WEBVTT - Samsung hopes you'll flip over latest foldables 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:15.560 Samsung unveils its new foldable phones, Android Declaire's war on 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.599 I message and why you should always open Instagram links 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.000 in a certain way, plus your tech questions answered. What's 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.400 going on on rich Demiro And this is rich on Tech, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.600 the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.440 think you should know about. It's also the place where 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.320 I answer the questions you send me. I'm a tech 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.599 reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:44.800 are having a fantastic day. Welcome to anyone and everyone 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.760 that is watching and listening on Instagram live right now. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.120 On occasion, I will live stream the show on Instagram 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.920 at rich on Tech. So if you're watching there, thank you. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.360 We've got folks tuning in from all over the world. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.000 And when I say that, I mean it got folks 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:10.200 from Portugal, Culver City, Cacmo, Kansas City, Missouri, and just 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.960 about everywhere in between. So thanks for doing that. Speaking 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.240 of different places, So I just got back from a 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.560 trip up to Bend, Oregon. This was a family reunion 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.039 that was planned for many, many years and it was fantastic. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.920 I've got to say. We did the drive up there. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.280 It was thirteen hours up thirteen hours back, we stopped 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.119 each way and kind of, you know, like I really 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.480 I love and I think I've talked about this before, 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.560 but I've been doing this podcast for so long, and 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.640 I also talk on social media that I feel like 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:45.399 I've said everything before, but I've probably mentioned the fact 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.520 that I like to enjoy the journey. So when I 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.520 was growing up, and nothing against my dad, but you know, 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.120 we drove all the time to a place up in 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.600 like the Adirondacks in New York City, in upstate New York, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.240 and it was like power through. It was like you 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.880 got out of school three pm, hop in the car, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:06.920 and next thing you know, be like we're going We're 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.480 going up to the lake. It's like what And there 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.400 was no stopping. There was just like I don't remember 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:17.560 ever stopping once. And so now as an adult, like 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.760 that was the way I kind of did my life. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.480 For the first ten years of driving places, I would 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.840 just be like, all right, let's go, We're going right through. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.679 And as they get older, I just like to stop more. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.520 And it kind of occurred to me I was like, wait, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.560 the only thing I'm losing here is time, you know, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.799 and so what's the what's the reason why I have 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.200 to get somewhere so fast, Like let me, you know, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.120 those like vista points they have on the side of 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.919 the freeway. I would never stop for those. And now 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.880 I'm like, you kids want to stop, anyone want to stop? 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.840 And sure enough we stop. It's always beautiful, it's always fun, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.359 and you stretch your legs, you go to the bathroom. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.760 And now it's gotten to the point where we stop 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.920 too much, like we've just stopped way too many times. Anyway, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.520 I say this all because we stopped overnight on the 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.760 way up to Bend. We stopped overnight on the way back. 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.320 We stopped in I think it was like Redding and 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:12.240 then San Francisco all right, sorry San Sacramento, not San Francisco, Sacramento. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.720 And it was great. We had such a great time. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.960 The kids enjoyed it. It was it was really nice. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.120 Bend is just a magical place. It's like one of 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.840 those cities, like you know how they say, like keep 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.440 Austin weird, or you know, Portland. I know is kind 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.480 of an eclectic place, but Bend is a very eclectic 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.919 place as well. And so it's a small city that 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.720 plays very eclectic. It's very outdoorsy, It's a beautiful place. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.880 The food is good. I only went to one or 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.320 two restaurants up there. We mostly cooked, but you know, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.000 it was just We went to this place called sun 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.160 River as well, which is like this huge kind of 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.000 planned I don't know, it's like a vacation spot, but 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.600 very like outdoorsy. So anyway, I tell you all this 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.560 because I love to travel. I love seeing different places. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.120 And while I was up there, I picked up a 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.640 couple stories. So whenever I'm kind of a place, I 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.800 always find myself thinking like this would make a cool story. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.080 That would make a cool story. So I visited the 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.560 last Blockbuster store of loves up there. I'll talk about 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.760 that more later in the show. I also did a 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.200 story with this golf board that you might have seen 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.479 on my segment, which is kind of like a motorized 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.039 scooter that replaces a golf cart on a golf course. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.920 It was really also cool. I don't know what to say. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.560 I mean, I just love to kind of experience these things, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.640 and I feel like if I'm experiencing something for the 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.159 first time, there's a lot of other people out there 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:35.520 who may not have seen that thing. Place, gadget sign 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.920 whatever it is as well, so I like to share 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.760 that stuff. So if you follow me on social media, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.720 which many of you probably do, you probably see just 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:49.600 this like ongoing flow of consciousness from my world to yours. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.640 And it's just because I love sharing stuff that's kind 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.080 of interesting to me, and I feel like there's other 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.680 people out there that are also interested in that stuff. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.600 So if you ever get the chance to check out 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:04.120 bend Or, it is truly beautiful. There were some fires 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.280 while we're up there around our area, so that wasn't 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.440 very fun, but it is a very very nice place. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.480 So go up there if you have the chance, and 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.719 take your time getting there. I know it's long, but 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.640 take your time and get there. All right, let's get 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:23.640 to the first story of the week. Samsung unveiled a 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:28.479 bunch of new devices, so two new foldable phones, a 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.800 pair of earbuds, and a watch. And this is I 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.720 can't believe this, but we're going on the fourth generation 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.640 of foldable phones from Samsung and still no real competition 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.520 for foldable devices. And when I say that, yeah, there's 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.479 some companies out there that are making them, but here 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.640 in the US, there is really no competition, and that 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.160 competition would come in the form of a company named Apple. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.239 Apple has yet to even have any sort of real 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:01.080 rumors about a foldable phone. And so with that in mind, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.560 let me just go over quickly what we saw. So 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.880 we've got the flagship foldable, which is the Z Fold four. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.360 This is the phone you might have remember that had 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.720 screen issues when it first came out. They sent them 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.440 to us, and the next thing you know, they said, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.720 you got to give them back because the screens are breaking. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.680 And so they went back to the drawing board they 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.960 figured out what happened. There's little specks of dust and 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.599 dirt that were getting behind the screen and causing it 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.360 to fail. They have long figured that out. It's been 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.200 four generations of this phone. Three of them have had 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.120 no problems since that first time. So on this screen, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.400 on this phone, you get a screen outside, six point 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.680 two inch screen outside, and then a giant seven point 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.160 six inch screen on the inside. And they've upgraded this 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.240 new model with better cameras, better durability. It weighs just 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.680 a tiny bit less, and the price tex stays the 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.159 same at eighteen hundred dollars. And when I tell you 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.960 eighteen hundred dollars, you tune out. And you say, ah, 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.200 that's not something I'm gonna get right now, And I 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.840 would agree with that. This is not a phone for 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.280 the masses just yet, but it goes to show the 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.919 possibility of what these fold walls are going to do 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.000 for us in the future. The fact that you can 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:14.160 have a phone that has a standard a standard footprint 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.640 that opens up into a tablet sized phone is really 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.520 really cool for so many reasons, like just saying I 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.440 was going on vacation. You know, when I was on vacation, 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.120 I actually took an iPad with me. I didn't use 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.240 it at all, but I just wanted to have that 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.760 reassurance of if I ever found myself in a place 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.920 where I was bored, or on one of the nights 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.640 we weren't doing much and I wanted to watch a 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.600 movie on a bigger screen, the iPad would fit that purpose. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.160 And we never took it out. But again, if your 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.520 phone can do that, if you're on a plane, if 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.760 you're traveling, if you just want to jot something down, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.560 it's it's seriously cool. And the z fold four, I 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.640 feel like they have continually evolved and it's just going 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.920 to keep getting better. Once that can fold into a 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.960 smaller kind of form factor. Be a bit less bulky, 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.560 be a bit thinner. It's really going to be a 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.960 force to be reckon with. So you've got that one. Now, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.440 the Flip four, I've gotten my hands right now. This 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.080 is the model that I think most people will buy. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.960 It basically looks like a standard Samsung S twenty two 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.040 or S twenty two plus smartphone, but it folds in half, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.920 so there's a small screen outside and then a six 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.560 point seven inch screen inside. So you've got this nice, small, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.880 compact form factor when it's folded, but then when you 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.960 open it up, it just acts like a regular smartphone. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.520 So on this phone, they have improved the selfie camera, 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.960 brighter pictures overall, more stable videos. These are all things 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.720 that Samsung has said. I am still in the process 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.880 of testing this phone, so I can't say that these 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.760 are all true. It also has a bigger battery. One 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.440 of the big complaints was the battery went pretty fast. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.400 I'm at eighty three percent this morning. I've had it 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.200 on for a couple hours, have not been using it 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.440 all of those hours, but we'll see if the battery 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.000 is any better. It also has faster charging. It comes 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.239 in a ton of cool colors. Samsung sent the reviewers 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.480 this bora purple color, which is not my personal favorite, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.920 but it's pretty nice. It also has a much more 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.559 reasonable price tag of one thousand dollars. And the funny 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.600 thing is, I've had a lot of people tell me 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.760 Rich I've got the z Flip three, I don't need 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.559 an upgrade. This phone is awesome. I love it. People 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 who get this phone seem to absolutely adore it, and 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.079 I can see why. I've just had this thing for 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.280 a day, and there's so many little things about it 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.880 that are super unique and super fun that I can 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.839 see why people fall in love with this phone. Now. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.640 The funny thing about the people that told me they 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.199 have the three, and I said, well, do you know 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.000 they're letting you upgrade for one hundred dollars to the four. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.880 So if you have the Flip three, you can send 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.640 that back to Samsung and they will send you the 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.800 new one for a hundred bucks. That to me is 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.480 a win in my book, and I definitely think you 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.600 should take advantage of that, because what Samsung knows is 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.760 that they can sell these things on the secondary market. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.080 They can give them to people that need refurbished models, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.360 so they can get all those threes in at a 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.800 slight loss. But then the four people will be really 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.960 happy because they're kind of rewarding you for being on 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.280 the cutting edge and saying, look, you know what you 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.720 are our mascots out there. You're the people that are 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.719 that are telling people about these phones and showing them 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.680 in real life. So we're gonna give you one hundred 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.440 dollars upgrade, and we're gonna use that phone that you 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.839 send back to us to you know, percolate through the 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.079 system for refurbished phones and replacements and all that kind 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.160 of stuff. A couple other things, Samsung announced the Galaxy 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.560 Watch five. This has more accurate sensors. It now tracks 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.959 body temperature, which is good for sleep. It also detect snoring. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.720 It's got a bigger battery. Plus it has apps from Spotify, 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.040 Google Assistant, and Google Maps. I wish I had Google 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.800 Maps and Google Assistant on the Apple Watch, but you 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.880 know it's Apple. They don't play nice with Google most 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.840 of the time, and it's it's gonna be an improved 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.080 watch experience. Then they've got this pro version of the 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.200 watch that is aimed at people who might go with 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.760 something like a garment. This has a more rugged design 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.520 and even bigger battery, which if you ever go hiking 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.720 with a smart watch, you realize that you need a 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.560 big battery because GPS eats up a lot or sorry, yeah, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.000 GPS eats up a lot of your battery when you're 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.720 out and about with just your watch. So if you're 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.120 tracking a big hike that may last you know, five hours, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.400 six hours, that is something that you need to take 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.760 into consideration, which is a bigger battery. The watches start 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.600 at two hundred and eighty dollars. They've got LTE versions, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.559 they've got the standard version, but they also came out 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.720 with buds as well, a new pair of Galaxy Buds, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.119 but I have not tested those just yet. So anyway, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.480 just going through all the Samsung stuff, I think Samsung 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.160 does not get enough credit for the innovation that they 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:52.319 bring to the to the marketplace. Apple commands a lion's 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.080 share of the both market in America but also the 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.800 attention by the media in America, and for good reason. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.160 Apple has a very polished product. It does really amazing things. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.520 I've used an iPhone now since day one with Android 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.280 as well, but I've used an iPhone, and I'm continually 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.840 impressed with some of the things that it does really 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.319 well and very easily. And I think on the flip side, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.520 Android people don't give enough credit for just how customizable 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.480 it is and just the way that it becomes your 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.680 very own as opposed to iPhone. Even using an iPhone 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.120 for a year in it still does a lot of 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.880 things that I don't like, Like when I click on 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.240 I almost call it a minefield sometimes because you click 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.360 on certain links and things and you just know it's 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.080 not going to act the way you want it to act. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.400 Like if I tap an address, it's going to open 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.400 up in Google Maps or sorry, in Apple Maps, and 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.920 I just don't want that to happen. So what developers 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.839 have to do they have to go around these weird 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.240 little limitations and they have to program in. If you watch, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.800 if you click like a link that goes to an address, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.480 the developer literally codes into the app app do you 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.320 want this to open in Apple Maps? Do you want 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.240 it to open in Google Maps? Do you want it 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.000 to open in ways? I mean, come on, that's that's 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.440 kind of a weird thing. When you can just set 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.520 literally a default app on most other on all Android. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.640 What is going on here? On the Instagram, Kyle is 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.760 saying you have a strong sock game, can you show 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.319 them without the shoes? I don't know. That's kind of 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.280 a weird request, but anyway, all right, let's get to 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.880 the first question of the day. That was not the 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.920 first question of the day. Let's just be clear, all right, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.520 Joel says, can I install and use WhatsApp on my 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.120 Galaxy tab for using just Wi Fi? Thank you, Joel. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.079 So originally I thought this was going to be a 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.720 very simple question, and when I started researching the answer, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.360 I found that it's not as straightforward as I thought. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.959 So if you have something like Telegram, you can install 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.280 it on a bunch of devices and use it across 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.360 a whole bunch of devices very easily. WhatsApp is a 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:06.679 little trickier because the WhatsApp platform is encrypted by default, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.760 which means it typically only runs on one device at 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.760 a time. Now, I think they've gotten around that in 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.560 certain ways where you can install it on like the 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.480 desktop and a phone at the same time. But the 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.480 reason why I went with Telegram for my personal messaging 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.960 with my friends and family. If I can get my 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.840 friends on there, I've got all my family on there 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.960 is that it allows you to install it on a 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:33.120 bunch of different devices and use them simultaneously. That's because 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.600 it's not end to end encrypted by default. They have 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:40.200 options for end to end encryption with chats by enabling 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.520 that on certain chats, but it's not done by default. WhatsApp. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.640 It is done by default, which means it is the 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.640 most secure way to message folks. But the limitation is 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.600 that because it's so secure, you can't have it running 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.320 on a whole bunch of things all at once. So Joel, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.400 my answer is, I don't think it's easy to do this, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.840 but I think there are that may work. I just 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.680 couldn't easily find one quickly. So I think if you 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.120 want to use WhatsApp, it looks like you might want 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.200 to tie it to a phone number on a phone. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.600 You might be able to install on a tablet, but 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.560 it doesn't seem like that's a simple thing to do. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.640 If you think that's if you have experience doing this, 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:23.240 let me know in the comments or email me hello 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.240 at richontech dot tv and let me know. But it 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.960 doesn't seem like that's a very straightforward thing to do. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.600 If you want something that does work on various platforms. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:38.400 I would recommend something like Facebook Messenger or Telegram. Those 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.440 are apps that do work on multiple platforms, and just 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.200 using Wi Fi on a tablet all by themselves very easily. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.440 All right, let's get to Let's see what do we 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.680 want to talk about. First, we want to talk about 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.840 There's so many things to talk about this week. All right, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:58.800 let's talk about Let's talk about Android and iPhone messaging. So, 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.400 in case you haven't noticed, this week, Google has launched 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.720 an all out messaging war against Apple. They are no 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:11.480 longer playing nice. So here's the thing. Apple and Google 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.280 are frenemies. The reason for this is that even though 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:19.440 Google has its own platform called Android, they rely on 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:25.400 millions and millions of iPhone and iOS users to use 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.400 their products on the iPhone and on iOS. And so 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:35.760 Google will kind of lie what's the word lieover? You know, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.680 they kind of lay and just they they kind of 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.080 play nice with Apple, but they know they're not really 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.560 friends with Apple because Apple would cut them off at 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.480 the knees in about ten seconds given the opportunity. But 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.520 what Apple needs is a really good search engine on 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.760 the iPhone, and they need a search engine that works 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.920 really well, and so Google is the default search engine 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.720 on the iPhone. Apparently Google pays lots of money to 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.360 Apple to make that happen. But who else is Apple 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.399 gonna use? You're if you think that Apple is gonna 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.440 switch to Bing. If you think that Apple's gonna switch 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.720 to Bang on the iPhone, the iPhone would go like 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.680 down in about ten seconds. It would be people would 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:21.240 switch in mass to some other to some other platform 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.639 if the iPhone switched to Bing for their search engine. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.600 So with all that in mind, typically Google kind of 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.960 stays silent about all these little limitations of the iOS 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.639 platform when it comes to their products. But now they 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.880 are not. They launched this new campaign raised It aimed 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.000 at raising awareness of how Apple is pretty mean to 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.560 Android and in turn iPhone users when it comes to messaging. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.520 So we know that when you message from an iPhone 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.360 to an Android, what happens. It's that dreaded green bubble 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.760 when that Android person messages you back and it's like, 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.399 h this person's using an Android. Apple did that, I 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:09.080 don't know, maybe on purpose to delineate I message versus Android. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.600 I message is so nice. You get typing indicators, you 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.360 get big videos, you get full res pictures, you get 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.280 group chats that work really well. Well, when you go 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.800 to Android, none of this stuff works. And Google is 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.879 now saying that, you know what, Okay, We're not gonna 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.600 stay silent about this anymore. Okay. Apple is actually holding 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:36.120 Android users back and their own users in this regard 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.680 because they're using SMS, which is old old school messaging 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.560 when you talk to an Android phone, when they should 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:48.040 be using RCS, which is Rich Communication Messaging or Rich 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.240 Communications Standard something like that that all of the Android 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.600 phones use to talk to each other. So, unless you've 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.440 been living under a rock, if you have an Android 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.359 phone and you activate RCS, which most of the phones 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.160 let you do, these stays or it's done automatically. When 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.040 you message a video from an Android to an Android, 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.040 it looks just as good as it does if you 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.359 went from iPhone to iPhone using I message. But the 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.520 problem is here in the US, most users are going 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.439 iPhone to iPhone or iPhone to Android, So it's not 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.879 a lot of Android to Android users. Maybe in the 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.240 rest of the world it is, but here in the 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.679 US it's iPhone to Android. And what happens is if 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.000 you're an iPhone user and you send a video to 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.479 an Android phone, it looks horrible on their end. If 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.399 you're an Android user and you send a video to 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.199 an iPhone, the iPhone person goes, oh, what is this? 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.399 Why does this look like a tiny thumbnail. It's actually 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.360 a joke the way it looks. So here's the thing 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:48.320 Google is saying, Apple, dude, like, just enable RCS on 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.320 your phones. That way messaging can be encrypted. It can 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.320 be better, it can look better. People can have those 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.080 typing indicators. It's not going to ruin I message because 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.120 iPhone to iPhone will always be on message. But when 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.240 that iPhone person messages an Android person, it's finally gonna 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:10.399 look and feel just as good. Now that sounds pretty easy. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.639 Every other phone maker, every other carrier is on it. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.280 But here's the thing. Apple does not want you to 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.560 know that they can make messaging better for Android users. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.320 They want you to think that Android is substandard. They 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.800 want you to think that Android is not as good 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:28.480 of an operating system. They want you to think that 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:33.000 Android is just not good. And so that's why Google 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.840 is arguing Apple is holding back all of its users 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.320 and in turn, all of the Android users in the 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:44.160 world by making messaging so bad on these between these 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.880 two platforms when it just doesn't have to be that way. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.040 So we'll see if this works. But this is the 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.240 first time I'm seeing Google kind of put this issue 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.680 to the forefront. They've enlisted a whole bunch of influencers, 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:01.119 They've enlisted a whole bunch of celebrities to educate the 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.960 public on this message. That's saying, Look, every other phone 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.000 maker and every carrier pretty much in the world is 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.520 adopting this new standard that is very modern and acts 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.840 just like I Message. The only person that's not adopting 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.280 this standard is Apple and Apple why are you doing that? 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.960 Is it to keep Apple users on the Apple iPhone system? 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.919 Probably because think about it, If you knew that you 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.000 can switch to an Android and it would message to 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.359 an iPhone user just the same, you might be tempted 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.520 to switch. This is also the reason why a lot 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.679