eight, but I talked 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:08.919 about all the new iPhones. If you're sitting there listening 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:12.280 and saying, rich you didn't really convince me. I don't 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:14.840 think I need a new iPhone. I think my iPhone 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:17.359 is going to be just fine. So in that case, 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:20.800 you will get a fresh new iPhone when you install 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:23.320 iOS fifteen, or at least it'll feel like a fresh 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:27.440 new iPhone. iOS fifteen is releasing on September twentieth. Now 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:30.919 this is this is so typical Apple. And you know, 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:33.080 I love Apple, but I also hate Apple in certain 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:36.439 ways because they do things that are just There's always 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:41.040 this idea of it's not I don't want to say 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:46.560 lying biomission, but it's kind of the idea of leaving 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:51.360 out information and then people have to seek out that information. 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:54.320 And as a journalist, I feel like this often happens 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:57.320 to me when I go and talk to someone about something, 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:00.000 whether it's a new car, whether it's a new gadget, 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:05.640 whether it's a new whatever. The person the representative never 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:08.840 sits there and tells me what the gadget doesn't do. 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:12.439 They only tell me what it does, and so it 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:15.399 is then my job to sit there and figure out Okay, 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:17.320 well they mentioned that it does this, but hold on, 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:20.320 did you drop support for this? And I have to 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:22.919 do a little slew thing to figure out this stuff. 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:27.320 And so Apple, I'm not saying that they were omitting information, 0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:30.840 but let's be honest. For the millions upon millions of 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:33.440 people that have an iPhone out there, what are they 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:36.280 most excited about right now? Is it the new iPhone 0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:39.360 or is it the upgrade to iOS fifteen. And yes, 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:42.200 there's always a couple of people out there that don't 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:44.720 want to upgrade, and that's fine. You should be doing 0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:47.639 security updates. And in the future, Apple I believe, is 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:51.040 going to be separating out security updates from iOS updates 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:53.720 so that you can stick with an older version of iOS, 0:27:53.720 --> 0:27:56.120 but you can still be nice and safe and secure 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:59.359 from hackers by installing the software updates. So that's a 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:03.600 good thing. But with that said, I think a lot 0:28:03.600 --> 0:28:06.880 of people would have been interested to know that iOS 0:28:06.960 --> 0:28:12.240 fifteen is launching on Monday, September twentieth, but Apple conveniently 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:16.040 left that out of their big old announcement. And so 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:18.520 why did they leave it out? Well, because why do 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:21.120 they want to advertise the fact that your old iPhone 0:28:21.160 --> 0:28:22.679 is going to get a new lease on life in 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:25.159 a couple of weeks. It's gonna feel fresh. And then 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:27.600 if you get iOS fifteen installed, why do you need 0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:30.200 to upgrade to a new iPhone? Because, by the way, 0:28:30.200 --> 0:28:32.320 you're going to get some of the same features that 0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:35.800 are coming to the new iPhones in the in the 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:37.720 current iPhones that you have, and by the way, this 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:41.120 works all the way back to the iPhone six S 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:44.600 and success plus. So if your iPhone is running iOS 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:48.000 fourteen right now as we speak, it will be able 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:51.840 to run iOS fifteen on September twentieth. Now do you 0:28:51.880 --> 0:28:53.960 need to run out and install iOS fifteen on the 0:28:53.960 --> 0:28:55.560 first day? I don't know. If you're nerd like me, 0:28:55.680 --> 0:28:57.680 of course you want to. I mean I can't wait 0:28:57.760 --> 0:28:59.840 to get that on my phone because it feels like 0:28:59.840 --> 0:29:03.760 an new phone. And yeah, probably slows down your phone 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:06.200 just a little bit. Remember people talk about that, the 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:09.239 idea that Apple slows down the old devices, and then 0:29:09.240 --> 0:29:11.560 it came out that yeah, they kind of did because 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:15.040 of battery issues. But now they're much more open about that, 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:17.520 much more honest. You can look in your battery settings 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:20.479 and see if it's being if it's if your battery 0:29:20.560 --> 0:29:22.480 is wearing out to the point where your phone is 0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:30.040 being throttled. But anyway, iOS fifteen coming out on September twentieth. 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:32.520 It'll work on all the iPhones, and a couple of 0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:34.960 the features won't be available at launch, at least according 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:38.080 to nine to five, Mac share play will not be there. 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:41.000 But one of the big features that will be is 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:44.640 called Focus. And I'm hoping that this will help me 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:47.840 separate my work and my personal life a little bit better. 0:29:48.160 --> 0:29:50.400 And you know, if you follow me on social media 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:52.520 at rich on Tech, you know my personal life and 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:55.440 my work life are very much intertwined. And I'll get 0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:57.640 more to that in just a moment with my personal 0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:01.360 announcement after the next question. But I will tell you 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.080 it's tough to keep the personal from the public. I mean, 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:07.200 it's just I am who I am. I cover this 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:09.360 stuff for a living, but I also live the life. 0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:12.680 I mean, I live the life of wanting to check 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.240 out these gadgets and play with these gadgets and figure 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:18.040 out what works with gadgets and what doesn't work with gadgets. 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:20.640 And so I'm very open with you. I'm open with 0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:22.800 the fact that you know, I'm going to be struggling 0:30:22.840 --> 0:30:24.680 in the next couple of weeks to decide do I 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:27.000 want to stick with the iPhone or do I want 0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:31.200 to switch my personal device to the Pixel six Pixel 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:34.560 six Pro, I should say, And that's going to be 0:30:34.600 --> 0:30:37.320 a big decision because I've gotten so used to iPhone 0:30:37.360 --> 0:30:40.040 and the iPhone lifestyle with my Apple Watch and air 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:43.280 tags and all this good stuff. But at the same time, 0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:45.840 I'm kind of ready for something new, and just like 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:48.000 I don't actually, I don't think that's like a lot 0:30:48.000 --> 0:30:49.600 of people. I don't think a lot of people are 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:53.600 thinking about switching because they're they're in their their lane. 0:30:53.640 --> 0:30:56.200 You know, if you're Apple, they're very good at getting 0:30:56.200 --> 0:30:58.640 you to stick with Apple, especially because of I message. Now, 0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:01.479 I'm not going to be beholden to a platform because 0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:07.080 Apple basically took my phone number and linked it up 0:31:07.120 --> 0:31:09.960 to this I Message account that yes, it's so nice 0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:12.160 and it's so great and it works so perfectly and 0:31:12.240 --> 0:31:15.120 friends love it. But I don't need to be identified 0:31:15.160 --> 0:31:19.360 by an I message blue bubble. That's just not Sorry, 0:31:19.440 --> 0:31:21.560 like I will give up I message and when people 0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:23.720 text me and it comes up green, oh sorry, I 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:25.960 mean you deal with it. And yeah, if you want 0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:28.320 to take me off your group texts and all this 0:31:28.360 --> 0:31:30.680 good stuff, you don't want to send me pictures and videos, fine, 0:31:30.760 --> 0:31:33.320 then you know, find me on telegram. That's that's all 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:35.680 I have to say there. All right, what else is new? 0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:39.360 And iOS fifteen? Weather application is going to be new 0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:46.280 Ooho new weather application, new design for Safari, but Focus 0:31:46.360 --> 0:31:48.480 is the big thing. This is again kind of a 0:31:48.520 --> 0:31:51.240 smaller update, but there will be some new things in 0:31:51.360 --> 0:31:58.520 iOS fifteen. All right, let's get to another question. Richard says, Hello, 0:31:58.640 --> 0:32:00.959 rich I have a question about to do list apps 0:32:00.960 --> 0:32:03.720 for iPhones. I have used three by five cards to 0:32:03.720 --> 0:32:07.000 write my to do list seems like forever, but I'm 0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:09.680 looking for a better system to organize tasks for a 0:32:09.760 --> 0:32:14.960 work week. Any suggestions. Thank you, Richard. Well, Richard, the 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:18.200 system that you are describing is what I use, and 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:20.760 so I use three I use a combination of two things. 0:32:20.800 --> 0:32:24.520 I use three by five cards, and then I use 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:28.479 a task list like a to do list. And believe me, Richard, 0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:32.640 I have tried everything under the sun. So one of 0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:35.960 my favorites used to be called wonder list. I've tried 0:32:36.000 --> 0:32:39.920 Google tasks, I've tried Microsoft tasks or is it Microsoft 0:32:39.920 --> 0:32:44.360 to do Microsoft to do. I've tried all the different 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:47.200 ways that you can keep track of your tasks. I've 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:51.720 tried apples, built in reminders, and here here's what's worked 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:55.400 for me. And I do two things now. I do 0:32:55.480 --> 0:33:00.480 a combination of physical because I decided that I can't 0:33:00.520 --> 0:33:02.840 give up the three by five index cards at the 0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:05.400 end of the day. It is the best way. It's 0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:08.240 just I like to see. And what I use the 0:33:08.240 --> 0:33:10.720 index cards for is to plan out my stories. I 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:15.800 do a story for KTLA and our affiliated stations on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 0:33:16.280 --> 0:33:19.120 and I have decided that the best way of keeping 0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:22.000 track of my stories is to write them out on 0:33:22.240 --> 0:33:23.680 it used to be index cards. And I'll tell you 0:33:23.720 --> 0:33:26.920 what I use now. And put them up on a 0:33:26.920 --> 0:33:29.720 a what do you call a bulletin board with pins, 0:33:30.480 --> 0:33:33.160 And that is the best way because what happens is, 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:36.160 let's say I've got next week stories all planned out. 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:40.240 I know, Monday, I'm doing a crime story on a 0:33:40.320 --> 0:33:43.840 crime app On Wednesday I'm doing the Ford Maverick, and 0:33:43.880 --> 0:33:46.520 then on Friday, I've got something else planned. And so 0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:49.800 I know, let's say on Monday something comes up and 0:33:49.840 --> 0:33:52.840 I've got to push Wednesday story to something else. I 0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:56.120 got to push that to Friday. Well, it's easy for 0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:59.440 me to just move the index cards around and with 0:33:59.520 --> 0:34:01.479 the push, you pull it out, you move it, and 0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:04.560 now Wednesday story becomes Friday story. I write a new 0:34:04.560 --> 0:34:07.480 card for Wednesday and everyone is happy. Now I have 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:11.520 graduated those index cards to post it notes on a whiteboard, 0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:14.480 and I discovered that through the pandemic, and it's just 0:34:14.560 --> 0:34:16.400 much easier. It's just like a post It's just like 0:34:16.440 --> 0:34:18.640 a card that you stick into the wall, but it's 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:20.640 a post it note and so it just sticks. I 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:23.120 put it on the wall, same principle, and that's how 0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:26.040 I cover that. When it comes to my to do list, 0:34:26.200 --> 0:34:28.759 the best to do list that I have found you 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:32.440 ready is Microsoft to Do List. And the reason I 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:36.280 like it is because a it is platform agnostic, which 0:34:36.280 --> 0:34:38.759 means if I'm on my Android phone it works. If 0:34:38.760 --> 0:34:41.480 I'm on my iPhone, it works, if I'm if I'm 0:34:41.520 --> 0:34:44.160 on Windows, it works, if I'm on Mac it works, 0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:47.160 and they've got apps across all those platforms. The other 0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:49.160 thing I like about it is that you get this 0:34:49.200 --> 0:34:52.920 thing called my Day, which is a fresh task list 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:55.839 for every day. And so if you're like me and 0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:57.759 you put a lot of tasks on your list that 0:34:57.880 --> 0:35:00.520 are sort of longer term and not just something you 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:02.960 want to accomplish on that day, it gets a little 0:35:03.040 --> 0:35:05.719 cluttered with your typical task lists because you're looking at 0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:09.200 stuff every day that's the same. But with this every day, 0:35:09.239 --> 0:35:12.719 you get a fresh canvas, and so you can add 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:16.000 tasks just to that day and check them off just 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:18.480 for that day. But if you don't do them on 0:35:18.520 --> 0:35:21.279 that day, guess what they go to your big list 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:24.080 of all of your tasks. And so I love that aspect. 0:35:24.520 --> 0:35:26.560 I also love the fact that you can share this 0:35:26.800 --> 0:35:30.120 easily with someone. So you can share the task list 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:32.080 with someone, all they have to do is sign up 0:35:32.480 --> 0:35:34.600 and you can share that list with them and they 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:38.840 can be on board and so that really helps. Now 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:41.760 you asked for a three x five index card system, 0:35:41.840 --> 0:35:43.799 and so I think what's closest to that if you 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:47.120 want to truly go just digital, I think what you 0:35:47.160 --> 0:35:49.880 would like is called Trello t R E l l O, 0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:54.160 and that is the most similar you can get to 0:35:54.600 --> 0:35:58.480 sort of the physical card system, because the way that 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:01.200 you set it up, it looks like a board of cards, 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:03.920 and you can rearrange them, you can move them. You 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.600 can actually set up your Monday, Wednesday, Friday stories like 0:36:06.640 --> 0:36:10.600 I do, and you can put them in you know, 0:36:10.680 --> 0:36:12.800 you can put your cards underneath and you can shuffle 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:15.200 them around and it works really well. And then you 0:36:15.200 --> 0:36:17.000 can make you know, even more board. So if you 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:19.799 want to have three columns for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:21.840 you want a fourth column for your task list, you 0:36:21.840 --> 0:36:24.640 can do that. So Trello is probably the best. They 0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:27.320 do have a free plan and it works really well. 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:31.360 I personally don't use it because it just it's just 0:36:31.400 --> 0:36:34.200 a little bit. I like the system I've settled on, 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:37.200 which is a combination of the post it notes and 0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:40.160 Microsoft to do works for me. Oh yeah, One more 0:36:40.200 --> 0:36:42.560 thing I like about Microsoft to do that not all 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:46.120 of the to do lists offer, is you can drag 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:50.360 and drop in your tasks an attachment like a file, 0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:55.120 and so that's really easy. Like on Apple Reminders, I 0:36:55.160 --> 0:36:57.680 can't find a way to attach a file. Maybe I'm wrong, 0:36:58.400 --> 0:37:01.239 maybe they've added that functionality, but I really like the 0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:04.400 fact that I can just add a file to my reminder. 0:37:04.480 --> 0:37:06.400 So if I take a screenshot, or if I have 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:09.040 a PDF of a bill I need to pay or whatever, 0:37:09.360 --> 0:37:11.600 I can just toss it in there and when I 0:37:11.680 --> 0:37:13.040 get to it on my to do list, I don't 0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:16.319 have to go phishing for that information. It's right in 0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:19.239 the in the task itself. So great question, Richard, Thank 0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:23.040 you for asking. And let's talk about the Apple Watch 0:37:23.080 --> 0:37:26.919 and then I'll get to my personal info. I put 0:37:26.920 --> 0:37:29.400 the personal info deep into the podcast so that way 0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:32.279 you have to be a true listener to really get it, 0:37:32.360 --> 0:37:34.839 because you know, if you're just listening and you kind 0:37:34.840 --> 0:37:37.000 of tune now after five minutes and you say, eh, 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:39.520 what another yawner from rich then you don't get to 0:37:39.520 --> 0:37:42.120 share in my personal news. All right, Apple Watch, you 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:45.360 have a method to my madness. Apple Watch series seven, 0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:47.680 So what can I say about the Apple Watch series seven? Well, 0:37:47.760 --> 0:37:51.320 number one, all the rumors were wrong. It did not 0:37:51.480 --> 0:37:54.480 get flatter and look like an iPhone and all that. 0:37:54.480 --> 0:37:57.640 They didn't change anything. They just made it. They made 0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:00.000 the screen go a little bit more edge to end. 0:38:00.320 --> 0:38:03.040 That's kind of what they did. And so twenty percent 0:38:03.200 --> 0:38:07.799 more screen area and thinner borders, so you know, the 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:10.360 screen just goes much more. So the screen looks bigger, 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:14.040 even though they didn't really increase the amount of screen 0:38:14.160 --> 0:38:16.040 real estate. I mean they did a little bit. They 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:19.080 made thinner borders, right, so it does look like it 0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:21.360 goes a little bit more to the edges. Big whoop. 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:22.960 I mean, is this a reason to upgrade? 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:23.120 No? 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:27.560 Do they improve the battery life? No, battery life is 0:38:27.560 --> 0:38:30.560 still the same. So the battery life is still eighteen hours, 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:32.560 which means you still need to charge it every single 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.400 day of your life. If you do anything with exercise, 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:39.399 you're gonna have to charge it even sooner than every day. Sometimes, Nah, 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:42.719 I'm just kidding. I take about a five mile run 0:38:42.800 --> 0:38:45.480 and it actually does still last through the end of 0:38:45.520 --> 0:38:47.520 the day, although sometimes it will charge it before the 0:38:47.600 --> 0:38:49.239 end of the night. Whatever he got to charge the 0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:54.200 thing every day. They did improve battery charging time, though, 0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:57.480 so does charge thirty three percent faster through a new 0:38:57.640 --> 0:39:01.719 charging architecture and magnetic fast charger USBC cable. I don't 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:03.200 know if that means you need a new one to 0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:05.719 get that. I think it does. That's what it sounds like. 0:39:07.040 --> 0:39:10.719 Let's see what's the other improvement. They made the screen stronger, 0:39:10.960 --> 0:39:15.080 so it's got this new fifty percent thicker front crystal. 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:18.360 And I will tell you I talked about how my 0:39:18.560 --> 0:39:23.239 Apple Watch Series six scratched easily. We'll see they didn't 0:39:23.239 --> 0:39:26.759 say anything about scratching, but they said crack resistant. Now, 0:39:26.800 --> 0:39:29.200 I don't think this thing scratches very easily. I think 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:32.400 it scratches if it's if it's rubbed up against a 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:35.280 certain type of material and it's kind of like your teeth. 0:39:35.280 --> 0:39:37.680 You know, they're pretty strong, but if you're if you're 0:39:37.880 --> 0:39:41.040 chomping on ice, which is made of crystals, and those 0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:46.480 crystals the architecture of them just erecs havoc with the 0:39:46.600 --> 0:39:49.880 architecture of whatever it's up against. There are certain things 0:39:50.160 --> 0:39:53.279 that are just a stronger architecture, geometry. This is like 0:39:53.560 --> 0:39:55.480 and look at this is actually what Apple says. Look 0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:58.400 what they say, redesigned front crystal with a stronger and 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:02.399 more robust geometry. So I'm not a math expert, I'm 0:40:02.400 --> 0:40:05.280 not a geometry major, but I just know that certain 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:09.359 shapes are are more are harder than other shapes. And 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:11.719 you can think about this when you look at supports. 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:14.520 If you have one beam like that looks like a toothpick, 0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:16.600 and if you ever built one of these like toothpick 0:40:16.640 --> 0:40:19.680 things in your life for like, you know, a project, 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:22.920 you know that like a toothpick just standing upright, if 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:25.560 you crush it is gonna crush pretty easily. But if 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:29.880 you make that toothpick into more of a of a triangle, 0:40:30.160 --> 0:40:32.640 it's gonna support more of the weight, I think. I mean, 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:36.600 that's kind of what I remember. So this is That's 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:39.360 what I'm talking about here. So fifty percent thicker whatever 0:40:39.800 --> 0:40:44.919 crystal that's supposedly more crack resistant. Also, for the first time, 0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:48.960 the Apple Watch seven is IPX six dust resistant. Now 0:40:49.000 --> 0:40:51.640 I have brought my Apple Watch to the beach and 0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:53.960 the desert, not so much the desert. I mean, I 0:40:53.960 --> 0:40:56.080 live in a desert in Los Angeles, but it's not 0:40:56.120 --> 0:40:59.160 like there's like, you know, dust storms swirling around like 0:40:59.400 --> 0:41:01.640 I'll never forget. I was driving to Texas one time, 0:41:01.760 --> 0:41:03.640 and I'm not kidding. We got caught in a real 0:41:03.680 --> 0:41:07.520 life dust storm and I've never ever seen anything like 0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:09.520 it ever again in my life. I think it was 0:41:09.560 --> 0:41:15.239 called Peko's Texas, and it was unbelievable. I remember we 0:41:15.280 --> 0:41:17.759 got to our hotel. We could barely see anything in 0:41:17.760 --> 0:41:20.239 front of you, and we get to our hotel and 0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:22.840 it's just like dust swarming everywhere. And I remember we 0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:24.920 ordered a pizza. We had to go out and get 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:27.000 the pizza, and it was just like I never had 0:41:27.040 --> 0:41:29.600 experienced anything like it. So yeah, I guess dust could 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:33.240 get in this thing. I've never had problems with sand 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:37.040 at the beach ever with the Apple Watch Series six 0:41:37.080 --> 0:41:39.879 and earlier. But now it is more dust resistant, so 0:41:39.960 --> 0:41:43.560 it'll be more durable. It's still swim resistant, which is 0:41:43.600 --> 0:41:48.560 really good. Now they added some updates with WATCHSOS eight, 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.800 and some of those updates include a keyboard, a quirdy 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:56.840 keyboard on it, so you now get a you know, 0:41:56.960 --> 0:41:59.880 a real keyboard that's built in. You can either swipe 0:42:00.120 --> 0:42:02.600 or you can tap the keys on it. So that's cool. 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:07.520 Let's see there's let's see what else, a new mindfulness app. 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:13.640 There's sleep, respiratory rate tracking, tai chi, and pilates workout types. 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:16.600 Let's see what else, what else? What else? Watch OS 0:42:16.680 --> 0:42:21.680 eight now has new improvements if you ride a bike. 0:42:21.880 --> 0:42:24.880 So I did not know this, but fall detection apparently 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:28.120 did not work really well if you're on a bike 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:31.719 or really working out, and I guess the algorithms have 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:34.080 been tweaked, so now know if you fall off a bike, 0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:39.080 which is really really important. So now it also automatically 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:42.720 knows when you start a bike workout. And so again 0:42:42.880 --> 0:42:45.480 these are some of those things will come to other 0:42:45.560 --> 0:42:48.840 watches because it's in Watch OS eight, so some of 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:53.160 those things, those improvements will work. Five brand new aluminum 0:42:53.160 --> 0:42:57.000 case colors, including Midnight, Starlight green, and a new blue 0:42:57.440 --> 0:43:01.279 and product red. When does the Apple Watch Series seven 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:05.000 come out We don't know. Available later this fall. So 0:43:05.080 --> 0:43:10.080 remember the rumors about the the shipping the Apple Watch 0:43:10.120 --> 0:43:12.640 seven would not be available at launch. Well, they said 0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:14.919 it was going to be available in limited quantities. Well 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:18.879 turns out it's yeah, that was right. Actually, Apple Watch 0:43:18.920 --> 0:43:22.959 Series seven same price three ninety nine, Apple Watch se 0:43:23.440 --> 0:43:26.759 two seventy nine, Apple Watch Series three at one ninety nine. 0:43:26.840 --> 0:43:29.640 Don't go Series three. Please, don't go Series three. That's 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:34.280 way too old. Series three launched a bunch of years ago, 0:43:34.320 --> 0:43:37.399 and gosh, let's see how old that is at this point. 0:43:37.440 --> 0:43:39.960 If you have one, it's fine, but I would not 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:43.719 purchase a new one. I don't think that that's that's 0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:45.920 a smart thing to do at this point. Let's see, 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:52.600 where where's my Wikipedia? Let's see Apple Watch serious three Wikipedia. Okay, 0:43:53.320 --> 0:44:00.440 let's see. It was first available April twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, No. 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:05.120 Twenty twenty seventeen, three years ago. So I mean, that's 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:07.200 not too old as far as Apple products go, and 0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:09.880 it's nice that it still works. But I would definitely 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:13.359 go se minimum and then I go Series seven if 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:16.239 you can. And I would personally go with Cellular if 0:44:16.280 --> 0:44:20.319 you can, because I think cellular is the watch. I mean, 0:44:20.360 --> 0:44:22.440 if you ever, well, I run a lot outside by 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:25.880 myself and without my phone, and so for me, Cellular 0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:28.880 is the feature of the Apple Watch. And if I 0:44:28.880 --> 0:44:31.840 ever do switch to the Pixel, I'm gonna activate my 0:44:31.960 --> 0:44:35.120 Apple Watch with Cellular on the family plan, which is 0:44:35.120 --> 0:44:37.480 gonna be a little wonky. I'm gonna use the family setup, 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:41.840 which is not ideal because it won't be perfect. But anyway, 0:44:41.960 --> 0:44:43.719 that's a whole nother story. All right, let's get to 0:44:43.719 --> 0:44:47.240 another question and then I'll do my personal info. Okay, 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:50.200 let's do another recording. Here we go another voice memo here. 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:55.120 Hello, which they say is Josey. I have a simple 0:44:55.200 --> 0:45:00.360 question for you. Have you heard about a cloud switch 0:45:01.400 --> 0:45:07.319 service called telebox t E R A B or X 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:12.839 tearbox If you have want you, I want to hear 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:18.200 your input about it. If you haven't, well that's okay. 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:20.920 Things all right. 0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:23.279 So I had to look up terror Box and I 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:28.160 had not heard of this. But from what I see, 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:29.960 I mean, there's a lot of talk about whether it's 0:45:30.040 --> 0:45:32.440 legit or not. And here's what I can tell. So 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:35.440 what terror Box is if you go to the website, 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:39.799 it's very simple. It's literally just a terror box used 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:43.759 to be called do box. It provides you with a 0:45:43.880 --> 0:45:48.960 terabyte of storage and it's free. So but that's it. 0:45:49.000 --> 0:45:53.279 There's no like, there's no information, there's no This is 0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:56.560 what it concerns me about this is that there's no 0:45:58.320 --> 0:46:01.480 about this website on the website, which is odd. So 0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:05.480 I would definitely not use this as my primary storage 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:09.480 in fact, I would not even trust the you know, 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:12.279 the encryption, Like if you're just sharing like random, like 0:46:12.320 --> 0:46:14.960 if you just need a terabyte of storage space to 0:46:15.040 --> 0:46:18.080 store random stuff that's not very personal, that's just easy, 0:46:18.120 --> 0:46:20.520 and you don't really care about the privacy, then I 0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:23.880 think this would work. But I would I would not 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:26.880 guarantee or expect this to be around in a year 0:46:26.960 --> 0:46:30.480 or two, like you just don't know. And that's I'm 0:46:30.480 --> 0:46:33.279 only saying that because there's nothing about it on the 0:46:33.320 --> 0:46:35.279 website like usually it would say about there'd be a 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.920 Twitter link or a LinkedIn, or a Facebook or an Instagram. 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:40.759 There's none of that stuff. But it looks like a 0:46:40.800 --> 0:46:42.840 nice website. You can log in with Google log in, 0:46:42.920 --> 0:46:46.040 create an account. There's an Android client and iPhone client. 0:46:46.560 --> 0:46:48.480 And if you go to the iPhone client, let's see 0:46:48.480 --> 0:46:52.560 what the ratings are. There's only nine hundred and twelve ratings. 0:46:53.320 --> 0:46:57.799 It says it's owned by FlexTech, and so if you 0:46:57.880 --> 0:47:00.400 look at the developer website, let's see, yeah, brings you 0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:02.600 back to Terrorbox now. I was able to find a 0:47:02.680 --> 0:47:07.160 press release. It says Terrorbox surpasses ten million global downloads. 0:47:07.160 --> 0:47:10.120 This was on September fourteenth, twenty twenty one comes out 0:47:10.160 --> 0:47:13.240 of sunny Veil, says terror Box, a cloud based storage 0:47:13.239 --> 0:47:18.239 subscription provider, announced ten million downloads. While many competitors offer 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:21.880 free cloud most don't exceed five gigabytes without a paid subscription, 0:47:22.239 --> 0:47:25.960 Terrorbox gives users one terabyte a free cloud storage space, 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:28.960 which is approximately two hundred and fifty six thousand and 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:37.399 four megabyte photos. Terrorbox automatically sinks files across devices and 0:47:38.040 --> 0:47:41.840 local storage. Oh that's interesting, so you can ability, you 0:47:41.840 --> 0:47:44.160 can upload files up to four gigs in size or 0:47:44.200 --> 0:47:50.200 twenty gigs with paid easily share files online previews. Compatibility 0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:54.400 with iOS, Android, and desktop computers, and it also sorts 0:47:54.520 --> 0:47:58.960 into categories like flowers, food, and home. Available in iOS 0:47:59.000 --> 0:48:03.200 and Android. TERBYX for Windows will be available on September sixteenth, 0:48:03.239 --> 0:48:08.560 twenty twenty one. Oh that's interesting. Okay, that's like very soon. 0:48:09.320 --> 0:48:13.600 Tear Box is a okay, and it actually has a contact, 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:18.680 a PR contact in the US, So I mean, look, 0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:24.200 and I've actually gotten emails from these people, so like 0:48:24.280 --> 0:48:27.200 the other let's see have I gotten from this agency? 0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:31.040 Have I gotten anything? Yeah? I have so oh wow, 0:48:31.480 --> 0:48:33.839 oh yeah, Okay, it's a legit agency because I've worked 0:48:33.840 --> 0:48:38.320 with them on other things, so t E R A box. Yeah, 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:42.080 it seems legit, but again I would be cautious. I 0:48:42.080 --> 0:48:44.759 would just be cautiously optimistic. Use this for like a 0:48:44.800 --> 0:48:48.080 way to store stuff. You've got a terabyte in the cloud, 0:48:48.120 --> 0:48:51.400 but just don't bank too much on it. And apparently 0:48:51.680 --> 0:48:54.560 the company that it's owned by. I looked up a 0:48:54.560 --> 0:48:58.000 little bit more and it apparently it's owned by a 0:48:58.160 --> 0:49:02.080 Japanese division of a China company. So I don't know 0:49:02.160 --> 0:49:05.000 take that at I just you know, we just don't know. 0:49:05.480 --> 0:49:08.000 There's just not too much that I just wish it 0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:11.400 had more information about who like owns this, but it 0:49:11.560 --> 0:49:14.680 just doesn't. And you would think, okay, now I got 0:49:14.680 --> 0:49:18.080 to another page that tells me a little bit more 0:49:18.360 --> 0:49:21.920 about it. But again, okay, so if I go to 0:49:22.000 --> 0:49:26.160 membership pages, normal user gets one terabyte and then a 0:49:26.280 --> 0:49:29.759 premium user. Okay, so it tells you, oh, okay, this 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:32.920 is interesting. You don't get high speed downloads, and you 0:49:32.920 --> 0:49:35.839 don't get automatic video back up. You can only say 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:41.520 five hundred files, playback resolution is seven to twenty, maximum 0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:45.240 file size four gigs, and it's not ad free. Okay, 0:49:45.320 --> 0:49:47.760 So there are some limitations to the free but again, 0:49:48.600 --> 0:49:52.600 you can upgrade to premium for gosh, see I don't 0:49:52.600 --> 0:49:55.200 I hate when they don't say how much pricing is 0:49:55.239 --> 0:49:58.200 on their page anyway, So this is again terror Box 0:49:58.280 --> 0:50:00.239 is something that you only want to do if you 0:50:00.320 --> 0:50:02.640 are in need of some storage. There are other places 0:50:02.640 --> 0:50:04.279 out there where you can get storage, maybe not a 0:50:04.360 --> 0:50:07.360 terabyte for free, but you know, you can always exhaust 0:50:07.400 --> 0:50:11.840 your other options like dropbox and one edrive and Google Drive. 0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:15.600 But again they're all kind of clamping down on that 0:50:15.640 --> 0:50:19.239 free storage. All right, let's get to my news. So 0:50:19.800 --> 0:50:23.239 I've talked about this in the podcast before, but you know, 0:50:23.320 --> 0:50:25.680 this podcast is called Rich on Tech. It's a lot 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:28.719 about me and my world, and I try to make 0:50:28.760 --> 0:50:32.040 it as personal as possible because I'm a real person. 0:50:32.080 --> 0:50:35.120 I'm a human being that covers technology in Los Angeles. Yes, 0:50:35.160 --> 0:50:38.120 I'm on TV, so that makes me like, oh my gosh, 0:50:38.160 --> 0:50:42.080 this guy's on TV. And you know, it's so interesting 0:50:42.120 --> 0:50:46.239 that when you're on TV people think you're different than 0:50:46.440 --> 0:50:48.440 you know, people that are not on TV. And I'm not. 0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:52.360 I'm just a regular person that happens to be on TV. 0:50:52.480 --> 0:50:54.880 So yes, you see me on there, anyone can see me, 0:50:54.960 --> 0:50:57.400 anyone can know who I am. But the reality is 0:50:57.440 --> 0:51:00.440 I'm just a regular person and I'm going through everything 0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:03.160 in life just like you are. And whether that's family, 0:51:03.200 --> 0:51:05.919 whether that's kids, whether that's problems, whether that's good things, 0:51:05.960 --> 0:51:09.120 whether that's highs, whether that's lows, it's all there. My 0:51:09.200 --> 0:51:11.399 life is no different than yours except for the fact 0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:13.279 that I have to get up really early and be 0:51:13.400 --> 0:51:17.640 on TV, and that's basically it. I have a job 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:19.920 just like everyone else. Some days are better than others. 0:51:20.440 --> 0:51:22.000 So anyway, the reason why I tell you all that 0:51:22.080 --> 0:51:26.319 is because some people try to, you know, hide their 0:51:26.360 --> 0:51:30.040 personal life. I feel like I can't because my life 0:51:30.080 --> 0:51:33.560 is so intertwined with what I do, whether I'm sharing 0:51:33.560 --> 0:51:36.640 pictures of my kids, whether I'm sharing where I am going, whatever. 0:51:37.120 --> 0:51:39.440 So with all that said, I'm not you know, this 0:51:39.560 --> 0:51:42.040 is not like a big life change. Well it kind 0:51:42.040 --> 0:51:44.840 of is. But the reason I tell you this is 0:51:44.840 --> 0:51:47.840 because I wouldn't typically tell you about the type of 0:51:47.960 --> 0:51:51.160 car I drive, because there's no reason to unless it 0:51:51.239 --> 0:51:54.400 was pertinent to what I cover. And now I feel 0:51:54.440 --> 0:51:57.840 like it is because this week I purchased a Tesla 0:51:58.440 --> 0:52:02.920 and I'm very excited about that fact, because it's been 0:52:02.960 --> 0:52:05.360 a long time coming. If you've listened to this podcast 0:52:05.520 --> 0:52:08.359 in the past, you've known that I've or you know 0:52:08.480 --> 0:52:10.920 that I've talked about the fact that my next car 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:14.719 will probably be a Tesla. And so it came to 0:52:14.800 --> 0:52:17.640 a point where I felt like I wanted a new car. 0:52:18.800 --> 0:52:22.959 I was ready, and I bought a Tesla. I bought 0:52:23.000 --> 0:52:25.920 it on September first. I got it a couple of 0:52:26.000 --> 0:52:28.560 days ago. How did I get it so fast? Well, 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:32.719 there's a little secret on the Tesla website called existing inventory. 0:52:33.280 --> 0:52:35.920 And if you go on that website and you look 0:52:35.960 --> 0:52:39.440 at the existing inventory, Tesla releases a couple of cars 0:52:40.040 --> 0:52:42.920 looks like every day that are already made. Now, I 0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:44.839 don't know what's wrong with these cars. Like I'm not 0:52:44.920 --> 0:52:47.160 what's wrong, but like, how do they have these cars? 0:52:47.200 --> 0:52:49.200 I'm not really sure. Is it someone that says I'll 0:52:49.200 --> 0:52:51.439 never mind, I don't want it. They build these cars 0:52:51.440 --> 0:52:52.799 and then they're just ready or do they just build 0:52:52.800 --> 0:52:55.040 a couple extras. I don't know. But I got my 0:52:55.120 --> 0:52:58.000 car in two weeks versus months. And the reason I 0:52:58.040 --> 0:53:00.760 tell you this is because I will probably be talking 0:53:00.800 --> 0:53:04.000 about the Tesla more and more and I will say, 0:53:04.040 --> 0:53:07.400 I'm already obsessed. I love it. It has changed my world. 0:53:07.880 --> 0:53:12.040 I'm learning all about it. I'm watching multiple YouTube videos 0:53:12.040 --> 0:53:16.360 about all the different features. I'm getting used to the 0:53:16.400 --> 0:53:19.239 idea of charging at work, you know, wherever I go. 0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:22.719 I haven't done the home charger yet. But again, it's 0:53:22.760 --> 0:53:24.960 this is a new experience in my life, and it 0:53:25.040 --> 0:53:28.439 feels like when I first got the iPhone. That's really 0:53:28.480 --> 0:53:31.680 what it feels like, because I'm exploring this new way 0:53:31.680 --> 0:53:35.120 of doing things that is just so different and it's 0:53:35.200 --> 0:53:37.919 really amazing. And I feel like I'm driving like something 0:53:38.000 --> 0:53:42.280 that Elon Musk personally like gave me. It's so weird 0:53:42.360 --> 0:53:44.959 because I feel like his imprints are on this car 0:53:45.040 --> 0:53:48.600 with the humor that's built into it. But anyway, so 0:53:48.760 --> 0:53:51.000 I tell you this because I will be talking about 0:53:51.040 --> 0:53:55.479 it in future episodes. I am now on a very 0:53:55.520 --> 0:53:58.760 different path in life, the EV path, which is really 0:53:59.120 --> 0:54:02.640 you know, it's it's something new and in America we 0:54:02.760 --> 0:54:06.640 are so gas centric that it is it is really 0:54:07.560 --> 0:54:09.960 a leap of faith to go down this road of 0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:14.439 EV and so I'm there. It's exciting. I will tell 0:54:14.480 --> 0:54:17.400 you also that I sold my old car through Shift, 0:54:17.760 --> 0:54:20.600 so that was an experience in itself. I you know, 0:54:20.920 --> 0:54:22.560 with these new you know, I used to sell my 0:54:22.600 --> 0:54:25.360 car with Carmacks when I've purchased cars in the past, 0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:28.120 and I thought that was amazing. The fact that you 0:54:28.120 --> 0:54:30.839 can just go somewhere and they purchase your car from 0:54:30.880 --> 0:54:34.240 you and give you money for it is on the spot. 0:54:34.239 --> 0:54:36.919 It is amazing. And then when Carvana came along, I said, 0:54:36.920 --> 0:54:38.520 oh my gosh, now I can sell it to Carvana. 0:54:38.560 --> 0:54:40.880 They come to you, Oh my gosh. And then I 0:54:40.920 --> 0:54:44.520 saw Shift and I basically compared the pricing from Shift, 0:54:44.600 --> 0:54:48.000 Carvana and Carmacks. Carmacks could not give me a quote 0:54:48.040 --> 0:54:51.520 on my phone. Carvana was a couple thousand less than 0:54:51.640 --> 0:54:55.400 Shift and Shift. The big difference is that when Carvana 0:54:55.480 --> 0:54:59.319 takes your car, according to my friend, the money is 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:03.200 in your account immediately. With Shift, it does go through 0:55:03.480 --> 0:55:05.800 a kind of a little more of a holding period 0:55:06.000 --> 0:55:08.319 where they do come to your house, they do the evaluation, 0:55:08.440 --> 0:55:12.279 but there is a final inspection off site that does 0:55:12.320 --> 0:55:14.279 take a little bit longer to get your money. So 0:55:14.320 --> 0:55:17.399 I was very nervous in handing my car over along 0:55:17.480 --> 0:55:19.160 with my pink slip. I think that is that what 0:55:19.200 --> 0:55:22.680 they call it the title whatever, you know, the slip 0:55:22.800 --> 0:55:26.520 for the title and not having the money. But every 0:55:26.640 --> 0:55:28.759 person I talked to from Shift assured me that I 0:55:28.760 --> 0:55:32.680 would get my money, and I did after only twenty 0:55:32.680 --> 0:55:34.799 four hours. They sent me an email saying, your car 0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:37.560 passed the final inspection. Your money is on its way, 0:55:37.600 --> 0:55:39.560 but it could take three to four days to get it. 0:55:39.640 --> 0:55:42.920 So I can't say with certainty that the Shift process 0:55:43.000 --> 0:55:46.960 worked out. It's Shift dot com Shift, by the way. 0:55:47.000 --> 0:55:50.320 That's what I'm saying. But I can't say with certainty 0:55:50.320 --> 0:55:52.239 that it worked out. But it seems to have worked out, 0:55:52.600 --> 0:55:55.920 and I seem to have gotten more than Carvana. So 0:55:55.960 --> 0:55:58.319 the way I understand it is that Carvana gives you 0:55:58.640 --> 0:56:02.440 a little bit more than Carmak, and then Shift, it seems, 0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:04.960 is paying people a little bit more than CarMax. Right now, 0:56:05.080 --> 0:56:09.280 it's probably because they probably do less advertising on TV, 0:56:09.719 --> 0:56:12.600 they have maybe a little bit less overhead, and they're 0:56:12.600 --> 0:56:15.480 probably just less known, so they need more cars to 0:56:15.520 --> 0:56:18.120 do the same thing as Carbona. So I think it's 0:56:18.120 --> 0:56:20.600 an amazing world we live in today, the fact that 0:56:20.600 --> 0:56:23.919 we have this already. I will tell you that range 0:56:23.960 --> 0:56:26.359 anxiety is real. Every trip that I go on. I'm 0:56:26.400 --> 0:56:28.920 just sitting there thinking, Oh my gosh, do I have 0:56:29.000 --> 0:56:31.239 enough mileage to get there? How am I going to 0:56:31.320 --> 0:56:33.000 charge once they get there? Am I gonna be able 0:56:33.040 --> 0:56:34.480 to get back home? How am I going to charge 0:56:34.480 --> 0:56:36.360 at home? Because I don't have a charger yet. But 0:56:36.600 --> 0:56:39.400 it's a new world, and I've got to say, I 0:56:39.480 --> 0:56:42.719 have not been this excited about something in the tech 0:56:42.760 --> 0:56:46.359 world for many, many years, and so I am very 0:56:46.360 --> 0:56:49.720 excited about that. And oh my gosh, we're already fifty 0:56:49.719 --> 0:56:51.880 five minutes into the show. I haven't even gotten to 0:56:51.960 --> 0:56:53.840 the rest. I have so much more to talk about. 0:56:53.840 --> 0:56:56.560 I've just been very long winded, so I'll just keep 0:56:56.600 --> 0:56:59.879 going a little bit. Let's talk about the iPad Mini 0:57:00.320 --> 0:57:03.759 iPad MANI. This got some of the biggest improvements. What 0:57:03.800 --> 0:57:05.319 do you need to know about the iPad MANI. It 0:57:05.360 --> 0:57:08.200 is totally brand new. It's got this big eight point 0:57:08.600 --> 0:57:12.120 three inch screen, comes in pink, starlight, purple, and gray. 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:17.040 It's got touch ID at the top on the fingerprint 0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:20.280 sensor I guess, on the power button. It now supports 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:23.000 the second generation Apple pencil. It's got the new A 0:57:23.120 --> 0:57:26.800 fifteen bionics, so a really fast chip that is in 0:57:26.840 --> 0:57:30.520 the new iPhones. It's got the center stage, so the 0:57:30.520 --> 0:57:33.160 cameras are improved. Center stage means that the camera will 0:57:33.160 --> 0:57:36.280 follow you when you're doing a video chat. It's got 0:57:36.360 --> 0:57:40.880 USB C, it's got five G optional cellular, and I'll 0:57:40.880 --> 0:57:43.680 be honest, I think this is something that I am 0:57:43.720 --> 0:57:46.560 going to purchase because I love the idea that I 0:57:46.600 --> 0:57:48.480 can take this on trips. I know, I try to 0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:50.360 pack light, but I still like the idea of a 0:57:50.360 --> 0:57:55.640 little iPad, and especially if I'm gonna be using the pixel, 0:57:55.720 --> 0:58:00.400 I'll still want the iOS for you know, researching and 0:58:00.560 --> 0:58:03.000 just in general, and so this is kind of a 0:58:03.080 --> 0:58:05.800 nice way of having that iOS experience. Maybe I don't 0:58:05.840 --> 0:58:07.920 need it if I just do the new iPhone, but 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:12.000 this would be six hundred and forty nine dollars with cellular, 0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:15.640 four ninety nine without cellular. And the annoying thing here 0:58:15.840 --> 0:58:18.280 is that Apple raised the price by one hundred dollars 0:58:18.320 --> 0:58:20.560 on this thing. It used to be three ninety nine 0:58:20.600 --> 0:58:23.800 and now it's four ninety nine, and that is a 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:26.840 I just hate the fact that in twenty twenty one. 0:58:27.400 --> 0:58:29.480 You know, I get it, they improved a lot of stuff, 0:58:29.520 --> 0:58:31.000 but why do we have to have a price increase. 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:35.520 I don't like that. So yeah, all right, let's should 0:58:35.520 --> 0:58:38.880 we do another question? Let's do another question? Uh, Dixon 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:41.640 writes in Oh, this isn't a question, it's actually a complaint. Hey, Rich, 0:58:41.680 --> 0:58:43.920 I took your advice and bought one of these earbuds. 0:58:44.320 --> 0:58:48.280 It arrived a couple days ago, since I live in Irvine. 0:58:48.320 --> 0:58:51.240 First glance, the packaging was professional and I pleasing. I 0:58:51.240 --> 0:58:54.120 immediately tested the sound quality compared to my Bose earbuds 0:58:54.120 --> 0:58:55.960 that I've been using for years. I'm sorry to inform 0:58:55.960 --> 0:58:59.200 you with big disappointment of the bad quality of the sound, 0:58:59.320 --> 0:59:01.840 not even close to my bows and clarity and sound. 0:59:02.600 --> 0:59:04.480 I reached out, Oh, these are one plus buds. I 0:59:04.520 --> 0:59:06.720 reached out to one plus online to return the item. 0:59:06.760 --> 0:59:08.960 As of today, five business days have gone by, still 0:59:08.960 --> 0:59:11.280 waiting for the return label. I emailed them twice. The 0:59:11.360 --> 0:59:14.919 response was wait twenty four to forty eight hours. I'm 0:59:14.920 --> 0:59:18.120 still waiting. Their customer service is super slow. Just to 0:59:18.200 --> 0:59:20.160 let you know my thoughts. I know you get paid 0:59:20.200 --> 0:59:22.760 by sponsoring products on air, but this one is a 0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:27.720 big disappointment compared to Bo's users. Best regards, Dixon. All right, Dixon, 0:59:28.120 --> 0:59:30.960 Number one, I do not get paid to sponsor products 0:59:31.000 --> 0:59:34.960 on air, So I don't get paid to sponsor pretty 0:59:35.040 --> 0:59:37.560 much anything. Now, I will tell you there's a couple 0:59:37.600 --> 0:59:42.120 of things that I do have happened to me, and 0:59:42.160 --> 0:59:44.280 I will always let you know. Number One, I've said 0:59:44.320 --> 0:59:48.360 this before. My paycheck comes from KTLA, So that is 0:59:48.400 --> 0:59:50.840 how I make my money. I do not make money 0:59:51.920 --> 0:59:56.960 by sponsored content almost ever. Now. In the past, yes, 0:59:57.080 --> 1:00:00.600 I have done I think two sponsored Instagram posts when 1:00:00.600 --> 1:00:03.320 I was allowed to do that under my previous company. 1:00:03.600 --> 1:00:05.680 They allowed, I asked for permission, they let me do it. 1:00:05.720 --> 1:00:09.200 I did it. That's that's the only thing. But if 1:00:09.200 --> 1:00:11.800 you see me post about anything on my social media, 1:00:11.920 --> 1:00:14.439 it is something that I just find interesting. It's something 1:00:14.480 --> 1:00:19.080 I'm doing a story on. That's it. That there's no 1:00:19.360 --> 1:00:22.000 money changing hands, and if there ever is, if there's 1:00:22.040 --> 1:00:24.400 ever a situation where that happens, I will let you 1:00:24.480 --> 1:00:27.120 know and I will be very clear about it. But 1:00:27.280 --> 1:00:30.520 that does not happen because it's not really allowed to 1:00:30.560 --> 1:00:36.400 happen under my current agreement unless I make other agreements 1:00:36.880 --> 1:00:39.439 with my company, and so I don't get paid by 1:00:39.560 --> 1:00:42.560 sponsoring products. That's just not something that I do in 1:00:42.600 --> 1:00:45.880 the future. That may change. It could change, but that's 1:00:45.920 --> 1:00:49.919 not currently how I operate, so that doesn't happen. That's 1:00:50.040 --> 1:00:53.439 I reviewed the one plus buds because I genuinely love them, 1:00:53.960 --> 1:00:55.960 and these are the one plus buds Pro that you're 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:58.360 talking about. I fell in love at these. I think 1:00:58.360 --> 1:01:00.360 they are the I still think that they are some 1:01:00.400 --> 1:01:04.480 of the best Android earbuds you can get for one 1:01:04.560 --> 1:01:07.840 hundred and fifty dollars, which I think is a fantastic price. 1:01:08.240 --> 1:01:11.160 Now you're talking about Bo's. I did not compare these 1:01:11.240 --> 1:01:14.440 in my report to BOS. I just said that I 1:01:14.480 --> 1:01:17.120 thought they were the best alternative to the air pods 1:01:17.480 --> 1:01:21.200 for Android users. I am not an audio file I 1:01:21.240 --> 1:01:24.240 am not a sound guy. I just come from a 1:01:24.280 --> 1:01:28.200 personal experience of I've tested a lot of headphones out there, 1:01:28.480 --> 1:01:31.440 or a lot ofhone earbuds. Some sound better than others, 1:01:31.640 --> 1:01:34.240 some are better than others. But the reality is I 1:01:34.360 --> 1:01:36.520 was very impressed with these. I thought they were amazing, 1:01:36.840 --> 1:01:40.120 and I recommended them to everyone and anyone who was 1:01:40.160 --> 1:01:44.520 willing to listen. Now, you are totally you are one 1:01:44.560 --> 1:01:48.600 hundred percent entitled to your opinion, and that is what 1:01:48.680 --> 1:01:50.720 makes the world go round. So if you found that 1:01:50.760 --> 1:01:53.080 these don't compare to your bows. Go back to your bows. 1:01:53.560 --> 1:01:57.640 I would have helped you. If OnePlus does not get 1:01:57.640 --> 1:01:59.640 back to you in a timely manner, yes, I will 1:01:59.720 --> 1:02:03.560 jump in and help you get satisfaction on this return. 1:02:03.640 --> 1:02:05.720 I will not leave you hanging because, yes, this is 1:02:05.720 --> 1:02:08.320 something I recommended you bought them didn't work out. I 1:02:08.320 --> 1:02:12.200 think OnePlus is just smaller than Apple. They're not as nimble, 1:02:12.240 --> 1:02:14.640 and they're not as like you know, they're not as 1:02:14.680 --> 1:02:17.840 well positioned for returns like a big company like Samsung 1:02:17.960 --> 1:02:20.120 or Apple. So yeah, it might take a little bit 1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:22.920 longer for them to get you your money and your return, 1:02:23.000 --> 1:02:24.760 But I do think it will happen. If it doesn't, 1:02:25.080 --> 1:02:27.120 please get in touch with me, and I know you will, 1:02:27.400 --> 1:02:30.440 but that in that aspect, I will help you. So 1:02:31.440 --> 1:02:33.600 thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. It's what makes 1:02:33.640 --> 1:02:36.240 the world go round. Not everyone shares the same opinion, 1:02:36.320 --> 1:02:39.960 and so it's you know, it's totally within your reason 1:02:40.000 --> 1:02:42.000 to email me something like this. All right, let's just 1:02:42.000 --> 1:02:45.280 get through some of these other announcements before the show ends. Here, 1:02:45.920 --> 1:02:49.000 Apple's standard iPad, the three hundred and twenty nine dollars iPad, 1:02:49.040 --> 1:02:52.240 which I still think is the best iPad out there 1:02:52.280 --> 1:02:55.840 for the average person. What did it get new? It 1:02:55.880 --> 1:02:58.600 got a new chip A thirteen bionics so it's more powerful. 1:02:58.640 --> 1:03:03.000 It got a new front facing cam and with that 1:03:03.040 --> 1:03:05.520 center stage feature I was talking about, And that's about it. 1:03:05.680 --> 1:03:07.880 So that's pretty much all you need to know. The 1:03:07.920 --> 1:03:11.000 standard iPad at three twenty nine is still I think 1:03:11.200 --> 1:03:14.560 the best iPad for the average person, especially if you 1:03:14.560 --> 1:03:16.440 have kids. People email me all the time saying rich 1:03:16.480 --> 1:03:18.440 which I perhap should I get from my kids? The 1:03:18.480 --> 1:03:20.800 Mini I would recommend, but it's too expensive at four 1:03:20.880 --> 1:03:23.800 ninety nine's that's like really a lot three twenty nine. 1:03:23.840 --> 1:03:26.200 This typically goes on sale for cheaper, so I would 1:03:26.200 --> 1:03:30.160 say go for that Apple Fitness plus a couple things 1:03:30.200 --> 1:03:34.320 to note there. They built new guided meditation into the 1:03:34.360 --> 1:03:37.160 app and also pilates into the app, and that's going 1:03:37.200 --> 1:03:40.280 to launch on September twenty seventh. Then later this fall 1:03:40.280 --> 1:03:42.840 they're going to launch this new thing called group workouts, 1:03:43.040 --> 1:03:45.040 where you can invite up to thirty two friends to 1:03:45.080 --> 1:03:46.600 work out at the same time, kind of like a 1:03:46.600 --> 1:03:51.440 group FaceTime, but with workouts. All right, let's get to 1:03:51.560 --> 1:03:54.680 another question. Then I'll round up two more news stories 1:03:54.720 --> 1:03:57.720 and then we'll go all right. Fred Wrights, Hey Rich, 1:03:57.760 --> 1:04:00.160 how are you? I have a Samsung S ten Android 1:04:00.400 --> 1:04:02.680 at and T is the provider my issue. I can't 1:04:02.720 --> 1:04:04.920 find a way to stop the camera from identifying the 1:04:04.960 --> 1:04:07.720 location the picture was taking. I already turned off the 1:04:07.760 --> 1:04:10.880 location stamp and the camera settings menu and the main settings. 1:04:10.920 --> 1:04:13.840 I deny GPS access to the camera. The interesting part 1:04:13.920 --> 1:04:16.040 is that the location stamp is not on every picture. 1:04:16.040 --> 1:04:19.080 It's very random. Sometimes it shows up on every second 1:04:19.120 --> 1:04:21.520 or third picture. Other times maybe on the ninth or 1:04:21.600 --> 1:04:24.680 eighth picture. All the firmware and software on the picture, 1:04:24.800 --> 1:04:28.440 on the camera, on the are updated. Any ideas on 1:04:28.480 --> 1:04:30.840 how to stop the camera from accessing location? Thanks for 1:04:30.840 --> 1:04:35.520 your help, Fred, Fred here is what I think is happening. 1:04:35.800 --> 1:04:39.200 Because you're on Samsung, I was gonna recommend that you 1:04:39.320 --> 1:04:42.160 turn off the There's a thing called location tags. If 1:04:42.200 --> 1:04:45.000 you go into your camera, open it up, open up settings, 1:04:45.040 --> 1:04:48.000 and there's something called location tags. You can toggle that off. 1:04:48.520 --> 1:04:52.040 Once you toggle that off, you can confirm that location 1:04:52.320 --> 1:04:55.440 is no longer being attached to a picture. How can 1:04:55.480 --> 1:05:00.320 you confirm that by opening Samsung's gallery app? I have 1:05:00.360 --> 1:05:02.600 a feeling I know what's going on here. I have 1:05:02.640 --> 1:05:06.160 a feeling that you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos. 1:05:06.200 --> 1:05:08.840 And I'll explain what's going on in a second. But 1:05:09.000 --> 1:05:11.919 in the gallery app, the only way to confirm that. 1:05:12.040 --> 1:05:15.720 There's two ways. In the Gallery app, open up a 1:05:15.720 --> 1:05:18.240 picture and with all these settings turned off. You said 1:05:18.240 --> 1:05:21.280 you turn off GPS on the camera, you deny GPS 1:05:21.320 --> 1:05:25.800 in the permissions. That's a great start. That's basically the 1:05:25.840 --> 1:05:29.880 way to deny GPS what they call EXIF data to 1:05:30.000 --> 1:05:33.200 being written, to being written on these photos. To confirm it, 1:05:33.320 --> 1:05:36.400 open up these Samsung Gallery app, it is called Gallery. 1:05:36.520 --> 1:05:38.760 Open it up, open up a picture, and if you 1:05:39.240 --> 1:05:41.040 look at the details of that picture, you have to 1:05:41.120 --> 1:05:44.520 use a little menu. Look at details. There should be 1:05:44.560 --> 1:05:47.120 no location attached to those pictures. There's no way your 1:05:47.120 --> 1:05:49.640 phone is still attaching location because you've turned it off 1:05:49.680 --> 1:05:52.600 and you've disabled it. What I think is happening is 1:05:52.640 --> 1:05:55.200 I think you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos. 1:05:55.240 --> 1:05:59.240 And what Google Photos does is, because Google is so smart, 1:05:59.680 --> 1:06:02.400 it is not just looking at the GPS tags on 1:06:02.440 --> 1:06:06.080 those pictures. It's also looking at something called location history, 1:06:06.440 --> 1:06:09.360 which is an aggregate of your location every time you 1:06:09.400 --> 1:06:11.720 open up any sort of Google app on your phone. 1:06:12.200 --> 1:06:14.200 It kind of figures out where you are. It takes 1:06:14.200 --> 1:06:17.800 that into consideration. It says, oh, okay, Riches in Chattanooga, 1:06:17.880 --> 1:06:19.960 he took a picture at nine am. Although it doesn't 1:06:19.960 --> 1:06:22.439 have GPS, we know he's there. We're going to say 1:06:23.080 --> 1:06:27.480 estimated location Chattanooga, Tennessee. Now, so I want you to 1:06:27.560 --> 1:06:30.160 open up these pictures in Google Photos and see if 1:06:30.160 --> 1:06:33.320 it says estimated location when you look at the location. 1:06:33.480 --> 1:06:35.760 If it does, I think I've solved your problem. The 1:06:35.840 --> 1:06:39.120 location is not actually being attached to this picture physically. 1:06:39.400 --> 1:06:41.920 It is being estimated by Google. And what that means 1:06:42.200 --> 1:06:44.840 is that only you can see where that picture was 1:06:45.280 --> 1:06:48.560 theoretically taken, because Google is only showing you that data. 1:06:48.680 --> 1:06:51.680 The other tool you can use is called Jeffries x 1:06:51.720 --> 1:06:57.880 IF Viewer, and if you google Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer, 1:06:58.800 --> 1:07:01.160 you can click that and you can upload the picture 1:07:01.200 --> 1:07:04.080 there and it will show you the EXIF data. And 1:07:04.160 --> 1:07:06.480 this is a good way to see if EXIF data 1:07:06.640 --> 1:07:09.000 is being attached to the picture. If it is, you'll 1:07:09.040 --> 1:07:11.680 see GPS coordinates. If it's not, you will not. So 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:14.400 great question there. Let me just get through two more 1:07:14.440 --> 1:07:20.080 stories before this show is over all. Right, So Kindle 1:07:20.160 --> 1:07:22.280 getting an update for the first time in a long time, 1:07:23.280 --> 1:07:26.800 and if you've already seen it, maybe you have. But 1:07:26.920 --> 1:07:30.600 Kindle software update is rolling out as we speak. The 1:07:30.640 --> 1:07:33.520 new software update gives you more direct access to home 1:07:33.720 --> 1:07:37.120 library in their current book, as well as easy access 1:07:37.120 --> 1:07:41.600 to commonly used settings. So that is the main feature. 1:07:41.680 --> 1:07:43.800 Now when you swipe down from the top, you can 1:07:43.800 --> 1:07:46.680 get access to kind of the things that you need, 1:07:46.840 --> 1:07:52.640 which is, let's see the airplane mode, Bluetooth sync settings 1:07:52.680 --> 1:07:55.840 and brightness and so this is an easy way to 1:07:55.880 --> 1:07:58.680 do just that, which is really nice. Also, then you 1:07:58.680 --> 1:08:01.760 can get your access to her font and all that stuff. 1:08:01.800 --> 1:08:03.919 My wife and I always crack up because she looks 1:08:03.960 --> 1:08:05.560 at my font that I use on my Kindle and 1:08:05.600 --> 1:08:08.920 it's super small. But I do adjust the lighting every 1:08:09.240 --> 1:08:11.720 so often, like I find that the automatic adjustment of 1:08:11.760 --> 1:08:14.440 the back light isn't the best. Maybe it's better with 1:08:14.440 --> 1:08:16.280 a new update. So if you want the new update, 1:08:17.800 --> 1:08:20.639 you can go into your settings and go to software 1:08:20.680 --> 1:08:23.120 update in the Kindle. Otherwise you can just wait for 1:08:23.160 --> 1:08:24.800 it to hit your Kindle. It's going to be hitting 1:08:24.880 --> 1:08:27.840 it for a while. The feature that I do like that. 1:08:27.880 --> 1:08:30.080 I think I've been talking I've already talked about on 1:08:30.160 --> 1:08:32.880 the Kindle is the fact that you can now display 1:08:33.400 --> 1:08:37.120 the book you're reading on your cover when your Kindle 1:08:37.320 --> 1:08:40.080 is is not in use. And that's only if you 1:08:40.120 --> 1:08:42.519 have the ad free version of the Kindle, which I 1:08:42.520 --> 1:08:45.679 don't think most people have. Okay, Earlier in the show, 1:08:45.720 --> 1:08:50.400 I mentioned that Google has Google has answered my Google 1:08:50.560 --> 1:08:54.240 Cloud storage dreams and they came up with a middle 1:08:54.360 --> 1:08:56.960 ground tier. So it used to be you had to 1:08:57.040 --> 1:08:59.680 choose between two terabytes, which I used to pay ten 1:08:59.720 --> 1:09:02.799 dollars for and ten terabytes, which I had to upgrade 1:09:02.840 --> 1:09:05.720 to and pay fifty dollars for a month for my 1:09:05.800 --> 1:09:09.759 Google Photos. Now they have a new five terabyte storage 1:09:09.800 --> 1:09:12.000 plan which is twenty five dollars a month, which just 1:09:12.080 --> 1:09:16.680 saved me. Get this, twenty five dollars a month, so 1:09:16.800 --> 1:09:20.439 that is amazing. Thank you Google for doing that. And 1:09:21.439 --> 1:09:23.360 I'm not going to go into detail on what I 1:09:23.360 --> 1:09:26.400 still need to do with this situation, but I am 1:09:26.479 --> 1:09:28.800 currently saving twenty five dollars a month on my plan, 1:09:28.840 --> 1:09:31.960 which is really great. You can actually pay the whole 1:09:32.040 --> 1:09:34.960 year in advance for two hundred and fifty dollars, So 1:09:35.000 --> 1:09:38.439 two fifty divided by twelve actually brings your monthly payment 1:09:38.479 --> 1:09:41.040 down to twenty dollars and eighty three cents a month, 1:09:41.439 --> 1:09:44.880 which is even four dollars less a month than when 1:09:44.880 --> 1:09:47.400 I'm currently paying. So I will eventually do that. I 1:09:47.479 --> 1:09:48.840 just didn't, you know, I bought the car, so I 1:09:48.880 --> 1:09:51.280 didn't really feel like spending another two hundred fifty dollars 1:09:51.680 --> 1:09:54.720 when I saw this. So I will eventually do that 1:09:55.520 --> 1:09:58.760 very soon. And thank you Google for doing that. Oh, 1:09:58.800 --> 1:10:02.000 thank you for listening. That is going to do it 1:10:02.040 --> 1:10:06.879 for this episode of the show. If you're listening on Facebook, 1:10:06.920 --> 1:10:09.840 stay tuned. 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