Speaker 1: Google has a new fishing quiz, nest cams are hacked,
Speaker 1: and another photo app bites the dust. What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Richdemiro. This is Rich on Tech coming to you
Speaker 1: today from Los Angeles and also live streaming on Facebook,
Speaker 1: so thanks for joining me there as well. In this podcast,
Speaker 1: I will be taking your calls, plus I'll be talking
Speaker 1: about some great stories. This is the stuff that I
Speaker 1: think you should know about. You know, I cover tech
Speaker 1: for a living, and there's a lot of stories throughout
Speaker 1: the week. But these are the things that I identify
Speaker 1: that I think are important for you to know about.
Speaker 1: I think are interesting, and of course you can debate
Speaker 1: that with me. We're all human here. We all have
Speaker 1: different things that we think are interesting and noteworthy, of course,
Speaker 1: depending which side of the fence you're on, whether it's
Speaker 1: Android or iPhone, or Mac or PC, or if you
Speaker 1: like you know, home audio and video versus computers versus
Speaker 1: you know, car tech. There's a lot of stuff happening
Speaker 1: in the tech world, but the bottom line is it
Speaker 1: is all a lot of fun. It's happening fast, and
Speaker 1: this is my attempt at helping you understand at least
Speaker 1: a little portion of it. Let's start with Moments. This
Speaker 1: is an app from Facebook that was their photo sharing app.
Speaker 1: So this was an app that would basically sync with
Speaker 1: the camera roll on your iPhone or your Android and
Speaker 1: put all the pictures kind of into a private area
Speaker 1: of Facebook. But if you wanted to share those either
Speaker 1: on Facebook or with friends, this app would make that
Speaker 1: process easier. But the problem is apparently nobody used it
Speaker 1: or nobody liked it. I remember for a moment talking
Speaker 1: about Moments that I actually had. I think my mom
Speaker 1: using this app and we decided to switch over at
Speaker 1: a certain point to Google Photos. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what a lot of people did, because as of February
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, Facebook is shutting down Moments. But they've done
Speaker 1: something nice. They've made it very easy to export any
Speaker 1: pictures you have saved in Moments. I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have any pictures in here. I checked and I
Speaker 1: had exactly two. One was some sort of screenshot, the
Speaker 1: other one was a picture of me and my mom,
Speaker 1: So I was probably demoing this app to her, but
Speaker 1: you can check. They made it very easy. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is go to Facebook dot com, slash
Speaker 1: Moments Underscore app slash export, and of course I'll put
Speaker 1: all the links that I talk about in the show notes.
Speaker 1: But if you go there, it will show you how
Speaker 1: many moments you have, and then it will help you
Speaker 1: download those moments to a drive or however you want
Speaker 1: to do it. But after the twenty fifth, that's it.
Speaker 1: This is all gonna be gone. So it's probably a
Speaker 1: good idea just to check this website and see if
Speaker 1: you have any moments in there. You never know, if
Speaker 1: you have a picture lingering in there that maybe you lost.
Speaker 1: Maybe this would be the best case scenario. Maybe you
Speaker 1: kind of the worst best case scenario. Let's say you
Speaker 1: lost a whole bunch of pictures last year at some point, right,
Speaker 1: but you forgot that you installed this app on your
Speaker 1: phone and it was secretly or you know, in the background,
Speaker 1: saving your moments, right, your pictures. Well, let's say you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I look in here, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, next thing, you know, you have all these
Speaker 1: pictures that you thought were missing inside this Moment's app.
Speaker 1: I hope that happens for someone. But my recommendation at
Speaker 1: this point when it comes to pictures, make sure they're
Speaker 1: saved in two different places. That is on your phone,
Speaker 1: also on a separate app like Google Photos, and then
Speaker 1: another place either a backup hard drive or if you
Speaker 1: just want to use everything for free, you can use
Speaker 1: something like Amazon Prime. If you're a Prime member, they
Speaker 1: have a photos app. You can back up your photos
Speaker 1: to there as well. But that's what you need to
Speaker 1: know about moments. It is going away. On February twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Who is this? Hi? Rich?
Speaker 2: This is Kashia calling you from johannes Best, South Africa.
Speaker 1: How are you doing good? How are you Johannesburg, South Africa. Welcome?
Speaker 1: What's on your minds from Johannesburg.
Speaker 2: I want an iPhone Tennis Max that it has a
Speaker 2: dual SAM functionality. One of them is called e SIM.
Speaker 2: Why would Apple maac a phone when there's no ETHIM
Speaker 2: service available in the rest of the countries in America?
Speaker 1: So your question is why do you have the eSIM
Speaker 1: functionality if you can't use it? Basically, yeah, well this
Speaker 1: is the thing, so eSIM, as you know, is well.
Speaker 1: The dual SIM functionality has been a function in a
Speaker 1: lot of phones around the world and specifically in the
Speaker 1: US that has not been a big feature, right, So
Speaker 1: Apple decided this time to actually put this feature inside
Speaker 1: the iPhone, the new ones, the ten S, the ten
Speaker 1: S Max, and also the ten Are. But they're doing
Speaker 1: this kind of on a worldwide basis, so I think
Speaker 1: what they're the idea is that a lot of the
Speaker 1: other manufacturers do this. It's popular in certain countries like India,
Speaker 1: not too popular in the US. But the reality is
Speaker 1: Apple wants to have this feature in the phone so
Speaker 1: that they can grow for the future.
Speaker 2: This service to be available in South Africa, a andy zone.
Speaker 1: I think so because here's the thing. In the US,
Speaker 1: this has not been available, Like when they first launched
Speaker 1: the phones, it was not available. It takes the carriers
Speaker 1: to actually enable it on their systems and make it available.
Speaker 1: So I think where you are, it will be available.
Speaker 1: It just won't be overnight. You know, the carriers do
Speaker 1: have to do some stuff on the back end. But
Speaker 1: once you have it, it's kind of cool. We're already
Speaker 1: seeing in America they're really not advertising it that heavily,
Speaker 1: like it's not it's not a thing that they're yet saying, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you should activate a second line on your phone. But
Speaker 1: I think that the future is a lot of competition
Speaker 1: could be had from this service. Right, So if you
Speaker 1: have one line and you want to have a secondary
Speaker 1: line for data or maybe for work or whatever. You're
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, whatever you want to do, they can make
Speaker 1: it so it works for you know, for you to
Speaker 1: activate this secondary line, it doesn't cost very much. So
Speaker 1: I think right now we're just at the very early stages,
Speaker 1: and I think that things will heat up Casher in
Speaker 1: the future.
Speaker 2: That's great, that makes sense, man, Like sext question is
Speaker 2: how do you see I love this phone, by the way,
Speaker 2: I love it. It's super fast, you know, I love
Speaker 2: the three D touch stuff, and you know it's it's
Speaker 2: good for business though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. You said you have a second question.
Speaker 2: The second thing is I want to know, Yeah, like,
Speaker 2: how do you see future of Huawei in worldwide? Like
Speaker 2: may pro. I have seen the phone. It's a beautiful
Speaker 2: phone and it's a very nice songe. But we we're
Speaker 2: hearing a lot of stories about Huawei that it has
Speaker 2: a security concern nowadays, you know, to use this kind
Speaker 2: of devices. How do you see this? Like do you
Speaker 2: see a future in huawe?
Speaker 1: I know this really this really troubles me because here's
Speaker 1: a company that they're making that the make twenty pro
Speaker 1: that people just love. I mean, people are loving the
Speaker 1: camera on their high end devices, some of the best
Speaker 1: devices when it comes to the reviewed devices. But like
Speaker 1: you said, now here in the US, they've all but
Speaker 1: dried up. You know, people are just not buying their devices.
Speaker 1: You can't even buy them first party, you have to
Speaker 1: buy them third party in the US. In the rest
Speaker 1: of the world, clearly, Huawei definitely has some you know,
Speaker 1: especially in China and in Asia, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people purchasing their devices. I don't know what the future
Speaker 1: is because in a Maria they are definitely getting a
Speaker 1: bad name when it comes to are they spying on you?
Speaker 1: Are they doing something bad with your device? And like
Speaker 1: I said, everyone's kind of staying away from them at
Speaker 1: this point. When it comes to the main carriers, and
Speaker 1: it depends where you are in the world, Like in
Speaker 1: the US, basically people buy their phones through their carriers.
Speaker 1: Right in the rest of the world, people some day,
Speaker 1: you know, they mostly buy their phones unlocked or they
Speaker 1: buy them, you know, through third party channels. But here
Speaker 1: in the US it's all kind of linked to the carriers.
Speaker 1: So if the carriers are not accepting Huawei, that means
Speaker 1: it's going to be a problem for Huawei. So do
Speaker 1: I think they're doing something bad? I would hope not,
Speaker 1: but we just don't know. The evidence is not really
Speaker 1: clear right now. I don't think in my experience with them,
Speaker 1: I mean, they've seen like really nice phones with a
Speaker 1: lot of great features, so I want to like them.
Speaker 1: But I just think that this point that we're in
Speaker 1: right now is kind of very precarious grounds for them,
Speaker 1: And I think we need competitors like them to shake
Speaker 1: things up, because Samsung is great, but you need the
Speaker 1: one Pluses of the world and the Huaweis of the
Speaker 1: world to actually, you know, come up against Apple and
Speaker 1: Samsung to innovate and to come out with these devices
Speaker 1: that are less expensive with more features, and that keeps
Speaker 1: everyone on their toes.
Speaker 2: That's great. Yeah, Like, like I wanted to have Androiduviace
Speaker 2: as well, and I couldn't find any better choice than
Speaker 2: Huawa made twenty pro. But then I had the same
Speaker 2: security concern but everyone was talking about it, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So because I also do my business, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: an entrepreneur, so obviously I have a lot of things
Speaker 2: to do, and I was concerned about my security and privacy,
Speaker 2: you know, so I had to, you know, skip on
Speaker 2: this so that Ithi's a very good device, but it's
Speaker 2: sad that I can't have it, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I agree, and I think I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people feel just the same way. Wow, look at
Speaker 1: that our first call all the way from South Africa.
Speaker 1: That's pretty amazing. What an amazing testament to uh to
Speaker 1: technology that you can call me for free from all
Speaker 1: the way anywhere in the world. Let's move on to Google. Now,
Speaker 1: they've got this great thing online. It's a Google Phishing
Speaker 1: I guess it's not a phishing website. It's a website
Speaker 1: that helps you kind of take a quiz if you
Speaker 1: can spot when you're being phished. And this is really neat.
Speaker 1: I took this quiz and I will say I scored Okay,
Speaker 1: I got one wrong out of I think it was
Speaker 1: eight questions. But the website is phishingquiz dot with Google
Speaker 1: dot com. Now, by the way, even that website doesn't
Speaker 1: seem very good, right. If I was Google, I would
Speaker 1: have put this on my main website so that people
Speaker 1: didn't think that this website was fake, but it's fishingquiz
Speaker 1: dot with Google dot com, And so you go to
Speaker 1: this website and you take a little quiz and it
Speaker 1: goes through the emails that you might get in your Gmail,
Speaker 1: what they might look like, and you have to decide
Speaker 1: if they're real or fake. And what's really neat about
Speaker 1: this is you may be a pro and still get
Speaker 1: caught up in this. And phishing is a real big
Speaker 1: problem right now because that is how we're giving away
Speaker 1: our credentials to websites. Right, you think, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 1: how in the world are you, You know, how in
Speaker 1: the world are you getting hacked these days? Right? Because
Speaker 1: who logs into some random website. Well, the reality is
Speaker 1: what's happening is that we're getting an email, and inside
Speaker 1: that email, it says, hey, alert, your Facebook account was
Speaker 1: just hacked. Please log in here and make sure everything's okay.
Speaker 1: And you go, oh gosh, let me go change my password,
Speaker 1: and you log in without thinking because the email looks
Speaker 1: just like the email you might get from Facebook, and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, the hackers are off and running
Speaker 1: with all of your credentials. And I talk about this
Speaker 1: all the time. The main way to protect yourself is
Speaker 1: through what's called two factor authentication. And with two factor authentication,
Speaker 1: you sign up with your phone number and once you
Speaker 1: have your phone number in there, it will text you
Speaker 1: a code that you must enter once you log into
Speaker 1: a website before that website will allow that login to proceed.
Speaker 1: And the idea behind this is that you will have
Speaker 1: the code on your phone. If someone's logging into your
Speaker 1: website from say, you know, Russia, uh, they won't have
Speaker 1: the code because it's going to your phone. So they
Speaker 1: may have your login and password, your username and password,
Speaker 1: but they won't have that special code which really gets
Speaker 1: you in. So take the Google Phishing quiz, definitely learn
Speaker 1: from it and you will. You will. You will realize
Speaker 1: just how tricky some of these emails are. And what
Speaker 1: it really comes down to is looking at the URLs
Speaker 1: of the links that you're clicking. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: I would definitely not click any links that you get
Speaker 1: it in an email. I mean, you just can't click
Speaker 1: them unless it's like a YouTube link, you know, but
Speaker 1: even that can be bad. So if it's asking you
Speaker 1: to log in, Let's say you get an email from
Speaker 1: your bank saying, hey, we suspect fraud on your account.
Speaker 1: Don't ever click the link inside that. Just go to
Speaker 1: your bank's website, log in, and then that way you
Speaker 1: can see exactly what's going on from a fresh perspective,
Speaker 1: and not from a website that someone just happens to
Speaker 1: be sending you. So good information there.
Speaker 3: Rich, it's Greg from the av.
Speaker 1: Hey Greg, longtime, no talk.
Speaker 3: Yes, Happy New Years. A real quick question. I have
Speaker 3: some old DHS movies. They're not available on d D
Speaker 3: I search everywhere.
Speaker 4: Is there a.
Speaker 3: Copyright law as far excuse me, as far as like
Speaker 3: maybe taking it to Costco or will they not do it.
Speaker 1: Because they're not going to do it. They will do it. No,
Speaker 1: you could do it. They're not gonna do it. They're
Speaker 1: you know, they use a company called Yes Video, and
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna anything that's a commercial tape.
Speaker 1: They're just not going to touch. So, but you can
Speaker 1: do it as long as now here's the thing. When
Speaker 1: you run this thing through your computer, it may scramble.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It depends on the tape. It may not,
Speaker 1: you know, it may it may have copyright protection built in.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be something you're have to figure out.
Speaker 1: But I would try it. I mean, you can see
Speaker 1: if you want to save these things, you know, just
Speaker 1: get the I've got an article up if you if
Speaker 1: you look at the if you look at my website
Speaker 1: and just search vhy, you should see the article that
Speaker 1: I did on recently on converting stuff. And I've been
Speaker 1: doing it for old home movies and it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: But the do you have a macro PC? I forget? Okay,
Speaker 1: So the thing to get is the rock SiO Easy
Speaker 1: Easy VHS to DVD I think it's called. And you know,
Speaker 1: you'll just need to connect your VCR to your computer
Speaker 1: and you can do it all. It all happens in
Speaker 1: real time though, so it's gonna take a while for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, all right, well I will try that
Speaker 3: and I will look on your website. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, have a great day. Amazon this week
Speaker 1: announced a new delivery system. So this is Amazon Scout.
Speaker 1: It looks like a little autonomous robot and it is
Speaker 1: a delivery robot, so it's real. It's happening. They're using
Speaker 1: it in a neighborhood north of Seattle, probably butchering the name,
Speaker 1: but it's called Snowhomish County, Washington, and this little electric
Speaker 1: delivery robot is very small. It looks like a wagon
Speaker 1: on wheels. It holds I don't know, it looks like
Speaker 1: it holds one package. And when it comes up to
Speaker 1: your house, I'm guessing it texts you or it somehow
Speaker 1: alerts you, and then the top pops open when you
Speaker 1: walk out, and you pick out your package and you
Speaker 1: go back on your merry way. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: questions here, So if you're not home, what does it
Speaker 1: do if you're you know, how does it know you're
Speaker 1: the person to pick up the package? How does it
Speaker 1: know you're not just some random stranger that's coming to
Speaker 1: pick up every package. But it looks interesting. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be testing it in this county in northern Washington, and
Speaker 1: if it works, we may see these devices on sidewalks
Speaker 1: across America. But the thing is all these companies are
Speaker 1: really trying to trying to make it cheaper to deliver packages.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look around in these neighborhoods, I've
Speaker 1: got people riding bikes in my neighborhood delivering all these
Speaker 1: Amazon packages. I mean, there's so many that they're delivering
Speaker 1: that it's gotten kind of crazy and just all these
Speaker 1: trucks they've got so Amazon, you know, obviously we know
Speaker 1: they're experimenting with the drones. Now they're trying out this
Speaker 1: little autonomous delivery robot. We'll see how it works in
Speaker 1: real life though, because it looks all nice. They shot
Speaker 1: the little promo video on the Universal back lot, you know,
Speaker 1: unlike that Wisteria Lane road. But we'll see how this
Speaker 1: works in the real neighborhood. So that's what I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see, with real people and real you know, dogs
Speaker 1: running around and sidewalks that are all messed up. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious. But if Amazon can deliver me stuff even faster,
Speaker 1: which they're doing a pretty good job right now, I'm
Speaker 1: all for it. Now let's take another call. We've got Arturo.
Speaker 1: What's up.
Speaker 4: I'm coming on regards to these discreet cloud services like
Speaker 4: Microsoft Azure. I think IBM's flavor is blue. I think
Speaker 4: it's what it's called where they help you to develop
Speaker 4: a software but kind of worried about after perhaps a
Speaker 4: certain point, then they start charging. Then you're at hostage,
Speaker 4: Like I get the impression like a hostage of Wow,
Speaker 4: I'm I have all this data in their cloud and
Speaker 4: that software, which I very much enjoyed, but I'm at
Speaker 4: a hostage at their prices.
Speaker 1: Right. That's kind of the way of the world right
Speaker 1: now with everything. I mean, this is you know, so
Speaker 1: here's the thing. So they're making it easy for you
Speaker 1: to develop on their platform, right, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: the beauty of it. Like you have this amazing opportunity
Speaker 1: where you can choose from all these different aws or
Speaker 1: like you said, Zuer, you know, any of these different
Speaker 1: platforms that you like, you can start, you know, doing
Speaker 1: whatever you want, building a business inside those. But what
Speaker 1: happens is, just like you said, the bigger you get,
Speaker 1: the more you're sort of locked in. And I kind
Speaker 1: of found this out, you know, in various ways. But
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the consumer level, something
Speaker 1: like Google Photos, people start storing their pictures in there
Speaker 1: for free. After a while, you're like, oh wait a second,
Speaker 1: Now that I've got twenty thousand, it's really tough to
Speaker 1: take those somewhere else, right. They call it locking. Same
Speaker 1: things happening here, same thing happens with me. With a
Speaker 1: lot of these services, they become really easy something as
Speaker 1: simple as like Mailchimp, you know, a service that lets
Speaker 1: you manage your mailing address right your mailing list. Well,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you've got eight ten thousand emails
Speaker 1: in there. You built up, you know, your templates and
Speaker 1: your emails that you send out regularly, and you've got
Speaker 1: all your analytics. And what you know is five dollars
Speaker 1: less a month going to make you switch to a
Speaker 1: different service. So this is kind of the way of
Speaker 1: the world, I think, And I don't know which, which
Speaker 1: one are you trying to build in and is that
Speaker 1: your main concern?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm with the Los Angeles Pool League and we
Speaker 4: are looking to possibly have a have a cloud where
Speaker 4: we can have the stats since things of that nature,
Speaker 4: and also these consolidated services. And if it's a nonprofit,
Speaker 4: I it's not profit organization, it's there. I presume these
Speaker 4: kind of questions are best with to ask those respected merchants,
Speaker 4: But just wondering if that may may also help in
Speaker 4: regards to the Los Angeles Fool League or any any
Speaker 4: non profit organization.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know what they're what they're you know
Speaker 1: set up is for nonprofits versus you know, if you're
Speaker 1: a for profit business, they may you know, have a
Speaker 1: separate tier or something like that. But I think you
Speaker 1: just have to weigh kind of like the the growth,
Speaker 1: like how long are you going to be with this?
Speaker 1: How much is it going to cost? Is it in
Speaker 1: the budget? And once you get to a level where
Speaker 1: it's starting to cost, you know, it does this grow exponentially?
Speaker 1: You know, Let's say you start using this and it's
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of people are on board, but
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it gets really popular whatever
Speaker 1: you're building and it's being used by a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Is that gonna you know, basically, is it gonna break
Speaker 1: your your budget? You know, if you have a budget
Speaker 1: at all. So I think those are the questions you
Speaker 1: kind of have to ask when you're searching these systems.
Speaker 1: But look in this day and age, it's all the same.
Speaker 1: We're getting we're getting faster access to more tools quickly,
Speaker 1: but the reality is there's always down the road, kind
Speaker 1: of that downside of the more you lean on something,
Speaker 1: the more you're kind of in it, and it's tough
Speaker 1: to get out. And I think, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: kind of the way we're seeing with all technology. So
Speaker 1: good question, but I think a lot of it Arturo
Speaker 1: comes down to just researching and seeing which of these
Speaker 1: services works the best and which one you think you
Speaker 1: can comfortably grow with. So yeah, people commenting inside the
Speaker 1: podcast on the live stream, Yes, we are the product.
Speaker 1: In fact, Facebook came out and said that the reason
Speaker 1: why they exist is because we hand over our data
Speaker 1: for free and they're able to sell ads across our data.
Speaker 1: And so that's the reality all this stuff online these days.
Speaker 1: The stuff that you get for free, you're getting it
Speaker 1: for free because the business is making money off of
Speaker 1: you in different ways. So if you're getting Google Photos
Speaker 1: for free, there's a reason why. Clearly they're using that
Speaker 1: to train their machine learning photos whatever. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're doing with it, but you know, as long
Speaker 1: as it's private and your photos are not being shared publicly,
Speaker 1: hopefully that's that's enough for you to say, Okay, I
Speaker 1: guess on the backside, if they're using my photos for
Speaker 1: machine learning, I don't know if they're doing that. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming they are, but you know, nothing is truly free.
Speaker 1: So Apple is releasing new beta of iOS twelve point two,
Speaker 1: and apparently, according to nine to five Mac, the new
Speaker 1: AirPods will allow you to use the hot phrase. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to say it here because I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna activate everyone. Hey bleary with the device in
Speaker 1: your ear, so the air pods themselves will do the recognition.
Speaker 1: So I've noticed when I'm out running, if I've got
Speaker 1: my phone in my pocket, I can say the hot
Speaker 1: word and it will actually respond, right because if I
Speaker 1: say it loud enough, my phone will hear it. But
Speaker 1: this will actually be where your AirPods will be able
Speaker 1: to use this new code word or hot word, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it. And we saw this demode
Speaker 1: at Apple, like I think it was WWDC or was
Speaker 1: it for the new phone. I think it was for
Speaker 1: the new iPhone, the new ten or ten R whatever
Speaker 1: phone it was. But they showed this girl running. They
Speaker 1: always show like a little kind of video before the event,
Speaker 1: you know, like a fun little video that Apple produces,
Speaker 1: and it showed a girl running and she had the
Speaker 1: AirPods in and she just said to them something you know,
Speaker 1: the code word, and it activated and everyone was like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, that's not a feature, And clearly it
Speaker 1: will be a feature in the new AirPods, so we
Speaker 1: are very close. They got an email from someone saying, hey,
Speaker 1: do I wait for the new AirPods because it's been
Speaker 1: a while. AirPods have been around for a while now.
Speaker 1: They're fantastic. One hundred and sixty dollars. They're not cheap.
Speaker 1: But what I like about them is they work very
Speaker 1: nicely across your iPhone, across your iPad, across the you know,
Speaker 1: any ecosystem of Apple products. But they also work really
Speaker 1: nicely with Android products as well. You're not gonna get
Speaker 1: as many features as you would on the Apple products,
Speaker 1: but they work pretty nicely. So I recommend that. My
Speaker 1: wife and I went after I got them, I said,
Speaker 1: you have to get these, and we went to the
Speaker 1: Apple store. We picked them out. She loved them. She
Speaker 1: we got to the checkout stand and when when my
Speaker 1: wife saw the thing, it was one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five dollars with tax. He was like, wait, what, you
Speaker 1: didn't tell me they cost this much? And I said,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love them, and sure enough, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's been a year, six months, whatever it's been, she
Speaker 1: absolutely loves them. Wears them at the gym, wears them
Speaker 1: basically at the gym, but just totally loves them. So
Speaker 1: I think you'll really like them, but new version coming out,
Speaker 1: So if you're thinking of buying them, maybe just think
Speaker 1: about you know, if you can hold off, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe another three months. I'm thinking March is when they'll
Speaker 1: launch the new ones. This story happened this week and
Speaker 1: the two stories actually two families said their Nest cams
Speaker 1: were hacked. And what happened was one story was it
Speaker 1: was the northern California family. They said that they all
Speaker 1: of a sudden heard through their nestcam reports of missiles
Speaker 1: being launched from North Korea to the US and to
Speaker 1: take cover. And so this family was clearly upset and
Speaker 1: they ran out of the house. They took their dog
Speaker 1: and their kid, you know, whatever they had, they took everything.
Speaker 1: They just went in their car and high tailed it out.
Speaker 1: Then the other family was in northern I think it
Speaker 1: was Washington State, and they were in Washington State and
Speaker 1: the same thing. They all of a sudden heard sounds
Speaker 1: coming from their camera, and you know, not the missile launch.
Speaker 1: But they said that the people actually talked to them
Speaker 1: through their camera and they said, oh, nice laptop. They
Speaker 1: saw the mom using her laptop, and the mom just
Speaker 1: freaked out and pulled the camera off. The wall or
Speaker 1: whatever pulled the cord out. But how does this happen?
Speaker 1: You know, we've got a lot of nestcams out there,
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of security cameras out there in general.
Speaker 1: But again, this is not so as I understand it,
Speaker 1: This hack was not at the system level of Nest, right,
Speaker 1: so nests did not actually kind of Nest did not
Speaker 1: get hacked. Usually what happens is the person's credentials are stolen.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna say I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: with both these cases. It seems like their credentials were stolen.
Speaker 1: You know, they had an easy username, easy password, and
Speaker 1: someone could have been a friend, could have been someone
Speaker 1: who just got a hold of it. It could have
Speaker 1: been a hacker just guessing. And this is what happened.
Speaker 1: So the advice I'm leaving you with is you have
Speaker 1: to again turn on two factor authentication and if you
Speaker 1: go inside the Nest app, Okay, let me bring it
Speaker 1: up here and I'll tell you exactly how to do this.
Speaker 1: So if you go into Nest, you go into settings,
Speaker 1: it's a little gear icon in the upper right hand corner. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you got to turn this on today then go
Speaker 1: into account and then go into manage account and then
Speaker 1: it says account security, and if it says password, you
Speaker 1: need to change it. So it says two step verification.
Speaker 1: So you tap there and you basically turn on the
Speaker 1: little flip switch that says two factor and now you
Speaker 1: add in your phone number. It will text you a
Speaker 1: confirmation code, and then every time you log in to
Speaker 1: your to your Nest app, it will ast for that
Speaker 1: confirmation code. This is essential. These things are in your house,
Speaker 1: so you want to make sure that you, you know, have
Speaker 1: these things protected as much as possible. Philip Brooks here
Speaker 1: says iPhone ten s Max Bluetooth and car doesn't always
Speaker 1: pair automatically like my iPhone seven plus did. Is there
Speaker 1: any fix for this, Philip? I notice in my car,
Speaker 1: same thing kind of happens. Sometimes it connects very quickly
Speaker 1: and automatically. Sometimes it doesn't. So I'm thinking it might
Speaker 1: be something with the last version of iOS. So they
Speaker 1: just came out with the new one twelve point one
Speaker 1: point three, so maybe that fixed it. But I would
Speaker 1: say the only other thing you can do to make
Speaker 1: sure that this is working properly is two things. Number One,
Speaker 1: go into your car and I would delete all the
Speaker 1: old phone phones that are paired to your car. So
Speaker 1: if you have some old phones, like you said, you
Speaker 1: upgraded a seven plus to a iPhone ten ten max
Speaker 1: tennis maximum guessing, so I would go in and delete
Speaker 1: your old phones from your car's bluetooth because those could
Speaker 1: be messing it up. The secondary thing I would do
Speaker 1: is you can reset all of your network settings on
Speaker 1: your phone. So if you go into general and then
Speaker 1: you go into reset and then it says reset network settings,
Speaker 1: And once you do that, it will clear all of
Speaker 1: your network settings, so your carrier settings, your Wi Fi settings,
Speaker 1: and your Bluetooth settings will all be taken back to factory,
Speaker 1: which means you will have to repair your phone to
Speaker 1: your car, but it may fix that. It may fix
Speaker 1: that issue. So that's what I usually do. But you know,
Speaker 1: start with just the car and delete your old phones
Speaker 1: that are paired and then see if that helps. And
Speaker 1: then if that doesn't help, I would reset your network settings,
Speaker 1: delete your phone off your car, you know, the current one,
Speaker 1: and then repair everything and see if that works. It
Speaker 1: should work. Usually the are pretty good these days, and
Speaker 1: the phones about just kind of It's funny because my
Speaker 1: brother and I. My brother was out from New Jersey,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about the differences between Android and iOS.
Speaker 1: And he had this nice, fancy rental car. He got
Speaker 1: a Mercedes. By the way, he rented a Toyota Corolla,
Speaker 1: and when he got to the rental car place, they
Speaker 1: gave him a Mercedes. And he's like, ah, are you
Speaker 1: sure this is my car? And they're like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is your car. And so he loved it. He had
Speaker 1: this great Mercedes. And we were talking about how when
Speaker 1: he with his OnePlus, it was not automatically connecting to
Speaker 1: the Bluetooth, like he would have to start his music
Speaker 1: every time he got into the car and connect the phone.
Speaker 1: And I said, that can't be. There's no way. So,
Speaker 1: of course, being the nerds we are, I took out
Speaker 1: my iPhone and I said, all right, well let me
Speaker 1: show you the iPhone. So let's pair that and see
Speaker 1: what happens. So we paired it, and sure enough, immediately
Speaker 1: when we turned on the car, the music would start
Speaker 1: and it would be playing off my phone. And so
Speaker 1: I said, all right, well something you know clearly this
Speaker 1: and Android versus iOS thing. And then we realized there
Speaker 1: was a setting in the car where you can have
Speaker 1: two things linked to it. You can have two phones.
Speaker 1: And so he was setting up his phone as a
Speaker 1: secondary device, and I said, well, let's try setting it
Speaker 1: up as the primary device. And sure enough we did,
Speaker 1: and next thing you knew, the android played the music
Speaker 1: as students he got into the car. So these cars,
Speaker 1: especially the newer ones, they have kind of an auto trigger.
Speaker 1: So when you get into the car, your car is
Speaker 1: telling the Bluetooth on your phone, hey, we see that
Speaker 1: you connected. Now let me give that message to the
Speaker 1: phone to play music. And my old car did not
Speaker 1: do this, which drove me nuts because that's the only
Speaker 1: feature I wanted. I just wanted my phone to play
Speaker 1: music or a podcast as soon as I got into
Speaker 1: the car, without all this like you know, moving around
Speaker 1: and pressing buttons and stuff. And so my new car
Speaker 1: does it, thankfully, and I really it's one of those
Speaker 1: like small features that really comes into hand. It really
Speaker 1: comes in handy. This was one of the most popular
Speaker 1: stories of twenty eighteen that I did at KTLA. It's
Speaker 1: about a new wireless carrier named Visible and this is
Speaker 1: Verizon's on the limited carrier's kind of a secret I
Speaker 1: call it this secret Plan. Because Verizon has this carrier
Speaker 1: it's called Visible. They own them, but they sell a plan.
Speaker 1: They only have one plan. It's forty bucks for unlimited everything,
Speaker 1: so you get unlimited data, you get unlimited voice. Basically
Speaker 1: it's unlimited. The only caveat is that the speed of
Speaker 1: your data is limited to just five megabits per second.
Speaker 1: So yes, Verizon network is super fast. It can handle
Speaker 1: much faster, but to be honest, most people don't need
Speaker 1: more than that. I do because I'm uploading, downloading, live streaming,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. But for the average person that's
Speaker 1: just checking their mail, you know, posting stuff to social media,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, you really don't need this super fast
Speaker 1: connection that Verizon offers. So if you want to save
Speaker 1: a bundle of money every month, definitely check out Visible.
Speaker 1: And Visible is kind of secretive. There's not much advertising
Speaker 1: about it. It's kind of word of mouth right now.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you what's new. So when I
Speaker 1: did the story, the only thing that Visible had was
Speaker 1: support for the iPhone. But now they did announce that
Speaker 1: they are supporting two Samsung Android devices. So if you
Speaker 1: have a Galaxy S nine or an S nine plus,
Speaker 1: you can now consider Visible and so for forty dollars
Speaker 1: a month, you literally get it all. You get unlimited everything.
Speaker 1: There's no throttling except like I said, your speed is
Speaker 1: limited to five, and they do do that like it's
Speaker 1: not like it's not a threat, like that's the way
Speaker 1: your speed is limited. I did test this, but it worked.
Speaker 1: We tried Netflix, we tried YouTube, we tried social media
Speaker 1: Instagram stories, we tried phone calls. Everything was great, and
Speaker 1: you're getting the full Verizon network, which is really cool.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking to save some money on your
Speaker 1: wireless bill, this really only works if you have one line,
Speaker 1: maybe two. I think that if you get into the
Speaker 1: two lines with Verizon, it's a little it might be
Speaker 1: cheaper to actually get the full plan from them. But
Speaker 1: if you're just one line and you want to save,
Speaker 1: you know, almost fifty dollars a month, I think that
Speaker 1: this is something to consider. I would love to have it.
Speaker 1: I keep wanting to switch my wife over. I keep
Speaker 1: kind of forgetting or putting it off because you do
Speaker 1: not get international. So not that we're going international very often,
Speaker 1: but the one time we do, my wife will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't use my phone because I don't have the
Speaker 1: international plan. So I'm basically paying fifty dollars a month
Speaker 1: extra on my wife's line so that she can one
Speaker 1: day travel outside the country and use her phone. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound very smart. I'm gonna have to switch over.
Speaker 1: Uber Rewards is now rolling out. This is Uber's new
Speaker 1: rewards program. Everyone has one these days. I just got
Speaker 1: it on my phone here in Los Angeles, but it's
Speaker 1: rolling out to various cities around the world. And Uber
Speaker 1: Rewards is your basic frequent flyer program, whatever type of
Speaker 1: rewards program. It's kind of inspired by the airlines, right.
Speaker 1: The more you take a ride with Uber, the better
Speaker 1: perks you get. I personally don't think the perks are
Speaker 1: that great, but still I love my loyalty programs. I'm obsessed.
Speaker 1: So I will play the game, and let me tell
Speaker 1: you about the different level You've got blue, Gold, Platinum,
Speaker 1: and Diamond. And so immediately when I joined, I immediately
Speaker 1: leveled up to gold because they're looking at your last
Speaker 1: six months of spending, and for gold you have to
Speaker 1: spend or you have to get five hundred points, and
Speaker 1: so five hundred points. It's kind of, of course, like
Speaker 1: all good frequent flyer programs. You can't just go points
Speaker 1: to dollars, right, so they make you do a lot
Speaker 1: of math in your head. But basically to get points,
Speaker 1: let me see here, one point for every dollar spent
Speaker 1: on uberpool and Uber eats, two points for every dollar
Speaker 1: spent on Uber X, and three points for every dollar
Speaker 1: spent on Premium. So let's say you only took Uber X,
Speaker 1: you'd have to spend two hundred and fifty dollars to
Speaker 1: get gold. Let's say you only took Premium, it'd be five.
Speaker 1: You know, you'd almost spend like maybe one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars to get to get Uber gold. Now,
Speaker 1: Platinum is twenty five hundred points. Diamond is seventy five
Speaker 1: hundred points. So if you look at diamond and you're
Speaker 1: only taking Uber X, you need to spend on almost
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars on Uber in six months to get
Speaker 1: to that Diamond level. And yeah, the points they kind
Speaker 1: of reset every six months. So what do you get
Speaker 1: for gold? Not much? Five dollars rewards cash that's what
Speaker 1: you get every time you spend five hundred points, flexible
Speaker 1: cancelations for the gold and priority support. Big deal Platinum,
Speaker 1: you actually get some pretty good things. The best I
Speaker 1: see here is that you get price protection between your
Speaker 1: two favorite places. So let's say you actually use Uber
Speaker 1: to commute to work. You can say I want price
Speaker 1: protection on that route, and every time you take that
Speaker 1: route you will pay the same price, which is kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Or I guess maybe not the same exact price,
Speaker 1: but you won't pay surge pricing. So I like that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're Diamond, this is the access, this is the
Speaker 1: level I want. You get priority pickup at airports, complimentary upgrades.
Speaker 1: So that's really cool. Let's say you order an Uber
Speaker 1: X and you get an Uber Black, or you get
Speaker 1: an Uber Select whatever. But that happens to me sometimes.
Speaker 1: It used to happen a lot more. It doesn't happen
Speaker 1: as often any more. But if you're Diamond, it would
Speaker 1: happen a lot and then you get special access to
Speaker 1: highly rated drivers. Now here's where I have a problem
Speaker 1: with Uber because when I first went to the you know,
Speaker 1: the first party I ever went to where Uber picked
Speaker 1: me up, and it was kind of part of the
Speaker 1: deal of the party. I remember the Uber folks telling
Speaker 1: me that part of the magic of Uber was that
Speaker 1: they were matching the best rated passengers with the best
Speaker 1: rated drivers, and that makes a lot of sense, right,
Speaker 1: if you're a great passenger, you deserve the best driver. Well,
Speaker 1: apparently they've stopped doing that for the average person, and
Speaker 1: I've definitely noticed that Uber because the rides I've been
Speaker 1: in have been very hit or miss, and I'm a
Speaker 1: big Uber taker. I'm almost exclusively taking Uber on the
Speaker 1: weekends because I don't like to drive so and I've
Speaker 1: even taken it to work super early in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing how the fabric of our world has
Speaker 1: changed thanks to Uber. Right, you can go anywhere, and
Speaker 1: I've taken this in cities around the world and it's
Speaker 1: just as easy as it is here. The only time
Speaker 1: I did run into a problem was in China because
Speaker 1: I was in a super duper crowded square and they
Speaker 1: were trying to pick me up and the guy kept
Speaker 1: calling me speaking Chinese and I could not answer him.
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to say, like where I was
Speaker 1: or whatever, and it was too crowded where GPS just
Speaker 1: would not work. So I did have to take a
Speaker 1: standard cab at that point because I just you know,
Speaker 1: hailed one and I took it back to to my
Speaker 1: convention center that I was going to. But otherwise Uber
Speaker 1: has been great. I do think that it is very
Speaker 1: hit or miss, which is understandable because you know you're
Speaker 1: talking Uber. They have a lot of drivers out there,
Speaker 1: a lot of people just trying it out, just doing
Speaker 1: it and then stopping. I like when I get the
Speaker 1: guys that are the what do I call lifetime drivers
Speaker 1: right that they're they're basically making a living off of it,
Speaker 1: and they're incentivized to have a nice ride, so they
Speaker 1: keep their car nice, they keep the little mints in
Speaker 1: the back, They do a lot of nice stuff to
Speaker 1: keep everyone happy. Those are the guys I like in gals.
Speaker 1: I've had a couple of female drivers, but mainly it's men.
Speaker 1: But there you have it. So Uber rewards beyond the lookout.
Speaker 1: When you open up your app, Netflix is now letting
Speaker 1: you share your favorite shows to Instagram Stories. And this
Speaker 1: is just a small thing, but I really like it.
Speaker 1: So Netflix now when you press that little share button
Speaker 1: on the iOS app will bring up a special share menu,
Speaker 1: not your standard share menu on the iPhone, but you
Speaker 1: can now share it to Instagram Stories. And what's cool
Speaker 1: about this is you can share let's say you're watching
Speaker 1: a show on Netflix, and I would mention a show,
Speaker 1: but to be honest, I don't watch anything on Netflix,
Speaker 1: so I can't even can't even mention a show that
Speaker 1: I know of on Netflix right now. But if you
Speaker 1: were watching a show that you fell in love with,
Speaker 1: you could share that using the Share menu to your
Speaker 1: Instagram Stories. And if you've used this functionality on Spotify,
Speaker 1: it's very similar. So what they do is they make
Speaker 1: a beautiful piece of artwork that's shared to your stories
Speaker 1: that now tells your friends that you're watching this show,
Speaker 1: and it's really cool. It's a small feature, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun. And Netflix knows clearly. Netflix has the
Speaker 1: word of mouth down. But I think that if you
Speaker 1: find a little little nugget on there that you really like,
Speaker 1: like a documentary or whatever. I mean, even if you
Speaker 1: just want to share that you're watching a show, this
Speaker 1: is the new way to do it because Instagram Stories
Speaker 1: is where it's at. So try it out. I don't
Speaker 1: have it on MyPhone just yet, my producer does. But
Speaker 1: all you have to do is open up the Netflix
Speaker 1: app on iPhone. Right now, they're saying they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to do it on Android, but right now it's just iPhone.
Speaker 1: You press some you know info on the show or
Speaker 1: you know, just get to the show page that you're on,
Speaker 1: and then you'll see my list rate and share. You
Speaker 1: tap share and when you have it, you'll see a
Speaker 1: new share screen that will say Instagram Stories. If you
Speaker 1: see the standard iPhone share screen, you don't have it yet.
Speaker 1: So I don't have it yet. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: have this. And let's see, do I recognize The first
Speaker 1: thing that comes up on mine is the Ted Bundy
Speaker 1: tapes Friends from college Versace Fire. Oh, that's what I
Speaker 1: gotta watch. Everyone's talking about this fire Festival documentary. I
Speaker 1: gotta watch that on Netflix. So I'll carve out some
Speaker 1: time one of these days. And finally, let's end with
Speaker 1: this themacindex dot Com. So I travel around the world
Speaker 1: for my job, and I'm always wondering, like, is it
Speaker 1: a better deal to buy an iPhone in Japan or
Speaker 1: a MacBook in you know, Utah? Oh wait, that's no,
Speaker 1: that's still here, just kidding, or like a MacBook in Italy. Right,
Speaker 1: So this is a new website called the macindex dot Com.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've ever heard of something
Speaker 1: called the Big Mac Index, but it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the price of a big Mac around the world, so
Speaker 1: you can get an idea of different economies. But this guy,
Speaker 1: this developer, I'm not even gonna try to say his name,
Speaker 1: Juafique rod Zuwan, Malaysian software developer. It basically just shows
Speaker 1: you how much the Apple products cost around the world.
Speaker 1: So if you're interested in an iPhone, it'll say, here's
Speaker 1: how much it is in these cities. And if let
Speaker 1: me just bring up the website real quick, so the
Speaker 1: Mac index IDx dot com. And so if I look
Speaker 1: at the main website, you can see kind of the
Speaker 1: different products that he has. And so for the iPhone tens,
Speaker 1: the cheapest place to buy is Japan for fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one American dollars. And then if you go
Speaker 1: down all the way to the end of his list,
Speaker 1: Brazil is the most expensive at twenty six hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety one dollars. So twenty six ninety one. Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 1: So don't buy an iPhone in Brazil if you can
Speaker 1: help it. So, now if I was going to Norway,
Speaker 1: I could get the iPhone TENNS Max smart battery case
Speaker 1: for the cheapest. It's one hundred and twenty two dollars
Speaker 1: in Norway and here in the US it is one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one dollars, So I'd have to fly
Speaker 1: to Norway to save twenty bucks, which I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 1: But hey, I'm just throwing it out there. But this
Speaker 1: is a great little website. Just it's just kind of
Speaker 1: fun to see and if you happen to be in
Speaker 1: a different country, like it looks like Japan is rocking
Speaker 1: a lot of these lists. In Japan. AirPods are the
Speaker 1: cheapest at one hundred and fifty five bucks in the US,
Speaker 1: like I said, with tax air pods, yep, I was right.
Speaker 1: See I said earlier, I said one seventy five, one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four dollars with tax, So they're saying
Speaker 1: an average of ten percent sales tax. So I think
Speaker 1: that's yeah, what I about paid for those. But anyway,
Speaker 1: kind of a fun little website to check out, the
Speaker 1: macindex dot com since you guys are listening to the
Speaker 1: podcast and you'd like to hear my little stories about
Speaker 1: life as a news reporter. So this was kind of
Speaker 1: fun this week. You know, I wrote the book one
Speaker 1: hundred and one handy tech tips for the iPhone, and
Speaker 1: it's been great, It's been fantastic. I thank you all
Speaker 1: for purchasing it. I thank you all for actually I
Speaker 1: thank you all for actually reviewing it now on Amazon.
Speaker 1: You guys are definitely leaving some great reviews, so thank
Speaker 1: you for that. But here's the thing. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the past they asked me to like
Speaker 1: speak at these things, and you know, sometimes I say yes,
Speaker 1: sometimes they say no. But the other day, you know,
Speaker 1: I got a question or an email from the Rotary
Speaker 1: Club over in Camera Rio, California, and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: would you mind speaking to our little club? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I know, it's only going to be like
Speaker 1: twenty people or thirty people or maybe fifty. And yeah,
Speaker 1: when I got there, it was a small group of people.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you I had so much fun
Speaker 1: talking to these people and talking about tips from my
Speaker 1: book and just my career and all this stuff. And
Speaker 1: then at the end, now that I have a book,
Speaker 1: I can actually sell it, and I got to say
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. Of course I want
Speaker 1: to give my book away, right, but it took a
Speaker 1: lot of work and to print a physical book. You
Speaker 1: can't just give it away because I'd be losing money.
Speaker 1: But it was really fun, So I guess my point
Speaker 1: is it was great, and I love the fact that
Speaker 1: I now have something to really talk about, which is
Speaker 1: the book and some of the tips from the book
Speaker 1: and showing people the tips. But also if you want
Speaker 1: me to speak at your little event, go ahead and
Speaker 1: call me, email me hello at richontech dot tv and
Speaker 1: we can talk about getting me there. Obviously, I think
Speaker 1: at minimum, maybe forty people's probably a good amount. I
Speaker 1: think they had about forty at the at the event
Speaker 1: for the Rotary Club. But it's great. I'll do other
Speaker 1: rotary clubs. And it was just it was very intimate.
Speaker 1: You know, I've spoken at like large corporate events. There's
Speaker 1: no back and forth, right, You're just speaking to a
Speaker 1: group of maybe five thousand people. That was probably the
Speaker 1: biggest I ever did. But you know, if you're talking smaller,
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun because you get to do that
Speaker 1: back and forth. And I've done a lot of panels,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's not always about me, it's about
Speaker 1: just kind of monitoring the panel. So you know, this
Speaker 1: was definitely a new experience. It was kind of fun,
Speaker 1: and I'll do it again. So hello at richon tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. All right, so I've got some of the
Speaker 1: folks on the live stream and they're asking me questions. Here.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, we've got Tracy Cortes saying, next doorbell
Speaker 1: versus Ring? Do you think Ring will ever pair with
Speaker 1: the Google Hub? Okay, Nest versus Nest versus Ring. So
Speaker 1: I like the Ring doorbell. They're kind of the market leader.
Speaker 1: I still like them for the doorbell because they're so simple.
Speaker 1: You can literally connect a ring to any doorbell and door.
Speaker 1: You don't have to wire if you don't want you.
Speaker 1: They have obviously different levels. I like that I've got
Speaker 1: the Ring at home. I do like the Nest because,
Speaker 1: like you said, the integration with Google. But I still
Speaker 1: think Nest is not as established as Ring when it
Speaker 1: comes to their doorbell. So I still think that the
Speaker 1: Ring is kind of like the gold standard of doorbells.
Speaker 1: That's their entire business, right, I mean, the number one
Speaker 1: part of their business. So if you have to think
Speaker 1: about they're working on their doorbell and making it better
Speaker 1: every single day of their life. I think Nest is
Speaker 1: probably doing similar, you know, but they're a much bigger company.
Speaker 1: They've got thermostats, they've got other smart home devices, they've
Speaker 1: got cameras. So the doorbell, I'm sure they have a
Speaker 1: great team working on it. But Ring, it's like that's
Speaker 1: their bread and butter. So I say stick with Ring
Speaker 1: for now. Yeah, I wish I had the Google Hub integration,
Speaker 1: but I think it works pretty darn well for what
Speaker 1: it is. Let's see, do you have to be paid? Oh,
Speaker 1: Toby says, you have to be paid in order to
Speaker 1: go to an event and speak. It's different every time.
Speaker 1: I mean, if here's my rule of thumb. My rule
Speaker 1: of thumb is if it's a corporate event or someone's
Speaker 1: making money on the event, you know, I would like
Speaker 1: a stipend to be there, right because my time is
Speaker 1: not free. But if it's something like the Rotary Club, No,
Speaker 1: they didn't pay me, and I was very happy. Now
Speaker 1: I did sell my books, which was kind of fun,
Speaker 1: and I never you know, I never did that before.
Speaker 1: Usually I speak, you know, But here's the thing everything
Speaker 1: is is I take it case by case basis right.
Speaker 1: I've spoken at huge events where they've flown me out
Speaker 1: to Europe and I've spoken and I've spoken at little,
Speaker 1: tiny schools, and you know, I don't mind. I love
Speaker 1: everything that comes my way. I will take a look
Speaker 1: at see what it's all about, and make a decision
Speaker 1: based on what I think. Sometimes I don't want to
Speaker 1: do it, sometimes I do. Sometimes I really want to
Speaker 1: do it, And so I don't even care if you
Speaker 1: pay me. You know nothing, but you know, it all depends.
Speaker 1: Vicky said, someone told me my Internet is too slow
Speaker 1: for ring doorbell? Is that correct? Your Internet is probably
Speaker 1: not too slow, but your Wi Fi is probably really bad.
Speaker 1: So unless you have DSL or dial up internet, that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that's too slow for ring. But Ring
Speaker 1: can work on a pretty slow connection by today's standards.
Speaker 1: I mean, Internet connections are pretty good most of the time.
Speaker 1: The problem that people have with their ring doorbell or
Speaker 1: anything these security cameras really has to do with their
Speaker 1: Wi Fi device, so their Wi Fi router. And that's
Speaker 1: why I recommend these new mesh routers from the likes
Speaker 1: of you know, from the likes of EO or Google
Speaker 1: Wi Fi. Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for watching on Facebook Live and chatting
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Speaker 1: just look in the show notes to everything I talk
Speaker 1: about here. Thanks so much for everyone, To everyone who
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Speaker 1: I will tell you. When I spoke to those folks
Speaker 1: at the Rotary Club just watching their face light up
Speaker 1: when I show them a few of the tips for
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Speaker 1: we all demo. We took out our phones and we
Speaker 1: did it together. It was really cool and it was
Speaker 1: so fun to see that reaction. I feel like that
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