Speaker 1: At and T launches five G in more cities, But
Speaker 1: can you use it connected dash cams?
Speaker 2: Amazon employees listening to your Alexa commands?
Speaker 1: How to change that? And T Mobile launches TV. What's
Speaker 1: going on? I'm rich Damiro. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. Welcome to a fresh day on
Speaker 1: the podcast. In fact, it's the first time I have
Speaker 1: someone here to help me out with the podcast. So
Speaker 1: this is my producer, Megan from KTLA. Meghan, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Megan helps me out at KTLA with producing the tech
Speaker 1: report tech smart as it's said on TV, and you've
Speaker 1: also probably seen her in some of my videos. She
Speaker 1: is ready to high tel it out of here to Coachella,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna probably.
Speaker 2: Speed up this podcast for her. Yes. Excited to be
Speaker 2: here to do some viewer questions today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so excited. Thanks for letting me read some questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I know every week on the podcast I say
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring back the phone calls. That is
Speaker 1: definitely part of the rich on Tech podcast. Technically it's
Speaker 1: just been a challenge. But I will tell you we
Speaker 1: have Megan, we have new equipment, and we will be
Speaker 1: getting those phone calls into the podcast. But for today,
Speaker 1: you know, you guys send me a lot of emails, right,
Speaker 1: So today I've selected a couple of emails and Megan's
Speaker 1: going to read them and I'm going to answer them
Speaker 1: as well, in addition to the normal tech news I
Speaker 1: do here. So if you're new to the podcast, if
Speaker 1: you found me through Leo or some other method, this
Speaker 1: is the podcast where I talk about this stuff that
Speaker 1: I think you should know about that happens in the
Speaker 1: world of tech.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: It's not the podcast for you know, this specific tech nerd.
Speaker 1: It's basically kind of just a lot of things that
Speaker 1: I find interesting, unique, and kind of the tech stuff
Speaker 1: that I think the average consumer should know about. So
Speaker 1: let's start with the story kind of of the week.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of one of those stories that
Speaker 1: it's a no brainer, like we know this is happening,
Speaker 1: but when it's put in print, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: people get up in arms. Right, And this is a
Speaker 1: story about Alexa and Amazon workers listening to what you
Speaker 1: say to Alexa. So how did you think that Amazon
Speaker 1: was able to improve the Alexa service?
Speaker 2: Right? This thing is not a vacuum.
Speaker 1: So what happens is, according to the Bloomberg article, Amazon
Speaker 1: has thousands of people around the world that are listening
Speaker 1: to these recordings that are captured in Echo owners' homes
Speaker 1: and offices, and what they do is they make sure
Speaker 1: that Alexa responds in the way that you might imagine, right.
Speaker 1: So I gave the example of my video I made
Speaker 1: for YouTube of if you say, hey, Alexa, play music
Speaker 1: from the weekend, and all of a sudden, Alexa says,
Speaker 1: you know, what time would you like me to make
Speaker 1: your appointment this weekend? You know that doesn't make sense, right,
Speaker 1: So that might be something that one of these employees
Speaker 1: listens to and says, oh, interesting, the weekend is also
Speaker 1: the name of a band, So we need to tweak
Speaker 1: what Alexa says.
Speaker 2: And response to that. That's what's going on here now.
Speaker 1: Obviously, in the process of listening to these things, what
Speaker 1: do they hear, Well, all the stuff that goes on
Speaker 1: in your home, right, kids screaming in the background, people
Speaker 1: singing in the shower.
Speaker 2: In fact, some of the workers that they.
Speaker 1: Picked up what they believed was a sexual assault, So
Speaker 1: pretty crazy stuff. But as you imagine, with millions and
Speaker 1: millions of people using these smart speakers. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff out there. So Amazon said to Bloomberg that
Speaker 1: they take security and privacy very seriously. And here's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you just need to know about this stuff.
Speaker 1: Obviously Google's doing the same thing. I'm imagining that Apple's
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. But if you do want to
Speaker 1: turn off the ability of Amazon employees to listen to
Speaker 1: your recordings, and they're not just doing this, you know,
Speaker 1: like if I work at Amazon, I can't just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: let me go ahead and listen to a couple of recordings. No,
Speaker 1: these are teams that are doing this professionally, you might hope.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously people are probably laughing at some of
Speaker 1: the things that they hear. They're human, right, and they're
Speaker 1: listening to these things. But if you do want to
Speaker 1: turn off these settings, here's the privacy options. Number one,
Speaker 1: go to Amazon dot com slash Alexa Privacy and that's
Speaker 1: your privacy page for all things Alexa. You can actually
Speaker 1: listen to all the recordings that you've all the things
Speaker 1: you've ever said to Alexa will be on there in
Speaker 1: a list.
Speaker 2: You can listen to those. They're kind of funny.
Speaker 1: But if you want to change this privacy setting, go
Speaker 1: to the Alexa Privacy manage how your data improves Alexa,
Speaker 1: then help develop new features, and toggle that off.
Speaker 2: If you're on the mobile app, it's pretty much the same.
Speaker 1: Open up the Amazon Alexa app, go to the menu,
Speaker 1: which is a three bars in the upper left hand corner.
Speaker 1: Then Settings, then Alexa Account, then Alexa Privacy, then manage
Speaker 1: how your data improves Alexa, and then help develop new features.
Speaker 2: Toggle that off.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a lot, but believe me, once you
Speaker 1: get into the Alexa settings, it's pretty darn easy. All right, Uh, Megan,
Speaker 1: do you want to do the first question because it
Speaker 1: is related to this right?
Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: This first question is from Kelly Russell, and she writes, so,
Speaker 4: the Alexa app does keep a list of commands that
Speaker 4: Alexa heard. It's a manual process, but you can delete
Speaker 4: the commands in the app. So are they deleted locally
Speaker 4: or on a server somewhere? That's her first question, okay,
Speaker 4: And then her second question is in regards to Apple,
Speaker 4: So she would like to know if Apple makes it
Speaker 4: possible for SERI users to review and delete their Siri
Speaker 4: commands or if this will ever be an option for
Speaker 4: Siri users.
Speaker 3: Best Kelly Russell.
Speaker 1: Okay, Kelly Russell, Thanks Kelly, great question. So number one, yes,
Speaker 1: when you delete, so first has to do with the recordings.
Speaker 1: And it is nice that Amazon allows you to hear
Speaker 1: your recordings, right, because it is eye opening to hear
Speaker 1: what you've said in pretty private settings to this voice assistant, right,
Speaker 1: And people probably say some pretty private things as well,
Speaker 1: So that's number one.
Speaker 2: They do that.
Speaker 1: Google does that, so you can also do the same
Speaker 1: thing for Google. You can go in and listen to
Speaker 1: all the things that you've said to Google Assistant and
Speaker 1: you can delete them as well. Now you're asking are
Speaker 1: they deleted locally? Are they deleted on the server? They
Speaker 1: are deleted on the server, but we don't know what
Speaker 1: the timeframe is.
Speaker 2: Are they deleted instantly? Are they cued for deletion?
Speaker 1: And in the case of let's say, any sort of
Speaker 1: crime or any sort of police you know, if there's
Speaker 1: something where the police want a recording, I bet that
Speaker 1: they can pro probably magically bring those recordings.
Speaker 2: Back to life.
Speaker 1: So just because you hit that delete on that weird
Speaker 1: question you asked Alexa, does not mean in my brain
Speaker 1: that it goes away forever. So that's number one and
Speaker 1: on Google. When it comes to Apple, Apple is a
Speaker 1: little different than these other companies. As you know, they're
Speaker 1: much more private, They're a little bit different in the
Speaker 1: way they handle things they say.
Speaker 2: They take privacy very seriously. As far as I know,
Speaker 2: you cannot access the things that you say to Siri.
Speaker 1: Now. I think part of that maybe is that they're
Speaker 1: doing some local processing on the phone and they're not
Speaker 1: necessarily sending it to the server. I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: that part, but at this point, no, you cannot get
Speaker 1: a listing of anything that you've said to Siri, and
Speaker 1: you can't delete them from Apple standpoint.
Speaker 2: So thank you, Kelly. I do appreciate that question.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's talk about YouTube TV. So I
Speaker 1: was at the launch of YouTube TV about two years ago,
Speaker 1: and they promised and I loved it back then, by
Speaker 1: the way, and I still do.
Speaker 2: I still think it's pretty amazing. I think what YouTube
Speaker 2: did was awesome.
Speaker 1: They basically built a cable box into an app and
Speaker 1: a web version of TV, and they when they launched
Speaker 1: it was thirty five dollars. There was just a couple channels.
Speaker 1: There was a couple dozen channels available. There were some
Speaker 1: that were good, there was some. Here's the thing, like everyone,
Speaker 1: when it comes to cord cutting, all they really want
Speaker 1: to do is subscribe to the channels they want.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I don't need fifty I don't need one hundred channels, right,
Speaker 1: I just want right now, I just want two channels,
Speaker 1: which is Disney Junior and Nick Junior for my kids.
Speaker 1: And guess what I have to pay fifty dollars a
Speaker 1: month just to get those two channels through direct TV
Speaker 1: now because it comes with eighty other channels that I
Speaker 1: could care less about?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Are they nice to have? Sometimes? Sure?
Speaker 1: If someone's like, oh, there's this great show on Investigation Discovery,
Speaker 1: sure it's nice, But I don't need that, right And
Speaker 1: I can certainly get that show a la carte if
Speaker 1: I need it. So what we really want in our
Speaker 1: world is a la carte channels. Clearly, nobody's giving that
Speaker 1: to us, except for things like HBO and Showtime and cinemas.
Speaker 1: But those are really expensive, right, So people just want
Speaker 1: ESPN for five bucks a month or ten dollars a
Speaker 1: month some of these channels, Bravo for a dollar a month, right,
Speaker 1: CNN for a buck a month, but we're not getting
Speaker 1: that anyway.
Speaker 2: I digress.
Speaker 1: But YouTube tv is raising prices once again, showing that
Speaker 1: it's really tough to compete with cable. So their price
Speaker 1: is going up to now fifty dollars a month. So
Speaker 1: in the past two years we've seen from thirty five
Speaker 1: to now fifty dollars a month. And YouTube is defending
Speaker 1: it by saying, look, we're adding discovery channels, So now
Speaker 1: you get Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery,
Speaker 1: Animal Planet, Travel Channel, and Motor Trend. And as if
Speaker 1: that's not enough, Oprah Winfree Network is coming later this year.
Speaker 2: But is it good enough?
Speaker 1: And here's the thing everyone's complaining on Twitter that like,
Speaker 1: oh see these cord cutting companies, none of it matters.
Speaker 2: It's all the same price.
Speaker 1: And I agree with that, But here's the difference to me,
Speaker 1: and I've said this before, I'm not cutting the cord
Speaker 1: because of saving money.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: I understand that.
Speaker 1: If you're Time, Warner or Warner Media whatever they're called now,
Speaker 1: and Discovery and HBO and all these big companies, they're
Speaker 1: not just gonna let their business go by the wayside
Speaker 1: by saying okay, fine, We'll give you whatever channel for
Speaker 1: a buck a month. You know, Animal Planet, We'll let
Speaker 1: you have that for a dollar a month, because we
Speaker 1: understand that you want to cut the cord and you
Speaker 1: want to save money. No, they sell these things as
Speaker 1: a bundle for a reason, because they need to keep
Speaker 1: up the costs to do their programming right. And so
Speaker 1: the reality is that I did not cut the cord
Speaker 1: for the money savings, right. I don't think I'm saving
Speaker 1: any money. I'm paying fifty bucks for DirecTV now, I'm
Speaker 1: paying sixteen dollars for Netflix. I'm paying let's see what's
Speaker 1: the other one I do, and then I do sixty
Speaker 1: five bucks a month for my internet. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you add all those things up, and yeah, it might
Speaker 1: be cheaper than what I was paying for DirecTV before,
Speaker 1: but it's still it's to me, it's not about saving
Speaker 1: the money. It's about the fact that I can cancel
Speaker 1: at any time I want. If I don't want that,
Speaker 1: I can get rid of direct TV.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: If I don't want HBO, I can get rid of HBO.
Speaker 1: If I don't want Stars, I can get rid of Stars.
Speaker 1: It's also the interface of the software. It's way better
Speaker 1: to have the interface from these apps than it is
Speaker 1: on a cable TV box. Have you used a cable
Speaker 1: TV box lately? They're terrible, right, I tried to use it.
Speaker 1: We're in a hotel room last week and they had Spectrum.
Speaker 1: Sorry to call you out, Spectrum, but the box was
Speaker 1: like navigating something from the eighties or seventies. I kept
Speaker 1: pressing buttons on the remote and it like didn't even
Speaker 1: respond to me, and so I kept like mispressing everything
Speaker 1: because it was so slow. I don't find that on
Speaker 1: my Apple TV or my Fire TV. And so that's
Speaker 1: why I enjoy having even direct TV now, which is
Speaker 1: still you know, big conglomerate. At least the software on
Speaker 1: DirecTV now is way better than what direct TV was.
Speaker 1: It was so bad when I had that. It was
Speaker 1: like this is what I'm paying like three hundred bucks
Speaker 1: a month for. So anyway, now you got a big
Speaker 1: price increase if your YouTube TV and Netflix. This month
Speaker 1: was a rough one because you got an increase on
Speaker 1: Netflix and an increase on YouTube TV as well. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of TV, T Mobile is starting up TV once again.
Speaker 1: They are starting something called t Vision, and this is
Speaker 1: kind of a relaunched version of something called Layer three TV,
Speaker 1: which they bought a couple of years ago, and they're
Speaker 1: relaunching this cable service in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philly,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and Washington, DC, all on April fourteenth. Now,
Speaker 1: I thought that they were going to deliver this via wireless,
Speaker 1: right they bought the company and Layer three TV pretty
Speaker 1: much delivers it through regular conventional cable right. But they're
Speaker 1: big thing T Mobile is saying because this isn't much
Speaker 1: cheaper than cable. It's one hundred bucks a month. There's
Speaker 1: a little discount if you're a T mobile customer, and
Speaker 1: for people that sign up early, if you sign up
Speaker 1: right now, you actually get the T Mobile customer discount,
Speaker 1: which is ten dollars a month. So that's available to everyone,
Speaker 1: and you get all the channels. But here's the magic
Speaker 1: they're doing. They're saying, look, we're going to give you
Speaker 1: the best of cord cutting and the best of conventional
Speaker 1: cable TV because you get all these channels plus all
Speaker 1: your apps or a majority of the app or I
Speaker 1: shouldn't even say majority because I'm not really sure, but
Speaker 1: they're promoting that they have Netflix or they're going to
Speaker 1: have Netflix they're going to have Amazon Prime Video and
Speaker 1: also Pandora. Now this is an unknown I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some hands on time with this thing
Speaker 1: next week, but here's my thoughts on it. My thoughts are,
Speaker 1: this is a good in between, Like if you're not
Speaker 1: ready to one hundred percent cut the cord and go
Speaker 1: to Apple TV or fireTV or antenna, this is kind
Speaker 1: of an in between technology, right because you're still getting
Speaker 1: all that goodness of cable but sort of packaged and
Speaker 1: delivered in a relatively newer and better way. You're not
Speaker 1: saving much money cause I alread said it's a hundred
Speaker 1: bucks plus you have to pay for your Internet, but
Speaker 1: it's smarter. The software is way better, so what it
Speaker 1: looks like on screen is much better than.
Speaker 2: Your typical cable box. But what I don't like about
Speaker 2: this is that.
Speaker 1: You're not on one of those platforms and being on
Speaker 1: an Apple TV or a Fire TV or even a Roku.
Speaker 1: That's where all of the progress is right now with
Speaker 1: these apps. So you really think that the Netflix of
Speaker 1: the world really cares that much about their app for
Speaker 1: T Mobile t Vision, which like one hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: are on versus Rope who where like a million people
Speaker 1: are on or more. So That's why to me, it
Speaker 1: pays to be on one of these big platforms because
Speaker 1: you're getting the latest, greatest features, the optimizations much faster
Speaker 1: than you are if you're on something that's a much
Speaker 1: smaller platform like Android TV.
Speaker 2: People give me a hard time, like Android TV is
Speaker 2: perfectly good.
Speaker 1: Well, guess what, nobody's using Android TV, So the apps
Speaker 1: on there are kind of forgotten and the selection is
Speaker 1: not very good. All right, Megan, I haven't forgotten about you.
Speaker 1: Oh hello, So do we have any more questions we have?
Speaker 1: Have you selected the next best question?
Speaker 2: Have you? Have you put placed these as a special order?
Speaker 4: No, it's it's not in any particular order. But now
Speaker 4: that I know that there should be an order, well, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, you know they're all good questions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 2: You have another good one for yes.
Speaker 4: This next question is from rich Landryth and he writes, Hi, Rich,
Speaker 4: I have a Pixel XL and I have your phone,
Speaker 4: and I have a problem with my track phone coverage.
Speaker 3: Where I live, I get poor reception.
Speaker 4: Is it possible to switch to a VoIP when I
Speaker 4: am home and use track phone on the road?
Speaker 1: Ooh, good question. So let's see. So track phone. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're using Trackphone with a Pixel too XCEL. So
Speaker 1: the good news about Pixel two XL. What's really cool
Speaker 1: is that it is unlocked, so you can pretty much
Speaker 1: use it for anything. So it sounds like you're saving
Speaker 1: some money by going with Trackphone.
Speaker 2: And the coverage is not very good at your house.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what i'd recommend is number one, the vope
Speaker 1: calling thing is kind of a pain because you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to switch numbers and everything. There's not like a
Speaker 1: way to just turn on voiceover IP calling on your.
Speaker 2: Pixel two easily.
Speaker 1: It supports it, and yeah, you can use something like
Speaker 1: Skype or a Google Voice or whatever. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be a very annoying thing
Speaker 1: for you to do. Every time you get home, you
Speaker 1: got to use this thing to call people and this
Speaker 1: and that, and every time you leave you got to
Speaker 1: use something else the track phone.
Speaker 2: So what you need to do is you need to
Speaker 2: figure out. I'm on the Trackphone website.
Speaker 1: Right now and it says that that Wi Fi calling
Speaker 1: is supported for track Phone, So that's good news.
Speaker 2: And I think.
Speaker 1: It looks like you have to be eligible for it,
Speaker 1: so it's not just like a given where you can
Speaker 1: be eligible, but Wi Fi calling most of the phone
Speaker 1: support it these days. Basically what happens is is with
Speaker 1: AT and T, Verizon, T Mobile, all these carriers, once
Speaker 1: you're in a Wi Fi place like your home that
Speaker 1: has a good signal, it says, oh, we can route
Speaker 1: these calls over Wi Fi instead of our cellular network,
Speaker 1: and we'll just do that, and it's very seamless, you
Speaker 1: don't even notice. Personally, I don't like Wi Fi calling.
Speaker 1: I don't think it sounds as good as traditional cellular calling.
Speaker 1: But so I leave it turned off on my phone.
Speaker 1: My wife does leave it turned on on hers, and
Speaker 1: she seems to have good luck with that.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: But there is a place where we go, my in
Speaker 1: laws house. They do not have cell phone service in
Speaker 1: their home.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. It's been ten years and they.
Speaker 1: Just it's just clearly for some reason, AT and T
Speaker 1: and Verizon just have not found their way there. Only
Speaker 1: T Mobile and Sprint work there. So when I go there,
Speaker 1: my phone just basically does not work. The Wi Fi
Speaker 1: does just not the calling, and I'm fine, I'll take
Speaker 1: no calls anyway. Looking on their website, it does say
Speaker 1: that they support Wi Fi calling. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It just depends on the phone. So the phone has
Speaker 1: to support it, which I know the pixel does, but
Speaker 1: does it support it for the track Phone network. So
Speaker 1: all you have to do is go into your phone settings,
Speaker 1: turn on Wi Fi calling, see if that works. And
Speaker 1: also you go on this Trackphone website. It looks like
Speaker 1: you can just enroll in Wi Fi calling by entering
Speaker 1: your phone number. And then after you enter your phone number,
Speaker 1: rich you just type in this mobile code to confirm it.
Speaker 1: And it looks like you're all set up. So it
Speaker 1: looks like there is something a little bit of setup
Speaker 1: that you have to do, but I think it will work.
Speaker 2: So, Megan, do you have good service at your place?
Speaker 3: Do not get me started on this.
Speaker 4: I have the worst service, like ever I have AT
Speaker 4: and T, and.
Speaker 1: So a're using Wi Fi calling at home? Okay, to
Speaker 1: use Wi Fi calling? Do you notice a difference that
Speaker 1: it may be better with AT and D.
Speaker 4: Sorry? Sorry, yeah, I mean it's fine, but Wi Fi
Speaker 4: calling is just what I have to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then it says on the top of your
Speaker 1: phone like msell or something like that, or like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Wi Fi calling or whatever. We used to have actually
Speaker 1: my in laws house the micro cell so it was
Speaker 1: actually a little mini cell phone tower that you'd install
Speaker 1: there and that would route the calls through the internet
Speaker 1: that way. It's kind of funny because now that's just
Speaker 1: basically built into cell phones, so you don't need that
Speaker 1: extra piece of equipment, which is really cool.
Speaker 2: All right, good question, keep them coming.
Speaker 1: I'll let you prepare for the next while I talk
Speaker 1: about AT and T being the first to offer mobile
Speaker 1: five G in seven more cities, including Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: also Austin, Nashville, Orlando, San Francisco, and San Jose. But
Speaker 1: good luck trying to use this. This brings AT and
Speaker 1: T's five G now to nineteen cities across the nation.
Speaker 2: And what do you know about five G? Me? Oh god,
Speaker 2: you just know it's faster, yeah.
Speaker 4: And that you can do like cooler things with it.
Speaker 4: Like I can't really elaborate, but you can do cooler
Speaker 4: things with it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be better. Have you gotten that little icon
Speaker 1: on your AT and T phone? Because they started rolling
Speaker 1: out like a five GE icon. Has that happened on
Speaker 1: your phone?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So someone emailed me and said, oh, is this
Speaker 1: mean and I have five G if you have that
Speaker 1: little five GE.
Speaker 2: Icon on your iPhone. No, it does not. It just
Speaker 2: means they're using a slightly faster LTE network in your area.
Speaker 2: But it's not really true five G.
Speaker 1: We do not have true five G yet for reals,
Speaker 1: because there's no phone that supports it on the AT
Speaker 1: and T network. Later this year, we will see the
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy S ten five G.
Speaker 2: Remember we went to that event, so we will.
Speaker 3: See that good times.
Speaker 1: And right now, the only device that you can use
Speaker 1: to access this is the Netgear Nighthawk five G mobile hotspot,
Speaker 1: which is five hundred bucks. By the way, five g's
Speaker 1: also going to cost you more money on your monthly bill.
Speaker 1: Verizon's charging ten dollars a month. Here's the thing about
Speaker 1: AT and T launching this. They're so proud to send
Speaker 1: me an email and say, hey, Rich you know, can
Speaker 1: you cover this? This is AT and T is launching
Speaker 1: five G. But there's no information about it. You go
Speaker 1: on the AT and T website, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how to sign up for it. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how to find it on a map. There's no coverage map.
Speaker 1: I can't figure out which device I need for it.
Speaker 1: So right now, all these wireless companies are doing is
Speaker 1: bragging about five G, but they're not truly delivering in
Speaker 1: a meaningful way. So you hear all the hype to me,
Speaker 1: you're hearing it from rich on tech today.
Speaker 2: It is twenty eighteen. Wait, it's twenty nineteen. Yeah, Rich,
Speaker 2: twenty six guy, I doesn't even know what the year is.
Speaker 2: It's twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: You do not have to worry about five G until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, mark my words. Rest of this year it's
Speaker 1: a throwaway. Even next year it will be touch and go.
Speaker 1: We may have it in a meaningful way, we may not.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I can't wait for five G.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to have this on my phone. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to have it at my house. It's gonna
Speaker 1: do things for the home, like you can maybe potentially
Speaker 1: replace your home internet service with wireless five G, which
Speaker 1: is gonna give some competition to the Spectrums and the
Speaker 1: other companies. And also someone doesn't have to come to
Speaker 1: your house to install cable or a cable connection. But
Speaker 1: I can't wait for five G, So don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not pooh pooing it. I'm just saying, like, just
Speaker 1: just hold your horses with five g Let these companies
Speaker 1: build up the networks before we actually get all hyped
Speaker 1: up about this, all right, speaking, I think I said
Speaker 1: that last time.
Speaker 2: Speaking of.
Speaker 1: Dash cams, we did a story this week on these
Speaker 1: new dash cams, a new breed of dash cams that
Speaker 1: have cellular built into them, right, and so we looked
Speaker 1: at two of them. One is the owl Cam. Got
Speaker 1: to go a little bit hands on with this at CS.
Speaker 1: I did not test this personally, but this is kind
Speaker 1: of the Rolls Royce of connected dash cams. They invented
Speaker 1: the genre, kind of like Ring invented the video doorbell.
Speaker 1: So they're the best, but they're also the most expensive.
Speaker 1: They have the most features. So basically, what happens when
Speaker 1: you build an LTE connection into a dash cam is
Speaker 1: you get a couple of benefits. The first benefit is
Speaker 1: that your video files are automatically sent to the cloud,
Speaker 1: which is really cool.
Speaker 2: So let's say, worst.
Speaker 1: Scenario, you get into a really bad car crash and
Speaker 1: your car's damaged, your windshields damaged, and your your dash
Speaker 1: cam is damaged. Like you can't recover the files off
Speaker 1: that you're okay, thank god, right, but the dash cam
Speaker 1: is damaged. So now it's like, oh my gosh, you
Speaker 1: got into this terrible accident, obviously got to go through
Speaker 1: insurance all this stuff, and I can't even see what happened.
Speaker 1: So that's the number one thing is like basically now,
Speaker 1: of course you might say, rich, well, I mean, if
Speaker 1: the dash cam's damage, how's it gonna get the video
Speaker 1: up to the cellular connection. Well maybe it's doing it, like,
Speaker 1: you know, quicker than it gets that it fries out.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but stay with me here. So again,
Speaker 1: your your video clips are sent to the cloud in
Speaker 1: real time. So for instance, if someone bashes your front
Speaker 1: windshield with a baseball bat, your little video camera will
Speaker 1: record that and send it to the cloud immediately. And
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, shoot, someone just captured that in the camera.
Speaker 1: Let me take that camera too. Well, the clip is
Speaker 1: already gonna be in the cloud. She'll at least see
Speaker 1: the person who did it. Also, they have an on
Speaker 1: star feature in the owl cam, which if you get
Speaker 1: into an accident and you're unresponsive, it will call an
Speaker 1: operator to you know, get you help. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of nice. Owlcam is three hundred and fifty dollars a
Speaker 1: year that includes a year's worth of Sorry, Owlcam is
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty dollars that includes a year's worth
Speaker 1: of subscription fees, and after that it's ten dollars a
Speaker 1: month or one hundred bucks a year for the connectivity features.
Speaker 1: It's pretty useless. Don't get it if you're not going
Speaker 1: to do the subscription, because it's useless.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The other camera I tested is called the pure Gear
Speaker 1: Pure Cam, and pure Gear is a company known for
Speaker 1: its mobile accessories. This camera, this device has two cameras
Speaker 1: as well, so it records inside and outside your car simultaneously.
Speaker 1: The other cool thing is you can live stream from
Speaker 1: this camera, so you can see what's going on inside
Speaker 1: or outside your car from your phone, which is a
Speaker 1: new concept, kind of like when we got the Ring
Speaker 1: video doorbell, same thing. You can check on your house
Speaker 1: from afar. This has GPS so you can see where
Speaker 1: you parked. And the setup process was pretty simple. I mean,
Speaker 1: the toughest part about installing these cameras is really running
Speaker 1: the cable from the power cable from the camera itself.
Speaker 1: Kind of gonna have to do it like you kind
Speaker 1: of like move your I don't know your car, like
Speaker 1: insulation or whatever like that. It just it goes in
Speaker 1: there though pretty easily. I was able to do it myself.
Speaker 1: And you plug this into your car's obdport and this
Speaker 1: is like your onboard diagnostic port, so not your cigarette lighter.
Speaker 1: That's where I wanted to put it in, but it
Speaker 1: does not work with that. You have to have a
Speaker 1: certain amount of voltage. And also it does draw some
Speaker 1: power when your car is parked to keep this thing
Speaker 1: alive in case of, you know, if it notices something
Speaker 1: going on. So with that said, there is a g
Speaker 1: shock sensor in this, so it automatically starts recording if
Speaker 1: it notices any movement around your car. This was my
Speaker 1: favorite part. So every time my car is touched or
Speaker 1: moved or whatever this little sensor, I get an alert
Speaker 1: to my phone. And it's really cool because it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's motion by your car, and you can look at
Speaker 1: the video and you can see like, Okay, was it
Speaker 1: just you know, someone threw a ball at my car
Speaker 1: or did someone just take my car.
Speaker 2: Right and on the flip side.
Speaker 1: When I brought my car in for valet parking at
Speaker 1: the Burbank Airport. The guys who got in my car
Speaker 1: to park it like, I got a little video clip
Speaker 1: of them sent to me, which cracked me up. So
Speaker 1: you find some funny things with this stuff. It also
Speaker 1: doubles as a Wi Fi hotspot, which is good for
Speaker 1: the kids in the back seat.
Speaker 2: And that's basically it. I mean, the pure cam I'm
Speaker 2: pretty impressed with. It's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: And the benefit of this one versus the owlcam is
Speaker 1: that you can bring your own network. So if you've
Speaker 1: got a SIM card, you can pop in that SIM
Speaker 1: card as long as it's GSM and it will work
Speaker 1: inside this. So GSM is things like AT and T
Speaker 1: T Mobile. Basically everything except Sprint and Verizon is GSM.
Speaker 1: So if you want a prepaid SIM you can do
Speaker 1: that with like something like you know, Trackphone or Family
Speaker 1: Mobile from Walmart, whatever, Cricket. You can put those SIM
Speaker 1: cards inside and it will work. So I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of the dash cam. I think it's in between
Speaker 1: technology because in the future, the cameras that are already
Speaker 1: built into our cars, hopefully we'll take over this functionality
Speaker 1: because you have them on the front of cars, you
Speaker 1: have them on the back of cars, you have on
Speaker 1: the sides of new cars. So hopefully car manufacturers will
Speaker 1: start building in DVR functionality for basically twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven recording of everything that's going on in your car.
Speaker 1: I think Tesla already does that, but other cars that
Speaker 1: would be nice. And also the wireless functionality so that
Speaker 1: when something does happen, when there is movement detected, it
Speaker 1: will send that video straight up to the cloud kind
Speaker 1: of in the same way.
Speaker 4: I also wonder if car insurance companies are gonna want
Speaker 4: to make sure that everyone has a camera in their
Speaker 4: car now, because then they'll be able to see, oh,
Speaker 4: you were texting when that turn happened, and that's why
Speaker 4: the crash happened, or you know what I mean, which.
Speaker 2: Is scary for privacy.
Speaker 1: That brings up a huge privacy concerned because a lot
Speaker 1: of people are thinking from the way I was thinking of, oh,
Speaker 1: protecting me, but oh, hold on, what if I get
Speaker 1: into an accident and I'm like, oh, shoot, I was
Speaker 1: on my phone. Not that I would be because I'm
Speaker 1: on my phone while I drive, But now it's like,
Speaker 1: now my insurance company is suing me because They're like, well,
Speaker 1: we want to see that video from inside your car, right,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that's an interesting another side of this. I
Speaker 1: actually got rear ended coming out of the airport one time,
Speaker 1: and I knew the lady was on her phone.
Speaker 2: I watched.
Speaker 1: I saw it in my cause I could see she
Speaker 1: was like on her phone behind me, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I just saw a slam.
Speaker 2: Into the back of my car.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, I'm like, oh my gosh, if I
Speaker 1: had my rear camera on the back of my car
Speaker 1: recording this would be like I would just show that now.
Speaker 1: I was okay. Anyway, Like I still she gave me
Speaker 1: the money whatever. We worked it out through insurance. But
Speaker 1: like the reality is her insurance company is probably pretty
Speaker 1: angry because they're like, shouldn't be on your phone and
Speaker 1: now you just cost us like ten thousand bucks or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, you get the smallest ding on your car
Speaker 1: and it's like three thousand dollars to repair it these
Speaker 1: days because.
Speaker 2: They're so expensive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, so good point producer Megan. Who's next with
Speaker 1: the questions?
Speaker 4: Okay, next up we have David Moore. The subject is
Speaker 4: cell phone insurance. Hi, Rich, my new s nine is great.
Speaker 4: Thanks again. I have a question. My son has a
Speaker 4: few mishaps with his iPhone. Se can you recommend cell
Speaker 4: phone insurance companies? Verizon wants thirteen dollars a month, Thanks
Speaker 4: Rich David.
Speaker 1: Oh great, So I must have recommended David his S
Speaker 1: nine a while ago, so I'm glad you're enjoying that phone.
Speaker 1: My favorite, so most people when they think of insurance
Speaker 1: for their phones, they go.
Speaker 2: To two places.
Speaker 1: They go to Apple for Apple Care and they go
Speaker 1: to their carrier, which the carrier insurance is always going
Speaker 1: to be the most expensive, but there is and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you my alternative, but there is a caveat. So
Speaker 1: my favorite is Square Trade. So Square Trade is a
Speaker 1: third party company. They are actually just recently bought by
Speaker 1: all State, which is really funny because now the car
Speaker 1: insurance company is also the insurance company for your phone.
Speaker 2: But the good news.
Speaker 1: About Square Trade is they're very simple, Like you basically
Speaker 1: go online, you can sign up in literally minutes. It's
Speaker 1: nine dollars a month, no matter basically whatever phone you have.
Speaker 1: And they do have some coupons out there, so be
Speaker 1: on the lookout for like promo codes like do a
Speaker 1: little Google search because you might be able to find
Speaker 1: like even cheaper than eight nine bucks a month. But
Speaker 1: you buy your plan, you buy it online, and that's it.
Speaker 1: It basically covers you for everything. And here's the caveat
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, so with the cellular plans, and Apple
Speaker 1: has this as well, if your phone is lost or stolen,
Speaker 1: you can still get it replaced through the cellular plans.
Speaker 1: That's why they're so expensive, right, So the way Square
Speaker 1: Trade saves money is that if your phone is lost
Speaker 1: or stolen, they're not going to replace it. So the
Speaker 1: only way they will do your phone is if it's
Speaker 1: physically there. So in the case of my dad, his
Speaker 1: phone was ran over like ten thousand times by a
Speaker 1: truck the other day a couple months ago, so if
Speaker 1: he was not And by the way, he lost it
Speaker 1: on a highway, so he actually went back and found
Speaker 1: his phone like a day later.
Speaker 3: Wait, so how did that fits?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: How did it happen?
Speaker 1: He left and he's like, rich text me. He's like,
Speaker 1: I was in New York City. I put my phone
Speaker 1: on the roof of my car and I drove away.
Speaker 1: I'm like Dad, He's like, and I think I know
Speaker 1: where I lost it. It had to be somewhere in
Speaker 1: between the city and the Lincoln Tunnel. I said, all right,
Speaker 1: let me go find my iPhone. So I turned on
Speaker 1: Find my iPhone on his phone, and sure.
Speaker 2: Enough I saw it.
Speaker 1: I pinpointed it on the freeway from between where he
Speaker 1: lives in New Jersey and New York. But it was
Speaker 1: still there, so I think it was the last known location.
Speaker 1: So long story short, he went back, can found it
Speaker 1: and it's this.
Speaker 2: Thing was crushed.
Speaker 1: You can look on my Instagram and go back a
Speaker 1: little bit. But his phone was crushed into a million pieces.
Speaker 1: It was still like, sorry, the screen was crushed into
Speaker 1: a million pieces. The phone was actually safe because he
Speaker 1: had a spec case on it, which is my favorite case.
Speaker 1: I've got my phone right here.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: So and of course this is my dad. No, it's
Speaker 1: not sponsored. This is my dad. Being the older generation.
Speaker 1: He actually took the case that was run over a
Speaker 1: billion times and put it on his new phone.
Speaker 2: He's like, are you serious? Right now?
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 4: I bought my mom her case and she's been using
Speaker 4: it for the last two years and it's like a
Speaker 4: ten dollars case from Amazon.
Speaker 2: Oh my mom, same thing.
Speaker 1: I bought our ten dollars case from Amazon and it
Speaker 1: was like the thing was like all grimy and stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Mom, really it's like where you bought it from.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so long story short, even if you bring your
Speaker 1: phone to All State in like a plastic bag filled
Speaker 1: with pieces, as long as they can identify that that
Speaker 1: was the phone that you ensured, they will give you
Speaker 1: a new one or you know.
Speaker 2: Replace it whatever. But that's it.
Speaker 1: So my recommendation, David is to go with Square Trade.
Speaker 1: I think you'll save some money, especially for kids. And
Speaker 1: also you don't necessarily have to send your phone in
Speaker 1: if it's something like a crack screen. They work with
Speaker 1: a lot of suppliers around towns where you can just
Speaker 1: go on put in your zip code and it will
Speaker 1: they can do the warranty service like at a little
Speaker 1: local shop that they work with, kind of like autobody repair.
Speaker 2: Right, you can just go to your lot.
Speaker 1: You don't have to always bring it to like the
Speaker 1: All State you know, auto body shop. You can bring
Speaker 1: it to like any autobody shop that works with them.
Speaker 1: So great question. All right, a couple more stories. We'll
Speaker 1: move a little bit quicker here because these are the
Speaker 1: smaller things, but Audible changing the way they do their
Speaker 1: memberships now and specifically membership credits.
Speaker 2: So I love Audible, I love audio books.
Speaker 1: But what happens is with Audible, I subscribe, I get
Speaker 1: really pumped around, you know, Prime day when they have
Speaker 1: these great deals. I get a bunch of credits, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I have too many audiobooks.
Speaker 1: I can't listen to them all, so I get rid
Speaker 1: of my membership. But they let you keep your credits, right, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize, but your credits expire after six months.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Wait what yeah, so you can
Speaker 1: you only have six months to use them. Now they're
Speaker 1: changing it where it will work up to a year,
Speaker 1: so that's nice. And this is all this is an
Speaker 1: Amazon being kind. This is actually a class action lawsuit
Speaker 1: against Amazon, and so that's why these things changed.
Speaker 2: So the suit alleges that Audible.
Speaker 1: Was not transparent about how it charged the customer's card,
Speaker 1: which I do agree with. And they also moved to
Speaker 1: a secondary card on your Amazon file in case the
Speaker 1: first one didn't work, which, oh, that's not very nice.
Speaker 1: And also I will say that this is the thing
Speaker 1: about audible. If you don't look at your statement, you
Speaker 1: kind of forget because you don't get an email that says, hey,
Speaker 1: we just charge you for another month, and you kind
Speaker 1: of forget, and that's part of their business plan.
Speaker 2: I am sure.
Speaker 1: Well, now monthly members are going to get an email
Speaker 1: statement every month saying how many credits they have, and
Speaker 1: you know, saying that they're going to get charged and
Speaker 1: how many unused credits they have along with their expiration dates.
Speaker 1: So I think this is I hate that it took
Speaker 1: a class action lawsuit to change these things into the
Speaker 1: consumer's interest, but they did a pretty nice job. All right,
Speaker 1: but do you we have one more question?
Speaker 4: Yes, we have one more question from Carol Hamilton. She writes,
Speaker 4: let's see Prime savings at Whole Foods. I do not
Speaker 4: have a smartphone, only a flip phone, but I am
Speaker 4: an Amazon Prime member. Tell me how to get a
Speaker 4: Prime membership card to show at Whole Foods when I shop.
Speaker 2: Ooh, good question.
Speaker 1: This is a little bit on the outskirts of like
Speaker 1: tech questions, but it's true. If you're a Prime member
Speaker 1: and you go to Whole Foods, you will save a
Speaker 1: little bit of money on your purchases.
Speaker 2: I find that it's kind of a joke.
Speaker 1: So every time I go to Whole Foods, which, to
Speaker 1: be honest, is now I'm not going his office and
Speaker 1: I used to because you know, I've got this thing
Speaker 1: called Milk and Eggs.
Speaker 2: Which I've talked about, which I love.
Speaker 1: They deliver fresh produce to my house and I love it.
Speaker 1: So it's actually cheaper than Whole Foods. It's in the
Speaker 1: LA area. I'm sure there's something similar in your area
Speaker 1: if you're listening outside La but I so anyway, when
Speaker 1: you shop at Whole Foods, if you're a Prime member,
Speaker 1: there is a little code on the Amazon app that
Speaker 1: you scan it checkout, like a QR code that gives
Speaker 1: your discount, which is ten percent off of anything that's
Speaker 1: on sale, which for me, I don't think it's ever
Speaker 1: been over eighty cents off my entire bill, which is
Speaker 1: kind of stupid. But anyway, if you don't have a
Speaker 1: mobile phone, you say you have a flip phone, the
Speaker 1: second option is to just basically link your mobile phone
Speaker 1: number with your Prime membership and that will serve as
Speaker 1: your membership card. So if you ever go to something
Speaker 1: like Ralph's or all these grocery stores, you know they
Speaker 1: all they ask for your phone number at checkout, you
Speaker 1: type it in and you get your Rauph's Club or whatever.
Speaker 1: Whole Foods does the same thing. It's just not as advertised.
Speaker 1: It's not widely advertised. So to do it, just go
Speaker 1: to Amazon dot com slash Prime Savings and there's option
Speaker 1: number two, which is update your mobile phone number. You'll
Speaker 1: link up your phone number and next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: when you get to check out, you can just say, hey,
Speaker 1: can I pop in my phone number?
Speaker 2: And they will let you do that. All right.
Speaker 1: A couple more stories here too that deal with speakers.
Speaker 1: Ikia and Sono's teaming up for a new line of speakers.
Speaker 2: So they've got two. It's you. You had to help
Speaker 2: me pronounce this, Megan, sim fuonesque.
Speaker 3: Let me see it, sim funness, sim fun.
Speaker 2: Esque, sim funesque.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know why I say it with a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of sim simp fun esque. So two things.
Speaker 1: You've got a table lamp for one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: nine dollars and a bookshelf speaker for ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 1: Both are shipping in August. I cannot tell you how excited.
Speaker 2: I am for this.
Speaker 3: It looks really cool.
Speaker 2: They look really cool. I have sons. Do you have
Speaker 2: Sonos at home?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you know about it? Yes, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: And I know it sounds.
Speaker 4: Whenever I hear people's like Sono speakers, I'm always like,
Speaker 4: why don't I have this?
Speaker 2: Because it's expensive. It's super duper expensive.
Speaker 1: And I've built my collection of these speakers over the
Speaker 1: past like seven or eight years, so it's it's an
Speaker 1: expensive thing to have. But I will say I've my
Speaker 1: speakers I bought from Sonos. I've had now for going
Speaker 1: on eight years, like some of the earlier, the older
Speaker 1: ones right, but again, great quality. I love how it
Speaker 1: all works. It's seamless, and I get it. We live
Speaker 1: in a world of you know, Amazon.
Speaker 2: Google, Alexa, but this is just.
Speaker 1: There's something about every time I come home, I open
Speaker 1: up the Sonos app, I pick something from all the
Speaker 1: different music services I have, I select all speakers, and boom,
Speaker 1: I have the same music playing throughout my house.
Speaker 2: I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do.
Speaker 1: So now the fact that I can get speakers, I'm
Speaker 1: already thinking for the bedroom on the night stands. I'm
Speaker 1: going to get one of these speakers on each side
Speaker 1: because you need a light, right, you also want some
Speaker 1: music in your room, so that's cool. Then the bookshelf
Speaker 1: speakers will be awesome for the office. And then I
Speaker 1: can reuse some of my Sonos speakers in rooms like
Speaker 1: the kids rooms, or maybe put them in other places
Speaker 1: in the house, so you can never have too many
Speaker 1: speakers in one.
Speaker 3: Room, right, and in tech center.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would like to get some here at KTLA.
Speaker 1: I will bring a speaker in here for KTLA as well,
Speaker 1: But again, these come out in August. I have not
Speaker 1: seen the quality, but since Sona's is putting their name
Speaker 1: on them, I'm assuming.
Speaker 2: They're pretty good.
Speaker 1: And the other side is, yeah, they're more expensive. One
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine dollars for a table lamp is
Speaker 1: very expensive. But you're getting to me. It's all about
Speaker 1: one less cord, so I only have one thing to
Speaker 1: plug in. Now I get a light and I get
Speaker 1: a speaker. I wish, wish, wish these had a.
Speaker 2: USB on the phone.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask, so there's no USB.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I am you know, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: these press pictures here and I don't see the USB,
Speaker 1: but that would have been the million dollar thing to have, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Because then you can plug in. Maybe they have it,
Speaker 2: we don't know. That would be epic, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: And another speaker, the home Pod, which is also a
Speaker 1: really nice speaker, but super duper expensive. Talk about expensive.
Speaker 1: It was three hundred and forty nine dollars. Now it's
Speaker 1: two hundred ninety nine dollars. So Apple has cut the
Speaker 1: price by fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: On that speaker. The HomePod is really cool.
Speaker 1: If you are an iPhone world you don't mind spending
Speaker 1: a lot of money on a speaker, It's great. And
Speaker 1: my favorite feature of the HomePod is that you can
Speaker 1: transfer your iPhone call to the HomePod and use it
Speaker 1: as a speakerphone, which is really fun. So I've done
Speaker 1: that a couple of times and it sounds amazing. If
Speaker 1: you have this thing in your office, you basically have
Speaker 1: a nice, beautiful speakerphone in a day to a speaker.
Speaker 1: But I find that the HomePod is a little limited
Speaker 1: because you have to airplay everything to it versus sons.
Speaker 1: That sort of works as as the other speakers do,
Speaker 1: which is through the Internet. And finally, Microsoft confirms that
Speaker 1: you don't really need to safely remove USB flash drives
Speaker 1: anymore by ejecting them. So if you've ever used a
Speaker 1: Windows computer, you know that it always or any computer basically,
Speaker 1: and this is a pet peeve of mind because I'm
Speaker 1: always moving.
Speaker 2: Do I move really fast? Megan, Yes, I'm like always
Speaker 2: kind of like going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, You're like, what's next, what's next, What's next?
Speaker 2: All the time, So pretty much that's me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so for me to have to eject, to
Speaker 1: take that extra fraction of a moment to eject a
Speaker 1: flash drive out of my computer really annoys me. So
Speaker 1: on Windows ten, you basically don't have to do that anymore.
Speaker 1: They've admitted this because back in October when Windows ten
Speaker 1: version eighteen oh nine came out, they quietly changed the
Speaker 1: default flash drive setting between So it used to be okay,
Speaker 1: let's see, it used to be safely remove hardware and
Speaker 1: eject media. So let's see, Okay, there's something called quick removal.
Speaker 1: So quick removal is now the new default, and quick
Speaker 1: removal means that the computer knows that you're in a rush,
Speaker 1: and so it will allow you to remove it at
Speaker 1: any time. That is now the default now here's the caveat.
Speaker 1: You still don't want to remove this drive while it's
Speaker 1: writing files or you could lose stuff. And so that
Speaker 1: was always the danger in removing the flash drive is
Speaker 1: that it could have been the state of we're ready
Speaker 1: to write a file at any time. Now it kind
Speaker 1: of puts it in a sleep state. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: that by changing this setting, things are a little bit
Speaker 1: slower when it comes to accessing the flash drive, like
Speaker 1: for the first.
Speaker 2: Time when you go to drag a file.
Speaker 1: But on the flip side you can just pop it
Speaker 1: out at any time and you're good to go.
Speaker 2: So are you excited about that?
Speaker 3: Well my question, Yeah, I was just about to say so.
Speaker 3: Hopefully Apple will add that next I think.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things always I agree, so do I.
Speaker 1: And it's like and I and I used to I
Speaker 1: used to literally always take it out without worrying every
Speaker 1: single time, be like, come on, yeah, I'm a tech guy.
Speaker 1: I don't really need to listen to these little warnings.
Speaker 1: And now, of course, when I showed someone I think
Speaker 1: I did like a YouTube video or something, and someone
Speaker 1: saw me do that and like, no, rich actually, or
Speaker 1: maybe I tweeted and it, people are like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you really need to eject it. So there is a reason.
Speaker 1: On the Mac you still want to do it. And
Speaker 1: on Windows unless you've updated to the latest Windows, if
Speaker 1: you're all up to date, then you're probably okay. Personally,
Speaker 1: I'd still want to go into those settings of the
Speaker 1: flash drive and just make sure that that's the setting,
Speaker 1: but you should be okay.
Speaker 2: That's gonna do it all right for today? Thanks Megan,
Speaker 2: that was fun. Thanks for coming on the show. How
Speaker 2: can people get in touch with you? What's your oh?
Speaker 2: On Twitter?
Speaker 4: I am on Instagram and Twitter. Megan mcmonagall is my name.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna have her change that to producer Megan.
Speaker 3: Producer Megan much easier fun.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, my last name is a little bit
Speaker 4: difficult to remember.
Speaker 3: Professor mcgonagalls. You know, it's like that.
Speaker 2: But with is that a Harry Potter reference?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know Harry Potter.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I only read the first half of the first book
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