WEBVTT - CES 2021 virtual show announcement 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.360 Apple Fitness Plus launches, I'll share my thoughts on it. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.480 I've got an announcement to make about CS twenty twenty one, 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.159 lots of streaming apps finally make it to lots of 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.920 different places. Plus your tech questions answered? What is going on? 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.760 My name is Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.280 the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff that 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.880 I think you should know about. It's also the place 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.960 where I answer the questions you send me. Yes, I'm 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.839 the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:47.240 and also for Nextstar TV stations nationwide. It's been interesting because, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.680 you know, Katla was purchased by a new company that 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.360 I used to work for actually, which is kind of 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.040 interesting back in my early days of my career, and 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.560 you know, we own a whole bunch of TV stations, 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.760 and so they're starting to notice that I do this 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.200 little report and they're starting to use them, and so 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.320 it's really been fun to kind of see my stuff 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.000 just popping up in different places across the US. We 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:09.920 used to be on a bunch of stations with Tribune, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.960 our old company, and we're still on a lot of 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.399 those stations, but now it's like you know, every station 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.160 has access, which is kind of fun. So it's been 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.960 really good expanding, you know, the reach and just kind 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.760 of doing what I do and what you know, my 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.360 thesis on all of this stuff, my mission statement has 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:30.600 always been sort of helping people understand technology, you know, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.399 in an easy way, and helping the everyday person. So 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.759 you know, there's every one of us has to use technology, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.880 whether we like it or not. That's just the reality 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.600 of the world in twenty twenty. So you have your phone, 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.319 and it really all stems from the phone. You have 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.440 your phone and you kind of say, oh, smart light 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.600 looks kind of cool. One of those Amazon echoes looks 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.480 kind of cool. And next thing, you know, you've got 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.000 all this stuff and you're just trying to figure it out. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.720 And you know, then you have the apps and you know, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.400 privacy and so I just try to every one of 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.040 my reports, I just try to be helpful and I 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.480 hope that comes through because that's that's really what my 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:11.280 mission is. I can't believe that we are done, almost 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.960 done with twenty twenty. I mean, I just can't believe it. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:19.160 I can remember sitting in a van at CS doing 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.440 the podcast at the beginning of the Year in twenty 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.680 twenty in Las Vegas, and literally I can remember it 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.600 like it's yesterday, and here we are a year later, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.639 almost a year later, and honestly, this is the year 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.440 that sort of didn't happen because we've been quarantined and 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.919 just you know, not leaving our home and this and that. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:42.639 So wow, I just can't believe it. But holidays are here. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.120 I'm excited. This is the last show of twenty twenty, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.960 which is pretty wild. Be back next year. But let 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.080 me and I hope you're you know, I hope you're 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.120 staying safe during the holidays. I know all my plans 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:55.760 are canceled. I was supposed to go to New Jersey. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.840 That is not happening. Then we were supposed to go 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.760 to Arizona. That's not happening. We are just staying put 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.280 because it just seems like the thing to do this year. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.960 And honestly, I'll enjoy the time, the downtime and just sit. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.079 I'm gonna finally install Big sur on my computer and 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.239 hopefully get organized once again, you know, kind of reset 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.040 for the new year. And the new year is gonna 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.519 kick off pretty strong, because I have an announcement to 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.320 make I will be working pretty closely with CS twenty 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.080 one this year or next year because I am going 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.360 to be one of their hosts for the digital show. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.720 So we've talked a lot about CS in this podcast 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.120 because it's kind of the biggest event of the year. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.000 I get so many of my story ideas, I get 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.160 so many of my videos, my social media videos I get. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.840 I mean, I get so much from CS every year, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.840 b roll like I have in my Google Photos. You know, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.680 I'm sitting here editing stuff for this for the segments, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.360 and you know, I just go into my CES video 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.640 I'm like, oh, I have a shot of a ring 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.920 video doorbell, or I have a shot of a microphone, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.160 or I have a shot of that smart toilet. And 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.720 it's become sort of a little a place where I 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.000 just get stuff that I need and you know, anyway, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.119 So CS twenty twenty one is going to be their 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.840 first all digital show, happening in happening in January. It 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.920 is virtual, so no need to go to Las Vegas. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:19.360 This year. They're gonna have over one hundred conference sessions. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.559 They're gonna have more than a thousand exhibitors from around 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.599 the world. AI five G Digital health, smart cities, vehicle tech, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.799 and then they're gonna have this thing called the CS 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.200 Digital Venue, and this is in partnership with Microsoft, and 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.839 this is what I'll be doing. And it's basically kind 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.400 of a live anchor desk where you'll see myself and 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.480 a couple other folks and I'm very excited about who 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.080 those other folks are. But we will be kind of 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.920 navigating the show, doing you know, tech updates, interviews, all 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.480 kinds of stuff. I haven't even heard like everything I'm doing, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.960 but it sounds awesome. And here's why I get to play. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.560 I say play with, but work with. Okay, it's it's 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:04.360 not play, it's work. I justine, which I love. I mean, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.640 we've we actually did CS together many years ago, and 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.799 we've been you know, we stayed in touch ever since. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.920 My friend Brian Tong, who you know, we worked at 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.400 c net together. He is doing a great job on 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.880 his own with his own YouTube channel. I mean just 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:21.880 really really doing a nice job. But it's a lot 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.480 of work. I watch him work, and it's well, I 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:25.760 don't like to sit there and watch him at it, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.240 but I talk to him very often on text, and 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.840 you know, believe me, he's working hard. And then Naomi Kyle, 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.520 who I don't know personally but I'm aware of, and 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.720 she is an actress, producer, does a lot of stuff 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.800 in the video game world, so it'll be nice to 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.920 have her perspective as well, because that's a huge part 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.880 of this. So you've got four of us and it's 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.720 just kind of cool. So we will be hosting CS 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:53.480 twenty twenty one virtually and I'm excited for it. Last 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:59.120 day for media registration complimentary media registration is January eighth, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.760 and CS twenty twenty one takes place January eleventh through fourteenth. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.640 I know, I believe that I'm a start on like 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.679 the I think it's the eighth maybe or the ninth, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.080 just to get prepped, but it's gonna be fun. And 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.640 then CS returns to Las Vegas January fifth through eighth, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:22.479 twenty twenty two, So mark your calendars January eleventh through fourteenth. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.480 You'll see me online and if you you know, see 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:33.840 me wave high. So exciting because everyone was asking me like, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.360 what are you doing for CS? And I couldn't really 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:36.880 tell them for a while because I was, you know, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.520 contracts hadn't been signed in all that stuff. But now 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.080 that it's a done deal. And thank you to KTLA 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.360 by the way for letting me do this, because of course, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.479 you know, they had to approve, so that was exciting, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.560 all right. Tony McDowell says, is there an address program 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.480 that you can input once and it updates the address book, email, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.240 et cetera. Also when you delete a name, you only 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.200 have to do it once, Tony. You know, Tony, I 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.640 have been looking for something like this for a long 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:08.120 time and there's not really there's not really a one 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.800 size fits fits all with this sort of thing. There 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.680 used to be something I loved back in the day 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.600 called Plaxo, which, if you've been in tech for a 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.960 little bit that might ring a bell. It was this 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.200 program that was sort of spammy, but it was great. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.040 You would upload your whole address book to this program 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:24.920 and it would send an email to all your contacts 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.680 and say, hey, can you update you know, just take 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.640 a look and make sure everything looks right. And it 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.120 was brilliant. And then if someone I think there was 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.520 like a opt in that if you just said, hey, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.600 you know, keep my stuff updated at all times, you 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.960 could go into your own app and update your info 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.320 and everyone else who's using Plaso on the network would 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.440 also see your latest info. I thought it was brilliant, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.520 but people just thought it was spammy, and it never 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.880 really took off, and I think Comcast bought it at 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.920 some point, and you know, of course it doesn't really 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.480 exist anymore. But I have been testing something new called 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:59.720 Sunshine Contacts, and this is very similar. It's very similar 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.480 to what but Plaxo was trying to do, maybe in 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.280 a less invasive way. They don't send out automatic updates, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.400 but you can send like a link to a friend 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.240 or a contact and say, hey, would you mind just 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.600 taking a look at this and updating your stuff? Now, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.360 this app is actually from the former CEO of Yahoo, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.160 Mersa Meyer. She came up. I don't know if she 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.160 came up with it, but she's kind of behind this 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.960 and it's been interesting on my iPhone now. The last 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.880 I checked, when I went into there, it somehow goes 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.480 through all your emails and like finds the contacts. So 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.959 now I have twenty three thousand, eight hundred and seventy 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:40.760 six contacts imported fifteen thousand, nine hundred and thirty six 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.680 total without duplicates fourteen thousand, nine hundred and twelve enhanced 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.920 by sunshine. So I have enough contacts now to last 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.640 me seventeen lifetimes. And it's interesting what they do when 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.319 they you know, you go into a contact and it 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.640 kind of uses I don't know, some sort of I 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.520 don't know. I don't know how it does it, but 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.280 it gives you the info, you know, when you tap 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.640 into the contact, and then not only does it give 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.120 you the info, but it gives you like some other 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.920 info you have, and then it marks it as obsolete somehow, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.199 and some of it's pretty good. So anyway, it's not perfect. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.920 It's interesting. It's it's opt or. It's beta right now. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.319 So you have to have an invitation. I don't know 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.960 if can I invite people. I don't even I don't 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.480 even see a way to invite people, but you can, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.640 you know. It took me a little bit to to 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.480 get on there, but it shouldn't take too long. But anyway, 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.040 that's the one I've been testing. There's other ones, like 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.080 there's ever Contact. I mean, there's a couple of things 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.599 like that, but I found that, you know, full contact, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.720 I just found that not many of them work that well. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.160 And honestly, the thing that I think works. The best 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.880 is really just Siri. If you connect your email to 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.480 you know, your iPhone, like if you log into their 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.880 email app, it will search sort of like the signatures 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.280 in your email and kind of put a serie kind 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.480 of uses all the informations that when you look someone up, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.000 it will tell you you, you know, hey, here's the information 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.760 we think we have for them, based on you know, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.800 your previous It even is smart enough to know that, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.840 like the last time they texted you, it came from 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.960 this number, so that's the number that it kind of 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.920 puts at the top of the list when you go 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.120 to call them. I mean, it's pretty smart, and it's 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.880 something that's not very nuanced in the iPhone, like people 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.880 don't really or not very apparent. It's very nuanced, so 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.760 people don't realize that that's happening. But I think that's 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.200 a really cool little feature. And now this Sunshine Contacts, 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.040 I don't know because it's updated all my contacts my 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.760 address book, and I don't know if there's any going 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.800 back at this point. I have so many contacts in here, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.360 I don't even know what to do with myself. Oh 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:41.440 my gosh. Okay, speaking of Apple, Apple Fitness Plus launched 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.240 this week and I was an early tester, which is 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.760 kind of cool. So they sent me they actually had 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.560 to send me. Well I don't mean if I can, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.280 can I really talk about that, but anyway, they had 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.120 to send me the software early to try it out, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.520 so it was cool. It was great, I really have. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.520 I've grown to love it and it's now part of 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.440 my life. Apple Fitness Plus Now. The thing to know 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.600 about it is it requires an Apple Watch. These are 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.240 fitness classes that are on your iPhone, your iPad, or 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.760 Apple TV, but you have to have an Apple Watch 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.160 to sort of unlock it, and a subscription which is 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.559 ten dollars a month, which I think is very reasonable. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.240 You can also bundle that with one of their Apple 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.400 you know subscription bundle plans. What is it called Apple 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.360 one And so to get it, you have to update 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.600 all of your apps. So I sat there and I 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.760 like updated my Apple TV and the iPad and the 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.840 Apple Watch and the iPhone and it showed up on 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.000 all of them. It's fourteen point three if you're keeping track. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.559 And with the Apple TV. It's kind of cool because 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.720 it works on any Apple TV, even if it's not yours, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.520 which is really interesting. So let's say you were at 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.040 an Airbnb and they had an Apple TV. When you 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.800 have your when you open up the fitness app on 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.360 that Apple TV, it kind of scans the room for 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.120 any Apple Watches, It sees yours, and then it says, okay, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.959 do you want to log in? And you just tap 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.360 you know, yes on your watch and it kind of 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.079 up it handshakes with the TV somehow. And I thought 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.839 that was really cool because if I had an Airbnb, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.520 like if I was an owner of one, I would 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.000 that would push me over to put like, you know, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.480 an Apple TV in there, because you know, anyone who 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.040 comes there with an Apple Watch could get a quick 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.040 workout in, which is kind of cool. So the workouts 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.560 across all kinds of things. It's not, you know, it's 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.320 not a one trick pony. It's not just like one 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.959 type of workout. They do it all hit, dance, strength, core. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.560 I mean, it's all there, and it's great. They always 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.200 have three instructors, which I really like. So one is 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.320 doing the typical, one's doing a beginner, one's doing in advance. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.280 The instructors are really cool. They're all kind of you know, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.360 very apply, you know, excited, and enthusiastic and just a 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.120 nice mix of folks from different backgrounds and different abilities 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.080 as well, which is really cool because you know, some 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.640 of these trainers in these programs that you know, they 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.280 are all these like young fit people, and you know, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.440 not everyone's like that, so it's kind of nice that 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.760 they have a very wide range of folks, which is 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.560 really really nice. The best part is really kind of 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.480 the on screen data that it gets from your Apple Watch. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.800 I've grown to love that, and you know, if you 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.480 have an Apple Watch, you know it's all about closing 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.240 those those circles or those rings rather and so for me, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.120 pretty much every day I'm trying to do that unless 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.400 I'm knowingly taking a day off from any sort of exercise. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.600 And so like yesterday, I went on a little run 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:21.800 and then I came back home and I was like, oh, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.240 let me do ten minutes of strength and then a 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.840 five minute cool down, and so it was great. There's 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.720 no live classes, so that's a big difference between this 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.360 and Peloton, but I don't really think that's missing, Like 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.640 I don't really I'm still gonna stick with the peloton 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.320 for the spin classes at least for now, but I 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.480 do like the Apple Fitness Plus for everything else. So 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.760 I love the strength, I love the hit, I love 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.640 the core, and the mindful cool downs have been really 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.120 nice too, and new classes come out on Mondays. So 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.560 I don't think that people are gonna flock over from 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.520 Peloton to this, but it makes me very happy that 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.120 I did not buy a Peloton bike. I'm glad I 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.800 bought a you know, a generic by that works with 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.040 all services, because if I feel like it, I can 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.400 use the Apple Fitness Spin class, or I can use 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.800 the Peloton Spin Class, or if something better comes along tomorrow, 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.960 I can use that as well. So for all those reasons, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.960 I think that Apple Fitness Plus is really cool. If 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.679 you have an Apple Watch, you definitely have to try 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.680 it out. You get a month free if you you know, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.760 for all users, three months free if you bought an 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.560 Apple Watch after September fifteenth through March thirty first. And 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.560 I don't know what to say except for the fact 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.240 that I just love this. I love having another option. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.640 I love the fact that they have ten minute classes, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.440 because ten minutes to me, I mean, like the other night, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.760 I was literally dumb with my day and I just 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.440 waiting for my wife to get out of a meeting, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:43.600 and I was just like, you know what, let me 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.760 just do a ten minute class with the kids. And 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.360 so we just sat there, we all picked up some 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.240 weights and we just did like a ten minute strength 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:51.720 class and it felt so good. And then I was like, oh, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.320 let me do one more. And so then I did 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.480 like a ten minute core class, and so I just 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.720 got twenty minutes of working out, you know, basically in 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.840 a day that I knew I wasn't going to. So 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.640 so I really think that it's a really cool addition 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.160 to the portfolio. Of course, it keeps people in the 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.280 Apple ecosystem, and you know, but as long as you're 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:17.160 putting out good stuff, why not. Eric says, Hey, Rich, 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.160 I enjoy your podcast. I appreciate your knowledge. Any suggestions 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.480 for a music manager app for Android. As you know, 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.520 Google play Music went away put people into YouTube music 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.680 and I'm not so far enjoying the user experience with 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:34.160 that app. Any suggestions on other apps or services that 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.200 would work. I do have a small catalog of purchase 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.800 music I would need to store in the cloud with 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.000 the service as well. Thank you, Eric in Visalia, California. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.160 Is that like the onions Vesalia. So I've gotten this 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.440 question from a lot of people. In fact, when I 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.160 get this many questions from people, I'm like, do I 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.960 need to do a segment on KTLA. I feel like 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.400 it's a small use case scenario of these folks that 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.000 are still out there that are sort of using their 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.720 own music collection of MP three's on their phone. I 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.000 don't think that's a very popular thing to do right now. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.440 Obviously people have moved to streaming, but I think for 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.160 you know, some of the more techier folks or the 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.120 people who have built up a collection that they like, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:13.880 they still want to stick with it and not pay 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.760 the ten dollars a month, which I'm totally fine with, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.160 but when it comes so for most of the folks, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.280 I've just been recommending, you know, use the YouTube music 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.880 because it plays your own files and it's got I 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.040 believe it still has the cloud element. I know Spotify 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.560 also plays local files, but I don't think you can 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:35.160 upload them to the cloud. So I think there's two ways, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.640 or a couple of ways you can do this. I 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.920 think one is you can do plex. I think plex 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.000 is probably the best way to do this. And what 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.720 plex does is it kind of you just make your 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:51.600 own server and it's specifically created for music, movies, TV shows, photos, 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.080 it's just everything. And so I think that that's probably 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.480 the way to do it is just just get plex 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.480 and you know there is a there is like a pricing. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.760 Let's see where is the pricing on this thing? If 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.800 you have to go premium, so I don't know how 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.920 much it is, let's see it doesn't really I hate 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.520 websites that don't just have like a pricing, like I 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.280 have to create an account to see what the price is. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.359 Come on Plex, let me just see how much it is. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.600 Let's see plex pricing. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:21.119 You know. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.639 I like these websites say literally just say pricing and 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.879 you can just like there's literally not a place that 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.639 I can see how much it costs. Oh, here we 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.240 go five dollars a month, forty dollars for the year, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.080 I mean, or one hundred and twenty dollars for the lifetime. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.600 I would do the forty dollars for the year. Right now, 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.080 they're doing a forty eight hour sale for twenty percent 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.520 off a lifetime. I would proably wouldn't go lifetime because 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.439 you might change your mind, but a yearly is definitely 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.080 a better deal than monthly, or maybe just start with 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:50.520 monthly and see if you like it and then go 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:51.960 to the yearly. But I would just do plex. I 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.960 think that's gonna I think that's gonna be the best 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.680 case for what you need. I think you could probably 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.280 build your own tracks and SoundCloud, but I'm not sure 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.000 that that's really I'm not sure that's the spirit of 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.080 what they do. Maybe it is, I mean, maybe that 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.680 would work, but it doesn't seem like it would. Samsung 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.679 is getting ready for twenty twenty one. They have already 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.240 put out a blog post about their new phones that 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.120 they're gonna concentrate on, and we've already heard rumors that 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.080 they're going to launch their new phones early in January 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.880 versus February, which is pretty interesting. And I think that 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.960 that's a good idea because you know, people are really 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.159 buying the iPhone twelve a lot, I think, or considering it, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:38.080 and with the Samsungs, you know, not so much. Like 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.240 I feel like, yes, they did fine with the S 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.920 twenty lineup, but it was not the breakout, crazy hit 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.560 that they wanted, and the reason for that is that 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.159 the S twenty Ultra was really kind of a bomb 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.320 and It's really sad because that's an amazing device, but 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.560 it just the camera never lived up to the expectations. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.439 And I would argue that the S twenty Fe was fantastic, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.919 the Note Ultro was amazing, but just that's not the 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:07.159 phone for everyone. That's not a mainstream mass phone. But 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.320 it did pretty well, but it's just not the phone 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.120 for everyone. So when I'm sitting here as a tech 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.159 person recommending you a phone, the S twenty Ultra was 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.440 just not something that I recommend it to people. Now, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.159 the S twenty Fe, the Fan Edition, I did, but 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.479 it doesn't it's not the high end phone that people, 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:26.399 you know, everyone wants. So looking forward to twenty twenty 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.320 one with Samsung, what do we have? So a couple 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.199 things from this blog post that they put out. I 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.280 thought this was really interesting. They are Samsung Galaxies will 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.000 be more than ready to meet the demands of the 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.159 video obsessed in twenty twenty one. When it comes to 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.439