WEBVTT - 008 Rich on Tech Radio Show - February 25, 2023 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.080 Google is bringing one of its best pixel features to 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:09.320 many more phones, including the iPhone. How young consumers are 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:14.000 driving Apple sales, The smartest new way to search Reddit, 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.720 plus your tech questions answered. What is going on? I'm 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.599 Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the show 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.680 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.360 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:32.000 your questions about technology. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:36.320 Channel five in Los Angeles. Still drying off from getting 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.599 into the studio, Welcome to the show. Phone lines are 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.639 open at one eight eight eight Rich one oh one. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:49.880 That's triple eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.160 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.280 We'll take your calls, answer your questions, and just be 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.600 here for you. As you know, I'm broadcasting live from 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.840 Los Angeles, typically known for its sun and fun, but 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.720 the last couple of days it has been all about rain. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:11.399 It has been snowing. There's been sleet, something called I 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.039 think it's groppol. I don't know who calls it that. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.560 No one I know we has called it sleet. It 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.120 has been non stop. It was so rainy over the 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.080 past couple of days. You would not believe you're in 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.039 Los Angeles. It's so rainy and wet in Los Angeles, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.560 the plants are like, okay, we'll never complain about being 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:35.839 thirsty again. It's so rainy and wet in Los Angeles. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.880 At this point, the ocean is jealous of the land. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.240 It is so rainy and wet. In Los Angeles. The 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.160 four or five at this point is just one big 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.880 slip in slide. It is so rainy and wet. In 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.200 Los Angeles. Umbrellas, yes, umbrellas are refusing to go outside. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.240 It is so rainy in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Sign 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.680 is now surrounded by a moat. It's so rainy. In 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:08.799 Los Angeles, studios just greenlit Noah's Ark two and this 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.600 one I got. It's so rainy in Los Angeles. California 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:17.640 Pizza Kitchen is now the Rainforest Cafe, still serving the 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.840 same thing though it's so rainy. In Los Angeles, Apple 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.839 rushed out a software update to enable underwater mode. Yeah, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.040 you'll find it right next to airplane mode. It's so 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.840 rainy in Los Angeles. Weather apps just gave up. And 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.440 it's so rainy in Los Angeles. I had to take 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.920 Uber canoe to the studio today. All right, I don't know. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.600 You know, look, the rain gets you a little, you know, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.919 cooped up, Like I was inside all night last night. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.799 I was wondering if, like the roof is gonna fly 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.480 off with the wind. So I hope you enjoyed my 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.240 dad jokes. I don't know, maybe let me know what 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.160 you think. But in all seriousness, this rain is a 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.840 very serious thing in California, in Los Angeles because we're 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.480 just not used to it. So of course I'm a 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.280 little introspective and thinking about weather apps. So I posted 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.960 to my Instagram today at richon Tech a bunch of 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.800 useful weather apps. Now here's the thing. Bill, one of 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.880 the folks behind this show, actually talked about this very 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:16.960 idea for one of the first shows. He said, rich 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.280 you should talk about how dark sky is no longer 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.760 a thing and Apple bought them and you know, some 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.720 alternative weather apps. And I was like, Bill, do people 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.480 really care? Let's be honest, there's there are two types 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.680 of people in this world. People that care about the 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.040 weather forecast and people that do not care about the 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.960 weather forecast. My wife is a weather forecast fanatic. She 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.440 checks her apps every minute of the day. It drives 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.480 everything she does, from what she wears to work in 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.280 the morning to what she plans for the afternoon to 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.000 her drive. So let me give you a little background 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.480 about dark Sky. So this was an app and a 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.880 company that was very, very popular, and the reason they 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.320 were popular is they had this really spot on notification 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.440 technology that if it was going to start raining, they 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.560 would send you a notification saying, hey, we're predicting rain 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.520 in your area in the next seventeen minutes. You'd be like, what, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.600 how do they know? How do they do this? I 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.400 don't know how they do it? But it was so 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.240 good and it was pretty much the favored weather app 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:21.480 for both Android users and some iOS users until Apple decided, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.120 you know what, this is pretty good technology, let's purchase it. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.640 So they purchased this technology. I think it was like 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.400 back in a couple of years ago, and then immediately 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.440 they shut down the Android app. So all the Android 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.960 users were like, nap, sorry, no more, no more Dark 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.719 Sky for you. And then they took the technology and 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.960 they mixed it into their own weather app. So if 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.440 you have an iPhone, you've probably seen those little notifications 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.039 that say, hey, it's going to start raining your location 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.120 in the next you know, eight minutes. That's all because 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.880 of dark Sky. And then they're going ahead and they're 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.200 going to shut down these other what's called an API, 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.719 So other weather apps were able to tap into dark 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.000 Sky and use that information to make their apps better. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.320 That's called an API. Well, now Apple is going to 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.080 shut that off as of according to the website March 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.239 thirty first, twenty twenty three. But I think they actually 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.600 extended that. I think that was supposed to happen last year, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.479 but I think because of the pandemic and all that stuff, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.360 they said, Okay, we'll throw you a bone. We'll let 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.440 it stay for a little bit longer. So all these 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.599 apps that rely on dark Sky for this really cool 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.080 technology are now suddenly like, okay, now what do we do? 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.240 So I went through and I looked at some of 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.040 my favorite apps and some of the useful apps out there, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.320 and I kind of did a little Instagram post. So 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:34.839 if you want to check it out, go to go 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.279 to my Instagram at rich on Tech and I'll go 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:38.880 through some of these apps and some of them were 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.599 suggested by users as well. But the first one is 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.120 called Windy. This app is really great if you love 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.720 full screen visualization. So if you just like seeing what 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.760 it looks like around you outside from space, this is 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.440 just a fantastic app for that because it lets you 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.560 scroll through all different kinds of visualizations, whether it's precipitation, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.520 whether it's wind, whether it's lightning, and it's just a 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.039 nice big map to see that and that big map 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.240 animation sort of like what you see on the news. Right. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.760 So Windy is the app for you. If you like that. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.360 Then there's an app called Overdrop, and this is one 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.160 of my favorites. This is a very minimalistic app. It's 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.159 very beautiful. Some people are calling it the Dark Sky 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.760 two point zero because it's easy to understand, it looks 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.080 really good, it functions very good. All of the basics 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.800 are on one page, so they've got these nice, beautiful animations. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.160 At the top. You could see exactly what you need 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.440 to know, like the current conditions, the hourly forecast, and 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.719 then you can scroll down and see the rest of 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:43.000 what you need. Plus they do precipitation notifications and so 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.599 if you like those notifications that used to get especially 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.880 on Android from Dark Sky, Overdrop can maybe fill that 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.440 void now Overdrop is still powered by dark Sky, but 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.160 I was reading on their website and they said, no, no, 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.719 we've got some tricks up our sleeve. We're gonna switch 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.000 to some other providers once dark Guy goes away, but 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.280 right now they're still able to use that one. Now, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.120 another app that's really bright and kind of fun, and 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.760 this is a very good app. I recommended it to 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.760 my mom and she used it for many many years 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.080 is called Hello Weather, and again very much like Overdrop, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:21.160 but it's minimalistic. It's got nice, big kind of graphics. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.400 It's got big bar charts that just tell you what 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.480 you need to know, so you get this nice, rich 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.679 visualization of the week ahead. So I can see today 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.280 we've got one hundred percent rain the forecast, Tomorrow it's 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.679 fifty five percent. Monday it's back to one hundred percent, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.160 then Tuesday ninety five percent, Wednesday ninety percent. Oh my gosh, 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.560 what is happening here in California? And then Thursday it'll 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.640 be sunny. But I can see that really easily on 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.080 this app. So that one is very nice and simple 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.840 to use. Now this next app, you're gonna love her hate. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.280 It's called Carrot Weather, and I actually interviewed the founder 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.040 of this app a couple of years ago, and it's 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.360 so funny. Nice guy, but you go on this app 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.800 and it is sooner for snarky and people love that 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.040 about this app. So, if you want your weather with personality, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.600 Carrot Weather is where you got to go. So you 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.160 can choose from You've got this slider and you can 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.440 choose from whatever you want your weather to be. Like, okay, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.840 so you've got personality from just fun, sorry, just regular, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:26.640 Then you've got friendly, then you've got snarky, then you've 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:32.000 got homicidal, and then you've got overkill, which may have 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.760 the creative use of profanity in the forecasts. So if 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.000 you like your forecast with profanity, Carrot Weather is the 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.080 one you want. Now there's also a political slant to 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.000 this one, so you can have a slider for how 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.720 do you like your weather delivered? You can have a 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:55.640 political centrist, liberal, conservative, libertarian, communist, or anarchist. I don't 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.240 know what that means when it comes to weather, but 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.760 you can try it out weather and people like it 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.560 because it's also very simple. Then you've got an app 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:08.040 called Underground. And the thing about Underground, it's actually I 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.360 think it's like Weather Underground, but it's from the same 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.600 folks that do the Weather Channel, which is now owned 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.000 by IBM, which is not the same as the Weather 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.960 Channel on your TV by the way, so they're different 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.720 as far as I know. So the Weather Channel or 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.000 Weather Underground Underground uses data from two hundred and fifty 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.920 thousand personal weather stations, so they boast these hyper local 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.160 weather forecasts. It also collects some information from your phone sensors, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.440 and I know that the Weather Channel kind of got 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.679 in trouble for that when people realized that they were 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.920 using that information, so just be aware of that. But 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.760 this one is really very simple. It's kind of basic, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.559 but it has all the information you need if you 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.800 want to take that deep dive again, same company as 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.720 the Weather Channel. And then finally we've got this app 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:59.120 called climb Clime. This has a great radar imagery plus 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.040 all the vitals. So if you just want to scroll 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.160 through and see the wind, the visibility, the AQI, the humidity, 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.320 and the moon phase all in one place, you got 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.520 it on this app, plus the big radar screen. It 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.360 also has notifications for precipitation, so if you like that 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.880 it has it. It also has notifications for major changes 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.959 like lightning or other things that are happening with the weather. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.000 Now those require payment. Like a lot of these apps 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.080 are kind of the freemium model, which means the basics 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.360 are free, but you're gonna pay for the rest. And 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.200 this one out of all the apps, I mean, they 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.160 all push kind of a paid product, but this one 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.679 really pushes their paid product. I was getting a notification 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.679 or a pop up screen to switch to the paid 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:42.000 stuff like very very often on this one. So that's 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.480 called climb anyway, let me know in the comments. Go 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.160 to my Instagram at richon Tech, tell me which weather 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.240 app is your favorite. Of course, if you have a 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.359 local TV station in your area, like I work for KTLA, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.760 they have their own weather apps as well, so you 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.480 can check those out because people like those because there's 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.480 a real human behind them in their neighborhood is helping 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.240 to program that information. But again, weather apps, uh, if 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.880 you use one, let me know. I know. My wife 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.079 has her favorite. She's checking it all the time and 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.320 it's just the Weather Channel. After I posted this today, 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.280 she goes, I'm just pretty basic. I used the Weather Channel. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.559 I said, that's fine. Whatever works for you. All right, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.800 phone lines are open at triple eight rich one O one. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.840 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.240 zero one. Got a lot coming up on this show, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.240 Great guests. This week, we're going to talk to the 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.640 director of the Worldwide Day of Unplugging. We're going to 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.079 talk about an app that's like Uber, but you can 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.280 make money doing other people's dirty laundry. Plus, we're going 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.840 to talk about how young people continue to drive Apple sales. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.439 Plus your calls up next at triple eight rich one 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.200 O one. You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.240 back to rich on Tech. I'm Rich Demiro. This is 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.640 the show where we talk about technology and answer the 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.840 questions you have about technology. You can find me online 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:02.839 at richontech dot TV. Alex is in Northridge kicking off 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:09.439 this hour, Alex. Welcome to the show. How can I help? Hello, Alex, 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.080 am I doing something wrong? Okay? Do I hear you? Alex? 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:14.160 No? 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:19.720 Okay, Let's try this once again, Alex. Are you there? Nope? Okay, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.240 I guess Alex. Give me a call back, Alex. That's 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.640 what we can do there. All right, let's talk about 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.440 this while we wait for Alex to get back on 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.360 here Magic Eraser. This is a feature that is sort 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.520 of the big feature from the Pixel phones. It is 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.120 coming to more phones. This is a very big deal 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:39.839 because I don't know if you watched the Super Bowl, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.440 but Magic Eraser was one of the biggest features that 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.200 they advertised, and this commercial really landed with people. It 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.920 was Google. They showed a whole bunch of pictures, whether 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.240 it was including you know, some random person in the 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.640 background or an x and they said, look, if you 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.000 want to clean up your pictures and fix them up 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.200 and get them right, try Magic Eraser. And this is 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.240 a feature that's really been kind of the selling point 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.920 of Pixel phones for many years now. It was launched 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:09.880 I don't know if it was launched with a Pixel 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.200 six perhaps, but it was exclusive to that phone, and 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.760 then it came to the Pixel seven. And you know, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.880 Google's gotten a lot of mileage out of this because 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.439 it allows you to just highlight something in a picture, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.840 whether that's a person or an object, tap a button 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.640 and it disappears. And of course Google using artificial intelligence 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.120 and all their machine learning to figure out how to 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.440 do this and make the picture look pretty good. And 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.000 so if you wanted this feature, you had to go 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.480 to a Pixel and Samsung has a similar feature on 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:44.520 their phones in Samsung Labs called Eraser, and it works 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.600 pretty well. But again, Google kind of has the lock 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.240 on this. Well now, they said in a blog post 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.319 that Google Photos features are coming to not only more 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.760 pixel phones, but anyone who pays for storage on Google 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.880 that has an Android or an iOS phone. So if 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.560 you want to access Magic Eraser, all you have to 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.600 do is download Google Photos and be a paying member 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.160 of Google one. So this means that you're paying for 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.680 storage above and beyond the fifteen gigs that Google typically 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.600 gives you included. So the plans are one hundred gigs 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.720 starts at two dollars a month, two hundred gigs of 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.520 storage starts at three dollars a month, two terabytes starts 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.760 at ten dollars a month. And if you pay for 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.640 any of those plans, you now have access to Magic Eraser, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.960 which is really cool on both Android and iOS. The 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.840 other thing you're going to get is this new HDR 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.040 video effect, So if you want to make your videos 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.440 look better with HDR, you can now export them with 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.280 this new effect, so it will balance dark foregrounds and 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:48.359 bright backgrounds or vice. Versa and again machine learning, artificial intelligence. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.360 This is a huge deal that Google is now allowing 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.280 this feature to work on so many more phones. It's 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.640 rolling out now. So if you don't have it in 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.560 your Google Photos just yet, you know, keep checking and 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.720 make sure you have those updates. All right, I'm told 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.520 Alex is back. Alex is in north Ridge unless I'm 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.680 doing something wrong with the phones? Can you hear me, Alex, Yes, sir, 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.640 I can. How are you welcome to the show? What 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:09.360 can I help you with? 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.320 First question? I found a mouse that has a Bluetooth 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.480 adapters that I can plug into one computer and at 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.720 the same time it tears via Bluetooth to a second computer, 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.480 and there's a switch on it that I can switch 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.200 between the two computers to use one mouse. The question is, 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.440 do you know of a mouse that can control three 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.920 computers at the same time? Not at the same time, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.760 you know, with a switch on it, I can flip 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.120 to basically control each of those three computers. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.080 What are you running over here? What you got trading stocks? 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:43.120 Or what's happening here? 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.080 Not even close? No, it's f music applications. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.920 Music applications. Okay, so you've got a couple of different computers. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.040 You want to use one keyboard three computers, okay, and 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.640 right now your mouse that you have can control two. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:56.040 Yeah. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.560 I found a mouse I forgot who the maker is, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.920 has a kind of a switch on amb okay, and 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.720 the one way it connects via the built in kind 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.400 of wireless to one computer and it comes one of 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.040 those dongles that you can put into the second computer 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.840 and it pairs via bluetooth to that dongle. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.720 Okay, So I think what you're going to have to do. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.520 There may be a mouse that does this, but I 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.040 think from everything I'm seeing, it's pretty much going to 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.200 be either a hardware solution, something called a KVM switch, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.560 which you know, I think we're popular back in the day, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.160 or if you run a large amount of computers, that 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.120 could be something that you want to look into KVM switch. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.200 But I think software might work. So a couple of 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.200 things just doing a quick little search here that I'm 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.560 finding that may work. There is a Microsoft app called 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.600 Mouse Without Borders and this says it can control up 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.320 to four computers with a single mouse and keyboard. This 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.440 is a product that has been out for a while. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.280 Says it was released in September twenty eleven, and so 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.240 you know, that's something you can try, and it may 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.880 work with the mouse that you have already. That's probably 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.560 the easiest way. Now, that's given that these are all 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.080 Microsoft computers, right are Windows computers? I should say if 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.119 it's a combination of computers, then you might want to 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:18.960 look at an app called Synergy. Synergy and Synergy lets 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.720 you work up to three computers, and it does look 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.440 like it works across Windows, Mac Os, Linux, and Raspberry 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.760 Pie if you are running those Now you mentioned you're 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.600 running a music program a lot of times if you're 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.440 doing content creation, folks are working on a Mac computer. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.159 So I think that would be probably your best solution 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.840 is either the switch or the Synergy. Alex. Sorry, I 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.600 don't have time for your second questions. I got to 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.240 run to break here, but thank you so much, and 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.720 let me know if that works all right? Coming up, 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.639 we are gonna do a great interview. This is something 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.800 that a lot of people have debated. The blue versus 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.480 the Green bubble article went viral this week that says 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.760 gen Z users are so loyal to the iPhone and 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.240 those blue bubbles that they sell a lot of Apple 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.360 products plus your phone calls at Triple eight Rich one 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.960 on one eighty eight seven four to two, four to 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.479 one zero one. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.320 back to rich on Tech. My name is Rich Demiro, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.120 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. This 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.200 is the show where we talk about technology and answer 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.640 your questions. And one of the age old debates in 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:33.119 technology is iPhone versus androids, specifically the green bubble versus 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.280 the blue bubble or vice versa, depending on which side 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.240 you're sitting on. And this was an article this week 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.840 that went viral. It's in the Financial Times how Apple 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.520 captured gen Z in the US and change their social circles. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.560 Patrick McGee is the author. He's joining me now, Patrick, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:53.399 Welcome to the show. 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:55.359 Hey, Rich, glad to be here. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:00.400 So this article, I guess my first question is what 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.480 was the thesis behind it? Like, why did you decide 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.600 to write this? Because it really hit a nerve with 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.120 a lot of folks. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:11.639 Yeah, I think it's just underappreciated by investors. Just how 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.080 like what kind of good trajectory Apple is on over 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.040 the next decade. So if you think about other big 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.639 tech giants, right, gen Z doesn't particularly love Amazon. They 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.439 use it, but they feel guilty. They think Facebook is 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.200 for old people, and I don't know how many of 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.280 them are really getting into the metaverse. Google is sort 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.680 of being taken over by obviously chat GBT in the 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.200 last few months, but even before that, you know TikTok 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.560 where people are doing you know, sort of like video 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.480 mapping as a way to sort of find a restaurant, 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.399 right preferences are selected by people that they know or 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.600 other TikTokers rather than a sort of Yelp type review 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.840 that you might find through Google. So it just seems like, 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.520 you know, big tech is obviously massive, but it doesn't 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.679 necessarily have the next generation until you look at Apple, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.120 where not only is it sort of continuing to have 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.800 a hold on the next generation, it's got a massive 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.520 stay change where you've got upwards of ninety percent of 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.520 American teenagers already have an iPhone and continue to want 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.000 an iPhone for the next hand set. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.080 And the way that that kind of plays out is 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.200 the fact that when Apple sells iPhones, they sell other 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.960 things as well, like an iPad or an Apple Watch 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.840 or AirPods. And you're you're saying that this is good 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.159 for business in the future, basically because this generation is 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.160 going to grow up really a meshed in this stuff. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:31.400 Yes, I mean, the Apple ecosystem is so sticky that 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.879 if you are going off to college after having an 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.560 iPhone in the past decade, you're not really thinking, hmm, 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.760 I wonder what sort of laptop I should buy. You're 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.280 really thinking what type of MacBooks should I buy? And 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.639 I could say the same thing for headphones, certainly for 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:45.840 smart watches. You know how many iPhone users have a 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.000 non Apple smartwatch? Like it's just like anecdotally, I don't 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:49.840 know anybody, are. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.000 There any I don't even know if there is one. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:52.520 I mean, what would you use like a garment. I 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:54.840