Speaker 1: Facebook has a major outage and an image problem. I
Speaker 1: try Amazon's new Palm reading technology an iOS update, we'll
Speaker 1: fix a major issue with the new iPhone. Plus your
Speaker 1: tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Richdemiro and this
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions you sent me.
Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Welcome if you're listening on Facebook Live,
Speaker 1: no matter where you're tuned in from. I do appreciate
Speaker 1: you taking the time to hang with me. Hmm, what
Speaker 1: happened this week? I don't know. We're getting into fall.
Speaker 1: It's exciting. I went through the house and set up
Speaker 1: all the Halloween decorations with the smart plugs. And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I am actually more into the Amazon alex
Speaker 1: A side of things than I am Google Assistant at
Speaker 1: this point. Now, I think there are some advantages to
Speaker 1: the Google Home app over the alex A app, let's
Speaker 1: call it. Most notably changing colors of groups of lights.
Speaker 1: And so I've got a bunch of lights in different
Speaker 1: rooms assigned and on the Home app, I can change
Speaker 1: them to different colors. So if the kids want their color,
Speaker 1: you know, their lights in the room to be blue,
Speaker 1: I can change them to blue. And I'm talking through
Speaker 1: the app, now I get it. If you're speaking to
Speaker 1: you know who, you can just say change the lights blue.
Speaker 1: But sometimes I don't really want to say anything. I
Speaker 1: just want to do it, and I want to select
Speaker 1: from a palette of colors. And on the Google Home
Speaker 1: app that's really easy, and on the alex A app
Speaker 1: it's not. And I don't know why. Now you can
Speaker 1: set up routines. On the flip side, routines are so
Speaker 1: much easier on the alex A app versus the Google
Speaker 1: I've given up on routines with Google because they just
Speaker 1: don't they don't work, and I don't even understand what
Speaker 1: Google's thought process is with those. But on the Amazon
Speaker 1: side of things, they are fantastic. And so I went through.
Speaker 1: I put some smart plugs with the little you know,
Speaker 1: jack lanterns and lights around the house for Halloween and
Speaker 1: they come on at sunset. They go off at like
Speaker 1: ten PM, and it's great. And I really was building
Speaker 1: an ecosystem of hue lights in my house because I
Speaker 1: felt like those work the best. But now I'm like
Speaker 1: with the Amazon thing, they have so many different like
Speaker 1: products that work with it, and a lot of them
Speaker 1: are cheap, and so it's it's much easier to build
Speaker 1: an ecosystem there. I guess Google's kind of the same,
Speaker 1: But anyway, these are the kind of things that I
Speaker 1: tinker with during the week. I just play with this
Speaker 1: stuff and try to see like what's good, what's bad,
Speaker 1: and that way I can talk about it with you
Speaker 1: and give you my opinions on things in this show
Speaker 1: on TV and all the radio. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think that each one of these platforms has their pros
Speaker 1: and cons, but I think when you select a certain
Speaker 1: it all starts with like a certain product. So right
Speaker 1: now I'm really into the Ring products. And of course
Speaker 1: that's what got me into the Amazon side of things,
Speaker 1: because before that, I started out my entire smart house
Speaker 1: with the Nest thermostat and that was of course all Google,
Speaker 1: and so I went with Google stuff. But then as
Speaker 1: like you know, and then I like the Google Nest displays.
Speaker 1: But I just find that there's so much progress with
Speaker 1: the Amazon stuff, with the ecosystem. They just keep coming
Speaker 1: out with new products all the time. I think you
Speaker 1: could build a pretty good ecosystem on that on that
Speaker 1: backbone the home Kit stuff. I know, for you, if
Speaker 1: you're an iPhone person out there, you're like, where it's rich?
Speaker 1: What about home Kit? I mean, come on, home Kit
Speaker 1: is like the most expensive way to build an ecosystem
Speaker 1: at home, and it's also it works really nicely. I
Speaker 1: think Apple has a great you know, automation and a
Speaker 1: nice slick gap which is super complicated that I still
Speaker 1: don't understand. But I think that there's just such a
Speaker 1: limit of products that you can use with that platform
Speaker 1: that it's definitely not for me. So let's get into
Speaker 1: the big story of the week, Zuckerberg and Facebook. So
Speaker 1: Facebook suffered a major outage. And typically outages are not
Speaker 1: something that I really go into depth about. You know,
Speaker 1: on TV, they always come to me they're rich. You know,
Speaker 1: Instagram's out. Okay, great, it's out. Maybe it'll be up
Speaker 1: by the time I get my script written and on TV.
Speaker 1: So I usually don't put a lot of stock in
Speaker 1: the outages of websites. They go down, they come back up,
Speaker 1: they're down, they're up. But this was a big one.
Speaker 1: This was like six hours, and it took down all
Speaker 1: of Facebook properties. You're talking Facebook, you're talking Instagram, you're
Speaker 1: talking Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and then you know, assorted things
Speaker 1: that run on top of these services like Facebook Login,
Speaker 1: you know if you're still using that, which shouldn't be,
Speaker 1: but you know, so you have all these things going on,
Speaker 1: and so then you had, you know, coupled with the
Speaker 1: fact that you had that whistleblower go on sixty minutes
Speaker 1: the night before, on Sunday night, and so people were saying, oh,
Speaker 1: this is all because Mark wanted to make a statement
Speaker 1: like you don't like Facebook, will try living without it.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the case here. So what did end
Speaker 1: up happening is that Facebook changed some DNS settings on
Speaker 1: a server and it kind of those are the that's
Speaker 1: the address book that computers used to look up directions
Speaker 1: to things. So if I'm looking, you know, everything on
Speaker 1: the web has an address, right, so every server, every
Speaker 1: just everything, every website, and so when when my computer
Speaker 1: can't figure out the address to get to the other computer,
Speaker 1: it's like you'd be driving around in circles in a
Speaker 1: real street. And that's what happened. The products just you
Speaker 1: couldn't access them, and so Facebook Zuckerberg came out with
Speaker 1: the whole big blog post about our Facebook post I
Speaker 1: should say about not only the outage, but then he
Speaker 1: went into kind of the claims by this whistleblower. And
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. I mean, you know me, I am
Speaker 1: the type of person that is very tech optimistic. I
Speaker 1: think this hatred of technology that we're seeing in media
Speaker 1: and the uh, you know, it's mostly media because if
Speaker 1: you talk to regular people, I don't run into anyone
Speaker 1: that hates Facebook, that hates Instagram, that hates Twitter, that
Speaker 1: hates YouTube, that hates this, that hates that. No, most
Speaker 1: of the time they see the pros and cons of them,
Speaker 1: but they also see the benefits. They don't they don't like.
Speaker 1: No one I run into is like Facebook is so evil,
Speaker 1: Google is so evil, Apple is so evil. No, they
Speaker 1: just say, oh, Apple, like I'm spending all my money
Speaker 1: because they're so good at what they do. Or Facebook,
Speaker 1: Oh they're listening to me. They're they're serving up ads
Speaker 1: based on everything I talk about. And you know, Instagram,
Speaker 1: I can't stay off of it. I just you know,
Speaker 1: every minute I look at my phone, I'm on Instagram.
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, the average person sees it
Speaker 1: in a much more nuanced way, whereas you know, the
Speaker 1: media just makes it like these are evil, they're big corporations,
Speaker 1: they should be taken apart, they should be distributed. But
Speaker 1: the thing to me is that we're still learning and Facebook,
Speaker 1: and this is what I'm not defending Zuckerberg, like, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he set out to build Facebook to
Speaker 1: be evil. And I think that, you know, the things
Speaker 1: that it does and the things that it enables are
Speaker 1: a side effect of the fact that we've never been
Speaker 1: more connected as a society. And I talk about this
Speaker 1: with my wife sometimes at dinner. I'm like, what I mean.
Speaker 1: We live in a new world where if you see
Speaker 1: something unique in any facet of the tiniest corner of
Speaker 1: the world, you can put it on social media and
Speaker 1: it could be an instant viral sensation within minutes. Usually
Speaker 1: it takes a little bit longer than that. But the
Speaker 1: reality is anyone has that possibility, and so that's a
Speaker 1: really cool thing because it brings light to a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff in our world that previously didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of light shed upon it. But then you also
Speaker 1: have the downside that one person that's itit's in a
Speaker 1: burrito at a fast food restaurant, is now suddenly that
Speaker 1: entire chain is under fire because they're horrible and eating
Speaker 1: there is terrible, and the people that work there are gross,
Speaker 1: you know, And these are the things that bubble up
Speaker 1: out of this when in reality, as we're seeing that
Speaker 1: percolate online, the drive through is still full at that restaurant,
Speaker 1: people are still going there, people are still eating at it.
Speaker 1: And so it's this really weird kind of division that
Speaker 1: we're seeing thanks to social media that I don't have
Speaker 1: the answer to. I don't know what the answer is.
Speaker 1: I think that I don't think that there's any sort
Speaker 1: of AI that can filter out everything and anything that
Speaker 1: could be bad for anyone in the world. That's just
Speaker 1: not going to happen because there's so many different opinions
Speaker 1: out there and what's good and what's bad, and what's
Speaker 1: right and what's wrong. But I do think that there
Speaker 1: are certain things that worldwide, we're just like, nah, that's
Speaker 1: not good. So of course, you know, self harm, things
Speaker 1: like that, people doing bad things to other people that
Speaker 1: are on you know, But then again we see that
Speaker 1: I don't know, word does it end I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so Zuckerberg said, a lot of the claims
Speaker 1: from this whistleblower don't make a lot of sense, Like
Speaker 1: I mean they said. She said that basically Facebook puts
Speaker 1: profit over anything that comes to do with safety with
Speaker 1: its users, and that's just not really true. I mean,
Speaker 1: Facebook is a corporation, and yes, I'm sure they make
Speaker 1: some decisions that are well, I don't know, do they
Speaker 1: make decisions that are not in the best interest of users.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Now I can tell you from my
Speaker 1: personal experience of me as a person that has built
Speaker 1: a career in journalism, my mo has always been do
Speaker 1: what's best for the customer. And I call the person
Speaker 1: that is listening to me, watching me, seeing me, seeing
Speaker 1: my tweets, the customer, and that means that don't try
Speaker 1: to mislead them, don't try to trick them, don't try
Speaker 1: to fake them out. Yes, I can have some fun
Speaker 1: that can be playful, but the bottom line is that
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be an honest, good person that's getting
Speaker 1: you the information I think you need in a way
Speaker 1: that's not misleading you to click or to you know,
Speaker 1: get you to do something that you shouldn't typically do.
Speaker 1: And I feel like Facebook, you know, it's such a
Speaker 1: behemoth at this point that it's tough for them to
Speaker 1: do the right thing in every situation. But again, like
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg said, well, we want to understand these issues. So
Speaker 1: that's why we're doing this research. You know, this woman
Speaker 1: called upon this research that said that you know, teen
Speaker 1: girls are you know, they think they think they look
Speaker 1: worse when they when they're on Instagram, And yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of that is true, but it's a lot of
Speaker 1: that's true for everyone. You know, sometimes I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: on top of the world and I look at my
Speaker 1: Instagram feed. I'm like, ah, look at this person. They're
Speaker 1: flying a private jet. Look what is my world? What
Speaker 1: my life sucks? And do I really think that? No,
Speaker 1: But in that moment, it gives you a little pause
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, there's always someone out there that's
Speaker 1: doing better than you or doing worse than you. And
Speaker 1: I think a healthy person can can see that. But
Speaker 1: not everyone's healthy all the time, and so we also
Speaker 1: have to take that into consideration. So there's just too
Speaker 1: many variables for a standard decision to be made about
Speaker 1: everything that's going on with Facebook. So I do think
Speaker 1: that they are learning. I think that they try, and
Speaker 1: I think this idea that they're just blanketly evil is
Speaker 1: not necessarily correct, because I think that Facebook is pretty
Speaker 1: amazing and I look at it in my little career
Speaker 1: of a TV journalist. You know, I've got you know,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty five thousand people on Facebook. Now,
Speaker 1: to me, that's amazing because that means that my thoughts,
Speaker 1: little old rich Demiro's thoughts can reach almost a million people.
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Now should I have that taken away from me?
Speaker 1: Should I? Is there another way of doing that that's
Speaker 1: better than Facebook? I don't know, But again, it's there,
Speaker 1: and it's a tool that I'm using that I think
Speaker 1: is awesome and I think has been very good for
Speaker 1: me in my life, and I think good in the
Speaker 1: lives of the people that I'm reaching on Facebook. Are
Speaker 1: there things I see on Facebook that I don't like,
Speaker 1: that I don't want to see that I think are divisive?
Speaker 1: Is divisive? You know that that divide people, that make
Speaker 1: people angry, Yes, of course, But I see that in
Speaker 1: real life too, And so I think that we're just
Speaker 1: in this time that's a it's a. It's a very
Speaker 1: interesting time in our world where technology is is very
Speaker 1: much at its infancy and it's still developing. And I
Speaker 1: think that we're just part of the ride right now
Speaker 1: of what's good, what's bad, what works, what doesn't, and
Speaker 1: where we're going to go in the future with all
Speaker 1: this stuff. And I think that even a company like
Speaker 1: Facebook is learning. They're gonna try a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: They're gonna break a lot of things. They're going to
Speaker 1: do stuff that they're not gonna you know, maybe later
Speaker 1: on not gonna like. But to liken them to a
Speaker 1: cigarette company or a you know, smoking is is I
Speaker 1: just don't know. I mean, maybe I'll be proven wrong
Speaker 1: in the future, but I think that at the same time,
Speaker 1: there's a lot for all of us to learn when
Speaker 1: it comes to this stuff. All right, let's get into
Speaker 1: the first question of the show. Michael says, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to ask for your help in finding an unlocked
Speaker 1: iPhone thirteen promax. I have tried Apple and Amazon, but
Speaker 1: they're all selling it with carrier contract. Uh. Amazon, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you can buy an iPhone there, but
Speaker 1: you might be able to. But I would not go
Speaker 1: to Amazon for an iPhone, Well, can you I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've not even looked at Amazon for an iPhone. I
Speaker 1: would never think to buy an iPhone on Amazon. Let's see,
Speaker 1: can you buy an iPhone? Uh, it looks like you can,
Speaker 1: but I don't. That's yeah, they're not there. I don't
Speaker 1: think I would go there for that. So what I
Speaker 1: would do is just go to Apple dot com and
Speaker 1: I check this out. But all you have to do
Speaker 1: is they indeed sell an unlocked version. So when you're
Speaker 1: going through the options to kind of customize your phone,
Speaker 1: there's an option that says connect to a carrier later.
Speaker 1: You just tap that and boom, they will send you
Speaker 1: the phone that is unlocked. Now, yes, Apple tries to
Speaker 1: push you gently in the direction of a carrier because
Speaker 1: Apple and these carriers make a lot of money off
Speaker 1: of people signing up for these iPhones. And that is
Speaker 1: you know, it comes with the deal, and it comes
Speaker 1: to the rebate, it comes to the promotion, and the
Speaker 1: reason why it comes with all of that stuff is
Speaker 1: because they don't do to your contracts anymore. But all
Speaker 1: these promotions basically lock you into a contract. Now there
Speaker 1: is no there is no real contract anymore with these carriers.
Speaker 1: But the way they do it is that if they
Speaker 1: give you any sort of discount on the iPhone, it's
Speaker 1: over a certain amount of months, twenty four to thirty months,
Speaker 1: and if you leave in any in any of those months,
Speaker 1: you either owe the balance or worse yet, you owe
Speaker 1: the entire amount because you're forfeiting sort of the deal,
Speaker 1: the promotion that you that you signed up for. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't quote me on that part. I think that
Speaker 1: you would just owe the balance immediately, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: In some cases, you may lose the promotion. They may say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know you said you'd sign up for this promotion.
Speaker 1: You're saving this money every month, and now you're ditching us,
Speaker 1: so you're you're liable for all this money no matter what.
Speaker 1: It's decent amount of money that most people don't want
Speaker 1: to pay. And that's why you see on the flip side,
Speaker 1: the carriers will often give you five hundred to one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to switch because they know that people come
Speaker 1: saddled with this, you know, this attachment to the phone
Speaker 1: that costs them a lot of money, and they're kind
Speaker 1: of riding on a balance here, and so the carriers
Speaker 1: know that. But Michael, you can definitely get a phone
Speaker 1: contract free at Amazon at Apple and it does not
Speaker 1: come carrier locked, and the iPhones right now are on
Speaker 1: a waiting list, so I would get in there now
Speaker 1: if you want to get that good question though, all
Speaker 1: right this week Windows eleven. Oh, let me just real
Speaker 1: quick back to that old question. So I remember, I
Speaker 1: usually buy my phones unlocked. I don't like to have
Speaker 1: the carrier situation, so I just buy them unlocked. But
Speaker 1: one time I was buying a phone at best Buy,
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes you just want it fast, and
Speaker 1: if you're looking for an unlocked phone, generally you can't
Speaker 1: find it in town. You have to do it online
Speaker 1: with either a direct from the carrier or sorry wrecked
Speaker 1: from the company that makes the phone. So in my case,
Speaker 1: I can't remember if I was buying an iPhone or
Speaker 1: Samsung or whatever it was at the time, but I
Speaker 1: went into best Buy it and I'm like, I just want
Speaker 1: to buy the phone out outright, and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: well you still have to sign up for a contract,
Speaker 1: has to be like a locked phone. I'm like, what, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, but they literally would not let
Speaker 1: me buy the phone. Like just without without some sort
Speaker 1: of contract or a carrier deal or activation. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I just want to take the box and go. Now,
Speaker 1: this was many years ago, so that's probably changed at
Speaker 1: this point. But I would say ninety nine point nine
Speaker 1: percent of people don't buy phones unlocked because they're just
Speaker 1: on this carousel of carrier promotions and deals and trade
Speaker 1: ins and upgrade programs, and so it's also complicated. The
Speaker 1: easiest way for these carriers to deal with it and
Speaker 1: for the consumer is just like, how much am I
Speaker 1: paying a month forty five for my phone? Okay, that's fine?
Speaker 1: How much my plan ninety? Okay good? I pay about
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars a month, whether that is
Speaker 1: for the iPhone twelve, whether I get the new phone,
Speaker 1: whether I got to trade in my old phone. So
Speaker 1: that's the way most people's brains work, and I understand
Speaker 1: that's what these carriers want you to do. So quite honestly,
Speaker 1: if you're sticking with the carrier, I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: there's a benefit to buying it unlocked at this point.
Speaker 1: But if you're switching around, or if you want to
Speaker 1: go with one of the really inexpensive carriers, which by
Speaker 1: the way, does save you a lot of money. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, if you went with Visible for twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars a month and their Party Play Party Party Pay plan,
Speaker 1: that would save you about fifty dollars a month off
Speaker 1: of the unlimited plan that you would need on a
Speaker 1: main carrier to you to be on their one of
Speaker 1: their promotions for the thousand dollars trade in value for
Speaker 1: your old phone. But if you do the math, fifty
Speaker 1: dollars times twelve months, that's six hundred dollars, so that
Speaker 1: in just one year you would save almost the price
Speaker 1: of a new iPhone if you went with something like Visible.
Speaker 1: So don't discount doing the math, like add things up
Speaker 1: and see what it works out to, because often it
Speaker 1: may take a little bit. It may take, you know,
Speaker 1: twelve months or eighteen months, but you can come out ahead,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes time to sell that phone again
Speaker 1: the second time around. You kind of have to get
Speaker 1: on this this little trade in kind of wagon where
Speaker 1: you're trading in your phone, let's say every other year,
Speaker 1: and you'll get a maximum amount for that phone if
Speaker 1: you owned it out right. But anyway, it's all about math,
Speaker 1: and I get it. Most people don't want to deal
Speaker 1: with that, all right, Windows eleven was or is available now,
Speaker 1: So Windows eleven I have not downloaded this yet. I'm
Speaker 1: always excited for new operating systems. I've got the Windows
Speaker 1: computers sitting here, but I've got a backlog of so
Speaker 1: many things to do right now that I just it's like,
Speaker 1: there's so many tech gadgets that are coming out right
Speaker 1: now that I just the time it takes to set
Speaker 1: them all up and get them going and try them
Speaker 1: and then do my reports. It's a lot. So I
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to do the Windows stuff just
Speaker 1: yet because quite honestly, I'm just gonna becomempletely honest. Ninety
Speaker 1: nine percent of my audience is not looking forward to
Speaker 1: upgrading to Windows eleven. Now. Yes, there are the nerds
Speaker 1: out there like myself who love new software. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, throughout my entire life, when any sort of
Speaker 1: new version of anything came out, I was first in
Speaker 1: line Windows, you know whatever it was, Windows XP, Windows seven,
Speaker 1: Windows ten, Windows whatever, or new Mac operating systems. I
Speaker 1: was always the first to upgrade or new iOS operating systems,
Speaker 1: or even a new update on a you know, any
Speaker 1: sort of device, a new app whatever. But now maybe
Speaker 1: as I get older, I understand why people don't want
Speaker 1: to do this the first day, because why you understand
Speaker 1: your phone it's working for you. Are these new features
Speaker 1: going to be so groundbreaking that you need them that day?
Speaker 1: Probably not. And with Windows eleven, and with any sort
Speaker 1: of upgrade, there's always things that it breaks, or it
Speaker 1: changes or it gets rid of. And one of those
Speaker 1: things is bound to be something that you liked. And
Speaker 1: so with Windows eleven, what do you get? I mean,
Speaker 1: here's how Microsoft explains the new things in Windows eleven.
Speaker 1: And you tell me if you think you need any
Speaker 1: of these things. A new chat experience from Microsoft Teams.
Speaker 1: I mean, really, you could download Microsoft Teams for years
Speaker 1: and you could have it on your computer. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure if you were on board with Microsoft Teams, you'd
Speaker 1: know it by now. Yes, a lot of new people
Speaker 1: will get it. But fine, okay, a clean and modern
Speaker 1: layout with a new start button and taskbar. I mean,
Speaker 1: who out there is excited about a new start button
Speaker 1: and a new taskbar. No one, new sounds, new fonts,
Speaker 1: new icons, provide a sense of calm and openness. I mean, okay, now,
Speaker 1: I love a refresh just as much as anyone else.
Speaker 1: But this is not selling the average consumer on new Windows.
Speaker 1: To me, it sounds like new sounds. Ugh, got get
Speaker 1: used to new sounds coming through my computer. New fonts.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, what's okay? New icons? Now
Speaker 1: I got to look for my icons. I sound like
Speaker 1: a curmudgeon here. A new Microsoft store brings your favorite
Speaker 1: apps and entertainment all in one place. That just means
Speaker 1: they want to sell me on more stuff. Now, this one,
Speaker 1: I do think is actually really cool, and it's a
Speaker 1: feature that I use on my Mac that I like.
Speaker 1: Snap layouts in groups offers a more powerful way to
Speaker 1: multitask and optimize your screen real estate. And that is
Speaker 1: actually a really cool feature, especially because people have multiple monitors,
Speaker 1: and I've heard when you unplug the monitors, all your
Speaker 1: windows kind of snap into different places and they get
Speaker 1: all rearranged. And so the fact that this can now
Speaker 1: kind of save the layouts and layout windows faster is
Speaker 1: something that I think will benefit a lot of people.
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna download it for any reason, probably
Speaker 1: go for the snap layouts and the groups. So I
Speaker 1: use a program on Mac that is called Rectangle and
Speaker 1: Rectangle is a really great little program that kind of
Speaker 1: just gets oh wow, this is so powerful. There's so
Speaker 1: many things it does, but it just it really just
Speaker 1: moves your Windows on Mac into different snap kind of grids,
Speaker 1: which ever, since I got the sixteen inch MacBook Pro
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I can do two windows
Speaker 1: side by side pretty comfortably, and it's a feature that
Speaker 1: I really really enjoy. In fact, I enjoy it so
Speaker 1: much I've even gotten used to the short cut keys
Speaker 1: that will snap my windows to the left and to
Speaker 1: the right, and so that's no easy feat for me
Speaker 1: to memorize any sort of shortcut keys. But anyway, Windows
Speaker 1: leven is available if you want to see it. It's
Speaker 1: a slow rollout. Not every computers compatible. Just because you're
Speaker 1: running Windows ten doesn't mean you'll get it. But most
Speaker 1: you know, if it's a newer computer, or it's a
Speaker 1: computer that has the specs that can handle it, you'll
Speaker 1: get it. Yes, there are ways of forcing it onto
Speaker 1: your computer. Yes, it's a free upgrade, but you can
Speaker 1: check your Windows update to see if you got it.
Speaker 1: And if you're nerdier than that and you want to
Speaker 1: force your computer to get it, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: Google for a way to do that. There are plenty
Speaker 1: of instructions online on how to get Windows eleven if
Speaker 1: you want it right now? All right, tm writes in
Speaker 1: looking for an address program that I can enter an address?
Speaker 1: Is it address or address and updates everything? Also when
Speaker 1: I delete, it deletes addresses everywhere. Is there such a program?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tony, Tony says sent from my Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note ten and AT and T five G evolution capable smartphone.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you AT and T for that very
Speaker 1: specific signature line. So, Tony, there is absolutely many many
Speaker 1: programs that will do this, and I'm sure that the
Speaker 1: Contacts program built into Windows can do this. I know
Speaker 1: that the Contacts program built into Mac can do this.
Speaker 1: But I think since you are on a Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note ten, which is an Android device, I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: have a hunch that you are using Google as your
Speaker 1: back end, which is probably where all of your contacts originate.
Speaker 1: So I am going to recommend the easiest way in
Speaker 1: the world to update your contacts. And all you have
Speaker 1: to do is go to Contacts dot Google dot com
Speaker 1: from your computer Contacts dot Google dot com, and you
Speaker 1: will see a list of all of your contacts. I
Speaker 1: have eight hundred and ninety nine contacts. I probably call
Speaker 1: about twenty of them. And oh, I guess I'm right,
Speaker 1: I have nineteen that are starred. So do I need
Speaker 1: all these contacts? Probably not. In fact, when I saw
Speaker 1: your message, I ended up starting to go through these
Speaker 1: like I got sidetracked and I started going through and
Speaker 1: like organizing, and I would say that you want to, uh,
Speaker 1: do it right here, and it will update on your
Speaker 1: phone and anywhere else that you are connected with the
Speaker 1: with the Google service. So if you're connected with Google,
Speaker 1: which means you're signed in with Google, all your contacts
Speaker 1: from Google propagate into whatever you know local contact apps
Speaker 1: or on your phone or on your computer or anywhere else.
Speaker 1: This will update all those Now I noticed something really
Speaker 1: cool that that Google has done, and I wondered if
Speaker 1: they did this. But for me, the toughest part of
Speaker 1: any contact is always the address, right, because you put
Speaker 1: someone's address in your phone really fast, and it's always like,
Speaker 1: you know, not you don't want to sit there and
Speaker 1: put it in all like the exact like destinations like
Speaker 1: you know, city, state, zip, whatever, like it's just too
Speaker 1: much work. So you just kind of write it on
Speaker 1: one line. Well, if you tap into the street address
Speaker 1: on the Google contact's web page, you start typing the address,
Speaker 1: and lo and behold. Yes, they have been so smart
Speaker 1: where it will auto complete with that Google kind of
Speaker 1: pop up that comes up when you type in an
Speaker 1: address on a lot of websites, and it will automatically
Speaker 1: figure out what you know the rest of the address. Now,
Speaker 1: the only thing it doesn't work on is like a
Speaker 1: apartment numbers. You will have to type that into the
Speaker 1: second line, but it will do the address properly formatted,
Speaker 1: the city, the state, and the zip code, and it
Speaker 1: will even give you the last four of the zip code,
Speaker 1: which probably used to be useful back in the day
Speaker 1: with mail service, but now probably just you know, don't
Speaker 1: doesn't really get things there any faster. Maybe it does,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But I went through and I did
Speaker 1: a couple of my contacts and that was really fun.
Speaker 1: I also want to mention there is a contacts app
Speaker 1: that I really like, and it's called Contact Picks, And
Speaker 1: I think I might have mentioned this already, but it's
Speaker 1: a really cool little app that is just so easy.
Speaker 1: This is on iOS, but it's such an easy little
Speaker 1: app to use. And oh gosh, oh no, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the I don't know what the like. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to find what this contact app? Like,
Speaker 1: what's the like? How would you know? Like if you
Speaker 1: look up contact picks, you're not gonna like, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna know like what it's all about. So let me
Speaker 1: go share app and I'm gonna share it to myself
Speaker 1: and I'll see if I can figure out where this
Speaker 1: app comes from. But it's like a dollar ninety nine
Speaker 1: and it's really easy because you just you go in
Speaker 1: there and all you have to do is it gives
Speaker 1: you a list of all your contacts and it just
Speaker 1: fine helps you find pictures for them. And I'll put
Speaker 1: the link in the show notes you can see it.
Speaker 1: But oh wow, price one up, it's now four ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Well I don't know, I mean for four ninety nine,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's totally worth it, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun. Honestly, I really like it. But what
Speaker 1: it does is so it shows you a list of
Speaker 1: all your contacts that don't have pictures or that have pictures,
Speaker 1: and then it helps you find pictures for them. So
Speaker 1: you can search Google Images and it automatically does all this.
Speaker 1: You can search Facebook, you can search like just everything
Speaker 1: like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. It's so easy. It's really really
Speaker 1: cool and it works, and it's it's very simple, and
Speaker 1: it's just a fun way to like replace some of
Speaker 1: the old school pictures that people you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't know where the pictures get pulled from on the
Speaker 1: contacts on my iPhone, Like for every time I have
Speaker 1: someone on there, I'm like, like I show them, like
Speaker 1: where did this picture come from? Like why why is
Speaker 1: your picture a picture of your dog? And they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I uploaded that to AOL ten years ago and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: why is it? How did it make it to my phone?
Speaker 1: I never know. So this is a way that you know,
Speaker 1: it's a manual process, but it's like an automated manual process,
Speaker 1: and I find that the easiest way, especially I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of people that I have
Speaker 1: in my contact book or like either public figures or
Speaker 1: they have you know, a LinkedIn I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: a lot of people have that. But it'll just help
Speaker 1: you find a picture, especially their professional pictures, very easily
Speaker 1: and or just like a fun picture that they posted
Speaker 1: one time to like Facebook before they lock down their account,
Speaker 1: and it's just floating out there on the web and
Speaker 1: it's like them in a bar and you can like
Speaker 1: just choose that. It like comes up on Google Images
Speaker 1: and you could just choose that and put that in there.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, so we got through that question. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Amazon, one of my favorite topics. You know,
Speaker 1: you know I love Amazon. So Amazon invited me to
Speaker 1: try out their new palm scanning payment system called Amazon One.
Speaker 1: And this is this is That's what I love about
Speaker 1: these big tech companies. It's like they're so like mysterious,
Speaker 1: Like they call me. They're like, rich, we would love
Speaker 1: you to try this new system out. I'm like, oh, great, okay,
Speaker 1: but we can't help you do anything. What do you mean, Well,
Speaker 1: we can't give you an interview, We can't really do anything,
Speaker 1: but we can just know that you're coming to the
Speaker 1: store and will make sure that they allow you to
Speaker 1: use your phone. And by the way, you can only
Speaker 1: use your phone to record. Now, I'm probably telling you
Speaker 1: too much about the inside baseball of how things work,
Speaker 1: but you know, a lot of things are like little negotiations,
Speaker 1: you know, like when I went to the the Volkswagen
Speaker 1: event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were like, well, you can't
Speaker 1: record anything in the factory. I'm like, well, that's a
Speaker 1: non starter. I'm a TV journalist, like I need to
Speaker 1: record stuff in the factory. Like, well, we have someone
Speaker 1: there that will be recording. I'm like, no, I want
Speaker 1: to record my own stuff because I can't rely on
Speaker 1: your camera person. And you know. So they finally went
Speaker 1: back and forth and they said, Okay, you can use
Speaker 1: your iPhone and I said, okay, cool. Same thing with Amazon. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can use your iPhone to shoot this, but that's it.
Speaker 1: So we go in there and we tried it out.
Speaker 1: You basically link you go in there and this is
Speaker 1: in like sixty different locations, mostly Amazon stores, but then
Speaker 1: they also have it as a ticket Kia or a
Speaker 1: ticket entry method at Red Rocks Amphitheater, which I've never
Speaker 1: been to, but I hear is beautiful. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite CDs. I know this is aging me or dating me,
Speaker 1: but my my Dave Matthews band Live at Red Rocks
Speaker 1: is like one of my all time favorites, and that's
Speaker 1: the only that's the only like frame of reference I
Speaker 1: have for Red Rocks Amphitheater. But I'm sure it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It just sounds amazing. But anyway, so they're using it.
Speaker 1: You know, you can scan your hand to get in
Speaker 1: as a ticket instead of your ticket. I digress. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's how it works. You go into the Amazon store.
Speaker 1: You go up to the counter and you say, I'd
Speaker 1: like to register my credit card or my card with
Speaker 1: my hand, and so you pop your card, your either
Speaker 1: debit or credit card into this little reader that's linked
Speaker 1: to your Amazon account, so you know, it knows which
Speaker 1: cards are on your Amazon account, one that you've used before.
Speaker 1: And then it says, okay, now hold your left hand
Speaker 1: over the scanner. Bink takes two seconds. It scans your
Speaker 1: hand and I'm talking to your palm of your hand,
Speaker 1: so it's actually like kind of looking through your hand.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing at like the blood vessels and stuff at
Speaker 1: the veins. I don't know what it's looking at, but
Speaker 1: it is. And then it does your right hand. It says, okay,
Speaker 1: that's it, You're all done. You pop your credit card
Speaker 1: out and you never need it again. So now the
Speaker 1: next time you go into Amazon store, you buy your stuff,
Speaker 1: and you just go up to the register and you say, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm using Amazon one. You scan your hand and that's it. Now, Yes,
Speaker 1: I get that. It's scary. It's biometrics. It's they're building
Speaker 1: a reference of who you are, and they can someone
Speaker 1: can steal. Someone on my Facebook page said oh great,
Speaker 1: now people are going to be chopping each other's hands
Speaker 1: off and using them to pay in store. I'm like,
Speaker 1: and someone else's comment and they're like, oh, that's not
Speaker 1: very obvious. You bring a bloody hand into the Amazon Store. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be happening. I remember
Speaker 1: people saying that, you know, when face id came out,
Speaker 1: people were gonna be getting their their phones unlocked by
Speaker 1: holding their their iPhone in front of their spouse while
Speaker 1: they're sleeping to unlock it and look at all their secrets.
Speaker 1: But like, I mean, it's just then the fingerprint. You know,
Speaker 1: when touch id came out, people were like, oh, now
Speaker 1: people are gonna, you know, just put their finger on
Speaker 1: someone's phone and like get it unlocked real quick, or
Speaker 1: chop off their thumb when they need it. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think we've really heard a lot of reports
Speaker 1: of that stuff happening, and if it does, these people
Speaker 1: have way bigger problems than Amazon's little palm scanning system.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're chopping off people's hands to shop
Speaker 1: in the Amazon Store, I think that's a bigger issue
Speaker 1: than Amazon coming up with the new technology that uses
Speaker 1: palm scanning biometrics. Okay, yeah, and I don't want you
Speaker 1: in my Amion store, honestly. If that's if you're if
Speaker 1: you're considering chopping off someone's hand to use it to
Speaker 1: buy your uh, you know, your latest romance novel at
Speaker 1: the Amazon Store, that's that's a little concerning. So I
Speaker 1: would think twice before you even consider doing this. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I tried it out. I bought a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff at the Amazon Store, and it works great. It's
Speaker 1: really convenient, it's fast, it's simple. It's truly contact lists,
Speaker 1: which I think in today's world with uh, you know
Speaker 1: the COVID situation that never ends, and you know the
Speaker 1: even the fact that even if you use tap to
Speaker 1: pay ninety nine percent of the time, if you're using
Speaker 1: a debit card, it's like pin number please. Half the
Speaker 1: time they're like signature. Please. I'm like, why do I
Speaker 1: have to touch the screen? I just did tap and pay.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm doing tap and pay is I don't
Speaker 1: have to touch your dirty, grimy screen in the middle
Speaker 1: of a COVID world or any world. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to touch the screens before that, or the pen that's
Speaker 1: hanging there. Nasty. The only the the whole pin screen.
Speaker 1: The only thing worse is that giant key for the
Speaker 1: bathroom they give you at the at the gas station
Speaker 1: that's on like a giant like you know, it's attached
Speaker 1: to like a kid's like wagon. They're like, oh, here's
Speaker 1: the key for the bathroom, and it's attached like a
Speaker 1: radio fly er wagon. You have to like wheel it
Speaker 1: to the bathroom because they don't want you to steal it.
Speaker 1: I mean, who comes up with the things that they
Speaker 1: attach those keys to. It's like always like the randomest
Speaker 1: thing that's like so dirty and disgusting. My little trick
Speaker 1: is I always hold it from the ring where the
Speaker 1: key connects to the nasty whatever the thing that it's holding,
Speaker 1: because I feel like most people don't do that, So
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit cleaner that way. But it's like
Speaker 1: you go to the restroom. You gotta you know, drag
Speaker 1: this giant key there. Then you have to put it
Speaker 1: somewhere in the nasty bathroom, and then you wash your
Speaker 1: hands and you come out of the bathroom, and now
Speaker 1: you have to touch this thing and bring it back.
Speaker 1: And then it's like you might as well have just
Speaker 1: you know, licked a street corner or something. I don't
Speaker 1: know where was I. So the Amazon One, it's it's
Speaker 1: a great system. It's really fast, it's simple. It's truly
Speaker 1: contact list because there's nothing to do. After you do
Speaker 1: that initial sign up. You literally just wave your hand
Speaker 1: over the reader. It says, okay, we know who's who,
Speaker 1: we charge the card. And I even got a notification
Speaker 1: from my bank, like a personalized thing that like they
Speaker 1: knew what Amazon one was. So clearly they've gotten some
Speaker 1: of these banks on board. It said, like you know
Speaker 1: from my bank, like, hey, we noticed you added added
Speaker 1: your card to Amazon one. You have all the protections
Speaker 1: of your card that you know are that you would
Speaker 1: that you would get typically even if you use this method.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so Amazon's really pushing this,
Speaker 1: and I think I think it's tough to sell people
Speaker 1: on a new type of payment method, especially when we
Speaker 1: just are getting used to the whole tap to pay thing.
Speaker 1: And so I think that they have an uphill battle
Speaker 1: here because it's it's limited. It's only you know, in
Speaker 1: use at Amazon stores right now, plus that random, uh,
Speaker 1: the other random place I mentioned, the Red Rocks, And
Speaker 1: so I think that Amazon would like to license this
Speaker 1: to other places, and then, of course they will get
Speaker 1: a little tiny percentage or whatever however it works with
Speaker 1: the interchange fees or whatever, they'll get a little tiny
Speaker 1: cut of the action whenever someone uses this at somewhere else,
Speaker 1: like another store. But I can guarantee you Walmart's not
Speaker 1: going to accept this. I can guarantee you that Target's
Speaker 1: not going to use this. I can guarantee you that
Speaker 1: Kroger's not going to use it. So and for mom
Speaker 1: and pop places, it's probably a little expensive to get
Speaker 1: this reader when you just invested in tap to pay.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the future of this is
Speaker 1: going to be now. Amazon, Yeah, they're building a bunch
Speaker 1: of stores, and I do think that if Amazon has
Speaker 1: it in their own stores and you shop at Whole
Speaker 1: Foods all the time, where you've got Amazon Books, or
Speaker 1: you know, it's very convenient. But I think the place
Speaker 1: that this would work the best at is sort of
Speaker 1: a little tiny convenience store, like a seven to eleven,
Speaker 1: places where you're going in and you just want a
Speaker 1: very fast transaction and so or even like a gas station.
Speaker 1: Not that I use gas anymore, as you know, but
Speaker 1: if I did, this would be really nice. But you
Speaker 1: still have to touch the handle of the gas thing
Speaker 1: the pump, so it's like, you know, people aren't. It's
Speaker 1: places where I think you have very quick, small, fast transactions,
Speaker 1: and that would be like in New York City. I
Speaker 1: think of like the little corner convenience stores like that.
Speaker 1: This would be really easy where you just you go downstairs.
Speaker 1: You know, you're in your pajamas, you're in your slippers.
Speaker 1: You run downstairs, you grab a you know, whatever you need,
Speaker 1: and you wave your hand and you're done. And so
Speaker 1: I think that's where this would really thrive. And if
Speaker 1: Amazon can get these little places to adopt it, that
Speaker 1: would be really great. But we'll have to wait and
Speaker 1: see on this one. But I did try it out.
Speaker 1: It did work. It was very nice, it was very quick,
Speaker 1: and I like it because, like I said, you don't
Speaker 1: have to touch anything. So with fingerprint, you know, if
Speaker 1: they did fingerprint, you have to put your Like there's
Speaker 1: a place in LA that does a fingerprint as your
Speaker 1: either payment or your club card. And it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to put my finger print in your little
Speaker 1: machine like number one that's my fingerprint, which I don't
Speaker 1: know why. To me, my fingerprint seems a little bit
Speaker 1: more identifiable than my palm print, Like, you know, fingerprints
Speaker 1: since the beginning of like mankind, that's what they've used
Speaker 1: to like identify people, whereas palm and you know, iris scan, yes,
Speaker 1: but palm, it's like, no, no one's really using the
Speaker 1: palm to identify you. So I think that's a pretty
Speaker 1: pretty des one. I going really slow here. I've only
Speaker 1: gotten through two questions. All right, let's see, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: can you help us understand DNS servers. My family has spectrum.
Speaker 1: Despite appearing that we have full bars, we're constantly being
Speaker 1: told cannot find server. It's virtually impossible to use the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi on our phones in our house. On laptops,
Speaker 1: it's especially hard to connect right away, but after several
Speaker 1: minutes it's typically okay. We have a mesh system all
Speaker 1: the MESH hubs indicate they're working. Someone suggested we might
Speaker 1: want to consider using a different DNS like Google or Amazon.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts, aren't we are not. I'm thinking we're not
Speaker 1: your only fan with this problem. Thank you, Rich. We
Speaker 1: always appreciate your tech wisdom. Michelle and Cyprus. So, Michelle,
Speaker 1: the fact that you have a MESH system is a
Speaker 1: good thing. I'm not sure it's properly set up if
Speaker 1: this is happening, but I will tell you that, yes,
Speaker 1: I use a third party DNS. I do not use
Speaker 1: what Spectrum or AT and T provide because you're right,
Speaker 1: in my experience, it's not the best experience to use
Speaker 1: experience twice in one sentence. But I find that it
Speaker 1: is slow, it is laggy, it's not that great and so,
Speaker 1: and also it's not that private, and so I always
Speaker 1: switch to a new DNS server. So there's a couple
Speaker 1: like you mentioned. I don't know about Amazon. I don't
Speaker 1: think they have one, nor would I want to use theirs.
Speaker 1: But Google, yes, they have one that is eight dot
Speaker 1: eight dot eight dot eight and then it's I think
Speaker 1: eight dot eight dot four dot four. So you have
Speaker 1: to look up the way to update this on your system.
Speaker 1: But if you just google the name of your Mesh system,
Speaker 1: like you know EUO Mesh network DNS servers, and if
Speaker 1: you even you know, even the app for your for
Speaker 1: your Mesh network should have a place where it just
Speaker 1: says DNS and you go in there, and it's really
Speaker 1: quite simple. You just go in, you type in those
Speaker 1: four digits whether it's uh A A eight or one
Speaker 1: one one one which one one one one is run
Speaker 1: by cloud Flare, And that's another one that's a little
Speaker 1: bit more private, a little bit better, and a little
Speaker 1: bit faster, And so I would definitely switch to one
Speaker 1: of these, and I think that you will have a
Speaker 1: better experience. But I think the bigger problem might be
Speaker 1: how your Mesh network is set up. But I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but I there used to be another one that I
Speaker 1: liked too. Maybe it was this one one one one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's it. Those two now the other one.
Speaker 1: If you really want to do something that's interesting, you
Speaker 1: could switch to what's called ad Guard DNS. And if
Speaker 1: you switch to ad Guard, you will actually you've you've
Speaker 1: got a couple of flavors inside there, and so ad
Speaker 1: guard has a has a a DNS that is for
Speaker 1: what Yeah, family, So there's a family protection mode in here,
Speaker 1: and so you can go, uh oh, yeah, there's yeah,
Speaker 1: there's two, so you can okay. So ad guard will
Speaker 1: actually block at the network level, all the ads on
Speaker 1: your system. It's not perfect, but it blocks ads, it
Speaker 1: blocks any counters malicious software, and it can also block
Speaker 1: adult websites. So if you want to switch to this,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different because you're you know, you're
Speaker 1: going through a third party and you're kind of you
Speaker 1: gotta put a little trust and ad Guard. But if
Speaker 1: you want to block ads kind of on your network
Speaker 1: at a at a network level, you can set this
Speaker 1: up and their servers are it's like, well I can
Speaker 1: read it. It's ninety four fourteen dot fourteen, and that's
Speaker 1: the default that will block ads. But if you want
Speaker 1: to do something a little extra and you've got kids
Speaker 1: in the house, you can do the family Protection servers
Speaker 1: and this will attempt to filter out any adult content
Speaker 1: on the web as well, mostly adult websites. I don't
Speaker 1: know about Google searches, but and that's like ninety four
Speaker 1: dot one dot fourteen dot fifteen. So those are yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, those are two other options. So you've got
Speaker 1: the the Cloudflare one, which is one dot one dot
Speaker 1: one dot one. You've got Google which is eight dot
Speaker 1: eight dot eight dot eight, and you've got this ad
Speaker 1: Guard DNS. Those are the three that I know off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, and I've used most of them,
Speaker 1: and I do think that they are better. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's one of the first things I change anytime setting
Speaker 1: up a Wi Fi network. All Right, Google is going
Speaker 1: to announce the Pixel six on October nineteenth, So I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna spend too much time on this because until
Speaker 1: the phone is announced, there's not really much to talk about.
Speaker 1: But I told you that I am waiting to see
Speaker 1: what the Pixel six Pro is all about before I
Speaker 1: make my final purchase on the iPhone thirteen Pro or
Speaker 1: the Pixel six Pro. Now, I'll be completely honest, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough to get me away from the iPhone
Speaker 1: thirteen Pro because it is quite possibly the world's most
Speaker 1: perfect phone. And I don't just say that because Rich
Speaker 1: you love Apple, Oh my gosh, you're such an Apple fanboy. No,
Speaker 1: I say that because if there's a phone that I
Speaker 1: had to be stranded somewhere in the world with, it
Speaker 1: would probably be the iPhone thirteen Pro. It takes amazing pictures.
Speaker 1: The battery actually now lasts a really long time. I
Speaker 1: like the charging, I like the screen, I like the accessories.
Speaker 1: I like the Apple Watch. I like the software on
Speaker 1: all the apps. I mean it's a total package. Now,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things I don't like, and
Speaker 1: I don't like how I message hijacks your phone number
Speaker 1: and gets you into this world of I Message that
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a part of, but I
Speaker 1: have to be because you know, we live in an
Speaker 1: Apple world, and all your friends if you start texting
Speaker 1: them with green bubbles, are like, Ranch, why aren't you
Speaker 1: using your iPhone? And it just gets, you know, really annoying,
Speaker 1: and so I just go, you know, I just don't
Speaker 1: ditch it. But on the flip side, I love how
Speaker 1: my I messages go to the Apple Watch and they go,
Speaker 1: you know, my Apple Watch. I can just leave the
Speaker 1: house and you know it's got cellular on it. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to move to the Pixel six
Speaker 1: Pro because I feel like it's a one trick pony.
Speaker 1: It's going to have great camera quality, but what else
Speaker 1: does it give me besides that? Now, I do like
Speaker 1: the idea. Whenever I use a Google phone or an Android,
Speaker 1: I of course immediately start harnessing more of the power
Speaker 1: of Google, because on the iPhone, Google it's there, but
Speaker 1: it's not very easy. You're always typing, you can't really
Speaker 1: use voice search, you can't really use it's just a
Speaker 1: lot of like busy work to actually use Google or
Speaker 1: any Google products on there. Whereas I'm Android, it's much easier.
Speaker 1: So if I want to search for something, I just
Speaker 1: tap the microphone button right on the home screen and boom,
Speaker 1: I'm into a search and the results you are up
Speaker 1: within like a fraction of a second. If I want
Speaker 1: to click on an address in anything across the phone,
Speaker 1: it will bring me to my preferred Maps app, not
Speaker 1: Apple Maps half the time as it does on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: If I want to set up any kind of random
Speaker 1: little things on the phone, I can do that. Now
Speaker 1: iPhone has gotten a lot better in this aspect, but
Speaker 1: again I feel like I'm always cruising two different systems,
Speaker 1: the system that Apple wants to force me to use
Speaker 1: and the system that I want to use. For instance,
Speaker 1: half the time when you click on a website, it
Speaker 1: comes up in Safari because even though you can set
Speaker 1: a default now, it doesn't always work. And it's just
Speaker 1: those little kind of things that bug me about the iPhone.
Speaker 1: But overall it is a very very It is the
Speaker 1: best device. Let's put it that way. It really is.
Speaker 1: As a full package, it is the best. But I
Speaker 1: will be looking forward to seeing what Google has to announce,
Speaker 1: and I hope that I can switch. I really do,
Speaker 1: because it will take some creative figuring out for me
Speaker 1: to keep the Apple Watch, but to switch to the
Speaker 1: Pixel six Pro and we'll see what happens. October nineteenth,
Speaker 1: Yolanda says, Hey, Rich, not long ago when I was
Speaker 1: getting for work, you did a short segment on refurbished
Speaker 1: phone iPhones. Today, I broke my screen. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how much longer it will last. If you'd be so
Speaker 1: kind to send that information, I will greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you well, Yolanda. If your phone is not that old,
Speaker 1: I would just get it repaired, and I would just
Speaker 1: take it to like a you break eye fix and
Speaker 1: see how much it costs to get fixed. Usually, screen
Speaker 1: repairs are not unless the digitizer's broken, like the part
Speaker 1: underneath the screen. It's just the glass that's broken. They
Speaker 1: can replace that and it's not that expensive, and it
Speaker 1: probably will be cheaper than new phone. But if you
Speaker 1: want a new phone, here are the places that I
Speaker 1: would look for a refurbished iPhone Number one. I spoke
Speaker 1: about getting phones on Amazon earlier, but I would not
Speaker 1: recommend new phones, but refurbished iPhones. Yes, and you can
Speaker 1: look up. I think it's either Amazon Certified refurbished or
Speaker 1: Amazon Warehouse deals. But they've got a bunch of iPhones
Speaker 1: in there because a bunch of people trade them in
Speaker 1: and then Amazon has them, and then they refurbish them
Speaker 1: and they send them back out to or they sell
Speaker 1: them to folks like you. Gazelle is another place that
Speaker 1: a lot of people go to purchase or to sell
Speaker 1: their phones, and then Gazelle will refurbish the ones that
Speaker 1: are still good and they will flip them and sell
Speaker 1: them to someone else. And you can get a pretty
Speaker 1: good deal there if you want, like the most official
Speaker 1: method you know coming from Apple, and you get a
Speaker 1: little bit better warranty. I think it comes with a
Speaker 1: two year warranty, but and plus a good return process.
Speaker 1: Plus you can bring it to the store for you
Speaker 1: know anything, any help you need, you can go to
Speaker 1: Apple dot com or just search Apple refurbished, Apple dot com,
Speaker 1: slash shop slash refurbished and okay sorry. They come with
Speaker 1: a one year warranty and so you save up to
Speaker 1: fifteen percent and they come with a one year warranty
Speaker 1: and it comes with a new battery and a new
Speaker 1: outer shell, which is really cool. So they basically just
Speaker 1: keep the insides, like the guts these phones, and then
Speaker 1: they replace the whole outside of it new battery and
Speaker 1: a new outer shell, and so you're getting like, basically,
Speaker 1: you're not getting someone's old battery that they like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like a rental car, you know, they were like
Speaker 1: reving it up every day, and so you're getting a
Speaker 1: battery that's actually brand new. And so that would be
Speaker 1: one advantage to shopping direct from Apple. Yes, you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay a little bit more, but in the end it
Speaker 1: might benefit you because you're not gonna get a lemon.
Speaker 1: You know, you never know what you're gonna get some
Speaker 1: times when you buy it off eBay or Amazon, you know,
Speaker 1: you just don't know. But if you buy it off Apple,
Speaker 1: you've got a big company that's backing what they sell
Speaker 1: you and the other one. If you're a little bit
Speaker 1: more tech savvy, a little bit nerdier, I'd recommend Swapa.
Speaker 1: And this has been like kind of the the geek's
Speaker 1: favorite place to sell and buy a lot of gadgets
Speaker 1: over the years. And I say that because it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more like involved than some of the other places.
Speaker 1: But the stuff that you get on there is pretty
Speaker 1: high quality, and so people, you know, if nerds like it,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing because that means that they're doing
Speaker 1: something right. Because these are the discerning tech folks, right
Speaker 1: and so you want to make sure that if they're happy,
Speaker 1: you'll probably be happy as well. But good question, Thanks
Speaker 1: for asking it. And yeah, let's see what do I
Speaker 1: want to talk about now? Let's we talk about you know,
Speaker 1: every week on the show, I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: my journey with Tesla and electric cars in general. But
Speaker 1: I'll get through this news and I'll just switch to
Speaker 1: talking about what I want to talk about, which is
Speaker 1: my car. But GM has unveiled Ultra Cruse. So GM
Speaker 1: has something called super CRUs which I've tested. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like their hands free driving, but this Ultra Cruse
Speaker 1: takes it a step further, and Ultra Cruse is so
Speaker 1: if super Cruse is more like cruise control, that doesn't
Speaker 1: require hands on the wheel, but you kind of have
Speaker 1: to still be active in this, and that Ultra Cruz
Speaker 1: is more like self driving, but it's not full self driving.
Speaker 1: So no, everyone's dancing around this idea of self driving
Speaker 1: right now because I think that all these car companies
Speaker 1: over promised, and when customers get into these cars, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I thought my like I thought my Tesla would just
Speaker 1: drive itself all the time, and that's not really true,
Speaker 1: even if you pay for the full autopilot, which I've
Speaker 1: not done just yet, but your car. I think that
Speaker 1: these cars are doing more for us. But you know,
Speaker 1: even in my Tesla and even in the GM Supercruse,
Speaker 1: I mean Supercrus does change lanes by itself, so that
Speaker 1: is that is definitely something it does at the base level,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's kind of like cruise control,
Speaker 1: but a little bit more evolved, so it does a
Speaker 1: little bit more. And then Ultra Cruz is going to
Speaker 1: use sensors like cameras, radars, and lidar to control steering, acceleration,
Speaker 1: and braking. And they say they could use it on
Speaker 1: two million of miles of paved roads and ninety five
Speaker 1: percent of driving scenarios. But this is gonna this is
Speaker 1: gonna premiere on really ultra premium cars and then trickle
Speaker 1: its way down to h You know what's the most
Speaker 1: basic GM car? These days? I don't even like they
Speaker 1: don't even make cars. These car companies don't even make
Speaker 1: cars anymore now. I was talking a forward about the
Speaker 1: Maverick and they're like, yeah, we don't even make cars anymore, Like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean you don't make cars now? We
Speaker 1: just do SUVs and crossovers. So I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that these this car market has been taken over. I
Speaker 1: don't even think GM's making cars anymore. Like they they
Speaker 1: don't do the they do the bolt I guess which
Speaker 1: is a car. But I don't think they do like
Speaker 1: any of the small little cars they used to do.
Speaker 1: They just have so many these little cars. But I
Speaker 1: guess the the people have spoken and they like their crossovers.
Speaker 1: But anyway, s you'll have supercrew. So now when you
Speaker 1: hear the term super cruise, that's like a much higher
Speaker 1: end version of the self drive or the driver assist
Speaker 1: and then regular Sorry super Cruise is the is the regular.
Speaker 1: So there's two levels. There's there's three levels. There's driving yourself,
Speaker 1: then there's Super Crews, which has assisted driving, and then
Speaker 1: there's Ultra Cruise, which is gonna be much more assistance
Speaker 1: and it's gonna do stop signs, traphic signals and other
Speaker 1: things that Super Crews cannot. So Ultra Cruise is kind
Speaker 1: of like their high end, kind of like the equivalent
Speaker 1: of the autopilot on Tesla. But autopilot's a little misleading
Speaker 1: because there's full autopilot and then there's autopilot, and so
Speaker 1: there are different levels on the Tesla as well. And
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, like my experience with the Tesla number
Speaker 1: one with the autopilot situation is I think that it's
Speaker 1: a little dicey because it's so easy to switch. Like
Speaker 1: even if you have cruise control in your car, it's
Speaker 1: not as easy to get into as it is on
Speaker 1: the Tesla. On the Tesla, it's really quick and really
Speaker 1: fast to snap into the ether either the self whatever
Speaker 1: the gosh what am I trying to say here? The
Speaker 1: part where it just keeps the speed so cruise control
Speaker 1: and then the lane keep so it doesn't Tesla doesn't
Speaker 1: use those nomenclatures. But that's really the two levels that
Speaker 1: I have in my car. I've got the adaptive cruise control,
Speaker 1: which when you you just basically you can tap one.
Speaker 1: It's like a stick on your steering wheel. You pull
Speaker 1: it down and boom, or you push it up. I
Speaker 1: can't remember. But then you're you're all of a sudden
Speaker 1: like just you know, whatever the speed limit is, you're
Speaker 1: automatically there. And that's another thing. Like on my old car,
Speaker 1: you know, you'd have to press a button to enter
Speaker 1: a cruise control and then you'd have to set your
Speaker 1: little cruise control speed. So this is kind of like
Speaker 1: all in one in one swipe, so it's really fast.
Speaker 1: And then the second thing that's faster is the auto
Speaker 1: like staying in your lane. And so I think you
Speaker 1: do twice on the stalk and it then stays in
Speaker 1: your lane. But I'll be honest, like for me as
Speaker 1: a driver, sometimes I forget. I'm like, wait, am I
Speaker 1: in just the part where it's keeps the the adaptive
Speaker 1: cruise control? Or am I in the part where it
Speaker 1: also keeps you my lane? And yes, there's little indicators
Speaker 1: that tell you, but I think our human brain, and
Speaker 1: I've said this before, is not fully wired to it's
Speaker 1: going to take a while to like adapt to this
Speaker 1: idea that you always have to be in control. But
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not really in control and the car's doing itself.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of a tough thing to explain. But
Speaker 1: I think that's when we see all these accidents with
Speaker 1: these self driving cars and the automated systems. It's because
Speaker 1: I think people are just their their brains are not like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: like it used to be all you had to keep
Speaker 1: track of, well, your brain would keep track of everything,
Speaker 1: and now as you start to peel away those layers
Speaker 1: of Oh I can keep my foot off the gas
Speaker 1: pedal and off the brake. Oh okay, well that's a
Speaker 1: little weird. Oh I can take my hands off the
Speaker 1: stirring wheel for a couple of minutes and then I
Speaker 1: have to put them back on. Or oh, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna stay in this lane while I do something real quick.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's odd that we have that, and it's
Speaker 1: tough for your brain to kind of to make sense
Speaker 1: of all of that and every single time when the
Speaker 1: scenarios are constantly changing. So I think that's why we're
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of issues with the uptake and the
Speaker 1: you know, the situation with the self driving and the
Speaker 1: assisted driving. But and quite honestly, like the bigger portion
Speaker 1: of this is when things go fully autonomous. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be even scarier because there are just so
Speaker 1: many driving situations out there and so many nuances on
Speaker 1: the road that, yeah, I just don't know if I
Speaker 1: would trust a car to you know, to drive me
Speaker 1: right now all by itself and also drive my kids.
Speaker 1: So or maybe when they start driving, it'll be it'll
Speaker 1: be better because it'll be not them driving, So that's
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be better. All right, Let's get into another
Speaker 1: question because I think we're getting towards the end of
Speaker 1: the show here. Uh Almah says, hey, Rich, I've used
Speaker 1: Yahoo mail for work since the beginning of Time two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. I've noticed that it takes forever to
Speaker 1: load on my iPhone and I can read and I
Speaker 1: now read Yahoo mal will cease to exist? What provider
Speaker 1: should I switch to for business? Gmail? iCloud. I receive
Speaker 1: a lot of files and emails I would pay for
Speaker 1: a reliable service. Can you point me in the right direction?
Speaker 1: I always follow your recommendations faithfully, thank you alba alma alma.
Speaker 1: I would recommend the easiest is probably just Google not
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you can use Gmail and it's completely free,
Speaker 1: but if you want to have something that says your
Speaker 1: business name, like you know, like I have Hello at
Speaker 1: richontech dot tv, I would recommend you got to pay
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I think it's worth paying. Now.
Speaker 1: You can do this a couple different ways, like that
Speaker 1: Hello at richontech dot tv is just a forwarding email.
Speaker 1: So when someone writes an email to that address, my
Speaker 1: my domain is literally just forwarding that to my Gmail,
Speaker 1: and so when I reply back to someone, it typically
Speaker 1: comes from my Gmail, which you probably don't want for
Speaker 1: your business. So I would recommend that you would actually
Speaker 1: sign up for Google's, you know, a business account at Google,
Speaker 1: which is I think Google Workspace, and then you would
Speaker 1: sign up for an email so it looks like it's
Speaker 1: six dollars per user per month, and that includes thirty
Speaker 1: gigs of storage file sharing, and you know, you can
Speaker 1: upgrade if you need to. Plus, it includes your company,
Speaker 1: your email at your company, you know dot com. So
Speaker 1: I would probably recommend that. The other option is I
Speaker 1: would go Microsoft out or Outlook, which is Microsoft three
Speaker 1: sixty five, And I don't have the pricing on that,
Speaker 1: but I think that that, you know, anytime you do
Speaker 1: a business, you kind of want to use Like I
Speaker 1: think that Outlook is really good for business, Like you're
Speaker 1: gonna be using their app to check your email. And
Speaker 1: so either Gmail or Outlook I think are the two
Speaker 1: best out there, and so I would just use those now.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to pay anything, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: use something like an iCloud, but you're saying you're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of files and sending a lot of files.
Speaker 1: You don't want to have to be in a scenario
Speaker 1: where your storage is either used up or it's too full,
Speaker 1: or the files are too big and you can't send
Speaker 1: the email. So I would probably go with the Google
Speaker 1: Workspace or a professional version of Outlook. And I think
Speaker 1: those two will probably be your best bets. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about something fun before I wrap up the show. Here.
Speaker 1: I went to Dreamscape. This is I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've talked about on the podcast before. I'm sure I have,
Speaker 1: but they Dreamscape, I think is doing the best virtual
Speaker 1: reality out there. I love VR, I really really do.
Speaker 1: I think it is. It's gonna have such a big future.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're there just yet, but I do
Speaker 1: think that VR has just such a bright potential if
Speaker 1: they can figure it out, they being the people that
Speaker 1: are working on it, And what that means is they've
Speaker 1: got to get the headsets to be better, less tethered, longer, battery, smaller, lighter,
Speaker 1: more comfortable, easier, less sick, all that good stuff. No backpacks.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Dreamscape is one of these companies that's sort
Speaker 1: of pushing the limits when it comes to VR for
Speaker 1: the average person because they're in the malls. They've only
Speaker 1: got a couple locations. But you go into this place
Speaker 1: and you have a strap on the headset, you put
Speaker 1: on a backpack, and next thing you know, you're battling
Speaker 1: aliens or you're checking out whatever a world that is
Speaker 1: just not available in the real life. And so the
Speaker 1: new one they have is called Men in Black First Assignment,
Speaker 1: and I went to Dreamscape to check it out, and
Speaker 1: it is just so cool now. I will say, personally,
Speaker 1: my headset was a little bit choppy, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if that's because they need to like restart the
Speaker 1: computer that was attached to it, or if you know
Speaker 1: this this place has been around for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: maybe their system is getting a little bit older and
Speaker 1: they need to like update, you know, because these VR files,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's like anything, they just get bigger and
Speaker 1: bigger and require more processing. So maybe it was a
Speaker 1: little bit old and they need to upgrade, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. But anyway, it didn't really take away from
Speaker 1: the action and the excitement. But I'm telling you, the
Speaker 1: first experience is you get in there in this little
Speaker 1: room and they put you on a subway car and
Speaker 1: you look like you're going through like this cool subway station.
Speaker 1: It's like all high tech and like alieny or whatever,
Speaker 1: and it's just so realistic. You feel like you're on
Speaker 1: a moving subway car, and it's just I love that
Speaker 1: kind of thing that you can just your brain just
Speaker 1: instantly is like, oh, I'm being tricked, but I don't
Speaker 1: care because it's so cool. And then the second part
Speaker 1: that really got me is that you're on this like
Speaker 1: little like little i don't know what you call, like
Speaker 1: a little motorbike kind of thing that you're like riding
Speaker 1: through the world in which really you're just stationary, but
Speaker 1: it feels like you're you know, you're on this thing
Speaker 1: and they shoot you up in the air, like a
Speaker 1: thousand feet above this bridge. And I'm not kidding. It
Speaker 1: was like my spidy sense of like, you know, my
Speaker 1: little awareness of heights. I don't know what you want
Speaker 1: to call it is like it's like triggered and I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 1: I'm really up high right now, but I'm not because
Speaker 1: you're just in this room in the mall. And so
Speaker 1: that was awesome. Now, the one thing I would say,
Speaker 1: I took my son who's ten, and it was great
Speaker 1: because I was a little nervous. I'm like, oh, is
Speaker 1: he gonna like it? Is he gonna run out of
Speaker 1: the room? Is he gonna get hurt? Because he's you know,
Speaker 1: you're in this room that has like it's like a square,
Speaker 1: a big square that has like four railings rounds that
Speaker 1: you don't like fall off the stage or it's not
Speaker 1: really a stage, but you know the state this place
Speaker 1: is equipped with all kinds of little tricks, like water
Speaker 1: out of the ceiling. You know, it sprits you, you know, fans,
Speaker 1: there was heat in this one. There's like a place
Speaker 1: where you can reach out and touch something and it's slimy.
Speaker 1: You know. The floor vibrates and rattles and moves so
Speaker 1: that it not moves, but it kind of rattles and
Speaker 1: us so that you feel like when you're on that
Speaker 1: train that it's actually moving, and you do walk around
Speaker 1: a little bit. But anyway, at one point, when we
Speaker 1: were on these little bikes, all of a sudden, my son,
Speaker 1: who is you can see the avatar of whoever else
Speaker 1: is in there with you. He disappeared because they in
Speaker 1: this example or this adventure, the person I guess, they
Speaker 1: kind of peel off onto their own bike, not next
Speaker 1: to you anymore. And so I did not like that
Speaker 1: aspect of it because I felt like it was a
Speaker 1: little as a parent, I wanted to be able to
Speaker 1: look over and see that my son was still there
Speaker 1: and okay, even though it was just it would be
Speaker 1: an avatar of him, but still at least I know
Speaker 1: he's there. But this whole thing, like the last ten
Speaker 1: minutes of the ride, it's only like fifteen minutes, he
Speaker 1: was not there. And so I kept yelling out. I
Speaker 1: was like, Parker, are you okay? Parker, you okay? He's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm okay. And it's really you know, you don't want
Speaker 1: to lift up your head sex, you don't want to
Speaker 1: you know, to take yourself out of the action. But
Speaker 1: it was just such a great experience. Tickets you're like
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks. You know, it's it's well worth it,
Speaker 1: I think for the experience that you get. And yes
Speaker 1: it's it's expensive, but you will get to talk about
Speaker 1: this and I just think it's such a transformative technology
Speaker 1: in your life that it just kind of changes your paradigm.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this in the podcast where I
Speaker 1: feel like we need to do that as people that
Speaker 1: want to grow and learn and adapt that you just
Speaker 1: have to challenge yourself in different ways and this is
Speaker 1: one of them. In a weird way, You're just experiencing
Speaker 1: something that you've never experienced before and it does forever
Speaker 1: change the fabric of who you are. So check it
Speaker 1: out Dreamscape at the you know, if you have it
Speaker 1: by you see if it's by you, But otherwise you
Speaker 1: don't do any of these things. But I think Dreamscape
Speaker 1: is the best. All right, Walter says, Hey, Rich, quick question.
Speaker 1: I have a Galaxy Note ten. I'm thinking of upgrading
Speaker 1: to the Galaxy flip phone. Is there a big difference
Speaker 1: between them? Besides the flip, is it worth the money
Speaker 1: or keep my note thanks in advance? You know what,
Speaker 1: I would not go to the Flip from the Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note ten. You know, I guess the Flip is fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the cheaper of the two. The Fold
Speaker 1: is the more expensive one. I just don't really see
Speaker 1: the benefit unless you're trying to save space in your pocket.
Speaker 1: But you're taking kind of a downgrade here because you're
Speaker 1: not gonna have the best specs, and the Note ten
Speaker 1: at one point had the best specs. It had. You know,
Speaker 1: you can write on the screen with the stylust. So
Speaker 1: I think that you should go with the Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S twenty one Ultra. If you want something that's similar
Speaker 1: to the Note ten. That's an upgrade and you're gonna
Speaker 1: get the best and you can trade in your Note
Speaker 1: ten for that. The Flip I would go for. If
Speaker 1: you don't care too much about the quality of your pictures,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine. They're not gonna be anything spectacular.
Speaker 1: If you don't care too much about battery life, if
Speaker 1: you don't care about a crease in the middle of
Speaker 1: your screen if you don't care about the fact that
Speaker 1: your phone is not going to be as durable as
Speaker 1: a standalone phone that doesn't fold or flip. And I
Speaker 1: just think that the flip is for someone who is
Speaker 1: just fully accepting of all these downsides, just to be
Speaker 1: on the cutting edge and have people say, oh, that's cool,
Speaker 1: you can fold your phone in half. Otherwise, I would
Speaker 1: definitely go with the S twenty one Ultra. If you
Speaker 1: don't want to spend all that money and you don't
Speaker 1: really care about the style. It's like if you're not
Speaker 1: really using it a lot on your note ten, then
Speaker 1: I would just go ahead and get the S twenty
Speaker 1: one like the standard one. Maybe you don't need the
Speaker 1: Ultra and just go that way. Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: had so many more questions to get to. I must
Speaker 1: have been talking too long on all these different things.
Speaker 1: I gotta remember, Okay, I need to talk less, answer
Speaker 1: more questions. That's my goal of next week's show. That's
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