WEBVTT - One messaging app to rule them all 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.600 My review of the Samsung Galaxy S twenty one Ultra 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.079 one messaging app to rule them all. Fossil has a 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.920 new smart watch that actually sounds pretty cool. Plus your 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.520 tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.560 this is Rich on Tech, the podcast right talk about 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.360 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.320 is also the place right answer the questions you send me. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.199 I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.800 Hope you are having a fantastic day. We are well 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.680 into twenty twenty one. I'm still having trouble writing all 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.400 the dates right now because they're very tricky. It's like 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.920 one twenty two, twenty one, one, twenty three, twenty one, one, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.080 twenty four, twenty one, one, nineteen twenty one, one, twenty 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.600 twenty one, one, twenty one, twenty one. It's just been 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.440 really funny, and I know there's like a whole bunch 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.160 of like are they call palindromes where they're you know, 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.720 the same forwards and backwards for all these dates recently anyway, 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.160 So I guess I'm not alone and having trouble because 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.840 there is something going on with the dates recently. But 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.839 welcome to the show. If you're listening for the first time, 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.480 thank you for finding me. If you're listening for the 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.720 second time, well thanks for tuning back in. If you're 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.640 listening for the two hundredth time, I probably do have 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.000 that many shows, actually, because I've been doing this podcast 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.400 in one form or another for a very long time now, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.479 and it's gone. If you've listened throughout the years, it's 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.880 gone through different kind of variations. I guess you can 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:41.880 say sometimes it was like a ten minute daily thing. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.720 Other times it was like an interview thing, and you know, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.160 now it's kind of settled upon this format, which I like. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.760 But honestly, if I had my way, if I had 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.520 one hundred percent like the way Rich Demiro wants to 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.680 do this show, I would do a live call in 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.560 show every single day, and that's all I would do, 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.720 and you know, just talk about some of the things 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.920 happening in the tech world, plus do the calls live. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.040 But this is the next best thing because it's a 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.960 little bit what's the word is it asynchronous? You know, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.240 the let's see, asynchronous means not existing or happening at 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.720 the same time, So that's kind of what it is, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.560 right now, so it's asynchronous because you can send me 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.639 questions at any time and I can answer them on 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.320 my schedule, which is really helpful because my schedule is 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.239 kind of all the way over all over the place. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.360 But yeah, like today, I'm doing the podcast in just 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.720 a slightly different time than typical, but it all works 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.440 out anyway. Welcome to the show. Thanks for tuning in 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.320 and listening. And let's just get right to it, because 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.160 it just seems like every week I get more and 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.799 more questions. So let's just start with the Samsung Galaxy 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.280 S twenty one Ultra. I think last week I talked 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.040 about the phone, but I didn't give you my opinion 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:55.960 on it. And my opinion on this phone is that 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:01.120 I love it. So it's basically all the problems I 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.000 had with a Samsung phone are gone, and honestly, I 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.200 kind of want to switch. The only thing that's keeping 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.280 me right now is actually two things. The size of 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.840 the device, and I feel like maybe I get used 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.799 to that because I'm so used to the size of 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.480 the iPhone at this point, and the quality of certain apps, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.720 and by certain I mean definitely social media apps are 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.840 not as good on Samsung. I don't know why that is, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.840 but it just they don't look as good and they 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.400 don't perform as well, and I don't know why that is, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.080 and I mean, I kind of know why, but it's 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.960 just really frustrating because this is a powerhouse of a phone. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.520 So everything that I had an issue with they have 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.600 seemed to fix. And you know, for starters, it's got 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.800 that big screen, it's got the crazy camera set up 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.120 on the back, which is you know, like four cameras. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.560 Two are dedicated to zoom, so you can go up 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.280 to ten times optical. Then they've got up to one 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.760 hundred times space zoom, which last year was unusual, and 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.920 this year it actually works. Now I don't think you 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.760 ever really need one hundred time zoom, but it actually 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.320 does work physically, so when you're zooming in on something. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.880 Last year, you'd have to hold the phone really steady. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.400 Of course it would, you know, you couldn't at a 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.480 hundred times because any tiny movement would would mess up 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.440 your subject. Well, this time around, they use AI to 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.920 kind of focus lock on your subject, and it actually 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:28.159 does that, so that works. There's so many features on 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.240 the camera, it's just like you'll never use them all. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.640 I mean, if you go into more, I mean there's 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.839 like ar doodle, there's a promo, there's panoramic, there's food, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.360 there's night, there's portrait, portrait video, pro video, super slow mo, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.520 slow motion, hyperlapse, director's view, and you know, it just 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.359 goes on and on. Then when you get into the settings, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.200 you've got you know you've got. You can take forty 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.039 megapixel front facing camera photos. You can take one hundred 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.919 and eight megapixel back camera photos. You can take three 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.719 three quarters nine sixteen one to one square pictures or 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.719 full pictures. You can take selfies. By One of my 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.720 favorite features actually on this device is that when you're 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.479 taking a selfie, you can just hold up your hand 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.240 like your palm to the camera and it recognizes that 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.440 and then it snaps in a picture, which is just 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.680 little things like that. Everyday pictures and videos I find 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.240 work really well on this camera. They're not you know, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.840 are they one hundred percent as good as as iPhone? 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.640 Not always, but sometimes the iPhone messes up. So I 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.920 mean it's like, you know, if you take a hundred pictures, 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.360 sometimes you know you're gonna say, ah, the iPhone kind 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.080 of did better, and other times you can say oh wow, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.680 the Samsung. You can't. You can't match it. So at 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.240 this point it's kind of like, you know, some things 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.800 the iPhone's gonna do better, some things the Samsung's gonna 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.360 do better. I posted a picture on my Twitter of 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:48.240 my afternoon espresso and I don't have one every afternoon, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.120 but many I do, and you know, people are debating 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.600 like which one's better, Like, oh this, the left is better, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.440 the right is better the left. They were almost identical 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.360 with some subtle nuances to them, And again it comes 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.599 down to like maybe the next picture you take the 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.000 Samsung will be better versus the iPhone. So I really 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.360 am very happy with this device. I love the fact 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.560 that you can use the stylus, even though you know 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.640 I don't. I would have to get used to just 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.239 keeping a stylus in my pocket, I think for that feature. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.200 The whole memory card being gone is definitely a bummer 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:18.839 because it would have been nice to buy a cheaper 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.320 phone and then put the memory card in the whole 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:26.400 Samsung taking away the antenna for the Samsung pay eh, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.880 I mean, it's fine. So many places take mobile payment now, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.640 it's fine, And honestly, it was quite tricky to use 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.800 the Samsung Pay at a place that didn't accept mobile payments, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.360 because they'd always kind of like be like, no, no, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.000 we don't take mobile payments. You're like, no, no, let 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.359 me try this, and they don't really like you fooling 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.800 around with payments. The software features the object eraser is 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.320 really cool. The ability to share pictures without revealing their 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.560 location is really cool. The build in Google Feed is 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.159 really cool. So I have no problems recommending this phone. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.159 It's a really great device. And other than the size, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.599 I think it's perfect. And you know, it's heavy, it's big, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.479 but if you want a powerful phone, that's what you 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.560 have to kind of go for. And I think the 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.720 lesser models, you know, when it comes to like the 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.720 S twenty and the S twenty or sorry, the S 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.280 twenty one and the S twenty one plus. I didn't 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.840 extensively test those. They did send a S twenty for 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.800 me to test, but honestly, if I was gonna go 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.120 with that size, I'd probably go with the iPhone because 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.240 it's going to be a better device. This has the 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.400 S twenty one Ultra has everything you need and more 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.480 than the iPhone. So that's the difference and why you'd 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.520 want to go with this device. If I'm gonna go 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.640 with a smaller device that has you know, three time 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.800 zoom and you know, a decent screen and whatever and 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.680 no no memory card slot, I'd probably just go with 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.880 the iPhone at that size. So if you want the 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.080 bigger phone, the best, all these cool features, then you 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.160 kind of have to go with the with the Ultra. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.760 And that's kind of the dilemma I see myself in. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.560 Also the Apple Watch and AirPods. I have been testing 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.520 the Samsung answer to the AirPods, the new ones, the 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.600 the Galaxy Buds Pro, and they're good. I mean, I 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.880 don't think there is as my favorite as the AirPods. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.680 Just kind of the AirPods stick in my ears, they 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.760 just like stay there. The Samsung ones fall out a 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.120 little bit easier, but they still they work really well 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.680 and they're they're good. So Samsung in twenty twenty one, 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.120 you get a good job. I think that you're getting 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.920 closer to what the Android lovers kind of want, but 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.360 also the everyday person kind of wants. And you know, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.160 if it wasn't for I Message and some of these 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.240 other things like the Apple Watch that are really keeping 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.520 people locked into the iPhone, you know, and the better 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.679 app selection there. I think that you're doing a really 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.080 good job, so keep up the good work. And I 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.400 think that if you are looking for a Samsung S 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.200 twenty one, I have no reservations with any of the 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.240 devices that they made this year. I personally would lean 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.640 towards the Ultra. But if you want a smaller device 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.240 the Ultra, the S twenty one plus is probably a 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.640 good middle ground. I haven't tested that one. The S 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.280 twenty one is you know about the size of an 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.480 iPhone so or an iPhone twelve. I should say, all right, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.000 let's move on, wrong one. Let's move on to the 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:14.840 first question. Let's see and via Facebook says Facebook dot 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.120 com slash rich on tech. Did you know that Amazon 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.880 eliminated their coal the lending library that was once a 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:25.120 benefit of Prime membership? It went away January fourth, twenty 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.400 twenty one. Nice they let members know ahead of time. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:33.400 Oh yes. The Kindle lending library was kind of a 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.719 small feature that was cool but most people did not 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.440 know about. And this feature specifically was if you owned 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:45.040 a physical Kindle, they would let you lend out like 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.120 I think it was one book at a time or 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.840 something like that, and you can go on this Kindle 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.640 Lending library and find things like free ebooks basically, and 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:56.800 I did it for a couple of books, and I 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.880 thought it was like kind of a secret little weapon 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:00.480 that they had in there that was kind of cool, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.680 like a little benefit. And I don't know if it 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.360 ever expanded to like people that had, you know, the 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:12.640 Kindle app, but I think it was anyway, I you know, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.560 they it looks like from an article I said, they 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.240 replaced it with like Prime Reading, which I do get 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.520 emails about that. But anyway, the Kindle Lending Library, honestly, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.480 it's cool, but it was always so limited anyway, and 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.800 what you can get, and it was, you know, tricky 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.160 because you can only have one thing out of a 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.719 time or something like that. So it's gone. It's I'm 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.040 always sad when things go away. But you know, I'm 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.720 sure Amazon had the details on how many people actually 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.720 took advantage. And what I use now is called libby 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.440 l Ibby, which is an amazing app that lets you 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.320 get pretty much any ebook for free. Anyway, it is 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.800 limited because you're you're actually lending them out from your 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.560 local library and there are time limits on that but 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.439 I find that it's it's pretty amazing, and so that's 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.440 what I've been using to read on my kindle ninety 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.559 nine percent of the time. In fact, I went through 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.480 my book. I just finished the Instagram book. It was 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.720 called I think it was called No Filter. Yeah, no Filter, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.160 and it's called The Inside Story of Instagram, which was great, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.520 and I read it for free through Libby, and when 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.040 I was done, it was time for a new book. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.200 And the only downside I find to Libby is that 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.000 your books, the books that are available, don't always match 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.800 up with your timeframe of when you're done and ready 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.560 for a new book. So I ended up downloading a 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.680 sample of another book I wanted to read through through 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:36.240 face Sorry, I downloaded a sample through my you know, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.600 just Amazon. And then when I was done with the sample, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.040 it was like, oh, do you want to continue reading 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.080 this for eleven dollars and fifty cents? And I couldn't 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.959 bring myself to pay because I'm so used to Libby 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.160 now and I like getting my stuff for free through Libby. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.199 So but that book's not available right away, so anyway, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.839 I know, I know, but anyway, that's you know, sad 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.959 that it's gone but I think that there must have 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.560 been a certain amount of people that used it and 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.200 didn't take advantage of it. So Amazon said goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.760 All right, so WhatsApp. You know, they had this big 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.400 thing with WhatsApp where they wanted to change their privacy 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:16.480 policy because they I don't know if you can. I 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.080 don't know if you can hear this, But I've got 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.600 my son in the other room that he can play 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:26.480 like you have no idea. He can play. You know, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.160 I'm working from home and my kid, my nine year old, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.880 I'm not kidding. He can play like you have no idea. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.480 He can take his toys and just play for an 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.920 hour in his room and in between his zoom sessions 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.680 at school, he goes into his room and he's just 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.000 absolutely wild with his play. And it's fantastic. I love 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.680 it because it's real play. It gets a little wild, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.760 and you know, he crashes his toys around and stuff. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.640 But like, I don't care, Like my wife is, like 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.080 his whole room, the walls are all messed up because 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.000 he crashes his toys. Said, I don't care. He's playing 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.480 with real toys. Kid does this these days, and so 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.280 he screams he yells. He you know, he's got all 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.240 these little things that he does with his toys, and 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.640 I love it, love it, love it. So if you 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.320 can hear that, that's why I'm laughing because it's just 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.040 so loud in the background. Anyway, you probably can't hear 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.439 it because this mic is really good. But anyway, if 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.320 you do, that's what's happening. And kudos to my kid. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.960 I keep telling him start a YouTube channel. He does 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.360 have a YouTube channel, but he does like you know, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.280 playing roadblocks and all these other well Roadblocks is banned 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.280 in our house, but he does Minecraft, and so you know, 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.160 I said, Parker, you really need to do a YouTube 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.600 channel where you play with toys and kids just watch 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.439 you play with them, because that's really interesting and that's 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.360 kind of a lost art with kids these days. My 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.560 other kid, my six year old, you know, he'll play 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.800 with him a little bit, but you know, these kids, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.520 like I used to play all the time, and my 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.719 wife and I were discussing this, like we played NonStop, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.199 like that's all we did, you know, video games once 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.480 in a while, but then we played. And anyway, so 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.160 I love that he plays and he sets little Google 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.839 home alarms that you know, tell him when it's time 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.560 to go back to class. Anyway, I digress. If you 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.760 wanted a longer podcast, you got it. Okay. So WhatsApp, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.000 they tried to change their policy or their privacy policy, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.800 and people revolted and they said, WhatsApp, we're out now. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.080 I don't really think they need to do that. But 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.359 a lot of people have been downloading Signal and Telegram, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.760 and so I did a story on KTLA kind of 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.400 explaining the differences between these two apps, and there is 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.120 a difference. And number one, I don't think that people 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.720 need to flock from WhatsApp. If you're using it, stick 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.840 with it. You're fine, especially if you're using Instagram and Facebook. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.200 I mean, it's all the same company. And you know, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.640 if you're not worried about your privacy on Facebook and Instagram, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.920 then you shouldn't be worried about your privacy on Signal 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:46.200 on WhatsApp. WhatsApp is actually very secure because it does 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.480 use end to end encryption by default, and not many 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.440 apps do that. And what that means is that nobody 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.920 can see your messages, not even Facebook, even if they 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.760 ever wanted to. So it's very secure. And the reason 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.600 why I didn't choose WhatsApp in the past as my 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.040 preferred messenger is because it was too secure. I wanted 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.600 to be able to access my messages on various devices 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.040 at the same time, and when I tried that with WhatsApp, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.800 you couldn't. And that was why I never actually used it, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.080 And I kind of liked Facebook Messenger better because it's 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.320 a privacy trade off. If you want to access your 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.600 messages across a whole bunch of devices like I do, 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.520 you can't. You can use encryption, but you can't use 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.760 end to end encryption, and that's what makes all these 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.840 other apps. So I ended up using Telegram as my 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.960 preferred messaging app for the past couple of years, which 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.320 is fine, but I find out it doesn't have end 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.040 to end and that's why now Signal does have end 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.720 to end. And this is another one that a lot 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.960 of people are downloading. And Elon Musk famously tweeted, I 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.120 say famously it was a couple of weeks ago, but 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.440 he just said, you Signal and this app is end 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.480 to end encrypted, and you know, again, it's very secure. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.920 It's the most secure messaging I think you can have 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.480 online at this point for the average person. I'm sure 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.840 there's something more high powered out there, but for the 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.920 average person that could download an app to their iPhone, 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.800 I think signal is the most secure. Telegram is secure, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.960 it's just not end to end. Now, if you want 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.960 end to end in telegram, before you message someone, you 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.680 have to do something what's called a secret chat, and 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.480 then that will be end to end. But when I 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.400 tested that, my secret chats don't show up on my 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.960 various devices because I think it has something to do 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.720 with the end to end where it just it can't 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:36.280 put those on various devices because of the encryption. So anyway, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.240 WhatsApp has delayed its changes until May fifteenth. And if 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.760 you really want to know the changes that WhatsApp wanted 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.600 to do. What they wanted to do is keep your 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.960 private messages private. So your personal messages person to person 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.440 would still remain end to end encrypted, but the messages 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.200 that you send to a business, Facebook wanted to be 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.920 able to scan those messages so that they could sell 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.080 ads against those messages. And why does that make a 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.640 lot of sense? Well, because they figured, Okay, if I'm 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.800 a travel agency and I'm communicating with people through WhatsApp, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.280 well and let's say I text the well, let's say 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.600 I'm the travel agency, and then you know, I'm the 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.320 person on the other end that's texting the travel agency. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.920 While I text the travel agency, hey, do you have 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:20.080 any deals to Maui Hawaii? And Facebook's little bots pick 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.720 up on Maui Hawaii and next thing you know, now 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.000 they're sending me ads based on Maui or they're selling 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.359 me ads sold against my Maui Hawaii interests. And it 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.760 makes a lot of sense because you know, while even 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.520 Facebook said a lot of people aren't private messaging businesses 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.119 right now, but they do see that as a huge 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.200 growth area in the future. And they are so right 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.280 about that because we're already seeing this with Instagram, where 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.879 when you message a business on Instagram or you follow 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.199 a business, people just DM them, or on Twitter they 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.760 dm them. And I think that Facebook sees the writing 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.240 on the wall when it comes to messaging businesses. It's 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.399 going to become a very popular way to sort of 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.800 get in touch with businesses quickly, and they want to 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.639 be a to make money off of that. So I 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.320 get it. And again it's it's like, do you really 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.479 need those messages to be secure anyway? I mean, you're 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.560 sending them to a stranger. So I'm not advocating for 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.080 less privacy, but I don't think that if you message 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.960 a business, you have any sort of idea that that 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.680 message would not be shared among a whole bunch of people. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.480 If I message United Airlines on Twitter, do I think 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.040 one person is reading that message? No, many people are 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.480 reading it. They're sending it through all kinds of systems 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.520 that scan it for like, you know, various things, whatever 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.200 I say, and getting it to the right department. And 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.880 you know, I think that Facebook, it's tricky. They bought 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.800 WhatsApp for a lot of money and you know they 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.119 want to make a return on that, and anyway, it 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:44.840 makes a lot of sense. So there you have it. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:46.159 Now you know the difference. So if you want the 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.560 most private, personalized or private messaging, you got to go Signal. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.240 But there are some downsides to that. Again, you know, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.400 I message is just as secure, it's very secure. Well 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.000 maybe not just as secure as Signal, but it's very secure. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.520 And so if you're on that, you know, the toughest 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.800 part is getting your friends to switch to these various 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.800 messaging apps. If they're not on there, they're useless. So 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.800 if you can get them a switch, great. If you can't, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.320 just stick with what you got. As long as it's 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.840 not text messaging. That's the most insecure messaging out there. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.080 Anyone can read anything you send through text, so don't 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:24.160 use text all right. Next question, Amber, via my Facebook 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.439 page Facebook dot com slash rich on text says, with 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.320 all the new plus channel streaming, HBO Max and Discovery Plus, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.320 for example, moving shows from cable, do you think cable 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:38.280 services will become obsolete? The answer is probably yes at 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:42.720 some point. Amber, This is a very slow process. It's 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.960 kind of like when people have been saying how newspapers 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.760 are gonna die forever, and you know, they kind of 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:52.320 have like the delivery to your doorstop, yeah, or your driveway, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.160 I should say, And you know, I was a paperboy 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.040 when I was a kid, so believe me, I have 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.600 a deep, deep love for newspapers, and I don't get 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.280 any delivered. I love the newspaper, and I do read 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.199 the Wall Street Journal on a regular basis. But do 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.160 I get it delivered? No? Do I love the app? Yes, 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.760 I love what I love flipping through the newspapers when 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.000 I was, you know, back in my New York city days, 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.119 every day, and even very you know what, throughout my 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.120 entire life, I always subscribe to newspapers because I love 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.280 the idea that it's not siloed. You can be flipping 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:30.200 through the newspaper and you're reading a story that's interesting 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.280 and your eyes move to a different part of the 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.959 page and huh, I would never normally look up this story, 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.160 but here it is on this page, and I'm gonna 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.840 read about it. And it opens your mind to things 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.879 that in this world these days, with our siloed media, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.959 we are we are just seeing the stuff that we 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.320 want to see, and it's very important to see all 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.879 kinds of stuff. And that's what the newspaper to me, 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.119 always embodied that I'd be reading about, you know, the 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.119 stuff that I want to read about, but on that 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.200 same page or my a tiny little article about a 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.200 company that I don't necessarily know about or care about, 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.480 but I'm gonna discover it. And I think that can 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.280 be applied to various aspects of the paper and various 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:12.040 sections of the newspaper. And so do I think cable 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:16.280 is going away? Yes, slowly but surely. But I don't 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.560 think it's gonna go away right away. But you are 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.720 seeing it tougher. Do I think anyone's starting a cable 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.439 channel anytime soon? I don't think so. I mean, to 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.679 me personally, when I see the programming grid on a 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.840 you know, like a TVO kind of screen, I don't 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.919 understand why you would need that anymore, because to me, 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.240 everything's on demand now. When it comes to live sports 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:41.480 or live news, that's a little bit different. I still 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.159 think those are best consumed live. But even on the 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.600 evening News last night, I heard them say at the end, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:49.560 you know, if you don't catch us live, be sure 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:51.480 to DVR us, And I thought that was interesting because 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.159 they are recognizing that people do DVR, and you know, 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:56.880 I think that there's a place for that too. I mean, 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.920 you know, the station I work for, we're on almost 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:01.879 all day, so I mean you can tune in and 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.080 pretty much catch the news at almost any time. But 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.760 if you happen to get home at seven thirty and 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.639 you know, we're not actively in a newscast and you 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.159 TVO the seven PM or the six pm newscast and 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:16.520 then played at seven thirty when you get home, that's fine. 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:18.840 I mean, it makes sense you're probably not gonna watch it. 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:22.040 Three days later, like you would show that you might 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:27.040 might have historically recorded. So good question. I personally am 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:29.960 all in on the streaming services. I love them. I 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.119 love the flexibility of them. I love how you can 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:35.000 cancel and resubscribe. The only thing that I think someone 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.800 does need to tackle is the whole idea of organization. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.960 It really is tough to find the stuff you want 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.920 to watch and figure out where it's playing. And also, 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.920 you know, shows could be on a much longer runway 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.359 than they ever were for having people discover them. So 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:55.800 Queen's Gambit, for instance, Queen is it Queen's Gambit or 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:59.879 gamble Queen's Gambit? Right, yeah, Queen's Gambit. I had some 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.800 friends over socially distanced, very safe in our backyard. This 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:08.800 was months ago, and they said, oh, you got to 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.119 watch this show, The Queen's Gambit, And I was like, okay, 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:13.919 I know, there's so many great shows. This was probably 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.560 two months before anyone said, oh my gosh, it's the 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:18.320 best show ever, which I still haven't watched, but I 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:20.840 know people love it. So my point is, you know, 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:22.800 how do we find out about these shows? It's kind 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:26.359 of tough, you know, without just the main shows that 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.520 are on the main networks. Now there's so many ways 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:32.119 to find new shows, So good question. All right, the 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:37.800 play is still going strong with Fossil has launched a 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:43.560 new LTE equipped smartwatch and this is exclusively on Verizon. 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:48.680 It's called the Fossil Gen five LT Touchscreen smart Watch. 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.479 Is that really the name of this thing. It's kind 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:53.080 of a weird name, but it sounds pretty cool. It 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:56.320 sounds like a nice smart watch for users on Android. 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.280 It uses wear Os, it's got eight gigabytes of story Bridge, 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:04.200 it's got the snap Dragon Wear thirty one hundred inside 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:07.520 whatever that means. It has LTE, which means you can 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:11.199 sync it with your smartphone using Varizon number Share. And 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.760 I have this with my iPhone and what it does 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.399 is it basically means that your iPhone and your Apple 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.359 Watch are synced up. So if you get a call, 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.399 you can leave your your iPhone at home and you 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.760 can still just get all your texts and voice, you know, 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.800 calls when you're out and about. I love it and 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:31.520 this is a nice alternative on the Android side of things. 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:36.439 Comes in two colors, combination of black straps on a 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.720 smoke tone stainless steel and blush straps on a rose 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:43.800 gold case, so it sounds like they're targeting, you know, 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:47.280 whatever your style is. There forty five millimeters case size, 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:52.200 endless strap options. Let's see. It's got a swim proof 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:55.719 speaker so you can have calls functionality and responses from 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:59.000 Google Assistant, which you know, that's kind of neat because 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:01.120 you can hear this all through. So if you're out 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:03.280 and about, you've got the speaker on it, you can 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:06.280 just make your calls hands free through the speaker. It's 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:08.439 got eight gigs of storage, which is fine. It's not 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:11.640 that much, but it's probably good enough. It's got extended 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:14.440 battery mode. It's got daily mode, it's got a time 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:17.280 only mode, so it sounds like they know battery life 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:19.639 is sort of an issue with these things. But you know, 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:21.840 I haven't tested it, so I can't tell you how 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:26.040 it lasts. It's got a one point three inch touchscreen display. 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:28.359 It is swim proof, like I said, which is pretty cool. 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:30.679 It's got NFC so you can have your Tap to 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:34.520 pay in there. It's got GPS, it's got heart rate accelerometer, gyroscope, 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:38.520 ambient light, microphone, and speaker. So I think this sounds 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:41.560 like a winner if you're on Android. Three hundred and 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:47.359 fifty dollars available at Verizon exclusively. So this does come 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:49.360 with a couple of caveats. You have to be on Verizon, 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:51.320 you have to be on Android. But I think the 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:55.240 main thing that's lacking in the Android ecosystem right now 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:59.080 is a nice smart watch that rivals the Apple Watch. 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:02.440 If you've listened to this podcast before, you know I've 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:05.119 said that I love my Apple Watch, and in fact, 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:07.240 it is one of the things that is the glue 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:11.720 for the iOS ecosystem or the Apple ecosystem, and Apple 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:13.440 knows this. Why do you think they haven't made I 0:26:13.560 --> 0:26:16.880 Message work with Android? Why do you think they don't 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.160 make the iPhone work with Android? Yeah, they could say 0:26:19.200 --> 0:26:22.120 all day that it's proprietary and it needs the iPhone. 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:24.520 No it does not. They came out with the way 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:27.439 of using the Apple Watch with the family set up. 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:29.800 You set it up through the iPhone. It never needs 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:32.680 to connect to the iPhone ever. Again, and it's limited, 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:35.760 it's not as perfect, but again, you know, the Apple 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:39.320 knows what they're doing. They're continuing to make their ecosystem. 0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:42.240 Whenever you hear the Apple ecosystem in the same line 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:46.480 you always hear sticky or it keeps you in. These 0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:48.679 are the products that you know, kind of lock you 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:51.680 in lock in. With Android, we don't have any of 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:54.320 that because there is no lock in. You can take 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:56.520 all your stuff out of Android in about ten seconds 0:26:56.880 --> 0:26:58.879 and you can sign into an iPhone and your email 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:03.480 is there, You're everything's there, you know. So I don't 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:06.440 know my switching to the Fossil anytime soon. I don't 0:27:06.480 --> 0:27:09.080 think so, but I might want to test it out. 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:12.439 I might request a review unit to test this thing 0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:16.400 out because I think that Android users need an alternative 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:19.040 and something that works nicely. And it sounds like this one, 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.440 you know, checks off all the boxes of what you'd want. 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:26.119 I don't. The other one is is Fitbit. You know. 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:29.280 There they just got purchased by Google and that deal 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:32.600 is done. So maybe we'll see a nice Fitbit smart 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:35.320 watch that is really really good and a little bit 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:39.120 closer to what Apple offers, especially with the apps and integrations. 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:41.600 I mean, that's really the magic of the Apple Watch 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:43.640 is that they you know, they had a while where 0:27:43.640 --> 0:27:45.920 the apps were not really doing much on Apple Watch, 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:47.800 and now they've gotten to the point where like there 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:50.919 are some pretty useful things on Apple Watch. Well I 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:53.040 take that back. Most of it is pretty much the 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:56.439 standard stuff built in, but there are enough apps on 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:59.560 there that there are functionality that you know sometimes you 0:27:59.600 --> 0:28:01.880 know you want to use and they work pretty well. 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:11.160 So all right, let's go to podpage dot com slash 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:15.240 rich on tech podpage dot com slash rich on tech 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:20.399 for a voice message. This is this is where you 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:24.040 can leave a voicemail on my page and uh, I 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:26.399 will I will hear it. So that's what Donald did. 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:30.800 Let's hear you. Donald, Hey, you're rich. What do you 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:35.720 think about the Microsoft Surface pro Dude? 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:36.840 Uh? 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:39.440 Just got I want to know what do you think 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:46.600 about it? Thank you? All right, now I'm not sure 0:28:47.120 --> 0:28:53.200 if Donald said Surface pro Dude or Surface pro Duo, 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:57.400 so I you know, I don't know. Well, okay, so 0:28:57.400 --> 0:29:00.680 if you're talking about the Surface pro Duo. Oh, the 0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:07.880 surface pro Duo is a is Microsoft's smartphone slash tablet 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:12.080 slash foldable device and it's you know, it's a small 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:15.880 foldable device. And this is funny. This is I Justine 0:29:15.920 --> 0:29:19.200 when I was up at CS she brought her Surface Duo. 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:22.640 They did not send me one for review. Purposes. I 0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:25.360 guess they figured my audience was not interested in this. 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:28.320 But you know, it is kind of a niche device 0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:31.920 because it's expensive and it's a first generation, and I 0:29:32.000 --> 0:29:35.640 probably I might have talked a little bit of trash 0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:37.480 about it because I said that, you know, it's kind 0:29:37.480 --> 0:29:39.280 of a first generation, i'd stay away from it. So 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:40.920 maybe they heard that and they just said, no, we're 0:29:40.920 --> 0:29:44.360 not gonna even bother with you, Rich. But whatever the 0:29:44.400 --> 0:29:47.120 reason is, Justine said she actually likes it a lot. 0:29:47.720 --> 0:29:50.000 It's a great size, she loves how it opens up. 0:29:50.240 --> 0:29:53.120 And while she did not let me touch it because 0:29:53.160 --> 0:29:57.120 of COVID reasons, you know, it looked cool. But I'll 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:58.840 be honest, she was on her iPhone most of the time, 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:02.240 so I mean, you know, but she said she loves 0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:05.640 browsing the web on it and doing all that cool stuff. 0:30:05.680 --> 0:30:08.760 And I look, I think that this kind of device 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:11.880 is part of our future. There are definitely gonna be 0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:15.200 more iterations of this, and I think the biggest downside 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:18.080 was the camera on that device. But otherwise, I mean, yeah, 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:19.760 something that folds up and you can use it for 0:30:19.840 --> 0:30:22.080 texting and browsing the web and all that stuff. I 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:25.520 think it's great now the Surface Pro if you were 0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:28.400 talking about that, I mean, Microsoft has had a lot 0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:30.760 of success with the Surface lineup, and I think they're 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:33.560 doing a great job. And I think, in fact, Microsoft 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.680 in general is really doing a nice job with their 0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:41.200 top to bottom kind of integration of apps and services. 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:44.680 And I really have not seen a dud out of 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:47.480 Microsoft in a while, and I think that they are 0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:50.040 doing a really nice job. I think they understand that 0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:52.920 there is a there's a large amount of people out 0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:56.320 there that do not necessarily need Apple products, and they 0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:58.520 want to be a little bit more productive, and they 0:30:58.560 --> 0:31:00.880 want something on the Windows side because they're more a 0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:04.480 little bit more business oriented. And so these Surface devices 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:07.600 have been great because they double as a you know, 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:11.000 a tablet and a laptop. And I think we've seen 0:31:11.520 --> 0:31:15.960 Apple not copy, but we've seen inspiration because Surface was 0:31:16.040 --> 0:31:18.600 doing this way way long ago, where you had a 0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:20.720 device that could stand up on its own and has 0:31:20.920 --> 0:31:23.520 a keyboard case and a stylus. And we kind of 0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:26.720 see the identical thing now with Apple with their iPad 0:31:26.800 --> 0:31:29.200 pro and they all kind of support a stylist. They 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:31.680 all have got the keyboard cases, they all can stand 0:31:31.760 --> 0:31:36.640 up on their side. So again, different people need different things, 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:39.640 and I think that these are are a great little device. 0:31:40.240 --> 0:31:42.200 And it kind of depends what you want to do. 0:31:42.320 --> 0:31:44.960 Are you in the Apple ecosystem or are you more 0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:48.480 business oriented with the Microsoft stuff because your company uses 0:31:48.520 --> 0:31:52.160 all Microsoft so and I think they've seen a lot 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:56.320 of a lot of take up with the you know, 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:59.240 with the business side of things with teams, especially during 0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:02.800 the pandemic. And also, let's not forget Microsoft Edge. I've 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:05.960 talked about how good that browser is. So I think 0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:10.120 no matter what she asked about Donald, whether it was 0:32:10.200 --> 0:32:13.880 the Duo or the Surface Pro, I think they're both 0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:16.440 great products. I think the Duo I would not recommend 0:32:16.440 --> 0:32:20.200 purchasing because I just don't think that it's there just yet. 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:23.040 But I think it's something to watch. And again, just 0:32:23.080 --> 0:32:26.640 like Microsoft was pretty early with the original Surface, I 0:32:26.680 --> 0:32:28.440 think the Duo is a little bit early when it 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:31.240 comes to foldables. Even with Samsung, we saw their first 0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:33.920 foldable to the second gen, they did a great job 0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:36.240 of improving it. In fact, I was just watching a 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:38.800 video with all the YouTubers saying with their favorite gadget 0:32:38.840 --> 0:32:41.560 of the year was, and a lot of them was 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:45.600 the Z fold they really really the z Fold two specifically, 0:32:46.000 --> 0:32:48.040 they loved it, and I love that device when I 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.560 had it. It's just again, it's not for me right now, 0:32:50.880 --> 0:32:52.400 but I think it's one of those things to keep 0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:55.280 an eye on. So good question. All right, let's move 0:32:55.320 --> 0:32:59.760 on to I thought this was pretty interesting. Bark is 0:32:59.800 --> 0:33:04.320 a company that analyzes social media and apps that your 0:33:04.400 --> 0:33:06.840 kids are using. And they've got like kind of like, 0:33:06.880 --> 0:33:09.160 you know, a lot of parents will email me and say, hey, Rich, 0:33:09.160 --> 0:33:11.160 how do I monitor what my kid's doing on Snapchat 0:33:11.240 --> 0:33:14.480 and all these things. Bark will analyze like thirty plus 0:33:14.800 --> 0:33:17.640 apps and platforms to see kind of like what your 0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:19.720 kids are doing, and they could send you alerts based 0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:22.680 on AI. So instead of having to go through every 0:33:22.760 --> 0:33:25.320 text message that your kids is that your kids are sending, 0:33:25.600 --> 0:33:28.040 AI will say this one looks a little sus you 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:30.360 might you might want to look into that one. So 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:36.240 they analyzed, uh, let's see, let's see. They analyzed children's 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:40.160 online activity with a specific focus on kids ten to eighteen, 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:44.400 and they analyzed more than I don't know two billion 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:48.760 messages across thirty apps. And here are the trends. Seventy 0:33:49.080 --> 0:33:52.160 six percent of teens and eighty two percent, oh, seventy 0:33:52.200 --> 0:33:55.040 six percent of tweens and eighty two percent of teens 0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:59.880 experienced cyber bullying. Forty five percent of tweens and six 0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:03.720 six percent of teens engaged in conversations about depression. Now, 0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:05.920 that was just unheard of when I was a kid. 0:34:06.000 --> 0:34:08.920 I mean, I honestly didn't even really know what that 0:34:09.200 --> 0:34:11.319 was when I was a kid. And now my wife 0:34:11.400 --> 0:34:15.840 being a therapist, I mean I definitely or yeah, counselor 0:34:15.880 --> 0:34:18.480 therapist for teens, I mean I definitely hear more about that, 0:34:18.520 --> 0:34:22.280 which is just wild. Seventy percent of teens and eighty 0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:25.319 seven percent of teens encountered nudity or content of a 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:29.120 sexual nature. That's scary, because again, when I was a kid, 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:33.520 didn't really have that either. Forty one percent of tweens 0:34:33.560 --> 0:34:36.480 and sixty six percent of teens were involved in self 0:34:36.480 --> 0:34:42.320 harm slash suicidal situation. That's really scary. Seventy eight percent 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:45.239 of tweens, ninety one percent of teens engaged in conversations 0:34:45.239 --> 0:34:48.440 surrounding drugs and alcohol, and eighty eight percent of tweens 0:34:48.480 --> 0:34:51.560 and ninety four percent of teens expressed or experienced violent 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:55.719 subject matter or thoughts. So I think the takeaway from 0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:58.480 this is that your kids are being exposed to a 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:02.720 lot of stuff, whether you realize that not, especially being home, 0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:06.200 especially being on computers, especially how connected they are. I mean, 0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:08.759 my kid the other day was on Minecraft and I 0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:12.680 was looking at his chats over his shoulder for a second, 0:35:12.840 --> 0:35:16.640 and the person on the other end was asking my 0:35:16.719 --> 0:35:19.000 kid if they can call them, and he was saying, 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:21.560 I don't know. You know, I said, hold on, what's 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:24.239 going on here? And the person was like, hey, you know, 0:35:24.280 --> 0:35:26.759 I don't really like to use voice to text. It's 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:29.200 so much easier just to just to call. Can I 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.359 call you? And my kid doesn't know who this person is. 0:35:31.960 --> 0:35:35.040 And so my point is you have to be really 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:37.359 on top of this stuff because I don't know who 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:40.160 this person was that my kid was communicating with, which 0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:43.120 is scary as a parent to begin with. But you know, 0:35:43.200 --> 0:35:46.880 this person was sounding like someone I don't want my 0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:49.359 kid to talk to, and so my kid was like, well, 0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:51.319 he's just saying that he wants to you know, it's 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:53.799 easier to talk. And I said, I don't know. That's 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:57.360 that's a little weird. And anyway, so you gotta be 0:35:57.360 --> 0:36:00.400 you gotta be careful about this stuff. Let's see. So 0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:03.640 the apps that are the scariest for all these different 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:07.719 things I just talked about. Top app for flagged for 0:36:07.800 --> 0:36:13.440 suicidal stuff is Twitter. Top app for depression Twitter. These 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:15.799 are apps that are flagged by ai as seeing the 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:19.719 most conversations dealing with these things. Top app flagged for 0:36:19.800 --> 0:36:26.160 severe body concerns, body issue concerns, body image concerns, TikTok, 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:34.680 no surprise there, severe bullying Twitter. Let's see top apps. Okay, yeah, so, 0:36:35.080 --> 0:36:38.000 if I'm reading this correctly as a parent, Twitter is 0:36:38.080 --> 0:36:42.799 the problem. Instagram is a close second because a lot 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.120 of kids are on there. But realistically, what this comes 0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:49.400 down to is where the kids communicating and it's yeah, 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:52.279 I mean it's Twitter, it's Instagram. So you just got 0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:54.120 to be aware of this stuff. I don't have the answers. 0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:56.960 I really don't, because I'm seeing what's happening with my 0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:00.120 kids in lockdown and they're on their computers more or 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:02.480 they're just doing more things than I ever did at 0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:07.080 their age on devices, And I don't really have advice 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:09.759 except that you have to kind of just monitor and 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:11.759 stay on top of this stuff and do the best 0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:15.760 you can and just kind of be aware that it's happening, 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:19.000 and just don't pretend that you don't think it's happening, 0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:23.880 because it's happening. All right, let's get to another question. 0:37:24.000 --> 0:37:28.279 God really Debbie Downer over here in that section of 0:37:28.320 --> 0:37:31.440 the podcast, let's talk to Don. Don says, I live 0:37:31.480 --> 0:37:34.360 in Westchester very close. Oh shoot, well, I guess I 0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:36.719 could say where they live. I live in Westchester, very 0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:38.879 close to Lax. Today we had a sales guy from 0:37:39.040 --> 0:37:42.920 Starry Internet come by to offer us free internet for 0:37:42.960 --> 0:37:45.040 six months as they are beta testing in our area. 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:47.480 I've never heard of them, Starry dot com. Do you 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:49.360 know anything about this service? You're the first person I 0:37:49.360 --> 0:37:52.560 thought to ask, sincerely, Don, Yes, Don, I do know 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:56.080 about this service. So I was at an event back 0:37:56.080 --> 0:37:58.200 when you can go to a little get togethers, about 0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:03.000 probably three years ago at this point that the people 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:06.799 from Starry were there, and they said, we're launching wireless 0:38:06.800 --> 0:38:09.800 internet in Los Angeles. That's going to be fifty megabits 0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:12.839 per second. And I said, what how are you doing that? 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:15.920 Like this was unheard of, right, even fifty megabits was 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:19.120 like fast back then, And so I said, I don't 0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:21.960 think you could do that, and sure enough, a couple 0:38:22.080 --> 0:38:23.959 years later, they actually did. They showed me the little 0:38:23.960 --> 0:38:25.600 modem they had and I asked them how they were 0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:26.920 going to do it. I said, is this coming from 0:38:26.960 --> 0:38:28.840 the you know, is this coming from the sky, Like, 0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:31.920 where's this coming from? And it was coming from wireless 0:38:31.920 --> 0:38:34.640 antennas that they installed on top of buildings and then 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:37.160 that would, you know, somehow beam the Internet into the 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:40.920 building with the wireless kind of router in your or 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:44.040 so basically they've put an antenna somewhere, you know, either 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:46.200 near your building or on top of it, and then 0:38:46.239 --> 0:38:48.960 they would give you a modem that was wireless and 0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:51.440 it would grab that signal from over the air and 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:54.960 then put it into your house or your apartment. And 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:57.600 so they've done a pretty good job. They've expanded, for sure. 0:38:57.640 --> 0:38:59.680 I think it's back then they pitched it to me, 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:02.920 it was like fifty bucks a month for fifty megabits 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:05.200 per second, and I don't know if that's changed. I can, 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:09.359 I guess I can look it up, but yeah, go 0:39:09.480 --> 0:39:11.200 for it. I mean, if they're giving you six months free, 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:15.000 I would definitely do that. So now it looks like outrageous, Okay. 0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:19.400 Their website says thirty dollars a month for fast internet, 0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:23.120 and that is up to one hundred megabits per second, 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:25.520 and fifty dollars a month now gives you up to 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:31.279 two hundred megabits per second. And I guess they're using 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:35.440 five G to accomplish this, So I'm guessing they're piggybacking 0:39:35.719 --> 0:39:41.120 on either you know, Verizons five G network or AT 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:44.200 and T's five G. But again, this all goes into 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:46.360 kind of the idea that I've talked about on the 0:39:46.480 --> 0:39:50.480 show for many years that when we get this five 0:39:50.600 --> 0:39:53.960 G super fast internet in a lot of places, it's 0:39:53.960 --> 0:39:56.319 going to be game changing because you are now going 0:39:56.400 --> 0:39:59.640 to have a choice at your house of T Mobile 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:03.120 as you're internet, Verizon as your internet, AT and T 0:40:03.280 --> 0:40:08.279 as your Internet, and that's huge. So you know, you 0:40:08.600 --> 0:40:10.480 don't have to do you don't have to go with 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.320 just the people that can wire a line to your place, 0:40:13.840 --> 0:40:16.040 which you know right now, that's pretty much what most 0:40:16.080 --> 0:40:18.600 people are limited to. So it's gonna open up competition, 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:21.760 it's gonna be great, It's gonna be you know, less contracts. 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:23.480 I mean, right now, I don't think there's any contracts 0:40:23.520 --> 0:40:25.719 with any of these, but it's gonna be good, and 0:40:25.760 --> 0:40:28.000 so more competition is going to be better, and we're 0:40:28.000 --> 0:40:30.160 just gonna continue to see these five G networks build 0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:34.279 out in a bigger and better way. All right, let's 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:37.760 go to the next story on my list here. This 0:40:37.760 --> 0:40:40.000 this is an interesting one. We've we've heard about these 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:42.520 things before. They keep trying them. I'm telling you this 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:44.919 just to be aware of it. But I don't think 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:47.960 it's gonna succeed. But hopefully it does, but I don't 0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:51.120 think so. So there's a new app called Beeper, and 0:40:51.160 --> 0:40:53.080 what they're trying to do is unify all of your 0:40:53.080 --> 0:40:58.320 messaging into one app. And it works with WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, 0:40:58.400 --> 0:41:03.440 I Message, Android Messages, Telegram, Twitter, Slack, Hangouts, Instagram, Skype, 0:41:04.160 --> 0:41:08.399 and a whole lot more. Now I don't know number one, 0:41:08.440 --> 0:41:12.359 the idea that one inbox can work with all these 0:41:12.360 --> 0:41:14.759 different messaging apps. I mean, I have got to see 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:17.439 it to believe it. We've seen this before and it's 0:41:17.480 --> 0:41:21.040 never as pretty or as good as you want. And 0:41:21.080 --> 0:41:22.719 the big one here that a lot of people are 0:41:22.760 --> 0:41:25.880 talking about is the fact that this will work with 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:28.920 I Message. And you think to yourself, well, wait, nothing 0:41:28.960 --> 0:41:34.000 works with I Message. And the reality is how they're 0:41:34.040 --> 0:41:36.880 making it work with I message is a little bit 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:40.719 of foolery, a little bit of trickery here. And the 0:41:40.760 --> 0:41:44.839 trick here is that they are actually giving you an 0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:49.200 iPhone for s that is jailbroken, that you keep kind 0:41:49.200 --> 0:41:51.520 of like in your house, connected to the internet, so 0:41:51.560 --> 0:41:55.160 that that can be the relay for your I message 0:41:55.200 --> 0:41:58.080 at all times. Now, that is a very very scary 0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:03.200 thing because you know, it's it's weird. It's a workaround. Yes, 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:06.239 does it work, probably, but will it will they find 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:10.960 a loophole or will Apple close loophole? Probably, So you 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:14.279 can't really build a business on something like you know, 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:18.560 kind of wedging. You're wedging a you know, you're wedging 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:20.960 into a hole that you just can't really stay in, 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:22.719 you know, because Apple is going to figure out a 0:42:22.719 --> 0:42:25.160 way around this. Now maybe they won't. Maybe because there's 0:42:25.160 --> 0:42:27.880 been other things over the years that do something similar. 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:32.840 And you know, there's these programs that make you install 0:42:32.880 --> 0:42:36.960 like a server on your computer to relay your eye messages, 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:39.080 but your your computer has to be on the whole time, 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:42.200 and that's just not very realistic. So I guess with 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:44.480 the phone it kind of makes sense. You just keep 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:47.120 the phone plugged in at all times in your house. 0:42:47.520 --> 0:42:50.160 It's on Wi Fi and somehow it relays the message. 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:52.840 But again it has to be jail broken because there's 0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:56.000 nothing that would be able to tap into that I message. 0:42:56.600 --> 0:43:00.440 That would just be an app you can standard install 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:03.640 on your phone. So this gets very complicated. It's called Beeper. 0:43:04.239 --> 0:43:06.160 You can check it out. But again, it's also ten 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:10.160 bucks a month. And people are excited because it sounds 0:43:10.239 --> 0:43:12.239 great to have all your messages in one place and 0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:15.640 finally be free of Apple's lock on your I message. 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:18.520 But the reality is, I don't think it's gonna work. 0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:21.480 But we'll say maybe I'm wrong. Sometimes I am wrong. 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:28.560 All right, let's take another message from podpage dot com, 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:31.719 slash rich on tech, podpage dot com, slash rich on tech. 0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:33.279 If you want to leave a voicemail, just look in 0:43:33.280 --> 0:43:36.680 the lower right hand corner for the microphone and you 0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:40.480 can leave a voicemail just like Michael did. 0:43:41.000 --> 0:43:44.400 Hey Rich, this is Michael from micro Break podcast and 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:46.520 I just wanted to thank you for your show. I 0:43:46.640 --> 0:43:49.360 learned something every single time I listened to it, and 0:43:49.400 --> 0:43:51.600 I've been listening for the past few years. As a 0:43:51.600 --> 0:43:54.360 matter of fact, it was one of the first podcasts 0:43:54.400 --> 0:43:57.600 that I ever listened to and subscribe to. I just 0:43:57.640 --> 0:44:00.200 wanted to thank you. You've also been an inspiration and 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:03.799 starting my own podcast, and I really appreciate everything you do. 0:44:03.920 --> 0:44:06.200 Keep up the great work, and thanks again for your 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:07.120 technical advice. 0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:13.040 Wow. Well, thank you Michael. Michael. I often I recognize 0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:16.040 the name because I often see you tweeting me on Twitter, 0:44:16.200 --> 0:44:20.879 so I will check out your podcast, the micro Break Podcast. 0:44:21.080 --> 0:44:24.680 So yeah, you know, I'm not listening to as many 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:28.600 podcasts these days as I would like, and so I'm 0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:31.120 not like I used to have my I used to 0:44:31.160 --> 0:44:35.040 have like a podcast playlist that I would listen to 0:44:35.239 --> 0:44:37.800 on basically anytime I was in the car. So anytime 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:40.480 I was driving to work, driving home, driving to my stories, 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:43.400 I would listen to so many podcasts. And because I'm 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:45.799 not driving, it's really tough for me to listen. And 0:44:46.400 --> 0:44:49.440 I don't really listen to podcasts at home for some reason. 0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:51.239 I don't know if I'm programmed wrong or what, but 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:54.719 I can't really listen to podcasts in the background. Number one. 0:44:55.200 --> 0:44:59.360 And I also can't listen to podcasts while I'm working. 0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:03.600 I can't have my ear like on a podcast, you know, 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:05.600 with like headphones in while I'm trying to work, So 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:07.720 that just doesn't work with me. And if I listen 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:09.600 while I'm working, like if I have it on like 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:11.400 a smart speaker in the background, I don't listen to 0:45:11.480 --> 0:45:15.320 the podcast because I can't really hear it. So anyway, 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:20.120 there's a there's a lot of stuff that I Anyway, 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:22.400 I don't know what my point was, but thank you 0:45:22.480 --> 0:45:25.440 Michael for listening. I get so distracted. I'm not kidding. 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:28.120 I'm sitting here doing this podcast. My watch is going 0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:31.440 off like crazy. I'm gonna take that off because it 0:45:31.560 --> 0:45:34.760 just keeps vibrating. My computer keeps going off. I guess 0:45:34.880 --> 0:45:37.640 people are texting. Oh now, my phone's going on. I 0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:40.200 can't win. There's just too many things, Oh my gosh, 0:45:40.200 --> 0:45:43.440 too much technology surrounding me. I want to focus just 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.240 for an hour so I can do this podcast. But Michael, 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:48.640 thank you for that. And when I get to listening 0:45:48.680 --> 0:45:50.680 to podcasts more, believe me, I will listen to more. 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:54.200 All right, let's get oh my gosh, another Michael, another Michael. 0:45:54.239 --> 0:45:57.920 For the next question, Michael says, hey, Rich, I went 0:45:57.960 --> 0:46:00.000 to my carrier store of Verizon to see about up 0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:02.399 creating my old iPhone six plus and expected to pay 0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:04.799 the seven hundred dollars for a newer model. They said 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:06.759 if I traded it in, they would give me five 0:46:06.840 --> 0:46:08.759 hundred dollars towards an iPhone twelve, but I'd have to 0:46:08.760 --> 0:46:10.799 sign up for a new unlimited plan that would last 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:13.120 for two years. I really don't care about the two 0:46:13.160 --> 0:46:15.400 year commitment because I've been with them for twelve years. 0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:17.120 But I don't see how they can give me five 0:46:17.200 --> 0:46:19.960 hundred dollars towards a new phone. I've always bought directly 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:22.200 from Apple and they would only give me fifty dollars 0:46:22.280 --> 0:46:24.799 for it. I've never been on a monthly plan, so 0:46:24.840 --> 0:46:28.439 it's strange new territory for me. I'm sixty eight years old, 0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:30.000 I have a brother and sister. On my plan, I 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:32.800 pay ninety five dollars for two gigs a month. However, 0:46:33.320 --> 0:46:35.279 they've given me an extra two gigs for being a 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:38.920 retired vet. Thank you for your service. I do appreciate that, Michael. Together, 0:46:39.000 --> 0:46:41.440 we use less than two gigs a month, so the 0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:44.280 data is not an incentive. They also said my monthly 0:46:44.280 --> 0:46:47.120 bill would only increase by five dollars. I've always believed 0:46:47.120 --> 0:46:48.480 that if it sounds too good to be true, it 0:46:48.480 --> 0:46:50.200 probably is. But I thought i'd write to see if 0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:52.480 you can enlighten me a bit on how these monthly 0:46:52.560 --> 0:46:54.600 plans work. Thank you for your time and information you 0:46:54.600 --> 0:46:58.759 can give me. Michael, you are very smart for saying 0:46:58.760 --> 0:47:00.480 if it sounds too good to be true, probably is, 0:47:01.360 --> 0:47:06.120 And for this deal, I'd probably say, here's okay. Number one, 0:47:06.280 --> 0:47:08.800 these carriers are not just out of the kindness of 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:14.160 their heart giving you a very expensive phone for very cheap. 0:47:14.520 --> 0:47:16.719 So you kind of nailed it in certain ways. You 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:18.040 said that you have to sign up for a new 0:47:18.120 --> 0:47:21.319 unlimited plan. That's your first red flag and it would 0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:24.960 last for two years. Now you are kind of okay. 0:47:25.760 --> 0:47:29.640 The thing is, the plan is contract free. There is 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:33.200 no contract with the plan. But here's where they get you. 0:47:33.840 --> 0:47:37.000 That seven hundred dollars are giving you for that iPhone 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:41.319 twelve towards the iPhone twelve. It is pro rated, which 0:47:41.400 --> 0:47:45.560 means it is spread out over twenty four months. So 0:47:46.320 --> 0:47:48.680 the way they do it is that if you cancel 0:47:48.880 --> 0:47:51.680 before those twenty four months are up, guess what You've 0:47:51.760 --> 0:47:55.600 lost your promotion, and now that promotion you have to 0:47:55.640 --> 0:47:58.239 pay it back and you owe, I don't know the 0:47:58.280 --> 0:48:02.200 full amount, I think. And them telling you that your 0:48:02.239 --> 0:48:04.279 plan is only going to go up five dollars a month, 0:48:04.360 --> 0:48:07.600 I don't believe that at all. You've got three people 0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:09.839 on your plan. There is no way that you can 0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:12.200 get three people on a plan for one hundred dollars 0:48:12.239 --> 0:48:15.560 a month. That's just that's not possible through Verizon on 0:48:15.640 --> 0:48:19.719 an unlimited plan. Now, unlimited plans at Verizon might start 0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:22.359 at eighty dollars a month, and that's you know, for 0:48:22.440 --> 0:48:24.640 the three of you. But or they may say that 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:27.359 your plan's only going up five dollars. They didn't mention 0:48:27.480 --> 0:48:29.480 the other two plans that you also have to pay, 0:48:29.840 --> 0:48:33.120 So I you know, I think so. I used to 0:48:33.120 --> 0:48:35.959 sell cell phones a long time ago, and the joke 0:48:36.120 --> 0:48:37.760 was always, you know, we used to give the phones 0:48:37.760 --> 0:48:40.320 away for a penny and you sign up for the plan. 0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:42.000 And back then it was like minutes, you know, you 0:48:42.040 --> 0:48:44.120 got like three hundred minutes, probably like twenty five minutes, 0:48:44.160 --> 0:48:47.320 whatever it was. It was so long ago, but like clockwork, 0:48:47.440 --> 0:48:49.279 people would get their phone for a penny and they'd 0:48:49.320 --> 0:48:52.360 come back into the store after a month when they 0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:53.759 got their first bill or a month and a half, 0:48:53.800 --> 0:48:56.359 they'd be like, what's this five hundred dollars bill? And 0:48:56.560 --> 0:48:59.440 they didn't realize that their whole, entire, the whole, the 0:48:59.520 --> 0:49:02.120 whole thing was that you got your phone for a penny, 0:49:02.320 --> 0:49:04.839 but your monthly plan was so expensive. And by the way, 0:49:04.880 --> 0:49:07.359 you had to pay a month upfront, so you're pro 0:49:07.480 --> 0:49:09.160 rated by the time you got out of the store. 0:49:09.200 --> 0:49:11.800 I mean you were. You know this, this fifty dollars 0:49:11.760 --> 0:49:13.520 a month plan would turn into one hundred and fifty 0:49:13.520 --> 0:49:15.239 two hundred dollars and people would be like, why is 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:18.080 my bill two hundred dollars? And then we politely explain 0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:21.040 all the details that we kind of glazed over. Now, 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:24.960 I was never misleading, believe me, but I think some 0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:26.840 people were. And those were the people I had to 0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:29.520 clean up after with their bills when they came in 0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:32.359 and so anyway, but I think that's what's happening here. 0:49:32.440 --> 0:49:35.359 I don't want to say that the person is being nefarious, 0:49:35.440 --> 0:49:37.680 but I think that they're leaving some things out and 0:49:37.719 --> 0:49:41.280 not explaining other things properly. But there is no such 0:49:41.320 --> 0:49:44.080 thing as just a free seven hundred dollars phone anymore. 0:49:44.320 --> 0:49:46.239 They are getting you some way and in this case, 0:49:46.280 --> 0:49:49.319 they are making up the price of that phone over 0:49:49.400 --> 0:49:53.320 the increased charges to your monthly plan over time, and 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:56.200 that's that's really what they're doing. I've seen people where 0:49:56.239 --> 0:49:59.239 they activate an additional line on like an iPad to 0:49:59.280 --> 0:50:01.680 get it for free, and it's never free. It is 0:50:01.840 --> 0:50:06.040 never free. You're always paying in some way, even if 0:50:06.080 --> 0:50:09.160 you're paying more for your monthly service than you have 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:13.560 to because for you, Michael, honestly, I would recommend switching 0:50:13.600 --> 0:50:17.719 to what's called Visible and you can get a unlimited 0:50:17.760 --> 0:50:20.239 plan for forty dollars a month, and if you have 0:50:20.280 --> 0:50:23.080 your brother and sister on it, it even drops down further 0:50:23.120 --> 0:50:25.200 because they take off five dollars a month for each 0:50:25.239 --> 0:50:29.120 additional person, so you can have you for forty and 0:50:29.239 --> 0:50:30.960 actually I think it goes down for all three of you, 0:50:31.280 --> 0:50:32.760 so I think it would end up being like thirty 0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:35.600 dollars a month for each of you. So anyway, that's 0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:38.279 what I would look into, Michael, as as a way 0:50:38.320 --> 0:50:40.480 to really save money. You'll have to pay for your phone, 0:50:40.920 --> 0:50:44.719 but you can actually save money month in, month out 0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:46.560 and not really need to think about all this stuff. 0:50:48.239 --> 0:50:50.880 All right. I talked about Microsoft Edge and Microsoft just 0:50:50.920 --> 0:50:53.239 a little bit ago. But you know, so I ended 0:50:53.320 --> 0:50:56.520 up switching back to Chrome, which I'm kind of regretting, 0:50:56.640 --> 0:50:58.640 even though I just love Chrome. But I should go 0:50:58.680 --> 0:51:01.839 back to Edge. But Edge they continue to do cool things. 0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:05.560 Now they're adding a password generator, and I'm getting a 0:51:05.560 --> 0:51:08.360 lot of questions in the new year about passwords and 0:51:08.400 --> 0:51:12.200 password management, and for good reason, because everyone's getting hip 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:13.960 to the fact that we don't want to be hacked 0:51:14.000 --> 0:51:16.719 and we want our passwords to be strong. So use 0:51:16.719 --> 0:51:20.080 a password program. You can use last pass, you can 0:51:20.200 --> 0:51:23.680 use Dashlane, you can use one password, or I recommend 0:51:23.760 --> 0:51:26.759 if you are on a platform, like if you're only 0:51:26.880 --> 0:51:30.120 using Google stuff an Android phone along with Chrome on 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:33.440 your computer, you can use built into Chrome, they have 0:51:33.480 --> 0:51:36.880 a password function. So let's see where you find it. 0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:41.560 You go into more tools. You can go into let's 0:51:41.560 --> 0:51:48.279 see okay, sorry settings, and let's see autofill and then passwords, 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:53.080 and you can say offer to save passwords, and boom. 0:51:53.360 --> 0:51:56.840 You can just Chrome. When you come up against a 0:51:56.840 --> 0:51:59.120 website that needs a password, it will help you make one, 0:51:59.440 --> 0:52:01.920 it will save that for you, it will retrieve it 0:52:01.920 --> 0:52:04.279 the next time you try to log in. And you 0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:07.320 can also you know, copy and paste passwords out of 0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:10.160 Chrome into other products as well, and it all work 0:52:10.200 --> 0:52:14.560 on your Android phone. Now if you are using iOS 0:52:14.680 --> 0:52:18.719 stuff or an Apple stuff only, so I'm talking iOS 0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:23.719 Android or iOS iPhone and an Apple computer and iPad, 0:52:24.040 --> 0:52:27.120 then go ahead and use what's built into Apple, which 0:52:27.160 --> 0:52:30.479 is their own password program. So you can go into 0:52:30.480 --> 0:52:36.719 settings and go into passwords and then it can say 0:52:36.760 --> 0:52:39.560 autofill passwords and just turn that on and make sure 0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:42.680 that iCloud keychain is turned on. And now again the 0:52:42.719 --> 0:52:45.440 same thing. When you get up against a password or 0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:48.040 a form that needs to be filled out with a password, 0:52:48.120 --> 0:52:50.600 or a new app you sign up for, it will say, hey, 0:52:50.880 --> 0:52:53.160 we'll suggest a password for you. It will save those, 0:52:53.560 --> 0:52:55.319 it will plug them back in when you need them, 0:52:55.560 --> 0:52:58.399 and it's pretty simple. And on your desktop if using 0:52:58.440 --> 0:53:01.719 Safari or you know, Mac computer, it will do the 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:04.560 same thing. Now, if you're using a bunch of different 0:53:04.600 --> 0:53:06.560 devices like I am, you want to use one of 0:53:06.600 --> 0:53:11.120 these third party services, So now Edge has one, so 0:53:11.160 --> 0:53:13.640 you can use that and you know, or you can 0:53:13.760 --> 0:53:15.640 use one of these other ones I mentioned, like last past, 0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:19.480 dash Lane or one Password. But anyway, in the new 0:53:19.520 --> 0:53:23.200 Microsoft Edge, they do have the new password generator and keeper, 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:27.600 so you can just use that as well. Yeah, there 0:53:27.600 --> 0:53:35.640 you have it. All right, let's get to another question here. 0:53:35.800 --> 0:53:40.279 So many questions. Hey rich love keeping up with you 0:53:40.400 --> 0:53:44.280 and all the updates and reviews. Question amber X, personal 0:53:44.320 --> 0:53:46.600 cloud storage. Have you had a chance to review these 0:53:46.640 --> 0:53:49.400 types of devices yet? Thank you for your time, Leo. 0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:53.799 So amber X, gotta look this one up because I 0:53:53.920 --> 0:53:58.640 was not aware of this. Your privacy first, personal cloud 0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:02.960 and the immediate thing I see on this website is indiegog. 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:09.200 So I'm gonna say nothing against indiegg or against kickstarters, 0:54:09.200 --> 0:54:13.640 but honestly, I don't know. I mean, I don't know 0:54:13.680 --> 0:54:15.600 if this is a thing that you want to purchase 0:54:15.640 --> 0:54:23.680 because it's is it available, is it shipping? Let's see 0:54:25.120 --> 0:54:29.320 estimated shipping April twenty twenty one, So maybe it's great, 0:54:29.360 --> 0:54:31.680 but you know, let's wait till April twenty twenty one 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:35.000 for our decision on this thing. It's basically, from what 0:54:35.040 --> 0:54:37.120 I can see, it looks like a file your own 0:54:37.160 --> 0:54:41.319 personal cloud storage device that you can put, you know, 0:54:41.400 --> 0:54:43.040 all your stuff in, and it's like kind of like 0:54:43.080 --> 0:54:46.560 Google Drive, but from anywhere. Now, if you want something 0:54:46.680 --> 0:54:48.280 like this, there's a couple of things that are already 0:54:48.280 --> 0:54:52.240 available that do it already, and so I would recommend 0:54:52.280 --> 0:54:55.719 looking into something called EB which is IBI and they 0:54:55.719 --> 0:54:58.040 already have a device that will collect your photos and 0:54:58.120 --> 0:55:01.440 it's made by Western Digital, and so you know, it's 0:55:01.440 --> 0:55:04.680 a company that's reputable and it's private, nothing shared with 0:55:04.719 --> 0:55:07.680 the cloud, and that is ninety dollars for one terabyte 0:55:07.680 --> 0:55:10.600 of storage and again no monthly fees. You can plug 0:55:10.640 --> 0:55:12.560 your stuff into the back of it, like your cards, 0:55:12.560 --> 0:55:15.120 and it will it will find all that stuff. Or 0:55:15.160 --> 0:55:19.000 you can put an app on your phone and it 0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:22.200 will find the stuff on your app as well. You know, 0:55:22.400 --> 0:55:24.239 the app will find the pictures that you take on 0:55:24.280 --> 0:55:27.160 your phone. So EB is the thing that I recommend. 0:55:27.160 --> 0:55:28.719 If you want a little bit of more of a 0:55:28.880 --> 0:55:35.600 industrial solution, there is a drive that I use called 0:55:35.640 --> 0:55:40.880 Sonology s y Nloguy and Sonology is more of a 0:55:40.920 --> 0:55:44.520 build your own solution. It's basically a network attached storage 0:55:44.600 --> 0:55:47.680 drive that you put in your house and the magic 0:55:47.719 --> 0:55:50.080 is really their software. They do all kinds of stuff, 0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:51.560 but you put a hard drive in this or a 0:55:51.600 --> 0:55:54.000 couple and next thing you know, you can put all 0:55:54.000 --> 0:55:56.759 your stuff on there, save it, store it, and it 0:55:56.960 --> 0:55:59.560 will work. I don't use this anymore because I don't 0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:01.719 really have a reason too. But if you know, if 0:56:01.719 --> 0:56:03.400 you still want to have all your stuff private and 0:56:03.440 --> 0:56:06.239 on your own cloud, you know, those are the ways 0:56:06.280 --> 0:56:07.719 to do it. I actually need to set this back 0:56:07.760 --> 0:56:09.600 up again because I need to sync my Google Drive 0:56:09.640 --> 0:56:12.200 to it. I used to have it synked back when 0:56:12.280 --> 0:56:16.480 Google Drive would sink your Google Photos. I would have 0:56:16.600 --> 0:56:19.000 a copy of my Google Photos sync to my Synology 0:56:19.040 --> 0:56:21.839 at all times. Ever since they made Google Photos its 0:56:21.880 --> 0:56:25.840 own thing and very locked up and you can't just 0:56:25.880 --> 0:56:30.000 synk it with anything, which is really unfortunate. I I'm 0:56:30.080 --> 0:56:32.040 kind of in a tough place right now because the 0:56:32.040 --> 0:56:34.040 only way to get your Google photos is to download 0:56:34.080 --> 0:56:36.840 them completely. And I do think that Google needs to 0:56:36.880 --> 0:56:40.640 address this issue and make either an agreement with something 0:56:40.719 --> 0:56:44.160 like an eb or something like a Synology to let 0:56:44.200 --> 0:56:47.200 you sink your photos in your collection to a hard 0:56:47.280 --> 0:56:50.799 drive or I mean literally, they just need they just 0:56:50.840 --> 0:56:52.719 need to link up with a Wi Fi connected hard 0:56:52.760 --> 0:56:55.920 drive with software and say, you know, and just have 0:56:56.000 --> 0:56:57.960 one thing where you can just say a click and say, 0:56:58.239 --> 0:57:01.840 just please download a copy of my photos at all times, 0:57:01.880 --> 0:57:04.840 like keep this in sync with my Google Photos, and 0:57:04.880 --> 0:57:06.759 I don't know why Google is not doing that, because 0:57:06.760 --> 0:57:09.759 it's kind of a major, a major issue for me 0:57:09.960 --> 0:57:13.399 as someone who has built up an entire collection inside 0:57:13.440 --> 0:57:17.040 Google Photos in the cloud. I need a physical copy 0:57:17.120 --> 0:57:19.360 of my photos somewhere and I need them with me 0:57:19.400 --> 0:57:20.920 at all times, and right now I don't have that, 0:57:20.960 --> 0:57:24.440 which is kind of a problem. So good question. But 0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:28.520 yet check out the alternatives that I mentioned. All right, 0:57:28.640 --> 0:57:32.680 let's see, let's do maybe one more story. Netflix coming 0:57:32.760 --> 0:57:36.240 out with a shuffle button. And the only reason I 0:57:36.240 --> 0:57:38.360 mentioned this because I think it's cool, but I think 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:40.560 they could go a step further so that you know, 0:57:40.720 --> 0:57:42.880 I'm sorry. But and maybe I've talked about this in 0:57:42.920 --> 0:57:45.440 the show. But if you're sitting down to Netflix with 0:57:45.520 --> 0:57:47.600 literally no clue as to what you want to watch, 0:57:47.600 --> 0:57:50.280 and you're so desperate you have to press a shuffle 0:57:50.320 --> 0:57:54.360 button to like have something start playing without you doing anything, 0:57:56.560 --> 0:57:58.400 you've got a lot of time on your hands. So 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:01.320 and yes, I sit down to the TV and sometimes 0:58:01.360 --> 0:58:03.320 I don't know to watch, and I do sit there 0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:06.040 in my limited time that I watch stuff, but I 0:58:06.160 --> 0:58:07.840 kind of have an idea of what I want to see, 0:58:08.240 --> 0:58:10.280 and especially with YouTube, you know, and all these things. 0:58:10.280 --> 0:58:12.880 They have personalized homepages to help you find that stuff, 0:58:12.920 --> 0:58:15.000 but like, you should be a little bit more targeted, 0:58:15.040 --> 0:58:17.080 but you know, if you're not whatever. But what I 0:58:17.120 --> 0:58:21.080 do think would be cool is if they took this 0:58:21.200 --> 0:58:25.000 shuffle feature a little bit further and they actually shuffled 0:58:25.120 --> 0:58:28.200 movie scenes. I think that would be cool. So if 0:58:28.240 --> 0:58:31.320 I'm sitting down to watch Netflix and maybe or maybe 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:33.720 I just want my TV on in the background, I 0:58:33.760 --> 0:58:37.320 can just hit shuffle, like shuffle sports movie scenes, shuffle 0:58:37.400 --> 0:58:43.080 notable you know, crime movie scenes, shuffle notable holiday scenes 0:58:43.080 --> 0:58:45.400 for the holidays. I think that would be cool. And 0:58:45.440 --> 0:58:47.560 I don't think it would take much for Netflix to 0:58:47.640 --> 0:58:50.920 do that because all their stuff is probably cataloged anyway. 0:58:51.400 --> 0:58:54.280 But that's the future i'd like to see. I'm sorry 0:58:54.280 --> 0:58:56.280 to knock you if you think this. The shuffle feature 0:58:56.360 --> 0:58:58.840 is really cool, but I don't know. I'm sorry, but 0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:01.640 I'm not gonna sit down and like discover a new 0:59:01.720 --> 0:59:04.360 movie by pressing a shuffle button and like next thing, 0:59:04.440 --> 0:59:06.680 you know, I'm like, oh wow, cool, I'll just sit 0:59:06.680 --> 0:59:08.800 here for the next two hours watching this, Like, don't 0:59:08.920 --> 0:59:10.360 don't think so. I like the idea of it more 0:59:10.360 --> 0:59:13.840 being in the background. The shuffle, the shuffle scene feature 0:59:14.080 --> 0:59:18.680 is what I want. And yeah, the stuff that they're shuffling, 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:20.920 they say will be based on an algorithm of stuff 0:59:20.920 --> 0:59:24.840 you've previously watched. But I can't imagine a world where 0:59:24.840 --> 0:59:27.120 I sit down on a Friday night and I just 0:59:27.160 --> 0:59:29.560 press a shuffle button on Netflix and let Netflix just 0:59:29.600 --> 0:59:32.000 play some random show for me. I just can't imagine that. 0:59:32.480 --> 0:59:35.400 So I guess it's popular enough where people want it, 0:59:35.480 --> 0:59:44.000 but for me personally, I just don't need that. All right, 0:59:44.320 --> 0:59:48.600 let's see here. Oh my gosh, so many questions, so 0:59:48.720 --> 0:59:53.120 many questions. Let's see what else. Okay, let's do this question. 0:59:53.840 --> 0:59:57.560 That's my final question. Let's see. Patricia writes in a 0:59:57.640 --> 1:00:00.920 couple of questions regarding this year's CEO, of which I 1:00:00.960 --> 1:00:04.400 still miss attending for work. I saw the segment regarding 1:00:04.440 --> 1:00:07.120 the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty one Ultra. I am 1:00:07.160 --> 1:00:08.960 not in need of a new phone. However, with the 1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:12.560 constant changes with the cameras, perhaps late twenty twenty one 1:00:12.640 --> 1:00:16.200 early twenty twenty two, I would consider, based on your 1:00:16.200 --> 1:00:19.600 tech experience between Apple users since two thousand and five 1:00:19.640 --> 1:00:22.280 and Samsung, which do you prefer would be used for 1:00:22.360 --> 1:00:25.440 phone camera and some store docs and minimal social network, 1:00:25.480 --> 1:00:27.480 maybe play a game once in a while. You could 1:00:27.480 --> 1:00:29.720 say I'm old school, I use the phone for basics. 1:00:30.160 --> 1:00:32.840 So good question, Patricia. But I find that it's really 1:00:32.880 --> 1:00:35.760 tough for me to tell you whether you should go 1:00:35.840 --> 1:00:38.240 with Samsung or Apple, because I really think that it 1:00:38.240 --> 1:00:41.400 comes down to sort of your personal preference and a 1:00:41.520 --> 1:00:45.160 user's personal preference. So you know, what Apple fans like 1:00:45.360 --> 1:00:48.640 about Apple products is that it's simple, it works. All 1:00:48.680 --> 1:00:51.640 the accessories kind of come from Apple. They all work 1:00:51.720 --> 1:00:56.200 together seamlessly, and there are also tons of third party 1:00:56.400 --> 1:00:59.760 options for accessories, things like cases and add ons and 1:01:00.040 --> 1:01:03.160 outs and lights and all kinds of stuff that works 1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:06.640 around the iPhone. I mean, it's in its entire industry. 1:01:07.240 --> 1:01:09.080 And you also have the best selection of apps on 1:01:09.120 --> 1:01:12.120 the iPhone. And I'm not just saying that to be facetious, 1:01:12.200 --> 1:01:15.720 Like apps seem to work better on iOS. I don't 1:01:15.720 --> 1:01:17.800 know what it is if the developers take longer to 1:01:18.080 --> 1:01:20.880 code them, or if there's less devices to code for 1:01:21.000 --> 1:01:23.480 so they just work better and they seem prettier. But 1:01:23.760 --> 1:01:26.880 that's just the case now with Samsung. I think what 1:01:26.920 --> 1:01:30.760 you get there is you get sort of the anti iPhone, right. 1:01:31.240 --> 1:01:34.480 iPhone is the thing that a lot of people have. 1:01:34.800 --> 1:01:37.400 When you have a Samsung, you're kind of saying, I'm 1:01:37.480 --> 1:01:39.880 not having an iPhone. Right when you see someone that 1:01:39.880 --> 1:01:42.880 has a Samsung, you kind of ask, oh, why, I 1:01:42.880 --> 1:01:44.800 don't know why. That's just the reason. It was kind 1:01:44.840 --> 1:01:47.680 of what we do. And so people have their reasons for, oh, 1:01:47.680 --> 1:01:49.320 I don't really care about phones, I just got this, 1:01:49.840 --> 1:01:52.000 or I like Samsung because I don't like Apple, or 1:01:52.040 --> 1:01:54.840 I like Samsung for this feature X feature, and I 1:01:54.840 --> 1:01:57.280 feel like with Samsung they are kind of known as 1:01:57.320 --> 1:02:00.280 always pushing the envelope. So the features you see on 1:02:00.400 --> 1:02:04.560 the Samsung devices eventually come to Apple a couple years later. 1:02:04.880 --> 1:02:07.320 But Apple does put their own spin on them, and 1:02:07.360 --> 1:02:10.240 many times they perfect them, Like I wouldn't be surprised 1:02:10.280 --> 1:02:13.280 if we see a space zoom feature on the iPhone 1:02:13.280 --> 1:02:15.800 in a couple of years. But it might be perfected, 1:02:15.920 --> 1:02:18.200 you know, whereas we're seeing it right now for the 1:02:18.200 --> 1:02:22.000 past two years on Android with Samsung. But it's is 1:02:22.000 --> 1:02:22.600 it perfect? 1:02:22.600 --> 1:02:22.680 No? 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:27.400 Does it work yes? Is it cool? Yes? Now the 1:02:27.440 --> 1:02:30.520 price ranges is also another thing. Now I think Apple's 1:02:30.520 --> 1:02:33.240 gotten a lot better about having phones and various price 1:02:33.320 --> 1:02:36.480 ranges in recent years, but Samsung has been known for 1:02:36.600 --> 1:02:39.200 having phones and all kinds of price ranges, and their 1:02:39.200 --> 1:02:42.880 phones are also I would say, much more discounted with 1:02:43.040 --> 1:02:47.760 various deals than the Apple phones are. So you say 1:02:47.800 --> 1:02:50.120 you want basic, it really depends. If you've been using 1:02:50.120 --> 1:02:52.240 iPhone and you're fine with it since two thousand and five, 1:02:52.320 --> 1:02:54.160 then stick to iPhone. All your stuff's in there, You've 1:02:54.200 --> 1:02:56.080 got all the apps that you purchased. But if you 1:02:56.120 --> 1:02:57.960 want to change, you want to try something different, go 1:02:58.000 --> 1:02:59.960 with the S twenty and see how you like it. 1:03:00.000 --> 1:03:02.439 I don't think you need the Ultra because you said 1:03:02.480 --> 1:03:04.960 you're basic, and you know, if you don't need all 1:03:04.960 --> 1:03:07.920 those extra features, why pay for them. And I do 1:03:08.000 --> 1:03:09.800 think if you were doing if you told me you're 1:03:09.840 --> 1:03:14.320 doing something like video capture or content creation or editing 1:03:14.400 --> 1:03:17.720 or social media posting, I would say iPhone is a 1:03:17.720 --> 1:03:19.320 little bit better for that. Or if you said I 1:03:19.320 --> 1:03:21.680 need a smart watch, I do think iPhone is better. 1:03:21.760 --> 1:03:24.960 But I think this Samsung is going to be perfectly 1:03:25.000 --> 1:03:28.120 fine if you you know, if you so choose. I 1:03:28.160 --> 1:03:30.640 would also look into something like the Pixel five because 1:03:30.880 --> 1:03:33.720 or the Pixel four A five G because they have 1:03:33.920 --> 1:03:36.400 that has a slightly bigger screen, It's got great software, 1:03:36.480 --> 1:03:38.600 and it will probably do the things that you need. 1:03:39.280 --> 1:03:41.160 It really depends if you want to If you want 1:03:41.160 --> 1:03:43.959 to step away from iPhone, then I think you'll be fine. 1:03:44.000 --> 1:03:46.600 On the Android side. At this point, they're between the 1:03:46.640 --> 1:03:50.000 Samsung Galaxy S twenty lineup or sorry, did I say 1:03:50.040 --> 1:03:52.560 S twenty this whole time S twenty one lineup and 1:03:52.640 --> 1:03:56.200 the Pixel the latest pixels. I think you're gonna find 1:03:56.240 --> 1:03:59.560 something that is gonna suit your needs. So good question. 1:03:59.560 --> 1:04:02.600 I don't get it very often anymore, but it is 1:04:02.640 --> 1:04:05.880 something that you know, people do wonder about. And for myself, 1:04:05.920 --> 1:04:09.160 I think that Samsung. You know, like I said, I 1:04:09.200 --> 1:04:11.120 love iPhone, I mean I really do. I think there's 1:04:11.120 --> 1:04:12.720 so many amazing things you can do on it. But 1:04:12.760 --> 1:04:15.760 I also see the beauty of the operating system on 1:04:15.840 --> 1:04:18.440 Android that just kind of lets you do as you please. 1:04:18.560 --> 1:04:21.480 You know, you can really customize it to your to 1:04:21.560 --> 1:04:24.800 a great, great extent. All right, Well, that music means 1:04:24.880 --> 1:04:28.080 it is the end of the show. Thank you so 1:04:28.240 --> 1:04:30.760 much for listening. If you'd like to submit a question 1:04:30.800 --> 1:04:32.640 for me to answer, you can do it. 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