Speaker 1: Elon takes over Twitter, Duo Lingo takes over Math, and
Speaker 1: will Amazon's one hundred dollars fire tablet take over the iPad?
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert Probably not, but I'll tell you when it should.
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich
Speaker 1: Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where
Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should
Speaker 1: know about. It's also the place where I answer the
Speaker 1: questions you send me, and yes, you send me a
Speaker 1: lot of them. I'm the tech reporter for KTLA Channel
Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles, California, United States, North America. The World, Earth,
Speaker 1: the galaxy? What galaxy are we in? Do we have
Speaker 1: a name for the galaxy? I'm sure we do. I
Speaker 1: should probably know that. Oh my gosh, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: I know it's been a bit since I've done a podcast,
Speaker 1: and I officially apologized for that. But it's just one
Speaker 1: of these things where I think the last time I
Speaker 1: was in a hotel room in New York City, and
Speaker 1: then I was in Tokyo and then I don't you know.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a lot sometimes. So I do appreciate
Speaker 1: Milky Way Galaxy. Oh is that what we're in the
Speaker 1: Milky Way. Okay, is that the Milky Way? I thought
Speaker 1: that was a candy bar. It is a good candy bar,
Speaker 1: but anyway, so I guess we're in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Speaker 1: Speaking of galaxies, I was in Japan. In case you
Speaker 1: haven't seen any of my stories on KTLA lately, they've
Speaker 1: all been sort of international in scope. Was in Japan
Speaker 1: for ce Tech twenty twenty two, which is sort of
Speaker 1: their version of CS, which is also coming up very
Speaker 1: soon in Las Vegas, which I can't believe that always
Speaker 1: marks a whole nother year. But Japan se Tech twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. They do this show every year. It's like
Speaker 1: kind of their version of CS, but it's more geared
Speaker 1: towards it used to be electronic. Now it's more towards
Speaker 1: like tech that's going to change our lives. So that
Speaker 1: was the first time they were in person in three years,
Speaker 1: and you know, I got the opportunity they brought me
Speaker 1: over there. It was so fantastic to just be back
Speaker 1: in Tokyo in Japan. It just reopened about a week
Speaker 1: before I was there, and it was so cool. I
Speaker 1: love Japan. I think it is such an amazing place,
Speaker 1: the culture, the people, the technology there they are. They
Speaker 1: have been so far ahead. I've been going there now
Speaker 1: for like ten years. They've been They've been far ahead
Speaker 1: for ten years. I mean, it's just the way that
Speaker 1: they embraced payments and just their whole like society is
Speaker 1: so like futuristic, even all these years later. It's really
Speaker 1: quite remarkable. So I took this airline over there called
Speaker 1: zip Aar, which full disclosure, they did provide me with
Speaker 1: a seat to sort of review them and experience it,
Speaker 1: and it's just it was so great. I was very
Speaker 1: concerned about taking this airline because I typically make the
Speaker 1: same airline everywhere, and to try a different one, especially
Speaker 1: one that's built as sort of a low cost carrier
Speaker 1: and no frills carrier, I admit I was a little
Speaker 1: bit hesitant. I was like, should I do this? And
Speaker 1: you know, they gave me this live flat seat, which
Speaker 1: you know is typically you know, it's interesting because you
Speaker 1: know they build themselves as a low cost carrier and
Speaker 1: if you think I have a live flat seat, oh okay,
Speaker 1: it's like first class business class it is, but only
Speaker 1: in the seat. And this was very unique to me
Speaker 1: to everything you wanted to do, you had to pay,
Speaker 1: so if you wanted to choose your seat in advance,
Speaker 1: if checking luggage costs money, like a blanket cost money,
Speaker 1: a pillow cost money, your meal cost money, which is
Speaker 1: so wild when you think about buying a seat like that,
Speaker 1: like a lie flat seat. So that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: They also have economy class seats, which was fine too.
Speaker 1: Brand new plane seven eighty seven Dreamliner, which is one
Speaker 1: of my my favorite plane. I know I travel enough
Speaker 1: where I have a favorite plane, and it sounds so like, oh,
Speaker 1: excuse me, you have a favorite plane, You have a
Speaker 1: favorite airliner you like to travel on. I do, so
Speaker 1: I'll admit it. It's the plane that I seek out
Speaker 1: on my flights to Newark when I fly back home,
Speaker 1: and it's just you know, you can't fly a Dreamliner everywhere.
Speaker 1: But it's funny because they used to not fly them domestically,
Speaker 1: like across the country, and now they do onun United,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. Someone's asking do you have to
Speaker 1: pay to use the lavatory? You do not have to pay.
Speaker 1: I actually wondered about that. No, but that was Another
Speaker 1: interesting thing is that the front section of the plane,
Speaker 1: which typically if you fly traditional airliner. You know, the
Speaker 1: first class or the business class section has their own,
Speaker 1: you know, toilets, and this was just the same bathrooms
Speaker 1: for everyone. So and then of course Nick is asking
Speaker 1: the question that I imagine people would wonder wonder, is
Speaker 1: what's your favorite airline. I don't know if I have
Speaker 1: a favorite, but I have a regular airline. I fly
Speaker 1: as United because they used to be Continental back in
Speaker 1: the day where I'm from in Newark, and back in
Speaker 1: the day you had your choice for direct flight from
Speaker 1: lax to New Jersey was only Continental, and so I
Speaker 1: would always fly them. My wife always flied United growing
Speaker 1: up in Los Angeles, and I was like United, I've
Speaker 1: never flown United. I don't even know what United is.
Speaker 1: And then those airlines merged to become United with the
Speaker 1: Continental logo, and my wife and I got married. So
Speaker 1: I thought it was so cool that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: my wife and I merged living on the two coasts
Speaker 1: and these two airlines. You know, maybe I'm telling you
Speaker 1: too much. I don't know. This is the problem with
Speaker 1: this podcast. I just start talking and talking and talking. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Zip Air was awesome. It was clean, it was friendly,
Speaker 1: it was smooth, it was great. You just have to
Speaker 1: be prepared to pay for all the extra things along
Speaker 1: the way. In fact, on my way back, I've never
Speaker 1: experienced this before in my life. They weighed my carry
Speaker 1: on and they told me that I had to put
Speaker 1: stuff if I didn't want to pay extra, I had
Speaker 1: to put stuff from carry on into my checked luggage,
Speaker 1: which I was like sitting there, wait what? And so
Speaker 1: they said, yeah, it's like whatever, nine point three kilograms
Speaker 1: and I needed I don't know if that's it could
Speaker 1: be wrong. I don't know what the kilogram could be,
Speaker 1: like a thousand pounds, I don't know. Whatever it was.
Speaker 1: It was like a tiny bit over. And they said, oh,
Speaker 1: can you put that in your check luggage? And I
Speaker 1: said really, And so I took out this little bag
Speaker 1: of cables I had. I put it in my check
Speaker 1: luggage and they said, and by the way, if you
Speaker 1: don't want to pay anything more, don't shop at duty free.
Speaker 1: And I was like, wait what. So I ended up
Speaker 1: taking a chance and I went all out on duty
Speaker 1: free and bought all kinds of stuff and I was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, I'll pay the extra fifty dollars
Speaker 1: to check this or to carry on this luggage. They
Speaker 1: didn't actually ask me, so it was fine, but I
Speaker 1: think they could do that, but I had never seen
Speaker 1: that before. I know, with like international flights, check luggage,
Speaker 1: definitely you don't get as much for checked and carry
Speaker 1: on as you would like domestically. But I just was like, WHOA.
Speaker 1: I really was taken aback by that and super Scientific,
Speaker 1: what's up Danny? Danny says that happened to me in
Speaker 1: Europe a lot on connecting flights. By the way, follow
Speaker 1: super Scientific if you want awesome camera comparisons of the
Speaker 1: latest smartphones. He always does an awesome job from his
Speaker 1: home base in I think it's like Orlando, Florida because
Speaker 1: he's always going to Disney World to do his camera comparison.
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, zip Air highly recommended if you want
Speaker 1: to fly from the West Coast to Tokyo. And the
Speaker 1: other thing to know is that that first class or
Speaker 1: business class or live flat seat that I had was
Speaker 1: you know, it averages about two thousand dollars when realistically
Speaker 1: to fly that seat to Japan is like closer to
Speaker 1: five to seven thousand dollars on a traditional airline. So
Speaker 1: that's what drew me to that airline. I was like wait,
Speaker 1: how is this so cheap? And so that's when I
Speaker 1: gave him a call to see what the deal was,
Speaker 1: and then the the what's the other thing? The economy
Speaker 1: seats are also going to be cheap as well on
Speaker 1: the back. So if you don't really care about a
Speaker 1: lot of frilly stuff on a flight and you just
Speaker 1: want a comfortable, nice flight over there, just you know,
Speaker 1: save the money for spending in Tokyo. I already mentioned
Speaker 1: how amazing Tokyo is the friendly people see tech. One
Speaker 1: thing I learned, and this is a thing like, yes
Speaker 1: I am. I am a tech guy, and I am
Speaker 1: always learning just like you are. Like I don't know
Speaker 1: everything in this world. If I did, I would probably
Speaker 1: be a lot richer of a person, right, So I
Speaker 1: am learning as I go along, and that's why I
Speaker 1: test out products. I try things. I really try to like,
Speaker 1: you know, just just experience things like a regular person
Speaker 1: would and report back to you. And so I don't
Speaker 1: have all the answers up front, And so before my flight,
Speaker 1: you know, I download a bunch of apps and things
Speaker 1: to test out. But one of the things I learned
Speaker 1: while I was over there is that Wi Fi calling
Speaker 1: you can turn this on on your phone and you
Speaker 1: can text, and you can also make phone calls through
Speaker 1: a Wi Fi work without triggering any international roaming fees
Speaker 1: from your your carrier. Here in the US, I was
Speaker 1: not aware of that. So I did not know this,
Speaker 1: and so when I was in Rome, for example, I
Speaker 1: turned off my Verizon simcard completely because I want you
Speaker 1: to avoid all of the like the daily ten dollars
Speaker 1: fees or whatever. And I bought an eSIM. But the
Speaker 1: problem is when you buy a data only eSIM, you
Speaker 1: don't have access to your standard text messages and phone
Speaker 1: calls that may come in. And so this actually came
Speaker 1: into play in Tokyo because my wife was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I just logged into a website. Can you tell me
Speaker 1: the two factor authentication code that was texted to? And
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know that. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get that code for a week. And anyway, I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with this guy Michael, who is a tech
Speaker 1: producer for he does like freelance tech stuff, and he
Speaker 1: was like, you know, you can just turn on your
Speaker 1: Wi Fi calling and I was like, wait what And
Speaker 1: sure enough, all I turn on my Wi Fi calling
Speaker 1: and all of my tech started coming in my standard
Speaker 1: phone number without triggering any fees, and I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: this is groundbreaking. Anyway, I share that with you because
Speaker 1: I think the perfect way to do it now is
Speaker 1: to turn on your Wi Fi calling, turn off data
Speaker 1: roaming on your traditional plan if it doesn't include any
Speaker 1: international text, and then get a local SIM. I use
Speaker 1: an app called aerlo Ai r Alo. I bought three
Speaker 1: sims from them when I was in Japan. Two worked perfectly,
Speaker 1: one did not, and I was actually kind of annoyed
Speaker 1: with them because I said, hey, can you refund me?
Speaker 1: And they said no, we don't give refunds, like if
Speaker 1: it's you know, if it's not our problem. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't. How do I decide if it's your problem?
Speaker 1: I mean I can't. I've activated four of your sims.
Speaker 1: All of them worked except for this one, so I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like I and I tried everything, all their
Speaker 1: little apns and all these settings you had to change,
Speaker 1: which the average person would not know how to do
Speaker 1: or not want to do, and the two So bottom line,
Speaker 1: I bought three SIM cards when I was in Japan.
Speaker 1: One was a local japan simcard. I think it was
Speaker 1: called Moshi mosh or moshimoshi, which I think roughly means
Speaker 1: like hello in Japanese. And then two of them I
Speaker 1: ended up buying that were for Asia in general. So
Speaker 1: the two that were for Asia worked perfectly. The local
Speaker 1: Japan sim did not work and I could not get
Speaker 1: it to work, and it was on an Android, so
Speaker 1: maybe that had something to do with it. iPhone is
Speaker 1: a little bit easier with the E sims. But anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all my Japan stuff. Let's uh if you have
Speaker 1: any questions about Japan, let me know in the comments.
Speaker 1: I am streaming on Instagram right now. Oh, let's see
Speaker 1: O Dealisa says favorite media during the flight movies, music books,
Speaker 1: good question. I was actually testing out the Amazon Fire
Speaker 1: tablet on my flight, which I'll talk about later in
Speaker 1: the show. But I watched I watched a movie Gremlins,
Speaker 1: which obviously old movie, and it held up. I thought
Speaker 1: it was really scary, by the way, but great movie.
Speaker 1: And then I also watched this show on Hulu called Reboot,
Speaker 1: which I feel like not everyone would like that show,
Speaker 1: but since I live in Hollywood and I kind of
Speaker 1: understand that whole Hollywood world, I thought it was hilarious,
Speaker 1: and I guess maybe I don't know if it's getting
Speaker 1: a lot of press or a lot of publicity, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was really really funny, and so I watched,
Speaker 1: like I just kind of binge watched that. I still
Speaker 1: have a couple episodes to go. And then the book
Speaker 1: I was reading, I know, it's kind of funny, but
Speaker 1: it's it was Kelly Rippa's autobiography, I guess, or short
Speaker 1: stories whatever. I was more interested in the in the
Speaker 1: Regis stories from that show because I always liked Regis
Speaker 1: growing up, and so I just was curious what she
Speaker 1: had to say about him. Spoiler as arts, she didn't.
Speaker 1: She didn't have very nice things to say about him.
Speaker 1: So that kind of threw me for a loop. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thanks for the badge, Stephanie. Thanks for buying a badge.
Speaker 1: That's cool. The fourteen is trash over Apple. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means. Rich How much do you like
Speaker 1: the new iPad M chip? I have not tested the
Speaker 1: new iPad, but the M chips are amazing, so people
Speaker 1: really really like those. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: first question of the week. Are the first story of
Speaker 1: the week. I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of
Speaker 1: time on this because this sort of gets into the
Speaker 1: realm of like celebrity tabloid reporting with this whole Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and Twitter stuff. There's so many hot takes flying
Speaker 1: around about this whole Elon Musk buying Twitter. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to sort of stick to like what's happening. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk has purchased Twitter, and yes, he has now taken
Speaker 1: over the company. Yes, it was sort of an unusual thing.
Speaker 1: It was going to happen, It wasn't going to happen,
Speaker 1: but he tweeted yesterday he brought a kitchen sink or
Speaker 1: a sink into Twitter and he said, you know, I
Speaker 1: purchased Twitter. Let that sink in. It's you know, kind
Speaker 1: of cheesy, corny, but you know, we'll see a Twitter.
Speaker 1: I've said this before. Twitter is kind of the perfect
Speaker 1: social network because what I love is that just because
Speaker 1: I have a Twitter account, anyone in the world can
Speaker 1: get in touch with me, and you know, with email
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but it's like a public way
Speaker 1: that like if you want to, you know, tweet me,
Speaker 1: you can and I may or may not see that tweet,
Speaker 1: depending on you know, whatever happens with Twitter, and and
Speaker 1: you know, when I'm looking and this and that. But
Speaker 1: like that's kind of cool, the fact that I can
Speaker 1: tweet a celebrity and they may see my tweet. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're a celebrity, you're getting a ton of tweets.
Speaker 1: You probably don't, but you never know. Uh So I
Speaker 1: always and by the way, the way Twitter does things
Speaker 1: where it's available on all platforms where you can put
Speaker 1: video on there, you can put pictures, you can see
Speaker 1: stuff without logging in on like Instagram, where they only
Speaker 1: give you a couple of times, or you can look
Speaker 1: at stuff before they say, oh sorry, you gotta log
Speaker 1: in Facebook same way. So Twitter, I thought, has always
Speaker 1: been sort of a really they don't they don't mess
Speaker 1: with like links and stuff like, whereas Instagram you can't
Speaker 1: really open up a link. You can't be you know.
Speaker 1: It's just it's different. And I love Instagram, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, But Twitter I've always loved. It's just it's
Speaker 1: not a thing that's you used by a lot of
Speaker 1: quote unquote regular people, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: it's not the average person is not using Twitter. And
Speaker 1: so maybe now with Elon taking over, maybe they will
Speaker 1: I don't know. A lot of people are saying they're
Speaker 1: gonna leave Twitter because they don't like the way Elon
Speaker 1: does things or whatever. But he's already gotten rid of
Speaker 1: the top folks at Twitter, so that's those changes are
Speaker 1: already in progress. He tweeted the bird is freed, so
Speaker 1: a reference to a couple things, maybe the fact that
Speaker 1: he feels like Twitter needs to be more of an
Speaker 1: open place for people to, you know, voice their opinions.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens there now. Elon runs Tesla, he
Speaker 1: run SpaceX, he runs Twitter, big trifecta of companies. You know.
Speaker 1: Did he over pay for Twitter? I don't know how much.
Speaker 1: Did he pay forty four billion dollars? I don't know
Speaker 1: what the end price was, but all tech stocks have
Speaker 1: taken a nose dive lately, and so whatever Twitter was
Speaker 1: worth when he first gave that offer, is it worth
Speaker 1: that same amount right now with today's situation. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: But at the bottom line for me is that, yes,
Speaker 1: I will stay on Twitter. I'm not going anywhere. I've
Speaker 1: always used Twitter in sort of a different way than
Speaker 1: I have, say Instagram or Facebook. It's always been much
Speaker 1: more of an inside baseball kind of place where I'm
Speaker 1: on there with other tech people and journalists and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. We'll see. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: first question of the day. Chris asks just a basic question.
Speaker 1: I have Facebook and I use it for my business,
Speaker 1: but I didn't download Messenger on my phone, so I
Speaker 1: have to go on my computer, log in and view
Speaker 1: messages there, which can take a while for me to
Speaker 1: get back to the office. My question is, is Messenger
Speaker 1: a safe app to download to my phone? Chris, Yes,
Speaker 1: I believe that that Messenger is a safe app to
Speaker 1: download your phone. I know there's a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about Facebook and listening and you know, scooping up all
Speaker 1: your personal data and this and that. But the way
Speaker 1: the iPhone is configured, and your email says sent from
Speaker 1: my iPhone, the way the iPhone has configured is that
Speaker 1: you get to decide the permissions that you give an app.
Speaker 1: So when you are downloading Messenger on your phone, my
Speaker 1: advice is be very aware of the permissions that it
Speaker 1: asks for. It may ask to track you across other apps.
Speaker 1: Say no to that, if you don't like that. It
Speaker 1: may ask for access to your microphone, say no to that.
Speaker 1: If you don't want that. It may ask for access
Speaker 1: to your location, Say no if it asks for that.
Speaker 1: It may ask for access to your camera, say no
Speaker 1: if you don't want that. If you're just using Messenger,
Speaker 1: it sounds like you're running a business and you're using
Speaker 1: Messenger to reply to your customers. If you just want
Speaker 1: to be able to text with them back and forth
Speaker 1: and get those immediate notifications on your phone when someone
Speaker 1: texts you, absolutely download Messenger. Millions upon millions of people
Speaker 1: use it. People have their opinions on Facebook, just like Twitter.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of hot takes going on out there,
Speaker 1: but the reality is Facebook and Messenger are very very
Speaker 1: good tools for connecting with people. And especially if you
Speaker 1: run a business and people are messaging you through there,
Speaker 1: go for it. I think you'll be just fine. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the next story of the week. And
Speaker 1: I feel like this is just something that it's like
Speaker 1: it should be a regular segment, like what streaming service
Speaker 1: prices are going up this week? This week it is
Speaker 1: Apple and also YouTube. So YouTube raise the price of
Speaker 1: its YouTube Premium Family Plan. It's now like twenty three
Speaker 1: dollars a month or something like that. Used to be eighteen,
Speaker 1: So yeah, like five dollars extra, and I subscribe to that,
Speaker 1: and it's a big price increase. I'll probably keep it
Speaker 1: because I do like no ads on YouTube, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that that's like a that's
Speaker 1: now I think the most expensive streaming service I have
Speaker 1: used to be Netflix. Now it's that. Actually, Netflix and
Speaker 1: Hulu are now both twenty dollars a month for me,
Speaker 1: I'm the higher plans. I guess Hulu is includes Disney
Speaker 1: Hulu and ESPN Plus whatever that is. But anyway, Apple
Speaker 1: Music is also going up, and Apple TV Plus and
Speaker 1: the Apple One bundle, which I'm also subscribed to. So
Speaker 1: Apple Music is now going up to uh ten ninety
Speaker 1: nine a month, it used to be nine ninety nine.
Speaker 1: The Family Plan is going up by two dollars a
Speaker 1: month to sixteen ninety nine, Apple TV Plus going up
Speaker 1: to six ninety nine a month, up from five dollars,
Speaker 1: and then Apple One is going up to It's going
Speaker 1: up by two dollars a month for each plan. And
Speaker 1: I'm on the Premiere Plan, which is thirty bucks a month,
Speaker 1: so now that's thirty two ninety five, So yeah, two
Speaker 1: dollars extra. So My point is, it's pretty wild that
Speaker 1: all of these services are going up. Now if you
Speaker 1: add everything up that's gone up in the past six months. Sure,
Speaker 1: it may only add up to twenty more dollars a month,
Speaker 1: but that's still twenty dollars a month. And you do
Speaker 1: that over a year, that's twelve times two, two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty dollars a year. You do that over five years,
Speaker 1: you know, you're talking over one thousand dollars. And by
Speaker 1: the way, in the next five years, these prices are
Speaker 1: gonna go up more. So it's I get it. It's
Speaker 1: little incremental upgrades or updates to these prices, but over
Speaker 1: time it just creeps and creeps and creeps. And this
Speaker 1: is the problem that people had with cable television. They said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, my bill creeps and creeps and creeps.
Speaker 1: Every year, I get this notice that it's going up
Speaker 1: by a couple of dollars. And now we're seeing the
Speaker 1: same exact thing happened with streaming services. The free ride
Speaker 1: is over, folks. The saving money by having you know,
Speaker 1: Netflix versus a cable package, it's all the same. Now
Speaker 1: you're paying eighty eighty bucks a month for your streaming
Speaker 1: services in just a different way because they're all parsed
Speaker 1: out among different you know, providers versus just paying that
Speaker 1: one bill to your cable company. And I'll never forget
Speaker 1: when I was subscribed to AT and T for everything
Speaker 1: with my phone, my internet, and my cable direct TV,
Speaker 1: and my bill was like over three hundred dollars. And
Speaker 1: when I you know, they finally consolidated, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you want us to consolidate all your bills? I'm
Speaker 1: like sure, and I get my bill and I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is way. I've never seen all these things together.
Speaker 1: Stop it. And I actual I switched out my services
Speaker 1: because I didn't like seeing them all on one bill
Speaker 1: because it just three hundred dollars just seemed like so much.
Speaker 1: But the reality is when you add up your cell
Speaker 1: phone bill, your internet bill, which mine just went up
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month, and your streaming services, you're probably
Speaker 1: paying close to three hundred dollars a month no matter
Speaker 1: you know how you're doing it, whether you have you know,
Speaker 1: a couple people, like if you have a family like
Speaker 1: mine with four people in it, you know you got
Speaker 1: a couple of lines here, a couple things it is.
Speaker 1: It's getting real, folks, and it's it's pretty much what
Speaker 1: we were looking at back in the day, except if
Speaker 1: you remember, the price of the triple play back in
Speaker 1: the day was with cable, internet and phone was about
Speaker 1: ninety bucks or about one hundred dollars, i'd say, And
Speaker 1: so for a long time that was kind of like
Speaker 1: the average price for like those three services. And now,
Speaker 1: of course you know it didn't include the wireless phone,
Speaker 1: but you know, include a phone line, which nobody needed.
Speaker 1: By the way, it was cheaper to have the phone
Speaker 1: line with the triple play than it was to not
Speaker 1: have a phone line. Like I remember calling the cable
Speaker 1: company and they would say, oh, you got to keep
Speaker 1: the phone line. It's it's cheaper to have the phone line.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you have to pay extra. Okay, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot says,
Speaker 1: Spectrum charges a sixteen dollars ninety seven fee for broadcasting taxes.
Speaker 1: That is crazy. Wow, that is crazy. So you know,
Speaker 1: this is the other thing that these companies they charge,
Speaker 1: you know, these administration fees, and they raise the administration
Speaker 1: fees and it's just you know, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things that it's just not fun when fees go up,
Speaker 1: it's not fun. Oh there's Michael. Michael says, greetings from
Speaker 1: Park City. Michael was the guy I was telling you about.
Speaker 1: He just joined the Instagram chat. He was the guy
Speaker 1: I was telling you about was hanging out with in Japan,
Speaker 1: and he was the one who told me, you know,
Speaker 1: you can just turn on Wi Fi calling and get
Speaker 1: your texts. And I was like, what, how did I
Speaker 1: not know that? All right, let's get to the next question.
Speaker 1: Paul says, have you heard about these things called signal tech?
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if it's legit or an internet scam thing,
Speaker 1: or can I even buy this at bet spy And
Speaker 1: let's see, let's look up what signal tech is. It
Speaker 1: is a signal booster, and it says it can eliminate
Speaker 1: dead spots and rooms with weak Wi Fi coverage with
Speaker 1: signal tech. And it's got a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: on there that say it works amazingly. And then it
Speaker 1: says get yours now, And there's a little pop up
Speaker 1: that says Michael just bought one in Missouri. Oh. Now,
Speaker 1: it says stock is extremely limited, sell out risk high
Speaker 1: what oh and you could buy two oh and another
Speaker 1: person just bought one. Oh same guy, Paul and Jackson, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: two signal boosters for seventy dollars thirty five dollars each
Speaker 1: plus free shipping. Oh Oscar and San Diego just bought
Speaker 1: one thirty seven minutes ago. Okay, let me tell you
Speaker 1: about these websites. So nothing against signal Tech. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this product works well or not, but the
Speaker 1: way it's presented, the way that it is on this website,
Speaker 1: I don't like, and it raises a major red flag
Speaker 1: to me. I am I'm not going to be forced
Speaker 1: into buying something online because of a ticking clock, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think Amazon does that too with
Speaker 1: their Lightning deals. So yeah, I mean it's like the
Speaker 1: QVC model. You know, it's like these things are selling out,
Speaker 1: these things are going you got to buy this right now.
Speaker 1: I like to do my research. I like to talk
Speaker 1: to people. I like to see kind of like what
Speaker 1: people are saying about stuff before I buy. If you
Speaker 1: see an ad on Instagram, it brings you to a
Speaker 1: website where there's a countdown clock and it says it's
Speaker 1: selling out soon, and there's one page that sort of
Speaker 1: has everything on it like the entire like check out
Speaker 1: process is all on one page. To me, those are
Speaker 1: all big red flags. And number one, I would always
Speaker 1: look for the return instructions, like what is the return policy? Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm looking for return policy. I don't see that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for an address, a physical address. I don't.
Speaker 1: Let's see if do they have a physical address? Oh,
Speaker 1: San Diego? Okay, Bizarre Innovations. Let's see what that is.
Speaker 1: Bizarre innovations leading direct to consumer development company. So it
Speaker 1: looks like it's one of those like as seen on
Speaker 1: TV companies. So okay, yeah, they have a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff signal tech. I wear glow birds. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it's probably not the worst thing in the world, but
Speaker 1: I think that you can probably just get this from
Speaker 1: best Buy. And so what I would recommend is go
Speaker 1: with a product that is I don't really recommend signal
Speaker 1: boosters in general, but I if you need one, if
Speaker 1: you don't want to go with a new mesh, you know,
Speaker 1: Wi Fi router and all that stuff, then if you
Speaker 1: want to go with a booster and try that, I
Speaker 1: don't think they boost the signal very well. But you know,
Speaker 1: with today's gadgets whatever. It just doesn't work as well
Speaker 1: as it used to. But if you're going to get one,
Speaker 1: I would recommend one from tp link. Tp Link makes
Speaker 1: a lot of networking products. I think they're pretty good
Speaker 1: and they're very reasonable. They make one the Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: They make a whole bunch of Wi Fi range extenders.
Speaker 1: Pick one that you like and go with it. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this popular one on Amazon. It is twenty
Speaker 1: two dollars and ninety nine cents, so about the same price,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit cheaper. Amazon Limited time offer says
Speaker 1: it covers up to twelve hundred square feet to increase
Speaker 1: your boost of your Wi Fi signal. So again, I
Speaker 1: just I get a lot of emails from people that
Speaker 1: they send me these products they get on as ads
Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook or any sort of social media,
Speaker 1: and I can always tell it's the same kind of website.
Speaker 1: It's the same website that just tries to force you
Speaker 1: to buy real quick, and it's not always the best
Speaker 1: product out there. So there you go. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to the next story. Galaxy S twenty two can
Speaker 1: now take pictures of the stars, and so this is
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Astrophotography is a feature that is built
Speaker 1: into the pixel from Google and it's something that the
Speaker 1: other phones have really not done. The Samsungs have done
Speaker 1: pictures of the moon, but you know, when it comes
Speaker 1: to the stars, they don't necessarily. But now they added
Speaker 1: the ability to take photos of the stars. So they
Speaker 1: call it astro photography. Astro photo they call it. And
Speaker 1: this is it's interesting because they did this not with
Speaker 1: a software update, but by downloading an app. So you
Speaker 1: download what's called the Expert Raw app, and this is
Speaker 1: in the Samsung I know it's confusing. On Samsung sou
Speaker 1: they have Google Play, but then they also have their
Speaker 1: own Galaxy App Store. So you download this Expert Raw
Speaker 1: app in the Galaxy App Store and then you install
Speaker 1: it and it adds extra things to your camera. And
Speaker 1: then there's also another app called Camera Assistant, which you
Speaker 1: don't need to get, but if you want extra features,
Speaker 1: you can do that too. So anyway, once you install
Speaker 1: this Expert Raw, you can point your phone at the
Speaker 1: sky and it will take pictures of the stars. It
Speaker 1: will hold the phone, it will hold the exposure for
Speaker 1: anywhere between like four and I think ten minutes, which
Speaker 1: ten minutes is wild. I tried this the other night.
Speaker 1: By the way, I have too much light where I live,
Speaker 1: so I can't really get a good photo, but it
Speaker 1: definitely you know, it worked. And the coolest thing about
Speaker 1: Samsung's implementation of this versus Google is that on Samsung
Speaker 1: you've got an overlay of a sky guide. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've downloaded one of those apps that
Speaker 1: lets you see the stars in the sky, but Samsung
Speaker 1: just built that into the actual expert Raw app. So
Speaker 1: when you aim this up at the sky, you can
Speaker 1: see an overlay of the constellations and the stars, which
Speaker 1: I thought was really really cool, so you can take
Speaker 1: the pictures you want of the stars you want. Anyway,
Speaker 1: check it out Expert Raw if you have an S
Speaker 1: twenty two series. They're also they have this new Camera
Speaker 1: Assistant app which adds new features to the camera, which
Speaker 1: auto HDR. You can turn that on or off now
Speaker 1: soften pictures. You can turn on auto lens switching. You
Speaker 1: can turn off video recording and photo mode. You can
Speaker 1: turn off number of pictures you take after timer. You
Speaker 1: can change you can make the shutter faster. You can
Speaker 1: select tell it takes for the camera app. The previous
Speaker 1: screen to time out, and you can enable a clean
Speaker 1: preview on HDMI display, So no menuser buttons when you
Speaker 1: connect to an HDMI output. And again those are all
Speaker 1: features that are really aimed towards someone that's using the
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy phones as a you know, as a real
Speaker 1: pro camera. And so yeah, and folks are asking on
Speaker 1: the Instagram, not on iPhone. No iPhone has no ability.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't say no ability iPhone? Can you know? It won't
Speaker 1: take really great pictures of the night sky, but it
Speaker 1: will do it. It's just not as good as what
Speaker 1: the pixel can do or what the s twenty two
Speaker 1: can now do, so check it out. Always cool when
Speaker 1: they add ability for these phones to do things just
Speaker 1: with a software update, which is kind of the way
Speaker 1: the world now, all right. Next question comes from Gene
Speaker 1: Gene says, can you suggest some good free password managers
Speaker 1: for both iOS and Android. I used UPM, but the
Speaker 1: developer no longer supports it, although he's kept the app open.
Speaker 1: I'd expect to use Excel, but it's not secure. Thanks
Speaker 1: gene Gene. I agree, do not use Excel, although if
Speaker 1: that's your only way of keeping track of passwords, it's
Speaker 1: better than nothing. But I would not not recommend that.
Speaker 1: I would recommend a secured password manager for sure, and
Speaker 1: definitely don't use the same password over and over for
Speaker 1: any website. Use a complex password that is I would
Speaker 1: say at least eleven characters minimum, maybe twelve, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Twelve to sixteen is probably the sweet spot for something
Speaker 1: that's that's uncrackable by a lot of systems UPM I'm
Speaker 1: not familiar with. But here's what I recommend when it
Speaker 1: comes to password managers. So if you are just on iOS,
Speaker 1: so if everything is iOS your computer and you know,
Speaker 1: you're using Safari on your computer, and you're using iOS
Speaker 1: on your phone, you know, and Safari on your phone,
Speaker 1: go ahead and just use apples built in password manager,
Speaker 1: which I think is called like iCloud keychain. So that's
Speaker 1: super sick bolt, super easy. You can use that. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you want something that is cross platform that is free,
Speaker 1: I would recommend Bitwarden. They are sort of an open
Speaker 1: source company. They are I don't if they're open source,
Speaker 1: but they're they're anyway, it's is it open source? It
Speaker 1: might be I think it is open source. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is open source. So that means that other people
Speaker 1: can kind of look at the code behind the password
Speaker 1: manager and you know, make sure that it's good and
Speaker 1: make sure that it's secure, and so that's really good.
Speaker 1: And they have a free fee. They have a completely
Speaker 1: free version. Yes, you don't get access to all of
Speaker 1: the features of the paid version, but it's enough for like,
Speaker 1: you know, some people that just need something very simple
Speaker 1: to get by. And of course it's a freemium model,
Speaker 1: so eventually they want you to use it. And then
Speaker 1: you run up into a wall and say, ah, it'd
Speaker 1: be really nice if I have this feature, and they say, well,
Speaker 1: for a couple bucks a month, you can have that feature,
Speaker 1: and you go, oh, where if you've been all my
Speaker 1: life and then now you convert to a paying customer.
Speaker 1: That's what freemium means. Otherwise, I like dash Lane for
Speaker 1: a full featured but very expensive password manager. I think
Speaker 1: they do a really nice job of you know, updating
Speaker 1: their apps. They have like a VPN that's included, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of features like very it's a very premium
Speaker 1: password manager and you're gonna pay. I think it's like
Speaker 1: fifty sixty bucks a year for that password manager. So
Speaker 1: we did a story with them a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It was very impressed, and so I like them as well.
Speaker 1: But I think for a lot of people, if you
Speaker 1: are using Chrome on your desktop computer and an iPhone,
Speaker 1: you can use Google's password manager. If you don't mind Google,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have something against Google. They just
Speaker 1: change their password manager on Chrome to work natively across
Speaker 1: the entire iPhone ecosystem, so not just in Chrome like
Speaker 1: you used to work in Chrome, but now their passwords
Speaker 1: will fill across any app. And so this is a
Speaker 1: free service. You know, it's kind of cool because it
Speaker 1: works on your you know, for me personally, if I'm
Speaker 1: using an iPhone and I'm also using Chrome on my desktop,
Speaker 1: i could switch to this and use this. But it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where you have to really like
Speaker 1: Google because you're kind of putting a lot into Google.
Speaker 1: You can always export your passwords from any of these
Speaker 1: services and start with a new one, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of a little bit of a process. So but that's
Speaker 1: what i'd recommend. So if you want something completely free,
Speaker 1: cross platform independent, I'd go with Bitwarden. If you want
Speaker 1: something that's dependent on an operating system and your only
Speaker 1: Apple products, I would go with iCloud Keychain Manager or
Speaker 1: keychain whatever, it's called Cloud Keychain. And then if you
Speaker 1: want something that is sort of also independent but priceier
Speaker 1: in premium, I'd go with dash Lane. And if you
Speaker 1: want something that is it works across platforms, but it's
Speaker 1: still put out by a big company like Google, you
Speaker 1: can go with Google's password manager. Those are some great options.
Speaker 1: Whatever you do, definitely use a password manager. I highly
Speaker 1: recommend it. Do not use the same password for various websites.
Speaker 1: Make sure that you use two factor authen indication when
Speaker 1: you can, and just be very vigilant about passwords because
Speaker 1: I know it's a pain. Believe me, When I sign
Speaker 1: up for a website and I have to go through
Speaker 1: that process of you know, signing up with a unique password,
Speaker 1: it is a pain. It takes longer than just clicking
Speaker 1: log in with Google or Apple or any of those things,
Speaker 1: which I don't recommend doing because I don't think all
Speaker 1: your login should be should be linked to another website,
Speaker 1: but I just I get it. It takes a long time.
Speaker 1: It's annoying. It takes a long time to retrieve the password,
Speaker 1: It takes a long time to copy and baste, it
Speaker 1: but just please do it. I'm telling you, if there's
Speaker 1: a breach of a website and a password gets out
Speaker 1: there and it's something simple that can be used across
Speaker 1: other websites, you don't want that to happen to you. So,
Speaker 1: you know, just just take the extra three seconds to
Speaker 1: use a password manager and to really really just embrace it,
Speaker 1: and you'll be a happier, safer, more secure person. All right.
Speaker 1: Next story up. Apple announces they had a bunch of
Speaker 1: new products this weekend, a bunch of new software as well.
Speaker 1: So let's see what do they do. They released mac
Speaker 1: os Ventura, they released the iPad os I think it's
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever they're up to on the iPad,
Speaker 1: and then a couple of new products, including a new
Speaker 1: iPad was it two new iPads, and also new Apple TV.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of like, you know, the end
Speaker 1: of the year where they just kind of like dump
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff on us, like a, here's the
Speaker 1: rest of our stuff, you know, after the iPhone, and
Speaker 1: it's all stuff that people like and buy and purchase,
Speaker 1: and the software is great. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think that you know, these are sort of the
Speaker 1: lesser announcements towards the end of the year. You know,
Speaker 1: most people buy an Apple TV if they even get
Speaker 1: an Apple TV, because it's kind of expensive and they
Speaker 1: don't replace it for five, you know, five years. iPad
Speaker 1: is one of those things when you need one, you
Speaker 1: just kind of go in and see, like, okay, here's
Speaker 1: the price points, what do I need, and you make
Speaker 1: your purchase decision. It's not like a lot of people
Speaker 1: are waiting for these products to come out so they
Speaker 1: can upgrade, right, and then the software is great. I mean,
Speaker 1: the iPad software Stage Manager is one of the big
Speaker 1: new features, but it kind of got a lukewarm reception.
Speaker 1: And then macOS Ventura. It's like, I've gotten to the
Speaker 1: point and I'm a tech person and I love new
Speaker 1: technology and I love new software, but I've gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where I'm like, all right, Apple, you know,
Speaker 1: I just got used to the current macOS, which I
Speaker 1: can't even tell you the name of it. Let's see
Speaker 1: what it's called, Monterey. So I'm just getting used to
Speaker 1: mac Os Monterey. Now you're springing Ventura on me, and
Speaker 1: it's like, do I really need anything new on my
Speaker 1: desktop unless it's gonna change the way I compute, or
Speaker 1: make my Gmail faster, which is super slow on Chrome.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll see or my battery life better anyway.
Speaker 1: So the thing I think is important is the Apple
Speaker 1: TV four K so new model with a new chip
Speaker 1: inside the A fifteen Bionic. It's got support for HDR
Speaker 1: ten plus, It's got a new or an updated series remote. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I had an updated remote. So faster performance. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean my TV works just fine. But the interesting
Speaker 1: thing is that the actual physical Apple TV is thinner,
Speaker 1: it's lighter, it's it's fanless for the first time, which
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. Used to have this big fan
Speaker 1: on the bottom. Uses thirty percent less power than the
Speaker 1: last generation. It's got HDR. Oh, I see the serial
Speaker 1: remote has USB c now instead of USB lightning. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Comes in a sixty four gigabyte configuration for
Speaker 1: Wi Fi for one hundred and twenty nine dollars. One
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight gigabyte configuration has an Ethernet port
Speaker 1: and thread networking. They'll arrive on November fourth, that's a Friday. Again.
Speaker 1: Something that you know. Number one, I rarely get questions
Speaker 1: about Apple TV. I think that most most people that
Speaker 1: I talk with want either Roku or the Fire TV
Speaker 1: sticks because they're cheap, and Apple TV is something that
Speaker 1: you want to get if you want something that's a
Speaker 1: bit more premium, or you're in that Apple ecosystem and
Speaker 1: you know, you just want all things Apple and it's nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you have an Apple TV and
Speaker 1: you have AirPods, it's amazing. You sit on your couch
Speaker 1: and you know, just watch a show in total peace
Speaker 1: without disturbing anyone around you. You also have airplay, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're using Eyecloud, you can see your pictures on there.
Speaker 1: The apps are robust, but you can do a lot
Speaker 1: of the same things with Roku. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: You can plug headphones into the Roku remote for many years,
Speaker 1: so I thought it was really cool. And Fire TV
Speaker 1: lets you link up headphones with Bluetooth too, So it's
Speaker 1: not like you can't do these things. It's just more
Speaker 1: of like a it's more of an ecosystem play. If
Speaker 1: you're getting an Apple TV, you want all things Apple
Speaker 1: in your life, which you know, fine, that's that's basically it.
Speaker 1: I haven't tested it, so I will tell you more
Speaker 1: once I test the Apple TV to see Ronzie says,
Speaker 1: does Apple make iPhones last up to two years intentionally
Speaker 1: so customers by the next level, No, I would actually
Speaker 1: disagree with that. I think that as opposed to Android phones,
Speaker 1: which I feel like nowadays they've gotten better for sure,
Speaker 1: But you know, you buy an Android phone, like an
Speaker 1: iPhone can last like five years, like legitimately the software
Speaker 1: and the hardware, I mean, the camera, like iPhones last
Speaker 1: on average, people are now spending over three years with
Speaker 1: them before they upgrade. It used to be a yearly
Speaker 1: upgrade cycle, and then it got a little bit longer
Speaker 1: to two years. Now we're up to I think, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty eight months or something like that. So I think
Speaker 1: the iPhone is actually when you do the price of
Speaker 1: the iPhone, I get that it's expensive, but when you
Speaker 1: parse that out over the amount of years that that
Speaker 1: phone can last, it is quite a good deal. And
Speaker 1: by the way, not just how long it lasts, but
Speaker 1: the resale value of that iPhone. So if you look
Speaker 1: at the resale value of any Android, you know, get
Speaker 1: the best Samsung Galaxy S twenty two Ultra, and look
Speaker 1: at that resale price a year later from anyone besides Samsung.
Speaker 1: That's trying to get you to upgrade to a new phone.
Speaker 1: It's not very good. Whereas the iPhone. You can go
Speaker 1: on Facebook today and post to your family and friends
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm selling my iPhone and someone will
Speaker 1: purchase that phone for a family member that needs one
Speaker 1: at a discounted price, or you can sell it a
Speaker 1: million other ways. So I really disagree with the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, yes, I get it. The software. You know,
Speaker 1: people say it slows down. It does, like I've noticed
Speaker 1: that on my phone, But it's not the software that's
Speaker 1: slowing down. It's these apps. Have you noticed how big
Speaker 1: apps are getting and how processor intense they've gotten over
Speaker 1: the years. It used to be, you know, Instagram, Facebook,
Speaker 1: they were like ten megabyte apps. Now you're talking. You
Speaker 1: look to download some of these apps are like three
Speaker 1: hundred megabytes. You're like, wait what I mean? Because think
Speaker 1: something like Instagram. If you look at it or TikTok,
Speaker 1: there's entire video editing systems built into that app. So
Speaker 1: it's not just an app for posting pictures. It is
Speaker 1: now become an app that helps you create an entire
Speaker 1: video edited reel that is no easy feet and it's
Speaker 1: just like that with all these other apps. It's like
Speaker 1: they're doing so much. So I know it's easy to
Speaker 1: make fun of Apple, and it's easy to, you know,
Speaker 1: talk about how expensive everything is. But I see things
Speaker 1: a different way. I think that you can get a
Speaker 1: lot of use out of these phones in a in
Speaker 1: a big way for many, many years, and if you
Speaker 1: like to upgrade every year, sure it could be expensive.
Speaker 1: Phil says, I don't understand the need for an Apple
Speaker 1: TV box when it's an app. That's a good, very
Speaker 1: good question. That's and I agree. I think it's very
Speaker 1: confusing because Apple decided to call Apple TV plus Apple
Speaker 1: TV plus, and then you have the Apple TV app
Speaker 1: that runs Apple TV plus, and then you also have
Speaker 1: an Apple TV box. Let's break it down. The Apple
Speaker 1: TV box is a streaming device that runs Apple TV
Speaker 1: Apple TV plus, and it also runs any other streaming
Speaker 1: app or any other Apple or any other app in
Speaker 1: the Apple App Store for that matter, that works on
Speaker 1: that TV. So that is a physical device. The Apple
Speaker 1: Apple TV is an app that lives on a kdub
Speaker 1: twenty one seventy five. So some still anti Apple too
Speaker 1: much money, okay. Apple TV is an app that lives
Speaker 1: on the iPhone and on the Apple TV that is
Speaker 1: more of a curated destination for streaming. So Apple TV
Speaker 1: has a bunch of different products inside of it, so
Speaker 1: it may have the Stars Network, it may have HBO.
Speaker 1: You know. It also helps you figure out what's streaming
Speaker 1: on different services, and that's a whole nother thing. And
Speaker 1: by the way, Apple does a really good job on that.
Speaker 1: The notable exception is Netflix. Netflix is not integrated with
Speaker 1: Apple TV the app. So if you're looking, like, you know,
Speaker 1: Apple TV the app, you can go on there and
Speaker 1: it'll say like, oh, here's a whole bunch of cool
Speaker 1: Halloween movies that are streaming. Well, that's great, but it's
Speaker 1: never going to show you anything else on Netflix because
Speaker 1: Apple and Netflix are like this, you know, they're front
Speaker 1: of mees, just like Apple and every other company at
Speaker 1: this point for some reason. What's the reason for that, Apple,
Speaker 1: Let's see. And then Apple TV Plus is a streaming service,
Speaker 1: and so Apple TV Plus is a streaming service that
Speaker 1: you can pay for that has its own content. And
Speaker 1: Brian Rose eighty bought a badge. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Brian for buying that badge. That's always fun. I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what the badges mean. I think they benefit
Speaker 1: me in some way, but it's like one of those things.
Speaker 1: At the end of the month will be like people
Speaker 1: will be like our Facebook will be like, hey, these
Speaker 1: people bought you badges. George says, I'm doing a course
Speaker 1: on swift with Swift with Apple, and it says apps
Speaker 1: should be made with size and power concern, but the
Speaker 1: apps are actually the opposite. Yes, that is true. I
Speaker 1: get it. And I'm not a developer of an app,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure there's something in the idea of you know,
Speaker 1: a bigger app is probably less effort to code because
Speaker 1: you just kind of keep adding code to it. But
Speaker 1: the best apps are probably the leanest apps that are
Speaker 1: you know, you code with less and I guess it
Speaker 1: takes up less you know, space and resources. But I
Speaker 1: get it. All this stuff, it all comes down to money,
Speaker 1: all right. Do we have another question? I saw someone
Speaker 1: else bought a badge. Actually Liz bought a badge. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Two hearts that must be needed even
Speaker 1: better badge, So thank you? I need like, do I
Speaker 1: have like applause? Let me see what I have here? Hello?
Speaker 1: What's that? I think that was like a viewer question
Speaker 1: like on tape. Okay, hold on, okay, there we go.
Speaker 1: Is that when you buy a badge, I give you
Speaker 1: that I need a badge like a Okay, that was
Speaker 1: another thing. Okay, so I don't have anything. This is
Speaker 1: I guess that's the badge. I need like an applause
Speaker 1: for the badge. So thank you. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to the next question of the podcast. Let's see. Uh,
Speaker 1: Janice says, oh, Robert says, you know what, I'll okay,
Speaker 1: let's do Robert's question. Good morning, rich I enjoy the
Speaker 1: knowledge I received from your rich on Tech. I was
Speaker 1: just wondering how come you never review the Samsung tablets
Speaker 1: as you have done for the new Amazon kindle. I
Speaker 1: feel that some of the segments are very narrow with
Speaker 1: some bias, which I guess is somewhat expected. You do
Speaker 1: great justice to the Samsung line of phones, however, never
Speaker 1: or very anemic reviews of their tablets. Robert sent from
Speaker 1: my Verizon Samsung Galaxy smartphone get outlook for Android. Okay, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: Seuss just bought three hearts. Oh my gosh, let's go.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Oh my, Okay, there we go. We'll give
Speaker 1: you the little Once we receive them, the whole podcast
Speaker 1: is going to be that three. That's amazing. Okay, So Robert,
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent understand where you're coming from. I
Speaker 1: get it. If I am mentioning Apple Apple Apple on TV,
Speaker 1: people say I'm an Apple fanboy. All all I care
Speaker 1: about is Apple, Apple pays me. Oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: you know, Apple, Apple Apple, And I get it. I
Speaker 1: get how that can seem to be the case. But
Speaker 1: you have to understand where I'm coming from. Number One,
Speaker 1: I get two minutes on TV. Right in those two minutes,
Speaker 1: I have to make an impact on you. I have
Speaker 1: to tell you what's good. I have to tell you
Speaker 1: what's bad. And it's really really tricky sometimes because my
Speaker 1: audience on TV is a very broad audience. It is
Speaker 1: people that don't even care about technology. Sometimes it's people
Speaker 1: that are just sitting there watching the news and they
Speaker 1: see me come up and they go, oh, what's this
Speaker 1: guy talking about? Oh? Apple Apple again. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: Apple comes out with a lot of products every year. Now, specifically,
Speaker 1: you're asking why I did not cover the Samsung tablets
Speaker 1: and why I covered the Amazon tablet, And I'll get
Speaker 1: to my Amazon tablet review in just a moment. Easy
Speaker 1: Amazon tablet is one hundred dollars. By the way, it'll
Speaker 1: be even cheaper over the holidays. So I'm anticipating that
Speaker 1: we have a lot of Amazon shop the watching TV.
Speaker 1: That tablet is gonna be on their home screen all
Speaker 1: throughout the holidays. It's gonna be fifty dollars, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be seventy five dollars, and people are going, wait, do
Speaker 1: I get this? This is a tablet for seventy five
Speaker 1: bucks one hundred bucks. And so what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: is they're gonna google rich on Tech, Amazon Kindle tablet
Speaker 1: or Fire tablet, and they're gonna see my review, and
Speaker 1: now they can see what I think about that one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars tablet. Samsung tablets. You know, there's also a
Speaker 1: bit of curation that goes along in what I choose
Speaker 1: to cover. Samsung tablets. I don't recommend typically because I
Speaker 1: think they're way too expensive for what you get, and
Speaker 1: I think an iPad is better. If I'm spending three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars on a tablet, I'm gonna recommend an iPad
Speaker 1: every single day of the week. And the reason for
Speaker 1: that is because the ecosystem, the apps, the accessories, it's Apple.
Speaker 1: It's gonna run better, it's gonna last many more years.
Speaker 1: The Samsung tablets, and yes it's been a while since
Speaker 1: I've tested one, they're just way too expensive for an
Speaker 1: Android ecosystem that almost barely exists on a tablet. There
Speaker 1: are so many amazing applications for an iPad, like I'm
Speaker 1: talking world class tablet applications. You go to Android and
Speaker 1: you go to download the same apps if they're even available,
Speaker 1: and they're horrible. And I'm not knocking what Samsung's doing.
Speaker 1: It's just a bigger problem of the Android ecosystem. It
Speaker 1: doesn't exist for tablets. It's someplace that has just really
Speaker 1: not gone over very well. Now is that not to
Speaker 1: say that if you bought a Samsung tablet, and I'm
Speaker 1: not judging you if you did, I think it's fine
Speaker 1: that things like Netflix are gonna work just fine, things
Speaker 1: like Hulu are gonna work fine. Absolutely, But then I
Speaker 1: go back to my original argument, which is, go for
Speaker 1: the Kindle tablet if you're just reading a Kindle book,
Speaker 1: if you're just reading, or the fire tablet. I should say,
Speaker 1: if you're just watching shows and movies. You don't need
Speaker 1: something that is the Samsung level of price. And I
Speaker 1: looked up the Samsung ones. It's about three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money for a tablet that I
Speaker 1: feel like just doesn't have the apps to back it up.
Speaker 1: So I hope that explains your question. I'm believe me.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not gonna say my job is, you know, like,
Speaker 1: don't cry for me. Like I love my job. I
Speaker 1: love what I do. But there is some curation involved
Speaker 1: in number one. Anything I mentioned on TV, whether it
Speaker 1: is good or bad, people go out and buy it,
Speaker 1: and so I've got to take that into consideration. Like
Speaker 1: if I'm featuring a Samsung tablet, people are just gonna
Speaker 1: see the fact that I'm talking about it and they're
Speaker 1: gonna buy it without even listening to what I have
Speaker 1: to say about it. So if you listen to my reports,
Speaker 1: I really do try to give you like the good
Speaker 1: and the bad in a very short amount of time.
Speaker 1: If you read my longer reviews online, I typically try
Speaker 1: to give you a little bit more perspective. And then
Speaker 1: if you listen to my podcast, you really truly sort
Speaker 1: of understand where I'm coming from because I get a
Speaker 1: lot longer to explain kind of my basis for things.
Speaker 1: So I get that it just looks like I cover
Speaker 1: a lot of Apple stuff, a lot of Amazon stuff,
Speaker 1: a lot of Google stuff. But these are the products
Speaker 1: that I feel like want to put out there for
Speaker 1: people to know that I'm covering because I do think
Speaker 1: that they are the better choices in some of these circumstances.
Speaker 1: And Robert who I just I believe that's who. I
Speaker 1: just answered your question, just gave me three stars, and
Speaker 1: so wow, that's amazing. So I hope I answered your
Speaker 1: question and you're still a fan because I just kind
Speaker 1: of went off. That's what I do sometimes. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get so. Speaking of iPad iPad, Dan Seaffert in
Speaker 1: The Verge says, and I didn't review this iPad, so
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't tell you if it's good or not.
Speaker 1: But basically the standard iPad, which is kind of like
Speaker 1: the the you know, the iPad that is the regular iPad.
Speaker 1: I call it the standard. It's called the tenth generation iPad.
Speaker 1: They just gave it an update this week and it
Speaker 1: got USBC great performance in battery. Lots of good apps.
Speaker 1: Accessories are confusing and expensive. Yes, the price is high
Speaker 1: and displays average, so that kind of sums it up.
Speaker 1: And look again, this goes back to my idea of
Speaker 1: like the iPad is this amazing tablet, Like it is
Speaker 1: the best tablet in the world. Apple invented it, and
Speaker 1: I will never forget sitting there watching them unveil the
Speaker 1: tablet Steve Jobs on stage. I think it was more
Speaker 1: than ten years ago. I was working at the time
Speaker 1: at a website called tech Meme and this blew my mind.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there just thinking about, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: giant screen is going to become everything. It's a movie theater,
Speaker 1: it's a book, it's a magazine, it's a news I
Speaker 1: already say newspaper. It's a drawing tablet. Even though back
Speaker 1: then he didn't really believe in the stylist. That's come
Speaker 1: full circle. This is going to revolutionize everything. It's a screen.
Speaker 1: You could do work on it, you can write your emails,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I mean, it's still to this day
Speaker 1: the most amazing, I think, the most amazing gadgets, one
Speaker 1: of the most amazing gadgets in the world outside of
Speaker 1: the iPhone. But again, it's one of those things that
Speaker 1: you buy when you need it and it's expensive. They
Speaker 1: raised the ice basically by over one hundred dollars. So
Speaker 1: the entry level price on this this iPad is, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like four hundred and I think like four thirty
Speaker 1: or four fifty. Now, I mean that's a lot of
Speaker 1: money for an iPad. And by the way, that's just
Speaker 1: the iPad doesn't include the case, doesn't include the pencil
Speaker 1: if you want, it, doesn't include a keyboard. So these
Speaker 1: iPads can get very, very expensive. But I think for
Speaker 1: the average person who's not video editing and and doesn't
Speaker 1: need a computer, they're really really good. And it's kind
Speaker 1: of a one size fits all kind of thing, or
Speaker 1: not one size fits all, because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different iPads to choose from, but I think it's something
Speaker 1: that you know, you can use for a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. All Right, we're getting a lot of questions
Speaker 1: on the live chat here. RW says, how do you
Speaker 1: feel about the new in home cellular connectivity Internet by
Speaker 1: T Mobile and Verizon. I think it is amazing if
Speaker 1: you can switch to it and the connection is fast
Speaker 1: in your home, absolutely enjoy the quote unquote free ride.
Speaker 1: We're getting right now because again this goes back to
Speaker 1: the streaming services. If you buy internet from T Mobile
Speaker 1: or Verizon their new wireless home internet, it is way
Speaker 1: cheaper than internet you can get anywhere else. Why you ask,
Speaker 1: because they're trying to get people to use it. In
Speaker 1: three years, it'll be just as expensive as internet that
Speaker 1: you got through your home in a wire in a cable.
Speaker 1: But right now, ride that free ride because you're getting
Speaker 1: you know, thirty to you know, twenty to thirty to
Speaker 1: fifty dollars off every month on your home internet because
Speaker 1: the price point is way cheaper than what it will
Speaker 1: be later on when adoption is at a place when
Speaker 1: T Mobile and Verizon are much more comfortable with and
Speaker 1: they feel like they can jack up the prices. So
Speaker 1: right now it's cheap. If it works and you have
Speaker 1: a good signal at your house, absolutely get it. Coco says,
Speaker 1: I got the air iPad Air. I use it all
Speaker 1: the time. Laura says, I just noticed eighty dollars in subscriptions,
Speaker 1: yet I don't use cancel those subscriptions. You can always resubscribe.
Speaker 1: Believe me. It feels like a big deal, but you
Speaker 1: kind of get rid of something like a service like
Speaker 1: a Hulu or a Spotify or whatever it is, and
Speaker 1: you just kind of forget. It's like, okay, I'll use
Speaker 1: something else. Like right now, I'm paying for both Apple
Speaker 1: Music and YouTube Music, and you know now that they're
Speaker 1: both really expensive, I kind of have to make a decision.
Speaker 1: The reason I liked Apple Music is because it worked
Speaker 1: on the Apple Watch. But maybe I don't need it
Speaker 1: on the Apple Watch. Maybe I just have to deal
Speaker 1: with you know, YouTube music that you know is included
Speaker 1: with my YouTube and it, you know, doesn't work as simple.
Speaker 1: Our subscriptions needed to use Echo, No, they are not.
Speaker 1: You do not need a subscription to use the Amazon Echo.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the Speaking of tablets, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the Amazon Fire HD eight. This is a
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars tablet. I tested it. I brought it
Speaker 1: on my trip to Japan as my only entertainment option
Speaker 1: on the plane, and it was a little nerve racking
Speaker 1: because I'm typically, you know, an iPad person, and it
Speaker 1: was just fine. It was totally fine. The Fire HD
Speaker 1: eight has an eight in screen, it's got USBC charging,
Speaker 1: it's faster, it's thinner, it's lighter, it's got thirteen hour
Speaker 1: battery life, which the battery was just fine. I tested
Speaker 1: the Plus version, which is twenty dollars more. It has
Speaker 1: one gigabyte more of RAM, which I'd probably recommend getting, honestly,
Speaker 1: a better rear camera. You're not gonna be taking pictures
Speaker 1: with this thing. Faster charging, and also wireless charging. They
Speaker 1: have a kids version, which I really don't recommend if
Speaker 1: your kids are playing Roadblocks and Minecraft. I really think
Speaker 1: an iPad is the best thing, even though I'm not
Speaker 1: a fan of Roadblocks to this day. I download a
Speaker 1: bunch of video apps. I took it on my flight.
Speaker 1: It worked great. There's this weird, annoying unlock screen with
Speaker 1: an AD on it. Every time you go to unlock it,
Speaker 1: it's like a new ad that's like moving. It's either
Speaker 1: for a book or a movie, or a Prime show
Speaker 1: or a game. It's very distracting. But you just swipe
Speaker 1: out and unlock your tablet. You're fine. You can pay
Speaker 1: Amazon I think fifteen dollars to get rid of that.
Speaker 1: The home screen, I was surprised to find, only gives
Speaker 1: a certain level of customization. You can't delete some of
Speaker 1: theilon apps, which I thought was weird. Search is bing
Speaker 1: which not really a fan of Google. This is the
Speaker 1: biggest thing about the the the Amazon tablet, and this
Speaker 1: would be if you really love Amazon or Google apps,
Speaker 1: why you might want a Samsung tablet is that Google
Speaker 1: Play is not on this tablet. Like again, Google and Amazon,
Speaker 1: you know, frenemies like every other tech business. And you
Speaker 1: can't install Google apps easily like Maps, Gmail YouTube. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, in the year twenty twenty two, why is
Speaker 1: that you can use web versions? They're just not very good.
Speaker 1: I mean they're fine, but it's just not the same
Speaker 1: as a native app. So default memory thirty two sixty
Speaker 1: four gigs. You could put a memory card in up
Speaker 1: to a terabyte. Let me just explain what this is
Speaker 1: all about. This tablet is for content creation. It is
Speaker 1: not for content It's sorry. This is not for content creation.
Speaker 1: It's for content consumption. So if you are reading books,
Speaker 1: watching movie, watching TV shows, listening to music, listening to Audible,
Speaker 1: the fire HD eight for one hundred bucks or less,
Speaker 1: I would say, wait for this thing to go on sale.
Speaker 1: It will go on sale. Amazing deal. There is even
Speaker 1: a headphone jack so you can plug in headphones. There's
Speaker 1: also a feature called tap to Alexa, which expands accessibility.
Speaker 1: It basically lets you interact with Alexa using your a
Speaker 1: tap versus your voice. And overall it's just a it's
Speaker 1: an inexpensive tablet. It's good for just watching shows, if
Speaker 1: you just want something to bring on the plane, or
Speaker 1: just you know, sit on your couch and watch content.
Speaker 1: It's great. Or read. I personally like a regular Kindle
Speaker 1: to read. I like the screen on the regular Kindle.
Speaker 1: So that's that's that, all right. Let me get through
Speaker 1: a couple more things I just wanted to mention here.
Speaker 1: Duo Lingo now has a math app, so definitely download
Speaker 1: Duo Lingo Math. I've been playing with it and I've
Speaker 1: gotten to the second level above easy and it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So it's just like a little refresher for math,
Speaker 1: just like kind of learning a languae, except applying that
Speaker 1: same magic to math. And if you have a kid, definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely definitely download Duo Lingo Math for them. It is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I got both of my kids to use it over
Speaker 1: the past couple of days and they both loved it.
Speaker 1: Not just liked it, they loved it. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of apps I have them test out or try
Speaker 1: you know, they play for a minute and then they
Speaker 1: move on. They loved this app and I love that
Speaker 1: my kids are playing a quote unquote game that involves math.
Speaker 1: So that is a win win win situation in my book.
Speaker 1: All Right, what else do I want to talk about
Speaker 1: before I go? One more story we did on KTLA.
Speaker 1: This was really cool. It's called Flytographer, and I've got
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to my pal Johnny Jet
Speaker 1: for telling me about this in his newsletter. If you
Speaker 1: don't get his travel newsletter, go ahead and subscribe to that.
Speaker 1: But Flytographer is basically a website that helps you hire
Speaker 1: a professional photographer in any city that you travel to.
Speaker 1: And so you can do this. We've been doing this
Speaker 1: in various cities that we've gone on family vacations. You
Speaker 1: hire a photography, they take family pictures, use them as
Speaker 1: your your Christmas card or your holiday card, and it's great.
Speaker 1: But this just makes that a little bit easier because
Speaker 1: you could just type in Maui, you can type in Rome,
Speaker 1: you can type in Honolulu, you can type in Tokyo,
Speaker 1: and it gives you a couple of photographers. You can
Speaker 1: see what kind of their world is what they you know,
Speaker 1: their style of photography, and then you can hire them
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars. Our two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: five dollars for a half an hour session is the minimum.
Speaker 1: You can get that cheaper through a referral link. I've
Speaker 1: got that on my Instagram stories. It's like takes some
Speaker 1: money off of that and that'll get you fifteen curated
Speaker 1: photos you can download. So I like that you get
Speaker 1: your digital files. Liz says she saw my pictures and
Speaker 1: she likes them, thank you. And it's just it's really cool.
Speaker 1: I had a blast doing this in Tokyo. It's such
Speaker 1: a good idea. I think that it's it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where, yes, you can take selfies wherever you
Speaker 1: but if you're you know, a family picture, is really
Speaker 1: is it worth three hundred dollars? Yeah, that's expensive. It's
Speaker 1: a splurgch there's no doubt about it. But you're gonna
Speaker 1: use this thing, You're gonna frame this picture. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have better memories than you can get on your smartphone.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean maybe the next step of this
Speaker 1: is to just have someone take your iPhone and take
Speaker 1: or your Samsung and take a bunch of pictures of you.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea, but you know, it beats
Speaker 1: taking selfies, it beats taking you know, asking a stranger.
Speaker 1: It was seriously, seriously cool. All right Before I go,
Speaker 1: let me just answer a couple of these questions I'm
Speaker 1: seeing percolating on here. The math app is called Duo
Speaker 1: Lingo d U O l I n g O Duo
Speaker 1: Lingo Math. They have a language app that's also good,
Speaker 1: but this is brand new. It's called Dual Lingo Math.
Speaker 1: HEYESU says, do you think DGI drones are worth it?
Speaker 1: I have a Magic Air first generation. Absolutely. My kid
Speaker 1: is a huge fan of flying drones I have. I've
Speaker 1: had a couple of them over the years. The Dji
Speaker 1: is absolutely the best when we've used I think it
Speaker 1: was the Mavick, the little tiny one. I had to
Speaker 1: send it back to Dji, but it's actually on my
Speaker 1: don't tell him, but it's on my Christmas list because
Speaker 1: he is a drone whiz and it's you know, these
Speaker 1: other drones are fun, but they're only you know, only
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, it's only a you can
Speaker 1: only go so far with them. But Dji is like,
Speaker 1: you know, the best, and so I think definitely go
Speaker 1: with that. Frank says, should I switch to Google Fi?
Speaker 1: I think if you're on a Google phone, I think
Speaker 1: like a pixel, I think Google Fi is worth it. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: I think there's better options out there. I think that
Speaker 1: Mint Mobile is excellent for a low cost carrier. US
Speaker 1: Mobile is really really good for a low cost carrier.
Speaker 1: Cricket is really good if you want the AT and
Speaker 1: T network. Also, don't discount Boost Mobile. Boost Mobile has
Speaker 1: a twenty five dollars unlimited plan that I tested and
Speaker 1: it was excellent. They're also coming out with this plan
Speaker 1: called Boost Infinity or Infinite. I forget what it's called,
Speaker 1: but I would wait for that to see what the
Speaker 1: details are. It sounds like it's a Google Fi competitor,
Speaker 1: and you know, Google Fi is good, but it's not
Speaker 1: cheap anymore. It used to be like really kind of
Speaker 1: like inexpensive. Now I feel like it's kind of the
Speaker 1: same price as as a you know, a regular carrier,
Speaker 1: and the benefit is not really there because it's just
Speaker 1: basically T Mobile repurpose. So if you want that, just
Speaker 1: maybe just go T Mobile directly. You know, Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: what does that sound mean, that means that's going to
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