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Speaker 1: Google finally unveils its Pixel smart watch and shows off

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Speaker 1: new Pixel seven phones. We're going hands on plus your

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Speaker 1: tech questions answered.

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Speaker 2: What's going on.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think

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Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place where I

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Speaker 1: answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Do not adjust your dial. This is the way it sounds.

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Speaker 1: This is the way it's going to be for this show.

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Speaker 1: Because I am on the road in New York City

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Speaker 1: looking at a beautiful.

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Speaker 2: View of Manhattan.

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Speaker 1: Well, if I angle my face or my head, I

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Speaker 1: should say I can see a beautiful view. Otherwise I

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Speaker 1: just look into someone else's building across the way. But

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Speaker 1: it's still beautiful. It's still an amazing city. Just walking

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Speaker 1: around New York is so much fun to me. Even

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Speaker 1: though I grew up right across the river and I

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Speaker 1: came here many times as a child, it's just there's

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Speaker 1: something so like you almost can't imagine and living here,

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Speaker 1: but yet people do. And it's a really cool place.

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Speaker 1: It's a very fast paced place to live and there's

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Speaker 1: just so much going on. I man, I walked to

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Speaker 1: dinner last night, walked to dinner both nights, actually almost

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Speaker 1: a mile to the restaurant each time, and it's just there's.

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Speaker 2: Such an energy.

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Speaker 1: There's just people everywhere, and it's just such a cool place.

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Speaker 1: I mean, to be able to buy anything you need

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Speaker 1: in the world by walking downstairs is such a cool concept.

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Speaker 1: On that note, both times, well, no, not that, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess it was both times. So you know, when

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Speaker 1: I stay in a hotel, I usually put my stuff

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Speaker 1: in the safe and with my wallet. I was walking

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Speaker 1: to the restaurant the first night and I had to

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Speaker 1: turn around because I was like, oh, forgot my wallet

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Speaker 1: and this place was a cash only place, so I

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Speaker 1: knew I couldn't do tap to pay or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: JG.

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Speaker 1: Mellon, by the way, I heard about it through Bobby

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Speaker 1: flay On. I don't know if it was his podcast

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Speaker 1: or something. Maybe it was his podcast where he talked

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Speaker 1: about it, and it was just such a you know,

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Speaker 1: he's like saying, it's my favorite burger place. Then I

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Speaker 1: researched it on YouTube and people love it. So old

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Speaker 1: school burger joint. You get in there, sit at the bar,

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Speaker 1: you get a burger. It's just such a great ambiance.

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Speaker 1: Cash only, so if you go, they serve the burger

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Speaker 2: And that was enough. It was one of the best

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Speaker 2: burgers I had.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was just the whole ambiance, the whole everything

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Speaker 1: adding up together, who knows, but it was.

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Speaker 2: It was excellent.

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Speaker 1: Then the person I was sitting next to at the

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Speaker 1: restaurant recommended I said, you know, he was a food person,

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Speaker 1: So I said, can you recommend a.

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Speaker 1: And he said, sure, this place called Upland, And so

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Speaker 2: So long story short. Asked the bartender. I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: To pay or anything like that, and she said, no,

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Speaker 1: no Apple Pay. But well, there is this QR code

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, QR code, I can scan that and

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Speaker 1: So I almost said, can you ring me up right

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Speaker 1: now and just let me do a test. She said, no,

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Speaker 1: then it was Venmo for a searcharge, or you can

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Speaker 1: my device itself, in my password manager. So I don't

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Speaker 1: it's a credit card number. If someone gets it, you

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Speaker 1: just get a new card, but it's still a hassle.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, it all worked out. And note to self,

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Speaker 1: remember your wallet. And note to restaurants, please please please

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Speaker 1: It's everywhere else now you know all the major stores,

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Speaker 2: I don't know why. It would have saved me last night.

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Speaker 1: A lot of hassle, a lot of stress because we

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Speaker 1: go with our phones everywhere, but our wallets increasingly, it's

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Speaker 1: like that thing that you check for your phone. Typically

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Speaker 1: you check for your wallet and keys. I don't care keys.

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Speaker 1: I barely carry a wallet because I'm all tap and

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Speaker 1: and a little bit of cash. Anyway, that's my story.

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Speaker 1: I'm sticking to it.

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Speaker 2: It all worked out. But I had two.

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Speaker 1: So all right, let's get to why I'm here. I'm

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Speaker 1: here in New York City for the Google Pixel event.

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Speaker 1: They call it a Made by Google event, and this

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Speaker 1: it like I'm here for it already or waiting for it.

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Speaker 1: But it was yesterday and Google showed off as expected.

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Speaker 1: It's a highly anticipated smart watch, and then the Google

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Speaker 1: Pixel seven phones. So let's start with the smart watch

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Speaker 1: has been a long time coming. And the best way

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Speaker 1: Three sixty I think it was called. They both have

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Speaker 1: that round face, very smooth, very polished, looking almost like

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Speaker 2: But they work. Nice little screen.

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Speaker 1: It's forty one millimeters case, so it looks really slim

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Speaker 2: It's water resistant.

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Speaker 1: It's got nineteen different watch faces and they're all customizable.

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Speaker 1: can get really nitty gritty with how you customize them.

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Speaker 1: And let's not forget this is Google's version of a

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Speaker 1: the stuff I do on the Apple Watch is pretty

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Speaker 1: much Apple related, right, So Siri very basic, I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: Apple Maps I don't really use except when i'm walking

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Speaker 1: I'll do that. The rest of this stuff is really

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Speaker 1: just workouts and even music. You know, you have your

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Speaker 1: Music, of course works flawlessly, so you can go to that,

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Speaker 1: which is what I ended up doing. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Apple Watch is fantastic and I still think it

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Speaker 1: Fitbit smarts are fantastic because they literally built Fitbit into

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Speaker 1: this watch. Now, fippit is very smart. They've been around

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Speaker 1: get thirty. But you've also got excellent sleep tracking as

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Speaker 1: well on this device, so it's so minimalistic and slim

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Speaker 1: that it's easy to wear to bed because you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, it just doesn't really make you think

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Speaker 1: your wrist because it's so lightweight, and obviously you can

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Speaker 1: do the all the fitness tracking on there as well.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what else you've got.

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Speaker 1: Emergency so it can call someone if you feel unsafe.

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Speaker 1: Fall detection is coming soon. That's kind of a miss

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Speaker 1: on Google's part, Like what I mean, they took like

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Speaker 1: so many years to make this watch. Why couldn't they

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Speaker 1: just do fall detection. I don't know what's the other

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Speaker 1: things They've got ECG, so that's similar to the Apple Watch.

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Speaker 1: You can do your ECG, you've got your sleep score,

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Speaker 1: you've got your breathing rate, heart rate variability, all kinds

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Speaker 2: Now here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: They're going to try to get you to subscribe to

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Speaker 1: fitbit Premium on this watch, which I think is six

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Speaker 1: six or seven bucks a month, so I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you're going to need that. They give you six

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Speaker 1: months free. I have not tested that just yet. I

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Speaker 1: don't like the idea of paying for another thing, but

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Speaker 1: I may break down and have to do that, or

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Speaker 1: I guess I will break down and just sign up

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Speaker 1: for the free trial for six months.

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Speaker 2: They also have an LTE version of this watch. So

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Speaker 1: Which is GPS, is going to be three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty bucks. The LTE version is going to be four hundred.

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Speaker 1: is because your phone is constantly snapping between various lenses,

440
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Speaker 1: and when you're in between those lenses, you're really just

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Speaker 1: cropping a photo. Now that's gotten better on the Pixel sorry,

442
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 1: on the iPhone fourteen Pro. It's not so much of

443
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 1: an issue anymore because they have a much larger sensor.

444
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Speaker 1: But on the standard iPhones, your pictures are not as

445
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Speaker 1: good as they could be if you were snapping or

446
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 1: just really staying in the main size, which is the

447
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Speaker 1: one X lens. If you're snapping to that two X

448
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Speaker 1: or zooming in even further, you're really not getting a

449
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Speaker 1: very good shot, a very high quality shot. So this

450
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Speaker 1: is the reason why on my phones, I always use

451
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Speaker 1: a little snap to zooms at the bottom, because those

452
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Speaker 1: represent sort of the optical zoom levels, and on the

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Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen Pro that is one X, two x, three.

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Speaker 2: X, and I think that's it.

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Speaker 1: I can't I'm using my phone to record right now,

456
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Speaker 1: so I can't really tell you what that is. But

457
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Speaker 1: on the pixels now, what they're doing is they're actually

458
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Speaker 1: using the full sensor and they're doing all.

459
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,680
Speaker 2: The smarts and crops for you.

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Speaker 1: So technically, no matter where you zoom from zero to

461
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Speaker 1: eight or zero to thirty, your shot should.

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Speaker 2: Look just as good and just as high quality. So

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Speaker 2: that's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 1: So they've they say they've achieved optical quality similar to

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Speaker 1: a dedicated two x telephoto lens for Pixel seven and

466
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Speaker 1: a ten X telephoto lens for Pixel seven Pro, so

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Speaker 1: Pixel seven Pro also has the Macro mode. Both phones

468
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Speaker 1: have this new feature called Photo Unblur, which lets you

469
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Speaker 1: unblur old photos. So or even you know a photo

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Speaker 1: that you took with any other device, or any other

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Speaker 1: blurry photo. So you take that blurry photo, you tap

472
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Speaker 1: photo unblur and Google works its magic and unblurs it.

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Speaker 2: That feature at this.

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Speaker 1: Point is exclusive to the Pixel seven and Pixel seven Pro,

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Speaker 1: even though I'm not sure it requires the new processor

476
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Speaker 1: inside the pixel to make that happen. I'm sure they

477
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,159
Speaker 1: can do this on the older models, but you know

478
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Speaker 1: they've got to set these phones apart in some way.

479
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Speaker 2: That's how they're doing it.

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Speaker 1: Magic eraser still there, still exclusive to the Pixel six

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Speaker 1: now and the Pixel seven Pro or Pixel seven.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what else.

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Speaker 1: They also showed off this Guided frame feature, which is

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Speaker 1: for the visually impaired. It gives you audio guidance for

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Speaker 1: taking a selfie, which I tried it out yesterday at

486
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Speaker 1: the event. Really really nice accessibility feature kind of speaks

487
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Speaker 1: to say, raise your phone, move your phone to the left,

488
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Speaker 1: and it uses I guess it figures out, you know,

489
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Speaker 1: if you're looking at the screen or if you're you know,

490
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Speaker 1: you're framed up properly for a selfie and so that's

491
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Speaker 1: really neat night Sight was really slow on the old phones.

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Speaker 1: Now they say it's two times faster.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what else.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there's also now face online in addition to fingerprint

495
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: unlock on the new Pixel seven and seven pro, So

496
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Speaker 1: that's going to help you unlock your phone better. Voice

497
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 1: typing will search for the relevant emojis, so that makes

498
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Speaker 1: life a little bit easier. You're also going to get

499
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Speaker 1: a VPN at no cost included. And this is really

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Speaker 1: aimed at folks who have you know, they've kind of

501
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Speaker 1: heard about the privacy situation with all of these smartphones

502
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 1: and now that Apple has that whole ask not to track.

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Speaker 2: Situation on the Google phone.

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Speaker 1: If you don't want your activity tracked, you can turn

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Speaker 1: on the VPN. And even though it's a Google VPN,

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Speaker 1: they say they're not going to associate your online activity

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Speaker 1: with your Google account.

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Speaker 2: I'll be curious to see how.

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Speaker 1: This works with Google Chrome, because typically whatever you do

510
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Speaker 1: inside Google Chrome is linked to your Google account as well.

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Speaker 1: I thought, but maybe not, and so if you want

512
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Speaker 1: that security of a VPN and the ability to surf

513
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 1: without everything going back to Google, you can now activate

514
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Speaker 1: that VPN in a click. And that's kind of a

515
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 1: nice add on feature. And I think really this is

516
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Speaker 1: to keep people from deflecting to browsers like Duck Duck

517
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Speaker 1: Go and Brave, because to have this stuff not linked

518
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Speaker 1: your Google account, you have to manually activate it. Yes,

519
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 1: some people might leave that on all the time, but

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00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 1: I think majority will just activate it during certain times

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Speaker 1: and leave it off during other times. And during those

522
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Speaker 1: other times they'll be using Chrome, which will still be

523
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: reporting back to Google. So Google kind of wins in

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Speaker 1: that situation. Pixel seven five ninety nine, Pixel seven Pro

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Speaker 1: eight ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: That five ninety nine price is a.

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Speaker 1: Full two hundred dollars cheaper than the cheapest iPhone fourteen

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Speaker 1: I think for an entry level phone if you don't

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Speaker 1: mind Android, this is a really, really fantastic device and

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Speaker 1: I'd highly recommend it, even though I have not played

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Speaker 1: with it for a long period of time, I'm just

532
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Speaker 1: basing it on my previous Pixel experience. I really like

533
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Speaker 1: this phone for a basic budget smartphone.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you are a creator like someone like myself who's.

535
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Speaker 1: Doing a lot of video, doing a lot of editing,

536
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: doing a lot stuff running sort of like a social

537
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: media world from your phone. You may still need the iPhone.

538
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's what my testing is going to

539
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 1: be all about with the Pixel seven Pro, so I

540
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: will keep you posted on that. But otherwise, solid offerings

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Speaker 1: from Google this year. I think that they are listening

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00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,360
Speaker 1: to their users a little bit more in the features

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00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 1: that they want and the features that need to be

544
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: improved and the pain points, and I think they just

545
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Speaker 1: continue to evolve these phones.

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Speaker 2: Let's hope that that pixel watch as well survives. I

547
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 2: already said that.

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Speaker 1: So all right, Cathy says, hello, is there a watch

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Speaker 1: or a fitbit that does EKG for your heart I'm

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Speaker 1: seventy four.

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00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 2: I need something lightweight.

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Speaker 1: It looks like she has an iPhone, so yeah, I

553
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: mean the Apple Watch is going to do that. The

554
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: Apple Watch is going to do the heart rate monitoring,

555
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: It's going to do ECG.

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Speaker 2: It's going to give you your highs and your lows alerts.

557
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: If you need something, So I think the Apple Watch

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00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: is probably your best bet.

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00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 2: Now if you look at the Apple Watch.

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Speaker 1: Compared so there's there's the Apple Watch se and then

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00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: there's the Apple Watch Series A.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna recommend the Ultra to you. I don't

563
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 2: think you need that.

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00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 1: So if you look at these two, the s will

565
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 1: give you those high and low heart rate notifications. It's

566
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: not going to give you the ECG app. So you

567
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 1: need to get the ECG app to get that feature

568
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: that you want. Now, the ECG app, I believe, was

569
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Speaker 1: introduced all the way back on the iPhone or the

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00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: Apple Watch Series four. So if you get one of

571
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 1: these Apple Watches on sale somewhere and you're wondering, like, well,

572
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: the series four, Series five, Series six, or Series seven

573
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: do the same thing, yes they will. Now, I personally

574
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Speaker 1: would recommend just getting the Series eight because you want

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Speaker 1: the latest, greatest, Because this watch can last you a

576
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Speaker 1: good four or five years, So why would you go

577
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Speaker 1: with something that's already four or five years old when

578
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: you want to get four or five years of use

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Speaker 1: out of it. So I would say, if you need

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00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: something that's going to be like a fall detection, go

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00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 1: with the GPS plus cellular, which is five hundred. If

582
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,719
Speaker 1: you need just GPS, go with the four hundred. But

583
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: that's gonna be probably your best bet.

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00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 2: If you were.

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00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: Android, I would say to go with the new Google

586
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,360
Speaker 1: Pixel Watch because that also does ECG and I think

587
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: it's lightweight, it's great you leave it on all day.

588
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 2: So those are two good options for you. Thanks for

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00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: the question.

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00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about CS twenty twenty three, happening

591
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: January fifth through When is it kicking off?

592
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 2: January fifth?

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00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: So? CS says the in person event is on track

594
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: to exceed twenty twenty two, and they think it's going

595
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: to be the largest in person business event to take

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00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: place in the US since early twenty twenty. Also, the

597
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Speaker 1: show footprint is on track to be more than forty

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Speaker 1: percent larger than CS twenty twenty two. I went to

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Speaker 1: CS twenty twenty two. I was one of the few

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Speaker 1: that went, and I thought it was fantastic. I got

601
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: a of great content. I thought it was a really

602
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: great show, even.

603
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: Though, yeah, it was different.

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00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: It was in the height of the pandemic and I

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Speaker 1: think it was omicron at the time, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things where people were a little

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00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: hesitant to go. I had no qualms about it. I

608
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: figured I'd be fine, and I was and you know, look,

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00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: if you're comfortable with these kind of things, you go.

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00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: If you're not, you don't go. But at this point,

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00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: the events are definitely coming back.

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00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 2: And is it weird. Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: I mean I was at the Google event and the

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Speaker 1: person sitting next to me.

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00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: Had a mask. Actually, both the people next.

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Speaker 1: To me had n ninety five masks on, and so

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00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, are they recovering from COVID?

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00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 2: Do they think they have COVID?

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00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: Now, we all had to test to get into the event,

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00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: but maybe if you tested and you didn't feel comfortable,

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00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: still you wore a mask.

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00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: But the reality is, you know, I'm on the plane

624
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: and I'm feeling like, you know, if someone's coughing, I'm like,

625
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: oh gosh, this person's gonna get me sick.

626
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 2: So yeah, is it different? Is it weird? Yeah?

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00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: Sure, because we're so used to these past two and

628
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: a half three years of like, you know, no handshakes

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00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: and the masks and the coughing and this and that

630
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: and the boosters, and so it's definitely a different experience

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00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: for me personally, I feel very confident in going to

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00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: these things and taking the precautions that I personally feel

633
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: comfortable taking which is, you know, sanitizer, washing my hands,

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00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: staying out of situations where I feel very uncomfortable, and

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00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: that's it.

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00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 2: And so far, knock on wood, it's worked for me.

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00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 1: But everyone's level of comfort with this situation is different,

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00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: and so I'm not judging. I am totally good with

639
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: whatever people want to do. I personally will be at

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00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: CS and it looks like their attendance they think their

641
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: tenants goal of one hundred thousand dollars or one hundred

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00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: thousand dollars one hundred thousand people they are gonna hit,

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00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: and so we'll see. Some of the big companies this

644
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: year include Amazon, AMD, Google, Qualcom, Roku, Samsung, Sony, Verizon,

645
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: and some of the key themes this year transportation and mobility,

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00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: digital health, metaverse.

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00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty.

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00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: New, sustainability and human security for all CS happens January

649
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: fifth through eighth. Media Days are taking place January third

650
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: through fourth, So I can't wait.

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00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: I'm excited. I always love CS and I think it's

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00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: going to be a great show. All right.

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Speaker 1: Next question from Cookie. Cookie says, hey, rich At and

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Speaker 1: T has a trade in where you can get an

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Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen for free.

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00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: I currently have.

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Speaker 1: An iPhone twelve Pro. Would that be a smart move?

658
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: Or should I stay where I am? Thank you, cookie, Cookie,

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00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: it's not really free number one. What they're doing is

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Speaker 1: they are taking your old phone, which is your iPhone

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Speaker 1: twelve Pro, and they are giving you an iPhone fourteen.

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Speaker 1: They're giving you an inflated trade in value right for

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Speaker 1: your iPhone twelve Pro, and then they are going to

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Speaker 1: take that trade in amount and they're not giving it

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Speaker 1: to you all at once. What they're gonna do is

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Speaker 1: they're going to give it to you over twenty four

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Speaker 1: to thirty six months. So what does that come out to? Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's do a little math here, So eight hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: Let's say they give you eight hundred dollars right divided

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Speaker 1: by twenty four, So they're giving you a credit of

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Speaker 1: thirty three dollars a month.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now, if you sold your iPhone twelve Pro, now I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much storage you've got. Let's just say

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Speaker 1: you have the basic iPhone twelve Pro one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. Let's say it's like new, it's whoops, signed

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Speaker 1: in or signed out, so you would get four hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five dollars for this.

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Speaker 2: So let's just say you took.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred and divided by or took out four to

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Speaker 1: sixty five, so that'd be three hundred and thirty five

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Speaker 1: dollars you would be on the hook.

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Speaker 2: For divided by thirty three.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so you would have to pay three hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty five dollars for the new phone. So if

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Speaker 1: we divided that by thirty three, which is how much

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Speaker 1: AT and T is giving you, they're giving you basically

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Speaker 1: ten months of credit when you should.

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Speaker 2: Be getting I don't know, I'm you know.

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Speaker 1: My math has gotten all convoluted, But the bottom line is, look,

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Speaker 1: is it a good deal? Probably not?

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Speaker 2: Is it an easy deal? Yes? And should you go

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Speaker 2: for it?

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Speaker 1: If you want to be on the hook for twenty

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Speaker 1: four months with AT and T, it's fine. I personally

696
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Speaker 1: don't like contracts. I don't like deals like this. I

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Speaker 1: would not do it. It's not really free. They're really holding

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Speaker 1: you to twenty four months of paying for AT and

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Speaker 1: T service, which is probably more expensive than you would

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Speaker 1: get just buying service that didn't come with this free iPhone.

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of plans out there there's you know,

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Speaker 1: are you using your AT and T plan to its

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Speaker 1: full maximum potential?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Do you need a full by the way, you have

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Speaker 1: to be on one of their premium unlimited plans.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing to get this, do you need all that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So these are the questions that you need to ask yourself.

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Speaker 1: I don't like these carrier trade in deals because they

711
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Speaker 1: sound sexy, they sound great, but when you really do

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Speaker 1: the math, you're paying a lot for convenience and they

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Speaker 1: are locking you into a rather large contract when in

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Speaker 1: this world we live in, there are no more contracts

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Speaker 1: for cellular service. Now they've got us on these new

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Speaker 1: trade in plans that kind of maskraade as a great deal,

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Speaker 1: but that the bottom line is you're just you're kind

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Speaker 1: of they're building that thirty three dollars you save quote

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Speaker 1: unquote save every month into your service. So there are

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Speaker 1: plenty of inexpensive plans that you can get. You buy

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Speaker 1: this phone for three hundred.

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Speaker 2: And thirty five dollars after you trade in your other.

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Speaker 1: Phone, and then you can buy a plan that you

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Speaker 1: activate on this phone that may be cheaper every month

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Speaker 1: on a month by month basis.

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Speaker 2: You may save thirty dollars a month, so it's right there.

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Speaker 1: But again, you know, this is more getting into financial advice,

728
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Speaker 1: and I'm not giving you that financial advice.

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Speaker 2: I'm giving you just how I see things.

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Speaker 1: And I personally get very stressed out when I have

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Speaker 1: a contract with someone that I need to fulfill for

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Speaker 1: twenty four to thirty six months.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of stress. I did this once with

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Speaker 2: AT and T.

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Speaker 1: I bought my wife's iPhone on the plan and I

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Speaker 1: just had to pay it off because I couldn't see

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Speaker 1: it every single month. It was like really stressing me

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Speaker 1: out to pay whatever I think it was like sixty

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Speaker 1: five bucks a month for this phone or something.

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Speaker 2: And it was just like, h never mind, let me

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Speaker 2: just pay this thing off. And so that's what I

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Speaker 2: ended up doing. But you know that's me.

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Speaker 1: If your level of comfort is fine, you like this,

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00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: it's simple, it's easy. You go into your AT and

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00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: T store and they give you the new phone cookie.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna fault you for it. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people do it, and people feel comfortable doing it, and

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Speaker 1: so that is your prerogative.

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Speaker 2: And you know, if you like it, go for it,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of iPhones. The iPhone fourteen Plus is now available.

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Speaker 1: I did not review this. I told Apple I did

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Speaker 1: not need a review unit on this because you know, look,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like an iPhone fourteen but bigger. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read you some of the some of

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Speaker 1: the review headlines from tech meme and let's see. So

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Speaker 1: The Verge says it is a great battery, multi battery,

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00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: a bright screen, it's lightweight, it's hard to use one handed.

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00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: No promotion which is the better screen size adopting eSIM

760
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: may be painful for some.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could or could not be.

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Speaker 1: And Gadget says iPhone fourteen plus it's a bigger iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal says it's a big screen, big battery,

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Speaker 1: not so big price. Nine to five Max says great

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Speaker 1: battery life with familiar hardware. CMBC says it wins on

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Speaker 1: battery life and screen size. CET says it's for people

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Speaker 1: who love big screens. I Think Different says incredible battery

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Speaker 1: life and large screen.

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Speaker 2: So are you getting the trend here?

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Speaker 1: If you want an iPhone fourteen, which is a little

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Speaker 1: bit less expensive than the iPhone fourteen Pro Max or

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Speaker 1: Pro rather, but you want that bigger screen and that

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Speaker 1: bigger battery. It sounds like the battery is a champ.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like the big screen is a winner. Sounds

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Speaker 1: like this phone is a winner for people who want

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Speaker 1: all those things at a not so increased price. And

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Speaker 1: so I personally really like the big screen phone, but

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Speaker 1: I really don't like the big screen size in my hand.

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Speaker 1: So I just find that these phones require two hands

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Speaker 1: to use. They're a little bit trickier if you're trying

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Speaker 1: to do a lot with your camera and pictures, and

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Speaker 1: so if you if you know, if big screen is

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Speaker 1: your number one priority, I think the iPhone fourteen plus

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Speaker 1: is going to be a great phone. But if you

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Speaker 1: know the best camera and ease of use one handed

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Speaker 1: is your is your top priority, than I think the

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Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen Pro is going to be a better bet

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Speaker 1: or the iPhone fourteen just standard size, because I think

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Speaker 1: that it's just easier to hold in one hand, and

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00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: that does go a long way with being creative with

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Speaker 1: your phone, taking selvies all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: All right, next question, Jennifer.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer says, I don't know if you've heard from anyone else,

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Speaker 1: but my text messages started acting up yesterday. I didn't

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Speaker 1: get a text until this morning and this uh oh,

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Speaker 1: she included some photos in the second text from my

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00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: iPad shows a text I have not received in my iPhone?

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Speaker 1: Could this be related to the new iOS upgrade?

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Speaker 2: Very strange?

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Speaker 1: Thanks in advance, Jenny, Jenny, you know, I don't know

801
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: what this specific issue is, but it's probably related to

802
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's something to do with I messages in

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00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: the cloud. Something is not syncing properly, something is not working.

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00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: This happens sometimes. I message is kind of a pain

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00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: because you think it's a text message, but it's really not.

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00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: It's really a proprietary messaging system invented by Apple to

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00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: you know, really keep you on the iPhone and keep

808
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: you in the Apple ecosystem. And it's fantastic. Don't get

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00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: me wrong. It's a really good messaging system. People love it.

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00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: But it's also very confusing, and so for someone like

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Speaker 1: myself who tests various phones with various phone numbers, I've

812
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: had every sort of issue imaginable where these messages get

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00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: delivered to phones that are different, and you know, they

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Speaker 1: they're synced up somehow when you disconnect a phone somehow

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Speaker 1: the messages stop arriving when you send a text. Somehow

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00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: it doesn't get to all your devices. The sinking sometimes

817
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: may or may not work on all your devices. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of issues I've observed with I Message.

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00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: When it works, it's fantastic, and most people are not

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00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: like me. Most people have one device, maybe two.

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Speaker 2: And it works just fine.

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Speaker 1: Now, what I would say with this situation is I

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Speaker 1: would check number one. Go into iCloud, go into Messages,

824
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: and make sure Messages is toggled on with a green toggle.

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00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 1: That will make sure that I Messages in the Cloud

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Speaker 1: is sinking. Your sink could be off. So you can

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Speaker 1: go ahead and delete the thread on both of these

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Speaker 1: devices and see if that kind of gets.

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Speaker 2: Things to work again.

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Speaker 1: Or you can toggle off I Messages in the Cloud

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Speaker 1: on both devices and then toggle it back on and

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00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: see if that helps.

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00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 2: Could it be related to the new iOS upgrade. It

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Speaker 2: could be. There's been some issues.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, I do a radio hit with WGN in Chicago

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Speaker 1: every Thursday, and we've used this app to do the

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Speaker 1: radio hit. It's like a little kind of a mini

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Speaker 1: mixer for your iPhone and it's worked perfectly since day one,

839
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Speaker 1: but it hasn't worked the last couple of weeks, and

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Speaker 1: I was really sitting there trying to figure out what

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Speaker 1: has changed.

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00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 2: Nothing has changed, And sure enough yesterday I'm like, oh,

843
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 2: could it be iOS sixteen is the problem?

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Speaker 1: And sure enough the engineer on the other end or

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Speaker 1: the producer said, yeah, you know what, I think other

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Speaker 1: people have been having these issues.

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Speaker 2: I think it's all related to iOS sixteen.

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Speaker 1: So whenever there's a new iOS update, there could be

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00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: growing pains and usually fixes come out, So it could

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Speaker 1: just be that it's an iOS thing and it will

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00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: be fixed automatically. But I would take those steps that

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00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: I mentioned. Reset both devices obviously, you know, not factory.

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00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: Just just restart them and see if that helps too.

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00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just need to kick these things back into

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Speaker 1: sync and it will work again, all right. You might

856
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: have gotten an email from Amazon telling you that Amazon

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Speaker 1: Drive is being what is this word deprecated? Got this

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00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: sounds so bad, deprecated. Think it's getting made fun of?

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00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: So what does this mean? Google Drive or Amazon Drive

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Speaker 1: was sort of Amazon's answer to Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive,

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Speaker 1: but it never really worked out that way, which is

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Speaker 1: ironic because Amazon runs one of the largest cloud services

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Speaker 1: in the world, Amazon Web Services AWS, and somehow they

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Speaker 1: never really figured out Amazon Drive. They could have made

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Speaker 1: Amazon Drive very competitive with Dropbox and all these other services,

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Speaker 1: they just never decided to do that. Amazon's a very

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Speaker 1: consumer facing company on this end.

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Speaker 2: So I get it.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is you don't need to freak out

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Speaker 1: about this. If you're using Amazon Photos, that is going

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Speaker 1: to be just fine. Now, if you had Amazon photos

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Speaker 1: and videos inside.

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Speaker 2: Amazon Drive, you might want to get those out of there.

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Speaker 2: So here's what this. Here's what it says.

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Speaker 1: If you have photos and videos saved in Amazon Drive.

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Speaker 1: Because Amazon Drive and Amazon Photos share the same cloud

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Speaker 1: storage location, your photos and videos in Amazon Drive access

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00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: the same photos and videos and Amazon Photos, So you

879
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:14,959
Speaker 1: are good. Any photo or oh, any photo or video

880
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: deleted on Amazon Drive will no longer be available through

881
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: Amazon Photos and will be permanently removed.

882
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: From Amazon after thirty days. Oh, that's interesting.

883
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: To access your photos and videos and Amazon Photos, please

884
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: visit the Amazon Photos website or download the Amazon Photos app.

885
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,760
Speaker 1: Huh Okay, that is a little confusing. So my question

886
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: is if I uploaded a video file to Amazon Drive,

887
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: does Amazon Photos see that video file? And when this

888
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: goes away, will Amazon Photos continue to see that video file?

889
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: From what I'm reading here, it doesn't seem like it

890
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: would be.

891
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 2: Now. I know you're asking me to.

892
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: Answer these questions, so I'm actually kind of confused at

893
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: this point.

894
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: So it looks like yeah.

895
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: As of October thirty first, twenty twenty two, Amazon Drive

896
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 1: app will be removed. As of January thirty first, twenty

897
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: twenty three, Amazon will no longer support uploading files on

898
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: the Amazon Drive website. You'll be able to view and

899
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: download your files until December thirty first, twenty twenty three,

900
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: so you basically have a full year to do this.

901
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: I don't have all the answers right now. I can't

902
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:29,720
Speaker 1: really specifically tell you if your Amazon Photos inside Amazon

903
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: Drive will stay in Amazon.

904
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,399
Speaker 2: Photos after drive goes away. I know that sounds very complicated, but.

905
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: It's weird because this same thing happened with Google Photos

906
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: and Google Drive. So back in the day, if you

907
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: upload it to Google Drive, your photos would be seen

908
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: in Google Photos. And then once they got rid of

909
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: Google Drive and Google Photos, that link they you know,

910
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: all the photos that were in Google Photos carried over

911
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: to Photo. Sorry we're in Google Drive, carried over to

912
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: Google Photos, and so it's weird, but I still have

913
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,479
Speaker 1: them in my Google Drive. I mean it's really really

914
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: complicated and I.

915
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 2: Haven't figured it out after a couple of years.

916
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I'm gonna figure this out

917
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: in a year. But just something to be aware of,

918
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: something to keep track of. Just know that you may

919
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: want to start if you rely on Amazon Drive a lot,

920
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: which you probably don't, you may want to start just

921
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: having a plan for getting those files out of Amazon

922
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 1: Drive and into somewhere a little bit safer, all right,

923
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: as Baldough, As Baldo says, Hey, good morning, good afternoon.

924
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: Just wants to know if there's something wrong with iOS

925
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: sixteen for my iPhone. Ever since the update came out,

926
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: my phone is not recognizing some of my apps. My

927
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: banking apps tells me I have to register my device,

928
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 1: and it's not doing that. I register every single time,

929
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: tells me to reregister. Just trying to see if there's

930
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: any problems with it. Please let me know. Thank you,

931
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: As Baldough. I think you are seeing a common problem

932
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: because I noticed the same issue with my phone and

933
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: I can't tell if it's because I switched phones or

934
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: because of iOS sixteen. But yeah, I noticed I had

935
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: to relog into a bunch of my banking apps. So

936
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: when you switch or upgrade operating systems, a lot of

937
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: things just work, but sometimes they don't, and sometimes your

938
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: phone just kind of resets that kind of identifier that

939
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: told your bank like, oh, this is a safe log in,

940
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: and we've logged in from here before, so I assume

941
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: this will work itself out. I don't think that it's

942
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: a like a hack or anything like that on your phone.

943
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: I think that just relog in. Now you're saying it's

944
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: telling you to reregister your device every single time, so

945
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. That seems odd, so that could be

946
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: a problem. I would definitely restart your device and just

947
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, make sure you do all the iOS updates.

948
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: There's been a bunch of them. I think there's another

949
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: one that's going to be coming out here any day now.

950
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: So I would definitely do that and just keep an

951
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: eye on this. But it's kind of a little hassle

952
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: if you're just being a password manager and all that stuff.

953
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not too much of a hassle, but I would,

954
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: you know, it seems like it's something that is pretty

955
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: common after the update, hopefully it will stop happening.

956
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 2: But I will tell you it's it's happened to me.

957
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: So feel feel warmth in the knowledge and knowing that

958
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: it's not just you, it's your phone.

959
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about this story.

960
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: Boston Dynamics, along with a bunch of other robotics companies,

961
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: according to Axios, says that they are pledging not to.

962
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 2: Support the weaponization.

963
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: Of their products, and they're calling for others in their

964
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: industry to do the same. According to a letter first

965
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: shared with Axios, let's see which companies are in here,

966
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 1: Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Anybotics, Clear Path Robotics, Open Robotics,

967
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: and Unitary Robotics. They all say we are not going

968
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: to use our robots for war. Oh wait, hold on, well,

969
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: does that mean they're not going to use them for

970
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: war or weaponizing? I think they Let's see, okay, so

971
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: they say okay. We believe that adding okay doesn't say

972
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 1: not for war, says not for weaponizing. So we believe

973
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: that adding weapons to robots that are remotely or autonomously operated,

974
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: widely available to the public, and capable of navigating to

975
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: previously inaccessible locations where people live in work raise new

976
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: risks of harm and serious ethical issues.

977
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:13,839
Speaker 2: They said in their letter.

978
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: They pledge not to add weapons, technology, or support others.

979
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: When possible, they'll review customers plans and hopes of avoiding

980
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: customers that would turn the robots into weapons. So technology,

981
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: they say, for robots to be broadly accepted throughout society,

982
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: public needs to know they can trust them, and that

983
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: prohibits bad actors from misusing them. So, I mean, look,

984
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: it's kind of a loosely worded letter. They say that

985
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: they're not going to add weapons to them, but that

986
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: doesn't prohibit customers from doing that or modifying these things

987
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: or using them for war. But kind of interesting, and

988
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: it's not just war.

989
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 2: I guess could be for policing, police.

990
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: Departments, all that kind of stuff, public safety, whatever, But

991
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: you know it's robots are going to Look, all of

992
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: the technology that we have in our world is creating

993
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: new challenges for the status quo, and robots are no different.

994
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 2: And they're just.

995
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: They are just at the beginning. We are just seeing

996
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: what robots may be capable of, and as that evolves,

997
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to figure out more and more things

998
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: that deal with robots.

999
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 2: So good for these companies to sort of put their

1000
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 2: foot down. But we'll see how it works in the.

1001
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: Long run, all right, Bob says, Hey, Rich, can you

1002
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: recommend a good DVR for broadcast TV? Thank you, Bob,

1003
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: Yes I can, Bob. My favorite is called Tableau, super simple,

1004
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: super easy tableau over the air DVR. It's what I use.

1005
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: It's super simple. If you have an antenna on your roof,

1006
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: it works great there. You don't have to pay the

1007
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: monthly charges if there isn't like I think it used

1008
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: to be five or ten bucks, but it's you know, you.

1009
00:47:58,880 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: Don't have to do that.

1010
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,280
Speaker 1: It's it's very limited in the DVR if you don't

1011
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 1: you know, with your recording schedule, if you don't pay,

1012
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: if you do pay every month, it's just like a TVO.

1013
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: And so it's for over the air channels, which a

1014
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: lot of people rely on and like. But Tableau is

1015
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: super simple. Tablo and let's see how much they are

1016
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: these days, so they have a whole bunch of different models.

1017
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: So the simple over the air light which is just

1018
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: one recording. Oh two tuners actually, so you've got two

1019
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: tuners in there. That is one hundred and twenty nine bucks,

1020
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: so super easy, super simple. There's even a sale for

1021
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: thirty dollars off right now, so you can get that

1022
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: for ninety nine bucks. Wow, that's pretty good. Let's see

1023
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: what the next one up gives you. So okay, So

1024
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: you've got two over the air channels at once, okay,

1025
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: and then you've got one with more storage. Then you've

1026
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: got a quad DVR, and then a quad DVR with

1027
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: a storage included. So the main thing about that light

1028
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: one I talk about is that storage is not included,

1029
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: so you would have to plug a hard drive or

1030
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: a USB stick into the back to get the storage

1031
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: on that thing. But if you're just streaming live, you

1032
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: don't really need that. But if you want to record,

1033
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: yeah you need that.

1034
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 2: So if you.

1035
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: Want that built in, you can get the one twenty

1036
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: eight DVR, which is gonna be a little bit more.

1037
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: Let's see how much that is for the convenience. You

1038
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: are paying one seventy but again minus at thirty dollars,

1039
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: so really one forty so forty bucks to not have

1040
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: to have one more thing plugged into the back of

1041
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: your TV and the back of your DVR, one more cable.

1042
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 2: I would say, go for that one twenty eight.

1043
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 1: If that's not gonna be enough, then they also make

1044
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: a one terabyte or you can just add your own

1045
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: hard drive and be fine with that.

1046
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 2: So great question there.

1047
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next question since I

1048
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: think I'm done with all the things I want to

1049
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: talk about in the show. Next question from let's see here.

1050
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 2: Oh my god, so many questions. Wow, okay, let's see.

1051
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so many questions.

1052
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: I got a lot of emails about the bedtime situation

1053
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: that I talked about on the last show. In fact,

1054
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: I helped my wife because she uses the regular alarm,

1055
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, Lynn, you've got to switch to

1056
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: the I talked about my podcast. You've got to switch

1057
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: to this whole you know, clock based health, you know,

1058
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: workout whatever, not workout, but in the in the health app,

1059
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: you can set up your sleep and bedtime schedule. And

1060
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: she goes, yeah, I did, and it's fantastic. I can't

1061
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: believe that I never did that before. And I was

1062
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: so excited to hear that, because you know, now she's

1063
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: waking up to a gradual alarm and not the blaring

1064
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: clock alarm that is typical and so a lot of

1065
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: you wrote to me and said, wow, Rich, what a

1066
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: life saver. I love it so much better. You know,

1067
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: it's just so much greater. Why does an Apple really

1068
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: advertise this?

1069
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 2: They should? And my wife said the same thing anyway.

1070
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,240
Speaker 1: So Neil said, wonderful podcast. You handle some meati questions

1071
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: for me. I like your description of the bedtime, sleep

1072
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: time or feature. I use it and really like it,

1073
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: but I'd like to be able to adjust it via

1074
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:12,280
Speaker 1: shortcuts any ideas there. Shortcuts are sort of Apple's answer

1075
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: to you know, routines on Bixby or tasker on Android.

1076
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 2: Or rules on Google Pixel.

1077
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: It's kind of just automated things that you can make

1078
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: your phone do with either a shortcut or a tap

1079
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: or a voice shortcut. I don't know if you can

1080
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: adjust voice series shortcuts or shortcuts for the.

1081
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 2: Sleep schedule and situation.

1082
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see what you'd want to do, like, you know,

1083
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: tap it to adjust your bedtime to nine am one day,

1084
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 1: eight am the next day.

1085
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 2: Whatever.

1086
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: But the person who I'd recommend for this, his name

1087
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: is Matthew Casanelli, and Matthew Cassanelli is the Serrie shortcut master.

1088
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 2: I believe he.

1089
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: Sold his shortcuts app to Apple, and that's the basis

1090
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: of serie shortcuts, so he kind of knows a thing

1091
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: or two about series shortcuts. But I would search his

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Speaker 1: for sleep. I don't know if he does, or if

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Speaker 1: that's even possible, or if that's even something that is,

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Speaker 1: you know, just doing a quick search on his website. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it definitely looks like there are some things you can

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Speaker 1: do edit my sleeps cut. Oh yeah, there's a bunch.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, set bedtime by Oh yeah, there's a whole bunch.

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Speaker 1: So it looks like he's got a whole bunch. I

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Speaker 1: check him out. Matthewcassanelli dot com. Matthew Cassanelly dot com.

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