Speaker 1: The tech gifts that are on every twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: holiday list, and how to get them without overpaying. Google
Speaker 1: makes Android work with airdrop, but will it last? And
Speaker 1: never clip grocery store coupons ever? Again the free tool
Speaker 1: that does it for you, plus your tech questions answered.
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Speaker 1: doing things a little different this week. All the music
Speaker 1: you hear is requested from you. So this song Lovely
Speaker 1: Day by Bill Withers is from Heidi. She dedicates it
Speaker 1: to her family and friends. Great song, fun way to
Speaker 1: start the show. All Right. Guests this week Nathan Burrow,
Speaker 1: you know him from Wirecutter. He's going to share the
Speaker 1: best tested tech gifts this season, and smart ways to
Speaker 1: save and later in the show this is a huge
Speaker 1: growth area AI in healthcare. Doctor Adam Oskowitz, co founder
Speaker 1: of Doctronic, is going to talk about how AI can
Speaker 1: help patients and doctors alike. Well, I hope you're having
Speaker 1: a fantastic day. This is I always call it the
Speaker 1: slide into the holidays, but specifically this week is the
Speaker 1: slide right into Thanksgiving, which I think is one of
Speaker 1: the best holidays because it brings everyone together. Everyone were
Speaker 1: my wife and I were shopping for a Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 1: and the shelves were already sort of like you know,
Speaker 1: pick through and not just some things were sold out.
Speaker 1: We couldn't find the mini marshmallows we wanted. But my
Speaker 1: point was, as I was driving home, I said, whose
Speaker 1: idea was it to have every person in America have
Speaker 1: the same exact meal on a single day. I mean,
Speaker 1: that takes a lot to do that, and so I
Speaker 1: never really thought about that in the past, But yeah,
Speaker 1: we're all making the same meal. So personally, I always
Speaker 1: look forward to the stuffing my mom's recipe, and then
Speaker 1: the candied sweet potatoes, which is also my mom's recipe. Ironically,
Speaker 1: we were thinking about this all the recipes because my wife,
Speaker 1: you know, she has this fond memory of eating pumpkin
Speaker 1: pie that her grandma made. And when you ask your family,
Speaker 1: like where did you get the recipe? Nine times out
Speaker 1: of ten it was on the label of the food
Speaker 1: back in the day, and they just sort of changed
Speaker 1: it as things went along. So it's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: my secret family recipe for my pumpkin pie was on
Speaker 1: the can of Libby's. It's like my sausage stuffing was
Speaker 1: from Jimmy Dean. But that's how it happened back in
Speaker 1: the day. I mean, there was no Internet. People were
Speaker 1: not Either had to pass a recipe to a friend,
Speaker 1: or you passed it down in the family members, or
Speaker 1: you probably just found it on the label of the
Speaker 1: favorite food that you bought. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving this week.
Speaker 1: I could not believe this happened. I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: Google somehow figured out a way to make its Android phones,
Speaker 1: specifically the Pixel ten series, work with Apple's air Drop. Now,
Speaker 1: if you remember in the past companies that have tried
Speaker 1: to make things work with Apple, when Apple specifically blocks
Speaker 1: this from working, Apple somehow makes a little change that
Speaker 1: keeps this from continuing in the future. Now, they haven't
Speaker 1: done that yet with this air Drop situation, but it
Speaker 1: could be a matter of time or Apple could finally say,
Speaker 1: you know what, with all the pressure and regulations against
Speaker 1: us at this point, especially over in Europe, maybe we
Speaker 1: should just let this happen. So what Apple, what Google
Speaker 1: did is they basic looked at air drop and they said, okay,
Speaker 1: how do we make the pixel work with air drop?
Speaker 1: How do we make Android work with air drop? They
Speaker 1: did not hack anything. They just looked into the way
Speaker 1: the system works, and then they just took their quick Share,
Speaker 1: which is their version of you know, if you have
Speaker 1: an Android phone, quick Share is your version of air Drop.
Speaker 1: And so what they did was they just looked at
Speaker 1: it and they said, all right, how can we make
Speaker 1: quick share work with air drop? And they did it.
Speaker 1: They coded it with some very smart people, and they
Speaker 1: didn't just hack this together. These are people that tested
Speaker 1: this to make sure it is secure, to make sure
Speaker 1: it is safe, to make sure there is no workaround
Speaker 1: involved here. They just somehow made the pixels show up
Speaker 1: on the iPhones and vice versa. So now if you
Speaker 1: have a Pixel ten series you can go and air
Speaker 1: drop photos and videos from that device to an Apple device.
Speaker 1: And that's not just the iPhone, that's any Apple device
Speaker 1: that supports air drop and vice versa. So if you
Speaker 1: have an iPhone and you've got a Pixel friend, you
Speaker 1: can now swap photos with them very easily. Google says
Speaker 1: all of the transfers are device to device. They are
Speaker 1: not routed through any server or cloud storage. Nothing is logged,
Speaker 1: no extra data is collected beyond the transfer. Now, this
Speaker 1: is available on the Pixel ten series at launch, and
Speaker 1: they want to make this available to all Android phones.
Speaker 1: But try it as I might, I could not get
Speaker 1: it to work on the Samsung. Even downloading their little
Speaker 1: helper app you gotta download did not work. But this
Speaker 1: is great for the holidays. I know Pixel ten still
Speaker 1: a very small amount of people that have that device,
Speaker 1: but if this could get shared to all Android devices
Speaker 1: over the next couple of months, that would be game changing.
Speaker 1: Now it's really up to Apple. Are they going to
Speaker 1: stop this? I think if they did, they would have
Speaker 1: to have a really good reason. We remember what they
Speaker 1: did with Beeper. They tried to make I Message available
Speaker 1: on Android and Apple said, uh uh, no way, and
Speaker 1: they changed everything so that program would not work anymore. Now.
Speaker 1: Apple could do this easily because all they have to
Speaker 1: do is write something into the code that says verre
Speaker 1: not sharing to an Apple device. It's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: But will they do that? I think it would be
Speaker 1: downright evil for them to do that. I don't think
Speaker 1: it would be right for them to do that. Clearly,
Speaker 1: this system can work between devices and for people like
Speaker 1: myself that are always mixing devices and using different things,
Speaker 1: it really is game changing. And by the way, just
Speaker 1: in general holiday parties, Hey, you took that picture on
Speaker 1: your pixel because you've got a great camera. Can you
Speaker 1: share it to me?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I can't. I got to text it to you, which
Speaker 1: is fine because RCS. But still so, Apple, please don't
Speaker 1: ruin a good thing. And Google, kudos to you for fighting.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like the two goliaths, right, like
Speaker 1: Google is huge, Apple is huge. And Google, by the way,
Speaker 1: did not work with Apple on this. They made that
Speaker 1: clear in their blog posts. They said we hope to
Speaker 1: work with Apple in the future about making this a
Speaker 1: permanent thing or something to that effect. The other big
Speaker 1: news this week, Roadblocks is now requiring facial basically facial
Speaker 1: age checks, so they're using AI to figure out the
Speaker 1: age of users, and then they put them into a
Speaker 1: category under nine, nine to twelve, thirteen to fifteen, sixteen
Speaker 1: to seventeen, eighteen to twenty or twenty one plus. Now,
Speaker 1: if your kid plays Roadblocks, your grandkids. There's been some
Speaker 1: issues on Roadblocks with inappropriate chats, inappropriate content, and this
Speaker 1: happens pretty regularly, and Roadblocks knows this, but of course
Speaker 1: they don't want to be regulated, just like every other
Speaker 1: tech company out there, so they try to put these
Speaker 1: things in place before the regulations, before the regulators kind
Speaker 1: of figure stuff out and say, oh, hold on, maybe
Speaker 1: kids shouldn't be playing this game that's just unchecked for
Speaker 1: hours of every day. And parents, they know Roadblocks, but
Speaker 1: they don't really know what their kids are doing. They
Speaker 1: just hear the noises, They hear the kids yelling, screaming,
Speaker 1: playing with their friends. So what's going to happen? And
Speaker 1: this has already started to roll out, although it's not
Speaker 1: required here in the US until January. But your kid,
Speaker 1: if they're playing Roadblocks, they've probably already seen a message
Speaker 1: that says, hey, verify your age using a selfie, and
Speaker 1: so what it does. They're using this third party company
Speaker 1: called Persona, which a lot of these digital IDs use.
Speaker 1: But your kid holds their iPad up to their face,
Speaker 1: it takes a video selfie. They turn left right to
Speaker 1: kind of verify and make sure it's a live person,
Speaker 1: and then it uses the facial identification to figure out
Speaker 1: how old the kid is or the user, and then
Speaker 1: they put them in a group nine to twelve, like
Speaker 1: I said, thirteen to fifteen, sixteen to seventeen, and then
Speaker 1: kids are only allowed to chat with other users in
Speaker 1: their similar age groups. Now, kids under nine chat by
Speaker 1: default is turned off unless a parent turns it back
Speaker 1: on after the age check. So that's interesting. And if
Speaker 1: your kid plays these games, you know that chat is
Speaker 1: a huge part of video games and kids don't want this,
Speaker 1: by the way, at all. I think for parents it's
Speaker 1: a good thing because you don't want your kids. If
Speaker 1: your kid is nine, they don't need to be chatting
Speaker 1: with someone that's eighteen or twenty one. Now there is
Speaker 1: a way to have them chat with their verified friends
Speaker 1: or family members that might be older. You can do that,
Speaker 1: but the chat is monitored by AI. They do have
Speaker 1: filtering for kids under thirteen. But I'll be honest, my
Speaker 1: kid was telling me all the stuff that he's seen
Speaker 1: in Roadblock's chat, and you know, not all of it's good.
Speaker 1: So this what's interesting about this whole facial ID verification
Speaker 1: is that my kid has already asked me if he
Speaker 1: can somehow cheat the system because his friend already cheated
Speaker 1: the system somehow he got in eighteen, And now my
Speaker 1: kid wants to be eighteen because if he gets his
Speaker 1: real age, which is younger than that, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to chat with his friend. But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let my kid break this rule so that he
Speaker 1: can chat with eighteen and twenty year olds.
Speaker 3: No way.
Speaker 1: So parents are gonna have to have you know, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out where they stand on this.
Speaker 1: Do they want to help their kids fake this? You know,
Speaker 1: because the parent can sit there in front of the
Speaker 1: ID and do the check for the kid and their
Speaker 1: age will come up as older, But then the kid
Speaker 1: won't be able to chat with their friends if they
Speaker 1: do the real thing. So I think this is a
Speaker 1: pretty good system. I don't think it's going to be perfect,
Speaker 1: but I think it's better than nothing. And so that's
Speaker 1: going to be rolling out. You don't have to do
Speaker 1: it just yet. I would say maybe wait a little bit,
Speaker 1: let's let this settle in. It's only been a couple
Speaker 1: of days where Roadblocks has done this in the US.
Speaker 1: You have until January to do it, so maybe wait
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks to see how this works out.
Speaker 1: All right? Coming up, we are going to talk about
Speaker 1: the worst passwords of twenty twenty five. I've got the
Speaker 1: top worst password right here. It's pretty bad. It's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to figure out. Plus, we've got the details on
Speaker 1: that major outage this week, that cloud Flare outage. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about that. We've got the gadget of
Speaker 1: the week. Of course, your emails just overflowing my inbox
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me this weekend. More rich
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Speaker 1: right there. Let's go to Raymond in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich Hi.
Speaker 3: They're Rich.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 3: Got an easy question for you.
Speaker 4: We just bought a brand new twenty five subrew cross Trick,
Speaker 4: which I really like.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, people love superus oop.
Speaker 5: So what I need to do is I want to
Speaker 5: get a dashcam for it.
Speaker 1: What do you recommend, Crucial, you live in LA, you
Speaker 1: need you need a dash cam. The amount of things
Speaker 1: I capture on my dash cam is unbelievable. Now, my
Speaker 1: cameras are built into my car. I've got a Tesla,
Speaker 1: so they are all built in. But I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: It is like a superpower. Because I'm on the High
Speaker 1: Freeway yesterday and I'm not kidding. I'm like, why is
Speaker 1: this slowing down? This guy in front of me does
Speaker 1: like a pit maneuver on another car because he was
Speaker 1: so angry at this other driver on the freeway, and
Speaker 1: so every driver behind him had to slow down and
Speaker 1: go around this this wild whatever was happening on the freeway.
Speaker 1: And this guy gets out of his car and he
Speaker 1: just like wants to start with this truck driver. It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: what is happening here, what is going on? Anyway? I
Speaker 1: captured it on my cash camp because it's just like,
Speaker 1: what is happening? I was the first car behind them anyway.
Speaker 1: So here here's what you want to look for. Number one,
Speaker 1: you know the resolution of the camera. Most of these
Speaker 1: cameras are ten eighty P. If you want to go
Speaker 1: four K. That's going to allow you to get things
Speaker 1: like license plates more clearly, or identifying characteristics when you are,
Speaker 1: you know, out and about. So TENAD may not cut it.
Speaker 1: You may get something. You may capture some video you
Speaker 1: try to zoom in you're like, oh, I can't see
Speaker 1: that license plate. So that's number one. Number two the
Speaker 1: field of view. Wider field of view means that you're
Speaker 1: going to see more in the video that you're capturing,
Speaker 1: So anywhere from one hundred and forty to one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy degrees that's going to be good. Make sure
Speaker 1: that you get either low light or low light night
Speaker 1: vision or low light cameras not if that's not advertised
Speaker 1: on the camera that you're getting, it probably doesn't have that,
Speaker 1: so at night you're not going to see as well.
Speaker 1: That's number That's the next one. The other feature that
Speaker 1: you really want is called loop recording. So this means
Speaker 1: that the camera is just going to continuously record most
Speaker 1: of the time to a micro SD card. If you
Speaker 1: get one of these cameras that has a cellular connection,
Speaker 1: that's going to be slightly better just because if the
Speaker 1: camera was stolen or your car was stolen, you might
Speaker 1: be able to still capture some of that video because
Speaker 1: it was uploaded to the cloud. But that's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot more expensive, and those cameras that have
Speaker 1: not taken off in a huge way just because of
Speaker 1: the cost. I think. The other thing is a G
Speaker 1: sensor that means that you're a if it's bumped while
Speaker 1: it's parked, the camera will automatically trigger a recording, and
Speaker 1: so that is going to be a great way to
Speaker 1: capture if something happens to in a parking lot when
Speaker 1: you're not in the car or something like that. Now,
Speaker 1: as for brands, this is tricky because I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: the camera that I love ring made and they're no
Speaker 1: longer making it, or they're no longer selling it, whatever
Speaker 1: they're doing. But didn't really work out. But that one
Speaker 1: was great because I had the cellular built in it
Speaker 1: records front and back, and it was just such an
Speaker 1: easy camera to install. But it's just I don't know
Speaker 1: why they're not doing that anyway. So the brands that
Speaker 1: come up in reviews over and over that people like
Speaker 1: are Vofo. I know it's a funny name, but these
Speaker 1: sell a lot on Amazon. For some reason. People really
Speaker 1: like them because I guess the combination of price and
Speaker 1: what you get is really good. So Vofo. The next
Speaker 1: one that people really seem to like is Van True.
Speaker 1: And I've seen all these brands out and about at cs,
Speaker 1: so you know, they're all like they've been in the
Speaker 1: kind of the marketplace for a long time. But Van
Speaker 1: True is another one, and I'm trying to see how
Speaker 1: much theirs goes for on Amazon. So Van True right now,
Speaker 1: everything is on Black Friday specials. They've got one anywhere
Speaker 1: from ninety nine dollars up to two hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 1: And that ninety nine dollars one, you know's got great reviews,
Speaker 1: got a lot of buyers, so that one might not
Speaker 1: be bad at all to get. That's the Van True
Speaker 1: E one pro four K. Look at that night vision
Speaker 1: so mentions everything I just said Garman obviously tried in
Speaker 1: True Brand in this space and then next space. They
Speaker 1: are out of the UK. They are very popular as well,
Speaker 1: so you can find them. Let me see if they're
Speaker 1: on Amazon next space. Sure enough they are on Oh
Speaker 1: are they?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They are, and they've got one that's ten ADP for
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty nine dollars. That's on sale for
Speaker 1: eighty dollars. So those are some great options, great things
Speaker 1: to look for. I think the dash cam just gives
Speaker 1: you piece of mind. For sure. I really enjoy having it,
Speaker 1: and for me, it's more of capturing kind of all
Speaker 1: the nonsense that I see on a daily basis on
Speaker 1: the streets driving. But it's good for if you're ever
Speaker 1: in an accident, or you just need some reassurance that
Speaker 1: if something happens to your car, you've got a license
Speaker 1: plate there. Good question, Raymond, Thanks so much for that.
Speaker 1: Let's see can we oh one minute? Okay, let's see here.
Speaker 1: What can I do in one minute?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about this cloud flare outage. We
Speaker 1: had this giant outage this week on Tuesday. This was
Speaker 1: all related to cloud flare. You probably haven't heard of
Speaker 1: that name, but it's basically a company that helps the
Speaker 1: Internet run. It helps major websites stay safe and stay fast.
Speaker 1: They uploaded a file to their system that just took
Speaker 1: down their entire system because that file kept doubling in
Speaker 1: size and it just crashed all their servers. So a
Speaker 1: lot of these companies that relied on cloud Flare, they
Speaker 1: were seeing error messages, and in turn, we were seeing
Speaker 1: error messages trying to access the Internet on Tuesday. It
Speaker 1: was not a security issue. It was not cybersecurity related.
Speaker 1: It was not a hack. Cloud Flare wants us to
Speaker 1: know that. But the bigger issue here is that because
Speaker 1: so much of the Internet is controlled by these major
Speaker 1: cloud companies, when they go down, we feel the effects
Speaker 1: in a much bigger way than we ever did before.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Coming up, we'll
Speaker 1: tell you about the worst passwords of twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: plus more year calls right here. We'll get to the
Speaker 1: phone lines in just a moment, but first let's do
Speaker 1: the gadget of the week. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: The mill. This is a high tech food recycling device
Speaker 1: for your kitchen. It's being developed by Matt Rogers, the
Speaker 1: creator of the Nest thermostat, which we love, and now
Speaker 1: he wants to sort of reinvent how we handle food waste.
Speaker 1: And there's been a lot of companies. When I've gone
Speaker 1: to these trade shows, I've seen a lot of basically
Speaker 1: smart garbage cans that do this, but nobody's really gotten
Speaker 1: it right just yet, because people are just so used
Speaker 1: to not doing anything with their food scraps except throwing
Speaker 1: them out. Now, unless you are someone who's composting them yourself,
Speaker 1: or you have a little compost or whatever, but this
Speaker 1: is kind of an appliance for your home called Mill
Speaker 1: and their entire startup, which has raised a ton of money,
Speaker 1: is focusing on turning these kitchen scraps that you collect
Speaker 1: into lightweight, odor free food grounds, just like you know
Speaker 1: coffee grounds. So the device dries and grinds food waste overnight,
Speaker 1: which can shrink forty pounds of scraps into eight pounds
Speaker 1: of dry material. And I love this idea because my
Speaker 1: trash can is always so filled with just stuff that
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it breaks down. Why should it
Speaker 1: be thrown out? And these little grounds could be stored
Speaker 1: for months, They could be mixed into soil used in
Speaker 1: your gardens or mill has a service where they will
Speaker 1: collect them for reuse. And the goal is not just
Speaker 1: to sell people this gadget. It's also to reduce garbage
Speaker 1: truck weight, lower collection costs, cut down diesel use, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff for the environment. And these engineers are
Speaker 1: treating this as people don't want food scraps in their home.
Speaker 1: Who wants to have garbage sitting in their home? Who
Speaker 1: wants to have stinky food sitting their home? So the
Speaker 1: whole thing, the whole point of this device is how
Speaker 1: do we eliminate any friction between people wanting this? And
Speaker 1: there's one more side of this that's you know, it's
Speaker 1: going to keep people from adopting it, and that's the price.
Speaker 1: It's a thousand bucks for this trash can. So that's
Speaker 1: a lot for a trash can. Now, if you've gotten
Speaker 1: one of those simple human trash cans, those are expensive too,
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, They're like two hundred dollars. So
Speaker 1: I am very intrigued by this device. It's you can
Speaker 1: rent it for thirty five dollars monthly. They say tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of homes are already using them, and the
Speaker 1: device is simple. If you can eat it, you can
Speaker 1: put it in the mill. And they believe that this
Speaker 1: might be as common in homes as dishwashers. You know,
Speaker 1: those weren't in homes where now they're in every home practically.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I thought this was really cool. I did
Speaker 1: test a device that's similar a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: called Loami lm I, and this was a device that
Speaker 1: would would that sat on your countertop. It was also
Speaker 1: kind of expensive. Let's see how much this one is
Speaker 1: now they're up to loam me three. Let's see two
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars. That's three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars off, and you have to pay per year for
Speaker 1: a subscription. But that was a little bit more complicated
Speaker 1: because it was smaller, but it was on your countertop,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit different. This, I think seems
Speaker 1: like a little bit of a better idea because it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a trash can. It's like a smart
Speaker 1: trash can. You throw your stuff in, you just let
Speaker 1: it do its thing. Let's go to David and Costa Mesa. David,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 5: A couple questions. One is I want to get a
Speaker 5: new iPhone to seventeen nice, and do I just go
Speaker 5: to Apple and buy it there? Or is like, is
Speaker 5: everybody the same price, everybody's eleven hundred bucks say?
Speaker 1: Or well, it depends on what promotions you have. But
Speaker 1: the Apple Store, I do believe is one of the
Speaker 1: best places to get it because their employees are sort
Speaker 1: of impartial. They will look at the deals that you
Speaker 1: have from your cell phone company, Like they can tap
Speaker 1: into the same system that you might you know, have
Speaker 1: at Verizon or AT and T and give you those
Speaker 1: same deals and maybe a better deal, you know, on
Speaker 1: trade in whatever, because you're going with your carrier. So
Speaker 1: I would always say the Apple Store is a great
Speaker 1: place to buy it because those folks know a lot.
Speaker 1: They know the ins and outs of the phone and
Speaker 1: all of the deals from across the carriers.
Speaker 5: Good good, okay. And the second part is when I
Speaker 5: get everything transfer over to my new phone, like I've
Speaker 5: done all these things that you've recommended, Let's say, for security,
Speaker 5: do this, turn this on, turn this off, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Is that all going to automatically go over when it
Speaker 5: switches over to I need to do it all over again.
Speaker 1: Almost all of your settings will carry over the iPhone
Speaker 1: when it goes. When you transfer an old iPhone to
Speaker 1: a new iPhone, it's almost as if you just took
Speaker 1: the drive out of that old phone and popped it
Speaker 1: in the new one. It's almost mirrored from the old one. Now,
Speaker 1: there are some exceptions to that, and Apple does sometimes
Speaker 1: reset a few of the settings or they may not
Speaker 1: carry over. But I would say ninety nine point nine
Speaker 1: percent of the stuff on your old phone it's almost
Speaker 1: seamless to the new device, which is really cool. Now
Speaker 1: they do add some new things on the new device,
Speaker 1: like some new apps and stuff. If you haven't updated
Speaker 1: to iOS twenty six, you'll find some new things there
Speaker 1: and new options. But I think overall you're going to
Speaker 1: find when was the last time you updated your iPhone
Speaker 1: to a new one?
Speaker 5: I have the I think the fourteen Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's only been three years. But I think that
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of that stuff's going to follow over.
Speaker 1: I would say, before you go and you bring this in,
Speaker 1: make sure you do a full backup of it. That way,
Speaker 1: if anything doesn't carry over, you can always do that
Speaker 1: that process again, or you can just look at your
Speaker 1: old device or your old backup and get the stuff
Speaker 1: that you need from there. Are you going to be
Speaker 1: trading in this old device?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so is it in good shape?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So I think it's like three fifty or four hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Okay, so and some of these, you know, these trade
Speaker 1: in values could be higher if you go through your carrier.
Speaker 1: The Apple Store will walk you through it. Like basically,
Speaker 1: there's one trade in value if you sell it direct
Speaker 1: to Apple, but there's another if you do a trade
Speaker 1: in with your carrier. Because the reasoning is that your
Speaker 1: carrier wants you to stay with them, and so they're
Speaker 1: giving you more money for your phone. But what they
Speaker 1: do is they kind of spread it out over the
Speaker 1: next two or three years just because they want you
Speaker 1: to stick with them. So my advice on that angle
Speaker 1: is that if you're if you're happy with your carrier
Speaker 1: and you know you're paying a premium for your phone.
Speaker 1: You know you're paying one hundred dollars a month for
Speaker 1: your Verizon Unlimited plan or your AT and T versus
Speaker 1: something like a visible or a mint. If you're happy
Speaker 1: with that and you're fine with that, take the discount.
Speaker 1: If you're going to stick with them for the next
Speaker 1: two or three years because you're almost putting losing money
Speaker 1: if you're not doing that now, Yes, it will lock
Speaker 1: you into that carrier and that expensive plan, But if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that anyway, why not? That's my theory
Speaker 1: on that. So don't be scared to take the If
Speaker 1: they say, hey, we can give you a new iPhone
Speaker 1: for eleven hundred dollars off if you stick with Verizon
Speaker 1: or whatever, AIGHTE and T or T Mobile for the
Speaker 1: next two to three years, you know, I say, why not?
Speaker 1: If you're happy with your service, you're not going to switch.
Speaker 1: Why not do that anyway? David, good question there in
Speaker 1: Costa Mesa. I know a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 1: be upgrading this season. Apple is doing their Apple never
Speaker 1: puts stuff on sale. Ever, you'll never find a sale
Speaker 1: in Apple products through Apple. Third parties will do that.
Speaker 1: But what Apple does maybe twice a year Black Friday
Speaker 1: and then Back to School. They will typically do a
Speaker 1: bonus with purchase. So right now you can get up
Speaker 1: to a two hundred and fifty dollars gift card with
Speaker 1: your purchase of a device. So iPhone, if you buy
Speaker 1: an iPhone. Interesting, it's only on the sixteens, so iPhone
Speaker 1: sixteen or sixteen E. They'll get up to a seventy
Speaker 1: five dollars gift card, I Pad a to one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars gift card, Mac up to two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars gift card, Apple Watch up to a fifty dollars
Speaker 1: gift card. That's pretty good if you buy a series
Speaker 1: eleven and then AirPods TV. But here's the thing. If
Speaker 1: you're buying one of these gadgets, like if you're buying
Speaker 1: like the AirPods or the AirPods Max, you don't even
Speaker 1: need to go through Apple. What Amazon does? They look
Speaker 1: at the price, the difference in what Apple's giving you.
Speaker 1: So let's say the Apple Watch series eleven. Apple's giving
Speaker 1: you a fifty dollars gift card that typically costs four
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. What does Amazon do? I can guarantee you
Speaker 1: right now, if I go to Amazon's website and I
Speaker 1: look up Apple Watch Series eleven, I guarantee you they're
Speaker 1: selling it for three forty nine out the door. Let's see, Uh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: little wrong, they're selling it for three seventy nine. But
Speaker 1: maybe the sales haven't started. But my point is what
Speaker 1: Amazon typically does is they monitor all the other deals
Speaker 1: out there and they just kind of match them with
Speaker 1: their pricing. Eight to eight rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two for one zero one.
Speaker 1: We'll take more of your calls next and I will
Speaker 1: tell you the top password of twenty twenty five. It's
Speaker 1: a bad one. Plus, I've got the trends in younger users,
Speaker 1: older users, and how you can protect yourself by doing
Speaker 1: the right thing with your passwords right here on rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Let's go to Erica in Corona, Erica. You're
Speaker 1: on with rich.
Speaker 6: Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. I am
Speaker 6: not too savvy when it comes to my email on
Speaker 6: my iPhone, but I need to know. I this has
Speaker 6: happened twice where I send an email not to a
Speaker 6: friend or family, but then a few days late or
Speaker 6: I get the same email I spent with a follow
Speaker 6: up tab on the email.
Speaker 7: What does that mean?
Speaker 6: Who spends that email?
Speaker 1: That is a feature are using? Did you mention what
Speaker 1: you're using? Is that Gmail? I'm guessing.
Speaker 6: No, I'm not sure what I'm using is in my
Speaker 6: iPhone email?
Speaker 1: What's your email address?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: I mean, sorry, don't don't tell me. I mean, is
Speaker 1: it Gmail? Is it Yahoo?
Speaker 6: It's not a email?
Speaker 8: Is that.
Speaker 9: iCloud?
Speaker 1: Okay? So I think so this this feature is okay.
Speaker 1: So Gmail has this feature it's called nudges, and then
Speaker 1: Apple Mail they have it as well, and I believe
Speaker 1: it's part of Apple Intelligence. I don't use Apple Mail,
Speaker 1: so I don't see this. But I think what's happening
Speaker 1: is it is basically reminding you to write or kind
Speaker 1: of follow up with this message because nothing happened. So
Speaker 1: I'm guessing these are happening on messages that someone didn't
Speaker 1: reply to in a timely manner.
Speaker 6: So okay, even if I didn't market as doing that,
Speaker 6: or it just happens automatically.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. So I think I think that's what's happening. Now,
Speaker 1: i'd have to look in the settings to see where
Speaker 1: you can turn that off. I'm sure it's in the mail.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can go into the mail app.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go into my settings here, let's go
Speaker 1: into apps and mail. So you don't like getting these, huh, Well, I.
Speaker 6: Dude, it doesn't bother me. It's just that I don't
Speaker 6: know it's not worth an email coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody's nobody's looking at your messages or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So it's just a reminder to say, hey, you know something,
Speaker 1: you know you you basically you sent this email a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, nobody replied do you want to
Speaker 1: follow up or do you want to kind of look
Speaker 1: at it just to see And these things kind of
Speaker 1: help me. I have the same thing in Gmail and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I forgot I sent that email. Let
Speaker 1: me follow up at that person because they never wrote
Speaker 1: me back. So I'm looking in here, and if I
Speaker 1: look in the Apple Intelligence suggestions, so show an app. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I think what it's doing is it's let's see
Speaker 1: if there's a way to turn this off. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I see that swipe options, ask before privacy. Oh there
Speaker 1: it is messages right there. You can turn it off
Speaker 1: in settings apps Mail, and then follow up suggestions, you
Speaker 1: can turn it off there. So if you go if
Speaker 1: you don't want these things, if they're really bugging you, Erica,
Speaker 1: you can just turn them off in the settings. And
Speaker 1: if you're on Gmail and you're seeing these same nudges,
Speaker 1: it's called nudges. So if you go into Gmail, and
Speaker 1: you go into settings and just search nudges. You'll see
Speaker 1: it says suggest emails to reply to, suggest emails to
Speaker 1: follow up on Erica if they don't bug you, nobody's
Speaker 1: scanning your mail, nobody's looking at your mail. This is
Speaker 1: just an AI feed mature that Apple has built in
Speaker 1: to help you stay on top of emails that you
Speaker 1: might have forgotten about. Great question today, Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for the call. All Right, America's top password of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five is drum roll please. I'm just seeing how
Speaker 1: fast Adam can do this. Adam is in for Bobo.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 1: The top password of twenty twenty five is admin. This
Speaker 1: is according to nord pass, who scanned all the passwords
Speaker 1: that are you know out there on the open web
Speaker 1: two hundred most common passwords their annual list, Admin is
Speaker 1: number one. Guess what number two is? You already know
Speaker 1: it is password number one two three four five one two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five six are top picks no matter how old you are.
Speaker 1: Younger users rarely use names in their passwords, but older
Speaker 1: users are more likely used names. Most popular names include Veronica, Maria,
Speaker 1: and Susannah. So if those are in your password right now,
Speaker 1: as you hear me saying this, you got to change
Speaker 1: your password. Globally, one, two, three, four, five six remains
Speaker 1: the most common password now. There is an increase in
Speaker 1: special characters this year, but most are still pretty weak
Speaker 1: patterns like password with instead of an A, it would
Speaker 1: be an AT sign or instead of a W, or
Speaker 1: a zero sorry instead of an O, it'd be a zero.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Experts warn that week and you've reused passwords
Speaker 1: fuel about eighty percent of data breaches. Nord Pass says
Speaker 1: password habits have improved not really much over the years,
Speaker 1: despite years of education, people like me yelling into microphones
Speaker 1: for years saying please use a strong password. Now we
Speaker 1: have these pass keys, but people aren't really using those
Speaker 1: as much because they're they feel like they don't really
Speaker 1: know how they work. I really, I mean I use them.
Speaker 1: I've set them up for a couple of my websites,
Speaker 1: but since I still have to do two factor authentication,
Speaker 1: I'm like, how's that any easier than just use my
Speaker 1: password manager? So here are the safety tips. Strong unique
Speaker 1: password for every account that you have. Use a password manager.
Speaker 1: Bitwarden is completely free. You can use that or use
Speaker 1: one that you find that you like. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's one password, I don't care if it's Google passwords.
Speaker 1: You can even use Apple passwords, even though I do
Speaker 1: not like things that don't work across all platforms. Try
Speaker 1: using Apple passwords. If you switch to an Android phone,
Speaker 1: not going to happen. So all your passwords are going
Speaker 1: to be locked up into Apple. You got to figure
Speaker 1: out how to get them into Google, which you can.
Speaker 1: You can export them, but it's kind of a pain.
Speaker 1: Dash Lane also a very good password manager. Just pick
Speaker 1: one and start using it. And I know it's scary
Speaker 1: to start using these password managers, but once you get
Speaker 1: the hang of it, it's actually really fun because you
Speaker 1: feel more secure. So today, go through download one of
Speaker 1: these things. Sign up. The main thing to know about
Speaker 1: the password manager on your phone is you have to
Speaker 1: go into the settings and make sure that you choose
Speaker 1: just that password manager on your device, whether it's iPhone
Speaker 1: or Android, and on your computer download the extension for
Speaker 1: your browser. But once you set that up, your password
Speaker 1: manager basically springs into action when you tap in the
Speaker 1: password field on any device that you're working on, and
Speaker 1: it'll say, do you want us to suggest a strong password, yes,
Speaker 1: and then it saves it in the password manager. The
Speaker 1: next time you go to that app and you go
Speaker 1: to log in, it remembers the website, so it kind
Speaker 1: of pairs them together on the back end, and next
Speaker 1: time you go to that website, it says, oh, do
Speaker 1: you want us to put this password in that you
Speaker 1: made for this past this website? And it's pretty easy. Yes.
Speaker 1: Does it take a little bit longer sometimes? Absolutely, That's
Speaker 1: the whole point. Once you three four five six, you
Speaker 1: reuse those passwords everywhere hacker gets access to one, they're
Speaker 1: going to use it across all different websites. Eight to eight,
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight seven four two four
Speaker 1: one zero one More of you coming up next this hour,
Speaker 1: We've got Nathan Burrow, senior deals editor at Wirecutter. He's
Speaker 1: going to talk about the holiday shopping season, some of
Speaker 1: the best tested gifts and ways to save. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: got a question here from email from Phil Can you
Speaker 1: recommend the most senior friendly way to help a senior
Speaker 1: scan documents then archive or send them to others. I've
Speaker 1: tried explaining scanning with the iPhone notes app and Genius Scan.
Speaker 1: Both can be confusing. The biggest challenge seems to be
Speaker 1: attaching the scan file afterwards. Any recommendations for a simple
Speaker 1: point and shoot scan method, Phil, Yes, Phil. If the
Speaker 1: phone is updated to iOS twenty six, you can use
Speaker 1: the new Preview app that is for viewing PDFs, editing PDFs,
Speaker 1: and scanning PDFs. It makes it so easy. Open the
Speaker 1: Preview app, tap the big scan documents button, and then
Speaker 1: once you scan, there's a little share icon. It's that
Speaker 1: square with the arrow pointing out of it. Just tap
Speaker 1: that and then choose who you want your recipient to be.
Speaker 1: You can choose your email, your messaging, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: That's really it. I mean, there's a million ways to
Speaker 1: do this on the iPhone, but they've built in the
Speaker 1: simplest way, and that's that new Preview app. So if
Speaker 1: you ever need to fill out a PDF, or sign
Speaker 1: a PDF, or scan a PDF or view a PDF,
Speaker 1: it's all in that app. Let's go to Jeff and
Speaker 1: Newport Beach. What's up, Jeff? Hey, that's gone, it's going well.
Speaker 4: Hopefully this is hopefully this is.
Speaker 2: An easy one, so real fast background.
Speaker 10: I'm on my second iPhone.
Speaker 3: The first one was.
Speaker 2: A fifteen Promax and now I'm on the seventeen promax.
Speaker 2: I think I had this problem on my fifteen. Somehow
Speaker 2: I fixed it, but I don't remember what I did,
Speaker 2: because the problem is when I hear a song, I
Speaker 2: use shazam, and I shazam it. The song comes up
Speaker 2: and I save it to a playlist that I created
Speaker 2: in Apple Music. Okay, And in Apple Music, I.
Speaker 4: Think in the fifteen it had this problem.
Speaker 2: I fixed it because it only came.
Speaker 3: Up and put the song in there once.
Speaker 2: Well, now I see the song in there twice for
Speaker 2: every single song on my playlist. I'm thinking it's a
Speaker 2: sink problem somewhere, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: So there is an option when you are making playlists
Speaker 1: on Apple Music to add the same song twice, Like
Speaker 1: it'll say, do you want us to add duplicates or
Speaker 1: do you not want to add duplicates? Okay? So the
Speaker 1: question is where to find that setting. So when you're
Speaker 1: adding this song, you're adding it into two separate playlists
Speaker 1: or the same playlist, the exact same playlist, okay, And
Speaker 1: it's adding it again even if it's already in that.
Speaker 2: If I go back to the way I noticed it is,
Speaker 2: you know, the music playing and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the song plays twice.
Speaker 3: I'm like, why is it playing twice?
Speaker 2: And then I finally look at the playlist in every
Speaker 2: single song and probably the ones that I've done, even
Speaker 2: when I had the iPhone fifteen, but every single song
Speaker 2: is duplicated twice.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so I think it's well, you mean
Speaker 1: it's duplicated twice every time, or it's it because you're
Speaker 1: adding it twice.
Speaker 2: No, it's like it's like, you know ABC song, You'll
Speaker 2: see ABC song twice.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. It sounds like something. Are you using
Speaker 1: Apple Music like you pay for it? I'm gonna say, yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: how do you not know? I am who's paying your bills? Jeff?
Speaker 2: Well, no, well I don't pay attention to it. You know,
Speaker 2: the Apple charges you for this and that and everything else.
Speaker 2: So it's like I'm gonna say the answer is yes.
Speaker 1: Okay. I'm gonna say okay. So here's the thing I'm
Speaker 1: looking in the the Apple Music and this. Have you
Speaker 1: tried this on your computer to see if you get
Speaker 1: the same problem?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, do you have a Mac computer or no?
Speaker 3: No, just you know the regular windows.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I believe they have Apple Music on Windows.
Speaker 1: They they a separate app because obviously they have I
Speaker 1: don't know actually, but on my Mac, my stuff all
Speaker 1: sinks over with the iPhone. So I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: and hmm, okay, let's see here. I'm looking for any
Speaker 1: sort of option that says to to duplicate or not duplicate.
Speaker 1: What I would say is, have you tried, let's see
Speaker 1: there's a there's an option to kind of like sync
Speaker 1: your entire library again, have you tried signing out and
Speaker 1: signing back in?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, let me see if that's an option on here,
Speaker 1: because I know with iPhone everything's sort of like tied
Speaker 1: together with it. Yeah, I'm not I'm not seeing okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing an option that has anything to do
Speaker 1: with duplicates right now. Like it's weird because on iPhone
Speaker 1: you have to go into the settings to find the options,
Speaker 1: and in the app it's just a weird way they
Speaker 1: set things up. So let me see here. Music. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they've got search, add playlist songs. Okay, that might
Speaker 1: be it. I'm wondering if that's it. Okay. What I
Speaker 1: would do is, here's what I would do, just to
Speaker 1: see if you can get this to stop. But I
Speaker 1: would go into the settings on your iPhone and you
Speaker 1: have to go into settings, app Apps and then music, okay,
Speaker 1: and then in there you're gonna see an option for library.
Speaker 1: It says add playlist songs and then add favorite songs.
Speaker 1: So maybe try toggling those off and see if that
Speaker 1: if the problem still happens, and then you can toggle
Speaker 1: them back on if it doesn't. The other thing you
Speaker 1: can do is click that sync library, maybe turn that
Speaker 1: off and then turn it back on, like turn it off,
Speaker 1: restart your phone, turn it back on, and see if
Speaker 1: that helps. I'm just I don't see anything specifically dealing
Speaker 1: with the same songs inside the playlist, which, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of that's a that's a tricky one. I know.
Speaker 1: I do know that when I make a playlist, it
Speaker 1: will say do you want the same song? If you
Speaker 1: drag it in twice, it will it will give you
Speaker 1: an option of do you want the same song in
Speaker 1: there twice or not? But otherwise that's a that's a
Speaker 1: tricky one, Jeff, I think you're gonna have to to
Speaker 1: look around in those settings. I don't I don't have
Speaker 1: an immediate answer for you if that doesn't work, you know,
Speaker 1: you can go to the Apple store and ask them
Speaker 1: make an appointment. See what they say. It could just
Speaker 1: be yeah, it just sounds like there's something going on
Speaker 1: there that I it. Yeah, that's weird. That's a weird one.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. Eight eight eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. I will continue to investigate that
Speaker 1: because I'm curious now. Uh, I told you this on
Speaker 1: my newsletter. I thought this was so cool. We talked
Speaker 1: about this last week, the Amazon autobi thing. So this
Speaker 1: is the feature on Amazon where if you go to
Speaker 1: an item on your phone, you tap that little rufus
Speaker 1: Ai icon you say, set a price alert. You can
Speaker 1: have Amazon automatically place the order for you when the
Speaker 1: product reaches the price that you want. So it's almost
Speaker 1: like price line, like name your own price. But obviously,
Speaker 1: you know Amazon prices change all the time, and if
Speaker 1: you're not sitting at your computer looking at that item
Speaker 1: when the price changes, you may not know. So they
Speaker 1: have this price alert feature, which now you may be saying,
Speaker 1: why would Amazon do this, why would they give people
Speaker 1: this ability? Well, it's going to convert more sales. That's
Speaker 1: the bottom line. So long story short, I put this
Speaker 1: power strip. I wanted the super Danny power strip. It's
Speaker 1: got like a million outlets and all this stuff on it.
Speaker 1: And I put that in my price alert, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, this thing's twenty five dollars. Let me
Speaker 1: see if you can get it to me for twenty
Speaker 1: and so I set my price alert for under twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and lo and behold, I
Speaker 1: got an email from Amazon saying your order has been placed.
Speaker 1: Sure item was under twenty dollars. It fell to nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine, so we automatically placed your order. And I
Speaker 1: was like, wait what. It took me a second to
Speaker 1: remember that I placed this autobi alert. But pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So if you want to try this yourself, you have
Speaker 1: to do it on the Amazon app on your mobile device.
Speaker 1: Just search for an item, any item, and once you
Speaker 1: have an item on your screen, just tap that little
Speaker 1: rufous icon in the lower right hand corner. It looks
Speaker 1: like AI, that little sparkly AI thing, and then just
Speaker 1: say to rufus, set a price alert, and that will
Speaker 1: give you options to get just a price alert, or
Speaker 1: there's an option to actually have Amazon auto buy the
Speaker 1: item for you. So it worked. It did exactly what
Speaker 1: I wanted it to. And I don't know. I'm a
Speaker 1: believer now because there's so many things I'm watching the
Speaker 1: price on on Amazon. I'll buy it. I just would
Speaker 1: like the price to be a little bit better. If
Speaker 1: it goes on sale for fifty dollars less, I'd like
Speaker 1: to buy it at that price. And it also gives
Speaker 1: you the historic pricing so you can better set your price.
Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: to the phone lines, go to Richard in Malibu. You're
Speaker 1: on with rich Hetty.
Speaker 11: How are you?
Speaker 5: Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? What's up?
Speaker 11: I have an Apple phone and I want to know
Speaker 11: why is it that even though I'll turn Bluetooth thoff,
Speaker 11: I'll come back and somehow magically it turned itself back on.
Speaker 5: How can I prevent that? Why won't my setting stay.
Speaker 11: In the off position?
Speaker 5: And it's the same thing with the Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So here's the deal. There are two ways
Speaker 1: to turn off Wi Fi and Bluetooth on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: When you swipe down from the upper right hand corner,
Speaker 1: that brings up what's called the control center. When you
Speaker 1: tap the Wi Fi off or you tap the Bluetooth off,
Speaker 1: it is not turning off Wi Fi or Bluetooth on
Speaker 1: your phone completely. It's just turning off that immediate connection
Speaker 1: that you have right now, and certain devices may turn
Speaker 1: it back on, and certain Wi Fi networks may toggle
Speaker 1: it back on when it comes into contact with those.
Speaker 1: So the reason for that is because Apple realize that
Speaker 1: people will turn off their Wi Fi or turn off
Speaker 1: their Bluetooth and forget to turn it back on. So
Speaker 1: they have some provisions in place for the phone to
Speaker 1: smartly reactivate it when it thinks it should do that.
Speaker 1: And that may be when let's just say, let's say
Speaker 1: you get to work in the morning and you hate
Speaker 1: your WiFi at work, and so you go on the
Speaker 1: right you swipe down and you tap the little WiFi
Speaker 1: to turn it off at work well. Then when you
Speaker 1: get home you love your WiFi, your phone recognizes that
Speaker 1: you got home, and it magically turns that Wi Fi
Speaker 1: back on and connects to your home network because it
Speaker 1: realized that when you turned it off, you probably just
Speaker 1: wanted it off for a certain amount of time. Now,
Speaker 1: this can cause some issues. It can also cause some confusion.
Speaker 1: If you want to really turn off the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: and the Bluetooth on your iPhone until you turn it
Speaker 1: back on, you have to go into settings, and that's
Speaker 1: how you can turn it off completely. And that means
Speaker 1: your phone, the Wi Fi and Bluetooth on your phone
Speaker 1: is not in a dormant state. It is an off state.
Speaker 1: And so if you go into settings and you go
Speaker 1: to Wi Fi right now because I just tapped it off,
Speaker 1: in the control center says not connected. But then there's
Speaker 1: a toggle switch and if I tap that toggle switch,
Speaker 1: it will turn off my WiFi indefinitely until I turn
Speaker 1: it back on again. Same thing with Bluetooth. You can
Speaker 1: turn it off for you know, indefinite amounts of time. Now,
Speaker 1: once you do that, invariably, you will forget to turn
Speaker 1: it back On's that's why Apple came up with the
Speaker 1: other system. And by the way, the Android side of
Speaker 1: things is the same way, and so that's just more
Speaker 1: for ease of use. Most of the time people are
Speaker 1: forgetting that they're turning these off turning them on, and
Speaker 1: so you're most of the time just toggling off that
Speaker 1: connection for a period of time before your phone decides
Speaker 1: to turn it back on. And that's why you're seeing that. Richard,
Speaker 1: great question. Thanks for the call today. Do you appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, let's do we have time to go
Speaker 1: to another one. We'll see Mitch in Littleton. You're on
Speaker 1: with rich Mitch, you're on.
Speaker 7: With rich.
Speaker 3: And you don't know it. By the way, excellent primo
Speaker 3: bumper music. Really like a bumper music critic.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a maybe it's self answered. I recently
Speaker 3: have last year or so lost to relatives passed away
Speaker 3: and they one had a Apple excuse me, Apple lap
Speaker 3: laptop and the other had a lapp Apple notebook and
Speaker 3: needed one of them left there. They're password they had
Speaker 3: password protected. Is there absolutely no way I can get
Speaker 3: into the to utilize them myself?
Speaker 1: Or yeah? I mean, do you want to use their
Speaker 1: information or just the computer?
Speaker 3: Just yeah, just the computer. Okay, I update up date
Speaker 3: the apps, you know, and I he neither one them
Speaker 3: or anything that I need. You know, their information, their
Speaker 3: data is not uh, you know, not emergency relevant or anything.
Speaker 1: Okay. So there's there's a couple of things you can do.
Speaker 1: You can get in touch with Apple if you go
Speaker 1: to their support page, which I'll link up on the
Speaker 1: UH on the show notes, you can. So all Apple
Speaker 1: products have what's called an activation lock, So you could
Speaker 1: I could tell you directions on how to format that
Speaker 1: computer and get it back to factory. But when you
Speaker 1: go to set up that computer, it's going to say, hey,
Speaker 1: we noticed that this computer is registered to this person,
Speaker 1: and by the way, I'm sorry for your loss. But
Speaker 1: it's going to say their email address or their account number,
Speaker 1: or their their Apple I D is going to say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you put in their password to unlo this computer.
Speaker 1: It's not going to unlock their data, but it's just
Speaker 1: going to allow you to kind of take control of
Speaker 1: that computer. That's called activation lock, and so if you
Speaker 1: don't have their password, you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: get past that when you format this computer and reset it.
Speaker 1: Now you can request from Apple help with that and
Speaker 1: if you show them a death certificate or a reason
Speaker 1: there's I don't know what the exact it's generally it's
Speaker 1: a death certificate. So if you have that for these people,
Speaker 1: you can send that to Apple and they will help
Speaker 1: you remove that activation lock as long as you can
Speaker 1: prove a couple of things. I've never gone through this process,
Speaker 1: so I can't tell you exactly how tough or how
Speaker 1: easy it is. But if you have this computer, you've
Speaker 1: got the information, I would say it's in your best
Speaker 1: interest to contact Apple and just say, hey, here's the situation.
Speaker 1: Can I get this activation lock removed? They will remove that,
Speaker 1: and then once they have it removed, you can go
Speaker 1: through and set up that computer as new and then
Speaker 1: use it, but you will not have access to their information.
Speaker 1: If you want access their information, then it would take
Speaker 1: a much larger request to Apple. That typically requires a
Speaker 1: core order or some sort of legal documentation to get
Speaker 1: that done, and I'm not even sure that's a guarantee
Speaker 1: for the rest of you. Please set up what's called
Speaker 1: a legacy contact access key. You can do it on Apple,
Speaker 1: you can do it on Facebook, you can do it
Speaker 1: on Google. It basically allows someone to access your account
Speaker 1: in the in the When You If You Die, basically
Speaker 1: eighty eight rich one oh one. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: Black Friday deals. Coming up next, We've got Nathan Burrow,
Speaker 1: senior deals editor at Wirecutter. He's going to talk about
Speaker 1: the holiday shopping season, some of the best tested gifts.
Speaker 1: It's only been a couple of days. I know Amazon
Speaker 1: started on the twentieth, so it's you know, once they start,
Speaker 1: it's like you got to be in it.
Speaker 9: Absolutely. Amazon kind of leads the dance for these holiday
Speaker 9: sale events, and you'll see a lot of other major
Speaker 9: retailers start their sales around the same time when Amazon
Speaker 9: goes live with theirs early, as they did this year.
Speaker 12: So we're seeing a lot of sales from all over
Speaker 12: the place, and we're going.
Speaker 9: To see even more next week.
Speaker 12: We're looking forward to seeing some some sales from smaller
Speaker 12: direct consumer you know, retailers next week.
Speaker 9: That's when we're likely to see those.
Speaker 1: My advice is literally to not shop until this week
Speaker 1: for the whole year, because any company that you want
Speaker 1: to buy something from, it is going to be on sale.
Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about this mill. This thing is gadget.
Speaker 1: It's like a thousand dollars trash can that like composts
Speaker 1: your stuff it's on sale. I mean anything you go
Speaker 1: to any website, they're going to be I use jopform
Speaker 1: for some of my emails, you know, like people they
Speaker 1: email me like, hey, do you want sixty percent off
Speaker 1: for the year. It's like, it's just no matter what
Speaker 1: if you're a website or a product or service, you're
Speaker 1: going to be putting your stuff on sale this week.
Speaker 1: But how do you know if it's a good deal
Speaker 1: or not one?
Speaker 9: You know, just make sure that you're not following sort
Speaker 9: of the hype train.
Speaker 12: I think that you know, retailers are going to tell
Speaker 12: you that the deals are incredible.
Speaker 9: They're incentivized to make every discount sound amazing.
Speaker 12: So I like using trackers to sort of determine just
Speaker 12: how good a deal.
Speaker 9: Is relative to its price history.
Speaker 12: There are third party price trackers like Kipa and Camel
Speaker 12: Camel Camel that lets you track Amazon prices and Amazon
Speaker 12: matches pretty much everyone, so you can get a sense
Speaker 12: of what the what the prices are at other retailers
Speaker 12: as well using tools like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here and you may not have the answer
Speaker 1: to this question, but like, where do you track prices
Speaker 1: or compare prices for products that are not on Amazon? Like,
Speaker 1: let's just say I'm looking up a dice in vacuum, right, Like,
Speaker 1: where do I go to compare that price from a
Speaker 1: bunch of retailers?
Speaker 9: Absolutely in house, we compare it to our own history.
Speaker 12: But of course a lot of people don't have the
Speaker 12: benefit of having posted fifty thousand deals. So what I
Speaker 12: would recommend is there is an old school Internet tool
Speaker 12: called the wayback Machine.
Speaker 9: It's part of a website called the Internet.
Speaker 12: Archive, and you can go and what you'll find is
Speaker 12: screen caps of various retailers that people have taken over
Speaker 12: the years. That gives you an idea of the trajectory
Speaker 12: of pricing, because there'll be a screen cap of you know,
Speaker 12: a washing machine in July twenty twenty four for a
Speaker 12: fourth of July sale, and you'll be able to compare
Speaker 12: that to the price that you see.
Speaker 1: Now, what about something like Google Shopping or Yahoo's Shopping.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was looking at Google Shopping and it
Speaker 1: seems like I think they don't include Amazon.
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 1: And is everything on Google Shopping sort of like pay
Speaker 1: to play? Like is all their information like just advertisers
Speaker 1: or what Well.
Speaker 9: It's not entirely pay to play.
Speaker 12: I think, you know, we can safely assume that that
Speaker 12: Google is going to be sort of self self dealing
Speaker 12: when it comes to the results that you see there.
Speaker 12: As you mentioned, Amazon is not included among those results.
Speaker 12: A lot of major retailers that are not included among
Speaker 12: those results, and so it is to your benefit to
Speaker 12: go and to either do a more refined search than
Speaker 12: just the product name that includes the name of the
Speaker 12: retailer that you're trying to get information on that will
Speaker 12: generally actually produce a result, or just go to the
Speaker 12: retailer directly to verify.
Speaker 9: It has gotten harder though, with Google shopping.
Speaker 1: What's an underrated tech gift that you can recommend?
Speaker 12: One underrated tech gift that our staffers are just loving
Speaker 12: is somewhat counterintuitively, the Netview bird fi feeder. It is
Speaker 12: a smart bird feeder with a camera inside, and everybody
Speaker 12: on the Wirecutter staff is buying it for their parents,
Speaker 12: like a lot of us have, you know, aging parents,
Speaker 12: You know, so many of us do, and they love
Speaker 12: the fact that they can check out birds as they
Speaker 12: feed up close, you know, with this little camera it
Speaker 12: comes with a solar panel, the one we recommend, so.
Speaker 9: They don't have to go and take it down and
Speaker 9: charge it periodically. And so it's kind of a cool,
Speaker 9: cool little thing for wildlife enthusiasts.
Speaker 1: That's really I've got two of these at my place
Speaker 1: right now to set up because you know, I've I've
Speaker 1: heard about them, I've seen them. I think it's cool.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, and you know, they snap pictures of the
Speaker 1: birds and text it to you. I mean, it sounds
Speaker 1: cool and it seems cool. But anyway, I haven't tested
Speaker 1: them just yet, so I'll have more to say on those,
Speaker 1: and you know, a couple of months once I get
Speaker 1: through those. Let's see what else here. Apple and Android
Speaker 1: those are always like Apple stuff. What's the deal with
Speaker 1: discounts on that?
Speaker 9: So Apple stuff is pretty good.
Speaker 12: I would say that a lot of sales are probably
Speaker 12: as low as we're going to see them, which is
Speaker 12: to say, we're seeing deals on MacBooks, We're seeing deals
Speaker 12: on iPads, We're seeing deals on the newest Apple watches.
Speaker 9: Android tones are also on sale, as are Android tablets.
Speaker 9: You know, we don't we sort of recommend Android tablets,
Speaker 9: but certainly we think the iPad probably divides the best
Speaker 9: tablet experience. iPhones aren't really on sale, and that's pretty typical.
Speaker 9: iPhones tend to really only be discounted as part of
Speaker 9: promotions that are related to service providers. They aren't that
Speaker 9: well discounted any other time.
Speaker 1: Now. I love the Wirecutter, by the way, So I'm
Speaker 1: always on looking at things that you guys are rating
Speaker 1: and the reviews and all that stuff. So what do
Speaker 1: you think sets you apart from you know, people see recommendations.
Speaker 1: I'm putting my fingers in air quotes right now all
Speaker 1: over the web. What can you give us a little
Speaker 1: insight into kind of like what makes Wirecutter different and
Speaker 1: what we should look forward to trust, Like, there's so
Speaker 1: much advertorial out there now where literally people will send
Speaker 1: me a website that is one hundred percent set up
Speaker 1: just to sell them a product, and they're saying, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this review? Like that's not
Speaker 1: a review, it's literally just an ad yep.
Speaker 9: One.
Speaker 12: The main thing that really set where our Cutter part
Speaker 12: is that we are comprised of experts in the various
Speaker 12: sort of product categories that we cover, and we actually
Speaker 12: test the stuff. We spend a lot of time testing
Speaker 12: products in our homes in sort of real world use.
Speaker 9: We spend time at our office in New York.
Speaker 12: We have testing days where all the staffers can go
Speaker 12: in and test products. We have panels, diverse panels of
Speaker 12: testers that come in and test them. We have kids
Speaker 12: come in and test our picks for kids, and so
Speaker 12: these we were able to listit these actual insights about
Speaker 12: the products from people who have used them, filter that
Speaker 12: through our expertise, and really produce recommendations that are meaningful
Speaker 12: for people. And I would say that even our coverage
Speaker 12: of Black Friday, our coverage of Prime Day, our coverage
Speaker 12: of pre Christmas sales. Like my team, the deal's team
Speaker 12: at Wirecutter is part of the editorial team, and we
Speaker 12: hold ourselves to really strict standards. Nothing makes the Deals
Speaker 12: page that doesn't qualify with our pretty strict rubric for
Speaker 12: the things that need to go up so d during
Speaker 12: an event like this, we're really only posting the best
Speaker 12: of the best, deal wise, and it's also on stuff
Speaker 12: that has been expert vetted and recommended, and so.
Speaker 9: Basically you're getting great value on great products.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's got to be And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: wirecutter dot com. Check out the Black Friday coverage. They
Speaker 1: literally do such a great job with sourcing these deals
Speaker 1: and making sure it's stuff that's all not just a deal,
Speaker 1: but also like they recommend it in their testing. So
Speaker 1: I love that. But Nathan, I've also I've read this article.
Speaker 1: You know, there's so many websites now they're like ten
Speaker 1: best baby strollers, But if you read it really closely,
Speaker 1: they're not even testing the items. They're literally just looking
Speaker 1: at the number of reviews on Amazon and just coming
Speaker 1: up with a list based on that. Can you do
Speaker 1: you believe that's true?
Speaker 12: Yes, I mean a lot of sites out out there
Speaker 12: do not get the products in person. And I would
Speaker 12: add that we you know, we pay for the products
Speaker 12: that we test and and then donate them. It's it's
Speaker 12: not something where we're receiving you know, sample items, you
Speaker 12: know gratus and you know are somehow incentivized to provide
Speaker 12: a good review. As a result, a lot of these
Speaker 12: sites are using Amazon reviews almost exclusively, or other reviews.
Speaker 12: We incorporate those as a data point in terms of
Speaker 12: like assessing the long term reliability of products. But but
Speaker 12: it's certainly, you know, very small compared to all of
Speaker 12: the different sort of uh you know, data points that
Speaker 12: we bring into the picture when we review something.
Speaker 1: All right, check it out wirecutter dot com. Bookmarket for
Speaker 1: the holiday season. Lots of great reviews, lots of great recommendations,
Speaker 1: and of course they are spending the time looking for
Speaker 1: the deals, so you don't have to. Nathan Burrow, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining me today. Thanks rich All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: I'll tellell you about the new tool that can help
Speaker 1: you clip those digital grocery store coupons. That's really cool. Plus,
Speaker 1: if you're a teacher, you can get free chatch ebt
Speaker 1: and more of your questions at eight a eight rich
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one website, richon tech dot TV. Back
Speaker 1: after this, Wayne is on the line.
Speaker 4: Hey, recently I bought I one plus thirteen and I'm
Speaker 4: a diehard one plus I I tried to migrate all
Speaker 4: my data from the eleven to the thirteen, and my
Speaker 4: carriers Altra Mobile recently that I sweeched out of t Mobile.
Speaker 13: Wait, what's what's the carrier's name? Al tram Mobile Ultra Okay,
Speaker 13: got it? Yeah, and then oh the yep, as you
Speaker 13: fifty for eight gig membership, that's great. But anyway, I
Speaker 13: try to mostly as I have a lot of info
Speaker 13: on the eleven. How can I migrate all my data
Speaker 13: to the thirteen and or so to the transfer?
Speaker 1: Well, it's pretty straightforward. How did have you set up
Speaker 1: the new phone yet?
Speaker 4: Not yet?
Speaker 1: Okay? Got it? Okay. So it's very easy, and if
Speaker 1: you're going one plus to one plus, it's going to
Speaker 1: be even easier because they are you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: cut from the same cloth. So all you have to
Speaker 1: do is number one. Back up your old phone. Make
Speaker 1: sure you have your data backed up. I'm talking WhatsApp,
Speaker 1: I'm talking your Google photos, I'm talking whatever you have
Speaker 1: on that phone. Make sure it is backed up. However,
Speaker 1: you typically back things up, whether that's your Google account,
Speaker 1: whether that's whatever it is. And make sure WhatsApp if
Speaker 1: you use that specifically, go into there and make sure
Speaker 1: that that stuff is backed up. Then once you have
Speaker 1: everything backed up and your phone is one hundred percent
Speaker 1: you know, in the cloud or somehow on a computer, whatever,
Speaker 1: then you open up the box for the new phone.
Speaker 1: You go through the settings and it will just flow
Speaker 1: you through. It'll say Hey, welcome to this phone. Are
Speaker 1: you transferring from another device? And is it a one
Speaker 1: plus device? And you go through that, you tap yes,
Speaker 1: your phones. You will put them side by side wirelessly.
Speaker 1: They will transfer all of the data from the old
Speaker 1: phone to the new phone, and that process will take
Speaker 1: you know, maybe fifteen minutes, whatever it is. And then
Speaker 1: once all the data is downloaded to your new phone,
Speaker 1: it will say, okay, you can turn off your old
Speaker 1: phone whatever, and then it will then finish the process
Speaker 1: of downloading all of the apps to your new device,
Speaker 1: making sure all the settings are the same. But the
Speaker 1: main thing to do is not bother these phones once
Speaker 1: this process starts, because if you bother these phones in
Speaker 1: the middle of the process, something's going to go wrong
Speaker 1: and not everything's going to transfer over. So that's the
Speaker 1: main thing. But if you're going one plus to one plus,
Speaker 1: you're going to iPhone to iPhone, you're going pixel to pixel,
Speaker 1: you're going Samsung to Samsung. It is so easy these
Speaker 1: days to migrate from one phone to another. You can
Speaker 1: do it so quickly and with almost no fuss. Now,
Speaker 1: some apps, when you get to your new phone, they'll
Speaker 1: they'll ask you to log in again. But your Google account,
Speaker 1: and all these main things that you change on the
Speaker 1: old device will still be there now. That also brings
Speaker 1: its own set of issues when you go to your
Speaker 1: new phone. Anything that was weird on your old phone,
Speaker 1: any little settings that you change that you forgot about,
Speaker 1: those are all going to be changed on your new device.
Speaker 1: So if you change something it's a little wonky on
Speaker 1: your old device, it might be wonky on your new device.
Speaker 1: That's why I prefer setting up a device as new.
Speaker 1: But I get that not everyone wants to do that
Speaker 1: because it takes longer. You gotta download everything manually, You
Speaker 1: got to go through all your settings, you gotta log
Speaker 1: into all your accounts. But there is something nice about
Speaker 1: setting up a phone. I call it from scratch or
Speaker 1: a clean install, as we used to say with computers.
Speaker 1: So there is something to say for that. But I
Speaker 1: understand most people don't do that. I'm a weirdo. I
Speaker 1: do that, and when I tried, I'll be house. I tried.
Speaker 1: I said, this is so easy. But I tried doing
Speaker 1: the iPhone to iPhone thing and nothing came over on
Speaker 1: my iPhone for some reason, when I switched it to
Speaker 1: the seventeen last time, I don't know what happened in
Speaker 1: the middle of the transfer, but nothing. It was like
Speaker 1: half apps were downloaded. It was a kind of a pain.
Speaker 1: But that's not going to happen to you, Wayne, I
Speaker 1: can guarantee it. So really, all you need to do
Speaker 1: is open up that new phone next to the old phone,
Speaker 1: make sure it's charged up, and then just go through
Speaker 1: the process. It will ask you if you want to
Speaker 1: transfer everything from your old phone. You can use a
Speaker 1: cable too. You can plug a cable from your old
Speaker 1: phone into the new phone. Sometimes that's faster, but quite honestly,
Speaker 1: the wireless works really well nowadays. And then once you
Speaker 1: get that new phone, just go through and kind of
Speaker 1: what I do is I open up all my apps
Speaker 1: and just see if they're logged in, see if they're there,
Speaker 1: and just make sure everything's working the way I like it.
Speaker 1: Good question, Wayne, Good upgrade. The one plus thirteen is
Speaker 1: last year's device, but they just come out with the fifteen.
Speaker 1: But actually the camera is a little bit better on
Speaker 1: the thirteen.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Sneaky, sneaky one plus Thanks for the call today. Eight
Speaker 1: to eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one uh you know
Speaker 1: how you go to the grocery store and you've got
Speaker 1: the grocery store app, and they've got all those coupons
Speaker 1: inside the app that you have to digitally clip. Well,
Speaker 1: if you go through those one by one, you're gonna
Speaker 1: spend seven hours trying to clip these digital coupons. So
Speaker 1: guess what nobody ever does that. It probably cliped one
Speaker 1: or two at the top and that's it. So this, uh,
Speaker 1: this extension or app or whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: it's called save wise, Get savewise dot com. They just
Speaker 1: came out with a new feature that will automatically clip
Speaker 1: all of those grocery store coupons at the same time
Speaker 1: inside the app. So it's a free service inside the browser.
Speaker 1: Extension supports more than three thousand stores, including Kroger, Safeway, Albertson's, Von's.
Speaker 1: If you're in southern California, Ralphs is not That's the
Speaker 1: first one I tried, of course, and I email the developer.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, it doesn't work on Ralph's. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the one store we're still working on. So they're
Speaker 1: working on Ralphs. But you log into your you basically
Speaker 1: log into your store account on your computer and then
Speaker 1: the little extension pops up and it says, hey, do
Speaker 1: you want us to clip all these coupons for you?
Speaker 1: And you say yeah, and it goes through like I
Speaker 1: had on I think it was Vonn's I did. It
Speaker 1: was like five hundred and seventy two coupons. It took
Speaker 1: about two minutes, but it does it all automatically and
Speaker 1: you just watch it goes ting ding ding ding ding ding,
Speaker 1: and then all your coupons are clips. So and then
Speaker 1: when you go to the store you can just buy
Speaker 1: the stuff that you want, and anything that has a
Speaker 1: coupon that's digital, it will grab that coupon and apply
Speaker 1: it much better than the manual way. And so Android
Speaker 1: this app, if you download this save wise app, which
Speaker 1: does a lot more than just this. It's kind of
Speaker 1: an all in one kind of shopping thing. But if
Speaker 1: you download the app, they've got iOS and browser extensions
Speaker 1: and then Android is coming soon. So if you want
Speaker 1: to this out, it's called get savewise dot com slash
Speaker 1: Grocery and I'll put the link on my on my
Speaker 1: richon tech dot TV. It's a really cool thing because
Speaker 1: I love I like those digital coupons because they can't
Speaker 1: save you a lot of money, but no one clips them.
Speaker 1: No one does. No one can be bothered. And the
Speaker 1: grocery stores know that. That's why they put a million
Speaker 1: of them in there. So you get bored, you you
Speaker 1: scroll through, you go, Okay, I'm not looking through all
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Speaker 1: back after this. Okay, so you got iPhone twelve, you've
Speaker 1: heard that if it's still working, I don't look. I
Speaker 1: talk about upgrading and getting new stuff. But if what
Speaker 1: you have works, do not pay a dime to get
Speaker 1: it upgraded. Now, I do like when people save up
Speaker 1: for the next thing. I do say that, like, if
Speaker 1: you you know the iPhone twelve. You're talking, You're gonna
Speaker 1: get probably another year out of it right now. Let's see,
Speaker 1: hold on, you have a twelve Okay, so right now,
Speaker 1: the way I go is iOS twenty six supports the
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven and up, which means iOS twenty seven will
Speaker 1: probably support the iPhone twelve and up, which means you
Speaker 1: still have a good two solid years before you might,
Speaker 1: you know, have to get a new one because iOS
Speaker 1: twenty eight is probably not going to support your phone.
Speaker 1: So you've got like a good two years of this
Speaker 1: phone if it's still working for you. With that said,
Speaker 1: the call recording is a feature that was built into
Speaker 1: iOS twenty six, So if you've updated your phone you
Speaker 1: should have that. Have you updated your phone to iOS
Speaker 1: twenty six?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 1: I have not, Adam, where's our just kidding? There you go? Okay,
Speaker 1: So if you update your phone to iOS twenty six,
Speaker 1: you can have the call recording. It is a feature
Speaker 1: that is software based in the latest iOS, and once
Speaker 1: you update your phone, when you are on a call,
Speaker 1: you will see what looks like a You basically have
Speaker 1: to tap there's like three dots on your screen, and
Speaker 1: then you tap that and then it'll say call recording,
Speaker 1: and you tap that and both people in that call
Speaker 1: are going to hear that tone that says this call
Speaker 1: is being recorded. And that's it. And you can save
Speaker 1: those calls. You can see the transcripts of them. All
Speaker 1: of your calls that are recorded are inside the notes app.
Speaker 1: So that's it. Now, let's see. I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: if there's a way to I don't think you can
Speaker 1: record every call by the fall. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a let me see, is that an option. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's an option. So you're gonna update your
Speaker 1: phone just to do this or what?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I.
Speaker 6: It was just interesting to me. I will update my phone, okay,
Speaker 6: so that I can play around with that and just
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think I have a needs for it,
Speaker 6: but you know, always learning something new.
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you my little hack with the
Speaker 1: call recording, and it works every single time. If you
Speaker 1: get a telemarketer that calls you, just literally most of
Speaker 1: the time it's a scam person. Like if it's like
Speaker 1: a cable company or someone that's legitimate, they don't really care,
Speaker 1: but like you could try it with them. But if
Speaker 1: you get like a scam call and they try to
Speaker 1: say like, hey, we need your credit card number, whatever
Speaker 1: it is you know, you get sometimes these calls get
Speaker 1: through if you tap that call recording, they hang up
Speaker 1: as soon as they hear that. Every single time. It
Speaker 1: is so wild. So it's like my little, my little
Speaker 1: hack for getting rid of these calls that you don't
Speaker 1: want to talk to. And then sometimes when I'm calling
Speaker 1: a company, if I want to take notes or something,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to take notes, I'll just record
Speaker 1: the call and once they hear that, then that's basically
Speaker 1: the call is being recorded. As long as they stay
Speaker 1: on the line, they're theoretically, I guess okay with that.
Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer. I don't know what the legal
Speaker 1: aspect of that is, but that seems to be the
Speaker 1: way it works. All right, Candace, thanks for the call today,
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. All right, have a great day. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Hugh in San Diego. Hugh, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 14: Hey, Rich, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? What is happening? Sounds like you got
Speaker 1: some issues with your Samsung yees, sir.
Speaker 15: So I'm looking at the home screen right now.
Speaker 14: And last week weekend.
Speaker 7: I put it on, I thought silent mode, and then
Speaker 7: I took it off. And now the four main buttons
Speaker 7: on the bottom of the phone, the messages and the
Speaker 7: email and the voice recording, those buttons are dead.
Speaker 15: And in the upper left hand corner the time, it's
Speaker 15: like like it looks like a broken digital clock with
Speaker 15: every number. But if I open an app, it'll clean
Speaker 15: up and the numbers, the time will clear up, and
Speaker 15: I'll push these buttons on the bottom and.
Speaker 14: They're just like dead. They don't work at all, But
Speaker 14: every other app does open.
Speaker 1: Okay. Is it so once you open an app, does
Speaker 1: everything look normal?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not a screen issue, it's an actual
Speaker 1: issue with the phone, like the software. Okay, have you
Speaker 1: gone in have you done all of your software updates?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 16: Even I walked through a chat GPT and I try
Speaker 16: all of his suggestions and nothing happened.
Speaker 1: Well they I mean, I'm not kidding, and I love
Speaker 1: chat GBT, but it literally makes up things that do
Speaker 1: not exist. Literally. I was asking it today. I said,
Speaker 1: I have an iPhone and Android. I want to use
Speaker 1: both at the same time. How do I do that?
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, download the official Apple Messages for
Speaker 1: Android app and you'll be able to check your message.
Speaker 1: I was like, there is no Apple Messages for Android app, Like,
Speaker 1: where are you coming up with this stuff? Anyway? So
Speaker 1: you got to take all that stuff with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt. But what I would do is go into
Speaker 1: your let's see if this is the right one device
Speaker 1: care Okay, so there is, uh, let's see here. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find out a way to we can kind
Speaker 1: of clean up this device. I what do you think
Speaker 1: is happening? Because you you can't so okay, you can't
Speaker 1: tap the phone icon in the lower left hand corner.
Speaker 1: But if you go into your app drawer, can you
Speaker 1: activate it that way?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 1: Can does the phone app still work?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So what I did is just kind of a jury
Speaker 7: rig fix.
Speaker 16: I pulled it out of there and put it on
Speaker 16: the home screen and.
Speaker 14: And that's how I'm using it now. So yeah, it
Speaker 14: does work.
Speaker 16: I have it on up above in like the general area,
Speaker 16: but on the bottom like home row if you will,
Speaker 16: it doesn't work there.
Speaker 1: That's so weird. And you're you're sure that you have
Speaker 1: nothing nothing on this phone, like an accessibility feature or
Speaker 1: anything like that that you turned on by accident.
Speaker 14: Boy, that's that's a million dollar question.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 16: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I all I did was last week, like I said,
Speaker 14: I put on safe mode and then I switched it
Speaker 14: out and then it just kind of went haywire from there.
Speaker 16: And and like I said, I'm looking at the phone
Speaker 16: right now, and and it's clean.
Speaker 15: The numbers are clean.
Speaker 16: But if I close that app, then the numbers go
Speaker 16: all haywire again.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, there is one thing you can try to do,
Speaker 1: and this may you know, it may clear it up,
Speaker 1: it may not. But if you go into reset, there
Speaker 1: is an option. There's two options I would do the
Speaker 1: I would do this option. First. There's one that's called
Speaker 1: reset Accessibility Settings. And what that will do is if
Speaker 1: you happen to put some sort of setting on there
Speaker 1: that's messing this up, then now do you go into
Speaker 1: your setting slot and like toggle and play with things
Speaker 1: or no.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I did the whole reset, and and that that
Speaker 14: screwed up everything else, and I had to like re download,
Speaker 14: but I have to, like all my apps need to like.
Speaker 15: Be re re given permissions.
Speaker 16: And all that.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, So that's okay, So you tried that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: interesting Okay, it's tough for me to understand what's happening
Speaker 1: here without seeing this device. But the weird thing is
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the screen, it's weird. And at
Speaker 1: the top where the time is, it's also weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a head scratcher here. You may have to uh,
Speaker 1: you may have to bring I don't know what what
Speaker 1: what that could be other than the resetting the settings.
Speaker 1: The only thing you could do is if you you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't have a place to bring this, you
Speaker 1: can reset your whole phone into factory. But that's you
Speaker 1: know you're talking, that's one hundred percent. You got to
Speaker 1: change everything. I can't think of a of a setting
Speaker 1: on a Samsung phone that would do this. But if
Speaker 1: you want, if you want to send me an email,
Speaker 1: I can talk to the Samsung folks and see if
Speaker 1: they have any idea what this might be. Maybe send
Speaker 1: me a screenshot as well, So go to the website
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv, or just send it to
Speaker 1: hello at rich on tech dot tv and maybe I
Speaker 1: can get it to someone at Samsung that can sort
Speaker 1: of take a look. That's that's a head scratcher. That
Speaker 1: is really weird. You just you know, you said, you
Speaker 1: put your phone into silent mode, you take it out,
Speaker 1: and everything nothing's working anymore. That's that's a weird one.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call today, appreciate it. Coming up, I've
Speaker 1: got ten gift ideas, ten gadgets that are on every
Speaker 1: list this year. I've played with almost all of them.
Speaker 1: You actually, I think, actually, I think, yeah, almost every
Speaker 1: single one of these. So we'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 1: Plus later we're gonna talk about how AI is affecting
Speaker 1: the medical field, good and bad. You are listening to
Speaker 1: Rich on tech, all right, Let's get to the ten
Speaker 1: tech gifts on every list this season. There are some
Speaker 1: things that just span it all right, Like if you're
Speaker 1: asking what are the hottest gifts this holiday season, Rich,
Speaker 1: these are them And I have played with almost all
Speaker 1: of these, so I can vouch for them. Number one,
Speaker 1: I wonder if I shoot this backwards, is it more interesting?
Speaker 1: Are they in any Let's see? Do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do these backwards? Let's see them backwards. Number
Speaker 1: ten the four pack of Apple air tags. Everyone loves
Speaker 1: an air tag, Everyone loves to track their stuff. This
Speaker 1: is a great stocking stuffer. For the third year in
Speaker 1: a Row. Air Tags are a top ten sellar. They're useful,
Speaker 1: they're cheap. You can put them in everything right now.
Speaker 1: The price. Oh, I've wrote down all these prices too.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me see if I can bring this
Speaker 1: up real quick. Air Tag okay, So on Google. This
Speaker 1: is the problem though, as we learned in our interview.
Speaker 1: So you can go on Google and I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: all links to all these things. You can compare prices
Speaker 1: right now. A four pack of air tags is sixty
Speaker 1: five bucks almost everywhere, usually ninety nine. And you can
Speaker 1: go on Google Shopping to compare these prices and you
Speaker 1: can set a it tracks the price. The problem is
Speaker 1: it doesn't include Amazon, which is where a lot of
Speaker 1: people shop. But if you like to shop at other places,
Speaker 1: it's all there, Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, BJ's. Let's
Speaker 1: see what else is on here. Verizon, Low's Lows sells
Speaker 1: air tags okay. Air Tags number nine or a frame
Speaker 1: crowd pleaser. This is a digital frame that lets you
Speaker 1: send photos from your phone to your frame or a
Speaker 1: friend and family members frame. That is the magic of it.
Speaker 1: Lots of models to choose from. This is about one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars on sale. Target's got It Container Store,
Speaker 1: Home Depot, the Aura Carver Great great gift. Number eight
Speaker 1: Mediquest three VR Applevision pro way too expensive for most people.
Speaker 1: Mediquest three is the VR headset for everyone. It's got
Speaker 1: a lot of games, it's got good features, and the
Speaker 1: price right now, it's expense of four ninety nine. They
Speaker 1: also make a less expensive version as well. Let's see
Speaker 1: we're okay on number eight, number seven, number seven. Apple
Speaker 1: Watch series eleven. Yes, everyone wants an Apple Watch that
Speaker 1: has an iPhone. This is thinner, it's lighter, it's got
Speaker 1: the blood pressure trend monitoring, the hypertension alerts. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's about three hundred and fifty dollars typically four hundred,
Speaker 1: so that's a great deal. Sony noise canceling headphones the
Speaker 1: XM fives. Now there is an XM six don't email me,
Speaker 1: but for the price, the XM fives at two forty
Speaker 1: eight give you almost everything you need. The only thing
Speaker 1: you don't get here, let's see here what I wrote
Speaker 1: this down, so I actually did my research here. You
Speaker 1: typically don't get the foldable aspect of the new ones,
Speaker 1: and you can listen to the new ones while you
Speaker 1: charge them. But for the price. The XM fives are
Speaker 1: excellent and every reviewer I know loves these headphones. Number
Speaker 1: five Kindle paper white. Get the signature edition. It's got
Speaker 1: better auto adjusting, Light's got wireless charging. It's one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars right now, down from one ninety nine. Amazing.
Speaker 1: All right on with the list. Wor these in today
Speaker 1: to the radio station ray band Metas smart glasses just
Speaker 1: the best, the best smart glasses out there right now.
Speaker 1: They do everything. They take pictures, they take videos, they
Speaker 1: answer AI questions. You've got two versions to choose from.
Speaker 1: The new version is going to be much more expensive
Speaker 1: than the older version, but they're about the same, really
Speaker 1: really cool. Number three or a ring four. This is
Speaker 1: a ring that tracks your health. People love this thing,
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't. You can use it on an iPhone,
Speaker 1: Use it on an Android. Two hundred and forty nine
Speaker 1: dollars right now starting price. Remember you, I think there
Speaker 1: is a subscription with this, so just be careful with that.
Speaker 1: Check it out before you buy it. Number two Apple
Speaker 1: AirPods Pro three. These are fantastic. I bring them on
Speaker 1: every flight. I bring them pretty much everywhere they are
Speaker 1: down to a new low of two hundred and nineteen dollars,
Speaker 1: pretty much their first discount ever. Noise cancelation is incredible.
Speaker 1: They work with the iPhone. They are fantastic. Apple AirPods
Speaker 1: Pro three and number one on the Gift wish list
Speaker 1: this year. Nintendo Switch to It was popular last year,
Speaker 1: still going to be popular this year. Four hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine dollars. Go with a bundle. That's where you
Speaker 1: get the best bang for your buck. Because you're going
Speaker 1: to buy a game anyway, might as well get included
Speaker 1: for about the same price. I'll put all these gadgets
Speaker 1: on the website rich on tech dot TV. Coming up,
Speaker 1: AI and medicine. Right here on rich on Tech. You
Speaker 1: are listening to rich on Tech. This is the show
Speaker 1: where we talked about the tech stuff I want you
Speaker 1: to know about. We also answer your questions. Everything's on
Speaker 1: the website that we've talked about. If you're still trying
Speaker 1: to write down those ten tech gifts I just shared,
Speaker 1: that's at rich on Tech dot tv. Show notes are
Speaker 1: right at the top of the web page, so go
Speaker 1: there and you can get links to all of those.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but you know we're using
Speaker 1: AI for just about everything these days, including health, including wellness,
Speaker 1: including shopping. But here to talk about health and medical
Speaker 1: specifically is doctor Adam Oskwitz with UH Doctronic doctor. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining me.
Speaker 10: Thanks so much for having me so, it's wonderful to
Speaker 10: be here. And I love the uh the ambrosia salad
Speaker 10: reference at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that stuff?
Speaker 8: You're dating yourself a little bit there. I think it's
Speaker 8: a little bit before me.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think people do that anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean probably because it's like, is like a direct
Speaker 1: attack on your heart. So what is doctronic? Explain what
Speaker 1: that is all about?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Thanks thanks for asking.
Speaker 10: I mean, the easiest way to understand Doctronic is it's
Speaker 10: an AI doctor. And we use that phrase because people
Speaker 10: just understand what that means. You can come to our
Speaker 10: website and it feels like you're visiting a doctor. You
Speaker 10: can ask it questions about a new diagnosis, about chronic conditions,
Speaker 10: about your general health, about medications, and it's gonna interact
Speaker 10: with you. It's it's going to ask you questions to
Speaker 10: try and tease that information, and just like a good doctor,
Speaker 10: it's going to try and give you personalized information at
Speaker 10: the end of the conversation. That could be in the
Speaker 10: form of a problem list or a differential diagnosis and
Speaker 10: a treatment plan that you can actually act on.
Speaker 1: So how is this different than just you know, searching Google,
Speaker 1: using chat GBT, Like, how is your AI different?
Speaker 10: So, first and foremost is designed to function like a doctor,
Speaker 10: So it's going to actually ask you questions and.
Speaker 8: Try and steering you towards the right kind of treatment
Speaker 8: that way.
Speaker 10: It's also built on a bedrock of evidence based guidelines,
Speaker 10: so we don't just pull information from the Internet.
Speaker 8: We don't pull information from an LM.
Speaker 10: Everything that is given to you is based on thousands
Speaker 10: of guidelines that have been created in order to make
Speaker 10: sure that we're following the best recommendations.
Speaker 1: So I always made the joke for many years when
Speaker 1: people would google their health symptoms. The end result was
Speaker 1: You're going to die no matter what. It's like you
Speaker 1: have a little.
Speaker 8: For your answer and you're gonna die eventually.
Speaker 1: No matter what, You're gonna die. Like it's just like
Speaker 1: it's just that some dark humor there, but you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like it always is like at the
Speaker 1: end of whatever you Google, Like you have a cut
Speaker 1: on your finger, that's it. You've got an infection, it's
Speaker 1: gonna fester, your finger's gonna be chopped off, then your
Speaker 1: body it's just done. So how do you balance like that,
Speaker 1: like is this thing going to just tell you like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is really bad? Or how do you kind of
Speaker 1: work with that idea that you know, we don't know
Speaker 1: what this stuff is and like how do you know
Speaker 1: you're putting your symptoms in they're so random sometimes Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think.
Speaker 10: We've all experienced that moment where we go to Google
Speaker 10: or WebMD and we put something in there and we're like,
Speaker 10: oh my gosh, I'm gonna die right uh, And it's
Speaker 10: it's never accurate, right because it's not personalized.
Speaker 8: It's basically just giving you generalized information. And so the
Speaker 8: critical thing here is to really just understand what you're saying.
Speaker 10: Just like when you I'm gonna come back to this
Speaker 10: many times, just when you go see a doctor, they're
Speaker 10: not they're not just going to give you an answer
Speaker 10: right up front. They're gonna actually ask go, tell me
Speaker 10: a little bit more about this headache so that.
Speaker 8: They can get contact.
Speaker 10: So it doesn't like lead down to the path of
Speaker 10: it being you know, the worst thing.
Speaker 1: Possible now I see on Doctronic. Basically, there's this interesting
Speaker 1: feature where it says, after we chat, if you want
Speaker 1: to have a video visit with a top doctor for
Speaker 1: thirty nine dollars, you can do that. So how much
Speaker 1: of this can you, like, what can you get for
Speaker 1: free using Doctronic versus that thirty nine dollars you know,
Speaker 1: for the appointment, Like, explain that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So the AI is always free and always will be.
Speaker 8: We very much believe that.
Speaker 10: And it's by default anonymous, which is important, so you
Speaker 10: can calm and actually chat with Doctronic, and we even
Speaker 10: at Doctronic can't know who you are. That's how we
Speaker 10: set up the system. When you're ready and you want
Speaker 10: to sort of take that next step. Let's just say
Speaker 10: you're chatting with the system and you get a new
Speaker 10: diagnosis and you're thinking a medication.
Speaker 8: You can then opt in and say.
Speaker 10: I want to see a doctor and it's your choice,
Speaker 10: just like when you want to go see.
Speaker 8: A doctor without the an AI.
Speaker 10: The key here is that we're sort of vertically integrated
Speaker 10: with a fifty state telet practice. So when you press
Speaker 10: that button, then you say I want to see a doctor.
Speaker 10: Everything you've just chatted with the AI about is sent
Speaker 10: off to one of our physicians and then you can
Speaker 10: see them. Usually it takes about five minutes. So it
Speaker 10: really does streamline care to be able to.
Speaker 1: Do that interesting, and I just kind of put in,
Speaker 1: you know, I like how it does almost in the
Speaker 1: same way a doctor would like it starts asking questions,
Speaker 1: but then it asks like really smart follow up questions
Speaker 1: as well, just like a you know, a doctor's office would.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean that's what it's designed to do.
Speaker 10: I think a lot of us have used AI before, right,
Speaker 10: and it just feels very superficial when you use it.
Speaker 10: It's not directional, and there's nothing that you can actually
Speaker 10: take from it beyond just getting information.
Speaker 8: And so we've built Doctronic differently. It's really supposed to
Speaker 8: be for you to take ownership of your health.
Speaker 1: Now, you talked about privacy. Obviously, whenever people are sharing
Speaker 1: medical information, you got to what are the privacy implication here?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 1: I mean, how much of my information is stored or
Speaker 1: shared or sold whatever, you know, because I'm sharing some
Speaker 1: pretty intimate stuff here sometimes.
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, it's important. So we take data very seriously.
Speaker 10: I think from just like a conceptual standpoint, I'll go
Speaker 10: back to this, it's anonymous by default, and anonymous is
Speaker 10: different than us not knowing or storing your data.
Speaker 9: It means that we literally.
Speaker 10: Can't actually know who you are, and that protects you.
Speaker 10: So you can always use the system without us actually
Speaker 10: knowing who you are and eventually storing your data. Now,
Speaker 10: if you want to store it and you want to
Speaker 10: have a long term relationship with the company and come
Speaker 10: back so that.
Speaker 8: It remembers each time, you can do that as well.
Speaker 8: And if you do choose to do that, we.
Speaker 10: Have made the decision that your data is yours and
Speaker 10: you can always delete it, you can always take it
Speaker 10: wherever you want, and that that data needs to be protected.
Speaker 10: So we obviously use the most you know, highest standards
Speaker 10: for making sure that that data is secure.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: I feel like traditionally healthcare systems have always taken the
Speaker 10: stance that the data is theirs, right, and it's very
Speaker 10: hard as a posient to actually go get that data
Speaker 10: when you need it correct and I think that's a mistake,
Speaker 10: right and then so that's one of the reasons why
Speaker 10: we've made it so easy for people to actually own
Speaker 10: their data with the system.
Speaker 1: We're talking with doctor Adam Oskowitz, co founder of Doctronic.
Speaker 1: This is an AI doctor, and it says right on
Speaker 1: the home page, you've already helped over eighteen million times,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. What do you think of AI's impact
Speaker 1: in medicine, because I feel like it is going to
Speaker 1: really accelerate things in a big way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think that we quite honestly are at the penicillin
Speaker 10: moment in medicine right now as AI starts taking shape.
Speaker 10: And when you think about it, medicine has always had
Speaker 10: this fundamental math problem that you would never have enough
Speaker 10: doctors to meet this, you know, the demand of patients.
Speaker 10: Right you could have ten times more doctors and you
Speaker 10: still would be able to meet the demands of patients.
Speaker 8: And when you think about it, you actually get your
Speaker 8: own medical care.
Speaker 10: You don't go see a doctor oftentimes when you're sick,
Speaker 10: because you know how difficult it is. With AI, all
Speaker 10: that changes, right, We are no longer gated by you know,
Speaker 10: having enough doctors, and eventually, when we get systems that
Speaker 10: are rigorous enough, we'll be able to provide high quality
Speaker 10: healthcare to anyone anywhere, anytime, for free or almost free,
Speaker 10: and that's really going to transform the way people actually
Speaker 10: engage with the healthcare system and how they own their
Speaker 10: own health.
Speaker 1: Is there a flip side to this? We have to
Speaker 1: be careful with just getting sort of advice from a
Speaker 1: general AI. I know, you built yours to be much
Speaker 1: safer because it's specifically for medical advice. But you know,
Speaker 1: people are already, like we said, they're already going on WebMD,
Speaker 1: they're already going on Google, and there's a million and
Speaker 1: one chatbots out there. I mean, the self care of health.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of could be dangerous.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, I totally agree with that. I think we need
Speaker 10: to do this. We need to do this small, We
Speaker 10: need to do this securely. Every single you know, company
Speaker 10: out there or institution that's using this needs to earn
Speaker 10: the trust of patients. And so I tell that to
Speaker 10: people when they come to Doctronic. You know, don't trust
Speaker 10: us right out of the gate. We should earn your trust,
Speaker 10: utilize it, double check it, you know, be skeptical.
Speaker 8: At first.
Speaker 10: I'm confident that we'll earn the trust of our users,
Speaker 10: but in other instances, I wouldn't trust any random chatbot
Speaker 10: out there, and I certainly wouldn't trust potentially chat gpt
Speaker 10: to tell me exactly what I need to know.
Speaker 1: And real quick, we got like just a couple of
Speaker 1: seconds here, Like, if you get that video visit with
Speaker 1: a doctor, can you get like a prescription or something
Speaker 1: like that? Can they do that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you can get prescriptions. Well, we can order labs, referrals.
Speaker 10: We are an advanced primary care practice, so everything you
Speaker 10: could get at a primary care office we can provide
Speaker 10: that as well.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, the website Doctronic dot ai Doctronic dot ai,
Speaker 1: d o C t R O n C dot AI.
Speaker 1: I will link that up on my website. Rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot tv. Doctor Adam Oskwitz, co founder of Doctronic,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks so much,
Speaker 1: rich Now, can you help me with this rash on
Speaker 1: my arm? No, kid, that's like the old doctor joke.
Speaker 1: Every party you go to, it's like me when I
Speaker 1: go to any party, it's like, hey, can you take
Speaker 1: a look at my iPhone? Is things doing something kind
Speaker 1: of weirdy? All right, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we are going to open up
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Speaker 1: questions I get from you. There's no way I can
Speaker 1: get through them all, but I will do my best.
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Speaker 1: Andy from Akron, Ohio says, Hey, the woman who deleted
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Speaker 1: about car play. Let's see here. Now you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm just wasting time. I'll just move on. Kim in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles says that fingerprint lock you talked about is
Speaker 1: so cool. I used to leave my reading glasses on
Speaker 1: my gym lock just so I could see the time
Speaker 1: any numbers. The fingerprint lock is a total game changer.
Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing it. Yes, that's the Benji lock, Benji lock,
Speaker 1: fingerprint padlock. It's so cool. Hey, rich my compliments on
Speaker 1: the reader's question segment of your newsletter. I always learned something.
Speaker 1: Your version on the air is also great. I like
Speaker 1: that you keep a brisk pace with callers and with
Speaker 1: the interview guests. Especially appreciated is the way you question
Speaker 1: your guests direct and to the point, without a lot
Speaker 1: of preamble. Keep up the good work, Mike and carlsbad. Mike,
Speaker 1: you are on the rich On Tech cheerleader team. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, here we go. I'm wondering why is Tesla
Speaker 1: picking up car play but GM's dropping it.
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: I was recently driving in Ireland. Car play was so
Speaker 1: handy for directions. It would have been much more challenging
Speaker 1: without it. Thanks Steven. I think I read that last
Speaker 1: week somehow. What happened there? Mike in Los Angeles says,
Speaker 1: I've been an IT consultant for more than thirty years.
Speaker 1: I wanted to raise an issue I never hear anyone
Speaker 1: talk about when it comes to pass keys. They're great
Speaker 1: because you don't need long passwords, but there's a dark side.
Speaker 1: People forget on a Windows computer, the only thing standing
Speaker 1: between someone and every account you've set up with passkeys, Amazon, Google, Banks,
Speaker 1: email is your four to six digit Windows pin. I
Speaker 1: see it all the time. People give that pin to roommates,
Speaker 1: friends or families so they can look something up, not
Speaker 1: realizing they're giving away access to everything. Passkeys are great
Speaker 1: when used right, but only if people treat their PIN
Speaker 1: like a bank code. Once someone has your pin, everything
Speaker 1: protected with the pass key is wide open. Mike, thanks
Speaker 1: for that reminder. I need to check that out on
Speaker 1: my computer to see if that is the case. But
Speaker 1: if it is, be careful. Do not give out. Don't
Speaker 1: give out your pin anywhere. Don't give it out on
Speaker 1: your phone, your computer. It just unlocks way too much.
Speaker 1: Mike in Orange County says, I saw your feature on
Speaker 1: TV about phone cases. I saw your recommendation of the
Speaker 1: Spegan Super Thin case. I've used them for about fifteen years.
Speaker 1: My phones have always survived the occasional drop. I don't
Speaker 1: need the screen protection since I'm pretty careful as always.
Speaker 1: Grateful for your advice. Thanks Mike. Yes, I've got the
Speaker 1: Spegan Ultra Hybrid on my iPhone right now. Love that case.
Speaker 1: It's like fifteen bucks on Amazon. It is incredible. I'll
Speaker 1: put a link to it on the website. The other
Speaker 1: one I really really like is the case Tofy Clear
Speaker 1: Impact or Impact Clear case Defy Impact Clear. It's got
Speaker 1: a built in kickstand. It's such a cool case for
Speaker 1: your phone. Let's see here. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: messages about the woman who couldn't access or the man
Speaker 1: the guy who couldn't access Facebook Messenger. PJ says, in
Speaker 1: regards to speaking to an AI computer, think way back
Speaker 1: to the original Star Trek. They talk to their shipboard computers,
Speaker 1: no keyboards. They also had tablet computers. Our cell phones
Speaker 1: replicated the look of their communicators. Many other things too.
Speaker 1: I just keep forgetting to write them to a list.
Speaker 1: You are right, what seemed very far off on Star
Speaker 1: Trek is basically reality. Now, is there anything that happened
Speaker 1: on Star Trek that they did that we haven't gotten yet?
Speaker 1: Probably like the body scan. I'm not a huge Star
Speaker 1: Trek person, but wasn't there like a body scan? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know, bemba. Oh we haven't done beam me up?
Speaker 1: Oh yet? No, we have not done yeah space trial
Speaker 1: or I guess just teleporting. Yeah, we have not done that.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that. You're gonna look a little
Speaker 1: bit weird, like a little bit melted gobbledegook, like when
Speaker 1: your eyes might be droopy by the time he gets
Speaker 1: to the other place. But hey, you've just traveled the
Speaker 1: whole world without really doing anything. Uh okay. Francis says,
Speaker 1: I have Cox Internet and got an email to increase
Speaker 1: my speed. In the past, when I had Cox Cable,
Speaker 1: they'd offer HBO or something for a few months for free,
Speaker 1: and then if I canceled before the trial ended, my
Speaker 1: whole package would change and costs more.
Speaker 10: So.
Speaker 1: Before I accepted this speed boost, I called and after
Speaker 1: ten minutes of questioning the rep I learned that if
Speaker 1: I took the free offer, my current fifty dollars plan
Speaker 1: would disappear, and after canceling the faster speed. I have
Speaker 1: to pay thirty dollars more each month to get my
Speaker 1: old speedback. They don't tell you that I'm sick of
Speaker 1: these cable companies. Uh Tang is nearby, but I'd need
Speaker 1: seven neighbors to sign on, and Starlink is adding a
Speaker 1: demand premium. I'm really hoping Amazons satellites arrive soon. I
Speaker 1: love your segments. That is a great, great thing. That
Speaker 1: is a great point, Francis that if you are on
Speaker 1: one of these what they call grandfathered in plans and
Speaker 1: you accept a new plan as a trial, that they say, oh,
Speaker 1: you can always go back. You know, you can always
Speaker 1: get rid of it. But they don't tell you that
Speaker 1: you can't go back to your original plan because it's grandfather.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, Gerald says, Hey, a Rich since listening to
Speaker 1: your show, I can tell you have the skills with
Speaker 1: a Z to pay the bills with the Z. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means, but thank you, Gerald. I
Speaker 1: will take that as a compliment number one. All right,
Speaker 1: that is going to do it for this episode of
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