WEBVTT - Facebook Spying Explained 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.640 T mobiles free, Netflix, Steel has a big new catch. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:13.280 Consumer Reports slams Tesla's autopilot, The magic behind Google Duplex, 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:17.040 plus your tech questions. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.520 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.320 about this stuff I think you should know about happening 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.520 in the tech world. Plus I answer your questions with 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.440 the help of producer Megan. What's up? Producer Megan? Hey, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.840 how are you good? How now? A couple weeks ago 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.559 I asked you to change your Twitter handle, yes, from 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.000 your name to producer Megan. How is that transition going? 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.960 You know? It's fun because I think that people can 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.839 find my Twitter obviously easier and they can see the 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.240 fun stories that we're doing that I post about because 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:51.360 obviously you post a lot. But I have a different angle. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.159 You have a different angle. What is your angle? What 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:54.240 do you think that is? 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.279 I I'm slowly discovering whatever my angle is. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.680 Just behind the scenes, okay, be oh interesting? 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.640 So kind of liked the camera You're. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.600 Giving folks like a little taste of stuff. Well, yeah, 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.000 welcome to everyone joining us on Facebook Live. We're doing 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.560 it there too, so people can watch on Facebook. We 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.760 do the show live here, and I will say I 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.039 think the show has evolved in a pretty big way 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.440 since we started this journey, and I think it's going 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.360 to continue to evolve. I think it's gotten a lot better. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.160 Yeah, I mean it's fine. I'm excited to be a 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:24.640 part of it. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.360 Do you like the questions this week? Because basically what 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.560 I do is you guys email me a whole bunch 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.000 of questions. I forward them to Megan and then she 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.360 picks the ones she likes to feature on the show. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.160 So did you find some good ones this week? 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.560 I found some really good ones, some interesting questions that 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.360 we haven't gotten before that I haven't read before. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.720 Okay, well that's good. Yeah, And if you're watching on Facebook, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.160 you can call in the number on your screen. We'll 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.360 take you as part of the show as well. And 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.760 the way that works, if you're listening on Facebook and 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.680 you get in on the call, just kind of hold 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.920 on until you hear me announce your number, so I 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.160 might put you on whole That's the way it works. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.400 Because we're kind of producing this all ourselves. So there's 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.040 a lot of moving pieces in the show. So let's 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.799 just get right into what's happening with Apple, they are 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.200 holding one of their biggest events of the year. They 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.280 usually hold maybe three events a year, one for the 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.600 iPhone one kind of you know event where they just 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.320 have a bunch of Actually now it's just about two 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.680 events a year, so it's well, you know what, near 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.640 mind it is three because one of them is usually 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.240 about their services, like remember they one with like the 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.080 Apple TV Plus and all that stuff, which was a 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:31.760 total bummer. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:34.760 And Apple News Plus. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.200 Yeah, Apple News Plus, Apple TV Plus. And the next 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.440 one is WWDC and this is happening on June third 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.640 up in San Francisco, really San Jose. So what happens 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.639 at WWDC is they have a whole bunch of developers 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.360 come out and kind of celebrate Apple. Not only do 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.480 they celebrate what Apple's accomplished with their operating system and 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.480 their products, but also they learn how to create the 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.320 apps that we know and love. So if you're a 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.160 developer from like Milwaukee that makes a cool iPhone app 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.840 or anywhere the Netherlands, you come to this event and 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.400 it's it's tough to get tickets. It sells out in 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.120 like record time every year. Wow, and they have I 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.720 think about five thousand people come, so it's kind of 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.160 cool as a journalist. And this is what I love 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.120 about my job is I'm just like a schlub that 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.959 gets to like come to these things, right, Like they're 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.120 just like slub. Well it's true. I mean, I'm not 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.720 like developing apps. I'm not sitting there like doing anything 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.040 amazing for the world. But yet Apple is like, oh, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.160 you can come, you know what I mean. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.760 Yeah, and like you're covering the event. You're telling the 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:33.840 story of what's happening. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.040 It's not nothing, yeah, but it's in the scheme of things, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.960 Like I'm not creating a life changing app, you know 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.160 what I mean. Like a lot of the people there 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.440 have created things that are pretty amazing. People have made 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.200 a lot of money off of their apps. I mean, 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.760 there's there's some amazing stories that come out of this show. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.880 I call it show. It's really an event. But they 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.840 stay for like the whole week. I go for basically 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.200 about three hours on Monday morning, I hear the whole keynote, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.400 and enduring the keynote, they kind of show you what's next. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.120 Now you know. I wrote that book one hundred and 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.480 one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.800 No, I have no idea what he's talking. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.240 So the book is really about iOS twelve. And so 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.880 me when I'm sitting in the audience, I'm sitting there going, 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.920 oh my gosh, look at all these things I need 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.960 to update in the next version of the book. If 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:20.159 that happens, no guarantee that that's gonna that's gonna happen. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.000 But this is me writing the book. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:27.479 Is that a typewriter? 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.040 No, I'm actually I've upgraded to a computer, so I'm 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.640 using a computer now typewriter. But yeah, so anyway we 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.080 learn basically, this is the thing I hate about the 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.800 show is that they show us a whole bunch of 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.520 stuff that does not come out for a while. So 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.680 they show us all this great software and all the 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:48.080 new features of iOS and of course the iPad and 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.240 the MacBooks, and then they say, oh, and this will 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.560 come in the fall, and see then you have to wait, like, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.440 you know, three to six months for this stuff to 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.839 actually hit your phone. But it's fun. And the main 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.480 thing that people do when they look at these invites 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.400 is they try to figure out what Apple means by 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.400 the invites. And so the invite they sent for WWDC, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.600 it was a picture of a unicorn with its mind blown. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.680 So there's like a whole bunch of like stuff coming 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.960 out of the unicorn's head, like augmented reality, and you know, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.680 the app store and all these little things that nerds love, right, 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.680 So I love this kind of stuff. I love just 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.480 seeing what the vision for the company is because it 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.679 is getting much more competitive these days because iPhone rules 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.440 in the US, but when you think about the world, 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.880 there's a big world out there, and so Apple is 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.120 just getting more competitive with what they do and the 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.800 features that they add to the iPhone because people are 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.280 now more critical than ever of kind of what they 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.400 have in their pocket and what they're using. So anyway, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.240 so that's happening June third, I will definitely be up 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.159 there and I will bring you all the updates for 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:52.960 what you need to know. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.040 One question, how much does it cost to go if 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:56.840 you're a developer? 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.440 A lot. It's it's gosh, let me shout look it up. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.159 It's it's a yeah, I'm just curious. Yeah, I'm working 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:03.679 on an app. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:11.119 It's WWDC twenty nineteen. Tickets. They probably don't even ticket price. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.640 I love that I can just google this and see 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.120 sixteen hundred bucks. Wow. So all right with that said, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:21.720 producer Megan. First question. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.039 Okay, so our first question is from Instagram and it's 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:31.880 Apple related from Brandon K nine two seven. Hey, Rich, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.800 how much hands on time have you had with the 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.640 Galaxy S ten. I have been a longtime Apple user 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.279 and currently have the iPhone X iPhone ten. Since it 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.800 came out. I feel like it's starting to slow down 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.680 and the battery life on it is getting pretty bad. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.080 It's starting to make me want to try out the 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:50.560 S ten. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.320 Interesting. Okay, So Brandon was that his name? Yeah, Brandon. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.840 So here's my advice. Number one. He has the iPhone ten. Right, So, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.440 if you have the iPhone ten and things are slowing down, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.320 I don't think you need a new phone. And I'm 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.040 not trying to knock the S ten. I mean I 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.039 and with respect to your question about how much hands 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.560 on time. So here's what happens usually with phones. So 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.680 usually I get a device as a review unit, and 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.480 I use it for a couple of weeks, right to 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.800 kind of come up with my initial thoughts and what 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.520 I think of this thing, and then after a while 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.120 I'll switch back to kind of what I'm using most 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.160 of the time, which is either like my ant preferred 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.720 Android or my preferred iOS device, and then they come 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.240 out with a big software update, a major update to 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.800 the camera, major update to the operating system, whatever it is, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.400 and I'll go back to that device to kind of 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.840 revisit it. And that's probably like a month later, right, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.640 because a lot of times these devices come out and 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.280 then they get a big software update afterwards, and so 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.720 you want to go back to them. So that's kind 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.080 of like my experience with the S ten is I 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:48.960 probably used it for a couple of weeks and then 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.640 I've used it a little bit more after that. It's 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.720 a good phone. It's a very solid phone. I do 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.440 have some other favorites out there, but I think overall, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.760 the S ten has kind of like every feature you want. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.720 I don't think the camera's as good as some of 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.000 the other phones out there, like the pixel, but the 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.679 pixel is also very boring. So to answer your question, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.320 what I would do is, I'd probably stick with the 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.720 iPhone because I don't know if you need to switch 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.280 phones just because your iPhone is slowing down. I think 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.320 you're probably getting a little bit bored with the iPhone, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.720 but that doesn't mean you should switch because it's expensive 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.200 to switch, and you have the iPhone ten, which is 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.880 like a brand new phone. So my advice would be 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.800 to just actually go in and start over. So go 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.360 into your settings, factory form at it, which means you're 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.160 going to RaSE it back to the way the factory 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.800 put it, and then don't do a backup restore. So 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.200 don't restore it from your old phone. Literally, just go 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.760 through and install all the apps once again, and your phone, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.680 I think will run like new, and I think you'll 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:42.240 be just fine. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.000 I mean that takes a lot of work. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.080 Though, Yeah, but you know what, Yeah, it's a thousand 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:46.840 dollars afternoon. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.440 How often do you recommend doing a factory reset? 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.440 I do that pretty much once a year, i'd say 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.120 with the iPhone. Yeah. In fact, when I get new phones, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.480 I don't like to restore them because think about it, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.600 you're restoring all the mistakes that you made on your 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.360 old phone, all the settings, all the gunk from the apps, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:04.800 all this stuff. Like why do you want to do that? 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.000 Like start fresh? It takes an afternoon on a Saturday, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.160 and you know, yeah, you have to redo your home 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.719 screen and all that stuff. But like it's kind of fun. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.200 It's like a fresh cleaning closet. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:19.680 Maricondo, I like that. Good question, good answer. That So 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.360 T Mobile. T Mobile is the carrier I love to 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:27.480 hate because T Mobile they here's the thing about T Mobile. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.560 They're like the loudest person in the room. Right, They're 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.920 always screaming. I feel like, you know if you think 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.200 about T Mobile, Yeah, don't you always see an ad 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.720 on TV for T Mobile? Like sure, Verizon and AT 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.960 and T. But T Mobile is always like kind of 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.959 hammering the other people, right, They're always like we're the best, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.360 We're the best. Where the best, like Verizon sucks eighteen 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.840 T sucks. But T Mobile is not perfect, right, they 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.800 do have their downsides. And number one, their network is 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.960 just simply not as good as AT and T of Verizon. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.360 That's just a fact. But they're getting better. But here's 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:00.800 what I love. Let me just give you an example 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.719 of here's what something they did. So they sent an 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.280 email today to all journalists with like some news and 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.080 the news. The headline was love your discount, not your carrier. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.199 T Mobile will match or beat that discount on magenta 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.520 and magenta is their color. Right, So the email goes 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.439 into explaining the fact that they are introducing a new 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.400 plan in uh, let's see in June. I think June second, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.640 where a lot of people stick with their cell phone 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.920 carrier because they have a great discount. Right if you're 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.600 with AT and t 're on this old plan. So 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.800 now they're saying, call us up. We will match that 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.280 and basically give you that same discount, so you can 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.720 switch to us and start fresh. So that's number one. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.320 Then they hide in this thing the fact that they're 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.120 changing the name of their plan. So T Mobile used 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.320 to be called T Mobile one. Now it's being called 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:51.600 T Mobile Magenta and then Magenta Plus, which I don't know. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.080 Why why do you need to change the name, Like 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.679 what's the deal? Like why that's so complicated? Okay, So 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.040 that's number one. Number two. Then this is, by the way, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.320 about towards the end of the email. So the new plan, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.560 you get some more benefits, including three gigs of high 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.000 speed smartphone hotspot, which is great. People love that used 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.440 to be whatever they say, it's a three dollars value 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.880 per line whatever. T Mobile one had no LTE hotspot, 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.000 it was all slowed down. So and hotspot is when 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.079 you connect to your phone for your data, like from 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.640 your computer versus like a Wi Fi hotspot. Right, it's 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.360 safer to do it that way. But then they put 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.360 number three Netflix on US changes to account for the 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.280 Netflix price increase earlier this year, Magenta includes Netflix Basic 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.839 for families. So it used to be Netflix Now it's 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:41.000 Netflix Basic. By the way, Netflix Basic has no HD video. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.839 Do you want to watch videos and non HD? No? 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.440 So I mean you're getting it for free? You don't care? 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:48.640 No I care? 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.480 I mean no, no HD is. You don't want that. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:58.000 So if you want to continue on the Netflix Standard plan, now, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.959 they're going to charge you two dollars a month for that. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.760 And I get it. It's two bucks a month, big deal, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.040 not that much. But I tweet this out and I 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:08.079 get a response from T Mobile saying, Rich, we think 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.920 you're wrong. You said that people are going to be 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.080 paying two dollars extra to T Mobile. Well they're not. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.319 It's Netflix. There's nothing we can do about it. And 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.200 I said, well, wait a second, So is Netflix charging 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.319 the two dollars? How does this work? And it's so confusing. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.680 The two dollars Netflix pass through charge will be on 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.880 their T Mobile bill. It's not just our charge, our 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:34.360 plan isn't changing anyway. It's so complicated. Bottom line is, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.040 if you have T Mobile one and you enjoy Netflix 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.480 with h D quality, you're going to see a two 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.240 dollars charge on your bill. Or you can now get 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.920 rid of Netflix altogether so you don't have that benefit, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.560 so you don't have the two dollars charge on your bill. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.760 Or you can switch to T Mobile Magenta and get 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.840 T Mobile Basic for free, which has no HD streaming 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.480 by the way. Yeah, so it's it's going to be 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:02.880 old school quality. Okay, you know what that means, Megan. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:07.000 It's time for another question. Yes, okay, So our next 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:13.200 question is from Mark Rudisil. Oh, Rude Rudisil. I bet 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.280 that's pronounced a lot better, like it's like friend. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:16.720 No, they don't, No one else knows that. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.440 So this is about cell phone traveling in Europe. I 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.240 was wondering what is the most economical way to have 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.800 a cell phone while vacationing in Europe? 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.520 Oh okay, So if you said, Mark, Yeah, if Mark 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.120 would have asked me this a couple of years ago, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.840 I would have told him that getting a local SIM 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.480 card is probably the easiest and the most economical, because 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.840 you know, it was really expensive to bring your phone 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.000 from America over to Europe, and so you would just 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:44.720 get a SIM card there and pop it in your 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.200 phone and it would work great. I've done that many times. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.520 I've done that in Spain, I've done that in England, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.960 and every state or every country over there is slightly 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.720 different because some have like, like when I got my 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.959 SIM card in Spain, they wanted like all this personal information, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.599 like my driver's license and all this stuff. I'm like, 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.040 I'm not signing up for a plan. I'm just like 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.640 buying a SIM They said, no, that's the way our 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.720 government works. So okay, everyone's different. So that's number one, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.679 there's a little bit of a learning curve. Number two, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.600 your phone has to support it, right, So your phone 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.920 has to be able to have an unlocked SIM card slot, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.320 which most of them for international do. So that's what 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.680 I used to recommend. Now I just recommend adding the 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.760 ten dollars a day to your plan. If you have 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.440 AT and T or Verizon, it's basically ten dollars a 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.920 day to use your phone the same way overseas that 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.280 you use it here. There are some limits on the 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.040 data and stuff that you can use but to me, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.240 I think that's worth it. Now if you do the 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.320 math and you say, rich, I'm crunching the numbers here right, 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.720 I'm crunching the numbers and I'm coming up with three 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.800 hundred dollars a month. A yeah, it's like you're like 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.640 there's a lot of like computing going on. Yeah, okay, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.160 So you do that and it comes out to three 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.240 hundred dollars a month, which sounds like a law. But 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:54.760 how long are you taking a If you're taking a 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.240 month long vacation, you can afford three hundred dollars for 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.480 the month exactly. I'm assuming he's it's going for a 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.880 normal time, which is probably like a week if you're 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.240 going to Europe. So a week is seventy bucks. That's 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.240 seventy dollars to use your phone the way you use 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.080 it here, I say, just do that. So what you 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.640 need to do is just call up at and T 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.040 or Verizon or I'm not sure what Sprint does, but 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.400 and with T Mobile it's included actually, so if you 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.360 have T Mobile, you're fine if you're on their one plan, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.400 if you're on eighteen tier Verizon usually for ten dollars 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:24.960 a day, you can add the data and you're good 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:25.200 to go. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.000 So what about just putting your phone in airplane mode 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:36.040 and just calling people through Wi Fi? Ef No, some 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.600 people don't want to spend. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.120 Ten dollars a day. Okay, I hear you. I hear you. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:40.800 Economical. 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.280 Oh he said economic. Okay, but but he said, how 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.160 do I use? Okay? So, yes, Megan, you came up 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.760 with the right answer. Well though, you okay, okay, the 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.000 right answer. Yes, the most economical way is to turn 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.640 off your phone and never use it. But or or 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.640 to put airplane mode and then Wi Fi. Yeah, that's 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.840 the most economical, but that's also the most annoying. So 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.680 if you want to do that, mark, you can do it. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.280 But I'm giving you my advice as someone who has 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.760 traveled to these places, and I've tried different things. I mean, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.560 believe me. I tried doing it on the company phone, which, 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.520 by the way, was a big pain because you got 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.440 to call someone in your company ask them to add 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.560 the international plan. It's a whole rigamarole. I tried doing 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.000 the thing, right, I didn't do anything, and I got 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.680 a nine hundred dollars bill from AT and T because 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.840 I uploaded like thirty megabytes of pictures to dropbox and 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.240 thirty megabytes in China was nine hundred dollars. So, by 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.320 the way, if that happens to you, you call your 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.560 company and you ask them to pro rate or backdate you. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.320 So ask them to put on the international plan backdated, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.160 and they can do it. They'll take a little bit 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.120 of like like the guy actually was really mean to me. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.800 He was like, this is your mistake. You deserve to pay. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.600 I was like, come on, dude, I'm like, come on, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.440 this is like who I am. So it was like 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.800 a thirty dollar They made me pay thirty dollars so wow. Anyway, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.720 well that is yeah, that was a great value. What happened? 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.560 What do I do with all my papers? I have 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.640 no where? Did like the rest of my questions go? Okay, 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.400 they just merged into I took over. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.120 I'm just gonna start talking about the. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:10.199 Story Consumer Reports is knocking Tesla once again. I'm beginning 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.480 to think that Consumer Reports is clickbaiting us with these 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.960 Tesla stories, because it seems like every six months, Consumer 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.200 Reports somehow like majorly knocks Tesla, and then they come 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.720 back six months later and they say, oh, we like 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.560 them again, and this has happened a couple times. I remember, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.960 you know, several times in the history of these two 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.280 companies that this has happened. Well, now Consumer Reports is 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.000 saying that autopilot technology on Tesla is not very good. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.160 In fact, it requires significant intervention from drivers, and it's 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.040 far less competent than a human driver. Now, if I 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.920 had to imagine autopilot, which you know, it's an emerging technology, yeah, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.760 of course it's less competent than a human right, duh yeah, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.040 So I don't do I have something for duh? No, no, 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.600 I do, Like, wait, I don't have Yeah, I don't 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.440 have that one. So but the reality is there's okay. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.040 But there's a couple of interesting things that they say 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.119 in this article. This is from tech Spot, which is 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.400 basically rewriting the Consumer Reports blog. But they say autopilot 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.120 has difficulty detecting vehicles that approach quickly from behind, which 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.600 means that Tesla kind of cuts off cars that are 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.199 driving faster than it, which is kind of risky. But 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.120 you see people do that all the time on the freeway. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.639 So I guess maybe you know what. Here's the problem. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.800 The engineers at Tesla are from Los Angeles because they're 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.800 right here in Hawthorne. They are programming this autopilot to 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.080 drive like an LA driver. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.280 I don't know if we need more LA driver. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.600 It's so funny because literally I am I am. I 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.919 am a grandpa driver. Okay, I will tell you. Have 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.160 you ever been in the car with me? You are? Yeah? Yeah? 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.240