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Give me a ring at 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.920 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.440 seven four to two four one zero one eight eight 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.120 eight seven four to two four one zero one. If 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.240 you like to type no problem, just head to rich 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.520 on tech dot tv. That's Rich on tech dot tv 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.360 and hit the content tacked button. Let's dive into the 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.920 world of tech together. Some great guests this week, Washington 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.520 Post tech columnist Jeffrey Fowler. We'll talk about Apple Intelligence 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.600 and his test drive and how it's still a little quirky. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.400 Then later we've got top tech YouTuber I Justine She's 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.920 going to share her thoughts on the new iPhone sixteen 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.360 and the other Apple products. And later in the show, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.600 YouTube creator John from gen X Grown Up is going 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:32.440 to talk all things eighties, nostalgia, retrogaming, and how classic 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:37.560 brands want in on the modern tech landscape. Well, this 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.479 was the probably the biggest week in technology of the year, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.920 Apple's annual iPhone event in Kopertino, where they introduced new 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:52.120 iPhone sixteen models, AirPods four, and Apple Watches. And yes, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:59.720 I was there, probably my fourteenth year of covering Apple events. Wow, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.560 it's a lot. It's a lot of iPhones. It's been 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.640 a lot of iPhones over the years. So I was 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.760 at the original iPhone event launch in New York City 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.520 back in two thousand and seven, and then my job 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.880 kind of took me in different directions, so I wasn't 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.080 at some of the launches. Then when I got to 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.720 KTLA started covering all of the iPhone events starting in 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.079 twenty eleven, so it's been a bit And yeah, I've 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.480 seen the iPhone evolve over the years. This is the 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:30.240 iPhone sixteen and sixteen plus. So basically you sit through 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.320 the presentation up in Cooper Tino these days. Now, they 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.440 used to all be live, right, so everything was live. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.160 They would have, you know, the CEO come out, whether 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.160 it was Steve Jobs back in the day and now 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.920 Tim Cook, and then he would come out welcome everyone, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.680 and then they would literally show off these products to 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.359 a live audience. And the products were there on stage, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.960 they would literally pull a veil off of them sometimes 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.280 or hold them up in their hand to show them off. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.080 Now ever since COVID, they do everything pre taped, so 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.799 it's a lot slick, but you know, not as much 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.320 can go wrong because it's all they're done, and you 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.880 know it's it's on tape, so it's not as it's exciting, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.079 but it's not the same energy as it used to 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.640 be because you're just basically watching a movie when you 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.280 go up there. But it's still fun because the best 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.840 part is after the presentation ends, you all run into 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.240 this other room and go hands out with the new devices. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.760 So basically everyone that's invited to the event are the 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.400 first people in the world to experience these new products. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.760 So let's go through them. First. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.440 Off, iPhones sixteen and sixteen plus. These are the base 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:40.920 Apple iPhones, modest upgrades, slightly improved camera. The action button 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.040 is now replacing the mute and ringer switch. This is 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.320 what they did last year with the Pro models. Now 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.200 it's across all models. And then there is this new 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.040 touch sensitive camera control area. They don't call it a button, 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:57.000 but I do. It is basically a dedicated button on 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.880 the side on the right side of the iPhones that 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.040 not only when press activates the camera, A second press 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.360 will take a picture, a press and hold will take 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.600 a video, and then you can lightly press or lightly 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.880 tap and bring up camera controls like focus and zoom. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.960 It's a little complicated. Yes, it's gonna take some getting 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.440 used to, Yes, but this is a new way to 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.440 launch the camera on the iPhone and eventually maybe other 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.880 things as well. A lot of developers already tapping into this, so, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.000 for instance, if you're in something like Snapchat, you would 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.039 be able to use that button for an added functionality. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.200 So it's one more physical button on the iPhone and 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.320 it's going to open up some possibilities. It's a little weird, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.280 I'll be honest. My initial hands on time was a 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:48.800 little shaky. I would say I wasn't able to master it. Immediately, 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.200 but we'll see as time goes on. But it does 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.279 free up one icon on your home screen because you 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.560 no longer need that camera icon because now you can 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.359 just press the side of the phone. Seven and ninety 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.360 nine dollars for the iPhone sixteen, nine hundred dollars for 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.640 the iPhone sixteen plus. Now when it comes to the 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.960 iPhone sixteen Pro and Pro Max, this is where a 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:12.960 majority of the major improvements are larger screens than ever 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.680 before on an iPhone six point three inches up from 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.560 six point one inches and six point nine inches up 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.040 from six point seven inches. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.120 Now in the hand, they don't. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.520 Feel much bigger, but they are a little bit bigger, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.520 but Apple stretch the screen more to the edges to 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.280 make them so that they can still make these bigger screens. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.720 But the phone overall doesn't feel much bigger. It does 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:36.640 feel a little bit bigger. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:37.240 I'll be honest. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.880 What I like that they've done here is the specs 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:42.760 are the same. So if you want a big phone, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.400 you can go for a big phone. If you want 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.560 a smaller phone, you can go for the smaller phone, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.359 and you still get the same specs except for the 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.919 screen size and battery it's the same exact thing that 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.400 Sam that Google did with the Pixel nine Pro and 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.760 the Pixel nine Pro XL. Samsung still reserves their best 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:00.920 feet for the Ultra. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:02.080 We will see if. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.360 They change their tune this next time around, because people 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.000 have a choice with the iPhone and Google. Now we'll 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.080 see if they get a choice with Samsung as well. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.279 Five times optical zoom on both models. As you might remember, 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.360 last year, it was a three X on the Pro 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.160 and a five X on the Promax. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.640 Now it's five X on both. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.159 Improved ultra wide camera, so you're getting a forty eight 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.320 megapixel ultra wide camera, so everything's going to look just 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.120 a little bit better in the ultra wide and you're 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.279 getting four K, one hundred and twenty frames per second video. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.800 That is quite incredible. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.159 All the nerds in the audience, especially the video creators, 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.279 were going nuts over that because it is super smooth 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.920 video and you can slow it down after the fact 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.280 and it's still gonna look really good. Better heat dissipation, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.480 so if your phone heats up a lot, especially when 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.120 it's charging or when it's in the sun. They've improved 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.560 I don't know if they called it the vapor chamber, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:06:59.880 but that's what they call it in the other phone. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.120 So apparently these phones will have better heat dissipation, which 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.279 means your phone should stay cooler while it's charging and 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.239 while it's under heavy use. And the batteries are bigger 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.320 across the board, so better battery life by the tune 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.360 of a couple hours for each model, So that's always 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:16.800 a good thing. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.679 Whenever we see improved battery life. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.000 Prices on the sixteen Pro and Promax nine hundred ninety 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.720 nine dollars basically one thousand bucks for the Pro, twelve 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.440 hundred dollars for the Pro Max. My advice do not 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.720 get the base model. One hundred and twenty eight gigabytes 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.880 is not enough for these phones. These are powerhouse phones. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.440 If you're recording four K video at one hundred and 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.559 twenty frames, you're going to go through that one hundred 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.560 and twenty eight gigabytes in about two days, So you 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.440 need to get the two hundred and fifty six minimum. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.960 And yes, Apple plays pricing game, so it's only one 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.320 hundred do dollars extra. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.200 Now, don't complain to me. You're already spending one thousand. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.560 Go the extra ten percent to get that eleven hundred 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.880 dollars price point and double the storage on your phone. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.960 You'll thank me later. I don't care if you have iCloud. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.080 It still makes a huge difference to have that storage 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.760 on your phone. And you're paying basically fifty percent less 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.720 for the two hundred and fifty six gigs than you 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.280 are for the one twenty eight. All right, now, let's 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.520 talk Apple Watch ten Thinner and lighter. It is noticeably 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.840 thinner and lighter on your wrist. It also sits lower 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.400 to your wrist. That big back bump is sort of gone. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.680 Comes in this new Jet black finish, which is really nice. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.360 Screens are larger, so they're saying I think like ten 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.640 percent larger on the screens, faster charging. It now detects 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.080 sleep apnea, so this is something that's undiagnosed in like 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.120 eighty percent of people. It will diagnose that now and 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.200 give you if it thinks you have it. It will 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.960 give you a PDF that you can print out and 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.080 bring to your doctor. A new tides app, So if 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.079 you like to serve or do anything with the ocean, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.000 this will tell you the high and low tides. You 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.040 can save your favorite beaches, and the built in speaker 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.360 can now play audio. So it used to be the 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.400 built in speaker on the Apple Watch could only do 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.520 Siri and also phone calls. Now you can listen to, say, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.760 streaming music or a podcast, or any kind of music 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.080 you want on the built in speaker. I know it's 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.480 a small thing, but if you forget your headphone somewhere, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.640 if you're on a walk, maybe you're by yourself, you 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.520 just want some companionship on the audio there on the 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:18.280 built in speaker. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.480 You don't want to have headphones in. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.959 You've got that option that starts at three hundred and 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.520 ninety nine dollars to the Apple Watch ten, the Ultra two. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.480 They did not come out with an Ultra three. The 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.520 Ultra two now comes in titanium black. Yes, it is 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.200 very good looking. That's if you're the ultrasports enthusiast. That 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.000 starts at eight hundred dollars. All right, let's go to 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.920 the air pods. Now, AirPods four these are the new 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.520 entry level AirPods one hundred and twenty nine bucks. Do 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.520 not buy them at that price. They often go on 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.560 sale for cheaper, especially during the holidays. But they have 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.360 a new active noise cancelation option. For one hundred and 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.440 seventy nine dollars. So this is an open ear design, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.480 which means you don't have to seal out your ears, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.400 and you'll still get that active noise cancelation. Probably not 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.520 going to be as good on a plane, but for 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.480 every day when you're just out and about. If you 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.080 like to have some of those noises canceled but you 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.360 still want to have your ear open to the world, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.280 that's a nice option. You also get a wireless charging 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.320 case for that one seventy nine, And this is really neat. 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.280 The AirPods Pro two is actually now FDA approved for 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.679 use as hearing aids. This is going to open up 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.200 hearing aids for many many people who already have these 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.760 or who just want hearing aids. They're two hundred and 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.800 forty nine dollars, but right now I just check they're 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.480 on Amazon for like less than that, so you can 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.079 get that hearing aids for less than two hundred and 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:39.080 fifty bucks. And the health app inside the phone is 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.800 going to help you test your hearing. I took a 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.640 sample of this, and you basically tap the screen as 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.160 you're listening to different frequencies. It gives you a little 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.640 report and it says, hey, do you want us to 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.840 tune these as hearing aids? And now you can hear 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:54.599 everything around you much better than before. Finally, Apple Intelligence 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.920 AI features not launching the same day as these new devices. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.640 All these new devices are going to be available on 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.839 Septem number twentieth. The AI stuff is going to roll 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.280 out later that will work on the iPhone fifteen Pro 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.400 models and later. And if you don't want to get 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.800 a new phone, September sixteenth, iOS eighteen is going to 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.400 launch as a free update that's going to be compatible 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.320 with the iPhone ten R and later. So that's the eleven, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.200 the twelve, the thirteen, the fourteen, the fifteen, and the sixteen, 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.240 as well as the iPhone S two. If you want 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.080 to check which iPhone you have it if it's been 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.560 a while since you upgraded, you can go into Settings General, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.520 about and model name and that will tell you which 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.720 one you have. But basically the bottom line is modest 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.800 upgrades this year. I think a lot of the pro 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.200 phones have some great upgrades, but only if you are 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.800 using your camera a lot, your video a lot. And 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.640 also if you want those AI features, you're going to 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.440 have to update unless you have that iPhone fifteen Pro. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.319 But across the board, Apple. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.920 Did some really cool stuff, very exciting, and I have 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.599 it all linked up on my newsletter this week. Just 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.520 go to Rich on tech dot TV and you can 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.800 read everything that I think about these new devices in depth. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.200 Right there, All. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.040 Right, coming up, it's your turn. Let's get some of 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.080 your calls in at eight eight eight Rich one oh one. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.280 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:12.760 zero one. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.520 If you got a tech question, don't be shy, give 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:15.000 me a ring. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.080 I'm Rich Demiro. You are locked into Rich on Tech. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:24.080 Stay tuned right here. Let's go to uh Bill in 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.960 Los Angeles. Bill, you're on with Rich. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.200 Yeah, I asked the question earlier. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:30.760 I guess I have to repeat the question again. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.680 Yes, you probably talked to Kim. Now you're talking Rich 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.240 on the radio live. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:36.160 All right. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:40.000 Yeah, I wanted to ask you. One question was about 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:42.680 on the web right now. You know, when you're on 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.679 these sites, it always says that with the new sixteen 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.040 coming on, Apple is trying to get rid of the fifteen, 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.160 so there are a lot of sites giving it away 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.360 for free. I don't think that's really true. It's one 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.680 of those things that you know sounds too good to 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.640 be true, So I don't that's probably not true, right. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.720 It depends on the website. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.679 Look, I mean, if you're talking about one of these 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.880 websites that's like get a free iPhone fifteen, that's a scam. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.679 But if you're talking about one of the carriers advertising 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.200 a free iPhone, that is not a scam, but it 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.480 is scamy, and I can explain that. So yeah, anything 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.400 that's offering a free phone with no strings attached or 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.839 like you know, fill out a survey, that is a 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:19.600 scam for sure. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.480 And the ones that with the like T Mobile, Verizon, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.719 those are because you're going to commit to them for 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:26.240 a couple. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.360 Of years or something like that exactly. So my fends 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.920 up one hundred percent. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.320 So my friend and I we were chatting about this 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.280 last night because we were talking about all the deals 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.880 out there because whenever this happens, basically the carriers go 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.960 nuts and they say get a free iPhone, and it's 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.960 either with trade in or even without trade in sometimes. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.000 But here's here's how it works, and here's the basic math. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.840 So the basic bottom line is you're paying more every 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.800 single month for three years to get that free iPhone 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.240 if you were not sticking with that carrier. Let's just 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.560 say you went with something like let's say you bought 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.360 the iPhone outright for a thousand bucks and then you 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.840 went to Mint Mobile, which is unlimited for thirty dollars 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.160 a month. You know, you're talking a year of service 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.440 would be the phone would be one thousand plus three 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.679 hundred and sixty dollars. That's thirteen hundred and sixty dollars. Now, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.920 let's say you went with a big carrier that's saying, hey, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.720 we'll give you a free iPhone, but you have to 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.480 stick with us for three years. And by the way, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.880 you have to be on our highest price unlimited plan, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.960 which is about ninety dollars a month. So now times 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.880 ninety dollars a month times thirty six months, or let's 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.120 just yeah, let's just yeah. So that's thirty two hundred 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.400 and forty dollars, you know, and you're not getting the 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.240 and you're getting the phone for free quote unquote, and 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.080 a lot of those you have to kind of pay 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.280 as well, so or trade in a phone as well. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.160 So again it really comes down to when you do 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:56.000 the math, it's not a better deal necessarily but here's 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.960 the caveat, and here's here's the thing. If you're already 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.440 on an unlimited plan and you're already with one of 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.880 the big carriers and they're giving you that upgrade deal, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.480 and you're not going to switch carriers to an MV 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.080 and O or a cheaper carrier, then it's not the 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.760 end of the world to get the free phone from them, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.560 as long as you are going to stick with them 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.320 for the next couple of years, because if you don't 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.200 stick with them, they will make you pay the balance 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.000 of whatever they're doing. Because they don't give you that 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.880 phone for free upfront. They do it as a credit 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.200 on your bill over the next three years, just to 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:27.040 ensure that you. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:27.600 Stick with them. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.480 So it's not like, you know, you can just leave 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.440 after two months and they forget about it. No, no, no, 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.600 they've got you signed there. So again, if you do 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.520 the math quickly, you know there are some ways to 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.080 really save if you buy the phone out right, and 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.040 quite frankly, I think that is the best way to 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.040 buy the phone because it gives you the most options, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.000 and then the next year when you want to trade 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.440 it in, if you want to upgrade again, you can 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.360 get a pretty good amount for that iPhone because iPhones 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.640 do not lose a lot of value over the years. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.280 So a good question, Bill, appreciate it. I know it's 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.560 a lot of math, it's a lot of kind of 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:00.320 figuring out. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.520 But the main carriers that are really. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.760 Good with unlimited are something like A Visible from Verizon, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.280 a Mint Mobile, and even Total from Verizon. They're doing 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.040 some good deals as well. AT and T has a 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.600 lot of mv and os, and mv and O is 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:19.120 what's called a mobile virtual network operator. So basically these 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.160 companies buy network space from one of the big companies 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.400 like an AT and T, a T Mobile or Verizon, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.280 and then they repackage it and their whole thing is 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.120 just marketing to consumers, and they often don't have all 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.320 of those like extra perks like a free Netflix or 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.400 free this or free that, or international roaming. It's just 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.440 basically unlimited data and sometimes unlimited hotspot eighty to eight 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.200 rich one on one if you want to hop on 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.160 the phones. Coming up, we're going to talk to Jeffrey 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:56.280 Fowler of The Washington Post about Apple's AI. Rich DeMuro 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.520 here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.480 rich one, Oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.280 to two four one zero one. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.520 We'll get back to those phone lines in just a moment. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.600 But first joining me now is Jeffrey Fowler, technology columnist 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.199 for the Washington Post. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.919 Jeffrey, thanks so much for joining me. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.400 So thank glad to be here. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.480 So you took a look at the new AI features 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.680 on the iPhone, which are not arriving on the first 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.520 day that the iPhones are going to be available. It's 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.800 going to be a software update later on. But this 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.639 is Apple Intelligence and you wrote all about it in 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.760 your column this week. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.439 What were your first impressions. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:40.359 I found Apple Intelligence to be useful except for when 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.840 it went completely bonkers. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.120 And I think it's definitely worth explaining. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.240 To folks who are thinking about buying a new iPhone 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:57.760 exactly what state this Apple Intelligence software is at, because 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.240 from what I've seen, it might tick them awhile and 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:01.080 make this something that. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.560 You really want to have a part of your daily life. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.600 Yeah, it's interesting because the iPhone has gotten so slick 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:13.159 and so good that, according to your column, it almost 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.080 takes it a step back because now we're dealing with 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.439 hallucinations and mistakes by the AI. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.520 Yeah, so One of the things that I think anybody 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.879 with putting the software on their phone will notice most 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:30.080 is that Apple Intelligence is constantly trying to summarize the 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:31.600 information coming into your phone. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:36.040 So every email in your inbox. 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.879 Get says instead of like seeing the two lines, you 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.240 get an AI written summary. 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.600 Same thing goes for alerts on your lock screen. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.040 Instead of just seeing, you know, an alert that says 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.040 somebody press your doorbell, you'll see a summary of all 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.960 the alerts that you've gotten from that app. Sometimes those 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.480 are super useful, Like looking at the first two lines 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.960 of most people's email is a complete waste of time, right, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.040 That's where they say, That's where they say, oh, oh, 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:02.000 I hope you are well. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.679 I just wanted to clear my throat. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.840 So the idea that an AI can read the email 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.919 for you and tell you what it's really about to 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.760 help you decide whether to tap in and read the 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:13.200 whole thing is useful. 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.960 It's useful, I would even argue most of the time. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.040 The problem is right now, Apple Intelligence sometimes gets it 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.960 completely wrong, will confuse people's names and get the information backwards, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.640 and then you have these kind of like either laugh 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.080 out loud moments at your phone like one that I had, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.040 for example, was when in an email summary it said 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:37.000 to me that I was teaching a course at Berkeley. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:38.280 I'm not. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.680 It actually meant that somebody else was teaching of course 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.160 at Berkeley, but it got it confused. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:43.680 Yeah, I was going to say. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.720 The other example you mentioned was the social security spam email, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.200 and it's like, hey, hi, alert, you got this email 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.200 about your social Security number being stolen or whatever. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.200 Yeah, It's thet thing it does is it moves. 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.840 It decides what is like a super important email, and 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.640 it moves to the top of your inbox and it's 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:00.600 just on that. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.480 For me so far has been carible. It also can 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:04.320 get crazy when it. 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.360 Tries to summarize news alerts or social media alerts. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:10.000 I get push alerts from. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.000 Donald Trump's Truth social and I got one the other 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.119 day that said Trump endorses walls and I was like what, 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.040 And again it just got it backwards. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.520 And look like, here's the challenge. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.600 We know that this is a fundamental problem with today's 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:32.000 generative AI technology. Every big company who's putting out products 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:32.760 with this faces this. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.720 Jack QPT faces this. Google faces this with Gemini. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.120 But what's different here is you're not using a separate 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.320 app for Apple Intelligence. It's not like you go over 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.119 to the Apple Intelligence app where you know, like, Okay, 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.399 sometimes it's gonna be a little crazy. This stuff is 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.879 integrated throughout your phone, so there is like a sprinkling 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.359 of crazy all over your phone right now that I 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:54.359 think might make. 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.080 People feel a little weird or just make them feel 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.000 like their phone is their smartphone is less smart. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.399 Now, now you kind of mentioned the bad, what about 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:03.720 the good? 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.800 Was there any highlights of how this AI worked to 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:07.640 your advantage? 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:13.240 Yeah? I actually now super rely on those little summaries 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:16.880 of my emails to decide which ones to open up, 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.880 and you know, spend the time to look at They're 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.879 much more useful than than you know, looking at the 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:23.560 first two. 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:24.439 Lines of an email. 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.439 There's a there's a capability that's kind of a new 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:34.159 more natural language search for your for your photos, and 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.960 I found that useful to kind of pull back memories 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:38.840 from you know, like oh yeah, there was a place 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.200 I went to once that had stripes on it, and 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.920 you can just sort of search in that kind of way. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:44.959 Now, I found that useful. 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.880 Is that is that as good as Apple is advertising? 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.399 Because I haven't tested that feature. I've been playing with 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.120 the one inside Google Photos. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:54.919 It's good Apple. 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:56.760 Saying, you know, I dove into a lake and I 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.639 was wearing a striped swimsuit and you can find that 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:01.840 exact moment. Is that true? 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:07.720 It is pretty good? Like, it's funny you mentioned stripe. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:10.439 So my my my test search that I think of 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:13.439 is I asked it to find a striped playground that 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:14.920 I once went to, and it was. 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.840 Able to find it. It didn't find all of it. 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.160 And but the thing is like, that's a pretty low 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.320 stake situation. Well, okay, if it missed a couple, it's 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:24.440 not not a big deal. 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.280 And that's that's where Apple, I think, has mostly. 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:31.200 Focused its energy with with Apple Intelligence on things like that. 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:33.480 But you know, if you do the head to heat 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:37.880 versus what Google can do with photos, I would suspect 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:39.680 that Google probably still a little bit better. 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:42.000 Now, why are we talking about beta software? 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.640 Because typically, you know, you cover for the average consumer, 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.359 as do I. Typically I don't cover beta software because 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:49.960 it's beta, it's not done yet. 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:51.720 So why are we even talking about this? 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:53.800 Absolutely a great question. 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.720 I I don't think I've I'm trying to think of 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.879 I ever written about beta software before from Apple. 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:04.160 You know, for the average consumer. Here's what's different this time. 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:09.119 Apple is already selling these iPhones with the marque feature 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.040 of Apple Intelligence. 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:13.680 It is asking people to plunk down. 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.960 At least eight hundred bucks today for a phone on 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:22.000 the promise that this thing is going to that that 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.240 is you know, purpose built in the iPhone sixteen, is 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:27.359 going to make their lives better, is going to make 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.440 their phone smarter. And I think that raises the bar 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:33.240 Apple has to then really show us, well, how good 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.479 is it? Otherwise we're just buying based on the promise 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.280 of marketing and I don't I don't. 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.560 I don't believe in that. I believe trust but verifies, 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:42.520 and that what Reagan said. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.879 So it's important for journalists and independent people like yourself 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.400 and me to really say, Okay, what can it really 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:50.880 do and where does it let us down? 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:51.920 Because here's the thing. 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:53.880 With all of these AI products that have been coming 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.560 out over the last year or two, so many of 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:59.320 them that I've used and tested and written about really 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:03.159 are up being disappointments. They end up promising things to 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.720 consumers that they don't deliver on. They maybe even deliver 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:10.200 misinformation because of this problem with just making stuff up. 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:14.040 So I think we have to be especially attuned to 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:18.320 sort of challenging some of the claims about artificial intelligence, 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:21.600 because despite what marketers think, it is not just magic. 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:24.000 It is actually software and software with a lot of 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:24.720 known problems. 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:26.160 What about privacy? 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:28.320 Did you you know, because this is making use of 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.720 a lot of the data on your phone, do you 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:32.880 feel like there's any privacy concerns or do you feel 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:34.160 like Apple got that part right? 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:36.680 I don't think we really know enough yet. 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:39.320 So part of the challenge in writing about Beata software 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:42.800 is only parts of it already, and unfortunately one of 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:45.159 the parts that's not ready even to test at this 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:47.320 point is the part. 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:51.640 That digs deep into your data to make serious s marter. 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.240 For example, Apple has said that they've done some things 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:55.240 that make sense to me. 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:56.920 You know, again, we just. 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.520 I think we don't really know enough information about that yet, 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:02.280 and and independent people haven't been really been able to. 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:03.080 Poke at it all. 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.400 Right, Finally, you've been covering this stuff for a long time. 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:08.040 Do you feel like this is a pretty exciting time 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:10.280 in the tech world with all this AI stuff? Even 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:13.720 though there are many pitfalls and there are many stumbles, 0:25:14.280 --> 0:25:14.560 do you. 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:15.880 Still feel like it's pretty exciting. 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:22.880 Look, AI is allowing people to do things that previously 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:24.960 would have required a lot of expertise. 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:26.960 There's so much opportunity here. 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:30.080 I just think we're at a moment though, where the 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:33.320 rush is on from Silicon Valley to make money from 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:35.680 this stuff, And a lot of these big tech companies 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:39.720 in particular, are selling snake oil, and they're promising things 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:44.280 that these technologies can't do, or they're even introducing things 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:48.720 that could be harmful for individual users or for society. 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:51.159 So I think we're at this moment where it has 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:52.320 never been more. 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:56.919 Important to have independent journalists and researchers and other folks 0:25:57.119 --> 0:25:59.000 really probing what these things really. 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:03.119 Do so that we can get that balance right, especially 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:04.919 as we also think about what should the laws be, 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:08.600 who should be responsible, what should we expect paw should 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:11.960 we expect a big tech company to act when somebody 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:14.280 buying a problem with the AI that it's making something 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:15.320 that's dangerous. 0:26:15.960 --> 0:26:17.720 You know, all that still has to be worked out. 0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:21.200 So, uh, this is I think a key moment for 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:24.440 US voices outside the companies. 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:24.880 All right. 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:28.280 Jeffrey Fowler with The Washington Post check out the column. 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:31.119 You can read them there. What's the best way for 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:32.400 folks to follow you online? 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:35.560 I'm on threads and on Twitter at Jeffrey Fowler. 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:38.280 And then of course you can go over to the 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:40.199 post and you can click on a button to get 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:41.560 an email at the time, I have a column. 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:43.800 Thanks so much for joining me today to talk Apple 0:26:43.920 --> 0:26:46.960 AI or rich on Tech coming your way right after this, 0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:51.320 and Net. 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:53.240 Wrote in on the website rich on Tech dot TV. 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:55.360 I have an Android and I can't figure out how 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:58.680 to stop group chat notifications. Even when I turn them off, 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:02.200 they reactivate as soon as someone replies I've tried looking 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:04.280 online for a solution but can't find one. 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:06.240 How do I stop this madness? 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:08.320 Well, Annette, I'm glad you found me because I will 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:12.240 help you stop this madness right now. All right, you 0:27:12.280 --> 0:27:15.000 said you're on Android, So open up the messages app 0:27:15.040 --> 0:27:19.560 on Android, tap the message that you want to silence, 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:23.000 and then you go to the upper right hand corner. 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:27.080 There is three little dots. That's your overflow menu. You 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:30.600 tap that and it says details Now. Once you get 0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:33.880 in there, there's an option for notifications. You are now 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:39.360 modifying the notifications for this specific text this group text, 0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:42.159 and on a Samsung for instance, it gives you a 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:45.919 choice of priority, alert or silent. If you're on Pixel, 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:48.680 it might be slightly different. But what you're looking for 0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:52.120 is that silent, and so you tap that and next 0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:55.480 thing you know, you're not gonna get those notifications. Now 0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:58.080 you can leave it as alert, but you can turn 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:00.920 the sound and the vibration off. So if you still 0:28:00.920 --> 0:28:03.720 want it to show you the alert on your screen 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:07.160 like that, you have a notification, but you don't want 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:10.120 the sound or the vibration of your phone. You can 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:13.679 then tap under sound where it says default notification and 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.960 then you tap silent. So if you tap silent up 0:28:17.000 --> 0:28:20.240 at the top, that removes the notification altogether, but if 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:23.480 you go into sound that will remove the sound notification. 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:28.280 Great question, Annette. Those group chats can really be fun 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:31.560 to be on. But for me, I find that when 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:34.240 people start group chatting, it's always in the middle of something. 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:36.920 When I'm trying to do something, whether it's work, whether 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:39.080 it's come out on a choote, whether it's you know, 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:41.320 I'm trying to focus or concentrate, it's like all of 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:43.840 a sudden, everyone in the group chat starts chatting and 0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:45.960 then you can't stop it and you're like silencing your 0:28:46.000 --> 0:28:47.280 phone and all these different things. 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:49.880 So hopefully that will help you do that. Let's go 0:28:49.960 --> 0:28:53.640 to ed in Tarzana. Ed you're on with rich. 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:56.400 Yeah, Hi, thank you for taking my call. 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:58.280 Absolutely, what can I help you with? 0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:02.960 Okay? So I heard in your earlier segment that the 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:08.480 Apple Watch can diagnose sleep apnia. So I'm a pomonologist 0:29:08.520 --> 0:29:11.800 and I also am certified in sleep and I treat 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:17.560 sleep apnia. And apnia is when hear doesn't enter doesn't 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:21.080 enter the lungs for ten seconds. Hypopnia is when they 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:26.080 are full decreases by thirty percent accompanied by a dropping oxygen. 0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:28.520 So the number of events per hour is how you 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:33.960 diagnose sleep appen So you need to measure the flow 0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:37.080 of air, you need to measure the chess movement. So 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:39.640 how in the world does an Apple watch do that? 0:29:40.200 --> 0:29:44.880 Great question, and thanks for asking me to clarify on here. 0:29:44.920 --> 0:29:48.560 So if I did say diagnosis in the earlier segment, 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:51.680 it is not a diagnosis. It is meant to alert 0:29:51.800 --> 0:29:55.400 users who may have undiagnosed sleep apnea. So let me 0:29:55.480 --> 0:29:58.239 run through how it works. So it's actually using so 0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:00.240 you have to wear the Apple Watch while you sleep, 0:30:00.560 --> 0:30:03.640 and it's using the accelerometer, the sensor in the Apple Watch, 0:30:03.640 --> 0:30:06.760 and of course machine learning algorithm, so it's an algorithm 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:10.640 that's using this accelerometer to detect what they're calling breathing 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:14.800 disturbances during sleep. So this feature will track those breathing 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:17.920 disturbances every night, display them in the Health app, and 0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:21.080 then you can see your nightly values and trends over time. 0:30:21.840 --> 0:30:24.560 And this feature is going to look at a thirty 0:30:24.640 --> 0:30:27.880 day window of data. So I understand if you're getting 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:31.840 this diagnosed by an actual sleep clinician, you may have 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:34.040 to wear something for a while or take a test 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:36.520 or something, but this is where you wear your watch 0:30:36.560 --> 0:30:40.080 every night, and then you'll get that notification if at 0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:42.760 least in half of the nights in thirty days you 0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:46.880 show some sort of elevated breathing disturbance. So you have 0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:49.800 to wear your watch a lot, at least ten nights 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:52.480 out of the thirty for this feature to work, and 0:30:52.520 --> 0:30:55.040 then once it's triggered, you'll get that notification saying you 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:57.280 may have potential sleep apnea and you should talk to 0:30:57.360 --> 0:30:59.760 your doctor, and that's when they're going to send you 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:02.960 that QR code that you can scan, download the pdf, 0:31:03.040 --> 0:31:05.440 bring that to your doctor and see what's going on. 0:31:06.120 --> 0:31:06.239 Now. 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:09.120 The way they validated this was with over eleven thousand 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:11.840 nights of sleep data and they compared it, of course 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:15.480 against clinical sleep tests. It showed sixty six point three 0:31:15.520 --> 0:31:21.360 percent sensitivity detecting cases and ninety eight point five percent specificity, 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:24.960 which means, you know, avoiding those false positives. So it's 0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:27.120 really designed for people that don't know they have sleep 0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:31.600 apnea and to get more people diagnosed with sleep apnea 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:33.600 so that they can do something about it. And this 0:31:33.640 --> 0:31:35.560 is going to work on the Apple Watch Series nine, 0:31:36.000 --> 0:31:40.240 the Series ten, and the Ultra two. It did get 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.760 the let's see, did it get the FDA clearance. I 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:46.560 don't know if it got it just yet, but it is. 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:50.920 I believe it's it's pending FDA clearance. So the hearing 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:53.400 aid I know featured that just did get the clearance. 0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:58.000 This is probably any day now as well. So it's Apple. 0:31:58.160 --> 0:32:00.480 You know, they're forging ahead with these health features, and 0:32:00.520 --> 0:32:02.440 I do think that it probably will help a lot 0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:04.560 of people, so I know I'll be testing it out, 0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:06.760 so I will bring you some updates. I don't think 0:32:06.800 --> 0:32:09.800 I have sleep apnea, but then again, how do I know? 0:32:10.240 --> 0:32:12.640 I guess I will now add in Tarzana, thanks so 0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:13.560 much for the call today. 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:18.280 I appreciate it. Let's go to Let's see how long 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:18.600 do I have? 0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:19.200 Two minutes? 0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:20.600 Oh, two and a half minutes. 0:32:20.600 --> 0:32:23.480 Okay, let's see if I can answer Tom's question in 0:32:23.560 --> 0:32:24.440 two and a half minutes. 0:32:24.480 --> 0:32:25.400 Tom, You're on with Rich. 0:32:26.480 --> 0:32:31.600 Good morning. Regarding the AirPods Gen two pros and all 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:35.120 the new features, I have three sets of Gen two 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:38.440 AirPod Pros, and I am a hearing aid user. I 0:32:38.520 --> 0:32:41.600 tend to use the AirPod Pro for just casual listening 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:44.480 when it's non critical, and they work relatively well for that. 0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:47.680 But as I look at the Apple website and all 0:32:47.720 --> 0:32:50.960 the new features on the Pro twos, it says for 0:32:51.040 --> 0:32:55.120 hearing health coming soon, for voice isolation coming this fall, 0:32:56.160 --> 0:33:00.840 new hands free serie experience coming this fall. New Pro 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:03.440 two is going to be any different than the old 0:33:03.480 --> 0:33:04.080 Pro twos. 0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:07.200 No, No, you're they changed the name. No you're getting 0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:09.880 these features. This is just this is just a software update. 0:33:10.000 --> 0:33:12.360 So you already if you already have these air Pods 0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:15.840 Pro too, you're getting the hearing aid feature. So they're 0:33:15.880 --> 0:33:20.000 going to roll this out to potentially hundreds of thousands 0:33:20.000 --> 0:33:24.680 of people overnight. So anyone who has these current AirPods 0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:27.320 Pro two only the second model, which you know they've 0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:29.680 been these been have been on sale for two years now, 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:33.320 I believe, So it is a it is a software update, 0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:36.600 so yes, you will get the hearing aid feature. And 0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:41.120 this again is for users with mild to moderate hearing loss. Uh. 0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:43.840 And again Apple is calling this clinical grade hearing aids. 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:46.600 And I took the test. You do it on the iPhone, 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:50.360 takes about five minutes. It's inside the Health app, and 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:52.760 it can detect hearing levels from little to no loss 0:33:52.840 --> 0:33:55.600 up to severe and profound loss. And then of course 0:33:55.600 --> 0:33:58.320 you can fine tune once you get your results the 0:33:58.400 --> 0:34:01.720 settings like tone balance and amplification, and you can even 0:34:01.720 --> 0:34:03.400 do that in real time. Plus you can use the 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:08.080 microphones and noisy environments to focus on human voices. And 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:10.080 there's just a lot going on here, and I think 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:13.000 that this is something that Apple I think hit out 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:15.240 of the park because AirPods, like you said, you already 0:34:15.239 --> 0:34:18.840 own a couple of pairs, and they're they're very prevalent 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:21.840 everywhere and the fact that they've had similar features in 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:25.359 the past, like the live listening feature, and they've had 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.799 some adjustments that you can do. But the fact that 0:34:27.800 --> 0:34:31.160 these are now going to sort of check your hearing 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:33.960 and then adjust based on that, I think is going 0:34:34.000 --> 0:34:36.600 to be game changing. So Tom, no need to do 0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:38.640 anything except just wait for that software update, and of 0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:42.560 course I will update you on when that's available. Eight 0:34:42.560 --> 0:34:45.680 to dight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.400 four to two four one zero one. My name is 0:34:48.480 --> 0:34:51.200 rich Dmiro. You are doing something smart for yourself. You're 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:56.920 listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:34:57.040 --> 0:35:00.360 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking tech now oology. 0:35:01.640 --> 0:35:03.200 This is a show where I talk about the tech 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:05.120 stuff I think you should know about. 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You can also 0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:01.040 hit contact if you want to send me an email, 0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:03.319 and you can hit the light bulb if you want 0:36:03.320 --> 0:36:06.040 to link to something I mentioned in today's show. 0:36:06.840 --> 0:36:08.360 It was funny my mom yesterday. 0:36:09.200 --> 0:36:10.919 You would not believe I've been doing a radio show 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:13.080 now for a year and a half, over a year 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:15.200 and a half, and you know, I've been on TV 0:36:15.360 --> 0:36:17.359 for I don't know, twenty years or something like that. 0:36:17.960 --> 0:36:20.960 But it's so interesting when someone actually sees you doing 0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:24.640 what you do. So my mom yesterday calls me and 0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:27.239 you would think that she just saw I don't know, 0:36:27.680 --> 0:36:30.440 like she it was like this this like sound in 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:33.560 her voice where she was so excited and she's like, 0:36:33.600 --> 0:36:35.160 I just heard you on the radio. I said, oh 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:38.000 my gosh, that's amazing. I was in my car, I'm 0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:40.680 listening to Z one hundred in New York City and 0:36:41.040 --> 0:36:44.080 I hear Ryan Seacrest say, we're talking to Rich Demiro 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:47.439 and she said what, and so yes, I said, mom, 0:36:47.480 --> 0:36:50.920 I was talking about the new iPhone with Ryan Seacrest 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:53.520 on his morning show. And she was just she thought 0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:54.879 it was the greatest thing. And I was like, well, 0:36:54.920 --> 0:36:57.040 you know, and she does listen to this show on 0:36:57.080 --> 0:37:01.360 her smart speaker, she'll listen live. But same thing happens 0:37:01.400 --> 0:37:02.920 all the time. Like I ran into a friend and 0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:05.440 he was like, I was in South Carolina. We're driving 0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:07.040 and all of a sudden, we tune to you and 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:09.600 on the radio and we hear your voice, and it 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:11.279 just happens over and over. Like people will tell me 0:37:11.320 --> 0:37:13.040 these stories what I'm out and about. I'm like, yeah, 0:37:13.280 --> 0:37:13.839 I love it. 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:14.320 It's great. 0:37:15.040 --> 0:37:18.960 Is My point is there's a certain like fun of 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:23.080 seeing yourself on TV or hearing yourself on the radio, 0:37:23.160 --> 0:37:25.840 and there's still some sort of energy that I don't 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:29.480 think is matched in any other way than sort of 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:32.719 that live broadcast energy. It's the reason why when you're 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:35.719 standing at a basketball game doing a live shot and 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:39.319 people are behind you making faces and you know, hand 0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:41.360 gestures and all trying to get on TV and all 0:37:41.400 --> 0:37:44.800 that stuff. It still happens no matter what across the world. Anyway, 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:48.280 I thought that was pretty fun, So thank you for listening. 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:51.160 I do appreciate it. Get to the phone lines in 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:52.600 just a second here, but I want to tell you 0:37:52.640 --> 0:37:57.440 about this twenty three and Me settlement. Reuter's reporting that 0:37:57.480 --> 0:38:00.359 twenty three and Me has agreed to a thirty million 0:38:00.440 --> 0:38:03.040 dollar settlement in this data breach lawsuit. Some of you 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:06.920 remember last year, this data breach that happened with twenty 0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:11.200 three and me affected about seven million customers personal information. 0:38:12.239 --> 0:38:15.680 And hackers got access to one of the databases that 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:19.360 twenty three and Me had, and I guess they cleaned 0:38:19.360 --> 0:38:21.320 it out and got all this information on these people. 0:38:21.360 --> 0:38:24.080 And this is like you know, DNA information whatever they 0:38:24.120 --> 0:38:26.920 have in twenty three and me. If you want to 0:38:27.040 --> 0:38:29.359 check to see if you are affected, you probably got 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:31.200 an email from twenty three and Me at this point, 0:38:31.239 --> 0:38:33.719 I guess. But you can go to that website have 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:39.920 I been poned dot com? Have I been pwned dot com? 0:38:40.760 --> 0:38:42.680 And you can type in your email address and it 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:44.919 will tell you. Now, I did do the twenty three 0:38:44.960 --> 0:38:47.400 and me DNA test. I guess I was not involved 0:38:47.400 --> 0:38:49.520 in this breach because it does not come up. What 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:51.560 does come up is that my info was breached with 0:38:51.600 --> 0:38:59.160 AT and T, Bitley, Canva, Dzer, Discus, Dropbox, hot Look. 0:38:59.200 --> 0:39:01.880 I don't even know signing up for a hot Look, Kickstarter, 0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:06.960 MGM Resorts minted my fitness Pal, National Public Data, Patreon, 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:12.440 share This, Trello, Zinga, White Pages. So yeah, my info's 0:39:12.440 --> 0:39:15.120 out there, so is yours. I'm sure that website is. 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:21.360 Have I been ponned pwned dot com anyway? So twenty 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:24.440 three and meters will I guess payout once a federal 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:27.879 judge approves this, So if you were affected, you might 0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:29.200 have a little money coming your way. 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:31.480 They expect. I thought this was interesting. 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:34.520 Twenty five million dollars of this thirty million dollar settment 0:39:34.560 --> 0:39:37.319 will be covered by their cyber insurance. So I bet 0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:39.719 they're thinking, Wow, I'm glad we had that cyber insurance. 0:39:40.080 --> 0:39:42.720 Glad Jim recommended we go we opt for the cyber 0:39:42.760 --> 0:39:46.479 insurance because it really is going to pay off. Eighty 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:49.480 eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:53.879 to two four to one zero one. Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. 0:39:53.920 --> 0:39:58.480 You're on with Rich Rich Rich. I've got the Android 0:39:58.680 --> 0:40:04.959 tablet with a five point two Bluetooth and I've hooked 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:08.400 it up to a wireless earbus. Not a problem. But 0:40:08.520 --> 0:40:11.400 I've got a keyboard. I watch you teke keyboard, and 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:13.759 also I wanted to take the mouse, two separate ones. 0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:18.240 But I want to pair it to my tablet without 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:24.399 using the doggle because the has a C connector, which 0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:27.399 you are very flimsy, and I have used two adapters 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:32.120 to get the receiver built into. You know, either one 0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:35.880 can I Can I pair this tablet to either the 0:40:35.960 --> 0:40:39.920 keyboard or the mouse without using that the receiver? 0:40:40.280 --> 0:40:43.080 No, not if it doesn't have Bluetooth. So a lot 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:47.359 of these mobile keyboards are mice that are wireless. They 0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:51.280 use their own frequency to transmit. Some of them are both, 0:40:51.360 --> 0:40:53.520 some are Bluetooth, and some have the dongle, and you 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:57.200 can choose. But if this product does not have the 0:40:57.239 --> 0:40:59.400 Bluetooth built in, you're not gonna be able to connect 0:40:59.400 --> 0:41:01.439 it without the dog go because it does not use 0:41:02.040 --> 0:41:04.440 that dongle, does not use Bluetooth. It's not recreating a 0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:07.880 Bluetooth signal. It's it's creating its own wireless signal, probably 0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:10.200 a two point four gig Hurtz or something like that. 0:41:10.680 --> 0:41:14.919 So your options are to get an adapter, like you said, 0:41:14.920 --> 0:41:17.600 and they do make some slim adapters. But the problem 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:19.720 is if you're using this for a tablet, you probably 0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:22.160 don't want adapter sticking out because it's going to just 0:41:22.600 --> 0:41:25.840 get caught up on things and get messed up. Do 0:41:25.880 --> 0:41:27.279 you know what kind of keyboard this is? 0:41:28.440 --> 0:41:33.160 Yeah, it's a Logitech tape I've done on your website. 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:35.360 They don't tell you much about it. They gave me 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:39.799 a bunch of letters and numbers or the bluetooth, but 0:41:40.840 --> 0:41:44.239 apparently it doesn't correlate to the tablet of it at all. 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:45.720 Yeah, I'm looking up this keyboard. 0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:49.279 This does not have bluetooth, so it is a It 0:41:49.360 --> 0:41:52.440 is just using its own wireless system. 0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:55.400 So, uh, with that said. 0:41:56.440 --> 0:42:01.160 You could the popular keyboard that that you know a 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:04.080 lot of people use with Logitech is the Keys to Go, 0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:07.200 and so it's a little bit more expensive. It's seventy bucks. 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:09.640 The one that you're talking about is closer to twenty five. 0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:14.560 But this seventy dollars keyboard does have the Bluetooth built in, 0:42:15.280 --> 0:42:17.640 and so I know that. And Logitech has a bunch 0:42:17.640 --> 0:42:20.960 of keyboards that are like mobile keyboards, so you can 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.080 check there, or you can just go online and find 0:42:23.200 --> 0:42:27.120 a Bluetooth keyboard that would work with this. So yeah, 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:30.200 it's it's funny. A lot of people don't realize that 0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:32.560 you can connect a keyboard or you can actually just 0:42:32.600 --> 0:42:35.480 plug in a mouse to your I believe to your 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:39.080 iPhone as well as your Android phone. But you know, 0:42:39.080 --> 0:42:40.960 if you have like a corded mouse, just do it. 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:42.920 It's kind of funny. You just plug it in as 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:45.359 long as it's USBC, which all the modern phones are, 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:48.520 plug it in and it will you'll see that little 0:42:48.520 --> 0:42:50.560 cursor pop up on your phone, and it's it's kind 0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:52.880 of a weird experience. I think I did an Instagram 0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:56.120 video about this once on the iPhone. But yeah, you 0:42:56.160 --> 0:42:59.200 can do that and again with these keyboards and the mice. 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:02.120 You know, you buy these wireless mice. So that's one 0:43:02.160 --> 0:43:04.080 good thing to look for if you're ever if you're 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:07.200 ever shopping for a Bluetooth or I should say a 0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:10.839 mouse or a keyboard that's wireless, make sure you check 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:14.239 to see what the specs are on the wireless sort 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:18.000 of transmission because you want to make sure that you 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.440 have something that's going to work with your device. 0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:22.400 If you don't want to use that dongle, you need 0:43:22.440 --> 0:43:23.480 to make sure it's Bluetooth. 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:25.840 And so it throws a lot of people off because 0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:27.440 you think, oh, I don't need the dongle, I've got 0:43:27.440 --> 0:43:30.799 a Bluetooth device. No, it's the keyboard doesn't have that 0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:33.040 Bluetooth built in to take advantage of it. 0:43:33.920 --> 0:43:36.479 Jerry and Hatfield, Pennsylvania, Thanks so much for the call today. 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:37.160 Appreciate it. 0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:40.560 Eight eight eight rich one on one eight eight eight 0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:43.600 seven four to two four one zero one. You might 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:46.520 have gotten an email from Microsoft saying you got to 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:48.759 do something, You got to take action or else your 0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:50.360 email is going to stop sinking. 0:43:50.800 --> 0:43:51.840 So here's what's happening. 0:43:52.239 --> 0:43:55.719 Starting September sixteenth, you will not be able to sink 0:43:55.760 --> 0:43:58.920 your email unless you switch to a modern email program 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:02.040 for your Outlook email. And when they say Outlook, that 0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:05.680 usually means any sort of Microsoft email. So what happened 0:44:05.760 --> 0:44:09.279 is you probably authenticated your email a long time ago 0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:12.359 on the iPhone or on an Android device, or on 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:16.680 your computer, and now Microsoft needs to make sure that 0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:20.880 it's using modern authentication, so instead of just that basic 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:24.080 authentication method, which is your username and password back in 0:44:24.120 --> 0:44:27.480 the day, it's now using a higher level of security 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:30.080 to make sure you are who you say you are. 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:33.759 So in many cases, especially if you're using the iPhone, 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:37.399 all you have to do is delete your account off 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:40.760 of your iPhone, delete that Outlook account or that Microsoft 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:43.919 account off your iPhone, and then just readd it. So 0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:46.960 the system has been upgraded over the years, and so 0:44:47.000 --> 0:44:47.960 all you have to do is just. 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:49.720 Relog in and it should work. 0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:53.480 They have different kind of instructions for all these different 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:57.120 setups you might have. So if you're on Outlook for Windows, 0:44:57.600 --> 0:44:59.440 you might have to upgrade to a newer version of 0:44:59.440 --> 0:45:03.520 Outlook or switch to Outlook dot Com slash exchange sinking. 0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:07.600 If you're on Mozilla Thunderbird, which is a free email 0:45:07.640 --> 0:45:09.920 app on your computer, all you have to do is 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:12.279 remove and read the count the account. That should be 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:15.080 just fine. On Apple again Apple Mail, just remove that 0:45:15.120 --> 0:45:18.319 account and read as Outlook dot com. And on any 0:45:18.320 --> 0:45:22.080 other app basically just just log in using that Outlook 0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:25.800 dot Com option and that's pretty much it. So this 0:45:26.520 --> 0:45:29.560 timeline started on June eleventh, so they probably been bugging 0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:34.160 folks since then, but September sixteenth, if that day comes 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:36.799 and you have not switched over to a better log in, 0:45:37.440 --> 0:45:39.759 they are going to stop your email from sinking. So 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:42.840 if that's happening to you, or if you've gotten this message, 0:45:43.320 --> 0:45:45.320 that's what you need to do is just basically delete 0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:48.000 your account and relog in. Unless you're using a super 0:45:48.080 --> 0:45:51.719 old version of Outlook, which is twenty seven, twenty ten, 0:45:51.840 --> 0:45:54.840 twenty thirteen, twenty sixteen, and twenty nineteen, you have to 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:57.160 download the new free version of Outlook, which they do 0:45:57.239 --> 0:46:02.200 offer for both Windows, Mac, and and also the mobile devices. 0:46:02.520 --> 0:46:04.759 Eighty eight rich one on one. Coming up this hour, 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:08.600 we're going to talk to tech YouTuber I Justine. She's 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:10.840 going to share her thoughts on the new iPhone sixteen 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:12.279 plus the other Apple products. 0:46:12.560 --> 0:46:13.520 My name is Rich Dmiro. 0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:16.080 This is Rich on Tech, the website for the show 0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:18.959 richon Tech dot TV. We'll get back to those phone 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:21.919 lines in just a few minutes here. Eighty eight rich 0:46:22.000 --> 0:46:24.560 one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:46:25.040 --> 0:46:26.719 four one zero one. Give me a call if you 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:30.960 have a question about technology. 0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:34.080 Redondo Beach. So you're on with Rich. 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:38.239 Hi, Rich. I don't know if I'm being skeptical or not, 0:46:38.520 --> 0:46:42.200 but uh, I had to sign up with Experience for 0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:45.000 three months for free through Triple A because our truck 0:46:45.120 --> 0:46:49.440 was stolen, And now that the three months have lapsed, 0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:54.080 I'm getting all these messages from Experience saying that my 0:46:54.320 --> 0:46:57.719 social Security number is now on the dark Web, And 0:46:57.880 --> 0:47:00.799 I'm thinking, do they just want me to sign up 0:47:00.840 --> 0:47:07.239 for a fee now that I surpassed the threeb three months. 0:47:07.520 --> 0:47:09.000 I don't know whether you believe it or not. 0:47:09.400 --> 0:47:12.359 Well, you can believe it. Your information is out there 0:47:12.400 --> 0:47:14.839 for sure. There's nothing you can do about it. That's 0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:17.719 the sad part. So there's a difference. And I've talked 0:47:17.760 --> 0:47:20.200 about this before on the show that the difference is 0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:23.640 there are data brokers, and that's all those like Spokeyo 0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:26.839 and people finders and stuff like that. They have your 0:47:26.920 --> 0:47:29.920 data and yes, it's like your name, your address, your 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:31.480 phone number, your age. 0:47:32.520 --> 0:47:33.800 And then there's the dark web. 0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:36.480 And the dark web is where this stuff lives in 0:47:36.520 --> 0:47:40.560 a much more unstructured format. So this is information that 0:47:40.680 --> 0:47:44.239 is stolen from databases and hackers have gotten a hold 0:47:44.280 --> 0:47:47.200 of it and it is just freely being passed around 0:47:47.239 --> 0:47:49.360 on the Internet and there's really nothing you can do 0:47:49.440 --> 0:47:53.759 about it because it lives in these repositories online that 0:47:54.000 --> 0:47:55.919 just nobody has control over. 0:47:56.080 --> 0:47:58.160 It's just data files being exchanged. 0:47:58.200 --> 0:48:01.319 So I don't think that Experience is lying that your 0:48:01.320 --> 0:48:04.200 information is out there on the dark web. But until 0:48:04.200 --> 0:48:07.640 they give you a specific example of what that information 0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:11.640 is and specifically the data that's out there, I will 0:48:11.680 --> 0:48:14.560 tell you I feel like Experience and all these companies 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:17.840 that we've signed up for to protect our information, like 0:48:17.880 --> 0:48:20.040 we you know, we all froze our information after the 0:48:20.080 --> 0:48:23.960 big data breach, they are using this as a huge 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:27.640 opportunity to spam us, to sell us on all of 0:48:27.680 --> 0:48:33.760 this data protection privacy policy stuff. You know, Experience should 0:48:33.800 --> 0:48:35.600 be protecting you no matter what, because they're the ones 0:48:35.640 --> 0:48:38.400 that you know approve these uh you know, these credit 0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:41.320 score things, you know, like we're all your your credit 0:48:41.360 --> 0:48:45.120 report and things like that. So, Sue, the short answer 0:48:45.160 --> 0:48:46.879 is your information's probably out there. 0:48:47.360 --> 0:48:49.640 There's not really much you can do about it. Sadly. 0:48:50.040 --> 0:48:53.279 Now, if you want a free way to check to 0:48:53.360 --> 0:48:56.840 see what your uh what information is actually out there, 0:48:57.080 --> 0:49:00.879 I use Google. It's called Results about You, and it's 0:49:00.920 --> 0:49:04.719 free and so It used to be that you had 0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:09.400 to pay for this, but now they actually they actually 0:49:09.440 --> 0:49:11.799 give you a free access to this, and that is 0:49:11.880 --> 0:49:14.680 rolling out, so she may not have access immediately. But 0:49:14.880 --> 0:49:18.600 if you do a Google search for Google results about you, 0:49:18.600 --> 0:49:21.280 you can set up a profile to monitor the dark web. 0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:24.000 And Google obviously crawls the web every single day and 0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:26.400 they go into the far reaches of the Internet, so 0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:29.200 if your information is out there, they will unearth it. 0:49:29.440 --> 0:49:31.319 And the stuff that you can search for is your name, 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:35.280 your address, your phone number, your email, your social security number, 0:49:35.360 --> 0:49:36.280 your use your name. 0:49:36.160 --> 0:49:37.520 And your password. 0:49:37.760 --> 0:49:40.800 And so once you add that information to your Google profile, 0:49:41.200 --> 0:49:43.800 they will say anytime that that information is found in 0:49:43.840 --> 0:49:45.760 the dark Web, they will alert you. And it's actually 0:49:45.840 --> 0:49:49.319 legitimate because I get those alerts and it tells you 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:53.040 it's like, here's the actual information we found, whereas the 0:49:53.120 --> 0:49:56.680 experience email that you're getting is saying we found your 0:49:56.680 --> 0:49:57.879 information on the dark Web. 0:49:57.960 --> 0:49:59.479 Here sign up to learn more. 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:03.280 That's, you know, in effect, is just kind of baiting 0:50:03.320 --> 0:50:05.560 you into into signing up for something you may or 0:50:05.600 --> 0:50:06.239 may not need. 0:50:07.040 --> 0:50:11.319 So does that help Sue. 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:12.480 Yes, it does. But if you see it on Google 0:50:12.600 --> 0:50:14.719 and it does come out positive and all that, then 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:15.840 what do you do about it? 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:18.200 Then there's nothing you can do about it, sadly. If 0:50:18.239 --> 0:50:20.800 it's so, there's again it comes back to two things. 0:50:21.040 --> 0:50:23.719 So Google will do two things for you. They will 0:50:23.719 --> 0:50:27.359 tell you, hey, we just found your information on whitepages 0:50:27.400 --> 0:50:32.480 dot com or spochio dot com or housefinder dot com. 0:50:32.719 --> 0:50:35.720 Would you like us to take down that search result. 0:50:35.800 --> 0:50:38.520 It doesn't take down the information, but it takes down 0:50:38.560 --> 0:50:41.720 that link on Google to your information. So if someone's 0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:44.400 searching for you, that link will not show up, and 0:50:44.440 --> 0:50:46.640 you can do that in about a second through the 0:50:46.640 --> 0:50:48.920 notification they send you, and they will say do you 0:50:48.920 --> 0:50:51.400 want this on the web? And you say no, and 0:50:51.440 --> 0:50:53.640 it will just basically ninety nine percent of the time 0:50:53.680 --> 0:50:56.120 they approve it and they will take it down. When 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:57.680 it comes to the dark web, it's more of an 0:50:57.680 --> 0:51:00.360 awareness thing. So the dark web is more of an 0:51:00.400 --> 0:51:04.359 awareness that your information is out there. Your usernames, your passwords, 0:51:04.400 --> 0:51:08.120 your social those are the pieces of information that are 0:51:08.200 --> 0:51:11.080 pretty much at this point out there for everyone, sadly 0:51:11.120 --> 0:51:13.719 because of some of the recent data breaches. But there's 0:51:13.719 --> 0:51:15.600 not really much you can do to pull that back. 0:51:16.239 --> 0:51:18.799 But what you can do is understand the fact that 0:51:18.800 --> 0:51:22.879 once that information's out there, you have to protect your 0:51:23.480 --> 0:51:26.920 identity at any cost, which means freezing your credit reports, 0:51:26.960 --> 0:51:30.600 putting a fraudler on your credit reports as well, and 0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:34.080 making sure you're not using the same password over and 0:51:34.160 --> 0:51:37.120 over or the same user name over and over, because 0:51:37.480 --> 0:51:40.000 once they're out there, these hackers are trying them on 0:51:40.040 --> 0:51:43.600 different websites and that's many times how people get hacked. 0:51:44.080 --> 0:51:45.200 So, Sue, great question. 0:51:45.320 --> 0:51:47.880 I know it sounds a little disconcerting to know that 0:51:47.920 --> 0:51:49.279 this information is out there and there's not. 0:51:49.280 --> 0:51:52.280 Much we can do. But is that is the reality 0:51:52.360 --> 0:51:53.720 of all these data breaches? 0:51:54.400 --> 0:51:54.719 All right? 0:51:54.760 --> 0:51:57.280 Coming up, we are going to talk with I Justine. 0:51:57.320 --> 0:51:59.680 You might know her from YouTube. She's going to share 0:51:59.680 --> 0:52:02.040 her thought thoughts on all of the new Apple products 0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:03.920 right here on rich on Tech. 0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:08.799 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:52:08.880 --> 0:52:12.120 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:52:12.200 --> 0:52:15.480 triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:52:16.120 --> 0:52:18.879 seven four to two four one zero one. We will 0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:21.720 get back to those phone lines in just a few minutes. 0:52:21.760 --> 0:52:26.560 But first, very excited to have my next guest on 0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:31.400 the show. She has over seven million subscribers on YouTube. 0:52:31.400 --> 0:52:35.240 One of the ogs. She might have invented the genre 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:37.960 of covering tech in the way that you see it 0:52:38.000 --> 0:52:43.040 covered today on the internet. I Justine, Justine, welcome to 0:52:43.080 --> 0:52:43.480 the show. 0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:46.320 Hello, thank you so much for having me. This is incredible. 0:52:47.160 --> 0:52:49.839 Thanks for being on. And saw you up at the event. 0:52:49.920 --> 0:52:51.759 This actually was one of the first times that we 0:52:51.840 --> 0:52:54.279 actually did not chat at the Apple event because things 0:52:54.280 --> 0:52:56.800 were so frantic. 0:52:57.440 --> 0:52:58.480 It was very frandt. 0:52:58.719 --> 0:53:01.600 I did see you on the news in the hotel 0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:03.080 lobby while I was eating breakfast. 0:53:03.480 --> 0:53:04.680 The picture I need to send it to you. 0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:07.439 That is awesome and see and I actually just told 0:53:07.440 --> 0:53:09.680 the story about my mom seeing me on or hearing 0:53:09.680 --> 0:53:12.240 me on the radio, And there is just something exciting. 0:53:12.280 --> 0:53:14.600 Even when I see you like pop up somewhere, I'm like, oh, 0:53:14.600 --> 0:53:17.160 I know her, Like it's just there's something fun about it, right, 0:53:17.520 --> 0:53:18.000 I know. 0:53:18.040 --> 0:53:18.560 It was so good. 0:53:18.600 --> 0:53:20.000 I was hoping to see you come around the corner 0:53:20.000 --> 0:53:22.520 of really surprise. I'm also here too, Yes. 0:53:22.360 --> 0:53:25.480 We have We've traditionally stayed at the same place sometimes, 0:53:25.520 --> 0:53:28.880 but I chose a different place this time and it 0:53:29.000 --> 0:53:31.160 was fine, you know, so I mine had free breakfast 0:53:31.200 --> 0:53:33.640 as well, which I always like in a hotel that's. 0:53:33.440 --> 0:53:35.640 Honestly all that matters. Free breakfast and Wi Fi. 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:36.160 Yes. 0:53:36.600 --> 0:53:38.520 Oh and my WiFi was not good at this hotel, 0:53:38.560 --> 0:53:41.759 which was really sad. I actually think one of the 0:53:41.800 --> 0:53:44.960 main hotel chains in French their name means bad WiFi. 0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:46.840 That's what I've come to the conclusion of. 0:53:48.360 --> 0:53:51.640 Okay, so Apple Event, what's your initial initial takeaway from 0:53:51.640 --> 0:53:53.960 the Apple Event this year with the iPhones, the Apple Watch, 0:53:54.040 --> 0:53:55.240 and the AirPods. 0:53:55.840 --> 0:53:57.480 You know, I'm I'm obviously excited. 0:53:57.520 --> 0:54:00.080 I think one of the most surprising things was the 0:54:00.520 --> 0:54:01.920 I think we knew it was already coming, but like 0:54:01.960 --> 0:54:05.160 the air Pods Pro too, Like that update is huge, 0:54:05.400 --> 0:54:07.200 you know, the fact that we're going to be getting 0:54:07.239 --> 0:54:11.319 all of those health features for hearing and health and 0:54:11.440 --> 0:54:14.680 it's just it's amazing because it's at that price point too, 0:54:14.719 --> 0:54:16.920 Like that can help so many people that need that 0:54:17.040 --> 0:54:18.160 extra hearing assistance. 0:54:19.120 --> 0:54:21.120 Obviously, the iPhone sixteen Pro and. 0:54:21.080 --> 0:54:23.120 The capture button, I feel like that's going to take 0:54:23.160 --> 0:54:25.160 some getting used to because even trying to use it 0:54:25.480 --> 0:54:27.960 during the hands on events, I kept forgetting that I 0:54:27.960 --> 0:54:30.279 could hit the button, and they kept reminding me, no, no, 0:54:30.320 --> 0:54:31.040 you can hit the button. 0:54:31.040 --> 0:54:32.400 You don't have to go and like search for the 0:54:32.440 --> 0:54:35.319 camera app and do it the ways that you normally did. 0:54:35.400 --> 0:54:38.520 So it's going to be so fun to try that out. 0:54:38.920 --> 0:54:40.640 Yeah, it's like anything else. It takes a little bit 0:54:40.680 --> 0:54:41.360 of muscle memory. 0:54:41.360 --> 0:54:43.600 Although I will say, and you can, you can tell 0:54:43.600 --> 0:54:45.879 me what your thoughts are on this. So the action 0:54:46.040 --> 0:54:48.560 button I still a year in do not. I always 0:54:48.600 --> 0:54:51.719 forget it's there, and so I haven't set a good 0:54:51.760 --> 0:54:54.759 shortcut for it. I haven't really set a good use 0:54:54.840 --> 0:54:57.360 for it. What are you using that for? That's the 0:54:57.360 --> 0:54:59.400 other button they added last year. Now that's coming to 0:54:59.440 --> 0:55:02.920 the fifteen are sorry they started it on the fifteen 0:55:02.960 --> 0:55:05.960 Pro lineup. Now it's on the entire sixteen lineup. Which 0:55:06.000 --> 0:55:08.200 is the button on the left hand side. It used 0:55:08.239 --> 0:55:10.239 to be the Ringer silent switch. Now it's like a 0:55:10.239 --> 0:55:12.080 programmable button you can make do anything. 0:55:12.160 --> 0:55:12.440 Really. 0:55:13.360 --> 0:55:15.359 Yeah, I just have it set up as my silent. 0:55:17.440 --> 0:55:21.880 Which my phone is always on silent, so it's you know, 0:55:21.920 --> 0:55:23.920 it doesn't really get that much use, but I have 0:55:23.960 --> 0:55:26.160 seen a lot of people do a lot of really 0:55:26.160 --> 0:55:28.239 cool things with it, like set it up to use 0:55:28.239 --> 0:55:31.680 as shortcuts. But most of the time, you know, I 0:55:31.719 --> 0:55:34.680 have my camera app on like my main home screen, 0:55:34.760 --> 0:55:36.640 so I just tap that, don't even have to like 0:55:36.680 --> 0:55:39.080 log into my phone and just start going to themer 0:55:39.120 --> 0:55:41.440 because I think that's going to be the biggest feature 0:55:41.760 --> 0:55:43.560 for me, is being able to just hit that button 0:55:43.600 --> 0:55:46.040 on the side and the camera actually just pop up 0:55:46.080 --> 0:55:46.520 and open. 0:55:47.560 --> 0:55:51.160 Yes, it's interesting because I thought that Apple might because 0:55:51.160 --> 0:55:53.440 on the on the androids, basically it's all of them 0:55:53.520 --> 0:55:56.640 kind of do the double tap of the power button 0:55:56.719 --> 0:55:57.800 will bring up the camera. 0:55:58.360 --> 0:56:00.640 And so now on I phone you have it. 0:56:00.800 --> 0:56:02.160 I mean, they kind of one uped it because I 0:56:02.160 --> 0:56:04.279 was always like, oh, that's reserved for Apple Pay on 0:56:04.320 --> 0:56:06.719 the iPhone, but now they actually added a whole other 0:56:06.800 --> 0:56:09.160 way to launch the camera, which in some ways is 0:56:09.200 --> 0:56:11.759 even better because now you can launch your Apple Pay 0:56:11.840 --> 0:56:15.279 and your camera dedicated buttons, which is nice, which is rare. 0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:16.560 Oh I too for sure. 0:56:16.680 --> 0:56:18.560 No, I mean I use the Apple Pay button all 0:56:18.560 --> 0:56:21.360 the time because I don't even ever carry actual credit cards, 0:56:21.680 --> 0:56:24.120 So it's amazing to sort of have that sort of 0:56:24.120 --> 0:56:25.080 be its dedicated thing. 0:56:25.440 --> 0:56:27.400 And I think it's cool because this is still the 0:56:27.440 --> 0:56:29.560 beginning for that. So you know what. 0:56:29.440 --> 0:56:32.320 Apple showed us there could be more things down the line. 0:56:32.320 --> 0:56:35.440 That they update in the software to give us more features, 0:56:35.520 --> 0:56:39.120 and having third party developers be able to really. 0:56:38.920 --> 0:56:40.640 Tap into that for their apps. 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:43.239 I mean, it's going to be a whole kind of 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:46.760 new way, and I think this really shows Apple's dedication 0:56:46.920 --> 0:56:49.759 to making these be so much more than phones be 0:56:49.920 --> 0:56:51.200 content creation devices. 0:56:51.440 --> 0:56:54.440 And even on the fifteen shooting in pro res log. 0:56:55.719 --> 0:56:59.800 I mean, I don't think enough people experience the full 0:57:00.040 --> 0:57:02.040 capacity of like what you can do with that footage 0:57:02.080 --> 0:57:04.040 and how amazing you can make it look. So as 0:57:04.040 --> 0:57:05.760 soon as we get our hands on that one twenty 0:57:05.800 --> 0:57:10.400 progress and shooting in log on like an external drive, 0:57:11.080 --> 0:57:12.280 it's going to be so amazing. 0:57:12.320 --> 0:57:13.880 So I'm just getting so excited. 0:57:14.120 --> 0:57:16.640 Explain that for the light person, Like, what does that 0:57:16.680 --> 0:57:20.600 mean exactly? It's like basically like Hollywood style creation or what. 0:57:21.520 --> 0:57:23.760 Yeah, So it basically will give you kind of like 0:57:23.800 --> 0:57:26.880 a very flat image, but it's preserving a lot of 0:57:26.920 --> 0:57:29.400 the color data inside of it to give you the 0:57:29.400 --> 0:57:32.400 ability to collagrade it and kind of add your own style. 0:57:32.520 --> 0:57:34.640 So it's kind of preserving a lot of those low lights, 0:57:34.680 --> 0:57:37.600 highlights and that color to let you kind of have 0:57:37.720 --> 0:57:40.200 more creative style. And then one hundred and twenty frames 0:57:40.200 --> 0:57:43.120 a second is just some super set up video that 0:57:43.160 --> 0:57:45.720 you can then slow down to make it very slow 0:57:45.760 --> 0:57:48.520 and cinematic. And for that you do need to use 0:57:48.560 --> 0:57:52.760 an external drive, So any of those like faster USBC drives, 0:57:52.880 --> 0:57:55.360 you can plug those directly into your phone now and 0:57:55.600 --> 0:57:58.520 record right to the drive and you basically have all 0:57:58.520 --> 0:58:00.600 of your footage there that you can take edit and 0:58:01.120 --> 0:58:02.720 it's so exciting. 0:58:03.080 --> 0:58:06.800 So on the base models, you got five colors, black, white, pink, teal, 0:58:06.920 --> 0:58:09.960 and ultramarine. Which is your pick? Which one did you 0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:11.120 like the most? 0:58:11.960 --> 0:58:14.280 I mean, is that even a question? Obviously the pink one. 0:58:14.400 --> 0:58:14.840 I knew it. 0:58:14.880 --> 0:58:16.920 I was gonna say, because I use my Pink Eye 0:58:17.080 --> 0:58:19.760 Justine cable every single day. So I set it up 0:58:19.760 --> 0:58:22.480 actually on the side of my couch. I have the 0:58:22.520 --> 0:58:24.160 cable coming out from the back of the wall so 0:58:24.200 --> 0:58:26.280 I can like just sit down. I've got my little 0:58:26.320 --> 0:58:28.280 table and my little cable where I can charge my 0:58:28.320 --> 0:58:29.920 phone while I'm sitting there. And I love it, so 0:58:29.960 --> 0:58:32.520 I use it every day. You did that, what was 0:58:32.560 --> 0:58:33.439 it a couple of years ago? 0:58:33.520 --> 0:58:33.720 Right? 0:58:33.960 --> 0:58:35.080 Yeah, that was like two years ago. 0:58:35.240 --> 0:58:37.560 Oh my gosh, I still love it. You're still selling it. 0:58:37.680 --> 0:58:39.120 I know, yeah, I know they're still there. 0:58:39.120 --> 0:58:41.480 I think we're going to be doing something for breast 0:58:41.520 --> 0:58:43.880 cancer where it is in October, so stay tuned. 0:58:44.520 --> 0:58:48.480 Very excited about that. Okay, But yeah, the pink iPhone. 0:58:48.680 --> 0:58:50.480 It's funny because I kept looking at the color and look, 0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:53.080 I had a graphic design background, so as soon as 0:58:53.080 --> 0:58:54.320 I looked at it, I was like, that's. 0:58:54.160 --> 0:58:57.080 Actually more of a barry color than pink. But okay, 0:58:57.280 --> 0:58:57.920 it's all right. 0:58:59.280 --> 0:59:01.280 It does have a little more of a purple kind 0:59:01.280 --> 0:59:03.840 of look to it, like when we were looking at 0:59:03.840 --> 0:59:07.080 them at the hands on, but you know what, pink 0:59:07.160 --> 0:59:07.560 is pink. 0:59:07.640 --> 0:59:09.480 It's pink enough for me and. 0:59:09.320 --> 0:59:10.800 I'll take it now. 0:59:10.880 --> 0:59:12.800 On the pro models, the colors are a little more 0:59:12.880 --> 0:59:15.360 muted because I guess the way that you affect titanium 0:59:15.480 --> 0:59:17.400 is tougher. I don't know, I'm not an expert in 0:59:17.400 --> 0:59:22.440 this stuff, but four finishes black, natural white, and desert titanium, 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:23.880 So what's your pick there? 0:59:24.880 --> 0:59:27.080 Definitely going to go with the desert. I keep wanting 0:59:27.080 --> 0:59:29.080 to call it a desert rose because it does sort. 0:59:28.880 --> 0:59:32.480 Of have like that warm kind of gold feeling, which 0:59:32.720 --> 0:59:34.200 matched really well. 0:59:33.920 --> 0:59:37.000 With the new gold titanium watch band. 0:59:37.040 --> 0:59:39.480 As well and that new gold finish, because it did 0:59:39.520 --> 0:59:41.120 look a little bit different when we were kind of 0:59:41.200 --> 0:59:43.040 holding them up in the hands on events and I 0:59:43.080 --> 0:59:45.560 did compare them side by side to each other, and 0:59:45.600 --> 0:59:47.360 they just they look stunning. 0:59:48.080 --> 0:59:50.680 So you've been covering this stuff for a long time. 0:59:51.760 --> 0:59:55.720 A what keeps you excited? And B what are people 0:59:55.760 --> 0:59:57.560 saying to you about these new devices? Like what are 0:59:57.560 --> 0:59:58.800 they asking about the most? 1:00:00.400 --> 1:00:01.880 I think everyone just kind of really wants to see, 1:00:01.920 --> 1:00:04.560 like what's the differences? And I think the hard thing is, 1:00:04.720 --> 1:00:08.040 you know, there's not huge differences in between each of 1:00:08.080 --> 1:00:10.760 these upgrades, Like if you have a fifteen, like you 1:00:10.840 --> 1:00:13.880 really don't need to go and get as sixteen, but 1:00:14.080 --> 1:00:15.440 do you want to? 1:00:15.800 --> 1:00:18.080 Yeah? Maybe I think that's where it's. 1:00:18.160 --> 1:00:19.680 It's the hard thing is like there are kind of 1:00:19.680 --> 1:00:22.680 these incremental updates where you don't need to update every 1:00:22.680 --> 1:00:24.760 single year. I think if I wasn't a tech reviewer 1:00:24.800 --> 1:00:27.200 that was doing this every single year, I probably wouldn't need. 1:00:27.080 --> 1:00:29.760 To That's not true. You come on, you're I know 1:00:29.800 --> 1:00:30.280 you're like me. 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:32.960 It's like to me, like my brain just works like 1:00:33.080 --> 1:00:35.680 I want the latest, Like I just no matter what, 1:00:37.040 --> 1:00:37.400 I'm just. 1:00:37.320 --> 1:00:39.000 Trying to be like logical, Like you know, if I'm 1:00:39.080 --> 1:00:40.920 just like, you know, every day hanging out, like you 1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:43.160 really don't need it because it's still so great. And 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:45.479 then you know, I see photos and videos that people 1:00:45.480 --> 1:00:48.440 are taking on their you know, iPhone twelves, I'm like, oh. 1:00:48.320 --> 1:00:51.720 They still look incredible. So there is a big difference. 1:00:51.760 --> 1:00:53.760 I think when you kind of go from you know, 1:00:53.800 --> 1:00:56.920 five generations before to one of these, it is a 1:00:56.920 --> 1:00:59.840 holy world, Like everything just is so smooth and snappy. 1:01:00.200 --> 1:01:03.280 And the biggest difference that I have seen from the 1:01:03.560 --> 1:01:10.280 sixteen Regulars to the sixteen pros is the screen how fast? 1:01:10.360 --> 1:01:13.040 Because it's one hundred and twenty perks on the pros 1:01:13.240 --> 1:01:16.680 and it's still only sixty on the regulars. So there 1:01:16.760 --> 1:01:19.680 is a bit of screen discrepancy. But if you've never 1:01:19.720 --> 1:01:22.920 actually used one of the faster promotion displays, you're not 1:01:22.960 --> 1:01:23.680 going to realize it. 1:01:24.040 --> 1:01:26.240 Yeah, Well, when I use my wife's phone, I like, 1:01:26.360 --> 1:01:27.400 you know, swipe and I'm. 1:01:27.280 --> 1:01:29.440 Like, wait, why is this so slow? It's like it 1:01:29.560 --> 1:01:33.200 literally looks to me like it's in slow motion. But again, 1:01:33.360 --> 1:01:35.880 she's a casual user. She doesn't even care, Like I'm like, 1:01:36.040 --> 1:01:37.600 don't you want the new phone? Don't you want the 1:01:37.600 --> 1:01:39.080 new watch? Don't you want the new And she's like, 1:01:39.120 --> 1:01:42.439 why what do I need? Like I don't And really 1:01:42.520 --> 1:01:44.960 sometimes it just comes down to color. All right, we've 1:01:45.000 --> 1:01:46.440 got it run. But I'm just curious. You know I 1:01:46.800 --> 1:01:48.480 said this earlier, but you know you've been covering this 1:01:48.560 --> 1:01:51.160 for a while. What keeps you going, Justine? What keeps 1:01:51.200 --> 1:01:54.080 you excited about this stuff? What keeps you energized? I 1:01:54.120 --> 1:01:56.760 know you work very very hard to keep all these 1:01:56.800 --> 1:01:58.720 things up to date for your followers. 1:01:59.200 --> 1:02:01.360 Yeah, no, I think it's it really is fun for me. 1:02:01.400 --> 1:02:04.040 And I think taking these devices and going somewhere cool 1:02:04.160 --> 1:02:07.400 and kind of just really showing what they can do 1:02:07.960 --> 1:02:09.440 is what's so fun for me. And I like to 1:02:09.480 --> 1:02:11.840 use as an excuse to like go do fun stuff 1:02:11.880 --> 1:02:14.400 like oh it's a fine season, gotta go somewhere cool 1:02:14.440 --> 1:02:15.080 and make a review. 1:02:15.960 --> 1:02:19.120 I love that great, great outlook. Thanks so much for 1:02:19.160 --> 1:02:20.320 joining me today. I appreciate it. 1:02:20.440 --> 1:02:22.560 Yes, thank you, so great to chat with you. 1:02:22.680 --> 1:02:23.040 All right. 1:02:23.120 --> 1:02:26.800 I Justine follow her on on YouTube obviously, but on 1:02:26.840 --> 1:02:28.720 all social media you can find her. 1:02:28.840 --> 1:02:30.080 It's pretty easy to find. 1:02:30.120 --> 1:02:32.840 Just start just type I into Google and it might 1:02:32.880 --> 1:02:35.080 be like I Justine an iPhone might come up. 1:02:35.160 --> 1:02:36.600 The first two things. 1:02:37.280 --> 1:02:40.120 Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:02:40.280 --> 1:02:43.160 four two four one zero one coming up. I'll take 1:02:43.200 --> 1:02:46.120 more of your calls and I'll tell you which major 1:02:46.200 --> 1:02:51.919 airline is putting Starlink on board for super fast Wi Fi. 1:02:52.320 --> 1:02:55.680 And I've tried it and it's incredible. This is Rich 1:02:55.760 --> 1:03:01.640 on Tech Brian in Marietta, California. 1:03:01.800 --> 1:03:05.480 Brian, you're on with Rich Hey, how are you today? 1:03:05.640 --> 1:03:07.800 I am doing excellent. I hope you can hear it 1:03:07.800 --> 1:03:08.840 in my voice. What's up? 1:03:10.200 --> 1:03:10.400 Oh? 1:03:10.600 --> 1:03:12.800 That's a quick ones, A couple of quick questions. 1:03:12.960 --> 1:03:15.920 Actually, So, I know. 1:03:15.880 --> 1:03:17.760 You were talking about carriers this. 1:03:17.800 --> 1:03:24.360 Morning, and so like Verizon and you know, or Visible 1:03:24.680 --> 1:03:25.920 or Total. 1:03:28.480 --> 1:03:31.919 If I go with the cheap the other carriers other 1:03:31.960 --> 1:03:35.920 than Variegon he's all owned by Verizon doing peak, Are 1:03:35.920 --> 1:03:38.200 they gonna problem throw me back? 1:03:38.440 --> 1:03:40.560 Or you know I'm not going to get act. 1:03:40.720 --> 1:03:43.400 You know I'm gonna have problems getting. 1:03:43.120 --> 1:03:44.440 Onto the network today. 1:03:44.840 --> 1:03:50.480 Prioritize people who who pay for Veriding direct versus like 1:03:50.920 --> 1:03:52.720 Visible or Total. 1:03:54.080 --> 1:03:54.640 Wireless. 1:03:55.160 --> 1:03:59.040 It's interesting questions. So okay, number one. My My main 1:04:00.600 --> 1:04:05.280 response to this is that if you're doing any sort 1:04:05.320 --> 1:04:08.720 of job where you're truly relying on the speed and 1:04:08.800 --> 1:04:12.200 availability of a network anywhere you need to go with 1:04:12.200 --> 1:04:16.240 one of these high priced, you know, traditional plans, that 1:04:16.360 --> 1:04:18.840 is first party and it's through AT and T, it's 1:04:18.840 --> 1:04:21.960 through T Mobile, it's through Verizon. Because if your if 1:04:21.960 --> 1:04:24.280 your job or what you're doing relies on it, and 1:04:24.280 --> 1:04:28.440 you always need that priority, then yes, that's going to 1:04:28.480 --> 1:04:32.480 be the best possible way to get that priority. Because 1:04:32.520 --> 1:04:36.080 typically with the mv and os, there is a provision 1:04:36.120 --> 1:04:38.000 that says, yeah, we may slow you down when we 1:04:38.040 --> 1:04:42.040 need to, and that is in the provision of the 1:04:42.080 --> 1:04:43.960 plan that you're signing up for now. It's also in 1:04:44.000 --> 1:04:47.600 the provision of the major plans as well. But in general, 1:04:48.600 --> 1:04:50.720 the you know, if your Verizon, you're going to prioritize 1:04:50.720 --> 1:04:54.280 your your top customers first because they're the ones paying 1:04:54.320 --> 1:04:59.000 the premium plans. So with that said, I think that 1:04:59.120 --> 1:05:01.840 ninety nine point nine percent of people are fine on 1:05:01.880 --> 1:05:05.160 these mv and O plans because most of the time 1:05:05.200 --> 1:05:07.880 you just want to check Facebook, Instagram, whatever. Now, for 1:05:07.960 --> 1:05:10.480 me personally, I will tell you that in a lot 1:05:10.480 --> 1:05:13.920 of times, like I want to have the best access 1:05:13.960 --> 1:05:16.960 to the network because I'm uploading large videos. I'm downloading 1:05:17.040 --> 1:05:20.320 large videos and I just want to have that ability. 1:05:21.000 --> 1:05:24.000 So the cool thing is there's this new thing called 1:05:24.040 --> 1:05:27.880 Broadband Facts. It's kind of like nutrition facts, but for 1:05:28.000 --> 1:05:31.720 all of the cellular companies, anyone that provides internet in 1:05:31.760 --> 1:05:35.080 America has to now do this Broadband Facts label. It 1:05:35.120 --> 1:05:38.160 looks just like the nutrition facts on the side of 1:05:38.760 --> 1:05:41.600 you know, a piece of food or you know, some 1:05:41.640 --> 1:05:44.160 sort of food, but it's all about broadband. And so 1:05:44.200 --> 1:05:47.000 it'll tell you what the monthly price is, what the 1:05:47.000 --> 1:05:51.320 additional charges and fees are, any discounts, what the typical 1:05:51.440 --> 1:05:54.680 speeds are of that plan, the data that's included with 1:05:54.720 --> 1:05:58.800 your monthly plan. And then there's something called network management, 1:05:59.080 --> 1:06:01.680 and that's what you want. Click and you can go 1:06:01.760 --> 1:06:04.920 in and read how they will manage your network. So, 1:06:05.000 --> 1:06:10.080 for instance, I popped Mint's Network Management plan into my 1:06:10.480 --> 1:06:14.000 AI to summarize it, and it says Mint Mobile may 1:06:14.080 --> 1:06:17.520 slow down your data speeds in the following scenarios after 1:06:17.560 --> 1:06:20.360 reaching your plans high speed data allotment. So for the 1:06:20.440 --> 1:06:23.520 unlimited plan, this occurs after using forty gigs of five 1:06:23.600 --> 1:06:29.240 G or four G in your monthly period. Let's see 1:06:29.800 --> 1:06:34.240 during times of network congestion. Mint Mobiles network supplier may 1:06:34.280 --> 1:06:38.040 reduce speeds during periods of high network traffic, even if 1:06:38.080 --> 1:06:41.680 you haven't exceeded your high speed data allotment. 1:06:42.160 --> 1:06:43.200 So what does that mean. 1:06:43.320 --> 1:06:47.320 It means that basically they reserve the right to throttle 1:06:47.360 --> 1:06:48.640 your data speed no matter what. 1:06:49.240 --> 1:06:52.920 Now, does that happen every single day all over the place. 1:06:53.360 --> 1:06:53.960 Probably not. 1:06:54.080 --> 1:06:56.680 I test a lot of phones, I test a lot 1:06:56.680 --> 1:07:00.360 of networks, and quite honestly, I almost never have a 1:07:00.360 --> 1:07:03.040 problem anywhere. You might notice when you go to a 1:07:03.040 --> 1:07:05.560 football game there's a lot of people in the stadium. Sure, 1:07:06.320 --> 1:07:09.000 your Instagram story may take a little bit longer to 1:07:09.040 --> 1:07:12.160 go through if they're doing that, but in general, I 1:07:12.200 --> 1:07:15.000 think you could safely save the money and be okay. 1:07:15.480 --> 1:07:15.640 Now. 1:07:15.640 --> 1:07:20.040 I went to Visible's website and their network management policy 1:07:20.240 --> 1:07:23.720 is just redirected to Verizon, and so I asked to 1:07:23.760 --> 1:07:28.000 see what their policy is, and it says, after reaching 1:07:28.000 --> 1:07:31.960 your plans high speed data, we may slow down your 1:07:32.040 --> 1:07:37.200 data during times of network congestion. On certain plans, Verizon 1:07:37.240 --> 1:07:40.160 may prioritize your five G and four G data behind 1:07:40.200 --> 1:07:44.160 other traffic. If the cell site you're connected to experiences 1:07:44.280 --> 1:07:47.400 high demand during your session, your data speeds may be 1:07:47.480 --> 1:07:51.160 slower than other traffic. Once demand lessons or you connect 1:07:51.160 --> 1:07:53.800 to a different site not experiencing high demand, your speed 1:07:53.840 --> 1:07:55.080 should return to normal. 1:07:56.200 --> 1:07:58.960 So again, any of these. 1:07:58.800 --> 1:08:01.960 Carriers are going to reserve of the right to manage 1:08:02.000 --> 1:08:04.720 their network speed no matter what. And if you look 1:08:04.720 --> 1:08:07.080 at AT and T, they offer something called first Net, 1:08:07.160 --> 1:08:10.120 which is like for their first responders, and so that 1:08:10.200 --> 1:08:15.439 network is sort of prioritized above and beyond. I guess 1:08:15.520 --> 1:08:18.320 they're regular folks that are not on that you know, 1:08:18.400 --> 1:08:19.920 first responder network. 1:08:20.360 --> 1:08:22.360 So you know, look, there's a lot to. 1:08:22.400 --> 1:08:25.559 This, but I think in general, I think you're gonna 1:08:25.560 --> 1:08:28.519 be fine unless you are in some sort of role 1:08:28.840 --> 1:08:31.840 where you require unlimited access all the time and the 1:08:31.880 --> 1:08:33.519 fastest access all the time. 1:08:34.439 --> 1:08:36.639 Brian, thanks so much for the call. Do appreciate it. 1:08:36.720 --> 1:08:38.840 I say, save the money, you'll probably be okay. 1:08:39.600 --> 1:08:45.120 Speaking of super fast internet, United Airlines the first major 1:08:45.600 --> 1:08:50.800 airline to sign up with SpaceX Starlink. That means you 1:08:50.880 --> 1:08:53.479 are going to have super speedy in flight Wi Fi 1:08:53.520 --> 1:08:57.679 coming soon to United. Over one thousand aircraft they're gonna 1:08:57.680 --> 1:09:00.840 outfit with this Starlink Wi Fi. It's going to take 1:09:00.880 --> 1:09:03.760 a couple of years. It's not gonna be instant. And 1:09:03.840 --> 1:09:06.639 I'm old enough to remember when Wi Fi on planes 1:09:06.720 --> 1:09:09.320 was not a given, and I remember United was slowly 1:09:09.400 --> 1:09:11.599 rolling this out over all of their planes, and now 1:09:11.640 --> 1:09:13.160 they've got to go in and do it all over 1:09:13.160 --> 1:09:14.040 again with Starlink. 1:09:14.320 --> 1:09:15.960 But this is going to be much much better. 1:09:16.400 --> 1:09:20.000 It's going to be super super fast gate to gate connectivity, 1:09:20.520 --> 1:09:24.679 high speed, low latency internet. I've tested this on Hawaiian Airlines. 1:09:24.680 --> 1:09:26.800 They were the first. I guess you can't call them 1:09:26.800 --> 1:09:30.160 the major airline because they're not like an American or 1:09:30.200 --> 1:09:33.599 a Delta or United, but it's still a pretty big airline. 1:09:34.439 --> 1:09:35.960 But they have it and I tried it, and it 1:09:36.080 --> 1:09:39.639 is incredible. We're talking speed you have at home. The 1:09:39.640 --> 1:09:41.320 things you can do at home you can now do 1:09:41.400 --> 1:09:43.479 on that airplane from the second you get on board 1:09:43.479 --> 1:09:47.360 to the second you land. That includes live TV, streaming, 1:09:47.720 --> 1:09:51.080 social media, shopping, gaming. My kid this morning was like, 1:09:51.120 --> 1:09:53.040 you mean I could play roadblocks on our flights home 1:09:53.080 --> 1:09:54.160 to New Jersey. 1:09:54.200 --> 1:09:54.960 Now, I said, yeah. 1:09:55.360 --> 1:09:55.639 Soon. 1:09:56.840 --> 1:10:00.200 United is the first major carrier, like I said, and 1:10:00.840 --> 1:10:03.840 testing is going to begin in early twenty twenty five, 1:10:04.479 --> 1:10:07.120 with the first passenger flights expected later that year. 1:10:07.240 --> 1:10:08.400 I cannot wait. 1:10:08.600 --> 1:10:10.639 This is the airline that I take home to Newark 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:14.160 all the time, and I cannot wait to have Starlink 1:10:14.200 --> 1:10:16.360 because I do like to work on the plane. And 1:10:16.400 --> 1:10:19.280 now you don't have to download stuff in advance. It's 1:10:19.280 --> 1:10:22.760 gonna be incredible. Let's see what happens with the other airlines. Oh, 1:10:22.840 --> 1:10:25.320 by the way, did I mention they're offering it for free? 1:10:26.120 --> 1:10:26.759 Even better? 1:10:27.320 --> 1:10:30.679 Eighty eight rich one O one, rich on Tech dot 1:10:30.760 --> 1:10:34.400 TV more rich on Tech come your way right after this. 1:10:37.520 --> 1:10:40.120 What's going on? I'm rich Demiro and this is rich 1:10:40.200 --> 1:10:43.800 on Tech. Thanks for tuning in listening to the show 1:10:43.880 --> 1:10:45.800 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 1:10:45.800 --> 1:10:48.160 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 1:10:48.160 --> 1:10:51.439 your questions. The phone line for the show eight eight 1:10:51.520 --> 1:10:55.320 eight rich one one eight eight eight seven four to 1:10:55.320 --> 1:10:59.640 two four one zero one. The website is rich on 1:10:59.760 --> 1:11:03.799 Tech TV. That's where you can send me an email. 1:11:04.000 --> 1:11:06.919 Just hit contact, or if you hit the light bulb BiCon, 1:11:06.960 --> 1:11:09.360 that will take you to the show wiki. This is 1:11:09.360 --> 1:11:13.080 show number eighty nine. You can tap that to see 1:11:13.120 --> 1:11:16.880 all of the guests, all of the links that I mention, 1:11:17.439 --> 1:11:20.080 and all of the information that I mentioned in the 1:11:20.160 --> 1:11:25.200 show Let's see mela in Whittier wrote in what is 1:11:25.200 --> 1:11:28.320 this high split? I've been hearing about Spectrum working on 1:11:28.360 --> 1:11:31.639 a high split. Do you have any clue what that's about? Yes, 1:11:31.800 --> 1:11:36.240 I do, good question. So this is a cable this 1:11:36.280 --> 1:11:40.880 is cable network. So the biggest difference between cable internet 1:11:41.000 --> 1:11:45.320 and fiber internet is that fiber internet typically has the 1:11:45.360 --> 1:11:49.200 same upload and download speed, So if you get a 1:11:49.320 --> 1:11:52.400 thousand down, you're usually getting a thousand up as well. 1:11:53.200 --> 1:11:59.280 Now with cable typically they have reserved fast download speeds, 1:11:59.520 --> 1:12:01.760 but the upload speed is a lot slower. And they 1:12:01.760 --> 1:12:03.800 did that for a reason. It helps them manage the 1:12:03.840 --> 1:12:06.640 network where they know most people are downloading stuff and 1:12:06.680 --> 1:12:09.840 streaming stuff, and not so many people are uploading stuff 1:12:09.880 --> 1:12:12.679 back to the network, unless you're someone like myself who's 1:12:12.720 --> 1:12:15.599 dealing with large video files or any sort of large 1:12:15.600 --> 1:12:18.960 file that you're constantly uploading back to the network. And 1:12:19.080 --> 1:12:22.000 so they created these cable networks where they advertise, oh, 1:12:22.040 --> 1:12:25.040 get three hundred down. That's three hundred megabits per second 1:12:25.080 --> 1:12:28.160 down or five hundred megabits per second down. But then 1:12:28.200 --> 1:12:32.040 if you look at the upspeeds, they're typically much slower 1:12:32.640 --> 1:12:35.800 and so they might be thirty megabit, thirty megabits per 1:12:35.840 --> 1:12:40.760 second up or twenty or ten, depending on what the 1:12:40.880 --> 1:12:44.000 download speed is. So typically the download speed is really fast, 1:12:44.280 --> 1:12:46.040 the upload speed is a lot slower. 1:12:46.640 --> 1:12:48.720 The high split. 1:12:48.880 --> 1:12:52.040 Means that they are now configuring this cable network to 1:12:52.400 --> 1:12:56.240 put a larger portion of that bandwidth for the traffic 1:12:56.320 --> 1:12:59.360 going back up to the network, so the upload traffic. 1:13:00.160 --> 1:13:02.120 That's what they've been doing in a lot of neighborhoods 1:13:02.120 --> 1:13:06.639 to compete with Fiber. I'm assuming because Fiber advertises, hey, 1:13:06.640 --> 1:13:08.760 we've got the same speed up and down. You get 1:13:08.760 --> 1:13:10.640 five hundred up, five hundred down, it's going to be 1:13:10.640 --> 1:13:13.320 super fast no matter what you're doing, and so that's 1:13:13.320 --> 1:13:18.479 been a marketing kind of differentiator for Fiber, and cable 1:13:18.640 --> 1:13:21.120 wants in on that. So they're saying, okay, let's do 1:13:21.160 --> 1:13:24.479 this high split where now we're giving people a very 1:13:24.520 --> 1:13:28.280 similar upload speed or a faster upload speed relative to 1:13:28.280 --> 1:13:29.240 their download speed. 1:13:29.360 --> 1:13:32.000 So hope that answers your question. 1:13:32.120 --> 1:13:35.320 I think it's a good thing because even with the 1:13:36.040 --> 1:13:38.920 download speeds, I mean, they're advertised heavily, but to be honest, 1:13:39.520 --> 1:13:42.599 unless you're doing something pretty wild with your internet connection, 1:13:43.200 --> 1:13:46.479 downloading big files all the time. You don't need the 1:13:46.560 --> 1:13:50.599 fastest download and upload speeds like even Netflix. If you're streaming, 1:13:50.680 --> 1:13:53.120 which is like ninety percent of what people are doing 1:13:53.120 --> 1:13:56.120 these days, you don't need that much speed. Netflix can 1:13:56.160 --> 1:13:58.280 work on a very slow Internet connection. That's part of 1:13:58.280 --> 1:14:01.599 the magic that makes streaming so great. You don't want 1:14:01.640 --> 1:14:04.320 buffering and all that stuff. But you know, a very 1:14:04.360 --> 1:14:07.960 typical connection these days will will work just fine. So 1:14:08.000 --> 1:14:10.040 if you're overpaying for your internet kind of take a 1:14:10.080 --> 1:14:10.519 look at that. 1:14:10.560 --> 1:14:11.040 You may not. 1:14:11.120 --> 1:14:14.680 Need that super super duper fast speed. Let's go to 1:14:15.120 --> 1:14:19.000 Patrick in Colorado Springs. Patrick, what's going on? 1:14:20.280 --> 1:14:22.960 Yes, thank you for taking my call. I'm coming off 1:14:23.000 --> 1:14:28.920 of thirteen years using an Apple Nano and I wanted 1:14:28.960 --> 1:14:32.439 to replace it because it's not working. And I'm wondering 1:14:32.479 --> 1:14:36.599 if you have a recommendation for a small unit that 1:14:36.880 --> 1:14:39.040 would have the two features that I need, which is 1:14:39.120 --> 1:14:43.000 FM radio and MP three player. I tried the one 1:14:43.000 --> 1:14:45.280 that Sony offers is called the E three ninety four, 1:14:45.320 --> 1:14:49.120 and I'm not happy with it. It has intermittent success 1:14:49.160 --> 1:14:52.280 with the feature that has automatically starts the next song, 1:14:52.360 --> 1:14:54.439 and so I don't want to have problems with that, 1:14:55.000 --> 1:14:57.000 But I'm looking at something between one hundred and two 1:14:57.080 --> 1:14:59.960 hundred bucks, maybe the highs to fifty. If you have 1:15:00.080 --> 1:15:00.760 a recommendation. 1:15:01.160 --> 1:15:03.800 Oh wow, Well I don't have a recommendation. Off the 1:15:03.800 --> 1:15:05.439 top of my head. I have it's been a while 1:15:05.479 --> 1:15:09.040 since I used a product like this. It's very specific 1:15:09.120 --> 1:15:11.920 at this point, and I'm actually surprised that you had 1:15:11.960 --> 1:15:15.000 a problem because Sony is such high quality. What is 1:15:15.040 --> 1:15:18.000 the issue with this device? Because it looks exactly like 1:15:18.000 --> 1:15:18.479 what you need. 1:15:19.479 --> 1:15:21.720 It's a nice unit, is sixty nine dollars. It's called 1:15:21.760 --> 1:15:24.679 the E three ninety four. And when you have say 1:15:24.720 --> 1:15:27.320 twenty songs on there, and you play one and you're 1:15:27.320 --> 1:15:28.080 not touching it. 1:15:28.280 --> 1:15:29.200 When you finish that. 1:15:29.240 --> 1:15:33.280 Song, it automatically starts the next. But in this case, 1:15:33.360 --> 1:15:36.280 it doesn't work. It just sits there and pauses. I 1:15:36.280 --> 1:15:39.000 can push pause, So I said, they were very nice. 1:15:39.040 --> 1:15:40.559 We worked through it about two and a half hours 1:15:40.600 --> 1:15:43.320 on technical Sport. They sent me a new one and 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:45.280 it did the same thing. Now it only does it 1:15:45.320 --> 1:15:48.160 about one out of ten times. It will automatically start 1:15:48.200 --> 1:15:51.320 the next song nine times and. 1:15:51.280 --> 1:15:52.360 Then it won't one. 1:15:52.800 --> 1:15:54.479 But if you're using it at night, like I am. 1:15:54.520 --> 1:15:56.960 It means getting up, putting on the lights, putting on 1:15:57.000 --> 1:16:00.439 your glasses, and then I will say that the controls 1:16:00.439 --> 1:16:04.400 are our cake and cumbersome compared to the Apple product. 1:16:05.400 --> 1:16:08.559 Yeah, of course, that's that's why Apple is a number 1:16:08.560 --> 1:16:11.400 one tech company in the world, because they've they've done 1:16:11.439 --> 1:16:14.639 pretty well with their software. Well look, my initial thought 1:16:14.680 --> 1:16:18.599 here is that the only other company, like the main 1:16:18.760 --> 1:16:21.120 brand that I know that does stuff like this is 1:16:21.200 --> 1:16:23.160 sand Disc. I don't know if you've heard of them, 1:16:23.200 --> 1:16:25.960 but you know, they've been around forever, and they did 1:16:26.120 --> 1:16:29.479 I mean, this was Actually it's funny because I think 1:16:29.560 --> 1:16:32.439 it was the Rio, but I had like basically, this 1:16:32.640 --> 1:16:34.759 was the MP three player that I was using before 1:16:34.800 --> 1:16:36.960 I switched to the iPod and before I switched to 1:16:37.000 --> 1:16:40.880 the iPhone. I've been a runner for a long time, 1:16:40.960 --> 1:16:43.800 so I can tell you over the years. I can't 1:16:43.840 --> 1:16:46.280 believe how many devices I have run with over the 1:16:46.360 --> 1:16:49.479 years before the iPhone and actually now it's just the 1:16:49.479 --> 1:16:51.960 Apple Watch, but it's or a smart watch in general. 1:16:52.200 --> 1:16:53.280 But it's pretty wild, like. 1:16:53.280 --> 1:16:57.760 The transition between like going from a tape player to 1:16:58.080 --> 1:17:00.280 a mini disc player. I think I had a CD 1:17:00.400 --> 1:17:02.120 player that I was running with at some point, which 1:17:02.160 --> 1:17:05.240 was rough because that was bouncy all the time, to 1:17:05.240 --> 1:17:07.479 to an iPod, to a nano, to a shuffle to 1:17:07.600 --> 1:17:10.080 a you know, an iPhone, and now of course the 1:17:10.080 --> 1:17:10.679 Apple Watch. 1:17:10.720 --> 1:17:12.240 But it's it's just wild anyway. 1:17:13.240 --> 1:17:15.960 The sand Disc, they've got a thing called the sand 1:17:16.000 --> 1:17:20.719 Disc Clip, and this is an MP three player plus. 1:17:20.760 --> 1:17:24.479 It does have an FM radio tuner built in as well, 1:17:24.960 --> 1:17:29.120 so it gives you everything you need. It's pretty inexpensive. 1:17:29.160 --> 1:17:32.200 You got sixteen gigs for fifty bucks, thirty two gigs 1:17:32.200 --> 1:17:33.640 for sixty dollars. 1:17:33.680 --> 1:17:36.440 But that is probably the one that I would recommend. 1:17:37.400 --> 1:17:40.840 Sand Disc Clip Sport Plus, and they have a couple 1:17:40.880 --> 1:17:42.920 of them, so I would just look on the sand Disc. Now, 1:17:43.000 --> 1:17:46.920 sand Disc got they're owned by Western Digital, but they've 1:17:46.960 --> 1:17:49.960 got a couple. They've got the sand Disc Clip, Jam 1:17:50.120 --> 1:17:53.439 MP three, the Sport Go and the Sport Plus. 1:17:53.960 --> 1:17:55.920 So the thing you want to make sure is. 1:17:55.880 --> 1:18:00.320 That they have the the FM tuners. So I'm going 1:18:00.400 --> 1:18:02.800 to compare these real quick and see which one has 1:18:02.880 --> 1:18:06.360 the FM tuner because I know the one I mentioned does, 1:18:06.960 --> 1:18:08.599 but I don't know if the other one. 1:18:08.520 --> 1:18:11.800 Does that the other Okay, let's see. 1:18:11.520 --> 1:18:14.240 Okay, they all have the FM, so all three of 1:18:14.240 --> 1:18:16.719 them have the features that you want. So the sand 1:18:16.720 --> 1:18:19.120 disk clip, whether you go at the JAM, the Sport 1:18:19.320 --> 1:18:21.720 or the Sport Plus, they all have everything you need, 1:18:21.760 --> 1:18:24.120 which is an MP three player and the FM radio 1:18:24.560 --> 1:18:26.960 built into it, and you should be good to go. 1:18:27.360 --> 1:18:29.200 And I think, you know, obviously you're gonna have to 1:18:29.200 --> 1:18:30.760 test it out and see if it has the same 1:18:30.840 --> 1:18:34.840 issue that you had with your sony, but these are 1:18:34.960 --> 1:18:37.400 very inexpensive. I would buy it on Amazon so that 1:18:37.439 --> 1:18:41.320 you can return it if it doesn't work, and that 1:18:41.400 --> 1:18:43.559 should be exactly what you need. Now, if you don't 1:18:43.560 --> 1:18:46.960 want those, you can just go on Amazon and look 1:18:47.040 --> 1:18:50.240 up MP three FM player and there are a whole 1:18:50.280 --> 1:18:53.360 bunch of no name brands on there that may do 1:18:53.520 --> 1:18:56.360 exactly what you need. And in that case, when I'm 1:18:56.360 --> 1:18:58.400 looking for something on Amazon something like this, you're not 1:18:58.400 --> 1:19:00.200 going to find a lot of reviews online for or 1:19:00.200 --> 1:19:02.920 because they're just you know, no one's really reviewing these 1:19:02.960 --> 1:19:06.800 products at this point. But I personally would look for 1:19:06.840 --> 1:19:10.400 something that is prime, look at the reviews, make sure 1:19:10.439 --> 1:19:13.120 it has at least four maybe four and a half stars. 1:19:14.280 --> 1:19:17.679 You can look at Amazon's picks. They typically will tell 1:19:17.720 --> 1:19:20.559 you if an item is returned a lot, So click 1:19:20.640 --> 1:19:24.040 through and see if it says this item is commonly returned, 1:19:24.040 --> 1:19:27.000 and if it says that, stay away. Because Amazon has 1:19:27.040 --> 1:19:29.479 the data on these products, it looks good. They sell 1:19:29.520 --> 1:19:31.320 them on there and then people get them for a 1:19:31.360 --> 1:19:33.720 week and they return them. So I would look for 1:19:33.760 --> 1:19:37.280 one that has high ratings, maybe best seller overall, pick 1:19:37.840 --> 1:19:42.080 is prime and does not say that it's returned often. 1:19:42.320 --> 1:19:44.519 All right, Patrick and Colorado Springs, thanks so much for 1:19:44.520 --> 1:19:48.160 the call today. I do appreciate it. Sony has a 1:19:48.160 --> 1:19:53.400 new PlayStation five pro ps five pro. This is going 1:19:53.479 --> 1:19:56.479 to launch on November seventh. Can you believe this price tag? 1:19:56.560 --> 1:19:57.000 You ready? 1:19:58.080 --> 1:20:00.960 Six hundred and ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents, even 1:20:01.000 --> 1:20:05.200 more expensive than the PlayStation five. So I am curious 1:20:05.439 --> 1:20:07.559 how this is going to do. This is for really, 1:20:07.680 --> 1:20:10.960 I guess dedicated gamers seven hundred bucks. It's got a 1:20:10.960 --> 1:20:14.320 two terabyte solid state drive, It's got the Dual Sense 1:20:14.360 --> 1:20:18.719 wireless controller. It has Wi Fi seven, which I don't 1:20:18.760 --> 1:20:21.679 think the PlayStation five has, so that's gonna be nice. 1:20:21.680 --> 1:20:23.280 But the problem is who has Wi Fi seven in 1:20:23.320 --> 1:20:26.200 their house? Not many people now, of course, they're going 1:20:26.240 --> 1:20:28.680 to tell you that it is better and faster than 1:20:28.720 --> 1:20:33.639 the current PlayStation five and better at doing the ray tracing, 1:20:33.720 --> 1:20:37.200 which is all the buzzword in the gaming community. Ray 1:20:37.240 --> 1:20:39.479 tracing is sort of like what shadows and things look 1:20:39.560 --> 1:20:42.720 like when they're rendered and reflections on the screen. The 1:20:42.800 --> 1:20:45.880 higher the better the ray tracing, the more realistic things 1:20:45.920 --> 1:20:49.519 look like. If you're walking down a street and the 1:20:49.560 --> 1:20:52.439 sun is shining from the right, you'll see that nice 1:20:53.000 --> 1:20:56.320 shadow on the left of you, and it's refreshed and 1:20:56.400 --> 1:20:59.560 made to look very good when it's when the ray tracing. 1:20:59.240 --> 1:21:02.200 Is at a higher uh just a higher caliber. 1:21:03.479 --> 1:21:03.599 Uh. 1:21:03.680 --> 1:21:06.360 Anyway. Pre Orders open on September twenty sixth. 1:21:06.360 --> 1:21:09.840 The thing to know about the PlayStation five Pro is 1:21:09.880 --> 1:21:12.640 that even though it is more expensive, it and the 1:21:12.720 --> 1:21:15.840 visuals are supposed to look better. There's no disc, so 1:21:16.040 --> 1:21:19.040 no physical drive. You have to pay extra to add 1:21:19.040 --> 1:21:21.640 that on to this device. So there you have it. 1:21:21.760 --> 1:21:26.040 PlayStation five Pro coming out November seventh, seven hundred dollars. 1:21:26.880 --> 1:21:29.160 This is not the new PlayStation. This is not the 1:21:29.240 --> 1:21:31.840 next generation PlayStation. This is sort of a stop gap 1:21:31.960 --> 1:21:35.240 until Sony comes out with something brand new. Whether that's 1:21:35.479 --> 1:21:37.160 I don't follow the rumors on that, but that may 1:21:37.200 --> 1:21:39.920 be a couple of years out. Eighty eight rich one 1:21:39.960 --> 1:21:43.200 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:21:43.280 --> 1:21:43.720 zero one. 1:21:43.760 --> 1:21:45.720 My name is Rich Dmiro. This is rich on. 1:21:45.720 --> 1:21:49.320 Tech, the website for the show richon Tech dot tv. 1:21:49.439 --> 1:21:50.000 Coming up. 1:21:50.600 --> 1:21:54.400 Have you ever wanted to listen to things from Burt 1:21:54.439 --> 1:21:58.599 Reynolds or Judy Garland or maybe James Dean. They can 1:21:58.680 --> 1:22:00.519 read stuff to you. I will tell tell you how 1:22:00.800 --> 1:22:01.640 with a free. 1:22:01.360 --> 1:22:05.439 App coming up next. 1:22:06.720 --> 1:22:09.360 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:22:09.360 --> 1:22:12.840 out with you, talking technology. The phone line is eighty 1:22:12.880 --> 1:22:15.360 to eight rich one oh one. I told you that 1:22:15.400 --> 1:22:18.720 you can have celebrity voices read your articles to you. 1:22:19.840 --> 1:22:22.840 This is through the eleven Labs Reader app. This is 1:22:22.840 --> 1:22:25.080 a free app. I've talked about it on the show before. 1:22:25.200 --> 1:22:28.559 Eleven Labs is sort of the leader in AI voices 1:22:29.360 --> 1:22:33.040 and they have a great app that is free. 1:22:33.040 --> 1:22:34.479 And it can read you anything. 1:22:35.120 --> 1:22:38.280 So you can pop in an article or a book 1:22:38.800 --> 1:22:40.680 or a PDF and it will read it to you. 1:22:41.080 --> 1:22:42.040 Now, it's not perfect. 1:22:42.080 --> 1:22:44.240 If you pop in an article from the Internet, it 1:22:44.320 --> 1:22:47.280 will read all kind of like the it will read 1:22:47.320 --> 1:22:49.799 everything that's on the screen. So it's not perfect, doesn't 1:22:49.840 --> 1:22:53.080 like extract everything like a speech of five mite like, 1:22:53.120 --> 1:22:55.639 it doesn't do as good of a job. But it's 1:22:55.680 --> 1:22:58.479 free and it's pretty good. The voices are incredible. So 1:22:58.520 --> 1:23:00.000 they have a whole bunch of voices you can choose 1:23:00.200 --> 1:23:03.720 from to read you your articles, your books and text. 1:23:03.760 --> 1:23:08.400 But you can now choose celebrity voices. Depak Chopra, Sir 1:23:08.479 --> 1:23:13.200 Lawrence Olivier, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Judy Garland. All 1:23:13.240 --> 1:23:16.160 of these voices can read to you now. So if 1:23:16.200 --> 1:23:18.639 you long for the days of James Dean or Burt 1:23:18.640 --> 1:23:21.960 Reynolds or Judy Garland reading to you, you can do that. 1:23:22.320 --> 1:23:25.760 Or if you want dpak to read to you, you 1:23:25.800 --> 1:23:30.000 can do it. Sir Laurence Olivier, have them read to you. 1:23:30.000 --> 1:23:34.200 You can put in text, weblinks, PDFs and e pubs 1:23:35.000 --> 1:23:38.240 and it's pretty incredible. And again it's all free. So 1:23:38.320 --> 1:23:43.880 it's called eleven Labs Reader, eleven Labs Reader, and it's 1:23:43.880 --> 1:23:47.479 available for iOS and Android. I will put the links 1:23:47.560 --> 1:23:51.720 on my website. Rich on tech dot Tv hit the 1:23:51.800 --> 1:23:54.080 light bulb, but eleven Labs Reader if you don't have 1:23:54.080 --> 1:23:55.679 it on your phone, It's pretty incredible. 1:23:55.920 --> 1:23:56.400 I love it. 1:23:56.680 --> 1:23:58.280 I use it when I'm at the gym to catch 1:23:58.360 --> 1:24:01.040 up on articles that I am have been meaning to read. 1:24:01.400 --> 1:24:02.880 It's a much easier to have someone to read them 1:24:02.920 --> 1:24:06.400 to you. Let's go to Linda in Glendale. Linda, you're 1:24:06.400 --> 1:24:06.960 on with Rich. 1:24:08.080 --> 1:24:12.040 Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. How do 1:24:12.120 --> 1:24:16.320 I remove personal information from Google? Such as my past 1:24:16.400 --> 1:24:20.400 and currents addresses, phone numbers, and names of relatives and 1:24:20.960 --> 1:24:21.759 court cases? 1:24:23.560 --> 1:24:26.920 Okay, so I mentioned this earlier, but it's a feature 1:24:27.160 --> 1:24:31.479 on Google called Google Results about You. So it's a 1:24:31.520 --> 1:24:33.559 weird name. I don't know why they call it that, 1:24:33.640 --> 1:24:36.680 but that's what they call it. But basically, if you 1:24:36.800 --> 1:24:40.920 type Google Results about You into Google, the first couple 1:24:40.920 --> 1:24:44.880 of results, actually this looks like the sixth result on 1:24:44.920 --> 1:24:49.439 Google is my article for KTLA back in August of 1:24:49.439 --> 1:24:52.960 twenty twenty three, I first talked about this. But the 1:24:53.560 --> 1:24:56.200 thing is, you sign up. You already have a Google account. 1:24:56.520 --> 1:24:58.720 You sign up, you tell it the information that you 1:24:58.760 --> 1:25:01.559 want it to look for, and once you do, it 1:25:01.600 --> 1:25:04.320 will put its little feelers out on the web, and 1:25:04.320 --> 1:25:06.920 when it finds that information on a website, it will 1:25:06.960 --> 1:25:11.000 alert you. So, for instance, it found my information on 1:25:11.040 --> 1:25:15.720 a website called unmasked dot com. And the information that 1:25:15.880 --> 1:25:18.400 was in there was I don't know, it looks like 1:25:18.479 --> 1:25:23.639 my address and my name, and so you can tell Google, hey, 1:25:23.680 --> 1:25:27.479 I want this information taken out of Google searches. Now, 1:25:29.000 --> 1:25:33.840 that information is only removed from Google Search itself. That 1:25:34.000 --> 1:25:36.360 means that ninety percent of people when they're searching for you, 1:25:36.439 --> 1:25:38.479 they're just gonna pop your name into Google and these 1:25:38.479 --> 1:25:40.280 are the results that come up. That result will no 1:25:40.360 --> 1:25:42.479 longer be shown. It does not remove it from the 1:25:42.479 --> 1:25:45.720 original company. So if you want to remove it from 1:25:45.760 --> 1:25:48.560 the original company, you either have to do it yourself, 1:25:48.880 --> 1:25:50.560 which you can go to these websites. 1:25:50.560 --> 1:25:52.599 So if you if you go to a website, let's. 1:25:52.400 --> 1:25:55.720 Say for this unmasked dot com, right, so you can 1:25:55.760 --> 1:26:01.360 type in unmasked and say, uh, take down request. So 1:26:01.640 --> 1:26:04.720 if you type that in, you'll get information on how 1:26:04.720 --> 1:26:08.120 to opt out of that website. And the website that 1:26:08.160 --> 1:26:12.519 comes up is opty dot com how to opt out 1:26:12.520 --> 1:26:15.160 of unmask And you can do this for all the 1:26:15.160 --> 1:26:19.879 different websites and so, or you can subscribe to a service. 1:26:19.960 --> 1:26:22.120 There's a lot of these services like delete me and 1:26:22.439 --> 1:26:24.800 many many others out there that will. You can pay 1:26:24.840 --> 1:26:27.720 them a couple bucks a month and they will. They 1:26:27.800 --> 1:26:30.320 will remove your information from these services, or at least 1:26:30.360 --> 1:26:33.800 attempt to. It's not the fastest process in the world. 1:26:33.840 --> 1:26:35.839 You can do it by yourself, and I probably recommend 1:26:35.840 --> 1:26:39.080 doing that. So what I would do personally, Linda, is 1:26:39.120 --> 1:26:41.920 that I would go on Google whatever you're worried about, 1:26:41.960 --> 1:26:45.559 search for that information, and whatever website comes up, whether 1:26:45.600 --> 1:26:49.280 it's people results finder dot Com or true people Search, 1:26:49.439 --> 1:26:52.160 check People or whatever it is, and then just say 1:26:52.240 --> 1:26:55.639 opt out and you can fill out that opt out form. 1:26:55.880 --> 1:26:58.280 And it takes a while sometimes and they kind of 1:26:58.320 --> 1:27:01.599 throw you through some hoops to do it, but once 1:27:01.640 --> 1:27:04.519 you do that, they will say, okay, fine, we'll take 1:27:04.520 --> 1:27:07.320 your information out of there now. If you live in California, 1:27:07.360 --> 1:27:09.240 there's also another way you can opt out of these 1:27:09.280 --> 1:27:14.760 things because we have some specialized laws in California. Not 1:27:14.880 --> 1:27:19.040 many people use it, but there is a privacy kind 1:27:19.040 --> 1:27:21.920 of law in California that allows you to opt out 1:27:21.920 --> 1:27:24.360 of this stuff quicker. I don't have the instructions on 1:27:24.400 --> 1:27:27.240 how to do that right now, but I will post 1:27:27.240 --> 1:27:30.040 them as a link on the show notes. But that's 1:27:30.040 --> 1:27:34.240 another option. If you live in California, which you do anyway. Yeah, 1:27:34.280 --> 1:27:37.160 this stuff is a mess. It's all over and if 1:27:37.160 --> 1:27:38.840 you want to clean up your stuff, you can also 1:27:38.920 --> 1:27:41.599 hire a professional that does this for a living. 1:27:41.640 --> 1:27:43.360 There are people out there that will do that. 1:27:43.920 --> 1:27:46.040 I've done stories with them, and it's a big business, 1:27:46.080 --> 1:27:49.320 especially for like celebrities and things, and also reputation management. 1:27:49.320 --> 1:27:50.840 If you have an article out there that you don't 1:27:50.840 --> 1:27:53.760 necessarily like about yourself, people want to get that off 1:27:53.800 --> 1:27:54.360 Google too. 1:27:54.720 --> 1:27:56.599 That's a little bit trickier. All right. 1:27:56.600 --> 1:27:59.479 Coming up, we are going to talk to John from 1:27:59.600 --> 1:28:04.120 jen K Grown Up about eighties nostalgia. Fun topic coming up, 1:28:04.320 --> 1:28:09.880 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 1:28:09.960 --> 1:28:14.679 Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology the website 1:28:14.720 --> 1:28:18.280 for the show rich on Tech dot TV. I know 1:28:18.320 --> 1:28:21.559 we had some questions about removing data from Google. I 1:28:21.600 --> 1:28:24.320 have updated the show notes and if you're in California, 1:28:24.360 --> 1:28:29.519 I put the specific California opt out information there from 1:28:30.120 --> 1:28:34.479 Consumerwatchdog dot org. They just came out with a report 1:28:34.520 --> 1:28:38.320 that says less than one percent of Californians exercise their 1:28:38.360 --> 1:28:41.640 privacy rights with data brokers. So they've got a lot 1:28:41.720 --> 1:28:44.479 of good information about how to remove your data from 1:28:44.680 --> 1:28:49.000 various websites, not just Google. So definitely check that out 1:28:49.080 --> 1:28:51.320 Rich on tech dot tv. Once you get there, hit 1:28:51.400 --> 1:28:55.439 the light bulb icon and that'll bring you the wiki. 1:28:55.800 --> 1:28:58.880 Check show number eighty nine for the show notes. 1:29:00.120 --> 1:29:01.160 Joining me now is. 1:29:01.400 --> 1:29:05.479 YouTube creator John Reddick. He runs a YouTube channel called 1:29:05.600 --> 1:29:10.360 jen x Grown Up, which explores eighties nostalgia, retro gaming, 1:29:10.520 --> 1:29:14.719 and all these old brands that are coming back again. 1:29:15.320 --> 1:29:15.599 John. 1:29:15.640 --> 1:29:16.439 Welcome to the show. 1:29:16.960 --> 1:29:20.519 Hey, Rich, this is It's always a good day to 1:29:20.600 --> 1:29:22.439 talk about nostalgic tech and games. 1:29:22.479 --> 1:29:24.040 So great to be here. Thanks. 1:29:24.200 --> 1:29:26.760 It's so wild because I don't know why we are 1:29:26.840 --> 1:29:31.280 all so nostalgic for things, And I mean, you've created 1:29:31.280 --> 1:29:33.200 a whole channel based on it. So tell me about 1:29:33.200 --> 1:29:36.040 your YouTube channel, what you sort of cover on there. 1:29:36.280 --> 1:29:37.840 I kind of mentioned it, but I want to hear 1:29:37.840 --> 1:29:38.240 your take. 1:29:39.160 --> 1:29:41.800 Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I have a kid of 1:29:41.840 --> 1:29:42.799 the seventies and eighties. 1:29:42.800 --> 1:29:44.200 I was born in nineteen sixty nine. 1:29:44.320 --> 1:29:46.080 I grew up in the origin of a lot of 1:29:46.640 --> 1:29:48.920 I lived through the transition from vinyl. 1:29:48.640 --> 1:29:50.799 To cassettes to CDs and all that. 1:29:50.680 --> 1:29:53.040 And video gaming didn't exist when I was born, and 1:29:53.080 --> 1:29:55.200 I grew up and so I love that stuff, and 1:29:55.240 --> 1:29:57.880 so I'm inundated. You know, I used to work in 1:29:57.920 --> 1:30:01.000 broadcasting many lives ago, and you know, I had a 1:30:01.080 --> 1:30:03.360 chance to create my own stuff. So, you know, on 1:30:03.400 --> 1:30:06.439 gen X Grown Up on the YouTube channel, I cover 1:30:06.520 --> 1:30:09.320 all sorts of nostalgic you know, gaming and technology and 1:30:09.560 --> 1:30:12.400 new modern consoles that come out and throwback stuff, and 1:30:13.439 --> 1:30:16.960 you know, we host a weekly audio podcast every Thursday. 1:30:17.000 --> 1:30:20.240 I co host nineteen Eighties now every Monday, and. 1:30:20.479 --> 1:30:22.679 Anytime I get a chance to talk about this stuff 1:30:22.720 --> 1:30:24.800 that I love growing up, the nostalgic stuff. 1:30:24.800 --> 1:30:26.680 As you said, Uh, that's where I do it, and 1:30:26.680 --> 1:30:27.400 that's my outlet. 1:30:27.640 --> 1:30:29.960 I love that title, by the way, nineteen eighties now, 1:30:30.000 --> 1:30:32.880 that's like so like it's such a great title. 1:30:33.479 --> 1:30:35.040 So how do you define nostalgia? 1:30:37.200 --> 1:30:41.320 I mean, I think every generation has a nostalgia for 1:30:41.880 --> 1:30:44.200 what what what was new to them, what they enjoyed 1:30:44.200 --> 1:30:45.000 when they were kids. 1:30:45.040 --> 1:30:45.200 You know. 1:30:45.280 --> 1:30:47.960 I people say, kind of it's a desire to go 1:30:48.040 --> 1:30:50.639 back to a simpler time. But even if the times 1:30:50.640 --> 1:30:53.880 weren't that much simpler, our lives were simpler, you know 1:30:53.920 --> 1:30:56.080 when we were you know, in our in our teens, 1:30:56.080 --> 1:30:58.520 and we didn't yet have jobs and families and mortgages 1:30:58.520 --> 1:31:00.840 and cars and you know, a roof to. 1:31:00.800 --> 1:31:02.160 Fix and all that kind of stuff. 1:31:02.479 --> 1:31:05.400 And so I think that it colors the things we 1:31:05.479 --> 1:31:08.759 enjoyed at that age because we had no other worries 1:31:08.840 --> 1:31:11.240 at the time other than you know, who am I 1:31:11.240 --> 1:31:13.160 going to ask to the prom? And am I going 1:31:13.240 --> 1:31:15.320 to get my allowance this week? You know, those sorts 1:31:15.320 --> 1:31:17.519 of things, and it's so much simpler. And I think 1:31:17.560 --> 1:31:19.640 as we get older and things get more complicated and 1:31:19.680 --> 1:31:23.759 more complex, it's fun to go back and there's some endorphit. 1:31:23.800 --> 1:31:25.320 I think that kicks off when you can go back 1:31:25.360 --> 1:31:28.040 and remember that thing from a time when you had 1:31:28.040 --> 1:31:30.200 an easier or more carefree life. 1:31:30.760 --> 1:31:32.920 And of course these companies want to tap into it. 1:31:32.960 --> 1:31:36.479 So like, for instance, we had some pizza Hut last 1:31:36.560 --> 1:31:39.120 night and I was cracking up because if you look 1:31:39.120 --> 1:31:42.280 at their logo, they've gone back to like their old 1:31:42.320 --> 1:31:45.400 school logo. And when I held these pizza boxes, I'm 1:31:45.400 --> 1:31:47.840 sitting there, I'm like, I just it just warms something 1:31:47.880 --> 1:31:50.240 in your heart, right that, like, this is what I 1:31:50.320 --> 1:31:52.080 had as a kid, and now I'm having it here 1:31:52.120 --> 1:31:54.840 as an adult with a mortgage and with things and kids. 1:31:54.880 --> 1:31:55.639 And other stuff. 1:31:56.320 --> 1:31:58.280 Yeah, I've seen some places that pizza have they bring 1:31:58.320 --> 1:32:01.599 back the stained glass lamps and the red cups, all 1:32:01.640 --> 1:32:03.400 the things that made pizza hut magic. 1:32:03.439 --> 1:32:05.080 Oh my gosh, I am. I am. 1:32:05.160 --> 1:32:08.000 So there's actually a list of the old school pizza 1:32:08.080 --> 1:32:09.760 huts that are still around that where you can go 1:32:09.840 --> 1:32:12.599 in and eat there. I want to bring my kids 1:32:12.640 --> 1:32:15.200 to that, but I haven't found a location that's close by. 1:32:15.280 --> 1:32:17.639 But I really want to do that because I didn't 1:32:17.640 --> 1:32:18.559 appreciate it back. 1:32:18.400 --> 1:32:20.479 Then, but now I do. Yeah, we do. 1:32:21.080 --> 1:32:23.519 So what's popular with your with your viewers? Like what 1:32:23.600 --> 1:32:26.680 I mean, gaming obviously is kind of probably top. So 1:32:27.400 --> 1:32:29.599 is that pretty much tops right now? 1:32:30.400 --> 1:32:31.040 Well, certainly. 1:32:31.040 --> 1:32:33.920 I mean on my YouTube channel, I predominantly cover gaming. 1:32:33.920 --> 1:32:35.840 It's just kind of what I've the niche kind of 1:32:35.840 --> 1:32:38.439 fallen into. Even though I enjoy all things nostalgia, you know, 1:32:38.479 --> 1:32:41.320 tech and pop culture. But I mean anything Atari is 1:32:41.320 --> 1:32:43.800 of interest. You know, Tari as a company is kind 1:32:43.800 --> 1:32:48.000 of emblematic of nostalgic gaming certainly. You know, they were 1:32:48.000 --> 1:32:52.799 one of the originators of both arcade and then home gaming, 1:32:53.400 --> 1:32:55.200 and they've had quite a resurgence in the last couple 1:32:55.240 --> 1:32:57.599 of years. Ever, since Wade Rosen took over as the CEO, 1:32:57.680 --> 1:32:59.880 and he's really trying to drive that company, you know, 1:33:00.080 --> 1:33:02.400 out of obscurity and back into the its rightful place. 1:33:03.320 --> 1:33:06.519 All these mini consoles and many computers like the Little 1:33:06.520 --> 1:33:09.640 Commodore and the Little Atari eight bit, the ZX Spectrum 1:33:09.680 --> 1:33:13.040 that just got announced. I think it's just goes back 1:33:13.040 --> 1:33:15.320 to that nostalgia we were just talking about. People love 1:33:16.200 --> 1:33:19.639 a chance to sample that stuff or remember it if 1:33:19.640 --> 1:33:21.559 they if they already know it. 1:33:22.200 --> 1:33:23.479 And all the little plug and. 1:33:23.439 --> 1:33:25.880 Play toys that you know, they oh, there's twenty games, 1:33:25.920 --> 1:33:26.840 you're plug in your TV. 1:33:26.960 --> 1:33:29.240 It's not quite right, but it's right enough. 1:33:29.280 --> 1:33:29.400 You know. 1:33:29.439 --> 1:33:32.240 Those are sort of things that are really they've had 1:33:32.360 --> 1:33:35.160 They've always been around a bit. They've had quite a 1:33:35.240 --> 1:33:38.200 resurgence and a push in the last couple of years. 1:33:38.960 --> 1:33:41.280 Yeah, we we've We've had a couple of those over 1:33:41.280 --> 1:33:41.679 the years. 1:33:41.720 --> 1:33:44.400 Also, like the NYS Classic that came out. 1:33:45.920 --> 1:33:48.719 So what what So when when you talk about these games, 1:33:48.760 --> 1:33:51.400 are you talking do they come out with new games 1:33:51.400 --> 1:33:53.559 for this or's always like old games that are just 1:33:53.600 --> 1:33:54.400 sort of new again. 1:33:55.640 --> 1:33:55.840 You know. 1:33:56.120 --> 1:33:59.280 It's both and Atari, especially who I just mentioned, they're 1:33:59.320 --> 1:34:03.240 doing some amaze. Like just the last week, two weeks ago, 1:34:03.280 --> 1:34:07.360 they announced the Atari seventy eight hundred Plus, which is 1:34:07.400 --> 1:34:10.120 a throwback to the seventy eight hundred from the I 1:34:10.120 --> 1:34:12.000 guess late eighties. I think came out eighty nine or 1:34:12.000 --> 1:34:15.520 something like that anyway, But in addition to re releasing 1:34:15.560 --> 1:34:18.479 some older games on physical media, which is what these 1:34:18.479 --> 1:34:23.519 consoles do, these plus consoles, since they recently purchased Atari Age, 1:34:23.560 --> 1:34:26.320 which is a forum and community for Atari fans, they 1:34:26.320 --> 1:34:29.880 have embraced the homebrew developers. I just had a chance 1:34:29.920 --> 1:34:32.719 to speak with Bob de Grezenzo, who's a long time 1:34:33.640 --> 1:34:36.439 homebrew developer, and they embraced him. They took some of 1:34:36.479 --> 1:34:39.439 his homebrew games that he wrote, and you asked, but older, 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:41.280 newer games. These are games he's written the last two 1:34:41.320 --> 1:34:45.000 or three years. And they're making the legitimate. They're making 1:34:45.040 --> 1:34:47.600 the part of the Atari library. Now it's not just 1:34:47.640 --> 1:34:50.520 a hobbyist who wrote something and had a cartridge built. 1:34:50.720 --> 1:34:54.080 So many of the plug and plays are compilations, as 1:34:54.080 --> 1:34:57.439 you said, of stuff that's been around for thirty forty years. 1:34:57.439 --> 1:35:01.439 But Atari is doing a lot to breathe new life 1:35:01.439 --> 1:35:05.000 into these consoles with titles that are written by enthusiasts 1:35:05.120 --> 1:35:09.240 and now becoming legitimized as part of the game library 1:35:09.280 --> 1:35:09.879 of Atari. 1:35:10.200 --> 1:35:10.920 That's so cool. 1:35:10.960 --> 1:35:13.840 So the reason why I found you was because I 1:35:13.920 --> 1:35:17.839 was doing a story on sort of retro gaming. Visited 1:35:17.880 --> 1:35:21.280 a store in the LA area called retro Respawn, which 1:35:21.320 --> 1:35:23.560 is like, you know, these people go in there and 1:35:23.600 --> 1:35:27.000 they buy, sell, and trade old games, and it was 1:35:27.080 --> 1:35:30.680 just wild to see that kind of community. And he 1:35:30.720 --> 1:35:33.960 was telling me Pokemon is really hot. Obviously Mario is 1:35:33.960 --> 1:35:36.639 always hot, but it's wild to go into this store 1:35:36.680 --> 1:35:40.519 where you have physical cartridges, you have games that haven't end. 1:35:40.640 --> 1:35:41.960 It's like almost like a mini. 1:35:41.720 --> 1:35:45.880 Movie compared to today's games like a Fortnite or a 1:35:47.000 --> 1:35:48.360 you know what's the other one that all the kids 1:35:48.400 --> 1:35:51.080 like roadblocks, like these games never end. Back when we 1:35:51.080 --> 1:35:53.479 played games, or I guess you still do, you know, 1:35:53.520 --> 1:35:55.120 they had a beginning of middle and an end. It 1:35:55.160 --> 1:35:57.920 was a storyline and now it's just open ended forever. 1:35:59.120 --> 1:36:01.519 Right, Or it was designed to kill you in about 1:36:01.520 --> 1:36:03.599 three minutes like an arcade game, get another quartery out 1:36:03.640 --> 1:36:04.160 of your pocket. 1:36:04.200 --> 1:36:04.360 Right. 1:36:04.400 --> 1:36:06.920 It was either a story that had beguinea midle end, 1:36:06.920 --> 1:36:09.320 as you said, or it was something that was fast 1:36:09.400 --> 1:36:11.960 action and twitch and how far can you get? What 1:36:12.040 --> 1:36:14.080 high score can you get? Wait a second, you know 1:36:14.320 --> 1:36:17.200 you just high scores. You just made me realize something 1:36:17.560 --> 1:36:21.559 that we have been getting played by these games for 1:36:21.640 --> 1:36:24.360 many years, because nowadays, like the kids are asking their 1:36:24.360 --> 1:36:27.200 parents for these little InApp purchases, right, ninety nine cents here, 1:36:27.240 --> 1:36:27.920 a dollar there. 1:36:28.320 --> 1:36:30.280 But now I think about it, Yeah, the whole point 1:36:30.320 --> 1:36:33.320 was to get those quarters out of your pocket into 1:36:33.360 --> 1:36:34.000 the game when you. 1:36:33.920 --> 1:36:34.439 Were a kid. 1:36:35.479 --> 1:36:37.920 That was the metric for old arcade games. Try to 1:36:38.040 --> 1:36:40.479 get your quarter and kill you in three minutes because 1:36:40.479 --> 1:36:42.400 that was how long it would take before to make money. 1:36:42.600 --> 1:36:45.120 Get another quarter every three or four minutes was the goal. 1:36:45.400 --> 1:36:47.400 So better you got, the worse it was for the 1:36:47.439 --> 1:36:48.600 owner of that machine. 1:36:48.680 --> 1:36:50.680 And I guess there's probably some rev share too with 1:36:50.760 --> 1:36:52.799 the you know, the pizza place that had the machine 1:36:52.840 --> 1:36:55.200 in there, right right? What are your favorite games? What 1:36:55.520 --> 1:36:56.880 are you into these days? 1:36:58.040 --> 1:37:01.240 So look, I still play old stuff. I go back 1:37:01.240 --> 1:37:05.080 and play old Atari twenty six hundred titles regularly today. 1:37:05.560 --> 1:37:09.720 I'm also really enjoying some of the reimagined games, and 1:37:09.760 --> 1:37:11.880 I keep mentioning Atari, but they're doing so much in 1:37:11.920 --> 1:37:15.200 the space right now they are doing these recharged games 1:37:15.200 --> 1:37:19.000 where they take a classic game like Breakout or Missile 1:37:19.000 --> 1:37:22.960 Command or Asteroids or Centipede, and they're reimagining it with 1:37:23.000 --> 1:37:26.360 a techno soundtrack and power ups and things like that. 1:37:26.600 --> 1:37:28.880 They just came out with a new one called Yars Rising, 1:37:28.920 --> 1:37:32.080 which was actually a kind of a metroid Vania exploration, 1:37:32.400 --> 1:37:34.559 power up your character sort of thing, nothing like the 1:37:34.600 --> 1:37:37.840 original Yars Revenge that Howard Scott Warshaw wrote decades ago, 1:37:38.160 --> 1:37:42.200 but in that universe. I like how especially Atari and 1:37:42.240 --> 1:37:44.960 some other companies are starting to do this, are exploring 1:37:45.000 --> 1:37:48.320 their library and not just regurgitating the same games, but 1:37:48.439 --> 1:37:51.839 iterating upon them and expanding the lore or the story 1:37:52.320 --> 1:37:55.200 or the gameplay in ways that makes sense to modern gamers, 1:37:55.479 --> 1:37:57.559 but still try to appeal to the older guys like 1:37:57.640 --> 1:37:59.840 us who sorry, older guys like me, I won't group 1:37:59.880 --> 1:38:00.200 you with. 1:38:00.360 --> 1:38:02.599 I was gonna say, I don't know here, you're putting 1:38:02.640 --> 1:38:03.720 me in a big grout home. 1:38:03.760 --> 1:38:06.760 So yeah, yeah, we can enjoy it too. Yeah. 1:38:06.880 --> 1:38:09.240 John Reddick from gen X Grown Up, thanks so much 1:38:09.280 --> 1:38:10.000 for joining me today. 1:38:10.000 --> 1:38:12.720 Appreciate it one hundred percent. Thank you for having me. 1:38:12.760 --> 1:38:15.320 It's been great, all right, find his YouTube channel. 1:38:15.400 --> 1:38:20.040 If you're a nostalgic for a simpler time or simpler games, 1:38:20.320 --> 1:38:23.720 check it out on YouTube. Jen X grown up. All right, 1:38:23.800 --> 1:38:26.800 coming up, it is the feedbag. Plus I'm gonna tell 1:38:26.800 --> 1:38:30.600 you why weaimo's expanding, how much data we used in 1:38:30.720 --> 1:38:34.400 twenty twenty three, and what YouTube is doing to squeeze 1:38:34.479 --> 1:38:37.320 some more money out of you. That's all coming up 1:38:37.400 --> 1:38:45.840 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:38:45.920 --> 1:38:49.439 on Tech. Closing out the show, a couple of news 1:38:49.479 --> 1:38:53.120 items before we get to the feedbag. Johnny B in 1:38:53.600 --> 1:38:57.040 Sunny San Diego sent a note that said TurboTax is 1:38:57.120 --> 1:39:03.080 discontinuing its CD format for its desktop software. TurboTax desktop 1:39:03.120 --> 1:39:07.200 products will only be available via download from tax here 1:39:07.240 --> 1:39:11.520 twenty twenty four and on. The CD format is discontinued. 1:39:11.560 --> 1:39:15.360 You could download products from retailers. I guess you could 1:39:15.360 --> 1:39:18.640 buy like the download there and TurboTax dot com. It 1:39:18.680 --> 1:39:21.640 will still have a license code in installation instructions. The 1:39:22.280 --> 1:39:26.640 software functionality will remain unchanged. The download products will be 1:39:26.680 --> 1:39:30.560 available in early November, and again this only affects TurboTax 1:39:30.760 --> 1:39:34.519 desktop customers. If you're using TurboTax dot com that's a 1:39:34.560 --> 1:39:36.519 little bit different. But this is if you bought the 1:39:36.560 --> 1:39:39.559 box at the store like a Staples or office depot 1:39:39.920 --> 1:39:41.240 and did your taxes that way. 1:39:41.280 --> 1:39:42.040 Thanks Johnny B. 1:39:43.400 --> 1:39:47.400 Waimo and Uber are teaming up and expanding their partnership. 1:39:47.479 --> 1:39:51.240 They are gonna start driving in Austin and Atlanta. So 1:39:51.360 --> 1:39:55.759 basically Uber is gonna supply these fully autonomous, all electric 1:39:55.840 --> 1:39:59.960 self driving cars, and Uber is going to supply the app. 1:40:00.120 --> 1:40:03.960 Reabook them service is going to start in twenty twenty five, 1:40:04.720 --> 1:40:09.080 and Waimo one currently provides over one hundred thousand trips 1:40:09.080 --> 1:40:12.880 weekly in their three cities, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. 1:40:13.240 --> 1:40:14.880 I know, I see them on the streets of Los 1:40:14.880 --> 1:40:17.920 Angeles and every time I see one, seeing that car 1:40:18.000 --> 1:40:20.160 driving by itself with no one in the driver's seat 1:40:20.320 --> 1:40:22.720 always throws me for a loop. But people seem to 1:40:22.800 --> 1:40:25.599 like them right now. They don't drive on freeways, that's 1:40:25.640 --> 1:40:32.400 the limitation. Apparently, Americans using a record number of a 1:40:32.479 --> 1:40:37.439 record number of data wireless data in twenty twenty three. 1:40:38.160 --> 1:40:39.720 Wireless data, according. 1:40:39.360 --> 1:40:44.000 To the CTIA, that's the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, 1:40:44.080 --> 1:40:47.120 the big trade group that represents you know, Verizon, T Mobile, 1:40:47.160 --> 1:40:50.960 AT and T all the rest. Wireless data usage reached 1:40:50.960 --> 1:40:54.880 over one hundred trillion megabytes in twenty twenty three, thirty 1:40:54.920 --> 1:40:58.679 six percent increase from twenty twenty two. Five G devices 1:40:58.720 --> 1:41:01.320 are now about forty percent of all wireless devices, up 1:41:01.320 --> 1:41:05.559 from thirty four percent in twenty twenty two. Total wireless 1:41:05.560 --> 1:41:08.719 connections in the US five hundred and fifty eight million. 1:41:09.240 --> 1:41:11.720 That's more than one point six per American. That makes 1:41:11.760 --> 1:41:13.880 a lot of sense because it's not just cell phones. 1:41:14.240 --> 1:41:19.400 They are building Internet connections into everything, tablets, watches, cars, 1:41:20.080 --> 1:41:22.559 pretty much anything you can think of your coffee mug. 1:41:23.200 --> 1:41:27.439 Just kidding, but they might. Let's see, total cell sites 1:41:27.479 --> 1:41:30.479 four hundred and thirty two, four hundred and sixty nine, 1:41:31.000 --> 1:41:33.040 twenty four percent more since twenty eighteen. 1:41:33.840 --> 1:41:35.600 So they continue to build those. 1:41:35.760 --> 1:41:40.599 And Americans exchange over two point one trillion text messages 1:41:40.640 --> 1:41:42.640 in twenty twenty three. Keep in mind that does not 1:41:42.680 --> 1:41:45.160 include I message. That's Apple's own thing. It doesn't get 1:41:45.280 --> 1:41:49.639 registered through this. Voice calls two point four trillion minutes 1:41:49.640 --> 1:41:53.280 in twenty twenty three. That's actually down just slightly. Probably 1:41:53.280 --> 1:41:55.400 makes a lot of sense. We talk on the phone less, 1:41:55.720 --> 1:42:01.040 we text more and finally YouTube introducing pause as so, 1:42:01.080 --> 1:42:03.880 if you're on YouTube on your TV, you pause the 1:42:03.960 --> 1:42:06.160 video and you see an AD. Yes, that is the 1:42:06.200 --> 1:42:08.559 new trend. We've seen all of these services do it. 1:42:09.000 --> 1:42:11.400 YouTube is the new one. It squeezes more money out 1:42:11.439 --> 1:42:14.479 of us because we're pausing. Why not just have an 1:42:14.479 --> 1:42:17.360 AD on the screen while we're pausing. There's typically a 1:42:17.400 --> 1:42:19.920 little ad on the right. The video kind of goes 1:42:19.960 --> 1:42:21.960 to the left. 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