Speaker 1: A unique new photo feature on the next iPhone, A
Speaker 1: new app for travel geeks. Costco goes digital. Plus we're
Speaker 1: answering your pressing tech questions. What is going on on
Speaker 1: rich Demiro? This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where
Speaker 1: I talk about the stuff I think you should know
Speaker 1: about happening in the tech world. Plus, I'm answering your
Speaker 1: tech questions. Joining me is producer Megan. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1: I am good. It is been a good week. How's
Speaker 1: your week been so far?
Speaker 2: My week's been good. It's been busy, It's gone by
Speaker 2: so fast.
Speaker 1: Megan goes through two phases of life. She goes through
Speaker 1: just getting done with vacation and then getting ready to
Speaker 1: go back on vacation. So you're going back out of
Speaker 1: town again already, aren't you? Where are you going now?
Speaker 2: I'm going to Hawaii?
Speaker 1: But that's not this is not this weekend.
Speaker 2: It's next week, next week?
Speaker 1: Okay? If I just reveal a surprise that no?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, so you post on Instagram like getting Hawaii ready,
Speaker 1: So I figured it like the sea around days, although
Speaker 1: you didn't say where you were going, right, that could
Speaker 1: have been a secret. Oh, not a secret. Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean you clearly you're just an open book. You don't
Speaker 1: care the post.
Speaker 2: It takes you to kawai the last time I see.
Speaker 1: Instagram is so tricky with all these like weird little
Speaker 1: like nothing is apparent like what like I didn't realize
Speaker 1: you can click the post? Yeah you know. Anyways, So
Speaker 1: why listen to a show like this megan to.
Speaker 3: Learn about tech and how to you know, make it
Speaker 3: through the world today.
Speaker 1: Yes, so let me give you an example of why
Speaker 1: you're just the average person. You're sitting there, you like rich,
Speaker 1: all this tech stuff. It baffles me. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: How does it affect me? Big deal? Come on, all
Speaker 1: this stuff you talk about I don't really understand. But
Speaker 1: here's why you listen to a show like this, because
Speaker 1: number one, I am breaking it down in a way
Speaker 1: that you can understand. We don't talk about stuff that
Speaker 1: doesn't really apply to the average person. We're talking about
Speaker 1: stuff that affects you. The apps you can use, the
Speaker 1: everyday decisions you're making, whether you want to get a
Speaker 1: fire TV or a Roku or Chrome cast. These are
Speaker 1: the kind of things that we discussed on a weekly basis,
Speaker 1: so that when it comes time for you to make
Speaker 1: that decision. You remember, oh yeah, Rich did mention that
Speaker 1: the Chrome cast doesn't have that feature, or the Roku
Speaker 1: does that, but the Amazon doesn't. So you just have
Speaker 1: this thing. I'm not saying this is an end all
Speaker 1: for every decision you ever after make, but it just
Speaker 1: gives you that basis of knowledge. Right. So an example,
Speaker 1: how to colleague come up to me here at work
Speaker 1: and she comes up to me with her brand new
Speaker 1: cell phone and she says, hey, Rich, is this a
Speaker 1: good phone that I got? It's from Verizon. I look
Speaker 1: at it. I said, oh, that's the pixel. That's a
Speaker 1: fantastic phone. But why'd you go with the original pixel?
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you mean original? I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: the first pixel that ever came out, by the way
Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen. You're talking a phone that's three
Speaker 1: years old, right. So she said, I don't know, that's
Speaker 1: the one that they said was like the best one.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, they just came out with. I said,
Speaker 1: how much did you pay for this? Did you get?
Speaker 1: You obviously got it for free. She goes, no, it
Speaker 1: was like six hundred dollars. Wait what hold on? So
Speaker 1: now you bought a phone that's this this old, plus
Speaker 1: you paid this much money, and I did, you know,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure I confirmed, you know.
Speaker 1: I was like, I, you know, I noticed the phone
Speaker 1: from the way it looked that it was a Pixel,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to confirm because it's been a
Speaker 1: while since I played with the original Pixel. So I
Speaker 1: looked at it. I said, okay, and it was still nice,
Speaker 1: the software was still fresh and everything. But I said
Speaker 1: to her, you know that Google just came out with
Speaker 1: two new pixels that, by the way, are better than
Speaker 1: this phone and cheaper. Yeah, and Verizon sells them, so
Speaker 1: why would you not get that? And I wasn't yelling
Speaker 1: at her, but I was explaining that I wanted to know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just very curious what happened in this transaction
Speaker 1: at the Verizon store. Why a salesperson would lead her
Speaker 1: to a phone that is three years old versus one
Speaker 1: that came out two months ago. You remember, we went
Speaker 1: to the Google event and I featured those phones, the
Speaker 1: Pixel three A and the Pixel three A XL. So
Speaker 1: I told her the differences. I said, well, here's the
Speaker 1: difference the Pixel three A, which is a phone that
Speaker 1: sells for three ninety nine unlocked, which is a smaller size.
Speaker 1: She complained that she got the Xcel, which was kind
Speaker 1: of big for her hands, and I said, well, the
Speaker 1: Pixel three A is even smaller, so it'd be even
Speaker 1: easier in your hands too. So all these things added
Speaker 1: up to I said, you know what, I think you
Speaker 1: got to go back to the store. She goes back
Speaker 1: to the store. Ask her today and I said, did
Speaker 1: you get your new phone?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had to order it. So I said, did
Speaker 1: you ask them why they tried to sell you a
Speaker 1: phone that was three years old? And she said they
Speaker 1: basically ran around that and kind of gave her the
Speaker 1: run around. And at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: think what it came down to is that the Pixel
Speaker 1: three A was sold out at that location, OK, and
Speaker 1: they didn't feel like going through the trouble of ordering
Speaker 1: her device. Maybe they get more commission on a phone
Speaker 1: that's in house, and plus it's an older phone, so
Speaker 1: they make more on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm confused if it's three years old. I mean,
Speaker 3: the phone itself is not, but if it's a.
Speaker 1: Three year old, it might be three years old. It
Speaker 1: could have been sitting there for three years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why is it six hundred dollars? Why isn't gone down?
Speaker 3: What did it start at? It started at like nine hundred?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably started it like a probably closer to
Speaker 1: eight hundred, maybe something like that. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what the price of that phone was.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, this is why you listen to
Speaker 1: a show like this because in your mind, you might
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a memory of Rich talking
Speaker 1: about a new pixel phone. You may not remember the
Speaker 1: model number, you may not remember the details, but you said,
Speaker 1: Rich just talked about a brand new pixel phone a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago on the podcast, and I remember
Speaker 1: him saying it was less expensive. Just those two keywords
Speaker 1: in your head alone should be enough to make you realize,
Speaker 1: hold on, why am I going for a phone that's
Speaker 1: three years old? When I do remember this guy talking
Speaker 1: about a phone that's newer and better and cheaper. And
Speaker 1: it's just that kind of knowledge base that you build
Speaker 1: by listening to a show like this that does help
Speaker 1: you out in real life. So I just figured i'd
Speaker 1: share that story because I thought it was quite interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they can always if they if they remember
Speaker 3: that you talked about it, but they don't remember what week.
Speaker 3: They can go to KTLA dot com and they can
Speaker 3: search pixel and it'll come up. Because we post our
Speaker 3: show to KTA dot com.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we post the show to KTLA dot com. You
Speaker 1: can There's a great website called Listen Notoes dot com
Speaker 1: which you can search for basically a topic in any podcast,
Speaker 1: including ours. There is my website rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there's lots of ways, but remember a keyword
Speaker 1: or two and it will definitely help you.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna start with a question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So this first question comes from Deb Pollock
Speaker 3: and she asks do you know of a digital smart
Speaker 3: calendar that you write on that will sync with your
Speaker 3: calendar on your phone? I know there are notebooks that
Speaker 3: do that. Thank you in advance.
Speaker 1: This is a tricky one because I don't think that
Speaker 1: there's something exactly what she's talking about, Like, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's like a perfect product for this, right. But
Speaker 1: I did a little research and have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of Moleskine. These are like these little notebooks that people
Speaker 1: carry around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1: So I've been a big fan of these things for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 2: Are they digital?
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. So there was two angles I
Speaker 1: was looking at here, So one I don't if you remember,
Speaker 1: in China we saw that that device that looked like
Speaker 1: a tablet. It was almost like an ink display that
Speaker 1: you drew on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that, and I can't remember what.
Speaker 1: The name of it is, but I remember it being
Speaker 1: really cool and it was like it was like pen
Speaker 1: and paper. It was like almost like a legal pad,
Speaker 1: but it was digital and you can type on it.
Speaker 1: I don't think that would do what she's looking for,
Speaker 1: because I think what she wants to do is actually
Speaker 1: write something in a calendar digitally and then the event
Speaker 1: carries over to her phone, right, And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that there's a good, really good solution for that. So
Speaker 1: the closest thing I found is from mole Skein. They
Speaker 1: have something called the Smart Writing System, and what this
Speaker 1: is is one of their notebooks, and it says that
Speaker 1: it bridges the analog and the digital, so you can
Speaker 1: write in their little notebook and you know, you get
Speaker 1: smart Writing set and it looks like whatever you're writing
Speaker 1: in the notebook shows up in your phone on their
Speaker 1: app as well. I don't think this is perfect, and
Speaker 1: it's also quite expensive because you have to buy the
Speaker 1: special notebooks, you have to buy the special software whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's probably the clince you're going to get to
Speaker 1: a solution like this. Maybe if if you're listening and
Speaker 1: you have something that works for this. I would think
Speaker 1: that something like the Samsung Note would work for this
Speaker 1: because I do know that they convert handwriting into digital,
Speaker 1: so on that device you could probably use your handwriting
Speaker 1: to write into the calendar and then that will convert
Speaker 1: into text. So that's probably the other solution, but that
Speaker 1: requires getting a whole new phone and adopting a system.
Speaker 1: But they are coming out with a new note on
Speaker 1: August seventh, So if you want to wait to see
Speaker 1: if that's the case or if that's going to work
Speaker 1: for you, that probably is your best bet. So check
Speaker 1: out mole skin as well. But if you have a solution,
Speaker 1: email me for sure. So switching gears from Samsung to Apple.
Speaker 1: Apple is going to release their new iPhones later in September.
Speaker 1: We already know that, but of course now the rumors
Speaker 1: are trickling out a speculation on what this phone is
Speaker 1: going to have. So there's been a lot of rumors
Speaker 1: that they're going to switch over from the lightning port,
Speaker 1: which is what they have now, to something called USBC,
Speaker 1: which is what's on the iPad Pro. Remember when we
Speaker 1: went to the event in New York City that they
Speaker 1: changed the or do you not go to that? Was
Speaker 1: that before your time?
Speaker 2: I think that was before your time?
Speaker 1: Okay, Apple? This was Apple. They did an event in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn where they launched their new iPad pro and on
Speaker 1: the bottom before I started, on the bottom, they had USBC,
Speaker 1: which is what all the androids use, which is kind
Speaker 1: of the standard connector these days. It's right here on
Speaker 1: the side of my laptop and on your new laptop.
Speaker 1: But everyone thought, okay, well now they're doing it on
Speaker 1: the iPad, they'll do it on the iPhone as well.
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem to be the case, so according to the
Speaker 1: latest rumors, they're still going to stick with lightning. I
Speaker 1: think that's smart for now. I know everyone wants like
Speaker 1: this changeover, but it's kind of a big deal to
Speaker 1: switch all your stuff, especially if you're in an iPhone world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it'll be fine because USBC is everywhere,
Speaker 1: But if you don't have other things, you're not really
Speaker 1: caring too much. Like if you just have an iPhone
Speaker 1: you charge with your cable you have. You don't want
Speaker 1: to change that cable right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're like me and you have a bunch
Speaker 1: of different things android, iPhone, tablet, you know, computer that
Speaker 1: you USBC, doesn't matter. I'd rather have one device and
Speaker 1: one connector for every device. I'd rather, I should say.
Speaker 1: So that's one thing. The other thing that's going away
Speaker 1: is the three D touch. Have you ever used that
Speaker 1: on your phone? So three D three D touch doesn't
Speaker 1: it should? Yeah, press press hard on a on an
Speaker 1: icon like on Safari, Press hard, okay, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything. Let me say, so, let's see if we
Speaker 1: press Yeah, see how you press hard and it brings
Speaker 1: up those little menus. So that's called three D touch.
Speaker 1: And clearly, since you didn't know about it, there's a
Speaker 1: billion other people that don't know about it either. So
Speaker 1: they're getting rid of that. And what they're doing is
Speaker 1: something called haptic touch. And I was testing this out
Speaker 1: on the I'm writing my book for iOS thirteen right now,
Speaker 1: and I was testing out haptic touch yesterday. The way
Speaker 1: it works on the new iPhone is really weird because
Speaker 1: now when you press and hold an app on your
Speaker 1: screen like this, You no longer get the wobbly option. Oh,
Speaker 1: it now gives you this. It now gives you how
Speaker 1: do you say done? It now gives you this little
Speaker 1: hard press menu along with an option to rearrange icons.
Speaker 1: So it's like one extra step now to rearrange your icons.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's changing in the new iPhone. And then
Speaker 1: the camera is the big story. There's gonna be three
Speaker 1: cameras on the back of the new iPhone, at least
Speaker 1: the upper models, you know, the top models, maybe all three,
Speaker 1: but the extra space is going to have a wide
Speaker 1: angle lens. And we saw this with the Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S ten. It had a wide angle lens, which is amazing.
Speaker 1: I love having the wide angle lens because you can
Speaker 1: get more creative with your pictures. It's really fun, especially
Speaker 1: if you're traveling there's a big mountain or you know,
Speaker 1: big building that you want to fit in there. Yeah
Speaker 1: so and you just they just look unique because you
Speaker 1: have this nice wide angle. If you're a realtor, that's
Speaker 1: a great use of it taking pictures of inside people's
Speaker 1: homes where you want to get the whole room captured.
Speaker 1: So the way that. Of course, Apple likes to one
Speaker 1: up things, so they're not only going to have this
Speaker 1: wide angle lens apparently, but according to Bloomberg, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a new feature that utilize is it called smart frame.
Speaker 1: And so when you take your regular picture, the iPhone
Speaker 1: will take your regular picture. Let's say I take a
Speaker 1: picture of you, but it's also going to take a
Speaker 1: wide angle picture around you. So later on, let's say
Speaker 1: that I had I noticed later on that I want
Speaker 1: to include a little bit more of something to the
Speaker 1: left of you or to the right of you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now I can use that wide angle to kind of
Speaker 1: see the whole canvas, and you can like crop it
Speaker 1: exactly recrop. So it's kind of fun and it's a
Speaker 1: smart idea and it's interesting. Now Apparently, according to this
Speaker 1: Bloomberg article, the extra data is going to be thrown
Speaker 1: away at it after a certain period of time, because
Speaker 1: you could imagine that in some pictures when you take
Speaker 1: a wider angle that you're not really thinking of, there
Speaker 1: might be something in that picture that you didn't think of.
Speaker 1: And I'll just give an example. Let's say I take
Speaker 1: a picture of Megan and there's a wineglass next to
Speaker 1: you right, and in a picture that I frame up,
Speaker 1: that wineglass isn't in there. Yeah, But then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden when I go work, Yeah, at work, and
Speaker 1: when I go to the bigger picture, it's it's like
Speaker 1: there's the wine glass, Like ooh yeah, maybe don't want
Speaker 1: someone seeing that. So they're going to automatically throw away
Speaker 1: the extra data after a certain amount of time.
Speaker 2: Which is so it's two pictures or is it one?
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of like the live picture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was gonna say, it's like live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you won't see it unless you go to look
Speaker 1: at it.
Speaker 2: Okay, got it.
Speaker 1: But if you flip through someone's camera roll and you
Speaker 1: kind of look at all the larger pictures, you're like,
Speaker 1: oh interesting, Like yeah, it's kind of like that Instagram
Speaker 1: versus reality. It's like the Instagram is like perfectly posed,
Speaker 1: but like when you go to the wide shot, it's
Speaker 1: like you just see like it's a mess behind them
Speaker 1: or like like cables and stuff. So anyway, kind of fun,
Speaker 1: good stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Our next question comes from Peter Garcia, Google assistant or
Speaker 3: Alexa Hey Rich and Family, wondering if you can help.
Speaker 3: I'm a big Apple products fan. My dogs are even
Speaker 3: called Mac and Apple. My question is what would be
Speaker 3: more friendly to my Apple ecosystem between Alexa and Google assistant,
Speaker 3: calendar's map, contacts, controlling other devices, etc. I know what
Speaker 3: Siri is behind on this front. I also realized I
Speaker 3: should have asked this before prime date to take advantage
Speaker 3: of the sales.
Speaker 2: My mistake. Anyway, hope you can help.
Speaker 3: And my wife and I are big fans watching you
Speaker 3: on Kate Tla.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Peter, Peter, Peter. So this is the
Speaker 1: million dollar question. I am in my house. I am
Speaker 1: all in on Google, and I think that Google has
Speaker 1: done a fantastic job of the smart home. The smart home,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're doing a really good job
Speaker 1: at controlling stuff. The thing that I've noticed between Alexa
Speaker 1: and Google is that Google seems to understand my commands
Speaker 1: way better than Alexa. So when I had Alexa setup,
Speaker 1: I'd say, can you change the lights to green in
Speaker 1: the living room. I don't know why you'd want that,
Speaker 1: but if you did, it would be like, sorry, we
Speaker 1: don't see the living room lights. You have nothing named
Speaker 1: living room lights because I call them living room dual
Speaker 1: lights or something. You know what I mean, like, it
Speaker 1: needs the exact way you've named things to like work properly.
Speaker 1: Whereas with Google, on the other hand, if I'm in
Speaker 1: my kitchen and I say turn on the kitchen lights,
Speaker 1: or if I just say turn on the lights, it
Speaker 1: will turn on just the kitchen lights, because it's smart
Speaker 1: enough to know that that Google Home is in your kitchen,
Speaker 1: you're in your kitchen. It's assuming you just want the
Speaker 1: kitchen lights on. It's that smart. So that's why I
Speaker 1: would say go towards the Google stuff. But Peter, you're
Speaker 1: saying you want this to work with your iPhone and
Speaker 1: your iPhone ecosystem, and I feel like, and I don't
Speaker 1: know this to be certain, but I feel like the
Speaker 1: Alexa products might work a little bit better with Apple
Speaker 1: because they have their own app that works on the
Speaker 1: iPhone and you can import your contacts. I assume you
Speaker 1: can put your calendar in there, whereas with Google, it's
Speaker 1: much more like it kind of knows you're using Google
Speaker 1: products and it gets all the data from your Google products.
Speaker 1: So in this case, I would probably lean towards the
Speaker 1: Amazon side of things. And it's a problem that we're
Speaker 1: all facing right now and that's that none of these
Speaker 1: products really play nicely with each other. So if you
Speaker 1: have an iPhone, it's like you're using Siri all day
Speaker 1: at work, and then when you get home, you've got
Speaker 1: to remember what the Alexa or Google commands are and
Speaker 1: vice versa. If you're using Alexa at home, and by
Speaker 1: the way, I've probably just activated everyone's device and I
Speaker 1: apologize for that like a thousand times. But if you're
Speaker 1: using a at home and then you have an Android phone,
Speaker 1: now you're using Google commands there. So it's like this
Speaker 1: whole big thing. But if you probably if you have
Speaker 1: an Android phone, maybe you won't with Google anyway at
Speaker 1: home because you had Android. So I think that's the
Speaker 1: that's the kind of the differences I would see in
Speaker 1: the two products.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think Apple's going to come out with
Speaker 2: their own smart They are.
Speaker 1: They have the home Pod, which works, and they have
Speaker 1: home Kit, and they have Siri, which works. But the
Speaker 1: problem is they have not taken the home in as
Speaker 1: big of a way as these other two companies have.
Speaker 1: So right now, when it comes to home automation and
Speaker 1: smart home, you've got Google and you've got Alexa. It's
Speaker 1: a two horse race. Yeah, series there and home Kit
Speaker 1: is there, but the amount of products you can get
Speaker 1: that work with it are just it's a blip on
Speaker 1: the radar, and that's why most people don't consider it
Speaker 1: because they're looking at all the stuff they want, the
Speaker 1: cameras and all this stuff, and it's just not really
Speaker 1: available in a big way through Apple. Apple's trying to
Speaker 1: change that and they're doing a lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 1: One of the things they announced with iOS thirteen and
Speaker 1: home Kit is that if you want to offer a
Speaker 1: smart home camera with Apple, they will give you it's
Speaker 1: like free iCloud storage for your clips, so for like
Speaker 1: they require like a certain amount of time. So basically
Speaker 1: they're gonna challenge these two incumbents based on like some
Speaker 1: of the services you get out of them, like privacy
Speaker 1: number one, and also like free storage. Like right now,
Speaker 1: if you buy a Ring camera or a Nest camera,
Speaker 1: you're not getting any free storage with those cameras. You
Speaker 1: have to buy that and that costs money every year.
Speaker 1: Wise came that's a twenty dollars camera, they do give
Speaker 1: you storage for free. The Amazon Cloud Cam they do
Speaker 1: give you some storage for free for fourteen days. So
Speaker 1: Apple is really going to push these companies, which is good.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more competitive that way.
Speaker 2: Totally.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Galaxy Fold from Samsung. This is
Speaker 1: the phone that was a oh my gosh, a complete
Speaker 1: failure at launch. Remember this was the phone that they
Speaker 1: sent to a couple of journalists, not myself included, which
Speaker 1: I still feel like that's why they this whole thing
Speaker 1: failed because they never sent it to me.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 1: That's why. That's what they get for.
Speaker 3: That's what happens when you don't let rich try the phone.
Speaker 1: So a bunch of these reporters got the phone. They
Speaker 1: immediately had problems with the screen. And this is their
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars Galaxy Fold smartphone, which looks like two
Speaker 1: phones folded up like almost like a taco you know,
Speaker 1: like a taco phone, a taco phone. So Samsung took it.
Speaker 1: They did not launch the phone. They said, we're going
Speaker 1: to go back to the drawing board. We're going to
Speaker 1: evaluate this device. And finally now they're saying they figure
Speaker 1: it out. So here's what they've done. The top protective
Speaker 1: layer of the display, which a lot of reporters peeled
Speaker 1: off by accident, they're making it very apparent that you
Speaker 1: don't peel that off, So that's number one. Then some
Speaker 1: other reporters had problems with little crumbs and things getting
Speaker 1: behind the screen and ruining the screen because it got
Speaker 1: in through the hinge. So they said that they're going
Speaker 1: to reinforce the device so that you can't get external
Speaker 1: particles under the screen. And the way they're doing that
Speaker 1: is they're putting extra top and bottom hinges, like protection
Speaker 1: caps on the hinges, and then additional metal layers underneath
Speaker 1: the display, and then they also made the space between
Speaker 1: the hinge and the body reduced. Now I'm not an engineer,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how you when this phone was
Speaker 1: supposed to launch, How do you have a million phones
Speaker 1: sitting in a warehouse do all these changes and now
Speaker 1: you have to retrofit these phones. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: seems like I don't want this thing. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna go well, like especially for two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: And if they run into more issues.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it game over.
Speaker 2: It's like it's a little bit embarrassing.
Speaker 1: That would be really bad. But Samsung is the king
Speaker 1: of embarrassment because you know, they already had that first
Speaker 1: issue with the exploding phone. So I hope that this
Speaker 1: will be okay. But I don't see anyone purchasing this
Speaker 1: phone in a big way, right because it just seems
Speaker 1: like you have that phone. Oh, isn't that the one
Speaker 1: that had all the problems? Like why would you spend
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars on a phone like that?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: I could see if they did a fire sale of
Speaker 1: like three ninety nine just to get it out there
Speaker 1: and prove that it's amazing, But.
Speaker 2: I think they need to lower the price too.
Speaker 1: They might. They have not said if the price is
Speaker 1: going to lower, because don't forget this phone is now
Speaker 1: like six months past its original date or whatever. So
Speaker 1: in the lifetime of a phone, it's not worth nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty anymore because the processor and everything inside is kind
Speaker 1: of lesser because you've got things getting better, all right.
Speaker 3: So this next question comes from your Facebook page from
Speaker 3: Vicky Faine. Good afternoon, Hoping this isn't a completely lame question.
Speaker 3: I'm wanting to get a fipbit or other similar device
Speaker 3: to track my steps. My concern is that when I
Speaker 3: sink it to my phone, my information on my phone
Speaker 3: is not as secure. Can the manufacturer of these devices
Speaker 3: track my activity on my phone banking, shopping, etc. If yes,
Speaker 3: is there a way to prevent that from happening? Do
Speaker 3: you have any recommendations for these devices? And then she says,
Speaker 3: want you to know how much I appreciate all you
Speaker 3: do for us olders as she calls them, get an
Speaker 3: understanding of all that technology has to offer, Vicki Vicky.
Speaker 1: So the question is if she gets a fipbit, she
Speaker 1: connects it to her phone, does fipbit suddenly have access
Speaker 1: to all of her activity on her phone, including banking
Speaker 1: and all these other things she's doing. The short answer
Speaker 1: is no. Does fipbit have a better idea of who
Speaker 1: you are and what you're doing and when you're sleeping
Speaker 1: and when you're running and when you're walking, and where
Speaker 1: you're going to work and where you're going to play? Yes,
Speaker 1: so think about it. Yeah, there's GPS and a lot
Speaker 1: of these devices, or if there's not GPS on the
Speaker 1: fippit you get, they sync up to the GPS on
Speaker 1: your phone. So in that way, fipbit is getting a
Speaker 1: very good picture of who you are, what you do,
Speaker 1: where you go banking. No, they're not getting your banking
Speaker 1: info as far as I know, what was the other one? Shopping, shopping, shopping.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one because theoretically this is just theoretically,
Speaker 1: I don't know the fippit does this. But if you
Speaker 1: go into a gap and you have your fippit on,
Speaker 1: they know that GPS and they know that you linger
Speaker 1: in that little area that they geos, you know, sync
Speaker 1: to your GPS. They say, oh, we assume that Vicky
Speaker 1: went to a gap yesterday. Now they could be selling
Speaker 1: that data. We don't know, they could be collecting that data.
Speaker 1: We don't know. Yeah, but it's very likely because you
Speaker 1: are handing over GPS data to them. So shopping now,
Speaker 1: shopping online probably not so much. They're not looking at
Speaker 1: your web browser. They're not doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's an interesting thought, and it's I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you're thinking this way, Vicky, because the more that we do,
Speaker 1: the more we have to think this way. And what
Speaker 1: is the implications of these gadgets that we welcome into
Speaker 1: our lives. Right and you think about the Google Home
Speaker 1: in your house that's listening all the time. You think
Speaker 1: about an Apple Watch. Believe me, the Apple Watch is
Speaker 1: collecting a lot more data than it's displaying on its screen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Apple is looking through that data. I remember one
Speaker 1: time that and this is pretty common. But these apps
Speaker 1: and Apple Watch and things, they can see what you're
Speaker 1: doing on your watch, how you're using your watch, and
Speaker 1: how you're scrolling through your watch, and how you're you know,
Speaker 1: how do you get to the stopwatch? Do you Siri?
Speaker 1: Or do you scroll through your apps on the watch?
Speaker 1: You know that kind of stuff that all goes into
Speaker 1: their internal reports and they say, we noticed that every
Speaker 1: single person in America and they wake up, they start
Speaker 1: a stop watch, So let's put a shortcut to a
Speaker 1: stopwatch on the home screen when they wake up. Let's
Speaker 1: just put that on there. Those are the kind of
Speaker 1: things that they think of. And I'm just just an example, okay,
Speaker 1: but it's the kind of stuff that, like, you might
Speaker 1: not think about as a random person, but the developers
Speaker 1: are thinking about ways of making our lives easier. Why
Speaker 1: do you think every night before I go to sleep,
Speaker 1: my watch tells me what my resting heart rate is.
Speaker 1: Because it's at the end of the day, and they're
Speaker 1: saying like, okay, well you've had a whole day. Like
Speaker 1: here's just kind of some stats that we might think
Speaker 1: you find interesting. And then this morning when I woke
Speaker 1: up and said, here's your walking heart rate, which I
Speaker 1: thought was interesting. So yeah, it's like all these little
Speaker 1: things that you just don't think of. But I like
Speaker 1: the Vicky's thinking that way, because too, you have to.
Speaker 3: Well, it's also like how last week with the face app,
Speaker 3: and then suddenly there's this backlash, like you're giving away
Speaker 3: all your pictures and all your personal information. Like it's
Speaker 3: great that people are actually concerned because a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 1: One story, a couple of years ago people were downloading
Speaker 1: that flashlight app that had GPS built in. And you
Speaker 1: download an app and it says, can we have access
Speaker 1: to your GPS? And everyone's saying yes, why would you
Speaker 1: give access to GPS on a flashlight appy doesn't need
Speaker 1: to know where you are. But a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago that was like the top app and it was
Speaker 1: like millions of downloads and everyone said yeah. And nowadays,
Speaker 1: if you've got a flashlight app and you downloaded and
Speaker 1: said we want to access to your photo library, you'd
Speaker 1: be like what for?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: No deny? Right, And it's also good that the manufacturers
Speaker 1: when Android first started out, and maybe Apple was like
Speaker 1: this a little bit, but when Android first started out,
Speaker 1: you would just give blanket permission to everything. So if
Speaker 1: you were an app, you just got if I had
Speaker 1: if I needed one thing from you, like your photo library,
Speaker 1: it would say everything that would give like twenty five things.
Speaker 1: You'd be like, sure, that's so great. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: is creepy. This is an issue that Nintendo Switch owners
Speaker 1: have been experiencing, and I've seen it on my kids
Speaker 1: Nintendo Switch and it was really bugging me, really bugging
Speaker 1: me because he would hand me his switch, which he's
Speaker 1: obsessed with, but I would get it and I try
Speaker 1: to do something on it, and everything on the screen
Speaker 1: was just moving without me touching anything. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: is going on here? This is like the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1: And so I said Justin that's my brother's name. I
Speaker 1: said to my son Parker. I said, look, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you got to clean your hands before you use this,
Speaker 1: because you know kids and their crumbs and dirty hands
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. I go because it's getting all
Speaker 1: messed up, like this thing is either gummed up or
Speaker 1: there's like stuff underneath the controller whatever it is. And
Speaker 1: he's like, h no, it's clean, it's fine. So I
Speaker 1: cleaned the whole thing with alcohol, like wiped it down,
Speaker 1: and still same problem. I thought maybe the screen was
Speaker 1: messed up. Here's what was happening. It's a problem called
Speaker 1: the joy Con drift, and apparently a lot of people
Speaker 1: have had this issue where when you're not using the controllers,
Speaker 1: the screen, the stuff on the screen still moves. Now,
Speaker 1: people have kind of narrowed it down to it's something
Speaker 1: with the controller. It's still being it has phantom movements
Speaker 1: basically inside of it. Whether that's from use or a
Speaker 1: defect in manufacturing, nobody's really sure. So these people have
Speaker 1: been talking about this on Reddit and online and game
Speaker 1: forms forever. Nintendo has not really publicly acknowledged this, but
Speaker 1: there was a lawsuit I think it was last week,
Speaker 1: let's just say a week ago recently, depending on when
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, that said, hey, this is a
Speaker 1: class action suit. You guys know about this. You got
Speaker 1: to stop this. Well, now Nintendo is saying, according to
Speaker 1: a leaked memo that Vice got a hold of, that
Speaker 1: they will fix this problem for free, even if your
Speaker 1: JOYCN controllers are out of warranty. Now if you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with what a Nintendo switch is like, are you.
Speaker 1: It's got the middle part and it's got the two
Speaker 1: controllers that snap on the sides, So theoretically you can
Speaker 1: just fix the problem by replacing those two controllers with
Speaker 1: a fresh set. Those controllers are eighty dollars. So I
Speaker 1: planned on just buying a new set of controllers for
Speaker 1: my son for his birthday. Yeah, now, maybe I'll just
Speaker 1: call Nintendo and get them replaced. I'll probably just buy
Speaker 1: them because it's easier to goat on Amazon.
Speaker 2: But did you go to like best Buy or you
Speaker 2: you'd have to go through No.
Speaker 1: I think you have to go through Nintendo. So Nintendo's
Speaker 1: official official statement, according to The Verge, they said, at Nintendo,
Speaker 1: we take great pride in creating quality products. We're continuously
Speaker 1: making improvements to them. We are aware of recent reports
Speaker 1: that some JOYCN controllers are not responding correctly. We want
Speaker 1: our customer that's funny, they said. We want our consumers
Speaker 1: to have fun with Nintendo Swim, and if anything falls
Speaker 1: short of this goal, we always encourage them to visit
Speaker 1: support dot Nintendo dot com so we can help. Kind
Speaker 1: of a little cop out right now, there's no formal
Speaker 1: replacement program in place. My suspicion is that that will
Speaker 1: change depending on how widespread.
Speaker 3: Only Nintendo n be like, oh, like you know, it's
Speaker 3: gonna start to spread, and more and more people will
Speaker 3: be aware.
Speaker 1: At least they're aware. Like for me, I thought it
Speaker 1: was something my son had done, right, and now I'm
Speaker 1: seeing this, I'm like, no, he and here I am
Speaker 1: yelling at him every day.
Speaker 3: Parker, you dirty, gotta wash your hands every time you
Speaker 3: play video games?
Speaker 1: So classic, yeah, classic, rich. So the reality is now,
Speaker 1: the more people that know about this, the more Nintendo
Speaker 1: might say, okay, fine, we'll replace those for free. Here's
Speaker 1: a formal program. If you bought one, send them in
Speaker 1: or hopefully not even send him in. Just do a
Speaker 1: claim online and we'll send you a new pair for
Speaker 1: what it's worth. A a out of warranty repair is
Speaker 1: forty dollars, but it's easier to just buy the new
Speaker 1: pair for eighty I think for most people instead of
Speaker 1: getting the old ones, especially when you don't know what
Speaker 1: the issue is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So our next question comes from Pam Jacobsen.
Speaker 2: Money sharing apps is the subject.
Speaker 3: Instead of sending a check monthly I'm wondering about a
Speaker 3: safe app to send money directly to my son's bank account.
Speaker 3: I am technologically challenged and do not do online biking
Speaker 3: due to my paranoia.
Speaker 1: So she wants to send money to her son's bank account,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't want to do it online. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: there are I mean, this has been going on forever
Speaker 1: you can, I mean ever since I was in college
Speaker 1: when I needed like a couple hundred bucks and I
Speaker 1: like bank, My dad like, please give you send me money.
Speaker 1: So you know, you use something like money Graham or
Speaker 1: Western Union. I mean those are like the the og
Speaker 1: have you heard of those? Western Union so a lot
Speaker 1: of people use it, but Western Union is like an
Speaker 1: old school like it started out as like a telegraph
Speaker 1: company where you would literally go into a store verbally
Speaker 1: say a message. Some would type it out and you know,
Speaker 1: or send it somehow over wire to another location in
Speaker 1: the US and they print it out and send it
Speaker 1: and give it to you. Okay, Now they're using that
Speaker 1: to transfer money, but again these are old school ways.
Speaker 1: They're also going to cost you more money. So Money
Speaker 1: Graham looking at their website, if you do it online,
Speaker 1: it's five dollars. Now if you do it in store.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much it is. It's probably more
Speaker 1: than that because you're going in store, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: Let's see if there's like a I'm sure there's a
Speaker 1: price list online. But the reality is, why put yourself
Speaker 1: through all this trouble.
Speaker 3: I'm just confused about a safe app. But she doesn't
Speaker 3: want to do online banking.
Speaker 1: Right, so I don't those two things? Okay, Well, she
Speaker 1: could be saying she doesn't want to sign up for
Speaker 1: her online banking app. But there are third party apps
Speaker 1: like you could use like PayPal, or you can use
Speaker 1: some while I was gonna tell you, my favorite is Zell,
Speaker 1: which is that, to me, is the best money transfer
Speaker 1: protocol out there right now. The reason for that is
Speaker 1: because it's built into most banks. Yeah, so if you
Speaker 1: go into your app, if you have Bank of America
Speaker 1: or I'm not sure, is Chase one of them? I don't.
Speaker 1: I bet you they're the one that's they hold out.
Speaker 2: I know that. Yeah, wells Fargo is with zel.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see if Chase is. I bet you they're not.
Speaker 1: Let's say, oh they are. Okay, so Chase is there?
Speaker 1: Give me a bank, Give me a bank, Wells Fargo
Speaker 1: that's on there. Give me another one.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't.
Speaker 1: Bank of America America Uh oh uh oh are they
Speaker 1: not on there? Oh, there's the ANO. They're on there. Okay,
Speaker 1: So all the major banks are on there. And plus,
Speaker 1: if you're looking through this, look at all these banks
Speaker 1: and nobody knows about Zel because they don't advertise. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the deal is. But if you go
Speaker 1: into your banking app and next time someone says, hey,
Speaker 1: can you venmo me, which I don't Venmo. I don't
Speaker 1: like Venmo. You know this, right, I'm a hater on Venmo.
Speaker 1: Then if they say can you venmo me, just say, hey,
Speaker 1: will you accept Zell? A lot of people will say yes.
Speaker 1: And I just had to pay someone the other day
Speaker 1: and they said, you know, except Zelle And they said no.
Speaker 1: I said, well, how about PayPal? I'll do PayPal, but
Speaker 1: not Zell? Sorry, but not but not.
Speaker 3: You like if I use Sell on my Wells Fargo app,
Speaker 3: don't I need like your just in my phone.
Speaker 1: Number, email address?
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: So and the first time you do that, let's say
Speaker 1: you just say here, just try to send me a
Speaker 1: hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Okay, So just send me, I'll do one fifty, okay.
Speaker 1: Just to make sure it works. So you send me
Speaker 1: one fifty. You type in my email address right, and
Speaker 1: then it will send. If I've never used Zell before,
Speaker 1: just went through, I'll get a message thank you. I'll
Speaker 1: get a message that says, hey, can you confirm this
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars payment for Megan? And you
Speaker 1: go into your bank account and you basically confirm the
Speaker 1: email address and phone number that you want to be
Speaker 1: associated with Zel from now on. When someone zell's you,
Speaker 1: that money goes in your account like within minutes, and
Speaker 1: it's really.
Speaker 2: Really like to wait two days with them, I know.
Speaker 1: And this is free also, so it's now Here's why
Speaker 1: people don't like it because the big banks came up
Speaker 1: with Zell and so that's why people don't like it
Speaker 1: because they don't like the big banks and they just
Speaker 1: think it's shady. So you don't even need to download it.
Speaker 1: It's in your app, whatever app you have, like from
Speaker 1: your bank, It's already in there, okay, So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going yeah, no need to download the app. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can download the app, but it's literally in your
Speaker 1: bank's app. So I think you can sign up, okay,
Speaker 1: So it's saying yeah, so I think that app that
Speaker 1: you're looking at is for as. If your bank doesn't
Speaker 1: support it, you can sign up a third party perfect,
Speaker 1: So either way you're covering. I think she just do Zell.
Speaker 1: I think just go at Zell and it's built into
Speaker 1: your bank. So just you got to sign up for
Speaker 1: online banking. It's safe. I've been using it for ten
Speaker 1: years now. I mean it's been fine.
Speaker 2: That's all I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, door Dash is changing the way tips work. We
Speaker 1: talked about this story on air and online, and actually
Speaker 1: I talked about it online first, and then because it
Speaker 1: was so popular, I talked about it on air and
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page and it got a lot of
Speaker 1: people talking about it. So the long of the short
Speaker 1: of it is that New York Times didn't arty where
Speaker 1: one of the reporters went out and tried their hand
Speaker 1: at being a delivery person for a bunch of different
Speaker 1: delivery places, and the whole idea of the article was
Speaker 1: just to see kind of what it was like. Well,
Speaker 1: inside that article, it came out how the tipping works
Speaker 1: for DoorDash, and that's the main thing that everyone retweeted about.
Speaker 1: The article, and what the guy says is, here's how
Speaker 1: it works. Your DoorDash courier, Megan, you turn on the app.
Speaker 1: It says, hey, we're gonna pay you seven dollars guaranteed
Speaker 1: to deliver this salad to this address, and you say,
Speaker 1: do I accept being I'll accept. You accept that job,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you get a tip of
Speaker 1: five dollars from the person that you deliver it to.
Speaker 1: How much do you think you'd get from DoorDash.
Speaker 2: You would get seven dollars?
Speaker 1: Okay, so the tip just goes.
Speaker 2: To where the tip goes to DoorDash.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's the way they did it, so nobody
Speaker 1: would think that. Why would you think that.
Speaker 3: You think they would rip Okay, okay, okay, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 3: it's because I know the story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the story. You're too involved in the story, Megan.
Speaker 2: Think wou The average person would think.
Speaker 1: Twelve dollars because they guaranteed seven and someone gave you
Speaker 1: five extra. Right, That's not the way it worked. The
Speaker 1: way it worked is DoorDash would say, yeah, DoorDash would say,
Speaker 1: oh cool, now we only have to now we only
Speaker 1: have to put in two dollars because this person gave
Speaker 1: in five, so we still pay Megan her seven that
Speaker 1: she was guaranteed, but we only had to pay out
Speaker 1: two in that circumstance. Everyone thought that was kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: So DoorDash couriers.
Speaker 3: Do they get like some sort of thing that says
Speaker 3: you got a tip? Or do they just never find
Speaker 3: out that they got a tip?
Speaker 1: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: You imagine how much money?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they pocketed, that's what's so crazy. So when people
Speaker 1: heard about this, they just started discussing it online. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and nobody seems to think that's right, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the other companies don't do it that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, I will tell you when I was a waiter
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, the way the law worked there, and
Speaker 1: this was many years ago. Nope, this was at a
Speaker 1: place called on the Border. Oh okay, have you ever
Speaker 1: heard of it? It was like a Mexican place. So
Speaker 1: it was owned by Chili's. I think it's still around.
Speaker 1: So when I was there, I was paid two dollars
Speaker 1: and fifteen cents an hour, which was fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the minimum wage at the time, which I think was
Speaker 1: like five dollars an hour New Jersey. Clearly back in
Speaker 1: the day it was not very good. So I was
Speaker 1: paid whatever, maybe it was two eighty five, whatever it was,
Speaker 1: it was two dollars in something. But the way they
Speaker 1: got around it is they said, will you make a
Speaker 1: certain amount of money in tips every hour that brings
Speaker 1: your hourly wage up to five or six or eight
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. And I was like, that's weird.
Speaker 1: So when I got to California and I worked at CBK,
Speaker 1: when I made whatever it was minimum wage back then,
Speaker 1: I think it was five or six or seven dollars,
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that I got that in addition to
Speaker 1: my tips at CBK, because California is very they're a
Speaker 1: little bit more progressive than the rest of the country
Speaker 1: when it comes to like new laws and stuff. New
Speaker 1: Jersey is too nowadays, but back then, clearly they weren't.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was like the most amazing thing
Speaker 1: back in the day when I got all this money
Speaker 1: for my base hourly wage and I got tips. Well, nowadays,
Speaker 1: when you think about DoorDash just taking that money, that's
Speaker 1: not very nice.
Speaker 2: I feel like a.
Speaker 3: Lot of these couriers, you know, they do Postmates, they
Speaker 3: do door dash, they do like you know, and so
Speaker 3: they probably know already. I'd rather do Postmas because I'll
Speaker 3: get my tip. Absolutely, you don't make as much.
Speaker 1: But here's how they get around that on the app side,
Speaker 1: because don't forget it's a cat and mouse game with
Speaker 1: these delivery people. Because you think you always see these
Speaker 1: Uber and Lyft drivers with the little stickers on their car,
Speaker 1: they're doing both. The problem with doing both in any
Speaker 1: of these situations is that you don't necessarily hit your
Speaker 1: bonuses by doing both. So the way that like these
Speaker 1: companies get around it is like with Lyft and Uber,
Speaker 1: they want you to keep the app open or do
Speaker 1: a certain amount of drives in an hour because they
Speaker 1: know that the average driver who who is just doing
Speaker 1: Uber can do let's say six pick up and drop
Speaker 1: offs in an hour. But the person who's shifting between
Speaker 1: both trying to make the maximum amount of money, you know,
Speaker 1: being a little sketchy or looking out for themselves, I
Speaker 1: guess I should say, is not going to hit those targets,
Speaker 1: so they don't get the bonus. So the way that
Speaker 1: they entice these people to be loyal is by offering
Speaker 1: bonuses that and according to the New York Times article,
Speaker 1: are kind of tough to hit. But again they're there, right,
Speaker 1: so anyway, that's anyway. So the guy who started DoorDash,
Speaker 1: which I've interviewed, Tony Schue a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: by the way, he said that going forward, we're going
Speaker 1: to change the door dash earnings structure so that it
Speaker 1: will increase by the exact amount of customer tips on
Speaker 1: every order. They didn't share specifics, but the fear is
Speaker 1: now that instead of guaranteeing a minimum of seven as
Speaker 1: in our original example, they would now guarantee just a
Speaker 1: minimum of four, based on the fact that we'll assume
Speaker 1: that people are gonna tip. So now, two things I
Speaker 1: learned from this. Number one, always tipping cash. Yeah, even
Speaker 1: if you're tipping through the app in the future, it
Speaker 1: still seems like it just seems better to do cash.
Speaker 2: And you know that they're getting that.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get to question quickly, and then I've got
Speaker 1: one more thing I want to talk about.
Speaker 3: Okay, last question is from Facebook from Pam Coonlean Coon Line,
Speaker 3: wondering what you think the best slash safest emails are
Speaker 3: for personal use.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so I think the best is Gmail, if
Speaker 1: you I mean, that's that's a simple one right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so yeah, I mean that's Gmail is like the best.
Speaker 1: It's just easy, it works everywhere. I'm talking best on
Speaker 1: like a average use case space. You know, just you
Speaker 1: just want email that works and this and that safest,
Speaker 1: i'd say, is something called proton mail. And so proton
Speaker 1: Mail is totally encrypted. It's made by the Swiss, so
Speaker 1: you know that they're I don't know, Swiss just seems sophisticated, right,
Speaker 1: like I don't know anything about that, but yeah, I've
Speaker 1: been to Switzerland and it was very nice. But they're
Speaker 1: the use well, okay, people have bank accounts in Switzerland
Speaker 1: because it's like yeah, it's it's like protected or whatever.
Speaker 1: So according to their website, the user data, all the
Speaker 1: servers are located in Switzerland. This means your user data
Speaker 1: is protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. So proton mail
Speaker 1: is the one that you want to use if you're
Speaker 1: doing the secure route. So and it has end to
Speaker 1: end encryption. I don't know why you need it, but
Speaker 1: you never know. I don't know what PAM does. I'm
Speaker 1: looking a basic account is free, but then you probably
Speaker 1: want to go with the plus. You probably want to
Speaker 1: try the basic and then switch to plus plus is
Speaker 1: four pounds a month, which whatever the math is a
Speaker 1: couple bucks whatever, five dollars a month. Who knows something
Speaker 1: like that. Let me talk about two apps before we
Speaker 1: close out the show here. Number one is for travel nerds.
Speaker 1: It's called a flight y. This is really cool as
Speaker 1: you download it. Yet I told you about this. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you have to download this for your flights
Speaker 1: to Hawaii. So it's a iOS app, only iOS right now,
Speaker 1: And it's a flight tracking app, and there's a million
Speaker 1: of them out there. But what I like about this
Speaker 1: one is that it is all about the data. So
Speaker 1: you get so much data about your flight, including delays.
Speaker 1: It has delay predictors, so immediately when you type in
Speaker 1: your flight number and you kind of put your flights
Speaker 1: in there, or you can do it automatically if you pay.
Speaker 1: But for the average person depends, this app is really
Speaker 1: not for the average person. It's for the person who
Speaker 1: really likes to fly as a frequent flyer. So you've
Speaker 1: got all kinds of alerts on if your flight's gonna
Speaker 1: be delayed. You get all kinds of data on your flight,
Speaker 1: like what kind of plane you're gonna be on, what
Speaker 1: the history of that is and it just is really cool.
Speaker 1: So download it. It's called flight e fl I g
Speaker 1: h t Y. Now there is a fourteen day trial,
Speaker 1: but after that it is pricey nine bucks a month
Speaker 1: or fifty dollars for the year as an intro rate,
Speaker 1: So you have to be serious about flying.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're gonna test it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna test it. I might do the fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for the year just because it's a one time thing,
Speaker 1: and I mean I'll do I'm doing the fourteen days.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of flights coming up, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do that at the beginning of my flights. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. But the just look in ato
Speaker 1: this thing on my phone. There's just so many cool
Speaker 1: features and it's beautifully designed. Yeah, for me, an app
Speaker 1: when it's I can tell if an app is going
Speaker 1: to be good when I launch it for the first
Speaker 1: time and I see the design and the effort that
Speaker 1: a developer puts into the beautiful design and the thoughtfulness,
Speaker 1: I know that's gonna be a good app because if
Speaker 1: they're putting that much thought into what the app looks
Speaker 1: like when you first open it, and the homepage and
Speaker 1: the flow screens and all that stuff. The app is
Speaker 1: going to be really good, and so this one has
Speaker 1: a ton of data. They're saying the developer nine to
Speaker 1: five Mac talk to the developer. They say, we never
Speaker 1: need to we push They basically they say that the
Speaker 1: Flighty is unfiltered and unbiased. If you think about it.
Speaker 1: Airlines don't really want to tell you the truth, because
Speaker 1: I've been where they don't tell you anything. When you're
Speaker 1: waiting at the gate and all of a sudden, I'll
Speaker 1: get a trip alert from like Trippet or something saying
Speaker 1: your flight's delayed. I'm like, wait, why am I getting
Speaker 1: this from a third party and not the speaker system
Speaker 1: here or whatever? And so these are these are little
Speaker 1: things that do help when you're traveling because in the
Speaker 1: case of a flight being delayed or changed or something,
Speaker 1: if you can be first in line to get like
Speaker 1: to the next flight that's going out, that can make
Speaker 1: all the difference. There might only be three seats, and
Speaker 1: so if you have the heads up that that your flight,
Speaker 1: that your current flight is canceled and the next one,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be trying to jump on there, those three
Speaker 1: minutes that you get the word before everyone else can
Speaker 1: really help you get them on the next next flight.
Speaker 1: The other app I want to tell you about, pretty
Speaker 1: basics called the Costco app. But the Costco app has
Speaker 1: gotten an upgrade and you can now use it as
Speaker 1: your digital membership card. Now, Megan, I don't see you
Speaker 1: as a major Costco persons, do you really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't really love Costco type kids.
Speaker 2: Costco for the hot dogs and the pizza.
Speaker 1: Oh they are good. Allar fifty for a hot dog
Speaker 1: and a drink is pretty good. My mom and I
Speaker 1: like to go yeah yeah, just random like Costco dates.
Speaker 2: You've actually gone and just like walked around.
Speaker 1: And it's great, and my kids love the samples and
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. But I mean, I've always loved
Speaker 1: Costco because I love their business model and I love
Speaker 1: how they do things. But I really started to appreciate
Speaker 1: them with a family because you buy stuff in bulk
Speaker 1: and it like before and I'd buy stuff in bulk
Speaker 1: half it would go bad. Now if you buy stuff
Speaker 1: in bulk with kids, it's like you definitely use it all.
Speaker 1: So you can now use your Costco app as your
Speaker 1: digital membership card iOS and Android, So no worries there.
Speaker 1: I was not able to verify mine. I tried to
Speaker 1: set this up last night, like maybe my ZIP code
Speaker 1: is wrong or something, maybe they have my old ZIP
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, so I couldn't successfully set
Speaker 1: this up. But it's in the app. It all works
Speaker 1: and you just have to verify who you are sign
Speaker 1: up with the log in, all that good stuff. The
Speaker 1: big question I got on my Facebook page was will
Speaker 1: this work with Costco Gas? A lot of people like
Speaker 1: buying gas there, and the answer is not at this
Speaker 1: time because you need to swipe your card or insert
Speaker 1: your card at the pump, which this is a scan.
Speaker 1: But for me personally, this is awesome because I don't
Speaker 1: carry around my Costco card because I don't It's like
Speaker 1: one of those places I go once a month if that,
Speaker 1: and so I'm not carrying around a card to my
Speaker 1: wallet just for that. Women are a little different because
Speaker 1: you carry around a larger wallet that you carry in
Speaker 1: a purse. But for me, I carry everything in my
Speaker 1: back pocket. So the less I have, the less thick
Speaker 1: my wallet is. I don't want like some guys don't
Speaker 1: care they have like this giant thick wallet. You ever
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 2: You should see my dad's wallet.
Speaker 3: It's like really old, like falls apart whenever he opens
Speaker 3: it up, doesn't.
Speaker 1: It And like all little things fall out.
Speaker 2: Like he has like three new wallets.
Speaker 1: He won't use him.
Speaker 2: He's just like loves his old.
Speaker 1: Guys get very attached to their wallets because they they
Speaker 1: kind of like they get like molded to you and right,
Speaker 1: that sounds kind of care but they kind of they
Speaker 1: get broken in, let's put it that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but now I so I used to be a
Speaker 1: big like I only want to get a new wallet
Speaker 1: like once every ten years. Guy. Now I like to
Speaker 1: get one like almost every year because I.
Speaker 2: Just like, you know, new stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just you know, just throw out the old wallet, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this week's show?
Speaker 2: Yes? I did?
Speaker 3: Why because I just felt like we had some funny moments.
Speaker 2: That's always good and that's always important.
Speaker 1: Like real life or you know, nothing worked very serious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing's funny, all right.
Speaker 1: You can find Megan where on Twitter?
Speaker 2: On Twitter producer Megan within H.
Speaker 1: And you can find me on Twitter as well. I
Speaker 1: am at Rich Demiro everywhere else, I am at Rich
Speaker 1: on tech Thanks so much for listening. Have a great day.
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