Speaker 1: Hands on with the iPhone twelve and the Pixel five.
Speaker 1: The wisecam has a new feature, and Apple one is
Speaker 1: officially launched. What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about, and
Speaker 1: it's where I answer the questions that you send me,
Speaker 1: and boy do you send a lot of them. I'm
Speaker 1: the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in listening to what I
Speaker 1: have to say. This is it. This is the couple
Speaker 1: of weeks before the holidays. We don't have much time
Speaker 1: to shop and it is quite the interesting year because
Speaker 1: the pandemic has sent everything topsy turvy upside down all around. Uh,
Speaker 1: but still people want to get those gifts and the
Speaker 1: smartphones keep coming. The rest of the tech keeps coming,
Speaker 1: and it just keeps getting delivered to me. So I
Speaker 1: will talk about it because it's important for you to
Speaker 1: know what people think of this stuff before you spend
Speaker 1: your hard earned cash on it. And one thing that
Speaker 1: I have been playing with for the past couple of
Speaker 1: weeks is the iPhone twelve. Last week's episode was more
Speaker 1: just a discussion with Apple about it, and I can
Speaker 1: give you some of my thoughts on it. So what
Speaker 1: can I say. I mean, it feels like I'm using
Speaker 1: last year's iPhone, except it's faster, the camera seems a
Speaker 1: little bit better perhaps, and the battery definitely has taken
Speaker 1: a nose dive. I noticed that sort of by the afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm down to like thirty percent, and it's noticeable. Versus
Speaker 1: my old phone. It would I wouldn't even think about
Speaker 1: the battery all day long. I mean, it just wasn't
Speaker 1: even an issue. But again, you've got the iPhone twelve
Speaker 1: and the iPhone twelve pro lots of people have them
Speaker 1: in their hands. So the five G, I will say
Speaker 1: I like having, even though I have yet to sort
Speaker 1: of see it impact my daily life. And yesterday I
Speaker 1: was in downtown Los Angeles where they have the Ultra
Speaker 1: wide band on Verizon at least, and this is like
Speaker 1: the absolute fastest five G you can find anywhere. And
Speaker 1: I was driving to my segment and I had to
Speaker 1: stop because on my car it said five GUW. I said, ooh,
Speaker 1: what's that? Let me stop and do a speed test,
Speaker 1: And sure enough, the speed test was absolutely the kind
Speaker 1: of the fastest speeds I've ever seen on a smartphone.
Speaker 1: I think it reached about eight hundred, which is pretty
Speaker 1: darn fast, when typically you might see one hundred, and
Speaker 1: if you're on just standard LSE, you probably see something
Speaker 1: closer to like twenty maybe sixty at the highest. So
Speaker 1: eight hundreds pretty good. But it's just in a tiny
Speaker 1: area of downtown. Hopefully that that will be in more places,
Speaker 1: and it really made me think when this five G
Speaker 1: is in a place where it is that fast everywhere,
Speaker 1: if that ever happen weapons I mean, that is life
Speaker 1: changing because now you have the same speeds that you
Speaker 1: can use for your home network. You know, you can
Speaker 1: replace your your cable internet with something that is wireless
Speaker 1: and there's just no barrier. I mean, you can upload
Speaker 1: and download huge files in seconds. And so now the
Speaker 1: cloud becomes your storage facility instead of local storage. And
Speaker 1: now that opens up a whole bunch of possibilities for
Speaker 1: computers because now you don't need a high powered computer
Speaker 1: with a lot of storage, because five G lets you
Speaker 1: do whatever you need to do in the cloud just
Speaker 1: as fast as it is on your system. Let's see
Speaker 1: the design of the phone. I really do like it.
Speaker 1: It's square, It's nice and square. The twelve Pro that
Speaker 1: I've been using is very easy to hold in your hand.
Speaker 1: It's I think it's the perfect size. Originally I was
Speaker 1: going to purchase the twelve Pro Max, but I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that I need that anymore because the twelve Pro
Speaker 1: is such a great size, which is the same size
Speaker 1: as a twelve So I'm sure some people will like
Speaker 1: the Mini when it comes out on November thirteenth. That's
Speaker 1: a much smaller phone that's too small for me. And
Speaker 1: then the Promax might be too big for me at
Speaker 1: this point because I'm now so used to this easily
Speaker 1: pocketable size right in the middle of the six point
Speaker 1: one inch screen. So I'm digging it. The software, I'm
Speaker 1: still having some issues here and there with a couple
Speaker 1: of little software things. Ceramic shield. I have not been
Speaker 1: able to test because I'm not dropping this thing just
Speaker 1: to drop it. But I will say that all State
Speaker 1: did some tests and let's see, so they do what's
Speaker 1: called all State is now they own Square Trade, and
Speaker 1: so they do their drop tests and they say that
Speaker 1: they did drop it from let's see what was their tests?
Speaker 1: I think it was six feet yeah, about six feet,
Speaker 1: So the iPhone twelve performed better than any previously tested smartphone.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good right there. During face down breakability
Speaker 1: drop tests, the ceramics shield old screen improved durability. Although
Speaker 1: both device is the same damage after landing on a
Speaker 1: rough sidewalk from six feet, the twelve Pro and the
Speaker 1: twelve flat side design appears to improve durability when dropped
Speaker 1: on their rear panels. And the bottom line here is
Speaker 1: that if you drop your phone, chances are it will
Speaker 1: not just shatter the screen as in years past, perhaps
Speaker 1: as easily, but it will still have issues. You know, well,
Speaker 1: I should say the phone is going to perform just fine.
Speaker 1: It's the look and feel of it. The you know,
Speaker 1: is going to be all scratched up and all messed up.
Speaker 1: So you still don't want to drop your phone, but
Speaker 1: the reality is you may not have to get a
Speaker 1: screen repair if you do, so I like that. Let's
Speaker 1: see what else. Night mode definitely improved on this camera.
Speaker 1: But I will say I took this phone out. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been testing a lot of phones lately, so I
Speaker 1: one night my wife was out, so you know, of
Speaker 1: course on board and the kids are out and So
Speaker 1: I took the Samsung Galaxy S twenty f E, the
Speaker 1: Pixel five, and the iPhone twelve Pro, and I just
Speaker 1: took them outside in a whole bunch of low light
Speaker 1: scenarios and I took some pictures of the moon and
Speaker 1: the stars. And I will say the iPhone twelve is great.
Speaker 1: I think that it's the simplest. It gives you the
Speaker 1: best picture in like a very fast, easy way. But
Speaker 1: the S twenty FE, which is five hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine bucks or six ninety nine depending on whether it's
Speaker 1: on sale, I gotta say, performed very well, and especially
Speaker 1: in the night mode when you toggle that on on Samsung,
Speaker 1: it doesn't always toggle on by itself, or on the
Speaker 1: iPhone it does, which is kind of nice. But when
Speaker 1: it's on, it worked pretty well and I got pretty
Speaker 1: much very similar pictures that I was able to get
Speaker 1: on the iPhone on that phone, very similar, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say exactly the same. And on the Pixel, the Pixel
Speaker 1: is still good. But the Pixel this is my problem,
Speaker 1: and I guess I'll get into my Pixel review as well.
Speaker 1: The Pixel five. I love the pixel. Google's phone holds
Speaker 1: a place near and dear to my heart because I
Speaker 1: just love the Google operating system. I love Android, especially
Speaker 1: the way that Google does it. It's just perfect. It's
Speaker 1: so smart as a smartphone, whereas to me, the iPhone
Speaker 1: not so smart, but it's much more of a creator device.
Speaker 1: So when I'm looking to make something for Instagram or
Speaker 1: Facebook or go Live, like I am here, the iPhone
Speaker 1: is really what does it And the iPhone also has
Speaker 1: all the accessories, whereas the Pixel. You know, I went
Speaker 1: shopping for a case to see what kind of cases
Speaker 1: are on Amazon, and I found like one rinky dink
Speaker 1: case and it's like eh, and it's just also so small,
Speaker 1: even though when I put them side by side the
Speaker 1: screens are similar. For some reason, the Pixel just seems
Speaker 1: tiny in my hand, the Pixel five and it just
Speaker 1: seems delicate and like just not very full powered, whereas
Speaker 1: the iPhone. When the iPhone is in my pocket, I
Speaker 1: feel like I can conquer the world because it is.
Speaker 1: It feels like it is the stand device that does
Speaker 1: it all and everyone knows about it. And it's kind
Speaker 1: of sad that everyone just assumes use an iPhone and
Speaker 1: they don't even give these other brands a chance. So
Speaker 1: I really love what Pixel does with their software. I
Speaker 1: feel like they put out a very underpowered phone for
Speaker 1: a creator, But for the average person who's just using
Speaker 1: their phone to take nice pictures and to answer phone
Speaker 1: calls and to do Google searches and to run your apps,
Speaker 1: it's just fine. And the price is going to come
Speaker 1: down over the holidays, So don't be afraid of the
Speaker 1: Pixel over the holiday season. Don't be afraid of the
Speaker 1: Samsung S twenty fe. I think for most people, I
Speaker 1: personally really like the the iPhone. I really like the
Speaker 1: Pixel four A five G. I think that's a great
Speaker 1: combination of screen size and also what you can do
Speaker 1: on the phone with a camera. Although it just feels
Speaker 1: dated compared to these other devices, the Samsung just feels
Speaker 1: nicer in the hand, it seems snappier, and of course
Speaker 1: it has a lot, you know like it seems like
Speaker 1: it has more features. So I think you have a
Speaker 1: good a good choice of phones this holiday season. If
Speaker 1: you're looking to upgrade, you can't really go wrong with
Speaker 1: the iPhone twelve the Pixel four A five G if
Speaker 1: you don't worry about the you know, fastest specs, and
Speaker 1: also the Samsung S twenty fe is near perfect and
Speaker 1: the only thing about that phone that bugs me is
Speaker 1: that they didn't put enough memory in it like RAM.
Speaker 1: So it's not It's speedy because as the newest processor,
Speaker 1: but I wish it had a couple more gigs of
Speaker 1: RAM to really let it compete. But otherwise, I think
Speaker 1: that we are doing really well this year when it
Speaker 1: comes to phones. So if you have more questions for me,
Speaker 1: hit me up on social media at rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: I've been playing with all these devices, believe me. So
Speaker 1: if you have questions, let me know and I will
Speaker 1: do my best to answer them for you. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the first question of the day, Mike, Friend of
Speaker 1: the show. Mike says, Hey, rich I hope that you
Speaker 1: and your family are doing well. If you haven't already heard,
Speaker 1: Quibi is shutting down it's service. I was very disappointed,
Speaker 1: as they had some very good programs to watch. I
Speaker 1: just paid for another month and no mention of a refund,
Speaker 1: so I guess I amount a few bucks. Anyway, you
Speaker 1: may want to get the word out on your program.
Speaker 1: I am doing well. Take care, stay in touch, Mike.
Speaker 1: Mike used to call into the show back in the
Speaker 1: day when I did live callers. Maybe one day I'll
Speaker 1: bring that back. Yes, Quibi is shutting down. I just
Speaker 1: this makes me really angry because they spent about I
Speaker 1: mean they had a billion. Over a billion dollars one
Speaker 1: point seventy five billion is the number being thrown around.
Speaker 1: Just just give me a million of that and I
Speaker 1: will create amazing tech content for the next decade. With
Speaker 1: a million bucks. They spent a billion on a on
Speaker 1: a service that lasted six months. All I need is
Speaker 1: a million and I will do tech stuff for the
Speaker 1: next ten years. So if anyone wants to fund that,
Speaker 1: let me know, and I am happy to take that
Speaker 1: million dollars and give you a reach turn on it.
Speaker 1: Because Quibi just went caput after six months, and you
Speaker 1: had such smart people running this, I mean Meg Whitman, Katzenberg.
Speaker 1: These people are are you know, they know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But what they didn't understand is Number one, you can't
Speaker 1: charge people. Whatever it was I think it was five
Speaker 1: six ninety nine a month for this service and include ads,
Speaker 1: no way. I mean I got a little free trial.
Speaker 1: I think it was ninety days to Quibi and there
Speaker 1: was no way I was going to pay six bucks
Speaker 1: or wherever they wanted. I think it was six ninety nine,
Speaker 1: when Netflix is like, you know, for the standard one,
Speaker 1: it's like thirteen dollars and no way, so quibi you
Speaker 1: just you just didn't get it right. Plus the other
Speaker 1: thing is, and I hate to say this, but they
Speaker 1: think that celebrities are going to bring in all the viewers.
Speaker 1: And honestly, these days, people don't necessarily care about celebrities.
Speaker 1: They care about content. They care about their favorite personalities.
Speaker 1: So if you look at these folks on YouTube that
Speaker 1: are making a great living on YouTube, you go into
Speaker 1: a random household and you say, hey, do you know
Speaker 1: this person on YouTube? No, they have no clue. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because that person on YouTube is not
Speaker 1: sitting there crying that they are not a household name,
Speaker 1: because guess what, they are connecting with their people. That's
Speaker 1: the way I feel being on KTLA and doing all
Speaker 1: the stuff I do on social media. Ninety nine point
Speaker 1: nine percent of people have no idea who rich on
Speaker 1: tech is. And guess what, that does not matter. What
Speaker 1: matters is the one person that I connect with and
Speaker 1: help them with their cell phone bill, or help them
Speaker 1: choose their next computer, or help them get out of
Speaker 1: a rut with the software they need and their zoom situation.
Speaker 1: That's what matters. And I think that these one to
Speaker 1: one connection on a much smaller scale are way more
Speaker 1: important than a big celebrity that has no connection to
Speaker 1: the person watching on Quibi, and that celebrity made a
Speaker 1: ton of money and they're on to the next thing,
Speaker 1: whereas these YouTubers, they are dedicated and they're much more
Speaker 1: connected with their audiences because guess what they have to be.
Speaker 1: They're not just getting millions of dollars thrown at them,
Speaker 1: and then they don't care if the product works or not,
Speaker 1: or the service works or not. They don't care what
Speaker 1: Quibi's long term is. They get that million bucks and
Speaker 1: they're done. So Quibi really sad, but I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone's shedding a tear except for the folks that work there,
Speaker 1: which of course it's sad to see all these people
Speaker 1: out of a job. And I'm sure there's very smart
Speaker 1: people there. But they should have been smarter at the top.
Speaker 1: They should have funded the rich On Tech Show and
Speaker 1: they would have had a hit. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They should have maybe mixed in a few people there
Speaker 1: there were not so big names and gotten them to
Speaker 1: sort of, you know, help the service take off. And
Speaker 1: by the way, it should have been free for a year.
Speaker 1: When they saw the pandemic happening. They should have known
Speaker 1: Apple did they made Apple TV Plus free. And do
Speaker 1: you think anyone's rushing out to subscribe to Apple TV Plus. No.
Speaker 1: But the reality is it doesn't matter because they don't
Speaker 1: have to make that decision right now because Apple made
Speaker 1: it for them and they said, look, we're gonna give
Speaker 1: you all this content that's pretty awesome. And I think
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus is coming out with some really good
Speaker 1: content and it's starting to prove itself. And so by
Speaker 1: the time in February when people start having to make
Speaker 1: that decision to subscribe, they'll say, you know what, for
Speaker 1: five bucks a month, I think this has been pretty
Speaker 1: good to me. I'm excited to watch that on the
Speaker 1: Rocks movie. I'm excited to watch Greyhound. I love the
Speaker 1: Morning Show. I mean, we know that all you need
Speaker 1: is one good show a month for these services to
Speaker 1: be worth it, and that's the magic formula. And it
Speaker 1: can't be that expensive. Quibi was way too expensive for
Speaker 1: what you got. And Mike, I'm sorry that you got
Speaker 1: no refund. That's unfortunate, but you know that maybe they Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no proration with these things when you cancel Netflix
Speaker 1: or whatever. There's no no proration. All right, let's move
Speaker 1: on to the next story. Let's talk about let's talk
Speaker 1: about the wyscam, because they came out with a new
Speaker 1: version this week, the Wysecam Version three, and I was
Speaker 1: a little upset that Wyse came out with a new
Speaker 1: version so close to the outdoor version that I just featured.
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden they come out with
Speaker 1: the Wyscam V three that is indoor outdoor. Now there
Speaker 1: are some major differences between these two cameras, but still,
Speaker 1: this one's twenty dollars. It's simple, it's plug and play,
Speaker 1: it works inside and outside, and it's at heart a
Speaker 1: similar camera to the one that they first launched, but
Speaker 1: it now works inside outside and that's a huge deal
Speaker 1: for twenty bucks. Now, the big difference between these two
Speaker 1: cameras is that this one is wired, so you have
Speaker 1: to plug it in to get the power source twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven, whereas the outdoor cam, that one was
Speaker 1: a strictly rechargeable camera that you can post outside anywhere
Speaker 1: you want. So let me go over some of the
Speaker 1: features between the version, you know, the old version and
Speaker 1: the new version. So number one, the new version still
Speaker 1: twenty dollars and it's still, you know, a little tiny
Speaker 1: camera that you plug in. The difference is the cord
Speaker 1: is now permanently affixed to the back of the camera
Speaker 1: and then there's sort of a breakaway point that is
Speaker 1: rubber insulated, so that enables it to be an outdoor
Speaker 1: camera because the two areas where the cord connects are
Speaker 1: sealed in a way that they will withstand the elements.
Speaker 1: It's IP sixty five, so it is indoor outdoor. It's
Speaker 1: got a starlight sensor, which means you can actually use
Speaker 1: this without night vision, and it will take in so
Speaker 1: much light that you can get a color night vision shot.
Speaker 1: So you have to choose one or the other. Do
Speaker 1: you want black and white night vision or do you
Speaker 1: want just a lower light which takes in more but
Speaker 1: it's in color. You have that choice. Then they've got
Speaker 1: this dual ir system, which is kind of cool, the
Speaker 1: infrared system. If you use this as a baby monitor,
Speaker 1: they actually have close up LEDs that are not red,
Speaker 1: so if you use it as a baby monitor, you
Speaker 1: don't have those LEDs blaring in your child's face. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of neat three options for mounting magnetic now, tripod,
Speaker 1: and screw, so there's more ways to sort of mount
Speaker 1: this thing. Still ten ADP resolution, Still a thirty two
Speaker 1: gigabyte local storage, so if you want twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven recording, you pop an SD card in there up
Speaker 1: to thirty two gigs and it will just continuously record
Speaker 1: on that microSD card. Highly recommend you do that. Then
Speaker 1: you've got the cloud storage, which is free. So this
Speaker 1: will record motion and sound for twelve seconds at a
Speaker 1: time with a five minute cool down. And what that
Speaker 1: means is that when it records those twelve seconds, it
Speaker 1: then goes into a hibernation mode for five minutes, and
Speaker 1: then if there's more motion, it will record again. So
Speaker 1: you may or may not capture exactly what you need
Speaker 1: with that twelve seconds, but that's totally free. You don't
Speaker 1: have to pay anything per month for this device. It's
Speaker 1: got a wider field of view at one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty degrees versus one hundred and ten. It's a little
Speaker 1: smoother playback because you get slightly more frames twenty frames
Speaker 1: playback during the day versus fifteen on the old camera.
Speaker 1: Fifteen at night versus ten on the old camera. It's
Speaker 1: got a much larger aperture, one point six versus two
Speaker 1: point six, so that means the night vision is gonna
Speaker 1: get much more light. Now it's gonna operate on the
Speaker 1: same frequency for Wi Fi as before. It is still
Speaker 1: just a single mode, which is two point four gigaherts.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you want that five gigahertz
Speaker 1: so you can connect it faster into your new router whatever,
Speaker 1: but it's still two point four gigaherts. I'm guessing cost
Speaker 1: is the reason there. There's also this little siren that's
Speaker 1: built in which is kind of cool, eighty decibels mini siren,
Speaker 1: and it sounds great. It's a nice little deterrent if
Speaker 1: you need it. And the two way talk is definitely in.
Speaker 1: It's now sort of instead of just that walkie talkie
Speaker 1: two way, it is now much smoother where you can
Speaker 1: kind of open the conversation and both talk at the
Speaker 1: same time. So again that's the Wise CaMV three the
Speaker 1: way that wis does this, and I love Wise, but
Speaker 1: this kind of bugs me. They do these pre order
Speaker 1: things where all these people hear about me talk about it,
Speaker 1: they order it, and they don't get their order for
Speaker 1: like another couple of weeks, and so they end up
Speaker 1: emailing me saying, Rich, I ordered this, I never got
Speaker 1: my order. But what Wise must do is get all
Speaker 1: these pre orders collected and then somehow either I don't know,
Speaker 1: but they So this ship date is mid November, so
Speaker 1: if you order it now, you can get it in
Speaker 1: mid November. So there's going to be a three to
Speaker 1: four week lag minimum by the time you order to
Speaker 1: the when you get it, which is rare these days
Speaker 1: because we're so used to ordering stuff on Amazon and
Speaker 1: getting it the very next day. So it is it
Speaker 1: does throw people for a loop. I get it. But
Speaker 1: if you order something from Wise, just keep in mind
Speaker 1: you'll probably have to wait just a little bit to
Speaker 1: get it. Let's get to the next question here, and
Speaker 1: the next question is from Sarah good Day. I need
Speaker 1: to learn more about Windows ten word and Excel. I'm
Speaker 1: out of work and needing to know more to apply
Speaker 1: for certain jobs due to the virus. I'm looking for
Speaker 1: remote jobs. I need to know more about Windows ten
Speaker 1: word and Excel. Objection already said asked an answer at
Speaker 1: this point. That's my old mock trial coming through. At
Speaker 1: this point, I cannot pay a lot for lessons more
Speaker 1: of a hands on, but books might be my only option. No, Sarah,
Speaker 1: if you have an Internet connection, you can learn anything
Speaker 1: you want these days. Believe me, any piece of information
Speaker 1: that a human needs is online. Now I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you don't need to go to school, you don't need
Speaker 1: a real teacher, but if you need to teach yourself,
Speaker 1: we have never lived in a better time. There are
Speaker 1: millions of people giving away information for free. The number
Speaker 1: one place to look is YouTube. Go ahead, google Windows ten,
Speaker 1: going on YouTube and just search Windows ten tutorial, word tutorial,
Speaker 1: Excel toutorial. Then maybe you need to do something with spreadsheets,
Speaker 1: Excel financial spreadsheets tutorial, get specific and you can learn
Speaker 1: a ton just from YouTube. Then you've got a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of websites that can also help you. And these
Speaker 1: are a bit more polished, maybe a bit more professional.
Speaker 1: But LinkedIn has a great one which is LinkedIn Learning,
Speaker 1: and so they bought something called I think it was Linda,
Speaker 1: and you can just go on here and there's so
Speaker 1: much stuff, sixteen thousand free and paid courses, So just
Speaker 1: look for stuff that's free there and you can watch
Speaker 1: stuff on there and it's pretty good. Then you've got
Speaker 1: other websites like you Demi, So you Demi is another one. Now, again,
Speaker 1: a lot of these websites are going to make you
Speaker 1: pay to really get the most out of them, but
Speaker 1: a lot of them do have some stuff for free.
Speaker 1: So skill share is another one. Of course, Sarah is
Speaker 1: another one. And again there's con Academy. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: just so much. What's the other one for kids? There's
Speaker 1: out School. I mean, there's just so many of these
Speaker 1: online learning hubs that. Believe me, I'm learning Premiere Pro
Speaker 1: right now, which you know, our company switched to Premiere
Speaker 1: for editing. I used Final Cut for the past twenty
Speaker 1: years and now all of a sudden, I'm using Premiere
Speaker 1: overnight And how do you do it? Well, I'm just
Speaker 1: learning like everyone else. I'm sitting there, you know, going
Speaker 1: on YouTube and looking at things, and I'm going on
Speaker 1: just web searches. Hey, how do I do this? How
Speaker 1: do I export? How do I do I mean, there's
Speaker 1: just it's a lot to know. And believe me, this
Speaker 1: is especially with the work from home stuff. Everyone's trying
Speaker 1: to figure this stuff out. So there. The good news is, Sarah,
Speaker 1: there are so many things to do for free. I
Speaker 1: have faith that you will learn and get a job.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you have emailed me means a
Speaker 1: lot because you are really really trying to get ahead.
Speaker 1: So good question and good luck on the job search.
Speaker 1: All right, what do we want to talk about next?
Speaker 1: I guess we'll keep on the Apple for just a
Speaker 1: second here. I'm just going to talk about Apple one.
Speaker 1: So this is Apple's new bundle subscription service. It launched
Speaker 1: and it has three levels of subscriptions. So you've got
Speaker 1: the individual, You've got the Family, and you've got the
Speaker 1: premiere and let me go over which each one of
Speaker 1: these does. Individual is fifteen dollars a month. It includes
Speaker 1: Apple Music, it includes Apple TV Plus, it includes Apple
Speaker 1: Arcade and iCloud fifty gigs. They say it saves you
Speaker 1: six dollars a month over purchasing these things individually. So
Speaker 1: if you're already subscribed to say Apple Music and iCloud
Speaker 1: fifty gigs, and you have TV plus boom, it might
Speaker 1: be an easy decision. Now. I think the only tricky
Speaker 1: thing here right now with these pricing plans is you
Speaker 1: sort of have to subtract. Let me see how much
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus subscription pricing is. I want to see
Speaker 1: how much that is. It's five dollars a month. Okay,
Speaker 1: so realistically right now October, end of October, early November,
Speaker 1: you have to subtract five dollars from each one of
Speaker 1: these to see if it's actually worth it. Because if
Speaker 1: you bought an Apple device in the past year, you
Speaker 1: are getting Apple TV Plus for free. So the individual
Speaker 1: plan would be ten dollars a month realistically, and that
Speaker 1: would actually be worth it because you're getting Apple Music
Speaker 1: and iCloud for that price. Oh wait, hold on, I
Speaker 1: think you have to add five dollars. Let me think
Speaker 1: about this. Yeah, I think you have to add five dollars,
Speaker 1: so it'd really be twenty dollars. Oh gosh. This is
Speaker 1: when my kid asked me, you know, do I really
Speaker 1: need to know math? And like yes, So I think
Speaker 1: that you would add the five dollars because the TV
Speaker 1: Plus you almost have to take it out of the
Speaker 1: bundle because it's free right now, so you're not getting
Speaker 1: that value out of it. So really I would say
Speaker 1: the individual would be twenty dollars a month. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. You have to kind of figure
Speaker 1: this out for yourself, add up the stuff that you're
Speaker 1: already paying for. So I'll give my example. So I
Speaker 1: would be geared up for the family plan right, this
Speaker 1: is nineteen ninety five a month. You can share it
Speaker 1: with up to five people. That includes Apple Music, Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus, Apple Arcade, and two hundred gigs of iCloud.
Speaker 1: Now I pay right now, I only pay for iCloud
Speaker 1: two hundred gigs. I get Apple TV Plus for free,
Speaker 1: and I get Apple I used to get Apple Music
Speaker 1: for free through Verizon, but I just downgraded my plan,
Speaker 1: so I'm saving twenty bucks there a month, and now
Speaker 1: I don't get Apple Music. But so Apple Music would
Speaker 1: be fifteen a month, Apple TV Plus would be five
Speaker 1: dollars a month, Apple Arcade would be five, and iCloud
Speaker 1: is three, so I'd be twenty five. That's twenty eight dollars,
Speaker 1: and it's twenty dollars. So now I will say, now
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at this and I'm figuring it out written,
Speaker 1: I would take out that five dollars for Apple TV
Speaker 1: because that's free, So that'd be twenty three dollars. So
Speaker 1: that is twenty three dollars versus twenty, so it would
Speaker 1: be a savings of three dollars a month right now
Speaker 1: for me. But I currently don't subscribe to Apple Music,
Speaker 1: so I really that's where it gets a little tricky
Speaker 1: because I don't know if I need Apple Music. I
Speaker 1: have a subscription to Google Play Music. So again, this
Speaker 1: is going to be very individual for you. You have to
Speaker 1: just do the math, add up how much you're spending
Speaker 1: on these things. And also something like Apple Arcade it's
Speaker 1: five dollars, but guess what if I scratched that out
Speaker 1: because I was a subscriber for a year, my kids
Speaker 1: didn't play it, So if you're not using it, it's
Speaker 1: not worth the five dollars. So now when I add
Speaker 1: it up, I get fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen dollars total,
Speaker 1: which is actually two dollars less than the family So
Speaker 1: for me, I am not subscribing now. When I get
Speaker 1: into February, when my Apple TV Plus expires, and I
Speaker 1: add that extra five dollar, so eighteen plus five is
Speaker 1: back up to twenty three. Now I would be saving
Speaker 1: three dollars a month if I would like to continue
Speaker 1: with the Apple TV Plus subscription that way it's worth it.
Speaker 1: And then of course i'd have to also use the
Speaker 1: music thing too. Premiere is twenty nine ninety five a month,
Speaker 1: thirty dollars. This is probably the best deal out of
Speaker 1: the whole thing. You get Apple Music from up to
Speaker 1: five people, you get Apple TV Plus, you get Apple Arcade,
Speaker 1: you get two terabytes of iCloud storage. So if you
Speaker 1: hold all your photos in there, that's great. Apple News
Speaker 1: Plus which is ten dollars, and an Apple Fitness Plus,
Speaker 1: which I think is ten dollars as well, So that
Speaker 1: is going to be a really great deal if you
Speaker 1: are a super Apple fan and you have all of
Speaker 1: that stuff. But again, it's available now. If you want
Speaker 1: to access it and see kind of like what the
Speaker 1: offers are, go into settings on your iPhone Apple ID
Speaker 1: subscriptions and you'll see a banner that says get Apple one.
Speaker 1: So again it's just a matter of math, and if
Speaker 1: you do your math, you got to figure it out
Speaker 1: and see if it's worth it for you For me,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it right now. And now if I
Speaker 1: was to consolidate a couple things, because right now I
Speaker 1: pay ten bucks a month to Google for the storage there,
Speaker 1: if I was able to switch over all my cloud
Speaker 1: storage to Apple. It probably would be worth it to
Speaker 1: get the top of the line one, but right now
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to do that. So again, it's a
Speaker 1: very personal thing. But and these bundles are getting a
Speaker 1: little tricky because everyone's offering them, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: a problem because it just gets us more into the
Speaker 1: corner with these services where you can't. So for example,
Speaker 1: with my Verizon, I just went on and it took
Speaker 1: me so long to do this, but I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, now they have this thing where they give
Speaker 1: you instead of just Disney Plus, you get Hulu Plus
Speaker 1: and you get ESPN. But you know, I dropped down.
Speaker 1: I used to get Apple Music included, but I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'd rather save the twenty dollars a month because if
Speaker 1: I get rid of Apple Music, it's really an net
Speaker 1: of five dollars even if I resubscribed. And let me
Speaker 1: explain that. So I save twenty dollars a month if
Speaker 1: I resubscribe to Apple Music for me and my wife,
Speaker 1: that's fifteen dollars a month for the family plan. I'm
Speaker 1: still coming out ahead by five dollars. And my plan
Speaker 1: didn't really change with Verizon, Like, I didn't really get
Speaker 1: anything less, so I still have unlimited, I still have
Speaker 1: the same amount of hot Spot, So it really was
Speaker 1: kind of a no brainer. And I'm saving twenty bucks
Speaker 1: a month there at the least. If I resubscribe to
Speaker 1: Apple Music, which I like because it's on my watch,
Speaker 1: I will still be saving five dollars. And while I
Speaker 1: mention that before I get to the next question, let
Speaker 1: me just say something. And I know this applies to
Speaker 1: about one percent of folks out there, but let me
Speaker 1: just explain one thing there. If you're subscribed to Apple
Speaker 1: Music just for your Apple Watch, right so, you just
Speaker 1: want to be able to listen to music on your
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, you don't necessarily have to do that. Now,
Speaker 1: we all know that Apple Music is the only service
Speaker 1: right now where you can download music to your watch.
Speaker 1: I belie maybe Pandora is the other one offline Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: Let me see if Pandora works offline. Yeah, so Pandora
Speaker 1: does work as well, so you know, if you're subscribed
Speaker 1: to Apple Music just for that offline. So for me personally,
Speaker 1: I like to run with just my Apple Watch and
Speaker 1: I use the music that it downloads from Apple Music
Speaker 1: to my Watch. Now, I don't have that ability anymore,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you what I do have. I
Speaker 1: have the iHeartRadio Apple Watch app, and I do have
Speaker 1: Cellular on my Apple Watch because I feel like if
Speaker 1: I'm running alone, you know, without my phone, if there's
Speaker 1: ever an emergency, I want to be able to you know,
Speaker 1: call someone, and so I use the This is brand new,
Speaker 1: by the way, from iHeartMedia. So if you use the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app on your Apple Watch, you can listen to
Speaker 1: live radio streaming through Cellular on your watch for free.
Speaker 1: So again, I'm paying that ten dollars a month for
Speaker 1: the Cellular on my Apple Watch. It's unlimited. I don't
Speaker 1: use the music functionality on my watch at any other
Speaker 1: time except when I'm running, So to me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go as long as humanly possible with just as free
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app because it's perfect. You know, I go
Speaker 1: on a forty minute run, I'm listening to forty minutes
Speaker 1: of music. I'll be honest in the many times that
Speaker 1: I've used it, you know, I five or six times
Speaker 1: so far, I've only heard ads once, and honestly, they're
Speaker 1: only on the more popular stations. So if you're listening
Speaker 1: to like hit radio, Yeah there will be ads, but
Speaker 1: I listen to this country workout and I haven't heard
Speaker 1: any ads at all. Now, sometimes you might hear DJ
Speaker 1: for a minute doing something, you know, saying something silly,
Speaker 1: but it's been pretty darn good. And they've got some
Speaker 1: great workout stations on here. So I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: ones that I subscribe to for the workout stuff I've got.
Speaker 1: And this is the other thing I don't think people
Speaker 1: realize about. iHeart Radio. They've got the local stations, but
Speaker 1: inside the app, if you really dig a little bit,
Speaker 1: they have the equivalent of satellite radio stations on their
Speaker 1: app that are not necessarily like you know, one oh
Speaker 1: four to three MYFM or Kiss FM. It's like a
Speaker 1: generic version of those stations that's almost like a satellite
Speaker 1: version of that. And so it's really interesting. So they
Speaker 1: have something called like hit Nation, right, and so hit
Speaker 1: Nation is kind of like sirius XM Hits one and
Speaker 1: it's really fascinating. Okay, so here's the stations. I have
Speaker 1: Country Workout Radio, which I love. If you don't like country,
Speaker 1: then you're not gonna like that, but I do. Hit
Speaker 1: Nation is kind of like their top Hits that's just
Speaker 1: on on a total. You know, you listen a Hits
Speaker 1: twenty four hour cardio mix, that's I think that's in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty four hour cardio mix, which is kind of like
Speaker 1: again like a satellite radio station. Then you've got what's
Speaker 1: this other one? Come on, You've got to keep going
Speaker 1: to this every time I lower my wrist. You've got
Speaker 1: Today's mix, which is sort of just like a light
Speaker 1: pop station you might hear at the dentist's office. I
Speaker 1: always joke about that. iHeartRadio Country, which is fantastic Hit
Speaker 1: Nation Junior, which is kind of like good for the
Speaker 1: kids in the car. Of course, KFI. iHeart Christmas, which
Speaker 1: is the best Christmas station out there. Katla's on there.
Speaker 1: Actually you can listen to that. American Top forty eclectic
Speaker 1: rock is amazing. I don't know the guy actually, when
Speaker 1: I tweeted about it, he tweeted me back, he said
Speaker 1: he's in La. He's like, oh, he's like, I actually
Speaker 1: programmed that station. Thanks so much for listening to it.
Speaker 1: And then Coffee Shop Radio and that's also that's what
Speaker 1: I listened to on the weekends on Saturday Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's a little bit more laid back.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you iHeartRadio has some really good stuff
Speaker 1: going for completely free, and I just think people ignore
Speaker 1: it or look over it because they think, oh it's free,
Speaker 1: it can't be that good. But I'm telling you, if
Speaker 1: you've got cellular on your Apple Watch and you don't
Speaker 1: want to spend extra money and you want to just
Speaker 1: use your watch, I'm telling you down download the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: app and it's it's fantastic. And I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: get my wife on board. That's the only thing I
Speaker 1: may You know, it's a little tricky with her because she,
Speaker 1: you know something, she's known the Apple Music or the
Speaker 1: Apple Music for so long now it's a little tricky
Speaker 1: to like kind of switch. But anyway, but check it out,
Speaker 1: all right, Do we have another question? Of course we do.
Speaker 1: We got lots of questions, all right, Uh, Marshall, Marshlley, Marcelli.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Marshall. Last week I was on a
Speaker 1: site that I have never been on before. I decided
Speaker 1: I wanted to purchase something. When I got to the
Speaker 1: part of paying, I hit pay and a pop up
Speaker 1: automatic pop pop up. This is when microphones go crazy
Speaker 1: with a pop pop pup, a pop up pop. This
Speaker 1: is why I talk on the side. If you're watching
Speaker 1: on on the let's see if I talk here, pop up,
Speaker 1: pop up, pop up. Yeah, I don't know. I try
Speaker 1: to talk to the side so I don't get those
Speaker 1: pops automatically came up with my current credit card number.
Speaker 1: I was reluctant to go any further because I cannot
Speaker 1: understand why they could have managed to have a current
Speaker 1: credit card available for me to pick from. So now
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, if my tablet gets lost and somebody manages
Speaker 1: to to get into it, could they order like crazy
Speaker 1: with that happening on any site? Should I be concerned?
Speaker 1: I would appreciate a reply thank you, Marshell, mar C H. E. L. E. Marshall, right,
Speaker 1: not Marcelli, not Marcelli, Marcel marcell anyway, So here's what
Speaker 1: I think happened on this website. I think what happened
Speaker 1: is it was something called Stripe, and it might have
Speaker 1: been a Shopify site as well. It could have been
Speaker 1: Shopify or Stripe. So there's a couple of these fintech companies,
Speaker 1: financial tech companies that are trying to make the purchase
Speaker 1: process online as frictionless as possible. Why do they want
Speaker 1: it to be frictionless because the less friction means the
Speaker 1: quicker you will be to buy. Now, my biggest pet
Speaker 1: peeve is with all these food ordering apps, when I
Speaker 1: go to order and I got to set up a
Speaker 1: whole new account just to order a salad at some
Speaker 1: random new place that I found. What I love is
Speaker 1: when they integrate Apple Pay into the app, because boom,
Speaker 1: I don't have to sign up, I don't have to
Speaker 1: sign in. It's just like Apple Pay, Boom, all my
Speaker 1: stuff is there, and it's it's super slick. So on
Speaker 1: the web that you know Apple Pay, maybe you know
Speaker 1: it's there in a couple places. But these websites are
Speaker 1: integrating what's called Stripe or Shopify, and what they do
Speaker 1: is you use your credit card on one website and
Speaker 1: it stores it in the background on the Shopify or
Speaker 1: the Stripe servers, and then when you go to another
Speaker 1: website that supports that shopping protocol, it automatically pops up
Speaker 1: with your credit card number and it says, oh, we
Speaker 1: already have your info. Do you want to just buy?
Speaker 1: And you say, oh, whoa, that's a surprise. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you got that, but okay, And what they
Speaker 1: do is and martial to sort to answer your question.
Speaker 1: It generally, before you can make that purchase, they will
Speaker 1: text a confirmation code to your smartphone to allow you
Speaker 1: to make the transaction go through. So it's not just
Speaker 1: like the information is populated and then it goes in
Speaker 1: and boom. Anyone that's on that web browser can use
Speaker 1: your info. It's realistically a combination of them having the
Speaker 1: information and then texting you for the authorization. Now it
Speaker 1: surprised me on a couple of websites, I've encountered this
Speaker 1: and it's like whoa. But I will say it's slick
Speaker 1: and it's kind of cool because the name of the
Speaker 1: game for me is I want to share my card
Speaker 1: number with as least places as possible because the more
Speaker 1: your numbers are out there, the more they are apt
Speaker 1: to getting hacked. And yes, I get it, credit cards,
Speaker 1: you're not going to be liable, but the reality is
Speaker 1: it's still a pain in the you know what, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to have to deal with the headache
Speaker 1: of changing all of your card numbers and all the
Speaker 1: different subscriptions you have or whatever. So at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I do like this system. I think
Speaker 1: it is frictionless, which of course makes you spend more money,
Speaker 1: but I kind of like it. It's slick, it's nice,
Speaker 1: and it does make life a little bit easier, So
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it as long as they're being upfront
Speaker 1: about it. I did go to Stripe and see kind
Speaker 1: of like, if you know, I can like delete my
Speaker 1: card out of them, and I didn't really see a
Speaker 1: way to do that. Maybe it's not the one I
Speaker 1: was thinking. I know, Shopify for sure lets you, you know,
Speaker 1: store your number. But anyway, that's what's happening. I think
Speaker 1: I think you'll be okay. All right, what do I
Speaker 1: want to talk about next? Uh? Should we talk about
Speaker 1: some of the biggest predictions for the holiday shopping season?
Speaker 1: I love Adobe Analytics during the holidays. They are so
Speaker 1: right on when it comes to their holiday shopping predictions.
Speaker 1: Here's how this works. They they work with a bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, major retailers, where at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, they the retailers sort of share their purchasing
Speaker 1: data with Adobe to gain insights, and so they kind
Speaker 1: of scan thing and whatever. Anyway, so there you go,
Speaker 1: So what are their what are their predictions? Number one,
Speaker 1: US online holiday sales will total one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: nine billion dollars this year, which thirty three percent year
Speaker 1: over year increase. Now I would have thought, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe people because they're not spending as much, it would
Speaker 1: have been lower. But here's what I think that means.
Speaker 1: I think that means that people are probably gonna spend
Speaker 1: less in store and more online because less people are
Speaker 1: going out of their houses. Right now, Cyber Monday is
Speaker 1: going to remain the biggest online shopping day of the year,
Speaker 1: twelve point seven billion dollars in one day, thirty five
Speaker 1: percent over last year. Smartphones Americans will spend twenty eight
Speaker 1: billion dollars more on their smartphones, accounting for forty two
Speaker 1: percent of all online sales. And I've noticed that with myself,
Speaker 1: I've noticed myself picking up my smartphone more to do,
Speaker 1: you know, to sorry. So I've I've noticed myself sort
Speaker 1: of shopping on my phone more because it is easier
Speaker 1: sometimes with these with these apps, okay, top anticipate and
Speaker 1: by the way, it goes back to that whole Apple
Speaker 1: pay thing. If I can use my stored payment, then
Speaker 1: of course I want to use that. Most anticipated gifts
Speaker 1: and toys here we go, drum roll please, Rainbow Corns,
Speaker 1: q Titos, Little Live Pets, Star Wars toys and Lego sets,
Speaker 1: video games, Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Call of Duty, Black Ops,
Speaker 1: Cold War, Spider Man, Miles Morales, Mario Kart Home Circuit,
Speaker 1: which I just tested out with my kids. I'll have
Speaker 1: a segment soon. It was a ton of fun, Super
Speaker 1: Mario three D All Stars. And then, of course you've
Speaker 1: got two new game consoles coming out, the Xbox Series
Speaker 1: X the PlayStation five. And I think the Nintendo Switch
Speaker 1: is going to continue to sell because it's a blast.
Speaker 1: My kids love theirs. They're on Animal Crossing, and I
Speaker 1: got my little kid the switch light, which is just perfect,
Speaker 1: you know, unless you're really playing on the TV screen.
Speaker 1: I think the switch light is just fine. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take another question. Bob says, hey, Rich, are you
Speaker 1: still doing the newsletter? I haven't gotten one in a
Speaker 1: while and wanting to make sure that I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: dropped from the list or something. Thanks Bob. Uh Nope,
Speaker 1: still doing the newsletter Rich on tech dot tv. You
Speaker 1: can sign up for it it's a substack newsletter. Substack
Speaker 1: is this great platform that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: using because you know, unlike something like Mailchimp, substack lets
Speaker 1: you send to I think as many people as you
Speaker 1: want for free. So I have, you know, a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of people on there. And uh, let's see how
Speaker 1: many subscribers on to the rich on Tech podcast or
Speaker 1: newsletter twelve thousand, five hundred and seven. So twelve thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred and seven of you and Bob, just checking
Speaker 1: for your email address, you are in there. So I
Speaker 1: think what happens is I do send it out every
Speaker 1: other week and so maybe that's why you're you know,
Speaker 1: missing it, or it could be going to spam, So
Speaker 1: definitely check your spam search for substack dot com and
Speaker 1: see if my email is going there. But the good
Speaker 1: news is, out of twelve five hundred and seven, let's
Speaker 1: see eleven and fifty five of you opened it last week.
Speaker 1: So that's good. So there is a lot of I
Speaker 1: love doing the newsletter. It's a lot of work on
Speaker 1: my part, but I love doing it because it's again
Speaker 1: another way to connect. So if you want to sign up,
Speaker 1: go to rich on tech dot substack dot com it's
Speaker 1: completely free, and it's it's just you know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a rundown of like a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: that I mentioned throughout the two weeks, in between the podcast,
Speaker 1: in between the newsletters, and it's just a good way
Speaker 1: to sort of keep up with what's going on. And
Speaker 1: that's it, all right, let's talk about Oh, this is
Speaker 1: really interesting. This is this is fantastic, especially for work
Speaker 1: at home. Uh epoccam. Have you heard of it? We
Speaker 1: did a story on this a while back. It's an
Speaker 1: app that turns your iPhone into a webcam, and I
Speaker 1: believe when we did it it was just maybe is
Speaker 1: it Android and iOS? I don't. I think it's just
Speaker 1: your iPhone. Well anyway, Elgado, which is a great company
Speaker 1: that makes a ton of stuff, they just bought this app,
Speaker 1: and I believe let's see if they made it free.
Speaker 1: Is it free? It's eight dollars. Okay, so eight bucks.
Speaker 1: But the reality is you can turn your old your
Speaker 1: current phone or you're you know, an old iPhone into
Speaker 1: a webcam ten ADP full HD. Oh you can use
Speaker 1: it for free or pro is eight dollars. So again,
Speaker 1: this is just good to know you can turn your
Speaker 1: iPhone or your iPad into a wireless Oh wireless, that's cool.
Speaker 1: High definition webcam for Windows and Mac Os works seamlessly
Speaker 1: with major applications like Zoom, Skype, Obs, Studio, Google, Meet,
Speaker 1: Microsoft Teams to chat stream or record in HD. And
Speaker 1: so again, the fact that this was purchased by a
Speaker 1: big company makes it great because it's going to be supported.
Speaker 1: And so the one that I looked at before was good,
Speaker 1: but I think that having this company behind it makes
Speaker 1: it even better. So again, it's called epoch epoccam available
Speaker 1: if you need a webcam. It's just something good to
Speaker 1: know and go check it out. All right, going a
Speaker 1: little long here, but you know what, I don't care.
Speaker 1: There's no time limits on this show. Let's see. Sou
Speaker 1: Foster says, I'm getting ads for apps that will print
Speaker 1: picks off my phone. I have several years of vacation picks,
Speaker 1: house stream model pictures i'd like in albums, and clean
Speaker 1: up my phone. What do you think of these apps? Ooh, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think you should be printing pictures and then
Speaker 1: deleting them off your phone. No way, that's not very good.
Speaker 1: So if you want just these things in little albums
Speaker 1: that you can put on your coffee table. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of apps that will do that. Now, if
Speaker 1: you want to just clear up your phone, I would
Speaker 1: recommend the sand disk, I expand Go, or I would
Speaker 1: just download Google Photos to your iPhone, let it back
Speaker 1: up everything, and then it will delete pictures off your phone,
Speaker 1: but it will save them in the cloud. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're looking to just print pictures, there's a couple websites
Speaker 1: I'll recommend. Number one is Groovebook. And I got to say,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been wrong on a few things in
Speaker 1: my time at KTLA, and Groovebook is one of them.
Speaker 1: I got an email from a guy named Brian at
Speaker 1: Groovebook back in February twenty thirteen. Alright, no sorry, January
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty thirteen, and he came up with an
Speaker 1: app called Groovebook, and I'll be honest, I kind of
Speaker 1: blew it off. And he was like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: so great. You know, you can download pictures or you
Speaker 1: can print pictures of your kid. It's an app that
Speaker 1: delivers let's see. Anyway, the long and short of it
Speaker 1: is I kind of, you know, didn't really do anything
Speaker 1: on it. And next thing. You know, guess who bought
Speaker 1: Groovebook for a cool however much money but it was
Speaker 1: Shutterfly and yeah, so rich didn't really get that one. Anyway,
Speaker 1: groove Book is a good one. Let's see what else
Speaker 1: do we have. Mixed Book is another one. Now I
Speaker 1: have looked at Mixbook. I did a little test book
Speaker 1: with them. It was great. Chat Books I think is
Speaker 1: a husband wife team and they're really good. And then
Speaker 1: of course Google Photos. If you want to go with
Speaker 1: a big corporate conglomerate, you can print your photo books
Speaker 1: right from Google Photos. But I always mean to do
Speaker 1: this every month and I just kind of forget to
Speaker 1: do it. But I'd like to do more photo books
Speaker 1: because they are really fun to just have on your
Speaker 1: car coffee table and flip through and look at. But
Speaker 1: I always just forget to do it. But I need
Speaker 1: to do that. All right, Let's see anything else I
Speaker 1: want to talk about before I get out of here.
Speaker 1: I did take a look at the Hummer EV the
Speaker 1: Hummers coming back as an electric vehicle. I got to
Speaker 1: see the prototype. If you want to watch it on
Speaker 1: my YouTube channel, just search Hummer EV rich on Tech
Speaker 1: and it should bring you up that video. But here's
Speaker 1: my impression Number one. I thought it was pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and for a for a split second, I was thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, this would kind of be a cool truck
Speaker 1: for me to have, because you know, it's all electric,
Speaker 1: but it looks all cool and rugged, and here I
Speaker 1: am the tech guy. But then I heard the price,
Speaker 1: which is one hundred and twelve thousand bucks, and immediately no,
Speaker 1: I barely want to buy the Tesla for like forty.
Speaker 1: But the truck features a couple unique things. It's three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles to the gallon. It will recharge
Speaker 1: zero two one hundred miles in ten minutes if you
Speaker 1: got the super fast charger. It's got this crab walk
Speaker 1: feature which allows the tires to sort of rotate just
Speaker 1: a little bit and kind of shimmy diagonally. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't see any of these things demoed. What I
Speaker 1: saw was a prototype that looked like a truck, but
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it even drove, to be honest,
Speaker 1: extract mode, which the front of the car raises up
Speaker 1: six inches to get over like a big rock. And
Speaker 1: by the way, I'd never find myself in any of
Speaker 1: the situations where I'd need to use these features because
Speaker 1: I'm not going off roading like that underbody armor ultravision
Speaker 1: which has all these cameras up to eighteen cameras around
Speaker 1: the car or truck, I should say, to help you
Speaker 1: spot stuff. What else? Three hundred and fifty miles to
Speaker 1: the gallon super CRUs which allows you to you know,
Speaker 1: hands free driving on two hundred thousand miles of roads,
Speaker 1: plus an automatic lane changing system oh watts to freedom
Speaker 1: zero to sixty and three seconds. And again this is
Speaker 1: going into production next year twenty twenty one, and it's
Speaker 1: going to beailable in twenty twenty two. The first wave
Speaker 1: of reservations has already sold out. It was like one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for the reservation, so it's not like that
Speaker 1: big of a deal, and who knows how many they
Speaker 1: actually had available. But to me, when you look at
Speaker 1: this versus say, the cyber truck, which I think is
Speaker 1: going to be like, you know, half the price, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks really cool. Look, this is for someone who
Speaker 1: does not need to worry about the money. This is
Speaker 1: not someone who has to worry about where they're spending
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten thousand dollars one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 1: You know, when you do all the math, it's going
Speaker 1: to be way more with taxes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's cool. I like that GMS doing this. Personally,
Speaker 1: I would like to see them putting a little bit
Speaker 1: more effort into something like the Bolt, or maybe similar
Speaker 1: cars to that that are more reasonable for the average person,
Speaker 1: or maybe a good looking, you know, electric car, kind
Speaker 1: of like the Tesla is a great looking electric car
Speaker 1: if you ask me, the Tesla three, it's very simple looking,
Speaker 1: but you know, maybe something more close to that. The
Speaker 1: volt and the bolt have a very unique look that
Speaker 1: is not for everyone, and so you know, it's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. Let's see one more question c S.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say the name, but anyway,
Speaker 1: my laptop is a question. My laptop is a twenty
Speaker 1: twelve model. Do I need one that's more updated or
Speaker 1: should I just buy an eurosystem? I have one laptop,
Speaker 1: one phone connected to my modem. The modem is in
Speaker 1: a room separate from my laptop and phone. Can you
Speaker 1: please advise me? I'd probably put the money towards the
Speaker 1: laptop and not the Eero. I think if your modem
Speaker 1: is in one room, next to the you know laptop.
Speaker 1: Your laptop's in the other room, and that's all you
Speaker 1: have connected. I think it spend the money on the laptop.
Speaker 1: It's twenty twelve, it's going on eight years old, depending
Speaker 1: on what kind of model it is. You know, it's
Speaker 1: probably pretty slow at this point. So it works. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think that if you want to upgrade,
Speaker 1: you want a little bit better speed, and I think
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi connection will probably be inherently better on
Speaker 1: a newer laptop than it is on an older laptop.
Speaker 1: So that's something to keep in mind. There. Oh, that
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