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Speaker 1: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter. Are you really muted

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Speaker 1: on your video call? Netflix? Does the double thumbs up?

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Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should

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Speaker 1: know about. It's also the place where I answer the

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Speaker 1: questions you sent me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA

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Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. It seems like there is

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Speaker 1: never a dull moment in the tech industry these days.

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Speaker 1: We've got new phones, we've got new services, You've got

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Speaker 1: all kinds of things happening, and the big news this week,

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Speaker 1: and by the time you listen to this show, this

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Speaker 1: could have changed. Because this is such a dynamic situation.

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Speaker 1: But Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter outright forty

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Speaker 1: three billion dollar deal fifty four dollars and twenty cents

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Speaker 1: per stock. He is, you know, sort of a this

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Speaker 1: is kind of a controversial thing. I mean, the reaction

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Speaker 1: I've seen on Twitter has been fast, it's been furious,

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Speaker 1: it's been you know, some people think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a good thing. Some people think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a bad thing. But the reality is it's a thing,

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Speaker 1: and so again forty three billion dollar deal. Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: said that, you know, he wants to buy Twitter because

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Speaker 1: he believes in its potential to be the platform for

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Speaker 1: free speech around the globe, and he thinks free speech

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Speaker 1: is a societal imperative. But he thinks that the company

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Speaker 1: cannot survive or thrive. I guess, he says, I realized

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Speaker 1: the company will neither thrive nor serve this imperative in

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Speaker 1: its current form and needs to be transformed as a

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Speaker 1: private company. So he is offering to one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: of Twitter. Now, he says that this is his offer.

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Speaker 1: Fifty four dollars and twenty cents is a fifty four

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Speaker 1: percent premium over the day he began investing in Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he can look at the filings and see

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Speaker 1: over the day the investment was publicly announced. Twitter has

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Speaker 1: extraordinary potential. I will unlock it. That's what Elon Musk said. Now,

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Speaker 1: this has been a roller coaster because we know that

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Speaker 1: it was revealed that Elon Musk bought nine percent stock

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Speaker 1: in the company then the company offered him a board seat.

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Speaker 1: Then he said no, I'm not going to join the board.

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Speaker 1: And then he started asking weird questions on Twitter, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, does Twitter protect free speech? You know, just

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Speaker 1: all these weird kind of odd things, and some things

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously he has very successful company with with Tesla.

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Speaker 1: I'm just reading the comments today on tech Meme, they

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Speaker 1: And this was another thing that that Elon did. He

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Speaker 1: are we? Gina says, I have a question about wi fi.

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Speaker 1: If you're at a Starbucks or McDonald's or any other

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Speaker 1: be a lot. There used to be a lot more

431
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: services that came out that were really cutting edge and

432
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 1: really cool and just free and kind of changed your

433
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: life in a sign up and you're like, this is

434
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,479
Speaker 1: really cool and it's free. This is really cool and

435
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: it's free. This is really awesome and it's free. And

436
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: now I feel like that's not so much the case anymore.

437
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: I think many, I mean things are still coming out

438
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: that are really awesome. I think that many of these

439
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: companies have gotten hip to the either the freemium model

440
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: where you know you're gonna get a feature or two

441
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 1: for free, but the rest of it is going to

442
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: be pretty highly locked down and paid, or they just

443
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: come out and it's just like now we're just paid,

444
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: and we've got to be because there's just no way

445
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: we can do this without being paid. I remember Who's

446
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 1: Sweet was another one. So Who's Sweet was this service

447
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: that it just it linked up all of your different

448
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,199
Speaker 1: social media networks and you can post one thing and

449
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: it would go to all the different networks. And I

450
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: thought that was so cool until I just Deine told me,

451
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: I'll never forget this. We were hosting cs together and

452
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: I just Deine. I was you know, asking, I was

453
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: picking her brain. I'm like, Justine, how do you have

454
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 1: so many followers in so many places? And how do

455
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: you keep up with it? And this was, you know,

456
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 1: you're going on ten years ago, so this was like

457
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: the early days of social media. And she was like, Oh,

458
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: whatever you do, do not cross post. Whatever you do,

459
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: don't cross posts. People want to build their own little

460
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: communities and their own little places, and so the post

461
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: that you have in one place does not necessarily work

462
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: in another place. And that really held with me for

463
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: so many years, and I would I would try to

464
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: be very unique and have a unique voice on all

465
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: my different social media platforms. And then flash flash forward

466
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Speaker 1: ten years. Justine and I hosted a CES couple of

467
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: years ago, and I said, Justine, I don't know if

468
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: you remember telling me this, but you remember telling me that,

469
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: you know, we should be different on all these different

470
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: platforms and personalize the stuff. And she goes, oh, well, yeah,

471
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: there's no way I can do that anymore. And yeah,

472
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: that's that advice doesn't hold true anymore. And I was like, what,

473
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: I've been following this advice for so long, but here's

474
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: the thing. It's still good advice, and of course we

475
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: discussed it a little bit more. Of course, you want

476
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: to create the You can have similar content, but you

477
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: adapt it for the different social media network. So what

478
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people do when I see this all

479
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Speaker 1: the time, they post an Instagram post on Facebook like

480
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Speaker 1: the actual maybe a link to it, or they post

481
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Speaker 1: a link to a YouTube video. And the reality is

482
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Speaker 1: Facebook does not reward that. They reward what's called a

483
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Speaker 1: native upload of a video or a native link or

484
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: you know, links these days on Facebook don't really do

485
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: well at all. But you know, they want native content,

486
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: content that is uploaded through their system in their format.

487
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 1: So if you look at something like Instagram when they

488
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: came out with their copycat of TikTok, they you know,

489
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: people are just downloading their tiktoks and uploading them to

490
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: Instagram reels and they said, you know this is just

491
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: because I already make this piece of content. It's the

492
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: same format, it's vertical, it's the same timeframe. Let me

493
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: just upload it to Instagram, and Instagram sensing danger because

494
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 1: they didn't want people to just you didn't want reels

495
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: to be a TikTok copycat. That it was and literally

496
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: just show TikTok videos. They got hip to that, and

497
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: they ended up putting in their algorithm a filter that

498
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: would look for you know how when you download a

499
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: TikTok video, it puts your username and TikTok kind of

500
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: bounces around the screen like that DVD logo on the

501
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: TV screen. It kind of bounces around your TikTok video. Well,

502
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: Instagram's algorithm searches for that, and if it sees that

503
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: on your video that watermark, it says, Okay, we see

504
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: what this person's doing here. We're gonna demote that. And

505
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: so they demote that video. So, yes, you'll still see

506
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: those videos, and if it's a popular video, of course

507
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: it's still gonna go viral with that even on there

508
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: if a lot of people catch wind of it. But

509
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that's built in because Instagram

510
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: wants to reward original content. Now, could you just upload

511
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: the same exact video to both services? Yes, you can,

512
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 1: but again and that's much more in a native format

513
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: because you're not just downloading something that you uploaded from

514
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: TikTok and using TikTok, you know, editing functionality and all

515
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: that stuff and then uploading it to Instagram. So again,

516
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: it's just this kind of stuff happens with all these

517
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: social networks. They want to be their own social network.

518
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: They want you to have your own kind of voice

519
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: and your own you know, they want you to use

520
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 1: it the way that you engage with your viewers and

521
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: not just sending stuff to ten different networks at once.

522
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: So I think at the beginning, when we were trying

523
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: to handle all these different things, that worked out great.

524
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: But as Justine realized and as I realized, as you

525
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: went along, like these these services became so different and

526
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: kind of what people expected from them became different. Like

527
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: on Instagram, you would post a picture, you know, it

528
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't you wouldn't necessarily just post a screenshot of your

529
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: latest article that you posted to the website or whatever,

530
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so again, by by

531
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: putting those things in a format that the social media

532
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: network wanted, would help you in that social media network

533
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: gain viewers and followers and also interact with those followers.

534
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: And they rewarded that, and they still do in a

535
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: big way. I mean, this is very very apparent on

536
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: Facebook to me that when you test out some of

537
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: the new things that Facebook is doing, like reels, they

538
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: are really really rewarding you with that by showing those

539
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: to way more people. They're kind of over correcting for

540
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: those things, and so they're sending your reels to a

541
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: lot more people than that would typically see them. But

542
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: as these things mature, the numbers go down and people

543
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: are like, hey, wait, hold on, how come I was

544
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: getting so many views at the beginning and now I'm

545
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: not getting those same views. I haven't really changed anything. Well,

546
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: what's changed is that Instagram got what they wanted. They

547
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: got everyone to get comfortable with using reels, to uploading

548
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: to reels, to selecting reels, to watching reels, and now

549
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: they don't need your help as much in uploading that

550
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: stuff because the mass amounts of people are uploading stuff.

551
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: So they're like, all right, we're good now, so we'll

552
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: just now we'll just show your videos to a small

553
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: subset of people once again, like we were going to

554
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: in the beginning. I don't know what that story was.

555
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: I don't even know where how did I get on

556
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: that tangent with that story? Oh? Email, Yes, that was

557
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: the email question. So to answer your question, choose an

558
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: email that you can stick with all right, let's get

559
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: to a story about Fitbit. Fitbit devices we'll soon be

560
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: able to tell their users about potential heart issues. Fitbit's

561
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: got an approval from the FDA to use an algorithm

562
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: came up with that identifies atrial fibrillation. This is a

563
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: fib that's a form of a regular heart rhythm that

564
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: affects more than thirty million people, and those people are

565
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: more susceptible to strokes. So the big challenge here is, yes,

566
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: you might say, rich, dude, rich, come on, I listened

567
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: to the show. I know that the Apple Watch has

568
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: had this feature forever. Come on, Rich, Well, two things

569
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: on that. Number one, I don't think that the Apple

570
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: Watch does this in the background. I believe that you

571
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: still have to trigger a manual. If I'm looking at

572
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: this watch here and I go to heart or ECG,

573
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily take a reading in the background. You

574
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: have to put your fingers and complete kind of this

575
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: circuit on your watch for it to take a reading.

576
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: And if you have a heart issue, maybe people do that,

577
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, a couple times a day. But the kind

578
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: of idealized version of this is that you would you're wearable,

579
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: would be doing this in the background all the time.

580
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: But I think the problem with that is that it

581
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: uses a lot of battery, it uses a lot of resources,

582
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: and that has been a challenge until now. And that's

583
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: when Google or I should say Alphabet that owns Fitbit,

584
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: they have come up with this algorithm that kind of

585
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: looks at the data that your watch is collecting all

586
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: the time and analyzes that data for signs of a

587
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: FIB and then they will notify you if there is

588
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: something unusual. This does not replace a doctor, doesn't replace

589
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: the equipment you would typically use to do a real

590
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: reading or a thorough reading. But it is a really

591
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: really good start and the fact that this gotten FDA

592
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: approval is huge. Basically, it gives the wearers of fitbit

593
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: specific models of Fitbit, this is not all of them,

594
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: and it gives them, you know, another way to track

595
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: their health. And I think that is a really really

596
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: good thing. So the Apple Watch, I think is fantastic.

597
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: I think it's amazing. I think it's saved a lot

598
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,239
Speaker 1: of lives. I think that it is telling people when

599
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: their heart rate is low, when their heart rate is high,

600
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,239
Speaker 1: when they're breathing, is having an issue. I think it

601
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: does that but also it can do these manual heart

602
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: rate readings. So I think that this is a really

603
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: good thing the fact that Apple users are enjoying. Oh yeah,

604
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: it also tells you, you know, if you fall, it

605
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: can call for help. So I think that these wearables

606
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: are getting to a place where they are going to

607
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: become so commonplace. And it's like, why would you not

608
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: have one of these things on your wrist? I get

609
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: the privacy implication, sure, but I feel like the security

610
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: blanket that they offer is starting to outweigh any sort

611
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: of privacy concerns you may have about these devices. And

612
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: so to me, I mean, look at we've got Google

613
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: with their They've got things that can I mean, there's

614
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: just so much of this going on. I tested the

615
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: Google Home that can you know, measure your respiration at

616
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: night without even touching you. I mean it just looks

617
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: at the waves like it uses like micro micro radar

618
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: to like sense the up and down of your lungs,

619
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: and it can it can figure out issues there and

620
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: tell you how you slept. I mean, we've got the

621
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: Aura ring that does a whole bunch of stuff. I'd

622
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: still like to test that one out. That's the one

623
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: wearable that i'd really like to try out that I

624
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: have not tried, and it just seems like it'd be

625
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: a really cool thing. But I will say, I think

626
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: this is great. I'm so glad that Phippit got this.

627
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: It's going to be coming to certain models of the Sense,

628
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: the Versa, the Charge, and the Inspire. My only problem

629
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: with fitbit is that they seem to take a lot

630
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: longer to introduce software features on their devices versus the

631
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. Apple Watch has this nice cadence of regular

632
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: software updates with watch os, kind of like iOS. It

633
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: just comes out regularly and there's always something new and

634
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: things are always getting better. I feel like and maybe

635
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: I just haven't worn a fitbit in a while. I

636
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 1: feel like the Fippit is just a little bit behind.

637
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: Like they announce these things whenever the fitbit comes out.

638
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: They always say like, oh, we're gonna have a blood

639
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: oxygen sensor, but it takes like another six months to

640
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: a year to arrive on people's wrists. So I think

641
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: that hopefully you know now that pipbit is getting much

642
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: more integrated with Google and I should say alphabet, I

643
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: I guess hopefully there you know, there's more kind of

644
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: force behind them to work more closely in getting these

645
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: things to people's wrists faster. But I am all for it.

646
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: I really think that, uh. I mean one of the

647
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: reasons I wear the Apple Watch is that I really

648
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: feel like it's like an almost like a safety blanket

649
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 1: where you know, if you go out running and you fall,

650
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: like imagine you're hiking in the middle of nowhere by yourself,

651
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: which you know you may do once in a while,

652
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: and you know, you fall and your watch calls for help.

653
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's really really important, and it just doesn't

654
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: you know, if you didn't it's it could be the

655
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: difference between life and death. I mean, it really really can.

656
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: So let's get to another question. Let's see, Uh, Collette says,

657
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: I am puzzled. Oh, it says you. I guess the

658
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: subject is USB thumb drives. Uh for photo, I guess photostick.

659
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: I am puzzled. At one site the reviews oh for

660
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: the above are great, and on another site I should

661
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: not buy. I have an Android tablet and HP Envy computer.

662
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 1: My husband has a Tashiba laptop and an Android phone.

663
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: I would like to take all the photos from each

664
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 1: and put them into one spot. What do you suggest

665
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: to someone with minimal tech knowledge? Thank you, Collet collect well,

666
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: I would suggest Google Photos. I mean that would be

667
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: my first choice in this situation. I think whenever someone

668
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: wants to consolidate their photos, I think Google Photos is

669
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: the best. You can install it on every single one

670
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: of those devices you just mentioned. You can also do

671
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: a family share account and so you can have the

672
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: photos from both your husband's devices and yours merge. It

673
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: works great, It's slicing and dicing, and the search is

674
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: just unbelievable. The cloud backup is phenomenal. I would recommend,

675
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: of course, having it on a different backup somewhere else,

676
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: but you know, you can do that down the line.

677
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: But I think that Google Photos would definitely be the

678
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: best way to go. You originally asked about the photostick

679
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: by Omni. Now I don't know what the photostick by

680
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: Omni is, but I have a guess, and I guess

681
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: that I probably would not recommend that. So I'm searching

682
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: for a photostick by Omni and yeah, let's gosh, let's see.

683
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: So just looking at the website. Immediately looking at the website,

684
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: it's one of those websites that is just something I

685
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: would not purchase something from. So it's it's got the

686
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: pop up that says someone from Lincoln, Kansas just purchased

687
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: the photo stick. Omni. Oh my gosh. Just now, when

688
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: I happen to go to your website, someone just purchased one,

689
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: and you're telling me about that. Okay. Also you can

690
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: see the pricing. It's like retail is seventy four, this

691
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: is fifty nine ninety nine. Then you've got retail. So

692
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: basically they're selling a one and twenty eight gigabyte Oh

693
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: someone else just bought one from Hagerman, Idaho. Huh. And

694
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: they're selling a two hundred and fifty six gigabyte flash

695
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: storage drive that looks like a drive that I used

696
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,280
Speaker 1: to get at events giving out like candy for free

697
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty dollars. Now, if their software

698
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: was like unbelievable, yeah, that would be amazing, so I

699
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: would I would recommend it. But it I just don't

700
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: think that any of this is good, So I'm not

701
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: knocking them. I have not tested this. I don't know,

702
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: but the reality is, uh oh, I just got a

703
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: special offer when I went to click away from the

704
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 1: website they said, Okay, you can get an extra one

705
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: for forty percent off. So it's just one of these

706
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: websites that is just I don't like it. I wouldn't

707
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: order from there, so if you want, if you want. Oh,

708
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 1: and it also says okay, it says as featured on CBS,

709
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 1: Yahoo and Business Insider, so let's go to Yahoo or okay.

710
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 1: So interesting this. I just can't trust this. It's so weird.

711
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 1: They have this like report from a website and the

712
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: author you can't click on it, so this is like,

713
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: it looks like it's a website. It's so interesting. It

714
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 1: looks like it's a website from a TV station in Houston.

715
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: But usually you could click on the author's name so

716
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: that you can see all the things that this author wrote.

717
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: And I can't seem to find that author. But you

718
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: know what, I don't you know what? Actually this author

719
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: does look legit. Let's see. Let me just try one

720
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: more thing. Weird, what our email address? Let's try one

721
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: more thing here? Okay, So it looks like this is

722
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: a consumer author or a consumer reporter in Houston, so

723
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: she may have she may have actually tested this for real,

724
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: so that could be legit let's see on on Okay,

725
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: on Yahoo they are using a press release, so they

726
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: are literally just linked up to a press release that

727
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: is not an actual news story. And then h on

728
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: Business Insider, they are linking to a press release of

729
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: their own writing. So for all these reasons, absolutely not

730
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: what I purchase this. Now you can purchase it. It might

731
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: be just fine, but I'm giving my advice. You're tuned

732
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: into the rich On Tech Show. So this is why.

733
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: Those are all the reasons why when I research a product,

734
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: I would not purchase it. So what I would purchase

735
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: is something called the sand Disc sand Disk I expand

736
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 1: and they make various versions. You will want the one

737
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: that works with the Android phones, and so they have

738
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: and I Expand. I think it's either the duel or

739
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: let's see they have the let's see shop. Oh come on,

740
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm looking for this thing portable drives. I'm trying to

741
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: find the sand disc I Expand that I would get,

742
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: and they have Anyway, if you just go to sand

743
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: Disc I Expand, they have a whole bunch of the

744
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: one that I featured on KTLA was really good. So

745
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: I just search. Okay, here we go. Ktla USB Drives

746
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: and this one is called the sand Disc I expand

747
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: Flash drive. Lucks ooh, lucks this is this is deluxe

748
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: because it has Lucks in the name. And what I

749
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: like about this drive is that it's got iPhone on

750
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: one side, a connector for lightning, and then USB C

751
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: on the other. You may just need USB with those

752
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: different devices, but I'd recommend USBC because you both have

753
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: Android phones and so you can plug that into the

754
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: bottom of both of those phones. But great question, I

755
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 1: would say, when it comes to the tech questions that

756
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: I get, should I get a USB? These things must

757
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: advertise like like I can't believe, but the USB drive

758
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: for backup photos is probably the top, if not the

759
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: top question, one of the top three questions I get.

760
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: And it's it's truly remarkable how these companies advertise because

761
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: these they're just everywhere, so many questions about them. So anyway,

762
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: there you go. There's my answer. All right, Netflix introducing

763
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: the double thumbs up for even better recommendation. So not

764
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: a big story, not much time to spend on this,

765
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: or I don't want to spend a bunch of time

766
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: on this, but there will be a new option for

767
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: you when you're rating shows on Netflix, and it is

768
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: the double thumbs up. Not to be confused with the

769
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: two thumbs up. Two thumbs up is Ciskel and eber

770
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 1: Late movie critics that pretty much defined the entire industry.

771
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: But this is the two thumbs up. Oh I just

772
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: got it on mine. Okay, so I just got it

773
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: on my Netflix app and you tap rate, and now

774
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: it gives you a down, a thumbs up. A thumbs

775
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: down says not for me. One thumbs up is I

776
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: like this. Two thumbs up is I love this, And

777
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: so when you click that two thumbs up, it will

778
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: signify that you want more shows like that for your

779
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: personalized recommendations, and that's what you are going to get.

780
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: So they just found that the one thumbs up was

781
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: just a little I'll lean in the ratings because you

782
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: might like something, but you're not like, oh my gosh,

783
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: I love this. Like there are certain shows I like,

784
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: but then there are shows that I love, love, love,

785
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: and so actually I should go into Netflix. I never

786
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: really thought about this. I don't really use a whole

787
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: bunch of Netflix, but I should go in and rate

788
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: the shows that I do like so that I can

789
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: get really good like maybe I'll discover shows that I like.

790
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: I never thought about doing that, but I'm gonna. I'm

791
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: actually gonna do that with some shows and movies because

792
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: that way I can get stuff that I like. And

793
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: then maybe I'll watch more Netflix and get my twenty

794
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: dollars a month worth. I know, everyone that's using my

795
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: account gets there, gets my money's worth, that's for sure. Uh.

796
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: Let's see what do we want to go to next?

797
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 1: All right, okay, let's go to Marylyn. Marilyn says, I'd

798
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,240
Speaker 1: like to understand why developers need access to my personal

799
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: information such as photos, contacts, media, ability to make and

800
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: or manage phone calls in order to play a game

801
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: I've downloaded. Is it really necessary to give them access

802
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 1: to my handset or tablet? Thanks anti cookie, anti cookie,

803
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: anti cookie, absolutely not. They do not need this personal information.

804
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: This is a data grab. They are trying to get

805
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: as much information out of you as possible because they

806
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: can sell more ads to you, or better yet, they

807
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: can collect information about you and then use that information

808
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: to sell your data to other people and make some

809
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: quick cash off of that as well sell that to

810
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: data brokers. So I love the fact that you are

811
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: actually aware of this. I love the fact that you

812
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: are cognizant of it and you are noticing this. But

813
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: when you download an app, be very very careful and

814
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: methodical about the screens that follow the download. You're going

815
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: to get questions about all kinds of stuff. Can we

816
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: have access to your gpsqu have access to your precise location,

817
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: we have access to your contacts, we have access to

818
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: your calendar, we have access to your you know, can

819
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: we track you across apps? All these different things? Location?

820
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: You know, like she said, contacts, media, photos, And Apple

821
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: has gotten really good about letting you you know. It

822
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 1: used to be on Android and Apple when you said yes,

823
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: it would just be like a blanket yes to like

824
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Now they've definitely parsed it

825
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: out on both operating systems, and Android actually takes it

826
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: a step further. So if you don't use an app

827
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: for a while, they they revoke they're called permissions. They

828
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: actually revoke the permissions of that app. So let's say

829
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 1: you downloaded some random game that is stopping up all

830
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: of the data it can because it's just kind of

831
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: one of those apps. Well, let's say don't play that

832
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: game in six months, Google in the background says we

833
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: noticed that Rich hasn't been playing this game, and also,

834
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: why do you need access to all Virtus stuff in

835
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: the background here, So we are just going to revoke

836
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: that access until he opens up this app again, and

837
00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: then we're going to ask him again if you want

838
00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: to give his location. And I think that is a

839
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: huge win for the operating system. On Android and Apple,

840
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: you can go ahead and revoke permissions and take them

841
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: back after the fact, but it doesn't do it automatically,

842
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: but it'd be nice if it did, and maybe it

843
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: will in a future update. Who knows. I mean, WWDC

844
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: is just around the corner. And at this point, I

845
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: feel like the features that Apple and Android keep adding

846
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: are like very similar on both ends. It's like, oh,

847
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: we have this, Oh we have this, we have that,

848
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: we have this, and it's like they're just kind of

849
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 1: like neck and neck at this point with the different

850
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: features they have. But with that said, always always be

851
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: very critical about any of the permissions that you give,

852
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to your photos. If you're using

853
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: like a photo editing app and it says allow access

854
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: to all your photos, just say, hmm, does it need

855
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: all my photos or can I just like, let's say

856
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: you just wanted to download an app to like retouch

857
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: a picture once because you just need to do something,

858
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: just give it access to that one picture. That's why

859
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: it says on Apple allow access to all photos or

860
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: select media. That's what that means. You select that one

861
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: picture and say, okay, you can have this picture, but

862
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: you can't have all the rest of my pictures because

863
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: these companies could, you know, kind of slurp up some

864
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: of the data from your the metadata from your other

865
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: pictures and kind of see where you take them and

866
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: that gives an idea of where you go. So believe me,

867
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: these these app developers can be very sneaky, sneaky and

868
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of it is very legal. You know,

869
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: if they're if you're given access to your your location,

870
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: you know these apps will ping that access even when

871
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: you're not using it. And so that's another question that

872
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: Apple now asks. It says, do you want to give

873
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: permission to use your location all the time or only

874
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: when you're using the app? Now all the time is

875
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: way more valuable to them because they can see all

876
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: the different places that you go, and they know that

877
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: if you go into that coffee shop every single morning

878
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 1: you pause there for two minutes. They know that you're frequenting,

879
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: you know, Jim's Coffee on Second Street in Seattle. And

880
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: now they can have an advertiser that wants to advertise

881
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: against that and say, hey, why don't you come to

882
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: Jones Coffee on Third Street and they can send you

883
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: a coupon so or targeting ad or whatever they want

884
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: to do. So there's a reason for all of this

885
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: stuff and why these apps want so much information. It

886
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: is your job, as a consumer sad as it is,

887
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 1: to kind of sift through and think about, hmm, do

888
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: I need to give them this information? And I sit

889
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: here as a very as a smart tech person, and

890
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: I sit there and I go, okay, now, what's the

891
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: implication of not letting ways have access to my information

892
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: at all times? And the implication is now Ways doesn't

893
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: know where I am and it can't send me a

894
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 1: time to leave notification. So there are some reasons why

895
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: you might want to give these apps certain access that

896
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: they are requesting. It's up to you to kind of

897
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: figure out and connect the dots as to why they

898
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: need that. The famous example, and I almost hate to

899
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: use this because it's been so long. But the famous

900
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: example is that all the flashlight apps back in the

901
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 1: day that would ask for all the permissions and really

902
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,919
Speaker 1: it was a flashlight app which was probably built into

903
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: your phone, but it was just collecting so much data

904
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: while you had that app installed on your phone, because

905
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 1: then they were selling it to different companies. So same

906
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: thing with a lot of weather apps. They do that

907
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: as well. So you just have to be very careful

908
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,439
Speaker 1: about what data you give up. And if you don't

909
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,240
Speaker 1: really care, then don't care. But I think you should

910
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: be concerned with any of the data that you are

911
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: willingly giving up on a daily basis. Good question, anti

912
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: cookie all right, Speaking of Google Photos, the unlimited Google

913
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: Photos backup is coming back. I can't believe this, but

914
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: just for T Mobile customers, ugh, this is according to

915
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: nine to five Google, Google and T Mobile seem to

916
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: have a pretty good partnership going. But soon T Mobile

917
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: customers will be able to pay fifteen dollars a month

918
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: for unlimited Google Photos backup. Now, fifteen dollars a month

919
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: might sound like a lot, but right now I'm paying

920
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a month for I think five terribile

921
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: of I guess Google Drive access. Now here's the thing,

922
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: the unlimited Google Photos backup. I'm not exactly sure if

923
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: this would refer to new photos moving forward or all

924
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: of your photos in Google Like, once you activate this

925
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars option, does it magically unlock all that space

926
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: in your Google Drive that's being used by your Google Photos.

927
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, and I don't really know. They don't

928
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: really explain it in here, but this new two So

929
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 1: basically you get two terabytes of Google Drive storage plus

930
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: unlimited Google Photos. So that would be a really, really

931
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: big win. In fact, that'd be pretty compelling to me

932
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 1: because I would save ten dollars a month by switching

933
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: to T Mobile just to get this one feature. Now,

934
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: I've been around the block long enough to know that

935
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: features come and go, so I would probably not base

936
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: my switching of a wireless carrier on this one feature

937
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: because who knows how long this partnership is going to last.

938
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: Who knows how long the unlimited photos deal is going

939
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: to last, and then you got to switch again if

940
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: if something changes or they raise the price or it's

941
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: not as competitive. But I would say, if you have

942
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: T Mobile and you have a lot of Google Photos.

943
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: You're paying fifteen dollars a month for Google Drive storage

944
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: or something like that. I would definitely look into this

945
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: because the ability to store photos and videos in full

946
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: resolution is pretty awesome, especially if you're like me and

947
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: you have over two I'm going on three terabytes of

948
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: Google Photos, just Google Photos. Oh no, no, no, no,

949
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: that's not true. That's not just Google Photos. Let me

950
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: say how much I have in Google Photos. If you

951
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: want to check to see how much storage're using Google

952
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: just go to one dot Google dot com and then

953
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: tap storage and I'm using two point three terabytes of

954
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: five gigs. That is one hundred and twenty one gigabytes

955
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: in Google Drive, thirty five gigs in Gmail. How the

956
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: heck do I have thirty five gigabytes of Gmail? I

957
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: have no idea two point two terabytes of Google Photos,

958
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I'd like to get that unlimited. That'd

959
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: be amazing, because you know, the old pixels were unlimited,

960
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: And by the way, I still have the original Pixel

961
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: which was unlimited, and you can still use it for unlimited.

962
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: So some people have kind of hacked together a system

963
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,479
Speaker 1: where you take a picture on your your current phone

964
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: and it sends it to that that pixel, and then

965
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: that pixel uploads it, so you still get to save

966
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: that full resolution. If I was a little bit more

967
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: of the old nerd that I was, I'd probably do that.

968
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: I'd probably set that up. But at this point I'm

969
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 1: more about convenience, and I don't really want to have

970
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: like a Google Pixel server sitting in my house just

971
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: to upload pictures. And I'd be like, because the problem is,

972
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: let's say you're out on vacation and this happens. You

973
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: take your the majority of your pictures on vacation, so

974
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: now now you're waiting to get home to back up

975
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: all these pictures that are on your phone, and I

976
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: think that's very, very dangerous to not have those backed

977
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: up in real time when you're on vacation. By the way,

978
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: when I'm on vacation, I typically will turn on my

979
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: I typically turn off this is this gets a little complicated,

980
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: but in Google Photos, you have the option to only

981
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: upload over cellular and so are sorry only upload over

982
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, And so typically to save battery, I will

983
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: leave that turned on because most of the time I

984
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: will you know, I'll be I'll be in you know,

985
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: I'll be home at the end of the day, and

986
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: I'll get into my Wi Fi zone and I will

987
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: have those photos that I took throughout the day uploaded. Now,

988
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: when I'm on vacation, it's it's kind of tricky because

989
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: I want my photos to be uploaded in real time,

990
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: because when you're on vacation, you are doing a lot

991
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: of things that you don't typically do. You're in a

992
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: lot of places that you wouldn't be in. You're in

993
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: a lot of situations that you wouldn't be in. And

994
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: I'm talking like, you know, boats and flying on airplanes

995
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,760
Speaker 1: and all these different things where you may lose your phone.

996
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: And if you lose your phone, and let's say you

997
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 1: have all these photos set to back up on Wi

998
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: Fi only, you may not make it back to your

999
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 1: hotel room before these photos get uploaded, and now you've

1000
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: lost a day's worth of photos because you were taking

1001
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:04,280
Speaker 1: them all day. You drop your phone down an elevator

1002
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: shaft at the hotel, and now it's gone and at

1003
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: the end of the day, and now all those photos

1004
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: are just locked on that phone forever. So typically I

1005
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: will turn on the cellular uploads when I'm on vacation

1006
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: because that's when those pictures are the most precious. The

1007
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: downside of that is that you are now eating through

1008
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 1: your phone's battery a lot faster because uploading your photos

1009
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: over cellular takes a lot more battery. And so it's

1010
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: this kind of like this gentle dance that I have

1011
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: when I'm on vacation that I want my photos to

1012
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 1: be uploaded, but I also want to preserve my battery life.

1013
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: So I kind of sometimes do it in the middle

1014
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: where I'll let the photos go up over cellular, but

1015
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: not the videos because the videos really eat up a

1016
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:45,919
Speaker 1: lot of the battery. And so it's just little things

1017
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: to think about. I mean, this is I just tell

1018
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 1: you this stuff because it's this kind of stuff that

1019
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:51,720
Speaker 1: keeps me up at night, and I kind of really

1020
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: try to digest a lot of it and come up

1021
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: with like good systems, but you know, it doesn't always work.

1022
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: But that's kind of like what my feeling is. So

1023
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: get those pictures backed up, please, please, please please please.

1024
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: All right, let's do one more question from Jan Hey, Rich,

1025
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 1: Bob and I are nearing seventy need a smart TV.

1026
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: We like local news and weather. We're huge sports fans

1027
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: and have learned how to stream on Netflix. What featureshould

1028
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: we look for in purchasing a fifty inch center stand.

1029
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that just means fifty inch TV. Uh, Thanks

1030
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: Jen so Jan. I would recommend the Roku TCL six

1031
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: series Roku TV. I think that's going to give you

1032
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: everything you need. It's gonna be a fantastic price, It's

1033
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: gonna have Roku built in, and so you don't have

1034
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: to deal with like a third party kind of smart

1035
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: TV situation. You don't have to deal with a not

1036
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: a very good smart TV situation. If I had my way,

1037
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: I'd probably recommend the Apple TV as an add on

1038
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: to any TV. So just find a good TV that

1039
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: you like and then add the Apple TV. But that's expensive.

1040
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have an iPhone because you

1041
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: didn't mention if you have an iPhone, but I think

1042
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: that the built in is probably the easiest way to go.

1043
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: My second choice would probably be one of the Amazon

1044
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: TVs that has the fire TV software built in, and

1045
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: or perhaps just getting a fire TV stick that you

1046
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: can attach to a smart to a TV. This idea

1047
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: of the smart TV I typically don't like because I

1048
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: feel like the software is updated more frequently on the

1049
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: standalone sticks and devices. But when it comes to like

1050
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: Roku and Fire, a lot of those TVs maybe not

1051
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: if they're from third parties or not updated, but the

1052
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 1: TCL is updated, I know. And also the Amazon TVs

1053
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: are updated if they come from Amazon. So I think

1054
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: it's the Omni series is the one that you want

1055
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: to look for. So those are the TVs that I'd

1056
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: recommend if you're going built in. Otherwise, I'd say just

1057
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: get any old TV that you like at Costco and

1058
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: then just get the add on, which is either the

1059
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:55,439
Speaker 1: Fire TV stick or the Roku box or the Apple TV,

1060
00:56:55,640 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: and in my preference would probably be probably Apple TV

1061
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 1: and then maybe fireTV stick, the Max, and then the Roku,

1062
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: and I'd go with a Roku device not a stick

1063
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:12,879
Speaker 1: because the sticks are historically underpowered. I do like the Max.

1064
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: I think that one's fine, but I think the Roku,

1065
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: the really cheap Roku sticks like twenty five bucks, is

1066
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: going to be very underpowered, especially if you're cutting the

1067
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: cord and you're using that for everything. Oh wow, look

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