WEBVTT - Faking Zoom connection issues 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.200 You can now unlock your iPhone with your Apple Watch, 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:20.400 dangerous smart doorbells, freezing your webcam on purpose? Plus your 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.680 tech questions answered? What's going on on rich Demiro? And 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.640 this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.080 about the tech stuff I think you should know about, 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.080 and it is the place right answer the questions that 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.640 you send me. So who am I? The tech reporter 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:39.280 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. That is where 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.400 I present stories on a wide variety of consumer tech 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:48.159 topics on a daily basis. I also post stuff to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.800 I'm having a lot of fun there lately because, oh, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.200 let me just tell a quick story. I had no 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:01.680 idea this book was so impactful. Story. My kid and 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.480 I are in Target and this has nothing to do 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.839 with tech, but we're in Target and my kid sees 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.840 a book that he wants to get two of them. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.520 One was like a dinosaur book. The other one was 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.200 this book called Love You Forever. And so I get 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.760 him the books and my wife I didn't have a 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.800 chance to read it to him first. My wife read 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.920 it to him the next night or so, and he 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.440 comes into my office the next morning and he just 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.080 puts the book on my desk. He goes, Dad, can 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.440 you please return this? I said, what why? I just 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.759 I don't want it. I didn't know it was so sad. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.800 I'm like, oh, okay, So I take the book and 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.640 I you know, at dinner that night, I'm talking to 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.600 my wife about the book, and I'm like, what's the deal. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.520 She's like, oh, just go ahead, try to read it 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.000 to him. So I started reading this book called Love 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.720 You Forever. And let's just say it is nearly impossible 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.120 to get through this book without needing at least a 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.640 box of tissues. And I don't know what it is. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.800 If it's the words, if it's the way it's written, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.920 if it's the combination of the pictures. But I was like, 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.519 I was, Oh my gosh, it was really really interesting. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.840 And so I said, wow, if this happened to me, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.919 I wonder if someone else out there has ever heard 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.200 of this book or had this happen. And I posted 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.280 my Facebook and sure enough, the comments just come flooding in. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.600 And clearly I was very late to the train with 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.200 with the Love You Forever book. Because it's been around forever. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.079 People know it, people know it to be a tear 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.359 jerker and just the way it is. So anyway, if 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.560 you really want to challenge yourself, I think there needs 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.000 to be a TikTok challenge with this book because you 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.240 can't make it through the end without If your eyes 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.840 are dry by the end, there might be something wrong 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.280 with you. I'm just saying. So, I think there should 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.840 be a TikTok challenge once these kids discover this book, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.519 because well they wouldn't be it probably wouldn't affect them, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.720 but they should give it to their parents. The TikTok 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.400 challenge should be they give this book to their pay parents, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.600 record them reading it and see how far they get 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:08.160 before Niagara falls. Anyway, I hope you're having a fantastic day. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.919 I hope you're having a great week and everything's good 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.840 over here. Just really excited about where the future lies 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.160 with this whole pandemic, you know, getting through it. It 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.000 feels like there's a little light at the end of 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.720 the tunnel at this point. I mean, people I know 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.799 that are close to me have gotten the vaccine and 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.919 that is very exciting. And I just the numbers where 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.720 I live in Los Angeles have been dropping, so that's good. Restaurants, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.320 I got a haircut the other day. Can't believe that 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.440 little ding for the haircut. And anyway, so it's good. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.640 I'm feeling good and I have a lot of hope 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.320 for things getting better. Speaking of the pandemic Apple with 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.920 the iPhone, they're now letting you use your Apple Watch 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.360 as a way to unlock your iPhone. This is a 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.240 new feature coming to iOS fourteen point five, which'll be 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.720 the next version of the mobile operating system. They did 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.240 come out with a beta for developers and a public beta, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.080 but I don't really recommend that you download the public 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.160 beta unless I don't know. I always find that they're exciting, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.360 but you know, then you kind of regret it at 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.359 the end of the day because now your phone is 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.880 not on the standard track, and it's you know, unless 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.320 you're a real real techi that it's just it's kind 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.680 of a headache sometimes because there's a little bug that 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.160 affects something that you want to do, it's going to 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.120 be a problem. And so that's for that reason I 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.440 just kind of stay away. I used to do the 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.560 public betas, but I don't really do it anymore. If 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.520 you have a test device, fine, but this new feature 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.080 will allow you to put on a in Settings on 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.480 the Apple Watch or Settings on the iPhone, rather under 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.000 face ID and passcode, you can opt into iPhone unlock 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.200 with Apple Watch, and so the iPhone will recognize when 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.760 you are wearing a mask and you try to unlock 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.880 your iPhone, and it will default to checking to see 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.960 if the Apple Watch is on your wrist. If it's 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.719 on your wrist and it's unlocked, and you haven't removed 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.559 it from your wrist, and you know, I'm sure Apple 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:06.080 has some little secret security baked into this whole process, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.560 it will then go ahead and unlock your phone. You'll 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.640 feel a haptic feedback on your watch or on your wrist, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.440 so that you know that your watch has unlocked your phone. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.640 I think this is fantastic. It's not a new idea. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.480 I mean, Android has had this forever. It's smart unlock. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:26.159 I mean they've had this forever, forever, forever. But the 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.200 difference here is you know they're using I guess they're 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.719 using Bluetooth to do it. The other thing is that 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.480 this feature already works with the Mac, which I'm not 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.040 even sure it ever works right with me. I sometimes 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.200 it works, sometimes it doesn't. I don't know. I don't 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.279 even notice. But I had the idea for this last 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.400 month in January, and I tweeted out, I said, you know, Apple, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.400 and I said exactly this, and so for that reason, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.920 thank you for listening. Apple. You did what I said. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.680 And although I'm not going to be downloading it anytime 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.600 soon until the real software comes out, I should say 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.680 the final software comes out, that is exciting because it 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.159 is a pain to type in your password so many times. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.560 And I noticed this mostly at the grocery store when 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.720 I've got some sort of list on my phone of 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.640 what i want to buy, and I'm constantly unlocking my 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.240 iPhone like with the passcode, and it's kind of a lot. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:24.480 The other thing is that let's see here, so Apple 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.919 Pay does not work using this method, so you can't 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.000 be at the checkout and just you know, do Apple 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.360 Pay from your phone. But if you have Apple Pay 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.040 set up on your watch, then you can do it 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.279 that way anyway. So there you have it easier to 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:41.760 wear a mask and use your iPhone. All right, let's 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:47.160 get to our first question. Let's see here. Oh, well, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.000 it's not on here. Let me get it here. I 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.400 had to restart my computer because it actually was like 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.359 frozen or something. I don't know what happened. That was 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.120 where I've got all these extensions inslved right now, which 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.880 I think are messing up everything because I'm testing them 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.760 for like these shopping add ons. So I'm doing a 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.400 segment for KTLA or planning a segment about that. So 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.160 I've been testing all these shopping add ons from like, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.440 you know what is this retail me not or at Tucin. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.440 I don't know all these other ones anyway. All right, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.280 Pete says Rich, could you please tell us about this 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.120 new security app total av for iPhones for three dollars 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.000 seems too good to be true. Check on this for 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.760 your followers please. I have an iPhone twelve. Pete. I've 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.680 said this once before and I will say it again. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.160 Here's my thoughts about total av. You do not need 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.440 this for your iPhone. You do not need it for 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.680 your iPhone. Let me say it one more time. You 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.320 do not need this for your iPhone. Nothing against Total AV. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.800 I'm sure they make great products, but the fact is, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.600 there just is not a need for antivirus software on 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.800 an iPhone. Now. The reason I say this is because 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.760 the iPhone's operating system architecture is totally different than something 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.640 like a Windows computer, And even the Mac computer is 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.760 so locked down now that I would actually be surprised. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.800 I'm sure there's more ways into a Mac, but your iPhone, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.960 there's really only two ways to kind of exploit this 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.000 if you have everything running as the standard kind of 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.720 set up, like if you're not if you're not jail broken, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.880 you don't have like third party apps that you've sideloaded somehow. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.440 But really, realistically, the two ways someone could you know, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.200 hack into your phone is through your messages and I 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.360 Message and then through Safari, and I Message has been 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.000 really really locked down in iOS fourteen, so that's even 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.480 more secure. And then in Safari they do find some 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.840 exploits every once in a while, but again it's not 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.320 something generally that could like take over your whole phone 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.440 unless it's a major, major exploit. So for the average 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.640 person that's just sitting there thinking that they might get 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.240 a virus on their phone, on their iPhone specifically, it 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.760 just doesn't really happen. And so I think when it 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.080 comes comes to the iPhone and this total av I 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:04.960 just don't think you need it. I think it's a 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.400 lot to do for something that is just it. You're 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.840 paying for something that just doesn't really do much on 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.200 an iPhone because the architecture of the iPhone is that 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.840 a program can't sit there and like constantly scan everything 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.160 that's happening on it because everything is so locked down. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.000 Let me see how much? What are the features that 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.760 they say, okay, Total av iOS and iPhone app helps 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.440 you keep you safe from online criminals through VPN and 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.559 website filtering, as well as anti fraud and theft services 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:40.280 such as data breach alerts and Locate Device Location tracker. Well, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:45.800 device location is already it's already built into the iPhone 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:52.120 with find my iPhone, data breach check, webshield, device locator system, security, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.439 secure search browser. I don't want to use this random 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.080 third party browser. Photo manager, Battery monitor, I mean it 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.119 tells you how much battery I've left on the iPhone, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:06.320 Private connection VPN okay, Total av Free, I mean, so 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.760 I just again, I think the main thing here is 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.600 to get you to do that in app purchase for 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.320 a lot of stuff that you may not necessarily need 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.560 on your phone. How much are they charging for this 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.760 in app purchase? Fifty three ninety nine for the year. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.120 So what they do is they get you to get 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.840 the the app, perhaps for free or for three dollars 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.120 like you said, and then next thing you know, they're 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.120 hitting you up for fifty three dollars. So I would say, Pete, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.120 just skip it. That's my advice until I'm proven wrong. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.720 I'm actually gonna do a segment where I talk to 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.840 an iPhone security expert and I'm gonna challenge it. I'm 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.120 gonna say, like, do people need this stuff? I don't 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.800 think they do. That's been my advice for many years now. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.000 And I'm talking specifically on the iPhone Android, a little 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.439 questionable Mac computers, a little questionable Windows computers. Most of 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.199 the time, I just recommend that you use the built 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.959 in defender program, but specifically iPhones. Like I said, if 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.120 you are not sideloading stuff, I just don't think you 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.600 need this stuff. So good question, Thanks for asking it, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.960 and hopefully I'll have a segment soon where I get 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:13.160 answers from an iPhone security expert. Well, you probably heard 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:17.160 the news this week that Jeff Bezos is stepping down 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.640 from role of CEO at Amazon. He has done some 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.480 amazing things at this company, and this is a company 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.600 that if you could remember, several years ago, people actually 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:34.320 wondered if Amazon would ever make money. How wild is that? 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.280 And now we've gone from that to an Amazon that 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.520 can deliver almost anything you can imagine to your front 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.400 door in two hours to one day. I mean, we 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.120 have the super speedy delivery because we live in Los Angeles, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.079 and it's just unbelievable how fast things can get to 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.120 your house from Amazon when you live in an area 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.880 that they fully service, where they are fully up and running, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.600 an area that's still you know, more suburban when they 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.679 get it, when they get into things like you know, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.240 the little delivery robots and the delivery drones and people 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.680 on bikes. I mean, it's just it's unlimited what this 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.320 company can do right now, there's a lot of momentum 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.840 behind them. It is. If you have an Amazon Prime membership, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.840 basically that's your shopping search engine. You don't even care 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.920 to look anywhere else. And I found myself trying to 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.240 look for things in other places. You know, if I'm 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.480 buying a TV, or if I'm buying anything, but if 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.920 it's something that's pretty simple and I know that it's 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.640 going to be on Amazon, that's pretty much where I go, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.120 and I remember when Amazon Prime first came out, it 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.000 was I think it was fifty nine bucks, maybe it 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.440 was even less. But now it's up to I think 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.720 one point thirty nine or something like that. But it's 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.679 well worth it. People over last they said one hundred 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.800 million people pay for that. Just that alone is amazing. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.600 In his letter to employees, Jeff says, the journey began 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.320 twenty seven years ago. Amazon was just an idea. It 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.800 had no name. Now they employ one point three million people. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.360 Invention is the root of our success. We pioneered customer reviews, 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.800 one click personalized recommendations, which I still don't think they're 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.400 there just yet. I still think there is a huge 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:21.240 opportunity on Amazon to upsell folks with more recommendations based 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.080 on what they are, what they've purchased in the past, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.960 and things like that. I don't see a lot of that. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.920 When I shop on Amazon, I basically buy the stuff 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.160 that I come in for and that's it. Prime shipping, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:37.160 walk out shopping, Climate, Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, Marketplace, I mean 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:41.360 so many things not to mention Aws. Now they have 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.080 a new person stepping in to become CEO. Andy Jasse 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.720 and you know, Jeff Bezos is still going to be 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.200 on the executive board or let's see what's he going 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.840 to yeah, chief of the Amazon chriff of the Amazon board. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.120 He said. The thing is, you know, being CEO of 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.800 Amazon is a very big responsibility. It consumes you twenty 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.880 four and he wants to spend his time on other 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.400 things like you know, his fund, Blue Origin, all the 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.400 space stuff, the Washington Post and some other things he 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.319 has going on. But he thinks Amazon's going to continue 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.080 to figure out new and exciting ways of doing things. 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.880 And it's always scary when the figurehead leaves a company 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.160 like this. I mean, yes, he'll still be involved. But 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.240 you know how much of this came from him? I 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.800 don't know. At the beginning, sure a lot of it. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.400 But as it goes on, did it come from him 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.520 or does it come from committees and ideas? Who knows? 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.760 I guess time will tell. But my favorite is the 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:39.800 last lines of his letter. He said, keep inventing. Don't 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.920 despair when at first the idea looks crazy, Remember to wander, 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.360 let curiosity be your compass. It remains day one and 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.480 I shared a note about this on my social media. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.440 It remains. Day one is just so powerful. Imagine I've 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.920 been doing my job at KTLA for ten years now, 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.720 and if I think of the next couple of years 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.800 as today is day one, imagine what that does for 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.920 your thinking. You have a fresh outlook on things. This 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.880 podcast is the first podcast, and how would you do 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.400 it differently if you were just coming into this versus 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.480 doing it for two hundred episodes? So I thought that 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.240 was really powerful and it really resonated. And one of 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.000 these days I'm going to print out all these little 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.800 things that I clipped from Instagram, all these little inspirational quotes. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.400 I want to put them in my office because they're 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.680 only inspirational if you look at them and you reference 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.960 them right. Otherwise you kind of forget about them. But 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.240 it really does do a lot. I love the inspirational stuff, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.720 even if I find inspiration of things. I don't necessarily 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.239 seek out inspirational quotes, but I do find things inspiring 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:46.280 and those are the best kind for me, all right. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.720 Thomas writes in Hey, Rich, I love your show. Thank 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.520 you for providing such great information. I want to select 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.120 and print one hundred family images for each year starting 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.840 in twenty ten. I am worried that they will eventually 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.640 be lost in the cloud if I print them and 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.400 put them in albums. Should I buy a printer and 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.640 print them myself or should I use the service like 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:10.160 Shutterfly Nation's photo lab at Arama. The factors I want 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:15.080 to consider are quality, durability, cost, time, investment, ease of use, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.400 and thank you so much for your guidance, best Thomas 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:24.480 Wow durability fifty years. I think that you should. I 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.040 don't think I would go the printer route. If you're gonna, well, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.840 you're gonna print hundred images each year, you don't say that, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.160 you don't really say what size these pictures are gonna be. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.280 I would think that you should probably just go with 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.040 a printing lab because since you are doing so many pictures, 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.960 I think it's probably easiest to just do that. So 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.200 at Arama I have gotten pictures printed from because they 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.600 did a unique size that I needed and I was 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.440 very impressed because they are a photo company, a camera company, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.400 and so I thought they did a really great job. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.520 I forget what I ordered from there, so you know, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.560 I would definitely I would go with one of these systems, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:13.000 you know, like the adder. Where is the Adorama Prints. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.520 Let's see, there we go photo printing. So uh oh 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.199 they oh wow, well maybe they use Okay, they call 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.400 it printiq p R I n T I q U E, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.680 And so I think I'd go with something I would test. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.720 Here's what I would do personally, I would try about 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.040 three of these services myself and see which one I'm 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.719 most impressed with. So pick the same picture and upload 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.359 it to you know, this, uh printique. I would upload 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.560 it to like a Shutterfly and Nation's photo Lab I'm 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.280 not as familiar with, but I would upload it to that. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.600 Now here's the other thing you can do, And this 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.919 is a great search just to know in general. But 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:59.399 if you type in Shutterfly into the search engine, you 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.720 type and Shutterfly versus, and this will give you a 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:10.040 whole list of similar printing places. I guess. So upcome Snapfish, MPIs, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.919 mixed book, Nations, photo Lab, chat books. Now some of 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.800 these are actually oh, Amazon Photos, let's not forget about 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.639 that one. So some of these are more for photo books. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.000 But I'm not sure if you're you say you're gonna 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.920 put them an album, So I'm guessing you just want 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.600 the pictures. So that's what I would do so, I 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:32.280 would look up Nations Photo Lab versus and that should 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.600 bring up more of the professional ones, which is MPIs 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:39.000 or Shutterfly. And we all know that Costco recently, or 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.280 you maybe you don't know, but Costco recently stopped doing 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.560 their in store printing. But of course you can still 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.720 print not in store, you know, you can mail or 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.400 upload things to them. But once you get the pictures 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.040 back from these various services, I would analyze them, see 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.639 which one you like the best, see which one has 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:59.159 the best mix of quality and also the price that 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.800 you pay for it, and then go from there and 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.439 also look on their website at their FAQs and see 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.120 how long they say their pictures are going to last. Now, 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.080 you know, to me, it seems like, you know, the 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.640 printed pictures last pretty long. I think if you're going 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.000 the printer route, like a printer that you'd use at home, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.720 I'm sure they have all that information on the printer 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.359 itself when you purchase it, how long these pictures are 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.600 expected to last. And what you're talking about doing I've 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.919 wanted to do as well for many many years. I 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.280 always say I want to print, you know, a bunch 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.360 of pictures and put them in albums, and I want 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.760 to do this once for every month, so you know, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.040 like January twenty twenty one, it's a great month to 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.040 start and just pick out, you know, a bunch of 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.240 pictures and print them and put them on your on 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.000 your you know, shelf at home, and then when people 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.000 come over, when people start coming over again, it's such 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.280 a natural thing for people to just pull this off 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.359 your coffee table or off a shelf and just start 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.920 flipping through all your great pictures. Now, I know Google 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.640 will do this for you automatically. I believe they will 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.560 pick a bunch of pictures out of your Google Photos 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.760 and automatically send them to you. I haven't tested this, 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.359 so I don't know if you can go in and 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.040 kind of switch things out before you print them. But 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.520 I also know that you can just say, like, hey, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.000 make me a photo book. I mean, the photo printing 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.560 on Amazon Is or on Google Photos is pretty elaborate, 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.960 and they're using AI to pick your pictures, so I 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.840 would also check into that one. All right, good question, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.200 And uh yeah, maybe I'll do that one of these days, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.119 because I used to print pictures a lot and I 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.080 just kind of stopped, all right, let's get to some 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.520 of the rumor mill news. I don't typically do a 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.000 lot of rumor mill stuff just because, you know, I 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:41.080 try to make this show something of news you can use, 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.439 like I like it to be informative, but like you know, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.359 helpful for your life. And all the Apple rumors in 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.160 the world, there are so many podcasts dedicated to them, 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:51.560 and that's fine if you want to keep up with 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.199 all the rumors, that's great. Personally, you know, I keep 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.399 an eye on the rumors, but this show is not 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:00.679 about rumors. It's about real life stuff. And the problem is, 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:03.359 you know, there are some things that just bubble up 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.080 to a place where you have to talk about them, 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.760 and this Apple Car has sort of gotten to that 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.200 place because we just keep hearing so much about the 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.160 Apple Car. I'm not going to spend a whole bunch 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.919 of time on it. But CNBC reporting that Apple is 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.760 going to sign a deal or has sign a deal, 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.119 or is very close to signing a deal with Hyundai 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.199 Kia and they're going to make the Apple Car at 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.359 their plant in Georgia. And this is a multi billion 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.720 dollar deal. It's not just a Kia or a Hyundai. 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.440 That's sort of branded as Apple, and it's it's kind 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.439