WEBVTT - In the future, every app will have a clubhouse 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.680 Google opens its first retail store. Ikea teams up with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.959 Sons for a new picture frame speaker. Suddenly I'm into 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.840 journaling plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:22.560 What's going on? 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.279 I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.080 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think you. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:28.880 Should know about. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.680 It's also the place where I answer the questions you 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:32.199 send me. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:33.840 My name is Rich Dmiro. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.920 Once again, I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:41.400 in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. And boy was 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.440 it a scorcher in Los Angeles this week, really really 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.159 hot here in Los Angeles. It also happened to be 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.640 opening a reopening. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:51.640 I don't know what you want to call it. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.200 I called it California Independence Day, but that's not the 0:00:54.280 --> 0:01:00.040 right explanation because that sounds like something bit different. So 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.680 it's really California. I think they called it reopening Day. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.440 I don't know, but anyway, the irony of that day 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.639 is that it was like a really hot day this week. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.880 And I also didn't really leave my house that day, 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.240 even though it was like the first day where everything, 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.720 I mean all the restrictions pretty much all the restrictions 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.199 were lifted. I also went into KTLA this week, which 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.360 was kind of cool. We're celebrating thirty years for the 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.640 Morning News and I've been there for ten of those thirty, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.839 which is wild. So I've been there for a third 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.679 of the time that our show has existed. So I 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.240 did an interview, was at the station, and you know, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.600 we did the interview in the parking lot, but I 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.000 did go into the station to like chat with some folks. 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.160 And everyone's like, when are you coming back? When are 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:42.319 you coming back? When are you coming back? 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:43.600 And I'm like, I don't know, I don't know, I 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.000 don't know, but I think I came up with a 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:50.600 plan to just kind of go back, so we'll see. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.800 I think my plan is going to work. But they're 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.080 you know, it wasn't really my decision. It's still not 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.200 my decision. I mean, I have people that I answer to. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.280 I know, it seems like I don't, but I do, 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.360 and they are the ones that call the shots, and 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.080 believe me, I've been asking them like, hey, when do 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.760 I get to go back? And it's a little complicated, 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.560 it's a little inside baseball, but you know, I do 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.360 a lot of my segment on the anchor desk which 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.560 you know right now, we haven't been having other people 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.400 on that desk, so that's you know, it's just a 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:17.920 lot of different things. And I think they just got 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.240 me comfortable. They just got comfortable with me working from 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.880 home and it seemed to work. So but at this point, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.560 you know, the every comment on everything I posted, like 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.880 rich when you go back in. So I'm working on it. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.960 Believe me, We're trying to make me back in there. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.040 I mean, I've gotten comfortable working from home. I have 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.960 everything at my fingertips, which I love, but I also 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.080 missed the energy and you know, the professionalism of working 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.960 at work. I mean, I have like a real studio 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.880 with real lighting and real microphones and real everything, and 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.120 so that's that's kind of nice. So I'll be back 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:53.040 there soon. But yeah, interesting anyway, let's get to a 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.360 couple of things this week. By the way, the stories 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.200 I did on KTLA just went wild. It was so 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.800 so interesting to watch the Tesla of e bikes. The 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:07.400 van move story went completely viral. I don't know how, 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.679 but it's it was like the top story on the 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.360 KTLA website for so many days, like they were just one. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.839 Everyone was like scratching their heads, like, what's going on here? 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.840 I couldn't figure out the source. It just seemed to 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.800 go viral, like worldwide, and so it just got picked 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.840 up and people just kept clicking it. Same thing on 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.000 on my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash rich on tech. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.640 People were watching the video that I did, and it 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.680 was like a slow burn, Like sometimes things don't go 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.600 viral instantly. It takes a little bit, but all of 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.480 a sudden, it's like this video just started like comments 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.600 and shares and everything just started pouring in. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:39.680 So that was pretty cool. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.520 And then this other video I did on this oh 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.520 my gosh, this ice cube challenge not challenge, this ice 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.480 cube grilling trick. I was at my friend's house and 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.880 he's grilling up burgers and he has ice cubes on them, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.320 which I had never seen before, and so I was like, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:56.400 what's going on here? 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:57.560 And he's like, oh, I read a. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.240 Trick where it cooks the the inside doesn't get dried 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.480 out while the outside cooks. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:04.920 I don't know, something like that, and so. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.440 I was like, wait what, And so I took a picture, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.280 I posted it and next thing you know, people are 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.920 going wild over that on my Facebook page and then 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.040 we talked about it on KTLA and then that story 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.000 went viral, you know, so they shared it with all 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.599 the different stations and then I mean it was it 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.119 was a good week. So I will There was actually 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.560 another story I did on the shower head that I'm 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.599 I'll talk about a little bit later in the show, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.359 but a new shower head that's all high tech, and 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.200 that went viral. So I mean it was just pretty wild. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.440 But so and I guess I can talk about you know, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.280 I'll just go into the first story of the week 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.400 with this because I've been keeping a new journal with 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.880 Day one because they inspired me because they got purchased 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.360 by Automatic and Automatic is the company that runs WordPress 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.839 and a whole bunch of other things, and so once 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.920 and I was familiar with day one, and I've been 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.640 keeping a paper journal since the beginning of the year. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.000 But I really am bad about writing in it because 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.840 A my handwriting is horrible, and B it's really tough 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.160 at the end of the night to like sit there 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.560 and like right before you go to sleep, like remember 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.440 to write something down. And this is like one page 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.599 a day kind of or one line a day, And 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.920 so I would be really bad about it, and I 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.200 knew once I started writing in that journal that I 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.039 really enjoyed doing it because it makes you reflect on 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.240 your day. You remember little moments that your kids did 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.880 or that you had in your life. And so I 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:28.599 got the journal bug, but I just the execution was 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.280 not right. And so once day one was purchased by Automatic, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:33.880 I said, you know what, I've got this app on 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.280 my phone. Let me just start using it because it's 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.159 so much easier on our phones anyway. I know we 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.520 shouldn't be before we go to sleep, and so it 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.679 takes me just a second to type out a little 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.760 something on my you know, daily journal. But then I 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.960 installed it at my computer and now I'm like, mister journal. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.279 So I'm journaling throughout the day with little moments. And 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.440 what I'm talking about with the with the winds at 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.080 work is I started a work journal. So now I 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.679 can like remember little things for work, like things that worked, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.080 things didn't work, and you know, little wins. I can 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.120 take screenshots. I mean, I've got to say, if you've 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.640 ever been kind of like thinking about journaling, download the 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.360 day one app. And the reason why I say this 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.040 is because there's a lot of journaling apps out there 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:14.840 day one seems. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:15.159 To be the best. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.839 It was independent before they got purchased, and now that 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.920 they're purchased, hopefully they should be around for a long time. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.719 I mean, that's the idea for a journal, right you 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.400 keep it for a really long time. But they also 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.560 some really cool features. Privacy is front and center, so 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.400 it's end to end encryption, which is in every entry 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.960 and every journal. Now they're going to make it so 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.920 that you can share to like Tumblr and WordPress, which 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:42.359 is interesting. I don't need that, but maybe some people would. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.960 You can also publish these as hardcover books, so that's 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.920 kind of cool, is that you can. You know, I 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.640 don't know how you know deep and sentimental you're getting 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.680 in your journal, but you know, it could be nice 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.120 to print it out and maybe, you know, if you're 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.360 not ready to share it with your family, like lock 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.560 it away and you know, until whatever, and then they 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.039 can open it and for your kids. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.400 I mean, that's the way I feel. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.720 It's like it's such an I don't know, Maybe are 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.400 my kids gonna want to peer into my mind as 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.600 you know, I don't know, I mean when they're older, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.800 I don't know, when I'm gone. I mean, it's kind 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.840 of weird, right, but it's also kind of cool. It's 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.400 available on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Android, and browser extensions. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.440 And again it's just you can do audio, you can 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.000 do pictures. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.640 So like last night, my wife and I went to dinner, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.680 and so you know, I just posted like the picture 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.480 in there. I said, Hey, first dinner out since the 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.160 pandemic kind of not as over, but you know, in 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.320 Los Angele in California, they you know, they lifted all 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.640 the restrictions, and so we went out for dinner. And 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.000 I put that in there as I got, you know, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.520 something that I would see in my photos, but I 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.800 might not remember the significance. I mean I probably would 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.240 because it's a big one, but it's just kind of 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.440 fun to put it in the journal. So anyway, Day 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.480 one really cool, and I mentioned it with the work 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.520 stuff because with my stories this week that did really well, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.280 I put them in my journal as kind of like 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.360 a little win, you know, like here's a you know, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.920 a screenshot of the top stories on the KTLA website. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.440 It just reminds me that, like, you know, the things 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.600 that I'm doing do have an impact, and it's just 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.360 it's just kind of fun to to I don't know 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.400 to do this, so ma'am let me know. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:10.600 If you keep a journal. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.840 I think it's pretty cool. All right, let's get to 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.640 the first question of the show. Maria says, good morning. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.240 We're ready to purchase a laptop for our daughter. She 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.120 recently graduated from Sonora. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:26.640 I'll just leave that out. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.600 She's gonna attend you see Santa Cruz and major in 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.600 biology and genetics. What's the best laptop on the market, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.280 to the best of your knowledge? And a backup drive? 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.920 I think that's what it's called. Where can we find one? 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:40.800 Thank you? Maria? 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.840 Uh, all right, so I would recommend I know you're 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:45.400 gonna say. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.120 Oh, Rich with the Apple fanboy again. 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.480 Okay, yes, it's it's gonna be a MacBook. I mean 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.240 it's going to be a MacBook. And I would recommend 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.200 depending on your budget, because MacBooks are more expensive than 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.000 you can buy a five hundred dollars Windows computer. But look, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.080 it's not gonna last you. If you look at you 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.400 know what I would consider to be kind of the 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.040 Windows equivalent of the MacBook. It's probably the surface and 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:08.800 you know that's gonna run you a thousand dollars by 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.120 the time you get all the accessories. So I would say, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.720 go with the MacBook, the m one, the MacBook Air. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.040 It's gonna be about a thousand bucks a little bit 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.800 less with the student discount. Definitely take advantage of that. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.240 And I think it's gonna last her. I know it's 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.480 gonna last her all four years. Maybe if she's doing 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:26.760 biology and genetics, maybe. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:27.280 It's five years. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.960 But it's it's a little bit more expensive, but you 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.160 have to do the math over the years, and in 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.880 that time it will pay. I say it'll pay for 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.439 itself because she's gonna get a great job out of this. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.680 This computer is gonna be no fuss. It's gonna work. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.360 You've got the Apple stores to bring it to if 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.160 there's a problem. While I don't recommend any type of 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.120 insurance on it, a lot of people do get that. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.720 I don't personally get that. I don't recommend it. I 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.880 would say, if something ever happens to the computer, just 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:57.080 pay for the you know, the repair out of pocket, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:58.400 and if you want to get insurance. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:09:59.720 You know. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.839 What I I recommend to people is just save the money, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.880 like save like twenty five dollars a month and put 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.000 it in like a little little account on the side 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.760 and just call it your your own Apple insurance, right, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.840 and then if something happens by that time, let's say 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.000 it's four months down the road, you have one hundred 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.280 dollars towards your repair. And let's say it's six months 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.600 down the road, now you have you know, six times 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.679 twenty five whatever that is. Oh, I need to do 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.200 my math. Oh that's terrible that I don't know that 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.440 I should know that. That's a buck fifty, so a 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.080 dollar one hundred and fifty dollars. Now, the two repairs 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.480 that I've gotten on my MacBooks have both been six 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.040 hundred dollars repairs. They've been the screen, so those were 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.000 that was a pretty hefty repair. You'll be surprised to 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.760 find that a lot of the little things that go wrong, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.199 if they do go wrong, Apple will cover because you 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.000 have a warranty on this device. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.240 So that's my advice. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.679 And I think, you know, if you want to go 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.679 with the MacBook Pro, if you have a little bit 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.080 more in your budget, that would be just a little 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.840 bit more equipped for her. But I don't think she's 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.920 doing video editing. I don't think she's doing a lot 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.440 of things that require that. So my advice is to 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.080 get the most memory, and I think they max out 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.480 I think either eight or sixteen on these computers. But 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.560 the most memory and the most hard drive. That's my 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.200 advice there. Now, as for a backup, you can just 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.640 go to Costco buy a standard hard drive there. Last 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.319 I saw it was like fifty nine bucks for like 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.800 a two terabyte drive. Very inexpensive. Get that and plug 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.080 it into the computer and do what's called a time 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.240 machine backup. It will back everything up to the hard drive. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.600 Every time you plug in that hard drive, it will 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.440 back up the machine automatically. And if you ever have 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.680 a problem, you know, keep the two things separate. If 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.240 you ever have a problem with the hard drive on 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.000 the computer, you just restore it from that time machine. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.520 Backup and it will be perfect. So good luck to 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:47.000 your daughter. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.839 Very exciting that she's going to college and some fun 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.120 times ahead for her. Google is opening its first ever 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.920 retail store. They say, their first ever physical retail store. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.360 So I think they've had pop ups here and there, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.880 but this is there first ever. You know, they don't 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.840 call it a permanent store. They don't call it a 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:07.640 permanent space. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:08.080 You never know. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.240 It's Google because they cancel things so quickly over there. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.720 But June seventeenth is the date opened in New York City, 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.000 and I actually asked them if I can go to 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.240 this store and they said no, They're like, we're not 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.840 doing any opportunities for for you. I don't know why, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.679 because they let in a whole bunch of like, you know, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.600 Team Pixel folks, but I guess for folks like me, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.160 They're like, nah, we don't really want the coverage from you. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.320 But anyway, I covered it anyway for KTLA because they 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.280 did send me some pictures and videos and it looks 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:39.640 really cool. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.360 It looks very. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.800 Googly, it's got you know, these nice neutral colors. It's 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.480 got a lot of different spaces. It's a pretty big store. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.480 So the thing about this store is that, look, it's 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.760 not an Apple store, but it's, you know it kind 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:58.680 of it might be a similar space. Apple has like 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.720 five hundred stores, and this is Google's first, so they've 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.360 got some catching up to do. But we also know 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.320 the market share of Pixel is a lot lower, and 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.080 a lot of these Google devices, you know, they don't 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.280 have the same ecosystem that Apple does. But the reality 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.520 is this could be a chicken or the egg kind 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.760 of thing, because when you think about why a lot 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.240 of people get something like an iPhone or a MacBook 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.680 or whatever, it's because you know, you have a place 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.360 to go when you have trouble with that. And so 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.959 if you knew that for pixel or you can go 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.920 somewhere to learn about it, or you can go somewhere 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.120 for troubleshooting, maybe you'd get more of those products. So 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.040 or if you can try them out. I mean, if 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.040 you've been to like a big box retailer so sad 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.520 these days, you go in there and everything's broken, and 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.080 there's dust everywhere, and the displays are dirty and just 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.600 so unkept, and it's one of these things where like 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.480 I am truly grateful that I get this stuff sent 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.000 to me by the tech companies. I get to play 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.280 with it in the you know, privacy of my own 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.600 home and the comfort of my home, and and I 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.160 get to form my opinions on a lot of stuff 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.680 based on what I test out. And if I didn't 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.840 have that, like if my only frame of reference was 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.960 like going to a big box retailer and looking at 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.000 these things. A lot of times they have like you know, 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.800 those those security ropes on them. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.160 They're they're all tied. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.880 Down, you know, they're all just like grimy and yucky, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.440 and half of them are broken, displays don't work, or 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.120 it's a dummy model. I mean, that's really tough to 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.640 make a six to six hundred to one thousand dollars 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.560 decision on a device that you can barely touch and 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.560 hold right, and you can buy it and return it, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.520 but that's not very likely for most people. People don't 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.040 want to do that. So I think that these are smart. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.720 I think it's a good way for people to actually 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.200 play with gadgets that are at these stores and that 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.760 Google cells and I thought it was kind of cool. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.880 In their blog post, Google said that they actually built 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.000 a full scale mockup of the space at their hangar 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.280 in Mountain View, which is so cool. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:58.960 Only Google would do that, right. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.040 I'm sure Apple does to me more stuff, but this 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.440 is also kind of just showing off everything how Google 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.200 products work. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.400 They say it's a light filled space. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.320 That's centered around experiencing the helpfulness of our products, which 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.880 you know, it looks that way. There's a cool little 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.080 exhibit where I guess it'll be changing every so often, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.120 but right now it's a place where you step into 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.960 like this half dome and there's a whole bunch of 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.640 big screens around you, and you speak and your whatever 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.640 you say is instantly translated in real time into twenty 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.920 four different languages and displayed on the screen. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:31.880 So I thought that was cool. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.440 And again they do say there's an expert store team 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.760 on hand to answer questions, offer repairs, and troubleshoot. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.600 Issues on the spot. So that's key right there. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.960 And I've talked about this before on the podcast, but 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.920 I will likely be switching to the new pixel when 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.560 it comes out, the Pixel six. I've been on the 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.720 iPhone for a while. While I love it, I am 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.080 ready for a change. And I do love the Pixel camera, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.200 so if they mix a good camera with good hardware, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.880 I am totally sold and I will be. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:00.560 Switching to that. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.360 So I do think that that Google gets kind of 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.440 a raw deal, like Apple gets so much attention. But 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.000 and they you look and there's no denying they do 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.680 things really really well. But you know, Google really has 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.680 an amazing thing happening with their Pixel. It's just that 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.360 it's just not in the public kind of eye enough, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.080 Like people don't give it enough credit for all the 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.280 amazing things it does, whether it's the camera, whether it's 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:30.280 the software, whether it's the you know, you know, Google lens, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.360 the way you search, the way voice assistant works. And 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.000 I think part of that is because there's just not 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.080 a strong ecosystem. There's no real companion watch. The hardware 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.000 has been every single pixel, the hardware has been hit 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.080 or miss, and it's like the it's just you know, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.200 the one pixel that had great hardware was the four 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.840 XL and it didn't have an ultra wide when everyone 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.680 else was doing ultra wide. And now the new one, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.720 the five has an ultra wide, but it doesn't have 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.760 a zoom and the processor is really bad. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.680 So it's like all these little things. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.880 And don't get me wrong, for the average person that 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.880 just needs a phone to do the things that phones do, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.800 it's fine. Like a Pixel five is fine. I think 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.320 it should be a little bit bigger. The four A 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:13.439 is amazing or what is it, the four AXL, No, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.879 the four A five G. Sorry, so you know, it's 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.800 a great phone. It's just I think people don't give 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.960 them enough credit because Apple just kind of sucks all 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.480 the air out of the room with what they're doing. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.600 Because it's just so unbelievable, you know, when you look 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.520 at the way the Apple Watch works with, the iPhone, 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.320 works with the iPad, works with everything. And then you 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.879 add on top of that, the apps are so well 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.080 crafted for the iPhone compared to Android. In many circumstances, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.400 it's really tough to be and when I go out 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.359 and about, it's like, there is the standard and that 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.399 is the iPhone, and it's like, okay, well, you know, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.399 you know there's other things out there, but it's just 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.119 tough sometimes. Anyway, Cool for you, Google, I hope you 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.040 open one up in Los Angeles. I think that would 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.040 be a good place for you to open one as well. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.800 All right, Monica says, my husband and I are buying 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.879 a home in Ports Charlotte, Florida. It's in a remote area. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.240 What options do you recommend since internet service is slim 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.439 and my husband will be working from home. Thank you 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.000 for your help, my husband said, we might have to 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.280 back out of the purchase if you can't find a 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.200 way to work from home. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.760 Faceplant? Is that face plant? Or hand? 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.840 What's the hand on the face? Is that a face plant? 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.040 Can I hover over this emoji and see what it means? 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:27.320 Nope? I can't wait. Can I let me copy? Oh explore, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:27.959 here we go. 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.000 Let me see woman face palm oh face, palming face palming. Okay, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.520 there you go. You gotta love Google. Find us an 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.800 answer in a second. Uh, Monica, Uh okay. So a 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.040 couple things. Number one, you can check a website. You 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.480 can check like a website called like high Speed Internet 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:51.880 dot com. High Speed Internet Internet dot com is a website. Now, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.320 I found that these Internet checkers are a little bit 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.639 hit or miss. A lot of times are just taking 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.240 a bunch of data and it's not necessarily very find 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.960 like your exact, like specific address. Sometimes it is, sometimes 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.919 it isn't. So once you go to high Speed Internet 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.679 dot com and put in your address, and let's say 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.320 it says like you know, Spectrum and Verizon are are 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.040 available there, well, then you want to go to the 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.080 Spectrum and Verizon websites and pop in your your address 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.080 and then double check and see and you want to 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:21.840 check for the speeds. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:22.680 Now for your husband. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:24.600 You know, I know he's working from home, but I'm 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.720 sure anything you know fifty down should be fine. 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.120 You know, you don't depending on what he's doing for work. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.240 But if he's just doing like Microsoft Teams or you know, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.120 Zoom or any of these things. 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.800 You don't need a huge amount of bandwidth. 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.520 Now if he's uploading and downloading giant video files like 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.359 I do, yeah, you probably want something a lot higher 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.600 than that. So that's the recommendation. The other two things 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.680 I would check h T Mobile has a new ISP, 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.800 so T mobile dot Com slash ISP and T Mobile 0:19:54.840 --> 0:20:00.199 ISP is basically they're using their their wireless infrastructure. You 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.400 offer you home high speed internet. Now this high speed internet, 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.680 the speeds are not guaranteed to be as fast as 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.920 something that's wired. But it depends where you live. I mean, 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.760 some places T Mobile has really good service, and so 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.240 if you're in one of those places, boom you can 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:17.679 have really good service. 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.960 Let me just go on the let's go to the T. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.840 Mobile map and I'm looking at Port Charlotte, and from 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.120 what I can see, it doesn't have five G coverage, 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.600 but it does have four G and it looks like 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.480 it's pretty solid coverage like the entire area. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:35.639 So I can definitely tell that it's. 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.560 A more rural area than areas around you, which is 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.840 like North Point and some of the other cities nearby. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.840 But for for the most part, you're in a service area. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.159 So I would definitely check out T mobile isp. I 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.400 think it's like fifty bucks a month and they send 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.200 you this router. You put it like near a window, 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:57.280 and you know your speeds are determined by their service there, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.800 So definitely check that out. The other thing, and this 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.719 is a little bit more wild, but Starlink is what 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:07.760 SpaceX is doing for high speed internet with satellites, and 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.080 so it's a little bit more expensive to get started 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.480 with it, but you know, people are reporting that the 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.479 service is pretty good. And so again you know, depending 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.720 on what your husband needs, you know, this. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:20.400 Could work for you as well. 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.080 So those are a couple of good options for you, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:24.040 and check them out and let me know how the 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:24.600 new house is. 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:25.440 All right. 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:31.880 So Spotify is launching their Clubhouse competitor, and what we've 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.920 realized it's called green what's it called here, It's called 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.879 green Room, and this is an app. It's kind of 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.120 like an acquisition they made, but they are opening it up. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.120 I was not able to find it in the app store, 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:45.919 so I couldn't download it and check it out. But 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.760 it looks identical to Clubhouse and not just Clubhouse, but 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:54.280 Twitter Spaces and then also Facebook is getting their own 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:59.119 version of this as well, and it's already happening, like 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.359 they're beta test it. Thanks to Jim for sending me 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:06.000 the link to that. But here's the thing, so, just 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:10.119 like you know, just like stories, it sounds like these 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.640 rooms and these audio rooms are now a feature of everything, 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.400 Like every app is going to have an audio feature. 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.359 So we've got Twitter with it, We've got Spotify with it, 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:25.480 we've got Facebook with it. You know, Instagram will probably 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.399 end up having it. I think they actually talked about 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.200 doing like an audio only room for you know, you 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.560 can go Instagram Live. It's the same thing, except people 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:38.960 are listening instead of watching. And so you know, this 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.720 is this is Spotify's you know, version of this, which 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:44.879 I think is going to be pretty cool because it's Spotify. 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.320 And I'll tell you that I've been testing Spotify for 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:50.480 the past couple of weeks. I'm waiting for the feature 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.879 for Spotify to come to the Apple Watch. So they 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:57.760 gave me a couple months of Spotify to kind of 0:22:57.760 --> 0:22:59.919 test it out. Because they couldn't like enable my account. 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.480 I thought was kind of funny they couldn't directly enable 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:04.400 my Spotify account, but they're like, Okay, here's a couple 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:06.840 months of Spotify premiums that you can try it out 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.760 when it launches, And so I've installed it. 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:10.720 I've been using Spotify. 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:13.359 I'm not a Spotify user, but i gotta say I 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.879 have been quite impressed with Spotify as a non Spotify user. 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:21.280 They do have a lot of playlists. They do update 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:23.480 their home screen with like a lot of fresh stuff 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.240 to listen to all the time. There are so many playlists, 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:29.400 like for every single little slice of how you're feeling 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.560 or wanting to listen to. And I'm just waiting for 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:35.080 it to be able to download the music to your 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:38.080 watch because that was the big feature that everyone has 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:41.199 been waiting for for so long. And honestly, it's the 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:45.200 feature that has me subscribing to Apple Music because for many, 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.560 many years, that was the only way that you could 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.080 get downloaded music to your Apple Watch was to through 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.840 Apple Music. And so now that Spotify offers it, I'm 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.520 gonna kind of see, like, is it best to keep 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:58.960 Apple Music or do we switch to Spotify as our 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.560 main music service. I mean, they're both the same price 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:04.639 fifteen bucks a month for the family plan, so it 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.040 also depends on, you know, who has the better offering 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:09.200 for kids, because my kids are starting to listen to music, 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.800 and I will say, you know, here's where Apple's you know, 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:17.679 semi evil plan to make everything kind of work together seamlessly. 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:22.880 Is that, you know, since everything is built into their products, 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:24.560 it is so much easier, like when your kid has 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:27.840 an iPad to just literally they're signed into YouTube or 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:30.600 Apple Music and it's like, oh, here, just here's your 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:32.520 music because we're on the family plan and your Apple 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:34.679 idea is linked to mine, and it just does that 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:36.560 over and over. Oh okay, you need to do this, 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:38.840 just use this app that's already on your iPad. 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:39.560 So I get it. 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:41.840 And Apple does a really nice job with these apps. 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:45.480 But it's just it's their little plan definitely works. That's 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:47.760 for sure, keeps you from, you know, using some other 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:50.280 products that you might use if you had to download 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:53.200 something you might you might go and research, like what 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:55.560 the best music service is, or you just use Apple 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:57.800 Music because it's on there and it's easy and it's integrated. 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:00.080 So I'm not knocking Apple Music in any way. I 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.120 think it's great, but it's just one of those things 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:05.919 where the less friction involved, you know, the better it 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:08.200 is for or the better it is for the company 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:10.800 that's making it less friction involved. 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:10.960 Which is Apple. 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:14.200 In this case, green Room has a couple of interesting features. 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:16.600 You can have up to one thousand people in a room. 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:18.159 Let's see. 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:21.600 You can virtually applaud speakers by giving them gems in 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:25.119 the app, and the gems don't have any money value. 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:28.199 But there's and there's no way to make money on 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:29.760 this just yet, but there is some sort of like 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:35.040 Creator's fund that Spotify is launching, and participants will be 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:38.000 able to receive payouts for their work based on their 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:42.679 audience size and consumption, apparently according to Hollywood reporters. So 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.840 I think the trend we're seeing with all of these 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:48.960 apps nowadays, these new like you know, not just the 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:51.960 social media apps, well I guess them too, But it's like, 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:54.760 where's you know, show me the money, where's the monetization? 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:56.600 Where how can I make some money if I become 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:59.919 really popular on your platform? How do I make money? Like? 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:01.719 Can I get a payout from this? 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:05.480 And it's funny because when when all these platforms first started, 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:09.040 maybe with the exception of YouTube, that really wasn't a thing. 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:12.560 And now we've seen Twitter, they're introducing so many features 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:15.600 that will enable you to get money. And you know, 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.600 Patreon is kind of like the third party service that 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:20.680 enables all this stuff. But now we're seeing all these 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:23.680 individual services do it on their own. But it's it's 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.320 all over the place. So now it becomes very complicated. 0:26:26.359 --> 0:26:28.800 So if I want to follow you on Twitter and 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:33.080 send you a gem on Greenhouse, you know, it's like, 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.520 how do you are green. 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:37.320 Room rather not greenhouse green Room. 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:40.040 It's like it's it's this whole idea. This is why 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:43.240 it all comes back to the same idea I've had 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:46.640 for years. I would love and someone please make this. 0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:50.719 I would love for every month, I just have a 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:53.560 little wallet on my It follows me around on my browser, 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:57.639 and it integrates with things like Twitter and Facebook and 0:26:57.680 --> 0:27:00.199 YouTube or whatever. And it's just a little tiny like 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:03.520 tip jar, but it follows me. It's like built into 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:05.480 every app. So let's say I put you know, I 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:07.960 just subscribe. I put in you know, ten dollars a month, 0:27:08.240 --> 0:27:10.200 and of course, you know, the tip jar company gets 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:12.000 like a dollar of that for me, or ten percent 0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:14.040 or thirty percent whatever they want to take. And then 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:16.720 I get the rest as little gems or whatever, and 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:19.200 then I can give those to people as I go along. 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:21.399 So let's say I read a really good article from someone, 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:22.760 I can give them. 0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:23.240 A little tip. 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:25.480 Let's say I watch a cool YouTube video from someone 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:27.000 that I really think is great, I can give them 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:30.640 a little tip. Let's say I listen to someone's speech 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:34.280 on or clubhouse room, I can give them a little tip. 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:36.800 So again, it's not like, you know, to sit there 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:39.359 and subscribe to different creators and stuff for five dollars 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:41.639 a month is really kind of like it backs you 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:43.920 into a corner because you're like, ah, I'm already subscribed 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:46.479 to one person. I can't really do another person. I mean, 0:27:46.520 --> 0:27:48.440 that's like a lot of money every month. But if 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:50.639 you just put ten dollars into this little wallet or 0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:53.480 whatever it is twenty bucks, who knows, you know, and 0:27:53.560 --> 0:27:56.280 the ability to give that to different people, I think 0:27:56.320 --> 0:27:59.960 would be really transformative for the web because people would 0:27:59.960 --> 0:28:01.719 be able to go on their own Let's say I 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:04.240 ran my own website, you know, rich on tech dot TV. 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:06.600 That was you know, I was independent. 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:08.480 I would just put this little tip jar on there, 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.360 you know, integrate it in there, and you know, when 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:13.719 people read my articles or my posts or whatever, they 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:15.840 can give me a little tip. So I think it 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:18.840 would enable many more people to be creative in the 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:22.680 ways that they want to be on these platforms without 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:26.080 choosing to you know, they have to be on. 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:27.040 One or give it. 0:28:27.080 --> 0:28:29.119 They're all on one platform, like, they can kind of 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:32.080 be in different places and just all that money comes 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:34.320 to the same place. So I think that would be transformative. 0:28:34.359 --> 0:28:36.320 I think I talked about that in my podcast a 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.160 long time ago with someone like Stripe that should launch 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:41.880 that or something. Someone needs to do that, because I 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:45.800 really think that rewarding people individually on the web, because 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:49.120 we're getting into this world where like so many people 0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:51.440 are building like a little business on the web. It's like, 0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:54.320 why can't we reward them in an easy way Without 0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:57.840 a subscription to their you know, YouTube, or without you know, 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:02.760 becoming a super follower on on Twitter, or without you know, 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:06.200 on Instagram, there's no way to really tip someone or 0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:10.360 give them props or anything, you know. So anyway, I 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:17.560 think it would really really be good. Marilyn says, Hey, Rich, 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:21.320 can you advise about portable Wi Fi? My phone receives 0:29:21.440 --> 0:29:24.560 many junk emails about these devices, in particular, I'd like 0:29:24.600 --> 0:29:26.440 to know how they work while traveling on vacation. 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:29.440 Thanks Marylyn. Marilyn, you're referring. 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:32.520 To a Wi Fi hot spot, and I don't know 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:34.600 why you're getting so many junk emails. Maybe you mean 0:29:34.640 --> 0:29:37.040 like you're just getting emails from your carrier about them, 0:29:37.400 --> 0:29:40.680 But I would say when it comes to a hot spot, 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:43.920 you don't. The average person does not really need one 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:46.960 these days because your phone functions as a perfectly good 0:29:47.480 --> 0:29:49.200 personal hot spot. So if you have an iPhone or 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:52.320 an Android just there is a hot spot feature built 0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:54.600 in now. The main thing about that is that you 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:58.640 are limited to the data allotted for your hot spot, 0:29:58.720 --> 0:30:00.800 and you can call your carrier or look on your 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:03.920 plan on your carrier's app, and it will tell you 0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:07.080 how much data is allotted to your hotspot. And I 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:09.760 believe for me it's like fifteen gigabytes a month, which 0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:11.640 you know, between me and my wife we both get 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:14.040 fifteen gigs. That's a pretty decent amount. And our kids 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:17.320 have their iPads where they automatically connect to our iPhones 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:19.600 and you know, when they're out and about, they just 0:30:19.720 --> 0:30:24.240 use our phones as a hotspot. Otherwise, if you want 0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:27.160 a dedicated hotspot. The benefit of that is that it's 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:30.120 a little simpler to manage because you can plug it in, 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:31.560 you can leave it turned on if you're in a 0:30:31.640 --> 0:30:34.000 hotel room, you just kind of you know, your hot 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:37.280 spot is independent of your you know, phone, so it's 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:40.400 always turned on. You're creating this little Wi Fi hotspot, 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:43.080 but you will have to pay for a separate plan, 0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:45.920 and you'll probably want a data only plan from your 0:30:45.960 --> 0:30:48.080 carrier to do that, and you can ask your carrier. 0:30:48.360 --> 0:30:50.520 If you're with T Mobile, get a T Mobile hotspot, 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:52.280 add it to your plan and you can do that. 0:30:52.800 --> 0:30:54.400 The downside of that is that you're going to be 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:56.600 paying for that every month. No matter what, whether you 0:30:56.680 --> 0:30:58.640 use it or not, you're still going to be paying 0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:00.280 for this hot spot. So if you have a something 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:03.280 like an RV, or if you travel a real lot 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:05.120 for work, that might make a lot of sense. But 0:31:05.120 --> 0:31:07.960 if you're just a casual traveler, just use the hot 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:11.080 spot on your phone, and that's what I recommend. The 0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:13.840 only other option I can tell you about is Zte 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:19.000 has a portable hot spot that I did a feature 0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:24.520 on and it basically is an unlocked hot spot, and 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:29.840 let's see is it the z ZT e Z max Connect. 0:31:30.280 --> 0:31:33.160 And what's cool about that is that it's unlocked. So 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:35.400 you would buy this hot spot. I think you can 0:31:35.440 --> 0:31:38.360 get on Amazon and it's I think it was about 0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:40.800 a hundred bucks when I did a story on it. 0:31:41.120 --> 0:31:42.960 But the cool thing about it is that it's you 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:46.400 can just pop a SIM card into it and oh okay, 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:51.080 it looks like they have a newer one now ZT Velocity. 0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:55.080 This is a an unlocked mobile Wi Fi hot spot. 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:57.880 But weird the picture is at and T. But anyway, 0:31:57.920 --> 0:32:01.160 so just ZT look them up and see their hotspot. 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:03.040 But you can put a SIM card in there that's 0:32:03.080 --> 0:32:05.560 pre paid, and so the benefit of that is that 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:09.280 you can kind of run through your data without paying 0:32:09.280 --> 0:32:11.240 a monthly fee. You just kind of buy a bunch 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:14.000 of data and sometimes they expire thirty to ninety days. 0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:16.880 But you put that SIM card into this device and 0:32:16.920 --> 0:32:19.080 then you can use it, and if you don't need 0:32:19.080 --> 0:32:20.760 it the next three months after that, you just let 0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:22.000 it sit dormant and you buy. 0:32:21.840 --> 0:32:23.280 A new SIM or you reactivate it. 0:32:23.760 --> 0:32:26.400 But I would go use your phone first, and then 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:28.720 if you need anything else, then you can go the 0:32:28.840 --> 0:32:35.520 route of getting a dedicated Wi Fi hotspot. Ikea is 0:32:35.880 --> 0:32:40.280 teaming up with Sonos for a brand new picture frame speaker. 0:32:40.480 --> 0:32:45.440 This is the SYMPHONIESK picture Frame Wi Fi speaker, and 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:47.480 so it looks like a piece of art, but it's 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:53.280 actually a disguised I guess Sonos speaker, which looks really cool. 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:55.760 Now I'm trying to figure out which room I could 0:32:55.760 --> 0:32:58.400 put this in because I already have Sonos in pretty 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:03.440 much all my room except for the office. And if 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:05.120 you follow me on Instagram, you know I just bought 0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:09.479 the Sonos Rome, which I like, and it's just small. 0:33:09.560 --> 0:33:10.200 I mean, I like the. 0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:12.400 Move better because it's bigger and it's got better sound. 0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:14.400 But the Rome is good for, like, you know, taking 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:16.959 it on little trips and vacations because it's so small. 0:33:17.520 --> 0:33:19.840 But this one is a two hundred dollars It looks 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:22.000 like a picture frame, not really a picture frame. 0:33:22.320 --> 0:33:23.520 It looks like a piece of art. 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:25.560 So the fact they're calling it a picture frame Wi 0:33:25.600 --> 0:33:28.400 Fi speaker, I think is a little misleading because it's 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:30.400 not a place where you put a picture. It's just 0:33:30.440 --> 0:33:33.720 a piece of artwork. And so you can put this 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:35.520 on your wall, you hang it. It does have a 0:33:35.560 --> 0:33:37.400 cable coming out from the bottom of it, so you 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:38.520 have to be aware of that. 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:39.400 But it's white. 0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:43.160 It kind of blends in the picture frame itself comes 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:45.120 in white or black. And then you can also put 0:33:45.160 --> 0:33:49.280 in different pieces of artwork that they have from Ikia 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:51.360 and they're each twenty dollars, so it's two hundred dollars 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:55.120 for the speaker, then twenty dollars for the individual pieces 0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:55.760 of artwork. 0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:57.640 Looks like it comes with one piece. 0:33:57.400 --> 0:33:59.760 Of artwork that like the starter artwork, and then if 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:01.160 you want to replace that you can. 0:34:01.680 --> 0:34:04.440 But it looks cool. It's a good idea. 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:05.920 I have not heard it, so I don't know how 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:08.680 how good it sounds. But if you're looking for that 0:34:08.800 --> 0:34:14.160 kind of cool, sleek, you know, room that you want 0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:17.040 things to blend in, it's it's definitely cool. I mean 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:18.799 I would I would get this. I just don't really 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:20.759 know of a place. I guess I can get it 0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:22.880 in my I don't know what's gonna happen to this 0:34:22.920 --> 0:34:26.000 office here that I'm in, probably gonna go back to 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:28.439 becoming a guest room or the kids room once I'm 0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:28.839 out of. 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:29.480 Here for work. 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:32.200 Where am I gonna can do my podcast? I gotta 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:34.600 figure out a new home. Uh. The speaker's gonna be 0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:39.200 available July fifteenth. Of course, it works with Sonos, which 0:34:39.239 --> 0:34:41.040 is the beauty of this speaker, and you know, I 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:46.040 love Sonos. It's basically the Switzerland of streaming services, even 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:49.240 though they do have their own Sonos Radio. You basically 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:52.720 connect all your different streaming services to this Sonos app 0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:55.800 and that allows you to listen to the same music 0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:57.759 across every room in your house where you have a 0:34:57.800 --> 0:35:01.240 Sona speaker, or you you can have every Sona speaker 0:35:01.280 --> 0:35:03.600 playing something different at the same time. Now that you 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:05.840 may be limited by your streaming service, they may not 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:08.719 allow you to have, you know, ten different streams going 0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:11.719 at the same time. I've noticed that with like what 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:14.520 was Amazon Music the other day? It was like, sorry, 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:16.400 this is already playing in another room. I was like, 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:18.719 oh wow, you guys are good, and so I had 0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:20.920 to pause the music on one speaker and then finally 0:35:21.000 --> 0:35:24.000 it started on another. But I think that you know, 0:35:24.000 --> 0:35:25.880 if you have different services, or you know you can 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:27.759 use some of the free services. You know, there's a 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:30.600 million free services out there, you can connect those to 0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:33.640 Sonos as well and just listen to things. So kind 0:35:33.640 --> 0:35:34.000 of cool. 0:35:34.160 --> 0:35:34.560 Different. 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:38.239 You know, Ikia had those other two speakers. They look 0:35:38.320 --> 0:35:40.400 like I think one was a lamp and one was 0:35:41.239 --> 0:35:43.840 a bookshelf speaker. And I did want the lamp. I 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:46.080 actually wanted that from my bedroom. I never got it. 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:48.600 But now that I think about it, maybe I should 0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:52.600 reconsider because I didn't realize they were still making those 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:54.880 like I thought. It kind of like it never really 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:58.120 came to be. But July fifteenth. I'm looking at the 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.040 different colors here, so yeah, black and white are the 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:01.960 two different colors. 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:04.319 Kind of cool? Oh wow, it looks like, oh here 0:36:04.320 --> 0:36:07.040 it is. The other lamp is still around. 0:36:07.360 --> 0:36:09.560 Actually, the base of the lamp that they make with 0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:12.520 the Sono speaker looks like a HomePod, the big HomePod, 0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:15.879 the old one. But yeah, picture frame with Wi Fi 0:36:15.960 --> 0:36:25.760 speaker not available just yet. You gotta wait until July fifteenth. 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:29.759 Michael says, Rich, can you download different apps like roadblocks 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:34.120 on the Amazon Fire HD ten Kids Pro. Now, Michael 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:36.960 was referring to a review I did on KTLA for 0:36:37.200 --> 0:36:40.759 the fire the brand new Amazon sent them along the 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:44.279 Fire HD ten Kids Pro. They actually sent both of 0:36:44.320 --> 0:36:47.200 the fire HD tens, the new ones the kids and 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:51.520 the regular one. Now, I'm just gonna be completely honest here. 0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:54.919 I'm not a fan. I'm just not And I'll tell you. Look, 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:57.440 I know there's you know, some of you listening that 0:36:57.480 --> 0:36:59.359 are saying, rich, I have one of these things. It's 0:36:59.480 --> 0:37:02.880 just fine, and yes it is just fine. But honestly, 0:37:03.440 --> 0:37:05.919 you know, Amazon could do better with these things. They're 0:37:06.360 --> 0:37:08.720 the software is actually really good. I think that Amazon 0:37:08.760 --> 0:37:10.520 does a nice job with the software on these things. 0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:13.800 The hardware, it just leaves so much to be desired, 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:15.760 from the low memory, to the low. 0:37:15.680 --> 0:37:20.000 Processors, to the screen quality to you know, audio quality 0:37:20.040 --> 0:37:21.440 seems to be fine. But it's just. 0:37:23.440 --> 0:37:26.320 I just it's one of these things where, yes, they're cheap, 0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:28.560 and I think that's why people buy them, and they're 0:37:28.560 --> 0:37:30.360 a very good deal when it comes to the price. 0:37:30.440 --> 0:37:32.560 So you know, especially for Prime. 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:34.759 Day as it's coming up, it's you're gonna be able 0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:36.759 to get one of these tablets for such a low 0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:39.120 price that it's like a no brainer, Like why would 0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:41.320 I pay three hundred and thirty dollars for an iPad 0:37:41.600 --> 0:37:43.800 when I can get this tablet for like one hundred bucks? 0:37:44.440 --> 0:37:46.600 And I get that, and I totally understand, and I'm 0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:49.520 not gonna say don't get it, but just know what 0:37:49.560 --> 0:37:53.920 you're getting yourself into. If you're just literally watching things 0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:57.200 and listening to music and reading books, it will be 0:37:57.320 --> 0:38:00.759 just fine. But it's the experience of you that is 0:38:00.880 --> 0:38:05.200 just slow. It's sluggish, it's it's frustrating at times. It's 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:07.920 just not the best experience, especially when you get to 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:11.719 the buttery smooth workings of an iPad. And I know 0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:14.080 Rich you love Apple. Oh my gosh, all you do 0:38:14.160 --> 0:38:17.240 is ever talk about Apple. I know, But the reality 0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:21.120 is the iPad is such a great device that it's 0:38:21.200 --> 0:38:23.879 really tough to beat. And so yeah, you're gonna save 0:38:24.120 --> 0:38:26.800 a lot of money getting the fire, but it's gonna 0:38:26.800 --> 0:38:29.640 be frustrating, and there's gonna be moments when you know 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:31.200 you just don't want to use it or it's just 0:38:31.239 --> 0:38:31.880 not that good. 0:38:31.920 --> 0:38:32.920 And it's fine. You know. 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:35.960 I actually had a friend over and I know her 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:39.760 kids have the kindle the fire or not the kindle 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:42.600 the fire tablet. And I said, you know, if I 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:45.239 sat on TV that the fire tablet is frustrating and 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:47.240 slow and laggy, would you be annoyed? 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:48.320 Would you be upset? 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:50.560 And she said, well, I don't know what do you 0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:53.000 mean by that? And I said, well, she goes they're 0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:55.480 just fine for like the kids playing games. Since I said, 0:38:55.480 --> 0:38:58.840 all right, that's that's fair enough. So again it is 0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:00.640 just fine, like to the average can assumer that's not 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:02.799 testing a bunch of stuff. It is just fine. But 0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:04.719 I'm just saying you can do better. And I think 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:07.360 the iPad entry level iPad on sale, you know, you 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:09.919 get it for two ninety nine or whatever. It's Yes, 0:39:09.960 --> 0:39:12.600 it's more expensive, but the experience out of that device 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:15.840 is just going to be so infinitely better. But with 0:39:15.960 --> 0:39:20.040 that said Michael, to answer your question, roadblocks. So I 0:39:20.080 --> 0:39:26.360 specifically wrote about Roadblocks in my fire Kid's review because 0:39:26.400 --> 0:39:30.560 I knew the line was something to the extent of, yes, 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:33.360 it does this and it does that, but let's be honest, 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:36.000 the first app your kid is going to download is Roadblocks, 0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:38.440 and it plays that too well. When I went to 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:41.120 shoot my segment for this thing, we downloaded Roblocks because 0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:44.200 I wanted to make sure and test it out. I 0:39:44.239 --> 0:39:47.560 got so many problems with this situation with the with 0:39:47.600 --> 0:39:50.520 the device. It went into a boot loop where it 0:39:50.640 --> 0:39:53.000 just kept restarting. It kept restarting every time we tried 0:39:53.040 --> 0:39:55.239 to open roadblocks on this thing. Now, this could have 0:39:55.239 --> 0:39:56.800 been an isolated incident. 0:39:56.840 --> 0:39:57.760 I emailed Amazon. 0:39:57.920 --> 0:39:59.480 I said to them, I said, hey, you know, I'm 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:01.200 having a lot of issues with this. Have you seen 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:03.319 this before? And they said, no, we've never seen that. 0:40:04.080 --> 0:40:05.799 No one else is reporting that, and that was it. 0:40:05.840 --> 0:40:08.360 They didn't really care to follow up, and so I 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:10.719 just kind of I took that line out of my 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.160 piece for KTLA. I didn't I didn't leave in the 0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:15.680 line where it can play roadblocks. And I felt bad 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:17.480 because I know that's what parents wanted to know, but 0:40:17.520 --> 0:40:22.600 I couldn't feel right, you know, including the robox roadblocks bit, 0:40:22.760 --> 0:40:25.400 knowing that we had so many problems running roadblocks, and 0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:27.560 I know that's the game that kids want to play. 0:40:27.600 --> 0:40:29.799 And I'll be honest what my kids said when I 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:32.520 gave them this tablet to test out with roadblocks, they 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:35.480 they literally threw it back at me and said nobody 0:40:35.520 --> 0:40:37.600 should buy this, and that was their words. 0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:40.000 And I'll be honest, that's a kid. 0:40:40.480 --> 0:40:42.480 And so they were able to see the quality difference 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:47.680 between an iPad and a fire tablet. And again, I'm 0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:49.799 just telling you this so that you're equipped and you 0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:52.640 understand what your situation. The beauty of these tablets is 0:40:52.640 --> 0:40:54.960 that you can return them. If you get it and 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:57.440 you hate it and you can't deal with the with 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:00.520 the situation or how it runs, just return it to Amazon. 0:41:00.520 --> 0:41:02.920 They'll be more than happy to take it back. If 0:41:02.960 --> 0:41:05.240 you get it and you get through all the steps 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:07.000 and you set it up and it works just fine, 0:41:07.000 --> 0:41:09.360 and you've got this uh the kids sits, the kids 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:12.080 uh what do they call the parents dashboard on it, 0:41:12.160 --> 0:41:14.480 and it works great for you, then fine, just use 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:17.200 it and it's it's I'm just telling you my thoughts. 0:41:17.239 --> 0:41:19.920 You're listening to the rich on Tech podcast. This is 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:22.840 rich on Tech's thoughts. These are my thoughts, and so 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:25.160 I'm just giving you my experiences so that you know 0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:27.839 and you can compare them against other people's experiences. Read 0:41:27.840 --> 0:41:30.760 a couple of reviews online about the fire Kids tablet, 0:41:31.120 --> 0:41:32.640 the ten and see what they say about it. 0:41:32.680 --> 0:41:33.359 If they say it's. 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:36.319 Amazing, then you know way those two way, those two 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:38.839 opinions together kind of average amount, and say, Okay, I'll 0:41:38.840 --> 0:41:40.600 try this, I'll give it, I'll give it a spin, 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.800 and if it's terrible, I'll return it. And with that said, 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:47.160 I will say what I think is really good about 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:50.600 these tablets is the software on them, I think is 0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:54.200 pretty darn good. They've got everything built in that you need. 0:41:55.200 --> 0:41:57.360 You know, there's a lot of things that are not there, 0:41:57.400 --> 0:41:59.880 like the Google apps are not there. You can install 0:41:59.880 --> 0:42:02.759 them easily, and yes you can sideload, and yes you 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.680 can download you know, ways of getting them, but that's 0:42:05.719 --> 0:42:08.040 not for the average consumer. The average consumer is not 0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:12.000 sideloading Chrome. The average consumer is not sideloading Gmail. The 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:14.000 average consumers not sideloading YouTube. 0:42:14.400 --> 0:42:15.440 So to get those. 0:42:15.320 --> 0:42:18.160 Native apps that work really well, you can't get them easily. 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:20.600 You can't just download them from the Amazon App Store. 0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:23.640 And so for all these reasons, it's just kind of 0:42:23.719 --> 0:42:26.680 not the best experience. You have to use their apps 0:42:26.920 --> 0:42:32.080 and what they you know, their weblinks to YouTube and 0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:34.280 to Gmail, so you got to use the web versions 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:37.960 of those things. I do like what Amazon's doing when 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:41.520 it comes to the parental controls. The kid's dashboard is amazing, 0:42:42.040 --> 0:42:44.600 And if your interest is in keeping your kids safe 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:47.160 on these tablets, I think these tablets do a really 0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:50.680 really good job of that. In fact, really really good. 0:42:50.840 --> 0:42:53.280 I'm maybe not better than the iPad about the same 0:42:53.719 --> 0:42:56.879 but it's Amazon really has it down. I mean they've 0:42:56.880 --> 0:43:01.240 gotten it locked down. So I think that in that case, 0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:04.200 I was very very impressed with what they're doing there. 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:07.080 So again I'm just you know, giving you some thoughts 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.600 and things to kind of noodle around in your brain. 0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:11.360 If you're thinking of getting one of these things, just 0:43:11.480 --> 0:43:14.080 know that there is a reason why they cost less 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:16.160 and doesn't make them a bad thing. 0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:17.560 It just makes it so that if you. 0:43:17.520 --> 0:43:19.600 Can, if you're like, if you use it and you're 0:43:19.640 --> 0:43:21.719 fine with it, it's fine, Like you just saved a 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:24.279 bunch of money. And it's like, Rich, all I'm doing 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:26.279 is reading a kindle book on here, Well, fine, it's 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:28.359 gonna work great for that. Rich, All I'm watching our 0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:32.520 Netflix shows or Prime videos or whatever. Fine, it's gonna 0:43:32.560 --> 0:43:34.000 work just fine for that. You don't need a lot 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:37.480 of horsepower to watch videos on a tablet. Now, if 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:39.600 you're telling me you're gonna try to run your home 0:43:39.640 --> 0:43:43.279 based business on there, or blog or edit videos or 0:43:43.400 --> 0:43:45.719 capture any kind of pictures on this thing, no, that's 0:43:45.760 --> 0:43:48.000 not gonna work. If you're using it, you know, to 0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:50.200 run a home you know, a little eBay business or 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:54.240 something like for a tablet. No, not gonna work, drawing, 0:43:54.600 --> 0:43:59.040 making pictures, creating stuff, not gonna work. Consuming content gonna 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:02.399 be just fine. Michael, Hope that answers your question. Let 0:44:02.400 --> 0:44:06.160 me know what you end up doing. All right, let's see, 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:09.920 let's talk about this shower head. So I tested a 0:44:10.000 --> 0:44:12.719 shower head called the Nebia. It's got a long name, 0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:17.560 the Nebia by Mowen Quatro, and it's a shower head 0:44:17.560 --> 0:44:22.040 that it got a lot of publicity because Tim Cook, 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:26.880 Apple CEO, love this shower head. And so this company's 0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:28.840 been around, I think they said for six years. The 0:44:28.880 --> 0:44:31.840 technology was really expensive, but now it's gotten down to 0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:33.680 a price that you know, the rest of us can 0:44:33.719 --> 0:44:37.799 actually consider still expensive. It's still ninety nine dollars on Kickstarter, 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:40.440 one hundred and twenty nine dollars when it gets to stores. 0:44:41.040 --> 0:44:43.719 But I tried it out, and the thing is, this 0:44:43.760 --> 0:44:45.760 is supposed to be easy. They use like this system 0:44:45.800 --> 0:44:49.560 called this process called atomization to make the water into 0:44:49.640 --> 0:44:52.680 this really fine mist. So it feels the best I 0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:55.640 can describe it is it feels like a sauna, but 0:44:55.760 --> 0:44:58.080 instead of like a mist of water like that, you know, 0:44:58.120 --> 0:44:59.719 you can't really see in the sauna or like a 0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:02.120 little little bit. This is like it feels like a 0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:04.839 sauna times a thousand. So your entire shower is like 0:45:05.239 --> 0:45:07.799 filled with this mist like water that just collects on 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:09.640 your skin, and you know, these. 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:10.799 Droplets are everywhere. 0:45:11.360 --> 0:45:13.800 And so for that reason, a they don't recommend a 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:18.640 shower what's it called a shower curtain set up. They 0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:21.800 would recommend kind of like an enclosed shower, like glass doors, 0:45:22.360 --> 0:45:24.920 at least, you know, mostly enclosed. Like my shower is 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:27.759 mostly enclosed. It's not fully enclosed. I think that's how 0:45:27.760 --> 0:45:30.360 most showers are. Maybe there's some that are fully enclosed, 0:45:30.360 --> 0:45:34.200 but I guess there are. So the deal with this 0:45:34.239 --> 0:45:35.959 thing is that they sent it to me to test 0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:39.360 it out. I installed it on my shower, and of course, 0:45:39.400 --> 0:45:43.600 my shower, like a lot of homes in Los Angeles, 0:45:43.719 --> 0:45:45.880 is just totally messed up. It doesn't it's not the 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:50.120 standard shower situation. So I had my handyman take a 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:51.719 look and he's like, yeah, the pipe that comes out 0:45:51.760 --> 0:45:54.719 of your wall is really short, so you would need 0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:55.960 to install like a new pipe. 0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:56.960 And it's this whole big thing. 0:45:56.960 --> 0:45:58.560 So I end up getting it to work on my 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:01.879 kid's shower, which still it was not perfect, and they 0:46:01.880 --> 0:46:03.560 have a shower curtain, so it was like this whole 0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:05.319 big thing where I got the whole bathroom wet. But 0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:07.880 I was able to test this thing out and actually 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:10.880 shower in it and my kids as well, and I 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:14.279 will say it was amazing. It was a great experience, 0:46:14.320 --> 0:46:17.000 and it was it was pretty darn different than what 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:20.279 a typical shower head feels like. And the other thing 0:46:20.360 --> 0:46:22.360 is that this is saving a ton of water, so 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:26.400 it feels better, but it's also saving like forty percent water. 0:46:26.520 --> 0:46:28.640 And I've got a water bill that just keeps getting 0:46:28.640 --> 0:46:30.800 out of control, and so this would be very appealing 0:46:30.840 --> 0:46:33.000 to me. Now, I didn't end up keeping this on 0:46:33.040 --> 0:46:36.080 my shower because it's not really compatible with what I said, 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:39.960 my shower setup, but I would consider this if it was, 0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:41.799 and I think that you should too. 0:46:42.600 --> 0:46:44.160 It's a really cool shower head. 0:46:44.239 --> 0:46:50.480 It's it's on Kickstarter, so definitely not Generally, I'm very 0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:53.279 skeptical of Kickstarter stuff because it just feels like so 0:46:53.360 --> 0:46:56.439 many people get burned with it. But this company says 0:46:56.440 --> 0:46:59.400 they've they've already done seven million dollars of Kickstarter on 0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:02.279 the platform. They've done other things on Kickstarter. They are 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:04.920 gonna ship this, they said, now here's the thing. This 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:08.120 is why I always say with Kickstarter, I'm very cautious 0:47:08.160 --> 0:47:11.080 because when they first told me about this thing, oh yeah, 0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:13.360 we're gonna ship it in August, and the day that 0:47:13.400 --> 0:47:15.520 I was doing my story, the morning of the story, 0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:17.680 they're like, oh, by the way, we're changing that to September. 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:18.239 I said, what. 0:47:18.840 --> 0:47:20.560 So I had to go back and retape all the 0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:23.520 stuff that I use to send out to my partner stations, 0:47:23.960 --> 0:47:26.359 because you know it is taped the day before, and 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:27.680 I was like, you've got to be kidding me. 0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:29.239 And so again this just. 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:31.319 Goes to show that with like Kickstarter, it's like it's 0:47:31.360 --> 0:47:34.279 never a firm deal. It's like, how did it go 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:38.040 from August to September? In like literally the day of launch, 0:47:38.239 --> 0:47:41.080 it changes And so you just have to be very 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:44.160 aware of the pros and cons of Kickstarter. I love 0:47:44.200 --> 0:47:46.799 the fact that Kickstarter can make these amazing ideas come 0:47:46.840 --> 0:47:48.719 to reality, but on the flip side, a lot of 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:51.360 stuff gets on there that never really gets made or 0:47:52.160 --> 0:47:55.080 worse yet, you know, your money is either taken or 0:47:55.120 --> 0:47:57.440 held up and you don't get things, and it's just 0:47:57.480 --> 0:48:00.880 delayed upon delay, upon delay upon delay, So just be 0:48:00.960 --> 0:48:03.360 aware of that. But if you want to watch the story, 0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:06.600 it's called the Uh. Here's the way to find anything 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:10.840 I talk about. By the way, just google ktla DeMuro 0:48:11.040 --> 0:48:13.960 plus a keyword, like in this case, it would be Nebia. 0:48:14.120 --> 0:48:16.520 And if you can't remember Nebia, just ktl a DeMuro 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:19.000 shower head. So let me just try it ktla DeMuro 0:48:19.480 --> 0:48:23.600 shower head and that immediately brings up my story. So 0:48:24.280 --> 0:48:27.360 that's how you find something that I've mentioned on TV. 0:48:27.480 --> 0:48:29.719 It's very very simple, and it always comes to the 0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:30.320 top result. 0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:33.480 I mean, what can I say? 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:35.560 It's cool, it's great. I mean, it's going to change 0:48:35.560 --> 0:48:39.080 the world. I don't know, but it's definitely. My headline 0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:40.960 was I took a shower using a shower head that 0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:44.919 feels so indulgent it's hard to believe it's actually saving water. 0:48:45.000 --> 0:48:47.359 And I will agree with that. I think that it 0:48:47.400 --> 0:48:50.759 was a very cool experience. My kid also said the 0:48:50.800 --> 0:48:52.960 same thing. He said, that is like the most amazing 0:48:52.960 --> 0:48:55.879 shower ever. So I mean, even if if a kid 0:48:55.880 --> 0:48:58.520 could say that and understand that that's that's pretty cool. 0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:00.399 All right. 0:49:00.560 --> 0:49:08.279 Uh, let's see next question. Maren says hey, Rich, Hi 0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:10.760 a Rich, what's a good iPhone memory cleaner? 0:49:10.800 --> 0:49:13.240 Thanks? Send for my iPhone, Maren. 0:49:13.480 --> 0:49:17.600 You don't need one. There is no iPhone memory cleaner, 0:49:17.600 --> 0:49:19.719 and if you get one, it's bogus. There is no 0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:23.600 such thing. iPhone apps can cannot do things to the 0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:27.640 operating the core operating system like they can on androids, 0:49:27.640 --> 0:49:30.040 so they can't clean out the memory. So you do 0:49:30.120 --> 0:49:33.120 not need an iPhone memory cleaner. And if there are 0:49:33.200 --> 0:49:35.000 any on the app store, I don't know what they're 0:49:35.040 --> 0:49:39.360 doing because it's just not something that's possible. Let me 0:49:39.360 --> 0:49:46.160 look memory cleaner, smart cleaner, junk cleaner, phone cleaner, system 0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:47.680 phone doctor. 0:49:47.239 --> 0:49:47.879 Battery life. 0:49:47.960 --> 0:49:50.400 Yeah, there's a ton of them. They're all bogus. Just 0:49:50.480 --> 0:49:53.200 ignore them. You don't need them. The only thing you 0:49:53.239 --> 0:49:55.320 can do on an iPhone to kind of get things 0:49:55.360 --> 0:49:57.319 back up and running or clear out the memory, whatever 0:49:57.320 --> 0:49:59.160 you want to call it, is just restart your phone. 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:01.879 And so you can do that by holding down the 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:05.359 power up button and the serie button and that will 0:50:05.360 --> 0:50:08.279 give you a slider to power off. Or you can 0:50:08.320 --> 0:50:15.879 go into settings and it's settings general, uh reset and 0:50:16.560 --> 0:50:20.120 sorry not reset general, and then shut down and you 0:50:20.160 --> 0:50:22.080 can shut down your phone and then power it back up. 0:50:22.080 --> 0:50:23.799 But those are the only two things you need to know. 0:50:24.200 --> 0:50:26.160 There's no way to like really do what you do 0:50:26.200 --> 0:50:28.880 on an Android, like the the Samsungs have like that 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:31.640 built in like memory optimization thing, and that's I think, 0:50:31.640 --> 0:50:33.160 what a lot of people have gotten used to over 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:35.040 the years. But you don't need that for an iPhone, 0:50:35.080 --> 0:50:39.560 and thankfully you don't, because I have literally almost never 0:50:39.600 --> 0:50:42.239 seen an iPhone get bogged down with like any sort 0:50:42.239 --> 0:50:45.080 of memory issue because all apps run in their own 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:48.040 little sandbox basically, and so when you open up an app, 0:50:48.160 --> 0:50:51.120 it runs, it's using the system resources. When you shut 0:50:51.160 --> 0:50:54.200 it down, it's when you know, close out of that app. 0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:56.040 Even if you don't close it out like people love 0:50:56.080 --> 0:50:58.400 to like swipe out their apps, you don't need to 0:50:58.400 --> 0:51:00.359 do that on an iPhone. And I've been guilty of it. 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:01.960 I'll do it every once in a while, but it's 0:51:01.960 --> 0:51:04.480 mostly just a nervous thing. It's just like a you know, 0:51:04.880 --> 0:51:06.239 fiddling with my phone thing. 0:51:06.280 --> 0:51:08.280 It's not really necessary. 0:51:08.440 --> 0:51:10.680 Now, if an app is acting up, yes, you can 0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:14.000 close it out, and that you know, once you close 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:15.879 it out, you can restart the app and it should 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:16.319 be just. 0:51:16.320 --> 0:51:19.040 Fine, all right. 0:51:19.040 --> 0:51:21.719 Final question, Martha via Instagram says, Hey, Rich, I've been 0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:25.399 following you since the KTLA. Since you join KTLA, you've 0:51:25.440 --> 0:51:26.319 never disappointed. 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:26.759 Thank you. 0:51:27.160 --> 0:51:30.880 What's your recommendation of the iPad? I'm a phone fanatic 0:51:30.920 --> 0:51:34.640 and I want the best form of reference for my photos. 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:38.239 Laptop versus iPad? Is it the most current model if 0:51:38.280 --> 0:51:41.200 I buy it through HSN? Well to answer your iPhone 0:51:41.280 --> 0:51:44.200 versus or sorry iPad versus laptop question. If you are 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:47.320 only just doing photos, I would definitely go iPad because 0:51:48.120 --> 0:51:51.640 I think it's a great, great canvas for photos, and 0:51:52.239 --> 0:51:54.640 you can load all your photos on there using iCloud. 0:51:55.000 --> 0:51:56.399 Even if the storage isn't enough. 0:51:56.440 --> 0:51:59.000 You can load them all up there, and you know 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:01.400 they'll be stored in iCloud but in the cloud, but 0:52:01.400 --> 0:52:03.480 they'll also be viewable on your iPad. You'll be able 0:52:03.480 --> 0:52:05.600 to edit them if you want to get really fancy. 0:52:05.640 --> 0:52:07.160 You can use the Apple pencil, but you can you 0:52:07.200 --> 0:52:09.440 know your finger will work just fine. But I think 0:52:09.480 --> 0:52:12.680 it's a great, great canvas for editing and referencing your 0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:16.080 pictures and organizing them and all that stuff. Laptop, I 0:52:16.080 --> 0:52:20.560 would say only if you're like really doing maybe some 0:52:20.719 --> 0:52:22.200 heavy photo organization. 0:52:22.239 --> 0:52:22.560 I don't know. 0:52:22.600 --> 0:52:25.319 I mean, laptop seems like overkill to me. So if 0:52:25.320 --> 0:52:27.799 you're just if your only interest is in photos, i'd 0:52:27.800 --> 0:52:31.280 say go iPad. As for the most current model through HSN, 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:36.799 I would cross reference HSN with something like the Mac 0:52:36.880 --> 0:52:40.160 Rumors Buyer's Guide, and it should tell you on the 0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:44.400 Buyer's Guide, like what the latest version of the devices. 0:52:44.520 --> 0:52:47.040 So if you look at the let's look at the 0:52:47.080 --> 0:52:50.960 eleven inch iPad pro, it's let's see, does it tell 0:52:51.000 --> 0:52:56.160 you like what the You gotta find the model number 0:52:56.480 --> 0:52:59.880 of the device they're selling on HSN and then compare 0:53:00.080 --> 0:53:03.120 at against you know, just look up that model number 0:53:03.120 --> 0:53:04.440 and see if it's the most recent. 0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:05.759 I think it should. 0:53:06.040 --> 0:53:08.040 I think the Buyer's Guide would show you that, but 0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:10.359 I don't really I'm at first glance, I'm not really 0:53:10.440 --> 0:53:15.480 seeing it. But if you look at recent releases, you 0:53:15.560 --> 0:53:17.680 really need the model number. Oh you know what, you 0:53:17.719 --> 0:53:20.279 can just go to I think you can just go 0:53:20.320 --> 0:53:22.160 to the Apple website and just look at the model 0:53:22.239 --> 0:53:24.480 number and compare those and make sure if it's the 0:53:24.520 --> 0:53:26.680 most recent one, and that that should really do it. 0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:28.880 But I'd say, yeah, go iPad that's like my dream. 0:53:29.480 --> 0:53:32.120 My dream is to just use an iPad for everything 0:53:32.239 --> 0:53:35.560 because I'm so dependent on my laptop because I'm video 0:53:35.640 --> 0:53:37.920 editing so much. I would love to make that switch 0:53:37.960 --> 0:53:40.200 to like an iPad pro or something with a keyboard, 0:53:40.480 --> 0:53:41.120 because then you. 0:53:41.000 --> 0:53:42.040 Have the best of both worlds. 0:53:42.160 --> 0:53:44.920 Touch screen, got all the iPad apps, but then you 0:53:44.920 --> 0:53:46.760 can use your your lap or your computer. 0:53:47.920 --> 0:53:50.200 Not your computer. You just have the best of both worlds. 0:53:50.239 --> 0:53:51.960 Right, you get kind of a computer and a and 0:53:52.040 --> 0:53:56.399 a tablet all in one. Oh that sound means it's 0:53:56.440 --> 0:53:59.960 the end of the show. Thank you so much for listening. 0:54:00.320 --> 0:54:01.880 If you would like to submit a question for me 0:54:01.920 --> 0:54:04.040 to answer, just go to my Facebook page, Facebook dot 0:54:04.040 --> 0:54:06.600 com slash Rich on tech hit the big blue send 0:54:06.680 --> 0:54:09.320 email button. 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