WEBVTT - Lightning strikes: iPhone goes USB-C! 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.160 Apple reveals new products including the latest iPhones, and yes, 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:08.440 I was there, the way that MGM got hacked and 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:13.080 how you can avoid the exact same fate, the new 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:18.040 scam that involves your local sports games, plus your tech 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.640 questions answered. What's going on on Rich Demiro and this 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.200 is Rich on Tech broadcasting live from Los Angeles, coast 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.080 to coast. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.840 the tech stuff I think you should know about and 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.720 the place where I answer your questions about technology. After all, 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.600 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.240 and it shouldn't trick you. Phone lines are now open. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.760 Here we go triple A Rich one oh one. That's 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:51.840 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.280 If you have a question about technology, give me a call, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.760 or you can also email me. Just go to Rich 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:02.480 on tech dot TV, hit the contact button, send your email. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.160 It goes right to me. I will mention some of 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.959 those on the show today and also in the feedback segment. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.560 If you have something you want to tell me, you like, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.080 something you don't like, something you just want to chime in, 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.959 give me an email. Guests this week on the show, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.360 Lisa at A Chico of Cnet. Lisa tests a lot 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.360 of mobile phones. I met up with her at the 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.960 Apple event. We talked about the new iPhones, all that 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.839 good stuff. So Lisa will be joining us a little 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.200 bit later. And a good friend of mine, Mark Saltzman, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.399 USA Today columnist. You might have seen this guy on 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.119 the TVs at Costco at one point. He's everywhere. Mark 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.520 Saltzman will be talking about the new iPhones as well, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.640 and he says something that he's got a hot take 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.880 about iPhone versus androids, So you definitely want to stay 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.120 tuned for that. Well, this week, there is only one 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.919 thing in the news, and that is the Apple event. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:02.440 New iPhones, new Apple Watches, what else, oh, new AirPods 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.840 And the big, big news on all of these devices 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.840 is that Apple has finally followed the ways of the 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:15.520 rest of the world and gone USBC. It has been 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.639 a long time coming, and they did not do this 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.560 out of the kindness of their heart. As much as 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.800 many of you love Apple, and you know, I like 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.160 certain aspects of this company, they didn't just choose to 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.040 go USBC. They would have stuck with their own proprietary 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.680 stuff forever if it wasn't for the European Union saying 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.840 Apple or pretty much everyone, you gotta go USBC. It's 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.920 better for the environment, it's better for people, it's better 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.760 for the consumers to just have one cable that works 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.760 on every device. Now, over the years, in just my 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:53.880 short history of covering tech, let's see, we have had USBA, 0:02:55.080 --> 0:03:00.200 we have had USBC, we have had micro usb B, 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.239 we have had lightning, we have had thirty pin connectors, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.080 we have had barrel connectors, we have had oh my gosh. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.919 Back in the day before USB happened on computers, there 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.720 were all kinds of different ports and things to plug 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.840 stuff in. I mean, it was just you never knew 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.639 you got a new printer, you had to plug it 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.640 in with some sort of weird cable. Nowadays, thankfully everything's USB. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.920 We have really taken that for granted, and this is 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.160 probably going to be a temporary thing for Apple. I 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.960 feel like they're moving towards a wireless future for the 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.640 iPhone and it's just a matter of time before they 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.040 do away with that cable altogether. I mean, realistically, we're 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.840 not even transferring data with these cables anymore unless you 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.240 need to. Most of the time, people are either plugging 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.160 in their phones just to charge them, or at this 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.520 point you're just wirelessly charging. And even the cars, you know, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.600 it's all wireless car play, it's wireless Android auto, more 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.680 and more less of a reason to plug in these phones. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:00.480 So what's new about the iPhone fifteen, Well, break it down. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.840 You've got the iPhone fifteen and fifteen plus. These are 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.680 pretty much the base model iPhones they get. Yet last 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:12.119 year's Pro model features Dynamic Island. That's that little pill 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.760 shaped bubble up at the top where the cameras lie 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.040 on the front facing of the phone. They've made that 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.520 into a little infotainment space so it shows things like, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.840 you know, what you're currently playing, if you've got a timer, 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.640 things like that. So last year that was new on 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.000 the iPhone fourteen pros. Now it's come to the iPhone 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.720 fifteen base models. Forty eight megapixel camera. This is the 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.320 first time we've seen a forty eight megapixel camera on 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.800 the base model iPhones, so that's new, and they take 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.200 photos by default at twenty four megapixels, so you're getting 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.880 a much much higher resolution picture and theoretically much better 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.800 camera quality. Crash detection already on there, Satellite connectivity already 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.080 on there from or actually that's coming to there as 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.880 well with triple A. So if you have one of 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.120 these phones, Apple really leaning heavily into the sort of 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.599 it's going to protect you in the worst case scenario situation. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.120 The things they did not bring to these base level 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.600 iPhones no high refresh rate on the screen, so the 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.400 Pro models have one hundred and twenty hrtz refresh rate. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.200 I know this gets a little nerdy, but basically, when 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.800 you are moving and swiping through the phone, everything's just 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.760 buttery smooth on the Pro models. Not so much on 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.960 the iPhone fifteen and fifteen plus, although if you're not 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.320 used to that, you probably don't even notice that. But 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.800 if you're in a family that has a Pro model 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.400 of the iPhone and a regular model and you switch 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.960 between them, oh yeah, you definitely notice. Let's see, Oh, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.440 portrait mode is also AI now, so you know how 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.080 you have to switch to portrait mode if you want 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.039 to take one of those pictures with the blurry backgrounds, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.800 You no longer have to do that. You literally just 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.360 aim your camera at a person or a pet. AI says, oh, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.680 we're going to collect extra information about this picture so 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.000 you can later make the background blurry. That's kind of cool. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.640 The screen is twice as bright. The other thing they 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.839 did not ring is always on, always on display, not 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.240 coming to the base model iPhones. Always on display is 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.839 probably one of the handiest features of the iPhone on 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.159 the Pro models. That's sticking to the pros. Prices start 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.920 at eight hundred bucks nine hundred dollars for the Plus models, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.880 and there's still no telephoto lens on this device, so 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.160 you get an ultra wide and a standard but because 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.520 it's a higher megapixel camera, they can crop it to 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.640 two times, so it's almost like a real zoom lens, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.200 but without an extra lens. So that's the iPhone fifteen. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.520 Now for the Pro and the Promax, these are the 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.680 more interesting of the models because this is where Apple 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.080 has decided to really put out all of their best 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.680 features on these devices. So the Pro models have this 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.479 new titanium frame design which makes them lighter, and yes, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.960 I've held them, they are definitely noticeably lighter. They're also 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.640 very smudgye on the sides. They also have this new 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.159 action button, so instead of that little switch that lets 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.400 you switch between mute and on mute, mute and Ringer 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.560 that is now a customizable button, which is really really handy. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.080 You can customize it to do nine different things, everything 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.760 from starting a voice recording, starting the camera. You can 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.120 also just leave it on Ringer silent mode. But the 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.920 thing that's really interesting is that you can now set 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.880 this to do a shortcut, and that means it's pretty 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.400 much unlimited. It's a button that could be yours. You 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.800 can make it do whatever you do. Most on this phone, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.840 you can set that as a shortcut, and that's a 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.280 rarity for Apple to let you set any sort of 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.680 thing your way. They barely do that on the iPhone. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.640 It's their ware the highway most of the time. But 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.800 now the fact that you can customize this action button 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.880 with shortcuts, that is a huge pro move and one 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.720 that I applaud Apple for. Now here's where it's not 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:57.240 so nice. The cameras are diverged yet again. So if 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.200 you're going the Pro and the Pro Max, the Pro 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.800 has a three time zoom. The Promax gets a five 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.560 time zoom, and so if you want the most zoom 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.640 on an iPhone, you have to go with the Promax. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.800 And it's nice. No, it's no Android ten x zoom 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.480 that they have on the S twenty three Ultra. But 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.520 it's a nice start and for iPhone users, again, I'm 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.120 not going to compare what Samsung is doing to the 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.200 iPhone because they are just in totally separate motes. At 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.920 this point. You're either iPhone or you're Android, and yes, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.960 you can compare and contrast, but the reality is, if 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.480 you're an iPhone person, you're probably deep into Apple's ecosystem 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:37.160 and you're not considering switching anytime soon. So five time 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.000 zoom if you used to have three is really nice. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.200 USBC as well on here is also faster, so you're 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.640 getting a faster USBC data transfer twenty up to twenty 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.400 times faster than lightning. And what's that good for? If 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.040 you're shooting like big giant video files or raw video files, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.920 the stuff that pros are doing on this phone, it's 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.400 going to be a little bit easier to transfer to 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.400 your computer. You can also set the default focal length 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.240 twenty four millimeters, twenty eight millimeters, or thirty five. Again 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.800 that gets a little nerdy, little pro but again, these 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.959 are all things that if you are a pro iPhone user, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.440 they're really good. They're really good updates, and you're going 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.880 to be very happy with these updates. Later on, the 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.640 phone is going to get a software update that's going 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.920 to get it let it shoot video in three D. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.800 They call it spatial video. And that's all getting it 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.360 prepped for that new headset that Apple's going to have 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.400 next year. Now here's where Apple did something a little 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.040 bit questionable. The prices are unchanged from last year. The 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.120 Pro starts at nine to ninety nine. The Pro Max 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:42.040 now starts at eleven hundred and ninety nine, and last 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:46.360 year technically it started at eleven ten ninety nine, So 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.400 technically the price is one hundred dollars more expensive, but 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.360 you're getting two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.760 on that eleven hundred and ninety nine model. They no 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.640 longer have a one to twenty eight gigabyte model on 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.240 the Promax. So needless to say, yes, the price is 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.040 the same as last year, but there's not a cheaper 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.120 option this year, so it starts at a more expensive price. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.280 So semantics there for sure. But and this comes in 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.840 a couple of different colors blue, black, white, and titanium. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.480 I think the natural titanium is a way to go 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.840 this year. It's a nice natural color, and you're probably 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.840 gonna put a case on it. I may go caseless 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.120 this year, just because I don't know. I'm just feeling 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.040 like I might. And this is a really lightweight phone, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.880 so it's very easy to manipulate in your hand. So 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.400 that is the update from Apple on the iPhone fifteen 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.160 and fifteen Pro and the iPhone fifteen and fifteen Plus 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:42.080 available in stores on September twenty second, already available for 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.600 pre order. Some of you listening may have already pre ordered, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.960 and so you already have your ship date and all 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.679 that good stuff. But I will say, just to kind 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.200 of top this off, we are going to talk about 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.800 Apple a lot throughout this show. Probably gonna be a 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.160 lot of questions from you about these new iPhones and 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.480 these new Apple devices. Plus our guest are going to 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.079 talk about him, so we will go through that, plus 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.240 much much more on the show. Coming up, we're going 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.640 to talk about the way that MGM got hacked and 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.959 hopefully you can avoid the same scam we've got our guests, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.120 uh and producer Adam actually has a story to tell 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.800 about how someone very close to him fell for a scam. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.040 Something that you are getting in your email on a 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.280 daily basis, and so he's going to explain exactly how 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.720 his family member fell for that scam. And it is 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.360 quite scary because it can happen to anyone. But first 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.719 it is your turn. Give me a call triple eight 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.319 rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.360 two four one zero one. If you have a question 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.800 about technology, give me a ring. My name is rich 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:50.560 d'miro and you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.520 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.520 with you, talking technology and so much to talk about 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:02.880 this week. Anytime Apple does an event, it's I mean 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.840 it's fun to go. I mean, obviously I went up there. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:09.000 It's you know, two days of just madness. There's a 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.800 just a who's who of everyone in the tech world 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.120 is up there in Coopertino, and it's fun. It's like 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.000 it's like part homecoming. You see all your friends, you 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.760 see all the people that you know from YouTube and 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.160 from around the world. I mean there's there's tech people 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.960 from every corner of the earth that fly to Coopertino. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.679 And by the way, with only about two weeks heads up, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.960 Apple sends out invitations for their events just about ten 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.360 days before, so they keep everyone guessing. And this year 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.960 there was really not a lot of surprises. But the 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.280 fact that we got the USBC on the iPhone that 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.520 we've been wanting is a big deal. I think that 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.040 that's going to be great for just streamlining gadgets because 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:52.360 now pretty much every modern gadget uses USBC. And so 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.200 it's going to take a while because people are not 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.000 going to switch overnight. They're not going to all get 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.679 the new iPhone. But as time goes on, things will 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.760 get fits out. It will be easier to pack, it 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.079 will get easier to you know, you're in the back 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.760 of a taxi and you need to charge your phone. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.280 It's no longer a do you have an iPhone or 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.760 an Android cable. It's just one cable. You're in a 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.840 hotel room, you want to plug into something, and it's 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.480 just one cable. So it's kind of like just the 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.319 way that things should be. And I get why Apple 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.040 didn't change it earlier because they had a good thing going. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.560 They've got the Lightnings. It was their proprietary cable. They 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.440 made a lot of money on it. But now that 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.680 it's USBC, it's going to be a lot better, and 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.480 I'll talk about some of the other products too that 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.400 they announced, including the Apple Watch Series nine, the Apple 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.840 Watch Ultra, and the air Pods. Plus I'll have some 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.760 guests to talk about that as well. Let's go to 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.720 the phones. Let's go to Dominic and Coasta Mesa. Dominic. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:41.800 You're on with Rich. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.480 Hey, Rich, I got a quick question. I don't know 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.839 if any some of my friends are having this problem too. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.280 I have an iPhone thirteen and when I go to Instagram, 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.439 you know, you go to your stories and you put 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.400 a song over your stories on Instagram. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.280 Sure, and it comes up for. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.079 A second, like it goes on where you can hear it, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.520 and you're like, okay, down, great, I'm gonna post it. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.720 And then you go back and it says song unavailable. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.360 And that's happening, I think to a lot of people 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.040 right now. And I went on YouTube and try to 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:14.160 google it, and they said, and I didn't do it yet, 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:19.040 like go and start stop your Instagram or close I 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.960 don't know, is it close it or restarted? 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.120 Maybe forced close it? 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:23.280 Maybe? 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.760 Well here's the deal, so I have now. Did this 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:26.400 used to work? 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:28.200 Yeah? 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.080 No, it did work then, And I don't know if 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.360 it had to do something with them last iPhone. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:33.920 Yeah, all I know is that Apple. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.320 Since the last iPhone update, my iPhone has been going nuts. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.360 And it's it's really really kind of like, I'm not 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.240 one of those conspiracy theory people, like, I'm not like, oh, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.760 Apple's messing up the phone, so I upgrade. But at 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.000 this point, I'm really feeling that because my phone, I'm 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.200 not kidding, yesterday it was nearly unusable. The battery has 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.680 crawled to a like it's just you charge it overnight, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.240 you wake up, it's a one hundred percent and ten 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.400 minutes later it's at eighty five percent. After I I check, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.040 you know, a couple of apps. And so here's my 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.760 thought on this whole Instagram thing. I have seen this happen. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.360 I get so many emails from people specifically about music 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.360 on Instagram stories. It seems to be all over the place. Now. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.240 Instagram is one of these apps that is updated very 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.040 very frequently, Like I'm talking on a weekly if not 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.080 sometimes twice a week basis. So there's always a change 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.840 happening on Instagram. And I have heard about music issues 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.600 on Instagram for a very long time. I have not 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.360 found a rhyme or reason to why these things happen 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.320 on Instagram. It seems to do with a software update. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.400 It seems to be different people's models of iPhones, different 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.520 software that it's running. Just you know, they're doing this fast, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.960 and so I think that they're not one hundred percent 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.920 testing it on every model, and sometimes things break when 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.640 they push out an update. So my advice dominic is 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.800 to number one. If you want to try to get 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:55.120 this working again on install Instagram, turn off your phone, 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.600 restart it. You can ask Siri, Hey, restart my phone, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.120 restart it, reinstall Instagram. You should come back up with 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.960 the app. You may not even have to log in again, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.240 and then see if it works that way. If it's 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.480 not working, I would just keep an eye on the 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.880 app updates, which you can check out by opening up 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.160 the app store, and you can do tap your profile 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.880 in the upper right hand corner you pull down from 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.040 the center of the screen, and then you can check 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.680 your app updates. If you have an update for Instagram, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.040 run that update and see if that helps. But quite honestly, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.400 I think this just falls into a matter of time 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.160 where it will be fixed if it continues to happen 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.120 after a long period of time, then there's definitely something wrong. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.120 But I just tested it on my phone. It works, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.320 so the feature is not broken on a worldwide basis, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.600 but it could just be something that's related to your 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.760 personal setup. Thanks for the call today, Dominic and Costa Mesa. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.680 Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.960 four to two four one zero one. Give me a 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.200 call if you have a question about technology. More Rich 0:16:54.240 --> 0:17:01.400 on tech right after this Triple eight Rich one O 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.400 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.679 zero one. Jamie is in Corona. Jamie, you're on with 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.159 Rich Hi. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.600 Rich, thanks for taking Mike call. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:11.160 Sure. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.080 Hey, I'm a Google user and I. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.760 Use a search on Google a lot. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.840 And it came back with no wanting to know if 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.480 I want to sign up for a generative AI experience 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.800 in search and that the interactions are saved in my 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:35.280 activity even if web and app activity is not enabled 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.000 stores up to twenty four hours. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.240 Blah blah blah. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.720 You know, I know there's no such thing as privacy, 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.800 but is this making it even worse or would this 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.120 be a fun thing? 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.600 Well, first off, the Genera of AI is basically Google's 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:53.040 answer to chat GPT, so Google, okay, you know they've 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.360 leaned heavily into AI, but it's very confusing because they 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.000 have it in so many different places across their products. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.679 So what you're talking about generative search is once you 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.840 say yes to that, a new search result will appear 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.879 above your search results. So if you search for, you know, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.080 best places, all right, let's just say, let's just say 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:20.080 the Beatles. Like I was mentioning the Beatles history. So 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.120 if I search for that and I've got this enabled, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.800 you know, I'll see all of the little snippets and 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.280 results that Google typically offers up, but at the top, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.119 I get a generative AI summary about the Beatles, and 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.520 I don't have to click through a whole bunch of websites. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.639 It literally writes almost a report like you would if 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.160 you were in school about the Beatles. And you can 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:46.120 do this across any topic. It's handy for shopping and 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.040 so I will tell you it is incredible and I 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.560 would recommend turning it on. So if you want to 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.879 turn this on and you're on Google, it's open to 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.520 everyone at this point, just go to labs dot Google. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.000 So if you go to labs, I know it's weird 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.040 that there's no dot com. If you go to Labs 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:06.760 dot Google, it will bring up what's called Google's latest Experiments, 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.719 And there's a whole bunch of different experiments you can do. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.720 And so I would turn on the one that is SGE, 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:19.520 which is the search with generative AI. So that's again 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.280 Labs dot Google and SGE is the one that will 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.040 get you these new results I'm talking about, and I 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.680 think they're very handy. That's one. Now, the second place 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.760 you can go is barred B A R D dot 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.399 Google dot com and that's another opt in. Now, to 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:40.560 answer your question, Jamie, is this less private than other things? 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.560 And the answer is yes. So if you look at 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.160 bard now, when you search anything on Google, it's going 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.159 into a database. Now, whether or not they save that 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.600 information and link it to your account as a different 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.680 is a different question. But what they're saying is when 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.840 you sign up for this, there are different rules about 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.360 the searches because this is an experiment and they're trying 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:06.520 to teach their AI what people search, what they click on, 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.679 what they read, how the AI responded. So in this case, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.120 it is a little bit different than your typical searching 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.040 on Google. And so yeah, you do give up a 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.120 little bit more, and I would be a little bit 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:23.159 cautious about putting any personal personal information into these AI 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.160 search engines. And that's across the board with any of them, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.360 not just Google. So if you look at Google's barred, 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.359 it says a big bold thing on my screen right 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.960 now says human reviewers may process your barred conversations for 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:40.520 quality purposes. Don't enter sensitive information, and you can click 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.400 learn more and will tell you all about the privacy 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.159 policies of this whole situation. But I'm glad that you 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.480 picked up on that. I'm glad that you're noticing this. 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:55.600 And I think that this generative search is really handy. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.440 I think that it's been incredible in fact, on your iPhone. 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.960 If you want to see this stuff as well, download 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.520 the Google app and it will put this stuff at 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.840 the top of your results on the iPhone as well, 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.840 And it's really really handy. So I say, go for it, 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.680 but just know Jamie that you want to be careful 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.639 with the information that you're putting in there. And also 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:18.879 just the fact that, yeah, there may be a human 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:24.159 that is reviewing what's going on, because they're still teaching 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.679 these systems and you can see if you go to 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:32.080 SGE privacy, it will tell you. Let's see Google SGE. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.119 I got to find out where the privacy policy is, 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.600 so I will put that link as well on the 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.159 show notes so you can see exactly what's happening with that. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.960 Good question. Good question, Jamie and Corona. Glad you're checking 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.320 that stuff out. So I'm sure you've heard about this 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.159 whole MGM casino hack. I'm not going to rehash everything 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.480 that happened, but you know, as a cyber attack disrupted 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.600 the hotel, casino and website operations for a long time. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.280 The hackers claim to steal and encrypt some of the 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:05.439 MGM data. They demanded ransom payments, and reports say that 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:10.320 MGM fell to what's called vishing, not phishing, But this 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:14.840 is vishing, a convincing phone call impersonation. Vishing is a 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.919 type of attack. It's a type of phishing attack, but 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.760 the name stems from voice and phishing. So basically, the 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.199 scammers pretend to be someone, often a legitimate business, and 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.399 trick you into giving up your private information or access 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.160 to your bank accounts. A lot of times this happens 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.720 in the real world, not just to big companies, But 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:36.040 it happens to you and I when you click a 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.600 link on either social media or an email or something 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.399 pops up on your screen and says, hey, call this 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.240 number to fix a problem. And the technician that's actually 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.480 answering the phone is a total scam artist. And this 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:49.840 happens with phone calls that you get. This happens with 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:52.840 emails that you get, a lot of emails that we've 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:57.080 gotten recently. It may say, hey, confirming your subscription payment 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:01.720 to Norton Anti Virus or Spies geek Squad. It's a 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:04.040 four hundred and ninety eight dollars. We'll be charging your 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:06.719 card on file in the next three days. Oh, if 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:08.520 you didn't want this, just call this number and we'll 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:09.960 fix it up and we'll make sure it does you 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:12.679 don't get charged. But when you call that number, that's 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.760 when this scam happens. Hey, producer Adamy there, I'm here, rich, 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:19.119 How you doing this? I'm doing great, but I'm angry 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:20.760 because this happens a lot. And I know that this 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:23.480 happens to smart people. You had someone in your family 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:26.760 recently fall for a scam to this degree. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:29.600 Right, Yeah, my dear sweet mother who's seventy one years 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.960 old and not very tech literate, but she does learn 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.760 a lot from you from listening, but apparently not enough, 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:37.960 because I awoke to a text message a few days 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:41.520 ago from her saying I got an email from Norton 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.320 LifeLock saying I've been charged four hundred and ninety nine 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.679 dollars and they gave me a number to call, and I. 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:49.680 Keep calling, but it's busy. Uh help, That's what it said. 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:52.040 Because I always tell her, before you do anything with 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:54.320 these emails, run it by me. 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:54.960 And I'll let you know. 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:57.840 Don't call numbers and emails ever. You know, I don't 0:23:57.840 --> 0:23:58.480 click links. 0:23:58.640 --> 0:23:59.240 I slept. 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:01.120 I had my phone on airplane mode for you tech 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:02.920 heads out there, oh wow. And when I right when 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:04.520 I took it off, when I woke up, I saw 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:08.040 this text. So I immediately call her, and she's not answering. 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:10.560 It's going to voicemail. So I'm imagining she's on the 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:12.320 other line because she doesn't even really know how to 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.520 switch over if you're getting another call, yeah you, So 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:18.840 in my mind, she's given out all her information set 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:20.359 on the phone while I'm on the other line. But 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:22.919 eventually I get through to her and what had happened 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.720 was in the email there was a number to call 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.960 that said, if this four hundred and ninety nine dollars 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:33.040 charge has been made an error, call this number and 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:33.840 we'll refund it. 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:34.840 So she called the. 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:38.240 Number, thinking she's doing something right, like, oh, let me 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:38.920 clear this up. 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:46.360 And she finally gets through and the guy. The guy 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:53.320 convinces her to download a remote screen sharing program and 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:59.800 proceeds to guide her to her online banking page. But 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.080 oh my god, here's the beauty of it, though rich 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:06.560 she is so tech unsavvy that she doesn't do online banking, 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:08.840 but doesn't even know that. So this guy was like 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:11.560 telling her go to you know, who's your bank, Okay, 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:12.440 go to the website. 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:13.119 Wow. 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:15.880 But she couldn't get in, and so he said, here, 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:19.560 call your bank, and he wrote a script on the 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:21.800 note after he took control of her computer. He wrote 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:23.160 a script on the note pad. 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:25.280 Oh my gosh, which I saw because I looked at 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:28.080 her computer, and it said like, hello, my name is Baba, 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:30.080 and here's what I'd like to do, like giving her 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:31.679 the step by step directions on how to. 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:35.280 I'm having problems getting into my online can you help me? 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:38.720 And she actually called her bank and said all this 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:42.119 and they said, you don't have online banking, and uh, 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:44.680 she hung up and then I got through. So the 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:47.600 real bummer was that also on the note notes app, 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:49.639 he had put like a form that I imagine they 0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:52.600 used that was just all your information, please fill this out, 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:56.639 so name, address, last four of the sosh birthdate, and 0:25:56.720 --> 0:26:00.520 she filled it out. So luckily, once I learned of this, 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:03.000 we immediately took action. Everything's been frozen and stuff. But man, 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.440 like you say, she is, she's not, you know, a 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:08.639 dumb person. But I grilled and asked her what the 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:11.600 deal was and it was like why she never thought 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:12.200 this was fake? 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:13.640 And there were three main elements. 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:18.239 One was the high amount really freaked her out, and 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:20.000 then there was something that said like if you want 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:23.040 this refund, it's got to be within twenty four hours, right, 0:26:23.520 --> 0:26:25.360 so that was really effective. 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:28.080 There's also it's there's always a time element, you know, 0:26:28.160 --> 0:26:30.399 like where they're pressuring you to do something fast. 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:34.119 Yeah, so the high amount coupled with the time crunch. 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.920 And also she'd been messing around on her Windows laptop 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:40.200 and saw a Norton pop up like a week prior, 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:44.960 and she's kind of paranoid about accidentally signing up for 0:26:45.000 --> 0:26:47.320 Norton because of those famed pop ups that. 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:48.280 We all get. 0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:51.840 So she thought, oh, I did this by accident, and 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:54.679 she talked to this guy and gave it all up. 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:56.280 But I don't think she's going to do it again. 0:26:56.400 --> 0:26:59.200 So what do we learn from this? This this whole 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:01.880 situation number, And it's scary when it happens to someone 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:04.680 close to you. I'm looking at an email I got 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.359 from a dear user, thank you for choosing our services. 0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:11.439 Your personal subscription geek Squad Care will expire today. This 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:14.680 will be auto renewed. Please review your summary. Four hundred 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:17.920 and eighty nine dollars will be auto debited on September 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:21.600 fifteenth unless you turn it off. Please call us to cancel. 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:23.480 And here's the phone number. We should call this number 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:24.719 on air and see what happens. 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:26.399 Can I do that? 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:28.040 Is that legal? I got a tealment. I guess they're 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:32.280 on the radio. Okay, So don't fall for this stuff. 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:35.840 It happens. It's out there. It's happening on a daily basis. 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:39.240 And here's the thing. It knows no bounds. You can 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:42.240 be a very smart person and have this happen to you, 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:46.800 because these scam artists are spending the entire day, their 0:27:46.960 --> 0:27:50.600 entire lives are social engineering ways to get you to 0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:52.919 fall for this stuff. They use the things that we 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:56.080 know and they trick us with those. And look at 0:27:56.359 --> 0:28:00.200 if MGM Casino, If an employee at MGM Casino can 0:28:00.200 --> 0:28:03.359 fall for this and take down the entire operation of 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:07.800 a multi billion dollar corporation, why do you think your 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:10.760 company puts that little message on your emails that says 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.879 this is from an outside person, not in your organization 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:17.760 because it's that scary to them. They know that they 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:20.400 are just one step away from an employee giving away 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:23.960 a two factor authentication code or getting into the VPN 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:28.919 or whatever they're doing to get this this hack to happen. 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:31.600 And they know it's scary these companies. This is why 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:34.080 you have to go through those training situations and those 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:36.480 you know. Hey, can you spot a phishing email? So 0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:39.560 please be aware and do not call these numbers. Do 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:41.920 not click a link in an email to log in. 0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:44.600 Do not call a phone number in an email. When 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:48.280 in doubt, go to the website itself directly and look 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:50.800 for the phone number and call it that way, all right, 0:28:50.840 --> 0:28:52.960 phone number for me triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:55.000 Thanks for sharing your story on them. By the way, 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:57.760 uh eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:00.640 one zero one. Do you have a question, Give me 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:08.080 a call. This is Rich on Tech. Jeff is in 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:10.160 New York City. Jeff, you're on with Rich. 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:15.600 Quick Questions. So we've been having kind of trouble sleeping 0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:18.960 my life and I and someone suggested earbuds you know 0:29:19.000 --> 0:29:21.240 that go in the air that can help, you know, 0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:24.840 maybe soothing music or not your podcast, but I. 0:29:24.760 --> 0:29:27.560 Like yours, but one that it may put you to sleep. 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:31.520 Who knows, no, No, I love your show, so any suggestions, 0:29:31.520 --> 0:29:34.960 I know both used to make them not anymore. You know, 0:29:35.120 --> 0:29:37.400 there's so many online. I was just figured maybe you guys. 0:29:37.200 --> 0:29:40.160 Have experience with it or something, so I I okay. 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:42.080 So it's funny. When I was little, I used to 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:44.720 sleep with like a radio under my pillow. I mean 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:46.560 I think a lot of people did. And I you know, 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:48.400 I'm from New Jersey, So I used to listen to 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:51.400 Z one hundred, probably a show that was a little 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:54.600 bit it was like a love lines kind of show. 0:29:55.160 --> 0:29:55.360 You know. 0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:59.160 They were answering questions about stuff that when I was young, 0:29:59.200 --> 0:30:01.480 it was very interesting to hear about. Anyway, that's what 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:03.920 I would fall asleep to, but that was with like 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:05.840 a little kind of radio under my pillow. So there's 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:07.880 a couple of ways you can do this. You can 0:30:07.920 --> 0:30:10.680 do I've seen all kinds of different things, and you're right. 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:13.360 So Bo's had a pair of sleep buds that were 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:16.840 really really popular. For some reason, they discontinued them. The 0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:18.880 odd thing about the Bo's ones is that they don't 0:30:18.880 --> 0:30:20.920 actually play music. They just play like sort of like 0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:23.320 a white noise kind of thing. But the good news 0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:28.160 is some Bo's employees have started up a company called 0:30:28.240 --> 0:30:33.440 Oslo Ozlo and they're bringing back very similar sleep buds 0:30:33.440 --> 0:30:35.520 with very similar technology. So if you want to check 0:30:35.520 --> 0:30:41.080 out those ozlosleep dot com now. And what I was 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:42.840 going to say to complete my thought is that I 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:45.400 can't have something in my ears when I sleep. Some 0:30:45.440 --> 0:30:48.840 people can, some people can't. So there's different types of 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:50.960 these buds out there. Some of them actually fit in 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:54.280 your ears. Some of them are soft, and you know 0:30:54.480 --> 0:30:57.160 they're comfortable when you're sleeping. I don't find that to 0:30:57.200 --> 0:30:59.880 be very comfortable, but I'm just giving you some options here. 0:31:00.000 --> 0:31:05.000 So There's a pillow you can get called Solely sol 0:31:05.160 --> 0:31:09.760 I and this is a sleep headphone pillow, and so 0:31:09.840 --> 0:31:11.840 you can sleep, you know, on your side, you can 0:31:11.880 --> 0:31:14.920 sleep on your back in different positions, and this pillow 0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:17.760 kind of wraps around your head and you can put 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:22.880 the music into the pillow via bluetooth or wired. It 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:24.880 just depends you know how much you want to pay. 0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:27.000 And all these things, by the way, are not cheap. 0:31:27.080 --> 0:31:28.520 I mean, if you want to get a cheap pair 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:31.080 of your buds that you can sleep in, sure you 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:34.560 can search Amazon. And the top one is these sleep 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:38.040 band headphones. Those are about twenty dollars. They've got forty 0:31:38.040 --> 0:31:41.960 eight thousand reviews. That's probably where i'd start, just to 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:44.720 see if that's something that you would like. This is 0:31:44.880 --> 0:31:48.160 a brand called Perry Tong p e r Y Tong, 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:50.800 not a brand that you've heard of, but it's the 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:53.560 overall pick on Amazon. If you just want something cheap 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:56.280 and simple and easy. It's kind of like a headband 0:31:56.440 --> 0:31:58.959 with bluetooth. And so that's that's something you can use 0:31:59.000 --> 0:32:02.640 as well. The other thing, the other recommendation comes from 0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:05.120 my friends at Wirecutter Lauren Dragon over there, she tests 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:08.760 all the headphones and earbuds, and she likes these Soundcore 0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:11.600 by Anchor, And if you've heard of Anchor, a lot 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:13.600 of the tech people like this brand. They make a 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:16.600 lot of charging stuff and their brand for audio is 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:20.320 called Soundcore. They make what's called the Sleep A ten 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:23.720 Bluetooth Sleep earbuds, and again there are a hundred bucks. 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:26.320 They're not cheap, they go in your ears. They don't 0:32:26.320 --> 0:32:28.920 look comfortable to me. I haven't tested them, but I 0:32:28.920 --> 0:32:30.360 guess a lot of people sleep. And then they have 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:34.840 high ratings. But those are another option, and so they 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:38.400 look a lot like the Bows earbuds that I was 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:41.400 talking about. So those are a couple of options for you. 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:44.120 If you want something that's just wired, I'm sure you 0:32:44.120 --> 0:32:48.160 can just type in Sleep earbuds on Amazon. And with 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:52.320 Amazon they've done a pretty good job now of showing 0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:55.720 you what's sort of the best mix of highest ratings, 0:32:55.800 --> 0:32:59.480 the least returns, and the cheapest price. So the overall pick. 0:32:59.520 --> 0:33:02.880 There are the Sleep earbuds that are just twenty bucks. Again, 0:33:02.880 --> 0:33:05.360 they don't look comfortable to me, but you know, if 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:07.320 you're trying to sleep and you're trying to have something 0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:10.160 that's in your ears, these are some of the options 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:12.120 that you can do. So I gave you a pillow, 0:33:12.720 --> 0:33:16.680 the bows and the soundcore. Oh the other one other 0:33:16.760 --> 0:33:19.800 thing another one hundred dollars. Sleep band Acoustic sheep is 0:33:19.840 --> 0:33:23.160 another one that Wirecutter recommends. But again it's a band. 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.440 It goes over your head, but it's a hundred bucks. 0:33:25.760 --> 0:33:28.280 Of course people like that. The ratings are not that 0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:30.240 high on that one, so maybe I would skip that. 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:33.400 But of course you can put a little speaker under 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:36.200 your pillow as well. That's another option of how to 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:39.120 get that audio. But or you can just use your 0:33:39.160 --> 0:33:41.120 phone next to your bet. I've done that in the past. 0:33:41.200 --> 0:33:43.160 Just turn your phone on, put on some sleep or 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:45.480 you know, podcasts, whatever you want, and there you go. 0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:47.640 All right, Jeff in New York, thanks for the question. 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:50.040 Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 0:33:50.160 --> 0:33:53.200 four to two four one zero one and sure, fall 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:55.600 asleep to my show, fall asleep to the podcast version 0:33:55.640 --> 0:34:00.720 you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:03.680 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:12.160 talking technology, talking scams, talking how to avoid scams. Plus 0:34:12.160 --> 0:34:16.880 we're talking Apple. Lots of new Apple products, many people 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:20.600 pre ordering there were some issues. You would think that Apple, 0:34:20.719 --> 0:34:23.120 such a big company, would have pre orders down by 0:34:23.120 --> 0:34:25.440 this point, but apparently people still had issues with pre 0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:30.200 orders early in the morning. You know you're gonna get 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:33.000 the phone eventually. You don't need to necessarily be there 0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:37.320 the second, you know whatever, it's exciting. I know, I know, 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:38.759 I know. All right, let me give you a couple 0:34:38.800 --> 0:34:41.920 of takeaways. A couple other things they mentioned at the event. 0:34:42.160 --> 0:34:44.960 Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:47.840 four to two, four to one zero one is the 0:34:47.840 --> 0:34:49.560 phone number if you want to hop on the line 0:34:49.640 --> 0:34:52.120 chime in. You got a question about technology, you want 0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:56.440 to ask me about a product, you need an app recommendation, anything, 0:34:56.760 --> 0:34:58.520 Just give me a call Triple eight rich one on 0:34:58.600 --> 0:35:02.600 one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 0:35:02.800 --> 0:35:05.560 I do these things on my Facebook page. Ask me anything, 0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:08.960 and it's like the questions come in fast and furious, 0:35:09.800 --> 0:35:12.040 and then I always end it with hey, by the way, 0:35:12.040 --> 0:35:15.360 call me on the radio show there too. Apple Watch 0:35:15.520 --> 0:35:19.640 nine is the new version of the Apple Watch. And 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:22.839 the big thing about this Apple Watch is that it 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:27.640 is believe it's Apples like first carbon neutral product, which 0:35:27.640 --> 0:35:30.200 is a pretty big deal, and it's going to get 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:32.640 this new feature called double tap, and you can check 0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:34.879 it out on my Instagram at rich on Tech. It's 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.880 pretty cool feature. It lets you tap the main button 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:40.320 on the screen just by tapping your two fingers together. 0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:41.799 So if you want to start a phone call, end 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:45.000 a phone call, start a stop watch, whatever you want 0:35:45.000 --> 0:35:48.360 to do, that's the main button on the screen, play pause, whatever, 0:35:49.239 --> 0:35:51.880 You just tap your two fingers together. And it's using 0:35:52.040 --> 0:35:55.960 the blood vessels. It's actually looking at the veins in 0:35:56.040 --> 0:35:59.520 your wrist. It's looking for the constriction of the blood 0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:02.760 to figure that out. And that's all made possible apparently 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:07.840 by the new processor inside the S nine sip chip. 0:36:08.400 --> 0:36:11.680 And they said that it's really good at monitoring all 0:36:11.800 --> 0:36:14.840 day long, and so it's got the power to do that, 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:16.800 and so it's a kind of a neat new feature. 0:36:16.840 --> 0:36:18.800 Only available on the Apple Watch nine and the Apple 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:22.040 Watch Ultra two. It's not coming to the previous Apple 0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:26.239 watches apparently. Let's see they also have this new Oh, 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:31.520 Apple ditched. Apple ditched leather completely as a company, no 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:33.759 more leather. They said, we're done with it. We're gonna 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:36.359 be carbon neutral by twenty thirty, so we're not doing 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:39.800 leather anymore. So their new material is called fine Woven. 0:36:40.480 --> 0:36:44.920 And I played with this material. It's definitely does not 0:36:45.000 --> 0:36:48.520 feel leathery. It feels more like almost like a swede 0:36:48.600 --> 0:36:52.040 or like some sort of like almost like the you know, 0:36:52.080 --> 0:36:54.960 like when you unvelcrow something like that backside of the 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:57.920 velcrode almost feels like that, not the part that's like 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:01.399 the plastic gee part, the other side, like the felty part. 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.880 So that's the new material. It's called fine Woven. And 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:08.120 I asked them if it was like waterproof, because it 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:11.279 was you know, fake or you know, synthetic or whatever. 0:37:11.320 --> 0:37:15.200 It is recycled, and they're like no, so I guess, yeah, 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:18.239 I don't know. Apple Watch Series nine starts at three 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:20.680 hundred ninety nine dollars. The se starts at two hundred 0:37:20.719 --> 0:37:23.840 and fifty dollars. Those will be available on September twenty second. 0:37:24.040 --> 0:37:26.240 Not a lot of new features. The screen is brighter 0:37:26.280 --> 0:37:28.480 on that the battery stays the same. They've got a 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:30.919 new thing called smart Stack, which is like a way 0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:35.560 to look through all of your notifications and things like 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:39.920 important upcoming calendar events on there. Then you've got the 0:37:39.960 --> 0:37:44.000 Apple Watch Ultra too. This is their you know, their 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:46.200 top of the line Apple Watch. Again, it's got that 0:37:46.280 --> 0:37:48.799 new chip, it's got that double tap feature, it's got 0:37:48.800 --> 0:37:52.680 a three thousand knit display which is fifty percent brighter 0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:56.160 than the original, so it's much much brighter. It can 0:37:56.239 --> 0:38:00.960 also it's got a expanded altitude rain so it can 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:04.520 go from negative five hundred to nine thousand meters and 0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:08.440 still I guess function properly. Let's see what else, eight 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:11.440 hundred dollars. Still, the price is the same, The battery 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:14.439 life is the same, thirty six hours or seventy two 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:18.080 on low power. And it's a good look and watch. 0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:20.840 I you know, the Ultra is really like, you know, 0:38:20.880 --> 0:38:23.759 if you want if you're kind of like the sports enthusiast, 0:38:23.880 --> 0:38:27.600 the hiking enthusiast, the biking enthusiasts, you need your battery 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:29.440 to last a long time because you're using a lot 0:38:29.480 --> 0:38:33.120 of GPS tracking on this device. That's the watch to get. 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:37.719 So a couple more announcements. Let's see AirPods Pro two. 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:42.120 These now have USBC so it's the same exact AirPods 0:38:42.120 --> 0:38:46.560 except they've got USBC charging on the case. Now, can 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:49.320 you just take your old air pods two? Your AirPods 0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:51.319 Pro two and put them in a new charging case. No, 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:54.840 you cannot. Apple's not selling the case separately in typical 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:59.080 Apple fashion. Now there is a workaround, but I don't 0:38:59.080 --> 0:39:01.440 know if it would work, because you can file like 0:39:01.480 --> 0:39:03.640 a warranty claim and say you lost your case and 0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:05.920 maybe they'd send you the USBC. But I'm not sure. 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:09.560 So the other thing is they've got this new adaptive 0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:11.560 Audio mode, which I did have a chance to check out. 0:39:11.600 --> 0:39:16.720 It's quite incredible. So it mixes noise cancelation, it mixes 0:39:16.880 --> 0:39:19.880 understanding if someone's trying to talk to you, it mixes 0:39:20.440 --> 0:39:24.480 it makes the audio louder or softer, depending on your surroundings. 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:27.319 And it's really really good. It's using AI. So the 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:30.279 bottom line is with these new AirPods Pro too, there's 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:32.200 no more putting them in and taking them out. You 0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:34.719 can pretty much leave them in all day long if 0:39:34.719 --> 0:39:38.000 you so desire, and this adaptive audio mode will just 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:42.680 change the sound that you're hearing to adapt to whatever 0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:45.279 you're trying to do. If you're listening to music and 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.239 all of a sudden things get louder outside, it's going 0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:49.520 to bring the volume up. If you're listening to music 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:51.879 and things get softer outside. You walk into a quiet park, 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:53.960 it's gonna bring the volume down a little bit so 0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:56.719 your ears aren't blown out. If you're trying to talk 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:58.919 to someone and you start talking to them, it will 0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:02.480 adaptive so you can hear them. I mean, it's really 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:06.239 really impressive what they did, and I did a full 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:07.759 demo of that and it was great. Two hundred and 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:10.400 fifty dollars, still the same price. They also have a 0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:14.560 new USBC EarPods, which is a wired version of ear pods. 0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:18.320 Those are nineteen bucks. Lots and lots of options. Lisa 0:40:18.800 --> 0:40:20.799 at a Chico from c net will be breaking down 0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:24.120 some of her thoughts on these new Apple products very soon. 0:40:24.600 --> 0:40:28.400 All right, let's go to Steve in Orange. Steve, you 0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:30.600 got a story about how you got scammed? 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:36.040 I did get scammed this week this week. Yeah, I'm 0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:38.160 looking at the scammer right now. He's online on my 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:41.440 Facebook messenger. Oh wow, I'm not talking to him. But 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:44.760 I've been doing computers since the eighties, and I started 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:49.000 a business doing computers, and pretty much now my clients 0:40:49.000 --> 0:40:51.480 are all their seniors in eighties and nineties, so I've 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.960 seen it all long. Yeah, this particular one is an 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:58.280 offshoot of the Facebook stuff. I don't do social media, 0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:00.399 so I'm not that smart, so maybe you can some. 0:41:00.440 --> 0:41:00.799 Of this in. 0:41:01.200 --> 0:41:03.600 But what I what it appears to have happened, is 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:08.120 someone cloned a Facebook account. They didn't do anything with that. 0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:10.839 They went to Facebook Messenger, jumped into one of the 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:13.839 groups that I'm a member of, and then threw up. 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:16.120 It was like ten thirty nights they used to throw up, 0:41:16.160 --> 0:41:18.279 Hey I got a new laptop today. I don't need 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:20.759 my old one. If anyone needs it, I'm happy to 0:41:20.760 --> 0:41:25.160 give it away from you. It was coming from somebody 0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:29.760 in a Facebook group that I'm a member of, and 0:41:29.880 --> 0:41:31.719 because I'm a member of that, it also had a 0:41:31.719 --> 0:41:33.880 couple of names of my friends that are on my 0:41:33.960 --> 0:41:37.279 Facebook that are also members of that particular group. It 0:41:37.320 --> 0:41:40.600 appears to me the person the scammer was reaching out 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.640 in a public way, not an individual way, and just 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:45.640 throwing out, hey, if you need a new laptop, I've 0:41:45.640 --> 0:41:47.439 got one. I'm gonna get you know, get rid of it. 0:41:47.600 --> 0:41:49.280 So I typed in, yeah, I could use an Apple, 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:51.359 you know, I can use the MacBook. Sure, And then 0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:54.520 he he wrote back, and he waited like an hour, 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:56.200 and he said wrote back and he said, yeah, okay, 0:41:56.280 --> 0:41:58.600 you can have it. Just give me I'm going to 0:41:58.640 --> 0:42:00.480 look at the FedEx. Give me your ads, and i'll 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:01.640 tell you what the shipping's going to be. 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:02.640 So we did that. 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:05.600 He said forty five dollars and I said great. So 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:07.440 I was pretty sure it was a scam, but I 0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:09.560 was playing along with having fun. I wanted to learn. 0:42:09.960 --> 0:42:13.040 And then the next morning I wake up and he says, 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:15.880 I'm at FedEx and there's a picture in the Facebook Messenger. 0:42:16.200 --> 0:42:19.719 By the way, have you seen scams with specifically Facebook Messenger? 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:20.799 Is that a normal thing? 0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:21.080 Oh? 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:24.160 Yes, Facebook Messenger scams are all over the place. I mean, 0:42:24.160 --> 0:42:26.439 this is why, this is why people like to hack 0:42:26.560 --> 0:42:30.160 Facebook accounts, because then they can pose on the account 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:32.640 like it's a real person. Because if they just set 0:42:32.680 --> 0:42:34.960 up a fake account, Facebook figures it out very quickly. 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:37.200 But if they take over someone's account, you know that 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:41.479 has some history, it's much more authentic to the Facebook server. 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:44.000 So anyway, so okay, so we got the he got 0:42:44.000 --> 0:42:45.400 the picture, and what happens. 0:42:45.920 --> 0:42:48.760 So he just said, I need some sixty five dollars 0:42:48.760 --> 0:42:52.919 for sales tax and they want insurance. And I said, well, 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:55.000 I don't want insurance, and there's no sales tax when 0:42:55.000 --> 0:42:58.319 you shift something, so I said, and he goes, uh, 0:42:58.719 --> 0:43:00.720 And I tried calling him. I hit the little messenger 0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:03.040 phone thing and it rang one time, and then he says, 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:06.040 I'm driving, and then uh, I can't talk to you. 0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:07.520 And then I wrote back. I said, well, I'm not 0:43:07.560 --> 0:43:09.600 going to send you more money until I talked to 0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:12.320 you on the phone. And then he wrote back, oh really, 0:43:12.640 --> 0:43:14.719 that's what you just said. Oh really, and then I 0:43:14.760 --> 0:43:17.080 said yes really, So that pretty much ended it. I 0:43:17.120 --> 0:43:19.879 didn't carry it farther than that. I called PayPal and 0:43:19.920 --> 0:43:21.600 they gave me my money back, which is, you know, 0:43:21.800 --> 0:43:22.959 shout up to them. That was great. 0:43:22.960 --> 0:43:24.840 Wait, so you paypaled this person money? 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:25.960 I did. 0:43:26.040 --> 0:43:28.640 I pay pal him the forty five dollars, even pretty 0:43:28.680 --> 0:43:29.640 much knowing it was a scam. 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.040 I will just want to see you were learning. 0:43:32.680 --> 0:43:32.919 Yeah. 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:36.440 Unfortunately, I don't do social media. I know about Facebook scams. 0:43:36.440 --> 0:43:39.000 I didn't know about the messenger part in a in 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:41.360 a group, so I don't think he was targeting me. 0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:44.440 I think he targeted probably five a lot. 0:43:44.600 --> 0:43:44.960 Yeah. 0:43:45.080 --> 0:43:46.879 I just say it was interesting. It was just very 0:43:46.920 --> 0:43:49.720 new to me. And so anyway, and I called PayPal 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.920 and they got into and the person that that was 0:43:52.960 --> 0:43:55.960 on this list, my friend that knows the friend that 0:43:56.239 --> 0:43:59.839 this person's representing. I talked to him and he says, 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:02.040 guys a great and we chatted about that. But that 0:44:02.160 --> 0:44:05.040 was after the scam. So and I don't know that 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:08.279 the person who owned the Facebook account. I mean, I 0:44:08.280 --> 0:44:10.799 don't know what you do once you've been cloned. But 0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:13.840 right now the hacker is still on the messenger with me, 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:14.560 and I could. 0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:14.839 Talk to him. 0:44:15.239 --> 0:44:18.120 But in any event, it was very elaborate. If you 0:44:18.160 --> 0:44:20.279 did go into the room and then throw it out 0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:22.200 to people, I would think the moderator would just pull 0:44:22.239 --> 0:44:25.279 it off immediately. But in any event, yeah, I got 0:44:25.320 --> 0:44:28.319 my money back and he was literally his mistake, in 0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:30.000 my opinion, was trying to get. 0:44:29.880 --> 0:44:33.000 More money, right, and they got greedy, Yeah. 0:44:32.800 --> 0:44:35.000 Got greedy. So I just thought that was interesting and 0:44:35.000 --> 0:44:36.800 people might well, I heard you guys talking about scams, 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:38.600 and I thought that people out that I might want 0:44:38.600 --> 0:44:40.640 to know about this Facebook messenger. 0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:44.319 Wow, that's wild. Thanks for the call, Steve, appreciate it. 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:47.400 Really just these scam artists will will know no limits 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:50.160 to how they figure out these things. And again there. 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:53.400 This is why they like to hack Facebook accounts, because 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:57.040 then they can pose as a trusted friend or someone 0:44:57.040 --> 0:44:59.000 that you know. In fact. I and it's funny that 0:44:59.000 --> 0:45:01.919 Steve said that he he was engaging with someone. I'm 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:05.240 engaging with someone right now on Instagram who is pretending 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:07.799 to be someone I know. And so he's like, hey, Rich, 0:45:07.800 --> 0:45:08.239 how you doing. 0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:09.440 I said, oh, good to see you. 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:11.560 Oh my, I missed you at the last Apple event, 0:45:11.840 --> 0:45:14.160 which I know he wasn't there. And he's like, I'm like, 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:16.560 what's new with you? And I mentioned his job and 0:45:16.600 --> 0:45:19.280 all this stuff's and he's sitting there, you know, chatting 0:45:19.320 --> 0:45:21.400 back and forth, and I'm kind of, you know, seeing 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:24.200 what the endgame is. And already I got one where 0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:26.640 he said, hey, I'm dabbling more into the digital. 0:45:26.320 --> 0:45:27.719 Space, especially crypto. 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:31.160 I'm doing really well with my portfolio of seven hundred 0:45:31.200 --> 0:45:33.359 thousand dollars. I wanted to ask if you've looked at 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:35.840 that side of things. I said, oh, yeah, I'm very interested. 0:45:36.160 --> 0:45:38.239 Because now, of course he's going to try to get 0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:40.680 me down this crypto thing where he gets me to 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:45.160 buy some crypto. Maybe I hand over my account numbers 0:45:45.200 --> 0:45:47.120 and all this stuff, so we'll see where it goes. 0:45:47.160 --> 0:45:49.440 I do not recommend that you engage with these people 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:52.120 because it can get out of control, it can get 0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:55.240 out of hand, and it's probably just not a good idea. 0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:58.239 I'm doing it just to learn and like kind of 0:45:58.239 --> 0:46:02.040 Steve did it just to benefit ourselves and benefit my knowledge. 0:46:02.040 --> 0:46:04.880 But in general, do not answer the phone for these people. 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:06.840 Do not click on links in the email, do not 0:46:06.960 --> 0:46:09.680 respond to the text messages. The more that you do 0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:11.960 this stuff, and the more you respond and engage them, 0:46:12.320 --> 0:46:14.319 the more that they will stick their friends on you 0:46:14.360 --> 0:46:16.279 because they know they've got a live one, and so 0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:18.960 you don't want to do this stuff. By the way, 0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:23.600 good good website to a checkout is the BBB Scam 0:46:23.640 --> 0:46:28.359 Tracker BBB dot org slash scam Tracker. It's a great 0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:32.080 place to research the latest scams and also look up 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:35.200 the latest scams. You put in one keyword, I'm gonna 0:46:35.200 --> 0:46:41.000 put in Messenger and let's see if someone mentions, oh yeah, Facebook, 0:46:41.040 --> 0:46:44.160 Messenger all over the place. So again it's a very 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:47.359 easy way to kind of research scams. BBB dot org 0:46:47.400 --> 0:46:50.160 slash Scamtracker. I'll put it on the website. Rich on 0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:53.279 tech dot tv in the show notes. All right, coming up, 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:55.320 more of your calls at triple eight rich one O 0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:58.320 one eight eight eight seven four to two four to 0:46:58.400 --> 0:47:01.960 one zero one. Let's see, we'll talk about some of 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:04.719 the other items in the news as well. So, got 0:47:04.760 --> 0:47:06.479 a lot of calls today, so we're getting to those. 0:47:06.719 --> 0:47:14.799 You're listening to rich on Tech. Lots of ways to 0:47:15.080 --> 0:47:18.520 find me online at rich on Tech is my username 0:47:18.680 --> 0:47:22.400 on Instagram where I'll hang out the most, probably on 0:47:22.440 --> 0:47:28.600 Instagram Stories, Facebook, Twitter, slash X. I'm also on threads 0:47:28.840 --> 0:47:30.799 and that's the name of the podcast. If you want 0:47:30.800 --> 0:47:34.800 to download the show to listen to later, just search 0:47:34.880 --> 0:47:37.120 rich on Tech in your favorite audio app. You can 0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:40.479 do that. And I kid you not. In the time 0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:43.440 we've been talking about all these scams, I actually just 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:47.200 got one twenty one minutes ago to my email that 0:47:47.560 --> 0:47:51.480 says concerning your refund and it's a geek Squad my 0:47:51.560 --> 0:47:54.040 purchase details once again. This time it's only for four 0:47:54.160 --> 0:47:57.319 hundred and seventeen dollars. The one that I tweeted out 0:47:57.360 --> 0:47:59.560 earlier was for four hundred and eighty nine dollars in 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:01.680 nine nine sense, so this one's a little bit cheaper. 0:48:01.680 --> 0:48:04.279 Oh and it's going to renew once September sixteenth. So 0:48:04.400 --> 0:48:06.400 we've been getting a lot to talk about scams in 0:48:06.440 --> 0:48:09.319 this show. It is just wild how many of these 0:48:09.360 --> 0:48:11.960 things are happening out there. But if you want to 0:48:12.000 --> 0:48:14.360 go to my Instagram and see some of the stuff 0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:17.120 that I've been posting. I've got a lot from the 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:20.520 Apple event, including what the new USBC looks like when 0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:22.959 you plug it into the iPhone, kind of a joke 0:48:23.040 --> 0:48:25.160 that I posted that people are like, really, it looks 0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:27.759 like plugging in anything. I know, that's kind of my point. 0:48:27.880 --> 0:48:30.520 And then I've got hands on with the new iPhone fifteen, 0:48:30.680 --> 0:48:33.719 the fifteen Pro. I've got the different colors of the iPhone. 0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:37.200 I've got pictures from the Apple event. I've got the 0:48:37.239 --> 0:48:40.960 double tap feature. I've got oh, this is kind of fun. Actually, 0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:44.440 I posted yesterday a Starbucks deal in the app. And 0:48:44.480 --> 0:48:47.799 then this this is wild. This glass that you can 0:48:47.840 --> 0:48:51.759 put on your iPhone. The guy takes a hammer to it. 0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:53.920 It's a small hammer, and then he takes a giant 0:48:53.920 --> 0:48:57.160 hammer and it's the glass is just fine, Like that's 0:48:57.200 --> 0:48:59.239 a screen protector I want. But of course if you 0:48:59.400 --> 0:49:01.640 drop it probably would be you know, all over the place, 0:49:02.400 --> 0:49:04.960 and speaking of scams. By the way, a good website. 0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:08.120 If you want to train your loved ones on these things, 0:49:08.760 --> 0:49:14.960 send them the website scamspotter dot org. Scamspotter dot org 0:49:15.080 --> 0:49:19.759 will help them identify scams. And it's all about the 0:49:19.760 --> 0:49:22.839 gift cards and the different things that they scam you with. 0:49:23.719 --> 0:49:26.440 Coming up after the break, we're going to talk to 0:49:26.520 --> 0:49:28.960 Lisa at a Chico of Cnet about some of the 0:49:29.000 --> 0:49:32.440 new Apple products. First, let's go to Sarah in Ventura. Sarah, 0:49:32.480 --> 0:49:33.160 you're on with Rich. 0:49:34.400 --> 0:49:41.200 Hi. Yeah, I was telling the call steamer that I 0:49:41.520 --> 0:49:46.160 was Okay, I was on a website or website. I 0:49:46.239 --> 0:49:51.920 downloaded the YouTube this is them to your home screen 0:49:52.520 --> 0:49:56.200 and then it appears on the screen and then you 0:49:56.320 --> 0:49:58.480 just tap it and then it goes to that website. 0:49:58.680 --> 0:49:59.960 Is that a bookmark? 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:02.160 Yeah, it's like yeah, it's a homescreen book mark. 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:04.239 Okay, it's like that. 0:50:04.360 --> 0:50:04.680 Okay. 0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:07.359 So I collected a bunch of YouTube ones and then 0:50:07.400 --> 0:50:11.759 I was losing it and then it disappeared and I 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:15.759 tapped undo, and then it kept disappearing on a few 0:50:15.760 --> 0:50:19.239 of them, and then the undo wouldn't work. So then 0:50:19.400 --> 0:50:23.360 I went to downloads on pictures. I had and I 0:50:23.480 --> 0:50:26.960 just went down the row clicking them, and as I did, 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:28.959 they were all disappearing. 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:30.520 What kind of tablet is this? 0:50:31.560 --> 0:50:35.640 Or what kind of device fan Sung tablet okay. 0:50:36.080 --> 0:50:38.239 And so things are just generally not working on it. 0:50:39.360 --> 0:50:43.160 Well, they they disappeared, the downloads. I mean, I went 0:50:43.200 --> 0:50:45.880 down the row and I'm like, oh, that disappeared. And 0:50:45.920 --> 0:50:47.960 I picked on the next picture, it disappeared. 0:50:48.000 --> 0:50:53.239 I put on that what app were using for the pictures? 0:50:53.280 --> 0:50:55.960 It was just downloads? 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:57.960 Okay, maybe they got disappeared. 0:50:57.480 --> 0:51:04.319 And and one was a PDF. They were different different so. 0:51:04.280 --> 0:51:06.680 It's all in the It sounds like the downloads got deleted. 0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:08.840 If you ask me, I think that they were still 0:51:08.840 --> 0:51:11.759 listed in the files, but they got deleted. If I 0:51:11.800 --> 0:51:14.480 were you, I would restart this. I would run any 0:51:14.520 --> 0:51:17.760 software updates on it, both in the system software updates 0:51:17.800 --> 0:51:20.440 and also in the app store. Make sure everything is 0:51:20.560 --> 0:51:22.839 up to date, and then you're probably gonna have to 0:51:23.040 --> 0:51:25.359 re download these links again if they went away. There's 0:51:25.360 --> 0:51:27.520 also a way you can lock down your home screen 0:51:27.520 --> 0:51:30.839 on Samsung devices in the home screen settings so that 0:51:31.200 --> 0:51:34.120 you can't mistakenly change it. This is rich on Tech. 0:51:38.880 --> 0:51:41.440 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here on 0:51:41.600 --> 0:51:44.880 location in Cooper, Tino. We just got out of the 0:51:45.040 --> 0:51:48.720 big wonder Lust event here at Apple Park, and joining 0:51:48.719 --> 0:51:50.360 me now to talk about it all is Lisa at A, 0:51:50.440 --> 0:51:54.319 Chico senior editor at c NEET. Lisa, you cover a 0:51:54.360 --> 0:51:56.400 lot of phones and different gadgets. 0:51:56.719 --> 0:51:58.000 What did you make of today's event? 0:51:58.480 --> 0:51:59.400 Yeah, absolutely so. 0:51:59.440 --> 0:52:01.520 I think what really stood out to me about today's 0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:04.440 event is the big focus Apple. 0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:05.839 Is putting on the iPhone Pro. 0:52:05.960 --> 0:52:09.320 We saw a lot of the biggest changes have arrived 0:52:09.400 --> 0:52:12.560 on the Pro rather than the regular iPhone fifteen, but 0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:14.879 also a lot of features that we saw on last 0:52:15.000 --> 0:52:16.680 year's iPhone fourteen Pro. 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:18.520 Are now on the regular iPhone fifteen. 0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:20.920 So that just kind of shows how Apple kind of 0:52:21.000 --> 0:52:24.319 uses the Pro as a kind of as a way 0:52:24.360 --> 0:52:27.400 to kind of showcase new technologies before they've become more 0:52:27.440 --> 0:52:29.160 widely available on other phones. 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:30.200 So that was interesting. 0:52:30.400 --> 0:52:32.320 And then I also thought the new Apple Watch updates 0:52:32.320 --> 0:52:33.200 were interesting as well. 0:52:33.719 --> 0:52:37.160 So it's interesting the ultra kind of moniker because we've 0:52:37.160 --> 0:52:39.520 seen this with Samsung. They typically did that with the 0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:43.640 Note before they brought features to the regular of s series, 0:52:43.960 --> 0:52:46.400 and then even with Apple, the Pro Max has always 0:52:46.440 --> 0:52:48.040 been kind of a way for them to do this, 0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:50.040 but now they're doing it even more. And then, of 0:52:50.040 --> 0:52:52.960 course now we have the Apple Watch Ultra. So why 0:52:52.960 --> 0:52:54.000 do you think they're doing this. 0:52:54.840 --> 0:52:58.000 I think Apple is really trying to expand the Apple 0:52:58.000 --> 0:53:01.400 Watches appeal. For a long time, I'm the Apple Watch 0:53:01.440 --> 0:53:03.600 was kind of seen as the smart watch for people 0:53:03.640 --> 0:53:07.640 who care about fitness but aren't athletes or runners or 0:53:07.680 --> 0:53:10.040 scuba divers. A lot of that audience would really go 0:53:10.120 --> 0:53:12.560 for maybe something more like a Garmin Watch or a 0:53:12.560 --> 0:53:15.719 polar Watch. So this is kind of Apple's way of saying, hey, 0:53:16.080 --> 0:53:20.800 we're capable of that sophisticated health tracking too, that sophisticated 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:21.600 fitness tracking. 0:53:21.960 --> 0:53:22.879 So the fact that. 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:26.160 They're already releasing another Ultra after introducing it last year, 0:53:26.200 --> 0:53:29.000 I think says a lot about their commitment to that space. 0:53:29.680 --> 0:53:33.520 Let's talk about the iPhone fifteen and fifteen plus. These 0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:38.239 got the dynamic island, the forty eight megapixel camera, and 0:53:38.400 --> 0:53:40.600 last year's processor, so a lot of the features that 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:42.919 were on the high end phones last year now made 0:53:42.920 --> 0:53:45.520 their way down to the entry level phones. 0:53:46.040 --> 0:53:46.279 Yeah. 0:53:46.320 --> 0:53:48.759 So you know, based on my first take of what 0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:51.720 I've seen today, it really seems like the iPhone fifteen 0:53:52.200 --> 0:53:54.800 is kind of like the iPhone fourteen Pro, but without 0:53:54.840 --> 0:53:58.160 that stainless deal design and without that extra telephoto camera. 0:53:58.360 --> 0:54:00.480 And it's really interesting because, like I said earlier, you 0:54:00.520 --> 0:54:03.560 see the influence that these more expensive phones have on 0:54:03.600 --> 0:54:06.279 the broader lineup, and I do think that all of 0:54:06.280 --> 0:54:10.080 these changes, taken together, really make the iPhone fifteen feel 0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:10.759 like a. 0:54:10.719 --> 0:54:13.160 Bigger upgrade than the iPhone fourteen. I feel like this 0:54:13.200 --> 0:54:13.960 is the first time in. 0:54:13.960 --> 0:54:17.000 A long time that we've seen really big updates on 0:54:17.239 --> 0:54:17.960 the standard. 0:54:17.960 --> 0:54:22.880 iPhone also comes in multiple colors, including pink, which is 0:54:22.920 --> 0:54:27.120 new this year, and it has that usbcport on the bottom. 0:54:27.200 --> 0:54:28.720 Is that going to be a big change for people. 0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:31.239 Yeah, I mean it probably will be because a lot 0:54:31.239 --> 0:54:33.440 of people are used to using the lightning connector that's 0:54:33.440 --> 0:54:35.640 been around for like ten years on the iPhone now. 0:54:35.880 --> 0:54:38.240 But I also think it'll make things a lot easier 0:54:38.239 --> 0:54:41.040 for people. You don't need a separate cable to charge 0:54:41.040 --> 0:54:43.279 your laptop and your phone, and the same goes for 0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:45.279 your iPad if you have a newer model. A lot 0:54:45.280 --> 0:54:47.799 of them now have USBC, So I think it just 0:54:47.920 --> 0:54:50.480 made a lot of sense for Apple to make that transition, 0:54:50.520 --> 0:54:52.360 and of course they had to make that transition, but 0:54:52.760 --> 0:54:55.200 I do think it'll make more sense for consumers as well. 0:54:55.640 --> 0:54:58.640 One thing they did not improve on the iPhone fifteen 0:54:58.760 --> 0:55:01.120 entry level is the screen refresh rate. Now this may 0:55:01.160 --> 0:55:04.279 be something that's super techy, but you know, if you 0:55:04.320 --> 0:55:07.520 look at the screen on the pro version versus the 0:55:07.560 --> 0:55:09.800 regular it's not quite as good. 0:55:10.760 --> 0:55:14.239 Yeah, so the regular iPhone still has not inherited that 0:55:14.360 --> 0:55:16.960 high refresh rate, and I do think, you know, obviously, 0:55:16.960 --> 0:55:19.440 there are some things that Apple has to keep exclusive 0:55:19.480 --> 0:55:21.239 to the pro in order to make it different from 0:55:21.280 --> 0:55:24.560 the regular iPhone, and I guess the refresh rate kind 0:55:24.560 --> 0:55:26.920 of fell into that camp. I do think it is 0:55:26.960 --> 0:55:29.319 one of those features that is really nice to use 0:55:29.360 --> 0:55:31.920 once you use it, but if you haven't used it, 0:55:31.960 --> 0:55:33.200 you might not be missing in as much. 0:55:33.280 --> 0:55:35.440 But I will say high refresh rates. 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:39.280 Are becoming really standard across most phones, including Android phones 0:55:39.280 --> 0:55:41.840 that are cheaper or the same price as the iPhone fifteen, 0:55:41.960 --> 0:55:45.120 So it is a bit surprising. But you know, also 0:55:45.160 --> 0:55:49.080 again Apple does have to keep some differentiating factors when 0:55:49.080 --> 0:55:50.759 it comes to the Pro and the regular. 0:55:50.440 --> 0:55:54.640 iPhone, iPhone fifteen and the fifteen plus the fifteen starts 0:55:54.680 --> 0:55:56.680 at eight hundred dollars, and I believe that's for one 0:55:56.719 --> 0:55:59.319 hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of storage. Now let's move 0:55:59.360 --> 0:56:01.680 on to the iPhone FA fifteen and fifteen Promax. This 0:56:01.719 --> 0:56:03.640 is where they put a majority of their new features, 0:56:03.640 --> 0:56:08.040 including that new titanium frame. It's got this action button 0:56:08.040 --> 0:56:10.919 on the side which is programmable, which is cool, five 0:56:11.040 --> 0:56:14.080 times zoom on the Promax, and of course a new 0:56:14.200 --> 0:56:17.279 chip the A seventeen Pro. What do you make of 0:56:17.280 --> 0:56:19.320 this device? Do you think it's a pretty good upgrade? 0:56:19.640 --> 0:56:21.640 So I think most of the time when you're thinking 0:56:21.640 --> 0:56:24.440 about upgrading your phone, it depends on how old. 0:56:24.200 --> 0:56:25.400 Your current phone is. 0:56:26.000 --> 0:56:28.480 This does seem like a fairly big upgrade for people 0:56:28.480 --> 0:56:32.040 who are upgrading from I would say an iPhone Pro 0:56:32.280 --> 0:56:35.440 or a regular iPhone that's at least two to three 0:56:35.520 --> 0:56:36.000 years old. 0:56:36.120 --> 0:56:38.280 That said, it's hard to say without having used. 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:40.680 These devices yet, but I do think this is where 0:56:40.680 --> 0:56:42.719 we see some of the more interesting new features, like 0:56:42.760 --> 0:56:45.440 the action button, for example. I think that kind of 0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:47.480 speaks to who this phone is really for. It's for 0:56:47.560 --> 0:56:51.120 that person who wants more customization, maybe for the person 0:56:51.120 --> 0:56:54.440 who is a bit more productivity oriented, kind of like 0:56:54.480 --> 0:56:57.600 Samsung's Galaxy S twenty three Ultra, right, Like, yes, that 0:56:57.680 --> 0:56:59.920 phone has a powerful camera, but it also has a 0:57:00.040 --> 0:57:02.839 giant screen and a stylist, which is for people who 0:57:03.280 --> 0:57:04.760 you know are being more productive. 0:57:04.760 --> 0:57:06.279 And I don't want to say Apple is doing the. 0:57:06.200 --> 0:57:09.320 Same thing here, but maybe their answer to like the 0:57:09.480 --> 0:57:11.719 customer that wants to be more productive on their phone 0:57:11.719 --> 0:57:13.799 and do a lot of things is having that action 0:57:13.920 --> 0:57:16.280 button and that higher refresherrate on the screen, and. 0:57:16.240 --> 0:57:17.240 Of course the better camera. 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:22.320 It's also kind of making people choose the Max if 0:57:22.360 --> 0:57:26.160 they want the highest zoom range on an iPhone, because 0:57:26.160 --> 0:57:28.680 now the Max has the five X, whereas the regular 0:57:28.720 --> 0:57:30.480 one just goes up to what three? 0:57:31.080 --> 0:57:34.600 Yeah, So I think again, like the the pro phones 0:57:34.640 --> 0:57:36.320 are for people who do feel like they need that 0:57:36.360 --> 0:57:39.600 extra camera and that extra zoom. I think that's why 0:57:39.680 --> 0:57:42.000 we tend to see a lot of those upgrades on the. 0:57:42.040 --> 0:57:43.120 Highest end device. 0:57:43.240 --> 0:57:46.000 So it's not a surprise that Apple's kind of maintained 0:57:46.080 --> 0:57:47.360 that strategy again this year. 0:57:48.080 --> 0:57:51.840 A couple other upgrades here. Apple Watch Series nine. This 0:57:52.200 --> 0:57:55.040 got a new double tap gesture, which they say requires 0:57:55.080 --> 0:57:57.120 the new processor, so it's not going to come to 0:57:57.160 --> 0:57:59.800 old Apple watches with a software update, tell me about 0:57:59.800 --> 0:58:00.240 that fature. 0:58:00.240 --> 0:58:01.360 Do you get a chance to try it out? 0:58:01.680 --> 0:58:02.880 I did get a chance to try it. 0:58:02.920 --> 0:58:05.120 So basically, what this feature does is you're wearing your 0:58:05.160 --> 0:58:07.120 Apple Watch. Let's say you have something in your hand 0:58:07.160 --> 0:58:08.320 and you can't touch the screen. 0:58:08.640 --> 0:58:11.920 You can basically perform this gesture that is a double tap. 0:58:11.960 --> 0:58:14.480 You just tap your index finger and your thumb together 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:17.000 twice and it controls the screen. 0:58:17.080 --> 0:58:19.120 And I do think it's really interesting. I don't know 0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:22.280 if it's going to be enough to convince people to upgrade. 0:58:22.480 --> 0:58:24.960 I don't know how often I'm gonna find myself actually 0:58:25.040 --> 0:58:27.400 using it, but I do like that Apple is kind 0:58:27.440 --> 0:58:29.960 of thinking about new ways to use the watch because 0:58:30.240 --> 0:58:33.240 it just feels like a bit of a fresh take 0:58:33.280 --> 0:58:35.320 from what we usually see, which is usually just more 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:37.440 health oriented features, which is great and it's a big 0:58:37.480 --> 0:58:39.680 part of why people buy the Apple Watch, but it's 0:58:39.760 --> 0:58:42.320 nice to see something that feels a bit different as well. 0:58:42.960 --> 0:58:46.200 Apple Watch Ultra too this is you know, it also 0:58:46.280 --> 0:58:48.880 gets the new double tap feature. I like how they 0:58:48.920 --> 0:58:51.800 said the battery life is. They didn't say the same, 0:58:51.840 --> 0:58:54.200 they just said it's still great. Battery life, so they 0:58:54.200 --> 0:58:56.680 didn't really improve the battery life, so that didn't really change. 0:58:57.200 --> 0:58:59.080 Did anything really change on this I love the new 0:58:59.120 --> 0:59:02.800 watch face. Did the Ultra two get any true improvements? 0:59:03.280 --> 0:59:05.960 I think the S nine chip is probably the biggest improvement, 0:59:06.000 --> 0:59:10.600 and again that should bring faster performance double tap faster 0:59:10.800 --> 0:59:13.160 series since it's it can do the processing on the 0:59:13.200 --> 0:59:16.560 device for certain queries. So I think to me, this 0:59:16.680 --> 0:59:19.240 really read like a refresh of the Ultra so that 0:59:19.320 --> 0:59:22.600 it has all of the same performance enhancements as the 0:59:22.640 --> 0:59:23.280 Series nine. 0:59:23.600 --> 0:59:25.240 There are a lot of rumors that the Ultra would 0:59:25.280 --> 0:59:27.480 come in a new black color. That did not happen. 0:59:27.920 --> 0:59:31.880 Pricing stays the same eight hundred dollars and also cellular 0:59:32.200 --> 0:59:35.840 is basically included, like you, not the service, but the 0:59:35.920 --> 0:59:38.760 cellular chip. You can't get the Ultra without that. He 0:59:38.840 --> 0:59:41.840 tests a lot of devices. How do you feel the 0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:43.680 state of mobile is at this point? 0:59:43.840 --> 0:59:46.320 Phones have looked the same for a really long time, 0:59:46.400 --> 0:59:48.840 and we're finally starting to see that be different with 0:59:48.880 --> 0:59:51.720 foldable phone. Samsung has been doing this for a while. Now, 0:59:51.720 --> 0:59:54.200 we're seeing Google jump on board. We're seeing other companies 0:59:54.240 --> 0:59:57.680 release more devices like Motorola that are foldable, Apple is 0:59:57.720 --> 1:00:01.880 the main outlier, but to me, the iPhone fifteen Pro 1:00:01.920 --> 1:00:04.240 with the new titanium design and things like that, and 1:00:04.280 --> 1:00:07.720 even the regular fifteen, which you know, like we talked about, 1:00:07.800 --> 1:00:09.840 has a bunch of new features from last year's Pro. 1:00:10.160 --> 1:00:13.280 These phones do feel different than their predecessors in a 1:00:13.320 --> 1:00:16.120 way that's a bit bigger than usual, and part of 1:00:16.160 --> 1:00:18.520 me wonders if this is, you know, also part of 1:00:18.520 --> 1:00:20.800 an effort to stand out and get people talking about 1:00:20.840 --> 1:00:24.840 their phones at a time when foldables are not necessarily 1:00:25.440 --> 1:00:27.880 becoming a hit because a lot of people still aren't 1:00:27.880 --> 1:00:31.480 buying them and they're still extremely expensive. But it's just 1:00:31.920 --> 1:00:36.000 interesting to see, I guess, a different approach and a 1:00:36.040 --> 1:00:39.920 different take on a device that has largely stayed pretty 1:00:39.960 --> 1:00:42.480 much the same for the last like ten to fifteen years, 1:00:42.520 --> 1:00:46.440 aside from processor improvements, camera improvements, bigger and better screens, 1:00:46.480 --> 1:00:47.000 all the things you. 1:00:46.960 --> 1:00:49.440 Would expect, and yet people still love them. Lisa at 1:00:49.440 --> 1:00:51.480 A Chico from scenet Thanks so much for joining me today. 1:00:51.480 --> 1:00:53.480 How can folks find your reviews online? 1:00:53.680 --> 1:00:55.840 So you can go to cnet dot com and my 1:00:55.960 --> 1:00:57.840 name is Lisa at Chico, so you can find my 1:00:57.880 --> 1:01:00.360 work there and you can also check out seen it 1:01:00.440 --> 1:01:03.320 across all of our channels on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:04.360 and we're there as well. 1:01:04.560 --> 1:01:06.600 Thanks so much for joining me. More rich on Tech 1:01:06.640 --> 1:01:08.520 headed your way. If you have a question about technology, 1:01:08.520 --> 1:01:10.600 give me a call Triple eight rich one on one 1:01:10.800 --> 1:01:31.760 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:01:33.040 --> 1:01:36.120 Welcome back to rich on Tech. If you can believe it, 1:01:36.800 --> 1:01:40.680 this music was generated by AI Stability. 1:01:40.800 --> 1:01:41.160 AI. 1:01:41.440 --> 1:01:46.840 They're known for their uh Ai image generation tool. They 1:01:46.840 --> 1:01:50.400 have launched Stable audio, so they know they're known for 1:01:50.400 --> 1:01:53.120 Stable diffusion. Now they launched Stable Audio. This is an 1:01:53.200 --> 1:01:57.120 AI product that lets you generate music and audio. All 1:01:57.160 --> 1:02:00.120 you do is you type in some text and it 1:02:00.120 --> 1:02:03.160 will come up with audio based on that text. And 1:02:03.240 --> 1:02:05.800 so for this one, I typed in, let's see what 1:02:05.840 --> 1:02:09.560 I say, warm Friendly inviting opening music for a radio 1:02:09.600 --> 1:02:12.240 show about technology, and this is what I came up with. 1:02:13.440 --> 1:02:18.120 So this was trained on Audio Sparks, so this is 1:02:18.160 --> 1:02:20.600 a library they trained it on via partnership, so it's 1:02:20.640 --> 1:02:22.880 actually legitimate. You know how there's that whole debate with 1:02:22.920 --> 1:02:26.120 AI about how they're training these models. Well, they use 1:02:26.200 --> 1:02:29.960 legitimate sources for this, so that it's legitimate you can 1:02:30.000 --> 1:02:34.320 actually generate for free twenty second clips. If you pay 1:02:34.360 --> 1:02:37.240 you can do ninety second clips, and if you pay 1:02:37.440 --> 1:02:41.160 you can actually use the clips for commercial purposes. So 1:02:41.320 --> 1:02:46.040 really interesting, But this is just the beginning. Stableaudio dot 1:02:46.080 --> 1:02:48.120 com is the website. Let's see how much does it 1:02:48.200 --> 1:02:50.960 cost to upgrade to pro? So for free you get 1:02:51.000 --> 1:02:54.840 twenty tracks a month up to forty five seconds okay 1:02:54.840 --> 1:02:57.760 they're wrong in their press release here, and then for 1:02:57.840 --> 1:02:59.600 twelve dollars a month you can make up to five 1:02:59.680 --> 1:03:03.640 hundred tracks up to ninety seconds and commercial use. So 1:03:03.760 --> 1:03:05.160 what do you think of the audio? I mean, it's 1:03:05.160 --> 1:03:07.880 not bad, you know, And if I think you know, 1:03:07.920 --> 1:03:09.640 this is the beginning. So if you learn how to 1:03:09.680 --> 1:03:11.960 prompt these things, it's all about with the AI. It's 1:03:12.000 --> 1:03:13.480 all about how to prompt you know when you want 1:03:13.480 --> 1:03:16.400 to do something. And keep in mind the first time 1:03:16.440 --> 1:03:18.120 you do something with AI, like if you're chatting with 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:21.240 like chat GPT, you can always like ask to rephrase, 1:03:21.320 --> 1:03:23.120 like you can say like if it writes something back 1:03:23.160 --> 1:03:24.520 to you and you don't like it, you can say, hey, 1:03:24.600 --> 1:03:27.600 can you add this factor? Can you elaborate more on 1:03:27.640 --> 1:03:30.640 this angle? Or can you add this or take away this. 1:03:30.720 --> 1:03:33.480 It's almost like a back and forth chap. It's really 1:03:33.520 --> 1:03:36.840 really handy. Phone lines triple eight Rich one on one 1:03:37.000 --> 1:03:41.200 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:03:41.680 --> 1:03:44.480 Let's go to Rick in mission viaho Rick you're on 1:03:44.520 --> 1:03:44.919 with Rich. 1:03:45.960 --> 1:03:48.920 Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call. My wife and 1:03:48.920 --> 1:03:52.240 I both use max Book Pro thirteen inch late twenty 1:03:52.240 --> 1:03:54.920 twenty with the M one chips, and we were thinking 1:03:54.960 --> 1:03:58.360 about upgrading to the max Book Air fifteen inch for 1:03:58.400 --> 1:04:01.280 the M two chips. I wondered if that was a 1:04:02.480 --> 1:04:04.880 good idea or if we really didn't need to do that. 1:04:05.000 --> 1:04:07.080 I'm kind of wondering how much BRAM we should do 1:04:07.160 --> 1:04:11.080 is right now? We have sixteen Mega RAM on the 1:04:11.120 --> 1:04:15.160 MacBook pros and we both use a lot of apps 1:04:15.160 --> 1:04:17.160 at the same time and often get the little message 1:04:17.200 --> 1:04:18.440 that we're running out of RAM. 1:04:18.520 --> 1:04:19.600 Yeah, I get that. 1:04:19.760 --> 1:04:20.880 Yeah? What? 1:04:21.320 --> 1:04:21.560 Okay? 1:04:21.560 --> 1:04:24.440 So you've got the M one chip in a MacBook Air, 1:04:25.320 --> 1:04:28.120 a MacBook Pro, oh, MacBook Pro okay, and you're trying 1:04:28.160 --> 1:04:30.400 to think about switching to the MacBook Air with the 1:04:30.520 --> 1:04:35.320 M two right ooh okay? Um, well, you know the 1:04:35.320 --> 1:04:37.439 Pro is going to be just better in general than 1:04:37.520 --> 1:04:39.840 the Air. So are you doing any sort of like 1:04:39.920 --> 1:04:41.120 video editing on this thing. 1:04:42.440 --> 1:04:44.000 Do something video editing. 1:04:45.800 --> 1:04:47.360 Kind of one of the bigger screen is what I 1:04:47.400 --> 1:04:47.680 was looking. 1:04:47.800 --> 1:04:51.840 Yeah, I hear you on that. I've got I've got 1:04:51.840 --> 1:04:54.840 the MacBook Uh what do I have? The MacBook Pro 1:04:55.280 --> 1:04:59.360 thirteen inch M two So I bought it right when 1:04:59.400 --> 1:05:03.360 the two. But it's the M two pro so I 1:05:03.480 --> 1:05:05.640 was fourteen inch, sorry, fourteen inch MacBook Pro. 1:05:06.080 --> 1:05:06.160 So. 1:05:06.280 --> 1:05:08.160 I mean here's the deal. I think that you're going 1:05:08.240 --> 1:05:10.440 to take a step down, are you is your processor 1:05:10.480 --> 1:05:13.360 the M one or is it M one pro? Just 1:05:13.600 --> 1:05:16.920 M one okay, So I think you're going to take 1:05:16.960 --> 1:05:19.280 a little step down with the processor because it's an 1:05:19.360 --> 1:05:24.120 M two versus the M Sorry, you're going sorry, You're 1:05:24.520 --> 1:05:27.800 you're taking a step down on the MacBook Pro version. 1:05:27.920 --> 1:05:29.800 So the Pro is obviously going to have some better 1:05:29.880 --> 1:05:33.560 things inside, better stuff going on than the MacBook Air. 1:05:34.120 --> 1:05:36.240 So I think overall you're going to take a little 1:05:36.240 --> 1:05:37.120 bit of a step back. 1:05:37.440 --> 1:05:37.560 Now. 1:05:37.640 --> 1:05:40.560 The screen size is going to be nice, that's for sure. 1:05:41.160 --> 1:05:44.000 The M two is you know, if you look at 1:05:44.000 --> 1:05:48.919 the numbers, according to Apple, eighteen percent faster, thirty five 1:05:48.960 --> 1:05:52.440 percent more powerful on the graphics, and the you know, 1:05:52.480 --> 1:05:56.680 the AI engine is forty percent better, and of course 1:05:56.720 --> 1:05:58.960 the memory is better, so you can get up to 1:05:59.000 --> 1:06:02.600 twenty four gigs. Is where you noticed on your MacBook situation? 1:06:03.800 --> 1:06:05.120 Yeah, and I did. 1:06:05.240 --> 1:06:06.880 I mean, that's that getting that to twenty four I 1:06:06.880 --> 1:06:09.120 think it's another four hundred bucks or something. 1:06:09.120 --> 1:06:12.600 That's no, it's you have the same problem with sixteen 1:06:12.880 --> 1:06:15.000 megs on the air that we do on the pro. 1:06:16.160 --> 1:06:16.440 Well. 1:06:16.520 --> 1:06:18.360 I mean, look, I think that most I would say 1:06:18.400 --> 1:06:20.560 most people probably have the sixteen at this point. That's 1:06:20.600 --> 1:06:22.880 kind of the default for the Apple I think it's 1:06:22.920 --> 1:06:26.400 the default for the laptops. That's what mine has. You know, 1:06:26.440 --> 1:06:29.360 it's one of these things where you know, in some 1:06:29.440 --> 1:06:32.200 aspects you're taking a step forward with the newer computer, 1:06:32.520 --> 1:06:35.200 the newer M two, but in some aspects you are 1:06:35.240 --> 1:06:38.040 taking a step back because the architecture of the of 1:06:38.080 --> 1:06:40.720 the air is just not as fast in general as 1:06:40.720 --> 1:06:44.640 the pro computers. So you may notice that it's fine 1:06:44.880 --> 1:06:47.800 for what you're doing, you may notice that it's not 1:06:47.880 --> 1:06:51.440 as good because of what specific tasks you're doing. Especially 1:06:51.520 --> 1:06:53.280 you know, when it comes to the M one chip 1:06:53.360 --> 1:06:57.600 versus the M two, more memory is always better, but 1:06:57.880 --> 1:07:00.720 and more screen size is always better. Are you trying 1:07:00.720 --> 1:07:05.640 to replace two computers or one two? Well, well, maybe 1:07:05.720 --> 1:07:08.200 start with one and see how it works. Is this 1:07:08.320 --> 1:07:10.440 like a business that you're running off these things? 1:07:11.080 --> 1:07:15.240 And my marriage and family therapist with an online practice and. 1:07:17.640 --> 1:07:20.320 The screen size, oh okay. 1:07:20.960 --> 1:07:23.200 I think for her it's a definitely go with the 1:07:23.200 --> 1:07:25.120 air for sure. I think if she's doing a lot 1:07:25.160 --> 1:07:27.040 of zooms, she doing a lot of virtual stuff, a 1:07:27.040 --> 1:07:30.040 lot of appointments, and she needs the big screen size. 1:07:30.720 --> 1:07:30.959 Yep. 1:07:31.080 --> 1:07:32.800 Yeah, I think for her the fifteen inches of the 1:07:32.880 --> 1:07:36.000 no brainer. I think for you if you're if you're 1:07:36.000 --> 1:07:38.760 doing a lot of video editing or any video editing, 1:07:38.800 --> 1:07:40.880 I think that a pro computer is really where it's at. 1:07:40.920 --> 1:07:43.080 You can accomplish it on the Mac Booquare for sure, 1:07:44.640 --> 1:07:47.400 and the greater memory and the greater processor may be 1:07:47.560 --> 1:07:51.440 fine depending on what you're doing. But for me personally, 1:07:51.480 --> 1:07:53.400 like I think the pros where it's at when it 1:07:53.400 --> 1:07:55.840 comes to video and if you're doing any sort of 1:07:55.920 --> 1:07:57.840 video editing, I do think that the pros are better. 1:07:58.480 --> 1:08:01.520 So I would say start with hers, maybe try, you know, 1:08:01.640 --> 1:08:03.640 try some of the things that you do on her computer. 1:08:04.120 --> 1:08:06.240 But for her, the upgrade is a no brainer for you. 1:08:06.960 --> 1:08:08.840 I think that the I know it's twenty twenty, I 1:08:08.880 --> 1:08:11.360 know that it's it's going on a couple years old. 1:08:11.520 --> 1:08:14.960 But I might wait for your computer and just deal 1:08:15.000 --> 1:08:17.320 with what you've got, unless you're just at at your 1:08:17.320 --> 1:08:19.320 wits end with this memory issue. 1:08:19.760 --> 1:08:21.160 But that's that's what I would do. 1:08:21.479 --> 1:08:23.799 I know it's always tempting to get the newest, the latest, 1:08:23.800 --> 1:08:26.759 the greatest, the better, but Mac computers last a really 1:08:26.800 --> 1:08:29.680 long time. My last computer was, you know, minimum three 1:08:29.720 --> 1:08:31.679 years old. It did not have the M one chip, 1:08:32.080 --> 1:08:34.439 and I was still editing for TV on a daily 1:08:34.479 --> 1:08:37.240 basis on that thing, and it was just fine. I mean, 1:08:37.280 --> 1:08:39.320 there's no I had no issues except for the fact 1:08:39.320 --> 1:08:41.320 that I just wanted the shiny new thing and I 1:08:41.360 --> 1:08:43.080 got it, and I kind of regret it because the 1:08:43.120 --> 1:08:45.600 screen size I went from was a sixteen inch to 1:08:45.640 --> 1:08:48.439 a fourteen inch, and I feel like the ergonomics on 1:08:48.439 --> 1:08:50.559 the fourteen inch are not as good as the sixteen inch. 1:08:51.080 --> 1:08:54.559 So maybe stick what you got until maybe they come 1:08:54.560 --> 1:08:57.240 out with the next level of processors or the next 1:08:57.280 --> 1:09:00.240 level of pros. See what they do there, and then 1:09:00.360 --> 1:09:03.479 take it from there. Good question, Rick, It's always tricky 1:09:03.520 --> 1:09:06.920 with the with the computers the laptops, because it seems 1:09:06.920 --> 1:09:11.360 like newer is better. Speaking of laptops, chromebooks getting ten 1:09:11.479 --> 1:09:14.639 years of updates. So there's this big to do about 1:09:14.640 --> 1:09:17.400 all the schools that switch to chromebooks during the pandemic, 1:09:17.560 --> 1:09:19.200 and they had to throw a lot of them away 1:09:19.280 --> 1:09:22.040 because they just weren't lasting a couple of years with 1:09:22.080 --> 1:09:24.400 the software updates. So Google said, you know what, We're 1:09:24.400 --> 1:09:27.600 going to do ten years of updates. So starting in 1:09:27.640 --> 1:09:31.200 twenty twenty four, that's next year, chromebooks from twenty twenty 1:09:31.240 --> 1:09:34.040 one on are going to get ten years of updates. 1:09:34.080 --> 1:09:37.080 So even if you have an old Chromebook that's made 1:09:37.120 --> 1:09:39.200 from twenty twenty one on, you're going to get ten 1:09:39.439 --> 1:09:42.040 years of software updates. Now, they're not saying that this 1:09:42.120 --> 1:09:44.840 is going to be like, you know, operating system updates necessarily, 1:09:45.400 --> 1:09:47.920 but it's going to be it's going to be at 1:09:48.000 --> 1:09:51.960 least ten years of you know, well it says operating systems, 1:09:51.960 --> 1:09:54.439 so actually it will be this will keep these things 1:09:54.439 --> 1:09:58.080 stable secure. Google is also going to step up their 1:09:58.160 --> 1:10:01.719 repair process because a lot of people faulted these chromebooks 1:10:01.760 --> 1:10:04.800 for not being very repairable. So that's a huge deal. 1:10:05.320 --> 1:10:08.639 So ten years of updates for Chromebooks will make more 1:10:08.680 --> 1:10:13.759 schools purchase them, make them more feasible for schools instead 1:10:13.760 --> 1:10:16.160 of having to swap these things out after three years 1:10:16.160 --> 1:10:18.439 four years. You know, kids go through the school for 1:10:18.479 --> 1:10:21.760 four years whatever five years, depending on the school, and 1:10:22.200 --> 1:10:24.320 they can keep the Chromebook the entire time. So that's 1:10:24.320 --> 1:10:26.800 a good thing. Thanks Google for doing that. Eight and 1:10:26.880 --> 1:10:29.559 eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 1:10:29.640 --> 1:10:32.240 to two four to one zero one. You are listening 1:10:32.320 --> 1:10:40.280 to rich on tech. Tesla milestone this week fifty thousand superchargers. 1:10:41.000 --> 1:10:43.320 We know that the world of evs is turning to 1:10:43.760 --> 1:10:46.760 Tesla superchargers. A lot of the new evs in the 1:10:46.760 --> 1:10:48.360 next couple of years are going to come with a 1:10:48.560 --> 1:10:52.640 Tesla charger inside, even though it's made by Ford or 1:10:53.360 --> 1:10:56.840 GM or Hyundai or whatever. They're all getting on board 1:10:56.880 --> 1:11:01.599 with Tesla's charging standard. And so Tesla announced this week 1:11:02.040 --> 1:11:06.280 fifty thousand superchargers. They painted it red actually with a 1:11:06.320 --> 1:11:11.599 commemorative plaque to commemorate the milestone. So of course all 1:11:11.640 --> 1:11:15.200 the Tesla folks are looking for this thing apparently now 1:11:15.200 --> 1:11:17.479 I don't know if it's found. Maybe this article is older, 1:11:17.520 --> 1:11:22.400 but Roseville, California is apparently where it is. Tesla supercharger 1:11:22.439 --> 1:11:25.960 network expanded from just six stalls in September twenty twelve 1:11:26.439 --> 1:11:30.000 to fifty thousand around the world in September twenty twenty three. 1:11:30.400 --> 1:11:33.360 And I will tell you when you're looking at evs, 1:11:33.640 --> 1:11:35.800 I know I drive a lot of them. I test 1:11:35.880 --> 1:11:39.280 drive a lot for segments. And the biggest issue with 1:11:39.479 --> 1:11:42.400 non Tesla's is when you get it out of your driveway. 1:11:43.080 --> 1:11:46.240 The charging situation. Now, if you're charging at home and 1:11:46.240 --> 1:11:48.519 you're charging at work, you can have any ev you want. 1:11:48.840 --> 1:11:50.639 It's when you're on a road trip that it gets 1:11:50.760 --> 1:11:54.560 really really tricky because if you're relying on random chargers, 1:11:55.120 --> 1:11:57.519 you may not find one that works, you may not 1:11:57.640 --> 1:11:59.800 find one where you need it, you may not find 1:11:59.840 --> 1:12:02.520 one at all. And so that is the big hesitation. 1:12:03.439 --> 1:12:07.080 And that's also the reason why these car companies have 1:12:07.320 --> 1:12:10.280 all moved to Tesla's network of charging, because they said, 1:12:10.320 --> 1:12:12.760 you know what, you did it right, you figured it out, 1:12:13.040 --> 1:12:15.920 and it's already ready to go. So I think that's 1:12:15.920 --> 1:12:19.519 bad for the Tesla drivers because there's suddenly going to 1:12:19.520 --> 1:12:23.240 be an influx of lots of folks charging at these superchargers, 1:12:23.240 --> 1:12:26.400 so we'll see if they can keep up. Tesla Model 1:12:26.520 --> 1:12:30.320 three is getting an update in twenty twenty four. For 1:12:30.360 --> 1:12:32.400 the twenty twenty four model, it's getting a feature that 1:12:32.479 --> 1:12:34.680 I could not believe was not in the car that 1:12:34.720 --> 1:12:38.880 I got, the Model three blind spot indicators. You know, 1:12:38.920 --> 1:12:41.360 you drive all these cars. Almost every car I test 1:12:41.400 --> 1:12:45.280 drive has a little red light on the mirror that 1:12:45.439 --> 1:12:47.599 tells you if there's a car in your blind spot. 1:12:48.120 --> 1:12:50.720 And for some reason, the Model three did not, excuse me, 1:12:50.760 --> 1:12:53.640 did not have that. And now it has that, and 1:12:53.720 --> 1:12:56.439 so that's finally, I mean, this is like a feature 1:12:56.439 --> 1:12:58.800 that is like almost worth upgrading your car for it's 1:12:58.800 --> 1:13:01.880 so good. But the other thing that they do is 1:13:02.720 --> 1:13:05.679 they like make a warning sound if you have someone 1:13:05.720 --> 1:13:07.400 in your blind spot, but for some reason that never 1:13:07.400 --> 1:13:10.400 really works, so maybe someone really has to be in 1:13:10.400 --> 1:13:12.280 the blind spot. But anyway, that's a that's a big, 1:13:12.400 --> 1:13:15.720 big new addition because the blind spot indicator lights, if 1:13:15.720 --> 1:13:17.240 you have them in your car, they're just so much 1:13:17.280 --> 1:13:21.000 better than any other system. Let's go to the phone 1:13:21.040 --> 1:13:25.400 lines here. Let's go to Jim. Jim is in Huntingdon Beach. Jim, 1:13:25.439 --> 1:13:26.120 You're on with Rich. 1:13:29.680 --> 1:13:32.680 Hello, Hello, I'm here. 1:13:34.200 --> 1:13:38.120 Okay, there, take take the phone off speaker. I hear you, 1:13:38.200 --> 1:13:40.439 but it's a little chaotic there. What's happening? 1:13:41.920 --> 1:13:42.680 Can you hear me? Now? 1:13:42.760 --> 1:13:45.280 I hear you now. Yes, you sound like a Verizon commercial. 1:13:46.000 --> 1:13:50.240 No, my my wife is chatting. Okay, I'm I'm I 1:13:50.320 --> 1:13:52.719 work at home a lot, and I'm a patent attorney 1:13:53.120 --> 1:13:55.360 now retired, but I do get a chance to work 1:13:55.400 --> 1:13:57.680 with all cases and that sort of thing, and which 1:13:57.720 --> 1:14:01.919 we're dealing with large numbers of drawings PDF drawings okay 1:14:02.320 --> 1:14:05.640 on eight and hip eleven sheets of paper. And so 1:14:05.720 --> 1:14:09.880 you've got files and you were dealing with Windows ten 1:14:10.160 --> 1:14:12.520 and it has a thing on it called the explorer. 1:14:12.800 --> 1:14:14.519 So you want to look up look for a file. 1:14:14.600 --> 1:14:15.360 You're using sport. 1:14:16.040 --> 1:14:18.400 When you find a file and you pull a file 1:14:18.520 --> 1:14:21.479 up and shown the screen, then you think, oh, I 1:14:21.479 --> 1:14:24.280 want to modifly the drawing name. I want to go 1:14:24.479 --> 1:14:26.840 like this will be going into five, and that I'll 1:14:26.840 --> 1:14:28.840 add a five to one of the titles to five, 1:14:29.000 --> 1:14:30.720 that I'll have six to the next and seven. So 1:14:31.200 --> 1:14:32.840 when I look at them in a fly in a 1:14:32.880 --> 1:14:36.760 group in order then make I cannot make sense out, okay, 1:14:37.040 --> 1:14:38.960 Rather a bunch of jobbers, all of the. 1:14:38.920 --> 1:14:40.840 Screen, all the the memory. 1:14:41.280 --> 1:14:45.599 Now my problem is when you go ahead and uh 1:14:46.200 --> 1:14:48.200 and have these files and you call them up with 1:14:48.439 --> 1:14:51.640 Windows ten and Explorer, you find that you don't have 1:14:51.720 --> 1:14:53.400 when they're on the screen, you can't do a save 1:14:53.479 --> 1:14:56.000 that at least I hadn't figured it out. I haven't 1:14:56.200 --> 1:14:58.960 found out how to do a save as command the 1:14:59.120 --> 1:15:03.479 PDF document. So I have to go back and get 1:15:03.520 --> 1:15:07.559 the stake gout, you know, take the name off the screen. 1:15:07.840 --> 1:15:10.519 I'm interested in that dogment because you're going to modify 1:15:10.600 --> 1:15:13.240 the screen, but modify the time squire name. 1:15:14.000 --> 1:15:17.679 So you're trying to Are you trying to rename the files? Natalie? 1:15:17.720 --> 1:15:18.360 Okay? 1:15:18.560 --> 1:15:22.519 So so okay, so what what program are you trying 1:15:22.560 --> 1:15:24.960 to open them up in as a PDF? Are you 1:15:25.040 --> 1:15:27.479 using like Adobe or using like Microsoft Edge? 1:15:27.920 --> 1:15:30.040 No? No, I just want to find it and find 1:15:30.040 --> 1:15:31.080 it and then rename it. 1:15:31.120 --> 1:15:32.320 Okay, but it's a PDF. 1:15:32.479 --> 1:15:36.240 Okay, Then you got a problem because to get it 1:15:36.360 --> 1:15:38.400 up on the screen and then to rename it with 1:15:38.840 --> 1:15:42.120 a modified file name, you then have to go back 1:15:42.120 --> 1:15:44.640 in and then open it up with Adobe Acrobat or 1:15:44.640 --> 1:15:48.679 something like that. That is crazy, because I've been able 1:15:48.680 --> 1:15:51.800 to open file names with Explore and then rename them. 1:15:52.040 --> 1:15:54.639 Okay, why why don't you do this? Here's a short cut. 1:15:55.000 --> 1:15:57.040 Here's a short cut. If you just find the file 1:15:57.240 --> 1:15:59.680 in your Windows Explorer. You know, let's say you have 1:15:59.720 --> 1:16:02.519 it in a folder, right, Uh, just hit the F 1:16:02.560 --> 1:16:05.639 two key and you can rename it whatever you want. 1:16:06.200 --> 1:16:07.360 Where did F two come from? 1:16:07.520 --> 1:16:08.799 It's on the top of the keyboard. 1:16:09.640 --> 1:16:11.640 I know, I know where it is. But when are 1:16:11.640 --> 1:16:12.800 we supposed to know about that? 1:16:13.280 --> 1:16:15.920 Yeah, well that's why you called me. 1:16:17.040 --> 1:16:19.639 Okay, I mean, I'll. 1:16:19.479 --> 1:16:20.160 Give that a try. 1:16:20.280 --> 1:16:24.320 So that's yeah, that's the easiest way to do it. 1:16:24.360 --> 1:16:27.160 You just go, you open up Explorer. Yeah, I'm doing 1:16:27.200 --> 1:16:29.240 it right now on my computer, and I you know, 1:16:29.320 --> 1:16:31.599 and I agree. The save as is obviously a very 1:16:31.600 --> 1:16:34.080 handy functionality, and I believe if you would open it 1:16:34.120 --> 1:16:36.080 inside something like Adobe, it would let you do that. 1:16:36.120 --> 1:16:37.760 But I don't have that on my computer right now. 1:16:38.560 --> 1:16:41.800 But if you just literally highlight the file you want, 1:16:41.880 --> 1:16:44.479 and this goes for anyone that's on Windows, but if 1:16:44.520 --> 1:16:48.920 you highlight Windows ten or eleven as well. But if 1:16:48.960 --> 1:16:52.120 you highlight in the in the file Explorer, so you know, 1:16:52.160 --> 1:16:55.320 if you just open up any folder, highlight the the 1:16:55.560 --> 1:16:57.960 icon of the or the file name, and just hit 1:16:58.080 --> 1:17:01.040 F two up at the top and you it'll immediately 1:17:01.040 --> 1:17:02.840 go to rename the file and you can just type 1:17:02.880 --> 1:17:05.479 in whatever you want. You can also right click the 1:17:05.520 --> 1:17:09.000 file and select rename, so that's another way of doing it. 1:17:09.040 --> 1:17:13.280 So just go right click and let's see here. Well 1:17:13.320 --> 1:17:16.920 I'm seeing let's see open with favorites. I don't see 1:17:16.920 --> 1:17:18.360 it on there. I guess you can go to properties 1:17:18.400 --> 1:17:20.160 and change it there, but that's kind of that's that's 1:17:20.200 --> 1:17:22.599 too much work. The F two is probably the way 1:17:22.640 --> 1:17:25.240 to do it, So Jim, try it out. Stop cursing 1:17:25.240 --> 1:17:28.759 out Windows, and I think that's gonna be the easiest 1:17:28.760 --> 1:17:29.960 way to do it. You don't even have to open 1:17:29.960 --> 1:17:32.160 the file to rename it. Once you've got it in 1:17:32.200 --> 1:17:34.640 your file folder, just hit that F two key. So 1:17:35.240 --> 1:17:38.280 good question. I'm glad we were able to figure that 1:17:38.320 --> 1:17:43.360 out so easily. Let's go to Darlene in Lomita, California. Darlene, 1:17:43.360 --> 1:17:44.040 you're on with Rich. 1:17:44.400 --> 1:17:45.400 Hi, Rich, how you doing? 1:17:45.720 --> 1:17:47.479 I am doing fantastic. How are you? 1:17:47.880 --> 1:17:51.840 I'm pretty good. My phone is an iPhone eight and 1:17:51.920 --> 1:17:54.800 it's not no longer going to get the iOS updates. 1:17:55.280 --> 1:17:58.040 So I'm being forced to get a new phone. I 1:17:58.080 --> 1:17:59.920 don't think I want to get the fifteen. So I 1:18:00.120 --> 1:18:02.439 want to see what you think I should do. 1:18:02.800 --> 1:18:04.360 Oh okay, what do you do on your phone? 1:18:05.600 --> 1:18:07.800 I'm retired. I play games? 1:18:08.360 --> 1:18:09.639 Okay, So you want a big screen? 1:18:09.680 --> 1:18:11.840 Probably right, well, not that big. 1:18:11.920 --> 1:18:14.320 I mean, I'm fine with just getting a regular I 1:18:14.320 --> 1:18:16.880 don't need the proer plus. I don't think, Oh. 1:18:16.720 --> 1:18:17.439 You don't, okay? 1:18:17.800 --> 1:18:20.040 Might? I mean, I don't know. I'm asking you what 1:18:20.080 --> 1:18:20.400 I think. 1:18:20.479 --> 1:18:22.479 Okay, I think you go with the plus. I think 1:18:22.520 --> 1:18:24.400 if you're you're telling me you're playing games, why would 1:18:24.400 --> 1:18:26.400 you not want more screen space? I think that the 1:18:26.439 --> 1:18:29.800 more real estate the better. You know, you're retired, you 1:18:29.800 --> 1:18:31.559 want to enjoy your phone. You probably use it for 1:18:31.600 --> 1:18:34.040 a lot of different things, So why go with the 1:18:34.080 --> 1:18:36.160 smaller screen when for one hundred bucks more you can 1:18:36.160 --> 1:18:39.880 have a bigger screen. Now, the phones that Apple is 1:18:39.920 --> 1:18:43.320 selling officially at this point is the fifteen and fifteen Pro. 1:18:43.400 --> 1:18:46.360 Obviously we don't want those, so the older models that 1:18:46.360 --> 1:18:51.160 they're selling are the fourteen and the thirteen. So you know, 1:18:51.280 --> 1:18:53.280 it's kind of depends do you have a budget, Like, 1:18:53.320 --> 1:18:56.360 do you want to spend or not spend a certain amount. 1:18:56.920 --> 1:18:58.840 Well, not really. I mean, you know, if I have 1:18:59.120 --> 1:19:02.000 it's a little more expensive and it's better, then I'll 1:19:02.000 --> 1:19:02.320 do it. 1:19:02.439 --> 1:19:02.799 Okay. 1:19:03.200 --> 1:19:06.479 So when it comes to the iPhone thirteen, oh, interesting, 1:19:06.520 --> 1:19:10.240 they're not selling the plus model. Oh that's interesting. 1:19:10.320 --> 1:19:10.599 Okay. 1:19:10.600 --> 1:19:12.920 So it looks like they're just selling the iPhone thirteen. 1:19:13.600 --> 1:19:15.240 So if you want to get the plus model, you 1:19:15.240 --> 1:19:17.120 got to jump up to the fourteen. So the iPhone 1:19:17.160 --> 1:19:21.400 fourteen Plus is eight hundred dollars and that comes in 1:19:21.479 --> 1:19:23.040 you know, a bunch of different colors, so you can 1:19:23.040 --> 1:19:26.479 pick those colors, and the storage is one twenty eight, 1:19:26.479 --> 1:19:28.400 which I think is more than enough for you because 1:19:28.760 --> 1:19:30.720 you're you know, you're retired, you said, so you're just 1:19:30.760 --> 1:19:33.439 this is more casual use. So do you take a 1:19:33.479 --> 1:19:34.960 lot of pictures or videos? 1:19:35.240 --> 1:19:38.160 Not really, No, And I will be upgrading through Verizon. 1:19:38.880 --> 1:19:40.599 You'll be upgrading through Verizon. 1:19:40.800 --> 1:19:43.200 That's what I usually do because I don't know how 1:19:43.240 --> 1:19:43.800 to do all this time. 1:19:43.840 --> 1:19:48.080 Okay, So if you're upgrading through Verizon, Now here's the thing. 1:19:48.320 --> 1:19:51.479 Verizon's deals right now are obviously going to be geared 1:19:51.520 --> 1:19:53.840 towards the new iPhone, So they're going to want to 1:19:53.880 --> 1:19:57.040 sell you the new iPhone. Okay, And so I'm looking 1:19:57.080 --> 1:20:00.080 at their deals so new and existing, so you you 1:20:00.120 --> 1:20:01.640 may just want to get if you're gonna are you 1:20:01.640 --> 1:20:03.320 gonna stick with Verizon for a long time. 1:20:03.720 --> 1:20:05.080 I've been with them since they were. 1:20:05.000 --> 1:20:07.360 Air touched, Okay, So it sounds like, so what I 1:20:07.400 --> 1:20:10.879 think you should do is take advantage of their existing 1:20:10.920 --> 1:20:14.280 customer deal. If you add oh you got to add 1:20:14.320 --> 1:20:18.519 a new line though, darn it. Existing customers can upgrade 1:20:18.560 --> 1:20:20.200 and get oh, here we go. You can get up 1:20:20.200 --> 1:20:22.559 to eight hundred and thirty dollars off the new iPhone fifteen. 1:20:22.680 --> 1:20:24.400 But you got to trade in your old phone, and 1:20:24.439 --> 1:20:27.160 your old phone's not gonna be worth much, so that's 1:20:27.160 --> 1:20:29.760 not really gonna work. So what I would do is 1:20:29.840 --> 1:20:32.880 I would go on Verizon's website, see what they're going 1:20:32.920 --> 1:20:35.000 to give you for your old phone. You'll probably get 1:20:35.320 --> 1:20:37.160 You're probably not gonna get much, I'll be honest. The 1:20:37.200 --> 1:20:38.800 iPhone eight is not going to give you too much. 1:20:39.200 --> 1:20:41.080 But I think I think the best phone for you 1:20:41.360 --> 1:20:45.080 is probably the iPhone fourteen plus. And that way you 1:20:45.120 --> 1:20:47.200 get a nice big screen, you can play your games, 1:20:47.240 --> 1:20:49.400 you can look at your pictures. They've got a whole 1:20:49.439 --> 1:20:52.040 bunch of fun colors. It's not the latest phone, but 1:20:52.360 --> 1:20:54.599 quite honestly, this is going to be a really solid 1:20:54.640 --> 1:20:58.439 device that's gonna last you years. So you're going to 1:20:58.479 --> 1:21:00.560 get your trading money for your old which is not 1:21:00.600 --> 1:21:05.439 gonna be too much. I can how long do we have, Adam? Okay, 1:21:06.080 --> 1:21:08.160 I'm just trying to see how much you might be 1:21:08.280 --> 1:21:11.880 expecting for that old device. Let's just see. Let's just 1:21:11.880 --> 1:21:18.040 select a smartphone. Let's say iPhone eight. Ooh, Darlene, You're 1:21:18.080 --> 1:21:20.960 only gonna get sixty bucks for that phone, so it 1:21:21.120 --> 1:21:23.639 may be better to keep it as a backup phone. 1:21:23.760 --> 1:21:27.000 So but I would recommend the iPhone fourteen plus. I 1:21:27.040 --> 1:21:29.439 think if they can sell you like the thirteen plus, 1:21:30.000 --> 1:21:32.920 then you know, maybe go for that. But they they 1:21:32.960 --> 1:21:36.120 may do it. Apple doesn't officially, but but Verizon may 1:21:36.160 --> 1:21:38.600 because they may have stock of that still. But I 1:21:38.600 --> 1:21:41.080 think you go with the thirteen plus or the fourteen plus. 1:21:41.520 --> 1:21:44.560 Either way, it's gonna be about eight hundred bucks, and 1:21:44.600 --> 1:21:46.240 I think that's gonna be a good, solid choice for you, 1:21:46.280 --> 1:21:47.880 and it's a good upgrade. It sounds like you've had 1:21:47.880 --> 1:21:51.600 this iPhone eight for a while huh, yes, yes I have. 1:21:52.360 --> 1:21:54.240 So I think you'll notice your pictures will be a 1:21:54.240 --> 1:21:56.639 lot better, your battery life will be a lot better. 1:21:57.040 --> 1:21:59.400 And you don't care about the new USBC. You're not like, 1:21:59.640 --> 1:22:01.240 you're not really caring to get that. 1:22:01.840 --> 1:22:04.280 Not really, Nope, I just bought a bunch of other chords. 1:22:04.320 --> 1:22:06.519 Well then there's your answer, So this will work with 1:22:06.560 --> 1:22:08.840 those chords. So I think that's the phone to get, 1:22:09.240 --> 1:22:10.840 and I think that you're going to be pretty happy 1:22:10.880 --> 1:22:13.360 with that. But going through Verizon, but ask them, you know, 1:22:13.360 --> 1:22:15.479 see what deals they have. They're probably going to try 1:22:15.520 --> 1:22:18.719 to steer you towards the new iPhone fifteen the iPhone 1:22:18.720 --> 1:22:21.360 fifteen plus. But I don't think you need it, especially 1:22:21.360 --> 1:22:23.320 if you just bought all those new cables. Thanks for 1:22:23.360 --> 1:22:25.960 the call, Darley, and appreciate it. Triple eight rich one 1:22:26.000 --> 1:22:28.519 on one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1:22:28.600 --> 1:22:32.639 to one zero one. Solving problems, changing lives. We're doing 1:22:32.640 --> 1:22:35.040 it all right here on rich On Tech. Coming up 1:22:35.080 --> 1:22:37.679 this hour, we're going to talk to Mark Saltzman about 1:22:38.040 --> 1:22:40.280 more of the iPhone stuff and more of the Apple stuff. 1:22:40.280 --> 1:22:43.320 You'll get his take on iPhone versus Android two. You're 1:22:43.320 --> 1:22:51.439 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:22:51.680 --> 1:22:55.960 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you. Pat writes in, uh, 1:22:56.520 --> 1:22:59.880 do you know why the calendar on Samsung phones doesn't 1:23:00.080 --> 1:23:01.480 list Jewish holidays? 1:23:02.400 --> 1:23:03.040 Good question. 1:23:04.000 --> 1:23:06.640 So I just looked up on my Samsung that I 1:23:06.720 --> 1:23:11.479 keep here and sure enough nothing. So that's you know. 1:23:11.560 --> 1:23:16.559 I think there are calendar feeds that you can get, 1:23:16.600 --> 1:23:18.720 Like if you look at Google's calendar, they have like 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:23.599 a default you know, holidays in the United States feed, 1:23:24.400 --> 1:23:26.600 but you can add more feeds. And so I just 1:23:26.640 --> 1:23:31.760 looked up online Jewish holiday calendar feed and it brought 1:23:31.800 --> 1:23:37.160 me to a website that's hgbcl dot com slash iCal 1:23:38.000 --> 1:23:41.719 and you can just import these for either iPhone, Google 1:23:41.840 --> 1:23:45.360 or Outlook. And they have one with emojis and one 1:23:45.400 --> 1:23:49.880 without emojis, and it displays major holidays such as Rashashana, 1:23:50.000 --> 1:23:54.040 Yam Kapor, Passover, Hanukkah, does not include the minor and 1:23:54.160 --> 1:23:59.280 modern holidays fast days anyway, So that's what you want 1:23:59.280 --> 1:23:59.439 to do. 1:23:59.479 --> 1:24:00.960 If you want to get. 1:24:00.800 --> 1:24:07.160 Your specific religious holidays on your calendar, you can Google 1:24:07.320 --> 1:24:10.920 a website that keeps a list and has a calendar feed, 1:24:11.479 --> 1:24:13.559 So that's what you want. You basically want to look 1:24:13.560 --> 1:24:18.840 for a calendar feed and just Google your religion calendar feed, 1:24:19.240 --> 1:24:22.720 click on that. I would click it from your phone. 1:24:22.960 --> 1:24:24.960 It's probably easiest to do it from your phone because 1:24:25.000 --> 1:24:27.439 your calendar app will try to open that up, and 1:24:27.479 --> 1:24:29.280 once you open it up, it'll be in there. By 1:24:29.320 --> 1:24:32.280 the way, if you want to manage your calendars, if 1:24:32.280 --> 1:24:35.840 you're using Google Calendar on your iPhone or Android, you 1:24:35.880 --> 1:24:39.919 can tap on the left hand side and it shows 1:24:40.000 --> 1:24:44.160 all of your different calendars, events, tasks, you know, all 1:24:44.200 --> 1:24:46.400 the different calendars you have. You can select those or 1:24:46.439 --> 1:24:48.639 de select those, and you can also change the color 1:24:49.080 --> 1:24:52.080 that those calendars show up as. And I've got tons 1:24:52.080 --> 1:24:53.280 that you know, I've got one for like the New 1:24:53.360 --> 1:24:57.320 York Jets, I've got one for the usc Trojans. So 1:24:57.400 --> 1:25:00.400 you can have all these things on your calendar. All 1:25:00.400 --> 1:25:02.479 about getting that feed, and if you want to get 1:25:02.520 --> 1:25:05.000 rid of them, just go on that left hand side 1:25:04.720 --> 1:25:07.440 in the menu and just get rid of the calendars 1:25:07.760 --> 1:25:10.040 the calendars that you don't want. Same thing on Samsung. 1:25:10.520 --> 1:25:13.240 If you're inside the Samsung Calendar, just tap the left 1:25:13.280 --> 1:25:15.800 hand side. There's like a little menu button and then 1:25:15.840 --> 1:25:19.639 you can see all the different calendars says MyPhone, Samsung account, Google, 1:25:20.000 --> 1:25:22.599 and you just go through and you can de select 1:25:22.720 --> 1:25:26.680 or select. Now on the iPhone, I wish I had 1:25:26.720 --> 1:25:29.360 my calendar app. I don't use the iPhone calendar app. 1:25:29.560 --> 1:25:34.559 I think it's poorly, poorly designed and it's been around forever. 1:25:36.120 --> 1:25:38.040 But there is the same thing on there. You can 1:25:38.040 --> 1:25:40.759 go into your calendar. I believe it's in the settings. 1:25:40.800 --> 1:25:43.599 Let's go into the settings on the iPhone and you 1:25:43.640 --> 1:25:46.920 go down settings, you go down to calendar and same 1:25:46.960 --> 1:25:50.360 exact thing. So settings on the iPhone calendar, it says 1:25:50.360 --> 1:25:54.679 accounts and then you have all your accounts iCloud, Exchange, Outlook, Gmail, 1:25:55.320 --> 1:25:57.880 and then you can toggle the accounts you want, and 1:25:57.920 --> 1:26:01.360 then you can also toggle the calendars that you want, 1:26:02.160 --> 1:26:04.840 so you can do your default calendar. A lot of 1:26:04.880 --> 1:26:07.800 people don't select their default calendar and they forget and 1:26:07.840 --> 1:26:10.080 it's like random things show up. So if you ever 1:26:10.120 --> 1:26:12.280 have a default calendar, and then when you go into 1:26:12.280 --> 1:26:14.240 the app, you can choose the calendars that you want. 1:26:14.560 --> 1:26:16.080 I believe it's at the bottom of the app, but 1:26:16.080 --> 1:26:18.240 they all let you do this. So the point is 1:26:18.320 --> 1:26:20.439 it's your calendar. You put the stuff on there that 1:26:20.520 --> 1:26:22.439 you want. If you want a feed of the holidays 1:26:22.479 --> 1:26:25.960 that you celebrate, put it on there. Let's see, let's 1:26:26.000 --> 1:26:28.960 go to Oh, we've got thirty seconds. We can't go 1:26:29.040 --> 1:26:32.240 a call, so we're not gonna do that. Oh, today's 1:26:32.280 --> 1:26:35.919 Rossiashana as I'm heard? Okay, so do you say happy Rasashana? 1:26:35.920 --> 1:26:36.920 I don't know. Is that a thing? 1:26:37.600 --> 1:26:37.880 Sure? 1:26:38.040 --> 1:26:44.599 Okay? Producer Adam says sure. By the way, you heard 1:26:44.640 --> 1:26:48.320 the story about the iPhone, the France software radiation situation. 1:26:48.479 --> 1:26:52.160 So Apple's gonna issue a software update. They take issue 1:26:52.160 --> 1:26:54.760 with how France tested the phone, so they say the 1:26:54.840 --> 1:26:57.160 radiation is fine, it's just how they tested it. They're 1:26:57.200 --> 1:26:59.680 gonna issue a software update to resolve it. So you 1:26:59.680 --> 1:27:02.080 don't have to throw your iPhone twelve away if you're 1:27:02.080 --> 1:27:04.840 worried about that whole situation. All right, Coming up, we're 1:27:04.840 --> 1:27:09.240 gonna talk to Mark Saltzman about iPhone, all the new iPhones, 1:27:09.240 --> 1:27:11.800 and what he thinks about iPhone versus Android. You are 1:27:11.840 --> 1:27:19.479 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:27:19.600 --> 1:27:23.760 Rich Demiro here on location in Coopertino day after the 1:27:23.760 --> 1:27:26.400 big Apple event and joining me now to talk about 1:27:26.400 --> 1:27:29.800 it is Mark Saltzman. You've probably seen him online. He's 1:27:29.840 --> 1:27:32.559 been in USA Today for many years as a columnist, 1:27:32.640 --> 1:27:36.679 also AARP magazine and maybe at Costco on those TVs. 1:27:36.760 --> 1:27:38.960 Right, that is true. Thank you for having me on 1:27:39.000 --> 1:27:39.759 the show, Rich. 1:27:39.960 --> 1:27:42.600 Thanks for joining me. So you're at the event like myself. 1:27:42.680 --> 1:27:45.960 So we've got new iPhones, new Apple watches. What is 1:27:46.000 --> 1:27:49.360 your overall impression of traveling to Coopertino for a show. 1:27:49.200 --> 1:27:51.800 Like this, Well, it's you know, obviously fun as a 1:27:52.360 --> 1:27:54.799 journalist in the tech space to be here in person, 1:27:55.120 --> 1:27:59.559 see colleagues like yourself and witness these new devices here 1:27:59.880 --> 1:28:03.880 in year out. But that being said, these devices, as 1:28:03.960 --> 1:28:07.880 your listeners likely no, they're a lot more evolutionary than revolutionary. 1:28:08.000 --> 1:28:12.880 Anyone coming here or streaming the Wonderlust event online, if 1:28:12.880 --> 1:28:16.880 they're expecting something like earth shattering, it's usually not gonna happen. 1:28:16.920 --> 1:28:18.519 It's more iterative, if you will. 1:28:18.680 --> 1:28:21.200 That doesn't mean that the iPhone fifteen is not the 1:28:21.200 --> 1:28:22.400 best iPhone ever created. 1:28:22.520 --> 1:28:24.839 It is. But if you've got, you know, an ifour 1:28:25.400 --> 1:28:26.639 iPhone fourteen pro. 1:28:26.720 --> 1:28:28.920 Pro Maax, there's probably a little reason to upgrade. But 1:28:29.120 --> 1:28:31.160 impressive nonetheless across the board. 1:28:31.960 --> 1:28:34.320 What's always interesting to me is that, and I cover 1:28:34.400 --> 1:28:37.519 everything just like you do. Whenever I cover Apple, I 1:28:37.560 --> 1:28:40.120 get the Samsung haters. Whenever I cover Samsung, I get 1:28:40.160 --> 1:28:43.080 the Apple haters. So why do you think that brings 1:28:43.120 --> 1:28:44.280 out like the worst in people? 1:28:44.280 --> 1:28:45.599 I mean, these are just new phones. 1:28:46.080 --> 1:28:50.320 Well they're phones, but they're the most used device that 1:28:50.400 --> 1:28:53.240 we have in our life. This is the one digital 1:28:53.280 --> 1:28:55.559 Swiss army knife that we all carry in our pocket. 1:28:55.800 --> 1:28:58.720 And because of that, it's an intimate thing, right, You've 1:28:58.720 --> 1:29:02.360 got everything on there, and so it's a very personal device, 1:29:02.400 --> 1:29:05.720 so we tend to get very territorial about it. You 1:29:05.760 --> 1:29:08.080 can't please everybody, as you know as a tech reviewer. 1:29:08.200 --> 1:29:10.839 But and there's certainly choice out there, which is awesome. 1:29:10.960 --> 1:29:14.479 Right for Android, there's I mean fewer today now that 1:29:14.520 --> 1:29:16.519 if you have bowed out like LG and so on, 1:29:16.560 --> 1:29:19.400 but you've got the Pixel and Samsung and others. Only 1:29:19.439 --> 1:29:22.080 Apple makes iPhone, so you're stuck with you know, with that. 1:29:22.320 --> 1:29:25.040 But to many they want to stay within the Apple ecosystem. 1:29:25.240 --> 1:29:28.160 If they've got a Mac, an iPad, air pods and 1:29:28.200 --> 1:29:31.000 the like, some of which require an iPhone. Apple Watch does, 1:29:31.439 --> 1:29:34.320 but yeah, you know, its it boils down a personal 1:29:34.360 --> 1:29:38.639 preference Android has some advantages, more choice, more price selection 1:29:38.720 --> 1:29:42.080 as well, more apps to choose from, and less let's 1:29:42.080 --> 1:29:44.200 call them safeguards. If you are more tech savvy and 1:29:44.280 --> 1:29:46.639 you want to get into the code and tweak things 1:29:46.880 --> 1:29:49.320 or download apps that are not just at the Google 1:29:49.320 --> 1:29:51.400 Play Store, you can do that. Apple's got what they 1:29:51.439 --> 1:29:54.839 call their walled garden approach where you can only download 1:29:54.840 --> 1:29:57.519 apps from the App Store. But that's fine for many 1:29:57.560 --> 1:29:59.960 people who don't want to risk getting any kind of viruses. 1:29:59.720 --> 1:30:00.439 Or anything like that. 1:30:00.680 --> 1:30:04.000 Okay, so the iPhone fifteen and fifteen plus they're getting 1:30:04.000 --> 1:30:07.640 pretty much last year's pro features, that dynamic Island, that 1:30:07.760 --> 1:30:10.320 forty eight megapixel camera. Now they're going to be taking 1:30:10.400 --> 1:30:12.800 pictures at a default twenty four megapixels. 1:30:13.160 --> 1:30:14.639 What do you make of these new devices? 1:30:14.720 --> 1:30:18.320 Yeah, I like that the premium features trickle down to 1:30:18.360 --> 1:30:20.439 the more entry level ones, even if it is a 1:30:20.479 --> 1:30:21.000 year later. 1:30:21.520 --> 1:30:23.799 And I'm personally I'm a fan of dynamic Island. 1:30:23.960 --> 1:30:26.599 Yes, we've all teased Apple for having that little notch 1:30:26.600 --> 1:30:28.880 at the top of their screen. So their answer to 1:30:28.920 --> 1:30:31.120 that shy of having no notch at all like many 1:30:31.120 --> 1:30:33.719 Samsung's and other devices. Their answer to that is making 1:30:33.720 --> 1:30:36.880 it more interactive, whereby the app that you're using will 1:30:36.880 --> 1:30:38.880 give you information in that little window at the top 1:30:38.920 --> 1:30:40.960 of the screen. So if you're waiting for your uber, 1:30:41.040 --> 1:30:43.080 it'll show you how much longer it'll be until they 1:30:43.080 --> 1:30:44.800 get you. And visually you'll see like a little icon 1:30:44.840 --> 1:30:46.639 of a car. If you want to see what git 1:30:46.720 --> 1:30:48.679 you need to go to to catch your flight, it'll 1:30:48.680 --> 1:30:51.040 count down when you're boarding and show you that, and 1:30:51.080 --> 1:30:52.880 then you can tap for a deeper dive. And there's 1:30:53.000 --> 1:30:55.599 hundreds of applications. I really like dynamic Island. But as 1:30:55.640 --> 1:30:58.719 you hint to that, Rich, only last year's Pro models 1:30:58.760 --> 1:31:02.679 had that. Now all four iPhone fifteen's have that. Better 1:31:02.720 --> 1:31:05.479 cameras across the board. We do use our phone now 1:31:05.560 --> 1:31:09.519 as are for most of us a primary photography device, 1:31:09.680 --> 1:31:12.280 and it's our camquorder, if you will to use that 1:31:12.320 --> 1:31:15.439 out dated term. So yeah, bring it on and that 1:31:15.479 --> 1:31:18.320 makes anybody, and you couple that with AI, it makes 1:31:18.360 --> 1:31:20.000 anybody take fantastic photos. 1:31:20.439 --> 1:31:22.760 iPhone fifteen Pro and the Pro Max. This is really 1:31:22.760 --> 1:31:25.000 where Apple is separating from the pack. This is where 1:31:25.000 --> 1:31:28.040 they're putting their newest, latest, greatest features, kind of like 1:31:28.080 --> 1:31:31.280 what Samsung did with the Ultra and also the note 1:31:31.320 --> 1:31:34.519 back in the day. This gets the new processor. This 1:31:34.600 --> 1:31:37.639 also gets the titanium design which makes it more lightweight. 1:31:38.479 --> 1:31:42.599 And also the Max will get a five time zoom. 1:31:43.080 --> 1:31:44.360 So oh, in the. 1:31:44.320 --> 1:31:46.240 Action button, we should talk about that. Tell me about 1:31:46.240 --> 1:31:46.960 that action button. 1:31:47.000 --> 1:31:50.040 Sure, if you have an iPhone fourteen Pro or a Promax, 1:31:50.120 --> 1:31:52.920 you'll know on the left side of your iPhone is 1:31:53.080 --> 1:31:57.040 a mute toggle switch. So essentially, when you need to 1:31:57.040 --> 1:31:58.840 have your phone be quiet you're entering a meeting or 1:31:58.920 --> 1:32:01.520 what have you, you conflict that that has been replaced 1:32:01.560 --> 1:32:04.920 with a multipurpose action button, where if you press and 1:32:05.040 --> 1:32:07.479 hold that little button for a couple of seconds, you 1:32:07.520 --> 1:32:08.800 can have your phone. 1:32:08.880 --> 1:32:10.200 Yes, you can have it mute if you like. 1:32:10.479 --> 1:32:12.720 So I think that's it's more versatile, So I like 1:32:12.760 --> 1:32:15.519 that if it's not much harder to use, which we'll see. 1:32:15.560 --> 1:32:18.680 If five times telephoto camera is awesome, that's only in 1:32:18.720 --> 1:32:22.120 the Pro Max model. It's a three times telephoto zoom 1:32:22.240 --> 1:32:24.439 for the regular iPhone fifteen Pro. 1:32:24.840 --> 1:32:26.960 And hold on, I gotta interrupt you here because I 1:32:27.000 --> 1:32:29.960 know the naysayer is going to say, come on, Samsung 1:32:30.000 --> 1:32:32.640 has one hundred times zoom. They've got ten times optical, 1:32:32.880 --> 1:32:36.400 but Apple takes a more steady, slower approach to change. 1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:37.639 It's not just a numbers game. 1:32:37.680 --> 1:32:40.320 It's also the quality and size of the sensor and 1:32:40.400 --> 1:32:45.440 some of the computational photography elements that Apple introduces that Samsung. 1:32:45.080 --> 1:32:48.360 Does as well. But yeah, it is an improvement for Apple. 1:32:48.479 --> 1:32:52.280 I would still argue that Samsung optics are better across 1:32:52.320 --> 1:32:55.040 the board. I have not yet tried iPhone fifteen Pro 1:32:55.120 --> 1:32:57.240 Max in a real world environment. 1:32:57.360 --> 1:32:59.720 Only at Apple Park, you know, outside of Steve Jobs 1:32:59.760 --> 1:33:02.719 theater where the lighting is really good. Yeah, right, exactly, 1:33:02.760 --> 1:33:03.160 you know it. 1:33:03.800 --> 1:33:07.720 But no, I still firmly believe Samsung has better optics, 1:33:07.920 --> 1:33:10.240 and the haters can write me as well. But five 1:33:10.280 --> 1:33:13.240 times photo zoom lens is great because not only can 1:33:13.280 --> 1:33:16.200 you capture more detail from a distance, but you can 1:33:16.240 --> 1:33:18.360 even take an existing photo and then crop it and 1:33:18.520 --> 1:33:21.719 zoom in on it without losing much integrity of that photo. 1:33:21.800 --> 1:33:23.760 So there's two sort of benefits to that. 1:33:23.800 --> 1:33:27.960 Greater optical zoom in camera, and it would be remiss 1:33:28.160 --> 1:33:31.719 rich not to acknowledge. For all the iPhone fifteen's Apple 1:33:31.760 --> 1:33:34.920 has now adopted USBC, so it's more of a universal 1:33:34.960 --> 1:33:36.679 standard for the charging port underneath. 1:33:36.680 --> 1:33:37.280 It was a little weird. 1:33:37.320 --> 1:33:38.800 I have to admit to look at the bottom of 1:33:38.840 --> 1:33:41.920 the iPhone fifteen and not see a lightning connector. But 1:33:42.560 --> 1:33:45.599 as your listeners might know, this is not Apple's decision. 1:33:45.880 --> 1:33:49.000 The European Union has mandated that by fall of twenty 1:33:49.040 --> 1:33:52.840 twenty four, all consumer electronics products sold in Europe have 1:33:52.960 --> 1:33:56.639 to have this universal adapter or report, because that's what 1:33:56.680 --> 1:33:59.880 most people have. They're interchangeable, they're less expensive, it's not 1:34:00.080 --> 1:34:02.479 proprietary like lightning is. So I think it's a win 1:34:02.600 --> 1:34:07.000 for the consumer overall. Apple maybe grudgingly made the change, 1:34:07.040 --> 1:34:09.840 and they at least adopted it a year early, and 1:34:10.120 --> 1:34:13.440 internationally they're not just selling a separate phone to Europeans. 1:34:13.640 --> 1:34:15.880 So kudos to Apple on that. It's better on the 1:34:15.960 --> 1:34:18.360 environment for in terms of electronic waste. 1:34:18.640 --> 1:34:21.599 What do you make of Apple's environmental push. They pledged 1:34:21.640 --> 1:34:24.840 to be carbon neutral by twenty thirty. They spent a 1:34:25.000 --> 1:34:27.960 big portion of the keynote talking about what they've done 1:34:28.000 --> 1:34:28.599 in this area. 1:34:28.800 --> 1:34:31.880 Yeah, I was kind of surprised with the amount of 1:34:31.880 --> 1:34:34.040 time they spent in that hour and a half wonder 1:34:34.120 --> 1:34:39.400 less presentation on recycling and sorry sustainability rather, And you know, 1:34:40.200 --> 1:34:42.080 I don't have all the data in front of me 1:34:42.160 --> 1:34:46.799 about how much Apple, being the world's biggest tech company 1:34:46.800 --> 1:34:49.400 and even possibly the world's biggest company just shy of 1:34:49.520 --> 1:34:52.639 three trillion dollars in market value, how much they are 1:34:52.680 --> 1:34:57.320 contributing to pollution and other issues like potentially climate change. 1:34:57.400 --> 1:35:00.960 Very hard to gauge and pin it to on particular company. 1:35:00.960 --> 1:35:04.720 But they're making these concessions or these moves towards this 1:35:04.760 --> 1:35:08.920 carbon neutrality for I'm sure a few reasons. So kudos 1:35:08.920 --> 1:35:11.000 to Apple for trying to get ahead of that twenty 1:35:11.040 --> 1:35:14.200 thirty goal. In fact, the Apple Watch Series nine and 1:35:14.240 --> 1:35:17.200 the Apple Watch Ultra two, both of which were unveiled 1:35:17.200 --> 1:35:19.760 at the Apple event as well, are going to be 1:35:19.840 --> 1:35:23.600 Apple's first carbon neutral products. If you buy the aluminum 1:35:23.680 --> 1:35:27.040 version of Series nine and pair it with a band 1:35:27.200 --> 1:35:29.200 like it's all numbers, right, So if you pair it 1:35:29.200 --> 1:35:31.519 with this special sport band with this new material, then 1:35:31.560 --> 1:35:33.960 it's truly carbon neutral. So it's a step in the 1:35:34.000 --> 1:35:35.880 right direction. I'm not going to fault to company for 1:35:35.960 --> 1:35:38.400 trying to make an effort, regardless of what their motives are. 1:35:38.760 --> 1:35:40.799 Did you get a chance to try the new double 1:35:41.000 --> 1:35:44.240 tap to select gesture feature on the new Apple Watch, 1:35:44.240 --> 1:35:47.160 where you basically tap your fingers together and it selects 1:35:47.160 --> 1:35:48.000 a button on the screen. 1:35:48.280 --> 1:35:50.200 Yeah, I did try that with the new Apple Watch 1:35:50.280 --> 1:35:52.680 Series nine. That new aluminum pink color is nice as well. 1:35:52.680 --> 1:35:54.559 I think that's going to be a hit. But yeah, 1:35:54.600 --> 1:35:57.920 I like that feature. So instead of having to squint 1:35:57.960 --> 1:36:00.599 to look at your small Apple Watch green in order 1:36:00.640 --> 1:36:04.240 to you know, hang up a call, or to snap 1:36:04.280 --> 1:36:07.880 a photo on your nearby iPhone, or to change tracks 1:36:07.880 --> 1:36:09.400 with your music, You're gonna be able to all do 1:36:09.479 --> 1:36:11.280 that with a quick tap of your forefinger and your 1:36:11.320 --> 1:36:13.800 thumb together on the same hand as your Apple Watch. 1:36:13.960 --> 1:36:17.000 So I think that's super convenient and fast, and it 1:36:17.040 --> 1:36:20.320 also is great from an accessibility standpoint for those that 1:36:20.520 --> 1:36:24.040 may have dexterity issues, you know, they have trouble maybe 1:36:24.040 --> 1:36:26.520 touching a small screen. They may have you know, Parkinson's 1:36:26.520 --> 1:36:29.280 for example, as some of my family members do. So 1:36:29.439 --> 1:36:31.680 I think that's a great feature that's only going to 1:36:31.720 --> 1:36:34.280 be available in the two new watches, but hopefully they'll 1:36:34.360 --> 1:36:36.040 roll it out and trickle it down to the other 1:36:36.080 --> 1:36:39.240 Apple Watches over time like they have with iPhones features 1:36:39.280 --> 1:36:40.040 as well. 1:36:40.200 --> 1:36:42.000 Mark Saltzman thanks so much for joining me. How can 1:36:42.040 --> 1:36:43.280 folks follow you? 1:36:43.320 --> 1:36:43.559 Sure? 1:36:43.640 --> 1:36:46.839 Rich, So my website has a link to all my socials. 1:36:47.040 --> 1:36:50.040 My name again is Mark with A C. Saltzman SA 1:36:50.200 --> 1:36:52.800 L t z m an dot com. 1:36:52.920 --> 1:36:54.960 More rich on tech headed your way right after this. 1:36:55.040 --> 1:36:57.080 If you have a question about technology, give me a 1:36:57.080 --> 1:37:00.120 call triple A Rich one O one. That's eight eight 1:37:00.240 --> 1:37:07.200 eight seven two four to one zero one, Rich de 1:37:07.320 --> 1:37:11.599 burou here rich on Zech. Hopefully you're having a fantastic day. 1:37:11.640 --> 1:37:14.840 I know, I am. I can't believe this show is 1:37:15.280 --> 1:37:18.360 already towards the end here, it's almost time for the 1:37:18.360 --> 1:37:21.960 feedback segment. So a couple of things I mentioned earlier. 1:37:22.120 --> 1:37:25.840 The Better Business Bureau has a new scam that is 1:37:25.880 --> 1:37:30.920 happening when it comes to sports streaming. So spammers are 1:37:30.960 --> 1:37:34.519 creating fake streaming links for high school sporting events and 1:37:34.560 --> 1:37:37.800 posting them on social media, hoping that you would say, oh, 1:37:37.920 --> 1:37:41.600 let me watch my kids game on the on the internet. 1:37:41.800 --> 1:37:43.680 And then they say, oh, we got to log in, 1:37:43.760 --> 1:37:46.920 you got to put your payment information in and guess what, Nah, 1:37:47.080 --> 1:37:50.120 it's fake. The links look like they're legitimate. They tag 1:37:50.200 --> 1:37:52.679 the schools, they tag the teams, but they're totally fake 1:37:52.800 --> 1:37:55.080 and they're trying to steal your personal data. 1:37:55.600 --> 1:37:56.320 So what do you do? 1:37:56.840 --> 1:38:00.240 Be cautious if you're looking for the game, ask your school, 1:38:00.320 --> 1:38:03.280 you know, look for a verified source, right, ask someone 1:38:03.360 --> 1:38:06.280 that knows, and don't just click on any link that 1:38:06.360 --> 1:38:08.880 you see, and especially if you put in your credit 1:38:08.880 --> 1:38:10.840 card information, do not do that. Now, some of these 1:38:10.840 --> 1:38:13.240 things may cost money, but you know, try to find 1:38:13.240 --> 1:38:17.240 a verified source. These links could have malware on them, 1:38:17.840 --> 1:38:20.479 so definitely research that. Who would have thought. I mean, 1:38:20.520 --> 1:38:23.719 look again, these scam artists just try to find anything 1:38:23.720 --> 1:38:26.080 that we do and they put a twist on it 1:38:26.120 --> 1:38:27.920 to ruin it for us. This is why we can't 1:38:27.920 --> 1:38:31.479 have nice things. This is pretty nice though. Polestar, this 1:38:31.600 --> 1:38:34.839 is I would say. I've tried a lot of different 1:38:35.840 --> 1:38:39.360 electric cars. The Polestar is probably one of my favorites, 1:38:39.520 --> 1:38:42.360 after the Tesla. I love the design of it. It's 1:38:42.360 --> 1:38:46.799 owned by Volvo. Actually, Polestar two has integrated Amazon Prime 1:38:46.880 --> 1:38:51.280 Video into their infotainment system. This lets you stream Prime 1:38:51.479 --> 1:38:54.759 Video content while you're parked or charging, not while you're driving. 1:38:55.400 --> 1:38:59.680 The Polestar two runs Google's Android Automotive OS, which has 1:38:59.680 --> 1:39:04.000 several including YouTube ways and a web browser. So it's 1:39:04.080 --> 1:39:07.519 kind of fun. Now you can watch you know, prime 1:39:07.600 --> 1:39:09.720 video stuff. What's a good show on Amazon Prime? I 1:39:09.720 --> 1:39:13.080 don't know. My wife was watching What's that one this 1:39:13.120 --> 1:39:14.679 summer I turned pretty or something. 1:39:15.720 --> 1:39:17.200 I was like, oh, we should watch that together. 1:39:17.479 --> 1:39:19.200 Do you ever have that thing where you say with 1:39:19.320 --> 1:39:21.000 your partner you should watch the show and they're like, 1:39:21.040 --> 1:39:23.360 I already watched it. I already streamed that. I already 1:39:23.360 --> 1:39:25.880 watched that movie. It happened with me. I watched the 1:39:26.080 --> 1:39:28.680 Adam Sandler movie on Netflix, and my wife's like, oh, 1:39:28.680 --> 1:39:30.599 we're gonna watch that together on Friday night. I said, nope, 1:39:30.640 --> 1:39:32.680 already watched it on the plane. I feel like you 1:39:32.760 --> 1:39:35.439 really have to like converse with your spouse or your 1:39:35.479 --> 1:39:38.559 partner about like what you're watching so that they can 1:39:38.720 --> 1:39:41.360 you know you're in sync, and the ones who aren't 1:39:41.880 --> 1:39:44.160 just saying probably not a good sign for the marriage. 1:39:45.400 --> 1:39:48.400 Ring the relationship I should say, you don't have to 1:39:48.439 --> 1:39:51.320 be married. That could happen in any relationship. Ring has 1:39:51.360 --> 1:39:55.559 a new pet tag for lost pets. It's a ten 1:39:55.640 --> 1:39:57.640 dollars pet tag that puts a QR code on a 1:39:57.680 --> 1:40:01.439 pets callar to help reunite pets. With or lost pets 1:40:01.439 --> 1:40:03.880 with their owners. This is not a high tech thing 1:40:03.960 --> 1:40:06.400 like an air tag. This is literally a QR code. 1:40:06.880 --> 1:40:09.920 So you put your pets information on the Ring app, 1:40:10.320 --> 1:40:13.000 and if someone finds your pet, the QR code is 1:40:13.040 --> 1:40:16.000 what they can scan to help connect you with your 1:40:16.520 --> 1:40:19.439 you know, back to your pet. So what's unique about 1:40:19.439 --> 1:40:21.080 this is that it's low tech. You don't have to 1:40:21.160 --> 1:40:23.200 charge it, you don't have to think about Bluetooth, Wi Fi, 1:40:24.000 --> 1:40:27.680 sidewalk network, whatever. You just have to set up the 1:40:27.680 --> 1:40:30.599 information on one time. And once you set it up, 1:40:30.800 --> 1:40:35.040 what the secret here is that ring protects your personal information, 1:40:35.120 --> 1:40:37.320 so your phone number is not around your dog's neck. 1:40:37.760 --> 1:40:40.080 Now I don't think everyone would have a problem with that, like, 1:40:40.320 --> 1:40:42.320 but you know, you never know today's day and age, 1:40:42.360 --> 1:40:44.360 with all the privacy concerns, your phone number is kind 1:40:44.400 --> 1:40:47.040 of like your main thing. So this in this case, 1:40:47.280 --> 1:40:49.840 they would scan the QR code, it would open up 1:40:49.840 --> 1:40:52.280 a page where it tells your information about the pet, 1:40:52.280 --> 1:40:53.559 but then it says, hey, do you want to connect 1:40:53.600 --> 1:40:56.120 to the owner, and they would facilitate a phone call 1:40:56.320 --> 1:40:58.880 or a text message, but all through like a secure 1:40:58.920 --> 1:41:02.000 messaging or calling syste them. So basically it never reveals 1:41:02.040 --> 1:41:04.559 your information, which is kind of smart, especially if you're 1:41:06.439 --> 1:41:09.439 just not wanting your personal information out there. Pre Orders 1:41:09.479 --> 1:41:13.280 start now. Ships on October fourth, and it's nine to 1:41:13.320 --> 1:41:18.000 ninety nine and cruise. This is the robotaxis up in 1:41:18.160 --> 1:41:21.479 San Francisco. With all the issues, they are trying to 1:41:21.479 --> 1:41:24.080 do something nice to kind of get the attention off 1:41:24.080 --> 1:41:27.000 all the weird stuff that's happening. They have a wheelchair 1:41:27.040 --> 1:41:30.680 accessible version of their driverless Robotaxi, which I think is 1:41:30.720 --> 1:41:34.200 pretty incredible. So this has a retractable ramp and interior 1:41:34.240 --> 1:41:37.800 space for a wheelchair user. They worked three years on 1:41:37.840 --> 1:41:41.719 this and they aim to provide mobility options for twenty 1:41:41.720 --> 1:41:45.559 five million Americans with disabilities. This is a huge deal. 1:41:45.840 --> 1:41:48.400 We've heard a lot about how driverless cars are great 1:41:48.600 --> 1:41:52.479 for people with impairments. This is a huge, huge deal 1:41:52.479 --> 1:41:56.040 because someone in a wheelchair can now call this car, 1:41:56.479 --> 1:41:58.680 it'll drive up to them. They can get inside and 1:41:58.720 --> 1:42:01.360 get wherever they want to go. So that's happening with crews. 1:42:01.360 --> 1:42:05.799 They're going to start testing in October on closed courses 1:42:05.880 --> 1:42:08.280 and then twenty twenty four they'll try to get these things. 1:42:08.840 --> 1:42:11.599 At least you know it's somewhere where they can test 1:42:11.600 --> 1:42:12.719 these on the real streets. 1:42:12.760 --> 1:42:14.040 But that's a huge deal. 1:42:15.160 --> 1:42:17.840 All right, Let's get to some of the questions that 1:42:17.880 --> 1:42:22.080 we got online here. Adrian says, I've saved passwords on 1:42:22.120 --> 1:42:24.920 Google Chrome and I've always been able to access them 1:42:24.960 --> 1:42:26.640 with no problems. Today I went to view them and 1:42:26.720 --> 1:42:29.920 none of them are there. What happened? My connection's excellent 1:42:29.920 --> 1:42:32.800 with the internet, and I've tried multiple times. It's really frustrating. 1:42:33.000 --> 1:42:36.519 What's going on, Adrian. I don't think they disappeared, but 1:42:36.560 --> 1:42:39.400 I would check at passwords dot Google dot com. If 1:42:39.400 --> 1:42:41.479 you have them saved on Chrome, they would also be there. 1:42:41.920 --> 1:42:44.080 Maybe your Chrome is not sinking. That's the only thing 1:42:44.120 --> 1:42:45.799 I can think of. I don't think they all got deleted. 1:42:45.800 --> 1:42:47.920 It would take a lot to delete all of your passwords, 1:42:48.120 --> 1:42:50.840 So check out passwords dot Google dot Chrome and see 1:42:50.880 --> 1:42:53.080 if they are there. If they are, then it sounds 1:42:53.120 --> 1:42:55.320 like you just need to get them back into your 1:42:55.439 --> 1:43:01.120 Chrome web browser by sinking them up. Jorge Dallas says, Hey, Rich, 1:43:01.160 --> 1:43:03.439 I hope this finds you well. I find your info 1:43:03.560 --> 1:43:07.280 interesting and helpful. Thanks, and your professional opinion. Is Apple 1:43:07.280 --> 1:43:10.759 Care plus a useful additional benefit for this new iPhone fifteen. 1:43:11.479 --> 1:43:14.320 Side note, if you don't want your Apple lanyard and credentials, 1:43:14.320 --> 1:43:16.719 I'd love to have it autographed. Would be even better. 1:43:17.120 --> 1:43:19.000 So many people ask for my Apple lanyard. I got 1:43:19.040 --> 1:43:21.080 to figure out how to give that away. Do I 1:43:21.080 --> 1:43:23.960 think apple Care plus is worth it? Ooh, I know, 1:43:24.040 --> 1:43:26.120 it's like a given, everyone gets it. I come from 1:43:26.120 --> 1:43:29.400 the standpoint of whatever it costs for Apple Care a month, 1:43:29.600 --> 1:43:31.200 just put that in a savings account and if you 1:43:31.200 --> 1:43:33.200 ever need to use it, now you have a whole 1:43:33.200 --> 1:43:36.400 bunch of money towards the repair. I find that to 1:43:36.400 --> 1:43:38.720 be a better situation because if you if you put 1:43:38.720 --> 1:43:41.720 a screen protector and you put a nice case on 1:43:41.760 --> 1:43:43.840 your phone, I mean, really, what do you need Apple 1:43:43.880 --> 1:43:46.040 Care for unless you lose your device and you have 1:43:46.080 --> 1:43:48.040 to get a new one. But then you know you've 1:43:48.040 --> 1:43:49.920 got to have the higher level of Apple Care. So 1:43:50.520 --> 1:43:53.040 put the case on, put the screen protector on, save 1:43:53.080 --> 1:43:54.840 the Apple Care every month and put it in a 1:43:54.880 --> 1:43:58.720 separate account, and when you need to do something, then 1:43:58.800 --> 1:44:00.559 you can use that money. That's what I like to do. 1:44:00.600 --> 1:44:04.160 I know it's weird, tell Abella says on Instagram, I 1:44:04.240 --> 1:44:06.840 enjoy listening to your show, so much, so much info given. 1:44:07.000 --> 1:44:11.759 Thank you. Jane shared a message from her insulin pump 1:44:12.120 --> 1:44:14.840 says it's not going to work with iOS seventeen, so 1:44:15.120 --> 1:44:17.280 something to keep in mind if you're upgrading your phone, 1:44:17.320 --> 1:44:19.639 if you have some sort of like medical device, make 1:44:19.680 --> 1:44:23.480 sure it's compatible. Randall says Rich. I've been using inexpensive 1:44:23.520 --> 1:44:27.280 AMFM radio with wired earbuds for a long time during sleep. 1:44:27.320 --> 1:44:30.280 I haven't been strangled by the wires just yet. Just sharing, 1:44:31.000 --> 1:44:36.760 no problem if it works for you, and let's see. Uh, 1:44:36.880 --> 1:44:40.240 Gail says I. Good afternoon. I'm getting my chores done 1:44:40.280 --> 1:44:42.280 and listening to your broadcast. Oh my god, I can 1:44:42.280 --> 1:44:45.400 no longer listen without a pattern paper. So much information 1:44:45.640 --> 1:44:51.000 what Facebook, messenger scams, bbbscam information scamspoter dot org. Haven't 1:44:51.040 --> 1:44:52.760 even had time to look at your information about the 1:44:52.760 --> 1:44:54.920 new Apple items, although I did see your report on 1:44:54.920 --> 1:44:57.920 that hammer proof screen. Wow, keep it coming, although I 1:44:57.920 --> 1:45:02.000 can barely keep it up. We did check Apple calendar 1:45:02.120 --> 1:45:06.120 does show the Jewish holidays, so yeah, there you go. 1:45:06.520 --> 1:45:08.000 All right, that's going to do it for this episode 1:45:08.000 --> 1:45:09.280 of the show. You can find links to everything I 1:45:09.360 --> 1:45:11.960 mentioned on my website. You can find me on social media. 1:45:12.000 --> 1:45:15.320 I am at rich on Tech. Next week it's Amazon's turn. 1:45:15.439 --> 1:45:17.479 They are launching new devices. I'll tell you what you 1:45:17.520 --> 1:45:20.320 need to know about that. Thanks so much for listening. 1:45:20.360 --> 1:45:22.320 There are so many ways you can spend your time. 1:45:22.439 --> 1:45:25.479 I do appreciate you spending it right here, little old mate. 1:45:25.479 --> 1:45:28.120 Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. Thanks for 1:45:28.200 --> 1:45:30.840 Adam for sharing your story. My name is richdmiro. I 1:45:30.840 --> 1:45:32.599 will talk to you real soon