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Speaker 1: My review of the Samsung Galaxy S twenty one Ultra

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Speaker 1: one messaging app to rule them all. Fossil has a

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Speaker 1: new smart watch that actually sounds pretty cool. Plus your

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Speaker 1: tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and

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Speaker 1: this is Rich on Tech, the podcast right talk about

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Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It

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Speaker 1: is also the place right answer the questions you send me.

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Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Hope you are having a fantastic day. We are well

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Speaker 1: into twenty twenty one. I'm still having trouble writing all

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Speaker 1: So I guess I'm not alone and having trouble because

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. If you're listening for the first time,

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Speaker 1: But this is the next best thing because it's a

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Speaker 1: out anyway. Welcome to the show. Thanks for tuning in

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Speaker 1: and listening. And let's just get right to it, because

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Speaker 1: eliminated their coal the lending library that was once a

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Speaker 1: benefit of Prime membership? It went away January fourth, twenty

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Speaker 1: Lending library and find things like free ebooks basically, and

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Speaker 1: sure Amazon had the details on how many people actually

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Speaker 1: took advantage. And what I use now is called libby

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Speaker 1: understand why you would need that anymore, because to me,

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Speaker 1: everything's on demand now. When it comes to live sports

429
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Speaker 1: or live news, that's a little bit different. I still

430
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Speaker 1: think those are best consumed live. But even on the

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Speaker 1: evening News last night, I heard them say at the end,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you don't catch us live, be sure

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Speaker 1: to DVR us, And I thought that was interesting because

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Speaker 1: they are recognizing that people do DVR, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that there's a place for that too. I mean,

436
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Speaker 1: you know, the station I work for, we're on almost

437
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Speaker 1: all day, so I mean you can tune in and

438
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Speaker 1: pretty much catch the news at almost any time. But

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Speaker 1: if you happen to get home at seven thirty and

440
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Speaker 1: you know, we're not actively in a newscast and you

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Speaker 1: TVO the seven PM or the six pm newscast and

442
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Speaker 1: then played at seven thirty when you get home, that's fine.

443
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes sense you're probably not gonna watch it.

444
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: Three days later, like you would show that you might

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Speaker 1: might have historically recorded. So good question. I personally am

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Speaker 1: all in on the streaming services. I love them. I

447
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Speaker 1: love the flexibility of them. I love how you can

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Speaker 1: cancel and resubscribe. The only thing that I think someone

449
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Speaker 1: does need to tackle is the whole idea of organization.

450
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Speaker 1: It really is tough to find the stuff you want

451
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Speaker 1: to watch and figure out where it's playing. And also,

452
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, shows could be on a much longer runway

453
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Speaker 1: than they ever were for having people discover them. So

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Speaker 1: Queen's Gambit, for instance, Queen is it Queen's Gambit or

455
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Speaker 1: gamble Queen's Gambit? Right, yeah, Queen's Gambit. I had some

456
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Speaker 1: friends over socially distanced, very safe in our backyard. This

457
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: was months ago, and they said, oh, you got to

458
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Speaker 1: watch this show, The Queen's Gambit, And I was like, okay,

459
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Speaker 1: I know, there's so many great shows. This was probably

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Speaker 1: two months before anyone said, oh my gosh, it's the

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Speaker 1: best show ever, which I still haven't watched, but I

462
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Speaker 1: know people love it. So my point is, you know,

463
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Speaker 1: how do we find out about these shows? It's kind

464
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Speaker 1: of tough, you know, without just the main shows that

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Speaker 1: are on the main networks. Now there's so many ways

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Speaker 1: to find new shows, So good question. All right, the

467
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Speaker 1: play is still going strong with Fossil has launched a

468
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Speaker 1: new LTE equipped smartwatch and this is exclusively on Verizon.

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Speaker 1: It's called the Fossil Gen five LT Touchscreen smart Watch.

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Speaker 1: Is that really the name of this thing. It's kind

471
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Speaker 1: of a weird name, but it sounds pretty cool. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like a nice smart watch for users on Android.

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Speaker 1: It uses wear Os, it's got eight gigabytes of story Bridge,

474
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Speaker 1: it's got the snap Dragon Wear thirty one hundred inside

475
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Speaker 1: whatever that means. It has LTE, which means you can

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Speaker 1: sync it with your smartphone using Varizon number Share. And

477
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Speaker 1: I have this with my iPhone and what it does

478
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Speaker 1: is it basically means that your iPhone and your Apple

479
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: Watch are synced up. So if you get a call,

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Speaker 1: you can leave your your iPhone at home and you

481
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Speaker 1: can still just get all your texts and voice, you know,

482
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Speaker 1: calls when you're out and about. I love it and

483
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: this is a nice alternative on the Android side of things.

484
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Speaker 1: Comes in two colors, combination of black straps on a

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Speaker 1: smoke tone stainless steel and blush straps on a rose

486
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Speaker 1: gold case, so it sounds like they're targeting, you know,

487
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Speaker 1: whatever your style is. There forty five millimeters case size,

488
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Speaker 1: endless strap options. Let's see. It's got a swim proof

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Speaker 1: speaker so you can have calls functionality and responses from

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Speaker 1: Google Assistant, which you know, that's kind of neat because

491
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Speaker 1: you can hear this all through. So if you're out

492
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Speaker 1: and about, you've got the speaker on it, you can

493
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Speaker 1: just make your calls hands free through the speaker. It's

494
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Speaker 1: got eight gigs of storage, which is fine. It's not

495
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Speaker 1: that much, but it's probably good enough. It's got extended

496
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Speaker 1: battery mode. It's got daily mode, it's got a time

497
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Speaker 1: only mode, so it sounds like they know battery life

498
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: is sort of an issue with these things. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't tested it, so I can't tell you how

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Speaker 1: it lasts. It's got a one point three inch touchscreen display.

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00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: It is swim proof, like I said, which is pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: It's got NFC so you can have your Tap to

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Speaker 1: pay in there. It's got GPS, it's got heart rate accelerometer, gyroscope,

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Speaker 1: ambient light, microphone, and speaker. So I think this sounds

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Speaker 1: like a winner if you're on Android. Three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars available at Verizon exclusively. So this does come

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Speaker 1: with a couple of caveats. You have to be on Verizon,

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Speaker 1: you have to be on Android. But I think the

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Speaker 1: main thing that's lacking in the Android ecosystem right now

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Speaker 1: is a nice smart watch that rivals the Apple Watch.

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Speaker 1: If you've listened to this podcast before, you know I've

512
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Speaker 1: said that I love my Apple Watch, and in fact,

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Speaker 1: it is one of the things that is the glue

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Speaker 1: for the iOS ecosystem or the Apple ecosystem, and Apple

515
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: knows this. Why do you think they haven't made I

516
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Speaker 1: Message work with Android? Why do you think they don't

517
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: make the iPhone work with Android? Yeah, they could say

518
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Speaker 1: all day that it's proprietary and it needs the iPhone.

519
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: No it does not. They came out with the way

520
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Speaker 1: of using the Apple Watch with the family set up.

521
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: You set it up through the iPhone. It never needs

522
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Speaker 1: to connect to the iPhone ever. Again, and it's limited,

523
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: it's not as perfect, but again, you know, the Apple

524
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: knows what they're doing. They're continuing to make their ecosystem.

525
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Speaker 1: Whenever you hear the Apple ecosystem in the same line

526
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: you always hear sticky or it keeps you in. These

527
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Speaker 1: are the products that you know, kind of lock you

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Speaker 1: in lock in. With Android, we don't have any of

529
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: that because there is no lock in. You can take

530
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Speaker 1: all your stuff out of Android in about ten seconds

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Speaker 1: and you can sign into an iPhone and your email

532
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: is there, You're everything's there, you know. So I don't

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00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: know my switching to the Fossil anytime soon. I don't

534
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: think so, but I might want to test it out.

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00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: I might request a review unit to test this thing

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00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: out because I think that Android users need an alternative

537
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: and something that works nicely. And it sounds like this one,

538
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: you know, checks off all the boxes of what you'd want.

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00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: I don't. The other one is is Fitbit. You know.

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00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: There they just got purchased by Google and that deal

541
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: is done. So maybe we'll see a nice Fitbit smart

542
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: watch that is really really good and a little bit

543
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 1: closer to what Apple offers, especially with the apps and integrations.

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00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: I mean, that's really the magic of the Apple Watch

545
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: is that they you know, they had a while where

546
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: the apps were not really doing much on Apple Watch,

547
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: and now they've gotten to the point where like there

548
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: are some pretty useful things on Apple Watch. Well I

549
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: take that back. Most of it is pretty much the

550
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: standard stuff built in, but there are enough apps on

551
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: there that there are functionality that you know sometimes you

552
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: know you want to use and they work pretty well.

553
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: So all right, let's go to podpage dot com slash

554
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Speaker 1: rich on tech podpage dot com slash rich on tech

555
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: for a voice message. This is this is where you

556
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: can leave a voicemail on my page and uh, I

557
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: will I will hear it. So that's what Donald did.

558
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: Let's hear you. Donald, Hey, you're rich. What do you

559
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: think about the Microsoft Surface pro Dude?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Just got I want to know what do you think

562
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: about it? Thank you? All right, now I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: if Donald said Surface pro Dude or Surface pro Duo,

564
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Speaker 1: so I you know, I don't know. Well, okay, so

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Speaker 1: if you're talking about the Surface pro Duo. Oh, the

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Speaker 1: surface pro Duo is a is Microsoft's smartphone slash tablet

567
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: slash foldable device and it's you know, it's a small

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Speaker 1: foldable device. And this is funny. This is I Justine

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Speaker 1: when I was up at CS she brought her Surface Duo.

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00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: They did not send me one for review. Purposes. I

571
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: guess they figured my audience was not interested in this.

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00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: But you know, it is kind of a niche device

573
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Speaker 1: because it's expensive and it's a first generation, and I

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Speaker 1: probably I might have talked a little bit of trash

575
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Speaker 1: about it because I said that, you know, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of a first generation, i'd stay away from it. So

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Speaker 1: maybe they heard that and they just said, no, we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna even bother with you, Rich. But whatever the

579
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Speaker 1: reason is, Justine said she actually likes it a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's a great size, she loves how it opens up.

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Speaker 1: And while she did not let me touch it because

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Speaker 1: of COVID reasons, you know, it looked cool. But I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest, she was on her iPhone most of the time,

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Speaker 1: so I mean, you know, but she said she loves

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Speaker 1: browsing the web on it and doing all that cool stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I look, I think that this kind of device

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Speaker 1: is part of our future. There are definitely gonna be

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Speaker 1: more iterations of this, and I think the biggest downside

589
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: was the camera on that device. But otherwise, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: something that folds up and you can use it for

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Speaker 1: texting and browsing the web and all that stuff. I

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Speaker 1: think it's great now the Surface Pro if you were

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Speaker 1: talking about that, I mean, Microsoft has had a lot

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Speaker 1: of success with the Surface lineup, and I think they're

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Speaker 1: doing a great job. And I think, in fact, Microsoft

596
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Speaker 1: in general is really doing a nice job with their

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Speaker 1: top to bottom kind of integration of apps and services.

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Speaker 1: And I really have not seen a dud out of

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Speaker 1: Microsoft in a while, and I think that they are

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Speaker 1: doing a really nice job. I think they understand that

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Speaker 1: there is a there's a large amount of people out

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Speaker 1: there that do not necessarily need Apple products, and they

603
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Speaker 1: want to be a little bit more productive, and they

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Speaker 1: want something on the Windows side because they're more a

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00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: little bit more business oriented. And so these Surface devices

606
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: have been great because they double as a you know,

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Speaker 1: a tablet and a laptop. And I think we've seen

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Speaker 1: Apple not copy, but we've seen inspiration because Surface was

609
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: doing this way way long ago, where you had a

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Speaker 1: device that could stand up on its own and has

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Speaker 1: a keyboard case and a stylus. And we kind of

612
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: see the identical thing now with Apple with their iPad

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Speaker 1: pro and they all kind of support a stylist. They

614
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: all have got the keyboard cases, they all can stand

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00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: up on their side. So again, different people need different things,

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Speaker 1: and I think that these are are a great little device.

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Speaker 1: And it kind of depends what you want to do.

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Speaker 1: Are you in the Apple ecosystem or are you more

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Speaker 1: business oriented with the Microsoft stuff because your company uses

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Speaker 1: all Microsoft so and I think they've seen a lot

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Speaker 1: of a lot of take up with the you know,

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Speaker 1: with the business side of things with teams, especially during

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. And also, let's not forget Microsoft Edge. I've

624
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: talked about how good that browser is. So I think

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Speaker 1: no matter what she asked about Donald, whether it was

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Speaker 1: the Duo or the Surface Pro, I think they're both

627
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Speaker 1: great products. I think the Duo I would not recommend

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Speaker 1: purchasing because I just don't think that it's there just yet.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's something to watch. And again, just

630
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Speaker 1: like Microsoft was pretty early with the original Surface, I

631
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Speaker 1: think the Duo is a little bit early when it

632
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Speaker 1: comes to foldables. Even with Samsung, we saw their first

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Speaker 1: foldable to the second gen, they did a great job

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Speaker 1: of improving it. In fact, I was just watching a

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Speaker 1: video with all the YouTubers saying with their favorite gadget

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Speaker 1: of the year was, and a lot of them was

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Speaker 1: the Z fold they really really the z Fold two specifically,

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Speaker 1: they loved it, and I love that device when I

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Speaker 1: had it. It's just again, it's not for me right now,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's one of those things to keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on. So good question. All right, let's move

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00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: on to I thought this was pretty interesting. Bark is

643
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: a company that analyzes social media and apps that your

644
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: kids are using. And they've got like kind of like,

645
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of parents will email me and say, hey, Rich,

646
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: how do I monitor what my kid's doing on Snapchat

647
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: and all these things. Bark will analyze like thirty plus

648
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: apps and platforms to see kind of like what your

649
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: kids are doing, and they could send you alerts based

650
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: on AI. So instead of having to go through every

651
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: text message that your kids is that your kids are sending,

652
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: AI will say this one looks a little sus you

653
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: might you might want to look into that one. So

654
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: they analyzed, uh, let's see, let's see. They analyzed children's

655
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: online activity with a specific focus on kids ten to eighteen,

656
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: and they analyzed more than I don't know two billion

657
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: messages across thirty apps. And here are the trends. Seventy

658
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: six percent of teens and eighty two percent, oh, seventy

659
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: six percent of tweens and eighty two percent of teens

660
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: experienced cyber bullying. Forty five percent of tweens and six

661
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: six percent of teens engaged in conversations about depression. Now,

662
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: that was just unheard of when I was a kid.

663
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I honestly didn't even really know what that

664
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: was when I was a kid. And now my wife

665
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: being a therapist, I mean I definitely or yeah, counselor

666
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: therapist for teens, I mean I definitely hear more about that,

667
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: which is just wild. Seventy percent of teens and eighty

668
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: seven percent of teens encountered nudity or content of a

669
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: sexual nature. That's scary, because again, when I was a kid,

670
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: didn't really have that either. Forty one percent of tweens

671
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: and sixty six percent of teens were involved in self

672
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 1: harm slash suicidal situation. That's really scary. Seventy eight percent

673
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: of tweens, ninety one percent of teens engaged in conversations

674
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: surrounding drugs and alcohol, and eighty eight percent of tweens

675
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: and ninety four percent of teens expressed or experienced violent

676
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: subject matter or thoughts. So I think the takeaway from

677
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: this is that your kids are being exposed to a

678
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,720
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, whether you realize that not, especially being home,

679
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: especially being on computers, especially how connected they are. I mean,

680
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: my kid the other day was on Minecraft and I

681
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: was looking at his chats over his shoulder for a second,

682
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: and the person on the other end was asking my

683
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: kid if they can call them, and he was saying,

684
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, I said, hold on, what's

685
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: going on here? And the person was like, hey, you know,

686
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: I don't really like to use voice to text. It's

687
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: so much easier just to just to call. Can I

688
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: call you? And my kid doesn't know who this person is.

689
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: And so my point is you have to be really

690
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: on top of this stuff because I don't know who

691
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: this person was that my kid was communicating with, which

692
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: is scary as a parent to begin with. But you know,

693
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: this person was sounding like someone I don't want my

694
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: kid to talk to, and so my kid was like, well,

695
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: he's just saying that he wants to you know, it's

696
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: easier to talk. And I said, I don't know. That's

697
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: that's a little weird. And anyway, so you gotta be

698
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful about this stuff. Let's see. So

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00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: the apps that are the scariest for all these different

700
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: things I just talked about. Top app for flagged for

701
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: suicidal stuff is Twitter. Top app for depression Twitter. These

702
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: are apps that are flagged by ai as seeing the

703
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: most conversations dealing with these things. Top app flagged for

704
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: severe body concerns, body issue concerns, body image concerns, TikTok,

705
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: no surprise there, severe bullying Twitter. Let's see top apps. Okay, yeah, so,

706
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: if I'm reading this correctly as a parent, Twitter is

707
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: the problem. Instagram is a close second because a lot

708
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: of kids are on there. But realistically, what this comes

709
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: down to is where the kids communicating and it's yeah,

710
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: I mean it's Twitter, it's Instagram. So you just got

711
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: to be aware of this stuff. I don't have the answers.

712
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: I really don't, because I'm seeing what's happening with my

713
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: kids in lockdown and they're on their computers more or

714
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: they're just doing more things than I ever did at

715
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: their age on devices, And I don't really have advice

716
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: except that you have to kind of just monitor and

717
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: stay on top of this stuff and do the best

718
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,760
Speaker 1: you can and just kind of be aware that it's happening,

719
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: and just don't pretend that you don't think it's happening,

720
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: because it's happening. All right, let's get to another question.

721
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: God really Debbie Downer over here in that section of

722
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: the podcast, let's talk to Don. Don says, I live

723
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 1: in Westchester very close. Oh shoot, well, I guess I

724
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: could say where they live. I live in Westchester, very

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00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: close to Lax. Today we had a sales guy from

726
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: Starry Internet come by to offer us free internet for

727
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: six months as they are beta testing in our area.

728
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: I've never heard of them, Starry dot com. Do you

729
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: know anything about this service? You're the first person I

730
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: thought to ask, sincerely, Don, Yes, Don, I do know

731
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: about this service. So I was at an event back

732
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: when you can go to a little get togethers, about

733
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: probably three years ago at this point that the people

734
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: from Starry were there, and they said, we're launching wireless

735
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: internet in Los Angeles. That's going to be fifty megabits

736
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: per second. And I said, what how are you doing that?

737
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: Like this was unheard of, right, even fifty megabits was

738
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: like fast back then, And so I said, I don't

739
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: think you could do that, and sure enough, a couple

740
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,959
Speaker 1: years later, they actually did. They showed me the little

741
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: modem they had and I asked them how they were

742
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: going to do it. I said, is this coming from

743
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 1: the you know, is this coming from the sky, Like,

744
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: where's this coming from? And it was coming from wireless

745
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: antennas that they installed on top of buildings and then

746
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: that would, you know, somehow beam the Internet into the

747
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: building with the wireless kind of router in your or

748
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: so basically they've put an antenna somewhere, you know, either

749
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: near your building or on top of it, and then

750
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: they would give you a modem that was wireless and

751
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: it would grab that signal from over the air and

752
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: then put it into your house or your apartment. And

753
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: so they've done a pretty good job. They've expanded, for sure.

754
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: I think it's back then they pitched it to me,

755
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: it was like fifty bucks a month for fifty megabits

756
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: per second, and I don't know if that's changed. I can,

757
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: I guess I can look it up, but yeah, go

758
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: for it. I mean, if they're giving you six months free,

759
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: I would definitely do that. So now it looks like outrageous, Okay.

760
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: Their website says thirty dollars a month for fast internet,

761
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: and that is up to one hundred megabits per second,

762
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars a month now gives you up to

763
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: two hundred megabits per second. And I guess they're using

764
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: five G to accomplish this, So I'm guessing they're piggybacking

765
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: on either you know, Verizons five G network or AT

766
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: and T's five G. But again, this all goes into

767
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: kind of the idea that I've talked about on the

768
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: show for many years that when we get this five

769
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: G super fast internet in a lot of places, it's

770
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: going to be game changing because you are now going

771
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: to have a choice at your house of T Mobile

772
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: as you're internet, Verizon as your internet, AT and T

773
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: as your Internet, and that's huge. So you know, you

774
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: don't have to do you don't have to go with

775
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 1: just the people that can wire a line to your place,

776
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: which you know right now, that's pretty much what most

777
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: people are limited to. So it's gonna open up competition,

778
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great, It's gonna be you know, less contracts.

779
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, I don't think there's any contracts

780
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: with any of these, but it's gonna be good, and

781
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: so more competition is going to be better, and we're

782
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: just gonna continue to see these five G networks build

783
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: out in a bigger and better way. All right, let's

784
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 1: go to the next story on my list here. This

785
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: this is an interesting one. We've we've heard about these

786
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: things before. They keep trying them. I'm telling you this

787
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 1: just to be aware of it. But I don't think

788
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna succeed. But hopefully it does, but I don't

789
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: think so. So there's a new app called Beeper, and

790
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do is unify all of your

791
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 1: messaging into one app. And it works with WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger,

792
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: I Message, Android Messages, Telegram, Twitter, Slack, Hangouts, Instagram, Skype,

793
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more. Now I don't know number one,

794
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: the idea that one inbox can work with all these

795
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: different messaging apps. I mean, I have got to see

796
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: it to believe it. We've seen this before and it's

797
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: never as pretty or as good as you want. And

798
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: the big one here that a lot of people are

799
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: talking about is the fact that this will work with

800
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: I Message. And you think to yourself, well, wait, nothing

801
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: works with I Message. And the reality is how they're

802
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: making it work with I message is a little bit

803
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: of foolery, a little bit of trickery here. And the

804
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: trick here is that they are actually giving you an

805
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: iPhone for s that is jailbroken, that you keep kind

806
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: of like in your house, connected to the internet, so

807
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: that that can be the relay for your I message

808
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: at all times. Now, that is a very very scary

809
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: thing because you know, it's it's weird. It's a workaround. Yes,

810
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: does it work, probably, but will it will they find

811
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: a loophole or will Apple close loophole? Probably, So you

812
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: can't really build a business on something like you know,

813
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: kind of wedging. You're wedging a you know, you're wedging

814
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: into a hole that you just can't really stay in,

815
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: you know, because Apple is going to figure out a

816
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: way around this. Now maybe they won't. Maybe because there's

817
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: been other things over the years that do something similar.

818
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 1: And you know, there's these programs that make you install

819
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: like a server on your computer to relay your eye messages,

820
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: but your your computer has to be on the whole time,

821
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: and that's just not very realistic. So I guess with

822
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: the phone it kind of makes sense. You just keep

823
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: the phone plugged in at all times in your house.

824
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: It's on Wi Fi and somehow it relays the message.

825
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: But again it has to be jail broken because there's

826
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: nothing that would be able to tap into that I message.

827
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: That would just be an app you can standard install

828
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: on your phone. So this gets very complicated. It's called Beeper.

829
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: You can check it out. But again, it's also ten

830
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: bucks a month. And people are excited because it sounds

831
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: great to have all your messages in one place and

832
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: finally be free of Apple's lock on your I message.

833
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: But the reality is, I don't think it's gonna work.

834
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: But we'll say maybe I'm wrong. Sometimes I am wrong.

835
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Speaker 1: All right, let's take another message from podpage dot com,

836
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: slash rich on tech, podpage dot com, slash rich on tech.

837
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: If you want to leave a voicemail, just look in

838
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: the lower right hand corner for the microphone and you

839
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: can leave a voicemail just like Michael did.

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Speaker 2: Hey Rich, this is Michael from micro Break podcast and

841
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: I just wanted to thank you for your show. I

842
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 2: learned something every single time I listened to it, and

843
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: I've been listening for the past few years. As a

844
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 2: matter of fact, it was one of the first podcasts

845
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 2: that I ever listened to and subscribe to. I just

846
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: wanted to thank you. You've also been an inspiration and

847
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 2: starting my own podcast, and I really appreciate everything you do.

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00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: Keep up the great work, and thanks again for your

849
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 2: technical advice.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Well, thank you Michael. Michael. I often I recognize

851
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Speaker 1: the name because I often see you tweeting me on Twitter,

852
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: so I will check out your podcast, the micro Break Podcast.

853
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I'm not listening to as many

854
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: podcasts these days as I would like, and so I'm

855
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: not like I used to have my I used to

856
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: have like a podcast playlist that I would listen to

857
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: on basically anytime I was in the car. So anytime

858
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: I was driving to work, driving home, driving to my stories,

859
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: I would listen to so many podcasts. And because I'm

860
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: not driving, it's really tough for me to listen. And

861
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: I don't really listen to podcasts at home for some reason.

862
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm programmed wrong or what, but

863
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: I can't really listen to podcasts in the background. Number one.

864
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: And I also can't listen to podcasts while I'm working.

865
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: I can't have my ear like on a podcast, you know,

866
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: with like headphones in while I'm trying to work, So

867
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: that just doesn't work with me. And if I listen

868
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: while I'm working, like if I have it on like

869
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: a smart speaker in the background, I don't listen to

870
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: the podcast because I can't really hear it. So anyway,

871
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of stuff that I Anyway,

872
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what my point was, but thank you

873
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: Michael for listening. I get so distracted. I'm not kidding.

874
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here doing this podcast. My watch is going

875
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: off like crazy. I'm gonna take that off because it

876
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: just keeps vibrating. My computer keeps going off. I guess

877
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: people are texting. Oh now, my phone's going on. I

878
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: can't win. There's just too many things, Oh my gosh,

879
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: too much technology surrounding me. I want to focus just

880
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 1: for an hour so I can do this podcast. But Michael,

881
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: thank you for that. And when I get to listening

882
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: to podcasts more, believe me, I will listen to more.

883
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: All right, let's get oh my gosh, another Michael, another Michael.

884
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: For the next question, Michael says, hey, Rich, I went

885
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: to my carrier store of Verizon to see about up

886
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: creating my old iPhone six plus and expected to pay

887
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: the seven hundred dollars for a newer model. They said

888
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: if I traded it in, they would give me five

889
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: hundred dollars towards an iPhone twelve, but I'd have to

890
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: sign up for a new unlimited plan that would last

891
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: for two years. I really don't care about the two

892
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: year commitment because I've been with them for twelve years.

893
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: But I don't see how they can give me five

894
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: hundred dollars towards a new phone. I've always bought directly

895
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: from Apple and they would only give me fifty dollars

896
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: for it. I've never been on a monthly plan, so

897
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,439
Speaker 1: it's strange new territory for me. I'm sixty eight years old,

898
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: I have a brother and sister. On my plan, I

899
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: pay ninety five dollars for two gigs a month. However,

900
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: they've given me an extra two gigs for being a

901
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: retired vet. Thank you for your service. I do appreciate that, Michael. Together,

902
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: we use less than two gigs a month, so the

903
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,280
Speaker 1: data is not an incentive. They also said my monthly

904
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: bill would only increase by five dollars. I've always believed

905
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: that if it sounds too good to be true, it

906
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: probably is. But I thought i'd write to see if

907
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: you can enlighten me a bit on how these monthly

908
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: plans work. Thank you for your time and information you

909
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: can give me. Michael, you are very smart for saying

910
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: if it sounds too good to be true, probably is,

911
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: And for this deal, I'd probably say, here's okay. Number one,

912
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: these carriers are not just out of the kindness of

913
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: their heart giving you a very expensive phone for very cheap.

914
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: So you kind of nailed it in certain ways. You

915
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: said that you have to sign up for a new

916
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: unlimited plan. That's your first red flag and it would

917
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: last for two years. Now you are kind of okay.

918
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: The thing is, the plan is contract free. There is

919
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: no contract with the plan. But here's where they get you.

920
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: That seven hundred dollars are giving you for that iPhone

921
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 1: twelve towards the iPhone twelve. It is pro rated, which

922
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: means it is spread out over twenty four months. So

923
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: the way they do it is that if you cancel

924
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: before those twenty four months are up, guess what You've

925
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: lost your promotion, and now that promotion you have to

926
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: pay it back and you owe, I don't know the

927
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: full amount, I think. And them telling you that your

928
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: plan is only going to go up five dollars a month,

929
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. You've got three people

930
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: on your plan. There is no way that you can

931
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: get three people on a plan for one hundred dollars

932
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: a month. That's just that's not possible through Verizon on

933
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: an unlimited plan. Now, unlimited plans at Verizon might start

934
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 1: at eighty dollars a month, and that's you know, for

935
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: the three of you. But or they may say that

936
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 1: your plan's only going up five dollars. They didn't mention

937
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: the other two plans that you also have to pay,

938
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: So I you know, I think so. I used to

939
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,959
Speaker 1: sell cell phones a long time ago, and the joke

940
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:37,760
Speaker 1: was always, you know, we used to give the phones

941
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 1: away for a penny and you sign up for the plan.

942
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: And back then it was like minutes, you know, you

943
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: got like three hundred minutes, probably like twenty five minutes,

944
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 1: whatever it was. It was so long ago, but like clockwork,

945
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: people would get their phone for a penny and they'd

946
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: come back into the store after a month when they

947
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: got their first bill or a month and a half,

948
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: they'd be like, what's this five hundred dollars bill? And

949
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: they didn't realize that their whole, entire, the whole, the

950
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: whole thing was that you got your phone for a penny,

951
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: but your monthly plan was so expensive. And by the way,

952
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: you had to pay a month upfront, so you're pro

953
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: rated by the time you got out of the store.

954
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: I mean you were. You know this, this fifty dollars

955
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: a month plan would turn into one hundred and fifty

956
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars and people would be like, why is

957
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: my bill two hundred dollars? And then we politely explain

958
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: all the details that we kind of glazed over. Now,

959
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: I was never misleading, believe me, but I think some

960
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: people were. And those were the people I had to

961
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: clean up after with their bills when they came in

962
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: and so anyway, but I think that's what's happening here.

963
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that the person is being nefarious,

964
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: but I think that they're leaving some things out and

965
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,280
Speaker 1: not explaining other things properly. But there is no such

966
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: thing as just a free seven hundred dollars phone anymore.

967
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: They are getting you some way and in this case,

968
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: they are making up the price of that phone over

969
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: the increased charges to your monthly plan over time, and

970
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: that's that's really what they're doing. I've seen people where

971
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: they activate an additional line on like an iPad to

972
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: get it for free, and it's never free. It is

973
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: never free. You're always paying in some way, even if

974
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: you're paying more for your monthly service than you have

975
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: to because for you, Michael, honestly, I would recommend switching

976
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: to what's called Visible and you can get a unlimited

977
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: plan for forty dollars a month, and if you have

978
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: your brother and sister on it, it even drops down further

979
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: because they take off five dollars a month for each

980
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: additional person, so you can have you for forty and

981
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: actually I think it goes down for all three of you,

982
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: so I think it would end up being like thirty

983
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: dollars a month for each of you. So anyway, that's

984
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: what I would look into, Michael, as as a way

985
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: to really save money. You'll have to pay for your phone,

986
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: but you can actually save money month in, month out

987
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: and not really need to think about all this stuff.

988
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: All right. I talked about Microsoft Edge and Microsoft just

989
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: a little bit ago. But you know, so I ended

990
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: up switching back to Chrome, which I'm kind of regretting,

991
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: even though I just love Chrome. But I should go

992
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: back to Edge. But Edge they continue to do cool things.

993
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: Now they're adding a password generator, and I'm getting a

994
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: lot of questions in the new year about passwords and

995
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: password management, and for good reason, because everyone's getting hip

996
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: to the fact that we don't want to be hacked

997
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: and we want our passwords to be strong. So use

998
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: a password program. You can use last pass, you can

999
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: use Dashlane, you can use one password, or I recommend

1000
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: if you are on a platform, like if you're only

1001
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: using Google stuff an Android phone along with Chrome on

1002
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: your computer, you can use built into Chrome, they have

1003
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: a password function. So let's see where you find it.

1004
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: You go into more tools. You can go into let's

1005
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: see okay, sorry settings, and let's see autofill and then passwords,

1006
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: and you can say offer to save passwords, and boom.

1007
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: You can just Chrome. When you come up against a

1008
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: website that needs a password, it will help you make one,

1009
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: it will save that for you, it will retrieve it

1010
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: the next time you try to log in. And you

1011
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: can also you know, copy and paste passwords out of

1012
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: Chrome into other products as well, and it all work

1013
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: on your Android phone. Now if you are using iOS

1014
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: stuff or an Apple stuff only, so I'm talking iOS

1015
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: Android or iOS iPhone and an Apple computer and iPad,

1016
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: then go ahead and use what's built into Apple, which

1017
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,479
Speaker 1: is their own password program. So you can go into

1018
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: settings and go into passwords and then it can say

1019
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: autofill passwords and just turn that on and make sure

1020
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: that iCloud keychain is turned on. And now again the

1021
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: same thing. When you get up against a password or

1022
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: a form that needs to be filled out with a password,

1023
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: or a new app you sign up for, it will say, hey,

1024
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: we'll suggest a password for you. It will save those,

1025
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: it will plug them back in when you need them,

1026
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: and it's pretty simple. And on your desktop if using

1027
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: Safari or you know, Mac computer, it will do the

1028
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: same thing. Now, if you're using a bunch of different

1029
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: devices like I am, you want to use one of

1030
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: these third party services, So now Edge has one, so

1031
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: you can use that and you know, or you can

1032
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: use one of these other ones I mentioned, like last past,

1033
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: dash Lane or one Password. But anyway, in the new

1034
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: Microsoft Edge, they do have the new password generator and keeper,

1035
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: so you can just use that as well. Yeah, there

1036
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: you have it. All right, let's get to another question here.

1037
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: So many questions. Hey rich love keeping up with you

1038
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,280
Speaker 1: and all the updates and reviews. Question amber X, personal

1039
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: cloud storage. Have you had a chance to review these

1040
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: types of devices yet? Thank you for your time, Leo.

1041
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: So amber X, gotta look this one up because I

1042
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: was not aware of this. Your privacy first, personal cloud

1043
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: and the immediate thing I see on this website is indiegog.

1044
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say nothing against indiegg or against kickstarters,

1045
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: but honestly, I don't know. I mean, I don't know

1046
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: if this is a thing that you want to purchase

1047
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: because it's is it available, is it shipping? Let's see

1048
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 1: estimated shipping April twenty twenty one, So maybe it's great,

1049
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: but you know, let's wait till April twenty twenty one

1050
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: for our decision on this thing. It's basically, from what

1051
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: I can see, it looks like a file your own

1052
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 1: personal cloud storage device that you can put, you know,

1053
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: all your stuff in, and it's like kind of like

1054
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: Google Drive, but from anywhere. Now, if you want something

1055
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 1: like this, there's a couple of things that are already

1056
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:52,240
Speaker 1: available that do it already, and so I would recommend

1057
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: looking into something called EB which is IBI and they

1058
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: already have a device that will collect your photos and

1059
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: it's made by Western Digital, and so you know, it's

1060
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: a company that's reputable and it's private, nothing shared with

1061
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: the cloud, and that is ninety dollars for one terabyte

1062
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: of storage and again no monthly fees. You can plug

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00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: your stuff into the back of it, like your cards,

1064
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: and it will it will find all that stuff. Or

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00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: you can put an app on your phone and it

1066
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: will find the stuff on your app as well. You know,

1067
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: the app will find the pictures that you take on

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00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: your phone. So EB is the thing that I recommend.

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00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 1: If you want a little bit of more of a

1070
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: industrial solution, there is a drive that I use called

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00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: Sonology s y Nloguy and Sonology is more of a

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00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: build your own solution. It's basically a network attached storage

1073
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: drive that you put in your house and the magic

1074
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: is really their software. They do all kinds of stuff,

1075
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: but you put a hard drive in this or a

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00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: couple and next thing you know, you can put all

1077
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: your stuff on there, save it, store it, and it

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00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: will work. I don't use this anymore because I don't

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00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: really have a reason too. But if you know, if

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00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 1: you still want to have all your stuff private and

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00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: on your own cloud, you know, those are the ways

1082
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: to do it. I actually need to set this back

1083
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: up again because I need to sync my Google Drive

1084
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: to it. I used to have it synked back when

1085
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: Google Drive would sink your Google Photos. I would have

1086
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: a copy of my Google Photos sync to my Synology

1087
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 1: at all times. Ever since they made Google Photos its

1088
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: own thing and very locked up and you can't just

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00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: synk it with anything, which is really unfortunate. I I'm

1090
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: kind of in a tough place right now because the

1091
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: only way to get your Google photos is to download

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00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 1: them completely. And I do think that Google needs to

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00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: address this issue and make either an agreement with something

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00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: like an eb or something like a Synology to let

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00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: you sink your photos in your collection to a hard

1096
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: drive or I mean literally, they just need they just

1097
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: need to link up with a Wi Fi connected hard

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00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: drive with software and say, you know, and just have

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00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: one thing where you can just say a click and say,

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00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 1: just please download a copy of my photos at all times,

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00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 1: like keep this in sync with my Google Photos, and

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00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: I don't know why Google is not doing that, because

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00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 1: it's kind of a major, a major issue for me

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00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 1: as someone who has built up an entire collection inside

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00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: Google Photos in the cloud. I need a physical copy

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00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: of my photos somewhere and I need them with me

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00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: at all times, and right now I don't have that,

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00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: which is kind of a problem. So good question. But

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00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: yet check out the alternatives that I mentioned. All right,

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00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: let's see, let's do maybe one more story. Netflix coming

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00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 1: out with a shuffle button. And the only reason I

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00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: mentioned this because I think it's cool, but I think

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00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: they could go a step further so that you know,

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00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. But and maybe I've talked about this in

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00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: the show. But if you're sitting down to Netflix with

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00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: literally no clue as to what you want to watch,

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00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: and you're so desperate you have to press a shuffle

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00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: button to like have something start playing without you doing anything,

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00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of time on your hands. So

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00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: and yes, I sit down to the TV and sometimes

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00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: I don't know to watch, and I do sit there

1122
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 1: in my limited time that I watch stuff, but I

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00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: kind of have an idea of what I want to see,

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00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: and especially with YouTube, you know, and all these things.

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00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: They have personalized homepages to help you find that stuff,

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00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: but like, you should be a little bit more targeted,

1127
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: but you know, if you're not whatever. But what I

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00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 1: do think would be cool is if they took this

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00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: shuffle feature a little bit further and they actually shuffled

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00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: movie scenes. I think that would be cool. So if

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00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: I'm sitting down to watch Netflix and maybe or maybe

1132
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: I just want my TV on in the background, I

1133
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: can just hit shuffle, like shuffle sports movie scenes, shuffle

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00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: notable you know, crime movie scenes, shuffle notable holiday scenes

1135
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: for the holidays. I think that would be cool. And

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00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 1: I don't think it would take much for Netflix to

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00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: do that because all their stuff is probably cataloged anyway.

1138
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: But that's the future i'd like to see. I'm sorry

1139
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: to knock you if you think this. The shuffle feature

1140
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: is really cool, but I don't know. I'm sorry, but

1141
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit down and like discover a new

1142
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: movie by pressing a shuffle button and like next thing,

1143
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, oh wow, cool, I'll just sit

1144
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: here for the next two hours watching this, Like, don't

1145
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: don't think so. I like the idea of it more

1146
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: being in the background. The shuffle, the shuffle scene feature

1147
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: is what I want. And yeah, the stuff that they're shuffling,

1148
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: they say will be based on an algorithm of stuff

1149
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: you've previously watched. But I can't imagine a world where

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00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: I sit down on a Friday night and I just

1151
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: press a shuffle button on Netflix and let Netflix just

1152
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: play some random show for me. I just can't imagine that.

1153
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 1: So I guess it's popular enough where people want it,

1154
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: but for me personally, I just don't need that. All right,

1155
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: let's see here. Oh my gosh, so many questions, so

1156
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: many questions. Let's see what else. Okay, let's do this question.

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00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: That's my final question. Let's see. Patricia writes in a

1158
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: couple of questions regarding this year's CEO, of which I

1159
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: still miss attending for work. I saw the segment regarding

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01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty one Ultra. I am

1161
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: not in need of a new phone. However, with the

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01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: constant changes with the cameras, perhaps late twenty twenty one

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01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty two, I would consider, based on your

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01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 1: tech experience between Apple users since two thousand and five

1165
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: and Samsung, which do you prefer would be used for

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01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 1: phone camera and some store docs and minimal social network,

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01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: maybe play a game once in a while. You could

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01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: say I'm old school, I use the phone for basics.

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01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: So good question, Patricia. But I find that it's really

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01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: tough for me to tell you whether you should go

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01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: with Samsung or Apple, because I really think that it

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01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: comes down to sort of your personal preference and a

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01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: user's personal preference. So you know, what Apple fans like

1174
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: about Apple products is that it's simple, it works. All

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01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: the accessories kind of come from Apple. They all work

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01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: together seamlessly, and there are also tons of third party

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01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: options for accessories, things like cases and add ons and

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01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: outs and lights and all kinds of stuff that works

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01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: around the iPhone. I mean, it's in its entire industry.

1180
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: And you also have the best selection of apps on

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01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: the iPhone. And I'm not just saying that to be facetious,

1182
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: Like apps seem to work better on iOS. I don't

1183
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: know what it is if the developers take longer to

1184
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: code them, or if there's less devices to code for

1185
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 1: so they just work better and they seem prettier. But

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01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 1: that's just the case now with Samsung. I think what

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01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 1: you get there is you get sort of the anti iPhone, right.

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01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: iPhone is the thing that a lot of people have.

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01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: When you have a Samsung, you're kind of saying, I'm

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01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: not having an iPhone. Right when you see someone that

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01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: has a Samsung, you kind of ask, oh, why, I

1192
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: don't know why. That's just the reason. It was kind

1193
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: of what we do. And so people have their reasons for, oh,

1194
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: I don't really care about phones, I just got this,

1195
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: or I like Samsung because I don't like Apple, or

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01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: I like Samsung for this feature X feature, and I

1197
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 1: feel like with Samsung they are kind of known as

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01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: always pushing the envelope. So the features you see on

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01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: the Samsung devices eventually come to Apple a couple years later.

1200
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: But Apple does put their own spin on them, and

1201
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 1: many times they perfect them, Like I wouldn't be surprised

1202
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: if we see a space zoom feature on the iPhone

1203
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: in a couple of years. But it might be perfected,

1204
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: you know, whereas we're seeing it right now for the

1205
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: past two years on Android with Samsung. But it's is

1206
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: it perfect?

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01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 2: No?

1208
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: Does it work yes? Is it cool? Yes? Now the

1209
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: price ranges is also another thing. Now I think Apple's

1210
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: gotten a lot better about having phones and various price

1211
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: ranges in recent years, but Samsung has been known for

1212
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 1: having phones and all kinds of price ranges, and their

1213
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: phones are also I would say, much more discounted with

1214
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: various deals than the Apple phones are. So you say

1215
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 1: you want basic, it really depends. If you've been using

1216
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: iPhone and you're fine with it since two thousand and five,

1217
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: then stick to iPhone. All your stuff's in there, You've

1218
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: got all the apps that you purchased. But if you

1219
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: want to change, you want to try something different, go

1220
01:02:58,000 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: with the S twenty and see how you like it.

1221
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,439
Speaker 1: I don't think you need the Ultra because you said

1222
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: you're basic, and you know, if you don't need all

1223
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: those extra features, why pay for them. And I do

1224
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: think if you were doing if you told me you're

1225
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: doing something like video capture or content creation or editing

1226
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 1: or social media posting, I would say iPhone is a

1227
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: little bit better for that. Or if you said I

1228
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: need a smart watch, I do think iPhone is better.

1229
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: But I think this Samsung is going to be perfectly

1230
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: fine if you you know, if you so choose. I

1231
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: would also look into something like the Pixel five because

1232
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: or the Pixel four A five G because they have

1233
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: that has a slightly bigger screen, It's got great software,

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01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,600
Speaker 1: and it will probably do the things that you need.

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01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: It really depends if you want to If you want

1236
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,959
Speaker 1: to step away from iPhone, then I think you'll be fine.

1237
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: On the Android side. At this point, they're between the

1238
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy S twenty lineup or sorry, did I say

1239
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 1: S twenty this whole time S twenty one lineup and

1240
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: the Pixel the latest pixels. I think you're gonna find

1241
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 1: something that is gonna suit your needs. So good question.

1242
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: I don't get it very often anymore, but it is

1243
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: something that you know, people do wonder about. And for myself,

1244
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: I think that Samsung. You know, like I said, I

1245
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: love iPhone, I mean I really do. I think there's

1246
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 1: so many amazing things you can do on it. But

1247
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: I also see the beauty of the operating system on

1248
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: Android that just kind of lets you do as you please.

1249
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: You know, you can really customize it to your to

1250
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: a great, great extent. All right, Well, that music means

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01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: it is the end of the show. Thank you so

1252
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: much for listening. If you'd like to submit a question

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01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,640
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1257
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,560
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01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:02,000
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1263
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: been spending most of my time on Instagram these days,

1264
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: but I am popping in on all of them for sure.

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01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro. Thank you so much for listening.

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01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 1: Have a fantastic day, Stay safe, and I will talk

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