Speaker 1: What's going on. Rich DeMuro here, Rich on tech Live.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. This is where we talk about
Speaker 1: technology and getting the most out of your gadgets. My
Speaker 1: name is Rich Dmuro. I am your host. I'll be
Speaker 1: leading you through the next forty five minutes to an
Speaker 1: hour of tech questions and answers. We'll talk technology. Lots
Speaker 1: of cool stuff happening in the tech world, like SpaceX
Speaker 1: launching its first space Internet satellites. We've got what to
Speaker 1: expect from the big mobile cell phone show that's gonna
Speaker 1: happen this weekend in Barcelona. We've got the tragic the
Speaker 1: tragic decision of iPhone versus Pixel. Amazon and Apple is
Speaker 1: upgrading their AirPods. Lots of stuff going on. There's always
Speaker 1: so many things happening in the tech world. We'll get
Speaker 1: to hopefully all those stories. But most importantly, I will
Speaker 1: be taking your phone phone calls at the phone number
Speaker 1: you see three one zero five to nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three. If this is the first time you're
Speaker 1: seeing me, well that's a surprise because I don't know
Speaker 1: how you found me. But welcome to everyone watching on
Speaker 1: Facebook Live. If you've done this before. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining me once again. You know that this is
Speaker 1: all done by me, So I'm I'm like, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on here, so sometimes there's
Speaker 1: little glitches, but most of the time it does work.
Speaker 1: And primarily I'm here for you. I just want to
Speaker 1: answer your tech question. So if you have one, go
Speaker 1: ahead and dial me up on the phone line and
Speaker 1: I will get to you to answer your tech questions.
Speaker 1: And of course you can also leave a chat on
Speaker 1: the Facebook Live and I will get to some of
Speaker 1: those questions as well. So let's talk real quick, because
Speaker 1: I find this so fascinating that SpaceX launched the first
Speaker 1: of many many satellites. It launched two Space Internet satellites,
Speaker 1: the first of nearly twelve thousand, So twelve thousand satellites
Speaker 1: they're going to launch. And here's the thing we all
Speaker 1: complain about our Internet, you know, Well, this is the
Speaker 1: best part is that they want to blanket the entire
Speaker 1: United States with Space Internet. So this would just be amazing.
Speaker 1: They would have a set of satellites, twelve thousand satellites
Speaker 1: orbiting the Earth. And here's the thing. They're not stationary satellites.
Speaker 1: These satellites would move, so four thousand of them would
Speaker 1: sit about seven hundred miles up, seventy five hundred of
Speaker 1: them would sit about two hundred miles up, and they
Speaker 1: have to move around at all times. And the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal says that in twenty seventeen, the company expects
Speaker 1: to have more than forty million subscribers to the service
Speaker 1: by twenty twenty five, amounting to thirty billion dollars in revenue.
Speaker 1: So this is a this is something big that's happening
Speaker 1: in our world. So when we think about our internet,
Speaker 1: one of the common complaints I get is I'm paying
Speaker 1: too much and I'm not getting the best speed. And
Speaker 1: if you have Internet that comes over like satellite already,
Speaker 1: you know that it's painfully slow if you live out
Speaker 1: in rural areas well. This is going to change all that. Apparently,
Speaker 1: they're not going to put up satellites that put super
Speaker 1: slow internet. This is gonna be fast Internet. I call
Speaker 1: it laser internet because it just sounds so awesome. But
Speaker 1: think about it. When you could blanket the entire Earth
Speaker 1: and have a signal theoretically anywhere you go, what kind
Speaker 1: of implications does that have for our technology, for our world,
Speaker 1: and Elon Musk is really really killing it with all
Speaker 1: his things that he's doing. So if you were in LA,
Speaker 1: they did the second launch today, but obviously you might
Speaker 1: be listening to this a little bit later, so this
Speaker 1: is just the first of twelve thousand. Wow, that's so
Speaker 1: crazy to think about. But here's the thing. Obviously this
Speaker 1: is probably going to be pretty expensive at the beginning,
Speaker 1: but the prices will come down over time, or maybe
Speaker 1: it won't be that expensive. I remember when Sirius XM
Speaker 1: launched and it was such a big deal because it
Speaker 1: was the first time you could have a coast to
Speaker 1: coast radio. Do you remember that was like in two
Speaker 1: thousand or two thousand and one. They had billboards all
Speaker 1: over LA when that happened. But now we're gonna see
Speaker 1: the same thing with internet. So just imagine serious XM
Speaker 1: radio but Internet anywhere you go. And yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: dropouts here and there, but for the most part, the
Speaker 1: reality of this is going to be amazing Internet everywhere
Speaker 1: you go. I can't wait. Let's see what you guys
Speaker 1: are saying on the Facebook Live. Joe says very cool,
Speaker 1: Dominic says SpaceX great launch. Let's see what else we
Speaker 1: have here. Let's see. Joe Anne says, I did not
Speaker 1: know SpaceX was about the Internet, so cool, though I'm
Speaker 1: worried about the lack of net neutrality though, yeah, I
Speaker 1: hear you, the lack of net neutrality. This is a
Speaker 1: private enterprise, so you know, we'll see what happens with this.
Speaker 1: But I have good feelings for Elon. I feel like
Speaker 1: he does the right thing and I think he's looking
Speaker 1: out for us. And Chris says Serious was like eight
Speaker 1: bucks a month, so yeah, that's the funny thing about
Speaker 1: Serious XM. It started out really cheap, and it just
Speaker 1: keeps getting more and more expensive. So yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know about that one. We'll see. We'll see how expensive
Speaker 1: satellite internet is, all right. Phone lines open three one
Speaker 1: zero five nine four three zero zero three three one
Speaker 1: zero five nine four three zero zero three. Michael says
Speaker 1: it's going to be a big boon to autonomous driving,
Speaker 1: and Kat says, I love the idea of internet everywhere,
Speaker 1: especially for my husband. All right, let's get to our ope.
Speaker 1: We had our first caller that got a little little
Speaker 1: shy there, so they hung up there they are, all right,
Speaker 1: first caller five five nine, you're on with Rich. Who
Speaker 1: am I speaking with?
Speaker 2: Hey Rich, this is Wayne from Presde California. Hey Wayne,
Speaker 2: how's it going.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? How are you doing good?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for taking my call. Watch you on KTLA
Speaker 2: whenever I can get in the LA area.
Speaker 1: So awesome.
Speaker 2: Thanks for doing the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks for.
Speaker 2: I am looking into getting a Wi Fi router because
Speaker 2: my Apple expressions are pretty much fight in the dust.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the Eero. Okay, what do you think
Speaker 2: about the Euro? I know it's very expensive.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's very expensive. Here's the deal. That's the one
Speaker 1: that I have. It is the best, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: I've tried a couple of them. I love the Euro because,
Speaker 1: first off, they invented the category. So basically, while everyone
Speaker 1: else was doing these extenders and boosters, Ero was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's just do something totally different. And
Speaker 1: it's been around for a couple of years. Like I
Speaker 1: used to see that sees. The problem was it was
Speaker 1: prohibitively expensive. Now it's just expensive. But I will tell
Speaker 1: you the setup is simple, the service is amazing. The
Speaker 1: actual devices are super clean. They fit in. If you're
Speaker 1: an Apple guy, you had an airport extreme you clearly
Speaker 1: like design. These things are well designed. And I will
Speaker 1: tell you I pay for one hundred Internet all around
Speaker 1: my house. You know, that's what comes in at the source,
Speaker 1: and I get one hundred down every single corner of
Speaker 1: my house. My father in law, who has a larger
Speaker 1: home than I do, we install this in his place.
Speaker 1: And he used to have spotty, spotty internet everywhere. We
Speaker 1: used to have all kinds of extenders and all stuff
Speaker 1: going on. In his place. We put euro in. He's
Speaker 1: gotten four or five of those things in every corner.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, he gets a hundred in every
Speaker 1: corner of his house. It is unbelievable. The only other
Speaker 1: one that now here's the downside, Wayne, is that Eero
Speaker 1: is a startup. You heard that they just laid off
Speaker 1: a bunch of people a couple of weeks ago. So
Speaker 1: there's always yeah, so there's always the risk of Euroo
Speaker 1: going under. And if they go under, then you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't bode very well for the system because it
Speaker 1: is it is a Wi Fi system. Now, it probably
Speaker 1: would rely on their back end servers and things like
Speaker 1: that to operate like your standard Wi Fi router or
Speaker 1: your standard router. I guess I should say that would
Speaker 1: still pretty much work. Now there's a couple other ones
Speaker 1: out there. Let's see what's the other one that people like.
Speaker 1: I think it's called Orby is the other one that
Speaker 1: people like as well, and this is Netgear. Now, Netgear's
Speaker 1: been around forever and Orby is their big brand. So
Speaker 1: you can kind of compare those and see which one
Speaker 1: you like. But personally, I love my hero. I think
Speaker 1: it's fantastic and I would go with it for sure,
Speaker 1: And you're gonna love.
Speaker 2: It fantastic, thank you very much. Yeah, it's my expresses
Speaker 2: and my extremes are slowly as taking a dive. And
Speaker 2: since Apple's that gonna supported anymore, I need to move
Speaker 2: on as something else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think you'll be really happy with it.
Speaker 1: It's just great how you can manage it too. It's
Speaker 1: all from your phone. The way you set them up
Speaker 1: is all through your smartphone. It actually tells you, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you need to put this in a little bit further
Speaker 1: away or a little bit closer, and you can add
Speaker 1: onto your system as you go along. So I told
Speaker 1: this story last show, but basically I was at my
Speaker 1: brother in law's house and his internet was pretty spotty.
Speaker 1: And I said, look, we got to go out and
Speaker 1: get you Eero. And we went to best Buy and
Speaker 1: I kind of talked to the best Buy guy because
Speaker 1: I love euro and he said, well, Orby's also selling
Speaker 1: pretty hot. But you know, I decided on the Ero
Speaker 1: at the end of the day because that's the one
Speaker 1: I have, and he just loves it. So he and
Speaker 1: he has more stuff than I do. He's got all
Speaker 1: kinds of cameras and all kinds of stuff set up
Speaker 1: in his place, Chrome Cast Sonos, and it's handling it
Speaker 1: like a champ. So you'll be very happy.
Speaker 2: All right, Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1: All right, Wayne, thanks for calling in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Phone number is three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three. Let's just go right to seven one
Speaker 1: four seven one four. You're on with Rich. Who might
Speaker 1: I speaking with Rich?
Speaker 4: It's Debbie and I'm calling you back from last show
Speaker 4: because you did recommend to be getting the Orby and
Speaker 4: I purchased it.
Speaker 1: Love it and you love it? Okay, So how was
Speaker 1: it to set up? How much was it? First?
Speaker 4: Super easy on Amazon?
Speaker 2: It was about two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: Bucks okay for what that's a two packs the.
Speaker 4: Two pack, but it covers five thousand square feet, so
Speaker 4: it's more than enough. And the setup was super easy.
Speaker 4: It was literally plug it in and it walked you
Speaker 4: through on the app on your phone how to do it.
Speaker 4: And I can't even say enough about it. I'm getting
Speaker 4: great speeds. I'm getting over one hundred speed, which is bizark,
Speaker 4: So I'm not paying for over one hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mine will go up to one twenty sometimes and
Speaker 1: I pay for one hundred. I think it's just the
Speaker 1: way the networks are set up. They you know, they
Speaker 1: can regulate them only I'm sure there's a plus or
Speaker 1: minus a little bit on each side. And so what
Speaker 1: are you able to do now? So what were you
Speaker 1: not able to do before? And what can you do now?
Speaker 4: I had just a ton of dead spots throughout my
Speaker 4: house and I work from home. My speeds were really slow.
Speaker 4: I was dropping calls on my phone. So now I
Speaker 4: hook up Wi Fi, you know, call on my phone too,
Speaker 4: no issues, and we can you know, we can. I
Speaker 4: can use my laptop, somebody else can be on the
Speaker 4: computer and we just don't have any issues with any connection. Connectivity.
Speaker 1: Isn't that Isn't that amazing? Because for so many years. Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's how Wi Fi this was like the progression
Speaker 1: of Wi Fi. First off, we get Wi Fi and
Speaker 1: we're just like amazed that it works right. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden we start to do all this
Speaker 1: stuff and Wi Fi can't really keep up, and now
Speaker 1: we hate Wi Fi because it never works right. And
Speaker 1: now we're back to this world with these new systems
Speaker 1: where Wi Fi is actually amazing. And when you have
Speaker 1: one of these systems and you see how great your
Speaker 1: internet connection can be everywhere, it really does open up
Speaker 1: your mind again because you're like, oh, wait a second,
Speaker 1: I can use my computer outside a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: outside my back door, or I can use this there.
Speaker 1: I'm also looking at the ORB website and I like
Speaker 1: how it has the ports on the back too. That's
Speaker 1: something that you need to look at because when you're.
Speaker 4: Shopping for we have our TV put plugged directly into
Speaker 4: that too for that piece of it. So when we
Speaker 4: use our smart TV, yeah, it runs much faster hardwire.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: That is one benefit. Because the new some of the
Speaker 1: on my eurosystem, they have these things called beacons, and
Speaker 1: they actually ditched the Ethernet jacks on the back of those,
Speaker 1: which I don't like because the original eros all had them.
Speaker 1: So that is something to look out for if you're
Speaker 1: if you're buying one of these systems, you know, think
Speaker 1: about that you want to have an Ethernet port on
Speaker 1: the back of these things, or at least some of them,
Speaker 1: because you want to have that option. Like here in
Speaker 1: my office, I do want a wired ethernet because sometimes
Speaker 1: I need to plug in like a server or right
Speaker 1: now my computer is plugged in hardwire. So that's just
Speaker 1: one consideration to have. But the more you know about
Speaker 1: these things, the better. So I'm glad to hear that
Speaker 1: you like it. And did you set it up all
Speaker 1: by yourself or what.
Speaker 4: I did it all by myself?
Speaker 1: How long did that take?
Speaker 4: And it's like probably fifteen twenty minutes and it was up.
Speaker 1: And running, Debbie, I'd love to hear it. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you called me and said you liked what
Speaker 1: I recommended, and not not to call me and tell
Speaker 1: me you hated what I recommended.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, thanks for your help and our family much easier.
Speaker 1: In the house, beautiful. Thanks so much for watching and
Speaker 1: calling in again for the update. I do appreciate it. Debbie,
Speaker 1: thanks so much. Wow, that's so cool. I love hearing
Speaker 1: this stuff. So Wayne says that the euro Pro has
Speaker 1: Ethernet jacks, which is good. Dominic says, what about Luma? Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's the deal with Luma. That's the first one
Speaker 1: that I purchased, and I bought it because Amazon backed
Speaker 1: the company, and so I said, well, clearly they're going
Speaker 1: to be around forever. And I haven't heard anything about
Speaker 1: them ever since. So I had them for two years
Speaker 1: or so and it was great. The system is great.
Speaker 1: In fact, I've got it in a box and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring it to my dad's place and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: set it up at his house because he really needs
Speaker 1: the internet connection there. So it is working. It's just
Speaker 1: I just don't know what the deal is with Luma.
Speaker 1: I haven't really heard much about that. So this weekend
Speaker 1: is the big Mobile World Congress, which is happening in Barcelona, Spain.
Speaker 1: I've actually never been to this show. I've been to
Speaker 1: so many of these little tech shows all over the world.
Speaker 1: Mobile World Congress I have not been to, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: But it is one of these big tech shows and
Speaker 1: they show off a lot of new phones. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. The problem with all of these tech shows
Speaker 1: at this point is that Number one, a lot of
Speaker 1: these tech companies will have meetings with you before, they
Speaker 1: call them pre briefings, so I can meet with them
Speaker 1: early and get the same information as going to Barcelona
Speaker 1: without the trip. Now, don't get me wrong, I want
Speaker 1: to go to Barcelona. It just so happened that this trip,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of springs up on me. At KTLA,
Speaker 1: there's certain times in the year when I don't like
Speaker 1: to take any time to travel because we're in special
Speaker 1: like right now, it's called SWEEPS, which means you kind
Speaker 1: of want all hands on deck because it's a ratings
Speaker 1: period at KTLA, so you want to be there every day.
Speaker 1: So if I'm out traveling, that means that I'm not
Speaker 1: in studio, and they don't like that, and neither do I.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of the rule of thumb with SWEEPS.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm not going. But here's the thing. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see new cell phones in the next week or
Speaker 1: so from Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, and perhaps BlackBerry, So
Speaker 1: you got to keep an eye out for that news.
Speaker 1: I know that I'm gonna have some news with Samsung
Speaker 1: with their new phones, if you can believe it, their
Speaker 1: new devices. We're already due for an upgrade on those,
Speaker 1: so we've seen a lot of rumors online about that.
Speaker 1: But we're supposed to hear I think they said it's
Speaker 1: a twenty fifth is when we're gonna hear about Samsung. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Sunday. So Sunday the twenty fifth is when we'll
Speaker 1: hear about the Galaxy S nine, and I'm assuming S
Speaker 1: nine plus LG they're gonna have a new phone. The
Speaker 1: problem is, man, when it comes to phones, it has
Speaker 1: really become a two horse race, like Apple and Samsung
Speaker 1: commands so much to the market and everyone else is
Speaker 1: just trying to get the scraps. But if I had
Speaker 1: to recommend other phones that I'm really loving these days
Speaker 1: outside of those two big powerhouse devices. Obviously, the Google
Speaker 1: Pixel is great, but it's a very small device. It
Speaker 1: only appeals to a certain amount of people. It's got
Speaker 1: the best camera. But Motorola is doing really nice stuff
Speaker 1: with their lineup of it's like the Z four or
Speaker 1: something like that. They've got some really nice devices there.
Speaker 1: And then LG I really we got to figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on with them, because I was really disappointed
Speaker 1: with their last phone, the G six, And hopefully they
Speaker 1: will upgrade their camera and make things a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I love the design of it. It's just other than that,
Speaker 1: it was not that great. All right, phone line, it
Speaker 1: is open three one zero five to nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three three one zero five to nine four
Speaker 1: three zero zero three. And Allison says, I loved my BlackBerry. Yes,
Speaker 1: we all loved our Blackberries back in the day. MJ says, wow,
Speaker 1: BlackBerry is making a comeback. And yes, they do have
Speaker 1: a BlackBerry. It's called the key one that they came
Speaker 1: out with last year, and I think they're gonna come
Speaker 1: up with something this year again. And MJ says, wow,
Speaker 1: is BlackBerry making a comeback? And Alison said, is pixel
Speaker 1: really that great? Yes, it is great. It is. Here's
Speaker 1: the deal, and this leads me to my next story. Actually,
Speaker 1: the pixel is not just great. It is phenomenal, Like
Speaker 1: I'm talking leaps and bounds ahead of any device that
Speaker 1: I've ever tested when it comes to their camera. But
Speaker 1: here's the secret of it. The camera is really not
Speaker 1: that good. It's actually what Google is doing in the
Speaker 1: background of processing your pictures, so I call them fake
Speaker 1: pictures because they're so Google is actually using artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: to affect them. So that's really what's happening with your picture.
Speaker 1: So these other companies really have to catch up with that.
Speaker 1: And I'm really talking about the low light pictures. That's
Speaker 1: where it counts. All right, eight and eight you're on
Speaker 1: with rich Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 1: Richard?
Speaker 5: Steve? How you doing?
Speaker 1: Oh Steve, I'm doing fantastic. Where are you calling from?
Speaker 5: Calling from the San Fernanda Valley up here North Hills?
Speaker 1: All right, awesome? What's on your Lineah?
Speaker 5: A few things. I mean, you've been talking to the
Speaker 5: a couple folks about the the routers and modems. I
Speaker 5: guess those are combined units. I assume yes, they received
Speaker 5: the signal from the ISP and then do the do
Speaker 5: the sharing throughout the house without having two devices, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you still need the you still need
Speaker 1: kind of the modem, the cable modem that comes in
Speaker 1: your house, so I mean you connect to that and
Speaker 1: then yes, the router wireless can it handles everything else
Speaker 1: from there?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: And I'm actually myself a Google pixel user.
Speaker 1: I mean, they know when I'm on the phone, how
Speaker 1: good are the pictures?
Speaker 3: Off?
Speaker 5: The pixel pictures are fantastic. I come from using Samsung
Speaker 5: S three and then S five, and then I didn't
Speaker 5: upgrade because I know S five was so good at
Speaker 5: what it did, and then it just became time. The
Speaker 5: S five was just you know, taking a dump and decided, okay,
Speaker 5: well let's go see what's out there. And everybody was
Speaker 5: going to USB three, so I had to make the
Speaker 5: switch anyways, and or USBC, I mean the new charging thing.
Speaker 5: So we went ahead and went with the Pixel. My
Speaker 5: wife and I both have the same phone, and it
Speaker 5: took you know, took me about ten minutes. And then
Speaker 5: you know, learn that there's a couple of little different things,
Speaker 5: but it's still an Android interface, so I'm used to that,
Speaker 5: having never had an iPhone. And yeah, but I'm trying
Speaker 5: to think about switching to either an integrated modem router
Speaker 5: setup or because I don't want to pay the ISP
Speaker 5: to lease or rent whatever it is the modem and
Speaker 5: I have dead spots like you're talking about. I have
Speaker 5: an extender in my living room because the router's back
Speaker 5: in the office and my house is not that big.
Speaker 5: But I'm trying to think, what's what's my next step
Speaker 5: to upgrade my service? So I can, you know, stream
Speaker 5: and watch videos and do hangouts from my garage which
Speaker 5: is just on the other side of the kitchen wall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, these systems that we're talking about are
Speaker 1: definitely going to help you do that. But now, who
Speaker 1: do you have for your internet provider?
Speaker 5: Just Spectrum?
Speaker 1: Okay? Now, they don't charge a rental fee anymore for
Speaker 1: their modems.
Speaker 5: They don't. I haven't looked at my bill lately because
Speaker 5: they don't send me one. It's just digital.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as I know, and you may want
Speaker 1: to check. Maybe you're on an old plan. I don't
Speaker 1: know how long you've had it, but I've got Spectrum.
Speaker 1: I switched last year from you Verse Verse. I did
Speaker 1: pay a rental fee. This one. I do not pay
Speaker 1: a rental fee, and as far as I know, they've
Speaker 1: kind of mixed that into the price. So that's the
Speaker 1: number one.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, and my price went up too, so I
Speaker 5: don't know what they what they're getting me for now.
Speaker 1: Well, see what they're getting. I mean, I pay forty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month. I signed up on a promotion
Speaker 1: which is probably ending any day now because I signed
Speaker 1: up about a year ago, so I think they want
Speaker 1: it to go up to sixty five a month, which
Speaker 1: I'll call them back and I'll just kind of ask,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, can I get this promotion again? Because
Speaker 1: where I live, right, you have a couple of providers
Speaker 1: that I can choose from, so I can always switch
Speaker 1: to a different one if the price is better, you know, right.
Speaker 5: And I kind of had that too, where my price
Speaker 5: was about fifty bucks and I was getting fifty megabits
Speaker 5: or whatever it is, and that was cool, and then
Speaker 5: they tried to jump it up like double the price.
Speaker 5: So I called and they said, okay, well we can
Speaker 5: do one hundred for sixty or sixty five. And then
Speaker 5: I ran that for a year and now I'm up
Speaker 5: to ninety bucks and I don't I don't know if
Speaker 5: I'm still getting one hundred or if I'm also getting
Speaker 5: charged for the for the Router modem unit or I
Speaker 5: don't know what's going on, but I got to take
Speaker 5: a look at it, and, like you said, just call
Speaker 5: them and say, hey, you know what happened to my
Speaker 5: promotional price? What you got going today? Yes, exactly because
Speaker 5: usually they do, right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and you know, and I did read an
Speaker 1: article that said Spectrum was going to try to do
Speaker 1: away with a lot of the promotions, like they're trying
Speaker 1: to get a you know, because everyone knows as long
Speaker 1: as I've had cable internet for you know, many many
Speaker 1: years now, every year you call up and you get
Speaker 1: a new deal. And I think Spectrum they had a
Speaker 1: stat that like people were on like eighty thousand different
Speaker 1: plans or something insane across the US. Oh geez. So
Speaker 1: they did do a good job of kind of streamlining
Speaker 1: the plans. So I do know that, like if you
Speaker 1: call Spectrum, they have like one hundred or three hundred available,
Speaker 1: that's basically it. But then the prices, they're trying to
Speaker 1: make them so that they're pretty streamlined. So just call
Speaker 1: them up and see what they say. That's that's what
Speaker 1: i'd say. But yeah, when it comes to your cable modem,
Speaker 1: you probably don't pay for that. But I would definitely
Speaker 1: look into the Euros of the world or the Orbi's
Speaker 1: of the world and see which one works for you.
Speaker 1: And also just go on Amazon, read some of the reviews,
Speaker 1: read some of the pros, and cons and see what
Speaker 1: people like. But you're going to see a world of
Speaker 1: difference with the Internet that you have. Like I say
Speaker 1: to people, you're actually getting the Internet that you pay
Speaker 1: for when you get one of these services. So Steve, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh I lose you. So Steve, I think that that's
Speaker 1: really where you're at. I think I've lost you. But
Speaker 1: you got the gist there. John Gris says, is Google
Speaker 1: Fiber worth it? Absolutely? If you can get Google Fiber
Speaker 1: where you are, go for Google Fiber. As far as
Speaker 1: I know, it's about seventy dollars seventy five dollars to
Speaker 1: get that, but you get a gig down which is
Speaker 1: ten times faster than what I have at home, which
Speaker 1: is one hundred. Anastasia says, I pay over two hundred
Speaker 1: for Cox TV and Internet. That sounds pretty typical for
Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're bundling products and services.
Speaker 1: The problem is that like I found out with my
Speaker 1: mom when I unbundled her Internet when I cut the
Speaker 1: cord for her a couple of weeks ago, you know,
Speaker 1: they wanted to charge me an astronomical rate for the
Speaker 1: Internet alone, and I said, oh, come on, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that. That's insane. So you know, you got to
Speaker 1: really really convince these people to give you the good
Speaker 1: price because they're just gonna want to charge you a lot.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh eight on eight you're on with Rich
Speaker 1: for Oh Hi, Hey, who am I speaking with?
Speaker 3: Brian?
Speaker 6: Understand?
Speaker 1: Hey Brian, where are you calling from?
Speaker 6: I'm calling from Terminoaks, California?
Speaker 1: All right, what's on your mind?
Speaker 6: I just wanted to see what his opinion is on
Speaker 6: some of the tech hardware or apps out there that
Speaker 6: are good for stuff on TVs, for social media, for
Speaker 6: like nonprofits, promoting school events, stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Well you're talking to me, so you're not. You're
Speaker 1: it sounded like you were asking the call screener. There
Speaker 1: there is none, it's just this is Rich.
Speaker 6: Oh not cool? Hi Rich?
Speaker 1: So Brian, you're okay. So you're saying you want to
Speaker 1: know what social apps are best for, like promoting school.
Speaker 6: Things, apps or even stuff like I used to use
Speaker 6: and I name a brand, a company or a product things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is so.
Speaker 6: I've used the mebo camera before, okay, and I ran
Speaker 6: into more problems than I did discover like positive uses
Speaker 6: for it.
Speaker 3: So I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 6: Things like that things that I can use at live
Speaker 6: events to promote things that happen on school campuses, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, two things. So first off, the program that
Speaker 1: I'm using is is called ECAM Live. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if you see what I've got going on here,
Speaker 1: but this is a one man show here, and I've
Speaker 1: got graphics on screen. I have the ability to bring
Speaker 1: in video if I want, so if I press this,
Speaker 1: let's see what happens here? Come on, resume last or
Speaker 1: here we go. So you see that. If you're watching
Speaker 1: on the Facebook live stream, you can see that I
Speaker 1: just brought in a video. And you guys that are
Speaker 1: listening to obviously hear that as well. Let me stop
Speaker 1: that point get back to where I am here. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so that's one of the features I can bring in
Speaker 1: my computer screen here. So if I want to show
Speaker 1: you guys something on the web, I can do that.
Speaker 1: And there's other things like I can bring in comments
Speaker 1: from people live, which is really cool too. So that's
Speaker 1: one thing that's called ECAM Live. I believe it's forty dollars.
Speaker 1: They gave me a copy of the program I asked
Speaker 1: them for. I said, hey, I'd love to use this
Speaker 1: for my podcast. Can you give me a product of
Speaker 1: you a copy to try? And they said sure, So
Speaker 1: that's number one. Number two, I'd really recommend that you
Speaker 1: use the Facebook Creator app on iPhone because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I've tried Mevo and Mivo's was cool. But Mivo is
Speaker 1: good for like if you're doing a concert or if
Speaker 1: you're just you kind of like a camera that's all
Speaker 1: in one to broadcast something. But I'm using a webcam
Speaker 1: along with this ECAM program. But the Mevo, I agree,
Speaker 1: it was a little complicated for my use and hooking
Speaker 1: things up to it, like external mics and stuff is
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's just a little bit tricky for me.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit more than I wanted. But
Speaker 1: I would really recommend the Facebook Creator app. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. So right now, when you go live
Speaker 1: through the Facebook Creator app, because they're trying to promote it.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that when I go live through there, I
Speaker 1: get more viewers. So that's one thing to think about
Speaker 1: if you want to get the maximum exposure. The other
Speaker 1: thing is that you can create graphics inside that program.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know that, but you can
Speaker 1: go into your Facebook page and create some graphics that
Speaker 1: will show on screen when you go live from that.
Speaker 1: So if you want to put your school logo or
Speaker 1: something like that on there, you can have that built
Speaker 1: right into your phone, which is really cool. You don't
Speaker 1: have to do anything extra and with the iPhone, and
Speaker 1: with the iPhone you can use external mics and stuff
Speaker 1: like that pretty pretty easily.
Speaker 6: And that's all accessed through Facebook or do I need
Speaker 6: to do one of the apps notes.
Speaker 1: To get into that, you've got to download a special
Speaker 1: app called Facebook Creator. So it's a brand new app.
Speaker 1: They just came out that it's only for iPhone right now,
Speaker 1: but it will come out on Android hopefully soon. I
Speaker 1: mean it's Android always seems to lag the iPhone apps,
Speaker 1: but that's a that's a good one as well, so great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would recommend those two things. If you're looking at
Speaker 1: Facebook Live, there's a lot of other things out there
Speaker 1: that kind of let you. I mean, if you want,
Speaker 1: you can go YouTube live. The problem is everyone's on Facebook,
Speaker 1: so that's really the best way to go live out
Speaker 1: of all these services. There was one that my friend
Speaker 1: Jefferson Graham from USA Today used and I got to
Speaker 1: remember what it was smile Facebook Live. Let me see
Speaker 1: what it was called. I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: find it. Yeah, there was like a live streaming app,
Speaker 1: but I can't remember what it was called anyway, So
Speaker 1: there's another. There's a couple of that I've seen him try,
Speaker 1: and you know, none of them are as good as
Speaker 1: the I think the original app has just gotten so
Speaker 1: good that it kind of like does everything you need
Speaker 1: without having external apps. But this ECAM Live, I really
Speaker 1: recommend you just run it off a MacBook and you're
Speaker 1: good to go and you can do a lot of
Speaker 1: great stuff with it, so perfect hopefully. Thank you answer
Speaker 1: your question all right, Brian, thanks so much for calling in.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Full line open three one zero five
Speaker 1: nine four three zero zero three and uh, let's see
Speaker 1: g And Carlos says, Hey, Rich, what app do I
Speaker 1: use to pick someone in an Instagram giveaway on my
Speaker 1: company's Instagram account? Thanks, that's a good question. I know
Speaker 1: how to do it with my Facebook, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it does it with Instagram, So the site
Speaker 1: that I use, and you'll notice later on when I
Speaker 1: do my giveaway. If you're watching on the live show
Speaker 1: I use a site called wu box woo Box wu Box,
Speaker 1: and that will help you choose a winner on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I have not done that personally, but I see it
Speaker 1: as an option in my behind the scenes kind of
Speaker 1: in my tool deck whatever you want to call it. Here,
Speaker 1: I see that, So that's another way to do it.
Speaker 1: And Steven says the TV behind me has turned off.
Speaker 1: I know, and I can turn it back on, but
Speaker 1: it's not really going to do anything, because yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's I had the graphic. I got to figure
Speaker 1: out how to get my graphic to stay up on
Speaker 1: there for some reason. Let's talk about pixel versus iPhone.
Speaker 1: So this is a great article. This was written on
Speaker 1: the Verge, and basically the author is saying how he
Speaker 1: is gripped by a constant fear of choosing the iPhone
Speaker 1: ten versus the Google Pixel two xcel. And I really
Speaker 1: identify with this because I feel the same way. I
Speaker 1: absolutely love my Pixel to xcel, but I also love
Speaker 1: the iPhone ten. And I'm telling you it's really a
Speaker 1: problem because when you're a tech reviewer, you get access
Speaker 1: to a lot of different things, so you get exposed
Speaker 1: to them, and it's just he wrote all about it,
Speaker 1: like the pros and cons of each one, basically saying
Speaker 1: how beautiful the iPhone is, which it is, and the
Speaker 1: notch is a non issue, but the pixels, camera, and
Speaker 1: battery life are just unbelievable, which I agree. Battery I
Speaker 1: never think of on the pixel, and the camera is
Speaker 1: just phenomenal. But when I think about the two devices,
Speaker 1: it really comes down to this. Here's what I've decided.
Speaker 1: And number two, I love the Apple Watch as well,
Speaker 1: and that's a nice companion to iPhone. But here's what
Speaker 1: I've realized. The iPhone is better as a creator's device
Speaker 1: and as a casual user's device. So it does everything
Speaker 1: you need, but it's very casual. It's super simple, everything works.
Speaker 1: You don't even need to download apps if you don't
Speaker 1: want to, because it's got so many great things built in,
Speaker 1: editing and all that stuff. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: the pixel, it really comes down to the camera. And
Speaker 1: it's a great personal assistant because Google Assistant is so
Speaker 1: amazing at voice commands, and also the information that surfaces
Speaker 1: using Google Feed is really amazing. I agree, I'm right
Speaker 1: with you there. The Verge I have the same anxiety,
Speaker 1: but I love it He calls it the tragic anxiety
Speaker 1: of having to choose, and I agree. We live in
Speaker 1: an amazing time right now, because we are in a
Speaker 1: time where smartphones have gotten so good that you're choosing
Speaker 1: between two amazing devices. And if you don't even want
Speaker 1: to spend that much on a pixel Orn iPhone ten,
Speaker 1: I can give you five other devices that are just
Speaker 1: as good, like the one plus five T. That device
Speaker 1: is not even that expensive when you look at it
Speaker 1: compared to Let's see, let's see how much that is
Speaker 1: when you look at it compared to some of these
Speaker 1: big devices. This device is a lot cheaper. And let's
Speaker 1: see how much that is. Five hundred and fifty nine bucks,
Speaker 1: So five hundred dollars if you want for six gigs
Speaker 1: a RAM and sixty four storage. Five point fifty nine
Speaker 1: for one hundred and twenty eight gigs of RAM and
Speaker 1: eight gigs of storage, and that phone is amazing. So
Speaker 1: that is a fantastic device as well. Jim says, I
Speaker 1: love the delayed double TI from Rich. Uh oh, what
Speaker 1: does that mean? Am I? Are you hearing me? Double?
Speaker 1: That's not good? What are the qualities Jamie says for
Speaker 1: a good laptop, just for at home use. If you're
Speaker 1: getting a laptop just for home, don't get a laptop,
Speaker 1: get a desktop, Get an all in one. Go to Costco.
Speaker 1: Usually they have one for about five hundred bucks. That
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. It's totally specked out. You do not need
Speaker 1: a laptop if your computer is gonna sit on a
Speaker 1: desk at home all the time. Guess what. Laptops are
Speaker 1: super expensive for what you get. Yes, you can buy
Speaker 1: one for three four hundred bucks two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: But the reality is you don't want to use that
Speaker 1: as your everyday computer unless you have a use case
Speaker 1: for a laptop. A laptop is meant to go out
Speaker 1: in the world. So if you're just getting a computer
Speaker 1: for your desk to sit right here, don't get yourself
Speaker 1: a laptop. You're spending way too much money and not
Speaker 1: getting enough device for that money. So, yeah, Debbie says,
Speaker 1: I like to take my laptop with me. I take
Speaker 1: my laptop everywhere. And if you've listened to this show,
Speaker 1: you know that my kid recently threw a toy at
Speaker 1: my laptop and cracked the screen. It costs me five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to get it repair. But I will say
Speaker 1: Apple did the repair very fast. Sam from Pomona. You're
Speaker 1: on with Rich what's up? Sam? Hey?
Speaker 3: How's it going good?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? How are those Porsche is treating you? Hey?
Speaker 3: No complaints? Always a good time. Earlier, you guys were
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, like the spectrum is changing, they're
Speaker 3: not charging for the modems and things like that. I've
Speaker 3: been with them for a long time, and when my
Speaker 3: program ran out, basically you know when Charter Bottom, you
Speaker 3: guys on KTLA mentioned that they wouldn't be you know,
Speaker 3: like giving you the deals that Time Warner Cable used to,
Speaker 3: and they didn't, and I cut the cable and so
Speaker 3: I was down to home phone and the internet, and
Speaker 3: they had me paying sixty five for internet and twenty
Speaker 3: bucks for phone. And I recently called them to disconnect
Speaker 3: the phone because I now have a cell phone that
Speaker 3: I don't need the home phone. And now they're making deals,
Speaker 3: but you got to ask for the retention department to
Speaker 3: get them.
Speaker 1: So you're saying ask, Okay, you know that's a good point, Sam,
Speaker 1: because that's funny. You say that because when I called
Speaker 1: to cancel my mom's cable just because she had the
Speaker 1: She had internet, cable TV, and phone line.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: She hasn't used the phone line in ten years since
Speaker 1: I got our cell phone. The cable TV, she had
Speaker 1: literally twelve channels plus Showtime, which they gave her showtime
Speaker 1: for free. I was like, Mom, how many movies are
Speaker 1: you watching on Showtime? Not many, but she had channels
Speaker 1: two through twelve. She lives out in New Jersey, so
Speaker 1: it was a little different than here, but she had
Speaker 1: basic cable. And then when I called to cancel, you're
Speaker 1: absolutely right, they said, this is the price. It was
Speaker 1: like eighty five dollars for just the internet, when she
Speaker 1: was paying eighty for all three of these things, right,
Speaker 1: And so I said, all right, well, transferming to the
Speaker 1: person that cancels it. And she said, okay, transferming to
Speaker 1: the person that cancels. That first question was, hey, we
Speaker 1: can do everything for forty five bucks a month. I'm like,
Speaker 1: why didn't you say that before? So you're right, you
Speaker 1: do have to ask for the retention department. Sam. That
Speaker 1: is a great point because the customer service reps really
Speaker 1: don't have the power. And I'm not saying that as
Speaker 1: a knock on them. They're physically not empowered to do
Speaker 1: the things the retention department does because that's their job
Speaker 1: and that's how they keep people there. So they are
Speaker 1: empowered with better deals and better codes to get people
Speaker 1: to stay.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I think they're finally feeling the pressure of
Speaker 3: all the competition.
Speaker 1: Well I know, but you say that, but really, what
Speaker 1: is the competition out there? I mean it's tough because
Speaker 1: with cable TV, I get it, you got the streaming
Speaker 1: services breathing down their back. But when it comes to Internet,
Speaker 1: most people only have one, maybe two different service providers,
Speaker 1: and one of them is usually pretty bad because it's
Speaker 1: DSL or it's just not as fast. And so of
Speaker 1: course the internet companies that are the cable companies that
Speaker 1: are providing Internet always have the advantage because they have
Speaker 1: the fastest speeds, so they kind of know, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 3: I was gonna move over to Frontier because they have
Speaker 3: the old horizon of FiOS. And what happened was is
Speaker 3: they scheduled, you know, to make the switch. But unlike
Speaker 3: I guess, you know, like Spectrum now, somebody has to
Speaker 3: leave their system to make room for you to get on.
Speaker 3: So you know, they had me all scheduled. Everything was
Speaker 3: supposed to happen. But then I called up and I said, Hey,
Speaker 3: what's going on. They go, oh, we don't have any room.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be a capacity thing, because here's the deal.
Speaker 1: They they spent many years building out those systems, like
Speaker 1: you're talking about FiOS. But the problem is they only
Speaker 1: built them out so far. And you're probably right, they
Speaker 1: literally because each one of those is connected to a home.
Speaker 1: So if they have the if they don't have the
Speaker 1: capacity in the neighborhood. Like let's say there's thirty nodes
Speaker 1: and thirty people are signed up, you're right, they don't
Speaker 1: have the capacity. That's interesting. I didn't realize that they
Speaker 1: actually turned people away, but that's fascinating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was pretty upset, you know, And
Speaker 3: so I'm stuck with the you know, a spectrum because
Speaker 3: there's really nobody else in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And how much you're paying now when all the dust
Speaker 1: has come.
Speaker 3: Well, like I say, I called up and I'm getting
Speaker 3: the one hundred speed internet and I'm getting the home
Speaker 3: phone for sixty five bucks, which is okay, Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I'm paying forty five on
Speaker 1: my just for one hundred, but I don't have a
Speaker 1: phone line and amount of promotion, and they want to
Speaker 1: jump it up to sixty five. So you're basically getting
Speaker 1: the phone line free, depending on how you look at it.
Speaker 1: But for everyone that's listening, you know, if you're paying,
Speaker 1: if you haven't called your cable company in the past year,
Speaker 1: you gotta call him up and just say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to jump ship here, what can you do
Speaker 1: for me? And ask for that retention department.
Speaker 3: I went to a friend's house who also has what
Speaker 3: I had, and I looked at him and go, let's
Speaker 3: get him on the phone. And I did the same
Speaker 3: thing for him.
Speaker 1: And now, yeah, that's your good friend, Sam, you are
Speaker 1: a good friend. All right. Listen, I've got a couple
Speaker 1: questions to answer here on the on the live chat,
Speaker 1: but thanks so much for calling in. I appreciate it
Speaker 1: as you as always good talking dude. All right, Sam,
Speaker 1: take care and keep those porsches. Sam collects cars, so
Speaker 1: he sent me a couple of pictures of them, and
Speaker 1: he keeps me pretty shiny, all right. Kathy says, is
Speaker 1: it possible to edit a video I've taken on my
Speaker 1: iPad or iPhone and if so, how do I do it? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that is, Kathy, one of the best features of the
Speaker 1: iPhone and iPad. You do not need a computer. In fact,
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that you see me post
Speaker 1: to Facebook, I am editing right on my smartphone or
Speaker 1: not so much my iPad, but you can do it there,
Speaker 1: but right on my iPhone. And sometimes I'm i Android. Android, Wait,
Speaker 1: just doesn't you can do it. It's just not as
Speaker 1: good as iPhone when it comes to editing stuff. And
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to knock Android. I love Android, but
Speaker 1: it's just not there. And I'll tell you why. There's
Speaker 1: a thousand different Android models out there that these developers
Speaker 1: have to make their app work with, and that's really
Speaker 1: tough to do, so it ends up not being that good.
Speaker 1: But Apple, there's literally like one set of standards and
Speaker 1: it works on all these devices and so they don't
Speaker 1: have to think about tweaking their app for all these
Speaker 1: different scenarios. And that's why apps usually function better on iOS. Now,
Speaker 1: I know there's gonna be some of you Android nerds
Speaker 1: out there that will debate me on that. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think that sometimes Android apps work better in a let's see,
Speaker 1: how can I say this in a performance way where
Speaker 1: you can share things easier and it can integrate with
Speaker 1: the operating system better when it comes to pure functionality.
Speaker 1: A lot of times, that's why you see the updates
Speaker 1: on iOS first. But a couple options for you, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what I like. Yeah, And we have some
Speaker 1: people chiming in on the live saying that you can
Speaker 1: use iMovie. That's one way. I find iMovie to be
Speaker 1: very complicated, especially on the smartphone, so I don't use
Speaker 1: that one. I actually use an app called video Shop,
Speaker 1: which is really good. But my favorite app for editing
Speaker 1: is Adobe Clip. So you can download that for free
Speaker 1: and you will be amazed what you can do on
Speaker 1: Adobe Clip. I'm trying to find my iPhone here it
Speaker 1: is to look at my apps I use. But Adobe
Speaker 1: Clip is amazing and that's the one that I use
Speaker 1: almost all the time. But Video Shop is really good,
Speaker 1: and I think that one's like one or two dollars,
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to see what else I have on
Speaker 1: here that I use. But that's it, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: really what you need are those two apps. You will
Speaker 1: get through a lot of stuff. But yeah, fantastic question, Kathy,
Speaker 1: that is a good one. Let's see here, we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of Manny says, what pair of headphones are
Speaker 1: the best that you've had or think are the best
Speaker 1: when getting a new phone. Oh man, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I'm just not a headphones guy, so
Speaker 1: I will just use the Apple ones or the ones
Speaker 1: that come in the package. I love. These are from
Speaker 1: a Samsung device. I love these, and I love the
Speaker 1: Apple the Apple earbuds, those to me are the best. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want Bluetooth, I'll tell you which ones I like.
Speaker 1: Their JLab Epic two. I'm typing this in and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you guys here. But these j lab Epic
Speaker 1: twos are fantastic. And let's see if they even know
Speaker 1: they have new ones. I guess, but these are these
Speaker 1: are my favorite. They're just so I tested so many
Speaker 1: of them and these were really really good. So if
Speaker 1: you go to j lab Epic two is there are
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks. You can get them for cheaper online,
Speaker 1: I think. But those are the ones that I love.
Speaker 1: They the battery last forever, they stayin in your ears.
Speaker 1: They're Bluetooth wireless, So check those out on Amazon. Let's
Speaker 1: see how much they're going for on Amazon. Let's see
Speaker 1: Epic Amazon. Let's see how much they are Epic two
Speaker 1: on Amazon are Oh, they're not available anymore. Oh no,
Speaker 1: that means that they've changed them up, so there must
Speaker 1: be a new version. Let's see what it says. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say anything about a new version. Interesting, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe they've done away with those, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. You're gonna have to find something else. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to wireless for expensive, definitely, the AirPods
Speaker 1: are my favorite. Don't go with the pixel buds from Google.
Speaker 1: I don't really like them as much. All right, let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you guys have a lot of questions here.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Yolini says, Yeah, Lanni says, just check my
Speaker 1: spectrum bill. They're charging me for the modem lease. I
Speaker 1: will be calling the retention department later. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: you're on an old plan, so definitely call them up.
Speaker 1: Noel says, is the Ring Home security a good investment? Yes?
Speaker 1: I love the Ring. Definitely put it by your front door,
Speaker 1: and if you can hardwire it, that's the best. But
Speaker 1: if you can use it on a battery. That's fine
Speaker 1: as well. It will work just as well. And gen
Speaker 1: Carlo says Adobe Premier Clip is also availab on Android.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. I do use it on Android as well.
Speaker 1: John says, thanks for the recommendation, and Anthony says, is
Speaker 1: it okay for me to use my old Samsung wireless
Speaker 1: charging for my iPhone X? Yes? The wireless chargers are
Speaker 1: gonna work pretty much with all the different devices at
Speaker 1: this point. It may not be the optimized charge for
Speaker 1: your device, but it's not gonna ruin your device, so yes,
Speaker 1: you can use it. As long as it charges up,
Speaker 1: it will be okay. Nora says, I love your helpful information.
Speaker 1: Is iPhone SE two worth the wait? Or should I
Speaker 1: get the first version? I probably wait for the new one.
Speaker 1: The first one has been around, although let me think
Speaker 1: about that. They just came out with the new version
Speaker 1: recently at the event where they launched the iPhone. I
Speaker 1: think they refreshed the specs on it. So whenever that's happening,
Speaker 1: I always go to mac rumors. There's a thing called
Speaker 1: Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com and s iPhone SE.
Speaker 1: It's been three hundred and thirty eight days since they
Speaker 1: last released one. Yes, that's almost a year. In Apple cycles,
Speaker 1: that's when they usually like to release a new one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's it. So Robert says, what's your
Speaker 1: take on magnetic charging cables? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they it's great if you if it
Speaker 1: works and you have it, but I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: seek them out. They did away with it on my MacBook,
Speaker 1: which was really annoying because I loved my my mag
Speaker 1: safe all right, phone lines open three one zero five
Speaker 1: to nine four three zero zero three three one zero
Speaker 1: five nine four three zero zero three. According to Recode,
Speaker 1: Amazon is opening up to six more of their Amazon
Speaker 1: Go cashier list stores in the next year or so.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but one of them apparently is gonna
Speaker 1: be in Los Angeles and so they don't really have
Speaker 1: many details. This is all rumors, but they are saying
Speaker 1: that this is going to be at the Grove, which
Speaker 1: if you live in LA you know where the Grove is.
Speaker 1: It's kind of in the middle of town. Well would
Speaker 1: you call that downtown? I don't know. It's in the
Speaker 1: middle of Hollywood. It's it's south of Hollywood. I guess
Speaker 1: you can say, but it's kind of this grand outdoor
Speaker 1: shopping area. But the weird thing is, I don't really
Speaker 1: understand why they put an Amazon Go there, that this
Speaker 1: is basically a grocery store, and I don't really see
Speaker 1: that being a grocery store now. What I do see
Speaker 1: is them Okay, so the grocery by the way, if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar, how this works, the Amazon Go store.
Speaker 1: You go inside, you scan a QR code at the
Speaker 1: entrance with your Amazon app, and it links you up
Speaker 1: into the store, and then whenever you pull off the shelf,
Speaker 1: it somehow registers that and then you walk out of
Speaker 1: the store and it charges your Amazon account. Pretty brilliant, right,
Speaker 1: people are They already have this in Seattle. This is
Speaker 1: not a far fetched idea. It's literally happening in Seattle
Speaker 1: as we speak. But they want to open a bunch
Speaker 1: more of these. These are convenience stores, grocery stores, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call them. But I just don't understand
Speaker 1: and why they would put this at the Grove. They
Speaker 1: don't really have a grocery store there. You don't really
Speaker 1: go grocery shopping at the Grove, So I don't really
Speaker 1: see this working now, I do see an Amazon bookstore,
Speaker 1: and I can understand maybe they're going to open up
Speaker 1: in Amazon Books that has this go technology, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure because they already have a Barnes and Noble
Speaker 1: at the Grove unless it's closed. Last I checked. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's see if it's still there the Grove. So it
Speaker 1: seems like the Grove Barnes and Noble is still open,
Speaker 1: so that's good news. I noticed a couple weeks ago
Speaker 1: they closed the Barnes and Noble that was at the
Speaker 1: Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. That was a big one,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, kind of a weird location. I
Speaker 1: definitely would not go grocery shopping at the Grove if
Speaker 1: you've ever been in that area. The traffic around there
Speaker 1: is absolutely horrendous. Ever since the Grove opened, it's really
Speaker 1: done phenomenal for that area of Los Angeles. I guess
Speaker 1: you'd called Central La, but it is. It is somewhere
Speaker 1: you don't want to be hanging out, and if you
Speaker 1: bunch of groceries to lug, you do not want to
Speaker 1: be there. Three one zero five nine four three zero
Speaker 1: zero three. If you have a question, I'll take probably
Speaker 1: one more before I go, So get your phone call in.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about headphones, and it looks like apparently
Speaker 1: Apple is going to upgrade the AirPods. And air pods
Speaker 1: are absolutely one of my favorite gadget inventions ever because
Speaker 1: they are the first wireless headphones that just sort of
Speaker 1: work every single time. I've had these things for about
Speaker 1: a year and I don't even think I've ever charged them,
Speaker 1: like maybe twice, because the battery just lasts forever. And
Speaker 1: here's the deal. So the rumor is, according to Bloomberg,
Speaker 1: this is Mark German. He has all the inside scoob
Speaker 1: on everything Apple. I mean, he's got some kind of
Speaker 1: good contacts there that tell him everything. So that Bloomberg
Speaker 1: actually hired this guy. He used to work at a
Speaker 1: blog and they hired him because he knows so much
Speaker 1: at Apple. So he's got some good friends there. He
Speaker 1: says that they're going to upgrade the AirPods this year
Speaker 1: with an upgraded wireless chip. So the upgraded wireless chip
Speaker 1: would give you one key feature, and that is Hey Siri,
Speaker 1: So that would allow you to basically like, for me,
Speaker 1: while I'm running, I've got to tap the side of
Speaker 1: the headphones to you know, say, can you increase the
Speaker 1: volume by ten percent or skip to the next song.
Speaker 1: This would just let you say, hey, Siri, increase the
Speaker 1: volume by ten percent, and it would, which is really cool.
Speaker 1: It's very useful. That's what the pixel No, the pixel
Speaker 1: buds don't do that. You gotta tap them, you know what.
Speaker 1: I gotta check on that actually. Anyway, Now, a new
Speaker 1: version later on, not this year, is gonna be waterproof
Speaker 1: or water resistant, I should say survive splashes of water
Speaker 1: and rain. They will not be submerged in water. So
Speaker 1: if you've been following what Apple has been doing, the
Speaker 1: iPhone is water resistant, which means it can get splashed,
Speaker 1: it can be out in the rain, will be just fine.
Speaker 1: But the Apple Watch is water proof, which means you
Speaker 1: can take it in the pool and it will handle
Speaker 1: it like a champ and you're gonna be okay, which
Speaker 1: is pretty pretty phenomenal because basically you are pushing your
Speaker 1: hands into the water, which forces water into the device.
Speaker 1: Which all these devices when they say they're water resistant,
Speaker 1: they say that for a reason because there's still open
Speaker 1: ports on them. And if you push this thing into
Speaker 1: water like that, that means that you're forcing water into
Speaker 1: the device, and it's gonna get in there, whether it's
Speaker 1: water resistant or not. Now with the Apple Watch, they
Speaker 1: made it water proof, which means they did a lot
Speaker 1: of testing to make sure that they can still have
Speaker 1: some open ports on it, notably the speaker grill, and
Speaker 1: still have it basically locked up tight with the water.
Speaker 1: All right, Kathy says, I'm looking for Adobe Chip on
Speaker 1: my iPhone and I can't find it. That's because it's
Speaker 1: Adobe clip. Adobe Chip sounds very tasty, but that is
Speaker 1: not an app that you can edit video on. It
Speaker 1: is Adobe Clip, so if you type in Adobe clip,
Speaker 1: you can get it. And Cindy says, do you know
Speaker 1: when the new EarPods are coming out? The article does
Speaker 1: not say it, just says this year. But if you
Speaker 1: think about it, let's go back to that website. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it. I'm not sure. Let's see if
Speaker 1: that website has the AirPods. Let's see if they have accessories,
Speaker 1: they have HomePod. I don't see the accessories. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's see watch other Now they don't have the AirPods
Speaker 1: on there. But it's been a while. They've been out,
Speaker 1: I think for about almost a year and a half
Speaker 1: now two years, so they're definitely due for an upgrade.
Speaker 1: Let's see, and Al says, is the iPhone ten getting discontinued?
Speaker 1: Are they coming out with a new version? How many
Speaker 1: new iPhones is Apple going to release at their next event?
Speaker 1: You know, here's the thing. When they say discontinued, what
Speaker 1: does that really mean? I mean, they're not going to
Speaker 1: discontinue it. The iPhone ten is the iPhone ten, So
Speaker 1: will it be replaced with a new model eventually? Yes?
Speaker 1: Are they making less of them? Apparently if you believe
Speaker 1: everything you read. But the reality is the design of
Speaker 1: the iPhone I don't think is going to change with
Speaker 1: the next iPhone. It's going to be very similar to
Speaker 1: what we have with the iPhone ten. They might do
Speaker 1: away with a notch, but I think that that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the design of the iPhone. Yes, the ten might be.
Speaker 1: I don't really understand what we discontinued means, because they've
Speaker 1: discontinued things like when they came out with the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch three, they discontinued Apple Watch two. That just means
Speaker 1: they stopped making it and now they have the three,
Speaker 1: But they did keep making the one. And Apple's known
Speaker 1: to do that all the time kind of forces you
Speaker 1: to choose between something that's kind of less or lesser
Speaker 1: or the best. They kind of don't have stuff in
Speaker 1: the middle. It's kind of weird now they have the
Speaker 1: most phones ever to choose from, though there's so many
Speaker 1: to choose from. All right, I think that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for the show. So yes, MJ says I can't
Speaker 1: find Adobe Clip, but there's Premiere Clip. Yes, that's the
Speaker 1: name of the app. When you download it, it just
Speaker 1: says clip, but yes, Adobe Premiere Clip is the full
Speaker 1: name of the app. Sorry for not being more clear
Speaker 1: on that, but that will definitely do it. So all right,
Speaker 1: Angie says I'm dying. Oh no, what are you dying about?
Speaker 1: What I say? Wrong? Maybe I messed up on something,
Speaker 1: but there you go. That's what it is. Oh you're
Speaker 1: dying because I said chip not clip. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And finally, Anthony says, what do you think about the
Speaker 1: DJI mave Air. It looks pretty cool. I have not
Speaker 1: played with it, but I played with the Mavick and
Speaker 1: it was very nice. DGI is really killing it when
Speaker 1: it comes to kind of like their products and their
Speaker 1: drones and their camera gear. They're doing a good job,
Speaker 1: given GoPro a run for their money. In fact, you know,
Speaker 1: GoPro closed down their drone division, so the DGI definitely
Speaker 1: took over in that. And I love the DJI. I've
Speaker 1: got it over here on my shelf here. But my
Speaker 1: company gave me their mount, which is a gyro mount
Speaker 1: for the iPhone so you can get your iPhone really steady.
Speaker 1: It's called the DGI Osmo, and they just came out
Speaker 1: the Osmo two, and that one's supposed to be even
Speaker 1: better because you can now have your phone up and
Speaker 1: down instead of just this way. But anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: Jim says, what kind of antivirus do you have on
Speaker 1: your computer? I use a VAST and I love it.
Speaker 1: I recommend a VAST. I have a Mac. I'm I
Speaker 1: don't really have any antivirus on there, so I know
Speaker 1: I'm kind of crazy like that. I used to have
Speaker 1: a VAST on there when I did. In fact, I
Speaker 1: just need to. I did have to format my computer recently,
Speaker 1: so I'll probably put that back on. But AVG and
Speaker 1: a VAST, there's one I liked better. I can't remember
Speaker 1: which one it is, but they're both the same company anyway,
Speaker 1: So but one I like slightly better. Yenni says, how
Speaker 1: can I keep Windows PC safe if I don't buy antivirus?
Speaker 1: The good news is antivirus is built into the new
Speaker 1: version of Windows. So if you have Windows ten, just
Speaker 1: make sure that Windows Defender is up to date, and
Speaker 1: I'll show you this Windows Defender that is that's built in.
Speaker 1: It's built into Windows ten, so you don't need anything else.
Speaker 1: You actually don't need to spend any money on antivirus.
Speaker 1: As long as you have this turned on and up
Speaker 1: to date, you're good. Your device is protected. So a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that when it comes to
Speaker 1: Windows ten, but antivirus and malware is malware. Defender is
Speaker 1: built right into the computer, So just make sure that
Speaker 1: you have that kind of up to date. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and search for Windows Defender on your search bar and
Speaker 1: you can find it and check out the settings on there.
Speaker 1: All right, Yes, Max are susceptible to viruses, but they
Speaker 1: don't have as many. And I'm kind of I know
Speaker 1: kind of what I'm doing online when I'm when I'm
Speaker 1: downloading stuff and all that, so I kind of know
Speaker 1: where I would get a virus. I use all my
Speaker 1: emails all web based, so I can't really get a
Speaker 1: virus there, so you just have to be smart about it.
Speaker 1: But i'd probably recommend I can't really say I recommend
Speaker 1: you have antivirus on if you have a Mac, but
Speaker 1: it's probably good to have if you're a casual user
Speaker 1: and you know you're surfing the web and downloading stuff
Speaker 1: once in a while. But on a Windows computer, you've
Speaker 1: got it. If you've got Windows ten, all right, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for the show. Thanks so much for listening.
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