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Speaker 1: world of tech together. Some great guests this week, Washington
Speaker 1: Post tech columnist Jeffrey Fowler. We'll talk about Apple Intelligence
Speaker 1: and his test drive and how it's still a little quirky.
Speaker 1: Then later we've got top tech YouTuber I Justine She's
Speaker 1: going to share her thoughts on the new iPhone sixteen
Speaker 1: and the other Apple products. And later in the show,
Speaker 1: YouTube creator John from gen X Grown Up is going
Speaker 1: to talk all things eighties, nostalgia, retrogaming, and how classic
Speaker 1: brands want in on the modern tech landscape. Well, this
Speaker 1: was the probably the biggest week in technology of the year,
Speaker 1: Apple's annual iPhone event in Kopertino, where they introduced new
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen models, AirPods four, and Apple Watches. And yes,
Speaker 1: I was there, probably my fourteenth year of covering Apple events. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. It's a lot of iPhones. It's been
Speaker 1: a lot of iPhones over the years. So I was
Speaker 1: at the original iPhone event launch in New York City
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and seven, and then my job
Speaker 1: kind of took me in different directions, so I wasn't
Speaker 1: at some of the launches. Then when I got to
Speaker 1: KTLA started covering all of the iPhone events starting in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, so it's been a bit And yeah, I've
Speaker 1: seen the iPhone evolve over the years. This is the
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen and sixteen plus. So basically you sit through
Speaker 1: the presentation up in Cooper Tino these days. Now, they
Speaker 1: used to all be live, right, so everything was live.
Speaker 1: They would have, you know, the CEO come out, whether
Speaker 1: it was Steve Jobs back in the day and now
Speaker 1: Tim Cook, and then he would come out welcome everyone,
Speaker 1: and then they would literally show off these products to
Speaker 1: a live audience. And the products were there on stage,
Speaker 1: they would literally pull a veil off of them sometimes
Speaker 1: or hold them up in their hand to show them off.
Speaker 1: Now ever since COVID, they do everything pre taped, so
Speaker 1: it's a lot slick, but you know, not as much
Speaker 1: can go wrong because it's all they're done, and you
Speaker 1: know it's it's on tape, so it's not as it's exciting,
Speaker 1: but it's not the same energy as it used to
Speaker 1: be because you're just basically watching a movie when you
Speaker 1: go up there. But it's still fun because the best
Speaker 1: part is after the presentation ends, you all run into
Speaker 1: this other room and go hands out with the new devices.
Speaker 1: So basically everyone that's invited to the event are the
Speaker 1: first people in the world to experience these new products.
Speaker 3: So let's go through them. First.
Speaker 1: Off, iPhones sixteen and sixteen plus. These are the base
Speaker 1: Apple iPhones, modest upgrades, slightly improved camera. The action button
Speaker 1: is now replacing the mute and ringer switch. This is
Speaker 1: what they did last year with the Pro models. Now
Speaker 1: it's across all models. And then there is this new
Speaker 1: touch sensitive camera control area. They don't call it a button,
Speaker 1: but I do. It is basically a dedicated button on
Speaker 1: the side on the right side of the iPhones that
Speaker 1: not only when press activates the camera, A second press
Speaker 1: will take a picture, a press and hold will take
Speaker 1: a video, and then you can lightly press or lightly
Speaker 1: tap and bring up camera controls like focus and zoom.
Speaker 1: It's a little complicated. Yes, it's gonna take some getting
Speaker 1: used to, Yes, but this is a new way to
Speaker 1: launch the camera on the iPhone and eventually maybe other
Speaker 1: things as well. A lot of developers already tapping into this, so,
Speaker 1: for instance, if you're in something like Snapchat, you would
Speaker 1: be able to use that button for an added functionality.
Speaker 1: So it's one more physical button on the iPhone and
Speaker 1: it's going to open up some possibilities. It's a little weird,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. My initial hands on time was a
Speaker 1: little shaky. I would say I wasn't able to master it. Immediately,
Speaker 1: but we'll see as time goes on. But it does
Speaker 1: free up one icon on your home screen because you
Speaker 1: no longer need that camera icon because now you can
Speaker 1: just press the side of the phone. Seven and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars for the iPhone sixteen, nine hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: the iPhone sixteen plus. Now when it comes to the
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen Pro and Pro Max, this is where a
Speaker 1: majority of the major improvements are larger screens than ever
Speaker 1: before on an iPhone six point three inches up from
Speaker 1: six point one inches and six point nine inches up
Speaker 1: from six point seven inches.
Speaker 3: Now in the hand, they don't.
Speaker 1: Feel much bigger, but they are a little bit bigger,
Speaker 1: but Apple stretch the screen more to the edges to
Speaker 1: make them so that they can still make these bigger screens.
Speaker 1: But the phone overall doesn't feel much bigger. It does
Speaker 1: feel a little bit bigger.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: What I like that they've done here is the specs
Speaker 1: are the same. So if you want a big phone,
Speaker 1: you can go for a big phone. If you want
Speaker 1: a smaller phone, you can go for the smaller phone,
Speaker 1: and you still get the same specs except for the
Speaker 1: screen size and battery it's the same exact thing that
Speaker 1: Sam that Google did with the Pixel nine Pro and
Speaker 1: the Pixel nine Pro XL. Samsung still reserves their best
Speaker 1: feet for the Ultra.
Speaker 3: We will see if.
Speaker 1: They change their tune this next time around, because people
Speaker 1: have a choice with the iPhone and Google. Now we'll
Speaker 1: see if they get a choice with Samsung as well.
Speaker 1: Five times optical zoom on both models. As you might remember,
Speaker 1: last year, it was a three X on the Pro
Speaker 1: and a five X on the Promax.
Speaker 3: Now it's five X on both.
Speaker 1: Improved ultra wide camera, so you're getting a forty eight
Speaker 1: megapixel ultra wide camera, so everything's going to look just
Speaker 1: a little bit better in the ultra wide and you're
Speaker 1: getting four K, one hundred and twenty frames per second video.
Speaker 3: That is quite incredible.
Speaker 1: All the nerds in the audience, especially the video creators,
Speaker 1: were going nuts over that because it is super smooth
Speaker 1: video and you can slow it down after the fact
Speaker 1: and it's still gonna look really good. Better heat dissipation,
Speaker 1: so if your phone heats up a lot, especially when
Speaker 1: it's charging or when it's in the sun. They've improved
Speaker 1: I don't know if they called it the vapor chamber,
Speaker 1: but that's what they call it in the other phone.
Speaker 1: So apparently these phones will have better heat dissipation, which
Speaker 1: means your phone should stay cooler while it's charging and
Speaker 1: while it's under heavy use. And the batteries are bigger
Speaker 1: across the board, so better battery life by the tune
Speaker 1: of a couple hours for each model, So that's always
Speaker 1: a good thing.
Speaker 3: Whenever we see improved battery life.
Speaker 1: Prices on the sixteen Pro and Promax nine hundred ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars basically one thousand bucks for the Pro, twelve
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for the Pro Max. My advice do not
Speaker 1: get the base model. One hundred and twenty eight gigabytes
Speaker 1: is not enough for these phones. These are powerhouse phones.
Speaker 1: If you're recording four K video at one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty frames, you're going to go through that one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight gigabytes in about two days, So you
Speaker 1: need to get the two hundred and fifty six minimum.
Speaker 1: And yes, Apple plays pricing game, so it's only one
Speaker 1: hundred do dollars extra.
Speaker 3: Now, don't complain to me. You're already spending one thousand.
Speaker 1: Go the extra ten percent to get that eleven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars price point and double the storage on your phone.
Speaker 1: You'll thank me later. I don't care if you have iCloud.
Speaker 1: It still makes a huge difference to have that storage
Speaker 1: on your phone. And you're paying basically fifty percent less
Speaker 1: for the two hundred and fifty six gigs than you
Speaker 1: are for the one twenty eight. All right, now, let's
Speaker 1: talk Apple Watch ten Thinner and lighter. It is noticeably
Speaker 1: thinner and lighter on your wrist. It also sits lower
Speaker 1: to your wrist. That big back bump is sort of gone.
Speaker 1: Comes in this new Jet black finish, which is really nice.
Speaker 1: Screens are larger, so they're saying I think like ten
Speaker 1: percent larger on the screens, faster charging. It now detects
Speaker 1: sleep apnea, so this is something that's undiagnosed in like
Speaker 1: eighty percent of people. It will diagnose that now and
Speaker 1: give you if it thinks you have it. It will
Speaker 1: give you a PDF that you can print out and
Speaker 1: bring to your doctor. A new tides app, So if
Speaker 1: you like to serve or do anything with the ocean,
Speaker 1: this will tell you the high and low tides. You
Speaker 1: can save your favorite beaches, and the built in speaker
Speaker 1: can now play audio. So it used to be the
Speaker 1: built in speaker on the Apple Watch could only do
Speaker 1: Siri and also phone calls. Now you can listen to, say,
Speaker 1: streaming music or a podcast, or any kind of music
Speaker 1: you want on the built in speaker. I know it's
Speaker 1: a small thing, but if you forget your headphone somewhere,
Speaker 1: if you're on a walk, maybe you're by yourself, you
Speaker 1: just want some companionship on the audio there on the
Speaker 1: built in speaker.
Speaker 3: You don't want to have headphones in.
Speaker 1: You've got that option that starts at three hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars to the Apple Watch ten, the Ultra two.
Speaker 1: They did not come out with an Ultra three. The
Speaker 1: Ultra two now comes in titanium black. Yes, it is
Speaker 1: very good looking. That's if you're the ultrasports enthusiast. That
Speaker 1: starts at eight hundred dollars. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the air pods. Now, AirPods four these are the new
Speaker 1: entry level AirPods one hundred and twenty nine bucks. Do
Speaker 1: not buy them at that price. They often go on
Speaker 1: sale for cheaper, especially during the holidays. But they have
Speaker 1: a new active noise cancelation option. For one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy nine dollars. So this is an open ear design,
Speaker 1: which means you don't have to seal out your ears,
Speaker 1: and you'll still get that active noise cancelation. Probably not
Speaker 1: going to be as good on a plane, but for
Speaker 1: every day when you're just out and about. If you
Speaker 1: like to have some of those noises canceled but you
Speaker 1: still want to have your ear open to the world,
Speaker 1: that's a nice option. You also get a wireless charging
Speaker 1: case for that one seventy nine, And this is really neat.
Speaker 1: The AirPods Pro two is actually now FDA approved for
Speaker 1: use as hearing aids. This is going to open up
Speaker 1: hearing aids for many many people who already have these
Speaker 1: or who just want hearing aids. They're two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine dollars, but right now I just check they're
Speaker 1: on Amazon for like less than that, so you can
Speaker 1: get that hearing aids for less than two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. And the health app inside the phone is
Speaker 1: going to help you test your hearing. I took a
Speaker 1: sample of this, and you basically tap the screen as
Speaker 1: you're listening to different frequencies. It gives you a little
Speaker 1: report and it says, hey, do you want us to
Speaker 1: tune these as hearing aids? And now you can hear
Speaker 1: everything around you much better than before. Finally, Apple Intelligence
Speaker 1: AI features not launching the same day as these new devices.
Speaker 1: All these new devices are going to be available on
Speaker 1: Septem number twentieth. The AI stuff is going to roll
Speaker 1: out later that will work on the iPhone fifteen Pro
Speaker 1: models and later. And if you don't want to get
Speaker 1: a new phone, September sixteenth, iOS eighteen is going to
Speaker 1: launch as a free update that's going to be compatible
Speaker 1: with the iPhone ten R and later. So that's the eleven,
Speaker 1: the twelve, the thirteen, the fourteen, the fifteen, and the sixteen,
Speaker 1: as well as the iPhone S two. If you want
Speaker 1: to check which iPhone you have it if it's been
Speaker 1: a while since you upgraded, you can go into Settings General,
Speaker 1: about and model name and that will tell you which
Speaker 1: one you have. But basically the bottom line is modest
Speaker 1: upgrades this year. I think a lot of the pro
Speaker 1: phones have some great upgrades, but only if you are
Speaker 1: using your camera a lot, your video a lot. And
Speaker 1: also if you want those AI features, you're going to
Speaker 1: have to update unless you have that iPhone fifteen Pro.
Speaker 3: But across the board, Apple.
Speaker 1: Did some really cool stuff, very exciting, and I have
Speaker 1: it all linked up on my newsletter this week. Just
Speaker 1: go to Rich on tech dot TV and you can
Speaker 1: read everything that I think about these new devices in depth.
Speaker 3: Right there, All.
Speaker 1: Right, coming up, it's your turn. Let's get some of
Speaker 1: your calls in at eight eight eight Rich one oh one.
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Speaker 3: If you got a tech question, don't be shy, give
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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro. You are locked into Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned right here. Let's go to uh Bill in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Bill, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I asked the question earlier.
Speaker 5: I guess I have to repeat the question again.
Speaker 1: Yes, you probably talked to Kim. Now you're talking Rich
Speaker 1: on the radio live.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wanted to ask you. One question was about
Speaker 4: on the web right now. You know, when you're on
Speaker 4: these sites, it always says that with the new sixteen
Speaker 4: coming on, Apple is trying to get rid of the fifteen,
Speaker 4: so there are a lot of sites giving it away
Speaker 4: for free. I don't think that's really true. It's one
Speaker 4: of those things that you know sounds too good to
Speaker 4: be true, So I don't that's probably not true, right.
Speaker 3: It depends on the website.
Speaker 1: Look, I mean, if you're talking about one of these
Speaker 1: websites that's like get a free iPhone fifteen, that's a scam.
Speaker 1: But if you're talking about one of the carriers advertising
Speaker 1: a free iPhone, that is not a scam, but it
Speaker 1: is scamy, and I can explain that. So yeah, anything
Speaker 1: that's offering a free phone with no strings attached or
Speaker 1: like you know, fill out a survey, that is a
Speaker 1: scam for sure.
Speaker 4: And the ones that with the like T Mobile, Verizon,
Speaker 4: those are because you're going to commit to them for
Speaker 4: a couple.
Speaker 3: Of years or something like that exactly. So my fends
Speaker 3: up one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So my friend and I we were chatting about this
Speaker 1: last night because we were talking about all the deals
Speaker 1: out there because whenever this happens, basically the carriers go
Speaker 1: nuts and they say get a free iPhone, and it's
Speaker 1: either with trade in or even without trade in sometimes.
Speaker 1: But here's here's how it works, and here's the basic math.
Speaker 1: So the basic bottom line is you're paying more every
Speaker 1: single month for three years to get that free iPhone
Speaker 1: if you were not sticking with that carrier. Let's just
Speaker 1: say you went with something like let's say you bought
Speaker 1: the iPhone outright for a thousand bucks and then you
Speaker 1: went to Mint Mobile, which is unlimited for thirty dollars
Speaker 1: a month. You know, you're talking a year of service
Speaker 1: would be the phone would be one thousand plus three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty dollars. That's thirteen hundred and sixty dollars. Now,
Speaker 1: let's say you went with a big carrier that's saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we'll give you a free iPhone, but you have to
Speaker 1: stick with us for three years. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you have to be on our highest price unlimited plan,
Speaker 1: which is about ninety dollars a month. So now times
Speaker 1: ninety dollars a month times thirty six months, or let's
Speaker 1: just yeah, let's just yeah. So that's thirty two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty dollars, you know, and you're not getting the
Speaker 1: and you're getting the phone for free quote unquote, and
Speaker 1: a lot of those you have to kind of pay
Speaker 1: as well, so or trade in a phone as well.
Speaker 1: So again it really comes down to when you do
Speaker 1: the math, it's not a better deal necessarily but here's
Speaker 1: the caveat, and here's here's the thing. If you're already
Speaker 1: on an unlimited plan and you're already with one of
Speaker 1: the big carriers and they're giving you that upgrade deal,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to switch carriers to an MV
Speaker 1: and O or a cheaper carrier, then it's not the
Speaker 1: end of the world to get the free phone from them,
Speaker 1: as long as you are going to stick with them
Speaker 1: for the next couple of years, because if you don't
Speaker 1: stick with them, they will make you pay the balance
Speaker 1: of whatever they're doing. Because they don't give you that
Speaker 1: phone for free upfront. They do it as a credit
Speaker 1: on your bill over the next three years, just to
Speaker 1: ensure that you.
Speaker 3: Stick with them.
Speaker 1: So it's not like, you know, you can just leave
Speaker 1: after two months and they forget about it. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they've got you signed there. So again, if you do
Speaker 1: the math quickly, you know there are some ways to
Speaker 1: really save if you buy the phone out right, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I think that is the best way to
Speaker 1: buy the phone because it gives you the most options,
Speaker 1: and then the next year when you want to trade
Speaker 1: it in, if you want to upgrade again, you can
Speaker 1: get a pretty good amount for that iPhone because iPhones
Speaker 1: do not lose a lot of value over the years.
Speaker 1: So a good question, Bill, appreciate it. I know it's
Speaker 1: a lot of math, it's a lot of kind of
Speaker 1: figuring out.
Speaker 3: But the main carriers that are really.
Speaker 1: Good with unlimited are something like A Visible from Verizon,
Speaker 1: a Mint Mobile, and even Total from Verizon. They're doing
Speaker 1: some good deals as well. AT and T has a
Speaker 1: lot of mv and os, and mv and O is
Speaker 1: what's called a mobile virtual network operator. So basically these
Speaker 1: companies buy network space from one of the big companies
Speaker 1: like an AT and T, a T Mobile or Verizon,
Speaker 1: and then they repackage it and their whole thing is
Speaker 1: just marketing to consumers, and they often don't have all
Speaker 1: of those like extra perks like a free Netflix or
Speaker 1: free this or free that, or international roaming. It's just
Speaker 1: basically unlimited data and sometimes unlimited hotspot eighty to eight
Speaker 1: rich one on one if you want to hop on
Speaker 1: the phones. Coming up, we're going to talk to Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Fowler of The Washington Post about Apple's AI. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one, Oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: We'll get back to those phone lines in just a moment.
Speaker 1: But first joining me now is Jeffrey Fowler, technology columnist
Speaker 1: for the Washington Post.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 5: So thank glad to be here.
Speaker 1: So you took a look at the new AI features
Speaker 1: on the iPhone, which are not arriving on the first
Speaker 1: day that the iPhones are going to be available. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a software update later on. But this
Speaker 1: is Apple Intelligence and you wrote all about it in
Speaker 1: your column this week.
Speaker 2: What were your first impressions.
Speaker 6: I found Apple Intelligence to be useful except for when
Speaker 6: it went completely bonkers.
Speaker 5: And I think it's definitely worth explaining.
Speaker 6: To folks who are thinking about buying a new iPhone
Speaker 6: exactly what state this Apple Intelligence software is at, because
Speaker 6: from what I've seen, it might tick them awhile and
Speaker 6: make this something that.
Speaker 5: You really want to have a part of your daily life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting because the iPhone has gotten so slick
Speaker 1: and so good that, according to your column, it almost
Speaker 1: takes it a step back because now we're dealing with
Speaker 1: hallucinations and mistakes by the AI.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so One of the things that I think anybody
Speaker 6: with putting the software on their phone will notice most
Speaker 6: is that Apple Intelligence is constantly trying to summarize the
Speaker 6: information coming into your phone.
Speaker 5: So every email in your inbox.
Speaker 6: Get says instead of like seeing the two lines, you
Speaker 6: get an AI written summary.
Speaker 5: Same thing goes for alerts on your lock screen.
Speaker 6: Instead of just seeing, you know, an alert that says
Speaker 6: somebody press your doorbell, you'll see a summary of all
Speaker 6: the alerts that you've gotten from that app. Sometimes those
Speaker 6: are super useful, Like looking at the first two lines
Speaker 6: of most people's email is a complete waste of time, right,
Speaker 6: That's where they say, That's where they say, oh, oh,
Speaker 6: I hope you are well.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to clear my throat.
Speaker 6: So the idea that an AI can read the email
Speaker 6: for you and tell you what it's really about to
Speaker 6: help you decide whether to tap in and read the
Speaker 6: whole thing is useful.
Speaker 5: It's useful, I would even argue most of the time.
Speaker 6: The problem is right now, Apple Intelligence sometimes gets it
Speaker 6: completely wrong, will confuse people's names and get the information backwards,
Speaker 6: and then you have these kind of like either laugh
Speaker 6: out loud moments at your phone like one that I had,
Speaker 6: for example, was when in an email summary it said
Speaker 6: to me that I was teaching a course at Berkeley.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 6: It actually meant that somebody else was teaching of course
Speaker 6: at Berkeley, but it got it confused.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say.
Speaker 1: The other example you mentioned was the social security spam email,
Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, hi, alert, you got this email
Speaker 1: about your social Security number being stolen or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's thet thing it does is it moves.
Speaker 6: It decides what is like a super important email, and
Speaker 6: it moves to the top of your inbox and it's
Speaker 6: just on that.
Speaker 5: For me so far has been carible. It also can
Speaker 5: get crazy when it.
Speaker 6: Tries to summarize news alerts or social media alerts.
Speaker 5: I get push alerts from.
Speaker 6: Donald Trump's Truth social and I got one the other
Speaker 6: day that said Trump endorses walls and I was like what,
Speaker 6: And again it just got it backwards.
Speaker 5: And look like, here's the challenge.
Speaker 6: We know that this is a fundamental problem with today's
Speaker 6: generative AI technology. Every big company who's putting out products
Speaker 6: with this faces this.
Speaker 5: Jack QPT faces this. Google faces this with Gemini.
Speaker 6: But what's different here is you're not using a separate
Speaker 6: app for Apple Intelligence. It's not like you go over
Speaker 6: to the Apple Intelligence app where you know, like, Okay,
Speaker 6: sometimes it's gonna be a little crazy. This stuff is
Speaker 6: integrated throughout your phone, so there is like a sprinkling
Speaker 6: of crazy all over your phone right now that I
Speaker 6: think might make.
Speaker 5: People feel a little weird or just make them feel
Speaker 5: like their phone is their smartphone is less smart.
Speaker 2: Now, now you kind of mentioned the bad, what about
Speaker 2: the good?
Speaker 1: Was there any highlights of how this AI worked to
Speaker 1: your advantage?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I actually now super rely on those little summaries
Speaker 6: of my emails to decide which ones to open up,
Speaker 6: and you know, spend the time to look at They're
Speaker 6: much more useful than than you know, looking at the
Speaker 6: first two.
Speaker 5: Lines of an email.
Speaker 6: There's a there's a capability that's kind of a new
Speaker 6: more natural language search for your for your photos, and
Speaker 6: I found that useful to kind of pull back memories
Speaker 6: from you know, like oh yeah, there was a place
Speaker 6: I went to once that had stripes on it, and
Speaker 6: you can just sort of search in that kind of way.
Speaker 5: Now, I found that useful.
Speaker 1: Is that is that as good as Apple is advertising?
Speaker 1: Because I haven't tested that feature. I've been playing with
Speaker 1: the one inside Google Photos.
Speaker 2: It's good Apple.
Speaker 1: Saying, you know, I dove into a lake and I
Speaker 1: was wearing a striped swimsuit and you can find that
Speaker 1: exact moment. Is that true?
Speaker 5: It is pretty good? Like, it's funny you mentioned stripe.
Speaker 6: So my my my test search that I think of
Speaker 6: is I asked it to find a striped playground that
Speaker 6: I once went to, and it was.
Speaker 5: Able to find it. It didn't find all of it.
Speaker 6: And but the thing is like, that's a pretty low
Speaker 6: stake situation. Well, okay, if it missed a couple, it's
Speaker 6: not not a big deal.
Speaker 5: And that's that's where Apple, I think, has mostly.
Speaker 6: Focused its energy with with Apple Intelligence on things like that.
Speaker 6: But you know, if you do the head to heat
Speaker 6: versus what Google can do with photos, I would suspect
Speaker 6: that Google probably still a little bit better.
Speaker 7: Now, why are we talking about beta software?
Speaker 1: Because typically, you know, you cover for the average consumer,
Speaker 1: as do I. Typically I don't cover beta software because
Speaker 1: it's beta, it's not done yet.
Speaker 7: So why are we even talking about this?
Speaker 5: Absolutely a great question.
Speaker 6: I I don't think I've I'm trying to think of
Speaker 6: I ever written about beta software before from Apple.
Speaker 5: You know, for the average consumer. Here's what's different this time.
Speaker 6: Apple is already selling these iPhones with the marque feature
Speaker 6: of Apple Intelligence.
Speaker 5: It is asking people to plunk down.
Speaker 6: At least eight hundred bucks today for a phone on
Speaker 6: the promise that this thing is going to that that
Speaker 6: is you know, purpose built in the iPhone sixteen, is
Speaker 6: going to make their lives better, is going to make
Speaker 6: their phone smarter. And I think that raises the bar
Speaker 6: Apple has to then really show us, well, how good
Speaker 6: is it? Otherwise we're just buying based on the promise
Speaker 6: of marketing and I don't I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't believe in that. I believe trust but verifies,
Speaker 5: and that what Reagan said.
Speaker 6: So it's important for journalists and independent people like yourself
Speaker 6: and me to really say, Okay, what can it really
Speaker 6: do and where does it let us down?
Speaker 5: Because here's the thing.
Speaker 6: With all of these AI products that have been coming
Speaker 6: out over the last year or two, so many of
Speaker 6: them that I've used and tested and written about really
Speaker 6: are up being disappointments. They end up promising things to
Speaker 6: consumers that they don't deliver on. They maybe even deliver
Speaker 6: misinformation because of this problem with just making stuff up.
Speaker 6: So I think we have to be especially attuned to
Speaker 6: sort of challenging some of the claims about artificial intelligence,
Speaker 6: because despite what marketers think, it is not just magic.
Speaker 6: It is actually software and software with a lot of
Speaker 6: known problems.
Speaker 7: What about privacy?
Speaker 1: Did you you know, because this is making use of
Speaker 1: a lot of the data on your phone, do you
Speaker 1: feel like there's any privacy concerns or do you feel
Speaker 1: like Apple got that part right?
Speaker 5: I don't think we really know enough yet.
Speaker 8: So part of the challenge in writing about Beata software
Speaker 8: is only parts of it already, and unfortunately one of
Speaker 8: the parts that's not ready even to test at this
Speaker 8: point is the part.
Speaker 6: That digs deep into your data to make serious s marter.
Speaker 6: For example, Apple has said that they've done some things
Speaker 6: that make sense to me.
Speaker 5: You know, again, we just.
Speaker 6: I think we don't really know enough information about that yet,
Speaker 6: and and independent people haven't been really been able to.
Speaker 5: Poke at it all.
Speaker 1: Right, Finally, you've been covering this stuff for a long time.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like this is a pretty exciting time
Speaker 1: in the tech world with all this AI stuff? Even
Speaker 1: though there are many pitfalls and there are many stumbles,
Speaker 1: do you.
Speaker 7: Still feel like it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 6: Look, AI is allowing people to do things that previously
Speaker 6: would have required a lot of expertise.
Speaker 5: There's so much opportunity here.
Speaker 6: I just think we're at a moment though, where the
Speaker 6: rush is on from Silicon Valley to make money from
Speaker 6: this stuff, And a lot of these big tech companies
Speaker 6: in particular, are selling snake oil, and they're promising things
Speaker 6: that these technologies can't do, or they're even introducing things
Speaker 6: that could be harmful for individual users or for society.
Speaker 5: So I think we're at this moment where it has
Speaker 5: never been more.
Speaker 6: Important to have independent journalists and researchers and other folks
Speaker 6: really probing what these things really.
Speaker 9: Do so that we can get that balance right, especially
Speaker 9: as we also think about what should the laws be,
Speaker 9: who should be responsible, what should we expect paw should
Speaker 9: we expect a big tech company to act when somebody
Speaker 9: buying a problem with the AI that it's making something
Speaker 9: that's dangerous.
Speaker 5: You know, all that still has to be worked out.
Speaker 6: So, uh, this is I think a key moment for
Speaker 6: US voices outside the companies.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Fowler with The Washington Post check out the column.
Speaker 7: You can read them there. What's the best way for
Speaker 7: folks to follow you online?
Speaker 5: I'm on threads and on Twitter at Jeffrey Fowler.
Speaker 6: And then of course you can go over to the
Speaker 6: post and you can click on a button to get
Speaker 6: an email at the time, I have a column.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today to talk Apple
Speaker 1: AI or rich on Tech coming your way right after this,
Speaker 1: and Net.
Speaker 3: Wrote in on the website rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: I have an Android and I can't figure out how
Speaker 1: to stop group chat notifications. Even when I turn them off,
Speaker 1: they reactivate as soon as someone replies I've tried looking
Speaker 1: online for a solution but can't find one.
Speaker 3: How do I stop this madness?
Speaker 1: Well, Annette, I'm glad you found me because I will
Speaker 1: help you stop this madness right now. All right, you
Speaker 1: said you're on Android, So open up the messages app
Speaker 1: on Android, tap the message that you want to silence,
Speaker 1: and then you go to the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 1: There is three little dots. That's your overflow menu. You
Speaker 1: tap that and it says details Now. Once you get
Speaker 1: in there, there's an option for notifications. You are now
Speaker 1: modifying the notifications for this specific text this group text,
Speaker 1: and on a Samsung for instance, it gives you a
Speaker 1: choice of priority, alert or silent. If you're on Pixel,
Speaker 1: it might be slightly different. But what you're looking for
Speaker 1: is that silent, and so you tap that and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, you're not gonna get those notifications. Now
Speaker 1: you can leave it as alert, but you can turn
Speaker 1: the sound and the vibration off. So if you still
Speaker 1: want it to show you the alert on your screen
Speaker 1: like that, you have a notification, but you don't want
Speaker 1: the sound or the vibration of your phone. You can
Speaker 1: then tap under sound where it says default notification and
Speaker 1: then you tap silent. So if you tap silent up
Speaker 1: at the top, that removes the notification altogether, but if
Speaker 1: you go into sound that will remove the sound notification.
Speaker 1: Great question, Annette. Those group chats can really be fun
Speaker 1: to be on. But for me, I find that when
Speaker 1: people start group chatting, it's always in the middle of something.
Speaker 1: When I'm trying to do something, whether it's work, whether
Speaker 1: it's come out on a choote, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to focus or concentrate, it's like all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, everyone in the group chat starts chatting and
Speaker 1: then you can't stop it and you're like silencing your
Speaker 1: phone and all these different things.
Speaker 3: So hopefully that will help you do that. Let's go
Speaker 3: to ed in Tarzana. Ed you're on with rich.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, what can I help you with?
Speaker 10: Okay? So I heard in your earlier segment that the
Speaker 10: Apple Watch can diagnose sleep apnia. So I'm a pomonologist
Speaker 10: and I also am certified in sleep and I treat
Speaker 10: sleep apnia. And apnia is when hear doesn't enter doesn't
Speaker 10: enter the lungs for ten seconds. Hypopnia is when they
Speaker 10: are full decreases by thirty percent accompanied by a dropping oxygen.
Speaker 10: So the number of events per hour is how you
Speaker 10: diagnose sleep appen So you need to measure the flow
Speaker 10: of air, you need to measure the chess movement. So
Speaker 10: how in the world does an Apple watch do that?
Speaker 1: Great question, and thanks for asking me to clarify on here.
Speaker 1: So if I did say diagnosis in the earlier segment,
Speaker 1: it is not a diagnosis. It is meant to alert
Speaker 1: users who may have undiagnosed sleep apnea. So let me
Speaker 1: run through how it works. So it's actually using so
Speaker 1: you have to wear the Apple Watch while you sleep,
Speaker 1: and it's using the accelerometer, the sensor in the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: and of course machine learning algorithm, so it's an algorithm
Speaker 1: that's using this accelerometer to detect what they're calling breathing
Speaker 1: disturbances during sleep. So this feature will track those breathing
Speaker 1: disturbances every night, display them in the Health app, and
Speaker 1: then you can see your nightly values and trends over time.
Speaker 1: And this feature is going to look at a thirty
Speaker 1: day window of data. So I understand if you're getting
Speaker 1: this diagnosed by an actual sleep clinician, you may have
Speaker 1: to wear something for a while or take a test
Speaker 1: or something, but this is where you wear your watch
Speaker 1: every night, and then you'll get that notification if at
Speaker 1: least in half of the nights in thirty days you
Speaker 1: show some sort of elevated breathing disturbance. So you have
Speaker 1: to wear your watch a lot, at least ten nights
Speaker 1: out of the thirty for this feature to work, and
Speaker 1: then once it's triggered, you'll get that notification saying you
Speaker 1: may have potential sleep apnea and you should talk to
Speaker 1: your doctor, and that's when they're going to send you
Speaker 1: that QR code that you can scan, download the pdf,
Speaker 1: bring that to your doctor and see what's going on.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The way they validated this was with over eleven thousand
Speaker 1: nights of sleep data and they compared it, of course
Speaker 1: against clinical sleep tests. It showed sixty six point three
Speaker 1: percent sensitivity detecting cases and ninety eight point five percent specificity,
Speaker 1: which means, you know, avoiding those false positives. So it's
Speaker 1: really designed for people that don't know they have sleep
Speaker 1: apnea and to get more people diagnosed with sleep apnea
Speaker 1: so that they can do something about it. And this
Speaker 1: is going to work on the Apple Watch Series nine,
Speaker 1: the Series ten, and the Ultra two. It did get
Speaker 1: the let's see, did it get the FDA clearance. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it got it just yet, but it is.
Speaker 1: I believe it's it's pending FDA clearance. So the hearing
Speaker 1: aid I know featured that just did get the clearance.
Speaker 1: This is probably any day now as well. So it's Apple.
Speaker 1: You know, they're forging ahead with these health features, and
Speaker 1: I do think that it probably will help a lot
Speaker 1: of people, so I know I'll be testing it out,
Speaker 1: so I will bring you some updates. I don't think
Speaker 1: I have sleep apnea, but then again, how do I know?
Speaker 1: I guess I will now add in Tarzana, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for the call today.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Let's go to Let's see how long
Speaker 3: do I have?
Speaker 2: Two minutes?
Speaker 3: Oh, two and a half minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see if I can answer Tom's question in
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes.
Speaker 3: Tom, You're on with Rich.
Speaker 11: Good morning. Regarding the AirPods Gen two pros and all
Speaker 11: the new features, I have three sets of Gen two
Speaker 11: AirPod Pros, and I am a hearing aid user. I
Speaker 11: tend to use the AirPod Pro for just casual listening
Speaker 11: when it's non critical, and they work relatively well for that.
Speaker 11: But as I look at the Apple website and all
Speaker 11: the new features on the Pro twos, it says for
Speaker 11: hearing health coming soon, for voice isolation coming this fall,
Speaker 11: new hands free serie experience coming this fall. New Pro
Speaker 11: two is going to be any different than the old
Speaker 11: Pro twos.
Speaker 1: No, No, you're they changed the name. No you're getting
Speaker 1: these features. This is just this is just a software update.
Speaker 1: So you already if you already have these air Pods
Speaker 1: Pro too, you're getting the hearing aid feature. So they're
Speaker 1: going to roll this out to potentially hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people overnight. So anyone who has these current AirPods
Speaker 1: Pro two only the second model, which you know they've
Speaker 1: been these been have been on sale for two years now,
Speaker 1: I believe, So it is a it is a software update,
Speaker 1: so yes, you will get the hearing aid feature. And
Speaker 1: this again is for users with mild to moderate hearing loss. Uh.
Speaker 1: And again Apple is calling this clinical grade hearing aids.
Speaker 1: And I took the test. You do it on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: takes about five minutes. It's inside the Health app, and
Speaker 1: it can detect hearing levels from little to no loss
Speaker 1: up to severe and profound loss. And then of course
Speaker 1: you can fine tune once you get your results the
Speaker 1: settings like tone balance and amplification, and you can even
Speaker 1: do that in real time. Plus you can use the
Speaker 1: microphones and noisy environments to focus on human voices. And
Speaker 1: there's just a lot going on here, and I think
Speaker 1: that this is something that Apple I think hit out
Speaker 1: of the park because AirPods, like you said, you already
Speaker 1: own a couple of pairs, and they're they're very prevalent
Speaker 1: everywhere and the fact that they've had similar features in
Speaker 1: the past, like the live listening feature, and they've had
Speaker 1: some adjustments that you can do. But the fact that
Speaker 1: these are now going to sort of check your hearing
Speaker 1: and then adjust based on that, I think is going
Speaker 1: to be game changing. So Tom, no need to do
Speaker 1: anything except just wait for that software update, and of
Speaker 1: course I will update you on when that's available. Eight
Speaker 1: to dight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. My name is
Speaker 1: rich Dmiro. You are doing something smart for yourself. You're
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Speaker 1: you have to use that thing in your pocket as
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Speaker 1: an email device, it's a YouTube video watcher, but it's
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Speaker 3: It was funny my mom yesterday.
Speaker 1: You would not believe I've been doing a radio show
Speaker 1: now for a year and a half, over a year
Speaker 1: and a half, and you know, I've been on TV
Speaker 1: for I don't know, twenty years or something like that.
Speaker 1: But it's so interesting when someone actually sees you doing
Speaker 1: what you do. So my mom yesterday calls me and
Speaker 1: you would think that she just saw I don't know,
Speaker 1: like she it was like this this like sound in
Speaker 1: her voice where she was so excited and she's like,
Speaker 1: I just heard you on the radio. I said, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that's amazing. I was in my car, I'm
Speaker 1: listening to Z one hundred in New York City and
Speaker 1: I hear Ryan Seacrest say, we're talking to Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: and she said what, and so yes, I said, mom,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the new iPhone with Ryan Seacrest
Speaker 1: on his morning show. And she was just she thought
Speaker 1: it was the greatest thing. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, and she does listen to this show on
Speaker 1: her smart speaker, she'll listen live. But same thing happens
Speaker 1: all the time. Like I ran into a friend and
Speaker 1: he was like, I was in South Carolina. We're driving
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, we tune to you and
Speaker 1: on the radio and we hear your voice, and it
Speaker 1: just happens over and over. Like people will tell me
Speaker 1: these stories what I'm out and about. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 1: Is My point is there's a certain like fun of
Speaker 1: seeing yourself on TV or hearing yourself on the radio,
Speaker 1: and there's still some sort of energy that I don't
Speaker 1: think is matched in any other way than sort of
Speaker 1: that live broadcast energy. It's the reason why when you're
Speaker 1: standing at a basketball game doing a live shot and
Speaker 1: people are behind you making faces and you know, hand
Speaker 1: gestures and all trying to get on TV and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. It still happens no matter what across the world. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty fun, So thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. Get to the phone lines in
Speaker 1: just a second here, but I want to tell you
Speaker 1: about this twenty three and Me settlement. Reuter's reporting that
Speaker 1: twenty three and Me has agreed to a thirty million
Speaker 1: dollar settlement in this data breach lawsuit. Some of you
Speaker 1: remember last year, this data breach that happened with twenty
Speaker 1: three and me affected about seven million customers personal information.
Speaker 1: And hackers got access to one of the databases that
Speaker 1: twenty three and Me had, and I guess they cleaned
Speaker 1: it out and got all this information on these people.
Speaker 1: And this is like you know, DNA information whatever they
Speaker 1: have in twenty three and me. If you want to
Speaker 1: check to see if you are affected, you probably got
Speaker 1: an email from twenty three and Me at this point,
Speaker 1: I guess. But you can go to that website have
Speaker 1: I been poned dot com? Have I been pwned dot com?
Speaker 1: And you can type in your email address and it
Speaker 1: will tell you. Now, I did do the twenty three
Speaker 1: and me DNA test. I guess I was not involved
Speaker 1: in this breach because it does not come up. What
Speaker 1: does come up is that my info was breached with
Speaker 1: AT and T, Bitley, Canva, Dzer, Discus, Dropbox, hot Look.
Speaker 1: I don't even know signing up for a hot Look, Kickstarter,
Speaker 1: MGM Resorts minted my fitness Pal, National Public Data, Patreon,
Speaker 1: share This, Trello, Zinga, White Pages. So yeah, my info's
Speaker 1: out there, so is yours. I'm sure that website is.
Speaker 1: Have I been ponned pwned dot com anyway? So twenty
Speaker 1: three and meters will I guess payout once a federal
Speaker 1: judge approves this, So if you were affected, you might
Speaker 1: have a little money coming your way.
Speaker 3: They expect. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: Twenty five million dollars of this thirty million dollar settment
Speaker 1: will be covered by their cyber insurance. So I bet
Speaker 1: they're thinking, Wow, I'm glad we had that cyber insurance.
Speaker 1: Glad Jim recommended we go we opt for the cyber
Speaker 1: insurance because it really is going to pay off. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one. Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 12: You're on with Rich Rich Rich. I've got the Android
Speaker 12: tablet with a five point two Bluetooth and I've hooked
Speaker 12: it up to a wireless earbus. Not a problem. But
Speaker 12: I've got a keyboard. I watch you teke keyboard, and
Speaker 12: also I wanted to take the mouse, two separate ones.
Speaker 12: But I want to pair it to my tablet without
Speaker 12: using the doggle because the has a C connector, which
Speaker 12: you are very flimsy, and I have used two adapters
Speaker 12: to get the receiver built into. You know, either one
Speaker 12: can I Can I pair this tablet to either the
Speaker 12: keyboard or the mouse without using that the receiver?
Speaker 1: No, not if it doesn't have Bluetooth. So a lot
Speaker 1: of these mobile keyboards are mice that are wireless. They
Speaker 1: use their own frequency to transmit. Some of them are both,
Speaker 1: some are Bluetooth, and some have the dongle, and you
Speaker 1: can choose. But if this product does not have the
Speaker 1: Bluetooth built in, you're not gonna be able to connect
Speaker 1: it without the dog go because it does not use
Speaker 1: that dongle, does not use Bluetooth. It's not recreating a
Speaker 1: Bluetooth signal. It's it's creating its own wireless signal, probably
Speaker 1: a two point four gig Hurtz or something like that.
Speaker 1: So your options are to get an adapter, like you said,
Speaker 1: and they do make some slim adapters. But the problem
Speaker 1: is if you're using this for a tablet, you probably
Speaker 1: don't want adapter sticking out because it's going to just
Speaker 1: get caught up on things and get messed up. Do
Speaker 1: you know what kind of keyboard this is?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a Logitech tape I've done on your website.
Speaker 12: They don't tell you much about it. They gave me
Speaker 12: a bunch of letters and numbers or the bluetooth, but
Speaker 12: apparently it doesn't correlate to the tablet of it at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking up this keyboard.
Speaker 1: This does not have bluetooth, so it is a It
Speaker 1: is just using its own wireless system.
Speaker 3: So, uh, with that said.
Speaker 1: You could the popular keyboard that that you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people use with Logitech is the Keys to Go,
Speaker 1: and so it's a little bit more expensive. It's seventy bucks.
Speaker 1: The one that you're talking about is closer to twenty five.
Speaker 1: But this seventy dollars keyboard does have the Bluetooth built in,
Speaker 1: and so I know that. And Logitech has a bunch
Speaker 1: of keyboards that are like mobile keyboards, so you can
Speaker 1: check there, or you can just go online and find
Speaker 1: a Bluetooth keyboard that would work with this. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's funny. A lot of people don't realize that
Speaker 1: you can connect a keyboard or you can actually just
Speaker 1: plug in a mouse to your I believe to your
Speaker 1: iPhone as well as your Android phone. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you have like a corded mouse, just do it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny. You just plug it in as
Speaker 1: long as it's USBC, which all the modern phones are,
Speaker 1: plug it in and it will you'll see that little
Speaker 1: cursor pop up on your phone, and it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of a weird experience. I think I did an Instagram
Speaker 1: video about this once on the iPhone. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: can do that and again with these keyboards and the mice.
Speaker 1: You know, you buy these wireless mice. So that's one
Speaker 1: good thing to look for if you're ever if you're
Speaker 1: ever shopping for a Bluetooth or I should say a
Speaker 1: mouse or a keyboard that's wireless, make sure you check
Speaker 1: to see what the specs are on the wireless sort
Speaker 1: of transmission because you want to make sure that you
Speaker 1: have something that's going to work with your device.
Speaker 3: If you don't want to use that dongle, you need
Speaker 3: to make sure it's Bluetooth.
Speaker 1: And so it throws a lot of people off because
Speaker 1: you think, oh, I don't need the dongle, I've got
Speaker 1: a Bluetooth device. No, it's the keyboard doesn't have that
Speaker 1: Bluetooth built in to take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: Jerry and Hatfield, Pennsylvania, Thanks so much for the call today.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one on one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. You might
Speaker 1: have gotten an email from Microsoft saying you got to
Speaker 1: do something, You got to take action or else your
Speaker 1: email is going to stop sinking.
Speaker 3: So here's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Starting September sixteenth, you will not be able to sink
Speaker 1: your email unless you switch to a modern email program
Speaker 1: for your Outlook email. And when they say Outlook, that
Speaker 1: usually means any sort of Microsoft email. So what happened
Speaker 1: is you probably authenticated your email a long time ago
Speaker 1: on the iPhone or on an Android device, or on
Speaker 1: your computer, and now Microsoft needs to make sure that
Speaker 1: it's using modern authentication, so instead of just that basic
Speaker 1: authentication method, which is your username and password back in
Speaker 1: the day, it's now using a higher level of security
Speaker 1: to make sure you are who you say you are.
Speaker 1: So in many cases, especially if you're using the iPhone,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is delete your account off
Speaker 1: of your iPhone, delete that Outlook account or that Microsoft
Speaker 1: account off your iPhone, and then just readd it. So
Speaker 1: the system has been upgraded over the years, and so
Speaker 1: all you have to do is just.
Speaker 3: Relog in and it should work.
Speaker 1: They have different kind of instructions for all these different
Speaker 1: setups you might have. So if you're on Outlook for Windows,
Speaker 1: you might have to upgrade to a newer version of
Speaker 1: Outlook or switch to Outlook dot Com slash exchange sinking.
Speaker 1: If you're on Mozilla Thunderbird, which is a free email
Speaker 1: app on your computer, all you have to do is
Speaker 1: remove and read the count the account. That should be
Speaker 1: just fine. On Apple again Apple Mail, just remove that
Speaker 1: account and read as Outlook dot com. And on any
Speaker 1: other app basically just just log in using that Outlook
Speaker 1: dot Com option and that's pretty much it. So this
Speaker 1: timeline started on June eleventh, so they probably been bugging
Speaker 1: folks since then, but September sixteenth, if that day comes
Speaker 1: and you have not switched over to a better log in,
Speaker 1: they are going to stop your email from sinking. So
Speaker 1: if that's happening to you, or if you've gotten this message,
Speaker 1: that's what you need to do is just basically delete
Speaker 1: your account and relog in. Unless you're using a super
Speaker 1: old version of Outlook, which is twenty seven, twenty ten,
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, twenty sixteen, and twenty nineteen, you have to
Speaker 1: download the new free version of Outlook, which they do
Speaker 1: offer for both Windows, Mac, and and also the mobile devices.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one. Coming up this hour,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to tech YouTuber I Justine. She's
Speaker 1: going to share her thoughts on the new iPhone sixteen
Speaker 1: plus the other Apple products.
Speaker 3: My name is Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the website for the show
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Speaker 1: lines in just a few minutes here. Eighty eight rich
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Speaker 3: Redondo Beach. So you're on with Rich.
Speaker 13: Hi, Rich. I don't know if I'm being skeptical or not,
Speaker 13: but uh, I had to sign up with Experience for
Speaker 13: three months for free through Triple A because our truck
Speaker 13: was stolen, And now that the three months have lapsed,
Speaker 13: I'm getting all these messages from Experience saying that my
Speaker 13: social Security number is now on the dark Web, And
Speaker 13: I'm thinking, do they just want me to sign up
Speaker 13: for a fee now that I surpassed the threeb three months.
Speaker 14: I don't know whether you believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Well, you can believe it. Your information is out there
Speaker 1: for sure. There's nothing you can do about it. That's
Speaker 1: the sad part. So there's a difference. And I've talked
Speaker 1: about this before on the show that the difference is
Speaker 1: there are data brokers, and that's all those like Spokeyo
Speaker 1: and people finders and stuff like that. They have your
Speaker 1: data and yes, it's like your name, your address, your
Speaker 1: phone number, your age.
Speaker 3: And then there's the dark web.
Speaker 1: And the dark web is where this stuff lives in
Speaker 1: a much more unstructured format. So this is information that
Speaker 1: is stolen from databases and hackers have gotten a hold
Speaker 1: of it and it is just freely being passed around
Speaker 1: on the Internet and there's really nothing you can do
Speaker 1: about it because it lives in these repositories online that
Speaker 1: just nobody has control over.
Speaker 3: It's just data files being exchanged.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that Experience is lying that your
Speaker 1: information is out there on the dark web. But until
Speaker 1: they give you a specific example of what that information
Speaker 1: is and specifically the data that's out there, I will
Speaker 1: tell you I feel like Experience and all these companies
Speaker 1: that we've signed up for to protect our information, like
Speaker 1: we you know, we all froze our information after the
Speaker 1: big data breach, they are using this as a huge
Speaker 1: opportunity to spam us, to sell us on all of
Speaker 1: this data protection privacy policy stuff. You know, Experience should
Speaker 1: be protecting you no matter what, because they're the ones
Speaker 1: that you know approve these uh you know, these credit
Speaker 1: score things, you know, like we're all your your credit
Speaker 1: report and things like that. So, Sue, the short answer
Speaker 1: is your information's probably out there.
Speaker 3: There's not really much you can do about it. Sadly.
Speaker 1: Now, if you want a free way to check to
Speaker 1: see what your uh what information is actually out there,
Speaker 1: I use Google. It's called Results about You, and it's
Speaker 1: free and so It used to be that you had
Speaker 1: to pay for this, but now they actually they actually
Speaker 1: give you a free access to this, and that is
Speaker 1: rolling out, so she may not have access immediately. But
Speaker 1: if you do a Google search for Google results about you,
Speaker 1: you can set up a profile to monitor the dark web.
Speaker 1: And Google obviously crawls the web every single day and
Speaker 1: they go into the far reaches of the Internet, so
Speaker 1: if your information is out there, they will unearth it.
Speaker 1: And the stuff that you can search for is your name,
Speaker 1: your address, your phone number, your email, your social security number,
Speaker 1: your use your name.
Speaker 3: And your password.
Speaker 1: And so once you add that information to your Google profile,
Speaker 1: they will say anytime that that information is found in
Speaker 1: the dark Web, they will alert you. And it's actually
Speaker 1: legitimate because I get those alerts and it tells you
Speaker 1: it's like, here's the actual information we found, whereas the
Speaker 1: experience email that you're getting is saying we found your
Speaker 1: information on the dark Web.
Speaker 3: Here sign up to learn more.
Speaker 1: That's, you know, in effect, is just kind of baiting
Speaker 1: you into into signing up for something you may or
Speaker 1: may not need.
Speaker 3: So does that help Sue.
Speaker 13: Yes, it does. But if you see it on Google
Speaker 13: and it does come out positive and all that, then
Speaker 13: what do you do about it?
Speaker 1: Then there's nothing you can do about it, sadly. If
Speaker 1: it's so, there's again it comes back to two things.
Speaker 1: So Google will do two things for you. They will
Speaker 1: tell you, hey, we just found your information on whitepages
Speaker 1: dot com or spochio dot com or housefinder dot com.
Speaker 1: Would you like us to take down that search result.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take down the information, but it takes down
Speaker 1: that link on Google to your information. So if someone's
Speaker 1: searching for you, that link will not show up, and
Speaker 1: you can do that in about a second through the
Speaker 1: notification they send you, and they will say do you
Speaker 1: want this on the web? And you say no, and
Speaker 1: it will just basically ninety nine percent of the time
Speaker 1: they approve it and they will take it down. When
Speaker 1: it comes to the dark web, it's more of an
Speaker 1: awareness thing. So the dark web is more of an
Speaker 1: awareness that your information is out there. Your usernames, your passwords,
Speaker 1: your social those are the pieces of information that are
Speaker 1: pretty much at this point out there for everyone, sadly
Speaker 1: because of some of the recent data breaches. But there's
Speaker 1: not really much you can do to pull that back.
Speaker 1: But what you can do is understand the fact that
Speaker 1: once that information's out there, you have to protect your
Speaker 1: identity at any cost, which means freezing your credit reports,
Speaker 1: putting a fraudler on your credit reports as well, and
Speaker 1: making sure you're not using the same password over and
Speaker 1: over or the same user name over and over, because
Speaker 1: once they're out there, these hackers are trying them on
Speaker 1: different websites and that's many times how people get hacked.
Speaker 3: So, Sue, great question.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds a little disconcerting to know that
Speaker 1: this information is out there and there's not.
Speaker 3: Much we can do. But is that is the reality
Speaker 3: of all these data breaches?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk with I Justine.
Speaker 1: You might know her from YouTube. She's going to share
Speaker 1: her thought thoughts on all of the new Apple products
Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. We will
Speaker 1: get back to those phone lines in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: But first, very excited to have my next guest on
Speaker 1: the show. She has over seven million subscribers on YouTube.
Speaker 1: One of the ogs. She might have invented the genre
Speaker 1: of covering tech in the way that you see it
Speaker 1: covered today on the internet. I Justine, Justine, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 15: Hello, thank you so much for having me. This is incredible.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being on. And saw you up at the event.
Speaker 1: This actually was one of the first times that we
Speaker 1: actually did not chat at the Apple event because things
Speaker 1: were so frantic.
Speaker 15: It was very frandt.
Speaker 16: I did see you on the news in the hotel
Speaker 16: lobby while I was eating breakfast.
Speaker 15: The picture I need to send it to you.
Speaker 1: That is awesome and see and I actually just told
Speaker 1: the story about my mom seeing me on or hearing
Speaker 1: me on the radio, And there is just something exciting.
Speaker 1: Even when I see you like pop up somewhere, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know her, Like it's just there's something fun about it, right,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 15: It was so good.
Speaker 16: I was hoping to see you come around the corner
Speaker 16: of really surprise. I'm also here too, Yes.
Speaker 1: We have We've traditionally stayed at the same place sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I chose a different place this time and it
Speaker 1: was fine, you know, so I mine had free breakfast
Speaker 1: as well, which I always like in a hotel that's.
Speaker 15: Honestly all that matters. Free breakfast and Wi Fi.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Oh and my WiFi was not good at this hotel,
Speaker 1: which was really sad. I actually think one of the
Speaker 1: main hotel chains in French their name means bad WiFi.
Speaker 3: That's what I've come to the conclusion of.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Apple Event, what's your initial initial takeaway from
Speaker 1: the Apple Event this year with the iPhones, the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: and the AirPods.
Speaker 15: You know, I'm I'm obviously excited.
Speaker 16: I think one of the most surprising things was the
Speaker 16: I think we knew it was already coming, but like
Speaker 16: the air Pods Pro too, Like that update is huge,
Speaker 16: you know, the fact that we're going to be getting
Speaker 16: all of those health features for hearing and health and
Speaker 16: it's just it's amazing because it's at that price point too,
Speaker 16: Like that can help so many people that need that
Speaker 16: extra hearing assistance.
Speaker 15: Obviously, the iPhone sixteen Pro and.
Speaker 16: The capture button, I feel like that's going to take
Speaker 16: some getting used to because even trying to use it
Speaker 16: during the hands on events, I kept forgetting that I
Speaker 16: could hit the button, and they kept reminding me, no, no,
Speaker 16: you can hit the button.
Speaker 15: You don't have to go and like search for the
Speaker 15: camera app and do it the ways that you normally did.
Speaker 15: So it's going to be so fun to try that out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like anything else. It takes a little bit
Speaker 3: of muscle memory.
Speaker 1: Although I will say, and you can, you can tell
Speaker 1: me what your thoughts are on this. So the action
Speaker 1: button I still a year in do not. I always
Speaker 1: forget it's there, and so I haven't set a good
Speaker 1: shortcut for it. I haven't really set a good use
Speaker 1: for it. What are you using that for? That's the
Speaker 1: other button they added last year. Now that's coming to
Speaker 1: the fifteen are sorry they started it on the fifteen
Speaker 1: Pro lineup. Now it's on the entire sixteen lineup. Which
Speaker 1: is the button on the left hand side. It used
Speaker 1: to be the Ringer silent switch. Now it's like a
Speaker 1: programmable button you can make do anything.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I just have it set up as my silent.
Speaker 16: Which my phone is always on silent, so it's you know,
Speaker 16: it doesn't really get that much use, but I have
Speaker 16: seen a lot of people do a lot of really
Speaker 16: cool things with it, like set it up to use
Speaker 16: as shortcuts. But most of the time, you know, I
Speaker 16: have my camera app on like my main home screen,
Speaker 16: so I just tap that, don't even have to like
Speaker 16: log into my phone and just start going to themer
Speaker 16: because I think that's going to be the biggest feature
Speaker 16: for me, is being able to just hit that button
Speaker 16: on the side and the camera actually just pop up
Speaker 16: and open.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's interesting because I thought that Apple might because
Speaker 1: on the on the androids, basically it's all of them
Speaker 1: kind of do the double tap of the power button
Speaker 1: will bring up the camera.
Speaker 3: And so now on I phone you have it.
Speaker 1: I mean, they kind of one uped it because I
Speaker 1: was always like, oh, that's reserved for Apple Pay on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, but now they actually added a whole other
Speaker 1: way to launch the camera, which in some ways is
Speaker 1: even better because now you can launch your Apple Pay
Speaker 1: and your camera dedicated buttons, which is nice, which is rare.
Speaker 15: Oh I too for sure.
Speaker 16: No, I mean I use the Apple Pay button all
Speaker 16: the time because I don't even ever carry actual credit cards,
Speaker 16: So it's amazing to sort of have that sort of
Speaker 16: be its dedicated thing.
Speaker 15: And I think it's cool because this is still the
Speaker 15: beginning for that. So you know what.
Speaker 16: Apple showed us there could be more things down the line.
Speaker 16: That they update in the software to give us more features,
Speaker 16: and having third party developers be able to really.
Speaker 15: Tap into that for their apps.
Speaker 16: I mean, it's going to be a whole kind of
Speaker 16: new way, and I think this really shows Apple's dedication
Speaker 16: to making these be so much more than phones be
Speaker 16: content creation devices.
Speaker 15: And even on the fifteen shooting in pro res log.
Speaker 16: I mean, I don't think enough people experience the full
Speaker 16: capacity of like what you can do with that footage
Speaker 16: and how amazing you can make it look. So as
Speaker 16: soon as we get our hands on that one twenty
Speaker 16: progress and shooting in log on like an external drive,
Speaker 16: it's going to be so amazing.
Speaker 15: So I'm just getting so excited.
Speaker 1: Explain that for the light person, Like, what does that
Speaker 1: mean exactly? It's like basically like Hollywood style creation or what.
Speaker 16: Yeah, So it basically will give you kind of like
Speaker 16: a very flat image, but it's preserving a lot of
Speaker 16: the color data inside of it to give you the
Speaker 16: ability to collagrade it and kind of add your own style.
Speaker 16: So it's kind of preserving a lot of those low lights,
Speaker 16: highlights and that color to let you kind of have
Speaker 16: more creative style. And then one hundred and twenty frames
Speaker 16: a second is just some super set up video that
Speaker 16: you can then slow down to make it very slow
Speaker 16: and cinematic. And for that you do need to use
Speaker 16: an external drive, So any of those like faster USBC drives,
Speaker 16: you can plug those directly into your phone now and
Speaker 16: record right to the drive and you basically have all
Speaker 16: of your footage there that you can take edit and
Speaker 16: it's so exciting.
Speaker 1: So on the base models, you got five colors, black, white, pink, teal,
Speaker 1: and ultramarine. Which is your pick? Which one did you
Speaker 1: like the most?
Speaker 15: I mean, is that even a question? Obviously the pink one.
Speaker 2: I knew it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, because I use my Pink Eye
Speaker 1: Justine cable every single day. So I set it up
Speaker 1: actually on the side of my couch. I have the
Speaker 1: cable coming out from the back of the wall so
Speaker 1: I can like just sit down. I've got my little
Speaker 1: table and my little cable where I can charge my
Speaker 1: phone while I'm sitting there. And I love it, so
Speaker 1: I use it every day. You did that, what was
Speaker 1: it a couple of years ago?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 15: Yeah, that was like two years ago.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I still love it. You're still selling it.
Speaker 15: I know, yeah, I know they're still there.
Speaker 16: I think we're going to be doing something for breast
Speaker 16: cancer where it is in October, so stay tuned.
Speaker 15: Very excited about that. Okay, But yeah, the pink iPhone.
Speaker 16: It's funny because I kept looking at the color and look,
Speaker 16: I had a graphic design background, so as soon as
Speaker 16: I looked at it, I was like, that's.
Speaker 15: Actually more of a barry color than pink. But okay,
Speaker 15: it's all right.
Speaker 16: It does have a little more of a purple kind
Speaker 16: of look to it, like when we were looking at
Speaker 16: them at the hands on, but you know what, pink
Speaker 16: is pink.
Speaker 15: It's pink enough for me and.
Speaker 3: I'll take it now.
Speaker 1: On the pro models, the colors are a little more
Speaker 1: muted because I guess the way that you affect titanium
Speaker 1: is tougher. I don't know, I'm not an expert in
Speaker 1: this stuff, but four finishes black, natural white, and desert titanium,
Speaker 1: So what's your pick there?
Speaker 15: Definitely going to go with the desert. I keep wanting
Speaker 15: to call it a desert rose because it does sort.
Speaker 16: Of have like that warm kind of gold feeling, which
Speaker 16: matched really well.
Speaker 15: With the new gold titanium watch band.
Speaker 16: As well and that new gold finish, because it did
Speaker 16: look a little bit different when we were kind of
Speaker 16: holding them up in the hands on events and I
Speaker 16: did compare them side by side to each other, and
Speaker 16: they just they look stunning.
Speaker 1: So you've been covering this stuff for a long time.
Speaker 1: A what keeps you excited? And B what are people
Speaker 1: saying to you about these new devices? Like what are
Speaker 1: they asking about the most?
Speaker 16: I think everyone just kind of really wants to see,
Speaker 16: like what's the differences? And I think the hard thing is,
Speaker 16: you know, there's not huge differences in between each of
Speaker 16: these upgrades, Like if you have a fifteen, like you
Speaker 16: really don't need to go and get as sixteen, but
Speaker 16: do you want to?
Speaker 15: Yeah? Maybe I think that's where it's.
Speaker 16: It's the hard thing is like there are kind of
Speaker 16: these incremental updates where you don't need to update every
Speaker 16: single year. I think if I wasn't a tech reviewer
Speaker 16: that was doing this every single year, I probably wouldn't need.
Speaker 3: To That's not true. You come on, you're I know
Speaker 3: you're like me.
Speaker 1: It's like to me, like my brain just works like
Speaker 1: I want the latest, Like I just no matter what,
Speaker 1: I'm just.
Speaker 16: Trying to be like logical, Like you know, if I'm
Speaker 16: just like, you know, every day hanging out, like you
Speaker 16: really don't need it because it's still so great. And
Speaker 16: then you know, I see photos and videos that people
Speaker 16: are taking on their you know, iPhone twelves, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 15: They still look incredible. So there is a big difference.
Speaker 16: I think when you kind of go from you know,
Speaker 16: five generations before to one of these, it is a
Speaker 16: holy world, Like everything just is so smooth and snappy.
Speaker 16: And the biggest difference that I have seen from the
Speaker 16: sixteen Regulars to the sixteen pros is the screen how fast?
Speaker 16: Because it's one hundred and twenty perks on the pros
Speaker 16: and it's still only sixty on the regulars. So there
Speaker 16: is a bit of screen discrepancy. But if you've never
Speaker 16: actually used one of the faster promotion displays, you're not
Speaker 16: going to realize it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, when I use my wife's phone, I like,
Speaker 3: you know, swipe and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, wait, why is this so slow? It's like it
Speaker 1: literally looks to me like it's in slow motion. But again,
Speaker 1: she's a casual user. She doesn't even care, Like I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't you want the new phone? Don't you want the
Speaker 1: new watch? Don't you want the new And she's like,
Speaker 1: why what do I need? Like I don't And really
Speaker 1: sometimes it just comes down to color. All right, we've
Speaker 1: got it run. But I'm just curious. You know I
Speaker 1: said this earlier, but you know you've been covering this
Speaker 1: for a while. What keeps you going, Justine? What keeps
Speaker 1: you excited about this stuff? What keeps you energized? I
Speaker 1: know you work very very hard to keep all these
Speaker 1: things up to date for your followers.
Speaker 15: Yeah, no, I think it's it really is fun for me.
Speaker 16: And I think taking these devices and going somewhere cool
Speaker 16: and kind of just really showing what they can do
Speaker 16: is what's so fun for me. And I like to
Speaker 16: use as an excuse to like go do fun stuff
Speaker 16: like oh it's a fine season, gotta go somewhere cool
Speaker 16: and make a review.
Speaker 1: I love that great, great outlook. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 15: Yes, thank you, so great to chat with you.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I Justine follow her on on YouTube obviously, but on
Speaker 1: all social media you can find her.
Speaker 3: It's pretty easy to find.
Speaker 1: Just start just type I into Google and it might
Speaker 1: be like I Justine an iPhone might come up.
Speaker 3: The first two things.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four two four one zero one coming up. I'll take
Speaker 1: more of your calls and I'll tell you which major
Speaker 1: airline is putting Starlink on board for super fast Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: And I've tried it and it's incredible. This is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech Brian in Marietta, California.
Speaker 3: Brian, you're on with Rich Hey, how are you today?
Speaker 3: I am doing excellent. I hope you can hear it
Speaker 3: in my voice. What's up?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: That's a quick ones, A couple of quick questions.
Speaker 5: Actually, So, I know.
Speaker 12: You were talking about carriers this.
Speaker 5: Morning, and so like Verizon and you know, or Visible
Speaker 5: or Total.
Speaker 17: If I go with the cheap the other carriers other
Speaker 17: than Variegon he's all owned by Verizon doing peak, Are
Speaker 17: they gonna problem throw me back?
Speaker 5: Or you know I'm not going to get act.
Speaker 4: You know I'm gonna have problems getting.
Speaker 5: Onto the network today.
Speaker 4: Prioritize people who who pay for Veriding direct versus like
Speaker 4: Visible or Total.
Speaker 5: Wireless.
Speaker 1: It's interesting questions. So okay, number one. My My main
Speaker 1: response to this is that if you're doing any sort
Speaker 1: of job where you're truly relying on the speed and
Speaker 1: availability of a network anywhere you need to go with
Speaker 1: one of these high priced, you know, traditional plans, that
Speaker 1: is first party and it's through AT and T, it's
Speaker 1: through T Mobile, it's through Verizon. Because if your if
Speaker 1: your job or what you're doing relies on it, and
Speaker 1: you always need that priority, then yes, that's going to
Speaker 1: be the best possible way to get that priority. Because
Speaker 1: typically with the mv and os, there is a provision
Speaker 1: that says, yeah, we may slow you down when we
Speaker 1: need to, and that is in the provision of the
Speaker 1: plan that you're signing up for now. It's also in
Speaker 1: the provision of the major plans as well. But in general,
Speaker 1: the you know, if your Verizon, you're going to prioritize
Speaker 1: your your top customers first because they're the ones paying
Speaker 1: the premium plans. So with that said, I think that
Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of people are fine on
Speaker 1: these mv and O plans because most of the time
Speaker 1: you just want to check Facebook, Instagram, whatever. Now, for
Speaker 1: me personally, I will tell you that in a lot
Speaker 1: of times, like I want to have the best access
Speaker 1: to the network because I'm uploading large videos. I'm downloading
Speaker 1: large videos and I just want to have that ability.
Speaker 1: So the cool thing is there's this new thing called
Speaker 1: Broadband Facts. It's kind of like nutrition facts, but for
Speaker 1: all of the cellular companies, anyone that provides internet in
Speaker 1: America has to now do this Broadband Facts label. It
Speaker 1: looks just like the nutrition facts on the side of
Speaker 1: you know, a piece of food or you know, some
Speaker 1: sort of food, but it's all about broadband. And so
Speaker 1: it'll tell you what the monthly price is, what the
Speaker 1: additional charges and fees are, any discounts, what the typical
Speaker 1: speeds are of that plan, the data that's included with
Speaker 1: your monthly plan. And then there's something called network management,
Speaker 1: and that's what you want. Click and you can go
Speaker 1: in and read how they will manage your network. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, I popped Mint's Network Management plan into my
Speaker 1: AI to summarize it, and it says Mint Mobile may
Speaker 1: slow down your data speeds in the following scenarios after
Speaker 1: reaching your plans high speed data allotment. So for the
Speaker 1: unlimited plan, this occurs after using forty gigs of five
Speaker 1: G or four G in your monthly period. Let's see
Speaker 1: during times of network congestion. Mint Mobiles network supplier may
Speaker 1: reduce speeds during periods of high network traffic, even if
Speaker 1: you haven't exceeded your high speed data allotment.
Speaker 3: So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: It means that basically they reserve the right to throttle
Speaker 1: your data speed no matter what.
Speaker 3: Now, does that happen every single day all over the place.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 1: I test a lot of phones, I test a lot
Speaker 1: of networks, and quite honestly, I almost never have a
Speaker 1: problem anywhere. You might notice when you go to a
Speaker 1: football game there's a lot of people in the stadium. Sure,
Speaker 1: your Instagram story may take a little bit longer to
Speaker 1: go through if they're doing that, but in general, I
Speaker 1: think you could safely save the money and be okay.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I went to Visible's website and their network management policy
Speaker 1: is just redirected to Verizon, and so I asked to
Speaker 1: see what their policy is, and it says, after reaching
Speaker 1: your plans high speed data, we may slow down your
Speaker 1: data during times of network congestion. On certain plans, Verizon
Speaker 1: may prioritize your five G and four G data behind
Speaker 1: other traffic. If the cell site you're connected to experiences
Speaker 1: high demand during your session, your data speeds may be
Speaker 1: slower than other traffic. Once demand lessons or you connect
Speaker 1: to a different site not experiencing high demand, your speed
Speaker 1: should return to normal.
Speaker 3: So again, any of these.
Speaker 1: Carriers are going to reserve of the right to manage
Speaker 1: their network speed no matter what. And if you look
Speaker 1: at AT and T, they offer something called first Net,
Speaker 1: which is like for their first responders, and so that
Speaker 1: network is sort of prioritized above and beyond. I guess
Speaker 1: they're regular folks that are not on that you know,
Speaker 1: first responder network.
Speaker 3: So you know, look, there's a lot to.
Speaker 1: This, but I think in general, I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: be fine unless you are in some sort of role
Speaker 1: where you require unlimited access all the time and the
Speaker 1: fastest access all the time.
Speaker 3: Brian, thanks so much for the call. Do appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I say, save the money, you'll probably be okay.
Speaker 1: Speaking of super fast internet, United Airlines the first major
Speaker 1: airline to sign up with SpaceX Starlink. That means you
Speaker 1: are going to have super speedy in flight Wi Fi
Speaker 1: coming soon to United. Over one thousand aircraft they're gonna
Speaker 1: outfit with this Starlink Wi Fi. It's going to take
Speaker 1: a couple of years. It's not gonna be instant. And
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when Wi Fi on planes
Speaker 1: was not a given, and I remember United was slowly
Speaker 1: rolling this out over all of their planes, and now
Speaker 1: they've got to go in and do it all over
Speaker 1: again with Starlink.
Speaker 3: But this is going to be much much better.
Speaker 1: It's going to be super super fast gate to gate connectivity,
Speaker 1: high speed, low latency internet. I've tested this on Hawaiian Airlines.
Speaker 1: They were the first. I guess you can't call them
Speaker 1: the major airline because they're not like an American or
Speaker 1: a Delta or United, but it's still a pretty big airline.
Speaker 1: But they have it and I tried it, and it
Speaker 1: is incredible. We're talking speed you have at home. The
Speaker 1: things you can do at home you can now do
Speaker 1: on that airplane from the second you get on board
Speaker 1: to the second you land. That includes live TV, streaming,
Speaker 1: social media, shopping, gaming. My kid this morning was like,
Speaker 1: you mean I could play roadblocks on our flights home
Speaker 1: to New Jersey.
Speaker 3: Now, I said, yeah.
Speaker 2: Soon.
Speaker 1: United is the first major carrier, like I said, and
Speaker 1: testing is going to begin in early twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: with the first passenger flights expected later that year.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait.
Speaker 1: This is the airline that I take home to Newark
Speaker 1: all the time, and I cannot wait to have Starlink
Speaker 1: because I do like to work on the plane. And
Speaker 1: now you don't have to download stuff in advance. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be incredible. Let's see what happens with the other airlines. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, did I mention they're offering it for free?
Speaker 3: Even better?
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one, rich on Tech dot
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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm rich Demiro and this is rich
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Speaker 1: show number eighty nine. You can tap that to see
Speaker 1: all of the guests, all of the links that I mention,
Speaker 1: and all of the information that I mentioned in the
Speaker 1: show Let's see mela in Whittier wrote in what is
Speaker 1: this high split? I've been hearing about Spectrum working on
Speaker 1: a high split. Do you have any clue what that's about? Yes,
Speaker 1: I do, good question. So this is a cable this
Speaker 1: is cable network. So the biggest difference between cable internet
Speaker 1: and fiber internet is that fiber internet typically has the
Speaker 1: same upload and download speed, So if you get a
Speaker 1: thousand down, you're usually getting a thousand up as well.
Speaker 1: Now with cable typically they have reserved fast download speeds,
Speaker 1: but the upload speed is a lot slower. And they
Speaker 1: did that for a reason. It helps them manage the
Speaker 1: network where they know most people are downloading stuff and
Speaker 1: streaming stuff, and not so many people are uploading stuff
Speaker 1: back to the network, unless you're someone like myself who's
Speaker 1: dealing with large video files or any sort of large
Speaker 1: file that you're constantly uploading back to the network. And
Speaker 1: so they created these cable networks where they advertise, oh,
Speaker 1: get three hundred down. That's three hundred megabits per second
Speaker 1: down or five hundred megabits per second down. But then
Speaker 1: if you look at the upspeeds, they're typically much slower
Speaker 1: and so they might be thirty megabit, thirty megabits per
Speaker 1: second up or twenty or ten, depending on what the
Speaker 1: download speed is. So typically the download speed is really fast,
Speaker 1: the upload speed is a lot slower.
Speaker 3: The high split.
Speaker 1: Means that they are now configuring this cable network to
Speaker 1: put a larger portion of that bandwidth for the traffic
Speaker 1: going back up to the network, so the upload traffic.
Speaker 1: That's what they've been doing in a lot of neighborhoods
Speaker 1: to compete with Fiber. I'm assuming because Fiber advertises, hey,
Speaker 1: we've got the same speed up and down. You get
Speaker 1: five hundred up, five hundred down, it's going to be
Speaker 1: super fast no matter what you're doing, and so that's
Speaker 1: been a marketing kind of differentiator for Fiber, and cable
Speaker 1: wants in on that. So they're saying, okay, let's do
Speaker 1: this high split where now we're giving people a very
Speaker 1: similar upload speed or a faster upload speed relative to
Speaker 1: their download speed.
Speaker 3: So hope that answers your question.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing because even with the
Speaker 1: download speeds, I mean, they're advertised heavily, but to be honest,
Speaker 1: unless you're doing something pretty wild with your internet connection,
Speaker 1: downloading big files all the time. You don't need the
Speaker 1: fastest download and upload speeds like even Netflix. If you're streaming,
Speaker 1: which is like ninety percent of what people are doing
Speaker 1: these days, you don't need that much speed. Netflix can
Speaker 1: work on a very slow Internet connection. That's part of
Speaker 1: the magic that makes streaming so great. You don't want
Speaker 1: buffering and all that stuff. But you know, a very
Speaker 1: typical connection these days will will work just fine. So
Speaker 1: if you're overpaying for your internet kind of take a
Speaker 1: look at that.
Speaker 3: You may not.
Speaker 1: Need that super super duper fast speed. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Patrick in Colorado Springs. Patrick, what's going on?
Speaker 17: Yes, thank you for taking my call. I'm coming off
Speaker 17: of thirteen years using an Apple Nano and I wanted
Speaker 17: to replace it because it's not working. And I'm wondering
Speaker 17: if you have a recommendation for a small unit that
Speaker 17: would have the two features that I need, which is
Speaker 17: FM radio and MP three player. I tried the one
Speaker 17: that Sony offers is called the E three ninety four,
Speaker 17: and I'm not happy with it. It has intermittent success
Speaker 17: with the feature that has automatically starts the next song,
Speaker 17: and so I don't want to have problems with that,
Speaker 17: But I'm looking at something between one hundred and two
Speaker 17: hundred bucks, maybe the highs to fifty. If you have
Speaker 17: a recommendation.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Well I don't have a recommendation. Off the
Speaker 1: top of my head. I have it's been a while
Speaker 1: since I used a product like this. It's very specific
Speaker 1: at this point, and I'm actually surprised that you had
Speaker 1: a problem because Sony is such high quality. What is
Speaker 1: the issue with this device? Because it looks exactly like
Speaker 1: what you need.
Speaker 17: It's a nice unit, is sixty nine dollars. It's called
Speaker 17: the E three ninety four. And when you have say
Speaker 17: twenty songs on there, and you play one and you're
Speaker 17: not touching it.
Speaker 3: When you finish that.
Speaker 17: Song, it automatically starts the next. But in this case,
Speaker 17: it doesn't work. It just sits there and pauses. I
Speaker 17: can push pause, So I said, they were very nice.
Speaker 17: We worked through it about two and a half hours
Speaker 17: on technical Sport. They sent me a new one and
Speaker 17: it did the same thing. Now it only does it
Speaker 17: about one out of ten times. It will automatically start
Speaker 17: the next song nine times and.
Speaker 12: Then it won't one.
Speaker 17: But if you're using it at night, like I am.
Speaker 17: It means getting up, putting on the lights, putting on
Speaker 17: your glasses, and then I will say that the controls
Speaker 17: are our cake and cumbersome compared to the Apple product.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, that's that's why Apple is a number
Speaker 1: one tech company in the world, because they've they've done
Speaker 1: pretty well with their software. Well look, my initial thought
Speaker 1: here is that the only other company, like the main
Speaker 1: brand that I know that does stuff like this is
Speaker 1: sand Disc. I don't know if you've heard of them,
Speaker 1: but you know, they've been around forever, and they did
Speaker 1: I mean, this was Actually it's funny because I think
Speaker 1: it was the Rio, but I had like basically, this
Speaker 1: was the MP three player that I was using before
Speaker 1: I switched to the iPod and before I switched to
Speaker 1: the iPhone. I've been a runner for a long time,
Speaker 1: so I can tell you over the years. I can't
Speaker 1: believe how many devices I have run with over the
Speaker 1: years before the iPhone and actually now it's just the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, but it's or a smart watch in general.
Speaker 3: But it's pretty wild, like.
Speaker 1: The transition between like going from a tape player to
Speaker 1: a mini disc player. I think I had a CD
Speaker 1: player that I was running with at some point, which
Speaker 1: was rough because that was bouncy all the time, to
Speaker 1: to an iPod, to a nano, to a shuffle to
Speaker 1: a you know, an iPhone, and now of course the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch.
Speaker 3: But it's it's just wild anyway.
Speaker 1: The sand Disc, they've got a thing called the sand
Speaker 1: Disc Clip, and this is an MP three player plus.
Speaker 1: It does have an FM radio tuner built in as well,
Speaker 1: so it gives you everything you need. It's pretty inexpensive.
Speaker 1: You got sixteen gigs for fifty bucks, thirty two gigs
Speaker 1: for sixty dollars.
Speaker 3: But that is probably the one that I would recommend.
Speaker 1: Sand Disc Clip Sport Plus, and they have a couple
Speaker 1: of them, so I would just look on the sand Disc. Now,
Speaker 1: sand Disc got they're owned by Western Digital, but they've
Speaker 1: got a couple. They've got the sand Disc Clip, Jam
Speaker 1: MP three, the Sport Go and the Sport Plus.
Speaker 3: So the thing you want to make sure is.
Speaker 1: That they have the the FM tuners. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to compare these real quick and see which one has
Speaker 1: the FM tuner because I know the one I mentioned does,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if the other one.
Speaker 3: Does that the other Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1: Okay, they all have the FM, so all three of
Speaker 1: them have the features that you want. So the sand
Speaker 1: disk clip, whether you go at the JAM, the Sport
Speaker 1: or the Sport Plus, they all have everything you need,
Speaker 1: which is an MP three player and the FM radio
Speaker 1: built into it, and you should be good to go.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, obviously you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: test it out and see if it has the same
Speaker 1: issue that you had with your sony, but these are
Speaker 1: very inexpensive. I would buy it on Amazon so that
Speaker 1: you can return it if it doesn't work, and that
Speaker 1: should be exactly what you need. Now, if you don't
Speaker 1: want those, you can just go on Amazon and look
Speaker 1: up MP three FM player and there are a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of no name brands on there that may do
Speaker 1: exactly what you need. And in that case, when I'm
Speaker 1: looking for something on Amazon something like this, you're not
Speaker 1: going to find a lot of reviews online for or
Speaker 1: because they're just you know, no one's really reviewing these
Speaker 1: products at this point. But I personally would look for
Speaker 1: something that is prime, look at the reviews, make sure
Speaker 1: it has at least four maybe four and a half stars.
Speaker 1: You can look at Amazon's picks. They typically will tell
Speaker 1: you if an item is returned a lot, So click
Speaker 1: through and see if it says this item is commonly returned,
Speaker 1: and if it says that, stay away. Because Amazon has
Speaker 1: the data on these products, it looks good. They sell
Speaker 1: them on there and then people get them for a
Speaker 1: week and they return them. So I would look for
Speaker 1: one that has high ratings, maybe best seller overall, pick
Speaker 1: is prime and does not say that it's returned often.
Speaker 1: All right, Patrick and Colorado Springs, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the call today. I do appreciate it. Sony has a
Speaker 1: new PlayStation five pro ps five pro. This is going
Speaker 1: to launch on November seventh. Can you believe this price tag?
Speaker 3: You ready?
Speaker 1: Six hundred and ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents, even
Speaker 1: more expensive than the PlayStation five. So I am curious
Speaker 1: how this is going to do. This is for really,
Speaker 1: I guess dedicated gamers seven hundred bucks. It's got a
Speaker 1: two terabyte solid state drive, It's got the Dual Sense
Speaker 1: wireless controller. It has Wi Fi seven, which I don't
Speaker 1: think the PlayStation five has, so that's gonna be nice.
Speaker 1: But the problem is who has Wi Fi seven in
Speaker 1: their house? Not many people now, of course, they're going
Speaker 1: to tell you that it is better and faster than
Speaker 1: the current PlayStation five and better at doing the ray tracing,
Speaker 1: which is all the buzzword in the gaming community. Ray
Speaker 1: tracing is sort of like what shadows and things look
Speaker 1: like when they're rendered and reflections on the screen. The
Speaker 1: higher the better the ray tracing, the more realistic things
Speaker 1: look like. If you're walking down a street and the
Speaker 1: sun is shining from the right, you'll see that nice
Speaker 1: shadow on the left of you, and it's refreshed and
Speaker 1: made to look very good when it's when the ray tracing.
Speaker 3: Is at a higher uh just a higher caliber.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Anyway. Pre Orders open on September twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: The thing to know about the PlayStation five Pro is
Speaker 1: that even though it is more expensive, it and the
Speaker 1: visuals are supposed to look better. There's no disc, so
Speaker 1: no physical drive. You have to pay extra to add
Speaker 1: that on to this device. So there you have it.
Speaker 1: PlayStation five Pro coming out November seventh, seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: This is not the new PlayStation. This is not the
Speaker 1: next generation PlayStation. This is sort of a stop gap
Speaker 1: until Sony comes out with something brand new. Whether that's
Speaker 1: I don't follow the rumors on that, but that may
Speaker 1: be a couple of years out. Eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one.
Speaker 3: My name is Rich Dmiro. This is rich on.
Speaker 1: Tech, the website for the show richon Tech dot tv.
Speaker 3: Coming up.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The phone line is eighty
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Speaker 1: to you. Let's go to Linda in Glendale. Linda, you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 18: Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. How do
Speaker 18: I remove personal information from Google? Such as my past
Speaker 18: and currents addresses, phone numbers, and names of relatives and
Speaker 18: court cases?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I mentioned this earlier, but it's a feature
Speaker 1: on Google called Google Results about You. So it's a
Speaker 1: weird name. I don't know why they call it that,
Speaker 1: but that's what they call it. But basically, if you
Speaker 1: type Google Results about You into Google, the first couple
Speaker 1: of results, actually this looks like the sixth result on
Speaker 1: Google is my article for KTLA back in August of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, I first talked about this. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, you sign up. You already have a Google account.
Speaker 1: You sign up, you tell it the information that you
Speaker 1: want it to look for, and once you do, it
Speaker 1: will put its little feelers out on the web, and
Speaker 1: when it finds that information on a website, it will
Speaker 1: alert you. So, for instance, it found my information on
Speaker 1: a website called unmasked dot com. And the information that
Speaker 1: was in there was I don't know, it looks like
Speaker 1: my address and my name, and so you can tell Google, hey,
Speaker 1: I want this information taken out of Google searches. Now,
Speaker 1: that information is only removed from Google Search itself. That
Speaker 1: means that ninety percent of people when they're searching for you,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna pop your name into Google and these
Speaker 1: are the results that come up. That result will no
Speaker 1: longer be shown. It does not remove it from the
Speaker 1: original company. So if you want to remove it from
Speaker 1: the original company, you either have to do it yourself,
Speaker 1: which you can go to these websites.
Speaker 3: So if you if you go to a website, let's.
Speaker 1: Say for this unmasked dot com, right, so you can
Speaker 1: type in unmasked and say, uh, take down request. So
Speaker 1: if you type that in, you'll get information on how
Speaker 1: to opt out of that website. And the website that
Speaker 1: comes up is opty dot com how to opt out
Speaker 1: of unmask And you can do this for all the
Speaker 1: different websites and so, or you can subscribe to a service.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of these services like delete me and
Speaker 1: many many others out there that will. You can pay
Speaker 1: them a couple bucks a month and they will. They
Speaker 1: will remove your information from these services, or at least
Speaker 1: attempt to. It's not the fastest process in the world.
Speaker 1: You can do it by yourself, and I probably recommend
Speaker 1: doing that. So what I would do personally, Linda, is
Speaker 1: that I would go on Google whatever you're worried about,
Speaker 1: search for that information, and whatever website comes up, whether
Speaker 1: it's people results finder dot Com or true people Search,
Speaker 1: check People or whatever it is, and then just say
Speaker 1: opt out and you can fill out that opt out form.
Speaker 1: And it takes a while sometimes and they kind of
Speaker 1: throw you through some hoops to do it, but once
Speaker 1: you do that, they will say, okay, fine, we'll take
Speaker 1: your information out of there now. If you live in California,
Speaker 1: there's also another way you can opt out of these
Speaker 1: things because we have some specialized laws in California. Not
Speaker 1: many people use it, but there is a privacy kind
Speaker 1: of law in California that allows you to opt out
Speaker 1: of this stuff quicker. I don't have the instructions on
Speaker 1: how to do that right now, but I will post
Speaker 1: them as a link on the show notes. But that's
Speaker 1: another option. If you live in California, which you do anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this stuff is a mess. It's all over and if
Speaker 1: you want to clean up your stuff, you can also
Speaker 1: hire a professional that does this for a living.
Speaker 3: There are people out there that will do that.
Speaker 1: I've done stories with them, and it's a big business,
Speaker 1: especially for like celebrities and things, and also reputation management.
Speaker 1: If you have an article out there that you don't
Speaker 1: necessarily like about yourself, people want to get that off
Speaker 1: Google too.
Speaker 3: That's a little bit trickier. All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk to John from
Speaker 1: jen K Grown Up about eighties nostalgia. Fun topic coming up,
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology the website
Speaker 1: for the show rich on Tech dot TV. I know
Speaker 1: we had some questions about removing data from Google. I
Speaker 1: have updated the show notes and if you're in California,
Speaker 1: I put the specific California opt out information there from
Speaker 1: Consumerwatchdog dot org. They just came out with a report
Speaker 1: that says less than one percent of Californians exercise their
Speaker 1: privacy rights with data brokers. So they've got a lot
Speaker 1: of good information about how to remove your data from
Speaker 1: various websites, not just Google. So definitely check that out
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv. Once you get there, hit
Speaker 1: the light bulb icon and that'll bring you the wiki.
Speaker 1: Check show number eighty nine for the show notes.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is.
Speaker 1: YouTube creator John Reddick. He runs a YouTube channel called
Speaker 1: jen x Grown Up, which explores eighties nostalgia, retro gaming,
Speaker 1: and all these old brands that are coming back again.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 14: Hey, Rich, this is It's always a good day to
Speaker 14: talk about nostalgic tech and games.
Speaker 3: So great to be here. Thanks.
Speaker 1: It's so wild because I don't know why we are
Speaker 1: all so nostalgic for things, And I mean, you've created
Speaker 1: a whole channel based on it. So tell me about
Speaker 1: your YouTube channel, what you sort of cover on there.
Speaker 1: I kind of mentioned it, but I want to hear
Speaker 1: your take.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I have a kid of
Speaker 14: the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 3: I was born in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 14: I grew up in the origin of a lot of
Speaker 14: I lived through the transition from vinyl.
Speaker 3: To cassettes to CDs and all that.
Speaker 14: And video gaming didn't exist when I was born, and
Speaker 14: I grew up and so I love that stuff, and
Speaker 14: so I'm inundated. You know, I used to work in
Speaker 14: broadcasting many lives ago, and you know, I had a
Speaker 14: chance to create my own stuff. So, you know, on
Speaker 14: gen X Grown Up on the YouTube channel, I cover
Speaker 14: all sorts of nostalgic you know, gaming and technology and
Speaker 14: new modern consoles that come out and throwback stuff, and
Speaker 14: you know, we host a weekly audio podcast every Thursday.
Speaker 5: I co host nineteen Eighties now every Monday, and.
Speaker 14: Anytime I get a chance to talk about this stuff
Speaker 14: that I love growing up, the nostalgic stuff.
Speaker 3: As you said, Uh, that's where I do it, and
Speaker 3: that's my outlet.
Speaker 1: I love that title, by the way, nineteen eighties now,
Speaker 1: that's like so like it's such a great title.
Speaker 3: So how do you define nostalgia?
Speaker 14: I mean, I think every generation has a nostalgia for
Speaker 14: what what what was new to them, what they enjoyed
Speaker 14: when they were kids.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 14: I people say, kind of it's a desire to go
Speaker 14: back to a simpler time. But even if the times
Speaker 14: weren't that much simpler, our lives were simpler, you know
Speaker 14: when we were you know, in our in our teens,
Speaker 14: and we didn't yet have jobs and families and mortgages
Speaker 14: and cars and you know, a roof to.
Speaker 5: Fix and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 14: And so I think that it colors the things we
Speaker 14: enjoyed at that age because we had no other worries
Speaker 14: at the time other than you know, who am I
Speaker 14: going to ask to the prom? And am I going
Speaker 14: to get my allowance this week? You know, those sorts
Speaker 14: of things, and it's so much simpler. And I think
Speaker 14: as we get older and things get more complicated and
Speaker 14: more complex, it's fun to go back and there's some endorphit.
Speaker 14: I think that kicks off when you can go back
Speaker 14: and remember that thing from a time when you had
Speaker 14: an easier or more carefree life.
Speaker 1: And of course these companies want to tap into it.
Speaker 1: So like, for instance, we had some pizza Hut last
Speaker 1: night and I was cracking up because if you look
Speaker 1: at their logo, they've gone back to like their old
Speaker 1: school logo. And when I held these pizza boxes, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there, I'm like, I just it just warms something
Speaker 1: in your heart, right that, like, this is what I
Speaker 1: had as a kid, and now I'm having it here
Speaker 1: as an adult with a mortgage and with things and kids.
Speaker 3: And other stuff.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I've seen some places that pizza have they bring
Speaker 14: back the stained glass lamps and the red cups, all
Speaker 14: the things that made pizza hut magic.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I am. I am.
Speaker 1: So there's actually a list of the old school pizza
Speaker 1: huts that are still around that where you can go
Speaker 1: in and eat there. I want to bring my kids
Speaker 1: to that, but I haven't found a location that's close by.
Speaker 1: But I really want to do that because I didn't
Speaker 1: appreciate it back.
Speaker 3: Then, but now I do. Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: So what's popular with your with your viewers? Like what
Speaker 1: I mean, gaming obviously is kind of probably top. So
Speaker 1: is that pretty much tops right now?
Speaker 5: Well, certainly.
Speaker 14: I mean on my YouTube channel, I predominantly cover gaming.
Speaker 14: It's just kind of what I've the niche kind of
Speaker 14: fallen into. Even though I enjoy all things nostalgia, you know,
Speaker 14: tech and pop culture. But I mean anything Atari is
Speaker 14: of interest. You know, Tari as a company is kind
Speaker 14: of emblematic of nostalgic gaming certainly. You know, they were
Speaker 14: one of the originators of both arcade and then home gaming,
Speaker 14: and they've had quite a resurgence in the last couple
Speaker 14: of years. Ever, since Wade Rosen took over as the CEO,
Speaker 14: and he's really trying to drive that company, you know,
Speaker 14: out of obscurity and back into the its rightful place.
Speaker 14: All these mini consoles and many computers like the Little
Speaker 14: Commodore and the Little Atari eight bit, the ZX Spectrum
Speaker 14: that just got announced. I think it's just goes back
Speaker 14: to that nostalgia we were just talking about. People love
Speaker 14: a chance to sample that stuff or remember it if
Speaker 14: they if they already know it.
Speaker 7: And all the little plug and.
Speaker 14: Play toys that you know, they oh, there's twenty games,
Speaker 14: you're plug in your TV.
Speaker 7: It's not quite right, but it's right enough.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 14: Those are sort of things that are really they've had
Speaker 14: They've always been around a bit. They've had quite a
Speaker 14: resurgence and a push in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we've We've had a couple of those over
Speaker 1: the years.
Speaker 3: Also, like the NYS Classic that came out.
Speaker 1: So what what So when when you talk about these games,
Speaker 1: are you talking do they come out with new games
Speaker 1: for this or's always like old games that are just
Speaker 1: sort of new again.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 14: It's both and Atari, especially who I just mentioned, they're
Speaker 14: doing some amaze. Like just the last week, two weeks ago,
Speaker 14: they announced the Atari seventy eight hundred Plus, which is
Speaker 14: a throwback to the seventy eight hundred from the I
Speaker 14: guess late eighties. I think came out eighty nine or
Speaker 14: something like that anyway, But in addition to re releasing
Speaker 14: some older games on physical media, which is what these
Speaker 14: consoles do, these plus consoles, since they recently purchased Atari Age,
Speaker 14: which is a forum and community for Atari fans, they
Speaker 14: have embraced the homebrew developers. I just had a chance
Speaker 14: to speak with Bob de Grezenzo, who's a long time
Speaker 14: homebrew developer, and they embraced him. They took some of
Speaker 14: his homebrew games that he wrote, and you asked, but older,
Speaker 14: newer games. These are games he's written the last two
Speaker 14: or three years. And they're making the legitimate. They're making
Speaker 14: the part of the Atari library. Now it's not just
Speaker 14: a hobbyist who wrote something and had a cartridge built.
Speaker 14: So many of the plug and plays are compilations, as
Speaker 14: you said, of stuff that's been around for thirty forty years.
Speaker 14: But Atari is doing a lot to breathe new life
Speaker 14: into these consoles with titles that are written by enthusiasts
Speaker 14: and now becoming legitimized as part of the game library
Speaker 14: of Atari.
Speaker 3: That's so cool.
Speaker 1: So the reason why I found you was because I
Speaker 1: was doing a story on sort of retro gaming. Visited
Speaker 1: a store in the LA area called retro Respawn, which
Speaker 1: is like, you know, these people go in there and
Speaker 1: they buy, sell, and trade old games, and it was
Speaker 1: just wild to see that kind of community. And he
Speaker 1: was telling me Pokemon is really hot. Obviously Mario is
Speaker 1: always hot, but it's wild to go into this store
Speaker 1: where you have physical cartridges, you have games that haven't end.
Speaker 3: It's like almost like a mini.
Speaker 1: Movie compared to today's games like a Fortnite or a
Speaker 1: you know what's the other one that all the kids
Speaker 1: like roadblocks, like these games never end. Back when we
Speaker 1: played games, or I guess you still do, you know,
Speaker 1: they had a beginning of middle and an end. It
Speaker 1: was a storyline and now it's just open ended forever.
Speaker 14: Right, Or it was designed to kill you in about
Speaker 14: three minutes like an arcade game, get another quartery out
Speaker 14: of your pocket.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 14: It was either a story that had beguinea midle end,
Speaker 14: as you said, or it was something that was fast
Speaker 14: action and twitch and how far can you get? What
Speaker 14: high score can you get? Wait a second, you know
Speaker 14: you just high scores. You just made me realize something
Speaker 14: that we have been getting played by these games for
Speaker 14: many years, because nowadays, like the kids are asking their
Speaker 14: parents for these little InApp purchases, right, ninety nine cents here,
Speaker 14: a dollar there.
Speaker 1: But now I think about it, Yeah, the whole point
Speaker 1: was to get those quarters out of your pocket into
Speaker 1: the game when you.
Speaker 3: Were a kid.
Speaker 14: That was the metric for old arcade games. Try to
Speaker 14: get your quarter and kill you in three minutes because
Speaker 14: that was how long it would take before to make money.
Speaker 14: Get another quarter every three or four minutes was the goal.
Speaker 14: So better you got, the worse it was for the
Speaker 14: owner of that machine.
Speaker 1: And I guess there's probably some rev share too with
Speaker 1: the you know, the pizza place that had the machine
Speaker 1: in there, right right? What are your favorite games? What
Speaker 1: are you into these days?
Speaker 14: So look, I still play old stuff. I go back
Speaker 14: and play old Atari twenty six hundred titles regularly today.
Speaker 14: I'm also really enjoying some of the reimagined games, and
Speaker 14: I keep mentioning Atari, but they're doing so much in
Speaker 14: the space right now they are doing these recharged games
Speaker 14: where they take a classic game like Breakout or Missile
Speaker 14: Command or Asteroids or Centipede, and they're reimagining it with
Speaker 14: a techno soundtrack and power ups and things like that.
Speaker 14: They just came out with a new one called Yars Rising,
Speaker 14: which was actually a kind of a metroid Vania exploration,
Speaker 14: power up your character sort of thing, nothing like the
Speaker 14: original Yars Revenge that Howard Scott Warshaw wrote decades ago,
Speaker 14: but in that universe. I like how especially Atari and
Speaker 14: some other companies are starting to do this, are exploring
Speaker 14: their library and not just regurgitating the same games, but
Speaker 14: iterating upon them and expanding the lore or the story
Speaker 14: or the gameplay in ways that makes sense to modern gamers,
Speaker 14: but still try to appeal to the older guys like
Speaker 14: us who sorry, older guys like me, I won't group
Speaker 14: you with.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I don't know here, you're putting
Speaker 1: me in a big grout home.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, we can enjoy it too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: John Reddick from gen X Grown Up, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining me today.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it one hundred percent. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: It's been great, all right, find his YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: If you're a nostalgic for a simpler time or simpler games,
Speaker 1: check it out on YouTube. Jen X grown up. All right,
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Speaker 1: Sunny San Diego sent a note that said TurboTax is
Speaker 1: discontinuing its CD format for its desktop software. TurboTax desktop
Speaker 1: products will only be available via download from tax here
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and on. The CD format is discontinued.
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Speaker 1: Waimo and Uber are teaming up and expanding their partnership.
Speaker 1: They are gonna start driving in Austin and Atlanta. So
Speaker 1: basically Uber is gonna supply these fully autonomous, all electric
Speaker 1: self driving cars, and Uber is going to supply the app.
Speaker 1: Reabook them service is going to start in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and Waimo one currently provides over one hundred thousand trips
Speaker 1: weekly in their three cities, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I know, I see them on the streets of Los
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Speaker 1: driving by itself with no one in the driver's seat
Speaker 1: always throws me for a loop. But people seem to
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Speaker 1: the limitation. Apparently, Americans using a record number of a
Speaker 1: record number of data wireless data in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Wireless data, according.
Speaker 1: To the CTIA, that's the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association,
Speaker 1: the big trade group that represents you know, Verizon, T Mobile,
Speaker 1: AT and T all the rest. Wireless data usage reached
Speaker 1: over one hundred trillion megabytes in twenty twenty three, thirty
Speaker 1: six percent increase from twenty twenty two. Five G devices
Speaker 1: are now about forty percent of all wireless devices, up
Speaker 1: from thirty four percent in twenty twenty two. Total wireless
Speaker 1: connections in the US five hundred and fifty eight million.
Speaker 1: That's more than one point six per American. That makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense because it's not just cell phones.
Speaker 1: They are building Internet connections into everything, tablets, watches, cars,
Speaker 1: pretty much anything you can think of your coffee mug.
Speaker 1: Just kidding, but they might. Let's see, total cell sites
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty two, four hundred and sixty nine,
Speaker 1: twenty four percent more since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: So they continue to build those.
Speaker 1: And Americans exchange over two point one trillion text messages
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. Keep in mind that does not
Speaker 1: include I message. That's Apple's own thing. It doesn't get
Speaker 1: registered through this. Voice calls two point four trillion minutes
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. That's actually down just slightly. Probably
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