WEBVTT - Should you take a walk on Amazon Sidewalk? 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:17.120 Amazon ready to activate Sidewalk should you opt out? Warner 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.160 Brothers going to release movies in a totally new way. 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.320 Wise makes a twenty dollars smart watch. Plus your tech 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:25.560 questions answered? 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:26.960 What's going on? 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.600 I'm Rich Dmurro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.440 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:32.600 Think you should know about. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.479 It's also the place where I answer the questions that 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:37.320 you send me. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:39.400 Hope you're having a great day. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.120 Rich DeMuro with you tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.839 in Los Angeles. If you're listening for the first time, welcome. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.519 If you're listening for the one hundredth time, I'm sorry now, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.720 I'm just kidding. I always say that why am I 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.840 so deprecating on this podcast is that the word I 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.200 should have a list of words that I don't really 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.640 know that I use in this podcast, because it happens 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.800 often where I have to like look them up and 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:06.800 be like, wait, did I mean that? So lots of 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.200 things happening in the DeMuro house. It is the slide 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.600 to the holidays. I've been very busy with all kinds 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.880 of reviews and testing and this and that, but I 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.560 did do something with my own home network. I did 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:25.959 upgrade to Eero Pro six, so this is Euro's new 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:33.000 It's basically their top of the line system that you know. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.760 I purchased this myself. This is not a test for 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.000 you know TV. This is just something I wanted because 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.760 it works with gigabit Internet, which is what I have 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.160 at my house, and the Eero Pro six. I got 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.080 a great deal because what they were doing was they 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.960 were doing a trade in promotion where you got like 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.760 twenty percent off if you traded in one of your 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.720 old routers, and then they also had like a deal. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.400 It was like a Cyber Monday, Black Friday kind of deal. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.440 So I jumped on it. I got it. It's great 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.520 the Internet. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.160 I guess access points whatever you call them, are enormous 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.560 compared to the old ones, so there must be something 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.160 better in there. But I will tell you with all that, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.240 my speed is still just okay. I mean I'm literally 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.240 doing a speed test right now on my computer and 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.920 it's coming in at eighty eight ninety two, ninety six 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.000 ninety four out of a thousand, So I still have 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.280 some work to do, clearly, and getting this thing set 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.080 up and working. I think it has something to do 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.840 with two things going on every time when I switch 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.320 my routers out, I am. I have like a million 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.400 devices here that all latch on, so I use the 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.760 same Wi Fi network and password, and so I think 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.520 there might be some device that's keeping things like from 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.400 working properly. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:52.400 But I don't know. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.000 I gotta figure this out, because when I connect directly 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.560 to my modem's it's totally getting me the gig. When 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.720 I'm in my main room, it's getting about six hundred 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.519 if I do a good speed test and then a 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.160 sort as soon as I get away from it, it's 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:07.679 getting less. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:08.080 So I don't know. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.880 Maybe it's just the makeup of my home that just 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.760 doesn't lend itself to fast. But I want fast in 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.240 every room, like I want exactly what I'm paying for 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.920 in every room, and I'm just not getting it. So 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.720 I need to figure out what's going on there. But anyway, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:27.040 the Eero Pro six is a good system overall. I mean, 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.959 I've noticed that it's definitely a little bit more reliable 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.440 than the old one I had, which was the old 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:35.440 Eero Pro, like less lag and stuff like that. So 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.040 I'm just trying to iron out the kinks here. But anyway, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.000 I will continue to test that, and so far, so good. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.880 I think overall, I love that on certain phones, like 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.680 especially the Android phones that I've been testing. There's like 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.600 a little Wi Fi six signal on the in the 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.240 Wi Fi bar, which I thought was pretty cool. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.760 In the icon, I'm like, yeah, I'm on that Wi 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:55.320 Fi six. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.200 I don't know what it means or why it's better, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.960 but it seems to be better, so that's kind of fun. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.480 The other thing I've been testing is this ring mailbox sensor. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.880 If you follow me on Twitter or I think that's 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.800 where I posted it. I was so excited the day 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.720 I set this thing up because it occurred to me 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.800 that you can link your ring video doorbell and also 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.880 this little ring mailbox sensor which is thirty dollars to 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.719 your Alexa. Oh there she goes, she's lighting up, listening 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.239 nothing for you today, right now, Alexa stand down please? 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.600 Oh she did. When I said that, wow, the lights 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:31.920 on off. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:36.360 I didn't know if that's an actual command, but I 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.960 linked up the ring stuff and next thing, you know, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.039 when my mail get you put this little sensor in 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.760 your mailbox and it you know, it just basically tells 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.760 you when you get your mail delivered. And so you 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.880 can get a notification on your phone or your Apple 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.280 Watch if you got one of those. And you can 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.560 also rig it so that your Alexa says whatever you want. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.039 And for me, I said, you've got mail, and I 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.760 had to do you've and like I had to like 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.200 write it in a different way, because you can't use 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.440 any sort of punctuation, Like the apostrophe is not an 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:10.560 acceptable character. So I spelled it like youve or something 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.320 like that. And sure enough, when the mail gets delivered. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.719 Now I hear at a little chime in my office 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.400 and it says you've got mail, and it's great. I mean, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.840 why would you not want that? I have been obsessed 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.320 with mail my entire life. And there's people, Okay, there's 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.760 two types of people in this world. People that are 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.400 obsessed with the mail and people that don't care. So 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.120 there are there's a group of people in America that 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.400 when their mail is delivered, they look forward to it 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.839 and they do go check it immediately or they check 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.599 it pretty quickly. I've used to be like the immediate kind. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.719 Now I'm somewhere in the middle. I try to go 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.920 like a week without checking if I can, But that's 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.240 really really tough, but because I'm not really getting anything. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:53.880 I just like the idea of mail. I don't really 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.640 get anything of substance, but except bills of course, which 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:58.359 you know who. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.000 Wants to open those? 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.040 But anyway, I've been loving that and i'll have that 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.000 next week in Tech Smart on KTLA. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:06.880 I'll talk about that. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.880 The other thing that I've been oh, by the way, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.800 I love what Ring is doing. I mean, I'm going 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.560 to talk about Amazon Sidewalk in a second, and you know, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.600 poo poo all over Ring, But but right now, I 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.280 really love I think that there's two companies that are 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.760 just doing such cool stuff, and one of them is Ring. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.120 When you go on their website and just look at 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.760 how many products they have, it's like, whoa, you could 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.080 outfit your entire house with all their stuff, and I 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:32.960 kind of want to do that now. And then the 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.800 other one is Why Is and I'll talk about them 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.200 today in the show as well. Another app that I 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.719 discovered this week was eXplorist, which I had not ever 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.120 heard of, but it is an app that is on 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.599 iPhone and Android and it's really cool. It's an app 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.640 that sort of helps you discover cool places to take pictures. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.560 And I'm sure if you're a photographer, you've known all 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.360 about this. But I'm not a big photographer, but now 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.400 I want to be because I'm looking at this and 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.640 it's just super super cool. So it's cool because it 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.000 gives you locations that are nearby. So if you're in 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.040 a city and you want to take all the coolest 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.960 pictures you can when you start traveling again, right, I 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:17.240 need a sound for this podcast, because that's why it feels. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.320 I did travel last weekend safely. Of course, we went 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.000 to solving and it was a nightmare, honestly, Like I 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.280 I it was the straw that broke the camel's back 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.720 from me. Not that I'm traveling a lot, but I 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.600 always have this idea of yeah, I could still do 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.880 stuff like yeah, and no, I just it. There's a 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.760 lot of people there and it was just not fun. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.000 It was like, you know, you had to eat outside 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.680 in the freezing cold and this and that, and it's 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.520 just it was not fun. It made me realize that 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.520 I like my safe space here at home throughout this pandemic. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.360 This is where I've lived and I've nested, and I 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.200 just like it because it's my place it's safe. I 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.000 know what happens here, I know it comes, I know 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.120 it goes, and it just it's where I can be 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.000 who I want to be, which is a home by 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.600 right now. And I have dreams of going out of 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.680 the house, but then you get out and it's like, 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.120 you know, the mask thing and the you know, the 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.800 all the social distancing, and it's just not fun. It's 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.640 like not the way we want our world to be. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.160 And yes, I do think you need to be safe, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.080 so of course, if you're out and about, you need 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.720 to follow all those protocols. But it's exhausting, let's be honest. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.680 And so I just realized this weekend that it was 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.320 just kind of exhausting and sad and I'd just rather 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.320 be at home. And so that's where I'm gonna be 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.240 staying from now on until these vaccines start to work 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.000 on folks and whatever happens and these numbers go down. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.120 So anyway, all right, I'm done with all that. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:43.920 Let's talk about Amazon sidewalk big story. Amazon sent out 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.480 this email to folks probably about two weeks ago, maybe 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.920 a week saying, Hey, we're gonna turn on sidewalk and 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:50.679 by the way, it's gonna be on by default. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.079 Wait, what back up? 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.560 What is sidewalk? What is what's going on here? And 0:08:55.559 --> 0:09:00.720 what does it involve? And here's the basic of sidewalk 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.920 is that it's a new communications network that Amazon is 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:10.080 sort of launching using their Ring and Echo products as 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.320 the router. So if you imagine that this is a big, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.719 big Wi Fi network across the US, the routers are 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.600 going to be these Echo and Ring products, and the 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.320 Internet they're getting to put into these things is coming 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.560 from your home internet. So what they're doing is they're 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.640 taking just a little tiny bit of your home Internet 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.720 and sort of rebroadcasting it to the whole crowd. And yes, 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.120 they're doing this in a way that they say is safe, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.880 in private and encrypted, and they're only using a portion 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.320 of your band with less than five hundred megabytes a month. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:44.440 And the benefit is that all of these Amazon devices 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.839 and Tile devices at the beginning, and theoretically other smart 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.560 home devices will always have a signal to latch onto 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:52.160 no matter what. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.640 So let's just give an example. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.640 Let's say out on your front lawn, you have a 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.600 ring smart light like one of these you know, these 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.960 walkway lights that you know, you know, the typical way 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.560 of setting it up. Right, You have to plug it in, 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.520 turn it on, you have to open up the app 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.959 on your phone, you have to connect, disconnect from your 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.320 Wi Fi, connect directly to the Wi Fi on the device, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:22.480 or use Bluetooth, share your Wi Fi credentials with the device. Okay, disconnect, reconnect, disconnect, reconnect. Okay, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.440 finally it works. And now this little device is off 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.080 on its own and it's connected to your Wi Fi 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.280 and it works just fine until your Wi Fi goes out, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.439 and now you have to troubleshoot, and now this thing 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.960 doesn't work anymore, it doesn't respond. So Amazon's idea is 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.520 that if they can create this kind of super network 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.280 called sidewalk that's just always pervasive in every network in 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.160 every neighborhood. When you open up that same Ring app 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.200 on your phone or Amazon app to set up a 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:49.359 new device, it says. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.560 Oh, we see it. Is this your device right here? 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.960 We can tell that it's proximity based with Bluetooth that 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:56.479 it seems to be on your lawn. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.160 Is this yours? Okay? 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:58.400 Sure? 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.520 Or maybe a scanic QR code on it whatever to 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:00.840 link it. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.320 Up, and they say okay, and magically it goes through 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.080 the sidewalk network to sort of connect and exchange the 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.360 information that it needs and all that stuff, and it says, okay, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.760 all set up. What that was easy. So that's one aspect. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.640 The other aspect is, you know, a couple months down 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.320 the line, your Wi Fi goes down and this little 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.679 ring light on your lawn, Sorry, can't work anymore because 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.720 I have no connection to anything, and I don't really 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.880 know how to reconnect because I can't get to your internet. Well, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.800 if sidewalk was around, it would just go, oh, Rich's 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.800 Wi Fi is not working anymore. Let's latch onto this 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.840 sidewalk network that we find here, and okay, let me 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.960 go send it a notification to Rich, Hey this is 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.480 not working. We need to reconnect. And then you go, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.000 oh interesting, okay cool, and or just self heals somehow, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:46.320 you know. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.080 So that's a couple of the ways to use this. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.960 The other thing, and I think the one that Amazon 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.120 is promoting a lot, is your pet has one of 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.960 these tile trackers on it around their collar and next thing, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.079 you know, this that used to only work when someone's 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.400 phone had Bluetooth nearby, can now latch onto this sidewalk 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.000 network that theoretically is like everywhere now and wow, now 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.040 you can find your devices or your pet anywhere. So 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.400 that's another aspect. So if you want my thoughts on this, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.000 and I know that my thoughts are probably not the 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.600 general thoughts, but I think it's pretty awesome. And yeah, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.360 you can sit there and say, Rich, I'm never listening 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.680 to you again, because how dare you say that this 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.599 is awesome? Because this sounds like an invasion of my privacy, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.640 and I get it, it does sound that way. But 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.360 at the end of the day, what Amazon is trying 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.600 to build here is actually pretty cool. It's a crowdsourced 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.000 Wi Fi network that sort of goes anywhere and helps 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.000 a lot of people. Now, yes, it helps their products 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.440 the most, and theoretically or later on, they'll probably have 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.800 other products that latch on, and Amazon may or may 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.480 not charge these other products to latch onto this network 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.840 that's being crowdsourced by our free internet. But I like 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.080 the idea of my tile working everywhere. And I've had 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.600 tiles in the past and I dropped them because I mean, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.440 I got rid of them because they're just not worth it. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.240 If if there's no phone in the area where your 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.079 tile is It's just it's useless, and so what's the point. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.960 And with all these smart home stuff, I am deathly 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:23.079 afraid of changing my Wi Fi password or network because 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.959 all of my smart home devices will not follow through. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.120 Now if they were on this sidewalk thing. Guess what, Oh, 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.120 you change your WiFi. You tell one time inside your 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.120 app that you're changing your network credentials, and it says 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:39.400 to all these little devices, oh, bing binging Rich changed 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.600 all of his stuff here take it. And so, yes, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.439 there are privacy concerns. I get it, but I also 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.079 see the benefit of this network. If it is robust 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.080 and it is working in a big way, I think 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.280 it's pretty darn cool. So with all that said, the 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.920 main thing that a lot of the tech folks are 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.680 having problems with is the fact that Amazon is turning 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.520 on this network by default. And I take issue with 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.000 that as well. But I see why they're doing it. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.760 They're doing it because they want to make sure as 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.920 many products as possible are on board. Now, I mentioned 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.000 it was Ring and Echo products. When it comes to 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.559 the Ring side of things, it's this is the reason 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.600 I did not show a video doorbell in my story 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.360 on KTLA at all, it's because it doesn't affect the 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.760 video doorbell for the broadcasting side of things, right, so 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.240 the video doorbells are not going to be bridges, at 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:31.000 least not now. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:32.800 And so the bridges. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.920 The things that are going to be broadcasting this network 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.040 are the ring floodlights, so the things that are sort 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.120 of like that you install on the side of your house. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.920 Those are the ones which not as many people have those, 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.240 and also the spotlight cams. Then with the echo products, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.160 it is a lot. It's almost every echo that I 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.960 know of. It's a lot of echo products which are everywhere. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:54.520 I mean, they have lots of echo. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.400 Even the little dot that I'm looking at right now 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.320 would become a bridge, and this would broadcast this little 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.560 low power network across my neighborhood. And you know what, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.160 I am going to stay on and I'm going to 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.920 help this thing go because I kind of see the 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.760 benefit of it and I kind of want to make 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.720 it work. And so you know, you can disagree with 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.280 me and say, Rich I'm opting out. I'm not going 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.320 to do this, And I do agree that Amazon. I mean, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.200 they made the opt out instructions easy and clear, and 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.160 they sent them to everyone, But give me a break. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.560 Ninety nine point nine percent of people that bought an 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.360 Echo Dot for thirty bucks are not going to take 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.880 the time to go into their Alexa app and switch 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.920 this thing off. And Amazon knows that, and that's why 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.840 they made this opt out and they said, oh, it's 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.840 going to be on by default, by the way, And 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.680 so I do take I do take issue with that. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.200 But at the same time, as a tech reporter, this 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.480 is why I kind of, you know, made this a 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.240 big deal on my social media and on KTLA and 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.440 my other stations, because people need to know about this 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.760 and they need to opt out if they're not comfortable. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.160 I'm not saying I'm not telling you whether you should 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.400 be comfortable or not. I'm just telling you how I feel. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.000 And if you feel that same way, opt out. It's 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.680 pretty easy. Just go into the app, open up your 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.720 Alexa app, tap more, tap settings, tap account settings, tap 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.640 Amazon Sidewalk, and switch it off and you're out if 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.280 you don't want to be a part of it. But 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:16.200 you know, if you do want to be a part 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.400 of it. And this is you know, Amazon and all 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.200 these tech companies, they try a lot of stuff, not 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.240 all of it works. This may not take off. Who knows. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:27.440 As more of the mainstream media get gets word of this, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.160 you know, it'll probably blow up a little bit and 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.280 people know about it and it'll be aware, and then 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.480 maybe enough people will turn it off where it just 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.800 doesn't work for Amazon and they'll have to figure out 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.240 plan B. But we'll say they have enough products out 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.840 there and enough people out there that won't really understand 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.280 this that it may work and it will have some 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.200 benefits and it will be free to people to use. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.360 I hope, I mean it can't. Could you imagine if 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.120 they use our internet to power this thing and then 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.000 end up charging for it. I mean, that would be 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:02.000 a problem. But anyway, there you have that sidewalk now, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.679 you know. Let's get to our first question on the show. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:12.920 It is from Deborah. Deborah says, do you like Edge Browser? 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.800 Is it compatible with Max? Chrome has been having issues, 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.320 Safari has beach balls. I heard you were using it 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.679 testing it out. Thanks Debra, Debra, you are correct. I 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.360 have been using the Edge browser from Microsoft. In fact, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.800 it's what I'm looking at right now. And I never 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.639 thought I would do this, but I did because Chrome 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.879 was grinding to a halt on my MacBook, and it 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.600 would do this weird thing where when I would first 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.240 start up my MacBook and first start using Chrome, or 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.480 actually just any time while I'm using it, it would just 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.159 sort of freeze up and stop working, like literally just 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.719 freeze and I couldn't do anything for about, you know, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:55.000 anywhere from ten seconds to thirty seconds. And it got 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.920 pretty frustrating. And so I dealt with that for many, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.679 many months, and then I was like, okay, let me 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:03.679 you know, and it's just slow. I can't do my 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.040 WordPress posts in it. It's just really really slow. Checking 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:12.879 email became so slow. Gmail inside Chrome became slow. I mean, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.760 how does that happen? Not very good? So I said, 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.919 all right, you know what, and I tried Safari. And 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.280 I like Safari because it's very fast, but I feel 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.800 like it's limited with my extensions that I need. I 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.680 need specific extensions that I use for my job, and 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.600 I don't think I had all those. I'm not really 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.120 sure because didn't really check it out. And so I said, 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.800 you know what, let me check out Edge. Edge is 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.639 kind of built on the same exact platform as Chrome. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.240 It's Microsoft, which is kind of weird. But honestly, I've 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.520 been very impressed with other Microsoft products, like I've been 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.760 using Outlook, I used OneDrive, I used I used Microsoft 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.800 to Do and I'm kind of like, gosh, I feel 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.159 like Microsoft's doing kind of a nice job of things, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.520 and so let me test this out. I downloaded it 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.919 and it's been fast. It's been speedy. Yes, it is 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.879 slowed down in certain aspects, like especially yesterday I was 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.080 writing a blog post on word Press and it was 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.480 it was pretty slow, but I'm beginning to think that's 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:07.800 more of a word Press thing, and I, you know, anyway, 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.320 I don't know if I'm gonna stick with it forever, 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.000 but so far, I'm loving it and I think it's 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.080 pretty great and I haven't missed anything from Chrome. The 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:15.680 only thing is you do have to change your default 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.399 browser to Google if you want that. The other feature 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.280 I really like, that's kind of cool. When I open 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.040 up a new tab, it gives me this cool new 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.359 tab page, which is kind of fun. They try to 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.920 like push MSN on me, which I'm like, ugh, these 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.879