WEBVTT - Why Chromecast with Google TV is so brilliant 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.960 Apple might fix your device for free ditching, so nos 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:17.000 for Google Home, my little experiment, t Mobiles new TV 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.840 service plus your tech questions answered? 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:20.640 What's going on? 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.680 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.680 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.120 you should know about. And it's also the place where 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.640 I answer the questions that you send me, and you 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:31.480 send me a lot of them. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:32.080 Believe me. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.720 I'm Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.160 Los Angeles. Did I already mention that I think I did? 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.800 What's going on? I am recording this at a slightly 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.920 different time than I typically do, so if I'm a 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.000 little off during this show, that is why it's a 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:54.160 much earlier time than I normally do this. But that's 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.640 because I'm speaking to a usc class today, and of 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.639 course it's via zoom, because you know, that's how things 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:01.560 are done these days. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.120 But it'd be fun so anyway. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.880 Lots of stuff going on, you know, We've got just 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.160 the tech world for the holidays. Is like, I've never 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.520 seen so many gadgets in my life. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:17.959 And maybe it's just. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.880 Because there's so many different variants of these things now, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.840 but I just feel like it's been a lot. I mean, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:27.240 we've got new consoles, we've got new cable services, we've 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.360 got new phones. And it's not just like one phone, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.960 it's like two pixels. It's not just like one Samsung. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.320 We've gone through like six Samsungs, not just one one 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.160 plus phone. It's been like three one plus phones, maybe two. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.800 So I'm getting through a lot of that stuff, and 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.480 it's been a lot of fun to test it all. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.520 Today is the day that the iPhone twelve Mini, the 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.720 iPhone twelve Proms, and the home Pod Mini are all 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.320 available for pre order. Now, I know that people love 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.200 to pre order things, and in the case of an iPhone, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.760 you kind of know what you're gonna get most of 0:01:58.760 --> 0:01:59.160 the time. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.680 But and I am very fortunate. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:02.640 That, of course, I get to play with a lot 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.160 of this stuff beforehand, so I have a very good 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:06.480 sense of what it's all about. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.560 But I actually can't imagine. Well that's not totally true. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.760 I was gonna say I can't imagine ordering stuff sight 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.640 on scene, but I have done that in the past, especially. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.800 I remember I ordered the gosh I think it was 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.040 the Pixel wasn't called the Pixel back then. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.200 I think it was just the Nexus. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.120 But I remember I was in Russia for a you know, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.240 a segment. We were covering a show over there, and I, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.840 you know, the new the new Nexus was unveiled and 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.400 I ordered it sight on scene from my cell phone 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.880 while I was over there, and you know, it came 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:41.919 in a couple weeks whatever. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.720 But anyway, so I get it. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.960 And if you're getting an iPhone twelve, now, if it 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.200 was a Mini, I'd probably want to see it. If 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.720 it was a Max, I think, you know, you kind 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.160 of know what you're getting in the in the twelve, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.440 you knew what you're getting. The home Pod, I mean 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.640 at ninety nine bucks. I think that is going to 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.440 be a really really big seller this holiday season. So 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.120 looking forward to testing all that stuff out. Something I 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.160 have been playing with though, is T Mobile's new service, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.000 T Vision. This is their answer to cable TV. A 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.280 couple of years ago, I did a segment on T Vision, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.799 which was much more complicated. So we went to this 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.520 hotel room in Westwood, it was the w Westwood. They 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.359 had it all set up there and it was their 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.079 version of cable TV, and it was very, very complicated 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.560 because you had to have this in your area. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:28.640 They had to. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.520 I think they had to come to your house with 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.720 Cox Cable put the box in and it was great 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.600 and it was really cool. But the problem was like 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.280 who is going to do that? And so that's what 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.040 I said in my review, and I said, you know what, 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.120 I think in a year or two, this is all 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.080 going to be delivered just to anyone through you know, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.080 a set top box, you know, like an Apple TV. 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.320 And sure enough, that's what we have with T Mobile 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.600 T Vision. So I was testing this out and it's 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.320 it's a couple things. So it's basically a cable streaming 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.520 service kind of like YouTube TV or Sling, but it's 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.400 T Vision, so it's T Mobiles version. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:04.600 It starts at ten dollars a month. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.480 It's a little misleading because you know, they they talk 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.400 about all these great features, but for that ten dollars 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.560 a month feature or price point, you don't get the DVRs. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.200 You have to pay five extra bucks a month on 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.120 top of that. So for ten dollars a month, let 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.640 me give you the levels they've got. So they've got 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:21.000 tee Vision. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:22.520 Let's see. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.479 The easiest one is Vibe. That's the ten dollars a 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.040 month that gives you thirty channels plus two simultaneous streams. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.960 Then you've got t Vision Live, which I think more 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.120 people would get. That's forty dollars a month, and that 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.320 features thirty plus channels including sports and news. Then you've 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.040 got t Vision Live TV plus everything's plus these days 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.120 that gives you ten more channels. That's like forty channels 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.119 including regionals, football and golf. That's for fifty dollars a month. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.680 And then you've got t Vision Live Zone, which gives 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.000 you everything that's at sixty dollars a month. That's the 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.359 one that I tested out. In fact, actually no, I 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.400 tested out. Wow, I tested out the top of the 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.120 line with Stars, Showtime and Epics, which is all even 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.599 more expensive. So the package that they showed me, of course, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.120 okay here, so the package they showed me was the 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:16.520 Live TV Live Zone, which was sixty plus Stars plus nine. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.440 That's sixty nine plus Showtime eleven. That's seventy, that's eighty 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.920 plus Epix that's six. So the package they gave me, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.120 of course, was eighty six dollars. I only had it 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.839 for a week or so. But see, this is the 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.440 interesting thing about reviewers, and you know what we got 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.120 of course is top of the line, so when I'm 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.080 scrolling through, it's like, whoa, there's so many channels on here. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.880 But it's also exactly the same price as cable at 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.800 that point, So the vibe at ten dollars a month, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.680 I do think is pretty compelling. I'll tell you the 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.640 channels you get. You get AMC, Animal Planet, BBC, America 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:54.720 World News, b ET, CMT, Comedy Central, Discovery, DIY, Food Network, HGTV, 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.159 Hallmark channels, a whole bunch of those, a whole bunch 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:03.320 of let's see IFC, Investigation, Discovery, bunch of MTVS, Nickelodeon, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:09.200 Nick Junior, Nicktoons, Open Network, Paramount Sundance Teen, Nick, TLC, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.280 Travel Channel, TVLand, VH one, and we TV, a lot 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.120 of Viacom channels there. But the reality is, if you 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.680 just care about your kind of entertainment programming, like the 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.680 fluffy like HGTV stuff, for ten bucks a month, that's 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:22.200 pretty good. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:23.240 Now. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.960 I will just say personally, I have been without cable 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.719 for a couple of years now. I can't imagine subscribing 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.560 to cable to me. I just don't see the point 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.400 of a thousand channels on my TV just streaming all 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.200 day long. I've got all the streaming services, and yes, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.520 I subscribe to a lot of them, but to me, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.159 that's the way it works. I don't need a grid 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.960 with a whole bunch of stuff just on TV. Now 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.000 with my local news, I do have an antenna so 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.039 I can watch KTLA and other sorted local channels, but 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.560 that's it. And that's fine because that's for live news 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.039 that is streaming and at a certain time. But to me, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.919 if I'm gonna watch an episode of house Hunters or whatever, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.640 why not just undemand it. Why do I have to 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:07.680 tune in halfway through? 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:08.240 And I get it. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.400 What I've been doing with this T Vision is flipping 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.640 through and it just reminds me of kind of like 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.040 old school TV, like growing up in my house where 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.560 my parents used to just my dad specifically, we just 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.920 flip through channels and just find something to watch. That 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.560 is not the way of the world for me personally anymore. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:24.680 But anyway, I. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.840 See a big, you know, a big upsell with this 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.200 T mobile T Vision because you can get it on 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.800 all the set top boxes except Roku. They also have 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.240 their own dongle, which is fifty dollars. They'll probably give 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.880 that away to certain customers, and you know, it's an 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.800 easy upsell. You're in the T Mobile store and of 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.600 course they're you're upgrading your phone, and they say, how 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.720 much do you pay for cable? You say, I don't know, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.880 eighty bucks? They say, how would you like to pay ten? 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.040 And next thing you know, you're on the T Vision train. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.560 So anyway, I do think what they did with the 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.920 service is excellent. It's slicked, the DVR is great, everything's fast. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.120 It works just as good on my Chrome Cast TV 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.360 as it does on their dongle. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.440 But I just don't need it. And it's fun. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.240 It's been fun to have, but I just, you know, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.160 I don't need that kind of amount of stuff all 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:09.600 the time. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:11.240 I'm good with my you know. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.000 If I want to watch a movie, I just go 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.320 to HBO Max or wherever else's streaming. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.000 I'm fine with that system right now. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.400 All right, let's get to the first question of the day. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.360 Steve says, love your podcast, never miss it, Thank you. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.840 I bought an Apple Watch Series five. I like most 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.600 aspects of it, but I don't like how it handles messages. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.800 I don't like to save messages on my iPhone. I 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.160 delete all conversations at the end of the day. Wow, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.160 that's extreme. On the Watch app on my phone under messages, 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.760 I've selected mirror my iPhone, but the watch does not 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.480 mirror my deletions. Do you know how to have my 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.719 watch truly mirror messages on my phone? If not, is 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.360 there a way to clear off all the messages on 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.360 my watch with one instruction instead of having to go 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.920 through the cumbersome procedure of deleting each conversation. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.960 One by one. Thank you, Steve in Beaumont, California. Interesting. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:01.120 This is Steve. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.360 You touch on an interesting thing with text messages because 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.959 I go back and forth with texts, thinking I should 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.199 keep them forever as a record of everything I've ever 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:10.920 said to someone in my life, which is kind of 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.520 cool because you know, like it's kind of funny. I 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.640 have Google Voice and that I've never really deleted messages 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.319 from because it just saves them forever. So sometimes when 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.560 people text me through my Google Voice number and they 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.760 get it wrong instead of texting me my personal number, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.960 it'll come up like a conversation from like seven years ago, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.600 like the last time we talked on Google Voice, And 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.360 it's really fun to kind of look back and see 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.960 what you were saying. But I totally get text messages 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.480 are also meant to be ephemeral, and you know you 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:38.600 can delete them at the end of the day. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:39.000 That's fine. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.120 What I think you need to do is go in 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.679 and I will say, I Messages is really funky. I 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.640 don't think it's very perfect, but you know it's supposed 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.559 to sync, and it didn't until maybe two years ago 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.520 or a year ago. But what you need to do 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.280 is go onto your iPhone and go into Apple id 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.760 iCloud and then messages where it says apps using Eyecloud 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.360 and make sure that's turned on. And once that's turned on, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.559 that's called messages in the cloud. It should sink your 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.360 changes from your phone. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:12.080 To your watch. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.480 I found that I'm having a tough time with that 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.440 right now with my computer. My I messages are not 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.320 truly sinking, and it's kind of weird and it's kind 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:21.880 of bugging me. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.000 And right now I'm looking at one. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.800 Two, three, four messages that I've looked at on my 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.840 phone that are still well, let's see here. Let me 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.800 I'm gonna just look at this one and read it. Okay, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.120 So it did just sync up and let me see 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.120 if I delete this one here, and uh, let's see 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.880 if it deletes from my phone. Delete and let's see 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.240 one Mississippi two, Mississippi three, Mississippi four, Misissippi five. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:50.280 Okay, still not deleted. So yeah, I don't know. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.800 Maybe they don't like to it, should delete it, but 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.800 it just didn't on my phone, and I just deleted 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.720 on my computer. So that's the best case scenario is 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.440 to try to do it like that and make sure 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.920 that all those things are turned on. And that's the 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.600 best I can say, Steve. But I message is a 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.600 thing that I don't think I'll ever figure out in 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:09.440 my entire life. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:09.800 It is. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.040 It's very tricky, and you know, it's just one of 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.199 those things. It's like the Apple mystery. Everything with Apple, 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.400 I feel like, is so mysterious, Like I have no idea, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.160 like my email address I signed up for years ago, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:22.679 all the stuff that I've stored in the cloud, like 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.559 I don't even understand how to access half of it, 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.920 whereas with like at with Android, like okay, I've got 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.840 my photos and Google Photos, I've got my notes there 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.080 in ever note like I can tell where things are. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.000 With iCloud, it's just this weird abyss. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.560 And like, right now it's telling me that I've all 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.400 this storage taken up even though I'm not really using 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.400 iCloud photos, and it's just like, what's. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.400 Going on here? I don't know. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.120 So I did a little experiment. Moving on now, let 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:50.200 me take a sip of my tea. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.199 Here. I did a little experiment. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.160 And I was thinking that I'm kind of getting sick 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.240 of sons because it's kind of gotten a lot slower 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.439 over the years, and I also feel like the voice 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.520 stuff is kind of fun to have. And so I 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.640 have a couple of these Google Homes around the house, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.480 and I figured, you know what, let me take a 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.760 little deeper dive into this. Let me actually replace my 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.840 Google my Sonos speakers with Google homes and see what happens. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.079 So I don't have enough Google Homes for all of them, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.360 but I replaced a couple of the main ones and 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.520 I put the speakers in the garage. And this is 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.800 just a test to see, like could I use Google 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.200 Home instead of Sonos? And there are some benefits. I 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.960 think the pros are that I can buy these speakers 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.600 for way cheaper because Sonos, you know, you're looking at 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.360 minimum two hundred, whereas the Google Speakers minimum you know, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.040 they go as low as fifty bucks. But you can 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.920 you know, the one I want is like one hundred, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.680 and I can get them in various sizes. So for 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.040 a small area, you know, I can just put one 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.800 of the Google Home minis there. But for a bigger area, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.600 I can go with one of their new Nest audios 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.200 I think they're called. And so, you know, now my 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.000 soundbar is still Sonos, my surround system in the living 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.200 room is still Sonos because I didn't want to replace 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:07.960 all that and you really can't right now with the 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.040 Google Speakers, but I read a rumor that that's coming, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.240 and you know, so here it is. What I've realized 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.280 in the past couple of days is it is very 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.160 nice to be able to come home and just say, hey, Gee, 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.440 play you know, some music, play some music, and boom, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.920 the speakers come to life. I found that grouping the 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.520 speakers is way more complicated because you can only do 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.400 it from the Google Home display. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:32.960 Right now. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.640 They don't have an app that lets you do that, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.920 which is really annoying. And I've noticed that the sound 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.240 levels are very all over the place compared to sonos 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.000 so Sonos, I could group the speakers and I could 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.880 put the sound at a nice clip that would just 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.240 sound really nice and mellow throughout the entire house. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.559 And with this I'm just not finding. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.600 Either it's the speakers don't fill the room as much, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.640 or it's either really loud or really soft, and I 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.839 can't really find a good middle ground. So it's a 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.800 tricky And of course my wife doesn't like it as 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.160 much because she's finding it a little trickier. But you know, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:05.640 I told her, I said, you know, just start with 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.240 like a couple of commands, you know, like play you know, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.600 the highway on serious XM, and you know, like simple 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.600 things like that. And I also like the fact that 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.760 with sons you can go through and find like the 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.640 playlists that you like, like, you can favorite them, and 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.400 it's really easy to start them, whereas with the Google 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.960 Home speakers, I really like that I can directly play 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.120 things from my apps. So if I'm on Spotify, and 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.960 part of the beauty of like Spotify and Google play 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.520 Music is that it surfaces playlists that it thinks you'll 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.640 like based on the time of the day. And so 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.600 if I'm focusing on work in the morning. You know, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.520 I open up the app and there's a work playlist 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.840 and you know, nice focus instrumental kind of thing and 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.720 you know, boom Whereas so NOS doesn't really do that. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.720 It's just it's just your stuff that you've played before 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.680 and that's it. Also, I've noticed that when you do 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.600 cast to speakers, since I have so many of them 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.520 in my house, including like the Google Chrome casts, it's 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.920 like there's so many targets when you go to cast 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.960 something like when you say like, oh, send this to 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.960 that speaker, I'm like looking for like ten minutes in 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.640 this in the scroll, like wait, is that is that 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:07.520 living room TV? 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.680 Or is that living room screen or is that living 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.480 room speaker? Like what? So that's a little tricky. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.480 And again my note here I have is that the 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.680 music doesn't seem to be as ambient as it is 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.440 with Sons, Like Sons clearly has the audio acoustics down 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.280 and Google may you know, maybe I'm just getting used 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.600 to it, but it's you know anyway, So I don't 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.320 know if the experiment's gonna last. Personally, I do love 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.000 that I could outfit my home for a lot cheaper, 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.800 and it took me a while to build up the 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.280 Sono speakers and you know. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.280 We'll just see. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.120 But I kind of like it is easier to kind 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.880 of start the music. It's just tougher to group the music. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.360 And that's the main that's the main trouble I'm running into. Otherwise, 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.760 it is fun to have the speakers. The only other 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.400 issue I see is that when you have multiple Google homes, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.840 they all sort of react when you say hey gee, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.400 and it's like this little fight for who's gonna respond, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.440 and it's not always the speaker that you want. So 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.840 I'll keep you posted on my little Google Home slash 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:11.960 Sonos experiment. All right, Dillia says, I dropped my iPhone 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:17.880 eleven Max pro Promax and cracked the back side glass. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.360 What can I do to fix it? No insurance, Dilia. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.880 There are so many places you can bring this. So 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.840 the first one is a company called I Cracked, and 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.640 I Cracked actually comes to you. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.480 I don't know if they're still doing it. Let's see 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:32.960 if they're. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.880 Doing it right now with uh um, yeah, they are 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.960 still doing it even though so yeah, so less than 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.120 an hour they will come to you and the pricing. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.800 Let's see if they Let's see what the price is 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.640 I'm gonna put me Oh wow, it's not available on 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.400 my zip code? Uh oh do they like oh uh 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.760 oh oh. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:17:00.880 It looks like oh you know what, Yeah, it looks 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.880 like I cracked has really. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.359 Oh it doesn't. Let's see locations. Oh do they not 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:14.600 do this anymore nationwide? California? Interesting? It says they do California, 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.520 But I just put in like three zip codes and it. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:17.200 Did not come up. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.800 So hm, anyway, okay, they are still doing it nine 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.040 oh two one oh okay, says it's not available at 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.119 in this time, So maybe they're just not doing it 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.360 right now with the uh, you know, the whole COVID thing. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.720 But they do come to you. So that's that's one. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.840 The other one is you break I fix and that one, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.359 if you're in the LA area at least has a 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.440 bunch of locations. They might even be outside of Los Angeles. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.280 But that's a good way to do it. And if 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.240 you look at these things, you know they're gonna it's 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.320 not gonna be you know, it depends on your phone 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.040 and depends what they're Yeah, they do have them all 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.440 over the place. Oh yeah, this is everywhere. So I'm 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.040 trying to see like what there repairs are. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.520 So let's go cell phone and let's see carry in. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:05.280 Okay, let's choose our device. Let's choose a an iPhone 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.400 eleven Promax. Okay, and let's see what they're getting for 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:17.439 a screen repair iPhone eleven Promax Okay, wow, original iPhone 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.800 two G. Can you imagine what is wrong? 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:21.720 Broken screen? 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.840 Uh? Select a store for pricing, so it looks like 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:28.919 this might be a kind of a okay, oh wow, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:33.320 oh okay. Four hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety nine cents. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:34.240 That is a lot. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.240 Why is that so expensive? That is a real That's 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.520 that seems very expensive. Let me try a different store. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:43.520 Are they all different? 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.560 Yeah? Four nineteen Well, that's that's a lot, all. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.720