WEBVTT - Google Photos becomes TikTok for your memories 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.240 What's the deal with is sim Google Photos becomes your 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.920 own personal TikTok for memories? My thoughts of Apple's new 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:24.240 iPhones after a week plus your tech questions answered? What's 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.759 going on? I'm Rich Tamiro and this is Rich on 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.240 Tech the podcast h I talk about the tech stuff 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.760 I think you should know about. It's also the place 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.839 where I answer the questions you send me. I'm a 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.440 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. What 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.760 a week it has been? All because of something named 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.680 after a fruit apple. They launched a whole bunch of stuff. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.959 I know it doesn't seem maybe too significant to you listening, 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.120 but to me someone who has to go through every 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.200 one of these products and figure out what's new, what's different, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.800 what's unique. So I mean, yeah, they launched new iPhones 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.759 on the surface, but they launched not just new iPhones, 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.680 but four iPhones, two different sizes, so really two. Then 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.319 they had the Series eight Watch, then they had the Ultra, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.840 then they had the se Then they also had the AirPods. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.200 Did I miss anything? So that's a lot of stuff 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.760 to go through. And I've been using some of the 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.960 products more so than others, but general consensus is pretty solid. Updates, 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.000 I mean, nothing groundbreaking. It's not like you're, you know, 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.440 have to rush out and upgrade to one of these devices. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.679 But you know, the way Apple works is when you're 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.759 in the store and you're you know, kind of ready 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.920 for an upgrade, it's like, okay, well what does the 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.160 new one have? And so that's really what it comes 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.600 down to is what do the new ones have? So 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.120 when it comes to the iPhone fourteen, you know, minimal 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.880 use on that. I didn't really need to do much 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.160 with that because you know, even though it's the phone 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.040 that most people are gonna buy, it's just it's a 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.880 basic iPhone. I mean it's it's a standard iPhone. So 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.160 this is the phone that people you know, what happens 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.880 is Apple lures you in with the iPhone fourteen Pro 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.239 and then you get in there and you're like, wait, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.160 it's how much. Oh, I'll just take that one for 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.240 eight hundred, so instead of paying twelve hundred or you know, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.120 the thousand whatever. You know, the bigger one is. But 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.240 the iPhone fourteen, I mean realistically, you know, it's got 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.560 the same process or very similar processor as last year. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.359 The camera's you know, slight improvements, so I think, you know, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.400 the selfie camera having the new auto focus. I mean, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.360 I didn't even realize that it didn't have auto focus 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.240 in the past. It's not like it's ever really been 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.440 an issue. So that's fine if you need it. You know. Really, 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.040 the crash detection and the SOS over satellite are going 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.800 to be the two new things. I was not able 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.680 to test the crash detection clearly, SOS satellite I got 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.160 a demo of at Apple, but I can't really test that. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.720 That doesn't come out until November. Gosh, what I should 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.119 do is just answer. I got so many questions on 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.400 my Instagram because I asked people, you know, what do 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.440 you want to know about these phones? I should just 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.400 go through those for like the first five minutes of 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.760 the show and let me just say, you know, if 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.080 you don't like Apple or you don't care about Apple, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.880 I understand that this week is kind of a rough 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.600 week for you because so much of the news in 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.520 the tech world is consumed by Apple. And that's just natural. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.920 When you know, when a company comes out with this 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.920 much stuff, a company of this much prominence, that's just 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.200 kind of how it is. So yeah, I'm just looking 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.760 at some of these responses, and a lot of people 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.960 are saying, you know, is it worth the upgrade from 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.280 a thirteen to a fourteen? So I think it really 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.760 comes down to, you know, what your situation is. You know, 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.240 if you're just if you're okay with you know, spending 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.800 a couple hundred bucks when you really look at the 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.839 way the phone works. You know, Let's say you spend 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:53.600 one thousand dollars on the iPhone fourteen pro this year, okay, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.080 and then you go to trade it in next year. 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.680 So I think when I looked at Apple's website, they 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.280 were given about seven hundred let's just say, seven hundred dollars. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.640 So for the use of that phone for the last year, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.000 it was roughly three hundred dollars, I mean plus tax 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.960 and all that stuff. But I mean, so if you 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.320 don't mind paying three to four hundred to you know, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.280 maybe five hundred dollars depending on how much you get 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.440 for storage a year for this device that you carry 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.440 every day and use every day, and want a better 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.560 camera and you want the latest, you want the greatest. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.040 Do you want the emergency stuff? Sure, go ahead, upgrade, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.360 But do you need to upgrade? Probably not. Now, there 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.800 are specific use case scenarios where if you want the 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.520 best camera because you're an instagrammer, or you want the 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.640 best camera because you have a newborn, and you want 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.200 you know, the best video because you know, want the 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.920 action cam feature because you've been carrying a go pro around. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.000 So yeah, these are all reasons why you might want 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.039 to go with these new phones. But you know, I'm 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.279 not sitting here telling you you have to upgrade. You know, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.640 if there was a feature that was groundbreaking on one 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.960 of these phones, and you know, the craft detection or 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:03.080 the SOS emergency might be consider that for safety. But 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.760 if there is a feature, you know, hardware feature, software feature, 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.040 you know that was super groundbreaking, then yeah, I'd mention it. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.520 But you know, we're getting nice incremental upgrades in the 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.480 cameras and the hardware is a very similar new processor 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.880 in the iPhone fourteen Pro. But the iPhone fourteen thirteen 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.360 wasn't even that slow towards the end, so it's not 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.240 like you needed it. In fact, they're using a very 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.840 similar processor in the iPhone fourteen this year. It's also 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.120 really confusing for the average person that there's iPhone fourteen 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.440 is sort of a blanket term for the new phones. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.920 But then you also have iPhone fourteen like the regular one, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.200 and then the pro. So I'm trying to think of 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.080 some of my other thoughts. I mean, you know, my 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.280 the always on display really really, I think it's just fantastic. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.279 It's like it's funny because that's been on the Android 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.040 phones forever. Of course I love it. I mean, that's 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.200 that's like a standard thing I've been wanting on the 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.080 iPhone for so long, just to see the time most 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.960 of the time. But then they went and they won 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.440 uped it and they put these widgets on the lock screen, 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.440 which you know right now they're not that handy. I've 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.600 got a calendar widget, which I do love. I think 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.400 that's the best thing. Ever, then I have a weather 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.279 and the sun sunset, sunrise. Do I need those other two? Know? 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.839 But it's also only like day three, so, I mean 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.800 since iOS sixteen came out, so once these developers and 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.320 I'm checking my apps every day right now, and I 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.640 would suggest you do the same, update your apps every 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.960 day because they're adding new functionality to these widgets every 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.120 single day, and so you know there will be widgets 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.719 on there that I haven't thought of that I would 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.000 really like to have on there. And so right now 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.320 I'm looking, I mean, out of all the apps on 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:46.119 my phone, there are literally one two, three, four, five 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.880 six extra widgets that are not included in the operating system. 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.559 And I probably have you know, one hundred and fifty 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.240 two hundred apps on my phone. So that just goes 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.400 to show you that we're at the just the beginning 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.800 of what those widgets do. They always on display is 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.359 really unique in that it looks like your phone is 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.880 on all the time. Compared to Android, you could definitely 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.680 tell when it's always on and when it's on the 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.040 actual screen. On this half the time I'm looking at it, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.680 I'm like, wait, is a phone on? What's going on there? 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.000 Let's see what else? The search on the homepage, which 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.880 you get, you know, if you have a iOS sixteen device, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.160 that's really cool, even though you know, I just wish 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.240 it was a little bit better with the search. It's 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.640 not like real Google search. I mean, it sort of is, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.640 but it's not. I don't know if they're surfacing like 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.840 Google results as a suggest yeah, says serious suggestions, So 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.040 those are not really necessarily Google suggestions. But I don't know, 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.880 maybe they'll get better. Let's see what else do The 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.120 Digital Dynamic Island, I mean, you could keep it. I 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.080 don't really need it. It's not I haven't really seen 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.880 the usefulness of that. And you know, there's still a 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.320 lot of little things on iPhone that are just kind of, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.480 you know, just kind of been stagnant for us. Is 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.640 it stagnant just stale for a while, like some of 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.040 the you know, like just arranging your home screen. You know, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.320 it's still this like really really complicated, Like you move 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.240 one icon, it pushes all the other ones out of 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.760 the way. Like it's just so odd that in twenty 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.320 twenty two we can't just like have icons the way 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.320 we want them on our screen, or little things like 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.280 you know, do apps stop working in the background after 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.800 you know a little bit. Just just stuff like that. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.560 So anyway, overall, the camera is good. The action mode 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.840 I think is really fun. I'll probably use that. The 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.160 raw mode, the forty eight I'll never use. I don't 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.920 really need that. I can't think of a reason why 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.360 i'd need that. And you know, the camera is fine. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.400 I think that the camera actually took a little tiny 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.520 step back in sort of the overall look of your pictures. 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.800 I think that Apple needs to tweak the algorithm for this. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.040 I don't know, maybe because it's a new lens that 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.000 they need to kind of tweak things just a little 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.000 bit because it's the pictures are looking great as usual, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.280 but they're not looking as good as I remember with 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.520 like the older iPhone. So I mean, yes, they're good, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.200 but they're I think that Apple will continue to tweak 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.440 and make things better on this device. So anyway, that's it. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.720 I mean, And one thing I do want to explain 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.840 because I did get some questions about this, and I 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.360 was at the Apple store yesterday doing some interviews, and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.439 I was really curious because you know, most people buy 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.559 the iPhone on some sort of installment plan. It used 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.760 to be Apple's upgrade plan, but now the carriers have 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.840 sort of swooped in and taken over with these giant 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.079 trade in amounts, so like up to one thousand dollars 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.880 up to eight hundred dollars, you know, if you switch 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.400 or you change a line whatever, and so the big difference. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.160 I was trying to, you know, get this information from 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.000 the Apple folks. But the main thing is that if 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.319 you trade your phone into Apple directly. Right. Let's say 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.600 you buy the iPhone last year for one thousand bucks, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.839 then you go and you trade it into Apple. They 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.079 will give you the seven hundred dollars towards your new 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.720 phone immediately. So your new phone, let's say the price 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.760 tag is a thousand, you're out the door. Costs is 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.360 three hundred. The way the carriers do it, and this 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.679 is why they're really dangling one thousand dollars eight hundred 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.280 dollars no matter what, even if your phone is old, whatever. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.200 What they're doing is they're not really giving you one 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.880 thousand dollars all at once. They're taking that money and 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.720 they're dividing it up by anywhere from twenty four months 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.079 to thirty six months, and so you basically have to 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.439 stay with them during that time to get the maximum 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.560 out of that trade and deal, which is sort of 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.200 a quasi contract. And so it's you know, you're gonna 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.280 get more money. And if you're sticking with AT and 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.160 T or Verizon or T Mobile, fine, then it's gonna 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.000 work out for you. But if you're not, if you 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.559 ever want to switch to like one of these low 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.320 cost carriers or these cheaper you know carriers or a 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.920 better plan. You're really gonna be stuck because you will 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.559 have to pay some sort of buyout on that price 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.960 of the phone. So you know, maybe you're just offsetting 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.719 a problem that's gonna happen later. But anyway, lots of 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.240 thoughts on the iPhone, and you know, it's just one 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.720 of these things that it's so it it consumes so 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.440 much of the attention in the tech world, and for 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.480 good reason. I mean, the iPhone was think about this 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.320 the other day. It's become so many things in our lives. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:04.839 Like I was thinking of all the things it's just 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.200 kind of like taken out. Maybe I mentioned this last week, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.720 but it's just you know, it's like if you don't 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.439 bring your phone with you soon, you're not gonna have 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.280 your car keys. Like for me, it's my car key, 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.720 you know, it's my wallet, it's you know, minus my 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.679 ID and some cash. But it's it's really you know, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.800 it's your music player, it's your notepad, it's your gym tracker, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.280 it's your activity tracker. It's just everything. And so there 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.040 is a reason. I mean, it's not just like oh, 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.840 the camera on the iPhone. There's so many aspects to 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.120 what the iPhone does in general. And you know, I 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.600 think that these competitors out there are trying, but it's 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.880 really tough to compete with Apple because they've built such 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.520 a sticky ecosystem. Like for me, for instance, like if 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.560 I want to switch out of iPhone, it's like, oh, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.840 I can't I message my kid. That really sucks. Oh 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.680 I lose my air tags. That's not fun. Let's see 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.360 what else I lose my you know, the best best 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.200 in class video that I take on here for TV. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.560 You know, if I'm ever out on a story anywhere 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.000 in the world and I shoot a little video with 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.439 my iPhone, I know that I can run that video 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.480 on TV because it's gonna look perfect. And so I 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.280 lose that. You know, I lose all these random little 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.760 apps that are that are so well designed for the 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.439 iPhone that these developers have spent their entire lives creating. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.080 And so you know, there is a reason why I 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.320 lose all the accessories, all the mag safe stuff you 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.840 know that works so nicely. You go into any store 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.240 in the world, you could buy a new case for 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.200 this phone. I mean, really, there are so many considerations, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.800 and yeah, go ahead, call me an Apple fanboy. I'm not. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.160 I'm really not at all, and I'm not trying to 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.840 defend myself. But the reality is, you know, I really 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.720 like Android, but I need to also be served in 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.520 a way that you know, I get what I need 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.880 out of a phone. And so with the pixel for instance, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.319 Pixel six pro. Love that phone, but it's just not 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.800 as powerful as i'd like when it comes to like 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.319 the video stuff that I need for my job. And 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.720 you know, so then you say, oh, okay, what about 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.480 the this S twenty two Ultra great? But it's a 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.400 giant phone and it never really feels comfortable in my 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.439 hand and I can't really get used to it, and 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.840 I don't necessarily need the pen on it, and so 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.800 it's like it's great, but you know, also the software 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.320 is like a little bit stumbly for me. You know, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.120 it's good, but it's not like really really good like 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.240 the iPhone. When you go back to it, you're just like, oh, wow, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.400 I could find anything on this phone in like one second. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.720 And then I go to Samsung and I'm like, I 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.920 go to bring up the finder and it's like you know, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.560 the search the phone, it's it takes literally a couple 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.840 seconds to bring up my app that I'm searching for. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.839 I mean, that's just not acceptable. And face ID is 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.240 also another thing. So anyway, you know, I just try 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.800 to look at all these things and see what they're worth. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.679 And I think that, you know, most people don't use 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.680 like ninety nine percent of what the iPhone does anyway, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.960 so it's all good. Anyway, keep those questions coming. Let's 0:13:53.000 --> 0:14:00.240 get to the first question of the podcast, which is 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.760 where is it's here? It is, Oh, look at this? 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.040 Oh great? More iPhone talk, Michael says, is the extra 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.360 two hundred dollars for the iPhone pro worth it over 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.280 the Plus fourteen? I take photos, but I'm not anywhere 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.440 close to someone that really values higher quality. So the 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.040 only difference between the two I think would be the 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.640 New Island. But your video says it still needs work. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.520 So my thought here is that the fourteen plus should 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.080 be just fine. But I value your suggestion. Thanks in advance, Mike. Mike, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.520 I agree. If you do not care about your pictures. Now, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.280 I'm not saying you're not gonna get good pictures out 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.080 of the fourteen plus. You're gonna get great pictures. Are 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.200 they gonna be as good in every situation as the 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.440 fourteen pro. No, but you then again it's you know, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.880 is it worth the extra two hundred not if you 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.000 don't care about that feature. Dynamic island is not worth 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.520 two hundred dollars always on display. I would make an 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.400 argument for that because that is one of my favorite 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.440 features to see the time and the date in my 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.960 widgets that are you know, coming soon, So that to 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.880 me might be worth it. But you know, again, it 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.360 really comes down to what you want out of your phone. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.760 So if you don't really care about your pictures that much, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.240 I think you'll be just fine with a fourteen plus. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:09.040 That's coming out, by the way, October seventh. So kind 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.720 of odd that Apple had three models come out the 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.760 same day, but they couldn't somehow get the iPhone fourteen 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.440 plus on the same day, So that's delayed by about 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.240 I guess a three month three weeks came out in 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.760 the sixteenth and then you've got October seventh. That sounds 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.240 like it's about three weeks. So good question, Mike, And 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.760 you know, look to each his own. Everyone has different, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.080 you know, wants with their phone, and so it just 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.720 comes down to, like I've always said, it just comes 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.960 down to what you need out of your device. All right, 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.720 let's talk about eSIMs, because this is another new thing 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.800 on the iPhone. Now. eSIMs have been around for a 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.840 long time now, nobody has really needed to use them 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.520 until now because they did away with a physical simcard 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.840 on the iPhone. So now people are sort of discovering 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.960 for the first time that wait a second, I don't 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.960 need a simcard on my phone. That's kind of weird. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.960 And you know, quite honestly, I never used an eSIM 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.360 until my trip to Rome and I activated an eSIM 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.280 for international and it was so easy, it was so amazing, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.320 and it was the greatest experience, and I was like, wow, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.040 this is really really cool. Now, if you talk to Apple, 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:25.880 they've actually secretly, not secretly, but they've they haven't advertised this, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.120 but they've been activating eSIMs on all of the iPhones 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.720 sold at their stores for the past year, you know, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.520 without people really knowing that, like, oh you didn't, I 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.280 didn't notice you pop in a SIM card. But they 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.800 didn't need to because they've been activating them. Probably has 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.000 like a beta test, you know, for this big launch, 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.600 and so people are already out there using eSIMs. And 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.880 I think eSIM is is quite amazing actually, because at 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.680 first I was like, oh, that's kind of annoying, like 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.280 you can't just swap SIM cards or whatever. And yeah, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.520 there will be some uses where that's that is kind 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.920 of annoying because you're always so sort of going through 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.359 the carrier to switch your SIM to a new phone, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.679 and so you know, there's just a level of like 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.879 I gotta I gotta work with either the phones or 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.600 the carrier or you know, like if you go from 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.040 let's say you went from and this is where I 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.320 think Apple kind of did this on purpose. But let's 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.919 say you do you decide to switch from Android to 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.240 iOS and you activate. You know, you had a physical 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.320 SIM on your Android, and now you go to iOS 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.919 and it's it's eSIM. Well, guess what, it's gonna be 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.680 a big barrier to get back to that physical SIM, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.320 to go back to an Android. Now androids do support eSIMs, 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.480 but again it's just one. You know, iPhone. They sort 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.879 of made the system work really well. But you know, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.520 with and I don't know what it's like to go 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.040 from eSIM on iPhone to eSIM on Android. You probably 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.040 have to like contact your carrier, like not the easiest situation. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.919 But what I like about the eSIM is that you 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:57.679 can literally set up your cellular plan right from your phone. 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.679 You don't need to go to a store. You know. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.040 A picture and I posted it the other day of 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.720 the the simcard section at Target, and I said, ah, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.199 this is going the way of news stands and you know, 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:13.119 mailboxes and postage stamps and magazines and newspapers. It's like 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.080 stuff that like used to be really important but now 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.359 is all just digital. And that's kind of like the simcard. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.879 You just don't need it. But on the plus side, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.359 what I think is cool is that all of these 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.200 little carriers now have an option to sort of get 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:28.720 you in. I mean, you could see a commercial on 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.560 TV for a really good cell phone plan and switch 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.320 to it immediately on your phone. That is pretty powerful 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.080 and really cool. In fact, I was looking at some 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.080 you know, plans online and I found this one from 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.359 US Mobile that I've tested US Mobile in the past. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.919 It was really good. They run on like either Verizon 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.720 or T Mobile, and they are unlimited plans like forty 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.000 five bucks a month. And I'm like, Okay, that's pretty good, 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.040 so what's the catch. And not only that, but you 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.920 can go on their website and they'll give you let's 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.720 see what's their offer. It's like, you know, they'll they'll 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.480 activate your e SIM immediately to give you a test run, 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.959 just like T mobiles doing as well. So this US mobile, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.920 let's see what's what's happening here. Let's see. So free 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:18.240 trial ten days with unlimited talk, text and premium data 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.879 ten days. That's pretty good. So, I mean, that's really 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.800 cool that you could just do that right from your 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.600 from your phone and just activate you know, ten days 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.520 of free service on the iPhone. You can store eight sims. 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.840 Two can be active, six can be sort of dormant. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:36.800 And what that means because I know this is kind 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.399 of odd because it's all new, but let's say you 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.159 go to Italy all the time and you wanted to 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.120 keep your Rome SIM cards, you know, with that phone 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.679 number that only works over there. You can keep it, 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.000 you know, dormant but not active on your phone, or 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:49.879 you can tap it and activate it when you get 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.080 over there. So or you can have you know, one 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.720 SIM for your home number, one SIM for your work number. 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.480