WEBVTT - Google Photos loses its best feature 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:16.280 Twitter introduces its version of stories, Chrome gets faster, and 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.960 is Amazon always the cheapest? What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.840 Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.200 I talk about the tech stuff I. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:26.400 Think you should know about. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.280 It's also the place where I answer the questions that 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.960 you send me. My name once again is Rich Demiro, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.520 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.520 you are having a fantastic day so far, so good 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:46.120 for me over here. But I will say that, uh, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:47.320 this is it. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:47.680 We are. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:53.440 We are deep into the slide, the slide into the holidays. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:54.960 And I know this year is a little bit different 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.200 with the holidays because of you know that whole uh, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.960 you know, little pandemic going around the whole world. Yeah, 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.840 still happening. I still can't believe that. When I left 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:09.520 my desk at work back on it was around March 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.880 fifteenth or so, I thought I was gonna be gone 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.320 for about two weeks. I left my coffee there, coffee creamer, 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.800 you know, some other assorted things and I just took 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.520 the essentials, right, my laptop, whatever, And here we are 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:28.400 March April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November about 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.680 eight or nine months later, depending on how you do 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.679 the math. And I'm sure you can't do the math 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.160 the right way. I just don't feel like doing it 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:38.160 the right way right now. But wow, and it's so 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.400 weird because I don't think this is ending anytime soon. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:42.280 We've got these. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.920 What are they the vaccines on the way, But I mean, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.000 it's not like an overnight fix just because we have that. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.600 So I'm sort of buckled in. I'm assuming my kids 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.920 are not going back to school until the next school year, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.960 which is just wild to think that they will be 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.080 home for an entire school year. And myself, I'm not 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.520 sure what's gonna happen with me. I've been working from 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.360 home and I kind of enjoy it, to be honest, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.680 I like it. In fact, I was talking about this 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.160 with my wife last night. My house has become sort 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.280 of like the best case scenario for a tech set 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.880 because I have everything I need to shoot my segments. Oh, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.040 you need to sit on a couch and watch TV. Okay, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.000 we go to a living room. Need to go outside, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.520 take some pictures. Go outside. Need to get a picture 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.880 of the Christmas tree. Sure we got that. Need to 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.160 be working in the office absolutely want to be on 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.920 the exercise bike. Sure, So it's actually kind of worked 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.920 out pretty well. And the more I think about it, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.560 it makes total sense for me as someone who's doing 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.040 consumer technology for people working from home and you know, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.160 doing just in general most of this stuff we use 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.520 at home. It kind of works. So I don't know, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.919 I'm thinking, maybe I need to build like a little 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.280 a real set in here and that's where I can 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.560 shoot all my stories going forward. But you do miss 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.280 being out on the anchor desk on the set for KTLA. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.959 That is kind of fun and I miss that. So anyway, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:02.040 have to. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:02.640 Figure out all that. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.600 But let me start this week with something that has 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.320 really been well. There's two things that are on my 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.960 mind twenty four to seven right now, and it's like 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:13.799 the dumbest things, but you know, this is what I 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.760 think about as a tech person. The first is my 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.960 speaker set up, and I have talked about this on 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.720 the show. How you know, all these new smart speakers 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.799 are coming out and it's forced me to reconsider my 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.960 Sonos system. But now that I look into my Sonos account, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.120 it seems that they give you a pretty good discount 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.440 for having old speakers. So now when I look at that, 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.240 and I've tried all the new ones, so I've tried 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.320 the Google Home grouping those up. After I talked to 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.280 you on the show last week, Google Home got this 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.480 big update on the app. I call it the Sonos 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.160 update because now you can group speakers on the fly 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.480 in Google Home, just like you can in Sonos. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:51.720 Now, Sonos is. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.480 Still way easier and a little bit more kind of 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.000 uh what's I don't know what the terminology is, fleshed out, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.200 fleshed out whatever, but you know, so it's it works, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.760 but it's not as pretty or as smooth as Sonos. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.920 And the Apple stuff is great, but it really bugs 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.640 me that you have to use Apple Music. Not that 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.280 I hate Apple Music, but it's just I like having 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.800 the flexibility like in my Sons. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:14.760 I've said this before. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.240 I had like a bookmarked all the different playlists on 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.760 various services that I like. So for me, you know, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.600 maybe the Christmas station on iHeartRadio is the one I 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.920 really like and I want to play, and so that 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.960 was easily bookmarked. No, yes, you can do all these 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.400 same things with these smart speakers. It's just a little 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.839 bit more work. And so Anyway, I've been on this hunt. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.120 I've been switching out the speakers in different rooms, trying 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:38.960 out you know what works. But now I feel like 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.080 I'm going all the way back to Sons because I'm like, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.480 you know what, I'll buy these speakers for a discounted 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.599 price and it'll take me to kind of like the 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.520 place I was at. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.200 But you know, just I don't know I was. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.320 I was drawn in by the allure of all these 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.320 smart speakers around it. But to be honest, they get 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.919 kind of annoying to have multiple smart speakers because the 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.280 all responding when you say those magic words, and I 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.239 don't really need that. Like with my music, Yes, calling 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.760 out playlists and stuff by voice is cool and it's 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.840 nice to have, but at the end of the day, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.800 it's kind of nice to just open the app group 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.960 the speakers you want and press play. So anyway, that's 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.240 the one thing that's that's on my mind. The other 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.240 thing is this whole Google Photos situation. So Google came 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:25.479 out with a blog post titled updating Google Photos Storage 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.000 Policy to build for the Future, which tells you absolutely 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:32.400 nothing in the title. And they do that on purpose 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.440 because you know, they don't want you to realize that, hey, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.839 we're gonna start charging you for storage. That should have 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.200 been like the actual headline they use. But starting June first, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.040 twenty twenty one, any new photos and videos you upload 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.680 counts towards your free fifteen gigabytes that you get with 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:51.200 a Google Storage account and anything. So it's really complicated. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.200 Anything that you put in before June first, twenty twenty 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.480 one on that high quality setting. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.599 Is still going to be stored for free. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.919 So even if you have a giz zillion pictures in 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.480 there at high quality as of June first, those are 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.320 all fine. They're like sort of grandfathered in until Google 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.800 decides to change that. But then any new photos and videos, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.000 even in that high quality format will still count towards 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.760 your fifteen gigs of storage. Now, on the surface, this 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.280 doesn't really affect me too much because I've been paying 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.920 the ten dollars a month for the two terabytes of 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.160 Google Storage forever, forever and ever, and I've always uploaded 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.640 in high quality except for all these random big video 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.599 files that I accrue through my work that I just 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.720 throw in there in high quality because I don't really care. 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.200 I just want, like, you know, to remember these things 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.440 like you know, like a trip to uh, you know, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.159 Shanghai that I took a million GoPro videos on. I 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.320 don't need those in like the best quality. I just 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.240 kind of want to store them forever. But they're not 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.159 my personal photo collection. But they're in my personal photo collection, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.240 if that makes sense. But I with my personal photos, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:58.599 I've always always always done the original quality, which is 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.480 always counted against your storage and so on the surface, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.279 it doesn't really affect me, but it affects me in 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.039 various ways. Number One, I think that this is really 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.080 lame because Google Photos built their entire business over the 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.120 fact that people can. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.160 Just put their photos in here. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.120 It's free, it's a lifetime of photos and you don't 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.840 have to worry about it. And yes, I think that 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.600 many people will be just fine with that fifteen gigs. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.680 And in fact, Google has like a page that you 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.560 can check to see like how many years it'll take 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.920 before you have to pay, and they say for the 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.280 average person it'll be three years. And yeah, and once 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.640 you pay, you can pay a buck ninety nine a 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.800 month for one hundred gigs. Okay, sure, it's kind of 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.800 like what Apple's been doing with iCloud. Forever and ever. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.520 But the reality is, this is not how this started out. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.440 iCloud has always been paid storage, except for the five gigs. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.960 Google Photos was always free storage if you did that 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.640 high quality. Now, the thing that really bugs me is 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.320 that they made all these people lose the quality of 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.560 their pictures by putting them in high quality so that 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.360 they can get free storage. And now it's like, oh, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.920 that actually doesn't really matter anymore. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.240 So I mean it does. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.480 Those will be stored forever and ever in you know, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.800 for free. But going forward, I assume they're just going 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.440 to change this high quality to be to be gone, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.360 I guess, because I guess maybe it'll still take less storage. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.280 I don't know. But the point is it. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.240 Just makes things very confusing for consumers. And that's who 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.200 I cover tech news for, and I don't like it. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.360 And now for me personally, it has me. It actually, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.640 I think is good for the industry because it kind 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.720 of puts everyone on the equal playing field. So now 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.320 let's say you were in Google Photos even though you're 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.640 an iPhone person because you like the idea of free storage. Well, 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.240 now you might say now that things aren't free moving forward, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.040 that you know, maybe I'll just go to iCloud, and 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.040 now it can consolidate. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.000 I mean, perhaps when you know this iCloud, this. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.680 Whole you know, their their iCloud one or whatever they're 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.520 calling it, their you know storage or you know their 0:08:55.559 --> 0:09:00.280 bundle subscription Apple one, you know, you can perhaps save 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.480 some money by bundling a whole bunch of stuff through that, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.920 including two terabytes of storage. That's what I'm looking at 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.040 because with that it's thirty bucks a month. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.240 But you get all this stuff. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.560 You get the two terabytes of storage, you get Apple Music, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.200 you get Apple Fitness when that comes out, you get 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.880 Apple Arcade, you get the News which I really like, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:21.880 the Apple whatever, like the magazine subscription. I mean that alone. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:23.880 You know, you add all those things up and you're 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.480 saving some significant money. So this also requires me downloading 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.800 my entire Google photos uploading it to Apple. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.719 I mean, it's a whole big thing. Believe me. This 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.560 is what keeps me up at night. So that's on 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:37.200 my mind. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.360 I'm sure you are sort of thinking about this stuff 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.840 as well, but you know, that's kind of what keeps 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.640 me up at night. And again, I just don't like 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.880 when companies change things when they've built their entire business. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.760 And in fact, you know, even Dropbox looks viable now 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.880 because you know they don't have the same search functionality. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.439 I think Google really wins with a search functionality. That's 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.320 that's kind of a big thing there. All right, let's 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:06.680 get started with a question. M have an little sip 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.760 of my tea there, Cody asks, can you help me? 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.400 Is there an Android app that I can use to 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.360 look up unidentified phone numbers and cell phone numbers? It 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.800 seems every app I've tried redirects you to sites I 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.240 can tell us been verified or truthfinder. I hate those sites. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.560 All I want to do is find out who's calling. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.840 As I'm constantly getting calls. I've tried to call a 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.280 few back, but then I get a message that's the 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.200 numbers not in use, not valid. I'm at a loss. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.200 Please help, Thank you. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:33.120 PS. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.880 I love watching you on KTLF. Oh, I like watching 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.720 you on KTLF five. Okay, I'll give you a little 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.240 ding for that, not a ding, but like a ding 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.400 ding if love love would have been better, but like, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:49.360 I'll take Okay. So Google has the solution here. So 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.040 there's a couple of things I used to Okay. Number one, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.559 the site that's really good. It's called whitepages dot com 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.000 and so whitepages dot com is a really good reverse 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:00.679 search site. If you have a phone number, you want 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.920 to pop it in there, just click reverse phone and 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:09.079 it pretty much gets let's see, pretty much gets it right, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.520 like almost all the time. So yeah, I just put 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.080 my phone number in there, and yeah, sure enough it's 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.360 in there. So there you go. But I'm a low 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:17.000 spam risk. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.280 That's good. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.400 So you pop in a phone number. That's one way 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.720 of doing it. Now that's just a you know, one 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:27.400 off kind of thing. If you want white pages. I 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:32.319 don't believe they have like an app like it doesn't. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:33.640 It's not gonna identify you. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.319 It's not gonna like you can download their app to 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.760 your phone, but it's not gonna identify things on the fly. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:45.120 But the thing that will is Google's app. And they 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.040 have the Google Phone app that they just launched into 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.840 the play Store called Phone by Google, Caller ID and 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.840 Spam Protection Beta. And this used to be only exclusive 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.480 for like the Pixel phones, but now they've launched it 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.400 where it works with all and so now you can 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.040 see who's calling you. So most of these callers, most 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.839 of The caller ID is for businesses, but that's gonna 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.520 be mostly what you need anyway, but I would start 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.440 with that. So it's called phone by Google. Download that. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.560 I'll put the link in the show notes. The other 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:22.400 thing you can do is depending on your provider, your 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.080 cell phone provider, you can get caller ID through them, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.280 and usually it's like three bucks a month, but that 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.360 will give you everyone, like I'm talking, you know, if 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.680 someone it's a even if it's a personal line, it 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.199 will identify it. T Mobile gives you that for free, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.120 but you do have to activate it, I believe. But 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.400 the rest AT and T and Verizon, gosh, it's so weird. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.480 There's only three now. They will charge you three dollars 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.160 a month, but it might be worth it if you're 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.520 getting so many calls. I it's one of the things 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.880 that like, whenever I use a Samsung phone or my 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.360 Google phone, I love having the caller ID, And on 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.600 iPhone it's just like never there. Maybe it is if 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.520 you have T Mobile. I don't have that, so I 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.600 don't really see that, but it's just one of those things. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.800 It's so nice to see caller idea on your phone. 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.480 So all right, let's talk about Amazon, Are they always 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.560 the cheapest? I figured this was a good story because 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.120 it's shopping season, and now this was sent to me 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.080 from Amazon, so clearly it's a little bias towards them. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.360 But you know, Amazon does have fantastic pricing, but they're 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.000 not always the best, and they're not always the only 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.920 shop in town. So this is a report from a 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:30.640 website or an organization called Profittero pandemic price wars, which 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.599 online retailers are beating competitors on price heading into the 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.880 holiday season. The study compared prices on eighteen four hundred 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.880 best selling items and twenty one categories across fourteen retailers, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:46.280 including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Chewy, Wayfair, best Buy. And these 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.960 are all the online retailers, so we're not talking in 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:54.320 store here. So Amazon was competitively priced most competitively priced 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.719 in eighteen out of twenty one. It tied Walmart dot 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.440 Com for the lowest online prices for beauty item and 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.400 Chewy dot Com for pet items. Target is the least 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.840 competitively priced, averaging ten percent more expensive than Amazon. And 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.199 I believe that I've always said that Target does not 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.480 compete on price, They compete on their experience in the store, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.480 and I guess that translates to their website. But to me, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.600 Target is just a nice, very pretty shopping experience, or 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.360 very pleasant, I should say, And so you are going 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.880 to pay more there compared to Walmart, which some stores 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.640 are really nice, but others are not as kept up, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.640 and so there is a big difference. Whereas you go 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.160 into Target, it's pretty much it's pretty nice most of 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:38.320 the time. It's interesting too. Specialists don't really get into 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.280 price wars. So it says that best Buy was generally 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.160 thirteen percent more expensive than Amazon, and Electronics wayfair thirty 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:50.000 seven percent more expensive. In home furniture. And here's some 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.520 of the exact stuff. So when you look at like appliances, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.720 Amazon had the lowest price. The closest were Walmart, Target, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:02.640 and Home Depot. Electronics price of Amazon, the next closest 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.840 was Walmart, then Target, then best Buy. Let's see clothes, 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:12.880 don't care home furnishings. Home furnishings. Amazon had the lowest 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.520 price by about thirty five percent on average. Walmart was 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.600 a little bit more expensive then Target than well, actually 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.600 Walmart and Home Depot were about the same. 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:28.880 Then Target gets kind of expensive. Let's see video games. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.280 I mean, just go down the line. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.160 The main thing I'm getting the takeaway from here is 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.080 that if you're looking for beauty products, Walmart is just 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:41.360 fine compared to Amazon, and pet products Chewy is just 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.440 fine compared to Amazon. And let's see, is there anything else? 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:46.280 Let's see. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:50.760 Oh for consumers, buyer beware, promotional discounts may be mirages. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.760 Twenty percent off of product that's price fifty percent higher 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.680 on Amazon or Walmart is no deal, so. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:15:59.960 Amazon and one. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.640 Basically it's basically just the bottom line is that like 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.640 Amazon and Walmart are like the best place to shop 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:06.720 along with Target. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.680 If you want a slightly improved experience. But do your 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.120 price checks. I do. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.480 I do my price checks. I love that popcart thing. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:20.400 Popcart just extension on Google. It's really good at finding 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.680 the price comparisons at different stores. 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.080 All right, let's let's see here. Let's see what do 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.840 we want to do next? 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.760 Sue says, how do I get my iPad and iPhone 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.760 not to be paired? I haven't used my iPad for 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.880 a while, and the other day while I'm charging it, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.920 next thing, you know, all my pictures were on it 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.560 and it was ringing. I'd like to keep these separate. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.200 Thanks in advance. We elders miss having the kids around 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:47.680 the house to. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:48.240 Do this stuff. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.680 Sue, and Sue spells her name Sioux, So the only 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.680 reason I'm thinking it's Sue is because Sioux City, Iowa, right, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.040 or Sue Sue falls South Dakota is spelled s i 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.920 i Oux. So I'm guessing it's Sue. So the thing 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.000 that's happening here is twofold number one. You've got handoff 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.159 turned on, and handoff is what connects your iPad to 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.639 your iPhone for phone calls. It's a continuity feature, they 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.560 call it, and so you can just go into your 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.160 settings and turn off hand off. I believe it's under 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.560 the phone settings on the iPad or under gosh. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:24.800 On the iPad. I'm not sure. Let's see. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.840 I have to look in my iPad, but it's kind of, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.320 you know, I don't want to make this show kind of. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.240 Like the Let's see. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:37.120 I wonder if you can search for handoff, Oh, handoff, yeah, okay, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.680 handoff right, that's. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.480 Okay, that's airplay. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.600 Handoff is under airplay and handoff on the iPad, turn 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.000 that off. I have mine turned off because I don't 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:49.879 need all my stuff coming to the iPad. I'm on 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.919 the workout bike and next thing you know, I'm in 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.399 a peloton class and my iPad is ringing. I'm like, 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.080 I don't need that. If it's ringing. Enough things ring. 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.600 I've got my phone ringing, I've got the the Apple 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.399 Watch ringing, my computer rings it's so annoying. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.439 I don't need handoff on all these things. I get it. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:06.080 It's convenient. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:07.760 It's cool if you need it, but I don't personally 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.720 need it. I like having my calls go to my 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.480 phone or my watch, and that's it. The other thing 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.439 that you had is your iCloud photos turned on, so 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.720 you can turn that off under iCloud, just turn off 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.680 iCloud photos and specifically you can also turn off the 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:25.040 iCloud photos stream as well, and or you can leave 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.400 the stream on and turn the photos off. But those 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.960 are the two settings that you need to look at. Obviously, 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.639 do your research and kind of see what that entails, 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.000 because you may have some photos on your iPad that 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.080 you took that you want to save an iCloud, but 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.680 just kind of look and see what the ramifications are 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.080 of those two things. But those are the two settings 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.200 that you're looking for. All Right, Chrome got a big 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.719 update this week. It's Chrome eighty seven. And I'm not 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.119 gonna go into like a big thing about Chrome and 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.159 how great it is. But I love Chrome, but I 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.639 hate Chrome. And the reason I don't like Chrome is 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.240 because it is so slow and so like laggy. I 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.640 could barely do a word press post on this thing. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.040 So I actually use Safari on my computer to do 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.080 word press posts because it just works. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:07.359 Now. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.040 Maybe it's because of all these extensions I have, and 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.960 I really try to pair down to my extensions, but 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.360 I just I need certain extensions to function. So I'm 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.320 not sure if it's like an extension thing or if 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.840 it's just a Chrome thing. But nonetheless, Chrome did get 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:25.119 an update this week to Chrome eighty seven. And if 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.280 you're on a Mac, you can go up at the 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.600 top it says Chrome about Google Chrome, and it will 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.560 check for an update. That's how I got it, and 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.600