Speaker 1: Facebook has big changes in store. Google.
Speaker 2: Now let's you self destruct your web history. There's a
Speaker 2: new number two smartphone maker, and I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 1: It's not Apple.
Speaker 2: Netflix delivers better sound plus as always your questions, what's
Speaker 2: going on on?
Speaker 1: Rich dmiro?
Speaker 2: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast that talks about
Speaker 2: the consumer tech things I think you should know about.
Speaker 1: Joining me as always is producer Megan.
Speaker 3: Hello, how are you going on?
Speaker 4: You know the usual, just living in the tech world,
Speaker 4: Live in the tech dream, Live in the tech dream.
Speaker 1: You change your Twitter handle, which is very exciting.
Speaker 4: I did, yes, I mean I was inspired because you
Speaker 4: kept mentioning I should just make it producer Megan, and
Speaker 4: it was available, so I went for it.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you since you changed it to
Speaker 2: producer Megan, your follower count has gone up.
Speaker 4: Uh it has. I mean I've got twenty new followers.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 3: I know, it's very excited.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal.
Speaker 3: So thanks for the love.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'll let you start looking at some
Speaker 2: of the questions and you can kind of figure out
Speaker 2: what you want to ask first, and then I'll get
Speaker 2: into my first story here.
Speaker 1: Which is Facebook.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about Facebook, they had their big F eight.
Speaker 2: It used to be I thought it was the FA
Speaker 2: Developers Conference, but now it's just the F eight conference.
Speaker 2: Five thousand developers, creators, and entrepreneurs around the world.
Speaker 1: All the major tech companies do this.
Speaker 2: They have a big event every year where they kind
Speaker 2: of talk about what they want to do that year.
Speaker 2: They show off some new features. And Facebook showed off
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. I mean, none of it is
Speaker 2: truly like, oh my gosh, it's unbelievable, But there are
Speaker 2: a lot of things. I'll unpack a few of them
Speaker 2: just quickly here. So let's just start with Messenger. Basically,
Speaker 2: they are putting all their bets on Messenger, right so
Speaker 2: they want Messenger to be the preferred messaging app, and
Speaker 2: to do that, they're making it simpler. They're making it faster,
Speaker 2: They're making the app smaller so it's easier to download.
Speaker 2: They're making it so you can watch This is always
Speaker 2: funny to me, watch videos with your friends and chat
Speaker 2: out about them at the same time. Oh yeah, small
Speaker 2: use case scenario, I feel like, but I could see
Speaker 2: how that could be fun.
Speaker 3: It's an Instagram thing, I think.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, so that's okay.
Speaker 2: The other thing is they're they're releasing desktop apps for
Speaker 2: both Windows and Mac, which I think is huge because
Speaker 2: that way you can finally have a good competitor to
Speaker 2: I Message, because right now, if you want a message
Speaker 2: with Messenger on, you have to use the website.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: So Facebook itself is getting a brand new look. Have
Speaker 2: you seen this on your phone yet? Megan, No, it's
Speaker 2: like all white. It's like the blue is gone.
Speaker 3: So only this haven't updated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at the app. It's pretty crazy. Groups are
Speaker 2: front and center. And Megan, you told me use groups, right,
Speaker 2: so you're big on groups.
Speaker 3: That is all I use on facebee.
Speaker 2: And apparently that's all other people use because now they're
Speaker 2: saying that this is like front and center. And I
Speaker 2: never even realized I was a part of a couple
Speaker 2: groups till they put this front and center. Now I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm part of three groups, so maybe. And I was
Speaker 2: also unclear as to my activity in those groups if
Speaker 2: it was public or private. But if it's private, I'd
Speaker 2: be much more, you know, app to post in those groups,
Speaker 2: because I didn't realize that that was all private. Maybe
Speaker 2: some groups are public, I don't know. Probably this is
Speaker 2: interesting they're going to do a feature called secret Crush,
Speaker 2: not in the US, but in other countries. Maybe it'll
Speaker 2: come to you a slater. You basically pick nine friends
Speaker 2: who you are interested in romantically, and your friends pick
Speaker 2: nine people that they're interested in romantically, and if any
Speaker 2: of you match, you'll get like a secret crush.
Speaker 3: So it'll tell you you two like each other.
Speaker 1: Right, It's kind of like third grade.
Speaker 3: That's cute, it is.
Speaker 2: And I think it's smart because you know, if you
Speaker 2: have someone on your list and you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: of only if only?
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you know.
Speaker 2: And I think the only danger of this it's kind
Speaker 2: of how they implement it. What if you just pick
Speaker 2: like nine new people every day and you're just basically
Speaker 2: phishing to see if, like, any of your friends have
Speaker 2: a crush on you. Right, there must be a way
Speaker 2: that they're stopping you from, Like you can only change
Speaker 2: it once a quarter or something, right, Right. The other
Speaker 2: thing about Instagram, they are well, the other cool thing
Speaker 2: about Facebook is they are helping you meet new friends,
Speaker 2: so not just like dating and stuff. They're basically doing
Speaker 2: the equivalent of dating, but for just like new friends
Speaker 2: in general.
Speaker 1: So well, I think it's.
Speaker 4: It's similar with like groups, as you can meet people
Speaker 4: through groups on Facebook, so that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Like and a lot of the people that are unearthing
Speaker 2: are gonna be from your groups, so they'll be like
Speaker 2: you both like wine and books like you should be friends.
Speaker 2: That's like everyone though, Yeah, true, mostly Netflix and books
Speaker 2: for a lot of people. And finally, with Instagram, you're
Speaker 2: gonna be able to hide likes. They're testing this in Canada.
Speaker 2: No word if it's coming to the US. But that's
Speaker 2: a big one too, because I'm kind of torn on that.
Speaker 2: I see the appeal of it for you know, in
Speaker 2: high school, I could understand why you'd want that one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. Like you don't need if you're a student
Speaker 2: in seventh grade, you don't need to see like how
Speaker 2: many likes someone has on a picture. If you're someone
Speaker 2: like me, that's kind of like, you know, a public figure.
Speaker 2: I understand why likes are important on my posts because
Speaker 2: people like to see what's popular what's not. I like
Speaker 2: to see what resonates. The person posting will still be
Speaker 2: able to see the likes that they get, but you
Speaker 2: kind of have to request them. So it's not like
Speaker 2: a parent you have to like go in and like
Speaker 2: take one extra step.
Speaker 3: So yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 2: Anyways, A yeah, lots of stuff Facebook is doing that.
Speaker 2: That's from their FA conference. Next week, by the way,
Speaker 2: is Google, so I'll be up there to see what
Speaker 2: they have in store. And then after that it's Apple,
Speaker 2: So lots of new news from these folks. Personally, I
Speaker 2: get really frustrated with all this because I just want
Speaker 2: the new features today. I don't want to wait, and
Speaker 2: they always make you wait. Yeah, all right, Megan, producer, Megan,
Speaker 2: do you have a question for me?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 4: This first question comes from Jill. Subject is recommendation for
Speaker 4: a smart TV. Can you recommend a great smart TV?
Speaker 4: We want to cut the cord. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: This is always a popular question and people don't really
Speaker 2: buy TVs more like it's like a once every like
Speaker 2: ten years kind of thing, right, Yeah, so I think
Speaker 2: the most popular, i'd say, are the common kind of
Speaker 2: answer for this right now is the TCL six series.
Speaker 2: Remember we did a segment on it here at KTLA.
Speaker 2: So this this TV is super popular because it's a
Speaker 2: great TV. It's fifty five inch TV that has everything
Speaker 2: you need, four K, all the streaming apps. It's got
Speaker 2: Roku built in, so you get all the streaming apps,
Speaker 2: you get great color.
Speaker 3: This is what I have.
Speaker 1: Oh you have this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but not the sixth series. I think it's the
Speaker 4: five series the year before. But it's amazing.
Speaker 1: I love it, and they're still selling the four series.
Speaker 2: I'm going to see people at cost go buying that.
Speaker 2: But the best part about this TV is it's a
Speaker 2: great value. So you're talking six hundred and forty nine
Speaker 2: dollars for the fifty five inch, nine hundred ninety nine
Speaker 2: dollars for the sixty five inch, eighteen ninety nine for
Speaker 2: the seventy five inch. So when I get my next TV,
Speaker 2: it will definitely be a sixty five inch screen because
Speaker 2: the fifty five inches is cramping my style a little
Speaker 2: bit right now, even though I thought that was huge
Speaker 2: when I first got it, right, Yeah, So let's see
Speaker 2: what it is on Amazon. Those are the suggested you know,
Speaker 2: retail prices on Amazon. The fifty five inch four K
Speaker 2: Ultra HD Roku Smart Led TV from TCL is five
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one dollars. Wow, that's amazing. Seventy five
Speaker 2: inch is fifteen hundred and sixty dollars. All right, great, question,
Speaker 2: love that question.
Speaker 4: TVs are just they're getting better and better and they're
Speaker 4: also getting cheaper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, time like everything with all the technology.
Speaker 2: But you know, you gotta I like that because it's
Speaker 2: a great value, you know, Like, that's really So if
Speaker 2: you want the best, probably Sony. If you want the
Speaker 2: second best, i'd say Samsung. If you want the best,
Speaker 2: O lead, go with LG. But I think you'll be
Speaker 2: happy with the TCL.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So Google is doing this new thing where obviously you
Speaker 2: know that Google keeps track of everything that you do
Speaker 2: in your life, whatever you search for, whatever you watch
Speaker 2: on YouTube, wherever you drive. It is collecting everything about you.
Speaker 2: And for the most part, that's actually a good thing
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways because you know, why do
Speaker 2: you think Google, when you search, comes up with the
Speaker 2: right answer pretty quickly, Because when you start typing the
Speaker 2: words into that search bar, it's using all the data
Speaker 2: it knows about you. So when you start typing you know, tropical,
Speaker 2: it already knows that you're looking for a tropical cruise
Speaker 2: versus a tropical drink, right based on your search history,
Speaker 2: So it might put tropical cruise Bahamas, tropical cruise.
Speaker 1: You know Antarctica. That doesn't Those don't really go together.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying. See, Google is smart,
Speaker 1: so so it knows.
Speaker 2: And the reason why it knows is because of all
Speaker 2: your history that you give to it. Well, you can
Speaker 2: always go in and kind of delete some of this
Speaker 2: stuff out of there. And clearly people are very you know,
Speaker 2: concerned about what Google knows about them. Well, now Google
Speaker 2: is letting you automatically scrub your search history, so you
Speaker 2: can choose a time limit that they keep it between
Speaker 2: three and eighteen months, and after that time, Google will
Speaker 2: just go ahead and get rid of it, which I
Speaker 2: think is fine. I mean, they don't need it, I know.
Speaker 1: But see the way I feel, I kind.
Speaker 2: Of love the idea of all this history that I'm
Speaker 2: leaving on the web in like twenty years.
Speaker 1: I want to look at it, you know, like even
Speaker 1: with pictures. I noticed this.
Speaker 2: It's like you forget that you took this picture of
Speaker 2: your kid, you know, all these little things, and like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I want to notice searching for
Speaker 2: back in you know, twenty eighteen when I'm sixty, you know,
Speaker 2: I think that might be interesting. Yeah, like new Motorola smartphone,
Speaker 2: you know, what I mean with like four K video
Speaker 2: and we're at like twenty five K.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean, but I think eighteen
Speaker 1: months a good amount of time. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean anyway, I'll tell you how to do it.
Speaker 2: So you go to Google Account, which is on your
Speaker 2: Android phone or you can find it on your iPhone.
Speaker 2: Under the Google app, go to Data and Personalization, manage
Speaker 2: your activity controls, then choose web and app a web
Speaker 2: and app activity, and then choose to delete automatically and
Speaker 2: select the timeframe that you want, and then say confirm.
Speaker 2: So this is these directions are from the next Web.
Speaker 2: I tried to do this on my phone. I don't
Speaker 2: have it just yet. Google says it's rolling out in
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks. So if you try those
Speaker 2: directions and they don't work, try again in a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, because this is rolling out to everyone. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, let me know what you think you're
Speaker 2: gonna do this. I'm kind of torn.
Speaker 1: I don't want to sounds like you're not.
Speaker 2: I don't want to obliterate my history, Like I like history,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it's one of these things that
Speaker 2: like in the future I might be like, oh, would
Speaker 2: have been nice to see like all that stuff, or
Speaker 2: even my location history, like so if you get rid
Speaker 2: of that, Like I love my location history because it
Speaker 2: tells me everywhere I've been in the world. And I
Speaker 2: love going to Google Maps and like looking at my
Speaker 2: timeline and being like, where did I go in New
Speaker 2: Zealand because I forget it's been so many years it's
Speaker 2: all on there. If that's obliterated, I feel so sad.
Speaker 4: I never thought of the history, like your past history,
Speaker 4: to be like that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like a photo album exactly.
Speaker 2: And I know everyone's scared of like their history on Google,
Speaker 2: but like the reality is, I don't know, there are
Speaker 2: some fun aspects to having all that stuff, all right, Megan.
Speaker 4: Next question, Okay, next question has to do with internet
Speaker 4: and Wi Fi.
Speaker 3: It comes from Joyce.
Speaker 4: She says, Hi, Rich, I have AT and T for
Speaker 4: my internet and my WiFi, which is wireless. Can you
Speaker 4: tell me what I could buy to illuminate that sixty
Speaker 4: dollars bill every month?
Speaker 3: I do stream Netflix.
Speaker 4: I cut my cable cord and bought an indoor antenna
Speaker 4: so that I could get my local channels and Roku
Speaker 4: for entertaining, which costs me less than a month of
Speaker 4: basic cable. Now, I would like to get rid of
Speaker 4: my AT and T monthly bill if I can. I
Speaker 4: have smart TVs and I have an iPhone. I hope
Speaker 4: you can help me with something that I don't know
Speaker 4: anything about.
Speaker 1: Joyce. Joyce, right, Joyce, Okay, Uh, not gonna happen. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't, Joyce.
Speaker 2: You can't have the best of everything without paying for anything.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So there is no magical formula for getting streaming content
Speaker 2: without an Internet connection. And what you're talking about is
Speaker 2: you're referring to AT and T WiFi, but I'm assuming
Speaker 2: you mean you have AT and T Internet in your
Speaker 2: house and it's coming through your WiFi.
Speaker 1: And I get this question a lot.
Speaker 2: Actually, people cut the cord and they want to know, like,
Speaker 2: how do I get rid of my internet bill?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you can't.
Speaker 2: And the cable companies know this, which is why they
Speaker 2: love when you cut the cord, because guess what happens
Speaker 2: when you cut the cord. Your internet prices go up,
Speaker 2: and they go up and up and up, just like
Speaker 2: cable prices did back in the day. So I know
Speaker 2: I started out at like gosh, I think it was
Speaker 2: like thirty five ninety and then I went up to
Speaker 2: forty five. Now I'm up to sixty five dollars a
Speaker 2: month for Internet because Spectrum knows that, like, that's the
Speaker 2: only thing I get from them. What am I going
Speaker 2: to do? Go somewhere else? Maybe, but I don't feel
Speaker 2: like dealing with that. So Joyce you really can't get
Speaker 2: rid of your Wi Fi from AT and T. I
Speaker 2: will give you some hope for the future, though. So
Speaker 2: you've got two things happening. Number one, the wireless companies
Speaker 2: and AT and T included, they're all building these five
Speaker 2: G networks, So eventually you will be able to subscribe
Speaker 2: to five G for your home internet, depending on how
Speaker 2: they structure things. But Verizon has already tried this in
Speaker 2: LA in a very small area, but T Mobile has
Speaker 2: plans to do this. AT and T hasn't really said
Speaker 2: they're going to do this. But the reality is five
Speaker 2: G will be so good that eventually you will be
Speaker 2: able to replace your home internet with five G and
Speaker 2: now will be from the same people AT and T,
Speaker 2: T Mobile.
Speaker 1: Verizon, perhaps Sprint.
Speaker 2: But the reality is you'll have more competition right now
Speaker 2: when it comes to these fixed lines that come to
Speaker 2: our homes. We generally have one to two options, and
Speaker 2: this will give more options. It'll be from the same giants,
Speaker 2: but hopefully the prices will be a little bit more
Speaker 2: competitive and you can kind of hop around easier because
Speaker 2: there are so many more options. So that's a ways off, though,
Speaker 2: we're talking like two to three years from now. I'd
Speaker 2: say maybe in LA a little bit sooner, but that's
Speaker 2: kind of like the bigger picture. The other thing to
Speaker 2: look forward to is satellite internet, like laser internet that
Speaker 2: Elon Musk wants to do. So he's launching all these
Speaker 2: satellites right now around the world that will beam internet.
Speaker 2: I don't know how fast or good it's going to be.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's good. But that's another option. So I'm trying
Speaker 2: to give you a little bright side.
Speaker 1: In the future. Would not be free, Okay, No, nothing's free, Megan.
Speaker 1: You know, I know, I know.
Speaker 3: Internet is like water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they know they got you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, like, what would you rather have turned
Speaker 2: off in your home? The internet or the water?
Speaker 3: The internet? Okay, I want to be able to shower.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just saying, like, shoot, what would you do well,
Speaker 2: i'd say probably, yeah, Internet, I hate when the water's off.
Speaker 2: It is it's I know we're sounding very first world
Speaker 2: right now, but yeah, all right, smartphones this these numbers
Speaker 2: are just wild. So in the US, when you think smartphones,
Speaker 2: you think Samsung and Apple, right, and for the most
Speaker 2: part you really think Apple.
Speaker 1: A lot of people.
Speaker 2: It seems like Apple has a lock on the US, right,
Speaker 2: and then Samsung of course. Now these are numbers from IDC.
Speaker 1: Number one.
Speaker 2: Smartphone shipments in general are just down down almost seven
Speaker 2: percent year over year. So what does that tell you?
Speaker 2: Tells you that everyone who has a smartphone pretty much
Speaker 2: has one at this point.
Speaker 1: And it's just kind of like shuffling the deck, like
Speaker 1: rearranging the chairs, like I want this, I want a Samsung,
Speaker 1: now I want an Apple, and I want I have
Speaker 1: an Apple, now I want a Samsung. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: The companies are just no one's doing very well except
Speaker 2: for the Chinese companies. So let's just go with Samsung.
Speaker 2: They saw volumes drop eight percent. They still shipped seventy
Speaker 2: one million phones in the first three months of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 3: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: They are the number one in the smartphone market. The
Speaker 2: Galaxy S ten is doing really well for them. But
Speaker 2: here's the deal. Number two is now Huawei. This is
Speaker 2: the Chinese company that like basically America is at odds
Speaker 2: with because they think they're spying on us, so we
Speaker 2: can't buy their phones. But the rest of the world
Speaker 2: loves their phones. Yeah, and they're number two. Now they
Speaker 2: here's the crazy part about them. They have a year
Speaker 2: over year growth of fifty percent, which means they're grown fast.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now they only sold fifty nine million phones in the
Speaker 2: first quarter, but they have a nineteen percent market share.
Speaker 2: Now here's Apple, lovely Apple. Here US company. They had
Speaker 2: a challenging first quarter. They only shipped thirty six million phones.
Speaker 2: So think about that. They shipped thirty six million, Samsung
Speaker 2: did seventy one million, almost double. But you know, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of different you know, Samsung makes a lot
Speaker 2: of different phones. Yeah, but here's their decline thirty percent
Speaker 2: year over year.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, I me. So it feels like are people
Speaker 1: switching to different phones? They are? They just kind of
Speaker 1: they happy with their iPhone? Who knows.
Speaker 2: But they did try to do some trade in deals.
Speaker 2: Clearly consumers didn't really care the other companies on this
Speaker 2: list Jaomi, Vivo, and Opo, which are all I believe
Speaker 2: Chinese companies. I know Jaomi is and Vivo and Opo
Speaker 2: are I believe are all China anyway, wild huh? All right,
Speaker 2: So I just like to do that because it gives
Speaker 2: you a little perspective because in America we're so America
Speaker 2: centric and iPhone and I message, But there's a whole
Speaker 2: world out there, and Samsung is dominant in that world.
Speaker 2: Huawei now really dominant. Apple actually has to catch up,
Speaker 2: which is crazy.
Speaker 1: Will they do it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And I had never heard of Huawei up until recently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't hear about them much in the US,
Speaker 1: but they have a really nice phone. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, speaking of Huawei, I do have a question, and
Speaker 4: this was on Twitter from Peter John. He asks here
Speaker 4: in Canada, Huawei thirty pro is being promoted heavily. It
Speaker 4: has a leaka cameralika leika.
Speaker 3: What can you tell me about huawees?
Speaker 1: What can I tell you? Great question? What a good segue. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the deal. Huawei.
Speaker 2: In my time that I've tested them, they give you
Speaker 2: it's kind of like Samsung. They give you a lot
Speaker 2: of bang for your buck, right, So they have very
Speaker 2: premium phones. I personally, the last time I tested one
Speaker 2: of these was like a year or two ago, and it.
Speaker 1: Kind of like it's it was good, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: their best.
Speaker 2: Like I have not tested their last one, which I
Speaker 2: think was a P twenty Pro, and now they have
Speaker 2: the P thirty proky So these phones. When I look
Speaker 2: at my friends on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube talking
Speaker 2: about these phones, they cannot say good enough things. Basically,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the website DxO Mark, which kind of
Speaker 2: ranks all the mobile phones. Huawei P thirty Pro is
Speaker 2: number one with one hundred and twelve score out of
Speaker 2: one hundred or no, I guess it goes over one hundred.
Speaker 2: Samsung Galaxy S ten is number two, then the Huawei
Speaker 2: May twenty pros number three, Huawei P twenty pros number four,
Speaker 2: Samsung number five, then Jaomi and then Apple what so, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you're talking. Their phone, according to this website is one, one, two, three, four,
Speaker 2: five steps above the iPhone Tennis Max, which is what
Speaker 2: I carry, and I think it's pretty darn good.
Speaker 3: That is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what can I tell you is go out
Speaker 1: and get it. Yeah, I missed his name.
Speaker 4: What was his name is Peter, John Peter Peter, Vancouver.
Speaker 2: Okay, So yeah, go out and get it. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're with your country, I do too. So actually
Speaker 2: was going to email Huawei to get a sample to
Speaker 2: check out because I'm getting so many questions and interest.
Speaker 2: I just want to see for myself, like is this
Speaker 2: thing really this amazing? Like people just rave about it.
Speaker 2: The only downside I could see from my standpoint is
Speaker 2: I've used their software and I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 2: of it. But Samsung has a lot of their software
Speaker 2: on it, and I'm not a huge fan of that.
Speaker 2: But I kind of manage and so you know, I'll
Speaker 2: do anything for a good camera.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a dumb question. Yeah, is Huawei.
Speaker 3: Are the Huawei phones considered androids?
Speaker 1: Yes, Huawei is Android.
Speaker 2: That so basically like in the world at this point,
Speaker 2: there's only Android and iOS, Like, there's really not another
Speaker 2: phone type at this point.
Speaker 1: So there's there.
Speaker 2: Used to be Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, and there might
Speaker 2: be one.
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting that.
Speaker 2: If you guys are listening to the podcast and you
Speaker 2: you know hear one that I'm forgetting, let me know.
Speaker 2: But I Android and iOS is basically at this point
Speaker 2: speaking of I guess we'll keep the trend going with
Speaker 2: mobile stuff. But I thought this was I always find numbers.
Speaker 2: I'm a numbers guy. I love numbers, even though I
Speaker 2: don't understand them. I'm like a big math person. I
Speaker 2: just love knowing things that are numbers based, right, And
Speaker 2: so this is, uh, this is the latest numbers when
Speaker 2: it comes to smart watches. And I know, Megan, you're
Speaker 2: thinking of getting a smart watch. Every time we talk
Speaker 2: about them, I could see you're like.
Speaker 1: Yes, I need I need one.
Speaker 2: So I always love to know kind of like who's
Speaker 2: doing well in the smart watch area. And we know
Speaker 2: who's doing number one. Apple, Yeah, so they're they're king okay.
Speaker 3: Right, and then Samsung, I don't know, that's a guest.
Speaker 1: Yes, Samsung's number two.
Speaker 2: And actually hold on, let me see quarter one. Yeah
Speaker 2: and sample No, see that's okay. See that's interesting you
Speaker 2: say that because Google really has no smartphone game or
Speaker 2: a smart watch game right now. They they don't have
Speaker 2: their own they have they make they make smart watch
Speaker 2: software called where os, and so far it hasn't caught
Speaker 2: on in a huge way. They bought fossil like part
Speaker 2: of them, you know, fossil, So they bought I think
Speaker 2: part of fossil like last year, and so they're trying
Speaker 2: to do that. But when you look at like, okay,
Speaker 2: so let me just go through the numbers. You've got
Speaker 2: Apple at number one with thirty five percent market share
Speaker 2: in the first quarter. Then you got Samsung with eleven percent.
Speaker 2: So for every this thing, this article, this is let's
Speaker 2: see who is this that I'm reading off? I should
Speaker 2: know the source, Counterpoint Technology Market Research. So they say
Speaker 2: that one out of every three watches sold is basically
Speaker 2: an Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: Which makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: That's the one you see everywhere, right, I mean a
Speaker 2: lot of people have. I just saw it, like just
Speaker 2: among parents, you know, because that's who mostly hang out with.
Speaker 2: It's like I just couldn't believe, like all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I'm just seeing on every wrist an Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: Like it went from like zero to like, oh my.
Speaker 3: Gosh, totally zero to one hundred.
Speaker 2: Number one feature is really the health features, and I
Speaker 2: love I went for a jog run yesterday and it's
Speaker 2: just I've tried a lot of these devices and the
Speaker 2: Apple Watch is just amazing. It truly is like I
Speaker 2: think it's better. I actually like it better than the
Speaker 2: iPhone to be honest at this point.
Speaker 3: Like wow, yeah, that's a big statement.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think the iPhone does me to order.
Speaker 2: But when I sit there and like think about, like
Speaker 2: if I ever had to give up the iPhone, like
Speaker 2: what I'd feel bad giving up the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: iPhone. I can switch to Android, no big deal.
Speaker 2: I love Android, but the Apple Watch you can't get
Speaker 2: a lot of the features in in such a nice
Speaker 2: way in other places. So let me just go through
Speaker 2: the rest of them. You've got Samsung and eleven percent.
Speaker 2: You've got Eyemu next at nine percent, then Fitbit at
Speaker 2: five percent, then Amaze, fit Huawei, Fossil, Garman and all
Speaker 2: others are twenty seven percent. So basically, what this tells
Speaker 2: me is that Apple has a lion's share and everyone
Speaker 2: else is just getting scraps right now. So that also
Speaker 2: tells me there's a big opportunity here to make a
Speaker 2: great smart watch. So Google has a huge opportunity. A
Speaker 2: lot of people are saying they might make something called
Speaker 2: the pixel Watch, which is like their version of a
Speaker 2: smart watch, you know, for like, because think about it,
Speaker 2: if you have an Android phone, you have to either
Speaker 2: go with the Samsung smart Watch, which their latest one,
Speaker 2: the Galaxy Watch we saw is really beautiful, like I
Speaker 2: would consider that one, and then after that it really
Speaker 2: drops off pretty fast.
Speaker 1: They're like, what's your other option? A fippit.
Speaker 2: Fippits don't really integrate with the operating system as well,
Speaker 2: but they have nice functionality. They're not as like sexy though,
Speaker 2: you know, like the the Apple Watch is really nice.
Speaker 2: I think the Galaxy Watch is like sexier, like a
Speaker 2: nicer device, and then the fippit is kind of like
Speaker 2: a I track your steps, you know, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Frumpy like the Frumpy friend?
Speaker 1: Are sorry the loser of the watches? All right, Megan? Yes?
Speaker 1: How many do you have another question for me?
Speaker 3: Do I have another question?
Speaker 4: And its actually relates to BlackBerry, which is kind of
Speaker 4: oh you okay.
Speaker 1: I took a sip of water. Hold on, sorry what BlackBerry?
Speaker 4: Well, it's a BlackBerry user, which is okay, shocking in
Speaker 4: and of itself, And this is from Terry. It's about
Speaker 4: switching from the BlackBerry to a new phone. Hi, Rich,
Speaker 4: I have a challenging question after.
Speaker 3: You stop laughing, which obviously you already did.
Speaker 1: I've already spit my water out.
Speaker 4: Yes, I still have a BlackBerry and I love it. However,
Speaker 4: I know it's getting to the end of its life.
Speaker 4: I currently have the Z ten and have had three
Speaker 4: or four Blackberries previously. I do not want an iPhone.
Speaker 4: Do you have a suggestion for my next phone. I
Speaker 4: do a lot of biz on my phone, not too
Speaker 4: concerned about video or live stream. I currently do not
Speaker 4: use Facebook on my phone either. Thank you in advance
Speaker 4: for your time effort and all the reports on keytwol
Speaker 4: Avid Watcher seven days and a fan.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's like one two punch Terry. Thank you so interesting.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you've held on what model BlackBerry, the
Speaker 1: Z ten.
Speaker 4: I don't even the one that Kim Kardashian has bought
Speaker 4: like a hundred of Oh my gosh, I thought because
Speaker 4: she loves it so much she still uses it.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the Z ten.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this was kind of okay, So this is
Speaker 2: actually a newer BlackBerry.
Speaker 3: Like this was new as of what year?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Let me see.
Speaker 2: I'm looking on Amazon and I'm trying to see like
Speaker 2: when they came out with this first available. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: the comments are from twenty fourteen. This is a long
Speaker 2: time ago. Here's a here's a picture of it. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I would say, Terry, the phone that I recommend for you,
Speaker 2: since you don't want an iPhone, I would look at
Speaker 2: a company called one Plus, and I think that that's
Speaker 2: going to be your best bet because you're going to
Speaker 2: get a great phone running Android, amazing bang for your buck.
Speaker 2: They're coming out with their new one plus seve like
Speaker 2: in two weeks.
Speaker 1: Wait can I say that? Yeah, yeah, that's public. I
Speaker 1: never you know, is that what Louise has?
Speaker 4: Uh? No, okay, there's there's some phone he has that
Speaker 4: he really likes.
Speaker 3: No, I thought it was the one it's not.
Speaker 2: I love the one Plus and I actually want to
Speaker 2: get him a one plus because one plus is amazing.
Speaker 2: Their camera is on. Here's the thing if you're a
Speaker 2: social media person like myself, like trying to edit video
Speaker 2: and all that stuff, Like the camera leaves a little
Speaker 2: bit to be desired regular person, average pictures amazing, like
Speaker 2: and the value you get like the best software. It's
Speaker 2: really really fantastic. So one plus, Terry, I'd recommend the
Speaker 2: one plus six over the SIXTE because the six T
Speaker 2: has no finger has no fingerprint sensor on the back.
Speaker 2: It's in the screen, and I don't like it as
Speaker 2: much as the one in the back. But check out
Speaker 2: the one plus seven when it comes out mid May.
Speaker 2: Great value, or you can get the one plus six
Speaker 2: at a cheaper price. Clearly, if you're rocking a phone
Speaker 2: that's four years old at least, you're kind of like
Speaker 2: one plus six will be a great.
Speaker 1: Upgrade for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question, Terry rip Black. How did that
Speaker 1: come in? How are these questions coming in? To ask you?
Speaker 1: That was email? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can send an email hello at richontech dot TV.
Speaker 2: You can do Instagram at rich on tech or Facebook
Speaker 2: and what's the other on Twitter?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can also tweet producer Megan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tweet producer Megan with your questions. That'll be that'll
Speaker 2: be even better. That'll that's like the shortcut to the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Netflix is making the audio sound quality. Let's try that again.
Speaker 2: Netflix is making the audio sound better on their programming.
Speaker 2: TVs and movies are TVs, TV shows and movies are
Speaker 2: gonna sound even better. They're announcing this feature, and I
Speaker 2: just absolutely love the name. I hope they paid a
Speaker 2: lot of money to research this name because it is
Speaker 2: called when we have our drum.
Speaker 1: Roll, please, high quality audio.
Speaker 3: I mean really, wow, I deserves a raise.
Speaker 1: They could have come up with something fun like glitter audio. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything shiny audio audio shine.
Speaker 2: I don't know whatever good for the ears, audio polish.
Speaker 2: So I won't spend a whole lot of time on
Speaker 2: this because it's just I mean, I love sound, so
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. I've got I set up in
Speaker 2: my living room the side speakers, like the surround sound.
Speaker 2: Basically it's not true like yeah, it's so no, so
Speaker 2: it's not like crazy soround sound. But I have the
Speaker 2: soundbar and then the two speakers, And I kid you
Speaker 2: not every time I hear something out of because not
Speaker 2: every show takes advantage of all the speakers. Some shows do,
Speaker 2: some shows don't. I've gotten so spoiled now that when
Speaker 2: I see a show takes advantage of the speakers, I
Speaker 2: am so much more into it because I love hearing
Speaker 2: this stuff like whoosh by behind me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I kid you not.
Speaker 2: My kid was watching a cartoon the other night that
Speaker 2: must have been optimized from Netflix. Maybe they have this
Speaker 2: and a little ghost like popped out of the corner.
Speaker 2: Like I was on my phone and I just like
Speaker 2: heard it out of my left side ear.
Speaker 1: I jumped because I was like, what is that? And
Speaker 1: it happens to me all the time.
Speaker 2: I'll hear like something like in the show that I
Speaker 2: think is like someone walking the other side of the
Speaker 2: house or something. It's pretty wild. So my point is
Speaker 2: good sound is kind of fun to have.
Speaker 3: It's like three D for the ear.
Speaker 1: That's exactly, That's exactly kind of right.
Speaker 2: So they are there, so if you're a nerd, basically
Speaker 2: what they're doing is they have five point one audio
Speaker 2: and they have Dolby at most, which is really like
Speaker 2: the best, and they're upping the bit rate that you get,
Speaker 2: so they're basically sending through higher quality audio and I
Speaker 2: love it. And the feature also is adaptive, so the
Speaker 2: better setup you have, the better it is. And you know,
Speaker 2: it kind of downgrades like if you don't have like
Speaker 2: all the different stuff, they just kind of like downgrade
Speaker 2: the signal because don't forget to send through every little
Speaker 2: tiny bit of whatever you're watching or listening to on
Speaker 2: Netflix cost them money because it's going through the internet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so if they can you know, if they notice that
Speaker 2: your connection's not as good, they're not going to send
Speaker 2: through as much data.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant. Oh Wowyeah, it's pretty pretty smart. Smart people
Speaker 1: around on Netflix. Yeah, neighbors, neighbors invite us over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we share a lot with them. That's why I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like Megan's like, it's not her neighbor,
Speaker 2: Like mister Netflix doesn't live int door to her.
Speaker 1: No, probably do though. Oh yeah, I mean, let's hear
Speaker 1: the question.
Speaker 3: That's for another another time.
Speaker 4: Anyways, next question comes from Instagram from Tequila Terre.
Speaker 3: Oh she sounds fun, I have, she sounds like a
Speaker 3: good time. I have an app question for you.
Speaker 4: What would you recommend for an iOS as an app
Speaker 4: for dictation for minute meetings?
Speaker 3: Now that we are in a digital era?
Speaker 2: Now, I like, now that's digital, Now we're digital. This
Speaker 2: is This is an interesting one because I'm always looking
Speaker 2: for ways of like doing this as well, because I
Speaker 2: transcribe a lot of stuff for my job, so I'm
Speaker 2: always looking for like easy ways to like transcribe interviews.
Speaker 2: So I'll tell you a couple of things that work
Speaker 2: pretty well. Number one, you can just open up Google Docs,
Speaker 2: and inside Google Docs, let me just open up a
Speaker 2: new one right here, so I can tell you exactly
Speaker 2: how to do this. It's amazing, by the way, you
Speaker 2: can do this on your phone or you're on your phone.
Speaker 2: You can only do it on Android because iOS all
Speaker 2: the voice stuff is basically like Siri, and she's not
Speaker 2: very good at transcription.
Speaker 1: But Google is amazing. So okay, open up.
Speaker 2: A Google Doc and go to tools and go to
Speaker 2: voice typing. And so I just turned that on and
Speaker 2: I'm pressing it and literally as you speak, it will
Speaker 2: show up on your screen in exactly the way you're talking,
Speaker 2: complete with punctuation and capital letters. And even if you
Speaker 2: say something like a proper term, like I went to
Speaker 2: visit San Francisco, it will show up perfectly. Now, Megan,
Speaker 2: I'm going to show you what I just did, because
Speaker 2: here it is on my computer screen. You take a
Speaker 2: look at what I just did, like in lifetime. That's
Speaker 2: pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Huh oh wow, wait, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's number one.
Speaker 3: I wish I had that.
Speaker 4: When I was like in college still and I could
Speaker 4: have recorded classes.
Speaker 2: Yes, just put it up for your class, you know,
Speaker 2: your professor. Now, is it always going to be perfect? No,
Speaker 2: Now some people might not want that because it doesn't
Speaker 2: give you the audio as well, but you can record
Speaker 2: it separately, you know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I have a better solution. That's just one.
Speaker 2: I'm giving you guys a lot of options, and that's
Speaker 2: totally Yeah. Well, they have a feature called live Transcribe
Speaker 2: which you can download your phone, which is also another way,
Speaker 2: but that's kind of separate from what I'm talking about here,
Speaker 2: but that's really cool. We saw that demo and it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Google has very good voice to text or hold on
Speaker 2: speech to text recognition, yeah, voice text whatever. So the
Speaker 2: second one is called otter dot ai, and this is
Speaker 2: amazing because it's basically the same thing, but it's meant
Speaker 2: for meetings, like we should actually do this for the podcast,
Speaker 2: because you just set your phone up and you have
Speaker 2: it running and it just literally transcribes everything you say,
Speaker 2: and it time codes it and even splits up the
Speaker 2: speakers so you can see like when I say something,
Speaker 2: when you say something, and it's otter dot ai. I
Speaker 2: thought it was going to be a paid thing, which
Speaker 2: it is. But you do get six hundred minutes free months.
Speaker 2: And what's cool about this is it keeps both the
Speaker 2: audio and the text. So I think that's gonna be good. Now,
Speaker 2: if you want to pay, it's eight dollars and thirty
Speaker 2: three cents a month. If you do it annually. Hold
Speaker 2: on monthly is ten dollars a month.
Speaker 3: So that's for unlimited.
Speaker 1: That's for uh, let's say, is it unlimited six thousand
Speaker 1: minutes a month? That's a lot that. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you have more meetings than that tequila, that's not.
Speaker 4: Gonna that you need to take Kila Terrey.
Speaker 2: Good question. Again, it's otter dot ai. If you need it,
Speaker 2: try it out. I mean, Megan, you should download it.
Speaker 2: It's really cool. I have it on my phone and
Speaker 2: it's just it's pretty phenomenal. How how slick it is.
Speaker 2: So I thought this was interesting because if you have
Speaker 2: an Android phone and you're on your computer all day
Speaker 2: like I am. If you're on if you're on iOS,
Speaker 2: everything matches up right. If you have a Mac computer
Speaker 2: with an iPhone, everything sort of sinks.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: You get your notifications on your screen, well I guess
Speaker 2: not your regular notifications, but you get your I message,
Speaker 2: which is pretty.
Speaker 1: Much all you need.
Speaker 2: If your Windows it's a little bit tougher, you don't
Speaker 2: necessarily get all the that same integration. But Windows ten
Speaker 2: is now doing Android notifications via the MyPhone app. So
Speaker 2: TechSpot dot com reports on this, and it's only for
Speaker 2: beta users right now, but this means it'll be coming
Speaker 2: out to more people. If you have a one plus
Speaker 2: six six 'ty Samsung Galaxy S ten No.
Speaker 1: Eight, No.
Speaker 2: Nine, you download the Windows my Phone app and not
Speaker 2: only can you mirror your screen, but you can also
Speaker 2: get all your notifications on your screen in real time,
Speaker 2: which is very handy. Yeah, So anyway, check that out.
Speaker 2: Windows ten showing your Android notifications via the my Phone app.
Speaker 2: And I think Windows and Microsoft in general is doing
Speaker 2: a really good job of integrating into smartphones because they
Speaker 2: don't have their own mobile platform anymore, so they're really
Speaker 2: trying to get people to like see the synergy between
Speaker 2: like iOS and Windows and Windows and androids. So one
Speaker 2: more way, all right, how many more times?
Speaker 1: I think we have time for one more question?
Speaker 3: Maybe? So this is an interesting question from Jeanette. She asks,
Speaker 3: this was an email?
Speaker 4: Is there an app that can tell me what the
Speaker 4: building is?
Speaker 3: What kind of bird I saw? Et cetera. Let me
Speaker 3: ask that again.
Speaker 4: Is there an app that can tell me what the
Speaker 4: building is, what kind of bird I saw?
Speaker 3: Et cetera.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, and who is this?
Speaker 3: This is from Jeanette.
Speaker 1: Jeannettes And how did this one come in email? I
Speaker 1: thought this would be like a message in the bottle.
Speaker 1: I got it, Jeanette. Okay, so interesting? So there wasn't
Speaker 1: there are some What she's talking.
Speaker 2: About I think is like basically these apps that can
Speaker 2: kind of recognize objects, and I think there's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of specialized ones for like plants and stuff. But
Speaker 2: look at we want the holy Grail of apps, right,
Speaker 2: which is you aim it at anything in the world
Speaker 2: and it tells you what it is, right, Yeah, it
Speaker 2: tells you what the text is, it translates that text,
Speaker 2: It tells you what kind of bird that is, what
Speaker 2: kind of insect? How many times have you seen a
Speaker 2: bug around the house? You're like, is that a black widow?
Speaker 1: Right? Yes? Would to me so often?
Speaker 3: And I wish I could like tell and I can't
Speaker 3: tell no one.
Speaker 1: I don't even know spider and nobody. You got to
Speaker 1: get the spider.
Speaker 2: Spiders know Well, it's funny that it's this always cracks
Speaker 2: me up. Like we live in a world where like
Speaker 2: literally we're in a world right, like there's there's trees,
Speaker 2: there's animals, but like anytime they invade our space, like.
Speaker 3: Even a tiny spider, it's not cool.
Speaker 1: It's like game on.
Speaker 2: Like, if there's a fly in my house, I will
Speaker 2: literally stop anything I'm doing to get that fly.
Speaker 4: Well, how about when you're going to sleep and you
Speaker 4: see a spider crawl.
Speaker 3: Out of your covers and yeah, that happened to me once.
Speaker 2: How about this, do you ever pick up a piece
Speaker 2: of clothing from the floor.
Speaker 1: And a spider falls out?
Speaker 3: I've had that happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the scariest one because can you imagine putting
Speaker 2: that on?
Speaker 1: You put on a shirt spider inside.
Speaker 4: My dad had a spider hair. Okay, there we have
Speaker 4: a spider problem. Clear he had a spider hanging off
Speaker 4: of his shirt.
Speaker 1: Clearly it's the iraqophobia.
Speaker 2: At the mcmonagle, the producer Megan House, Okay, so I
Speaker 2: think the answer to this is there is not one
Speaker 2: easy answer. I think there's a bunch of specialized apps,
Speaker 2: but the thing that might work the best Janette for
Speaker 2: a lot of these things is Google Lens, so I
Speaker 2: would get Google Lens.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different ways you can get it.
Speaker 2: You can get it inside the Google Search app on iOS,
Speaker 2: you can get it inside Google Photos. You can get
Speaker 2: it inside just look up Google Lens. And there's a
Speaker 2: lot of different ways to get Google Lens. There's not
Speaker 2: like a specific app. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Let me say, yeah, okay, oh, could have just looked
Speaker 1: at the website. So it's on everything.
Speaker 2: I just said, It's on the Google Assistant, in iOS,
Speaker 2: it's on Google Lens. Oh, they do have an app
Speaker 2: in the app store. I did in the Google Play.
Speaker 2: I did not realize that. I gotta get that. And
Speaker 2: then they also have it built into Google Photos. And
Speaker 2: some phones have it built in, like I know OnePlus
Speaker 2: has it built into the camera, and SODA's what's the
Speaker 2: other one one plus? Did I say that or did
Speaker 2: I say one plus one plus an LG They both
Speaker 2: have it built into their cameras.
Speaker 3: Apple should be next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we good luck with that one.
Speaker 3: They don't care.
Speaker 1: Just a two quick notes.
Speaker 2: If you watch TV, Apple TV Channels is adding HBO,
Speaker 2: So Apple TV Channels is kind of like their idea
Speaker 2: where you can get all your premium services in one
Speaker 2: place that you subscribe to through Apple TV the app.
Speaker 2: It's very complicated, all their naming conventions, but you can
Speaker 2: now subscribe to HBO for fifteen a month. Nothing new
Speaker 2: about that. A lot of people log in using their
Speaker 2: cable or they have HBO go. The cool thing about
Speaker 2: this and what sets it apart, is two things. Number One,
Speaker 2: you can get a one week free trial of HBO.
Speaker 2: So if you want to watch like binge on Game
Speaker 2: of Thrones for a week, take some vacation, get a
Speaker 2: free week through the Apple TV app. The second thing
Speaker 2: is they have support for offline downloading, so that's something
Speaker 2: you haven't had before with HBO.
Speaker 1: Basically you had to stream it.
Speaker 2: So I kind of find that really interesting because I
Speaker 2: would love to onload a bunch of shows for like
Speaker 2: the plane that you can.
Speaker 3: Normally wash if you're going to fly somewhere. That would
Speaker 3: be really helpful.
Speaker 1: China like China. We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2: And finally, YouTube is streaming thirteen games, thirteen MLB games
Speaker 2: for the twenty nineteen season. And I love this, I
Speaker 2: love this, I love this, I love this. I love
Speaker 2: this here's the thing about all these like streaming things.
Speaker 2: They're pain in the ass, right, Like I mean Amazon
Speaker 2: has like well Amazon has like a couple of football games,
Speaker 2: but oh sorry, it is a pain in the.
Speaker 3: Ars in the behind.
Speaker 2: So it's just like it's every one of these things
Speaker 2: is just like so overly complicated because of ads, right,
Speaker 2: they want to be able to serve up ads, and
Speaker 2: they don't want to make it like available on like YouTube.
Speaker 2: Like to me, YouTube is everywhere. YouTube is on every
Speaker 2: single device in the world. So now you can watch
Speaker 2: this MLB game so easily by just calling up YouTube.
Speaker 2: Now it's only going to be in the US, Canada
Speaker 2: and Puerto Rico, so but again it'll be on the
Speaker 2: YouTube dot com slash users slash MLB. So I just
Speaker 2: love the idea of this in that player, you know,
Speaker 2: Like the YouTube player is the best. It's the perfect
Speaker 2: like web streaming player. So if you can have all
Speaker 2: your content, Like if I could have all my stuff
Speaker 2: through there, that'd be amazing.
Speaker 1: It's just so simple, so simple it works.
Speaker 2: They're clearly the leader in video, so they know what
Speaker 2: they're doing. Netflix is also pretty good, but I think
Speaker 2: YouTube is a little bit better to me, like, they
Speaker 2: don't play as many games with you like Netflix. Netflix
Speaker 2: is always just trying to get you to watch something
Speaker 2: that you've never heard of. Yeah, and it auto plays
Speaker 2: while you're browsing, like why.
Speaker 3: They just have a lot of weird content, a lot of.
Speaker 2: Weird content and you don't know of it, You've never
Speaker 2: heard of it before. And there's no like ratings or
Speaker 2: anything there, so you can't tell like is this popular?
Speaker 1: Is this not popular?
Speaker 3: Like oh, I just.
Speaker 4: Google it and like look right, like the Rotten Tomatoes,
Speaker 4: and then it's most likely not that great, so then
Speaker 4: I don't watch.
Speaker 2: It's usually like thirty percent right, Yeah, yeah, but that's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. They make it so hard for you
Speaker 2: to do that. On YouTube, you can see how many
Speaker 2: people watched it. You see how many comments, you can
Speaker 2: see how many subscribers like everything totally, so that they're hiding.
Speaker 2: Netflix does this on purpose. They hide stuff from me
Speaker 2: because they're trying to trick you into watching their garbage.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying that they have all garbage.
Speaker 3: But didn't we say that we liked Netflix.
Speaker 2: We love Netflix ago, we love Netflix, love them so great?
Speaker 2: Can you believe it? Another show in the can Oh,
Speaker 2: just like that, I was fast.
Speaker 3: I went by so fast.
Speaker 2: I know, very fast, just like a like a yeah,
Speaker 2: like just really well done show, Megan, thank you.
Speaker 3: There's a there's a compliment right there.
Speaker 1: Oh you want to read the comment. We have time
Speaker 1: for a compliment.
Speaker 3: We always have time for go ahead.
Speaker 1: We'll end it.
Speaker 3: So this this next.
Speaker 4: Compliment, so nice, comes from Berry Candle cool, last name Rich.
Speaker 4: Love your new format for the podcast pros no more
Speaker 4: phone calls cons you are not on enough. Wish you
Speaker 4: did podcast more often.
Speaker 3: Love your producer Megan.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's why you wanted to read it. Okay, I see, No,
Speaker 2: we both something that was like my first like yeah,
Speaker 2: like call out like.
Speaker 3: Nice, you know, compliment found you on Tech Guys show.
Speaker 1: Great find Oh he found me.
Speaker 2: A lot of people find me through Leo, which is
Speaker 2: funny because I fill in for Leo Laporte and then
Speaker 2: people find me because you're like, oh this guy podcast too.
Speaker 1: So thank you. That was Barry.
Speaker 2: That was such a nice email. I love that just
Speaker 2: out of the blue, and I love that he mentioned you.
Speaker 2: It's interesting he doesn't like the phone calls, so I
Speaker 2: don't Maybe we won't bring him back.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I kind of like this format, by the way, like
Speaker 2: the email questions because I get so many questions via email.
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