WEBVTT - Amazon's $100 tablet vs iPad 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.000 Elon takes over Twitter, Duo Lingo takes over Math, and 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:17.520 will Amazon's one hundred dollars fire tablet take over the iPad? 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.960 Spoiler alert Probably not, but I'll tell you when it should. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.119 Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.480 Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.560 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.000 know about. It's also the place where I answer the 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.320 questions you send me, and yes, you send me a 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.520 lot of them. I'm the tech reporter for KTLA Channel 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:49.760 five in Los Angeles, California, United States, North America. The World, Earth, 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.479 the galaxy? What galaxy are we in? Do we have 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.880 a name for the galaxy? I'm sure we do. I 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.440 should probably know that. Oh my gosh, welcome to the show. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.880 I know it's been a bit since I've done a podcast, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.160 and I officially apologized for that. But it's just one 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:06.760 of these things where I think the last time I 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.600 was in a hotel room in New York City, and 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.840 then I was in Tokyo and then I don't you know. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.040 It's just it's a lot sometimes. So I do appreciate 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.640 Milky Way Galaxy. Oh is that what we're in the 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.160 Milky Way. Okay, is that the Milky Way? I thought 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.319 that was a candy bar. It is a good candy bar, 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.240 but anyway, so I guess we're in the Milky Way Galaxy. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.800 Speaking of galaxies, I was in Japan. In case you 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.360 haven't seen any of my stories on KTLA lately, they've 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.559 all been sort of international in scope. Was in Japan 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.000 for ce Tech twenty twenty two, which is sort of 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.399 their version of CS, which is also coming up very 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.800 soon in Las Vegas, which I can't believe that always 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.200 marks a whole nother year. But Japan se Tech twenty 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.240 twenty two. They do this show every year. It's like 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.600 kind of their version of CS, but it's more geared 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.120 towards it used to be electronic. Now it's more towards 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.240 like tech that's going to change our lives. So that 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.920 was the first time they were in person in three years, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.480 and you know, I got the opportunity they brought me 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.360 over there. It was so fantastic to just be back 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.519 in Tokyo in Japan. It just reopened about a week 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.320 before I was there, and it was so cool. I 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.079 love Japan. I think it is such an amazing place, 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:26.840 the culture, the people, the technology there they are. They 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.000 have been so far ahead. I've been going there now 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.720 for like ten years. They've been They've been far ahead 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.840 for ten years. I mean, it's just the way that 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.680 they embraced payments and just their whole like society is 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:43.080 so like futuristic, even all these years later. It's really 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.520 quite remarkable. So I took this airline over there called 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.040 zip Aar, which full disclosure, they did provide me with 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.000 a seat to sort of review them and experience it, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.480 and it's just it was so great. I was very 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.240 concerned about taking this airline because I typically make the 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.120 same airline everywhere, and to try a different one, especially 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.400 one that's built as sort of a low cost carrier 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.399 and no frills carrier, I admit I was a little 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.280 bit hesitant. I was like, should I do this? And 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.960 you know, they gave me this live flat seat, which 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.480 you know is typically you know, it's interesting because you 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.280 know they build themselves as a low cost carrier and 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.200 if you think I have a live flat seat, oh okay, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.520 it's like first class business class it is, but only 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.320 in the seat. And this was very unique to me 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.519 to everything you wanted to do, you had to pay, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.280 so if you wanted to choose your seat in advance, 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.080 if checking luggage costs money, like a blanket cost money, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.440 a pillow cost money, your meal cost money, which is 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.360 so wild when you think about buying a seat like that, 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.160 like a lie flat seat. So that was really interesting. 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.000 They also have economy class seats, which was fine too. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.200 Brand new plane seven eighty seven Dreamliner, which is one 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.960 of my my favorite plane. I know I travel enough 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.680 where I have a favorite plane, and it sounds so like, oh, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.360 excuse me, you have a favorite plane, You have a 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.160 favorite airliner you like to travel on. I do, so 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.120 I'll admit it. It's the plane that I seek out 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.840 on my flights to Newark when I fly back home, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.960 and it's just you know, you can't fly a Dreamliner everywhere. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.040 But it's funny because they used to not fly them domestically, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.440 like across the country, and now they do onun United, 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.800 which is really cool. Someone's asking do you have to 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.040 pay to use the lavatory? You do not have to pay. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.040 I actually wondered about that. No, but that was Another 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.800 interesting thing is that the front section of the plane, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.320 which typically if you fly traditional airliner. You know, the 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.880 first class or the business class section has their own, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.400 you know, toilets, and this was just the same bathrooms 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.000 for everyone. So and then of course Nick is asking 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:53.240 the question that I imagine people would wonder wonder, is 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.880 what's your favorite airline. I don't know if I have 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.400 a favorite, but I have a regular airline. I fly 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.680 as United because they used to be Continental back in 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.159 the day where I'm from in Newark, and back in 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.200 the day you had your choice for direct flight from 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.160 lax to New Jersey was only Continental, and so I 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.039 would always fly them. My wife always flied United growing 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.640 up in Los Angeles, and I was like United, I've 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.680 never flown United. I don't even know what United is. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.880 And then those airlines merged to become United with the 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.960 Continental logo, and my wife and I got married. So 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.160 I thought it was so cool that, like, you know, 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.360 my wife and I merged living on the two coasts 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.440 and these two airlines. You know, maybe I'm telling you 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.520 too much. I don't know. This is the problem with 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.000 this podcast. I just start talking and talking and talking. Anyway, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.599 Zip Air was awesome. It was clean, it was friendly, 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.279 it was smooth, it was great. You just have to 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.799 be prepared to pay for all the extra things along 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.279 the way. In fact, on my way back, I've never 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.000 experienced this before in my life. They weighed my carry 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.440 on and they told me that I had to put 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.040 stuff if I didn't want to pay extra, I had 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.800 to put stuff from carry on into my checked luggage, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.479 which I was like sitting there, wait what? And so 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.120 they said, yeah, it's like whatever, nine point three kilograms 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.960 and I needed I don't know if that's it could 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.880 be wrong. I don't know what the kilogram could be, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.040 like a thousand pounds, I don't know. Whatever it was. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.760 It was like a tiny bit over. And they said, oh, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.359 can you put that in your check luggage? And I 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.640 said really, And so I took out this little bag 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.080 of cables I had. I put it in my check 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.440 luggage and they said, and by the way, if you 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.279 don't want to pay anything more, don't shop at duty free. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.720 And I was like, wait what. So I ended up 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.960 taking a chance and I went all out on duty 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.279 free and bought all kinds of stuff and I was 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.440 just like, you know, I'll pay the extra fifty dollars 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.120 to check this or to carry on this luggage. They 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.400 didn't actually ask me, so it was fine, but I 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.039 think they could do that, but I had never seen 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.760 that before. I know, with like international flights, check luggage, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.400 definitely you don't get as much for checked and carry 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.840 on as you would like domestically. But I just was like, WHOA. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.000 I really was taken aback by that and super Scientific, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.280 what's up Danny? Danny says that happened to me in 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.760 Europe a lot on connecting flights. By the way, follow 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.280 super Scientific if you want awesome camera comparisons of the 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.800 latest smartphones. He always does an awesome job from his 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.400 home base in I think it's like Orlando, Florida because 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.000 he's always going to Disney World to do his camera comparison. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.440 So yeah, anyway, zip Air highly recommended if you want 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.280 to fly from the West Coast to Tokyo. And the 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.360 other thing to know is that that first class or 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.360 business class or live flat seat that I had was 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.760 you know, it averages about two thousand dollars when realistically 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.520 to fly that seat to Japan is like closer to 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.360 five to seven thousand dollars on a traditional airline. So 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.560 that's what drew me to that airline. I was like wait, 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.640 how is this so cheap? And so that's when I 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.720 gave him a call to see what the deal was, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.400 and then the the what's the other thing? The economy 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.560 seats are also going to be cheap as well on 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.520 the back. So if you don't really care about a 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.520 lot of frilly stuff on a flight and you just 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.240 want a comfortable, nice flight over there, just you know, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.440 save the money for spending in Tokyo. I already mentioned 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.000 how amazing Tokyo is the friendly people see tech. One 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.239 thing I learned, and this is a thing like, yes 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.800 I am. I am a tech guy, and I am 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.000 always learning just like you are. Like I don't know 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.240 everything in this world. If I did, I would probably 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.920 be a lot richer of a person, right, So I 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.080 am learning as I go along, and that's why I 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.880 test out products. I try things. I really try to like, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.960 you know, just just experience things like a regular person 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.720 would and report back to you. And so I don't 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.720 have all the answers up front, And so before my flight, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.800 you know, I download a bunch of apps and things 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.440 to test out. But one of the things I learned 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.320 while I was over there is that Wi Fi calling 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.600 you can turn this on on your phone and you 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:59.280 can text, and you can also make phone calls through 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.360 a Wi Fi work without triggering any international roaming fees 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.840 from your your carrier. Here in the US, I was 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.320 not aware of that. So I did not know this, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.920 and so when I was in Rome, for example, I 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.800 turned off my Verizon simcard completely because I want you 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.880 to avoid all of the like the daily ten dollars 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.600 fees or whatever. And I bought an eSIM. But the 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.959 problem is when you buy a data only eSIM, you 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.439 don't have access to your standard text messages and phone 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.920 calls that may come in. And so this actually came 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.880 into play in Tokyo because my wife was like, Hey, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.880 I just logged into a website. Can you tell me 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.320 the two factor authentication code that was texted to? And 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.920 I said, I don't know that. I'm not going to 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.240 get that code for a week. And anyway, I was 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.280 hanging out with this guy Michael, who is a tech 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.560 producer for he does like freelance tech stuff, and he 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:52.680 was like, you know, you can just turn on your 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.920 Wi Fi calling and I was like, wait what And 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.600 sure enough, all I turn on my Wi Fi calling 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.120 and all of my tech started coming in my standard 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.960 phone number without triggering any fees, and I was like, wait, 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.240 this is groundbreaking. Anyway, I share that with you because 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.320 I think the perfect way to do it now is 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.360 to turn on your Wi Fi calling, turn off data 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.920 roaming on your traditional plan if it doesn't include any 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.400 international text, and then get a local SIM. I use 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.560 an app called aerlo Ai r Alo. I bought three 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.960 sims from them when I was in Japan. Two worked perfectly, 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.679 one did not, and I was actually kind of annoyed 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.560 with them because I said, hey, can you refund me? 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.360 And they said no, we don't give refunds, like if 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.480 it's you know, if it's not our problem. I was like, oh, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.800 I don't. How do I decide if it's your problem? 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.640 I mean I can't. I've activated four of your sims. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.640 All of them worked except for this one, so I 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.800 don't know, Like I and I tried everything, all their 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.520 little apns and all these settings you had to change, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.319 which the average person would not know how to do 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:55.240 or not want to do, and the two So bottom line, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.640 I bought three SIM cards when I was in Japan. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.520 One was a local japan simcard. I think it was 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.480 called Moshi mosh or moshimoshi, which I think roughly means 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.720 like hello in Japanese. And then two of them I 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.760 ended up buying that were for Asia in general. So 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.360 the two that were for Asia worked perfectly. The local 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.959 Japan sim did not work and I could not get 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:20.680 it to work, and it was on an Android, so 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.840 maybe that had something to do with it. iPhone is 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.600 a little bit easier with the E sims. But anyway, Okay, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.360 that's all my Japan stuff. Let's uh if you have 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.560 any questions about Japan, let me know in the comments. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.559 I am streaming on Instagram right now. Oh, let's see 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.320 O Dealisa says favorite media during the flight movies, music books, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.400 good question. I was actually testing out the Amazon Fire 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.480 tablet on my flight, which I'll talk about later in 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.960 the show. But I watched I watched a movie Gremlins, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:57.240 which obviously old movie, and it held up. I thought 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.440 it was really scary, by the way, but great movie. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.439 And then I also watched this show on Hulu called Reboot, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.280 which I feel like not everyone would like that show, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.160 but since I live in Hollywood and I kind of 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.359 understand that whole Hollywood world, I thought it was hilarious, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.520 and I guess maybe I don't know if it's getting 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.120 a lot of press or a lot of publicity, but 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.160 I thought it was really really funny, and so I watched, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.840 like I just kind of binge watched that. I still 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.920 have a couple episodes to go. And then the book 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.360 I was reading, I know, it's kind of funny, but 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.520 it's it was Kelly Rippa's autobiography, I guess, or short 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.320 stories whatever. I was more interested in the in the 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.679 Regis stories from that show because I always liked Regis 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.320 growing up, and so I just was curious what she 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:45.079 had to say about him. Spoiler as arts, she didn't. 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.600 She didn't have very nice things to say about him. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.520 So that kind of threw me for a loop. Anyway, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.720 thanks for the badge, Stephanie. Thanks for buying a badge. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:59.560 That's cool. The fourteen is trash over Apple. I don't 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.719 know what that means. Rich How much do you like 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.640 the new iPad M chip? I have not tested the 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.120 new iPad, but the M chips are amazing, so people 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.240 really really like those. All right, let's get to the 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.840 first question of the week. Are the first story of 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.199 the week. I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.640 time on this because this sort of gets into the 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:21.680 realm of like celebrity tabloid reporting with this whole Elon 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.720 Musk and Twitter stuff. There's so many hot takes flying 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.920 around about this whole Elon Musk buying Twitter. But I'm 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.120 going to sort of stick to like what's happening. Elon 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.240 Musk has purchased Twitter, and yes, he has now taken 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.800 over the company. Yes, it was sort of an unusual thing. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.600 It was going to happen, It wasn't going to happen, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.120 but he tweeted yesterday he brought a kitchen sink or 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.600 a sink into Twitter and he said, you know, I 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.360 purchased Twitter. Let that sink in. It's you know, kind 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.079 of cheesy, corny, but you know, we'll see a Twitter. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:00.480 I've said this before. Twitter is kind of the perfect 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.920 social network because what I love is that just because 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.640 I have a Twitter account, anyone in the world can 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.320 get in touch with me, and you know, with email 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:10.960 and stuff like that, but it's like a public way 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.440 that like if you want to, you know, tweet me, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.720 you can and I may or may not see that tweet, 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.360 depending on you know, whatever happens with Twitter, and and 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.160 you know, when I'm looking and this and that. But 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.000 like that's kind of cool, the fact that I can 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.520 tweet a celebrity and they may see my tweet. Now, 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.280 if you're a celebrity, you're getting a ton of tweets. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.600 You probably don't, but you never know. Uh So I 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.880 always and by the way, the way Twitter does things 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.160 where it's available on all platforms where you can put 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.960 video on there, you can put pictures, you can see 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.280 stuff without logging in on like Instagram, where they only 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:41.560 give you a couple of times, or you can look 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.360 at stuff before they say, oh sorry, you gotta log 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.520 in Facebook same way. So Twitter, I thought, has always 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.360 been sort of a really they don't they don't mess 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.760 with like links and stuff like, whereas Instagram you can't 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.400 really open up a link. You can't be you know. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.240 It's just it's different. And I love Instagram, don't get 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.040 me wrong, But Twitter I've always loved. It's just it's 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.120 not a thing that's you used by a lot of 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.120 quote unquote regular people, you know what I mean. Like, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.040 it's not the average person is not using Twitter. And 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.640 so maybe now with Elon taking over, maybe they will 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:11.880 I don't know. A lot of people are saying they're 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.160 gonna leave Twitter because they don't like the way Elon 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.000 does things or whatever. But he's already gotten rid of 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.640 the top folks at Twitter, so that's those changes are 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:25.080 already in progress. He tweeted the bird is freed, so 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.880 a reference to a couple things, maybe the fact that 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.880 he feels like Twitter needs to be more of an 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.320 open place for people to, you know, voice their opinions. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:39.160 We'll see what happens there now. Elon runs Tesla, he 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:44.480 run SpaceX, he runs Twitter, big trifecta of companies. You know. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.640 Did he over pay for Twitter? I don't know how much. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.400 Did he pay forty four billion dollars? I don't know 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.720 what the end price was, but all tech stocks have 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.840 taken a nose dive lately, and so whatever Twitter was 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.360 worth when he first gave that offer, is it worth 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.880 that same amount right now with today's situation. I'm not sure. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.280 But at the bottom line for me is that, yes, 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.920 I will stay on Twitter. I'm not going anywhere. I've 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.120 always used Twitter in sort of a different way than 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.000 I have, say Instagram or Facebook. It's always been much 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.680 more of an inside baseball kind of place where I'm 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.720 on there with other tech people and journalists and stuff 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:29.960 like that. We'll see. All right, let's get to the 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.120 first question of the day. Chris asks just a basic question. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.200 I have Facebook and I use it for my business, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.320 but I didn't download Messenger on my phone, so I 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.960 have to go on my computer, log in and view 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.240 messages there, which can take a while for me to 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.080 get back to the office. My question is, is Messenger 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:51.040 a safe app to download to my phone? Chris, Yes, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.080 I believe that that Messenger is a safe app to 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:56.920 download your phone. I know there's a lot of talk 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:01.120 about Facebook and listening and you know, scooping up all 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.200 your personal data and this and that. But the way 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.920 the iPhone is configured, and your email says sent from 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.800 my iPhone, the way the iPhone has configured is that 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.399 you get to decide the permissions that you give an app. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.919 So when you are downloading Messenger on your phone, my 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.159 advice is be very aware of the permissions that it 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.800 asks for. It may ask to track you across other apps. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.960 Say no to that, if you don't like that. It 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.760 may ask for access to your microphone, say no to that. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.639 If you don't want that. It may ask for access 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.440 to your location, Say no if it asks for that. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.439 It may ask for access to your camera, say no 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.240 if you don't want that. If you're just using Messenger, 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.240 it sounds like you're running a business and you're using 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.920 Messenger to reply to your customers. If you just want 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.840 to be able to text with them back and forth 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.440 and get those immediate notifications on your phone when someone 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.680 texts you, absolutely download Messenger. Millions upon millions of people 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.840 use it. People have their opinions on Facebook, just like Twitter. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.920 There's a lot of hot takes going on out there, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.560 but the reality is Facebook and Messenger are very very 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.399 good tools for connecting with people. And especially if you 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.000 run a business and people are messaging you through there, 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.679 go for it. I think you'll be just fine. All right, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.000 let's get to the next story of the week. And 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.280 I feel like this is just something that it's like 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.879 it should be a regular segment, like what streaming service 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.720 prices are going up this week? This week it is 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.800 Apple and also YouTube. So YouTube raise the price of 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.520 its YouTube Premium Family Plan. It's now like twenty three 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.880 dollars a month or something like that. Used to be eighteen, 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.359 So yeah, like five dollars extra, and I subscribe to that, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.879 and it's a big price increase. I'll probably keep it 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.199 because I do like no ads on YouTube, but you know, 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.080 it's one of those things that that's like a that's 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.520 now I think the most expensive streaming service I have 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.440 used to be Netflix. Now it's that. Actually, Netflix and 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.760 Hulu are now both twenty dollars a month for me, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.640 I'm the higher plans. I guess Hulu is includes Disney 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:02.560 Hulu and ESPN Plus whatever that is. But anyway, Apple 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.800 Music is also going up, and Apple TV Plus and 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.879 the Apple One bundle, which I'm also subscribed to. So 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.120 Apple Music is now going up to uh ten ninety 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:13.679 nine a month, it used to be nine ninety nine. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:15.879 The Family Plan is going up by two dollars a 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.040 month to sixteen ninety nine, Apple TV Plus going up 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.640 to six ninety nine a month, up from five dollars, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.160 and then Apple One is going up to It's going 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.840 up by two dollars a month for each plan. And 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.160 I'm on the Premiere Plan, which is thirty bucks a month, 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.760 so now that's thirty two ninety five, So yeah, two 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.280 dollars extra. So My point is, it's pretty wild that 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.800 all of these services are going up. Now if you 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.760 add everything up that's gone up in the past six months. Sure, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.080 it may only add up to twenty more dollars a month, 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.119 but that's still twenty dollars a month. And you do 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.600 that over a year, that's twelve times two, two hundred 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.040 and forty dollars a year. You do that over five years, 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:54.760 you know, you're talking over one thousand dollars. And by 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:56.199 the way, in the next five years, these prices are 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.280 gonna go up more. So it's I get it. It's 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.440 little incremental upgrades or updates to these prices, but over 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.840 time it just creeps and creeps and creeps. And this 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.040 is the problem that people had with cable television. They said, 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.399 oh my gosh, my bill creeps and creeps and creeps. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.280 Every year, I get this notice that it's going up 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.679 by a couple of dollars. And now we're seeing the 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.880 same exact thing happened with streaming services. The free ride 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.159 is over, folks. The saving money by having you know, 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.480 Netflix versus a cable package, it's all the same. Now 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.440 you're paying eighty eighty bucks a month for your streaming 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.520 services in just a different way because they're all parsed 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.560 out among different you know, providers versus just paying that 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.080 one bill to your cable company. And I'll never forget 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.640 when I was subscribed to AT and T for everything 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.120 with my phone, my internet, and my cable direct TV, 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.760 and my bill was like over three hundred dollars. And 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.840 when I you know, they finally consolidated, they're like, oh, 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:52.520 do you want us to consolidate all your bills? I'm 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.440 like sure, and I get my bill and I'm like, whoa, 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.600 this is way. I've never seen all these things together. 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:02.080 Stop it. And I actual I switched out my services 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.280 because I didn't like seeing them all on one bill 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.119 because it just three hundred dollars just seemed like so much. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.840 But the reality is when you add up your cell 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.919 phone bill, your internet bill, which mine just went up 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:16.360 ten dollars a month, and your streaming services, you're probably 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.560 paying close to three hundred dollars a month no matter 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:20.679 you know how you're doing it, whether you have you know, 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:22.439 a couple people, like if you have a family like 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.280 mine with four people in it, you know you got 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.680 a couple of lines here, a couple things it is. 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.840 It's getting real, folks, and it's it's pretty much what 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:31.840 we were looking at back in the day, except if 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.000 you remember, the price of the triple play back in 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:38.080 the day was with cable, internet and phone was about 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.239 ninety bucks or about one hundred dollars, i'd say, And 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.119 so for a long time that was kind of like 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.320 the average price for like those three services. And now, 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.960 of course you know it didn't include the wireless phone, 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.359 but you know, include a phone line, which nobody needed. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:52.880 By the way, it was cheaper to have the phone 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.199 line with the triple play than it was to not 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.080 have a phone line. Like I remember calling the cable 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.119 company and they would say, oh, you got to keep 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:01.280 the phone line. It's it's cheaper to have the phone line. 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:06.400 Otherwise you have to pay extra. Okay, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot says, 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.560 Spectrum charges a sixteen dollars ninety seven fee for broadcasting taxes. 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.320 That is crazy. Wow, that is crazy. So you know, 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.479 this is the other thing that these companies they charge, 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.560 you know, these administration fees, and they raise the administration 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:22.600 fees and it's just you know, it's one of those 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.919 things that it's just not fun when fees go up, 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.520 it's not fun. Oh there's Michael. Michael says, greetings from 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:31.480 Park City. Michael was the guy I was telling you about. 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.040 He just joined the Instagram chat. He was the guy 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:37.479 I was telling you about was hanging out with in Japan, 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:39.119 and he was the one who told me, you know, 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:40.960 you can just turn on Wi Fi calling and get 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:42.879 your texts. And I was like, what, how did I 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:48.000 not know that? All right, let's get to the next question. 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.920 Paul says, have you heard about these things called signal tech? 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:58.320 I'm wondering if it's legit or an internet scam thing, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.520 or can I even buy this at bet spy And 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.280 let's see, let's look up what signal tech is. It 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:10.680 is a signal booster, and it says it can eliminate 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.040 dead spots and rooms with weak Wi Fi coverage with 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.159 signal tech. And it's got a whole bunch of people 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:18.280 on there that say it works amazingly. And then it 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.439 says get yours now, And there's a little pop up 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:24.880 that says Michael just bought one in Missouri. Oh. Now, 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:27.720 it says stock is extremely limited, sell out risk high 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:31.520 what oh and you could buy two oh and another 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:35.000 person just bought one. Oh same guy, Paul and Jackson, Mississippi, 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:39.920 two signal boosters for seventy dollars thirty five dollars each 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:42.720 plus free shipping. Oh Oscar and San Diego just bought 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:46.480 one thirty seven minutes ago. Okay, let me tell you 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:49.760 about these websites. So nothing against signal Tech. I don't 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:52.320 know if this product works well or not, but the 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:56.680 way it's presented, the way that it is on this website, 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.359 I don't like, and it raises a major red flag 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.200 to me. I am I'm not going to be forced 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:05.520 into buying something online because of a ticking clock, which, 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.560 by the way, I think Amazon does that too with 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:12.840 their Lightning deals. So yeah, I mean it's like the 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:15.240 QVC model. You know, it's like these things are selling out, 0:24:15.320 --> 0:24:17.320 these things are going you got to buy this right now. 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:19.440 I like to do my research. I like to talk 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:21.320 to people. I like to see kind of like what 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:23.840 people are saying about stuff before I buy. If you 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:25.960 see an ad on Instagram, it brings you to a 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:29.680 website where there's a countdown clock and it says it's 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:32.359 selling out soon, and there's one page that sort of 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:34.639 has everything on it like the entire like check out 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:37.000 process is all on one page. To me, those are 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:40.960 all big red flags. And number one, I would always 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:45.399 look for the return instructions, like what is the return policy? Okay, 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.440 so I'm looking for return policy. I don't see that. 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:54.080 I'm looking for an address, a physical address. I don't. 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:56.159 Let's see if do they have a physical address? Oh, 0:24:56.280 --> 0:25:01.480 San Diego? Okay, Bizarre Innovations. Let's see what that is. 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:06.399 Bizarre innovations leading direct to consumer development company. So it 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:08.000 looks like it's one of those like as seen on 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.440 TV companies. So okay, yeah, they have a whole bunch 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:15.840 of stuff signal tech. I wear glow birds. I mean, look, 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:18.359 it's probably not the worst thing in the world, but 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:22.800 I think that you can probably just get this from 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:26.399 best Buy. And so what I would recommend is go 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:29.240 with a product that is I don't really recommend signal 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.719 boosters in general, but I if you need one, if 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:35.280 you don't want to go with a new mesh, you know, 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:38.119 Wi Fi router and all that stuff, then if you 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:39.639 want to go with a booster and try that, I 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:41.959 don't think they boost the signal very well. But you know, 0:25:42.560 --> 0:25:45.000 with today's gadgets whatever. It just doesn't work as well 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:47.640 as it used to. But if you're going to get one, 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:51.600 I would recommend one from tp link. Tp Link makes 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.280 a lot of networking products. I think they're pretty good 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:57.520 and they're very reasonable. They make one the Wi Fi. 0:25:57.760 --> 0:25:59.840 They make a whole bunch of Wi Fi range extenders. 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:01.960 Pick one that you like and go with it. I'm 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:04.960 looking at this popular one on Amazon. It is twenty 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.639 two dollars and ninety nine cents, so about the same price, 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:12.200 maybe a little bit cheaper. Amazon Limited time offer says 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:16.160 it covers up to twelve hundred square feet to increase 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:20.080 your boost of your Wi Fi signal. So again, I 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:22.760 just I get a lot of emails from people that 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:26.200 they send me these products they get on as ads 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:28.800 on Instagram and Facebook or any sort of social media, 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:32.480 and I can always tell it's the same kind of website. 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:35.359 It's the same website that just tries to force you 0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:37.800 to buy real quick, and it's not always the best 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:41.040 product out there. So there you go. All right, let's 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:44.280 get to the next story. Galaxy S twenty two can 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:47.320 now take pictures of the stars, and so this is 0:26:47.359 --> 0:26:50.359 kind of cool. Astrophotography is a feature that is built 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:54.399 into the pixel from Google and it's something that the 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:57.400 other phones have really not done. The Samsungs have done 0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:59.760 pictures of the moon, but you know, when it comes 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:04.639 to the stars, they don't necessarily. But now they added 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.480 the ability to take photos of the stars. So they 0:27:07.480 --> 0:27:12.400 call it astro photography. Astro photo they call it. And 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:14.760 this is it's interesting because they did this not with 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:18.080 a software update, but by downloading an app. So you 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.199 download what's called the Expert Raw app, and this is 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:24.639 in the Samsung I know it's confusing. On Samsung sou 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:26.280 they have Google Play, but then they also have their 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:30.120 own Galaxy App Store. So you download this Expert Raw 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:33.199 app in the Galaxy App Store and then you install 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:37.320 it and it adds extra things to your camera. And 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:39.600 then there's also another app called Camera Assistant, which you 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:41.959 don't need to get, but if you want extra features, 0:27:41.960 --> 0:27:44.080 you can do that too. So anyway, once you install 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:47.240 this Expert Raw, you can point your phone at the 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.800 sky and it will take pictures of the stars. It 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:53.320 will hold the phone, it will hold the exposure for 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:56.160 anywhere between like four and I think ten minutes, which 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:58.359 ten minutes is wild. I tried this the other night. 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:00.720 By the way, I have too much light where I live, 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:02.800 so I can't really get a good photo, but it 0:28:03.240 --> 0:28:05.760 definitely you know, it worked. And the coolest thing about 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:10.960 Samsung's implementation of this versus Google is that on Samsung 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:15.680 you've got an overlay of a sky guide. So I 0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:17.200 don't know if you've downloaded one of those apps that 0:28:17.280 --> 0:28:20.160 lets you see the stars in the sky, but Samsung 0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:24.119 just built that into the actual expert Raw app. So 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:27.640 when you aim this up at the sky, you can 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:30.800 see an overlay of the constellations and the stars, which 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:32.760 I thought was really really cool, so you can take 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:35.480 the pictures you want of the stars you want. Anyway, 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:37.359 check it out Expert Raw if you have an S 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:40.680 twenty two series. They're also they have this new Camera 0:28:40.720 --> 0:28:44.440 Assistant app which adds new features to the camera, which 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:47.480 auto HDR. You can turn that on or off now 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:50.640 soften pictures. You can turn on auto lens switching. You 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:53.320 can turn off video recording and photo mode. You can 0:28:53.320 --> 0:28:55.720 turn off number of pictures you take after timer. You 0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:59.000 can change you can make the shutter faster. You can 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:01.920 select tell it takes for the camera app. The previous 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:05.040 screen to time out, and you can enable a clean 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:08.400 preview on HDMI display, So no menuser buttons when you 0:29:08.440 --> 0:29:11.280 connect to an HDMI output. And again those are all 0:29:11.280 --> 0:29:13.840 features that are really aimed towards someone that's using the 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:17.760 Samsung Galaxy phones as a you know, as a real 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:22.520 pro camera. And so yeah, and folks are asking on 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:25.840 the Instagram, not on iPhone. No iPhone has no ability. 0:29:26.280 --> 0:29:29.360 Shouldn't say no ability iPhone? Can you know? It won't 0:29:29.400 --> 0:29:32.000 take really great pictures of the night sky, but it 0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:34.400 will do it. It's just not as good as what 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:37.440 the pixel can do or what the s twenty two 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:40.800 can now do, so check it out. Always cool when 0:29:40.800 --> 0:29:44.400 they add ability for these phones to do things just 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:46.280 with a software update, which is kind of the way 0:29:46.320 --> 0:29:52.640 the world now, all right. Next question comes from Gene 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:55.720 Gene says, can you suggest some good free password managers 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:59.320 for both iOS and Android. I used UPM, but the 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:02.800 developer no longer supports it, although he's kept the app open. 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:06.040 I'd expect to use Excel, but it's not secure. Thanks 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.400 gene Gene. I agree, do not use Excel, although if 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:11.680 that's your only way of keeping track of passwords, it's 0:30:11.680 --> 0:30:14.160 better than nothing. But I would not not recommend that. 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:17.880 I would recommend a secured password manager for sure, and 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:20.320 definitely don't use the same password over and over for 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:23.720 any website. Use a complex password that is I would 0:30:23.760 --> 0:30:28.800 say at least eleven characters minimum, maybe twelve, I don't know. 0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:31.200 Twelve to sixteen is probably the sweet spot for something 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:36.880 that's that's uncrackable by a lot of systems UPM I'm 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:38.640 not familiar with. But here's what I recommend when it 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:42.600 comes to password managers. So if you are just on iOS, 0:30:42.640 --> 0:30:46.040 so if everything is iOS your computer and you know, 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:49.360 you're using Safari on your computer, and you're using iOS 0:30:49.520 --> 0:30:51.960 on your phone, you know, and Safari on your phone, 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:56.280 go ahead and just use apples built in password manager, 0:30:56.320 --> 0:30:59.440 which I think is called like iCloud keychain. So that's 0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:02.600 super sick bolt, super easy. You can use that. Uh. 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:06.120 If you want something that is cross platform that is free, 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:10.440 I would recommend Bitwarden. They are sort of an open 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:12.560 source company. They are I don't if they're open source, 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:15.560 but they're they're anyway, it's is it open source? It 0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:17.720 might be I think it is open source. Actually, yeah, 0:31:17.720 --> 0:31:19.960 it is open source. So that means that other people 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.680 can kind of look at the code behind the password 0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:25.080 manager and you know, make sure that it's good and 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:27.160 make sure that it's secure, and so that's really good. 0:31:27.200 --> 0:31:29.520 And they have a free fee. They have a completely 0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:32.360 free version. Yes, you don't get access to all of 0:31:32.400 --> 0:31:35.720 the features of the paid version, but it's enough for like, 0:31:35.880 --> 0:31:38.320 you know, some people that just need something very simple 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:40.800 to get by. And of course it's a freemium model, 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:42.760 so eventually they want you to use it. And then 0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:44.560 you run up into a wall and say, ah, it'd 0:31:44.600 --> 0:31:46.600 be really nice if I have this feature, and they say, well, 0:31:46.920 --> 0:31:48.880 for a couple bucks a month, you can have that feature, 0:31:48.880 --> 0:31:50.280 and you go, oh, where if you've been all my 0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:52.920 life and then now you convert to a paying customer. 0:31:52.960 --> 0:31:57.480 That's what freemium means. Otherwise, I like dash Lane for 0:31:57.680 --> 0:32:01.160 a full featured but very expensive password manager. I think 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:04.240 they do a really nice job of you know, updating 0:32:04.240 --> 0:32:06.720 their apps. They have like a VPN that's included, there's 0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:09.360 a couple of features like very it's a very premium 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:11.440 password manager and you're gonna pay. I think it's like 0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:15.120 fifty sixty bucks a year for that password manager. So 0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:17.400 we did a story with them a couple of years ago. 0:32:17.440 --> 0:32:20.360 It was very impressed, and so I like them as well. 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:23.440 But I think for a lot of people, if you 0:32:23.480 --> 0:32:28.960 are using Chrome on your desktop computer and an iPhone, 0:32:29.040 --> 0:32:32.160 you can use Google's password manager. If you don't mind Google, 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:35.800 you know, you don't have something against Google. They just 0:32:36.000 --> 0:32:40.720 change their password manager on Chrome to work natively across 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:45.640 the entire iPhone ecosystem, so not just in Chrome like 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:48.959 you used to work in Chrome, but now their passwords 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:51.600 will fill across any app. And so this is a 0:32:51.640 --> 0:32:55.520 free service. You know, it's kind of cool because it 0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:58.480 works on your you know, for me personally, if I'm 0:32:58.520 --> 0:33:02.040 using an iPhone and I'm also using Chrome on my desktop, 0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:05.760 i could switch to this and use this. But it's 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:07.480 one of those things where you have to really like 0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:09.760 Google because you're kind of putting a lot into Google. 0:33:09.800 --> 0:33:11.960 You can always export your passwords from any of these 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:15.320 services and start with a new one, but it's kind 0:33:15.320 --> 0:33:17.640 of a little bit of a process. So but that's 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:19.600 what i'd recommend. So if you want something completely free, 0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:23.120 cross platform independent, I'd go with Bitwarden. If you want 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:26.200 something that's dependent on an operating system and your only 0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:29.840 Apple products, I would go with iCloud Keychain Manager or 0:33:29.960 --> 0:33:33.920 keychain whatever, it's called Cloud Keychain. And then if you 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:37.520 want something that is sort of also independent but priceier 0:33:37.520 --> 0:33:40.400 in premium, I'd go with dash Lane. And if you 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:43.640 want something that is it works across platforms, but it's 0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:46.320 still put out by a big company like Google, you 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:49.600 can go with Google's password manager. Those are some great options. 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:53.800 Whatever you do, definitely use a password manager. I highly 0:33:53.840 --> 0:33:57.480 recommend it. Do not use the same password for various websites. 0:33:58.360 --> 0:34:00.720 Make sure that you use two factor authen indication when 0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:04.720 you can, and just be very vigilant about passwords because 0:34:04.760 --> 0:34:07.160 I know it's a pain. Believe me, When I sign 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:08.759 up for a website and I have to go through 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:12.160 that process of you know, signing up with a unique password, 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:15.240 it is a pain. It takes longer than just clicking 0:34:15.280 --> 0:34:17.880 log in with Google or Apple or any of those things, 0:34:18.080 --> 0:34:21.239 which I don't recommend doing because I don't think all 0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:24.480 your login should be should be linked to another website, 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:27.759 but I just I get it. It takes a long time. 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:31.160 It's annoying. It takes a long time to retrieve the password, 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:32.880 It takes a long time to copy and baste, it 0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:35.560 but just please do it. I'm telling you, if there's 0:34:35.600 --> 0:34:38.600 a breach of a website and a password gets out 0:34:38.600 --> 0:34:41.080 there and it's something simple that can be used across 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:43.239 other websites, you don't want that to happen to you. So, 0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:46.400 you know, just just take the extra three seconds to 0:34:46.520 --> 0:34:50.080 use a password manager and to really really just embrace it, 0:34:50.160 --> 0:34:53.799 and you'll be a happier, safer, more secure person. All right. 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:56.960 Next story up. Apple announces they had a bunch of 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:59.759 new products this weekend, a bunch of new software as well. 0:35:00.200 --> 0:35:03.600 So let's see what do they do. They released mac 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:08.040 os Ventura, they released the iPad os I think it's 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:09.760 I don't know whatever they're up to on the iPad, 0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:13.399 and then a couple of new products, including a new 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:18.920 iPad was it two new iPads, and also new Apple TV. 0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:21.239 So this is kind of like, you know, the end 0:35:21.280 --> 0:35:22.719 of the year where they just kind of like dump 0:35:22.760 --> 0:35:24.520 a lot of stuff on us, like a, here's the 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:26.799 rest of our stuff, you know, after the iPhone, and 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:29.200 it's all stuff that people like and buy and purchase, 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.640 and the software is great. But at the same time, 0:35:31.800 --> 0:35:34.120 I think that you know, these are sort of the 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:37.239 lesser announcements towards the end of the year. You know, 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:39.520 most people buy an Apple TV if they even get 0:35:39.520 --> 0:35:41.759 an Apple TV, because it's kind of expensive and they 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:45.160 don't replace it for five, you know, five years. iPad 0:35:45.239 --> 0:35:47.000 is one of those things when you need one, you 0:35:47.080 --> 0:35:48.719 just kind of go in and see, like, okay, here's 0:35:48.760 --> 0:35:50.600 the price points, what do I need, and you make 0:35:50.640 --> 0:35:52.719 your purchase decision. It's not like a lot of people 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:54.680 are waiting for these products to come out so they 0:35:54.719 --> 0:35:58.759 can upgrade, right, and then the software is great. I mean, 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:01.719 the iPad software Stage Manager is one of the big 0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:04.880 new features, but it kind of got a lukewarm reception. 0:36:05.440 --> 0:36:09.279 And then macOS Ventura. It's like, I've gotten to the 0:36:09.320 --> 0:36:11.600 point and I'm a tech person and I love new 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:13.799 technology and I love new software, but I've gotten to 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:16.600 the point where I'm like, all right, Apple, you know, 0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:19.799 I just got used to the current macOS, which I 0:36:19.800 --> 0:36:21.480 can't even tell you the name of it. Let's see 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:26.680 what it's called, Monterey. So I'm just getting used to 0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:30.560 mac Os Monterey. Now you're springing Ventura on me, and 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:32.880 it's like, do I really need anything new on my 0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:35.680 desktop unless it's gonna change the way I compute, or 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:38.800 make my Gmail faster, which is super slow on Chrome. 0:36:39.680 --> 0:36:43.600 You know, we'll see or my battery life better anyway. 0:36:44.040 --> 0:36:46.600 So the thing I think is important is the Apple 0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:50.399 TV four K so new model with a new chip 0:36:50.400 --> 0:36:53.400 inside the A fifteen Bionic. It's got support for HDR 0:36:53.560 --> 0:36:57.520 ten plus, It's got a new or an updated series remote. Oh, 0:36:57.560 --> 0:37:02.080 I didn't know I had an updated remote. So faster performance. Okay, 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.400 I mean my TV works just fine. But the interesting 0:37:05.400 --> 0:37:08.520 thing is that the actual physical Apple TV is thinner, 0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:12.160 it's lighter, it's it's fanless for the first time, which 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:13.640 is kind of cool. Used to have this big fan 0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:16.480 on the bottom. Uses thirty percent less power than the 0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:21.720 last generation. It's got HDR. Oh, I see the serial 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:27.880 remote has USB c now instead of USB lightning. Okay, 0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:31.960 that's interesting. Comes in a sixty four gigabyte configuration for 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:34.600 Wi Fi for one hundred and twenty nine dollars. One 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:37.800 hundred and twenty eight gigabyte configuration has an Ethernet port 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:43.360 and thread networking. They'll arrive on November fourth, that's a Friday. Again. 0:37:44.520 --> 0:37:48.000 Something that you know. Number one, I rarely get questions 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:51.319 about Apple TV. I think that most most people that 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:55.359 I talk with want either Roku or the Fire TV 0:37:55.440 --> 0:37:58.640 sticks because they're cheap, and Apple TV is something that 0:37:58.680 --> 0:38:00.880 you want to get if you want something that's a 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:04.160 bit more premium, or you're in that Apple ecosystem and 0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:07.000 you know, you just want all things Apple and it's nice. 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.160 I mean, look, if you have an Apple TV and 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:11.400 you have AirPods, it's amazing. You sit on your couch 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:14.120 and you know, just watch a show in total peace 0:38:14.400 --> 0:38:18.000 without disturbing anyone around you. You also have airplay, you know, 0:38:18.000 --> 0:38:20.080 if you're using Eyecloud, you can see your pictures on there. 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:23.560 The apps are robust, but you can do a lot 0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:25.319 of the same things with Roku. Don't get me wrong. 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:27.799 You can plug headphones into the Roku remote for many years, 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:30.279 so I thought it was really cool. And Fire TV 0:38:30.400 --> 0:38:33.480 lets you link up headphones with Bluetooth too, So it's 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.120 not like you can't do these things. It's just more 0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:37.600 of like a it's more of an ecosystem play. If 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:40.040 you're getting an Apple TV, you want all things Apple 0:38:40.040 --> 0:38:44.680 in your life, which you know, fine, that's that's basically it. 0:38:44.840 --> 0:38:47.640 I haven't tested it, so I will tell you more 0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:52.040 once I test the Apple TV to see Ronzie says, 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:54.520 does Apple make iPhones last up to two years intentionally 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:58.080 so customers by the next level, No, I would actually 0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:01.680 disagree with that. I think that as opposed to Android phones, 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:05.400 which I feel like nowadays they've gotten better for sure, 0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:08.080 But you know, you buy an Android phone, like an 0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:13.040 iPhone can last like five years, like legitimately the software 0:39:13.560 --> 0:39:17.520 and the hardware, I mean, the camera, like iPhones last 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:20.719 on average, people are now spending over three years with 0:39:20.800 --> 0:39:22.760 them before they upgrade. It used to be a yearly 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:24.800 upgrade cycle, and then it got a little bit longer 0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:27.080 to two years. Now we're up to I think, you know, 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:31.080 thirty eight months or something like that. So I think 0:39:31.120 --> 0:39:33.120 the iPhone is actually when you do the price of 0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:35.920 the iPhone, I get that it's expensive, but when you 0:39:36.400 --> 0:39:38.600 parse that out over the amount of years that that 0:39:38.640 --> 0:39:42.719 phone can last, it is quite a good deal. And 0:39:42.760 --> 0:39:45.600 by the way, not just how long it lasts, but 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:48.799 the resale value of that iPhone. So if you look 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:50.920 at the resale value of any Android, you know, get 0:39:50.920 --> 0:39:54.239 the best Samsung Galaxy S twenty two Ultra, and look 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:57.400 at that resale price a year later from anyone besides Samsung. 0:39:57.440 --> 0:39:59.160 That's trying to get you to upgrade to a new phone. 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:02.600 It's not very good. Whereas the iPhone. You can go 0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:07.000 on Facebook today and post to your family and friends 0:40:07.000 --> 0:40:09.560 and say, hey, I'm selling my iPhone and someone will 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:12.040 purchase that phone for a family member that needs one 0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:14.799 at a discounted price, or you can sell it a 0:40:14.800 --> 0:40:18.359 million other ways. So I really disagree with the fact 0:40:18.360 --> 0:40:21.880 that you know, yes, I get it. The software. You know, 0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:24.520 people say it slows down. It does, like I've noticed 0:40:24.560 --> 0:40:26.399 that on my phone, But it's not the software that's 0:40:26.440 --> 0:40:29.560 slowing down. It's these apps. Have you noticed how big 0:40:29.600 --> 0:40:34.399 apps are getting and how processor intense they've gotten over 0:40:34.400 --> 0:40:36.920 the years. It used to be, you know, Instagram, Facebook, 0:40:36.960 --> 0:40:39.680 they were like ten megabyte apps. Now you're talking. You 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:41.680 look to download some of these apps are like three 0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:44.920 hundred megabytes. You're like, wait what I mean? Because think 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:47.760 something like Instagram. If you look at it or TikTok, 0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:52.000 there's entire video editing systems built into that app. So 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:54.600 it's not just an app for posting pictures. It is 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:57.240 now become an app that helps you create an entire 0:40:57.800 --> 0:41:01.600 video edited reel that is no easy feet and it's 0:41:01.680 --> 0:41:03.320 just like that with all these other apps. It's like 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:07.640 they're doing so much. So I know it's easy to 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:09.400 make fun of Apple, and it's easy to, you know, 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:13.120 talk about how expensive everything is. But I see things 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:14.480 a different way. I think that you can get a 0:41:14.480 --> 0:41:16.600 lot of use out of these phones in a in 0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:19.600 a big way for many, many years, and if you 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:21.960 like to upgrade every year, sure it could be expensive. 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:25.600 Phil says, I don't understand the need for an Apple 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:28.120 TV box when it's an app. That's a good, very 0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:32.600 good question. That's and I agree. I think it's very 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:37.200 confusing because Apple decided to call Apple TV plus Apple 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:39.760 TV plus, and then you have the Apple TV app 0:41:39.800 --> 0:41:43.040 that runs Apple TV plus, and then you also have 0:41:43.440 --> 0:41:47.720 an Apple TV box. Let's break it down. The Apple 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:51.960 TV box is a streaming device that runs Apple TV 0:41:52.520 --> 0:41:55.560 Apple TV plus, and it also runs any other streaming 0:41:55.600 --> 0:41:58.239 app or any other Apple or any other app in 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:00.759 the Apple App Store for that matter, that works on 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:06.360 that TV. So that is a physical device. The Apple 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:11.920 Apple TV is an app that lives on a kdub 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:14.400 twenty one seventy five. So some still anti Apple too 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:18.960 much money, okay. Apple TV is an app that lives 0:42:18.960 --> 0:42:23.040 on the iPhone and on the Apple TV that is 0:42:23.280 --> 0:42:31.160 more of a curated destination for streaming. So Apple TV 0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:34.319 has a bunch of different products inside of it, so 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:36.680 it may have the Stars Network, it may have HBO. 0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:40.160 You know. It also helps you figure out what's streaming 0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:43.200 on different services, and that's a whole nother thing. And 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:44.880 by the way, Apple does a really good job on that. 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:49.440 The notable exception is Netflix. Netflix is not integrated with 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:54.400 Apple TV the app. So if you're looking, like, you know, 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:57.360 Apple TV the app, you can go on there and 0:42:57.440 --> 0:42:59.080 it'll say like, oh, here's a whole bunch of cool 0:42:59.080 --> 0:43:01.799 Halloween movies that are streaming. Well, that's great, but it's 0:43:01.840 --> 0:43:03.640 never going to show you anything else on Netflix because 0:43:03.680 --> 0:43:06.600 Apple and Netflix are like this, you know, they're front 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:08.400 of mees, just like Apple and every other company at 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:11.760 this point for some reason. What's the reason for that, Apple, 0:43:13.719 --> 0:43:17.760 Let's see. And then Apple TV Plus is a streaming service, 0:43:18.360 --> 0:43:21.920 and so Apple TV Plus is a streaming service that 0:43:21.960 --> 0:43:25.000 you can pay for that has its own content. And 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:27.680 Brian Rose eighty bought a badge. Thank you so much, 0:43:27.719 --> 0:43:30.520 Brian for buying that badge. That's always fun. I don't 0:43:30.560 --> 0:43:32.560 know exactly what the badges mean. I think they benefit 0:43:32.600 --> 0:43:35.440 me in some way, but it's like one of those things. 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:36.839 At the end of the month will be like people 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:38.719 will be like our Facebook will be like, hey, these 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:43.439 people bought you badges. George says, I'm doing a course 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:46.320 on swift with Swift with Apple, and it says apps 0:43:46.280 --> 0:43:48.120 should be made with size and power concern, but the 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:50.920 apps are actually the opposite. Yes, that is true. I 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:53.040 get it. And I'm not a developer of an app, 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:56.319 so I'm sure there's something in the idea of you know, 0:43:57.280 --> 0:44:01.120 a bigger app is probably less effort to code because 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:03.239 you just kind of keep adding code to it. But 0:44:03.280 --> 0:44:05.799 the best apps are probably the leanest apps that are 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:08.360 you know, you code with less and I guess it 0:44:08.760 --> 0:44:12.319 takes up less you know, space and resources. But I 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:14.960 get it. All this stuff, it all comes down to money, 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:17.239 all right. Do we have another question? I saw someone 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:20.560 else bought a badge. Actually Liz bought a badge. Oh, 0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:22.719 I don't know. Two hearts that must be needed even 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:25.400 better badge, So thank you? I need like, do I 0:44:25.400 --> 0:44:28.960 have like applause? Let me see what I have here? Hello? 0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:34.600 What's that? I think that was like a viewer question 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:37.680 like on tape. Okay, hold on, okay, there we go. 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:39.600 Is that when you buy a badge, I give you 0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:43.440 that I need a badge like a Okay, that was 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:45.759 another thing. Okay, so I don't have anything. This is 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:48.400 I guess that's the badge. I need like an applause 0:44:48.440 --> 0:44:51.879 for the badge. So thank you. All right, let's get 0:44:51.880 --> 0:44:58.760 to the next question of the podcast. Let's see. Uh, 0:44:58.920 --> 0:45:05.080 Janice says, oh, Robert says, you know what, I'll okay, 0:45:05.200 --> 0:45:07.719 let's do Robert's question. Good morning, rich I enjoy the 0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:09.799 knowledge I received from your rich on Tech. I was 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:12.759 just wondering how come you never review the Samsung tablets 0:45:13.160 --> 0:45:15.200 as you have done for the new Amazon kindle. I 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:17.480 feel that some of the segments are very narrow with 0:45:17.560 --> 0:45:21.040 some bias, which I guess is somewhat expected. You do 0:45:21.160 --> 0:45:24.680 great justice to the Samsung line of phones, however, never 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:28.399 or very anemic reviews of their tablets. Robert sent from 0:45:28.400 --> 0:45:33.680 my Verizon Samsung Galaxy smartphone get outlook for Android. Okay, oh, hey, 0:45:33.760 --> 0:45:37.200 Seuss just bought three hearts. Oh my gosh, let's go. 0:45:38.560 --> 0:45:41.560 That's awesome. Oh my, Okay, there we go. We'll give 0:45:41.600 --> 0:45:45.000 you the little Once we receive them, the whole podcast 0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:48.920 is going to be that three. That's amazing. Okay, So Robert, 0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:52.400 I one hundred percent understand where you're coming from. I 0:45:52.520 --> 0:45:56.920 get it. If I am mentioning Apple Apple Apple on TV, 0:45:57.400 --> 0:46:00.399 people say I'm an Apple fanboy. All all I care 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:03.959 about is Apple, Apple pays me. Oh my gosh, I'm 0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:06.719 you know, Apple, Apple Apple, And I get it. I 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:09.360 get how that can seem to be the case. But 0:46:09.440 --> 0:46:11.919 you have to understand where I'm coming from. Number One, 0:46:13.080 --> 0:46:16.920 I get two minutes on TV. Right in those two minutes, 0:46:17.000 --> 0:46:18.600 I have to make an impact on you. I have 0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:19.800 to tell you what's good. I have to tell you 0:46:19.880 --> 0:46:23.319 what's bad. And it's really really tricky sometimes because my 0:46:23.440 --> 0:46:26.680 audience on TV is a very broad audience. It is 0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:29.919 people that don't even care about technology. Sometimes it's people 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:32.759 that are just sitting there watching the news and they 0:46:32.760 --> 0:46:34.319 see me come up and they go, oh, what's this 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:38.359 guy talking about? Oh? Apple Apple again. Well, you know, 0:46:38.480 --> 0:46:42.280 Apple comes out with a lot of products every year. Now, specifically, 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:45.400 you're asking why I did not cover the Samsung tablets 0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:47.600 and why I covered the Amazon tablet, And I'll get 0:46:47.600 --> 0:46:51.120 to my Amazon tablet review in just a moment. Easy 0:46:51.480 --> 0:46:54.640 Amazon tablet is one hundred dollars. By the way, it'll 0:46:54.640 --> 0:46:58.319 be even cheaper over the holidays. So I'm anticipating that 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:01.880 we have a lot of Amazon shop the watching TV. 0:47:02.440 --> 0:47:04.879 That tablet is gonna be on their home screen all 0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:07.600 throughout the holidays. It's gonna be fifty dollars, it's gonna 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:09.680 be seventy five dollars, and people are going, wait, do 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:12.160 I get this? This is a tablet for seventy five 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:14.520 bucks one hundred bucks. And so what they're gonna do 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:18.320 is they're gonna google rich on Tech, Amazon Kindle tablet 0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:21.120 or Fire tablet, and they're gonna see my review, and 0:47:21.160 --> 0:47:22.920 now they can see what I think about that one 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:26.279 hundred dollars tablet. Samsung tablets. You know, there's also a 0:47:26.320 --> 0:47:28.880 bit of curation that goes along in what I choose 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:32.600 to cover. Samsung tablets. I don't recommend typically because I 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:34.600 think they're way too expensive for what you get, and 0:47:34.640 --> 0:47:37.279 I think an iPad is better. If I'm spending three 0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:41.000 hundred dollars on a tablet, I'm gonna recommend an iPad 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:44.239 every single day of the week. And the reason for 0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:50.040 that is because the ecosystem, the apps, the accessories, it's Apple. 0:47:50.239 --> 0:47:52.600 It's gonna run better, it's gonna last many more years. 0:47:52.719 --> 0:47:55.160 The Samsung tablets, and yes it's been a while since 0:47:55.160 --> 0:47:58.560 I've tested one, they're just way too expensive for an 0:47:58.600 --> 0:48:03.120 Android ecosystem that almost barely exists on a tablet. There 0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:07.879 are so many amazing applications for an iPad, like I'm 0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:12.560 talking world class tablet applications. You go to Android and 0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:15.280 you go to download the same apps if they're even available, 0:48:15.320 --> 0:48:19.279 and they're horrible. And I'm not knocking what Samsung's doing. 0:48:19.640 --> 0:48:22.920 It's just a bigger problem of the Android ecosystem. It 0:48:22.960 --> 0:48:27.440 doesn't exist for tablets. It's someplace that has just really 0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:31.319 not gone over very well. Now is that not to 0:48:31.320 --> 0:48:33.359 say that if you bought a Samsung tablet, and I'm 0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:35.160 not judging you if you did, I think it's fine 0:48:35.920 --> 0:48:38.520 that things like Netflix are gonna work just fine, things 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:42.759 like Hulu are gonna work fine. Absolutely, But then I 0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:45.640 go back to my original argument, which is, go for 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:47.960 the Kindle tablet if you're just reading a Kindle book, 0:48:48.000 --> 0:48:50.520 if you're just reading, or the fire tablet. I should say, 0:48:50.520 --> 0:48:54.399 if you're just watching shows and movies. You don't need 0:48:54.520 --> 0:48:58.200 something that is the Samsung level of price. And I 0:48:58.239 --> 0:49:00.640 looked up the Samsung ones. It's about three hundred dollars. 0:49:01.000 --> 0:49:02.680 That's a lot of money for a tablet that I 0:49:02.719 --> 0:49:05.160 feel like just doesn't have the apps to back it up. 0:49:05.480 --> 0:49:08.640 So I hope that explains your question. I'm believe me. 0:49:08.960 --> 0:49:11.640 You know, I'm not gonna say my job is, you know, like, 0:49:11.680 --> 0:49:14.040 don't cry for me. Like I love my job. I 0:49:14.080 --> 0:49:16.760 love what I do. But there is some curation involved 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:21.040 in number one. Anything I mentioned on TV, whether it 0:49:21.080 --> 0:49:22.880 is good or bad, people go out and buy it, 0:49:23.080 --> 0:49:25.440 and so I've got to take that into consideration. Like 0:49:25.760 --> 0:49:28.439 if I'm featuring a Samsung tablet, people are just gonna 0:49:28.440 --> 0:49:29.839 see the fact that I'm talking about it and they're 0:49:29.840 --> 0:49:31.840 gonna buy it without even listening to what I have 0:49:31.880 --> 0:49:34.880 to say about it. So if you listen to my reports, 0:49:34.960 --> 0:49:37.240 I really do try to give you like the good 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:39.880 and the bad in a very short amount of time. 0:49:40.200 --> 0:49:43.319 If you read my longer reviews online, I typically try 0:49:43.360 --> 0:49:45.120 to give you a little bit more perspective. And then 0:49:45.160 --> 0:49:48.439 if you listen to my podcast, you really truly sort 0:49:48.440 --> 0:49:50.480 of understand where I'm coming from because I get a 0:49:50.560 --> 0:49:53.320 lot longer to explain kind of my basis for things. 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:55.279 So I get that it just looks like I cover 0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:57.080 a lot of Apple stuff, a lot of Amazon stuff, 0:49:57.080 --> 0:49:59.200 a lot of Google stuff. But these are the products 0:49:59.239 --> 0:50:00.880 that I feel like want to put out there for 0:50:00.960 --> 0:50:03.200 people to know that I'm covering because I do think 0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:06.240 that they are the better choices in some of these circumstances. 0:50:06.280 --> 0:50:10.000 And Robert who I just I believe that's who. I 0:50:10.040 --> 0:50:13.080 just answered your question, just gave me three stars, and 0:50:13.120 --> 0:50:17.600 so wow, that's amazing. So I hope I answered your 0:50:17.680 --> 0:50:19.799 question and you're still a fan because I just kind 0:50:19.800 --> 0:50:22.839 of went off. That's what I do sometimes. All right, 0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:31.120 let's get so. Speaking of iPad iPad, Dan Seaffert in 0:50:31.160 --> 0:50:33.799 The Verge says, and I didn't review this iPad, so 0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:36.440 I can't. I can't tell you if it's good or not. 0:50:36.560 --> 0:50:40.400 But basically the standard iPad, which is kind of like 0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:43.400 the the you know, the iPad that is the regular iPad. 0:50:43.760 --> 0:50:46.240 I call it the standard. It's called the tenth generation iPad. 0:50:46.280 --> 0:50:50.719 They just gave it an update this week and it 0:50:50.760 --> 0:50:54.800 got USBC great performance in battery. Lots of good apps. 0:50:54.880 --> 0:50:57.759 Accessories are confusing and expensive. Yes, the price is high 0:50:57.760 --> 0:50:59.960 and displays average, so that kind of sums it up. 0:51:00.560 --> 0:51:03.640 And look again, this goes back to my idea of 0:51:04.000 --> 0:51:06.759 like the iPad is this amazing tablet, Like it is 0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:09.879 the best tablet in the world. Apple invented it, and 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:13.560 I will never forget sitting there watching them unveil the 0:51:13.600 --> 0:51:17.080 tablet Steve Jobs on stage. I think it was more 0:51:17.080 --> 0:51:19.359 than ten years ago. I was working at the time 0:51:19.400 --> 0:51:25.080 at a website called tech Meme and this blew my mind. 0:51:25.280 --> 0:51:29.000 I'm sitting there just thinking about, oh my gosh, this 0:51:29.160 --> 0:51:32.399 giant screen is going to become everything. It's a movie theater, 0:51:32.840 --> 0:51:36.320 it's a book, it's a magazine, it's a news I 0:51:36.360 --> 0:51:39.839 already say newspaper. It's a drawing tablet. Even though back 0:51:39.920 --> 0:51:41.960 then he didn't really believe in the stylist. That's come 0:51:42.000 --> 0:51:45.240 full circle. This is going to revolutionize everything. It's a screen. 0:51:45.280 --> 0:51:47.120 You could do work on it, you can write your emails, 0:51:47.160 --> 0:51:49.640 whatever it is. I mean, it's still to this day 0:51:49.719 --> 0:51:52.719 the most amazing, I think, the most amazing gadgets, one 0:51:52.719 --> 0:51:54.560 of the most amazing gadgets in the world outside of 0:51:54.560 --> 0:51:56.960 the iPhone. But again, it's one of those things that 0:51:57.000 --> 0:51:59.359 you buy when you need it and it's expensive. They 0:51:59.440 --> 0:52:02.799 raised the ice basically by over one hundred dollars. So 0:52:02.840 --> 0:52:06.719 the entry level price on this this iPad is, you know, 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.200 it's like four hundred and I think like four thirty 0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:11.719 or four fifty. Now, I mean that's a lot of 0:52:11.719 --> 0:52:13.759 money for an iPad. And by the way, that's just 0:52:13.840 --> 0:52:16.600 the iPad doesn't include the case, doesn't include the pencil 0:52:16.640 --> 0:52:19.000 if you want, it, doesn't include a keyboard. So these 0:52:19.040 --> 0:52:22.360 iPads can get very, very expensive. But I think for 0:52:22.440 --> 0:52:25.680 the average person who's not video editing and and doesn't 0:52:25.719 --> 0:52:29.400 need a computer, they're really really good. And it's kind 0:52:29.440 --> 0:52:31.080 of a one size fits all kind of thing, or 0:52:31.120 --> 0:52:33.000 not one size fits all, because there's a lot of 0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:35.200 different iPads to choose from, but I think it's something 0:52:35.239 --> 0:52:37.279 that you know, you can use for a lot of 0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:40.160 different things. All Right, we're getting a lot of questions 0:52:40.239 --> 0:52:43.640 on the live chat here. RW says, how do you 0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:46.239 feel about the new in home cellular connectivity Internet by 0:52:46.280 --> 0:52:49.200 T Mobile and Verizon. I think it is amazing if 0:52:49.239 --> 0:52:51.480 you can switch to it and the connection is fast 0:52:51.480 --> 0:52:56.080 in your home, absolutely enjoy the quote unquote free ride. 0:52:56.120 --> 0:52:58.279 We're getting right now because again this goes back to 0:52:58.360 --> 0:53:01.280 the streaming services. If you buy internet from T Mobile 0:53:01.360 --> 0:53:05.560 or Verizon their new wireless home internet, it is way 0:53:05.760 --> 0:53:09.319 cheaper than internet you can get anywhere else. Why you ask, 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:12.080 because they're trying to get people to use it. In 0:53:12.200 --> 0:53:15.400 three years, it'll be just as expensive as internet that 0:53:15.440 --> 0:53:17.920 you got through your home in a wire in a cable. 0:53:18.160 --> 0:53:21.680 But right now, ride that free ride because you're getting 0:53:21.719 --> 0:53:25.200 you know, thirty to you know, twenty to thirty to 0:53:25.280 --> 0:53:28.320 fifty dollars off every month on your home internet because 0:53:28.400 --> 0:53:31.839 the price point is way cheaper than what it will 0:53:31.840 --> 0:53:35.239 be later on when adoption is at a place when 0:53:35.280 --> 0:53:37.680 T Mobile and Verizon are much more comfortable with and 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:39.840 they feel like they can jack up the prices. So 0:53:39.960 --> 0:53:41.960 right now it's cheap. If it works and you have 0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:46.800 a good signal at your house, absolutely get it. Coco says, 0:53:46.840 --> 0:53:48.759 I got the air iPad Air. I use it all 0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:53.160 the time. Laura says, I just noticed eighty dollars in subscriptions, 0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:57.480 yet I don't use cancel those subscriptions. You can always resubscribe. 0:53:57.560 --> 0:54:00.120 Believe me. It feels like a big deal, but you 0:54:00.200 --> 0:54:02.520 kind of get rid of something like a service like 0:54:02.600 --> 0:54:05.560 a Hulu or a Spotify or whatever it is, and 0:54:05.600 --> 0:54:07.319 you just kind of forget. It's like, okay, I'll use 0:54:07.320 --> 0:54:09.840 something else. Like right now, I'm paying for both Apple 0:54:09.920 --> 0:54:13.000 Music and YouTube Music, and you know now that they're 0:54:13.000 --> 0:54:15.360 both really expensive, I kind of have to make a decision. 0:54:15.560 --> 0:54:17.480 The reason I liked Apple Music is because it worked 0:54:17.520 --> 0:54:19.640 on the Apple Watch. But maybe I don't need it 0:54:19.640 --> 0:54:21.640 on the Apple Watch. Maybe I just have to deal 0:54:21.680 --> 0:54:24.280 with you know, YouTube music that you know is included 0:54:24.320 --> 0:54:27.440 with my YouTube and it, you know, doesn't work as simple. 0:54:28.440 --> 0:54:31.600 Our subscriptions needed to use Echo, No, they are not. 0:54:31.719 --> 0:54:34.120 You do not need a subscription to use the Amazon Echo. 0:54:34.400 --> 0:54:38.560 All right, let's talk about the Speaking of tablets, let's 0:54:38.600 --> 0:54:43.200 talk about the Amazon Fire HD eight. This is a 0:54:43.239 --> 0:54:45.520 one hundred dollars tablet. I tested it. I brought it 0:54:45.560 --> 0:54:49.280 on my trip to Japan as my only entertainment option 0:54:49.400 --> 0:54:51.319 on the plane, and it was a little nerve racking 0:54:51.320 --> 0:54:54.640 because I'm typically, you know, an iPad person, and it 0:54:54.680 --> 0:54:59.360 was just fine. It was totally fine. The Fire HD 0:54:59.440 --> 0:55:02.640 eight has an eight in screen, it's got USBC charging, 0:55:02.680 --> 0:55:05.600 it's faster, it's thinner, it's lighter, it's got thirteen hour 0:55:05.640 --> 0:55:09.880 battery life, which the battery was just fine. I tested 0:55:09.880 --> 0:55:12.160 the Plus version, which is twenty dollars more. It has 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:15.440 one gigabyte more of RAM, which I'd probably recommend getting, honestly, 0:55:16.200 --> 0:55:18.440 a better rear camera. You're not gonna be taking pictures 0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:22.200 with this thing. Faster charging, and also wireless charging. They 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:24.279 have a kids version, which I really don't recommend if 0:55:24.280 --> 0:55:26.879 your kids are playing Roadblocks and Minecraft. I really think 0:55:26.920 --> 0:55:29.120 an iPad is the best thing, even though I'm not 0:55:29.160 --> 0:55:31.719 a fan of Roadblocks to this day. I download a 0:55:31.719 --> 0:55:33.399 bunch of video apps. I took it on my flight. 0:55:33.520 --> 0:55:37.359 It worked great. There's this weird, annoying unlock screen with 0:55:37.640 --> 0:55:39.759 an AD on it. Every time you go to unlock it, 0:55:39.760 --> 0:55:41.919 it's like a new ad that's like moving. It's either 0:55:41.920 --> 0:55:44.080 for a book or a movie, or a Prime show 0:55:44.600 --> 0:55:49.280 or a game. It's very distracting. But you just swipe 0:55:49.280 --> 0:55:51.520 out and unlock your tablet. You're fine. You can pay 0:55:51.520 --> 0:55:53.440 Amazon I think fifteen dollars to get rid of that. 0:55:54.400 --> 0:55:57.040 The home screen, I was surprised to find, only gives 0:55:57.080 --> 0:55:59.480 a certain level of customization. You can't delete some of 0:55:59.480 --> 0:56:03.799 theilon apps, which I thought was weird. Search is bing 0:56:04.040 --> 0:56:08.440 which not really a fan of Google. This is the 0:56:08.480 --> 0:56:12.040 biggest thing about the the the Amazon tablet, and this 0:56:12.080 --> 0:56:14.400 would be if you really love Amazon or Google apps, 0:56:14.400 --> 0:56:17.200 why you might want a Samsung tablet is that Google 0:56:17.280 --> 0:56:21.440 Play is not on this tablet. Like again, Google and Amazon, 0:56:21.600 --> 0:56:25.719 you know, frenemies like every other tech business. And you 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:30.279 can't install Google apps easily like Maps, Gmail YouTube. I mean, 0:56:30.400 --> 0:56:32.680 come on, in the year twenty twenty two, why is 0:56:32.719 --> 0:56:36.160 that you can use web versions? They're just not very good. 0:56:37.680 --> 0:56:39.439 I mean they're fine, but it's just not the same 0:56:39.440 --> 0:56:42.600 as a native app. So default memory thirty two sixty 0:56:42.600 --> 0:56:44.560 four gigs. You could put a memory card in up 0:56:44.560 --> 0:56:47.600 to a terabyte. Let me just explain what this is 0:56:47.600 --> 0:56:50.600 all about. This tablet is for content creation. It is 0:56:50.640 --> 0:56:55.440 not for content It's sorry. This is not for content creation. 0:56:55.680 --> 0:56:58.960 It's for content consumption. So if you are reading books, 0:56:59.239 --> 0:57:03.560 watching movie, watching TV shows, listening to music, listening to Audible, 0:57:03.800 --> 0:57:06.280 the fire HD eight for one hundred bucks or less, 0:57:06.680 --> 0:57:08.520 I would say, wait for this thing to go on sale. 0:57:08.560 --> 0:57:12.919 It will go on sale. Amazing deal. There is even 0:57:12.960 --> 0:57:15.520 a headphone jack so you can plug in headphones. There's 0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:18.440 also a feature called tap to Alexa, which expands accessibility. 0:57:18.440 --> 0:57:21.720 It basically lets you interact with Alexa using your a 0:57:21.800 --> 0:57:26.960 tap versus your voice. And overall it's just a it's 0:57:27.000 --> 0:57:29.880 an inexpensive tablet. It's good for just watching shows, if 0:57:29.880 --> 0:57:31.440 you just want something to bring on the plane, or 0:57:31.520 --> 0:57:33.960 just you know, sit on your couch and watch content. 0:57:34.080 --> 0:57:37.360 It's great. Or read. I personally like a regular Kindle 0:57:37.440 --> 0:57:39.840 to read. I like the screen on the regular Kindle. 0:57:41.080 --> 0:57:43.000 So that's that's that, all right. Let me get through 0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:44.720 a couple more things I just wanted to mention here. 0:57:45.760 --> 0:57:49.120 Duo Lingo now has a math app, so definitely download 0:57:49.200 --> 0:57:51.680 Duo Lingo Math. I've been playing with it and I've 0:57:51.680 --> 0:57:55.120 gotten to the second level above easy and it's it's 0:57:55.200 --> 0:57:58.520 pretty cool. So it's just like a little refresher for math, 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:00.960 just like kind of learning a languae, except applying that 0:58:01.000 --> 0:58:04.120 same magic to math. And if you have a kid, definitely, 0:58:04.600 --> 0:58:11.400 definitely definitely download Duo Lingo Math for them. It is fantastic. 0:58:11.440 --> 0:58:13.760 I got both of my kids to use it over 0:58:13.800 --> 0:58:16.760 the past couple of days and they both loved it. 0:58:16.960 --> 0:58:19.480 Not just liked it, they loved it. You know, a 0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:21.360 lot of apps I have them test out or try 0:58:21.400 --> 0:58:22.720 you know, they play for a minute and then they 0:58:22.760 --> 0:58:26.440 move on. They loved this app and I love that 0:58:26.520 --> 0:58:30.360 my kids are playing a quote unquote game that involves math. 0:58:30.800 --> 0:58:34.520 So that is a win win win situation in my book. 0:58:35.160 --> 0:58:37.000 All Right, what else do I want to talk about 0:58:37.080 --> 0:58:41.160 before I go? One more story we did on KTLA. 0:58:41.280 --> 0:58:44.200 This was really cool. It's called Flytographer, and I've got 0:58:44.200 --> 0:58:46.080 to give a shout out to my pal Johnny Jet 0:58:46.160 --> 0:58:49.040 for telling me about this in his newsletter. If you 0:58:49.080 --> 0:58:52.440 don't get his travel newsletter, go ahead and subscribe to that. 0:58:52.880 --> 0:58:57.880 But Flytographer is basically a website that helps you hire 0:58:58.000 --> 0:59:01.720 a professional photographer in any city that you travel to. 0:59:02.160 --> 0:59:04.480 And so you can do this. We've been doing this 0:59:04.520 --> 0:59:06.840 in various cities that we've gone on family vacations. You 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:09.640 hire a photography, they take family pictures, use them as 0:59:09.680 --> 0:59:12.479 your your Christmas card or your holiday card, and it's great. 0:59:12.800 --> 0:59:15.840 But this just makes that a little bit easier because 0:59:15.880 --> 0:59:18.560 you could just type in Maui, you can type in Rome, 0:59:18.840 --> 0:59:21.480 you can type in Honolulu, you can type in Tokyo, 0:59:21.640 --> 0:59:23.440 and it gives you a couple of photographers. You can 0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:25.840 see what kind of their world is what they you know, 0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:28.240 their style of photography, and then you can hire them 0:59:28.960 --> 0:59:31.840 two hundred and fifty dollars. Our two hundred and eighty 0:59:31.840 --> 0:59:34.400 five dollars for a half an hour session is the minimum. 0:59:34.680 --> 0:59:36.800 You can get that cheaper through a referral link. I've 0:59:36.800 --> 0:59:39.760 got that on my Instagram stories. It's like takes some 0:59:39.840 --> 0:59:43.640 money off of that and that'll get you fifteen curated 0:59:43.640 --> 0:59:45.440 photos you can download. So I like that you get 0:59:45.440 --> 0:59:47.960 your digital files. Liz says she saw my pictures and 0:59:48.000 --> 0:59:51.880 she likes them, thank you. And it's just it's really cool. 0:59:51.960 --> 0:59:54.240 I had a blast doing this in Tokyo. It's such 0:59:54.280 --> 0:59:57.840 a good idea. I think that it's it's one of 0:59:57.880 --> 0:59:59.840 those things where, yes, you can take selfies wherever you 1:00:00.520 --> 1:00:03.080 but if you're you know, a family picture, is really 1:00:03.160 --> 1:00:05.400 is it worth three hundred dollars? Yeah, that's expensive. It's 1:00:05.440 --> 1:00:07.920 a splurgch there's no doubt about it. But you're gonna 1:00:07.960 --> 1:00:10.320 use this thing, You're gonna frame this picture. You're gonna 1:00:10.320 --> 1:00:12.400 have better memories than you can get on your smartphone. 1:00:12.520 --> 1:00:14.880 And yeah, I mean maybe the next step of this 1:00:15.080 --> 1:00:18.240 is to just have someone take your iPhone and take 1:00:18.360 --> 1:00:20.440 or your Samsung and take a bunch of pictures of you. 1:00:20.480 --> 1:00:23.840 That's not a bad idea, but you know, it beats 1:00:23.880 --> 1:00:27.200 taking selfies, it beats taking you know, asking a stranger. 1:00:27.600 --> 1:00:30.320 It was seriously, seriously cool. All right Before I go, 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:31.920 let me just answer a couple of these questions I'm 1:00:31.920 --> 1:00:35.680 seeing percolating on here. The math app is called Duo 1:00:35.960 --> 1:00:39.120 Lingo d U O l I n g O Duo 1:00:39.200 --> 1:00:42.040 Lingo Math. They have a language app that's also good, 1:00:42.080 --> 1:00:44.000 but this is brand new. It's called Dual Lingo Math. 1:00:44.880 --> 1:00:48.840 HEYESU says, do you think DGI drones are worth it? 1:00:48.880 --> 1:00:52.680 I have a Magic Air first generation. Absolutely. My kid 1:00:52.760 --> 1:00:56.240 is a huge fan of flying drones I have. I've 1:00:56.280 --> 1:00:58.840 had a couple of them over the years. The Dji 1:00:59.000 --> 1:01:01.920 is absolutely the best when we've used I think it 1:01:01.960 --> 1:01:04.560 was the Mavick, the little tiny one. I had to 1:01:04.600 --> 1:01:06.560 send it back to Dji, but it's actually on my 1:01:06.760 --> 1:01:09.240 don't tell him, but it's on my Christmas list because 1:01:09.280 --> 1:01:12.840 he is a drone whiz and it's you know, these 1:01:12.880 --> 1:01:15.720 other drones are fun, but they're only you know, only 1:01:15.880 --> 1:01:18.680 a little bit. You know, it's only a you can 1:01:18.760 --> 1:01:21.240 only go so far with them. But Dji is like, 1:01:21.480 --> 1:01:24.520 you know, the best, and so I think definitely go 1:01:24.640 --> 1:01:27.480 with that. Frank says, should I switch to Google Fi? 1:01:29.240 --> 1:01:32.320 I think if you're on a Google phone, I think 1:01:32.440 --> 1:01:34.760 like a pixel, I think Google Fi is worth it. Otherwise, 1:01:34.800 --> 1:01:37.120 I think there's better options out there. I think that 1:01:37.800 --> 1:01:41.560 Mint Mobile is excellent for a low cost carrier. US 1:01:41.600 --> 1:01:44.680 Mobile is really really good for a low cost carrier. 1:01:45.040 --> 1:01:47.560 Cricket is really good if you want the AT and 1:01:47.600 --> 1:01:52.800 T network. Also, don't discount Boost Mobile. Boost Mobile has 1:01:52.800 --> 1:01:55.480 a twenty five dollars unlimited plan that I tested and 1:01:55.640 --> 1:01:58.280 it was excellent. They're also coming out with this plan 1:01:58.400 --> 1:02:01.680 called Boost Infinity or Infinite. I forget what it's called, 1:02:01.720 --> 1:02:03.920 but I would wait for that to see what the 1:02:03.960 --> 1:02:07.360 details are. It sounds like it's a Google Fi competitor, 1:02:07.840 --> 1:02:10.640 and you know, Google Fi is good, but it's not 1:02:10.760 --> 1:02:12.840 cheap anymore. It used to be like really kind of 1:02:12.880 --> 1:02:15.280 like inexpensive. Now I feel like it's kind of the 1:02:15.320 --> 1:02:21.040 same price as as a you know, a regular carrier, 1:02:21.200 --> 1:02:23.760 and the benefit is not really there because it's just 1:02:23.800 --> 1:02:26.560 basically T Mobile repurpose. So if you want that, just 1:02:26.600 --> 1:02:34.120 maybe just go T Mobile directly. You know, Oh gosh, 1:02:34.160 --> 1:02:36.840 what does that sound mean, that means that's going to 1:02:36.920 --> 1:02:38.280 do it for this episode of the show. If you'd 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:39.840 like to submit a question for me to answer, go 1:02:39.880 --> 1:02:42.120 to my Facebook page, Facebook dot com, slash rich on 1:02:42.160 --> 1:02:44.200 Tech hit the big blue send email button, or go 1:02:44.240 --> 1:02:47.800 to richon Tech dot tv hit the email icon. Also, 1:02:48.000 --> 1:02:50.520 I would love it if you would rate and review 1:02:50.560 --> 1:02:52.600 this podcast. 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