Speaker 1: The iPhone sixteen lineup has landed. Did you make the leap?
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Speaker 2: from Las Vegas Today, Live from Las Vegas. I'm here
Speaker 2: for the iHeartRadio Music Festival. iHeart certainly knows how to
Speaker 2: put on a good show. This is a two day
Speaker 2: music festival, and my wife and I were curious about
Speaker 2: how this would work, and it worked out pretty well.
Speaker 1: It's fun.
Speaker 2: So they have a bunch of artists that are all playing,
Speaker 2: and they all play, you know, some of their best songs,
Speaker 2: and it moves very quickly. They've actually had this like
Speaker 2: rotating stage so that they can set up one band
Speaker 2: to the front, the other band setting up in the back.
Speaker 2: As soon as that one band is done, they rotate
Speaker 2: the stage and the next one comes out. So I
Speaker 2: was pretty impressive that. So we've been having a really
Speaker 2: good time here doing that. You know, Vegas is it's
Speaker 2: one of those places where you either love it or
Speaker 2: hate it. Personally, I really like it. I really enjoy it.
Speaker 2: You know, we do some simple things here, just enjoy shows,
Speaker 2: enjoy nice dinner, and a little maybe a little little
Speaker 2: bit of gambling here and there. Believe me, I'm too
Speaker 2: frugal to part with all of my cash or what
Speaker 2: little I have. You know, I do have kids. So
Speaker 2: we've got some guests this week. Brian Merchant, author of
Speaker 2: Blood in the Machine. He's going to talk about that
Speaker 2: trend at Chipotle. I don't know if you heard about this,
Speaker 2: but they are now automating some of their stores making
Speaker 2: those burrito bowls by robots. So he's going to talk
Speaker 2: about that, and then later on Friend of the Show,
Speaker 2: Matt Swider, he writes the excellent newsletter called the Shortcut.
Speaker 2: He's going to talk about the iPhone sixteen new features
Speaker 2: and compare it to the previous models. Now, if you
Speaker 2: did update your iPhone to iOS eighteen, you got a
Speaker 2: pretty new iPhone just by updating the software. So iOS
Speaker 2: eighteen is available if you haven't downloaded it. So far,
Speaker 2: I haven't seen any real major issues on it. They've
Speaker 2: been testing this for a long time, but it's available
Speaker 2: for the iPhone ten s and up models. So remember
Speaker 2: the ten. It was like, the X is not the X,
Speaker 2: that one's not included, but it's the ten s. The
Speaker 2: ten are the eleven, the twelve, the thirteen, the fourteen,
Speaker 2: the fifteen, the sixteen. And if you have an iPhone
Speaker 2: S second generation or later, So.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna get?
Speaker 2: Well, you're not gonna get Apple Intelligence that is coming soon.
Speaker 2: And so everyone is talking about this AI stuff and
Speaker 2: Apple kind of missed the boat on that. But here's
Speaker 2: the thing. They have released it as a public beta.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't recommend typically that you download public betas because
Speaker 2: it can really mess up your phone because it's just
Speaker 2: like the beta software. But if you're really adventurous, you
Speaker 2: can now get this AI stuff in the public beta
Speaker 2: eighteen teen point one. Siri can rewrite your stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: like your text messages and your emails. Siriri has a
Speaker 2: whole new design. You can erase things from your photos
Speaker 2: and much more. Just keep in mind if you do
Speaker 2: the beta, if you want to go back to the
Speaker 2: regular software, you do have to erase your entire phone,
Speaker 2: So I don't typically recommend it for that. But if
Speaker 2: you've got IOSA teen, just the regular version of it,
Speaker 2: what can you do. Everything looks so new and different.
Speaker 2: Number one, your home screen. You can now place icons
Speaker 2: anywhere you want. And I know that's a small weird
Speaker 2: thing that Android has had forever, but it's kind of
Speaker 2: nice to be able to do that. And if you
Speaker 2: press and hold on any app, you can now turn
Speaker 2: it into a widget. So just press and hold on
Speaker 2: an app you'll see some icons that look like widgets.
Speaker 2: That's really cool because let's say you have a clock app.
Speaker 2: You can now just press and hold and turn that
Speaker 2: into a clock widget. So that's really handy. Your app icons,
Speaker 2: you can now make them light, you can make them dark,
Speaker 2: you can tint them a certain color if you want,
Speaker 2: and maybe you want to be a little easier on
Speaker 2: your eyes. You can change your icons into large icons.
Speaker 2: So if you press a hold on there, it'll say
Speaker 2: use large icons in the edit area, and all of
Speaker 2: your names of the icons go away, but they will
Speaker 2: become much bigger.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Over in Control Center, this is when you swipe down
Speaker 2: from the right side of your phone. That is much
Speaker 2: more customizable. This is where you find your Wi Fi
Speaker 2: and your cellular settings. Now you can have multiple pages
Speaker 2: so you can completely customize the things that are on
Speaker 2: these pages, so I put a lot of shortcuts in there.
Speaker 1: It's very very handy.
Speaker 2: You can also have a separate page just for your
Speaker 2: media playback, a connectivity page. So this is really really
Speaker 2: a place where you want to dive in and customize
Speaker 2: your phone. Like, for instance, this morning, I was out
Speaker 2: at a restaurant and I basically added a QR code scanner,
Speaker 2: because you know how you aimed your phone at, a
Speaker 2: QR code doesn't always find it. Well, you can add
Speaker 2: a QR code scanner shortcut to your control center and
Speaker 2: now when you tap that, it'll immediately go into the
Speaker 2: mode where it's scanning for a QR code. So that's
Speaker 2: very handy, and there's so many of those types of things.
Speaker 2: You can also customize the shortcuts on the home screen,
Speaker 2: so when you're I should say the lock screen, so
Speaker 2: when your phone is locked, you used to only be
Speaker 2: able to activate the flashlight in the camera. Well, now
Speaker 2: you can replace those with whatever shortcuts you want. So
Speaker 2: for me personally, let's see what I replaced them with,
Speaker 2: because I forget already. Oh I still have the flashlight
Speaker 2: and the camera. I got to replace those with something better. Now,
Speaker 2: the action button, this is something that was on the
Speaker 2: iPhone fifteen Pro models last year.
Speaker 1: It's now on the iPhone sixteen models.
Speaker 2: That has replaced on the left side of your phone
Speaker 2: the Ringer silent switch, So if you got a new
Speaker 2: iPhone sixteen, you can customize that button to do whatever
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 1: So on my phone, I've got it.
Speaker 2: Where it immediately starts recording a voice memo and it
Speaker 2: transcribes it and sends it to my email. It is
Speaker 2: really really handy. It's an app called Whisper Whisper Memos
Speaker 2: Whispermemos dot com.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love this app.
Speaker 2: It'll change your life if you like to take a
Speaker 2: lot of voice memos and have them transcribed, and it's
Speaker 2: in your inbox, which means you can deal with them
Speaker 2: whenever you feel like it, so you never forget anything anymore.
Speaker 1: The photos app got a big redesign. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1: Just kidding.
Speaker 2: I mean it is a lot more complicated. It looks
Speaker 2: like there's like a lot more going on. But my
Speaker 2: recommendation open up the photos app if you're on iOS eighteen,
Speaker 2: scroll all the way down to the bottom and there
Speaker 2: is an option to customize and reorder what they show
Speaker 2: in the photos app. I got rid of everything except
Speaker 2: recent photos, media types, and utilities, which means I see
Speaker 2: all my recent photos. I can see like if I
Speaker 2: want selfies or videos or whatever, and then utility shows
Speaker 2: things like duplicate photos. So if you want to clean
Speaker 2: up kind of your photos app, I know Apple added
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in there. Just scroll all the
Speaker 2: way down to the bottom of the screen and you
Speaker 2: can do that now. When it comes to messages, this
Speaker 2: got a lot of updates. So messages obviously is where
Speaker 2: a lot of people spend a lot of time on
Speaker 2: the iPhone. The big, big, big change is that you
Speaker 2: now have support for RCS, so that means rich communication services.
Speaker 2: That means when you text an Android phone, you can
Speaker 2: send bigger files, you can see when someone's typing, you
Speaker 2: can see read receipts. The problem is, I am having
Speaker 2: trouble with this on my phone. Messages are not getting
Speaker 2: delivered from Android phones to my phone for some reason.
Speaker 2: So if that's happening, if you're texting people and they're
Speaker 2: not texting you back, and you're wondering why, it could
Speaker 2: be some sort of issue that we're seeing right now
Speaker 2: with the rollout of all this, because a lot of
Speaker 2: people jumped on board rcs all at the same time,
Speaker 2: So be patient with that and ask your friends maybe
Speaker 2: call them and be like, hey, are you trying to
Speaker 2: type me something because it's not working. So many things
Speaker 2: you can do in messages now. You can make your
Speaker 2: text like jump and add effects to it. You can
Speaker 2: format your text. You can use any emoji to respond
Speaker 2: to text. You can send a text later, so you
Speaker 2: can schedule a text to send later. So to do that,
Speaker 2: tap the plus sign next to the message box and
Speaker 2: look for an option called send later. You might have
Speaker 2: to like scroll to find it, but if you press
Speaker 2: an hold on it, you can drag that up to
Speaker 2: the top of the list. So messages really really improved.
Speaker 2: You also might notice there's a new passwords app. Please
Speaker 2: use this app. I beg of you stop making passwords
Speaker 2: up that are really bad. Use this app to generate
Speaker 2: strong passwords. Apple will store them. You can see your
Speaker 2: Wi Fi passwords, your two factor authentication codes. You can
Speaker 2: even make a group where you share your passwords with
Speaker 2: Like if you want to share a password for your
Speaker 2: Netflix with your significant others you both have access to it.
Speaker 2: You can do that all in this app. Please use
Speaker 2: that passwords app. It is much much safer than making
Speaker 2: your own passwords and trying to remember them.
Speaker 1: A couple other things you can do.
Speaker 2: You can now lock app, so if you want an
Speaker 2: app to require face ID or touch ID before you
Speaker 2: can actually use it, you can lock down an app.
Speaker 2: So press and hold and it will say require face ID,
Speaker 2: enable that, and now nobody can open that app without
Speaker 2: your face or your or your fingerprint or your passcode.
Speaker 2: You can even hide an app, so if you don't
Speaker 2: want an app to show up on your phone at all,
Speaker 2: you can hide it once you lock it. You can
Speaker 2: say hide this app, and it will put it in
Speaker 2: a special folder that doesn't even show up on your
Speaker 2: phone unless you are looking at your phone screen.
Speaker 1: So this is really good for privacy.
Speaker 2: I put all my financial apps in there, so if
Speaker 2: someone ever got a hold of my phone, they don't
Speaker 2: even see the bank that I use or the card
Speaker 2: that I have or anything like that because it's totally
Speaker 2: completely just blanked out for their eyes. Let's see what else. Oh,
Speaker 2: couple of accessibility features.
Speaker 1: I tracking.
Speaker 2: You can now control your phone with your eyes, so
Speaker 2: go into accessibility for that. And you can also set
Speaker 2: vocal shortcuts, so if you have an atypical speech issue,
Speaker 2: you can record a vocal shortcut that will trigger certain
Speaker 2: actions on the phone with the sound that you make.
Speaker 1: So that's really great for accessibility.
Speaker 2: And inside calculator, you got to find this little easter egg.
Speaker 1: So if you tap in.
Speaker 2: The lower left hand corner, you'll notice they have a
Speaker 2: thing called math notes. And if you type or you know,
Speaker 2: draw on your screen, you can literally use your finger
Speaker 2: to draw out a math problem and it will solve
Speaker 2: it in your handwriting. And by the way, the calculator,
Speaker 2: after I don't know how many years of the iPhone,
Speaker 2: fifteen years of the iPhone, finally got a backspace button.
Speaker 2: So if you make a mistake on one of the
Speaker 2: numbers you type in, you can finally.
Speaker 1: Press backspace and it will delete it. All right.
Speaker 2: If you want to read about all of these new features,
Speaker 2: I'll put the link on the website.
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Speaker 2: you live from Las Vegas today. Always a fun time.
Speaker 2: It's actually one of the few times I've been in
Speaker 2: Vegas where the weather is nice, because typically i'm here
Speaker 2: for Ces that's in January, it is brutally cold, and
Speaker 2: then I'm here in the summer sometimes when it is
Speaker 2: really really hot. So this is like perfect perfect weather
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. And what an interesting town. Eighty eight
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Speaker 2: this week's show. Let's go to Kevin, Line one in
Speaker 2: San Clemente. Kevin, you're on with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hello you there. Okay, don't don't hear Kevin.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Let's try one more time. Kevin on Line one.
Speaker 2: You there, Nope, Okay, let's try line two. Matthew in Sonora, California. Matt,
Speaker 2: are you there?
Speaker 4: And I'm looking for an electronic engineer to take my
Speaker 4: schematics and take my shoebox size prototype and scale it
Speaker 4: down to what it needs to be. Is the size
Speaker 4: of one of those road reflector bumps in the road.
Speaker 4: Where's the best place to find a talented electronic engineer
Speaker 4: to help me with this project? Is there a school
Speaker 4: I could reach out to for graduates or is there
Speaker 4: a website or a Facebook page you could subject? You
Speaker 4: could suggest?
Speaker 2: So you've invented something and you need someone to take
Speaker 2: your design and bring it to life.
Speaker 4: And I have the schematics already, all the hard bits,
Speaker 4: I just need someone to build it.
Speaker 1: Really, what's can you? Can you tell us about the product?
Speaker 4: Or no?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's a smart road reflector. It's known as a boxtop,
Speaker 4: those little bumps to reflector. Yeah, as a battery and
Speaker 4: a solar panel, and that condict detect the presence of
Speaker 4: wildlife like deer and an approaching car. When it detects
Speaker 4: both both of them, it starts blinking to warn the
Speaker 4: car and emits a sound to drive the animal away
Speaker 4: from the road roadside. You can see my website if
Speaker 4: I may mention it.
Speaker 1: Let's not mention the website. Yeah, no problem, you know.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, that's that's interesting. I mean, as someone
Speaker 2: who has had a close call with a deer, believe me,
Speaker 2: those you know it's it's bad.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't you don't A lot of people
Speaker 1: dodge a.
Speaker 4: Dear and hit a tree. So yeah, my lifelong ambition
Speaker 4: is to get this on roads and in national parks
Speaker 4: and indots and areas that have high incident of roadkill.
Speaker 4: It's really meant to end roadkill.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is your Okay, so the website, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is the website is I think we can mention it.
Speaker 2: I'll see why we can't end roadkill dot com. Kim
Speaker 2: is telling me end road kill dot com.
Speaker 4: Yes, my numbers on there. If any talented electronic engineers
Speaker 4: want to join me. I'm also going to try to
Speaker 4: audition for twenty twenty five season of Shark Tank.
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Look, this is this is a great idea and uh
Speaker 2: what so what's your background?
Speaker 4: I'm an engineer mostly mechanics. I build race cars and
Speaker 4: but I'm also an inventor. I have a lot of
Speaker 4: different inventions that require electronics and everything in this already exists.
Speaker 4: No one's ever put it together in a small package
Speaker 4: that will work at the in the middle of the.
Speaker 2: Road, right right, and that's and this can handle like
Speaker 2: cars driving over it and things like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, Wow.
Speaker 2: Well, I love It's funny that you mentioned the bot
Speaker 2: because those things I always use that as trivia to
Speaker 2: ask people like, because you know, those are a like
Speaker 2: I never saw those tykeing to California, the bots in
Speaker 2: the road, you know, right, and and so are they
Speaker 2: using them now nationwide?
Speaker 1: I don't even know, but California, like.
Speaker 4: They were developed in the sixties by the gentleman who
Speaker 4: it's named after, bot Stops, but he didn't get credit
Speaker 4: for it.
Speaker 5: He died.
Speaker 4: Someone else took it off the shelf and it started
Speaker 4: out as just a round bump in the road that
Speaker 4: was white and it's moved on to become reflectors and
Speaker 4: this is the next stage for it being making a
Speaker 4: smart box stock.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, so, I mean, I guess my recommendation would be,
Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully you get on shark tank.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that.
Speaker 2: But I think the recommendation is to you know, you've
Speaker 2: got to just you sound like a smart guy.
Speaker 1: You know what you're doing. So I think you get
Speaker 1: you got to put some.
Speaker 2: Posts out there about this, maybe on uh, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe something like Reddit, like maybe you got to find
Speaker 2: the communities where these people are hanging out. And I
Speaker 2: think the schools is probably the best way to do it.
Speaker 2: So I would start with the schools. See if someone
Speaker 2: you know is willing to help you on this project.
Speaker 2: Do you have funding for this?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: I do, okay, And I've also reached out to the
Speaker 4: San Jose State University in Silicon Valley to try to
Speaker 4: get one of their engineers to make it a class project.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, so do you do you have one of
Speaker 2: these like ready to go, like a proof of concept
Speaker 2: kind of thing.
Speaker 4: It's the size of a shoebox.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, got it? So somebody to shrink down the tech?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm rooting for you. I think this sounds like
Speaker 2: a really neat piece of technology. And I think that
Speaker 2: you know, uh, we put the website out there, so
Speaker 2: if someone wants to help out there, you go and uh,
Speaker 2: I get in touch with those schools.
Speaker 1: That's what you need to do. You got to get
Speaker 1: this as a joint project. Thanks for the call. Matthew
Speaker 1: in Sonora, California.
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Speaker 2: we're gonna talk to Brian Merchant about Chapotle's automation push.
Speaker 2: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
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Speaker 2: first want to welcome Brian Merchant to the show, author
Speaker 2: of Blood in the Machine, to talk about Chipotle and
Speaker 2: what they're doing with automation.
Speaker 1: Brian, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hello, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: So, thanks for joining me. Let's tell me about your book.
Speaker 2: First off, Blood in the Machine. What do you discuss
Speaker 2: and I know you have a sub stack, what do
Speaker 2: you discuss on all these platforms?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, so the Blood in the Machine was a
Speaker 6: book that came out last year. I had written it
Speaker 6: actually before the AI boom was underway, but it really
Speaker 6: looks at automation and the way throughout history that that
Speaker 6: that technologies are used to both enhance and replace labor
Speaker 6: and workers, and what happens when there's a situation where
Speaker 6: you know, factory owners or bosses or entrepreneurs, are you
Speaker 6: bring a technology to try to replace a worker or
Speaker 6: a group of workers and there isn't any real set
Speaker 6: of options for those workers with their job is gone.
Speaker 6: So it's it's basically a look at how these forces
Speaker 6: interact over history, starting from the first time this happened
Speaker 6: in the Industrial Revolution and then fast boarding until today, well.
Speaker 2: And today, so you know, it's no secret I cover
Speaker 2: a lot of these companies that are using automation, and
Speaker 2: of course now AI is a big part of it.
Speaker 2: In the past, I've covered robotic machines that make pizza,
Speaker 2: that make jamba juice, you know, automated growing facilities where
Speaker 2: they're growing lettuce. I mean, there's just so many that
Speaker 2: I've seen in the past, and now Chipotle, oh the Burger,
Speaker 2: the one that started all was I don't know if you
Speaker 2: remember Flippy the burger flipping robot. Do you remember that one,
Speaker 2: that that was a big one. Oh, I think we've
Speaker 2: lost Brian. Well, this week Chipotle announced that they are
Speaker 2: using an automated system. So they've got one called Autocato.
Speaker 2: This cuts cores and peels avocados for guacamole. And then
Speaker 2: they've got this augmented make line which assembles bulls and
Speaker 2: salads for digital orders. So, Brian, what do you make
Speaker 2: of this news? I mean this, does this just make
Speaker 2: sense that companies are trying to do this or does
Speaker 2: this have real implications for for actual workers?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So, I mean the time will tell. Right.
Speaker 6: You just mentioned Flippy. I think Flippy is already coming gone.
Speaker 6: It's this kind of automation where you're doing a sort
Speaker 6: of a complex task that a human would usually do
Speaker 6: with their hands, is something that workers have been trying.
Speaker 6: I mean that that that's the tech companies and and
Speaker 6: and corporate bosses have been trying to figure out how
Speaker 6: to do for a long time.
Speaker 2: Amazonal with their goal, like I've said before, their goal
Speaker 2: is to not have humans. Basically, like if if a
Speaker 2: company could, they would not want humans.
Speaker 6: That that's that is the end goal of all of
Speaker 6: these I mean they give them cute names they they
Speaker 6: call them cobots.
Speaker 3: Like you'll notice in all of the materials.
Speaker 7: About the the the Chipotle robot, they call it a
Speaker 7: cobot because they want to they want to sort of
Speaker 7: present this uh, this front like that they're just you know,
Speaker 7: they're helping workers, and they're going to coexist with the
Speaker 7: with the workers, and it's gonna be a big, shiny future.
Speaker 6: But of course what they really want to do is
Speaker 6: cut out those labor costs.
Speaker 3: Eventually, it's what they.
Speaker 6: Whether you're Uber or whether you're Amazon, or whether you're Chipotle. Uh,
Speaker 6: the future that you want is one where you can
Speaker 6: replace your workforce with robots, so that so that you
Speaker 6: can you know, ostensibly have a you know, a cheaper product,
Speaker 6: a bigger bottom line, and in some cases, you know,
Speaker 6: they think of these robots as more reliable, right, but
Speaker 6: the old adage among the among the bosses is that
Speaker 6: you know, a robot never causing sick, so they would.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, look, humans are messy. Humans are you know,
Speaker 2: they're they're people. They're human, like they they call in sick,
Speaker 2: they come in hungover, they're you know, they have a
Speaker 2: bad day. They don't feel like you know, they put
Speaker 2: two much guacamole in the bowl and they're in they're
Speaker 2: every you know, ounce that's extras costing these companies' money,
Speaker 2: you know, and they or they pour a drink that's
Speaker 2: you know, you know, too much vodka in the drink
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: I've seen robots that do uh, you know, they make drinks.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's just so I understand why it's the
Speaker 2: goal of these companies to do this, But what's the
Speaker 2: answer do we I mean, do we stop companies from
Speaker 2: doing this or is there going to be a world
Speaker 2: where we just if we continue to march on it's
Speaker 2: humans are.
Speaker 1: Just x out of this whole situation.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So the first thing I'd say is that that folks
Speaker 6: have been trying to.
Speaker 3: Do this since the beginning of the industrial Revolution.
Speaker 6: You look at those first factories where you know, you
Speaker 6: have kind of crude machines that can automate the production
Speaker 6: of cloth or a garment or something, and they barely
Speaker 6: can do it. It's much less high quality than a
Speaker 6: human or a skilled worker can. But you still have
Speaker 6: people at the at that time writing these treatises like, oh,
Speaker 6: the end of.
Speaker 3: The human worker is right around the corner. So two
Speaker 3: hundred years.
Speaker 6: Basically we've been hearing these yeah, so that you have
Speaker 6: the they called it, the automaton, we will have we
Speaker 6: will have a factory working as an automaton before you
Speaker 6: know it, and we won't need human workers. Two hundred
Speaker 6: years later, we can see that that's not true. All
Speaker 6: of our factories are still filled with human workers. So,
Speaker 6: needless to say, this is a very hard problem. Even
Speaker 6: in the last ten years, we've seen so many startups
Speaker 6: promise to automate, you know, the these service tasks or
Speaker 6: human labor, or even just the act of picking an
Speaker 6: object off a shelf at an Amazon warehouse. They haven't
Speaker 6: even been able to master that. So keep a big
Speaker 6: old grain of salt handy when you're thinking about all
Speaker 6: of these claims that the companies are making. So that's
Speaker 6: number one, right, I don't think there's anything that we
Speaker 6: need to worry about in terms of like a human
Speaker 6: free you know situation with with speculus, service work and
Speaker 6: manual labor in a lot of these cases. Number two
Speaker 6: is like, we just have to think about what kind
Speaker 6: of a future we do want. What do we want
Speaker 6: humans to do versus robots to do? Right now, there's
Speaker 6: a big struggle between artists and the generative AI companies
Speaker 6: because it's a slightly different context.
Speaker 3: But one thing that AI can do.
Speaker 6: Is create sort of regurgitated art that's based on human work.
Speaker 6: Do we want to replace illustrators with this sort of
Speaker 6: regurgitated you know, digital imagery that an AI can can write.
Speaker 6: That is a question we kind of have to answer
Speaker 6: right now. Do we want to protect the artists? Do
Speaker 6: we want to protect the act of having an illustrator
Speaker 6: as a job, like, do we want to protect that
Speaker 6: kind of stuff? So a lot of this stuff is
Speaker 6: we're going to have to find out answers and just
Speaker 6: keep that grain of salt handy. When the tech companies
Speaker 6: are promising that they can deliver this human free future.
Speaker 1: Have you I mean, do you think anyone's doing this
Speaker 1: stuff right?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: I mean you have like something like Waimo right like
Speaker 2: it it's there's cars all over the streets of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: I even saw them here in Las Vegas where they're
Speaker 2: you know, they're driving themselves.
Speaker 1: I mean, but is it scalable?
Speaker 2: And there's also that the idea of cost, like all
Speaker 2: these companies are trying, like you know, Chipotle's got this
Speaker 2: in two restaurants or something, but you know, to roll
Speaker 2: it out to seven thousand restaurants that they want to
Speaker 2: have in North America.
Speaker 1: Like that, the cost is probably so expensive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the cost is high, and there's gonna be a
Speaker 6: lot of maintenance issues. There's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 6: complications that they're not foreseeing right now, and they may
Speaker 6: well just decide that it's cheaper to have a human
Speaker 6: do this task again, Right, That's all that as far
Speaker 6: as the company is concerned, especially for stuff that's taking
Speaker 6: place in the back rooms, preparing the food, preparing a process.
Speaker 6: If if a human can wind up doing it cheaper,
Speaker 6: then then they're just gonna have a human doing They're
Speaker 6: gonna they're gonna sort of cancel the experiment.
Speaker 3: So we'll see there.
Speaker 6: With waime O, it's another case where I'd say, you know,
Speaker 6: it seems like they're driving themselves, but we know that
Speaker 6: every time they're faced with a tough decision that gets
Speaker 6: a little flag to the command center, there's people who
Speaker 6: are real people who are sitting sort of watching these
Speaker 6: cars and they have to make what's called an intervention.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a if it detects us, is that
Speaker 6: a squirrel on the road. Can I keep driving or
Speaker 6: is that just a bump? It'll send a little notification
Speaker 6: to somebody in Scottsdale, Arizona, who's watching four or five
Speaker 6: of these cars at a given time, and it'll they'll
Speaker 6: have to take over and make the call. So there
Speaker 6: is still somebody driving the car right in a sense,
Speaker 6: they're just the driver has been moved from the driver's
Speaker 6: seat to a sort of a command center at an
Speaker 6: off site location. And that's happening with the delivery robots
Speaker 6: you've probably seen crawling around LA. These are not fully
Speaker 6: autonomous systems. There's always a person still in the loop
Speaker 6: because there has to be. It's too it's too messy,
Speaker 6: as you said, and too complicated and too potentially dangerous
Speaker 6: or cost producing to the company to not have that
Speaker 6: human still watching them. If and when we finally, you know,
Speaker 6: do have a self driving car that is properly self
Speaker 6: driving and is not having a number of interventions every minute.
Speaker 6: By the way, we saw when the Cruise car crashed
Speaker 6: in San Francisco and hit a pedestrian and they were
Speaker 6: forced to sort of turn over their logs that it
Speaker 6: was multiple times almost every minute that a human was
Speaker 6: brought into the loop to tell it what to do.
Speaker 6: So there is still a person involved in that, and
Speaker 6: there's still going to be a person looking at this
Speaker 6: autocado thing in the Chipotle background saying like, is this
Speaker 6: doing a good enough job?
Speaker 3: Do I have to fix it?
Speaker 6: So we just can't ever dismiss the amount of human
Speaker 6: labor still required to make all these automated or so
Speaker 6: called automated systems work.
Speaker 2: I like the positivity because as grim as it seems
Speaker 2: as a future for humans with all this speak of automation,
Speaker 2: you're right, I mean, every one of these systems, at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, still relies on humans. And
Speaker 2: by the way, it's a lot easier to teach a
Speaker 2: human to grab something off a shelf than it is
Speaker 2: to program a robot.
Speaker 1: Right now, I get it.
Speaker 2: With AI and all this stuff, maybe it'll get easier,
Speaker 2: but it's just so funny how you can literally teach
Speaker 2: anyone to do that in about ten seconds versus all
Speaker 2: the programming in lines it takes to program I'm a robot.
Speaker 3: And that's what it is at the end of the day.
Speaker 6: And not to say this isn't grim, because what the
Speaker 6: companies are gonna do is they're gonna they're gonna sell
Speaker 6: the automation. They're gonna sell the fact that hey, this
Speaker 6: can be cheaper, this should be cheaper. And companies are
Speaker 6: still going to buy into that sales pitch, and they're
Speaker 6: going to layoff workers. They're going to assign more work
Speaker 6: to people who are currently uh you know, having a
Speaker 6: job that might you know, be potentially uh abetted by automation.
Speaker 6: And in a lot of cases, what we see is
Speaker 6: that firms will go ahead and lay off workers, layoff
Speaker 6: service staff, and then the people who are remaining will
Speaker 6: be left with even more work.
Speaker 3: And the companies, oh yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 2: We're gonna leave it there, Brian, We're gonna leave it there.
Speaker 2: What's the best website for folks to find you?
Speaker 3: Blood in Theemachine dot Com.
Speaker 2: Okay, awesome conversation. Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. Brian Merchant, Blood in Theemachine dot Com
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Speaker 2: Mike in Irvine, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: Oh, thanks, Rich. I appreciate the information on the new
Speaker 9: iOS eighteen.
Speaker 4: But you said it has the ability to.
Speaker 9: Hide apps, which as an adult for financial records like
Speaker 9: you mentioned, makes sense. But what about as a parent
Speaker 9: of teens. Is there any type of print of controls
Speaker 9: or overrides for that sort of.
Speaker 10: System.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great question, because you know the teenagers are going
Speaker 2: to really take advantage of this, and in many times
Speaker 2: they know more about their phones than we do. And
Speaker 2: I think in the past they've already had with of
Speaker 2: hiding apps, like with sneaky little shortcuts and things like
Speaker 2: that where they can change the icon or you know,
Speaker 2: my kids would put them like in a folder like
Speaker 2: buried Deep, so you wouldn't see what.
Speaker 1: They have in there.
Speaker 2: But according to Apple, children under thirteen in family sharing,
Speaker 2: So this is the main thing, is that you have
Speaker 2: to put your kids in your family sharing with Apple ID.
Speaker 2: If they have their own Apple ID, they could basically
Speaker 2: do whatever they want. So put them in a family
Speaker 2: sharing group if they're under thirteen, and of course you've
Speaker 2: signed them up with the proper age on their phone
Speaker 2: in their account they cannot lock or hide apps. So again,
Speaker 2: kids under thirteen in a family sharing group cannot hide
Speaker 2: or lock.
Speaker 1: Apps in iOS eighteen.
Speaker 2: Now, if they are thirteen to seventeen and they're in
Speaker 2: a family group, they can lock or hide an app,
Speaker 2: but a parent or guardian in the family group can
Speaker 2: see the app was downloaded, how much time it's being used,
Speaker 2: and restrict access to it using screen time. So what
Speaker 2: they're saying there is that under thirteen can't hide her lock.
Speaker 2: Thirteen to seventeen they can hide er lock their apps.
Speaker 2: But when you go on to their list of apps
Speaker 2: that was downloaded, you can see in the list of
Speaker 2: like if they're using it a lot, you'll see it
Speaker 2: at the top of.
Speaker 1: The list of screen time apps.
Speaker 2: You can also block that app completely using screen time,
Speaker 2: so you can say that app is not allowed. Now, personally,
Speaker 2: if I was Apple and i think I'm getting a
Speaker 2: lot of questions about this, I've already seen a bunch
Speaker 2: of people asking about this, I think that Apple should
Speaker 2: straight up make a toggle in screen time. No matter
Speaker 2: what age the kid is, parents need to have the
Speaker 2: ability to turn off this feature. Why do kids need
Speaker 2: to lock or hide apps they're in your house. They
Speaker 2: are a kid, they are under your supervision. They should
Speaker 2: not be able to hide her lock apps. Now, maybe
Speaker 2: there are some reasons for this. I'm trying to think. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I can't think of every single situation that's known to mankind.
Speaker 2: And sure there may be an app that you know,
Speaker 2: teenager doesn't want their friends seeing on their on their
Speaker 2: phone or something like that or their iPad. So yes,
Speaker 2: I'm sure maybe there are some things. But again, maybe
Speaker 2: parents should have that option of being able to allow
Speaker 2: this or not allow it. So my great question, uh,
Speaker 2: get those kids inside the family sharing and you have
Speaker 2: the control. But we all know that screen time can
Speaker 2: be very, very complicated in general, and kids know how
Speaker 2: to use this stuff way better than a lot of
Speaker 2: their parents. So it is going to be tricky and
Speaker 2: it's going to cause some issues. And I think this, uh,
Speaker 2: this locking apps is going to cause issues in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways. You know, it's not just the kids
Speaker 2: that are doing this. I think it's going to be
Speaker 2: a lot of the adults as well. You know, people
Speaker 2: might be hiding apps that they don't want their spouses
Speaker 2: to see or something like that. So again, there are
Speaker 2: useful features and that's why Apple came out with this,
Speaker 2: but they're you know, no matter what, anytime there's a
Speaker 2: useful feature for something, people are going to find a
Speaker 2: more evil use of it as well.
Speaker 1: Let's go to.
Speaker 2: Kevin online one Kevin, I only got two minutes, So
Speaker 2: Kevin and San Clementy, can you get your.
Speaker 1: Question in quick?
Speaker 5: I'll make you real quick. It's a two questions, but
Speaker 5: related these guys showing up on my Facebook. But how
Speaker 5: to turn off certain things on your computer?
Speaker 3: Ie, if you do you.
Speaker 5: Know X y Z, type in you know this, that
Speaker 5: and that or the other and it shows you what
Speaker 5: to turn off so you're not trapped on your computer.
Speaker 5: So my question is are those legit? And then related
Speaker 5: to that, also some of these softwares and I don't
Speaker 5: know if I can give a couple of the names
Speaker 5: that came through PC magazine that clean out all your
Speaker 5: computer information and people that have access to you and
Speaker 5: you know, some say they you know, track two hundred
Speaker 5: companies that follow you, five hundred companies that follow you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, great question.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So first off, on the first question, I'd be very
Speaker 2: careful with with you know, following some of these instructions,
Speaker 2: especially if you're getting into settings that you don't understand.
Speaker 2: So anytime you're doing something you don't understand, I would
Speaker 2: be careful because you can change something that might mess
Speaker 2: up your computer or your or whatever. I see all
Speaker 2: these things like about how to access secret codes on
Speaker 2: your phone to do things and stuff like that. If
Speaker 2: you don't understand that, I don't think you should be
Speaker 2: doing that. When it comes to tracking, uh, these there's
Speaker 2: there's millions of data broke. There's many many data brokers
Speaker 2: out there that have information about us. Consumer reports found
Speaker 2: that most of those data removal sites that you pay
Speaker 2: for don't really work very well and they're not worth
Speaker 2: the money. The two that they liked are called easy
Speaker 2: opt outs and opt e O P T E R Y.
Speaker 1: I've tested one of these. I tested Mozilla.
Speaker 2: They had one, and yeah, it does remove stuff, and
Speaker 2: yes it'll work. It's gonna cost you though usually these
Speaker 2: things cost anywhere. You know, twenty dollars a month is
Speaker 2: about the main price.
Speaker 1: So you can do it.
Speaker 2: But I'd be much more concerned about my information out
Speaker 2: there on the dark web and instead of on these
Speaker 2: paid people finder websites. Eight to eight rich one O
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Speaker 2: Nicholas said, everyone, hey, rich everyone with a modern Android
Speaker 2: phone is laughing about all of these quote unquote new
Speaker 2: Apple updates. Apple always seem delayed by a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Love the show, you know, Nicholas, I it's so interesting.
Speaker 2: I understand that sentiment and I totally get it, like
Speaker 2: there's been this kind of back and forth for years
Speaker 2: about Android versus iPhone, iPhone versus Android, and believe me,
Speaker 2: I really love both platforms for different reasons. I think
Speaker 2: that the difference is, like, let's say someone like Samsung,
Speaker 2: They're always putting new features out right, like years years
Speaker 2: in advance, and then eventually those features typically make their
Speaker 2: way to the iPhone. I think the difference is what
Speaker 2: Apple does is they try to add like their own
Speaker 2: little Apple magic to things. And for something like the
Speaker 2: iPhone sixteen, you know, models and all of the iOS
Speaker 2: eighteen stuff, like yeah, moving an app wherever you want
Speaker 2: on the screen, But like there are certain things that
Speaker 2: like Apple just makes simple and easy compared to some
Speaker 2: of the Android stuff. So I think it just depends
Speaker 2: on the audience and who's using it. But to iPhone users,
Speaker 2: a lot of this stuff is new. But Android users
Speaker 2: definitely love giving their iPhone users a hard time, that's
Speaker 2: for sure, and that's fun. I mean, I hope that
Speaker 2: doesn't go away ever, because I love My wife is
Speaker 2: so sick of hearing me talk about what I like
Speaker 2: about iPhone versus Android and vice versa, because she hears
Speaker 2: it all the time because I'm always testing both, Uh,
Speaker 2: let's go to line four Tony in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 2: Tony Line four, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 11: Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thanks for listening today and calling in.
Speaker 1: What can I help you with? Yes?
Speaker 11: Yes, I was wondering is there any way I can
Speaker 11: remove myself from a large texting group. I did not
Speaker 11: sign up for it, don't know how I got on it.
Speaker 11: And it does include I have an iPhone, it does
Speaker 11: include iPhones and Android. The back and forth within the
Speaker 11: texting group is becoming it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Can I real annoying? Okay? So have you updated to
Speaker 1: iOS eighteen?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you tap the message, this looks like
Speaker 2: a brand new feature in iOS eighteen. Because I was
Speaker 2: just checking this out, this has been a known issue.
Speaker 2: You know, you can easily leave I Message conversations right
Speaker 2: because they you know, everyone's on I Message.
Speaker 1: Apple can handle it. It's very simple.
Speaker 2: But when you get the mixture of I Message and Android,
Speaker 2: you know whether people that are not using it, you
Speaker 2: see the green bubbles, and it's just it's a whole
Speaker 2: different ballgame because now you're talking about just regular phone numbers,
Speaker 2: and it's tough for Apple to just sort of remove
Speaker 2: you from that because anyone can text you anytime, right,
Speaker 2: and so this is where it becomes an issue. But
Speaker 2: it looks like in iOS eighteen in the messages. If
Speaker 2: you go into the message up at the top where
Speaker 2: it says how many people are in the message, I've
Speaker 2: got this message where it says two people, there's a
Speaker 2: new option that says delete and block this conversation.
Speaker 1: Do you see that? Okay?
Speaker 11: Do I go into the actual text and group itself?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: So open up your messages app, tap into that messa
Speaker 2: and then up at the top you'll see it usually
Speaker 2: has like a couple icons of people's heads up there
Speaker 2: or whatever like profile faces. So you tap where it
Speaker 2: says how many people are in there where it says
Speaker 2: two people, and then you tap there and you'll see
Speaker 2: all the info about this group chap.
Speaker 1: It'll tell you.
Speaker 2: Who's in it and give you some some options.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen this screen?
Speaker 11: Okay, well I'm not sure I'm in it now where
Speaker 11: it's listing all or long lists of people within this group.
Speaker 2: That where it could be Yep, that's where you should be.
Speaker 2: Now when you go in there, do you scroll down?
Speaker 2: Do you see something that says, delete and block this conversation. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: so tap that and that should take care of it.
Speaker 11: Okay, So that'll totally remove me out of the group itself.
Speaker 4: Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Well, so it's going to see it can't be removed
Speaker 2: from the group because the persons set up just as
Speaker 2: it's tougher than that, because it's not like living on
Speaker 2: a server somewhere. Just started a thread with a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of people in it, and if that person texts again,
Speaker 2: you're still gonna be included. Your phone is just not
Speaker 2: gonna show you that anymore. Does that make more sense?
Speaker 11: Okay?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 11: So it's not like where you can silence the group
Speaker 11: or the text in itself and you'll still see the messages.
Speaker 11: Business stand that it won't actually come to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not even gonna show up on your list
Speaker 1: of messages anymore.
Speaker 12: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the idea. So try that, see if it works.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't, give me a call back, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: appreciate it, Thank you so much, all right, Tony, really
Speaker 2: appreciate you. How's the how's the weather out there in
Speaker 2: the in the Inmblem Empire today?
Speaker 1: Oh, she's gone Okay, reminds, Okay, let's talk about Amazon
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day. Doesn't it feel like Amazon does a
Speaker 1: Prime Day like every day?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 1: What is up with this?
Speaker 2: It's like they're gonna They're gonna dilute this. Uh this
Speaker 2: excitement over Prime Day? Is there any excitement? I think
Speaker 2: it's I think the last Prime Day we had was
Speaker 2: that actually very good. I think that Apple did our
Speaker 2: See we talk so much about Apple, Rich.
Speaker 1: You're such an Apple fanboy. All you do is talk
Speaker 1: about Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple.
Speaker 2: So Amazon they announced the Big Deal Okay, Prime Big
Speaker 2: Deal Days, that's what it's called this year October eighth
Speaker 2: through ninth. And this will start on October eighth run
Speaker 2: through October ninth. And what are they promising? More of
Speaker 2: the same millions of deals for their Prime members. Yes,
Speaker 2: winter fashions, Halloween costumes, electronics, and everyday essentials. New deals
Speaker 2: will drop as much as every five minutes. Then they've
Speaker 2: got Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant. They want you to
Speaker 2: try that out. It can help you with recommendations. Now
Speaker 2: tell me this. Do you think Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping
Speaker 2: assistant whatever advise you against buying something?
Speaker 1: Hey, rufus. Should I buy this?
Speaker 2: Let me check my status, let me check my sources. Yes,
Speaker 2: you should spend your money with Amazon. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's a look.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: They have they have this program to kind of help
Speaker 2: you compare products and things like that. But I just
Speaker 2: find it ironic that you're taking advice from a shopping
Speaker 2: assistant from the place that wants to sell you something.
Speaker 2: That's like asking the person at the you know, the mall,
Speaker 2: should I buy this?
Speaker 1: Is this cool? Is this great? Yeah? Of course they're
Speaker 1: going to tell you to buy it. They're there to
Speaker 1: sell it to you.
Speaker 2: Early deals right now on Amazon Music Unlimited, so if
Speaker 2: you haven't tried that out, they've got like four months
Speaker 2: free of that. I saw Audible, couple months free there,
Speaker 2: Kindle unlimited, grub Hub plus. Those are deals you can
Speaker 2: take advantage of right now. I talked about that in
Speaker 2: my newsletter this week. So if you want to get that,
Speaker 2: just go to Rich on tech dot tv. You can
Speaker 2: see it on the homepage. Prime Membership, don't forget. You
Speaker 2: do have to be a Prime member to take advantage
Speaker 2: of Prime Day fifteen dollars per month or one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty nine dollars for the year. My advice for
Speaker 2: Prime Day, same advice I give every single year. I
Speaker 2: sound like a broken record. Put the stuff that you
Speaker 2: want in your cart now and that way, or save
Speaker 2: it for later.
Speaker 1: Whatever you know.
Speaker 2: Amazon gives you like an and ability to save stuff
Speaker 2: for later. Put it in your cart or save it
Speaker 2: for later, and then when these deal day hits on
Speaker 2: October eighth and ninth, or even leading up to it,
Speaker 2: you can see if the price drops on any of
Speaker 2: the things that you actually want. And that is the
Speaker 2: best way to do it. That is the way I've
Speaker 2: been doing it for years. And it just comes down
Speaker 2: to you wake up that morning October eighth, instead of
Speaker 2: searching for stuff to spend your money on, you just
Speaker 2: go through your cart and you say, oh that okay,
Speaker 2: And there's usually like a little banner that says Prime
Speaker 2: Day or deal or deal drop or price drop, and
Speaker 2: that way you can quickly and instantly spot when these
Speaker 2: things go on sale. So that is my advice. The
Speaker 2: other thing I really like is a service from Honey
Speaker 2: called drop List. So if you look, if you go
Speaker 2: to honey, Honey is sort of a browsing helper. It
Speaker 2: gives you the coupon codes, but they have a feature
Speaker 2: called drop list. So once you add this Honey Extensions
Speaker 2: from PayPal now they bought them.
Speaker 1: Once you add this to your Chrome browser, web browser
Speaker 1: or whatever, anything that you put in your shopping cart
Speaker 1: or your list on Amazon, they will track the price
Speaker 1: and actually send you an email when that price drops.
Speaker 2: And it's not always perfect, but it does really really help.
Speaker 2: All Right, let's see. Okay, you know what I was
Speaker 2: gonna do an Apple story.
Speaker 3: I won't.
Speaker 1: I'll do Instagram.
Speaker 2: Instagram this week launched some enhanced safety features for teen accounts. Now,
Speaker 2: if you've listened to this show, you know that I
Speaker 2: think that all of these social media networks are just
Speaker 2: almost borderline pure evil for teenagers because they don't need
Speaker 2: to be on these things like why do you need
Speaker 2: to be comparing yourself as a seventeen year old to
Speaker 2: you know, the most beautiful people that you're scrolling through
Speaker 2: on Instagram? You know, these models and things like that.
Speaker 2: I get it, we get it from TV and all
Speaker 2: that stuff, but like on these social media networks, we
Speaker 2: know that it causes depression, anxiety, distractions, shorter attention spans.
Speaker 2: It's like keep these kids off of these things as
Speaker 2: long as humanly possible. With that said, we know that
Speaker 2: kids want to be on them because their friends are
Speaker 2: on them, and in fact, a lot of kids, you know,
Speaker 2: the people make businesses on them and become influencers.
Speaker 1: But now, by default.
Speaker 2: Under eighteen, Instagram is instituting some things like accounts will
Speaker 2: be private by default, messaging will be restricted to just
Speaker 2: your followers. They're gonna have content filters so that kids
Speaker 2: aren't seeing stuff like fight videos and cosmetic procedures. Tagging
Speaker 2: and mentions are gonna be limited. There's a sixty minute
Speaker 2: daily time limit.
Speaker 1: Reminder. They don't stop you after sixty minutes.
Speaker 2: They just say, hey, it's a good idea to get
Speaker 2: off of this app, and then sleep mode from ten
Speaker 2: pm to seven am. And parents will need to approve
Speaker 2: any changes to these automatic restrictions. And you might be saying,
Speaker 2: rich kids are just gonna lie about the age when
Speaker 2: they sign up for Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yes they are.
Speaker 2: But Instagram is fighting back against that with a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of ways, especially using AI to figure out if
Speaker 2: this person signing up is actually under a eighteen. They
Speaker 2: will sniff them out and they will make sure that
Speaker 2: they are included in this, so it's a start. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying Instagram is perfect for doing this, but I
Speaker 2: do think it's better than nothing. Eight eight eight rich
Speaker 2: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 2: four one zero one. The website richon tech dot tv.
Speaker 2: Coming up, I'll tell you about the California driver's license
Speaker 2: making its way into the iPhone wallet.
Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 2: eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. Email rich
Speaker 2: rich on tech dot tv is the website. You can
Speaker 2: email me there, just hit contact here in Las Vegas,
Speaker 2: UH for the iHeart Music Fest. This is an incredible
Speaker 2: two day festival that I'm just here for just for fun.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of nice.
Speaker 2: When you, you know, work for iHeart and are able
Speaker 2: to come to these kind of things. And du A
Speaker 2: Lipa last last night you just heard her there stole
Speaker 2: the show. I mean, my wife and I were not
Speaker 2: really like big Dual Liapa fans, and then we watched
Speaker 2: her perform and I just unbelievable, really really just great show.
Speaker 2: And each person performs a couple of songs. Maybe you
Speaker 2: know some of their best songs, but she just really
Speaker 2: closed out the show and did a really, really nice job.
Speaker 2: So we're now new fans, and I guess that's the
Speaker 2: point of it, right, You're exposed to some artists that
Speaker 2: you may not be totally familiar with. I mean, I
Speaker 2: knew du Liipa, But anyway, eighty and eight rich one
Speaker 2: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 2: one zero one. I said I wasn't gonna do another
Speaker 2: Apple story, but I have to because if you live
Speaker 2: in California, you can now put your state ID or
Speaker 2: your driver's license in Apple wallets, so California driver's license
Speaker 2: and state.
Speaker 1: Id's can be added.
Speaker 2: This is part of Calilifornia DMV's MDL pilot program. Apparently
Speaker 2: it's limited to like one and a half million people.
Speaker 2: But I have now put my driver's license in like
Speaker 2: three different phones. So I don't know if I'm taking
Speaker 2: up three spots or they're just letting a lot of
Speaker 2: people do this or what. But if you have a
Speaker 2: California driver's license, you can add it to your Apple wallet.
Speaker 2: So people are a little confused about this, but basically
Speaker 2: you open up Apple Wallet to do this. You don't
Speaker 2: have to download any separate app to your phone. So
Speaker 2: on your phone, just type in wallet and you'll see
Speaker 2: where you can press the plus sign and it says
Speaker 2: driver's license or state ID. You tap there right now,
Speaker 2: you've got Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, and Ohio
Speaker 2: are all part of this. And so you basically scan
Speaker 2: the front and back of your driver's license and then
Speaker 2: you take a whole bunch of pictures of yourself like selfies.
Speaker 2: And no, you don't have to be like all posing
Speaker 2: and making the duck lips or whatever they call that.
Speaker 2: You know, you just sit there and they're making sure
Speaker 2: that you're actually a human, right, so they want to
Speaker 2: make sure you're moving. They say, like blink your eyes.
Speaker 2: I had to like open my mouth or like smile
Speaker 2: or something. But yeah, and then they send it all
Speaker 2: off and verify it, and next thing you know, you
Speaker 2: get a little notification this says, hey, your driver's license
Speaker 2: is ready, and it took like literally a minute for
Speaker 2: mine to be approved. So if you want to have
Speaker 2: your driver's license on your phone, do it. But here's
Speaker 2: the deal. Good luck using it. Anywhere you can't. There's
Speaker 2: so I did use it last time at the TSA checkpoint.
Speaker 2: That's basically the only place that you can use it
Speaker 2: at this point. So if you're flying, but you cannot
Speaker 2: use this for a police officer. It does not replace
Speaker 2: your ID in any way. And it's almost like comical
Speaker 2: why we're doing this, And I get it, it's a start,
Speaker 2: but it's just kind of funny that you have this
Speaker 2: thing and it's so great, and it's like we're all
Speaker 2: on board, but you can't actually.
Speaker 1: Use it anywhere.
Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna accept this except the TSA, and I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what my experience was there. So I said, hey,
Speaker 2: do you take the new digital driver's license on my phone?
Speaker 2: And they said yeah, sure, you got to stand over
Speaker 2: there and go talk to that person. So I go
Speaker 2: over there and the guy says, nah, the machine's not
Speaker 2: on for that. I said, well, can we turn it
Speaker 2: on because I'd really like to try this. I kind
Speaker 2: of cover technology for a living and I'd like to
Speaker 2: see if this works. And he, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: grumbled a little bit. He said, sure, okay, scan it below.
Speaker 2: I said, no, I think I tap it to the
Speaker 2: to the reader because it's NFC and he goes, Nope,
Speaker 2: you scan it. I said, okay, I don't think you
Speaker 2: scan it, and so I just tapped it anyway without
Speaker 2: them looking, and you know, the guy was like kind
Speaker 2: of talking to someone else and I tapped it and
Speaker 2: it worked.
Speaker 1: He's like, all right, that worked.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I know it's you're supposed to tap,
Speaker 2: but anyway, maybe there is a scan QR code something
Speaker 2: like that, but yes, you're supposed to tap anyway. The
Speaker 2: beauty of these things of the driver's license. I get
Speaker 2: that it's weird and it's scary that we're doing, you know,
Speaker 2: away with a physical license, but it's actually much more
Speaker 2: secure because what happens is a lot of times, let's
Speaker 2: say you're buying booze right at a at a store
Speaker 2: right now, the clerk they look at your physical ID
Speaker 2: and they see your name, they see your address, they
Speaker 2: see your data birth, and they look at your picture
Speaker 2: they match it up against your face. The way that
Speaker 2: this new system works is it only exchanges the information
Speaker 2: it needs to exchange, and it's really not even the information.
Speaker 2: So it's not transmitting to the grocery store your name, address,
Speaker 2: and your data birth and verifying that it's actually just
Speaker 2: transmitting a verification that says you are over twenty one.
Speaker 2: So that's hard coded into this app using algorithms and
Speaker 2: encryption and all this stuff that they've some very smart
Speaker 2: people have figured out, like let's only transmit the information
Speaker 2: that is necessary, and if that information doesn't need to
Speaker 2: be transmitted, like if target doesn't need to store your
Speaker 2: data birth for that transaction, it will just literally transmit
Speaker 2: yes or no to approve that transaction. So it's a
Speaker 2: small but kind of meaningful thing where I actually think
Speaker 2: this is very private and done in a really interesting
Speaker 2: future kind of forward thinking way where less of our
Speaker 2: personal information is just out there for everyone to see.
Speaker 2: Like why is this sixteen year old at the place
Speaker 2: that's checking my ID? Well, maybe they're not sixteen if
Speaker 2: they're checking my ID, but you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: why is that person need to see all of my
Speaker 2: personal information? They don't anyway. This is also available for
Speaker 2: Android wallet as well. Android happened a few weeks ago,
Speaker 2: So if you want to put your driver's license, just
Speaker 2: open up the wallet app on your phone and see
Speaker 2: if you're in one of the states that has it.
Speaker 2: You can't use it in too many places, but it's
Speaker 2: kind of cool to be on that cutting edge. Eighty
Speaker 2: to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 2: four to two four.
Speaker 1: One zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 2: triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. The website
Speaker 2: for the show Richontech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Let's go to line one. We've got Bonnie in Charleston,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Bonnie in Charleston, South Carolina, Line one. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 10: Well, Rich, thank you for making me feel really really old,
Speaker 10: because I have no idea who that singer was you
Speaker 10: were talking about, Oh.
Speaker 1: Which one dua lipa?
Speaker 10: Yeah, well you know what like a maybe it was
Speaker 10: a disease of.
Speaker 1: Some sort, but my gosh, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: She is Albanian, so that is Albanian and British, and
Speaker 2: so that that that describes the or I guess makes
Speaker 2: up for the unique name there.
Speaker 1: So that's why.
Speaker 2: But you know, hey, maybe maybe if you like some
Speaker 2: you know, rocky music, you'll you'll like it. She's kind
Speaker 2: of like a tailor swiftish kind of thing, but maybe
Speaker 2: more more dancing anyway, what can I help you with?
Speaker 1: Bonnie?
Speaker 10: Okay, So I have a question. I don't know if
Speaker 10: you can help me. I'm a senior citizen and so
Speaker 10: I get an awful lot of scam calls, and I
Speaker 10: know I can block them, but I'm also a pet
Speaker 10: portrait artist, so when people call me up, and I
Speaker 10: need the names and ideas people that call so that
Speaker 10: I can see at the customer. But all these scam
Speaker 10: people are using phony caller IDs, phony names, and phony
Speaker 10: phone numbers with local area codes.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
Speaker 10: Is there a way to stop them from actually using
Speaker 10: phony caller IDs? I mean, do we need to get
Speaker 10: a law so that they can't do it? Because usually
Speaker 10: I'll answer the phone and it's some guy from you know,
Speaker 10: the Philippines trying to sell me I don't know, trying
Speaker 10: to give me something and try to get my credit
Speaker 10: card number. So I'm wondering, isn't there a way? Isn't
Speaker 10: there a law that can stop them from using these
Speaker 10: phony call names and collor IDs.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are laws, and they don't follow them because
Speaker 2: they could care less because you know, they're not based
Speaker 2: here in the US. Most of the time, they're not.
Speaker 2: They're not on the up and up, so you know,
Speaker 2: if you are. Let's say you put your phone number
Speaker 2: on a list. Let's say you go to Macy's right
Speaker 2: and they say, hey, give us your phone number and
Speaker 2: we'll text you and we'll call you with deals or whatever.
Speaker 2: And you get sick and tired of them texting you
Speaker 2: or calling you.
Speaker 1: You know, you can.
Speaker 2: Reply stop to their texts, or you can opt out
Speaker 2: of your phone number being used, and they will respect it.
Speaker 2: They will stop using your information and stop calling you.
Speaker 2: The problem is when these are kind of operating in
Speaker 2: the gray area that ninety nine percent of these robo
Speaker 2: calls are or even if they're just you know, sort
Speaker 2: of uh, you know, even if it's a live person,
Speaker 2: they're still robo calling. And yes, they're using local phone
Speaker 2: numbers to try to trick you because it looks like
Speaker 2: it's coming from you know, your area. So when I
Speaker 2: you know, for instance, especially when you have kids like myself,
Speaker 2: you're going to always pick up the phone when it's
Speaker 2: a number that looks like your local area code, because
Speaker 2: it could be their school, it could be a babysitter, whatever,
Speaker 2: And that's what they're praying upon they're praying upon you know,
Speaker 2: tricking us. Can you stop these That is the multi
Speaker 2: billion dollar question that nobody seems to have figured out.
Speaker 1: Now I will tell you. I'm assuming you have an iPhone.
Speaker 10: Right, Okay, so I still have my landline. I know
Speaker 10: it's not a real land.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, Well there actually is a way.
Speaker 2: So there's a company called Nomo Robo n O m
Speaker 2: O r O b O, and they actually will help
Speaker 2: protect you from some of this stuff on landlines. And
Speaker 2: it's it's actually free for the kind of the basic
Speaker 2: service on land lines. And I know you said it's
Speaker 2: not a real landline. I know, but they support like
Speaker 2: all the voice voice over IP landlines, which are you know,
Speaker 2: from the different companies like Cox or FiOS or Spectrum
Speaker 2: and Infinity Uma, and so you can sign up. You
Speaker 2: can sign up with them and they can help control
Speaker 2: some of these callers. Now, I know you run a business,
Speaker 2: so you don't really want to like intercept a lot
Speaker 2: of these calls and have them, you know, you don't
Speaker 2: want to have a lot of issues with that. But
Speaker 2: I will tell you you know, in my experience, I
Speaker 2: think that these calls come and go in waves, and
Speaker 2: it really depends on how many lists you're on and
Speaker 2: how many times your phone number has been shared and
Speaker 2: how it's out there.
Speaker 1: So the more that you can.
Speaker 2: You're a business too, so they are obviously your phone
Speaker 2: numbers out there because it's a business, and I think
Speaker 2: that's unfortunate that you need your number out there. But
Speaker 2: then these people, of course use that to their advantage.
Speaker 10: Well, I will tell you rich, once I realize it
Speaker 10: is one of those scam calls, I usually ask the
Speaker 10: guy what he's wearing, and then he doesn't know really
Speaker 10: how to handle me and usually hang up.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, well hey, at least you have
Speaker 2: a sense of humor there, you know. Hey, And I've
Speaker 2: heard people, you know, they kind of mess with these
Speaker 2: people and they you know, but at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, I mean, what I typically do is I
Speaker 2: try to be nice and it's just like I'm not interested, no,
Speaker 2: thank you, please take me off this list. But most
Speaker 2: of the time they're not respecting those rules because they
Speaker 2: are operating sort of in a gray area. So I
Speaker 2: would my recommendations for the you know, for the landline,
Speaker 2: I would check out the Noomo robo dot com.
Speaker 1: If you're on a smartphone.
Speaker 2: All of the major carriers have their own call filtering apps,
Speaker 2: so you can use those.
Speaker 1: I find that they're very hit or miss.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: There is one interesting thing that's happening on the iPhone
Speaker 2: with iOS eighteen.
Speaker 1: Uh. Traditionally, you couldn't.
Speaker 2: Really get caller ID look up through a third party
Speaker 2: app on the iPhone because of the way the iPhone
Speaker 2: is set up. But they're now actually allowing that with
Speaker 2: this new thing that they enabled in iOS eighteen. So
Speaker 2: I actually think that some of these caller ID apps
Speaker 2: that we're going to see that you know, something like
Speaker 2: a true caller or something like that, is actually going
Speaker 2: to get more helpful. And even the caller ID uh,
Speaker 2: the spam filtering apps from the carriers, I think are
Speaker 2: going to get more helpful. It's going to take a
Speaker 2: little bit of time because it's a brand new feature
Speaker 2: for the iPhone, but I think that's gonna help now.
Speaker 2: If you're on Android, it's actually already much much better.
Speaker 2: So if you're on Samsung or the Pixel, they both
Speaker 2: have an incredible feature that lets you filter or lets
Speaker 2: you screen calls through their digital Assistant. So when you're
Speaker 2: on a Pixel smartphone and it's an unknown caller or
Speaker 2: caller that's not in your address book. It'll say, you know,
Speaker 2: would you like to screen this call? And it's quite
Speaker 2: incredible where it will say, Hi, I'm the Google Assistant.
Speaker 2: I'm helping this person screen their calls. Can you tell
Speaker 2: me what you're calling about? And that person says what
Speaker 2: they're calling about. It will say on your screen, this
Speaker 2: is John from you know, pest Control or whatever. Now,
Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the time in my experience, when
Speaker 2: I'm using that phone, they'll.
Speaker 1: Just hang up because they don't want to deal with it.
Speaker 2: But Sam Samsung has a similar feature as well, which
Speaker 2: is really really great, and you can actually type back
Speaker 2: to the person and it will read that in a
Speaker 2: voice to text things. So it's getting better, Bonnie. But
Speaker 2: I think your method works pretty well. Just say hey,
Speaker 2: what are you wearing?
Speaker 10: And you know, okay, Thanks Ton, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, thanks a lot for the call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: In a beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, I've been there. I've
Speaker 2: been to Charleston and it is a beautiful city. I
Speaker 2: feel like there's all these cities like the Charleston's of
Speaker 2: the world that had like this, like resurgence with like,
Speaker 2: you know, just embracing the beauty of these cities in
Speaker 2: a new way and restaurants and walkways on the water
Speaker 2: and things like that.
Speaker 1: So thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: Eight to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. I will
Speaker 2: say the most annoying thing about I was on Android
Speaker 2: for a while with the Pixel nine, I went back
Speaker 2: to iPhone. I will say the most annoying thing about
Speaker 2: the iPhone is answering phone calls because there is no
Speaker 2: good screening app at this point or screening method. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Apple has their own which lets it go to voicemail
Speaker 2: and kind of reads it.
Speaker 1: But that's not what I want. I want.
Speaker 2: I want the feature that Samsung and Google have on
Speaker 2: their phones on the iPhone. I mean, it's it's game
Speaker 2: changing because I literally don't dread answer the phone on
Speaker 2: Samsung or Pixel because you just have the assistant answer it.
Speaker 2: If it's important, they're going to tell you what it's for,
Speaker 2: and if it's not, they're going to hang up.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if it's someone in.
Speaker 2: Your address book and you can't answer the phone, it
Speaker 2: knows that too. Or you know you're in a position
Speaker 2: where it's it's it's calling you. Let's say it's like
Speaker 2: for me, it was my mom and I was out
Speaker 2: having dinner and it was a loud place and I
Speaker 2: couldn't pick up the phone. But because it knows that
Speaker 2: she's in my address book, instead of the standard like hey,
Speaker 2: this is Google whatever, it actually does a custom thing
Speaker 2: where you can say is it urgent? And so you
Speaker 2: tap one thing on your screen that says is it urgent,
Speaker 2: and it will say to them, hey, you know, Rich
Speaker 2: is busy, but like, is this an urgent call? And
Speaker 2: my mom said no, and then I just replied back,
Speaker 2: I'll call you in a little bit. So it's that
Speaker 2: level of smarts that I think is just it just
Speaker 2: frees you up because you're no longer like worried about
Speaker 2: answering the phone, which is just we shouldn't be worried
Speaker 2: about answering our own phone calls at this point. But
Speaker 2: the problem is there's just so much spam out there
Speaker 2: and so much nonsense, and so many people trying to
Speaker 2: get money from us. The worst is like the cable companies.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like you feel like you fell into
Speaker 2: a trap. They call you, you answer the phone, and
Speaker 2: they're like hi. After like that pause, you know that
Speaker 2: that dreaded pause where you pick up you say hello,
Speaker 2: you don't hear anything for five seconds. You still stay
Speaker 2: on the line, and next thing you know, they're like, oh, Hi,
Speaker 2: we have a great offer for you from you know,
Speaker 2: cable company, uh one oh one Mega Mega Monopoly. You're
Speaker 2: like oh, and then you know this person's so nice
Speaker 2: on the other end, you feel bad you're getting off
Speaker 2: the phone with them anyway. Eighty eight rich one on
Speaker 2: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 2: zero one. If you call Kim to get on the
Speaker 2: phones here, she's our screener. She'll be very nice to
Speaker 2: you and hopefully you can get on the line here.
Speaker 2: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one. This is rich
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Speaker 2: here hanging out with you talking technology. The phone lines
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Speaker 2: Still got over an hour of the show, so give
Speaker 2: me a call. If you have a question about technology.
Speaker 2: Maybe you upgraded to the new iPhone. You can tell
Speaker 2: me why or what your reasoning was or maybe you're
Speaker 2: skipping this year. Coming up later in the show, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk to Matt Swider. He runs a great
Speaker 2: newsletter called The Shortcut. He's going to talk about the
Speaker 2: the iPhone sixteen. He was at the launch event in
Speaker 2: New York City where Tim Cook was, and he can
Speaker 2: talk about No Apple puts on these like wild parties
Speaker 2: for the launch of things that seems like only they
Speaker 2: can do. So there's a lot of I saw a
Speaker 2: lot of my friends there. They were all all outside
Speaker 2: that store. Let's see here. Let's go to line two.
Speaker 2: Line two is Kelly in Santa Clarita. Kelly, you're on
Speaker 2: with Rich.
Speaker 12: Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: Sure. I have.
Speaker 12: Two Amazon Echo Dot. One's about sixty seven years old.
Speaker 12: One is maybe two to three years old. Left town
Speaker 12: for a couple of days, had several power surges during
Speaker 12: the heat waves. Came home and neither of them were working,
Speaker 12: and couldn't pair either of them and plug them both,
Speaker 12: let them, you know, clear their memory or whatever their
Speaker 12: issue was. And the older one I was able to
Speaker 12: pair and get working. The newer one would not pair.
Speaker 12: So it took it to a friend's house to see
Speaker 12: if it was you know, here or somewhere else that
Speaker 12: would work.
Speaker 4: It worked beautifully at someone else's home.
Speaker 12: Brought it back, let the memory clear for about twenty
Speaker 12: four hours. Again, tried to pair it and it will
Speaker 12: not pair. So I'm at a loss. I don't know
Speaker 12: what to think.
Speaker 2: When you say pair, you mean like get it back
Speaker 2: on your account, like on your phone.
Speaker 12: Yeah, get it back to the internet and working so
Speaker 12: I can listen to camfi.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's uh and it is very easy to
Speaker 2: listen to uh the radio stations, any radio station really
Speaker 2: by by calling it out. It's quite quite incredible, incredible
Speaker 2: how simple the voice is on this thing.
Speaker 1: And if you listen to the show, you know that.
Speaker 2: I recently put a whole bunch of these things in
Speaker 2: my house because I'm upset at my Sono speakers. And
Speaker 2: it's wild how much more I'm listening to things because
Speaker 2: it's so easy to call up stuff through these uh.
Speaker 1: So the main.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would understand that. So a couple of things,
Speaker 2: A couple thoughts. Number one, have you tried to do
Speaker 2: a complete reset of this echo dot? Like I know
Speaker 2: you said you unplugged it and plugged it back in,
Speaker 2: but have you done like a factory reset where it
Speaker 2: actually like reboots everything back to factory.
Speaker 1: Have you tried that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's what I think you need to try.
Speaker 12: But it did work up my friend's house immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that could be for various reasons.
Speaker 2: But I think we're we're trying to get it to
Speaker 2: work at your house, and I think this is the
Speaker 2: best way to do that. I think that this will
Speaker 2: basically you are resetting it. I think maybe this thing
Speaker 2: is confused at this point because it was you know,
Speaker 2: it was shocked with the power surges. You brought it
Speaker 2: to a friend's house, so it doesn't know, you know,
Speaker 2: if it should be what's what.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even know what it's doing at this point.
Speaker 2: So it's been connected to different had you I don't
Speaker 2: even know how you set it up at your friend's house.
Speaker 2: Did you set up with their internet or something?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Oh interesting, My granddaughter took it and it's paired right
Speaker 12: up to his network and came on no bumb Okay.
Speaker 2: All right, So what I would do is I would
Speaker 2: I would do the factory reset, and you know the
Speaker 2: way that you do this is I would do the
Speaker 2: factory reset completely there's two different levels of reset. One
Speaker 2: is like like a soft reset. One is a factory.
Speaker 2: I think the factory is going to be the easiest
Speaker 2: and it's probably going to give you the best results.
Speaker 2: So what you want to do is press and hold
Speaker 2: the volume down and the microphone off buttons for twenty
Speaker 2: seconds until the light turns on and off again, and
Speaker 2: then your device will will enter set the initial set
Speaker 2: up mode and phone Yeah, like plug it in, volume down,
Speaker 2: press those two buttons at the same time, Volume down,
Speaker 2: microphone off for twenty seconds. This thing is gonna kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, go through some cycles of resetting, and it's
Speaker 2: going to be as if you just got it from
Speaker 2: the Amazon factory and then you try to pair it
Speaker 2: if it doesn't work to pair after that. Is this
Speaker 2: the two to three year old one or the seven
Speaker 2: year old.
Speaker 4: One year old one?
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not that old, So you can you
Speaker 2: can appeal to Amazon. I know this is way out
Speaker 2: of its you know, warranty, but you never know it's Amazon.
Speaker 2: You may, you know, with the way I would approach it,
Speaker 2: I'd say, hey, I've had this thing and it's just
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's not working anymore. You know, is
Speaker 2: there anything we can do to swap this out for
Speaker 2: a new one. You guys can take the old one
Speaker 2: to check it out and see what what went wrong.
Speaker 2: Or know, we do have Prime Day coming up. These
Speaker 2: things are not, you know, not terribly expensive. Obviously I
Speaker 2: don't I don't like to throw around. Oh, just buy
Speaker 2: a new one, but you know they do have the
Speaker 2: fifth generation is like thirty five bucks right now and
Speaker 2: over Prime Day will probably be even cheaper.
Speaker 1: So if you want to solve your hand, like playing a.
Speaker 12: New one because I love it so much, but it
Speaker 12: was weird that it works somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, that is strange. I agree with that part.
Speaker 2: So but do the do the factory reset, try to
Speaker 2: pair it up again and let me know if it works.
Speaker 1: Send me an email.
Speaker 2: Go to the website rich on tech dot Tv, hit
Speaker 2: contact and h Kelly. I will be very curious to
Speaker 2: see if that fixes the issues.
Speaker 12: Okay, Okay, well, rich on what's it? Rich On.
Speaker 2: Rich on tech dot tv, And you'll see a little
Speaker 2: thing where it says contact and that's where you can
Speaker 2: send me an email.
Speaker 1: So I want an update, so I can update folks.
Speaker 12: Okay, I will give it a try which button is
Speaker 12: the microphone?
Speaker 2: It's not obvious the microphone, the microphone button, microphone off button.
Speaker 2: So it's the one that looks like it's the the
Speaker 2: one with like an X through it usually, or the
Speaker 2: microphone with an X through it.
Speaker 1: It depends on your model.
Speaker 3: But I'll i'll yeah, ok, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 13: It's got like a life through it.
Speaker 8: Okay, yep, I'll get it.
Speaker 11: Try and I'll send you an email.
Speaker 1: All right, Kelly, appreciate the call today.
Speaker 2: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: This week, UH, Spectrum made a big deal about their
Speaker 2: new customer commitment. So if you have Spectrum Internet, they
Speaker 2: gave you a free speed upgrade. So the three hundred
Speaker 2: megabits per second plan is now up to four hundred
Speaker 2: megabits per second, the five hundred is up to six hundred.
Speaker 2: That's free, so you don't have to do anything. You'll
Speaker 2: just get I don't know, just I think it's probably
Speaker 2: already happened. So if your Internet feels a little bit speedier,
Speaker 2: that's what's going on.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: They also, you know, gave some commitments saying if if
Speaker 2: there's any issue before five pm. They'll have a same
Speaker 2: day technician come to your house. If an outage lasts
Speaker 2: over two hours, they'll give you a bill credit. They've
Speaker 2: got whole dollar pricing with taxes and fees included. No
Speaker 2: annual contracts, twenty four to seven US based customer service,
Speaker 2: thirty day money back guarantee for new services, fourteen days
Speaker 2: for mobile services.
Speaker 1: It's all good stuff.
Speaker 2: I think the main the main issue I have with
Speaker 2: Spectrum and all of these cable companies is they still
Speaker 2: want you to bundle. And I get that bundling is cheaper,
Speaker 2: and yes, you can save a lot of money if
Speaker 2: you bundle some of these Spectrum services.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: It's easy to get started with these services. It is
Speaker 2: a lot tougher to switch or cancel or change when
Speaker 2: you're doing stuff like this. You know you've gotten so
Speaker 2: used to Netflix. If you don't look it, you cancel online.
Speaker 2: It takes two seconds. With something like this, you do
Speaker 2: have to call in and ask and figure it out,
Speaker 2: send back. The equipment and the upload speeds for cable
Speaker 2: internet are still not as fast as fiber. But hey,
Speaker 2: you know what, I like what they're doing. I like
Speaker 2: customer commitments. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
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Speaker 2: Jill listens on KFI in Los Angeles says, I currently
Speaker 2: use the Apple password manager. Will it automatically be transferred
Speaker 2: to the new password manager in iOS eighteen?
Speaker 1: Thank you? The answer is yes.
Speaker 2: If you are using iCloud keychain, you've got a bunch
Speaker 2: of passwords in there already. When you download iOS eighteen
Speaker 2: and open up that passwords app, it will all be there.
Speaker 2: I noticed I don't use iCloud keychain, but I do
Speaker 2: have a couple of passwords in there for certain things,
Speaker 2: and they all came over to the new app.
Speaker 1: So eighty five Wi Fi passwords, let's see.
Speaker 2: And yeah, just a couple of other passwords as well.
Speaker 2: So interesting. Oh oh, that's the other thing it does.
Speaker 2: This is actually I meant to mention this if you
Speaker 2: used if you use that thing where it says like
Speaker 2: log in with Apple, right, like you know how sometimes
Speaker 2: you can sign up for a website says log in
Speaker 2: with Google, log in with Apple, log in.
Speaker 1: With Facebook, whatever. I don't really see that much anymore.
Speaker 2: But you'll see all the places that you've actually signed
Speaker 2: in with Apple in your list. So it's actually like
Speaker 2: the first time I've ever seen that where I can
Speaker 2: see all these different websites that I've signed up for
Speaker 2: using Apple's log in, And so you can go in
Speaker 2: there and let's see what you can do. You can edit,
Speaker 2: Let's see can you delete these logins if you want? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can delete the logins. You can see what you did.
Speaker 2: So that's a nice way to clean up some of
Speaker 2: the logins that you may not want anymore.
Speaker 1: But yes, that passwords app is great.
Speaker 2: I typically prefer third party apps for everything because let's
Speaker 2: say you start using this passwords app a lot, you
Speaker 2: store all your passwords, and all of a sudden, Android
Speaker 2: comes out with the best phone you've ever seen in
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: You want to switch.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what, You're not gonna be able to use
Speaker 2: that passwords app on Android because it's Apple. You know,
Speaker 2: most of their stuff only works on Apple stuff. So
Speaker 2: that's why I typically prefer a third party program that
Speaker 2: works across all platforms, something like a dash Lane, something
Speaker 2: like a bit Warden, something like a one password. But
Speaker 2: if you are just wanting something for free, you're not
Speaker 2: going to leave Apple anytime soon, and you know you're
Speaker 2: not going to use anything else, use the passwords app.
Speaker 2: It's way better than not using a passwords app. Let's
Speaker 2: go to line two.
Speaker 1: We've got Leslie in Coda de Casa California. In parentheses
Speaker 1: it says where the Real Housewives lived? Did Kim add that?
Speaker 1: Or did Leslie say that you're on with Rich?
Speaker 13: Kim added that we had about it?
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know that nonsense, but I'm sure I
Speaker 2: know those are popular shows. And I did watch a
Speaker 2: little bit of The New Jersey Housewives back in the
Speaker 2: day before it, you know, I just actually saw it
Speaker 2: on the one of the systems. It had like fourteen seasons.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, what I watched like the first one? Anyway,
Speaker 2: what can I help you with today?
Speaker 13: I need assistance with either recovering or resetting my Microsoft
Speaker 13: account log in, which I apparently have but I did
Speaker 13: not know I had, and I don't know if it
Speaker 13: was an eight hundred number. I'm trying to do it
Speaker 13: online and it's not working.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're trying. What are you trying to do? Exactly?
Speaker 13: So Cox, the cable company that's who I had my
Speaker 13: email addressed with forever, We're talking twenty thirty years and
Speaker 13: they recently got out of the business. I don't know
Speaker 13: if you knew that the email business, and they transitioned
Speaker 13: our accounts to Yahoo.
Speaker 1: Correct, So I've heard nothing about horrible stories.
Speaker 13: Yes, thank you. So we can still use Cox dot net.
Speaker 13: We don't have to change that, which is good. But
Speaker 13: obviously it's just a background process through Yahoo. So I
Speaker 13: can access my new emails, send emails, et cetera through
Speaker 13: their app. That's working fine. However, I've had Microsoft Outlook
Speaker 13: installed on my laptop computer forever and it was always
Speaker 13: attached to cocks So now I need to go in
Speaker 13: and update the settings, the incoming outgoing servers whatnot to
Speaker 13: attach to my Yahoo. Yes, but they're saying I have
Speaker 13: a Microsoft account. Well I've I've had this Outlook set
Speaker 13: up since the beginning of time. There was not even
Speaker 13: such a thing as a Microsoft account. So they say
Speaker 13: I have one. I'm trying to reset it. It's forcing
Speaker 13: me to answer all these questions on a recovery email.
Speaker 13: What's the name of the email, what's the subject line?
Speaker 13: I've tried it three times.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think you need the Microsoft account to access
Speaker 2: your Yah your coxmail through Yahoo.
Speaker 1: Mal because those are two separate things. So what what
Speaker 1: are you.
Speaker 2: Trying to log in with the Microsoft account because you
Speaker 2: don't need to log into the Microsoft account to use Outlook.
Speaker 13: Well, I can't send and receive emails anymore through Microsoft
Speaker 13: Outlets outlooks it's the data.
Speaker 1: Book, right, Okay, So here's what you need to do.
Speaker 2: I think what happened is when you added the cos email,
Speaker 2: it was using Cox servers, right, and those servers.
Speaker 1: Are no longer. They're no longer doing that.
Speaker 2: So it used to be the email address was like
Speaker 2: something like let's say like imap dot Cox dot net, right,
Speaker 2: So that's probably how your Outlook is set up.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is I.
Speaker 2: Would add the Yahoo mail account. So when you go
Speaker 2: into when you're in Outlook, it says add a new account.
Speaker 1: Do you know what? Can you get to that screen
Speaker 1: where it says add a new account?
Speaker 13: I'm sure I can, Yes, Okay.
Speaker 2: So go to that screen and you're gonna choose Yahoo.
Speaker 2: I know it's it's odd that you're choosing Yahoo, but
Speaker 2: basically you're gonna choose the Yahoo mail account.
Speaker 1: And when you do that, it will ask you for
Speaker 1: your log in.
Speaker 2: Your log in is going to be your full email address,
Speaker 2: which is your you know, whatever your email address is
Speaker 2: at Cox. Is that still your That's still your email address.
Speaker 8: Right it is? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so there you go.
Speaker 2: So you you put that in the in the log
Speaker 2: in information under the email, and then the password is
Speaker 2: going to be your cos email password. You still have
Speaker 2: that somewhere, I'm not sure, okay, so that okay? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So once you have that, you popped that into the
Speaker 2: password and it should automatically find all these settings by itself.
Speaker 1: So that's what I would do first.
Speaker 13: I'm not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, updating the servers is that's another way of doing it,
Speaker 2: but I think that's too complicated. So I think that
Speaker 2: the way to the way to do this first is
Speaker 2: just you want access to your email, So let's get
Speaker 2: that first by logging in and getting it. And then
Speaker 2: once you have access and you see all your emails
Speaker 2: and all of your back emails, then you can go
Speaker 2: ahead and delete that old whatever your old connection was,
Speaker 2: you know, if it was set up as Cox dot net,
Speaker 2: whatever it was, you can just go ahead and delete
Speaker 2: that out of outlook.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The only caveat here is the way that your email
Speaker 2: was set up as there's two different ways that email
Speaker 2: can be set up. One is called POP and one
Speaker 2: is called IMAP. Now, if it's set up as POP,
Speaker 2: and I know this gets a little confusing, but POP
Speaker 2: actually downloads all the information from the remote server and
Speaker 2: stores it on your computer, whereas IMAP just mirrors the server.
Speaker 2: And that's the much more modern method that most email
Speaker 2: accounts use because you make one change on your computer
Speaker 2: and if you go on that same email account on
Speaker 2: your phone, that change is reflected there. With POP, it
Speaker 2: only changes it on your computer, and that's like a
Speaker 2: little bit of a different thing.
Speaker 1: But anyway, my point is, use both of.
Speaker 13: Those at some point, and hopefully it's on IMAP now.
Speaker 2: But yeah, exactly, a lot of a lot of the
Speaker 2: old school stuff was popped now it's all IMAP. But
Speaker 2: the main thing you want to do is just add
Speaker 2: that account. Once it's on there, then you can go
Speaker 2: ahead and make sure you have access to all of
Speaker 2: your old emails, and then you can just delete that
Speaker 2: old account off of there and that should really fix it.
Speaker 2: But that's it, and I think it's gonna work. And
Speaker 2: by the way, and what's.
Speaker 13: What if I get a new computer, a new laptop,
Speaker 13: and I don't know my Microsoft log in and I'm
Speaker 13: trying to install out.
Speaker 10: The whole suite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that is something that you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: You're eventually going to have to figure out that log in.
Speaker 2: The only the only hint I can give you there is,
Speaker 2: you know, Microsoft usually has like some sort of like
Speaker 2: recovery page, Like if you go to Microsoft Account recovery,
Speaker 2: hopefully you can get some sort of information that can
Speaker 2: get you back online with that. The only thing I
Speaker 2: would do is and by the way, if do you
Speaker 2: have access to like three six, are you paying for
Speaker 2: that right now?
Speaker 1: Or no?
Speaker 9: No, not yet.
Speaker 13: I'm sure I will in the new computer. But I
Speaker 13: have been doing the recovery suggestions for Microsoft because I
Speaker 13: thought I was resending the server and it's so confusing.
Speaker 13: It's asking me questions I'm answering, and it's just saying, sorry,
Speaker 13: we can't find it, we can't help you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that could be the case.
Speaker 2: So that the bottom line is maybe just sign up
Speaker 2: for a new Microsoft account if you need that down
Speaker 2: the line, and that way you have it fresh, you
Speaker 2: know what you're doing, and you've got all the information saved.
Speaker 2: The other the only other hint I would give you
Speaker 2: is that sometimes a Microsoft account, like if you sometimes
Speaker 2: it's like an email address like mine is actually another
Speaker 2: email address, which is thoroughly confusing and it you know,
Speaker 2: it's just one of those things where it's kind of weird.
Speaker 2: So it's like a different email address from a different
Speaker 2: company that I use as my Microsoft account like username,
Speaker 2: which is just totally like that doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 2: but that's the way I said it. Yeah, Leslie, thanks
Speaker 2: so much for the call today. Do you ever see
Speaker 2: any the housewives when you're out and about or.
Speaker 13: No, all the time?
Speaker 1: Uh, there you go.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a beautiful area, so I understand why they
Speaker 2: might want to live there. Thanks so much for the
Speaker 2: call today. Hopefully you get access to that account. Eighty
Speaker 2: to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 2: four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll take more of your calls.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna explain why if you drive a GM EV
Speaker 2: you've got many more charging options, and later on we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk to Matt Swider about the new iPhone sixteen.
Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology live
Speaker 2: from Las Vegas today.
Speaker 1: And uh, let's see. Yeah, beautiful day here, one of
Speaker 1: the most beautiful days I've remembered in Las Vegas because
Speaker 1: the weather is perfect.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm here doing the show. Wife is out by
Speaker 2: the pool. It's a it's a good day, and we're
Speaker 2: going to a concert. It's you know, it's just fun.
Speaker 2: It's fun to get away for a little bit and
Speaker 2: enjoy things like this. Uh, let's go to line four.
Speaker 2: Line four is Karen and San Pedro. Karen, you're on
Speaker 2: with Rich.
Speaker 8: Hi, good morning, Thank.
Speaker 1: You absolutely what can I help you with this morning?
Speaker 8: When I turned on my phone, I have a Samsung
Speaker 8: S twenty four, it's only a couple months old. Instead
Speaker 8: of the home screen opening up, a different page showed up.
Speaker 8: It was a message saying that they were going to
Speaker 8: install apps on my phone, and I had a choice
Speaker 8: of two things at the bottom, once said information or continue.
Speaker 8: I pressed information and it said if you press continue,
Speaker 8: you will have apps installed that we think you will need.
Speaker 8: It did not give me a back arrow, a forward arial.
Speaker 8: It did not give me any way to get out
Speaker 8: of the screen. I kept tapping it. I kept going
Speaker 8: backwards and forwards on it up and down sideways trying
Speaker 8: to get out of it. I'm not sure how I
Speaker 8: got out of it, but I finally did. But I
Speaker 8: want to know what to do the next time as
Speaker 8: this comes up. But I think it's quite I'm not
Speaker 8: sure the word, but for them to say that they're
Speaker 8: going to install apps on my phone without my permission basically.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, so I got to break this down. I
Speaker 2: got to figure out what's happening here. So this is
Speaker 2: Was this a software update? Like, were you installing a
Speaker 2: major software update?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 8: No, it just the screen came up when I Instead
Speaker 8: of my homepage coming up, this page came up and
Speaker 8: it was in different colors, quite pretty, and it said
Speaker 8: we're going to start installing apps on your screen. And
Speaker 8: at the very bottom you had a choice of two things,
Speaker 8: which said information or continue. I don't have the page
Speaker 8: in front of me because I got rid of it,
Speaker 8: and I pushed information rather than continue. And it basically said,
Speaker 8: we are going to start installing apps on your phone
Speaker 8: based on things that we think you will need. And
Speaker 8: I thought, no, I want to stall my own apps.
Speaker 8: I want the choice. And so I sat scrolling back
Speaker 8: and forth and tapping it and scrolling up, scrolling down, sideways,
Speaker 8: trying to figure a way to get out of the
Speaker 8: screen because it did not offer me an option other
Speaker 8: than let them install.
Speaker 2: Interesting, I'm wondering, I'm trying to figure out if this
Speaker 2: is a Samsung thing or a third party app thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking that it might be a third party app.
Speaker 1: When was the last time you installed an app on
Speaker 1: your phone?
Speaker 8: Only when I bought it. When I bought it, they
Speaker 8: took the apps that I had from my previous phone
Speaker 8: and brought them over. I don't usually have too many
Speaker 8: apps on usually just what is required to on the
Speaker 8: phone and a couple others. But I don't like to
Speaker 8: have a lot of apps.
Speaker 2: Okay, so a couple things first off, so physically to
Speaker 2: get around, so a lot of times, whenever there's a
Speaker 2: menu in the middle of your phone that you can't
Speaker 2: get out of, there's typically you have to keep swiping
Speaker 2: to get out of it, which this I'm just saying
Speaker 2: in general, Like I don't know exactly what this screen showed,
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying the things that I've seen. But
Speaker 2: a lot of apps try to trick us into doing
Speaker 2: things we don't want to do.
Speaker 1: It's called a dark pattern.
Speaker 2: And so with this one, with this one specifically, you know,
Speaker 2: there may have been a thing where you had to
Speaker 2: swipe or you had to keep moving to the final
Speaker 2: screen before you can say no, that could have happened otherwise.
Speaker 2: A lot of times I noticed app developers will put
Speaker 2: a tiny X somewhere on the screen in the menu
Speaker 2: that you can't really see. It's very faint, and a
Speaker 2: lot of times it says, oh, do you want to
Speaker 2: subscrib and subscribe as in big bold letters in the
Speaker 2: middle or the bottom, or download this, But in the
Speaker 2: upper right hand corner, upper left hand corner, there's a
Speaker 2: tiny faint X that you can use.
Speaker 1: To X out of that.
Speaker 2: Now, for the future, I would look for something like that,
Speaker 2: but in this case to get out of something like this,
Speaker 2: typically are you using the physical keys at the bottom two?
Speaker 2: Are they using the virtual keys to move around your
Speaker 2: phone or using the swipe gestures.
Speaker 8: Well to ulpen it. I usually just to swipe, and
Speaker 8: then if I want to change pages, I usually use
Speaker 8: the little upside down arrow to go from left page
Speaker 8: to the next to that.
Speaker 1: What you mean, okay?
Speaker 2: So usually so at the bottom of your phone, is
Speaker 2: there are there a little like three buttons there or
Speaker 2: no like on your screen?
Speaker 8: Ah, yes, yes buttons okay.
Speaker 2: So like one'll take you to the homepage, one will
Speaker 2: take you back, one will take you to the Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I gotta remember because mine is not set up that way.
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is right.
Speaker 8: Those were not available to me.
Speaker 1: Nothing, okay.
Speaker 8: Page just had their suggestion that I let them apply
Speaker 8: apps to the phone.
Speaker 2: Okay, So in the future when that happens, I would
Speaker 2: just go ahead and restart your phone and see if
Speaker 2: that goes away. Otherwise you can swipe in from the
Speaker 2: right hand corner to go back and maybe just keep
Speaker 2: going back until you get rid of it. But I
Speaker 2: would go through if I were you, Karen, I would
Speaker 2: go through your list of apps, make sure there are
Speaker 2: no apps that you do not recognize or need uninstall
Speaker 2: those apps, restart your phone, and hopefully that does not
Speaker 2: happen again. Coming up, we're gonna talk iPhone sixteen. This
Speaker 2: is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology the
Speaker 2: website rich On Tech dot TV. Well, it is the
Speaker 2: big iPhone week. iPhone sixteen now in stores. I shared
Speaker 2: my review of it on TV and on my website,
Speaker 2: rich on tech dot TV. Bottom line, I think this
Speaker 2: year for these phones, do you upgrade? That's what everyone
Speaker 2: always wants to know, right, I think the bottom line
Speaker 2: is if you have an iPhone fifteen Pro, Right, if
Speaker 2: you have an iPhone fifteen Pro or Promax, I think
Speaker 2: you skip this upgrade. If you have anything else, I
Speaker 2: think that this would be a good upgrade.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I know the changes are subtle on these phones, but
Speaker 2: I think that they prep you for a world of AI.
Speaker 2: If you don't want that, don't upgrade. The cameras are better,
Speaker 2: the microphones are better. This is on the Pro stuff.
Speaker 2: They've got the new action button. They've got the new
Speaker 2: camera control. I think is very hit or miss. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's one of these things where you have
Speaker 2: to decide, are you happy with your phone that you have,
Speaker 2: then you probably.
Speaker 1: Don't need a new one.
Speaker 2: But if you want to be prepped for the AI
Speaker 2: stuff and you don't have the fifteen Promacs, then you
Speaker 2: know you probably want to get one of these new phones.
Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, the video and pictures that I'm
Speaker 2: taking on these phones.
Speaker 1: Are really really good. Like I am.
Speaker 2: I was at the concert last night and the photos
Speaker 2: and videos I got are just truly incredible. Let's bring
Speaker 2: on the guy that was at the launch of the
Speaker 2: iPhone sixteen in New York City, Matt Swider. He is
Speaker 2: a writer of a newsletter called The Shortcut.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Why am I echoing here?
Speaker 3: Up?
Speaker 1: There we go, Matt, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hi, Rich, how you doing? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic.
Speaker 2: So tell me you were out at the fifth Ave
Speaker 2: store in New York City. That's where it all started
Speaker 2: for me. I was there for the original iPhone in
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: What was it like?
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's always a spectacle and it actually makes you know,
Speaker 14: pre order your iPhone at eight am, you know, getting
Speaker 14: that first time slot worth it because you know, I
Speaker 14: got to see Tim Cook, I got to see Jaws,
Speaker 14: who was in charge of marketing at Apple, and like
Speaker 14: all the key players are there, there's a lot of
Speaker 14: excitement and you get to be around really big fans
Speaker 14: of Apple products. So the iPhone came out, the Apple
Speaker 14: Watch and two new sets of AirPod AirPods four with
Speaker 14: a lot of pro features.
Speaker 2: When you say Jaws, you mean Greg jawswac He is
Speaker 2: the kind of worldwide head of Apple marketing. He's a
Speaker 2: big guy there. I mean, he's like very he knows
Speaker 2: his stuff, and it's it's so funny. I had a
Speaker 2: meeting with Apple once and like he was in the meeting.
Speaker 2: It was me and him, and I'm like, wait, I'm
Speaker 2: you're literally just meeting with me to like talk about
Speaker 2: some new product. And he's like, yeah, it's your time.
Speaker 2: You got fifteen minutes. I was like, oh, okay, cool. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's a.
Speaker 1: Good long time with him.
Speaker 14: I take a photo with him every year with the
Speaker 14: new iPhone, which I've been playing with, the iPhone sixteen
Speaker 14: Pro Max along with the original iPhone, the iPhone one,
Speaker 14: just to compare how they are. So it's been three
Speaker 14: years running that he takes a photo with me. So
Speaker 14: I force them into that, but it's it's the start
Speaker 14: contrast of where we've gone with the latest phones.
Speaker 2: And do you post those I've seen this before. I
Speaker 2: kind of forgot that you did this, But do you
Speaker 2: post it on the shortcut dot com?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 14: I do, And it takes a little while to get
Speaker 14: those photos off of the old iPhone because iTunes doesn't
Speaker 14: exist anymore. And you know, get grabbing those photos is
Speaker 14: a little difficult, but I managed to do it every year.
Speaker 14: So you'll see that on the shortcut coming up.
Speaker 1: That is so wild. It's tough to get the photos
Speaker 1: off the old phone.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 1: I wish I kept my original iPhone.
Speaker 2: I probably howked it on eBay at some point for
Speaker 2: like one hundred bucks and like I now, I'm really
Speaker 2: kicking myself.
Speaker 1: It's an antique now. Yeah, all right, so what's your advice?
Speaker 1: What's your impressions of these devices? I know people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a iteration, it's you know, it's not a big deal,
Speaker 1: but like, I actually think they did a really good
Speaker 1: job this year. It's like a sleeper awesome iPhone.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I called it Apple's smartest upgrade yet, and that's simply
Speaker 14: because it's gonna have Apple Intelligence on there. And I'm
Speaker 14: on the iOS eighteen point one betas that's coming in October.
Speaker 14: But what I really like is one extra battery life
Speaker 14: and two I've been having a lot of fun that
Speaker 14: the four K one hundred and twenty frames per second,
Speaker 14: and that means it takes excellent slow motion video, almost
Speaker 14: like you're in a movie, and you know, I've been
Speaker 14: taking pictures of like New York City cabs and the
Speaker 14: crowds and everything, and it seems like the opening shot
Speaker 14: to a movie, and that's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 14: So definitely those are like the UNSOUMD features in my
Speaker 14: opinion that I didn't realize until I opened up the box.
Speaker 14: And then there's camera control, which is a very obvious
Speaker 14: new button to make stylizing your photos and opening up
Speaker 14: the camera app and capturing things really easy. So camera
Speaker 14: control is a new multifunction button, and that's brand new
Speaker 14: to all four new iPhones.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 2: I do like the camera control for opening the camera.
Speaker 2: I sometimes forget to use it because it's still, you know,
Speaker 2: getting that muscle memory, and it saved me an icon
Speaker 2: on my home screen. But I do think that it's
Speaker 2: gonna take some getting used to if I ever use
Speaker 2: it for anything beyond opening up, Like I'm not really
Speaker 2: using it as the shutter are.
Speaker 14: You sometimes And I just like the versatility of it,
Speaker 14: and I really feel like there are people I talk
Speaker 14: to that say I didn't know I could stylize my
Speaker 14: photos because the auction was previously hidden too many, too
Speaker 14: many menus deep on screen, right, and so I'm almost
Speaker 14: finding people as I hand my phone to them saying,
Speaker 14: oh you can. You can change the undertones, you can
Speaker 14: change the styles of things. So it's kind of highlighting
Speaker 14: a lot of the versatility of the iPhone camera that
Speaker 14: was buried a little bit before. So it's that's where
Speaker 14: I see the functionality playing a big role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the thing that's new with all the photograph styles,
Speaker 2: I think that's what they used to call it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do. You know, if you
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 2: Take like photos that are kind of like, you know,
Speaker 2: just the contrast is boosted or something like that, you
Speaker 2: can do it every single time and you can set
Speaker 2: that just once before it would change the actual photo.
Speaker 2: Now it's like non destructive, Like if you want, you
Speaker 2: can actually go back and let's say, let's say you
Speaker 2: took all your pictures black and white right for like
Speaker 2: a week and you're like, oh, man, like now I
Speaker 2: want these in color again. You can actually go through
Speaker 2: and like remove that which before you couldn't right.
Speaker 14: Right to give you an analogy of those Instagram photos
Speaker 14: that we all took back in the day that kind
Speaker 14: of looked like old faded polaroids that was like a style,
Speaker 14: but you know, if you didn't keep the original photo
Speaker 14: from before that you can't really go back, so you're
Speaker 14: your point of like, it's non destructive. It's like if
Speaker 14: the style changes in the future, those original photos still exist.
Speaker 14: So I find that really helpful to you can you
Speaker 14: can set the tone and set the style live in
Speaker 14: the camera, but you can also change it in post,
Speaker 14: which is really nice.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the different models?
Speaker 2: So, I know the iPhone sixteen is typically for you know,
Speaker 2: the average person doesn't necessarily need like all the wild
Speaker 2: features on the pro models.
Speaker 1: You know, what's your recommendation here?
Speaker 14: Yeah, so you know, the prices start at seven ninety
Speaker 14: nine for the regular iPhone at sixteen. I really like
Speaker 14: the colors ultramarine is this like bluish purple color that
Speaker 14: I highly recommend. They also have pink, teal, white, and black.
Speaker 14: Those are really good photos out of the main camera
Speaker 14: and the ultra wide camera. But it lacks a telephoto camera.
Speaker 14: So if you want to spend you know, two hundred
Speaker 14: more dollars, you can get the iPhone sixteen Pro as
Speaker 14: opposed to the iPhone sixteen and sixteen plus. I think
Speaker 14: that is worth it for a lot of people out there.
Speaker 14: They might not know it because they all have really
Speaker 14: excellent battery life up to four extra hours than last
Speaker 14: year's iPhones. But the telephoto makes the difference. There's a
Speaker 14: couple extra things like sensors, and I just I bought
Speaker 14: my parents last year. I upgraded them from the iPhone.
Speaker 14: You know, they were on the iPhone se two, right,
Speaker 14: I was a bad son. They had that for way
Speaker 14: too long, so I upgrade them to the last year's iPhone.
Speaker 14: Getting a bigger screen is a big deal, and so
Speaker 14: the pros have a slightly bigger screen and it makes
Speaker 14: just life easier in my opinion, it's it's small, it's
Speaker 14: point two inches bigger six point three inches and six
Speaker 14: point nine inches for the Pro and the Pro Max.
Speaker 14: The keyboard is just easier to use. And that's the
Speaker 14: first thing my parents told me when they tried a
Speaker 14: new phone, going from four point five inches to six
Speaker 14: point one So that is like, it's the life improvement
Speaker 14: for a lot of people using their phone daily. So
Speaker 14: those what the pros offer, you know, the telephoto camera,
Speaker 14: the key the keyboard that's bigger because the screen is
Speaker 14: bigger and six point three inches is a good happy
Speaker 14: medium for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: And also, I mean, I know it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: like a nerdy thing to talk about the refresh rate,
Speaker 2: and I know it's gotten, you know, in the tech circles,
Speaker 2: it's like overdone.
Speaker 1: It's over talked about.
Speaker 2: And I will say, like my wife has one that
Speaker 2: with the you know, it's a standard model right without
Speaker 2: the higher refresh rate, And when I go from my
Speaker 2: phone to hers, it's like, wait, what this is really slow?
Speaker 2: Everything looks like the animations are slow because it's got
Speaker 2: what's called a sixty Hurtz refresh rate versus one twenty
Speaker 2: I think is on the pro And so it's just
Speaker 2: everything looks smoother and more buttery with your you know,
Speaker 2: movements and animations on your phone because the screen is
Speaker 2: a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I think next year that's going to be fixed.
Speaker 2: But I don't think the average person even notices that,
Speaker 2: right if you're not looking at both phones at the
Speaker 2: same time all the time.
Speaker 14: There's a very vocal group that you know can see
Speaker 14: the difference, that you can see it side by side,
Speaker 14: but a lot of people don't notice it until they
Speaker 14: experience it for a while. Where that screen refresh rate
Speaker 14: even scrolling through Instagram. You don't have to be like
Speaker 14: a hardcore gamer to really appreciate it. So once you
Speaker 14: begin to use it, it's hard to go back. But
Speaker 14: if you don't notice it, you know, and you your
Speaker 14: price point is like I can't spend more than seven
Speaker 14: ninety nine and you still want to upgrade to the
Speaker 14: latest iPhones. You know that the iPhone sixteen is a
Speaker 14: pretty good deal, and a lot of carriers are offering
Speaker 14: up to one thousand dollars off. Apple will give you
Speaker 14: six hundred and fifty dollars off if you trade it
Speaker 14: in the latest iPhone fifteen Pro Match, but carriers, because
Speaker 14: they have you know you're paying more over time, we'll
Speaker 14: give you up to one thousand dollars off. So there
Speaker 14: are good deals out there if you hunt for them.
Speaker 2: All right, Matt Swider the Shortcut dot com. Subscribe to it.
Speaker 2: It is free. It's a great newsletter. You got what
Speaker 2: one hundred and something thousand people that get this every
Speaker 2: week and some really great information there.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 14: Absolutely thanks for having me on Rich All right.
Speaker 1: Matt, looking forward to seeing that comparison picture again. It's
Speaker 1: so wild.
Speaker 2: We thought pictures were so good on the older iPhones,
Speaker 2: and now every time we get a new one, it's like, wait,
Speaker 2: that's what we used to have.
Speaker 1: Fun stuff eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Actually, let's not do the phone number because we're gonna
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here closing
Speaker 2: out the show. Let me get through a couple of
Speaker 2: news headlines before we get to the feedback. GM You
Speaker 2: have a GM EV. You now have access to Tesla superchargers.
Speaker 2: You do need an adapter though you got to buy
Speaker 2: the adapter. It's two hundred and twenty five dollars. Once
Speaker 2: you have that, you can plug in at Tesla superchargers.
Speaker 2: There are seventeen eight hundred of them, and if you
Speaker 2: have experience with other chargers, throw it all away, because
Speaker 2: the Tesla chargers are incredible. They work, they're fast, and
Speaker 2: it's all automatic. It is not like what you're used to.
Speaker 2: This is a big deal as all of these automakers
Speaker 2: adopt the Tesla superchargers.
Speaker 1: If you're a gm EV. Definitely get that adapter. Check
Speaker 1: it out. Flappy Bird making a comeback. Flappy Bird. Remember
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 2: You've flopped the bird, you know, you get through all
Speaker 2: the little things in the on the screen and it's uh,
Speaker 2: it was got God. It's been ten years since it
Speaker 2: went away, but it's returning to iOS and Android in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Not by the original creator.
Speaker 2: He removed it in twenty fourteen because too many people
Speaker 2: were addicted to it. I don't think it was that addictive,
Speaker 2: but I guess maybe it was. Flappy Bird Foundation bought it.
Speaker 2: Now they're going to have all new game modes, basketball,
Speaker 2: competitive practice. Look for it in twenty twenty five. They've
Speaker 2: got a one minute teaser trailer if you have a
Speaker 2: Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra got a huge software update,
Speaker 2: all new AI enhancements, sketched image, AI portrait styles, writing,
Speaker 2: assistant call, real time call translation, PDF stuff, voice recording
Speaker 2: to text notes. All the stuff that they introduced on
Speaker 2: their foldable phones earlier this couple months ago is now
Speaker 2: on the S twenty four Ultra.
Speaker 1: That phone just keeps getting better.
Speaker 2: I still think on the Android side of things, that
Speaker 2: is the powerhouse that's the phone to beat pixels.
Speaker 1: Nice, but the S twenty four Ultra actually feels powerful. YouTube.
Speaker 2: When you pause YouTube on your TV, don't be surprised
Speaker 2: if you see an ad. YouTube is rolling out pause ads,
Speaker 2: so when you pause a video on your TV screen,
Speaker 2: you will see an ad. We're seeing this with so
Speaker 2: many streaming services. What's the other one? Peacock has it
Speaker 2: at and t DirecTV. So many of these things have it.
Speaker 2: So if you're not paying for the service, like if
Speaker 2: you have an AD supported, you're going to be seeing
Speaker 2: those ads on the pause screen.
Speaker 1: Makes sense, right. Let's see here.
Speaker 2: We've got Gail from Huntington Beach Rights in I've received
Speaker 2: several alarming emails I suspect or spam. They include my
Speaker 2: personal information and an attachment. The letter claims they've tracked
Speaker 2: me visiting adult sites, added something to my apps to
Speaker 2: monitor me, and threatened to share compromising pictures with my
Speaker 2: contacts unless I pay bitcoin. I've received four of these
Speaker 2: from different senders. What steps should I be taking to
Speaker 2: protect myself? There are no steps you can take. Just
Speaker 2: protect your email address as much as possible. This is
Speaker 2: this is basically referred to as an extortion email. What
Speaker 2: they're doing is they're finding personal information on the web,
Speaker 2: like an old password or something, and they're pasting in
Speaker 2: that pasting it in that email, and they're making it
Speaker 2: seem like they know about you, but they're just sending
Speaker 2: this out to all people. Don't respond, don't click links
Speaker 2: in the email. Change your password. If one of the
Speaker 2: passwords they mentioned is one that you still use, do
Speaker 2: not reuse that. That's why I never say to reuse
Speaker 2: the passwords, and obviously don't pay the ransom. They don't
Speaker 2: actually have anything on you. Bob writes in from Baron
Speaker 2: Dooda Baron Doudah. After getting the official iOS eighteen update
Speaker 2: as a beta subscriber, I noticed issues the next day.
Speaker 2: Calls weren't coming through, and my Apple Watch wasn't tracking walks.
Speaker 2: Turns out Do not Disturb was on full time despite
Speaker 2: being scheduled for night hours only. The update might have
Speaker 2: occurred during the schedule do not Disturb time. Watch out
Speaker 2: for this. If you update, check your do not Disturb settings.
Speaker 2: After Steve from Beaumont writes in, Hey, Rich, I know
Speaker 2: you are frugal, so this is an observation rather than
Speaker 2: a question. In many instances, Amazon tax on the cost
Speaker 2: of shipping to an item that might cost less at
Speaker 2: other vendors. Case in point, I needed to resupply my
Speaker 2: men in skin bracer aftershave Amazon's price two for seventeen
Speaker 2: nineteen Walmart six dollars twenty seven cents. I ordered it
Speaker 2: and picked it up within an hour. I suppose that
Speaker 2: my order met a certain amount, I could have had
Speaker 2: it shipped to me for free, but that's not the point.
Speaker 2: Amazon tacked on a couple bucks and has the chutzpah
Speaker 2: to say free shipping. I thought I paid for shipping
Speaker 2: with my annual fee. Yes, Steve, you're right. You notice something.
Speaker 2: People don't price check Amazon because they have the prime
Speaker 2: and they just order stuff on there. They don't realize
Speaker 2: sometimes it is cheaper on other websites. You found that out.
Speaker 2: Dylan from our we did a story with retro Respawn
Speaker 2: on TV. This was a video game used video game shop.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Just want to congratulate you on the awesome story about
Speaker 2: the retro gaming community and to personally express my gratitude
Speaker 2: for covering our video game store.
Speaker 1: Video games have always been my passion.
Speaker 2: It makes me happy to be able to reach more
Speaker 2: people in our community who are rediscovering their childhood or
Speaker 2: have yet to discover the pioneers of gaming world. Nothing
Speaker 2: beats a newcomer super excited to see and talk about
Speaker 2: all the retro stuff from their childhood. Some carry sentimental,
Speaker 2: cherished memories behind them and always warms my heart knowing
Speaker 2: I could spark an emotion in others.
Speaker 1: It reminds me why I do what I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to watch that story Retro Respawn,
Speaker 2: it was great. We did it on TV and you
Speaker 2: can check the newsletter this week for that. Tony writes
Speaker 2: in thank you Rich Honestly I appreciate it. I mentioned
Speaker 2: I religiously listen to all of your podcasts.
Speaker 1: You have a unique way of helping people.
Speaker 2: Love when you personalize your events, your wonderful family, love
Speaker 2: when your mom, wife and kid was on your show.
Speaker 2: Very entertaining. Thank you again. Well, thank you Tony for listening.
Speaker 2: I really do appreciate it. And you know, look, we're
Speaker 2: all human.
Speaker 1: I'm just sharing my experience going through this world as
Speaker 1: a person that's really into technology, and hopefully along the
Speaker 1: way I can help you and others as well. That
Speaker 1: is going to do it.
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