WEBVTT - Androids are now a mini earthquake detection machine 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:14.040 Samsung's latest gadgets. Google turns every Android into an earthquake detector, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:19.000 Microsoft's biggest gamble yet. Plus Your tech questions answered. What's 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.720 going on? I'm Rich Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.120 the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.160 think you should know about, and it's also where I 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.000 answer the questions that you send me. My name is 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:35.720 Rich Jamiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.280 We've got some folks viewing this morning. I don't like 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.760 to say what time of day it is, because you 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.560 could be listening anytime, but to me, it's morning, and 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.879 we got some folks watching on Facebook, So welcome to you. Welcome, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.519 no matter where you are. We had a viewer on 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.080 Facebook from India. It is interesting. I've had my Facebook 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.520 page now for about ten years, which I can't believe. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.400 I think I think it was July twenty ten that 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.520 I opened it. No, it couldn't be. No, no, no, sorry, 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.440 it can't be that that old hold on it says 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:13.080 on my little info page when I opened my page, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.800 and I can't seem to find that right now. Anyway, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.440 I've had it for a while and you'd be surprised. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.399 I actually do have a lot of international folks on 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.840 the Facebook page, people that don't necessarily find me from 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.080 KTLA here in Los Angeles, but they find me from 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.720 a various some sort of post I did that goes viral, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.920 and I've had a couple of big viral hits, including 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.120 looks at the iPhone and just random stuff I've done 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.160 where people see it and they like it and they 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.440 end up following me. So I do have a lot 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.880 of people from different countries and always surprises me just 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.720 how many. But welcome to you as well. I was 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.320 off last week. I know it's been a little all 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.080 over the place during the summer because you know, I've 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.360 been taking off Fridays, which is normally when I record 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.200 the show, and so last week I got a lot 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.680 of questions, where's there's the show? Rich, where's the show? 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.840 And Everything's okay. I was in Santa Barbara for my 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.680 anniversary fifteen years, thank you, and my wife and I 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.520 just went up there. We didn't have the kids, so 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.400 that was kind of nice and it was just a 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.640 great weekend. And Santa Barbara is beautiful. If you're not 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.200 familiar with it. It's in California on the coast, and 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.880 it reminds me of Santa Monica, like twenty years ago. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.280 Just beautiful, well kept and oh is that a knock 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.760 on Santa Monica. Whoops, But it's kind of true. It's 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.480 a very beautiful place. I always say, if I could 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.160 find a job in Santa Barbara, I would live there. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.800 But I just don't know what people do there because 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.560 I don't know what the industry is except tourism. The 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.280 only tech company I know that's up there is called Sonos, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.960 and by the way, everyone had a Sonos. All the 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.080 businesses up there have a son Nos speaker, which is 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.080 really cool. But anyway, it was beautiful, lots of people, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.440 but everything was socially distanced. Everything was very safe. We 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.520 had dinner outside. It was just beautiful. So I'm back. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.480 I'm ready to work, and I can't speak highly enough 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.120 of Santa Barbara, although I'm sure they are kind of 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.919 sick of all the folks from Los Angeles coming up there. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.520 Maybe not for the money that we're spending, but maybe 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.520 just for the It was a lot of people. I 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.960 was very surprised. So anyway, if you're ever in California, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.520 definitely make Santa Barbara a stop. We did a great 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.480 hike called the Inspiration Point and it was just amazing, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.720 one of my favorite hikes I've ever done, actually, and 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.079 the view at the top was just awesome. Let's get 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.320 into the first story and something that I was testing 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.880 out all weekend in Santa Barbara the Samsung Galaxy Note 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:42.000 twenty Ultra. Samsung had their Unpacked event which was virtual, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.960 and they unveiled a whole bunch of stuff the Galaxy 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.800 Note twenty, also the Galaxy tab S seven, the Galaxy 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.080 Watch three, which I have on my wrist right now, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.080 and the Galaxy Buds Live and the Galaxy z Fold two. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.000 So many new items go through a couple of them. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.280 The Galaxy Note twenty. The big improvements here are in 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.600 the camera. Also, it has this new haze finish that 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.480 resists fingerprints. You can see it right here. I've got 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.320 that as well, and it's just beautiful. This phone Note 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:19.320 twenty Ultra is probably my favorite Android phone I've ever used. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.120 It is the culmination of so many things that Samsung 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.200 has worked on over the years, and it kind of 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.600 finally all pays off. I can't share my full review 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.600 just yet, but I will say that as far as 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.039 Samsung devices go, they got a lot right on this thing. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.359 The auto focus is the big thing they fixed on 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.320 the camera. If you have a Samsung S twenty Ultra, 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.839 you know that the focus has been a point of contention. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.800 And I love that phone, but the focus just got 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.760 to me and it's just something that was to me unusable, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.279 and they kept doing software updates to make it better. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.640 And believe me, the Note twenty and also the S 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.839 twenty for ninety nine point nine, some of the pictures 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.040 you're taking, it's going to be fine. It's just especially 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.640 with the S twenty Ultra, it was really the close 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.800 up stuff. And I do a lot of video of 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.080 little things that I'm kind of taking a look at 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.599 little video and it, you know, it's close up and 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.280 I need that to be focused and I need it 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.720 to look good. And with the S twenty Ultra it 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.400 just became a problem. And the Note twenty Ultra I 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.520 find the video, I think, and the audio and the 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.960 pictures to be really good. There's gonna be some challenges 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.279 here and there, but overall it's not a deal breaker. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.680 It's a really really great phone. What else have I 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.119 been impressed with the screen. It's one of these phones 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.040 that I can't stop looking at. The screen is just 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.720 so beautiful that I just can't take my eyes off 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.360 of it, Like it's just it draws you in and 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.560 it's just everything is fast, it's speedy. So that's the note. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.880 They also made the spen improved, so the spen now 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.560 feels snappier. I guess I don't know the difference. But 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.839 they also made it so you can write on PDFs 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.760 that you can. Oh one one cool feature when you 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.520 take notes, it syncs up the audio to what you're writing, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.760 so if you tap what you're writing later, you can 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.640 hear the audio at the time. So if you're in 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.280 class and you take a note and you want to 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.640 hear what the teacher said exactly at that moment, just 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.440 tap the thing that you wrote down and it brings 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.679 you right to that part in the audio. That's really cool. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.400 And the camera the video is just it's all fantastic. Again, 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.599 can't give you my full review, but that's kind of 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.960 my first impressions of it after using it for a 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.359 week or so. Let's see tabs seven I played with 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.520 just a little bit. This is their tablet that kind 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.880 of rivals the iPad Pro, and again it's beautiful. It 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.400 just seems like a giant note device with it with 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.200 a keyboard. It's got the s pen functionality, and that's 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.920 going on sale in later in the fall. I think 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.960 that these high end Android tablets are a tough sell 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.080 when the iPad has so much surrounding it, especially with 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.600 apps and accessories. But the tabs seven is really beautiful 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.159 and a nice device as well. The Watch three is 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.200 on my wrist. I love my Apple Watch and it's 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.560 really tough for me to use any other watch, but 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.600 I will kind of try this out a little bit. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.280 It doesn't have LTE on the model I'm testing, but 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.360 it does have oxygen monitoring, it does have the workouts 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.800 and all that good stuff. So I think if if 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.120 you had to go with an Android smart watch, I 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.040 think that this is probably the best one out there. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.360 But again I'm just not I'm not. I haven't used 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.080 it enough to kind of see yet. And question in 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.920 Facebook Live is it worth the price on the Ultra. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.160 The Ultra is I think thirteen hundred dollars, So the 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.440 idea is that you're probably upgrading from a different phone. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.480 So Samsung is giving a lot of upgrade deals right now, 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.000 up to six hundred and fifty dollars in credits, so 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.560 even for crack screens. So the best way to do 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.720 it is to order it from Samsung directly, and if 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.160 you pre order it before August twentieth, which you still 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:56.280 have a couple of days, you're going to get an 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.920 extrae hundred and fifty dollars credit. So they are really 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.320 pushing these credits. And Jonathan on the Facebook says, I 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:04.920 love my Apple Watch, but I wonder if I can 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.080 use it the Note twenty you cannot. So it's it's 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.920 one of those things where I've been wearing my Apple 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.400 Watch which has LTE, and then also using the note 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.280 to get kind of like because I haven't switched over, 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.720 I haven't put my SIM card in the note because 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.920 it's really tough with I message. It's just a whole 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.440 big thing. It's really Android versus iOS these days is 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.080 really hot and heavy. And yes, folks are saying that 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.239 AT and T has good deals. All the carriers are 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.720 going to have great deals right now on especially pre orders. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.839 Once pre order time and the thing goes on sale, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.000 the deals get a little worse. So it's they these 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.240 these companies put you in a really tricky situation. They 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.760 want you to order this thing without actually having used it. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.880 So you've got to trust people like myself to say, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.640 oh my gosh, this is so great, you should go 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.080 out and spend over one thousand dollars without ever touching 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.920 this device. Let's pre order it. That's really tricky. That's 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:01.720 a tricky situation to be in. Personally, I would rather 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.440 give up some of those some of the incentives to 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.280 actually go to a store myself and try out a 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.680 device and see how it is, see how it feels 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.680 in my hand before I purchased it. But if you're 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.800 really you know, if you're upgrading in your Note fan, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.720 and that's really who they're appealing to. If you have 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.720 one of these devices and you want to upgrade to 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.600 the latest and greatest. You have a Note four or 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.720 Note five? Was there five? Six? There was no seven? 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.120 There was seven, but we know what happened with that one. Okay. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.079 Galaxy Buds Live, these are some of my favorites. These 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.040 are the ones that look like beans and they are amazing. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.400 So I can't say enough about these Galaxy Buds Live. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.599 If you are looking for earbuds. If you're willing to 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.040 spend one hundred and seventy dollars on earbuds, these are 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.280 some of the best earbuds I've tried. I love the 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.440 AirPods Pro and I still think that they are the 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:59.000 overall best earbuds, but the Galaxy Buds Live are among 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.160 the best that I've t and I try a lot 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.520 of earbuds and they sound good, they feel amazing. You 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.520 can keep them in your ears for extremely long periods 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.319 of time without any sort of fatigue, and the noise cancelation, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.920 which it has active noise cancelation is great, but it's 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.880 not as pronounced as the Airpod's Pro. But I also 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.880 like that because they don't seal out your ears. So 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.839 I just really fell in love with the Galaxy Buds Live. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.880 The Galaxy z Fol two I don't know anything about 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.920 because I didn't try it and I haven't really seen 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.400 much about it, and that appeals to a very very 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.120 niche audience, so I can't really say much about that. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:41.520 But anyway, I will say, oop, hold on, there we go. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.959 I will say Samsung did a great job in their 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.520 stuff this year. They really really brought it all right. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:54.440 First question, comes from Janice. Jannis says, I have iPhone ten. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.240 I've been trying to get my data under a gigabyte. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.360 I'm guessing a month. I went into the setting and 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.920 turned off some on just about everything. The only thing 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.080 I have left is my Apple Watch, find my iPhone 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.240 activity clock, Compass, and I do zoom one day a 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.320 week on data for about thirty five minutes. As of today, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.440 I've looked and I've used point oh four or five gigabytes, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.040 and my daughter has used point eight gigabytes. And the 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.360 billing ends on the seventh of August. So my question 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.760 is am I doing it right? I'm on a family plan, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.000 but I want to play pay less than fourteen dollars 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.839 a month and not forty two dollars a month. Help needed? 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.720 Oh interesting, I have a feeling Janice must be on 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.040 the Spectrum plan. That's a dollar you pay fourteen dollars 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.840 a month for your first gig, and then versus the 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.680 versus the family Unlimited plan, which is like forty a month. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.480 I think, uh, but here's the deal. That zoom call 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.200 is going to kill you. You're you're not gonna be 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.880 able to go under a gig for a whole month. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.800 If you're using Zoom one day a week, there's just 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.000 no way. So I would say, I know you're trying 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.640 to get your bill to under fourteen dollars a month. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.480 If you want to do that, you basically have done 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.000 it right. You turned off data for everything except your 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.280 absolute essentials, which I don't think are going to put 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.160 you over a gig, but the Zoom will. So you 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:08.920 got to turn off data for Zoom, and you gotta 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.560 go WiFi on Zoom. And that's just the reality. So 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.120 if you're trying to do Zoom over data, maybe she 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:20.360 doesn't have Wi Fi, so maybe she doesn't have Wi 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.560 Fi and she's just using her phone. That could be 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.240 another possibility here, And you're really trying to go inexpensive 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.120 for fourteen a month for everything, In that case, it's 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.280 gonna be almost impossible. If you're doing Zoom, it's gonna 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.319 gobble up some data. You're not gonna be able to 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.080 keep that under a gig a month on that plan. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.040 So my suggestion is if you have Wi Fi, definitely 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.440 lean on the Wi Fi and do the Zoom from 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.240 a Wi Fi place. Now, if you want to stay 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.640 under the fourteen and you want to do your zoom. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.480 You got to go find somewhere where you can latch 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.120 onto some Wi Fi and do your zoom from there. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:57.320 So maybe outside of a Starbucks, maybe I don't know, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.640 a friend's house if you can, if you can social distance, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.160 they're backyard. I don't know, but that's really the solution 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.839 that you have because there aren't too many options when 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.400 you're trying to stand or a gig. That is really 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.120 tight when it comes to data these days. All right, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.679 let's talk about Fortnite. This does not this affects you, 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.960 but not you know, I try to keep the news 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:23.520 and information in this show to a level that affects consumers. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.000 That's what I'm all about. I'm not going to talk 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.199 business here. I'm not going to talk you know, the 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.720 the nitty gritty tech stuff that you know I love 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.160 to talk about with other tech nerds. But this show 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.240 is for the average consumer. And so that's why I 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.000 talk about stuff that affects a wide swath of folks. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.240 And this one is a business to business thing. It's 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:46.280 a big it's a big fight between Apple, Google and Fortnite. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.160 But it does affect you because it affects you in 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.560 various ways. So let's talk about it. Epic Games, which 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:57.840 makes Fortnite. They updated their app on iOS to give 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:02.400 folks an option to buy Fortnite I guess dollars whatever 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.000 they call them v bucks directly versus through Apple's iOS 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.480 in app purchase system. And guess what. Apple does not 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.800 like that. So what they do. They took Fortnite off 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.240 the app store, and Fortnite then fought back and said, oh, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.320 you're so evil, you are a monopoly and we're suing 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.280 you in federal court, and you know that's where it stands. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.640 Then they did the same thing on Google, and they 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.160 gave folks an option to purchase the little in app 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:37.000 purchases through uh through Fortnite directly instead of through Google. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.520 And what a Google say? You can't do that, you 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.160 gotta we gotta take you out of Google Play. Now, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.920 when it comes to taking them out of Google Play 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.760 versus taking them out of the app store, Android users 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.480 can do something called sideloading, So in two seconds you 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.800 can download the what's called an APK for Fortnite, which 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.720 is basically this software for Fortnite. If you've ever used 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.360 a Windows computer that's kind of like the EXSE program, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.520 or if you've ever used a Mac computer. It's a DMG. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.640 It's a software program that you download and you install 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.760 on your device. On iPhone, it's not possible to do 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.080 that without doing something called jail breaking, which is highly 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.840 highly unrecommended. On Android, it's super easy. It warns you 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.200 once and you say, yeah, let me install this, and 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.720 you can install it. So on Android. I don't see 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.480 this as being that big of a deal, although it's 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.480 always easier and safer and faster and better to go 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.640 through the play Store, but you have the option, and 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.680 I have some apps on my phone that I've bypassed 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.520 the App Store, and you just download them and you 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.600 go on your merry way. But what they're doing is 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.080 something bigger. They are saying that Google and Apple have 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.480 this giant monopoly and they force all these apps that 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.920 have payments to make you pay through Apple or through Google. 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.480 And should that be the case. Now I'm kind of 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.080 torn on this. I do think that there is a 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.160 big monopoly. And in fact, when I was selling my 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.760 book one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.720 Eye Phone, a lot of folks would say, rich, I 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.800 went to the Kindle app or the Amazon app on 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.240 my iPhone and it says this is not compatible. You 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.320 can't purchase this from your iPhone, which is very confusing 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.920 because technically you could, but Apple does you know, they 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.560 want Amazon to use their payment system, so Amazon says, no, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.720 We're just not doing it. So you can't purchase from 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.000 your iPhone. You can either go to a web browser 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.560 and purchase it, or you know, find some other way 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.640 and then download it to your phone. So it's very confusing. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.280 And this is what I think is at the basis 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.480 of these lawsuits is that Apple and Google make it 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.520 kind of confusing for consumers. They think the only way 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:42.360 to purchase something is through the app, and in fact, Netflix, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.920 if you try to subscribe to it through an app purchase, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.360 they just don't let you do it. You got to 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.480 go to a website. But they also can't tell you 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.560 that you can do that, So I get it. This 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.080 is this is very confusing for consumers. But I also 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.520 see the other side of things is that Apple built 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.720 this entire amazing ecosystem of iPhones that are out there, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.680 and they want to make it good for the end user, 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.400 and they want to make it safe for the end user. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.760 So if the end user every time you downloaded an 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.680 app and you want it to subscribe to that app, 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.359 you have to put your credit card number in there. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.919 Think about the security implications of that. We do it online, 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.160 but you know there is definitely a security issue there. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.680 Now you can argue and say, rich, come on, people 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.359 are adults. They can figure out where to put their 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.159 credit card where not. But I get Apple's argument. I 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.639 also get Fortnite's argument, So it would be nice to 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.160 have options. But I don't know. We're going to see 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.880 what court says about this, because apparently they are. They're 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.800 going to battle it out. So since twenty eighteen, according 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:43.320 to this article in the New York Times, Fortnite's app 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.320 has been downloaded more up than one hundred and thirty 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.600 three million times on iPhones and iPads, raking in one 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.960 point two billion dollars according to one analytics firm, and 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.359 Apple has gotten three hundred and sixty million of that 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.879 as it's commission. So you have a good app and 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:03.000 Apple benefits as well. Let's see on Android devices, Fortnite's 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.080 been downloaded eleven million times through Google Play, which is 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.160 probably kind of low because a lot of people probably 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.280 sideloaded it. That's generated ten million dollars in sales according 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.440 to Censor Tower, and Google has taken three million of that. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.120 This is not the last we're going to hear of this, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.040 but it is a battle. And what's going to happen 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.200 on the iPhone specifically is that if you have Fortnite, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.800 you can still play it, but you can't update the app. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.000 So that means that if Apple does anything to make 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.879 that app unplayable, you're out of luck. That's gonna be 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.640 a problem. All right, Let's get to a question, and 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:44.120 Tom says, what computer antivirus, malware and hacking protection would 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.280 you recommend from my home? It needs to protect my computer, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.919 my WiFi, Roku, Alexa, and a smart TV. Is Trend 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.920 micro Home Network Security a good one at three hundred 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.359 ninety nine dollars for two years and one hundred dollars 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.640 a year after. You must also purchase the maximum defender 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.400 for the computer for forty bucks. Or do you recommend 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.320 something else? Or Netflix just got hacked and it cost 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.359 me six hundred dollars from dan V's Solutions to fix 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.679 the problem and get Netflix back up and running. I 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.680 watch you every morning on KTLA. Well, I am really 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:20.080 really scared that you paid six hundred dollars because your 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.280 Netflix got hacked. I'm not even sure what that means. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.400 How does your Netflix get hacked? What do they do? 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.359 If my Netflix got hacked? I called Netflix or my 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.480 credit card and say, uh yeah, cancel that account. I'm 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.480 closing it, and I'd open up a new one. Why 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.920 did you have to pay six hundred dollars? That scares me. Also, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.040 these numbers, you're throwing out four hundred dollars for two years, 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.680 one hundred dollars after forty bucks, or the computer. I 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.840 don't think you need any of this stuff. I don't 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.639 know how your Netflix got hacked, but I don't know 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.119 that it was hacked through your network. It was probably 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.399 hacked through someone just figuring out your password. So Tom, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.680 I would say you probably need stronger passwords on your 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.080 A counts. That's number one. Number two when it comes 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.640 to protecting your network, Usually your network is pretty much 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.520 protected unless you're doing crazy things and opening up ports 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:15.360 on your router. It's usually pretty connect pretty protected through 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:19.920 your ISP, and your computers are usually protected through Windows Defender. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.280 So I don't think you need that much. If I 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.040 had to recommend anything, I would take a look at 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:33.280 a website called next dns next dns dot io, and 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.840 this will at the network level protect all of your devices. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.160 And it's like twenty bucks a year. So that is 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:43.560 much better. It's much simpler, and it's much easier. And 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:49.639 I think that I mean it's it's free. Oh gosh, 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.600 it's free for up to three hundred inquiries a month. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:54.479 So I think this is actually the best way to go. 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:59.240 Just go to next dns dot io and you're gonna 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.280 have to do just a couple little things on your 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.320