1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: The iPhone sixteen lineup has landed. Did you make the leap? 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 2: I'm going to share the best new features in iOS 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 2: eighteen that are worth checking out. Amazon is at it 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: again with yet another Prime Day. I've got the dates 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 2: and some smart shopping strategies to help you save and 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: remember Flappy Bird, the addictive mobile game making an unexpected comeback. 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 2: I will tell you why, plus your tech questions answered. 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: What's going on? 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This 10 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 2: is the show where I talk about the tech stuff 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: I think you should know about. It's also the place 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: where I answer your questions about technology. I believe the 13 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 2: those phone lines at triple eight Rich one oh one. 15 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 2: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 2: zero one. Give me a call if you have a 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: question about technology, don't be shy. Also, a lot of 18 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 2: iPhone upgraders and questions about that today. I'm assuming just 19 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 2: because it's a big deal with this iPhone sixteen. So 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: if you upgraded, or you're thinking about upgrading, or maybe 21 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 2: you're having an issue or maybe it didn't upgrade, give 22 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 2: me a call. We'll get you on the show and 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: we'll talk about that. Email is also open. Just go 24 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 2: to the website rich on tech dot tv and hit 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 2: the contact link rich on tech dot Tv. Hit contact 26 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: and if you want a link to something I mentioned 27 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: here on the show, just go to the website and 28 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: tap the light bulb icon. Well, welcome to the show 29 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: from Las Vegas Today, Live from Las Vegas. I'm here 30 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 2: for the iHeartRadio Music Festival. iHeart certainly knows how to 31 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: put on a good show. This is a two day 32 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 2: music festival, and my wife and I were curious about 33 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 2: how this would work, and it worked out pretty well. 34 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: It's fun. 35 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 2: So they have a bunch of artists that are all playing, 36 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 2: and they all play, you know, some of their best songs, 37 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: and it moves very quickly. They've actually had this like 38 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 2: rotating stage so that they can set up one band 39 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: to the front, the other band setting up in the back. 40 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: As soon as that one band is done, they rotate 41 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: the stage and the next one comes out. So I 42 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: was pretty impressive that. So we've been having a really 43 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: good time here doing that. You know, Vegas is it's 44 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 2: one of those places where you either love it or 45 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: hate it. Personally, I really like it. I really enjoy it. 46 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: You know, we do some simple things here, just enjoy shows, 47 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 2: enjoy nice dinner, and a little maybe a little little 48 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 2: bit of gambling here and there. Believe me, I'm too 49 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 2: frugal to part with all of my cash or what 50 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 2: little I have. You know, I do have kids. So 51 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 2: we've got some guests this week. Brian Merchant, author of 52 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: Blood in the Machine. He's going to talk about that 53 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: trend at Chipotle. I don't know if you heard about this, 54 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 2: but they are now automating some of their stores making 55 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: those burrito bowls by robots. So he's going to talk 56 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: about that, and then later on Friend of the Show, 57 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: Matt Swider, he writes the excellent newsletter called the Shortcut. 58 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 2: He's going to talk about the iPhone sixteen new features 59 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: and compare it to the previous models. Now, if you 60 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: did update your iPhone to iOS eighteen, you got a 61 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: pretty new iPhone just by updating the software. So iOS 62 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 2: eighteen is available if you haven't downloaded it. So far, 63 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: I haven't seen any real major issues on it. They've 64 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 2: been testing this for a long time, but it's available 65 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 2: for the iPhone ten s and up models. So remember 66 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 2: the ten. It was like, the X is not the X, 67 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 2: that one's not included, but it's the ten s. The 68 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: ten are the eleven, the twelve, the thirteen, the fourteen, 69 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: the fifteen, the sixteen. And if you have an iPhone 70 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: S second generation or later, So. 71 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: What are you gonna get? 72 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 2: Well, you're not gonna get Apple Intelligence that is coming soon. 73 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 2: And so everyone is talking about this AI stuff and 74 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: Apple kind of missed the boat on that. But here's 75 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: the thing. They have released it as a public beta. 76 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 3: Now. 77 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 2: I don't recommend typically that you download public betas because 78 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: it can really mess up your phone because it's just 79 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: like the beta software. But if you're really adventurous, you 80 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: can now get this AI stuff in the public beta 81 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: eighteen teen point one. Siri can rewrite your stuff, you know, 82 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: like your text messages and your emails. Siriri has a 83 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 2: whole new design. You can erase things from your photos 84 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: and much more. Just keep in mind if you do 85 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: the beta, if you want to go back to the 86 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: regular software, you do have to erase your entire phone, 87 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 2: So I don't typically recommend it for that. But if 88 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 2: you've got IOSA teen, just the regular version of it, 89 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 2: what can you do. Everything looks so new and different. 90 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: Number one, your home screen. You can now place icons 91 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 2: anywhere you want. And I know that's a small weird 92 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 2: thing that Android has had forever, but it's kind of 93 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: nice to be able to do that. And if you 94 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: press and hold on any app, you can now turn 95 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 2: it into a widget. So just press and hold on 96 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: an app you'll see some icons that look like widgets. 97 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 2: That's really cool because let's say you have a clock app. 98 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 2: You can now just press and hold and turn that 99 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 2: into a clock widget. So that's really handy. Your app icons, 100 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 2: you can now make them light, you can make them dark, 101 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 2: you can tint them a certain color if you want, 102 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: and maybe you want to be a little easier on 103 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: your eyes. You can change your icons into large icons. 104 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 2: So if you press a hold on there, it'll say 105 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: use large icons in the edit area, and all of 106 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 2: your names of the icons go away, but they will 107 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 2: become much bigger. 108 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 3: Now. 109 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 2: Over in Control Center, this is when you swipe down 110 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,679 Speaker 2: from the right side of your phone. That is much 111 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: more customizable. This is where you find your Wi Fi 112 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: and your cellular settings. Now you can have multiple pages 113 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 2: so you can completely customize the things that are on 114 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: these pages, so I put a lot of shortcuts in there. 115 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: It's very very handy. 116 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 2: You can also have a separate page just for your 117 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 2: media playback, a connectivity page. So this is really really 118 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 2: a place where you want to dive in and customize 119 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: your phone. Like, for instance, this morning, I was out 120 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: at a restaurant and I basically added a QR code scanner, 121 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 2: because you know how you aimed your phone at, a 122 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: QR code doesn't always find it. Well, you can add 123 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 2: a QR code scanner shortcut to your control center and 124 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 2: now when you tap that, it'll immediately go into the 125 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 2: mode where it's scanning for a QR code. So that's 126 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: very handy, and there's so many of those types of things. 127 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 2: You can also customize the shortcuts on the home screen, 128 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 2: so when you're I should say the lock screen, so 129 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: when your phone is locked, you used to only be 130 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 2: able to activate the flashlight in the camera. Well, now 131 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: you can replace those with whatever shortcuts you want. So 132 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 2: for me personally, let's see what I replaced them with, 133 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: because I forget already. Oh I still have the flashlight 134 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 2: and the camera. I got to replace those with something better. Now, 135 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: the action button, this is something that was on the 136 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 2: iPhone fifteen Pro models last year. 137 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: It's now on the iPhone sixteen models. 138 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: That has replaced on the left side of your phone 139 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 2: the Ringer silent switch, So if you got a new 140 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 2: iPhone sixteen, you can customize that button to do whatever 141 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:41,239 Speaker 2: you want. 142 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: So on my phone, I've got it. 143 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: Where it immediately starts recording a voice memo and it 144 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 2: transcribes it and sends it to my email. It is 145 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 2: really really handy. It's an app called Whisper Whisper Memos 146 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 2: Whispermemos dot com. 147 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: I absolutely love this app. 148 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: It'll change your life if you like to take a 149 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 2: lot of voice memos and have them transcribed, and it's 150 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 2: in your inbox, which means you can deal with them 151 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: whenever you feel like it, so you never forget anything anymore. 152 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: The photos app got a big redesign. Good luck with that. 153 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: Just kidding. 154 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: I mean it is a lot more complicated. It looks 155 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 2: like there's like a lot more going on. But my 156 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: recommendation open up the photos app if you're on iOS eighteen, 157 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 2: scroll all the way down to the bottom and there 158 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 2: is an option to customize and reorder what they show 159 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 2: in the photos app. I got rid of everything except 160 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 2: recent photos, media types, and utilities, which means I see 161 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 2: all my recent photos. I can see like if I 162 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 2: want selfies or videos or whatever, and then utility shows 163 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 2: things like duplicate photos. So if you want to clean 164 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: up kind of your photos app, I know Apple added 165 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in there. Just scroll all the 166 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 2: way down to the bottom of the screen and you 167 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 2: can do that now. When it comes to messages, this 168 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: got a lot of updates. So messages obviously is where 169 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 2: a lot of people spend a lot of time on 170 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: the iPhone. The big, big, big change is that you 171 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 2: now have support for RCS, so that means rich communication services. 172 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 2: That means when you text an Android phone, you can 173 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 2: send bigger files, you can see when someone's typing, you 174 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 2: can see read receipts. The problem is, I am having 175 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: trouble with this on my phone. Messages are not getting 176 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 2: delivered from Android phones to my phone for some reason. 177 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: So if that's happening, if you're texting people and they're 178 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 2: not texting you back, and you're wondering why, it could 179 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 2: be some sort of issue that we're seeing right now 180 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 2: with the rollout of all this, because a lot of 181 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 2: people jumped on board rcs all at the same time, 182 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 2: So be patient with that and ask your friends maybe 183 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 2: call them and be like, hey, are you trying to 184 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 2: type me something because it's not working. So many things 185 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 2: you can do in messages now. You can make your 186 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: text like jump and add effects to it. You can 187 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 2: format your text. You can use any emoji to respond 188 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,599 Speaker 2: to text. You can send a text later, so you 189 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 2: can schedule a text to send later. So to do that, 190 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 2: tap the plus sign next to the message box and 191 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 2: look for an option called send later. You might have 192 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 2: to like scroll to find it, but if you press 193 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 2: an hold on it, you can drag that up to 194 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 2: the top of the list. So messages really really improved. 195 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: You also might notice there's a new passwords app. Please 196 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 2: use this app. I beg of you stop making passwords 197 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 2: up that are really bad. Use this app to generate 198 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 2: strong passwords. Apple will store them. You can see your 199 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: Wi Fi passwords, your two factor authentication codes. You can 200 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 2: even make a group where you share your passwords with 201 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: Like if you want to share a password for your 202 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 2: Netflix with your significant others you both have access to it. 203 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 2: You can do that all in this app. Please use 204 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 2: that passwords app. It is much much safer than making 205 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 2: your own passwords and trying to remember them. 206 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: A couple other things you can do. 207 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 2: You can now lock app, so if you want an 208 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 2: app to require face ID or touch ID before you 209 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 2: can actually use it, you can lock down an app. 210 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 2: So press and hold and it will say require face ID, 211 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 2: enable that, and now nobody can open that app without 212 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: your face or your or your fingerprint or your passcode. 213 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 2: You can even hide an app, so if you don't 214 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 2: want an app to show up on your phone at all, 215 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 2: you can hide it once you lock it. You can 216 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: say hide this app, and it will put it in 217 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: a special folder that doesn't even show up on your 218 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: phone unless you are looking at your phone screen. 219 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: So this is really good for privacy. 220 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 2: I put all my financial apps in there, so if 221 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 2: someone ever got a hold of my phone, they don't 222 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 2: even see the bank that I use or the card 223 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 2: that I have or anything like that because it's totally 224 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: completely just blanked out for their eyes. Let's see what else. Oh, 225 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 2: couple of accessibility features. 226 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: I tracking. 227 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: You can now control your phone with your eyes, so 228 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: go into accessibility for that. And you can also set 229 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 2: vocal shortcuts, so if you have an atypical speech issue, 230 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 2: you can record a vocal shortcut that will trigger certain 231 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 2: actions on the phone with the sound that you make. 232 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: So that's really great for accessibility. 233 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 2: And inside calculator, you got to find this little easter egg. 234 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: So if you tap in. 235 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 2: The lower left hand corner, you'll notice they have a 236 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: thing called math notes. And if you type or you know, 237 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: draw on your screen, you can literally use your finger 238 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 2: to draw out a math problem and it will solve 239 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 2: it in your handwriting. And by the way, the calculator, 240 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 2: after I don't know how many years of the iPhone, 241 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 2: fifteen years of the iPhone, finally got a backspace button. 242 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 2: So if you make a mistake on one of the 243 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 2: numbers you type in, you can finally. 244 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: Press backspace and it will delete it. 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This is rich on Tech. 254 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. 255 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 256 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 257 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. Coming to 258 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 2: you live from Las Vegas today. Always a fun time. 259 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 2: It's actually one of the few times I've been in 260 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 2: Vegas where the weather is nice, because typically i'm here 261 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 2: for Ces that's in January, it is brutally cold, and 262 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 2: then I'm here in the summer sometimes when it is 263 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 2: really really hot. So this is like perfect perfect weather 264 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. And what an interesting town. Eighty eight 265 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 2: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 266 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 2: two four one zero one. The website for the show 267 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 2: rich on Tech dot TV. There you can hit contact 268 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 2: to send in a question, and you can also hit 269 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 2: the light bulb if you want to show notes from 270 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: this week's show. Let's go to Kevin, Line one in 271 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 2: San Clemente. Kevin, you're on with Rich. Welcome to the show. 272 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: Hello you there. Okay, don't don't hear Kevin. 273 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 1: Let's see. Let's try one more time. Kevin on Line one. 274 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: You there, Nope, Okay, let's try line two. Matthew in Sonora, California. Matt, 275 00:12:58,880 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 2: are you there? 276 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 4: And I'm looking for an electronic engineer to take my 277 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 4: schematics and take my shoebox size prototype and scale it 278 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 4: down to what it needs to be. Is the size 279 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 4: of one of those road reflector bumps in the road. 280 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 4: Where's the best place to find a talented electronic engineer 281 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 4: to help me with this project? Is there a school 282 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 4: I could reach out to for graduates or is there 283 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 4: a website or a Facebook page you could subject? You 284 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 4: could suggest? 285 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 2: So you've invented something and you need someone to take 286 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 2: your design and bring it to life. 287 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 4: And I have the schematics already, all the hard bits, 288 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 4: I just need someone to build it. 289 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: Really, what's can you? Can you tell us about the product? 290 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 4: Or no? 291 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 5: Sure? 292 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's a smart road reflector. It's known as a boxtop, 293 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 4: those little bumps to reflector. Yeah, as a battery and 294 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 4: a solar panel, and that condict detect the presence of 295 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 4: wildlife like deer and an approaching car. When it detects 296 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 4: both both of them, it starts blinking to warn the 297 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 4: car and emits a sound to drive the animal away 298 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 4: from the road roadside. You can see my website if 299 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 4: I may mention it. 300 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: Let's not mention the website. Yeah, no problem, you know. 301 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 2: But but yeah, that's that's interesting. I mean, as someone 302 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: who has had a close call with a deer, believe me, 303 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 2: those you know it's it's bad. 304 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: You know, you don't you don't A lot of people 305 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: dodge a. 306 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 4: Dear and hit a tree. So yeah, my lifelong ambition 307 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 4: is to get this on roads and in national parks 308 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 4: and indots and areas that have high incident of roadkill. 309 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 4: It's really meant to end roadkill. 310 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 2: Okay, so this is your Okay, so the website, Okay, 311 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 2: this is the website is I think we can mention it. 312 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 2: I'll see why we can't end roadkill dot com. Kim 313 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 2: is telling me end road kill dot com. 314 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 4: Yes, my numbers on there. If any talented electronic engineers 315 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 4: want to join me. I'm also going to try to 316 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 4: audition for twenty twenty five season of Shark Tank. 317 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome that, you know what I mean? 318 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 2: Look, this is this is a great idea and uh 319 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 2: what so what's your background? 320 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 4: I'm an engineer mostly mechanics. I build race cars and 321 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 4: but I'm also an inventor. I have a lot of 322 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 4: different inventions that require electronics and everything in this already exists. 323 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 4: No one's ever put it together in a small package 324 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 4: that will work at the in the middle of the. 325 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 2: Road, right right, and that's and this can handle like 326 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: cars driving over it and things like that. 327 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, Wow. 328 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 2: Well, I love It's funny that you mentioned the bot 329 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 2: because those things I always use that as trivia to 330 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 2: ask people like, because you know, those are a like 331 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 2: I never saw those tykeing to California, the bots in 332 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 2: the road, you know, right, and and so are they 333 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: using them now nationwide? 334 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: I don't even know, but California, like. 335 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 4: They were developed in the sixties by the gentleman who 336 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 4: it's named after, bot Stops, but he didn't get credit 337 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 4: for it. 338 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 5: He died. 339 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 4: Someone else took it off the shelf and it started 340 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 4: out as just a round bump in the road that 341 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 4: was white and it's moved on to become reflectors and 342 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 4: this is the next stage for it being making a 343 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 4: smart box stock. 344 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: That's awesome. 345 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: Well, so, I mean, I guess my recommendation would be, 346 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully you get on shark tank. 347 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: Good luck with that. 348 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 2: But I think the recommendation is to you know, you've 349 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 2: got to just you sound like a smart guy. 350 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: You know what you're doing. So I think you get 351 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: you got to put some. 352 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 2: Posts out there about this, maybe on uh, you know, 353 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 2: maybe something like Reddit, like maybe you got to find 354 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 2: the communities where these people are hanging out. And I 355 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 2: think the schools is probably the best way to do it. 356 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 2: So I would start with the schools. See if someone 357 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 2: you know is willing to help you on this project. 358 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 2: Do you have funding for this? 359 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 3: Yes? 360 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 4: I do, okay, And I've also reached out to the 361 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 4: San Jose State University in Silicon Valley to try to 362 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 4: get one of their engineers to make it a class project. 363 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 364 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 2: I mean, so do you do you have one of 365 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 2: these like ready to go, like a proof of concept 366 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 2: kind of thing. 367 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 4: It's the size of a shoebox. 368 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: Oh okay, got it? So somebody to shrink down the tech? 369 00:16:59,120 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 3: Got it? 370 00:16:59,480 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: Got it? 371 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: Well, I'm rooting for you. I think this sounds like 372 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 2: a really neat piece of technology. And I think that 373 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 2: you know, uh, we put the website out there, so 374 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,479 Speaker 2: if someone wants to help out there, you go and uh, 375 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 2: I get in touch with those schools. 376 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: That's what you need to do. You got to get 377 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: this as a joint project. Thanks for the call. Matthew 378 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: in Sonora, California. 379 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 2: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 380 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, 381 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: we're gonna talk to Brian Merchant about Chapotle's automation push. 382 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 2: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 383 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: rich on Tech. Rich Deburo here hanging out with you 384 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: talking technology. The phone lines are open at eighty to 385 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 2: eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven 386 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one. Give me a 387 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 2: call if you have a question about technology. We'll get 388 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,239 Speaker 2: back to the phone lines in just a moment. But 389 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 2: first want to welcome Brian Merchant to the show, author 390 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,199 Speaker 2: of Blood in the Machine, to talk about Chipotle and 391 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 2: what they're doing with automation. 392 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: Brian, welcome to the show. 393 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 3: Hello, thanks for having me. 394 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 2: So, thanks for joining me. Let's tell me about your book. 395 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 2: First off, Blood in the Machine. What do you discuss 396 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 2: and I know you have a sub stack, what do 397 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 2: you discuss on all these platforms? 398 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, so the Blood in the Machine was a 399 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 6: book that came out last year. I had written it 400 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 6: actually before the AI boom was underway, but it really 401 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 6: looks at automation and the way throughout history that that 402 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 6: that technologies are used to both enhance and replace labor 403 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 6: and workers, and what happens when there's a situation where 404 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 6: you know, factory owners or bosses or entrepreneurs, are you 405 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 6: bring a technology to try to replace a worker or 406 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 6: a group of workers and there isn't any real set 407 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 6: of options for those workers with their job is gone. 408 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 6: So it's it's basically a look at how these forces 409 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 6: interact over history, starting from the first time this happened 410 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 6: in the Industrial Revolution and then fast boarding until today, well. 411 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 2: And today, so you know, it's no secret I cover 412 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 2: a lot of these companies that are using automation, and 413 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 2: of course now AI is a big part of it. 414 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 2: In the past, I've covered robotic machines that make pizza, 415 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 2: that make jamba juice, you know, automated growing facilities where 416 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 2: they're growing lettuce. I mean, there's just so many that 417 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 2: I've seen in the past, and now Chipotle, oh the Burger, 418 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: the one that started all was I don't know if you 419 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: remember Flippy the burger flipping robot. Do you remember that one, 420 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 2: that that was a big one. Oh, I think we've 421 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 2: lost Brian. Well, this week Chipotle announced that they are 422 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 2: using an automated system. So they've got one called Autocato. 423 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 2: This cuts cores and peels avocados for guacamole. And then 424 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 2: they've got this augmented make line which assembles bulls and 425 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 2: salads for digital orders. So, Brian, what do you make 426 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 2: of this news? I mean this, does this just make 427 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 2: sense that companies are trying to do this or does 428 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 2: this have real implications for for actual workers? 429 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 3: Yeah? So, I mean the time will tell. Right. 430 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 6: You just mentioned Flippy. I think Flippy is already coming gone. 431 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 6: It's this kind of automation where you're doing a sort 432 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 6: of a complex task that a human would usually do 433 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 6: with their hands, is something that workers have been trying. 434 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 6: I mean that that that's the tech companies and and 435 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 6: and corporate bosses have been trying to figure out how 436 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 6: to do for a long time. 437 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 2: Amazonal with their goal, like I've said before, their goal 438 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 2: is to not have humans. Basically, like if if a 439 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 2: company could, they would not want humans. 440 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 6: That that's that is the end goal of all of 441 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 6: these I mean they give them cute names they they 442 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 6: call them cobots. 443 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 3: Like you'll notice in all of the materials. 444 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 7: About the the the Chipotle robot, they call it a 445 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 7: cobot because they want to they want to sort of 446 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 7: present this uh, this front like that they're just you know, 447 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 7: they're helping workers, and they're going to coexist with the 448 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 7: with the workers, and it's gonna be a big, shiny future. 449 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 6: But of course what they really want to do is 450 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 6: cut out those labor costs. 451 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 3: Eventually, it's what they. 452 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 6: Whether you're Uber or whether you're Amazon, or whether you're Chipotle. Uh, 453 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 6: the future that you want is one where you can 454 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 6: replace your workforce with robots, so that so that you 455 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 6: can you know, ostensibly have a you know, a cheaper product, 456 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 6: a bigger bottom line, and in some cases, you know, 457 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 6: they think of these robots as more reliable, right, but 458 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,679 Speaker 6: the old adage among the among the bosses is that 459 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 6: you know, a robot never causing sick, so they would. 460 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 2: I mean, look, look, humans are messy. Humans are you know, 461 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 2: they're they're people. They're human, like they they call in sick, 462 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 2: they come in hungover, they're you know, they have a 463 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 2: bad day. They don't feel like you know, they put 464 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 2: two much guacamole in the bowl and they're in they're 465 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 2: every you know, ounce that's extras costing these companies' money, 466 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: you know, and they or they pour a drink that's 467 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 2: you know, you know, too much vodka in the drink 468 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 2: or whatever. 469 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 8: You know. 470 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: I've seen robots that do uh, you know, they make drinks. 471 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 2: I mean, there's just so I understand why it's the 472 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 2: goal of these companies to do this, But what's the 473 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 2: answer do we I mean, do we stop companies from 474 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 2: doing this or is there going to be a world 475 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 2: where we just if we continue to march on it's 476 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 2: humans are. 477 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: Just x out of this whole situation. 478 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 8: Yeah. 479 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 6: So the first thing I'd say is that that folks 480 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 6: have been trying to. 481 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 3: Do this since the beginning of the industrial Revolution. 482 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 6: You look at those first factories where you know, you 483 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 6: have kind of crude machines that can automate the production 484 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 6: of cloth or a garment or something, and they barely 485 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 6: can do it. It's much less high quality than a 486 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 6: human or a skilled worker can. But you still have 487 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 6: people at the at that time writing these treatises like, oh, 488 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 6: the end of. 489 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 3: The human worker is right around the corner. So two 490 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 3: hundred years. 491 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 6: Basically we've been hearing these yeah, so that you have 492 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 6: the they called it, the automaton, we will have we 493 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 6: will have a factory working as an automaton before you 494 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 6: know it, and we won't need human workers. Two hundred 495 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 6: years later, we can see that that's not true. All 496 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 6: of our factories are still filled with human workers. So, 497 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 6: needless to say, this is a very hard problem. Even 498 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 6: in the last ten years, we've seen so many startups 499 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 6: promise to automate, you know, the these service tasks or 500 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 6: human labor, or even just the act of picking an 501 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 6: object off a shelf at an Amazon warehouse. They haven't 502 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 6: even been able to master that. So keep a big 503 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 6: old grain of salt handy when you're thinking about all 504 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 6: of these claims that the companies are making. So that's 505 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 6: number one, right, I don't think there's anything that we 506 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 6: need to worry about in terms of like a human 507 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 6: free you know situation with with speculus, service work and 508 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,120 Speaker 6: manual labor in a lot of these cases. Number two 509 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 6: is like, we just have to think about what kind 510 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 6: of a future we do want. What do we want 511 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 6: humans to do versus robots to do? Right now, there's 512 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 6: a big struggle between artists and the generative AI companies 513 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 6: because it's a slightly different context. 514 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 3: But one thing that AI can do. 515 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 6: Is create sort of regurgitated art that's based on human work. 516 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 6: Do we want to replace illustrators with this sort of 517 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 6: regurgitated you know, digital imagery that an AI can can write. 518 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 6: That is a question we kind of have to answer 519 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 6: right now. Do we want to protect the artists? Do 520 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 6: we want to protect the act of having an illustrator 521 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 6: as a job, like, do we want to protect that 522 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 6: kind of stuff? So a lot of this stuff is 523 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 6: we're going to have to find out answers and just 524 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 6: keep that grain of salt handy. When the tech companies 525 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 6: are promising that they can deliver this human free future. 526 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: Have you I mean, do you think anyone's doing this 527 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: stuff right? 528 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 3: Like? 529 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 2: I mean you have like something like Waimo right like 530 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 2: it it's there's cars all over the streets of Los Angeles. 531 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 2: I even saw them here in Las Vegas where they're 532 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 2: you know, they're driving themselves. 533 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: I mean, but is it scalable? 534 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 2: And there's also that the idea of cost, like all 535 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 2: these companies are trying, like you know, Chipotle's got this 536 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 2: in two restaurants or something, but you know, to roll 537 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 2: it out to seven thousand restaurants that they want to 538 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 2: have in North America. 539 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 1: Like that, the cost is probably so expensive. 540 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, the cost is high, and there's gonna be a 541 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 6: lot of maintenance issues. There's gonna be a lot of 542 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 6: complications that they're not foreseeing right now, and they may 543 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 6: well just decide that it's cheaper to have a human 544 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,479 Speaker 6: do this task again, Right, That's all that as far 545 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 6: as the company is concerned, especially for stuff that's taking 546 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 6: place in the back rooms, preparing the food, preparing a process. 547 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,679 Speaker 6: If if a human can wind up doing it cheaper, 548 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 6: then then they're just gonna have a human doing They're 549 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 6: gonna they're gonna sort of cancel the experiment. 550 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 3: So we'll see there. 551 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 6: With waime O, it's another case where I'd say, you know, 552 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 6: it seems like they're driving themselves, but we know that 553 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 6: every time they're faced with a tough decision that gets 554 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 6: a little flag to the command center, there's people who 555 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 6: are real people who are sitting sort of watching these 556 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 6: cars and they have to make what's called an intervention. 557 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 6: You know, it's a if it detects us, is that 558 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 6: a squirrel on the road. Can I keep driving or 559 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 6: is that just a bump? It'll send a little notification 560 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 6: to somebody in Scottsdale, Arizona, who's watching four or five 561 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 6: of these cars at a given time, and it'll they'll 562 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 6: have to take over and make the call. So there 563 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 6: is still somebody driving the car right in a sense, 564 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 6: they're just the driver has been moved from the driver's 565 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 6: seat to a sort of a command center at an 566 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 6: off site location. And that's happening with the delivery robots 567 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 6: you've probably seen crawling around LA. These are not fully 568 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 6: autonomous systems. There's always a person still in the loop 569 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 6: because there has to be. It's too it's too messy, 570 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 6: as you said, and too complicated and too potentially dangerous 571 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 6: or cost producing to the company to not have that 572 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 6: human still watching them. If and when we finally, you know, 573 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 6: do have a self driving car that is properly self 574 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 6: driving and is not having a number of interventions every minute. 575 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 6: By the way, we saw when the Cruise car crashed 576 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 6: in San Francisco and hit a pedestrian and they were 577 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 6: forced to sort of turn over their logs that it 578 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 6: was multiple times almost every minute that a human was 579 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 6: brought into the loop to tell it what to do. 580 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 6: So there is still a person involved in that, and 581 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 6: there's still going to be a person looking at this 582 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 6: autocado thing in the Chipotle background saying like, is this 583 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 6: doing a good enough job? 584 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 3: Do I have to fix it? 585 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 6: So we just can't ever dismiss the amount of human 586 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 6: labor still required to make all these automated or so 587 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 6: called automated systems work. 588 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 2: I like the positivity because as grim as it seems 589 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 2: as a future for humans with all this speak of automation, 590 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,479 Speaker 2: you're right, I mean, every one of these systems, at 591 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 2: the end of the day, still relies on humans. And 592 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 2: by the way, it's a lot easier to teach a 593 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 2: human to grab something off a shelf than it is 594 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:49,439 Speaker 2: to program a robot. 595 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: Right now, I get it. 596 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 2: With AI and all this stuff, maybe it'll get easier, 597 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 2: but it's just so funny how you can literally teach 598 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 2: anyone to do that in about ten seconds versus all 599 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 2: the programming in lines it takes to program I'm a robot. 600 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 3: And that's what it is at the end of the day. 601 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 6: And not to say this isn't grim, because what the 602 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 6: companies are gonna do is they're gonna they're gonna sell 603 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 6: the automation. They're gonna sell the fact that hey, this 604 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,239 Speaker 6: can be cheaper, this should be cheaper. And companies are 605 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 6: still going to buy into that sales pitch, and they're 606 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 6: going to layoff workers. They're going to assign more work 607 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 6: to people who are currently uh you know, having a 608 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 6: job that might you know, be potentially uh abetted by automation. 609 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 6: And in a lot of cases, what we see is 610 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 6: that firms will go ahead and lay off workers, layoff 611 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 6: service staff, and then the people who are remaining will 612 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 6: be left with even more work. 613 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 3: And the companies, oh yeah, yeah, So. 614 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 2: We're gonna leave it there, Brian, We're gonna leave it there. 615 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 2: What's the best website for folks to find you? 616 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 3: Blood in Theemachine dot Com. 617 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: Okay, awesome conversation. Thanks so much for joining me today. 618 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. Brian Merchant, Blood in Theemachine dot Com 619 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 2: eight A eight rich one O one eight eight seven 620 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one more rich on 621 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 2: Tech right after this, Welcome back. 622 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: To rich on Tech. 623 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 2: Rich Tomuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The 624 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 2: website is rich on Tech dot tv. Let's submit an 625 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 2: email to me. Just go there, hit contact and if 626 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 2: you want to call the show, it's eighty eight rich 627 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 2: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 628 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 2: four one zero one. 629 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: Coming to you from Las Vegas today. Fun city. 630 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 2: If you haven't been here, leave the kids at home. 631 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 2: Just leave the kids at home, come to Las Vegas 632 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 2: and have a good time. It's it's like people just 633 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 2: I don't know what it is about Las Vegas, but 634 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 2: people are just I don't know if i'd consider them 635 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 2: their best selves here or living their best lives, but 636 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 2: they are definitely living an interesting life. They just go 637 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 2: all out. Denise writes in on the website. Hey, I 638 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 2: was listening to the show. I heard the guy about 639 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 2: his invention regarding bots dots. He could try putting an 640 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 2: ad on Craigslist in the gigs CA category. There are 641 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 2: lots of those types of ads, and they seem to 642 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 2: get responses because they are not on there for long. 643 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 2: Just to thought, have a great day, Denise. Denise, that's 644 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 2: a great idea. Craigslist always a good good place for 645 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 2: things like that. Any kind of community, you know, any 646 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 2: type play like a form or something like that. Eighty 647 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 2: eight rich one oh one Mike in Irvine, Line three, 648 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 2: Mike in Irvine, Welcome to the show. 649 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 9: Oh, thanks, Rich. I appreciate the information on the new 650 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 9: iOS eighteen. 651 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 4: But you said it has the ability to. 652 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 9: Hide apps, which as an adult for financial records like 653 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 9: you mentioned, makes sense. But what about as a parent 654 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 9: of teens. Is there any type of print of controls 655 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 9: or overrides for that sort of. 656 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 10: System. 657 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, great question, because you know the teenagers are going 658 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 2: to really take advantage of this, and in many times 659 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 2: they know more about their phones than we do. And 660 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 2: I think in the past they've already had with of 661 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 2: hiding apps, like with sneaky little shortcuts and things like 662 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 2: that where they can change the icon or you know, 663 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 2: my kids would put them like in a folder like 664 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 2: buried Deep, so you wouldn't see what. 665 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: They have in there. 666 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 2: But according to Apple, children under thirteen in family sharing, 667 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 2: So this is the main thing, is that you have 668 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 2: to put your kids in your family sharing with Apple ID. 669 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: If they have their own Apple ID, they could basically 670 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 2: do whatever they want. So put them in a family 671 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 2: sharing group if they're under thirteen, and of course you've 672 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 2: signed them up with the proper age on their phone 673 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 2: in their account they cannot lock or hide apps. So again, 674 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 2: kids under thirteen in a family sharing group cannot hide 675 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: or lock. 676 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: Apps in iOS eighteen. 677 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: Now, if they are thirteen to seventeen and they're in 678 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 2: a family group, they can lock or hide an app, 679 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 2: but a parent or guardian in the family group can 680 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 2: see the app was downloaded, how much time it's being used, 681 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 2: and restrict access to it using screen time. So what 682 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 2: they're saying there is that under thirteen can't hide her lock. 683 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 2: Thirteen to seventeen they can hide er lock their apps. 684 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 2: But when you go on to their list of apps 685 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 2: that was downloaded, you can see in the list of 686 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 2: like if they're using it a lot, you'll see it 687 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 2: at the top of. 688 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: The list of screen time apps. 689 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 2: You can also block that app completely using screen time, 690 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 2: so you can say that app is not allowed. Now, personally, 691 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 2: if I was Apple and i think I'm getting a 692 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 2: lot of questions about this, I've already seen a bunch 693 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 2: of people asking about this, I think that Apple should 694 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 2: straight up make a toggle in screen time. No matter 695 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: what age the kid is, parents need to have the 696 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 2: ability to turn off this feature. Why do kids need 697 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 2: to lock or hide apps they're in your house. They 698 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 2: are a kid, they are under your supervision. They should 699 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 2: not be able to hide her lock apps. Now, maybe 700 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 2: there are some reasons for this. I'm trying to think. Obviously, 701 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 2: I can't think of every single situation that's known to mankind. 702 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 2: And sure there may be an app that you know, 703 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 2: teenager doesn't want their friends seeing on their on their 704 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 2: phone or something like that or their iPad. So yes, 705 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 2: I'm sure maybe there are some things. But again, maybe 706 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 2: parents should have that option of being able to allow 707 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 2: this or not allow it. So my great question, uh, 708 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 2: get those kids inside the family sharing and you have 709 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 2: the control. But we all know that screen time can 710 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 2: be very, very complicated in general, and kids know how 711 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 2: to use this stuff way better than a lot of 712 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 2: their parents. So it is going to be tricky and 713 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 2: it's going to cause some issues. And I think this, uh, 714 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 2: this locking apps is going to cause issues in a 715 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 2: lot of ways. You know, it's not just the kids 716 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 2: that are doing this. I think it's going to be 717 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 2: a lot of the adults as well. You know, people 718 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 2: might be hiding apps that they don't want their spouses 719 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 2: to see or something like that. So again, there are 720 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 2: useful features and that's why Apple came out with this, 721 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 2: but they're you know, no matter what, anytime there's a 722 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 2: useful feature for something, people are going to find a 723 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 2: more evil use of it as well. 724 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: Let's go to. 725 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 2: Kevin online one Kevin, I only got two minutes, So 726 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 2: Kevin and San Clementy, can you get your. 727 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: Question in quick? 728 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 5: I'll make you real quick. It's a two questions, but 729 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 5: related these guys showing up on my Facebook. But how 730 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 5: to turn off certain things on your computer? 731 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 3: Ie, if you do you. 732 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 5: Know X y Z, type in you know this, that 733 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 5: and that or the other and it shows you what 734 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 5: to turn off so you're not trapped on your computer. 735 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 5: So my question is are those legit? And then related 736 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 5: to that, also some of these softwares and I don't 737 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 5: know if I can give a couple of the names 738 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 5: that came through PC magazine that clean out all your 739 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 5: computer information and people that have access to you and 740 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,959 Speaker 5: you know, some say they you know, track two hundred 741 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 5: companies that follow you, five hundred companies that follow you. 742 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, great question. 743 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:44,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 744 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 2: So first off, on the first question, I'd be very 745 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 2: careful with with you know, following some of these instructions, 746 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 2: especially if you're getting into settings that you don't understand. 747 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,959 Speaker 2: So anytime you're doing something you don't understand, I would 748 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 2: be careful because you can change something that might mess 749 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 2: up your computer or your or whatever. I see all 750 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 2: these things like about how to access secret codes on 751 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 2: your phone to do things and stuff like that. If 752 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 2: you don't understand that, I don't think you should be 753 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 2: doing that. When it comes to tracking, uh, these there's 754 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 2: there's millions of data broke. There's many many data brokers 755 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 2: out there that have information about us. Consumer reports found 756 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 2: that most of those data removal sites that you pay 757 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 2: for don't really work very well and they're not worth 758 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 2: the money. The two that they liked are called easy 759 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 2: opt outs and opt e O P T E R Y. 760 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: I've tested one of these. I tested Mozilla. 761 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,880 Speaker 2: They had one, and yeah, it does remove stuff, and 762 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 2: yes it'll work. It's gonna cost you though usually these 763 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 2: things cost anywhere. You know, twenty dollars a month is 764 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 2: about the main price. 765 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: So you can do it. 766 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 2: But I'd be much more concerned about my information out 767 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,479 Speaker 2: there on the dark web and instead of on these 768 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 2: paid people finder websites. Eight to eight rich one O 769 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 2: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 770 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:57,879 Speaker 2: zero one. 771 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: You are listening to rich Onte. 772 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On tech rich DeMuro here hanging 773 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,320 Speaker 2: out with you talking technology. 774 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:07,359 Speaker 3: Now. 775 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 2: If you don't know this song, where have you been? 776 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 2: Shaboozie Tipsy played it, played it at the Iheartfestival. We 777 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 2: are here in Las Vegas for. 778 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: It was great. 779 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 2: Just came out and sang this and went back in. 780 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 2: It was you know, this is what people wanted to hear, 781 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,799 Speaker 2: so why not? That is certainly a fun song. Eighty 782 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 2: to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 783 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one. The website for 784 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 2: the show rich on tech dot TV. When you're there, 785 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 2: you can hit the light bulb icon for a link 786 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 2: to anything I mentioned here. You can hit contact if 787 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,359 Speaker 2: you want to send me a message. You can also, 788 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 2: of course, go on X, which is what Nicholas did. 789 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 2: Nicholas said, everyone, hey, rich everyone with a modern Android 790 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 2: phone is laughing about all of these quote unquote new 791 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 2: Apple updates. Apple always seem delayed by a couple of years. 792 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 2: Love the show, you know, Nicholas, I it's so interesting. 793 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 2: I understand that sentiment and I totally get it, like 794 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,760 Speaker 2: there's been this kind of back and forth for years 795 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 2: about Android versus iPhone, iPhone versus Android, and believe me, 796 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,879 Speaker 2: I really love both platforms for different reasons. I think 797 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 2: that the difference is, like, let's say someone like Samsung, 798 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 2: They're always putting new features out right, like years years 799 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 2: in advance, and then eventually those features typically make their 800 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 2: way to the iPhone. I think the difference is what 801 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,399 Speaker 2: Apple does is they try to add like their own 802 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 2: little Apple magic to things. And for something like the 803 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,240 Speaker 2: iPhone sixteen, you know, models and all of the iOS 804 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,799 Speaker 2: eighteen stuff, like yeah, moving an app wherever you want 805 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 2: on the screen, But like there are certain things that 806 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,319 Speaker 2: like Apple just makes simple and easy compared to some 807 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 2: of the Android stuff. So I think it just depends 808 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 2: on the audience and who's using it. But to iPhone users, 809 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,720 Speaker 2: a lot of this stuff is new. But Android users 810 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 2: definitely love giving their iPhone users a hard time, that's 811 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 2: for sure, and that's fun. I mean, I hope that 812 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,680 Speaker 2: doesn't go away ever, because I love My wife is 813 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 2: so sick of hearing me talk about what I like 814 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,200 Speaker 2: about iPhone versus Android and vice versa, because she hears 815 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,839 Speaker 2: it all the time because I'm always testing both, Uh, 816 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 2: let's go to line four Tony in the Inland Empire. 817 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 2: Tony Line four, you're on with Rich. 818 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,839 Speaker 11: Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. 819 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 2: Absolutely, thanks for listening today and calling in. 820 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,760 Speaker 1: What can I help you with? Yes? 821 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 11: Yes, I was wondering is there any way I can 822 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,759 Speaker 11: remove myself from a large texting group. I did not 823 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,399 Speaker 11: sign up for it, don't know how I got on it. 824 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 11: And it does include I have an iPhone, it does 825 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 11: include iPhones and Android. The back and forth within the 826 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 11: texting group is becoming it's ridiculous. 827 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 1: Can I real annoying? Okay? So have you updated to 828 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,080 Speaker 1: iOS eighteen? 829 00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:58,360 Speaker 4: Yes? 830 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 2: Okay, So if you tap the message, this looks like 831 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,840 Speaker 2: a brand new feature in iOS eighteen. Because I was 832 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,760 Speaker 2: just checking this out, this has been a known issue. 833 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 2: You know, you can easily leave I Message conversations right 834 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,720 Speaker 2: because they you know, everyone's on I Message. 835 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,440 Speaker 1: Apple can handle it. It's very simple. 836 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 2: But when you get the mixture of I Message and Android, 837 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,239 Speaker 2: you know whether people that are not using it, you 838 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 2: see the green bubbles, and it's just it's a whole 839 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,960 Speaker 2: different ballgame because now you're talking about just regular phone numbers, 840 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 2: and it's tough for Apple to just sort of remove 841 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,000 Speaker 2: you from that because anyone can text you anytime, right, 842 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,200 Speaker 2: and so this is where it becomes an issue. But 843 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,080 Speaker 2: it looks like in iOS eighteen in the messages. If 844 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 2: you go into the message up at the top where 845 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,640 Speaker 2: it says how many people are in the message, I've 846 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,319 Speaker 2: got this message where it says two people, there's a 847 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 2: new option that says delete and block this conversation. 848 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,600 Speaker 1: Do you see that? Okay? 849 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,920 Speaker 11: Do I go into the actual text and group itself? 850 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:57,040 Speaker 1: Correct? 851 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,239 Speaker 2: So open up your messages app, tap into that messa 852 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,200 Speaker 2: and then up at the top you'll see it usually 853 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 2: has like a couple icons of people's heads up there 854 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,560 Speaker 2: or whatever like profile faces. So you tap where it 855 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,319 Speaker 2: says how many people are in there where it says 856 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,719 Speaker 2: two people, and then you tap there and you'll see 857 00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 2: all the info about this group chap. 858 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:17,759 Speaker 1: It'll tell you. 859 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 2: Who's in it and give you some some options. 860 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen this screen? 861 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 11: Okay, well I'm not sure I'm in it now where 862 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,840 Speaker 11: it's listing all or long lists of people within this group. 863 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,000 Speaker 2: That where it could be Yep, that's where you should be. 864 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 2: Now when you go in there, do you scroll down? 865 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,960 Speaker 2: Do you see something that says, delete and block this conversation. Yes, okay, 866 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 2: so tap that and that should take care of it. 867 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,000 Speaker 11: Okay, So that'll totally remove me out of the group itself. 868 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 4: Is that correct? 869 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,920 Speaker 2: Well, so it's going to see it can't be removed 870 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,480 Speaker 2: from the group because the persons set up just as 871 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,799 Speaker 2: it's tougher than that, because it's not like living on 872 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,439 Speaker 2: a server somewhere. Just started a thread with a whole 873 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,759 Speaker 2: bunch of people in it, and if that person texts again, 874 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,040 Speaker 2: you're still gonna be included. Your phone is just not 875 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 2: gonna show you that anymore. Does that make more sense? 876 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:11,240 Speaker 11: Okay? 877 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:11,720 Speaker 4: Okay. 878 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 11: So it's not like where you can silence the group 879 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,040 Speaker 11: or the text in itself and you'll still see the messages. 880 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,759 Speaker 11: Business stand that it won't actually come to me. 881 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not even gonna show up on your list 882 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 1: of messages anymore. 883 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 12: Okay. 884 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the idea. So try that, see if it works. 885 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,400 Speaker 2: If it doesn't, give me a call back, okay, okay, 886 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 2: appreciate it, Thank you so much, all right, Tony, really 887 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,560 Speaker 2: appreciate you. How's the how's the weather out there in 888 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,360 Speaker 2: the in the Inmblem Empire today? 889 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:44,400 Speaker 1: Oh, she's gone Okay, reminds, Okay, let's talk about Amazon 890 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,640 Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day. Doesn't it feel like Amazon does a 891 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:50,839 Speaker 1: Prime Day like every day? 892 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 12: Now? 893 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 1: What is up with this? 894 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 2: It's like they're gonna They're gonna dilute this. Uh this 895 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 2: excitement over Prime Day? Is there any excitement? I think 896 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 2: it's I think the last Prime Day we had was 897 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 2: that actually very good. I think that Apple did our 898 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,120 Speaker 2: See we talk so much about Apple, Rich. 899 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:06,920 Speaker 1: You're such an Apple fanboy. All you do is talk 900 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 1: about Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple. 901 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 2: So Amazon they announced the Big Deal Okay, Prime Big 902 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,400 Speaker 2: Deal Days, that's what it's called this year October eighth 903 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 2: through ninth. And this will start on October eighth run 904 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 2: through October ninth. And what are they promising? More of 905 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,359 Speaker 2: the same millions of deals for their Prime members. Yes, 906 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 2: winter fashions, Halloween costumes, electronics, and everyday essentials. New deals 907 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:37,120 Speaker 2: will drop as much as every five minutes. Then they've 908 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,520 Speaker 2: got Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant. They want you to 909 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 2: try that out. It can help you with recommendations. Now 910 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,480 Speaker 2: tell me this. Do you think Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping 911 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,360 Speaker 2: assistant whatever advise you against buying something? 912 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:51,799 Speaker 1: Hey, rufus. Should I buy this? 913 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,479 Speaker 2: Let me check my status, let me check my sources. Yes, 914 00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 2: you should spend your money with Amazon. I mean, I 915 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:00,359 Speaker 2: don't know if that's a look. 916 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:00,879 Speaker 1: I get it. 917 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,920 Speaker 2: They have they have this program to kind of help 918 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 2: you compare products and things like that. But I just 919 00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,000 Speaker 2: find it ironic that you're taking advice from a shopping 920 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,280 Speaker 2: assistant from the place that wants to sell you something. 921 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,480 Speaker 2: That's like asking the person at the you know, the mall, 922 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:14,640 Speaker 2: should I buy this? 923 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,799 Speaker 1: Is this cool? Is this great? Yeah? Of course they're 924 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,000 Speaker 1: going to tell you to buy it. They're there to 925 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:18,520 Speaker 1: sell it to you. 926 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 2: Early deals right now on Amazon Music Unlimited, so if 927 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,440 Speaker 2: you haven't tried that out, they've got like four months 928 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 2: free of that. I saw Audible, couple months free there, 929 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,680 Speaker 2: Kindle unlimited, grub Hub plus. Those are deals you can 930 00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,520 Speaker 2: take advantage of right now. I talked about that in 931 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,440 Speaker 2: my newsletter this week. So if you want to get that, 932 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,359 Speaker 2: just go to Rich on tech dot tv. You can 933 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,239 Speaker 2: see it on the homepage. Prime Membership, don't forget. You 934 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 2: do have to be a Prime member to take advantage 935 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,960 Speaker 2: of Prime Day fifteen dollars per month or one hundred 936 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 2: and thirty nine dollars for the year. My advice for 937 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,960 Speaker 2: Prime Day, same advice I give every single year. I 938 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 2: sound like a broken record. Put the stuff that you 939 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,560 Speaker 2: want in your cart now and that way, or save 940 00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:58,120 Speaker 2: it for later. 941 00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:58,799 Speaker 1: Whatever you know. 942 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,240 Speaker 2: Amazon gives you like an and ability to save stuff 943 00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,319 Speaker 2: for later. Put it in your cart or save it 944 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 2: for later, and then when these deal day hits on 945 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,000 Speaker 2: October eighth and ninth, or even leading up to it, 946 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,920 Speaker 2: you can see if the price drops on any of 947 00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,279 Speaker 2: the things that you actually want. And that is the 948 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,879 Speaker 2: best way to do it. That is the way I've 949 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,399 Speaker 2: been doing it for years. And it just comes down 950 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,080 Speaker 2: to you wake up that morning October eighth, instead of 951 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,239 Speaker 2: searching for stuff to spend your money on, you just 952 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,720 Speaker 2: go through your cart and you say, oh that okay, 953 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,680 Speaker 2: And there's usually like a little banner that says Prime 954 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,480 Speaker 2: Day or deal or deal drop or price drop, and 955 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,799 Speaker 2: that way you can quickly and instantly spot when these 956 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,799 Speaker 2: things go on sale. So that is my advice. The 957 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 2: other thing I really like is a service from Honey 958 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,239 Speaker 2: called drop List. So if you look, if you go 959 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,680 Speaker 2: to honey, Honey is sort of a browsing helper. It 960 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,200 Speaker 2: gives you the coupon codes, but they have a feature 961 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,800 Speaker 2: called drop list. So once you add this Honey Extensions 962 00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,399 Speaker 2: from PayPal now they bought them. 963 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,600 Speaker 1: Once you add this to your Chrome browser, web browser 964 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,960 Speaker 1: or whatever, anything that you put in your shopping cart 965 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,680 Speaker 1: or your list on Amazon, they will track the price 966 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,440 Speaker 1: and actually send you an email when that price drops. 967 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,640 Speaker 2: And it's not always perfect, but it does really really help. 968 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,520 Speaker 2: All Right, let's see. Okay, you know what I was 969 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 2: gonna do an Apple story. 970 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:17,879 Speaker 3: I won't. 971 00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,120 Speaker 1: I'll do Instagram. 972 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:25,960 Speaker 2: Instagram this week launched some enhanced safety features for teen accounts. Now, 973 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,239 Speaker 2: if you've listened to this show, you know that I 974 00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,600 Speaker 2: think that all of these social media networks are just 975 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:35,680 Speaker 2: almost borderline pure evil for teenagers because they don't need 976 00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,440 Speaker 2: to be on these things like why do you need 977 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,200 Speaker 2: to be comparing yourself as a seventeen year old to 978 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,160 Speaker 2: you know, the most beautiful people that you're scrolling through 979 00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 2: on Instagram? You know, these models and things like that. 980 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,200 Speaker 2: I get it, we get it from TV and all 981 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,480 Speaker 2: that stuff, but like on these social media networks, we 982 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:56,320 Speaker 2: know that it causes depression, anxiety, distractions, shorter attention spans. 983 00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,399 Speaker 2: It's like keep these kids off of these things as 984 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,680 Speaker 2: long as humanly possible. With that said, we know that 985 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,560 Speaker 2: kids want to be on them because their friends are 986 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,799 Speaker 2: on them, and in fact, a lot of kids, you know, 987 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,640 Speaker 2: the people make businesses on them and become influencers. 988 00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,400 Speaker 1: But now, by default. 989 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,680 Speaker 2: Under eighteen, Instagram is instituting some things like accounts will 990 00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,040 Speaker 2: be private by default, messaging will be restricted to just 991 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,239 Speaker 2: your followers. They're gonna have content filters so that kids 992 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:27,080 Speaker 2: aren't seeing stuff like fight videos and cosmetic procedures. Tagging 993 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,919 Speaker 2: and mentions are gonna be limited. There's a sixty minute 994 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:30,840 Speaker 2: daily time limit. 995 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,480 Speaker 1: Reminder. They don't stop you after sixty minutes. 996 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:34,880 Speaker 2: They just say, hey, it's a good idea to get 997 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,359 Speaker 2: off of this app, and then sleep mode from ten 998 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:41,280 Speaker 2: pm to seven am. And parents will need to approve 999 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,280 Speaker 2: any changes to these automatic restrictions. And you might be saying, 1000 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,040 Speaker 2: rich kids are just gonna lie about the age when 1001 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:49,560 Speaker 2: they sign up for Instagram. 1002 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:50,239 Speaker 1: Yes they are. 1003 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,240 Speaker 2: But Instagram is fighting back against that with a whole 1004 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,480 Speaker 2: bunch of ways, especially using AI to figure out if 1005 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:01,040 Speaker 2: this person signing up is actually under a eighteen. They 1006 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 2: will sniff them out and they will make sure that 1007 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,480 Speaker 2: they are included in this, so it's a start. I'm 1008 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,719 Speaker 2: not saying Instagram is perfect for doing this, but I 1009 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,840 Speaker 2: do think it's better than nothing. Eight eight eight rich 1010 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,759 Speaker 2: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 1011 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,160 Speaker 2: four one zero one. The website richon tech dot tv. 1012 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,360 Speaker 2: Coming up, I'll tell you about the California driver's license 1013 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,080 Speaker 2: making its way into the iPhone wallet. 1014 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,040 Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1015 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,520 Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 1016 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,640 Speaker 2: eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 1017 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,640 Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. Email rich 1018 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,120 Speaker 2: rich on tech dot tv is the website. You can 1019 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,960 Speaker 2: email me there, just hit contact here in Las Vegas, 1020 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:54,240 Speaker 2: UH for the iHeart Music Fest. This is an incredible 1021 00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,759 Speaker 2: two day festival that I'm just here for just for fun. 1022 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,240 Speaker 1: So it's kind of nice. 1023 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,240 Speaker 2: When you, you know, work for iHeart and are able 1024 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,160 Speaker 2: to come to these kind of things. And du A 1025 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,080 Speaker 2: Lipa last last night you just heard her there stole 1026 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,719 Speaker 2: the show. I mean, my wife and I were not 1027 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,080 Speaker 2: really like big Dual Liapa fans, and then we watched 1028 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:21,279 Speaker 2: her perform and I just unbelievable, really really just great show. 1029 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,759 Speaker 2: And each person performs a couple of songs. Maybe you 1030 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,960 Speaker 2: know some of their best songs, but she just really 1031 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,759 Speaker 2: closed out the show and did a really, really nice job. 1032 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,719 Speaker 2: So we're now new fans, and I guess that's the 1033 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,640 Speaker 2: point of it, right, You're exposed to some artists that 1034 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,920 Speaker 2: you may not be totally familiar with. I mean, I 1035 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,799 Speaker 2: knew du Liipa, But anyway, eighty and eight rich one 1036 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,839 Speaker 2: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1037 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,960 Speaker 2: one zero one. I said I wasn't gonna do another 1038 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,480 Speaker 2: Apple story, but I have to because if you live 1039 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,080 Speaker 2: in California, you can now put your state ID or 1040 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:57,240 Speaker 2: your driver's license in Apple wallets, so California driver's license 1041 00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:57,840 Speaker 2: and state. 1042 00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:58,720 Speaker 1: Id's can be added. 1043 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:04,000 Speaker 2: This is part of Calilifornia DMV's MDL pilot program. Apparently 1044 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,800 Speaker 2: it's limited to like one and a half million people. 1045 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,799 Speaker 2: But I have now put my driver's license in like 1046 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,239 Speaker 2: three different phones. So I don't know if I'm taking 1047 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,080 Speaker 2: up three spots or they're just letting a lot of 1048 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,319 Speaker 2: people do this or what. But if you have a 1049 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 2: California driver's license, you can add it to your Apple wallet. 1050 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,280 Speaker 2: So people are a little confused about this, but basically 1051 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,200 Speaker 2: you open up Apple Wallet to do this. You don't 1052 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,880 Speaker 2: have to download any separate app to your phone. So 1053 00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,000 Speaker 2: on your phone, just type in wallet and you'll see 1054 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,839 Speaker 2: where you can press the plus sign and it says 1055 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,319 Speaker 2: driver's license or state ID. You tap there right now, 1056 00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:43,120 Speaker 2: you've got Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, and Ohio 1057 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,720 Speaker 2: are all part of this. And so you basically scan 1058 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,400 Speaker 2: the front and back of your driver's license and then 1059 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,040 Speaker 2: you take a whole bunch of pictures of yourself like selfies. 1060 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,240 Speaker 2: And no, you don't have to be like all posing 1061 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,239 Speaker 2: and making the duck lips or whatever they call that. 1062 00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,439 Speaker 2: You know, you just sit there and they're making sure 1063 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,799 Speaker 2: that you're actually a human, right, so they want to 1064 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,800 Speaker 2: make sure you're moving. They say, like blink your eyes. 1065 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,800 Speaker 2: I had to like open my mouth or like smile 1066 00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,000 Speaker 2: or something. But yeah, and then they send it all 1067 00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,719 Speaker 2: off and verify it, and next thing you know, you 1068 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,200 Speaker 2: get a little notification this says, hey, your driver's license 1069 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,719 Speaker 2: is ready, and it took like literally a minute for 1070 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,400 Speaker 2: mine to be approved. So if you want to have 1071 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,560 Speaker 2: your driver's license on your phone, do it. But here's 1072 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:27,359 Speaker 2: the deal. Good luck using it. Anywhere you can't. There's 1073 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,680 Speaker 2: so I did use it last time at the TSA checkpoint. 1074 00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,799 Speaker 2: That's basically the only place that you can use it 1075 00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,240 Speaker 2: at this point. So if you're flying, but you cannot 1076 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,840 Speaker 2: use this for a police officer. It does not replace 1077 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:42,360 Speaker 2: your ID in any way. And it's almost like comical 1078 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,480 Speaker 2: why we're doing this, And I get it, it's a start, 1079 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,480 Speaker 2: but it's just kind of funny that you have this 1080 00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,200 Speaker 2: thing and it's so great, and it's like we're all 1081 00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,399 Speaker 2: on board, but you can't actually. 1082 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:50,760 Speaker 1: Use it anywhere. 1083 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,960 Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna accept this except the TSA, and I'll tell 1084 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,359 Speaker 2: you what my experience was there. So I said, hey, 1085 00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,680 Speaker 2: do you take the new digital driver's license on my phone? 1086 00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,040 Speaker 2: And they said yeah, sure, you got to stand over 1087 00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,160 Speaker 2: there and go talk to that person. So I go 1088 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,360 Speaker 2: over there and the guy says, nah, the machine's not 1089 00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,520 Speaker 2: on for that. I said, well, can we turn it 1090 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,359 Speaker 2: on because I'd really like to try this. I kind 1091 00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,200 Speaker 2: of cover technology for a living and I'd like to 1092 00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,440 Speaker 2: see if this works. And he, you know, kind of 1093 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,320 Speaker 2: grumbled a little bit. He said, sure, okay, scan it below. 1094 00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,319 Speaker 2: I said, no, I think I tap it to the 1095 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,640 Speaker 2: to the reader because it's NFC and he goes, Nope, 1096 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,640 Speaker 2: you scan it. I said, okay, I don't think you 1097 00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,320 Speaker 2: scan it, and so I just tapped it anyway without 1098 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,120 Speaker 2: them looking, and you know, the guy was like kind 1099 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:30,960 Speaker 2: of talking to someone else and I tapped it and 1100 00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:31,560 Speaker 2: it worked. 1101 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:32,840 Speaker 1: He's like, all right, that worked. 1102 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,160 Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I know it's you're supposed to tap, 1103 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,440 Speaker 2: but anyway, maybe there is a scan QR code something 1104 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,680 Speaker 2: like that, but yes, you're supposed to tap anyway. The 1105 00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,239 Speaker 2: beauty of these things of the driver's license. I get 1106 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,600 Speaker 2: that it's weird and it's scary that we're doing, you know, 1107 00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,480 Speaker 2: away with a physical license, but it's actually much more 1108 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,680 Speaker 2: secure because what happens is a lot of times, let's 1109 00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,000 Speaker 2: say you're buying booze right at a at a store 1110 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,440 Speaker 2: right now, the clerk they look at your physical ID 1111 00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,279 Speaker 2: and they see your name, they see your address, they 1112 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,960 Speaker 2: see your data birth, and they look at your picture 1113 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,040 Speaker 2: they match it up against your face. The way that 1114 00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:09,319 Speaker 2: this new system works is it only exchanges the information 1115 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,440 Speaker 2: it needs to exchange, and it's really not even the information. 1116 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:17,480 Speaker 2: So it's not transmitting to the grocery store your name, address, 1117 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,480 Speaker 2: and your data birth and verifying that it's actually just 1118 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,200 Speaker 2: transmitting a verification that says you are over twenty one. 1119 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,799 Speaker 2: So that's hard coded into this app using algorithms and 1120 00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,120 Speaker 2: encryption and all this stuff that they've some very smart 1121 00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,880 Speaker 2: people have figured out, like let's only transmit the information 1122 00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,719 Speaker 2: that is necessary, and if that information doesn't need to 1123 00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,440 Speaker 2: be transmitted, like if target doesn't need to store your 1124 00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,960 Speaker 2: data birth for that transaction, it will just literally transmit 1125 00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,640 Speaker 2: yes or no to approve that transaction. So it's a 1126 00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,160 Speaker 2: small but kind of meaningful thing where I actually think 1127 00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,040 Speaker 2: this is very private and done in a really interesting 1128 00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,680 Speaker 2: future kind of forward thinking way where less of our 1129 00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,720 Speaker 2: personal information is just out there for everyone to see. 1130 00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,640 Speaker 2: Like why is this sixteen year old at the place 1131 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,759 Speaker 2: that's checking my ID? Well, maybe they're not sixteen if 1132 00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,640 Speaker 2: they're checking my ID, but you know what I mean, Like, 1133 00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,520 Speaker 2: why is that person need to see all of my 1134 00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:14,560 Speaker 2: personal information? They don't anyway. This is also available for 1135 00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,600 Speaker 2: Android wallet as well. Android happened a few weeks ago, 1136 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,200 Speaker 2: So if you want to put your driver's license, just 1137 00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,000 Speaker 2: open up the wallet app on your phone and see 1138 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,400 Speaker 2: if you're in one of the states that has it. 1139 00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,480 Speaker 2: You can't use it in too many places, but it's 1140 00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,680 Speaker 2: kind of cool to be on that cutting edge. Eighty 1141 00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,280 Speaker 2: to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1142 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:31,719 Speaker 2: four to two four. 1143 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:35,839 Speaker 1: One zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1144 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,600 Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 1145 00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,439 Speaker 2: triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight 1146 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,520 Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. The website 1147 00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,800 Speaker 2: for the show Richontech dot TV. 1148 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,560 Speaker 1: Let's go to line one. We've got Bonnie in Charleston, 1149 00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:59,120 Speaker 1: South Carolina. Bonnie in Charleston, South Carolina, Line one. Welcome 1150 00:53:59,160 --> 00:53:59,600 Speaker 1: to the show. 1151 00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,359 Speaker 10: Well, Rich, thank you for making me feel really really old, 1152 00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,440 Speaker 10: because I have no idea who that singer was you 1153 00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,680 Speaker 10: were talking about, Oh. 1154 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:09,600 Speaker 1: Which one dua lipa? 1155 00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:14,319 Speaker 10: Yeah, well you know what like a maybe it was 1156 00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:15,200 Speaker 10: a disease of. 1157 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,640 Speaker 1: Some sort, but my gosh, no, no, no. 1158 00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:24,120 Speaker 2: She is Albanian, so that is Albanian and British, and 1159 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,719 Speaker 2: so that that that describes the or I guess makes 1160 00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:29,239 Speaker 2: up for the unique name there. 1161 00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:29,960 Speaker 1: So that's why. 1162 00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,719 Speaker 2: But you know, hey, maybe maybe if you like some 1163 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,200 Speaker 2: you know, rocky music, you'll you'll like it. She's kind 1164 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,400 Speaker 2: of like a tailor swiftish kind of thing, but maybe 1165 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,799 Speaker 2: more more dancing anyway, what can I help you with? 1166 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:40,160 Speaker 1: Bonnie? 1167 00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,919 Speaker 10: Okay, So I have a question. I don't know if 1168 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:47,400 Speaker 10: you can help me. I'm a senior citizen and so 1169 00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,880 Speaker 10: I get an awful lot of scam calls, and I 1170 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,120 Speaker 10: know I can block them, but I'm also a pet 1171 00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,759 Speaker 10: portrait artist, so when people call me up, and I 1172 00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:01,640 Speaker 10: need the names and ideas people that call so that 1173 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:06,600 Speaker 10: I can see at the customer. But all these scam 1174 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:12,880 Speaker 10: people are using phony caller IDs, phony names, and phony 1175 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:18,160 Speaker 10: phone numbers with local area codes. 1176 00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:19,479 Speaker 1: Yep, yep. 1177 00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:25,080 Speaker 10: Is there a way to stop them from actually using 1178 00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,719 Speaker 10: phony caller IDs? I mean, do we need to get 1179 00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,160 Speaker 10: a law so that they can't do it? Because usually 1180 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,080 Speaker 10: I'll answer the phone and it's some guy from you know, 1181 00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:36,200 Speaker 10: the Philippines trying to sell me I don't know, trying 1182 00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,280 Speaker 10: to give me something and try to get my credit 1183 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,520 Speaker 10: card number. So I'm wondering, isn't there a way? Isn't 1184 00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,239 Speaker 10: there a law that can stop them from using these 1185 00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,320 Speaker 10: phony call names and collor IDs. 1186 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,319 Speaker 2: Yes, there are laws, and they don't follow them because 1187 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,880 Speaker 2: they could care less because you know, they're not based 1188 00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,080 Speaker 2: here in the US. Most of the time, they're not. 1189 00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,560 Speaker 2: They're not on the up and up, so you know, 1190 00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,600 Speaker 2: if you are. Let's say you put your phone number 1191 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,640 Speaker 2: on a list. Let's say you go to Macy's right 1192 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,080 Speaker 2: and they say, hey, give us your phone number and 1193 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,840 Speaker 2: we'll text you and we'll call you with deals or whatever. 1194 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,400 Speaker 2: And you get sick and tired of them texting you 1195 00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:11,440 Speaker 2: or calling you. 1196 00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:12,080 Speaker 1: You know, you can. 1197 00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,440 Speaker 2: Reply stop to their texts, or you can opt out 1198 00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:16,759 Speaker 2: of your phone number being used, and they will respect it. 1199 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,640 Speaker 2: They will stop using your information and stop calling you. 1200 00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,799 Speaker 2: The problem is when these are kind of operating in 1201 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,480 Speaker 2: the gray area that ninety nine percent of these robo 1202 00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,839 Speaker 2: calls are or even if they're just you know, sort 1203 00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,120 Speaker 2: of uh, you know, even if it's a live person, 1204 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,719 Speaker 2: they're still robo calling. And yes, they're using local phone 1205 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,799 Speaker 2: numbers to try to trick you because it looks like 1206 00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,080 Speaker 2: it's coming from you know, your area. So when I 1207 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,719 Speaker 2: you know, for instance, especially when you have kids like myself, 1208 00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:47,080 Speaker 2: you're going to always pick up the phone when it's 1209 00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,879 Speaker 2: a number that looks like your local area code, because 1210 00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,600 Speaker 2: it could be their school, it could be a babysitter, whatever, 1211 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,360 Speaker 2: And that's what they're praying upon they're praying upon you know, 1212 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,960 Speaker 2: tricking us. Can you stop these That is the multi 1213 00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,759 Speaker 2: billion dollar question that nobody seems to have figured out. 1214 00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,399 Speaker 1: Now I will tell you. I'm assuming you have an iPhone. 1215 00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:11,719 Speaker 10: Right, Okay, so I still have my landline. I know 1216 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,080 Speaker 10: it's not a real land. 1217 00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:17,240 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, Well there actually is a way. 1218 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:20,120 Speaker 2: So there's a company called Nomo Robo n O m 1219 00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:24,720 Speaker 2: O r O b O, and they actually will help 1220 00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,280 Speaker 2: protect you from some of this stuff on landlines. And 1221 00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,440 Speaker 2: it's it's actually free for the kind of the basic 1222 00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,760 Speaker 2: service on land lines. And I know you said it's 1223 00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,800 Speaker 2: not a real landline. I know, but they support like 1224 00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,720 Speaker 2: all the voice voice over IP landlines, which are you know, 1225 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,840 Speaker 2: from the different companies like Cox or FiOS or Spectrum 1226 00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:47,360 Speaker 2: and Infinity Uma, and so you can sign up. You 1227 00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:51,560 Speaker 2: can sign up with them and they can help control 1228 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,960 Speaker 2: some of these callers. Now, I know you run a business, 1229 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,040 Speaker 2: so you don't really want to like intercept a lot 1230 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,160 Speaker 2: of these calls and have them, you know, you don't 1231 00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:00,160 Speaker 2: want to have a lot of issues with that. But 1232 00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:04,520 Speaker 2: I will tell you you know, in my experience, I 1233 00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,640 Speaker 2: think that these calls come and go in waves, and 1234 00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:08,640 Speaker 2: it really depends on how many lists you're on and 1235 00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:10,440 Speaker 2: how many times your phone number has been shared and 1236 00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:11,360 Speaker 2: how it's out there. 1237 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:12,680 Speaker 1: So the more that you can. 1238 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,080 Speaker 2: You're a business too, so they are obviously your phone 1239 00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,560 Speaker 2: numbers out there because it's a business, and I think 1240 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,200 Speaker 2: that's unfortunate that you need your number out there. But 1241 00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,680 Speaker 2: then these people, of course use that to their advantage. 1242 00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,160 Speaker 10: Well, I will tell you rich, once I realize it 1243 00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,080 Speaker 10: is one of those scam calls, I usually ask the 1244 00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,720 Speaker 10: guy what he's wearing, and then he doesn't know really 1245 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,400 Speaker 10: how to handle me and usually hang up. 1246 00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,840 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, well hey, at least you have 1247 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,880 Speaker 2: a sense of humor there, you know. Hey, And I've 1248 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,600 Speaker 2: heard people, you know, they kind of mess with these 1249 00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:45,680 Speaker 2: people and they you know, but at the end of 1250 00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,920 Speaker 2: the day, I mean, what I typically do is I 1251 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:51,160 Speaker 2: try to be nice and it's just like I'm not interested, no, 1252 00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,080 Speaker 2: thank you, please take me off this list. But most 1253 00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,880 Speaker 2: of the time they're not respecting those rules because they 1254 00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,680 Speaker 2: are operating sort of in a gray area. So I 1255 00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,280 Speaker 2: would my recommendations for the you know, for the landline, 1256 00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,640 Speaker 2: I would check out the Noomo robo dot com. 1257 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,400 Speaker 1: If you're on a smartphone. 1258 00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,560 Speaker 2: All of the major carriers have their own call filtering apps, 1259 00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:14,479 Speaker 2: so you can use those. 1260 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,200 Speaker 1: I find that they're very hit or miss. 1261 00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:17,000 Speaker 4: Uh. 1262 00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,760 Speaker 2: There is one interesting thing that's happening on the iPhone 1263 00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:20,840 Speaker 2: with iOS eighteen. 1264 00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,560 Speaker 1: Uh. Traditionally, you couldn't. 1265 00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,280 Speaker 2: Really get caller ID look up through a third party 1266 00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,920 Speaker 2: app on the iPhone because of the way the iPhone 1267 00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,360 Speaker 2: is set up. But they're now actually allowing that with 1268 00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,480 Speaker 2: this new thing that they enabled in iOS eighteen. So 1269 00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,360 Speaker 2: I actually think that some of these caller ID apps 1270 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,320 Speaker 2: that we're going to see that you know, something like 1271 00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:42,320 Speaker 2: a true caller or something like that, is actually going 1272 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,160 Speaker 2: to get more helpful. And even the caller ID uh, 1273 00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,800 Speaker 2: the spam filtering apps from the carriers, I think are 1274 00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:49,200 Speaker 2: going to get more helpful. It's going to take a 1275 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,400 Speaker 2: little bit of time because it's a brand new feature 1276 00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,720 Speaker 2: for the iPhone, but I think that's gonna help now. 1277 00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,520 Speaker 2: If you're on Android, it's actually already much much better. 1278 00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:01,600 Speaker 2: So if you're on Samsung or the Pixel, they both 1279 01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,919 Speaker 2: have an incredible feature that lets you filter or lets 1280 01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:09,160 Speaker 2: you screen calls through their digital Assistant. So when you're 1281 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,320 Speaker 2: on a Pixel smartphone and it's an unknown caller or 1282 01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,200 Speaker 2: caller that's not in your address book. It'll say, you know, 1283 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,680 Speaker 2: would you like to screen this call? And it's quite 1284 01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:22,320 Speaker 2: incredible where it will say, Hi, I'm the Google Assistant. 1285 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,760 Speaker 2: I'm helping this person screen their calls. Can you tell 1286 01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:28,080 Speaker 2: me what you're calling about? And that person says what 1287 01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,200 Speaker 2: they're calling about. It will say on your screen, this 1288 01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,080 Speaker 2: is John from you know, pest Control or whatever. Now, 1289 01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:35,960 Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the time in my experience, when 1290 01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,720 Speaker 2: I'm using that phone, they'll. 1291 01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,000 Speaker 1: Just hang up because they don't want to deal with it. 1292 01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,560 Speaker 2: But Sam Samsung has a similar feature as well, which 1293 01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,280 Speaker 2: is really really great, and you can actually type back 1294 01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:48,560 Speaker 2: to the person and it will read that in a 1295 01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,000 Speaker 2: voice to text things. So it's getting better, Bonnie. But 1296 01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,600 Speaker 2: I think your method works pretty well. Just say hey, 1297 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:55,280 Speaker 2: what are you wearing? 1298 01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:59,880 Speaker 10: And you know, okay, Thanks Ton, I appreciate it. 1299 01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:02,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, thanks a lot for the call. Appreciate it. 1300 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,680 Speaker 2: In a beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, I've been there. I've 1301 01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,600 Speaker 2: been to Charleston and it is a beautiful city. I 1302 01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,240 Speaker 2: feel like there's all these cities like the Charleston's of 1303 01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,960 Speaker 2: the world that had like this, like resurgence with like, 1304 01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:18,640 Speaker 2: you know, just embracing the beauty of these cities in 1305 01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,560 Speaker 2: a new way and restaurants and walkways on the water 1306 01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:22,400 Speaker 2: and things like that. 1307 01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:23,960 Speaker 1: So thanks for the call. 1308 01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:26,520 Speaker 2: Eight to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 1309 01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:30,000 Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. I will 1310 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,360 Speaker 2: say the most annoying thing about I was on Android 1311 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,760 Speaker 2: for a while with the Pixel nine, I went back 1312 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:37,919 Speaker 2: to iPhone. I will say the most annoying thing about 1313 01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,840 Speaker 2: the iPhone is answering phone calls because there is no 1314 01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:46,160 Speaker 2: good screening app at this point or screening method. Yeah, 1315 01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:48,400 Speaker 2: Apple has their own which lets it go to voicemail 1316 01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:49,200 Speaker 2: and kind of reads it. 1317 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:50,520 Speaker 1: But that's not what I want. I want. 1318 01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:54,320 Speaker 2: I want the feature that Samsung and Google have on 1319 01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:57,280 Speaker 2: their phones on the iPhone. I mean, it's it's game 1320 01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:01,200 Speaker 2: changing because I literally don't dread answer the phone on 1321 01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:05,280 Speaker 2: Samsung or Pixel because you just have the assistant answer it. 1322 01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,320 Speaker 2: If it's important, they're going to tell you what it's for, 1323 01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:09,400 Speaker 2: and if it's not, they're going to hang up. 1324 01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:11,760 Speaker 1: And by the way, if it's someone in. 1325 01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:14,400 Speaker 2: Your address book and you can't answer the phone, it 1326 01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,000 Speaker 2: knows that too. Or you know you're in a position 1327 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,000 Speaker 2: where it's it's it's calling you. Let's say it's like 1328 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,160 Speaker 2: for me, it was my mom and I was out 1329 01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:24,160 Speaker 2: having dinner and it was a loud place and I 1330 01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,560 Speaker 2: couldn't pick up the phone. But because it knows that 1331 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,320 Speaker 2: she's in my address book, instead of the standard like hey, 1332 01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,480 Speaker 2: this is Google whatever, it actually does a custom thing 1333 01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,120 Speaker 2: where you can say is it urgent? And so you 1334 01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,400 Speaker 2: tap one thing on your screen that says is it urgent, 1335 01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,320 Speaker 2: and it will say to them, hey, you know, Rich 1336 01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:42,880 Speaker 2: is busy, but like, is this an urgent call? And 1337 01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,200 Speaker 2: my mom said no, and then I just replied back, 1338 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:47,240 Speaker 2: I'll call you in a little bit. So it's that 1339 01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:49,720 Speaker 2: level of smarts that I think is just it just 1340 01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:53,080 Speaker 2: frees you up because you're no longer like worried about 1341 01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,320 Speaker 2: answering the phone, which is just we shouldn't be worried 1342 01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:58,640 Speaker 2: about answering our own phone calls at this point. But 1343 01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,400 Speaker 2: the problem is there's just so much spam out there 1344 01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,400 Speaker 2: and so much nonsense, and so many people trying to 1345 01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,840 Speaker 2: get money from us. The worst is like the cable companies. 1346 01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:07,959 Speaker 2: It's like it's like you feel like you fell into 1347 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,800 Speaker 2: a trap. They call you, you answer the phone, and 1348 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,360 Speaker 2: they're like hi. After like that pause, you know that 1349 01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,880 Speaker 2: that dreaded pause where you pick up you say hello, 1350 01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,520 Speaker 2: you don't hear anything for five seconds. You still stay 1351 01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:21,160 Speaker 2: on the line, and next thing you know, they're like, oh, Hi, 1352 01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,240 Speaker 2: we have a great offer for you from you know, 1353 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:27,400 Speaker 2: cable company, uh one oh one Mega Mega Monopoly. You're 1354 01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:30,160 Speaker 2: like oh, and then you know this person's so nice 1355 01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,200 Speaker 2: on the other end, you feel bad you're getting off 1356 01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:37,080 Speaker 2: the phone with them anyway. Eighty eight rich one on 1357 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,520 Speaker 2: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1358 01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:41,680 Speaker 2: zero one. If you call Kim to get on the 1359 01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,800 Speaker 2: phones here, she's our screener. She'll be very nice to 1360 01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:46,760 Speaker 2: you and hopefully you can get on the line here. 1361 01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,680 Speaker 2: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1362 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,560 Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one. This is rich 1363 01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:55,680 Speaker 2: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 1364 01:03:55,800 --> 01:04:00,480 Speaker 2: here hanging out with you talking technology. The phone lines 1365 01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,480 Speaker 2: are open at eight and eight rich one O one 1366 01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:06,840 Speaker 2: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1367 01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:11,080 Speaker 2: Still got over an hour of the show, so give 1368 01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:12,960 Speaker 2: me a call. If you have a question about technology. 1369 01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,560 Speaker 2: Maybe you upgraded to the new iPhone. You can tell 1370 01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:18,080 Speaker 2: me why or what your reasoning was or maybe you're 1371 01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:20,920 Speaker 2: skipping this year. Coming up later in the show, we're 1372 01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:23,160 Speaker 2: going to talk to Matt Swider. He runs a great 1373 01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,480 Speaker 2: newsletter called The Shortcut. He's going to talk about the 1374 01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,600 Speaker 2: the iPhone sixteen. He was at the launch event in 1375 01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,520 Speaker 2: New York City where Tim Cook was, and he can 1376 01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,320 Speaker 2: talk about No Apple puts on these like wild parties 1377 01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,400 Speaker 2: for the launch of things that seems like only they 1378 01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:40,640 Speaker 2: can do. So there's a lot of I saw a 1379 01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:42,960 Speaker 2: lot of my friends there. They were all all outside 1380 01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,959 Speaker 2: that store. Let's see here. Let's go to line two. 1381 01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:51,400 Speaker 2: Line two is Kelly in Santa Clarita. Kelly, you're on 1382 01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:51,880 Speaker 2: with Rich. 1383 01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,200 Speaker 12: Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. 1384 01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:56,840 Speaker 3: Sure. I have. 1385 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:02,280 Speaker 12: Two Amazon Echo Dot. One's about sixty seven years old. 1386 01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:06,000 Speaker 12: One is maybe two to three years old. Left town 1387 01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,280 Speaker 12: for a couple of days, had several power surges during 1388 01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,680 Speaker 12: the heat waves. Came home and neither of them were working, 1389 01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:17,080 Speaker 12: and couldn't pair either of them and plug them both, 1390 01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,880 Speaker 12: let them, you know, clear their memory or whatever their 1391 01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:25,480 Speaker 12: issue was. And the older one I was able to 1392 01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:31,000 Speaker 12: pair and get working. The newer one would not pair. 1393 01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:33,800 Speaker 12: So it took it to a friend's house to see 1394 01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,800 Speaker 12: if it was you know, here or somewhere else that 1395 01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:37,240 Speaker 12: would work. 1396 01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,240 Speaker 4: It worked beautifully at someone else's home. 1397 01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,640 Speaker 12: Brought it back, let the memory clear for about twenty 1398 01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:46,600 Speaker 12: four hours. Again, tried to pair it and it will 1399 01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:50,480 Speaker 12: not pair. So I'm at a loss. I don't know 1400 01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:51,200 Speaker 12: what to think. 1401 01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:55,480 Speaker 2: When you say pair, you mean like get it back 1402 01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,160 Speaker 2: on your account, like on your phone. 1403 01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:02,560 Speaker 12: Yeah, get it back to the internet and working so 1404 01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:03,520 Speaker 12: I can listen to camfi. 1405 01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:06,760 Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's uh and it is very easy to 1406 01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,960 Speaker 2: listen to uh the radio stations, any radio station really 1407 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,160 Speaker 2: by by calling it out. It's quite quite incredible, incredible 1408 01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:14,919 Speaker 2: how simple the voice is on this thing. 1409 01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:17,400 Speaker 1: And if you listen to the show, you know that. 1410 01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,000 Speaker 2: I recently put a whole bunch of these things in 1411 01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:22,600 Speaker 2: my house because I'm upset at my Sono speakers. And 1412 01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,439 Speaker 2: it's wild how much more I'm listening to things because 1413 01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,160 Speaker 2: it's so easy to call up stuff through these uh. 1414 01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:29,680 Speaker 1: So the main. 1415 01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would understand that. So a couple of things, 1416 01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:35,800 Speaker 2: A couple thoughts. Number one, have you tried to do 1417 01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:40,120 Speaker 2: a complete reset of this echo dot? Like I know 1418 01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,560 Speaker 2: you said you unplugged it and plugged it back in, 1419 01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,320 Speaker 2: but have you done like a factory reset where it 1420 01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,560 Speaker 2: actually like reboots everything back to factory. 1421 01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:49,200 Speaker 1: Have you tried that? 1422 01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:50,920 Speaker 4: No? 1423 01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:53,480 Speaker 1: Okay, well that's what I think you need to try. 1424 01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,080 Speaker 12: But it did work up my friend's house immediately. 1425 01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that could be for various reasons. 1426 01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:01,600 Speaker 2: But I think we're we're trying to get it to 1427 01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:02,960 Speaker 2: work at your house, and I think this is the 1428 01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:04,720 Speaker 2: best way to do that. I think that this will 1429 01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,000 Speaker 2: basically you are resetting it. I think maybe this thing 1430 01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,240 Speaker 2: is confused at this point because it was you know, 1431 01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,760 Speaker 2: it was shocked with the power surges. You brought it 1432 01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:14,960 Speaker 2: to a friend's house, so it doesn't know, you know, 1433 01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,400 Speaker 2: if it should be what's what. 1434 01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,320 Speaker 1: It doesn't even know what it's doing at this point. 1435 01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,960 Speaker 2: So it's been connected to different had you I don't 1436 01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:22,360 Speaker 2: even know how you set it up at your friend's house. 1437 01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:24,800 Speaker 2: Did you set up with their internet or something? 1438 01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:26,200 Speaker 10: Yeah? 1439 01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:31,000 Speaker 12: Oh interesting, My granddaughter took it and it's paired right 1440 01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:36,360 Speaker 12: up to his network and came on no bumb Okay. 1441 01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:38,400 Speaker 2: All right, So what I would do is I would 1442 01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:41,840 Speaker 2: I would do the factory reset, and you know the 1443 01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:45,360 Speaker 2: way that you do this is I would do the 1444 01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,479 Speaker 2: factory reset completely there's two different levels of reset. One 1445 01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:51,360 Speaker 2: is like like a soft reset. One is a factory. 1446 01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:52,880 Speaker 2: I think the factory is going to be the easiest 1447 01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:54,560 Speaker 2: and it's probably going to give you the best results. 1448 01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:56,720 Speaker 2: So what you want to do is press and hold 1449 01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,640 Speaker 2: the volume down and the microphone off buttons for twenty 1450 01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:03,840 Speaker 2: seconds until the light turns on and off again, and 1451 01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,480 Speaker 2: then your device will will enter set the initial set 1452 01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:13,120 Speaker 2: up mode and phone Yeah, like plug it in, volume down, 1453 01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:15,439 Speaker 2: press those two buttons at the same time, Volume down, 1454 01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:19,479 Speaker 2: microphone off for twenty seconds. This thing is gonna kind of, 1455 01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,439 Speaker 2: you know, go through some cycles of resetting, and it's 1456 01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:23,840 Speaker 2: going to be as if you just got it from 1457 01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:26,920 Speaker 2: the Amazon factory and then you try to pair it 1458 01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:31,200 Speaker 2: if it doesn't work to pair after that. Is this 1459 01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:32,800 Speaker 2: the two to three year old one or the seven 1460 01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:33,280 Speaker 2: year old. 1461 01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,679 Speaker 4: One year old one? 1462 01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:39,240 Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not that old, So you can you 1463 01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:42,120 Speaker 2: can appeal to Amazon. I know this is way out 1464 01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:46,080 Speaker 2: of its you know, warranty, but you never know it's Amazon. 1465 01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:47,840 Speaker 2: You may, you know, with the way I would approach it, 1466 01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:49,559 Speaker 2: I'd say, hey, I've had this thing and it's just 1467 01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:51,800 Speaker 2: I don't know, it's not working anymore. You know, is 1468 01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:53,479 Speaker 2: there anything we can do to swap this out for 1469 01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:55,599 Speaker 2: a new one. You guys can take the old one 1470 01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:57,759 Speaker 2: to check it out and see what what went wrong. 1471 01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:01,800 Speaker 2: Or know, we do have Prime Day coming up. These 1472 01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:04,840 Speaker 2: things are not, you know, not terribly expensive. Obviously I 1473 01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,120 Speaker 2: don't I don't like to throw around. Oh, just buy 1474 01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:09,160 Speaker 2: a new one, but you know they do have the 1475 01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,600 Speaker 2: fifth generation is like thirty five bucks right now and 1476 01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:13,639 Speaker 2: over Prime Day will probably be even cheaper. 1477 01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,479 Speaker 1: So if you want to solve your hand, like playing a. 1478 01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,680 Speaker 12: New one because I love it so much, but it 1479 01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:20,360 Speaker 12: was weird that it works somewhere else. 1480 01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:24,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, that is strange. I agree with that part. 1481 01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,680 Speaker 2: So but do the do the factory reset, try to 1482 01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:30,080 Speaker 2: pair it up again and let me know if it works. 1483 01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:30,719 Speaker 1: Send me an email. 1484 01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:32,720 Speaker 2: Go to the website rich on tech dot Tv, hit 1485 01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:36,000 Speaker 2: contact and h Kelly. I will be very curious to 1486 01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:37,759 Speaker 2: see if that fixes the issues. 1487 01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:41,360 Speaker 12: Okay, Okay, well, rich on what's it? Rich On. 1488 01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,120 Speaker 2: Rich on tech dot tv, And you'll see a little 1489 01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:46,559 Speaker 2: thing where it says contact and that's where you can 1490 01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:47,200 Speaker 2: send me an email. 1491 01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,320 Speaker 1: So I want an update, so I can update folks. 1492 01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,280 Speaker 12: Okay, I will give it a try which button is 1493 01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:53,120 Speaker 12: the microphone? 1494 01:09:53,600 --> 01:10:00,639 Speaker 2: It's not obvious the microphone, the microphone button, microphone off button. 1495 01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:02,519 Speaker 2: So it's the one that looks like it's the the 1496 01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,760 Speaker 2: one with like an X through it usually, or the 1497 01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:06,080 Speaker 2: microphone with an X through it. 1498 01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:07,080 Speaker 1: It depends on your model. 1499 01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,840 Speaker 3: But I'll i'll yeah, ok, yeah, I got it. 1500 01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:10,960 Speaker 13: It's got like a life through it. 1501 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,320 Speaker 8: Okay, yep, I'll get it. 1502 01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:13,679 Speaker 11: Try and I'll send you an email. 1503 01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:15,920 Speaker 1: All right, Kelly, appreciate the call today. 1504 01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:19,280 Speaker 2: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1505 01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,280 Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one. 1506 01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:21,679 Speaker 4: Uh. 1507 01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:25,160 Speaker 2: This week, UH, Spectrum made a big deal about their 1508 01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:29,760 Speaker 2: new customer commitment. So if you have Spectrum Internet, they 1509 01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:33,679 Speaker 2: gave you a free speed upgrade. So the three hundred 1510 01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:35,960 Speaker 2: megabits per second plan is now up to four hundred 1511 01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,120 Speaker 2: megabits per second, the five hundred is up to six hundred. 1512 01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,200 Speaker 2: That's free, so you don't have to do anything. You'll 1513 01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:44,200 Speaker 2: just get I don't know, just I think it's probably 1514 01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:47,160 Speaker 2: already happened. So if your Internet feels a little bit speedier, 1515 01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:48,160 Speaker 2: that's what's going on. 1516 01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:49,160 Speaker 13: Uh. 1517 01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:52,720 Speaker 2: They also, you know, gave some commitments saying if if 1518 01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:54,960 Speaker 2: there's any issue before five pm. They'll have a same 1519 01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,880 Speaker 2: day technician come to your house. If an outage lasts 1520 01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,960 Speaker 2: over two hours, they'll give you a bill credit. They've 1521 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,040 Speaker 2: got whole dollar pricing with taxes and fees included. No 1522 01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:08,080 Speaker 2: annual contracts, twenty four to seven US based customer service, 1523 01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:11,840 Speaker 2: thirty day money back guarantee for new services, fourteen days 1524 01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:12,920 Speaker 2: for mobile services. 1525 01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:14,479 Speaker 1: It's all good stuff. 1526 01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,720 Speaker 2: I think the main the main issue I have with 1527 01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:20,360 Speaker 2: Spectrum and all of these cable companies is they still 1528 01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,479 Speaker 2: want you to bundle. And I get that bundling is cheaper, 1529 01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:25,720 Speaker 2: and yes, you can save a lot of money if 1530 01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:27,559 Speaker 2: you bundle some of these Spectrum services. 1531 01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:28,439 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you. 1532 01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:32,120 Speaker 2: It's easy to get started with these services. It is 1533 01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:35,920 Speaker 2: a lot tougher to switch or cancel or change when 1534 01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:37,640 Speaker 2: you're doing stuff like this. You know you've gotten so 1535 01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,240 Speaker 2: used to Netflix. If you don't look it, you cancel online. 1536 01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,600 Speaker 2: It takes two seconds. With something like this, you do 1537 01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:44,760 Speaker 2: have to call in and ask and figure it out, 1538 01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:49,120 Speaker 2: send back. The equipment and the upload speeds for cable 1539 01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:51,720 Speaker 2: internet are still not as fast as fiber. But hey, 1540 01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:53,800 Speaker 2: you know what, I like what they're doing. I like 1541 01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:58,760 Speaker 2: customer commitments. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1542 01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,280 Speaker 2: rich on Tech. Rich zero here hanging out with you, 1543 01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:05,240 Speaker 2: talking technology. This is the show where I talk about 1544 01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:07,080 Speaker 2: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 1545 01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:10,000 Speaker 2: also the place where I answer your questions and yeah, 1546 01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:13,679 Speaker 2: you bring them every weekend right here eighty eight rich 1547 01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:16,559 Speaker 2: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two 1548 01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:17,840 Speaker 2: four one zero one. 1549 01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:23,920 Speaker 1: The website for the show is rich on tech dot tv. 1550 01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:26,080 Speaker 2: I've realized I say that very fast most of the 1551 01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:29,559 Speaker 2: time rich on tech dot tv. 1552 01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:31,320 Speaker 1: If you go there, A couple of things to do. 1553 01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:31,960 Speaker 3: Uh. 1554 01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:35,080 Speaker 2: First off, sign up for my newsletter. Lots of good 1555 01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,439 Speaker 2: information in there. I always put a lot of effort 1556 01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:41,160 Speaker 2: into just sharing high quality, good information that you can 1557 01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:44,759 Speaker 2: use on a weekly basis. Usually goes out on Saturday mornings. 1558 01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:47,599 Speaker 2: If you want to do that, just put in your 1559 01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:50,519 Speaker 2: email address there. Let's see what else. Oh, you can 1560 01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:52,360 Speaker 2: hit the light bulb BiCon if you want to link 1561 01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,320 Speaker 2: to anything I mentioned on this show. This is show 1562 01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:58,679 Speaker 2: number ninety and you can just tap the light bulb 1563 01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:00,920 Speaker 2: up at the top get links to stuff I talk about. 1564 01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,920 Speaker 2: And if you hit contact, you can actually send me 1565 01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:06,479 Speaker 2: an email to ask me a question. 1566 01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:09,439 Speaker 1: That's exactly what Jill did. Let's see. 1567 01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:13,320 Speaker 2: Jill listens on KFI in Los Angeles says, I currently 1568 01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:17,120 Speaker 2: use the Apple password manager. Will it automatically be transferred 1569 01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:19,519 Speaker 2: to the new password manager in iOS eighteen? 1570 01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:22,360 Speaker 1: Thank you? The answer is yes. 1571 01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:26,200 Speaker 2: If you are using iCloud keychain, you've got a bunch 1572 01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:30,200 Speaker 2: of passwords in there already. When you download iOS eighteen 1573 01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:33,320 Speaker 2: and open up that passwords app, it will all be there. 1574 01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:37,120 Speaker 2: I noticed I don't use iCloud keychain, but I do 1575 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,519 Speaker 2: have a couple of passwords in there for certain things, 1576 01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:42,719 Speaker 2: and they all came over to the new app. 1577 01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:47,839 Speaker 1: So eighty five Wi Fi passwords, let's see. 1578 01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:52,040 Speaker 2: And yeah, just a couple of other passwords as well. 1579 01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:56,880 Speaker 2: So interesting. Oh oh, that's the other thing it does. 1580 01:13:56,920 --> 01:14:00,040 Speaker 2: This is actually I meant to mention this if you 1581 01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:03,200 Speaker 2: used if you use that thing where it says like 1582 01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,320 Speaker 2: log in with Apple, right, like you know how sometimes 1583 01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:08,479 Speaker 2: you can sign up for a website says log in 1584 01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,479 Speaker 2: with Google, log in with Apple, log in. 1585 01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:14,960 Speaker 1: With Facebook, whatever. I don't really see that much anymore. 1586 01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:18,320 Speaker 2: But you'll see all the places that you've actually signed 1587 01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:21,280 Speaker 2: in with Apple in your list. So it's actually like 1588 01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:22,800 Speaker 2: the first time I've ever seen that where I can 1589 01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:25,400 Speaker 2: see all these different websites that I've signed up for 1590 01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:28,640 Speaker 2: using Apple's log in, And so you can go in 1591 01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:32,080 Speaker 2: there and let's see what you can do. You can edit, 1592 01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,320 Speaker 2: Let's see can you delete these logins if you want? Yeah, 1593 01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,479 Speaker 2: you can delete the logins. You can see what you did. 1594 01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:38,560 Speaker 2: So that's a nice way to clean up some of 1595 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,200 Speaker 2: the logins that you may not want anymore. 1596 01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:41,880 Speaker 1: But yes, that passwords app is great. 1597 01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:46,880 Speaker 2: I typically prefer third party apps for everything because let's 1598 01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,040 Speaker 2: say you start using this passwords app a lot, you 1599 01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,400 Speaker 2: store all your passwords, and all of a sudden, Android 1600 01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:52,840 Speaker 2: comes out with the best phone you've ever seen in 1601 01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:53,200 Speaker 2: your life. 1602 01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:54,000 Speaker 1: You want to switch. 1603 01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,000 Speaker 2: Well, guess what, You're not gonna be able to use 1604 01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,600 Speaker 2: that passwords app on Android because it's Apple. You know, 1605 01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:00,559 Speaker 2: most of their stuff only works on Apple stuff. So 1606 01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:04,840 Speaker 2: that's why I typically prefer a third party program that 1607 01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:08,960 Speaker 2: works across all platforms, something like a dash Lane, something 1608 01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:12,000 Speaker 2: like a bit Warden, something like a one password. But 1609 01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:15,240 Speaker 2: if you are just wanting something for free, you're not 1610 01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:18,080 Speaker 2: going to leave Apple anytime soon, and you know you're 1611 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,519 Speaker 2: not going to use anything else, use the passwords app. 1612 01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:24,439 Speaker 2: It's way better than not using a passwords app. Let's 1613 01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:25,720 Speaker 2: go to line two. 1614 01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:31,920 Speaker 1: We've got Leslie in Coda de Casa California. In parentheses 1615 01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:36,160 Speaker 1: it says where the Real Housewives lived? Did Kim add that? 1616 01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:39,280 Speaker 1: Or did Leslie say that you're on with Rich? 1617 01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:43,880 Speaker 13: Kim added that we had about it? 1618 01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:48,040 Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know that nonsense, but I'm sure I 1619 01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:51,360 Speaker 2: know those are popular shows. And I did watch a 1620 01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:53,840 Speaker 2: little bit of The New Jersey Housewives back in the 1621 01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,680 Speaker 2: day before it, you know, I just actually saw it 1622 01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:59,479 Speaker 2: on the one of the systems. It had like fourteen seasons. 1623 01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:01,799 Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, what I watched like the first one? Anyway, 1624 01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:03,880 Speaker 2: what can I help you with today? 1625 01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:11,360 Speaker 13: I need assistance with either recovering or resetting my Microsoft 1626 01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:14,760 Speaker 13: account log in, which I apparently have but I did 1627 01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:18,680 Speaker 13: not know I had, and I don't know if it 1628 01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:21,320 Speaker 13: was an eight hundred number. I'm trying to do it 1629 01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,360 Speaker 13: online and it's not working. 1630 01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:27,519 Speaker 1: Okay, so you're trying. What are you trying to do? Exactly? 1631 01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:33,000 Speaker 13: So Cox, the cable company that's who I had my 1632 01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:37,479 Speaker 13: email addressed with forever, We're talking twenty thirty years and 1633 01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,240 Speaker 13: they recently got out of the business. I don't know 1634 01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:43,240 Speaker 13: if you knew that the email business, and they transitioned 1635 01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:45,479 Speaker 13: our accounts to Yahoo. 1636 01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:48,880 Speaker 1: Correct, So I've heard nothing about horrible stories. 1637 01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,679 Speaker 13: Yes, thank you. So we can still use Cox dot net. 1638 01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:54,920 Speaker 13: We don't have to change that, which is good. But 1639 01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:59,120 Speaker 13: obviously it's just a background process through Yahoo. So I 1640 01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:02,320 Speaker 13: can access my new emails, send emails, et cetera through 1641 01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:07,080 Speaker 13: their app. That's working fine. However, I've had Microsoft Outlook 1642 01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:11,160 Speaker 13: installed on my laptop computer forever and it was always 1643 01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:14,720 Speaker 13: attached to cocks So now I need to go in 1644 01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:18,800 Speaker 13: and update the settings, the incoming outgoing servers whatnot to 1645 01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:23,000 Speaker 13: attach to my Yahoo. Yes, but they're saying I have 1646 01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:27,200 Speaker 13: a Microsoft account. Well I've I've had this Outlook set 1647 01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:29,760 Speaker 13: up since the beginning of time. There was not even 1648 01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:33,040 Speaker 13: such a thing as a Microsoft account. So they say 1649 01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,320 Speaker 13: I have one. I'm trying to reset it. It's forcing 1650 01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:39,040 Speaker 13: me to answer all these questions on a recovery email. 1651 01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:41,519 Speaker 13: What's the name of the email, what's the subject line? 1652 01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:42,879 Speaker 13: I've tried it three times. 1653 01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:44,840 Speaker 1: It doesn't work, Okay, I don't. 1654 01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,960 Speaker 2: I don't think you need the Microsoft account to access 1655 01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:50,240 Speaker 2: your Yah your coxmail through Yahoo. 1656 01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:55,360 Speaker 1: Mal because those are two separate things. So what what 1657 01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:55,680 Speaker 1: are you. 1658 01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:58,120 Speaker 2: Trying to log in with the Microsoft account because you 1659 01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:01,040 Speaker 2: don't need to log into the Microsoft account to use Outlook. 1660 01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,960 Speaker 13: Well, I can't send and receive emails anymore through Microsoft 1661 01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:08,879 Speaker 13: Outlets outlooks it's the data. 1662 01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:11,600 Speaker 1: Book, right, Okay, So here's what you need to do. 1663 01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:15,120 Speaker 2: I think what happened is when you added the cos email, 1664 01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:19,920 Speaker 2: it was using Cox servers, right, and those servers. 1665 01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:22,120 Speaker 1: Are no longer. They're no longer doing that. 1666 01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,479 Speaker 2: So it used to be the email address was like 1667 01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:29,439 Speaker 2: something like let's say like imap dot Cox dot net, right, 1668 01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,519 Speaker 2: So that's probably how your Outlook is set up. 1669 01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:35,360 Speaker 1: So what I would do is I. 1670 01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:40,160 Speaker 2: Would add the Yahoo mail account. So when you go 1671 01:18:40,240 --> 01:18:45,120 Speaker 2: into when you're in Outlook, it says add a new account. 1672 01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:46,639 Speaker 1: Do you know what? Can you get to that screen 1673 01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:48,000 Speaker 1: where it says add a new account? 1674 01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:51,440 Speaker 13: I'm sure I can, Yes, Okay. 1675 01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:54,000 Speaker 2: So go to that screen and you're gonna choose Yahoo. 1676 01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:56,160 Speaker 2: I know it's it's odd that you're choosing Yahoo, but 1677 01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:59,360 Speaker 2: basically you're gonna choose the Yahoo mail account. 1678 01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:02,439 Speaker 1: And when you do that, it will ask you for 1679 01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:03,040 Speaker 1: your log in. 1680 01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,759 Speaker 2: Your log in is going to be your full email address, 1681 01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:09,280 Speaker 2: which is your you know, whatever your email address is 1682 01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:12,080 Speaker 2: at Cox. Is that still your That's still your email address. 1683 01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:13,920 Speaker 8: Right it is? Yes? 1684 01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:15,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so there you go. 1685 01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:17,519 Speaker 2: So you you put that in the in the log 1686 01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:20,160 Speaker 2: in information under the email, and then the password is 1687 01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:22,600 Speaker 2: going to be your cos email password. You still have 1688 01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:30,439 Speaker 2: that somewhere, I'm not sure, okay, so that okay? Yeah, 1689 01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:33,640 Speaker 2: So once you have that, you popped that into the 1690 01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:38,599 Speaker 2: password and it should automatically find all these settings by itself. 1691 01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:41,120 Speaker 1: So that's what I would do first. 1692 01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:43,040 Speaker 13: I'm not. 1693 01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:50,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, updating the servers is that's another way of doing it, 1694 01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,680 Speaker 2: but I think that's too complicated. So I think that 1695 01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,160 Speaker 2: the way to the way to do this first is 1696 01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,080 Speaker 2: just you want access to your email, So let's get 1697 01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,240 Speaker 2: that first by logging in and getting it. And then 1698 01:20:01,240 --> 01:20:03,320 Speaker 2: once you have access and you see all your emails 1699 01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:05,720 Speaker 2: and all of your back emails, then you can go 1700 01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:09,920 Speaker 2: ahead and delete that old whatever your old connection was, 1701 01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:11,599 Speaker 2: you know, if it was set up as Cox dot net, 1702 01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:13,519 Speaker 2: whatever it was, you can just go ahead and delete 1703 01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:14,519 Speaker 2: that out of outlook. 1704 01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:15,559 Speaker 1: Now. 1705 01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:20,040 Speaker 2: The only caveat here is the way that your email 1706 01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:23,080 Speaker 2: was set up as there's two different ways that email 1707 01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,639 Speaker 2: can be set up. One is called POP and one 1708 01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:27,760 Speaker 2: is called IMAP. Now, if it's set up as POP, 1709 01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,479 Speaker 2: and I know this gets a little confusing, but POP 1710 01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:34,400 Speaker 2: actually downloads all the information from the remote server and 1711 01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:39,240 Speaker 2: stores it on your computer, whereas IMAP just mirrors the server. 1712 01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,320 Speaker 2: And that's the much more modern method that most email 1713 01:20:42,360 --> 01:20:45,599 Speaker 2: accounts use because you make one change on your computer 1714 01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:47,920 Speaker 2: and if you go on that same email account on 1715 01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:51,280 Speaker 2: your phone, that change is reflected there. With POP, it 1716 01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:54,400 Speaker 2: only changes it on your computer, and that's like a 1717 01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:55,479 Speaker 2: little bit of a different thing. 1718 01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:59,080 Speaker 1: But anyway, my point is, use both of. 1719 01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:02,360 Speaker 13: Those at some point, and hopefully it's on IMAP now. 1720 01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:05,519 Speaker 2: But yeah, exactly, a lot of a lot of the 1721 01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,920 Speaker 2: old school stuff was popped now it's all IMAP. But 1722 01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:09,840 Speaker 2: the main thing you want to do is just add 1723 01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:12,240 Speaker 2: that account. Once it's on there, then you can go 1724 01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:13,840 Speaker 2: ahead and make sure you have access to all of 1725 01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:15,720 Speaker 2: your old emails, and then you can just delete that 1726 01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:18,120 Speaker 2: old account off of there and that should really fix it. 1727 01:21:19,439 --> 01:21:25,719 Speaker 2: But that's it, and I think it's gonna work. And 1728 01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:29,240 Speaker 2: by the way, and what's. 1729 01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:30,719 Speaker 13: What if I get a new computer, a new laptop, 1730 01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,479 Speaker 13: and I don't know my Microsoft log in and I'm 1731 01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:35,439 Speaker 13: trying to install out. 1732 01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:36,679 Speaker 10: The whole suite. 1733 01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:39,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that is something that you're gonna have to 1734 01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:41,920 Speaker 2: You're eventually going to have to figure out that log in. 1735 01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:44,280 Speaker 2: The only the only hint I can give you there is, 1736 01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:46,160 Speaker 2: you know, Microsoft usually has like some sort of like 1737 01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,160 Speaker 2: recovery page, Like if you go to Microsoft Account recovery, 1738 01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:53,320 Speaker 2: hopefully you can get some sort of information that can 1739 01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,160 Speaker 2: get you back online with that. The only thing I 1740 01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:58,840 Speaker 2: would do is and by the way, if do you 1741 01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:01,200 Speaker 2: have access to like three six, are you paying for 1742 01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:01,720 Speaker 2: that right now? 1743 01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:03,280 Speaker 1: Or no? 1744 01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:04,040 Speaker 9: No, not yet. 1745 01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:07,000 Speaker 13: I'm sure I will in the new computer. But I 1746 01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:10,559 Speaker 13: have been doing the recovery suggestions for Microsoft because I 1747 01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:13,080 Speaker 13: thought I was resending the server and it's so confusing. 1748 01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:16,519 Speaker 13: It's asking me questions I'm answering, and it's just saying, sorry, 1749 01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:18,200 Speaker 13: we can't find it, we can't help you. 1750 01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:20,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that could be the case. 1751 01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,519 Speaker 2: So that the bottom line is maybe just sign up 1752 01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:24,639 Speaker 2: for a new Microsoft account if you need that down 1753 01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:26,479 Speaker 2: the line, and that way you have it fresh, you 1754 01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:29,240 Speaker 2: know what you're doing, and you've got all the information saved. 1755 01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:32,040 Speaker 2: The other the only other hint I would give you 1756 01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:35,719 Speaker 2: is that sometimes a Microsoft account, like if you sometimes 1757 01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:38,200 Speaker 2: it's like an email address like mine is actually another 1758 01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:42,000 Speaker 2: email address, which is thoroughly confusing and it you know, 1759 01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:43,800 Speaker 2: it's just one of those things where it's kind of weird. 1760 01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:46,240 Speaker 2: So it's like a different email address from a different 1761 01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:49,280 Speaker 2: company that I use as my Microsoft account like username, 1762 01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:51,599 Speaker 2: which is just totally like that doesn't make any sense, 1763 01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:54,240 Speaker 2: but that's the way I said it. Yeah, Leslie, thanks 1764 01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:55,519 Speaker 2: so much for the call today. Do you ever see 1765 01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:57,400 Speaker 2: any the housewives when you're out and about or. 1766 01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,240 Speaker 13: No, all the time? 1767 01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:00,960 Speaker 1: Uh, there you go. 1768 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,760 Speaker 2: Well, it's a beautiful area, so I understand why they 1769 01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:05,360 Speaker 2: might want to live there. Thanks so much for the 1770 01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:07,920 Speaker 2: call today. Hopefully you get access to that account. Eighty 1771 01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:10,400 Speaker 2: to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1772 01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:12,240 Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one. 1773 01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:14,240 Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll take more of your calls. 1774 01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:17,679 Speaker 2: I'm gonna explain why if you drive a GM EV 1775 01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:21,240 Speaker 2: you've got many more charging options, and later on we're 1776 01:23:21,240 --> 01:23:24,720 Speaker 2: gonna talk to Matt Swider about the new iPhone sixteen. 1777 01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:29,439 Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 1778 01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:32,639 Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology live 1779 01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:34,440 Speaker 2: from Las Vegas today. 1780 01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,800 Speaker 1: And uh, let's see. Yeah, beautiful day here, one of 1781 01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:42,040 Speaker 1: the most beautiful days I've remembered in Las Vegas because 1782 01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:43,680 Speaker 1: the weather is perfect. 1783 01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:47,439 Speaker 2: I'm I'm here doing the show. Wife is out by 1784 01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:50,120 Speaker 2: the pool. It's a it's a good day, and we're 1785 01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,439 Speaker 2: going to a concert. It's you know, it's just fun. 1786 01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:54,240 Speaker 2: It's fun to get away for a little bit and 1787 01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:58,519 Speaker 2: enjoy things like this. Uh, let's go to line four. 1788 01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,880 Speaker 2: Line four is Karen and San Pedro. Karen, you're on 1789 01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:03,400 Speaker 2: with Rich. 1790 01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:06,360 Speaker 8: Hi, good morning, Thank. 1791 01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:10,439 Speaker 1: You absolutely what can I help you with this morning? 1792 01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:13,760 Speaker 8: When I turned on my phone, I have a Samsung 1793 01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:18,000 Speaker 8: S twenty four, it's only a couple months old. Instead 1794 01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:21,960 Speaker 8: of the home screen opening up, a different page showed up. 1795 01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:25,200 Speaker 8: It was a message saying that they were going to 1796 01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:29,040 Speaker 8: install apps on my phone, and I had a choice 1797 01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:33,600 Speaker 8: of two things at the bottom, once said information or continue. 1798 01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:38,440 Speaker 8: I pressed information and it said if you press continue, 1799 01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:43,000 Speaker 8: you will have apps installed that we think you will need. 1800 01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:46,280 Speaker 8: It did not give me a back arrow, a forward arial. 1801 01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:48,320 Speaker 8: It did not give me any way to get out 1802 01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:51,599 Speaker 8: of the screen. I kept tapping it. I kept going 1803 01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:55,120 Speaker 8: backwards and forwards on it up and down sideways trying 1804 01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:57,120 Speaker 8: to get out of it. I'm not sure how I 1805 01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,519 Speaker 8: got out of it, but I finally did. But I 1806 01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:01,280 Speaker 8: want to know what to do the next time as 1807 01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:05,479 Speaker 8: this comes up. But I think it's quite I'm not 1808 01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:08,040 Speaker 8: sure the word, but for them to say that they're 1809 01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:11,640 Speaker 8: going to install apps on my phone without my permission basically. 1810 01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:15,680 Speaker 2: Well, okay, so I got to break this down. I 1811 01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:17,640 Speaker 2: got to figure out what's happening here. So this is 1812 01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:21,160 Speaker 2: Was this a software update? Like, were you installing a 1813 01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:22,360 Speaker 2: major software update? 1814 01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:23,479 Speaker 4: No? 1815 01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:26,719 Speaker 8: No, it just the screen came up when I Instead 1816 01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:30,880 Speaker 8: of my homepage coming up, this page came up and 1817 01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:35,559 Speaker 8: it was in different colors, quite pretty, and it said 1818 01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:40,479 Speaker 8: we're going to start installing apps on your screen. And 1819 01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,840 Speaker 8: at the very bottom you had a choice of two things, 1820 01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:46,160 Speaker 8: which said information or continue. I don't have the page 1821 01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:47,519 Speaker 8: in front of me because I got rid of it, 1822 01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:54,479 Speaker 8: and I pushed information rather than continue. And it basically said, 1823 01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:58,240 Speaker 8: we are going to start installing apps on your phone 1824 01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:04,320 Speaker 8: based on things that we think you will need. And 1825 01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:06,920 Speaker 8: I thought, no, I want to stall my own apps. 1826 01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:11,880 Speaker 8: I want the choice. And so I sat scrolling back 1827 01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:16,400 Speaker 8: and forth and tapping it and scrolling up, scrolling down, sideways, 1828 01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,600 Speaker 8: trying to figure a way to get out of the 1829 01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:21,840 Speaker 8: screen because it did not offer me an option other 1830 01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:23,599 Speaker 8: than let them install. 1831 01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:31,200 Speaker 2: Interesting, I'm wondering, I'm trying to figure out if this 1832 01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:36,880 Speaker 2: is a Samsung thing or a third party app thing. 1833 01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:40,479 Speaker 2: And I'm thinking that it might be a third party app. 1834 01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:42,280 Speaker 1: When was the last time you installed an app on 1835 01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:42,759 Speaker 1: your phone? 1836 01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:48,120 Speaker 8: Only when I bought it. When I bought it, they 1837 01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,280 Speaker 8: took the apps that I had from my previous phone 1838 01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:56,760 Speaker 8: and brought them over. I don't usually have too many 1839 01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:00,280 Speaker 8: apps on usually just what is required to on the 1840 01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,600 Speaker 8: phone and a couple others. But I don't like to 1841 01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:04,840 Speaker 8: have a lot of apps. 1842 01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:09,479 Speaker 2: Okay, so a couple things first off, so physically to 1843 01:27:09,560 --> 01:27:12,280 Speaker 2: get around, so a lot of times, whenever there's a 1844 01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:14,320 Speaker 2: menu in the middle of your phone that you can't 1845 01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:19,800 Speaker 2: get out of, there's typically you have to keep swiping 1846 01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:21,880 Speaker 2: to get out of it, which this I'm just saying 1847 01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,599 Speaker 2: in general, Like I don't know exactly what this screen showed, 1848 01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:26,720 Speaker 2: but I'm just saying the things that I've seen. But 1849 01:27:26,760 --> 01:27:28,880 Speaker 2: a lot of apps try to trick us into doing 1850 01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:29,960 Speaker 2: things we don't want to do. 1851 01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:31,400 Speaker 1: It's called a dark pattern. 1852 01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:38,640 Speaker 2: And so with this one, with this one specifically, you know, 1853 01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:40,519 Speaker 2: there may have been a thing where you had to 1854 01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:42,599 Speaker 2: swipe or you had to keep moving to the final 1855 01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:48,080 Speaker 2: screen before you can say no, that could have happened otherwise. 1856 01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:50,519 Speaker 2: A lot of times I noticed app developers will put 1857 01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:54,600 Speaker 2: a tiny X somewhere on the screen in the menu 1858 01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:58,240 Speaker 2: that you can't really see. It's very faint, and a 1859 01:27:58,240 --> 01:27:59,640 Speaker 2: lot of times it says, oh, do you want to 1860 01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,880 Speaker 2: subscrib and subscribe as in big bold letters in the 1861 01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:05,040 Speaker 2: middle or the bottom, or download this, But in the 1862 01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,920 Speaker 2: upper right hand corner, upper left hand corner, there's a 1863 01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:10,040 Speaker 2: tiny faint X that you can use. 1864 01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:10,760 Speaker 1: To X out of that. 1865 01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:14,639 Speaker 2: Now, for the future, I would look for something like that, 1866 01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:19,240 Speaker 2: but in this case to get out of something like this, 1867 01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:24,000 Speaker 2: typically are you using the physical keys at the bottom two? 1868 01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:27,599 Speaker 2: Are they using the virtual keys to move around your 1869 01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:35,920 Speaker 2: phone or using the swipe gestures. 1870 01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:37,920 Speaker 8: Well to ulpen it. I usually just to swipe, and 1871 01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,760 Speaker 8: then if I want to change pages, I usually use 1872 01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:45,840 Speaker 8: the little upside down arrow to go from left page 1873 01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:46,640 Speaker 8: to the next to that. 1874 01:28:46,680 --> 01:28:48,320 Speaker 1: What you mean, okay? 1875 01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:51,840 Speaker 2: So usually so at the bottom of your phone, is 1876 01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:54,160 Speaker 2: there are there a little like three buttons there or 1877 01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:55,759 Speaker 2: no like on your screen? 1878 01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:59,440 Speaker 8: Ah, yes, yes buttons okay. 1879 01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:01,559 Speaker 2: So like one'll take you to the homepage, one will 1880 01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:05,400 Speaker 2: take you back, one will take you to the Uh. Yeah, 1881 01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:07,719 Speaker 2: I gotta remember because mine is not set up that way. 1882 01:29:08,120 --> 01:29:10,639 Speaker 2: But the bottom line is right. 1883 01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:11,960 Speaker 8: Those were not available to me. 1884 01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:12,920 Speaker 1: Nothing, okay. 1885 01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:19,799 Speaker 8: Page just had their suggestion that I let them apply 1886 01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:20,960 Speaker 8: apps to the phone. 1887 01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:25,240 Speaker 2: Okay, So in the future when that happens, I would 1888 01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:28,439 Speaker 2: just go ahead and restart your phone and see if 1889 01:29:28,479 --> 01:29:31,160 Speaker 2: that goes away. Otherwise you can swipe in from the 1890 01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:34,559 Speaker 2: right hand corner to go back and maybe just keep 1891 01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:36,840 Speaker 2: going back until you get rid of it. But I 1892 01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:39,599 Speaker 2: would go through if I were you, Karen, I would 1893 01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:42,160 Speaker 2: go through your list of apps, make sure there are 1894 01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:45,640 Speaker 2: no apps that you do not recognize or need uninstall 1895 01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:49,200 Speaker 2: those apps, restart your phone, and hopefully that does not 1896 01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:53,880 Speaker 2: happen again. Coming up, we're gonna talk iPhone sixteen. This 1897 01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:56,840 Speaker 2: is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 1898 01:29:56,920 --> 01:30:00,040 Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology the 1899 01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:06,599 Speaker 2: website rich On Tech dot TV. Well, it is the 1900 01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:11,719 Speaker 2: big iPhone week. iPhone sixteen now in stores. I shared 1901 01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:15,280 Speaker 2: my review of it on TV and on my website, 1902 01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:19,559 Speaker 2: rich on tech dot TV. Bottom line, I think this 1903 01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:23,000 Speaker 2: year for these phones, do you upgrade? That's what everyone 1904 01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,519 Speaker 2: always wants to know, right, I think the bottom line 1905 01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:31,599 Speaker 2: is if you have an iPhone fifteen Pro, Right, if 1906 01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:34,840 Speaker 2: you have an iPhone fifteen Pro or Promax, I think 1907 01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:37,720 Speaker 2: you skip this upgrade. If you have anything else, I 1908 01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:39,600 Speaker 2: think that this would be a good upgrade. 1909 01:30:39,880 --> 01:30:40,040 Speaker 3: Now. 1910 01:30:40,040 --> 01:30:43,479 Speaker 2: I know the changes are subtle on these phones, but 1911 01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:47,000 Speaker 2: I think that they prep you for a world of AI. 1912 01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:50,639 Speaker 2: If you don't want that, don't upgrade. The cameras are better, 1913 01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:53,879 Speaker 2: the microphones are better. This is on the Pro stuff. 1914 01:30:54,640 --> 01:30:56,639 Speaker 2: They've got the new action button. They've got the new 1915 01:30:56,640 --> 01:31:00,320 Speaker 2: camera control. I think is very hit or miss. But 1916 01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:02,439 Speaker 2: you know, it's one of these things where you have 1917 01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:04,559 Speaker 2: to decide, are you happy with your phone that you have, 1918 01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:05,639 Speaker 2: then you probably. 1919 01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:06,280 Speaker 1: Don't need a new one. 1920 01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:08,519 Speaker 2: But if you want to be prepped for the AI 1921 01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:11,680 Speaker 2: stuff and you don't have the fifteen Promacs, then you 1922 01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:13,679 Speaker 2: know you probably want to get one of these new phones. 1923 01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,200 Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, the video and pictures that I'm 1924 01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:17,520 Speaker 2: taking on these phones. 1925 01:31:17,280 --> 01:31:19,920 Speaker 1: Are really really good. Like I am. 1926 01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:23,000 Speaker 2: I was at the concert last night and the photos 1927 01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:26,920 Speaker 2: and videos I got are just truly incredible. Let's bring 1928 01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:29,519 Speaker 2: on the guy that was at the launch of the 1929 01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:33,160 Speaker 2: iPhone sixteen in New York City, Matt Swider. He is 1930 01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:37,400 Speaker 2: a writer of a newsletter called The Shortcut. 1931 01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,720 Speaker 1: Let's see here. Why am I echoing here? 1932 01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:40,880 Speaker 3: Up? 1933 01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:42,920 Speaker 1: There we go, Matt, Welcome to the show. 1934 01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:45,240 Speaker 3: Hi, Rich, how you doing? Thanks for having me on. 1935 01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:47,080 Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic. 1936 01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:48,920 Speaker 2: So tell me you were out at the fifth Ave 1937 01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:50,880 Speaker 2: store in New York City. That's where it all started 1938 01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:52,640 Speaker 2: for me. I was there for the original iPhone in 1939 01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:53,639 Speaker 2: two thousand and seven. 1940 01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:55,120 Speaker 1: What was it like? 1941 01:31:56,160 --> 01:32:00,360 Speaker 14: Yeah, it's always a spectacle and it actually makes you know, 1942 01:32:00,400 --> 01:32:03,920 Speaker 14: pre order your iPhone at eight am, you know, getting 1943 01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:07,200 Speaker 14: that first time slot worth it because you know, I 1944 01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:09,679 Speaker 14: got to see Tim Cook, I got to see Jaws, 1945 01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:13,880 Speaker 14: who was in charge of marketing at Apple, and like 1946 01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:16,000 Speaker 14: all the key players are there, there's a lot of 1947 01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:19,519 Speaker 14: excitement and you get to be around really big fans 1948 01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:22,880 Speaker 14: of Apple products. So the iPhone came out, the Apple 1949 01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:27,040 Speaker 14: Watch and two new sets of AirPod AirPods four with 1950 01:32:27,080 --> 01:32:28,760 Speaker 14: a lot of pro features. 1951 01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:32,960 Speaker 2: When you say Jaws, you mean Greg jawswac He is 1952 01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:36,280 Speaker 2: the kind of worldwide head of Apple marketing. He's a 1953 01:32:36,280 --> 01:32:38,840 Speaker 2: big guy there. I mean, he's like very he knows 1954 01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:40,640 Speaker 2: his stuff, and it's it's so funny. I had a 1955 01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:42,599 Speaker 2: meeting with Apple once and like he was in the meeting. 1956 01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:44,519 Speaker 2: It was me and him, and I'm like, wait, I'm 1957 01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,000 Speaker 2: you're literally just meeting with me to like talk about 1958 01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:48,920 Speaker 2: some new product. And he's like, yeah, it's your time. 1959 01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,799 Speaker 2: You got fifteen minutes. I was like, oh, okay, cool. Anyway, 1960 01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:52,040 Speaker 2: that's a. 1961 01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:52,960 Speaker 1: Good long time with him. 1962 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,960 Speaker 14: I take a photo with him every year with the 1963 01:32:55,040 --> 01:32:58,280 Speaker 14: new iPhone, which I've been playing with, the iPhone sixteen 1964 01:32:58,320 --> 01:33:01,800 Speaker 14: Pro Max along with the original iPhone, the iPhone one, 1965 01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:04,720 Speaker 14: just to compare how they are. So it's been three 1966 01:33:04,800 --> 01:33:06,559 Speaker 14: years running that he takes a photo with me. So 1967 01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:08,840 Speaker 14: I force them into that, but it's it's the start 1968 01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:12,639 Speaker 14: contrast of where we've gone with the latest phones. 1969 01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:15,680 Speaker 2: And do you post those I've seen this before. I 1970 01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:17,720 Speaker 2: kind of forgot that you did this, But do you 1971 01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:19,280 Speaker 2: post it on the shortcut dot com? 1972 01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:20,160 Speaker 3: I do? 1973 01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:22,080 Speaker 14: I do, And it takes a little while to get 1974 01:33:22,080 --> 01:33:25,519 Speaker 14: those photos off of the old iPhone because iTunes doesn't 1975 01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:29,000 Speaker 14: exist anymore. And you know, get grabbing those photos is 1976 01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:31,080 Speaker 14: a little difficult, but I managed to do it every year. 1977 01:33:31,160 --> 01:33:33,200 Speaker 14: So you'll see that on the shortcut coming up. 1978 01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:36,799 Speaker 1: That is so wild. It's tough to get the photos 1979 01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:37,559 Speaker 1: off the old phone. 1980 01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:37,960 Speaker 3: That is. 1981 01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:40,000 Speaker 1: I wish I kept my original iPhone. 1982 01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:42,200 Speaker 2: I probably howked it on eBay at some point for 1983 01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,400 Speaker 2: like one hundred bucks and like I now, I'm really 1984 01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:45,280 Speaker 2: kicking myself. 1985 01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:49,679 Speaker 1: It's an antique now. Yeah, all right, so what's your advice? 1986 01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:52,320 Speaker 1: What's your impressions of these devices? I know people are like, oh, 1987 01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:54,840 Speaker 1: it's a iteration, it's you know, it's not a big deal, 1988 01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:56,960 Speaker 1: but like, I actually think they did a really good 1989 01:33:57,040 --> 01:33:59,599 Speaker 1: job this year. It's like a sleeper awesome iPhone. 1990 01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:00,479 Speaker 8: Yeah. 1991 01:34:00,520 --> 01:34:04,960 Speaker 14: I called it Apple's smartest upgrade yet, and that's simply 1992 01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,519 Speaker 14: because it's gonna have Apple Intelligence on there. And I'm 1993 01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:11,040 Speaker 14: on the iOS eighteen point one betas that's coming in October. 1994 01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:15,400 Speaker 14: But what I really like is one extra battery life 1995 01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:17,840 Speaker 14: and two I've been having a lot of fun that 1996 01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:20,800 Speaker 14: the four K one hundred and twenty frames per second, 1997 01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:24,719 Speaker 14: and that means it takes excellent slow motion video, almost 1998 01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:28,200 Speaker 14: like you're in a movie, and you know, I've been 1999 01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:31,000 Speaker 14: taking pictures of like New York City cabs and the 2000 01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:34,200 Speaker 14: crowds and everything, and it seems like the opening shot 2001 01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:36,880 Speaker 14: to a movie, and that's been a lot of fun. 2002 01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:41,080 Speaker 14: So definitely those are like the UNSOUMD features in my 2003 01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:43,479 Speaker 14: opinion that I didn't realize until I opened up the box. 2004 01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:45,920 Speaker 14: And then there's camera control, which is a very obvious 2005 01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:49,360 Speaker 14: new button to make stylizing your photos and opening up 2006 01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:52,200 Speaker 14: the camera app and capturing things really easy. So camera 2007 01:34:52,240 --> 01:34:56,720 Speaker 14: control is a new multifunction button, and that's brand new 2008 01:34:56,760 --> 01:34:58,520 Speaker 14: to all four new iPhones. 2009 01:34:59,560 --> 01:34:59,640 Speaker 10: Now. 2010 01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:02,880 Speaker 2: I do like the camera control for opening the camera. 2011 01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:05,160 Speaker 2: I sometimes forget to use it because it's still, you know, 2012 01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:07,880 Speaker 2: getting that muscle memory, and it saved me an icon 2013 01:35:07,920 --> 01:35:10,479 Speaker 2: on my home screen. But I do think that it's 2014 01:35:10,479 --> 01:35:12,680 Speaker 2: gonna take some getting used to if I ever use 2015 01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:15,120 Speaker 2: it for anything beyond opening up, Like I'm not really 2016 01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:16,880 Speaker 2: using it as the shutter are. 2017 01:35:16,760 --> 01:35:22,640 Speaker 14: You sometimes And I just like the versatility of it, 2018 01:35:23,320 --> 01:35:26,880 Speaker 14: and I really feel like there are people I talk 2019 01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:29,920 Speaker 14: to that say I didn't know I could stylize my 2020 01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:34,519 Speaker 14: photos because the auction was previously hidden too many, too 2021 01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:38,519 Speaker 14: many menus deep on screen, right, and so I'm almost 2022 01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:40,920 Speaker 14: finding people as I hand my phone to them saying, 2023 01:35:41,120 --> 01:35:43,760 Speaker 14: oh you can. You can change the undertones, you can 2024 01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:47,480 Speaker 14: change the styles of things. So it's kind of highlighting 2025 01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:51,160 Speaker 14: a lot of the versatility of the iPhone camera that 2026 01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:54,120 Speaker 14: was buried a little bit before. So it's that's where 2027 01:35:54,120 --> 01:35:56,040 Speaker 14: I see the functionality playing a big role. 2028 01:35:57,160 --> 01:36:00,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the thing that's new with all the photograph styles, 2029 01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:01,800 Speaker 2: I think that's what they used to call it. 2030 01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:03,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do. You know, if you 2031 01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:04,320 Speaker 1: want to. 2032 01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:06,439 Speaker 2: Take like photos that are kind of like, you know, 2033 01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:09,439 Speaker 2: just the contrast is boosted or something like that, you 2034 01:36:09,439 --> 01:36:11,760 Speaker 2: can do it every single time and you can set 2035 01:36:11,760 --> 01:36:15,120 Speaker 2: that just once before it would change the actual photo. 2036 01:36:15,240 --> 01:36:17,360 Speaker 2: Now it's like non destructive, Like if you want, you 2037 01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:19,400 Speaker 2: can actually go back and let's say, let's say you 2038 01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:21,439 Speaker 2: took all your pictures black and white right for like 2039 01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:23,760 Speaker 2: a week and you're like, oh, man, like now I 2040 01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:26,120 Speaker 2: want these in color again. You can actually go through 2041 01:36:26,160 --> 01:36:29,000 Speaker 2: and like remove that which before you couldn't right. 2042 01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:32,000 Speaker 14: Right to give you an analogy of those Instagram photos 2043 01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:33,800 Speaker 14: that we all took back in the day that kind 2044 01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:36,559 Speaker 14: of looked like old faded polaroids that was like a style, 2045 01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:39,320 Speaker 14: but you know, if you didn't keep the original photo 2046 01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:42,800 Speaker 14: from before that you can't really go back, so you're 2047 01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:45,200 Speaker 14: your point of like, it's non destructive. It's like if 2048 01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:49,120 Speaker 14: the style changes in the future, those original photos still exist. 2049 01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:51,800 Speaker 14: So I find that really helpful to you can you 2050 01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:55,479 Speaker 14: can set the tone and set the style live in 2051 01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:57,599 Speaker 14: the camera, but you can also change it in post, 2052 01:36:57,760 --> 01:36:58,639 Speaker 14: which is really nice. 2053 01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:01,679 Speaker 1: What do you make of the different models? 2054 01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,479 Speaker 2: So, I know the iPhone sixteen is typically for you know, 2055 01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:08,400 Speaker 2: the average person doesn't necessarily need like all the wild 2056 01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:10,160 Speaker 2: features on the pro models. 2057 01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:13,000 Speaker 1: You know, what's your recommendation here? 2058 01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:17,040 Speaker 14: Yeah, so you know, the prices start at seven ninety 2059 01:37:17,120 --> 01:37:20,280 Speaker 14: nine for the regular iPhone at sixteen. I really like 2060 01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:24,320 Speaker 14: the colors ultramarine is this like bluish purple color that 2061 01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:27,960 Speaker 14: I highly recommend. They also have pink, teal, white, and black. 2062 01:37:28,840 --> 01:37:32,679 Speaker 14: Those are really good photos out of the main camera 2063 01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:35,920 Speaker 14: and the ultra wide camera. But it lacks a telephoto camera. 2064 01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:38,479 Speaker 14: So if you want to spend you know, two hundred 2065 01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:41,840 Speaker 14: more dollars, you can get the iPhone sixteen Pro as 2066 01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:45,080 Speaker 14: opposed to the iPhone sixteen and sixteen plus. I think 2067 01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:47,479 Speaker 14: that is worth it for a lot of people out there. 2068 01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:50,679 Speaker 14: They might not know it because they all have really 2069 01:37:50,760 --> 01:37:53,240 Speaker 14: excellent battery life up to four extra hours than last 2070 01:37:53,320 --> 01:37:57,400 Speaker 14: year's iPhones. But the telephoto makes the difference. There's a 2071 01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:02,360 Speaker 14: couple extra things like sensors, and I just I bought 2072 01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:06,000 Speaker 14: my parents last year. I upgraded them from the iPhone. 2073 01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:09,280 Speaker 14: You know, they were on the iPhone se two, right, 2074 01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:11,960 Speaker 14: I was a bad son. They had that for way 2075 01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:14,360 Speaker 14: too long, so I upgrade them to the last year's iPhone. 2076 01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:18,479 Speaker 14: Getting a bigger screen is a big deal, and so 2077 01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:21,599 Speaker 14: the pros have a slightly bigger screen and it makes 2078 01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:24,840 Speaker 14: just life easier in my opinion, it's it's small, it's 2079 01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:27,280 Speaker 14: point two inches bigger six point three inches and six 2080 01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:29,920 Speaker 14: point nine inches for the Pro and the Pro Max. 2081 01:38:30,640 --> 01:38:33,680 Speaker 14: The keyboard is just easier to use. And that's the 2082 01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:36,080 Speaker 14: first thing my parents told me when they tried a 2083 01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:39,240 Speaker 14: new phone, going from four point five inches to six 2084 01:38:39,280 --> 01:38:42,680 Speaker 14: point one So that is like, it's the life improvement 2085 01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:44,600 Speaker 14: for a lot of people using their phone daily. So 2086 01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:48,160 Speaker 14: those what the pros offer, you know, the telephoto camera, 2087 01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:52,760 Speaker 14: the key the keyboard that's bigger because the screen is 2088 01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:56,120 Speaker 14: bigger and six point three inches is a good happy 2089 01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:57,519 Speaker 14: medium for a lot of people. 2090 01:38:58,320 --> 01:38:59,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. 2091 01:38:59,240 --> 01:39:01,720 Speaker 2: And also, I mean, I know it's it's kind of 2092 01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:03,720 Speaker 2: like a nerdy thing to talk about the refresh rate, 2093 01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:06,080 Speaker 2: and I know it's gotten, you know, in the tech circles, 2094 01:39:06,120 --> 01:39:07,200 Speaker 2: it's like overdone. 2095 01:39:07,240 --> 01:39:08,160 Speaker 1: It's over talked about. 2096 01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:10,160 Speaker 2: And I will say, like my wife has one that 2097 01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:13,280 Speaker 2: with the you know, it's a standard model right without 2098 01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:15,519 Speaker 2: the higher refresh rate, And when I go from my 2099 01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,679 Speaker 2: phone to hers, it's like, wait, what this is really slow? 2100 01:39:18,720 --> 01:39:21,320 Speaker 2: Everything looks like the animations are slow because it's got 2101 01:39:21,360 --> 01:39:25,719 Speaker 2: what's called a sixty Hurtz refresh rate versus one twenty 2102 01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:28,320 Speaker 2: I think is on the pro And so it's just 2103 01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:31,680 Speaker 2: everything looks smoother and more buttery with your you know, 2104 01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:34,720 Speaker 2: movements and animations on your phone because the screen is 2105 01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:35,400 Speaker 2: a little bit better. 2106 01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:37,280 Speaker 1: I think next year that's going to be fixed. 2107 01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:39,559 Speaker 2: But I don't think the average person even notices that, 2108 01:39:39,680 --> 01:39:41,600 Speaker 2: right if you're not looking at both phones at the 2109 01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:42,599 Speaker 2: same time all the time. 2110 01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:46,120 Speaker 14: There's a very vocal group that you know can see 2111 01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:48,080 Speaker 14: the difference, that you can see it side by side, 2112 01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:51,280 Speaker 14: but a lot of people don't notice it until they 2113 01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:54,160 Speaker 14: experience it for a while. Where that screen refresh rate 2114 01:39:54,240 --> 01:39:56,080 Speaker 14: even scrolling through Instagram. You don't have to be like 2115 01:39:56,120 --> 01:40:00,760 Speaker 14: a hardcore gamer to really appreciate it. So once you 2116 01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:02,720 Speaker 14: begin to use it, it's hard to go back. But 2117 01:40:03,120 --> 01:40:05,320 Speaker 14: if you don't notice it, you know, and you your 2118 01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,559 Speaker 14: price point is like I can't spend more than seven 2119 01:40:07,640 --> 01:40:09,519 Speaker 14: ninety nine and you still want to upgrade to the 2120 01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:12,400 Speaker 14: latest iPhones. You know that the iPhone sixteen is a 2121 01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:16,280 Speaker 14: pretty good deal, and a lot of carriers are offering 2122 01:40:16,400 --> 01:40:20,040 Speaker 14: up to one thousand dollars off. Apple will give you 2123 01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,200 Speaker 14: six hundred and fifty dollars off if you trade it 2124 01:40:22,200 --> 01:40:25,599 Speaker 14: in the latest iPhone fifteen Pro Match, but carriers, because 2125 01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:28,760 Speaker 14: they have you know you're paying more over time, we'll 2126 01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:30,800 Speaker 14: give you up to one thousand dollars off. So there 2127 01:40:30,920 --> 01:40:33,920 Speaker 14: are good deals out there if you hunt for them. 2128 01:40:34,479 --> 01:40:39,240 Speaker 2: All right, Matt Swider the Shortcut dot com. Subscribe to it. 2129 01:40:39,240 --> 01:40:41,720 Speaker 2: It is free. It's a great newsletter. You got what 2130 01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:44,639 Speaker 2: one hundred and something thousand people that get this every 2131 01:40:44,640 --> 01:40:47,120 Speaker 2: week and some really great information there. 2132 01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:48,439 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today. 2133 01:40:48,920 --> 01:40:51,320 Speaker 14: Absolutely thanks for having me on Rich All right. 2134 01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:54,439 Speaker 1: Matt, looking forward to seeing that comparison picture again. It's 2135 01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:54,840 Speaker 1: so wild. 2136 01:40:54,880 --> 01:40:58,040 Speaker 2: We thought pictures were so good on the older iPhones, 2137 01:40:58,080 --> 01:40:59,800 Speaker 2: and now every time we get a new one, it's like, wait, 2138 01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:01,160 Speaker 2: that's what we used to have. 2139 01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:03,639 Speaker 1: Fun stuff eighty eight. 2140 01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:06,639 Speaker 2: Actually, let's not do the phone number because we're gonna 2141 01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:08,280 Speaker 2: do the feedback when we come back. So if you 2142 01:41:08,280 --> 01:41:11,280 Speaker 2: want to get in on that Richontech dot TV, hit contact. 2143 01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:14,240 Speaker 2: We'll get some of your messages coming up right after this. 2144 01:41:15,840 --> 01:41:19,679 Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here closing 2145 01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:21,640 Speaker 2: out the show. Let me get through a couple of 2146 01:41:21,880 --> 01:41:26,640 Speaker 2: news headlines before we get to the feedback. GM You 2147 01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:31,560 Speaker 2: have a GM EV. You now have access to Tesla superchargers. 2148 01:41:31,600 --> 01:41:34,200 Speaker 2: You do need an adapter though you got to buy 2149 01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,519 Speaker 2: the adapter. It's two hundred and twenty five dollars. Once 2150 01:41:36,560 --> 01:41:39,600 Speaker 2: you have that, you can plug in at Tesla superchargers. 2151 01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:42,880 Speaker 2: There are seventeen eight hundred of them, and if you 2152 01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:46,160 Speaker 2: have experience with other chargers, throw it all away, because 2153 01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:50,280 Speaker 2: the Tesla chargers are incredible. They work, they're fast, and 2154 01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:53,280 Speaker 2: it's all automatic. It is not like what you're used to. 2155 01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:57,080 Speaker 2: This is a big deal as all of these automakers 2156 01:41:57,560 --> 01:41:59,960 Speaker 2: adopt the Tesla superchargers. 2157 01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:04,320 Speaker 1: If you're a gm EV. Definitely get that adapter. Check 2158 01:42:04,360 --> 01:42:07,880 Speaker 1: it out. Flappy Bird making a comeback. Flappy Bird. Remember 2159 01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:08,360 Speaker 1: this game. 2160 01:42:08,439 --> 01:42:10,600 Speaker 2: You've flopped the bird, you know, you get through all 2161 01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:12,880 Speaker 2: the little things in the on the screen and it's uh, 2162 01:42:13,439 --> 01:42:15,479 Speaker 2: it was got God. It's been ten years since it 2163 01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:18,200 Speaker 2: went away, but it's returning to iOS and Android in 2164 01:42:18,240 --> 01:42:19,120 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 2165 01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:20,639 Speaker 1: Not by the original creator. 2166 01:42:21,800 --> 01:42:24,960 Speaker 2: He removed it in twenty fourteen because too many people 2167 01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:28,599 Speaker 2: were addicted to it. I don't think it was that addictive, 2168 01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:32,200 Speaker 2: but I guess maybe it was. Flappy Bird Foundation bought it. 2169 01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:34,640 Speaker 2: Now they're going to have all new game modes, basketball, 2170 01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:39,120 Speaker 2: competitive practice. Look for it in twenty twenty five. They've 2171 01:42:39,120 --> 01:42:41,840 Speaker 2: got a one minute teaser trailer if you have a 2172 01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:46,439 Speaker 2: Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra got a huge software update, 2173 01:42:47,040 --> 01:42:52,080 Speaker 2: all new AI enhancements, sketched image, AI portrait styles, writing, 2174 01:42:52,080 --> 01:42:58,519 Speaker 2: assistant call, real time call translation, PDF stuff, voice recording 2175 01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:00,960 Speaker 2: to text notes. All the stuff that they introduced on 2176 01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:05,559 Speaker 2: their foldable phones earlier this couple months ago is now 2177 01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:06,840 Speaker 2: on the S twenty four Ultra. 2178 01:43:07,040 --> 01:43:08,880 Speaker 1: That phone just keeps getting better. 2179 01:43:09,200 --> 01:43:11,400 Speaker 2: I still think on the Android side of things, that 2180 01:43:11,560 --> 01:43:14,520 Speaker 2: is the powerhouse that's the phone to beat pixels. 2181 01:43:14,600 --> 01:43:19,560 Speaker 1: Nice, but the S twenty four Ultra actually feels powerful. YouTube. 2182 01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:22,400 Speaker 2: When you pause YouTube on your TV, don't be surprised 2183 01:43:22,439 --> 01:43:26,160 Speaker 2: if you see an ad. YouTube is rolling out pause ads, 2184 01:43:26,840 --> 01:43:29,799 Speaker 2: so when you pause a video on your TV screen, 2185 01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:32,720 Speaker 2: you will see an ad. We're seeing this with so 2186 01:43:32,920 --> 01:43:37,800 Speaker 2: many streaming services. What's the other one? Peacock has it 2187 01:43:38,280 --> 01:43:41,400 Speaker 2: at and t DirecTV. So many of these things have it. 2188 01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:44,240 Speaker 2: So if you're not paying for the service, like if 2189 01:43:44,280 --> 01:43:46,280 Speaker 2: you have an AD supported, you're going to be seeing 2190 01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:48,240 Speaker 2: those ads on the pause screen. 2191 01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:51,439 Speaker 1: Makes sense, right. Let's see here. 2192 01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:55,360 Speaker 2: We've got Gail from Huntington Beach Rights in I've received 2193 01:43:55,400 --> 01:43:58,920 Speaker 2: several alarming emails I suspect or spam. They include my 2194 01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:02,400 Speaker 2: personal information and an attachment. The letter claims they've tracked 2195 01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:05,920 Speaker 2: me visiting adult sites, added something to my apps to 2196 01:44:05,920 --> 01:44:09,160 Speaker 2: monitor me, and threatened to share compromising pictures with my 2197 01:44:09,240 --> 01:44:12,559 Speaker 2: contacts unless I pay bitcoin. I've received four of these 2198 01:44:12,600 --> 01:44:15,519 Speaker 2: from different senders. What steps should I be taking to 2199 01:44:15,560 --> 01:44:18,519 Speaker 2: protect myself? There are no steps you can take. Just 2200 01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:21,920 Speaker 2: protect your email address as much as possible. This is 2201 01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:27,080 Speaker 2: this is basically referred to as an extortion email. What 2202 01:44:27,120 --> 01:44:29,679 Speaker 2: they're doing is they're finding personal information on the web, 2203 01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:33,080 Speaker 2: like an old password or something, and they're pasting in 2204 01:44:33,160 --> 01:44:36,800 Speaker 2: that pasting it in that email, and they're making it 2205 01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:38,599 Speaker 2: seem like they know about you, but they're just sending 2206 01:44:38,600 --> 01:44:41,479 Speaker 2: this out to all people. Don't respond, don't click links 2207 01:44:41,479 --> 01:44:44,439 Speaker 2: in the email. Change your password. If one of the 2208 01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:46,640 Speaker 2: passwords they mentioned is one that you still use, do 2209 01:44:46,760 --> 01:44:48,759 Speaker 2: not reuse that. That's why I never say to reuse 2210 01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:51,840 Speaker 2: the passwords, and obviously don't pay the ransom. They don't 2211 01:44:51,920 --> 01:44:58,200 Speaker 2: actually have anything on you. Bob writes in from Baron 2212 01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:04,400 Speaker 2: Dooda Baron Doudah. After getting the official iOS eighteen update 2213 01:45:04,479 --> 01:45:07,320 Speaker 2: as a beta subscriber, I noticed issues the next day. 2214 01:45:07,400 --> 01:45:11,479 Speaker 2: Calls weren't coming through, and my Apple Watch wasn't tracking walks. 2215 01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:13,799 Speaker 2: Turns out Do not Disturb was on full time despite 2216 01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:16,680 Speaker 2: being scheduled for night hours only. The update might have 2217 01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:19,120 Speaker 2: occurred during the schedule do not Disturb time. Watch out 2218 01:45:19,200 --> 01:45:21,599 Speaker 2: for this. If you update, check your do not Disturb settings. 2219 01:45:21,640 --> 01:45:25,960 Speaker 2: After Steve from Beaumont writes in, Hey, Rich, I know 2220 01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,519 Speaker 2: you are frugal, so this is an observation rather than 2221 01:45:28,520 --> 01:45:32,040 Speaker 2: a question. In many instances, Amazon tax on the cost 2222 01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:34,120 Speaker 2: of shipping to an item that might cost less at 2223 01:45:34,160 --> 01:45:37,240 Speaker 2: other vendors. Case in point, I needed to resupply my 2224 01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:41,599 Speaker 2: men in skin bracer aftershave Amazon's price two for seventeen 2225 01:45:41,720 --> 01:45:46,160 Speaker 2: nineteen Walmart six dollars twenty seven cents. I ordered it 2226 01:45:46,200 --> 01:45:48,439 Speaker 2: and picked it up within an hour. I suppose that 2227 01:45:48,520 --> 01:45:50,519 Speaker 2: my order met a certain amount, I could have had 2228 01:45:50,560 --> 01:45:52,400 Speaker 2: it shipped to me for free, but that's not the point. 2229 01:45:52,720 --> 01:45:56,400 Speaker 2: Amazon tacked on a couple bucks and has the chutzpah 2230 01:45:56,960 --> 01:45:59,960 Speaker 2: to say free shipping. I thought I paid for shipping 2231 01:46:00,080 --> 01:46:03,000 Speaker 2: with my annual fee. Yes, Steve, you're right. You notice something. 2232 01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:06,160 Speaker 2: People don't price check Amazon because they have the prime 2233 01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:07,880 Speaker 2: and they just order stuff on there. They don't realize 2234 01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:11,160 Speaker 2: sometimes it is cheaper on other websites. You found that out. 2235 01:46:12,360 --> 01:46:16,240 Speaker 2: Dylan from our we did a story with retro Respawn 2236 01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:18,960 Speaker 2: on TV. This was a video game used video game shop. 2237 01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:19,439 Speaker 1: Good morning. 2238 01:46:19,479 --> 01:46:21,639 Speaker 2: Just want to congratulate you on the awesome story about 2239 01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:24,880 Speaker 2: the retro gaming community and to personally express my gratitude 2240 01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:26,400 Speaker 2: for covering our video game store. 2241 01:46:26,840 --> 01:46:28,360 Speaker 1: Video games have always been my passion. 2242 01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:29,960 Speaker 2: It makes me happy to be able to reach more 2243 01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:33,120 Speaker 2: people in our community who are rediscovering their childhood or 2244 01:46:33,120 --> 01:46:36,800 Speaker 2: have yet to discover the pioneers of gaming world. Nothing 2245 01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:39,720 Speaker 2: beats a newcomer super excited to see and talk about 2246 01:46:39,760 --> 01:46:43,200 Speaker 2: all the retro stuff from their childhood. Some carry sentimental, 2247 01:46:43,360 --> 01:46:46,240 Speaker 2: cherished memories behind them and always warms my heart knowing 2248 01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:48,000 Speaker 2: I could spark an emotion in others. 2249 01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:50,120 Speaker 1: It reminds me why I do what I do. 2250 01:46:51,240 --> 01:46:54,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to watch that story Retro Respawn, 2251 01:46:54,200 --> 01:46:56,840 Speaker 2: it was great. We did it on TV and you 2252 01:46:56,840 --> 01:47:01,559 Speaker 2: can check the newsletter this week for that. Tony writes 2253 01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,920 Speaker 2: in thank you Rich Honestly I appreciate it. I mentioned 2254 01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:07,200 Speaker 2: I religiously listen to all of your podcasts. 2255 01:47:07,280 --> 01:47:08,840 Speaker 1: You have a unique way of helping people. 2256 01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:12,559 Speaker 2: Love when you personalize your events, your wonderful family, love 2257 01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:15,000 Speaker 2: when your mom, wife and kid was on your show. 2258 01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:19,479 Speaker 2: Very entertaining. Thank you again. Well, thank you Tony for listening. 2259 01:47:19,479 --> 01:47:22,479 Speaker 2: I really do appreciate it. And you know, look, we're 2260 01:47:22,520 --> 01:47:23,000 Speaker 2: all human. 2261 01:47:23,080 --> 01:47:25,679 Speaker 1: I'm just sharing my experience going through this world as 2262 01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:28,840 Speaker 1: a person that's really into technology, and hopefully along the 2263 01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:32,160 Speaker 1: way I can help you and others as well. That 2264 01:47:32,320 --> 01:47:32,880 Speaker 1: is going to do it. 2265 01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:34,880 Speaker 2: For this episode of the show, You can find links 2266 01:47:34,920 --> 01:47:36,960 Speaker 2: to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to 2267 01:47:37,120 --> 01:47:41,559 Speaker 2: rich on tech dot TV. That's Rich on tech dot TV. 2268 01:47:41,920 --> 01:47:44,080 Speaker 2: You can find me on social media. I am at 2269 01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:47,439 Speaker 2: rich on tech. Next week I will be back in 2270 01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:51,480 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I will have more tech news, tips, reviews, 2271 01:47:52,040 --> 01:47:54,560 Speaker 2: and all kinds of fun stuff for you. Thanks so 2272 01:47:54,680 --> 01:47:56,760 Speaker 2: much for listening. As always, there are so many ways 2273 01:47:56,760 --> 01:47:59,240 Speaker 2: you can spend your time. You know, I do appreciate 2274 01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:01,360 Speaker 2: you spending it right here with me. That is not 2275 01:48:01,560 --> 01:48:03,960 Speaker 2: lost on me. You take time out of your day 2276 01:48:04,080 --> 01:48:07,920 Speaker 2: to sit here with me and listen. I absolutely appreciate that. 2277 01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:11,519 Speaker 2: Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. My name 2278 01:48:11,560 --> 01:48:14,759 Speaker 2: is rich Demiro, signing off this time from Las Vegas. 2279 01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:18,080 Speaker 1: I will talk to you real soon.