WEBVTT - New Fitbits; A More Private Facebook; Roku Connects with Alexa; Google Duplex Expands; App to Prevent Spying 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:08.360 Brand new Fitbits, a more private Facebook, Roku hooks up 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.960 with Alexa, an app to prevent spying on your computer, 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:14.360 and Tesla Supercharges. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.600 They're superchargers. What's going on? I'm rich dmiro. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.280 This is rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.000 about technology and answer your questions and talk about the 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.000 things that I think you should know about that happened 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.080 in the world of tech. The number one story, well maybe, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:30.680 I mean there's a lot of number one stories. But 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.640 what I think is interesting from the consumer perspective is 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.919 this is the week that the Samsung Galaxy S ten 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.920 is finally in stores. And you've heard a lot of 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.879 people talking about these devices because a lot of tech 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.879 journalists have had them for a couple of weeks now, 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.560 including myself. We've all had time to play with them, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.200 and I think the consensus is there this is one 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.480 of the best Android devices, if not the best Android device. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.840 And my review on my website at richon Tech dot tv, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.960 I go into all the details on this thing, but 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.920 the bottom line is this. I've been using the S 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.200 ten for about I think two or three weeks now, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.280 and it's one of those devices that when you're on 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.119 the Android side of things. It is everything that Android. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:13.480 Is all about. Right. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.560 It's got all the features you can ever imagine, including 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.479 the wireless charging, including a headphone jack, including the expandable storage, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.160 the fingerprint sensor. Not a big fan of that in 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.840 the screen, but it works. It's not that it doesn't 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.720 work fast. It's mainly that I can't find it fast enough. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.319 So my suggestion to Samsung is to and this is 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.360 very very simple for them to do. All they need 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.959 to do is add it to their always on. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.839 Display software update. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.959 But just let me always have the target area for 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.440 the fingerprint sensor on the screen at all times. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:46.920 Now. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.360 I don't know if that is going to mess it 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.000 up with burnin or whatever, but right now you kind 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.680 of have to. You know, if you lift up your phone, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.080 it doesn't necessarily it shows you you're always on display. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.960 It sometimes goes to your main screen with the thing 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.120 your print sensor icon on there, but I'd like to 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:03.760 see it there all the time. Maybe they can't do 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.080 that for burn in reasons, but that's really my only 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.880 problem with this device. Otherwise, I am super impressed. The 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.480 screen is beautiful, the design is beautiful. You will need 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:18.919 a case with this thing. The cameras are amazing now, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.679 I mean amazing in their flexibility. Are they the best 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.400 best cameras on any smartphone? 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:23.480 No? 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.840 I still think the pixel takes better pictures, but I 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.800 do love having the three lenses. I think the iPhone 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.600 ten R takes really nice pictures, as does the ten S. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.520 But when it comes to an Android device, when you 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.920 crave that customizability is that a word? 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:39.880 Customizability? 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.960 When you want to be able to customize every aspect 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.480 of this device, you can because guess what, you want 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.480 to change the browser, you can change the browser. You 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.280 want to change your email program, you can change your 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.640 email program. You want to change the default map app, 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.320 you can do that. You want to change what bixby 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.720 button opens, Yeah, you can almost do that, except for 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:00.520 Google Assistant. So the beauty of the Android platform is 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.239 that you're in control. And if you ever had an iPhone, 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.240 they're amazing. They're great, great, great devices. But it is 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.959 Apple's way or the highway, and that's the bottom line 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.440 with an Apple device. Yeah, sure, you can download Apple 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.040 Maps or Google Maps and ways and all these other 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.160 music players and stuff, but at the end of the day, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.480 ninety nine point nine percent of the time everything is 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.920 leading to Apple's way, which is you know, Apple Music, Safari, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:29.600 for the browser, Apple Maps, Siri. Everything is going towards Apple. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.000 And it's not a bad thing if you've embraced the 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.360 Apple world. But there's a whole other world out there 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.400 of people that want to kind of set their own 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.800 direction in life, and that's what Android lets you do. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.960 And I think right now the Samsung Galaxy S ten. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.640 Is the best device for that. Is it perfect? 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:46.920 No? 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.440 Is it pretty darn awesome? Yeah? So again in stores now. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.520 You can read my full review on the website rich 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.160 on tech dot TV. But I think people are gonna 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.640 be very happy with this Samsung Galaxy device. I think 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:03.160 the only source besides the fingerprint reader for me is 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.040 really some of the time it takes to get a 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.200 good picture in lower light situation. So I was at 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.360 a event with my wife and we were trying to 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.920 take a selfie and it just wasn't doing as good 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.800 of a job as say the iPhone or the pixel 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.160 and the iPhone even though the selfies in low light 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.920 and especially any low light pictures just don't look very good, 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.240 they get very pixelated. They still happen fast, right, It 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.800 still focuses fast, it takes them fast. I find with 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.080 the Samsung there's like a little bit of a delay 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.600 in low light situations where it really affects how you 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.359 get a good picture. And maybe that's a software update, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.680 who knows, But that's really my only problem. Otherwise, this 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.000 phone has been so much fun to play with over 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.839 the past couple of weeks. I really think that anyone 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.279 that gets it will be very very happy with it. Now, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.560 if you are getting a Samsung phone and you are 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.960 not a Spotify customer, they've got a pretty good deal 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.320 for you six months of free Spotify premium if you 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.520 are new to Spotify. So this only works if you 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.120 have not had Spotify before according to the Verge, but 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.720 this is all part of Samsung's sponsorship or partnership, I should. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:06.400 Say, with Spotify. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.200 So you can get six months of free Spotify, which 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.680 is pretty cool. I mean that's sixty bucks right there. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.599 And again, just look for the Spotify app on your 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.919 s ten, open it up, and if you sign up 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.520 through there, you will get your six months free. So 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.400 I do like that Pippitt has announced a few new devices. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.920 I feel like Pippit is always coming out with new devices. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.600 And it's funny because Pippit is one of these companies 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.440 that a lot of people get their stuff. Yet Fitbit 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.120 doesn't do any big events Like this is a company 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.880 that would do really well with a nice launch event. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:37.240 Right. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.120 You can have reporters go there, journalists, YouTubers, whatever. You 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.160 can have it all set up kind of cool with like, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.120 you know, different stations for exercise and all this stuff. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.840 But they never do that. They just literally send out 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.560 a press release and boom, you have like five new fitbits. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.200 So the Fitbits, I'll go through them real quick. The 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.520 Fippit Versa Light is basically the smart watch that I'm 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.040 wearing right now, but it a lesser version apparently has 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.320 all the core fitness and smart features of Versa like activity, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.480 sleep and heart rate tracking, plus notifications, apps and four 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.359 day battery life. But the difference is the Versa I 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.640 have has three buttons on it. The new Versa Light 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.880 only has one button. And that makes a lot of 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.159 sense because the funny thing about my Versa is that 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.520 the most confusing thing to me is what are these 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.599 buttons do? I'm always pressing them and it's the wrong button. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.960 So I think they realize that and they're testing that 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.320 one button is just fine. That's all they need. That's 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.000 going to sell for one hundred and sixty bucks, and 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.520 it comes in a bunch of cool colors, so that's 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.760 kind of nice. The Fitbit Inspire HR is sort of 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.440 like their classic, you know, fitness tracker that looks like 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.560 a wristband. This is twenty four to seven heart rate tracking, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.599 fifteen goal based exercises, sleep stages, whatever that means, and 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.840 up to five days of battery life. So you can 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.119 wear this for five days, and that's really nice, don't 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.440 you know? You can't really knock the five days off 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.000 because it's so nice to not have to charge your 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.480 wearable every day. When I was wearing the Apple Watch, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.080 it's like every single night you gotta charge it and 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.120 you don't get sleep tracking. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:10.640 So with the with. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.000 The versa, I love it that I literally just charge 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.320 it when I take a shower and it's charged up 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.320 enough for the day, and you know, over the weekend, 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:18.880 maybe I'll charge it one of the one of the 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.800 full days or something. But I like having all my stats, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.560 so I don't I don't want to not have it on. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.440 Especially for sleep. I love having the sleep stats. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:30.480 On the Fippits, and so the Fippit Inspire HR is 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.600 also swim proof, and that will sell for one hundred bucks. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:34.880 That's kind of like the most common one. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.800 That's probably the one i'd recommend for ninety nine percent 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.040 of people, unless you like the idea of a smart 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.320 watch one. Now, this one I don't really recommend. This 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.440 is the Fipbit Inspire. They call it their most affordable tracker. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.040 But the thing I don't like about this is there 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.600 is no heart rate sensor on this, So to me, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.440 these are not worth it. If you're not getting the 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.920 heart rate sensor. Spend the extra thirty dollars get the 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.000 heart rate censor. You get a whole bunch more data, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.160 much more useful data. And I just think that the 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.000 Inspire is something to get people on board because it's 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.480 seventy bucks, but clearly it's going to sell for a 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.480 lot less when you get it on special and deal 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.440 and sale, So I think that it's just a better 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.520 deal to get the Inspire HR or the versa with 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.480 the heart rate. So just make sure when you're buying 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.480 one of these trackers it does do heart rate, because 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.640 I think that's the most important aspect and. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.080 Finally, there's a Fitbit ACE two. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.680 This is for kids ages six and up, and this 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.600 has a swim proof design, fun colors, kid friendly features, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.640 and encourages more family time through physical activity, which is 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.480 kind of cool, but also has parental controls to safeguard 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.800 kids privacy and parents can look at their sleep habits, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.679 which I really like. That's pretty awesome. It's going to 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.600 be seventy dollars. And I will tell you my kid 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.480 has been testing a smart watch, the cool Pad Dino 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.840 smart watch, and it's funny because the feature he likes 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.400 the most about it is the step count, which I 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.000 would have never thought he loves getting those steps up. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.320 So I kind of love the idea that he's into that, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.679 and I like the idea that the fipbit does that. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:01.520 I don't know. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.440 I have a tough time with all these things with 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.600 the kids, because, like, kids need to be kids. Right 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:07.959 when I was a kid, I never thought about my 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:09.920 step count or how much activity I was getting. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:10.640 I just did stuff. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.560 I was out all afternoon, just kind of playing in 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.760 the street with my friends, riding our bikes, doing whatever 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.120 until my parents called. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:18.520 Me in for dinner. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.120 So the fact that my kid has to think about, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.680 am I hitting ten thousand steps today? I don't know 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.240 if I like that idea. But at the same time, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.040 if you know, if you have a kid that you 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.200 think could benefit from this, I'm all for it, you know. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.240 So that's gonna be seventy dollars. These don't have a 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.319 launch date just yet. They are on pre sale though, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.240 so you can order them. The fitbit feature that everyone 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.000 will benefit from is a major redesign of the mobile app, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.680 so that's coming soon. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.559 Fitbit says this will let you. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:51.320 Further personalize your dashboard, better understand your data, discover new content, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.640 and connect with each other in fitbit social community. And 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.400 I have not connected with anyone on Fitbit, but I 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.400 was when I was wearing the Apple Watch. Connected with 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.240 my wife and my sister who's a big fitness guru. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.240 Follow her on Instagram. She is your fave veggie gal. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.160 So that's my sister on Instagram, so go find her there. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.080 But she's a big trainer and really into fitness and 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.800 health and all that stuff. So I was on linked 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.760 up with her and linked up with my wife, and 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.960 so every time we completed a workout, we would see 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.040 that and with one little tap on your Apple Watch, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.840 you could say nice job. Or they had these little 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.160 cheesy things that were so funny, but they were canned, 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:30.800 but I loved them, so we'd all send those to 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.400 each other. So I think that the community when it 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.640 comes to fitness is really important, and I like that 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.480 fitbit is doubling down on that aspect as well. Facebook 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.720 founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a big post over 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.280 the last week talking about Facebook and Instagram and how 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.240 over the past fifteen years it has helped connect a 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:51.840 lot of people. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.199 But he's talking about kind of. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.520 The future of things and where he sees everything going, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.040 especially when it comes to communication, and he says, but 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.679 the ways people are communicating right now that are growing 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.640 the fastest are private messaging, which is like Facebook Messenger, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.480 ephemeral stories, which is like Instagram stories. You can do 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.840 stories a messenger, you can do stories on Facebook. You've 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.480 got small groups, which I know the groups on Facebook pages. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.400 A lot of people do that for small groups, and 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.839 of course anyone can create a group on Facebook. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.800 But the thing that he's noticing. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.719 Is that people are preferring the intimacy of communicating one 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.839 on one or just with a few friends and they're 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.439 more cautious of having a permanent record of what they shared. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.880 And these are all very true things. So when Facebook 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.080 came out and all these different platforms, people love sharing 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.400 with as many people as possible. And that's still true 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.800 for like influencers and stuff. But I think for the 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:49.440 average person, they're much more focused on kind of the 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.960 idea of privacy. And if I post this, who sees this? 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.360 Does my employer see this? Will my kids see this 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.000 in the future, Can other people in my class see this? 0:11:58.640 --> 0:11:59.920 Can my family members see this? 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.880 So I think we're all much more hyper aware of 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:07.239 this based on just kind of how things changed. But Facebook, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.000 this is my favorite line. He basically says that they 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.560 want to put privacy first on their simpler platform, right, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.160 So this is my favorite line. I understand that many 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.360 people don't think Facebook can or even would want to 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.800 build this kind of privacy focused platform because frankly, we 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.800 don't have We don't currently have a strong reputation for 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.040 building privacy protective services. We've historically focused on tools for 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.600 open sharing. But then Zuckerberg goes on to say that 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.440 we have repeatedly shown that we can evolve, and I 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.480 agree they have evolved, and so now they're going to 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.880 do private encrypted services. So he goes through a couple 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.400 of these things here, like private interactions, So again these 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.559 are kind of like direct messages encryption. He's going to 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.880 focus more on end to end encryption, which means that 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.400 basically no one can see your messages, not the government, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.920 not Facebook, no one unless they have the key to 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.120 your message, which they don't, reducing permanence, which these are 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.640 kind of like stories that last twenty four hours. I 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.880 think the irony of that is that most people don't 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.280 realize that their Facebook and Instagram stories. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.280 I don't know about Facebook, but Instagram. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.679 Stories, there's like your Stories archive, which I think is 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.240 on by default, which does keep all your stories forever, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.000 but in a private way that you can go back 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.360 to but other people can't see. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:18.720 So I think that's kind of ironic. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.720 Safety interoperability, which this is his big push to kind 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:28.640 of unify messaging across WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, and maybe Instagram. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.240 Is that the other one, so yeah, let's see. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.360 I think I forget which one it is, but anyway, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.760 but he wants to kind of build keep all those 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.400 all that messaging together, which I kind of like and 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.640 then secure data storage. So again, Facebook, you know, they're 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.440 trying to change with the times, and I think that 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.080 will they be successful probably. I mean Facebook has adapted 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.480 over the years, and I think that at this point, 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.000 people love what Facebook has done for them. You know, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.040 it's kind of connected people in amazing ways. But we're 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.160 also smarter now and we understand and like, I find 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.320 myself using stories way more now than ever before, because 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.319 I like the idea of what I share there is. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:07.280 On for twenty four hours. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.160 If I share something stupid or lame or like, who 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.680 really cares, It's only there for twenty four hours, right, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.480 And I'm not saying I'm gonna sit there and say 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.080 mean things or really get at people because it's only 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.080 there for twenty four hours. But I'm just saying I 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.000 like the idea of I don't have to be so serious. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:25.240 Like Twitter is like a solid, like you know, record 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.000 of everything you say and it stays there forever. But 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.880 I love the idea that story is just kind of like, oh, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.720 this is fun, this is cool, this is witty, this 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.600 is interesting, this is something I just noticed and I 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.560 can share it on there and boom, it's gone in 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.120 twenty four hours and I don't really have to think 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:38.640 about it ever. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:39.000 Again. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:40.760 Oh, by the way, in case you haven't noticed, on 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.080 this week's show, I will not have phone calls because 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.880 I was not able to do it some weeks. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:45.520 I'm just busy. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.760 I was out sick from work on one day this 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.960 week and that really put me behind on a couple 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.280 of things I'm doing. So no phone calls. But I 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.080 still will talk about the stuff that I think I 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.240 find interesting for you guys. But let's talk about Roku. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.160 They are hooking up with Alexa. So now if you 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.680 have an Alexa, you can turn on the new Roku 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.160 skill and basically let your Roku be controlled by Alexa. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.920 So again, this works with the Amazon show, the Echo Show, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.440 the Dot, the Spot, the Plus, we got a lot 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:14.120 of them out there. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.560 But you can pause a show. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.360 You can launch a streaming channel and search for entertainment 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.800 by saying things like LEXA find comedies on Roku, lexa 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.640 pause Roku, LEXA open Hulu on Roku. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.280 Now here's my problem with all this. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.920 I love that you can do this, right, but who 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.280 in the world says something like lexa open Hulu on 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:40.280 Roku right, or LEXA pause Roku No if I wanted to, 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.360 if I wanted to pause, I would literally look at 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.720 the TV and be like, can you pause that? 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:45.160 Right? 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.480 I mean that's kind of like where we're trying to 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.400 get with these voice commands, and I think that we're 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.880 getting better, and I see, look, this is a longer road. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.440 We're not going to have this overnight because if you 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.160 just screamed out pause this, that means that your your 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.280 device would have to be listening for all things at 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.840 all times, and not just the code word. But it's 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.720 funny that we have to do these things in a 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.800 very I call the very precise syntax. Right, you have 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.760 to say things in a certain way, and eventually that 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.440 will go away. But right now we're kind of in 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.600 this in between stage of voice commands, and so that's 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.160 why you have to say, find comedies on Roku. You 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.200 know with that robotic voice. You don't have to use 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.040 the robotic voice. That's just optional. But if you have 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.120 a Roku TV, you can take things a step further. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.760 You can turn on the TV, change the volume, mute 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.240 the TV, change inputs, change channels, so I love that, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.240 or even turn the volume up. So again, if you 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.640 have Alexa you've got Roku, you can link them up 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.960 and you can do this. I have this hooked up 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.280 in my house with Google Chrome Cast and also the 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.720 Google Assistant, and it's it's great. I mean, I don't 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.360 use it very often, but the level of support is 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.240 pretty cool. Like I can come home and I can say, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:03.960 you know, hg hey, Oogle, show me kids science experiments 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.160 videos on YouTube, and oh, that's just activated my phone. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.520 So I apologize if I just activated your stuff. I 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.119 didn't think that would happen. But anyway, so you know, 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.320 the reality is it's really cool. And on my TV 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.440 the way you know the modern TVs, the Chrome Cast 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.040 will literally turn on your TV, tune to YouTube, and 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.119 start playing the video. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.800 And I find that really fascinating. I love it. I 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.600 think that's really cool. Do I use it very often? 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.119 No, because oftentimes I can narrow down and choose what 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.000 I want to watch in a much simpler way by 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.119 doing it for my phone and then casting it to 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:36.639 the TV. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:37.800 But again, we're in the. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.000 Beginning stages of this stuff, and in the future it 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:40.720 will get better. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:41.800 Okay, speaking of. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.480 Google Assistant and Google Home, Google is rolling out according 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.199 to Android Central. Continued conversations on their smart displays. So 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.920 what is continued conversations? Basically, you don't have to say 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.080 the code word or the hot word or the keyword 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.840 whatever you call it, in between every command. Right, So, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.719 so we're in this place right now where everything you 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.919 want to do you have to keep saying the little 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.919 hot word to get Google to interact with you. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:09.240 Right. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.959 Well, if you have continued conversations turned on, which, by 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.560 the way, you can turn this on for your smart speakers. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.320 So that's already been a thing, but now it's coming 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:18.240