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Speaker 1: Twitter introduces its version of stories, Chrome gets faster, and

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Speaker 1: is Amazon always the cheapest? What's going on? I'm Rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I.

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Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions that

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Speaker 1: you send me. My name once again is Rich Demiro,

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Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope

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Speaker 1: you are having a fantastic day so far, so good

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Speaker 1: for me over here. But I will say that, uh,

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Speaker 1: We are deep into the slide, the slide into the holidays.

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Speaker 1: deals with yoga, and I would never use that in

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Speaker 1: creating my Instagram site slash profile. How do I delete

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Speaker 1: the yoga one and create something that more closely follows

437
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Speaker 1: my interests?

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Speaker 2: Thanks for your help.

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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what you mean by this, and

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Speaker 1: the only thing that I can think of is that

441
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Speaker 1: when you're looking at the search page, it's showing yoga

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Speaker 1: stuff or yoga related. That's the only thing I can

443
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Speaker 1: think of, and as far as I know, you can't

444
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Speaker 1: really change that.

445
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Speaker 2: So up at the top of.

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Speaker 1: Mine, it says like Instagram, TV, travel, architecture, decor, art, food, style,

447
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:51,120
Speaker 1: TV movies, DIY, music, sports, beauty. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: understand what any of those things have to do with

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Speaker 1: what I look at on Instagram, but I will say

450
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Speaker 1: on Instagram. They do show and this is something I've

451
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Speaker 1: I've noticed on Twitter as well, people complaining is that

452
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Speaker 1: they show kind of like what I call the LCD

453
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Speaker 1: videos Lowest Common denominator, And by this, I mean, you know,

454
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Speaker 1: the dancing girls and you know, just like these pictures

455
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Speaker 1: that get a lot of interaction from folks, but it's

456
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Speaker 1: not necessarily stuff that you're fully interested in. So for me,

457
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Speaker 1: if I see something I don't like on those pages,

458
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Speaker 1: you can just press and hold a picture and just

459
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Speaker 1: say not interested. So that's how you do it. And

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Speaker 1: I think if you do that with a couple of

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Speaker 1: those yoga pictures, that should do it. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what you're talking about now. I know

463
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Speaker 1: that this stuff is supposedly supposedly personalized to what you

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Speaker 1: look at on Instagram, but I'm not convinced that's one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent correct. I mean, I think some of it is,

466
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Speaker 1: but I think some of it they're also sort of

467
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Speaker 1: seating and getting you know, just kind of pumping up

468
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Speaker 1: some of those accounts and things like that. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's what I would do, is press and hold on

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Speaker 1: a picture and get rid of it. Otherwise, just look

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Speaker 1: at that area. But it's just I think Instagram is

472
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Speaker 1: just trying to, you know, give people a way to

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Speaker 1: discover more things, and I think that's what's happening to you.

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Speaker 1: All Right, let's move on another small story. HBO Max.

475
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Speaker 1: Not going to spend a lot of time on this,

476
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: but it's available on fireTV. And the cool thing about

477
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,679
Speaker 1: that is that that was a major holdout. So HBO

478
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: Max came out a couple months ago and it was

479
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: sorely lacking on Roku and Amazon fireTV sticks and fireTV devices.

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Speaker 1: So now it is on fireTV. You can get it

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Speaker 1: by asking you know who, find HBO Max via your

482
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Speaker 1: voice remote, or you can just search for HBO Max

483
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 1: and HBO Max a little confusing, but it is included

484
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Speaker 1: with your HBO subscription. So if you have HBO you

485
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Speaker 1: subscribe to your cable, Hulu AT and T DirecTV, you

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Speaker 1: can use that login to log into HBO Max, or

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Speaker 1: you can subscribe separately to HBO Max. It's your choice,

488
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Speaker 1: but it is available on Fire TV. I found the

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Speaker 1: app on mine.

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Speaker 2: It's there.

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Speaker 1: It's great. They've got that new Wonder Woman movie coming out,

492
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Speaker 1: and I think December twenty fifth is the day which

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Speaker 1: is so exciting for me. Not that I'll necessarily watch

494
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Speaker 1: a movie on Christmas Day, but certainly the day after.

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Speaker 1: And it's just really neat that, like Wonder Woman nineteen

496
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Speaker 1: eighty four is like a real Hollywood blockbuster movie that

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Speaker 1: is coming straight to HBO Max for free, I mean

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Speaker 1: according to my account, because it's you know, something I

499
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: already pay for, I mean free by something I subscribe to.

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Speaker 1: But how cool is that? I mean it's like this

501
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 1: is that's really great. And I know that's because of

502
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, but it definitely is a benefit to people

503
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: here that have been sitting at home for months and

504
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: months and months and want some new entertainment.

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Speaker 2: So I love that. And there you go, and they'll

506
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Speaker 2: probably pick up a lot of subscribers that day.

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Speaker 3: By the way, let's see, Derek asks, Rich, can you

508
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Speaker 3: bypass cell phone activation fees by buying an unlocked phone?

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Speaker 2: You know what? It sort of depends. I remember when I.

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Speaker 1: Actually switched to T Mobile a couple of years ago

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Speaker 1: for a little bit, and I bought my phone out right,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they charged me full price for it,

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Speaker 1: and they still charge me forty dollars for activation. I

514
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Speaker 1: think it was forty maybe it was thirty five. Uh,

515
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but anyway, and I couldn't believe it.

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00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what for an unlocked phone? I

517
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Speaker 1: still got to pay this forty dollars to activate a line?

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Speaker 1: And sure enough. Yeah, now that was a couple of

519
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: years ago. So I don't know, maybe that's changed. But

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Speaker 1: if you want to bypass cell phone activation fees, I

521
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Speaker 1: think in general, if you pop your SIM card into

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Speaker 1: a new phone, like let's say you let's say you're

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Speaker 1: on Verizon, you have the iPhone eleven, you upgrade to

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Speaker 1: the iPhone twelve by buying it unlocked through the Apple Store.

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Speaker 1: If you just go through and swap your phone out

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Speaker 1: through like putting your SIM card in and just your

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Speaker 1: I think you have to go through the website to

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Speaker 1: do it and say like I'm switching my Imei out

529
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: or whatever like this little code on your phone. I

530
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Speaker 1: think you would bypass the activation fee because they're not

531
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Speaker 1: really activating a new line or anything. But I know

532
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Speaker 1: that they when you upgrade your phone through your carrier,

533
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: they do charge an upgrade fee many times. So look,

534
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,719
Speaker 1: these carriers, they're gonna do what they can to preserve

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Speaker 1: their profits. It's kind of funny because, oh, there's no

536
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Speaker 1: contracts anymore. But guess what, there are contracts because people

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Speaker 1: buy their phones for twenty four months or thirty months

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Speaker 1: through the carrier. You're on just a contract for the

539
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Speaker 1: phone instead of the service. What are you going to

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Speaker 1: use that at and T phone without service? No, So

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Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. Back in the day, we used

542
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Speaker 1: to give you the phone for free. Yes, I worked

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Speaker 1: at a phone place. Back in the day, we used

544
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Speaker 1: to give you the phone for free, for a penny,

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Speaker 1: and then you'd be on a twenty four thirty six

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Speaker 1: whatever the contract was.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a year, maybe it was Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think it was a year.

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Speaker 1: Twelve months and you were on a contract, or maybe

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Speaker 1: it was twenty four months, whatever it was, but you

551
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Speaker 1: would pay the survey was your fee, and that service

552
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: was so expensive it would pay for also the phone

553
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: on the back end. Well, then they made the phones

554
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: full price, which is funny. We went through that whole shift,

555
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: and now the service is a little bit cheaper, but

556
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: you're just paying for the phone now, so it's kind

557
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: of the same thing. I mean, my bill has been

558
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: like two hundred dollars a month for like as far

559
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: as long as I can remember, and it's the same

560
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 1: thing two lines, you know, But anyway, so you can

561
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: try avoiding it, but you know, call and ask I

562
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: guess and say, hey, if I bring an unlocked phone,

563
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Speaker 1: will you charge me?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Twitter this week introduce something called fleets. And if you're

566
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Speaker 1: familiar with the idea of Instagram stories or Snapchat, you

567
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: already know what a fleet is. And a fleet is

568
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: just a disappearing fleet. They call it a you know,

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Speaker 1: a tweet for a fleeting thought. And Twitter says the

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Speaker 1: reason behind this is because so many people thought that

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Speaker 1: tweeting was uncomfortable because it's public, it's permanent pressure to

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00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: rack up likes and retweet, and so they're doing the

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Speaker 1: lower pressure way to help people start talking about what's happening.

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Speaker 1: And fleets, they say, are for sharing momentary thoughts. And

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Speaker 1: when they did their tests of these, they saw people

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Speaker 1: with fleets talk more on Twitter. They disappear after twenty

577
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Speaker 1: four hours. You can you know, videos, photos. You can

578
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Speaker 1: actually fleet a tweet and so if you're on a tweet,

579
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Speaker 1: you can press a little share button and it says

580
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: like share and fleet or says fleet this tweet something

581
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: like that, and you also be able to broadcast live

582
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: on fleets soon. But here's my thought about fleets after

583
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: using them for a week, is that I used it

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Speaker 1: exactly once the first minute it was available, And honestly,

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Speaker 1: I haven't really looked at them at the top of

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Speaker 1: my Twitter timeline because I don't identify Twitter with those

587
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: kind of things just yet. Now, with all that said,

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00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: I do think that Twitter is actually the quite perfect

589
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: social media platform because at this point it is the

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Speaker 1: most universal platform it is.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty much open.

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00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: You've got stories now, You've got a way to go live,

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00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: You've got a way to share videos, even though they

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00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: have to be kind of short. You have a way

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00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: of commenting on other people's stuff, you have a way

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00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: of retweeting. It kind of checks off all the boxes

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00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: of a good social network. But the problem is it

598
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of pickup. Like I don't put

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00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: a lot of effort into Twitter because that's not really

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00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: where my following is. And most of my following is

601
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Speaker 1: on Facebook and Instagram, and that's because I kind of

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00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: have a consumer following and my mom is not on Twitter,

603
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: and that's really my audience and so not just my mom.

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00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably how it was when I started out,

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00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: but it used to. This is funny story. So when

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00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: I first started my social media accounts, you know, I

607
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: had no followers, and my mom would comment on everything,

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Speaker 1: and I was so embarrassed that I felt so like

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00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: embarrassed that it was just my mom commenting on everything,

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00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: and she'd be like.

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Speaker 2: Oh, this was so cute, just like you were when

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Speaker 2: you were a little baby.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like, oh mom, please, I'm trying to like,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get like random strangers to like my stuff, stop,

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00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: you know, cramp in my style here. And now my

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Speaker 1: mom doesn't comment on my stuff as much, and now

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Speaker 1: I feel sad. I'm like, oh, my mom doesn't comment because,

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00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: like you know, Twitter or Facebook and Instagram are smart

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Speaker 1: enough to show you like you're the people closest to you.

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Speaker 1: They show their comments like kind of first when you

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Speaker 1: look at all your comments.

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Speaker 2: And I don't see my mom's comments as much anymore.

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Speaker 1: So I guess she got the thing because now she

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00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: feels lost in the crowd. But she'll still comment every

625
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: once in a while, so that's good.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: I tell lots of stories on this podcast, hmm, all

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Speaker 1: right Lydia, this is a long one, finally giving up

629
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: on dud computers and taking a bite of the Apple.

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00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: Not a techie, but would like to check emails and

631
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: do searches several times a day, and recently have had

632
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: to do work related tasks online even when supposedly off duty. Ooh,

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00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: that sounds like something you want to discuss with your employer.

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00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: I have an iPad, but I've only played with and

635
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 1: haven't gotten the hang of it. Don't want to put

636
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: work on there yet. I bought a MacBook Air about

637
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, haven't opened the box. Now the newer

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00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: model comes out for only fifty.

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00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 2: Dash zero dollars more. I don't know what that means.

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00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: So should I go to Costco and see if you'll

641
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: take the unopen one back for the price paid and

642
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: order the new one? Also, will I be able to

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00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: transfer the Apple Care plan I paid for but haven't

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00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: set up to the new model? Enjoy your segments on

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00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: KTLA five. With a less problematic laptop, I can check

646
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: your podcasts. Maybe this year I should order your book

647
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: for my birthday Christmas and hope there's a valid section

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00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: on Apple for Dummies.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Lydia Lydia.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, number one, my book, unless you're running the

651
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Speaker 1: older version of the software for the iPhone, probably wouldn't

652
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: be as relevant anymore. I did not do the version

653
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: for iOS fourteen for reasons I will not get into

654
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: right now. But there's still some tips in there that

655
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: do work. It's just it's not as specific for the

656
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: latest version of the operating system. In fact, iOS fourteen

657
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: would have been a perfect operating system to do my

658
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: book for because so many things changed, but I didn't.

659
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: Okay, my answer to your question.

660
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: Is yes, I would absolutely see if Costco will take

661
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,959
Speaker 1: back the unopened one. I don't see why they wouldn't.

662
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what the return policy is on computers.

663
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: I think it's ninety days usually this ninety days. Yes,

664
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: so I would definitely do that. And when it comes

665
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: to the Apple plan, just you know, you just cancel that.

666
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: It can't charge you for a plan you haven't set up,

667
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: so cancel that. And then yeah, get the new one.

668
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: Get the new MacBook Air with the m one ship.

669
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: It is getting rave reviews. I have not tested it,

670
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: but I am I'm like wanting to switch out my laptop.

671
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: I wish they made it in a sixteen inch because

672
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: the MacBook Air thirteen sounds like it's just screaming fast,

673
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: and it's like, whoa what And I expected this from Apple,

674
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: That's what I expected. So yes, go get the new

675
00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: one MacBook Air. If you are in any way a

676
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: teacher or related to education, be sure to buy the

677
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: Education edition because you'll get a one hundred bucks off

678
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: same thing.

679
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 2: It's just education pricing. So great question, And yeah.

680
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: It's kind of kind of bad timing, but you know,

681
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: this is why I recommend that website. What is it,

682
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: the Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com. And so when

683
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: you before you're gonna buy any Apple product Buyer's Guide

684
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: dot MacRumors dot com, you look at the product and

685
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: it will tell you how long it's been since the

686
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: last one came out and whether you should wait or

687
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: buy or use caution. And so with the sixteen inch

688
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro right now, it's saying don't buy. With the iMac,

689
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: it's saying caution. With the Macmini, it says buy now

690
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: because they just came out with one ten days ago,

691
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: and it gives you the day since last release, the

692
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: average days between releases, and then the recent releases. So

693
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: it's a really, really fantastic resource. So get on there,

694
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: all right. Google pay is trying to become more like Venmo.

695
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: Now I got on Venmo.

696
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: I was a Venmo hater for many, many, many, many

697
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,439
Speaker 1: many many years, and it just became a thing where

698
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: people you know at school would be like, Oh, can

699
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,439
Speaker 1: you venmo the teacher twenty bucks?

700
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 2: Or can you venmo parent ten dollars? Hey, can you

701
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: venmo the in laws ten bucks for dinner? Whatever?

702
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: That'd be a cheap dinner. But I held out and

703
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: I said, now I use Zelle. I'll pay pall you,

704
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: which by the way, is the same company, and or

705
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: I'll cash app you. And everyone was like rich dude,

706
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: you're the tech guy, Like why do you hate venmo

707
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: so much? And I said, I'll give you my reasons.

708
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: Number one, I hate the fact that it has a

709
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: public record of all the things that you do, which

710
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: you can change to private, but most people don't, so

711
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: I do. I did not like the fact that Venmo

712
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: pulled from my my like like, let's say I had

713
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks in my account and I need to

714
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: send someone fifty dollars. It would pull it for my

715
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: debit card and not the account. Well, I realized that

716
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: that was because I never verified my account with like

717
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: my you know, full information.

718
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: So now I fix that.

719
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: I turned off the privacy thing. And honestly, now I'm

720
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: a huge fan of Venmo.

721
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: Now I know, I know, I know, I know. Now

722
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 2: I still think that Venmo.

723
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 1: I still think at the end of the day, it

724
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: offers less protections than i'd like to see.

725
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 2: Like, if something went.

726
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: Wrong with venmo' I'd be curious to see how long

727
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: it would take to get that sold. Now, in a

728
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: couple of times I've emailed Venmo, they have emailed me

729
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: back like quickly, and so I am impressed with that

730
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: aspect of customer service. I just feel like at all,

731
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: if I can use like and I know I'm not

732
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: a big credit card person, but when I'm purchasing things

733
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: online or from a mysterious retailer, I like to use

734
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: a credit card because it offers a little bit more

735
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: protection at In general, I don't like to give out

736
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: my debit card number because that is tied to my

737
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: bank account, and I'm sure my bank has some you know,

738
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: precautions in place to try to keep fraud from happening,

739
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: and nine nine percent of the time they keep me

740
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: from purchasing at Target for some reason. Whenever I use

741
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: my I try to be good and use my debit

742
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: card at Target and that's like, sorry, fraud alert on

743
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: your account. Please call us or text us. What did

744
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: you try to make a purchase for seven dollars and

745
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: seventy nine cents of you know, ibuprofen at Target?

746
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 2: Like yes, you have to like call in and like whatever,

747
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 2: Now you don't have to call, you just have to text.

748
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: But still, and it's like embarrassing because you know, it's

749
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: like whatever. So anyway, that never happens with the credit card,

750
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: by the way, But anyway, so I digress, and yes,

751
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: I like Venmo and now I'm using it, and I

752
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: actually think the Venmo credit cards they're coming out with

753
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: actually looks really good because it seems like a no whatever,

754
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: no brainer kind of way. Ever, anyway, so I'm all

755
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: about Venmo. Now I'm fine with it. But now Google

756
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: pay is trying to become Venmo. The app is totally

757
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: redesigned and they've got some cool features. It will help

758
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: you pay people, which is fine. I don't know if

759
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,959
Speaker 1: we're going to see as much uptake on that because

760
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: Venmo is kind of like the king there, and it's

761
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: also free, so there's not really much that differentiates it

762
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: except your friend may not have a Google Pay account.

763
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: Then they've got.

764
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: These offers, which who cares. But here's the cool part.

765
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: You can connect your bank account or cards to Google

766
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: Pay and the app will apply some Google magic to

767
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: give you trends and insights over time to show you,

768
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: like how much you spent on things. Now, I've never

769
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: really understood the allure of saying like, oh, last year

770
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: I spent one thousand, five hundred dollars on Starbucks, Like okay, great,

771
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: Like what does that do? So next year I'm gona

772
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: try to spend one thousand, four hundred Like I don't

773
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: really get that. Like to me, I like to try to, like,

774
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: day by day whatever I'm spending, like try to be

775
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: mindful of it. So just saying like, oh, you spent

776
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: you know, five hundred dollars at best Buy or that

777
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: would be a lot less, I mean a lot more.

778
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I don't really understand that, but I

779
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: do see if they can apply trends and say, like,

780
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't know, but that's one aspect.

781
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 2: Let's see what else. Oh, the cool thing is that they're.

782
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: Gonna start a bad account, a new mobile first bank

783
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: account that's integrated into Google Play, and that I actually

784
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: do think could be kind of compelling because not everyone wants.

785
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 2: To have a big old bank account anymore.

786
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: And you know, as all these people are going towards

787
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: these like transaction, you know, these app based transactions, like

788
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: I kind of see the allure of that because it'll

789
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: include checking in savings accounts with no monthly fees, no

790
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: overdraft charges, and no minimum balance requirements.

791
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 2: So why not if you can open it up.

792
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: That's coming in twenty twenty one, So just be aware

793
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: if Google Pay looks totally different, that's what's going on.

794
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: I you know, if you're if you're on Android, you're

795
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: probably using Google Pay to like tap uh to pay.

796
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: But if not, you're just you know, you're probably using Venmo.

797
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, there you have it, all right. David says,

798
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: last week I saw your piece on TV about the

799
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: Samsung fe phone. Your glowing review convinced me to purchase it.

800
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: This phone sucks.

801
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: It won't say passwords for some websites, such as my

802
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: Car Insurance company. And now there's a password that I

803
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 1: have to enter to access the phone. Even though I've

804
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: hit canceled many times, I'll not make the mistake again

805
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: and listen to what you suggest. Oh, David, well, sorry

806
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: that this.

807
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: Happened to you.

808
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: But what everything you're describing has nothing to do with

809
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: the quality of this phone. I mean, let's let's break

810
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: it down here. The phone sucks. Okay, Well, you didn't

811
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: give any basis why, but I guess the two reasons

812
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: you list after is why you think it sucks. It

813
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: won't save passwords for some websites. Well, David, you didn't

814
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: mention what software you're using to save passwords. I mean,

815
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: there's a million ways you can do this, and yeah,

816
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: I mean even on my password manager. There are some

817
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: websites it just doesn't play nice with. I mean, and

818
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: I've been using it for a couple of years now.

819
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: And okay, you get over it, you go into the app,

820
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: you copy, you paste, it's all good. But ninety nine

821
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: percent of the time it works as advertised. Now there's

822
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: a password that I have to enter to access the phone. Well,

823
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's for your safety. And even though

824
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: you plus press cancel a million times. I don't know

825
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: what that means, but yeah, you should have a password

826
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: to enter your phone, because you know, do you want

827
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: people randomly having access to your phone?

828
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

829
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: So if you don't want a password on your phone,

830
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: number one, try using the fingerprint sensor that's on there. Otherwise,

831
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: if you really want your phone to just be unlocked forever,

832
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: you can go into your security settings and just turn

833
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: off all locks. And I don't recommend doing that at all,

834
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: but you can't do it, and those two reasons do

835
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: not make this phone suck. The Samsung Fe is a

836
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: fantastic phone. It's on my list of things that I

837
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: recommend on my website rich on tech dot tv and

838
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,240
Speaker 1: you can go there and see my richest favorite things.

839
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: I'm keeping a list for the holidays because you know,

840
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: everyone always.

841
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 2: Asks me, hey, what do you recommend this?

842
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: And the Samsung phone is on there, so I think

843
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: it's a fantastic device. It's on some great deals for

844
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: the holidays. Samsung f Samsung S twenty Fe is let's

845
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: see what the deals are. Yeah, it's really cheap, like

846
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 1: I saw it for like, I can't see the price

847
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: right now, but it was it was, it's on sale

848
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: during the holiday, so anyway, yeah, get it.

849
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 2: I think that.

850
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, five point fifty in this early Black Friday sale.

851
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: Five hundred and fifty bucks for a great cell phone.

852
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: That's a really really good deal, So sorry, David. All right,

853
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: fipit getting a couple of new features if you have

854
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 1: a fitbit Sense or VERSU three, which are too newer fippits,

855
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: so probably not not many have this yet, but fipbit's

856
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: pretty popular. So now they're giving users more way to

857
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: check their blood oxygen levels, and they're also the big

858
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: news is that they're adding Google Assistant and also Bluetooth

859
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: calling and audible replies for Alexa users, so those are

860
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: three pretty big things. With the blood oxygen you had

861
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: to use now, mainly this applies to premium members right now,

862
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 1: but you can see your blood oxygen levels while sleeping

863
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: and your averages in the fipbit app without using a clockface,

864
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: and so the other way you have to see your

865
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: blood oxygen all day is to use their free clock

866
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: face blood oxygen clockface, which is kind of weird, but

867
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: they say they're going to offer seven new additional clockfaces

868
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: in the app gallery by the end of the year.

869
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: So I guess that's good because it's going to be free.

870
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: But right now, the premium members can see it like,

871
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: you know, anytime.

872
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's kind of weird.

873
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: The Google Assistant, that's pretty cool. So that's great. And

874
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: you know, Google is purchasing this company. They haven't done

875
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: it just yet, but they are in the process. But

876
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: you know, they're jumping the gun and already putting Google

877
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: Assistant in there. And audible replies for Google Assistant will

878
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: be in the first half of twenty twenty one. But

879
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: Android users can respond to messages text messages on the go,

880
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: and they also have hands free Bluetooth calls. So if

881
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: you have a fipbit Sense or a verse of three,

882
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: definitely do that software update. I love when new features

883
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: hit these things. It's the best feeling ever to know

884
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: these software engineers are hard at work bringing us new.

885
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 2: Stuff for free. Let's see.

886
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: Michael says, Hey, Rich, I'm contemplating buying a Google Nest doorbell.

887
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: Please let me know the pluses and minuses of this device.

888
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: I trust your judgment and I look forward to your

889
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: segment on KTLA every time you have an item to review.

890
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Michael, Michael, I probably would not recommend the

891
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: Google Nest doorbell. Here's my reasoning. Google is notoriously wishy washy,

892
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 1: as I explained with Google Photos in sort of their

893
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: attention span. Now, this Google Nest doorbell, I am trying

894
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: to remember if they've even had a new version of

895
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: this thing. I'm not even sure this thing has been

896
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 1: updated since it came out. Whereas Ring continues every single

897
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: day to update and hone their stuff. And they're on

898
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: the door doorbell I think it's three, Whereas this Nest

899
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: is great. It works with the Nest stuff if you

900
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:05,479
Speaker 1: have all nests.

901
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 2: But honestly, I would just go Ring. This is their

902
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 2: entire business.

903
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: I mean, Ring built their entire business on the video doorbell.

904
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: You know, they invented it. Jamie Simmonov I mean I was, gosh,

905
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 1: I'll never forget interviewing him when he had this tiny

906
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: little office in Santa Monica show me the Ring doorbell.

907
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: I mean he brought me into the lab he had

908
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: set up. I mean, this guy is like, and I've

909
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 1: said this before, He's like, he reminds me like Doc

910
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: Brown and back to the future. Right. He's got this

911
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: little lab and he tinkers and that's his job. Now

912
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: now he's like a multi you know, probably billionaire, if

913
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: not probably a multi millionaire that is probably spending his

914
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: time dealing with all the ins and outs of you know,

915
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: the acquiring of Amazon. But he's still, you know, very

916
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: hands on guy. And one time I went to the

917
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: office and he's sitting there. He's like, oh, Rich, He's like,

918
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, we had a meeting and he's like, hey,

919
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: you want to come in on this meeting. And he

920
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,280
Speaker 1: brings me into this meeting that he's having with another

921
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: startup and he's just like, he's like, you're good at

922
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: this stuff, come on, just sit in this meeting.

923
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 2: The guy who's there for that startup was probably.

924
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: Like, who's this kid sitting in on my meeting with you, Jamie.

925
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: But it was all good, and it's just that's the

926
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: kind of guy he is. I mean, he's a really

927
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: good guy. And so I love the direction that he

928
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: is bringing to Ring. I think that they are really

929
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: honed in on products that you know, make neighborhoods safer

930
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: and make you feel better. And in fact, I feel

931
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 1: like my next move is to kind of move everything

932
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: to Ring because right now I've got the doorbell and

933
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 1: a couple other little things, but they are really they're

934
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: really dialed in, whereas Nest it's kind of all over

935
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: the place. So I mean, do you really want to

936
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: go with a doorbell from a company that's you know,

937
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: their main job is search, and you know they've got

938
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: YouTube and they've got all these other things they've got

939
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 1: their hand in, and none of it has been as

940
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: successful as Google Search. And so I love Google, but

941
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: I so love a company that is going to focus

942
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: on the products that I'm spending a lot of money for.

943
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: And with the doorbell, I think, you know, if you're

944
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 1: talking about their Nest audio stuff, sure doorbell, I'm sure

945
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: it's fine. I haven't tested it, but I'm sure it's fine. Anyway,

946
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: that's my answer, Go ring, all right, Amazon, Let's see

947
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: what we're getting towards the end of the show here.

948
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: So I want to make sure I get some things right.

949
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 2: This is a quick one.

950
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,959
Speaker 1: But Amazon opening up a pharmacy, and I think what's

951
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: cool about this is that it kind of takes all

952
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: the inefficiencies out of the pharmacy experience. And I don't

953
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: know about you, but you know, when I have to

954
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: get medications for my kids or occasionally for myself. You

955
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: go to the here's the process. You know, your doctor

956
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: sends it into CVS or Walgreens or whatever. You go

957
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: there and you know, they tap on their computer, they

958
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: look at you for one second, they tap for an hour,

959
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 1: they look at you again, they tap for another hour.

960
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: I'd be ready and like, uh, give me, give me

961
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: an hour. You're like an hour. Really, They're like, all right,

962
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: can you do five minutes? I'm like yeah, five minutes. Okay, okay,

963
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: go go shop five minutes. We'll got have it ready.

964
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: So that's number one. It's just this weird, like I

965
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: don't really understand the experience. Then, you know when it

966
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: comes to the price, like that'll be one hundred and

967
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: seventy four seventy five, you're like, wait, what for this

968
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: little tiny pill or whatever, this one bottle of whatever?

969
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: Like yeah, that's your your your prescription benefits. Like okay,

970
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: well what about with RX good RX? Like, ah, let

971
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 1: me type in and they type in for another hour,

972
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: and you know it's like this on and on. So

973
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: it's like all these inefficiencies of getting the prescription, and

974
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: you know with Amazon, what they're gonna do. And I

975
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: think this is the coolest part is that they're going

976
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: to put all the pricing on one page. They're going

977
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: to take into account your prescription pricing. They're going to

978
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: take into account branded and generic versions. They're gonna take

979
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 1: into account the price without insurance or their new Prime

980
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: Prescription Savings, which is kind of like a good RX

981
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: but for Amazon customers.

982
00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 2: And you can see that all on one page.

983
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: So it might be cheaper to just buy this prescription

984
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: straight up without your without your insurance copey and so

985
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe that happens.

986
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 2: I don't know.

987
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: I feel like that's rare, but you know, you never know,

988
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: and so I like that idea. Now, this is not

989
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,280
Speaker 1: gonna be good for the time when you need antibiotics

990
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: like that day, you're still gonna have to go to

991
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: like a pharmacy. But this, I think is gonna be

992
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: helpful for long term medications, like you know, blood thinning

993
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: drugs or you know, any sort of like medication that

994
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 1: you take regularly for like some sort of chronic issue.

995
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: That's gonna be pretty helpful and it's definitely worth a shot.

996
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 2: All right, do I have time for one more question?

997
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: Derek says, greeting's rich. What's the best way to transfer

998
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: all your info from one phone to another? I upgraded

999
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,959
Speaker 1: my iPhone yesterday. Gave me two options, phone to phone

1000
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 1: or iCloud.

1001
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 2: I picked the first. It seemed to work just fine.

1002
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: But what's the difference between the two options. I didn't

1003
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: have to connect a chord between the two phones, So

1004
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: how did the info just jump from one to the

1005
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: other because I didn't choose iCloud. Also other pros and

1006
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 1: cons of setting up a new iPhone through the first

1007
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: or second choice that Apple gives you.

1008
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 2: Appreciate all you do.

1009
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing your podcast. I find them interesting and informative.

1010
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,720
Speaker 2: Have a great day. Well, thank you, Derek.

1011
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: Okay, So the two options are phone to phone or iCloud,

1012
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: and Apple has made this process really, really easy. I

1013
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: like phone to phone because it's getting you know, the

1014
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: latest information off your phone and basically using Wi Fi

1015
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: direct to connect to download that information to your new phone.

1016
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: iCloud is just fine as well. It's just gonna take

1017
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: perhaps a little bit longer because what it does is

1018
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: it downloads kind of the data from iCloud. It does

1019
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: like an initial dump of the data to the new

1020
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: phone and then it does like in the background, it'll

1021
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 1: kind of up download everything like after a little bit.

1022
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: So and now it's gotten so smart where even if

1023
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: you choose the iCloud option, Apple will say, hey, do

1024
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: you want to we notice that your last phone has

1025
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: been backed up in like a day or two. Do

1026
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: you want us to do a quick iPhone iCloud backup

1027
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: before we transfer? And you're like, yeah, but of course

1028
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: that always takes forever, so it takes longer than they

1029
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: say all the time. But there's no real pros or cons.

1030
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I personally like the phone to phone because

1031
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 1: it's like direct, but you do have to keep both

1032
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: phones nearby and close the whole time. But if it worked,

1033
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 1: it worked. But yes, to answer your question, it's using

1034
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: some sort of Bluetooth and Wi Fi to pair and

1035
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: also transfer that data. So that's what I would do,

1036
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: And either one's gonna get you the same place, which

1037
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: Apple has sort of. Google's gotten a lot better with

1038
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: the Android devices. In fact, Samsung is pretty darn good

1039
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 1: of moving your information from device to device and having

1040
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: your home screen set up the same way. On other

1041
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: Android devices, I find it works about half the time,

1042
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: but on Samsung, yeah, pretty much's gonna work, and iPhone

1043
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: it's always gonna work, so you're gonna get all this stuff.

1044
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: Your new phone's gonna look just like your old phone.

1045
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: All right, one more thing, I'll just talk about this

1046
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: little kerfuffle with Peanuts.

1047
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 2: So you know, pe Nuts has moved to Apple.

1048
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: They got the rights for like all the Snoopy and

1049
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: Charlie Brown stuff, and so it was announced that the

1050
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: Peanuts specials, like the ones for Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving,

1051
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: we're all going to be on Apple TV Plus. Well

1052
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: of course people went nuts because this has been on

1053
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: broadcast TV forever and ever and anyone can watch just

1054
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: by tuning in. Remember when you were a kid, you

1055
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: would just it'd be one night. One night would be

1056
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: the Charlie Brown special and you had to be there

1057
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: or you missed it. And now with Apple TV it

1058
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: got a lot better because you could watch it for

1059
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: like weeks on end if you had Apple TV Plus,

1060
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: which is available on a lot of different devices, not

1061
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: just Apple TV.

1062
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 2: I know, so confusing, and it's.

1063
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: Also to make it even more confusing, you didn't necessarily

1064
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 1: need a subscription to Apple TV Plus to watch the specials.

1065
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: They made them free to anyone just opening the Apple

1066
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: tv Plus app, but only for a couple of days,

1067
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: so it was like a window. So now after this

1068
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: whole big thing got in the media, people you know, noticed,

1069
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: and they got mad and they had petitions, and now

1070
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: these will air on PBS and PBS kits and so

1071
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: I guess Apple didn't really want to give the rights

1072
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: over to like, you know, an ABC or CBS or

1073
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: an NBC or a Fox. So they said, a PBS

1074
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: is innocent enough, they don't really compete with us, so

1075
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: we'll do that. So Charlie Brown Thanksgiving will air on PBS.

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Speaker 1: Charlie Brown Christmas will also air on PBS. They'll also

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Speaker 1: stream for free on Apple tv Plus for a long period,

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Speaker 1: but they'll be for subscribers for an even longer period.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go through all the dates. I'll

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Speaker 1: put those in the notes, but just know if you

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Speaker 1: even if you have any sort of access to Apple

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Speaker 1: tv Plus, you will be able to watch these specials

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Speaker 1: for free for a certain time period.

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Speaker 2: So it's like, I think it's like three or four days.

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Speaker 1: But if you're an Apple tv Plus subscriber, you know,

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Speaker 1: you kick it up a notch, you will get more

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Speaker 2: Over the dace. Is that confusing enough? I think it is.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's a lot. Oh there it is,

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Speaker 2: you hear it? Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: My name is rich Dedmiro. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Stay safe, have a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon.