Speaker 1: Starbucks goes electric, Samsung unveils its answer to the iPhone
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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the
Speaker 1: place where I answer the questions you send me, and
Speaker 1: Boyd has send me those questions. I'm the tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: folks watching on the live Instagram stream. I did this
Speaker 1: last week, and you know what, I thought, it brought
Speaker 1: like a pretty nice energy to the show. So I
Speaker 1: felt like I was getting instant reactions. I felt like
Speaker 1: people were asking questions. I felt like half the people
Speaker 1: were like, who is this person I'm following? And why
Speaker 1: is he doing this thing? What? Rich has a podcast,
Speaker 1: So all of the are totally valid. So welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for joining me. Got a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about this week, way too much actually, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to go through some of these stories pretty fast.
Speaker 1: But I just got back from Palm Springs, California, which
Speaker 1: I know a lot a lot of my followers are
Speaker 1: in California, but a lot of them are in or
Speaker 1: a lot of you or in other places. And I
Speaker 1: just have to say that Palm Springs. There is so
Speaker 1: much going on in California. And I'm not just talking
Speaker 1: about the problems. I'm talking about the good stuff too.
Speaker 1: I mean, California is such a beautiful state. I almost
Speaker 1: called it a country because it kind of is. It's
Speaker 1: so big that you like, I grew up on the
Speaker 1: East Coast in New Jersey, and you know, when we
Speaker 1: went on road trips, we literally went all over the
Speaker 1: East coast. You know, we went to Maine, we went
Speaker 1: to New Hampshire, we went to New York, we went
Speaker 1: to Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania begrudgingly, but we went all over.
Speaker 1: We went to different places. Just kidding. If you're in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: it was just a really long drive across. But the
Speaker 1: reality is in California, you know, there are so many
Speaker 1: places to go that you don't even have to leave California.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's and it's so beautiful and it's so varied.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. It took me many many years to
Speaker 1: realize this, Like I took it all for granted, and
Speaker 1: now I just get it, Like you want to go
Speaker 1: to the mountains. That weekend, go to the mountains. You
Speaker 1: want to go to the ocean. The next weekend you
Speaker 1: go to the ocean. You want to go to the snow.
Speaker 1: One weekend you go to the snow. You want the desert,
Speaker 1: You've got the desert. You want amazing cities like San Francisco,
Speaker 1: uh that are still you know, recovering from the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you can go there. But I mean Wine Country. There
Speaker 1: is just so much. And I guess maybe it's now
Speaker 1: that I have kids that I'm kind of going to
Speaker 1: all these places and looking for things. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: tell you all this because I was in Palm Springs
Speaker 1: for this Volvo Drive event and it you know, it's
Speaker 1: basically an event. They invite the media and you go
Speaker 1: and you drive the cars. And I'm telling you, Palm
Speaker 1: up in there so many times, but mostly Palm Desert,
Speaker 1: and it's just such a fun little place. There's just
Speaker 1: so like so much energy there. It's something about the
Speaker 1: mountains in the distance that are just like they ground
Speaker 1: you in this world. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but I just get this like re energized feeling when
Speaker 1: I go to Palm Springs and Palm Desert and it's
Speaker 1: just such a fun place. So anyway, if you haven't been,
Speaker 1: if you haven't been lately, go And yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: commenters talking about the taxes and taxes and the high
Speaker 1: gas prices, and yes, there are a million and one
Speaker 1: things about California that make it a kind of a
Speaker 1: wild place to live. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we enjoy a lifestyle here that is so far ahead
Speaker 1: and beyond what so many people experience in this world
Speaker 1: and in the US even, and we take it for granted,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you just kind of have to remember that, like,
Speaker 1: this is such a magical place. So anyway, I know
Speaker 1: it got really really tough during the pandemic with all
Speaker 1: of the mandates and things, but we're finally getting out
Speaker 1: of that, and yeah, it is worth it. As Ryan said, anyway,
Speaker 1: So I was talking about the Volvo. I drove Valvo's
Speaker 1: first all electric car. This is the C forty. This
Speaker 1: is Valvo's first pure electric car. And I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that they didn't have a pure electric yet. They
Speaker 1: had you know, half and half whatever hybrid kind of thing,
Speaker 1: but this is their first pure electric gets about two
Speaker 1: hundred miles to the fill up and I was very impressed.
Speaker 1: In fact, you know, as you listen to me, you
Speaker 1: know I have a Tesla. This made me a little jealous.
Speaker 1: I was like, did I jump the gun on the
Speaker 1: Tesla situation and get that a little bit too early
Speaker 1: with all of these cool cars coming out. And I
Speaker 1: will still say that the Tesla, the advantage that it
Speaker 1: has is not only the technology of the car. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of downsides to the Tesla. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. I think the fit and finish is just
Speaker 1: pretty horrible. But the beauty is the driving every day.
Speaker 1: And also the charging situation is just unsurpassed. With the Tesla.
Speaker 1: You can go anywhere California, West Coast, pretty much across
Speaker 1: the US, and you're gonna be fine with charging. That
Speaker 1: cannot be said for these other cars. And so as
Speaker 1: much as I love the Volvo, unless you're using it
Speaker 1: just to commute, it's definitely it's gonna be a challenge
Speaker 1: still to find those those charging stations that are not
Speaker 1: only I mean you can find them, they may not
Speaker 1: be the fastest charging stations. And that's the other part
Speaker 1: of this is you have to have fast charging to
Speaker 1: really get the most used out of these cars on
Speaker 1: a road trip. If you just drive into work and
Speaker 1: to school and to you know, fun around town, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine. Charging at home, charging at work,
Speaker 1: it's going to be just fine. It's really on those
Speaker 1: road trips that that Tesla infrastructure rocks. So with that
Speaker 1: in mind, I will have My review of the C forty.
Speaker 1: I mean, top line review is that it's an excellent car.
Speaker 1: In fact, I would definitely recommend it, and I think
Speaker 1: that the Volvo is a fantastic ev I love the
Speaker 1: Google inside. In fact, there wasn't anything I didn't like
Speaker 1: about it. The price is a little high, it's sixty grand,
Speaker 1: but it does qualify for all the tax rebates, which
Speaker 1: could be up to like, you know, ten thousand bucks
Speaker 1: depending on where you live, and so you know, that's nice.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that the Starbucks and Volvo are
Speaker 1: collaborating to build chargers at Starbucks, which of course makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense, right, I mean, Starbucks are everywhere.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of this extra space at their stations,
Speaker 1: you know, at their at their places that have parking
Speaker 1: lots and stuff like that. So you can easily convert
Speaker 1: one of those into a charger. So they're gonna do
Speaker 1: fifteen Starbucks locations for starters, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred and fifty mile route from Do you say
Speaker 1: route or route? I always say route, paper like I
Speaker 1: had a paper route when I was a kid, paper
Speaker 1: route when I was a kid. I say route. I
Speaker 1: think you can say it either way, but anyway, They're
Speaker 1: gonna go from Seattle to Denver with this pilot program,
Speaker 1: which is a location about every one hundred miles. And
Speaker 1: so people are you know, and I asked Valvo. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'd really like to drive this road trip later this
Speaker 1: year when these things are in place, and so they said,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, sure, But you know, they'll say anything
Speaker 1: in the moment, but who knows, we'll see, but I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Volvo drivers will get access for free. And this should
Speaker 1: be the test, Like pilot will be completed by twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, so they will have these stations in place,
Speaker 1: and it's just one of these things where we're going
Speaker 1: to see more and more. Like Ryan is saying, Sonic
Speaker 1: really needs to get in on EV charging. That would
Speaker 1: actually be a great one. The ev charging at Sonic
Speaker 1: would be perfect because you don't have to leave your car.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you order at the screen and
Speaker 1: you actually say, can you also plug in my car?
Speaker 1: And this is another thing I wanted to mention that
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't talk about with the evs
Speaker 1: is that and this. I almost feel guilty mentioning this
Speaker 1: right now because because of the high gas prices in
Speaker 1: California and the US at large. But I mean, there
Speaker 1: are so many opportunities to charge evs for free. That
Speaker 1: is kind of a small secret right now, where yes,
Speaker 1: it's getting maybe less places, but like you know, the
Speaker 1: hotel I stayed at in Palm Springs, I just they
Speaker 1: didn't advertise it or anything. I just I always ask
Speaker 1: when I get to a hotel, like, hey, can you
Speaker 1: charge my car? And I will say, the last four
Speaker 1: or five places I've stayed at or six have all
Speaker 1: had a place to charge, so and by the way,
Speaker 1: that charging is free. So it was kind of nice
Speaker 1: driving back knowing that it was like a free ride. Basically,
Speaker 1: still wear and tear in your car obviously, Marcus says,
Speaker 1: can I have a pair of those? These these are
Speaker 1: like real, like you guys don't really see me doing
Speaker 1: the podcast with these headphones on. But I love these
Speaker 1: headphones because I'm a I'm a person that moves a
Speaker 1: lot when I talk, and so these these headphones can
Speaker 1: move with me. It's basically one of those like Monday
Speaker 1: night football, like the sports headphones. So I've got the
Speaker 1: two side cups and then the microphone right in front
Speaker 1: of my mouth. But it's great and I love the
Speaker 1: I've used these since day one on the podcast because
Speaker 1: they're just so easy. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: first question of the show. Good morning. I enjoy your
Speaker 1: insights on many products would have. Do you have any
Speaker 1: recommendations for a reliable fax app that's compatible with my
Speaker 1: scanner that's listed or a free app that doesn't require
Speaker 1: a subscription. I am home based. Thanks for your time
Speaker 1: and help if you're able to, Sincerely, Valerie. Valerie, I
Speaker 1: don't think there is a free Maybe there's a free
Speaker 1: facts situation out there. I honestly I don't know if. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: so there's something I just searched for free facts. It's
Speaker 1: called facts zero. I mean, I guess you can do that.
Speaker 1: It's a maximum of three pages plus a cover five
Speaker 1: factxes per day. So if you want to just send
Speaker 1: something for freefactszero dot com, Now, I personally, if you're
Speaker 1: using this for business, I think that you're going to
Speaker 1: have to step up a little bit and pay. Because
Speaker 1: number one, anything that's free, you have to wonder about
Speaker 1: the security of that. You know, it may not be
Speaker 1: as secure as a paid as a paid thing something
Speaker 1: that doesn't require a subscription, So I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you my favorite. So my favorite is
Speaker 1: it's called Hellofax Hellofax dot com and I've used them
Speaker 1: for many, many years anytime I have to sign any
Speaker 1: kind of contract, paperwork whatever hello fax it is. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I've never had to pay, so I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: they have some sort of free level of service where
Speaker 1: you get like one or two or three facts is
Speaker 1: a month. I think maybe I did have to pay
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents once to send one, but it was
Speaker 1: so minimal that I was like, all right, that's fine,
Speaker 1: I could I could do that. I think I went
Speaker 1: to a Kinkos once and it was like seven or
Speaker 1: eight bucks to send a FAXT, So I think you'll
Speaker 1: be fine. But that's what I would recommend. I would
Speaker 1: recommend Hello Fax and see if if you know the
Speaker 1: free facts works, try it. Hellofax is the other one,
Speaker 1: and there are others out my my, eating my words,
Speaker 1: there are others out there, like efacts dot Com is
Speaker 1: pretty much the gold standard in faxing. It's been around forever.
Speaker 1: I like HELLOFACTX. I think it's more modern. It works
Speaker 1: really well. And they were purchased by Dropbox, so I
Speaker 1: don't know how long they're going to be around, but
Speaker 1: they are still around and they always work for me,
Speaker 1: and it always seems great, all right. T Mobile this
Speaker 1: week unveiled its answer to the to the iPhone SE,
Speaker 1: the new iPhone SE. I talked about it last week
Speaker 1: on the show. It is the five G iPhone that
Speaker 1: kind of looks like an iPhone eight. It's still got
Speaker 1: the home button, but it's got upgraded cameras and a
Speaker 1: better processor. And Samsung their's is called the Galaxy A
Speaker 1: fifty three five G. I mean, oh, isn't that a
Speaker 1: winning name? Consumers are just going to roll into Best
Speaker 1: Buy and be like, hey, can I please get the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Samsung Galaxy A fifty three five G. I mean, Samsung,
Speaker 1: come on, like, let's just make these phones with names
Speaker 1: that people can roll off the you know, off the tongue.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, how about just the Galaxy Triple
Speaker 1: A or something. You know, four hundred and forty nine dollars.
Speaker 1: Don't pay that price. Samsung phones are always discounted, So
Speaker 1: if you're paying four hundred and forty nine dollars, you're
Speaker 1: doing something wrong. I guarantee you there's a discount on
Speaker 1: this phone already, Samsung A fifty three. So the advantages
Speaker 1: over the iPhone SC It's got more cameras, so it's
Speaker 1: got the It's got a quad camera system, so I
Speaker 1: assume that's three cameras on the back and a camera
Speaker 1: on the front, so you're getting like the wide angle
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and the zoom, so that's a
Speaker 1: little bit better. It's got AI power to capture clear
Speaker 1: pictures in all lighting conditions. Is also got the photo
Speaker 1: remaster which will take a photo make it look better,
Speaker 1: and object eraser, which is kind of fun. It's got
Speaker 1: now they say two day battery life. I have not
Speaker 1: tested this phone just yet, so I can't tell you
Speaker 1: if it has to day. They did tell me that
Speaker 1: the S twenty two Ultra had two day and I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the case. Maybe if you don't
Speaker 1: use it as much as I do, but you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna get long battery life. I think Samsung has
Speaker 1: done a really good job with the battery life. Also
Speaker 1: super fast charging and a six point five inch display
Speaker 1: edge to edge. So a lot of people with the
Speaker 1: with the iPhone S the new one, you know, and
Speaker 1: by the way, that's a four hundred and twenty nine dollars,
Speaker 1: So this one's a little bit more, but like I said,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be discounted. A lot of people are giving
Speaker 1: the iPhone SE that came out in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: a hard time because it's it's got a very old design.
Speaker 1: Now some people might like that because it's comfortable, it's
Speaker 1: what they're used to, and really, who they're appealing to
Speaker 1: here is not the most cutting edge person with either
Speaker 1: of these phones. These are phones that are basic smartphones
Speaker 1: that will do the job, but also are really good.
Speaker 1: I mean, these inexpensive and I'm putting up my air
Speaker 1: quotes here, these inexpensive smartphones in twenty twenty two are
Speaker 1: still pretty amazing. And so if you like Samsung, if
Speaker 1: you like the Android side of things. Then I would
Speaker 1: definitely consider this a fifty three to five G. I
Speaker 1: think that the S twenty two, if you can jump
Speaker 1: up to the S twenty two, I think that would
Speaker 1: be a better phone over all if you care about
Speaker 1: like the maximum everything, But if you just care about
Speaker 1: having a nice smartphone that that just works and it's
Speaker 1: it's going to be a better deal. I would reckon reckon,
Speaker 1: who says reckon, I would reckon to say that this
Speaker 1: is probably gonna be one hundred dollars off minimum, So
Speaker 1: I'd say one hundred dollars, so three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bucks for this phone. So I think that's that's that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good deal. So Samsung Galaxy A fifty three
Speaker 1: five G. Let's get to the next question of the show.
Speaker 1: Diana says, I saw your infomercial this morning. I love
Speaker 1: when people call my stories on TV infomercials or advertisements.
Speaker 1: We call them segments because they are not No one
Speaker 1: pays us to do these things, so it's not an infomercial.
Speaker 1: It's not an advertisement. I get it. It's different than
Speaker 1: the standard news because it's like, okay, it goes from
Speaker 1: like fire, you know, murder. This That to me which
Speaker 1: is like smiling and you know, telling you something fun,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's not an infomercial, it is just
Speaker 1: a segment. So anyway, I saw your infomercial this morning
Speaker 1: on tracking points through a ward wallet and point me.
Speaker 1: But when I look them up, it seems they want
Speaker 1: me to provide passwords to my accounts, which concern me.
Speaker 1: Could you clarify how these two sites work? Thank you, Diana. Diana,
Speaker 1: this is a excellent question and I'm so glad you
Speaker 1: asked it because you should always be critical of any
Speaker 1: website that wants you to hand over your passwords. Now,
Speaker 1: when I do these the research on these sites, a
Speaker 1: ward wallet has been around forever. Point me as brand new.
Speaker 1: Point me doesn't ask for your your your login info,
Speaker 1: but a ward wallet definitely does, and so does the
Speaker 1: points guy, the point skuy app that I also mentioned,
Speaker 1: and so a ward wallet the way it works, and
Speaker 1: I've grown to love this app and just a few
Speaker 1: weeks of using it. But you log in with your email,
Speaker 1: and I know it's a lot to give up your email,
Speaker 1: you know, your email account to these these systems. Now,
Speaker 1: the way they authenticate it, you're not actually giving them
Speaker 1: your password they're just getting a one time token from Google.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, they can read
Speaker 1: your email, and so you have to be comfortable with
Speaker 1: a website if you're giving it this level of access. Now,
Speaker 1: on the flip side, the reason why I give it
Speaker 1: that level of access is because it is looking for
Speaker 1: emails that come from any sort of travel company or reservation.
Speaker 1: And so what I love about a ward wallet is
Speaker 1: that I now have this list of every single reservation
Speaker 1: I have ever made, and I can tell you in
Speaker 1: seven days, I'm going out to dinner, and a couple
Speaker 1: of days after that, I might be checking into a
Speaker 1: hotel that I might be going to a lunch, and
Speaker 1: then I'm you know, it's just all these things and
Speaker 1: they're all in a row with my confirmation number front
Speaker 1: and center. It's all stuff that's in my email. But
Speaker 1: guess what, when I want to check into that Hilton,
Speaker 1: I have to go and search in my email for
Speaker 1: the conformation number. And it's kind of similar to what
Speaker 1: uh trip it is it trip it trip it does?
Speaker 1: Uh trip it costs. I think it's like fifty bucks
Speaker 1: a year. Your company might give it you for free,
Speaker 1: but again, it's just it makes life a little bit easier.
Speaker 1: So I'm giving up a little bit of control to
Speaker 1: make my life easier and to organize my life because
Speaker 1: if this saves me from one, you know, penalty of
Speaker 1: a cancelation or something that I forget to do, that's
Speaker 1: a big deal and that that's very worth it to me,
Speaker 1: or you know, looking at my thing and saying, wait,
Speaker 1: what's this United flight? Like what what's I didn't I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. Oh yeah, I have that coming up,
Speaker 1: so I need to you know, it just it just
Speaker 1: helps you. And so it's one tool. But again you
Speaker 1: have to be very critical of any website that asks
Speaker 1: for your login information. And Points Guy again I trust them,
Speaker 1: and a lot of these companies use kind of third parties,
Speaker 1: like I don't know if Points Guy does, but no,
Speaker 1: I think you log in with your actual stuff. But
Speaker 1: you have to remember now, if you ever want to
Speaker 1: revoke access, you all need to learn how to do that.
Speaker 1: And so typically it's called third party permissions. So if
Speaker 1: you just Google, like let's say you want to look
Speaker 1: at all the companies or the websites that you've authorized
Speaker 1: your Google login, just type in Google and then third
Speaker 1: party what I say, third party permissions. Okay, So I'm
Speaker 1: googling that and it comes up to sign into your
Speaker 1: Google account, and now I can see all the apps
Speaker 1: that have access to my account and I can revoke access.
Speaker 1: So and it also will tell you what those apps
Speaker 1: have access to. So, for instance, Amazon A you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, has some account access a ward
Speaker 1: while it has access to Gmail. That's a red flag.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I want to make sure I trust that.
Speaker 1: Let's see macOS has access to my Gmail, my Google calendar,
Speaker 1: my Google Contacts. Let's see, Samsung has some account access.
Speaker 1: Trip it has access to my Gmail. Now I don't
Speaker 1: have a Trippet account anymore. I don't think I do.
Speaker 1: That's active, and so I would probably go through and
Speaker 1: revoke access because they still have access to my email
Speaker 1: and I don't want them to have access. So you
Speaker 1: can do that with Instagram, you can do it, with
Speaker 1: the Twitter, you can do it Facebook, Google, any company
Speaker 1: that you can log in with, you can revoke those
Speaker 1: third party permissions. So great question, Diane, And yes, always, always,
Speaker 1: always be critical of anything that you're giving your permission to.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it can be very it
Speaker 1: can be very advantageous to do that as well if
Speaker 1: you trust the program. All right, iOS fifteen point four
Speaker 1: is now available, so if you have an iPhone or
Speaker 1: an iPad or a Mac there they launched all of
Speaker 1: their new software this week, so if you want the
Speaker 1: latest and greatest software, you can go ahead and get that.
Speaker 1: I was not even aware that my MacBook had new
Speaker 1: software until I was doing research for the show and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I should probably download that. I
Speaker 1: used to be one of these people that was downloading
Speaker 1: the software like immediately, and you know, I'd press refresh
Speaker 1: a million times to get the new software, and then
Speaker 1: I got burned. And so now I don't put as
Speaker 1: much of an emphasis on it, but I do like
Speaker 1: to be up to date for security reasons and also
Speaker 1: to test this stuff out. Now. I was running the
Speaker 1: beta of iOS fifteen point four for a long time now,
Speaker 1: so I've already been familiar with the new features, like
Speaker 1: the ability I mean, this came out in January for me,
Speaker 1: but the ability to I mean, the new features are
Speaker 1: the ability to wear a mask while you uh use
Speaker 1: face ID, which in Los Angeles we don't need anymore,
Speaker 1: so it's cool that you still have it, Like if
Speaker 1: you're a nurse or something great or doctor or whatever,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you don't need that. And then the other
Speaker 1: new emoji, I mean, I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 1: care about the new emojis. And then let's see the
Speaker 1: other thing is a new Seri voice and so and
Speaker 1: the Seri voice is let's see, I don't did I
Speaker 1: feel like it was selected on my on my phone.
Speaker 1: But there's let's see the new series voice. There were
Speaker 1: some news about the new Seri voice. Uh, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gender neutral. I was trying to think of what the
Speaker 1: term was for this new Serie voice, but gender neutral.
Speaker 1: And so it's a less gendered voice. And so again options.
Speaker 1: Siri has gotten many many options over the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, and so this is just one more of them.
Speaker 1: So if you have an iOS device, definitely download the
Speaker 1: software if you like to be on the cutting edge.
Speaker 1: And if you have a macOS device like a MacBook,
Speaker 1: do that as well. One of the big features a
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about is this new Universal
Speaker 1: Control and so The Verge says that it's Apple's most
Speaker 1: impressive new feature in years. Now. What it does is,
Speaker 1: once you have both of these devices like a Mac
Speaker 1: computer and an iPad running the latest software. You can
Speaker 1: literally put the iPad next to the Mac computer. It
Speaker 1: will find them. It will find you know, the link
Speaker 1: up and then you can use your mac's keyboard and
Speaker 1: to control the iPad. Kind of cool. I wish I
Speaker 1: had my iPad, or I should. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: have them updated yet, but I got to try this
Speaker 1: out and I'll talk about it more. But you basically
Speaker 1: just move your mouse over to the right and it
Speaker 1: will follow onto the other screen or to the left
Speaker 1: wherever you have it set up or maybe up, and
Speaker 1: you can use your keyboard as well. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how this is different than sidecar, because that's
Speaker 1: what I was using before. I know, you can drag
Speaker 1: and drop files too, which is actually really cool. So
Speaker 1: if you have a picture on your Mac, you can
Speaker 1: just drag and drop it onto your iPad by just
Speaker 1: bringing it to the next screen. I mean, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And so again we're just getting it always. All this
Speaker 1: stuff reminds me of that the movies, like the sci
Speaker 1: fi movies that are always like send that to my
Speaker 1: screen and literally the person just like goes like and
Speaker 1: swiped it from their screen. To the person's screen. Air
Speaker 1: Drop is kind of like that. I mean, it's like
Speaker 1: it's very sci fi. But I always joke. I've made
Speaker 1: that joke about one hundred and fifty times to people
Speaker 1: like out and about all my stories, and no one
Speaker 1: gets it. Like everyone just looks at me like what
Speaker 1: do you talk? Are are you talking? You want me
Speaker 1: a text to air drop or nearby Share? Oh? This
Speaker 1: was great. So I was testing the Samsung Galaxy S
Speaker 1: twenty two the other day out in you know, in
Speaker 1: the world, and I was taking pictures with it, and
Speaker 1: someone wanted me to share the picture with them, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, I could do that, just
Speaker 1: turn on your nearby Share And they're like what And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, cause I notice, say an Android phone,
Speaker 1: and I've never been able to use the nearby share
Speaker 1: with anyone. I call it in the wild. And so
Speaker 1: this person was like, oh, okay, how do I do that?
Speaker 1: And I was like and I never I never touched
Speaker 1: people's phones when I'm helping them because I'd rather them
Speaker 1: learn how to do it. So I always say, okay,
Speaker 1: swipe down from the top, let's find where nearby Share is. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not there. So swipe over there it is, turn
Speaker 1: it on and then boom the phone lit up and said, hey,
Speaker 1: we see Rich's phone over here. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: now tap that to accept and now I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: it your way. And the picture came to his phone
Speaker 1: and he was so impressed, and I said, I I
Speaker 1: don't think I tweeted, but I literally was so impressed
Speaker 1: that I was able to use I get that that
Speaker 1: iPhone users are so used to Android are so used
Speaker 1: to air drop, and I get it. It's like no
Speaker 1: one's business. Everyone knows airdrop, but on Android, the nearby
Speaker 1: share feature, which has been built into phones for so
Speaker 1: many years now, I don't think anyone knows about it
Speaker 1: because we're such an iPhone centric country in the US
Speaker 1: that typically the problem with sharing is sharing from Android
Speaker 1: to iPhone or iPhone to Android. So it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: the Android to Android sharing, it's the not necessarily the
Speaker 1: iPhone to iPhone sharing. It's all about sharing cross platform,
Speaker 1: and we still don't have a very good system of that.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to get into the I don't
Speaker 1: want to get into that because it's just you get
Speaker 1: me going. And yeah, so anyway, it was really cool
Speaker 1: to see it in person, so I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty great. Okay, where are we at? I just to
Speaker 1: us a story. Is it time for another question? I
Speaker 1: was gonna go off on a tangent about something, but
Speaker 1: I forgot what I was gonna talk about, so okay,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is a long one. Hey, rich I
Speaker 1: really enjoy your weekly podcast. I first learned of you
Speaker 1: when you hosted for Leo's Tech Guys show Leo Laporte.
Speaker 1: I was listening to your podcast last week and noticing
Speaker 1: that you were discussing using a credit versus debit card
Speaker 1: to avoid fraudulent charges. I had the same problem a
Speaker 1: couple times when my cards were stolen. I found a solution,
Speaker 1: and that is my bank in the Eastern US Regions Bank,
Speaker 1: which might be offered by other banks. It's called a
Speaker 1: debit card called now card. It's not directly tied to
Speaker 1: my checking It's kind of like a reloadable gift card.
Speaker 1: But in the online banking or mobile app, I can
Speaker 1: transfer money from my checking to the now card. If
Speaker 1: I'm handing my card to someone or swiping. As you say,
Speaker 1: I almost always use the now card since it's not
Speaker 1: tied to my checking account or running up a credit balance.
Speaker 1: I only keep about one hundred dollars in the card
Speaker 1: at any time. If the car gets stolen, I would
Speaker 1: only be out that money, and they have no connection
Speaker 1: to my bank. I can transfer money to my now
Speaker 1: card as often as I needed. I've not had car
Speaker 1: card stolen in nearly five years. Thought you might want
Speaker 1: to mention this in your future podcast. Thanks Wes. Wes. Yes,
Speaker 1: your system is very very similar to mine. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if I mentioned this in my last podcast,
Speaker 1: but I do what's called a reverse credit card. And
Speaker 1: so I know I'm weird because I'm weirdly against credit cards,
Speaker 1: and so I try not to use my credit card
Speaker 1: at any Like I paid my credit card bill today,
Speaker 1: I'm like, how is it that much? Like I didn't
Speaker 1: use it for anything last week, and it's still just
Speaker 1: like it just adds up because you just forget like
Speaker 1: a couple bucks here, a couple bucks there. And so
Speaker 1: that's why I like to use debit, because I can
Speaker 1: see my balance. So what I do is I have
Speaker 1: a separate debit card that I load up every week
Speaker 1: with money. And so just like what you're talking about exactly,
Speaker 1: but I have budgeted out kind of what I spent
Speaker 1: on food, what I spend on you know, whatever uber
Speaker 1: going out, and that money I put like every week
Speaker 1: on my debit card, and that's my spending money. I
Speaker 1: call it fun money, and so it's not really fun
Speaker 1: because buying groceries is not fun, Buying gas is not fun.
Speaker 1: My wife buys gas on the card. But we've called
Speaker 1: it fun money for so many years. But it's really
Speaker 1: just our budgeted money for that week. So anyway, it's
Speaker 1: very similar and I use that system. I'm still hesitant
Speaker 1: to hand that card over to people because it is
Speaker 1: still kind of there is my money for the week
Speaker 1: on that card. So I guess you're right, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be too bad. It's not really connected to my main account,
Speaker 1: so that's probably fine. I also looked into another card
Speaker 1: called the point point card, and I think I talked
Speaker 1: about this on the website, but it's called point dot
Speaker 1: app and it's basically a debit card that you can
Speaker 1: get points for and it's the same thing, but you
Speaker 1: reload it and so you have the money on the
Speaker 1: card before we spend it. The difference here is that
Speaker 1: it's very tech forward. But what I didn't like about
Speaker 1: it is that I got a lot of emails from
Speaker 1: them about acquiring points, like they would say this week,
Speaker 1: fifteen times points on ordering a pizza, and I don't
Speaker 1: the whole thing of I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: this too much, but it's the psychology of points that
Speaker 1: I really like. I love points just as much as
Speaker 1: the next person. But it's that psychology of points where
Speaker 1: you feel really good when you're getting points, and so
Speaker 1: I don't want to feel good when I'm spending my money.
Speaker 1: I want to feel like I'm spending money because that
Speaker 1: makes me spend less money. So when you're getting points,
Speaker 1: especially ten times points, twenty times points, it's very psychological
Speaker 1: in making you feel good for spending your money. And
Speaker 1: I'm not believe me, I get it. I love points
Speaker 1: just as much as the next person. I booked a
Speaker 1: couple flights with points the other day. I do acquire points,
Speaker 1: but I used to really play the points game and
Speaker 1: actively try to acquire points, and at this point I
Speaker 1: don't because I'd rather save my money and not get
Speaker 1: the points, then spend the money and get points that
Speaker 1: are worth a fraction of what your money's worth. And
Speaker 1: so it's a personal preference. I know it's not for everyone,
Speaker 1: but it's just the way I do it. The other
Speaker 1: advantage of the Point Card is that the money transfers instantly.
Speaker 1: So there are many many debit cards you can get
Speaker 1: out there, like a Green Daw or a you know,
Speaker 1: there's so many of them that can let you transfer
Speaker 1: money from your checking account. But the trick is it
Speaker 1: usually takes two to three days unless you're doing direct deposit.
Speaker 1: But with Point Card, they actually let you transfer money instantly,
Speaker 1: which is a huge advantage with that card, And so
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. But anyway, Wes, great, great addition
Speaker 1: to the show. Thanks for sharing. And I love the
Speaker 1: fact that we are both kind of on that debit
Speaker 1: card train. It's not there's nothing sexy about using a
Speaker 1: debit card. It's like the boringest thing you can do.
Speaker 1: It's my debit card is not even a good looking card,
Speaker 1: and it's like one of these things where I just
Speaker 1: I use it and it's like the only reason I
Speaker 1: use it is because it makes me feel that money
Speaker 1: when you pay cash for something, have you ever tried
Speaker 1: to just try this just the same thing that you
Speaker 1: purchase typically, right, Like, whether it's a groceries for the week,
Speaker 1: whether it's coffee at Starbucks. Just go to the ATM,
Speaker 1: take out cash, and hand over that cash to someone.
Speaker 1: And for your thing. The more expensive the better, like
Speaker 1: if it's like a fifty dollars thing or one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars thing, like your groceries, and just see what it
Speaker 1: feels like. It literally, like when someone is taking cash
Speaker 1: out of my hand, it's like this, like they have
Speaker 1: to like kind of pull it because my hand has
Speaker 1: not released it. And I'm like, okay, here you go.
Speaker 1: When it's my debit card or my you know, especially
Speaker 1: a credit card, like I'll swipe with my foot, like
Speaker 1: I'll put it between my toes and swipe that way,
Speaker 1: like I'll swipe behind my back. Like it's all like fun.
Speaker 1: It's all fun and games with the credit card. And
Speaker 1: so it's just it feels fun to spend on it
Speaker 1: because you're getting all those points on the back end
Speaker 1: and then you're getting free travel and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm not gonna try to take down the
Speaker 1: marketing departments at all these credit card companies that are
Speaker 1: way smarter than my tiny brain. But believe me, they
Speaker 1: spend millions of dollars on this stuff, and I'm just
Speaker 1: and I'm just like you know, I'm here for the ride.
Speaker 1: And by the way, a lot of these thoughts are
Speaker 1: not mine. They are derived from Dave Ramsey, which I
Speaker 1: am a big follower of, and so these are not
Speaker 1: my original ideas. A lot of these things are from
Speaker 1: listening to his show and his point of view and
Speaker 1: doing my own research. So anyway, oh no, we're not
Speaker 1: on that. Okay, let's talk speaking of money, Netflix. Netflix
Speaker 1: is now gonna ask subscribers in certain places when they
Speaker 1: try to share their account with someone outside their house, like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you pay for that by any chance? And the
Speaker 1: answer probably is going to be a resounding no. Now,
Speaker 1: Netflix has been notoriously lax about letting people share their accounts.
Speaker 1: They know Netflix is not stupid. They know when someone
Speaker 1: is streaming my account is in California. I live in California,
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They know when people are streaming in
Speaker 1: other cities across the nation that are in my profile
Speaker 1: and household but don't live with me. They know that
Speaker 1: they're allowing that to happen. Now, there are reasons for this,
Speaker 1: because it is really tough to tell if your kid
Speaker 1: is in college, and so if I say, oh, that
Speaker 1: account that's streaming in New Jersey, that's my son in college.
Speaker 1: Wank wink, And they can't do What are they gonna say, Oh,
Speaker 1: we need you to send a transcript, We need you
Speaker 1: to send the IP address of his dorm room computer.
Speaker 1: Like no, they just Okay, not much we can do
Speaker 1: about that. But they do feel like maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: people are sharing this with their friends, getting a little
Speaker 1: money on the back end. Who knows. So this is
Speaker 1: a variety exclusive, saying that in Chile, Costa Rica and
Speaker 1: Peru they are going to prompt members that want to
Speaker 1: share their account to pay for those accounts, and it
Speaker 1: will be called the ad an extra member feature. They'll
Speaker 1: be out able to add up to two people that
Speaker 1: don't live with them, and those people will get their
Speaker 1: own profile, their own personalized recommendations, their own login, their
Speaker 1: own password for less than the cost of a standalone
Speaker 1: Netflix plan. How much you ask, Oh, funny, you should
Speaker 1: ask two dollars and ninety nine cents. That's US dollars
Speaker 1: the other ones. And let's see in Peru it's seven
Speaker 1: point nine seven point nine pe n to US d
Speaker 1: Let's see that's two dollars and nine cents, and then
Speaker 1: in Chile it is going to be twenty three eighty
Speaker 1: twenty three eighty CLP to USD. I'm just doing a
Speaker 1: quick Google search here and that's about three dollars. So
Speaker 1: it's about three dollars to add a person. Now unless
Speaker 1: you are unless you are collecting that money from that
Speaker 1: person on the other end, it's like, why would you
Speaker 1: ever do this? And so I'm guessing that Netflix knows
Speaker 1: that people are going to feel guilty about this and say, look,
Speaker 1: you know, whoever they're sharing it with, will you pay
Speaker 1: that extra three bucks? And will all be legitimate? You've
Speaker 1: got your own profile, you've got your own login, all
Speaker 1: this good stuff. The other thing that they're going to
Speaker 1: do is let people transfer over whatever they had going on.
Speaker 1: So if you had a profile, they will let you
Speaker 1: transfer it, because that's the big thing. Once you've built
Speaker 1: this profile on Netflix, you don't really want to get
Speaker 1: rid of it, and so you know they're gonna let
Speaker 1: you transfer that right over. All, Right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the next question of the podcast. Hey, rich I recently
Speaker 1: bought an iPhone for the first time. I was wondering
Speaker 1: how you switch your contacts and photos from Android to iPhone.
Speaker 1: I was hoping you can help me with this, and
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of your podcast. I've been there
Speaker 1: since day one. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks Gabe, Gabe,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening to the podcast since day one. If
Speaker 1: you've listened since day one, you know that this podcast
Speaker 1: has gone through more changes than a If I knew
Speaker 1: phrases like that, I would have used it, but I don't.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying. What goes through a
Speaker 1: lot of more changes than a than a Google messaging service.
Speaker 1: I need those drums to do. So it's very simple,
Speaker 1: very easy. Apple makes an app called move to iOS
Speaker 1: and it will transfer your messages, your photos, your contacts,
Speaker 1: and more. And specifically the more is your calendar, so
Speaker 1: not much more, but it will do it. So those
Speaker 1: are all the basics, your messages, your contacts, your calendar,
Speaker 1: your Google account, and your camera roll. So that's it.
Speaker 1: You'll get your web bookmarks as well. So the review
Speaker 1: on this app. Reviews on this app are not very good.
Speaker 1: When was the last time this app was updated? It
Speaker 1: was updated on March eighteenth, so today, so they are
Speaker 1: actively updating this app, So that is what you want
Speaker 1: to do. It's got faster Wi Fi, faster data transfer. Now,
Speaker 1: it's got improved Wi Fi and support for Android twelve.
Speaker 1: So install that app on your Android phone and then
Speaker 1: when you want to switch over, it will just have
Speaker 1: both phones with you and it will just prompt you
Speaker 1: through the prompts. If it's like the Samsung I have
Speaker 1: not used this one personally, I should do it just
Speaker 1: to test it out. But if it's like the Samsung one,
Speaker 1: Samsung's is excellent. It just basically kind of takes the
Speaker 1: information from one phone, moves it to the other phone,
Speaker 1: and in a very simple way. Oh, the name of
Speaker 1: the app is moved to iOS. So all right, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. Since I do have viewers
Speaker 1: on the Instagram stream, if you have a question for me,
Speaker 1: get it in now and I will do a kind
Speaker 1: of a quick round robin of some of those questions
Speaker 1: while I read the next story here right after the story.
Speaker 1: All right, Hulu, if you have Hulu, You've got unlimited
Speaker 1: DVR coming to all Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers at
Speaker 1: no additional cost. So starting April thirteenth, you will get
Speaker 1: free Hulu DVR unlimited for all eighty channels in the lineup. Previously,
Speaker 1: if you wanted more than fifty hours of storage, you
Speaker 1: had to pay ten dollars a month or even fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars a month. So if you are paying for one
Speaker 1: of those enhanced DVR plan you will see a reduction
Speaker 1: in your monthly bill. So that's pretty awesome. They have
Speaker 1: to do this to compete better with Google TV or sorry,
Speaker 1: YouTube TV, because they they have offered unlimited DVR since
Speaker 1: day one, and now Hulu will have that feature, and
Speaker 1: it's I think that's pretty cool. I feel like maybe
Speaker 1: people are dvring less and that's why they're doing it.
Speaker 1: They're like, ah, we see our data and it's not
Speaker 1: really going to be that big of a deal to
Speaker 1: offer it to everyone. But your your stuff is saved
Speaker 1: for nine months, I believe, so it's not like it's forever,
Speaker 1: but your stuff will see this same Where did I
Speaker 1: get that nine months from? I thought I've read that somewhere,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure it's nine months that your Hulu
Speaker 1: stuff will stay safe. So if you haven't watched the
Speaker 1: show in nine months, then you know you probably don't
Speaker 1: need to. Lily says on the live stream, what are
Speaker 1: the pros and cons on the new iPhone twenty twenty two?
Speaker 1: I assume you're talking about the iPhone se twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: The pros or that it's inexpensive. It's four hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine, and unlike I said with Samsung, it's not
Speaker 1: particularly gonna go on sale. You might find it at
Speaker 1: three ninety nine if someone is really wild, but I
Speaker 1: don't think so. But the pro is that it's simple,
Speaker 1: it's easy. It's uh, it's simple, it's easy, and uh,
Speaker 1: hold on here, I lost my live stream for a second.
Speaker 1: It's simple, it's easy, and it it works, and it's familiar,
Speaker 1: and it's got that home button. The downside is and
Speaker 1: the other pro is that you're getting the best processor
Speaker 1: that Apple has to offer right now in a phone,
Speaker 1: which is the A fifteen Bionic, which is really really cool.
Speaker 1: The downside is that the design is a little tired,
Speaker 1: the screen is a little small, bigger than before. And
Speaker 1: let's see what are the other downsides. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: mag safe and I think that's it. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: really the downsides. I mean, I think it's a it's
Speaker 1: a solid phone. If you want just a basic iPhone.
Speaker 1: The other downside I think is the is this is
Speaker 1: the storage? I think on the base model it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's not well. I gotta check that. I don't don't
Speaker 1: quote me on that, but Justin says, what headset are
Speaker 1: you using? I got a look hold on this is.
Speaker 1: This is an Audio Technica headset, and I can get
Speaker 1: the exact model number. I've got to I'd have to
Speaker 1: search my Amazon history. I bought it on Amazon many
Speaker 1: many years ago. I'm not even sure they still sell it,
Speaker 1: but it was like two hundred dollars audio. Let's see
Speaker 1: if it yep here it is the BPHS one Audio
Speaker 1: Technica bp HS one Broadcast Stereo headset with dynamic CARDIOID
Speaker 1: boom mic adjustable, purchased on June seventeenth, twenty nineteen. So
Speaker 1: I've got a pretty good use out of this thing.
Speaker 1: One hundred and ninety nine bucks. That's the exact price
Speaker 1: I paid. It's still still the same price. Let's see.
Speaker 1: What are some other questions here? Can you share calafees?
Speaker 1: Can you share how to connect my home pod to
Speaker 1: my iPhone? It keeps saying not on the same Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: That's interesting well, you need to go through and make
Speaker 1: sure that your iPhone before you set it up is
Speaker 1: on the right WiFi that you want. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're what I would do is go into the
Speaker 1: Home app on your on your home Pod and do
Speaker 1: a reset of the whole home Pod and then set
Speaker 1: it up again fresh and it will work. You might
Speaker 1: also want to update the software on there, but you
Speaker 1: can do that all through the Home app and it's
Speaker 1: it's apples like built into the iPhone, But I would
Speaker 1: do that. Do you prefer and then reconnect them? Santigue
Speaker 1: eight says, do you prefer the Google Home or Amazon Echo?
Speaker 1: That is a great question. I used to prefer the
Speaker 1: Google Home, and I still do for answers, I actually
Speaker 1: run both at my house. But Amazon Echo I'm very
Speaker 1: impressed with. I think it does a great job and
Speaker 1: I think that it's excellent. I think it just depends.
Speaker 1: You kind of have to be in one of those
Speaker 1: if you're with like Ring products and you're with all
Speaker 1: the Amazon Like Amazon has a great line of home products,
Speaker 1: like the stuff that works with Alexa. Oh, they just
Speaker 1: trigger everyone's stuff and so if you're shopping for those
Speaker 1: things online, they're very inexpensive, and they work really well
Speaker 1: and very simply, and so for that reason, I do
Speaker 1: like kind of their home architecture system a little bit
Speaker 1: better than the Google Home. I think Google Home is
Speaker 1: excellent for displaying your Google photos and also controlling those
Speaker 1: devices that do work with Google. I think the voice
Speaker 1: commands aret it just understands everything, which I think is
Speaker 1: really cool. Brooklyn girl says, Hey, Rich, I love watching
Speaker 1: you Ring or Google Nest or Arlow cameras. I would
Speaker 1: go with Ring anytime of the day. I think that
Speaker 1: Ring is the most dedicated to the space. Arlow is
Speaker 1: also very dedicated, and I think they're great. I just
Speaker 1: don't have that much experience with them. And they're also
Speaker 1: less about the cloud and more about the local storage.
Speaker 1: So if you prefer that, then I think that that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. But I just like Ring because they've
Speaker 1: got a great comment donation of products. They keep coming
Speaker 1: out with new stuff. Their security system is excellent, their
Speaker 1: cameras are excellent. Their doorbell kind of brings it all together.
Speaker 1: I mean, talk about a trojan horse. You have this
Speaker 1: doorbell that they started it all with, and now they've
Speaker 1: been able to expand into a billion dollar business because
Speaker 1: of one great idea, So I give them a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. Robert says, what's your favorite infomercial? Oh, my gosh,
Speaker 1: I used to I used to love infomercials as a kid. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're getting some some random questions. Jack says, but my
Speaker 1: favorite the slap Chop, and I still use that is
Speaker 1: one of mine. Set it and forget it is a
Speaker 1: great one. Jack says, do you eat frozen pizza? What's
Speaker 1: your favorite? Jack? We eat pizza every Monday night, and
Speaker 1: typically we alternate between frozen and then we order and
Speaker 1: then we also make fresh. But my frozen favorites I
Speaker 1: actually it's kind of a random one. But it might
Speaker 1: be the Annie's the Annie's Organic. It's I know it's
Speaker 1: a it's kind of off brand, but it's I really
Speaker 1: like those. I just I don't know. I think they're
Speaker 1: really good. And I also like the Whole Foods Basic
Speaker 1: three sixty five. I know, I'm so boring. Let's see,
Speaker 1: how do I prevent my iPhone from being hacked? Shana says,
Speaker 1: how do I prevent my iPhone from being hacked? My
Speaker 1: job keeps hacking my phone? What can I do? Uh? Oh,
Speaker 1: if your job is hacking your phone, I would find
Speaker 1: a new job because they should not be doing that.
Speaker 1: But iPhones are very tough to hack, like extremely tough
Speaker 1: to hack. So pretty much the only way I know
Speaker 1: of hacking an iPhone is through a plug in which
Speaker 1: you can plug. You know, if you're plugging your iPhone
Speaker 1: into random charging ports, that could be a problem, but
Speaker 1: the iPhone has gotten so sophisticated that even if you
Speaker 1: do that, it's still you would have to say trust
Speaker 1: this device when it popped up, and you would be like, wait,
Speaker 1: why am I trusting a computer when I'm plugging it
Speaker 1: into charge. The other way is by clicking a link
Speaker 1: in an I message that could be malicious and install
Speaker 1: malicious software on your phone. That's you know. The other
Speaker 1: way is that if your company is using a VPN
Speaker 1: to monitor you, there is software that can monitor your phone.
Speaker 1: So those are the three main ways that I know.
Speaker 1: But typically iPhones are very tough to hack. They're very
Speaker 1: secure unless you are giving someone guided access to them
Speaker 1: or some sort of access to them. Happy Friday, set
Speaker 1: it and forget it as classic. What's your favorite food? Oh? Easy?
Speaker 1: Favorite food is? I mean, pizza is definitely my favorite food.
Speaker 1: Any sort of Italian food chicken parmesan. I mean those
Speaker 1: are like those are those are right up there. I
Speaker 1: mean most of the food I like that's my favorite
Speaker 1: is actually well, popcorn is also my favorite snack. But
Speaker 1: most of my favorite foods are the worst foods for you.
Speaker 1: You know. Steak is also one of my favorites, but
Speaker 1: they're all like, you know, they're not the best for you.
Speaker 1: But I'll eat other stuff. I mean, I try to
Speaker 1: eat healthy, like ninety percent of the time or eighty percent,
Speaker 1: and then the rest of the time I'll eat my stuff.
Speaker 1: I like Lucy says, I cut the cord, butught an
Speaker 1: inside into Should I put it upstairs TV or downstairs?
Speaker 1: I would put it in the TV that's closest to
Speaker 1: a window or some sort of exterior because you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to be able to get the best signal on
Speaker 1: that antenna. But you probably, I mean, you don't really
Speaker 1: need that. Uh oh. We got a listener from We
Speaker 1: got a listener from from Bill Handle on KFI asking
Speaker 1: Alejandro says, botox filler or no botox filler? Uh no
Speaker 1: botox filler for me. But you know what, I don't judge.
Speaker 1: If you want to have botox filler. I was, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's just say, I'm you know, my friends are becoming
Speaker 1: of a certain age, and especially the women, and so
Speaker 1: apparently it's a thing in Los Angeles. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: it was so prevalent, but it is a thing. So
Speaker 1: if you think someone just happens to have a really
Speaker 1: nice forehead that has no lines on it, I think again,
Speaker 1: it's probably botox. Oh gosh, Boogie's asking, uh, Android or iPhone?
Speaker 1: This has been an ongoing argument for years. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to add to that argument. I think it's a
Speaker 1: matter of personal preference. I love Android for the way
Speaker 1: it's so customizable, but I love iPhone because it just
Speaker 1: it helps me just do the things that I want
Speaker 1: to do. It really helps me accomplish so much that
Speaker 1: the Android is great, and I just love Android. I've
Speaker 1: always loved Android, but the iPhone is just it's so solid.
Speaker 1: It's like rock solid when it comes to content creation.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I mean, I could go out to
Speaker 1: a anywhere in the world, drop me anywhere with an iPhone,
Speaker 1: and I will create a story. I can create something
Speaker 1: for TV, I can do social media. I can do
Speaker 1: so much. Not that you can't do those things on Android.
Speaker 1: The apps are there, it's just a little trickier and
Speaker 1: it's not as smooth. But when it comes to making
Speaker 1: your phone your own, one hundred percent like Android, the
Speaker 1: fact that I can click the this is how I
Speaker 1: describe an iPhone. It's almost like a minefield, right because
Speaker 1: you're literally like, there are certain things I know not
Speaker 1: to click. It's like, I don't want to click an
Speaker 1: address that's highlighted because it's going to take me to
Speaker 1: Apple Maps, and I'm like, oh, I don't use Apple Maps.
Speaker 1: I know it's not gonna take me to Google Maps
Speaker 1: because you can't have a default map program. It's gotten
Speaker 1: a little bit better with that respect because they do
Speaker 1: have default email now and they've got default web browser,
Speaker 1: but it's still not perfect. A lot of apps are
Speaker 1: not necessarily coded to handle the third party web browsers,
Speaker 1: and so it does cause some problems. They also used
Speaker 1: to have a problem with logging into Google across apps
Speaker 1: that now works, So iPhones come a long way. It's
Speaker 1: somewhat customizable, but the way I see it, it's always,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's always pushing you
Speaker 1: towards what Apple offers. And you can argue that all
Speaker 1: you want, but that's the reality of the iPhone. It
Speaker 1: is iPhone is Apple first, it's Apple dominant, it's Apple prevalent.
Speaker 1: And whereas on Android, you can choose the way you
Speaker 1: want your phone to run on day one and it
Speaker 1: will run like that over and over and over. Coop says,
Speaker 1: recommend a computer for job searching. Any computer with a
Speaker 1: web browser, just any computer you can find. You do
Speaker 1: not need anything special. Get your resume, make it in
Speaker 1: Google docs, use a resume helper to help you do it,
Speaker 1: Get on LinkedIn, get on the job boards. You do
Speaker 1: not need anything special to do that. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: for the questions. We're gonna wrap up soon. But le
Speaker 1: let's talk another story. T Mobile powers America's first five
Speaker 1: G connected car, The BMW twenty twenty two IX and
Speaker 1: I four are powered by T Mobile's new Baingenta drive
Speaker 1: for BMW unlimited voice calling and unlimited data. To BMW's
Speaker 1: twenty bucks a month, it can turn your car into
Speaker 1: a mobile Wi Fi hotspot. You can connect your devices.
Speaker 1: It looks like you can share your personal cell phone number.
Speaker 1: So it's saying don't leave you know you could leave
Speaker 1: your phone behind. But let's be honest, who has ever
Speaker 1: gotten into their car without their phone? I don't think anyone.
Speaker 1: I mean, so that's not really This whole idea of
Speaker 1: having the hot spot in your car I think is
Speaker 1: great if you kids, But again, it's gotten so good
Speaker 1: with sharing your your hot spot from your iPhone or
Speaker 1: even from your Android with your kids like they know
Speaker 1: how to connect. I mean, do you really need to
Speaker 1: pay an extra twenty bucks a month? I think this
Speaker 1: is cool, but it seems like another way for automakers
Speaker 1: and cellular companies just make more money on us. I
Speaker 1: think that the hot spot in the car is obviously
Speaker 1: gonna be stronger, it's gonna have a better antenna than
Speaker 1: your phone. It's gonna it's gonna pull in a stronger signal,
Speaker 1: maybe be faster. But do you really need this? Probably not,
Speaker 1: I mean unless you're unless you're on the go, and
Speaker 1: then it's a nice option. So if you are, you know,
Speaker 1: a road warrior and you're always on the road and
Speaker 1: you want to just have that standard, that solid connection
Speaker 1: all the time, then great, I think that's awesome. It's
Speaker 1: just nice to have options, right, But I also when
Speaker 1: I got this story, so when I saw the history.
Speaker 1: It just made me so sad because I already know
Speaker 1: that here on March eighteenth, twenty twenty, and it's here's
Speaker 1: the announcement for five G in a BMW, And I'm
Speaker 1: already looking forward to ten years from now or fifteen
Speaker 1: years when they're saying five G in BMW is going away.
Speaker 1: Five G networks are being sunseted, just like we're seeing
Speaker 1: with the three G networks. So it's bound to happen,
Speaker 1: That's for sure. It's bound to happen. All right, I
Speaker 1: think I can get one more question in here and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna have to all right, let's see here.
Speaker 1: Uh hello, Hope all is well going well with this craziness.
Speaker 1: My question is most of my family of iPhones, I'm
Speaker 1: the one that has a Samsung Note nine, Yes, an
Speaker 1: older phone. They liked you. Was there a Note nine,
Speaker 1: I guess, so there was one that blew up. I
Speaker 1: think it was a seven. They like to use FaceTime
Speaker 1: and I can't, at least I don't think I could
Speaker 1: until I heard you talk about it on KTLAS last year.
Speaker 1: The fact is you said there is a way to
Speaker 1: do it. Could I trouble you? For the steps or
Speaker 1: instructions on how to FaceTime from an iPhone to a
Speaker 1: Samsung Slash Android. This would be appreciated and very helpful.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your help. Regards, Judy, Judy, very
Speaker 1: very simple. All you have to do is you cannot
Speaker 1: initiate it from Android, but you can receive it. So
Speaker 1: you have to be on the receiving end of this
Speaker 1: FaceTime call one of your family members. All they have
Speaker 1: to do is generate a link, so they start a
Speaker 1: FaceTime call, generate the link, send that link to you,
Speaker 1: text it to you, You open it up in your
Speaker 1: web browser, and voila, you are able to FaceTime with
Speaker 1: your family. I would say take it a step further
Speaker 1: and get your family to install something like Google Duo
Speaker 1: and stop with this madness of the stuff that doesn't
Speaker 1: work cross platform. I cannot stand apps that don't work
Speaker 1: cross platform. Every single app that I use, with the
Speaker 1: exception of I Message, works across every single platform, and
Speaker 1: I want it that way because that's the way tech
Speaker 1: should be. Tech should not be exclusive, it should be
Speaker 1: inclusive of everyone. I hate the fact that when you
Speaker 1: text someone from an Android phone to an iPhone it
Speaker 1: comes up green. Why Apple, it should not be happening.
Speaker 1: Why should you delineate your friends? Why are you helping
Speaker 1: me delineate my friends from one another. Let's just make
Speaker 1: this even right, Let's make it equal, make it nice
Speaker 1: for everyone that's not happening in our world. Okay, I
Speaker 1: go off, sorry about that. Okay. Finally, one last story.
Speaker 1: Chipotle is testing a robot in the kitchen called Chippy.
Speaker 1: Chippy is the latest autonomous kitchen assistant that is from
Speaker 1: Miso Robotics. The same guy, the same people behind Flippy
Speaker 1: the robot are the burger Flipper and Flippy. Okay, So
Speaker 1: Chippy is going to be making the chips at Chipotle,
Speaker 1: and so I love stories like this, and this is
Speaker 1: the best part about it. Chippy was programmed to make
Speaker 1: the chips like a human would make the chips. So
Speaker 1: it's going to mix up the chips with salt, it's
Speaker 1: going to cook them in sunflower oil. It's going to
Speaker 1: then dust them with salt and finish with a hint
Speaker 1: of lime juice. And they actually programmed Chippy to make
Speaker 1: it so that these are not going to be perfect chips.
Speaker 1: Every single time. There's going to be a variation of
Speaker 1: the chip. And I did not realize this until reading
Speaker 1: this story, that when I go to Chipotle, what do
Speaker 1: I look forward to the most that chip that has
Speaker 1: like the extra seasoning on it and the extra lime
Speaker 1: juice on it, like that extra little kick a lime.
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize that they program for that. So
Speaker 1: now they're programming, they're artificial intelligence to do these things
Speaker 1: like that. Now, yes, I have put in a request
Speaker 1: to Chipotle to go test this out because I love
Speaker 1: Chipotle chips. And yes, it's just one of these things
Speaker 1: where it's gonna happen. And you know, I'm already seeing
Speaker 1: the messages of people saying, Rich, there goes more jobs.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say about it. I cover
Speaker 1: this stuff. It's just the reality of the food industry.
Speaker 1: The food industry is at a very very tough crossroads
Speaker 1: right now because labor is very expensive at restaurants and
Speaker 1: the technology is getting to a place where it can
Speaker 1: automate certain tasks that humans used to do. And the
Speaker 1: only thing I can say on the plus side is
Speaker 1: that I know these companies tell me that, oh, yeah, Rich,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put more people in the uh, you know,
Speaker 1: interfacing with guests. And I can say to that yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Have you been to it a target lately? Have you
Speaker 1: seen the self checkouts? There used to be a person
Speaker 1: when self checkouts first started, there used to be a
Speaker 1: person standing there for everyone that was self checking out. Now,
Speaker 1: good luck finding that person. They're just not there. You're
Speaker 1: self checking out, and it's just the way of the world.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can say on the on the
Speaker 1: backside is that there are a lot of smart, very
Speaker 1: well paid people that that will make a lot of
Speaker 1: money programming these robots and maintaining them and working on them,
Speaker 1: so that, I guess is the silver lining. I know
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not the you know, the job that
Speaker 1: the the young kid that's in high school or whatever
Speaker 1: can just go run in and get and make the
Speaker 1: chips at Chipotle. But it's just we're a changing world
Speaker 1: and these companies are going to do anything they can
Speaker 1: to increase profit. It's just the reality of it. If
Speaker 1: that involves I'm making this sound bad for Chipotle. I
Speaker 1: think it's awesome. I'm excited about it. I think it's
Speaker 1: really cool. I can't wait to test it out. But
Speaker 1: I'm just explaining to you that our world is changing
Speaker 1: and robots are a very big part of that world.
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