WEBVTT - Google Pixel 6a gives a lot for less 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.520 Pixel six a review. Netflix tries to squeeze more out 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.680 of subscribers. Amazon buys a doctor's office, well lots of them. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.360 Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on on? Rich 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.080 Demiro And this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.120 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.159 know about. It's also the place where I answer the 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.440 questions you sent me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.919 Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. Hopefully 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.320 you are having a fantastic day looking forward to a 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.560 fantastic next day or weekend. Whenever you happen to listen 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.199 to this show. I don't know. You could listen to 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.519 it in a year from now. You could be listening 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:52.480 from the future or the past. Who knows. All right, 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:56.800 So what is going on? Man? So much to talk about? 0:00:58.200 --> 0:00:59.840 So many things? So last night I was out I 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.000 kind of late for a school night. I know I 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.800 do it sometimes only for really good reasons. But last 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.840 night we were out at this event. It was a 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.440 pizza making event where they, you know, have these pizza 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:13.200 ovens that are cool and techie and all that. So 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.440 I did a segment, but the person who was cooking 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.200 the pizzas is this guy named Chris Bianco, and if 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.039 you're not familiar with him, he's kind of a big 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.399 deal in the pizza making space. I mean, he's a 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.400 big deal in the chef space all that kind of stuff. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.679 And so it's this is what I think is so 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:37.080 interestingly fascinating about being a reporter like I am because 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.760 I know this guy Chris, and this has happened plenty 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.240 of times, you know, follow him. Wanted to go to 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.240 his restaurant in Phoenix, which I didn't make it too, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.080 but he just opened one up in LA But it's 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:48.800 like one of these things where like I never expect 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.440 to meet this person that I really think is cool, 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.680 and then here I am interviewing and making pizza with 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.920 this guy you know last night. Just amazing fascinating. This 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.320 happens over and over and over, and this is one 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.080 of the things I always talk about which is so 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.840 fun about being a journalist is that you are put 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.520 into situations that average people are not put into. You 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.280 are talking to people that average people don't get access to, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.440 and you get just access to things that you know, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:21.280 sometimes regular people don't get access to. That's really fun. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.760 And your job is to take that and to kind 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.320 of bring that experience to the people watching or listening 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.600 or reading. And you know, I hold that to a 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.280 It is very near and dear in my heart, the 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.880 fact that I am entrusted to do that. And if 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.440 you didn't like it, you know, I don't know, Like 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.560 it's definitely like I see, It's one of these things 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.280 that it just keeps me going because it's so much 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.200 fun to have that honor and privilege. And I get it. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.120 I'm just a regular person. The people I'm talking to 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.519 are just regular people. We're all just human. But it's 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.240 just a really cool kind of like I don't know, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.840 like I really there's a reason, like the answers that 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.200 he was giving yesterday about making pizza or just so 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.519 fun and interesting. So anyway, I'll have that story soon 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.880 on KTLA. But the other thing I want to talk 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:10.960 about is I'm always trying to make this show less 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.480 I guess, more green, you know. And so in the 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.080 past I've tried things where I've used my iPad to 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.400 do the show. I have used the web to do it, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.280 like just looking at you know, things, But this time 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.760 I actually resubscribe to Evernote and I tweeted this a 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.200 couple of minutes ago. But I resubscribe to Evernoe and 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.960 so I'm using that today to produce the show. And 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.200 it's pretty amazing because just by you know, subscribing to 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.480 Evernote again, I am now saving a ton of paper 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.200 by not having to print this stuff out. We'll see 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.920 if the shows is good, but I don't know, we'll see, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.720 But it's just one of these things that it's like 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.520 a small change that really makes a big difference. So 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.840 if I'm stumbling a little bit more than typical on 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.840 the show, that's why, because I'm saving the Earth in 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.040 the creation of this show. All right, let's get to 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.720 the first topic of the show, which is the Google 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.119 Pixel six A. If you're watching on Instagram right now, 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.160 you see it. It is right there. Google Pixel six 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.280 A is Google's least expensive smartphone. It is four hundred 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.920 and fifty dollars and it is a phenomenal device at 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.680 that price. So what do I like about it? This 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.520 is the Sage green color, which is really cool. What 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.360 I love about it is the price four hundred and 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.320 fifty dollars. So many people come to me. Now you 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.240 may sit there and say, oh, rich, Come on, everyone 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.000 gets an iPhone everyone Not everyone wants an iPhone, right, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.200 And so the reality is there are a lot of 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.120 people out there. There are a lot of people that 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.200 want different options, and one of those options is a 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.760 different kind of phone that is a little bit less 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.520 expensive than an iPhone, and the Pixel Phone is that phone. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.560 So the Pixel six A. You know, what do you get? 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.560 You get a really good size phone. I love the 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.320 size of this phone. You get excellent software, you get 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.080 an amazing camera. The Pixel camera is known to be 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.040 really really good, and I can vouch for that because 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.680 I've used it many times. The fingerprint reader a little 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.760 bit sluggish, a little bit slow, and the refresh rate 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.000 on this phone is definitely not the highest, and so 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.599 it does feel a little bit more sluggish on the screen. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.200 It's tough to explain because the screen can feel sluggish. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.320 But the phone is actually really fast. It's got the 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.599 latest processor in it, Google's tensor processor, which is really good. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.359 So it's a fast phone. I was editing video on 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.760 this phone and it's just phenomenal. But the screen itself 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.080 kind of the things that move on the screen are 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.839 a little bit slower than you'd expect. Which is kind 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.360 of weird because it's the thing that you probably won't notice, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.560 but I do because my current phone is a much 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.120 faster refresh rate, and so you do notice those kind 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.520 of things when it comes to the camera. Excellent for 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.960 everyday shots. No optical zoom, wide angles. A little bit 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.080 less wide than some other flagship phones, but that's fine. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.120 There's this fun feature called Magic Eraser, which will erase 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.159 random people and objects out of your photos. There's another 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.599 new feature called Camouflage, which will kind of let's say 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.000 you took a picture of your kid and there's like 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.599 a big cooler in front of it, or some sort 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:20.040 of big distracting object. You can just basically circle around 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.320 that object and it will make that object sort of 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.920 blend in with the screen. It will make it less vibrant. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.159 Let's see. Biggest downside, like I said, is just the 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.239 fingerprint and the sluggish screen. Otherwise, this is a really 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.200 really good phone. Now let me just say one thing 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.120 about it. Though. It's four hundred and fifty dollars right, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.760 which sounds pretty cheap. But the Pixel six, which is 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.600 this phone's older sibling, which has slightly better specs, or 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.359 I should say better specs. That phone was on sale 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.200 for four hundred and ninety nine dollars on Prime Day. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.919 So basically, I'm telling you that this phone should be 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.520 at a target price of three hundred and ninety nine 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.159 dollars on sale at some point before the end of 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.920 the year. I'm expecting this to be that price before 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.880 the holidays because of the fact that it's older sibling, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.640 which sells for closer to I think it's six hundred dollars. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.960 It was let's say it's four ninety ninety five ninety 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.000 six ninety nine, so it was two hundred dollars off. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.600 So my point is, this is a great phone. Keep 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.040 your eye on it. No need to purchase it right now, 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.800 but just put it in you know, put it in 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.480 the back of your head, put it in your Amazon cart, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.920 or just look for kind of deals on this phone. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.000 At three ninety nine. I think at four point fifty 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.760 it's still a good deal. But three ninety nine I 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.160 think is still a pretty good deal too, So just 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:42.160 watch for that price drop. All right, let's get to 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:48.320 the first question of the show. Victoria says, is there 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.600 a way to stop or curb spam emails that are 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.320 flooding my inbox and junk. Thanks appreciate any help. Victoria 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:01.080 love your segments on Fox forty. Fox forty in Sacramento. Yes, uh, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.920 Fox forty has been a great station over the year, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.160 so thanks for watching there in Sacramento. I'm actually going 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.080 to visit Sacramento for the first time very soon, so 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.000 I'm excited about that. All right. So stopping or curbing 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.760 spam emails, Number one rule, do not unsubscribe. Do not 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.720 interact with any spam email. If you get a spam email, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.920 do not. I would rarely even open it, But if 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.720 it you know, in the rare chance that it comes 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.960 to your inbox, I would not open that email. Delete 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.840 it immediately. Do not press unsubscribe in a spam email. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.160 That will just cue the spammers to let you know 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.880 that they've got a live email address and they will 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.840 actually send more spam. So don't do that. If it's 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.320 a legitimate spam email, like something from Macy's or Home Depot, 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.079 those aren't really spam. You've actually signed up for those 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.760 at some point and now you just continue to get emails. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.040 So you can safely unsubscribe to a company that sends 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.320 you an email that is a legitimate company or a 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.360 service or something like that. But if it's an unsolicited thing, 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.200 do not unsubscribe. You don't want to do that. To 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.760 curb these things, what I would do is look up 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.760 how to not load remote images. You can do this 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.920 on Apple, you can do this on Gmail, you can 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.480 do it. You should be able to do it on 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.600 most email providers. But you want to turn off remote 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.560 load images. What does that do? So a lot of 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:31.400 times these email spammers will put little pixels or little 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.240 pixel It's like a tiny, tiny image in your email 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.880 that you may not even see or any image in there. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.880 And when you load that image, it cues to them 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.360 that this is a good email because that image was loaded. 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.760 If it's never loaded, they don't know that you actually 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:51.560 opened it. So I would say that definitely turn off 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:56.520 remote image loading. Turn off remote image loading. Just google that. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:01.800 Plus like you know, Gmail, Windows Mail, whatever. Disable automatic 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.679 image loading is what a lot of these providers call it. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.840 But again, once you do that, these providers will not 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.559 be able to tell that you open their email, even 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.400 if you didn't interact with it in any other way. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.240 So definitely turn that off. It's gonna be a little 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.560 bit of an annoyance because every email now will not 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.400 have images by default, but I do it for all 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.679 of my emails, and you can turn it on per email, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.440 or you can turn it off, turn it on for 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.920 the entire sender. So it'll say at the top of 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.440 a new email, it'll say turn on images for this 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.080 email or all emails from this provider. So definitely do 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.320 that I get. I'm honestly, I don't even think I 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.280 get any spam at this point, like maybe once in 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.120 a while, and if I do, I'm very surprised that 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.680 it comes through because it just doesn't really happen as much. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.680 When it does, I'm like, oh wow, I can't believe it. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.520 There's more spam. All right, good question, Thanks for watching. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.600 All right, let's get to the next topic of the day. Samsung. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.280 Samsung says they have sold well this is the weird thing. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.360 At first I thought that it said they sold ten 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:13.079 million foldables last year, but now I'm reading it again 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.800 and it says last year, we saw almost ten million 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:20.600 foldable smartphones shipped worldwide. So I'm not sure that they 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.080 sold ten million or the industry sold ten million, because 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.240 there are other companies that make foldable phones. The first 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.720 time I the first time I ever saw a foldable screen. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.440 I was at CS and it was just it was 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.439 pure magic. And again, this is why I love my job. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.520 I mean, I'm hands on with this thing that you 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.719 just my eyes and my brain and my body had 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.160 never experienced before. And I'm sitting there and I take 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.600 a screen and I just fold it in half. How 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.320 wild is that? I just totally amazing. And so we 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.400 did a little This is when I was starting to 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.600 This is when I was just starting to do like 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.080 reels and stuff on Instagram. Don't even think they were 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.480 called that back then, but I did a little video 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.880 showing that, and it, you know, kind of went viral 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.719 and it was just so cool because people had never 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.720 seen the screen, like an LCD screen or LED screen, 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.839 whatever you want to call it. Folding in half. Now 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.760 it's commonplace. Samsung says it's becoming even more commonplace. It's 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:16.160 just been three years since since they introduced the foldable phone, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.240 and their first one was kind of a little bit 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.560 of a problem, right. The problem was that the screen 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.120 was kind of if it got a little piece of 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.520 dust behind the screen, the whole thing went bad. So 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.120 they figured that out for sure. Now they're shipping two 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.040 phones that are really good, the Galaxy Fold the Galaxy Flip. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.440 Seventy percent of people choose the Flip over the Fold. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.800 The Flip is the smaller phone. It literally looks like 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.560 this except imagine it looks like a standard smartphone, except 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.439 it just literally folds in half. The Fold is kind 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.760 of a bigger phone. It folds almost like outward. And 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.080 so one of them folds up and down top to bottom. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.440 One folds left to right, and when you open up 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.160 the fold, it basically looks like a tablet screen. And 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.880 that's much more for productivity seekers. And they say that 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.319 seventy percent of people choose the Flip and then thirty 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.960 percent choose the Fold. Now, the reason why Samsung's saying 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.680 all this is because on August tenth, they're having a 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.520 new event, and in that event, they will show off 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.640 their upgrades to the Fold and the Flip, which I 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.880 expect to be better cameras. I don't know if they're 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.480 gonna make them thinner or lighter. Maybe they'll get you know, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.120 a little bit of increases in those areas, but I 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.640 think that's gonna be tough. But I think the main 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.640 takeaway from these phones last year is that the cameras 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.920 were good, they just weren't as good as the flagship. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.520 So hopefully we'll see better cameras because that would push 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.360 more people to get these, because you're not sacrificing the 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.000 camera to get this cool foldable form factor. I love 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.360 the Galaxy Flip. In fact, I would probably use that 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.160 as my daily driver, except the camera just wasn't up 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.720 to par with what I needed on my phone on 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.959 a daily basis. So again, August tenth Unpacked will be 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.360 a This will be a virtual event, so it's not 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.360 in person. I can't go to this thing, but I 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.800 will get the phones hopefully and be able to test 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.760 those out soon. The other thing is if you're even 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.000 thinking that, even even considering that you might get one 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.920 of these phones, go to Samsung's website and you just 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.400 put in your email address and you get a two 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.240 hundred dollars reserve credit, so one hundred dollars off the phone, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.760 then one hundred dollars up to one hundred dollars off accessory. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.120 So I feel like that's a pretty good deal just 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.600 for putting in your email address. You don't there's no obligation, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.320 it's not like reserving a Tesla or anything. It's you're 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.240 just putting in your email address, and if you do 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.600 purchase it on pre order, you'll get this really good deal. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.960 All right. A lot of questions coming through on the Instagram. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.520 G Baxter six ninety five says, well, they have software 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.360 upgrades on August tenth for the S twenty two Ultra. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.080 I don't know. I mean, the S twenty two Ultra 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.160 has been getting regular software updates. That thing has been 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:02.200 phenomenal with the upgrade cycle with the the software. I 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.960 think Samsung is just doing a really great job with 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.080 software updates to kind of keep these phones fresh. The 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.880 big update that we're expecting is called one UI. I 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.800 think it's five point zero now at this point, and 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:18.080 that's the entire kind of the entire interface is going 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.240 to get a refresh. They haven't said when, but it's 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.520 happening at some point, so stand the lookout. They'll probably 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.240 show off some of those things when they're showing off 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.440 the new phones next month, all right. Doug Sandra says, hey, Rich, 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.880 I belong to a group of seven in a text, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.560 some iPhone users and some Android users. If I like 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.280 a text and I read it. If I like a 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.200 text that I read and I add a heart to it, 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.720 it repeats the whole text again instead of just showing 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.360 the original text with the heart. Any idea is about 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.920 this dilemma. Thank you Sandy, sent for my iPhone. Yes, Sandy, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.440 this is a great example of the disconnect between iPhone 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.960 and Android. So what you're doing is using a proprietary 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.960 feature inside I message or messages on the iPhone called reactions. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.000 And there are a couple of reactions. I would go 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.280 through them right now, but my phone is in use. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.280 But one of them is like a thumbs up, one 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.720 is a heart, one is a haha, and there's a couple. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.520 More So, when you press and hold an I message 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.080 and leave one of those reactions, an I message device 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.280 aka an iPhone or an iPad or a maccomputer on 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.880 the other end can interpret that reaction and show it 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.040 as a little tiny heart or a ha haa on 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:39.760 top of your message. But when an Android gets that reaction, 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.280 it doesn't know what to do, and so it is 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:49.200 sent through as a Sandy liked and then whatever your 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.320 message was. This happens all the time, and so the 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.440 reality about this is that this is a proprietary feature 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.920 on Apple. Again. I've talked about this in the past, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:04.280 but Apple I Message. That's a proprietary system and Apple 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.639 doesn't have to make that work with Android. It'd be 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.479 nice if they did, and I think they really should 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.080 because many people here in the US use I Message. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.800 People outside the US could care less about I Message. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.000 Nobody outside the US uses I Message. Yes, it's done, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.199 but it is not common. They use WhatsApp, they use 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:27.000 Facebook Messenger, they use a whole host of things, but 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.800 they do not care about I Message. I Message here 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.399 in the US is number one. It is what it 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.160 is the standard of messaging for some reason, and it's 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.000 a proprietary system that does not work on all platforms, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.520 which in my mind is a big old I don't 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.919 like that I use I Message because everyone I know 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.159 is on it, and it's a very convenient way to 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.240 send things, and if you send a picture through text, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.600 it looks horrible. Now, the rest of phones in the 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:01.640 world use something called RCS. RCS is basically I Message, 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:06.080 but a standard that every phone can use, and Apple 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.679 has refused and decided to not accept that standard on 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.320 their iPhones. Being very clear about this because what Apple's 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.200 choosing to do is basically, give you a feature that's 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.119 really cool, but it's proprietary and it doesn't work on 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.200 any other device except their devices. It's amazing, it works great, 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.920 but it would be nice if Apple said, you know what, 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.400 let's either give I Message to the world as an 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.920 app that you can download and use with your friends, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.680 or let's also accept this other way of texting, which 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.639 is called RCS, which would enable all of those iPhone 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.560 I message features, but for every phone on Android and iOS. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.560 So my point is, I guess all of this is 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.760 to say that yes, this is just an iPhone thing. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.520 That's why your Android friends see it. It makes Android 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.240 users annoyed, It annoys the iPhone users, it gets people 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.439 to go to iPhone I guess I don't know. But 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.960 on the flip side, Google has recognized this little problem 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.040 that you speak of, and in the latest version of 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.239 the Messages app. So this is not this is an 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.520 app you would have to download, It's called Messages and 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.360 it's from Google. They take that little heart and they 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.879 translate it into the actual reaction on the other side 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.000 on Android because they realize that this message is coming 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.159 through that is kind of annoying. And so that's what 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.239 they do. So if you download the messages app, you 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.359 can get that to work. But Sandra, you're on an iPhone, 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.040 so that's actually not going to work on your end. 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.760 This would only happen on the other person's end if 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.040 they adopt that messaging program. I know, very complicated and 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:40.960 would all be solved. Like I got my whole family 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.360 to download Telegram, and it's been amazing because guess what, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.920 I don't have to deal with a couple of people 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.119 that use Android in my family, a couple of people 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.200 that use iPhone. We are all on the same playing field. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.760 If I send a giant video through it looks the 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.840 same on everyone's phone, whether you're using iPhone or Android. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.840 If someone sends a picture, it works a if someone 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.520 switches devices, it's all the same. So this is the 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.399 kind of stuff we could have if Apple did not 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.399 decide to be so proprietary with their I Message. And 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.800 it's amazing that I Message has taken off in such 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.840 a nice way. It's great for Apple, but it would 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.720 be really nice if they brought it to everyone. Where's 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.679 my tiny violin? All right, let's get to the next story. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:27.760 Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix is one of the most or 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.600 if not the most popular streaming service out there. They're 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.480 doing really well, but they've got this little problem. You see. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.720 It's all of these people that I call klingons. And 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.560 I'm guilty of it, not myself, but I let a 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.159 lot of people. 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