WEBVTT - Tech comes down hard on Russia 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.320 How tech companies are responding to the crisis in Ukraine. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:18.520 Apple sets a date for its next event, Amazon closing 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.800 its physical stores. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.279 I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.639 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.760 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.440 answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.839 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. What is going on? 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.159 Hopefully you're having a great day. Let's talk about the 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:48.000 big topic of the week. I mean, gosh, so we 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.280 finally I mean I live in Los Angeles, one of 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.479 the most tightly locked down cities in the world for 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.280 the pandemic, and we are finally, finally, just getting out 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.600 of it. I think tomorrow, as every request, this is 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.760 the first day that a majority of the restrictions are 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.560 finally being lifted when it comes to masks and rules 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.120 and all this stuff. I think for kids in schools, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.759 it's happening in the next two weeks. So we are 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.560 very much behind the rest of the world, the rest 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.399 of the US, But nonetheless none of that matters because 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.520 this is where I live, and so for me personally, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.560 it's a very exciting time because I went to the 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.440 gym the other day and today and you know, no 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.360 mask required, walked into a couple stores, didn't require mask. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.160 So and also people's attitudes just around this are changing, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.200 like we're finally getting to a point where people are 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.240 a little bit more comfortable, people are gathering more, and 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.400 so it feels like a sigh of relief. And then 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.320 we have Russia invade Ukraine. So it's like we go 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.600 from finally some sense of taking a breath to this. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.880 And I'm not going to get into the entire war 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.480 because number one, I'm not even sure it is a war, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:03.440 because it's just basically Russia invading Ukraine. And I'm not 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.760 an expert in anything's anything politics over there. I have 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:08.880 no idea. I mean, I've tried to read up and 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.280 try to understand what's happening. But the reality is this 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.240 affects a lot of people. It affects a lot of 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.200 innocent people. It affects the fabric of those two nations 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.840 and our world at large, because this this world we 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.639 live in is no longer an isolated place. It is 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.400 it is fully connected in every way, shape and form. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.760 I've been to Russia and I've I've been to Moscow 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.560 and it was, uh, you know, it was it was 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.720 intimidating to be there in regular times. And I'm just 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.840 not sure what the future holds for for visitors to 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:51.480 that country, if anything ever gets back to a place 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.200 where we might be able to do that again. I mean, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.760 it's just it's a very like it's always been such 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.160 a mysterious place to Americans and now it's just very 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:04.799 much so even more so, and just trying to understand 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.200 and unpack everything is really tough, I think for the 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.960 average American myself included. So my thoughts are with the 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.320 people over there in Ukraine and also you know, the 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.720 people in Russia that don't don't want what's happening to happen. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.239 I'm sure there are many dissenters and people that just 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.000 want to have a regular life that are totally one 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:25.760 hundred percent affected by this. And what I'm going to 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.240 talk about is really the way that the average person 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.320 over there has been or is just greatly affected by 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.560 what's going on. And so I'm going to take this 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.520 from the tech angle because that's what I cover, and 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.320 it's just it's been phenomenal Obviously, America and other countries 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:48.160 have sanctions against Russia, but when it comes to private corporations, 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.920 these sanctions have been really swift and really far reaching. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.200 And technology is this connector for all of us in 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.240 the world, and the tech world has really come down 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.440 fast and hard on Russia and restricting so many of 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.440 the things that people there can do, and so it's 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.640 really really quite wild. So let's start with Apple. Apple 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.880 paused all of their product sales in Russia, so you 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:18.880 can't buy an iPhone over there if you wanted to. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.240 You can't buy a Mac computer if you wanted to. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.200 They also remove the RT News and Sputnik News from 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.479 the app store outside of Russia, so people in Russia 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.359 can still access those, if you're outside Russia they can't, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.560 the idea being that those are spreading propaganda and so 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.920 they don't want that happening. They also disabled apple maps 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.880 live traffic feature in Ukraine. The idea there is that, 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.400 you know, the Russian forces could use the live traffic 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.320 information to see where people are going, where people are headed, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.280 where the concentration of people are and so that has 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.960 been disabled. When it comes to Google, they also removed 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.920 the RT and Sputnek apps from the play Store. They 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.680 also removed Oh Wow, Russia state outlets from its news, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.560 so if you're looking at Google News, you're not going 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.560 to see those. Google Maps is also not displaying the 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.000 live traffic information or what they call the busy areas. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.200 So in Google Maps they've really ramped this up, but 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.960 there's something called busy areas. So let's say you fly 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.360 into Indianapolis for the night and you want to see 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.120 where the hot areas of town are. You can just 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.520 go onto the Indianapolis map on Google Maps and we'll 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.920 say busy area and you can say, Okay, that's kind 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.280 of a cool pedestrian walking area. There's a bunch of restaurants, shops, whatever. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.000 They've disabled that in Ukraine because again, if you're seeing 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.159 where a large concentration of people are, that could potentially 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:42.719 be risky for those people. Traffic navigation is still available. Meta, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.520 which of course owns Facebook, is demoting any content that's 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.720 linked to Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.960 They also are doing encrypted Instagram dms in Ukraine and Russia, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.840 which we should have that every day everywhere. Encrypted is 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.719 good and the idea there is that you know, Russian 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:07.000 intelligence could not see what people are writing on their dms. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.400 YouTube also part of Google blocking the Russia back to 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.040 RT and Sputnik in the EU and also in the UK, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.520 TikTok is shutting down access to RT and Sputnik in Europe. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.400 Netflix is not adding any Russian channels in the country. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.520 So apparently there's this new law in Russia that says 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.680 you have to carry twenty or so local channels, which 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.400 of course people call propaganda channels. You know, they're channels 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.159 that are state sponsored. And so Netflix was supposed to 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.680 add about twenty of these channels on March first. They 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.920 have not done that. So Netflix's future in Russia at 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.080 this point is definitely up up in the air for 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.880 going against that law. Snapchat is not doing any ads 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.479 in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. They also pledge fifteen million 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.920 dollars to relief organizations. They also have three hundred UK 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.760 Tranian staff members in its ar in their ar arm. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.880 They are helping to relocate them as well. Twitter is 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:12.160 labeling tweets that link to Russian state backed media outlets, 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.800 So if you tweet something that's from one of these 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.440 Russian media outlets, it's going to say, hey, this is 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.280 from a state backed organization, and they actually do that 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.760 kind of across the board with a lot of government 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.280 officials and things to let people know, you know, they're 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.360 trying to avoid this fake news and this you know, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.440 this propaganda stuff and just just in general trying to 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.040 give people more clarity about what they're seeing and what 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 these news sources are. It's really really tough for all 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:42.080 of these social media networks, but they're trying. Airbnb says 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.680 it's going to provide short term housing for free from 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.440 up to one hundred Ukrainian refugees. Last year they housed 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.240 over twenty one thousand Afghan refugees. But we know from 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.640 the latest numbers that there's nearly a million Ukrainian refugees 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.600 and this could be one of the biggest refugee crisises 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:04.680 crises in history because people are getting out of that 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.080 country as fast as possible and they are going to 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.840 other countries. Some countries many countries are welcoming them. But 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.120 no matter what, when you have a million people on 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.800 the move or more, it causes so many issues. And 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.600 so it's just I mean, I was talking to my 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.360 wife just like, can you imagine that you just have 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.680 to get up and go and you don't know where 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.480 your next meal is coming from, you don't know where 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.600 your next this is coming I mean, and then families 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.880 are separated. I mean, it really really is a terrible 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:36.920 humanitarian disaster over there. Now. One one, I guess, one 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.400 sector that is sort of bucking the trend is cryptocurrency. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.960 So if you've been following cryptocurrency with this war and 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:51.280 this invasion, it's actually been kind of a savior. It's 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.760 there's both sides to it. So it's been a savior 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.760 for the Ukrainians because people were tweeting out QR codes 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.880 that were super easy to scan and send money to 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.840 where it's needed instantly, fast efficient. But on the flip side, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.040 Russian you know, anyone in Russia also has access to 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.840 the same thing, so they can use cryptocurrency to get 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.400 around some of the sanctions that have come down from 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.840 some of the major banks and some of the major 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.559 clearinghouses like they Russia is basically banned from like Swift, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.520 which is like the bank the international bank clearinghouse. So 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.280 if I want to send money from one bank to another, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.760 it all goes through this Swift thing. So yeah, I know, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.720 even if you're using PayPal and all this stuff, it 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.679 still has to go through some sort of clearinghouse when 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.320 you're doing ach transfers, and so swift is a big 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.000 way of doing that. You kind of learn all that 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.280 stuff when you buy a house, like all these wire 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.800 transfers and things like that. But cryptocurrency is really peer 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.600 to peer and so it's kind of it can be 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.280 sent to anyone anywhere, anytime without a middleman, and so 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.960 that has been key on both sides, you know, good 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.160 and bad. But so with that in mind, you know, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.320 the government, I think the government asks to I guess 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:10.119 Ukrainian the government they're asked to freeze Russian and Belarusian accounts. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:16.560 But coinbase, Binance and some other cryptocurrency exchanges said, now, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.960 we can't really do that because you know, the whole 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.520 point and what we promote about cryptocurrency is that it 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:26.480 is sort of a leveling currency, you know, available to everyone. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.360 And if we start doing this then it causes problems 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.200 down the line with like the entire fabric of this system. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.720 But on the flip side, if there's sanctions against a 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.320 particular person or you know, a group, they will comply 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.760 with those and so if those sanctions come down from 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.400 like a government, then that's different, and I guess they 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.720 will comply, like if they want to freeze someone's assets 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.199 or something like that. So it gets a little tricky. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.880 I'm not exactly sure how they're doing all that stuff, 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.839 but I know there is some ways. I like, if 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.920 you have you know, there's there's something called a custodial account. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.880 So if you have an account in coinbase, basicly Coinbase 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.720 is managing that money for you, But there are ways 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.160 of having a cryptocurrency account that is non custodial, which 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.800 means it's like literally you're on the blockchain directly, and 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.479 so in that case it's a lot harder to control, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.280 whereas if your money is being managed by Coinbase in 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.120 a custodial account, they control it, so it's much easier. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.920 So that's kind of a quick rundown of what the 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.720 media or sorry, what the tech companies are doing in 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.560 their efforts to kind of help out here. But it's 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.840 just just observing what's happening over in Russia. I mean, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.440 are they are essentially isolated from the rest of the world, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.880 both by sanctions and by what individual companies are doing so. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.960 Another example is like I don't know how you say 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.200 the name, but it's like Saber or Sabre. It's the 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.719 company that does all of the flight coordinations, like they 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.079 basically you've seen the name before, it's Sabre and they 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.600 do kind of all of the coordinations of you know, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.160 flight bookings, and they kind of do the back end stuff. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.600 So if you're booking a ticket on an airline, they 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.480 sort of handle the interaction between the website and the 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.880 actual you know, taking the payment and all that stuff 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.640 and actually you know, making sure that seat is available 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.600 or you know, with working with all these expedias and 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.280 stuff on the back end to make sure that everything 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.080 runs smoothly. Well, they basically went ahead and said, you 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.679 know what, we're no longer servicing Aeroflot, which is the 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.640 UH I guess it's the state airline of Russia. That's 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.200 actually the airline that I flew to Russia at one point. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.200 And so they said, we're no longer funding or not 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.640 funding it, but we're no longer powering their back end. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.559 So that makes them unable to sell seats on their planes. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.959 So again it's just all these tentacles that we have 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:49.400 in the world where everything is so far intertwined that 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.680 it's really it's really tough to be an isolated nation. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.240 And I mean, you know, the only other nation I 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.960 can think of in the world that is very ice 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.480 like this is North Korea, and Russia is getting right 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.000 up there with them with all these sanctions. I mean, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.920 you can't travel in there out, you can't you know, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.000 you can't buy stuff you couldn't use. They actually disabled 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.920 Apple Pay for a lot of people. So I saw 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.880 a tweet on Twitter. I guess that's where you'd see 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.520 a tweet. I saw a tweet on Twitter where there 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.680 was like long lines of people trying to get into 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.560 the subway in Russia because they couldn't use their tap 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.880 to pay, and so it was just you know, in 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.360 Google Pay, I'm sure is affected too. It's just it's 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.760 just pretty wild and far reaching. Just how much, you know, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.000 we rely on these systems that are sort of global 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.960 and international, and when something goes wrong here and the 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:45.640 wrong is being this invasion, that's when all these companies 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.559 can can jump in and say, hey, you know, we're 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.120 gonna stop, We're gonna stop servicing you, and that in 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.199 some ways is really really going to affect your day 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.679 to day life there in Russia. So anyway, thoughts are 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.240 with everyone that is affected by this, whether you're here, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.840 whether you're there, innocent people that are just you know, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.000 kind of bystanders in this whole thing. But let's hope 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.440 for a resolution on that very soon, and a peaceful 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.280 one at that, if that's even possible at this point. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.000 All right, let's get to the first question of the podcast. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.400 Brenda says, thanks for always showing a variety of things. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.560 My sister just got an S twenty two Ultra and 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.200 can't seem to figure out how to turn off text 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.600 messaging previews. We looked and looked and can't seem to 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.680 find that feature on this phone. Hope you can help. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.280 Thanks in advance, sent for my iPhone. Oh interesting, okay, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.920 so Brenda, Oh that's funny. Brenda has an iPhone and 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.920 her sister got the S twenty two Ultra. And the 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.120 way that the iPhone works is you're by default, your 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:49.360 messages are private until you do face ID, and once 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.120 you do face ID, it unlocks your phone, but it 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.560 also reveals your notification. So typically it would say something 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.720 like I message if your phone is locked on a notification, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.640 but then if your phone is you know, if the 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.040 lock is undone with your face, it would then reveal 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.080 the contents of the message. So that's sort of like, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.000 I think that's a fault on Apple. You can turn 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.360 that off, you can make it so that your messages 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.320 are private no matter what. I'm always a little suspect 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.920 when I see that on someone's phone. I'm like, what's 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.040 you hiding over there? Huh, why do you need those 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.720 to be so private all the time? But it's I understand. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.280 I mean, it's a privacy thing. So if you want 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.040 to stay private, absolutely you should. They do have a 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.160 similar feature on the S twenty two Ultra because when 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.000 I get a phone. When I was testing the S 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:37.040 twenty two Ultra, I go through every single setting on 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:41.200 that phone because I want to see exactly what's going on, 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.360 what's new, what's different, what my options are. And on 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.920 the Samsung there are just so many options. And this 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.640 is one of the things that really strikes me about 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.920 Android versus iPhone is that iPhone has a lot of options, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.600 but they're kind of like they're all kind of you know, 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.280 it's what Apple wants you to do. You know, you 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.000 get your choice of a couple of little things, but 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.720 you can't truly, truly like change the fabric of the 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.360 whole phone, whereas on Android you could really just make 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.640 it all your own. And so one of the things 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.240 you can do is turn off those previews. And the 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.600 way you do it is you go to settings and 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.560 then you go to lock screen and notifications. So I 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.080 noticed this on the Samsung a couple of generations ago, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.560 where they switched it from showing the actual notification to 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.960 just showing an icon of the notification, which bugs me. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.360 I don't want to just see that I have an icon. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.400 I want to see the actual notification. That's part of it. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.800 It's like triaging my messages or my notifications is seeing 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.240 like what is what's what am I getting pinged about? 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.280 And so if you go in there, you should be 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.400 able to turn it on so you can actually see 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.320 or just see it that you have a notification and 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.160 not exactly what the contents of that notification is. All right, 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:51.360 moving on, Let's talk Apple, everyone's favorite tech company in 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.480 one way or another. Right, So Apple has their first 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.880 event of twenty twenty two, and it is called Peak 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:05.440 Performance p E e K. What does that mean? And 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.159 it's an ar invite, so they've done that before. But 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.800 the event is happening on Tuesday, March eighth, at ten 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.760 am Pacific Steve Jobs Theater, probably pre recorded, they already 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.679 sent out. So I got an invitation from Apple, but 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.640 it's not in person. So there's no way of going 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.720 to this thing in person at all. So the reality 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.080 is it's probably I would have to guess their final 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:36.200 virtual event. I believe WWDC will hopefully be in person, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.160 but I'm not sure because WWDC happens in June, and 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.240 you know, people come from all over the world, about 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.160 five thousand people, five thousand developers, and so to get 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.520 that many people March April May June, I got a 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.560 couple months March April May. It's really about three four 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.280 months max, depending on when they do it in June. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.800 So I mean, you could technically probably hold that in person, 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.240 and I think it really does help to have those 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.200 things in person. I think by then we should be, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.879 you know, clear and clear out of this whole pandemic. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.320 And you know, right now we're sort of we're in 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.399 the kind of the the end phase of it, but 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.440 hopefully by June we should be in a phase where 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.119 people are much more comfortable in a big way. Although 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.760 if you go to some concerts and things, people have 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:23.760 been comfortable for a long time. But it just depends 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.639 what group you're in, you know, it depends who you're 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:30.480 run with. Let's see so Steve Jobs Theater, first event 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.800 of twenty twenty two, again I said there will be 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.920 no one in person. In fact, all these you know, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.879 these things are all recorded. But so peak performance, what 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.760 does that mean? Pee K? Of course, we've been waiting 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.919 for two major things from Apple at this point, in 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.359 twenty twenty two and in twenty twenty one. In twenty 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:52.320 twenty we've been waiting for the VR headset and we've 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.800 also been waiting for the Apple Car. And so those 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.200 are the two things that we need to figure out. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.800 What's going on with them? Are they gonna come out 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.000 with these things? And so I don't know. Is a 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.200 peak a peak at the car? Is it a peak 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.119 at the Virtual Reality headset? Does it mean peak eyes? 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.760 I don't know. But what we can't expect to see 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.199 here is a next generation of the iPhone se, the 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.720 iPhone SE three, which may have five G probably will 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:24.600 of revamped iPad Air and some sort of Mac with 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:31.479 the Apple Silicon Chip updated M two. So yeah, if 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.200 you're yawning right now, I understand this event has never 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.879 been Apple's most exciting event. It just never has. And 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.720 so it's just, you know, we'll see I mean, look, 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.800 it's Apple. There's always something in there. There's always some 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.160 sort of nugget that's really interesting. But if it's these 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.800 three gadgets and nothing else, no car peak, no VR, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.359 it's not gonna be the most exciting thing. But then again, 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.760 you know that's that's the reality of this stuff. So, 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.800 I mean, Apple is very much. It's so interesting with 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.359 the whole idea of where everyone's waiting for this car 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.800 and waiting for this VR headset. But Apple takes their 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.280 time with things, and so it could just be a 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.480 while before we see those things or before they're ready 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:21.159 to divulge even a snake peak of those All right, 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:26.800 let's get to the next question of the podcast. Adrian says, Hey, Rich, 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.040 I enjoy your report, your tech reports and podcasts. What's 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.120 the best app block for a Samsung phone? Wow, lots 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.120 of Samsung questions. I know why. It's because I did 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.640 my Samsung S twenty two Ultra review the other day. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.600 A security app to keep people from accessing things like 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.400 Facebook contacts, financial apps, or other apps that have personal information. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:46.760 I have the Galaxy S twenty one to five G. 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.800 Thanks for your recommendations in advance. Well, I had a 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.480 feeling that the Samsung has this built in because Samsung 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.080 has this security system called Knox. And I remember, you 0:20:58.080 --> 0:20:59.879 know the fact that there's like some sort of secure 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:05.760 folder that is, you know, that is available on there, 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.920 and so I dove into the settings on the Samsung 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.919 and sure enough, there it is. It's under Settings Biometrics 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.440 and Security and then Secure Folder. Now I did not 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.560 play enough with the secure folder to completely figure out 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:21.520 how it works, but it looks like you can just 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.119 drop apps in there and then when you want to 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.840 use them, it will require your fingerprint or some sort 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.640 of biometrics to unlock that. You can also put little 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.240 pictures in there, you can put notes in there, whatever 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.080 you want basically, so it's kind of just a simple lock. 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.919 It's a secondary lock for your apps. So you know 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.439 you've got the standard lock that unlocks your phone, that 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.040 gives people access to everything. This is sort of a 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.159 secondary lock that will secure anything that you want on 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:51.240 your phone and on the iPhone, they have this with 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:54.080 a lot of not that there's a secure folder you 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:57.639 can put things in, but many of the apps that 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.600 might have personal data will ask you if you want 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.800 to do a secondary face ID or fingerprint. Not so 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:05.760 much these days anymore because a lot of those phones 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.320 are faced out, but a face ID to truly unlock 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.280 the app one more time. So kind of think of 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.480