Speaker 1: Apple has a bunch of new stuff, including iOS fourteen,
Speaker 1: watches and more. PS five pricing details revealed a new
Speaker 1: wireless doorbell from r Low, plus Your tech questions answered?
Speaker 2: What is going on? I'm Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
Speaker 1: and it's also where I answer the questions that you
Speaker 1: send me.
Speaker 2: My name is Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I know, a local news station with a tech reporter.
Speaker 1: How interesting. But I've been doing it there for ten
Speaker 1: years and we have a lot of fun and I
Speaker 1: love doing what I do, and you know it if
Speaker 1: you watch me or follow me. This week was really cool.
Speaker 2: There is so.
Speaker 1: Much in this podcast today, so I will try to
Speaker 1: keep the items brief to keep me on time, but
Speaker 1: there is a lot to get through because Apple revealed
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of new stuff. And I also went
Speaker 1: to the new Amazon Fresh grocery store in Woodland Hills, California,
Speaker 1: which is in an old Toys r US and it's
Speaker 1: a new grocery store that is cool. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the if you ever shopped on Amazon Fresh for
Speaker 1: your groceries that get delivered. It's kind of like that website,
Speaker 1: but brought to life, so it looks really nice. It's
Speaker 1: very modern. But the coolest thing about it is this
Speaker 1: Amazon Dash cart and it's a magical shopping cart that
Speaker 1: when you put your items inside.
Speaker 2: It checks.
Speaker 1: You're basically doing self checkout as you go through the store,
Speaker 1: and so there's no checkout procedure. I used it twice yesterday,
Speaker 1: maybe three times to try it out, and you just
Speaker 1: put your stuff in the cart, it recognizes it. It's
Speaker 1: really fast at recognizing stuff. It actually takes a little
Speaker 1: picture of everything you put in there, and if it
Speaker 1: doesn't recognize it, it'll show you the black and white
Speaker 1: picture and it's like what is this? And you can
Speaker 1: take something out of the cart and it will take
Speaker 1: it off of your tally. And that's the other neat part.
Speaker 1: There's a little screen on the cart that gives you
Speaker 1: an ongoing tallly of everything you've purchased. And I especially
Speaker 1: like this because I've done this thing where I put
Speaker 1: my phone or calculator, you know, on the cart and
Speaker 1: try to add things up as I go along, especially
Speaker 1: at Costco when I overspend.
Speaker 2: So if you're trying to stick to a budget.
Speaker 1: You can see exactly how much you're spending at the store,
Speaker 1: and not to mention, you know exactly how much things cost.
Speaker 1: So you got to watch my video on the Amazon
Speaker 1: dash car. It is on my Facebook page Facebook dot
Speaker 1: com slash Rich on tech. It is just so cool
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, it's the future. It really is.
Speaker 2: I'm not I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's just every store needs that, every store
Speaker 1: needs that. Let's talk about iOS fourteen because it is
Speaker 1: now available. Perhaps you've already updated your iPhone. I had
Speaker 1: the beta version on my phone and then I had
Speaker 1: to take that off because I knew or the battery
Speaker 1: was just so bad. So now I've got the final
Speaker 1: version on my phone, the public iOS fourteen.
Speaker 2: And it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting to me that, you know, I grew
Speaker 1: up kind of loving Android, and I kind of switched
Speaker 1: over to iPhone specifically for you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: years now. But you know, I've always swapped back and forth, and.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of little things on Android that I love,
Speaker 2: but there are a lot of little.
Speaker 1: Things on iOS that annoyed me. But Apple just keeps
Speaker 1: getting rid of all of my pain points. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just keep adding these things that make everything work
Speaker 1: better and look better. And now with these widgets, you know,
Speaker 1: you can get Google on your home screen.
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
Speaker 1: So a couple things to look out for in iOS fourteen,
Speaker 1: which I recommend you download if you want a better experience.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of improvements. Obviously, some people are
Speaker 1: hesitant to download things right away because there might be
Speaker 1: some bugs. I think that this is one of the
Speaker 1: most solid operating systems out of the gate. It was
Speaker 1: solid when it was beta except for the battery and
Speaker 1: I think they've fixed the battery issues. So a couple
Speaker 1: things you can do in iOS fourteen. Number one home
Speaker 1: screen widgets, so you can now put widgets on your screens,
Speaker 1: which can give you access to information at a glance,
Speaker 1: so your calendar Google. A lot of the third party
Speaker 1: widgets are not available just yet, but they will be
Speaker 1: and once those start getting in there, it's going to
Speaker 1: be quite powerful. They also organize all of your apps
Speaker 1: now into categories, something called the App Library, so you
Speaker 1: can scroll through all of your apps in alphabetical order,
Speaker 1: or see them in folders that Apple creates incoming Phone
Speaker 1: calls and FaceTime calls are compact, so they don't take
Speaker 1: up the whole screen, which means if you're working on
Speaker 1: something Like yesterday, this happened to me. I'm working on
Speaker 1: something and a call comes in and I just swiped
Speaker 1: it away.
Speaker 2: It was so great.
Speaker 1: My screen didn't go black and show me the person calling.
Speaker 1: It was just perfect. It was exactly how Apple imagined it.
Speaker 2: Picture and picture.
Speaker 1: You could and watch things on your screen while you're
Speaker 1: doing something else. That's pretty cool. Siri.
Speaker 2: I am not a big fan of the redesign. It's
Speaker 2: kind of weird.
Speaker 1: It's now on the bottom half of your screen in
Speaker 1: the top half, and it kind of looks weird. It's
Speaker 1: very unappily to kind of have Siri over your home screen,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of strange getting used to that. In messages,
Speaker 1: you can now pin messages, so if you have a
Speaker 1: group of friends that you talk to regularly, you can
Speaker 1: now swipe from left to right on that message chain
Speaker 1: and then it'll reveal a little pin and you press
Speaker 1: that pin, and now those that message group will stay
Speaker 1: at the top of your messages, so it's really easy
Speaker 1: to hop in there when you want to say something.
Speaker 1: You can also reply to specific messages. So if you
Speaker 1: tap and hold a message in a thread, you can
Speaker 1: reply to that specific little message inside there, so people
Speaker 1: know that, like.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of privacy enhancements. Now your phone is
Speaker 1: going to show you when an app accesses your camera
Speaker 1: or your microphone. You'll see a little green dot or
Speaker 1: some sort of color. I'm not sure what it is,
Speaker 1: but it's a little dot top of your phone in
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner. And when you swipe down
Speaker 1: on your screen to see the control panel, it will
Speaker 1: show you like which app recently accessed your camera or
Speaker 1: your audio. There's a new translay app which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I'm gonna put that to you
Speaker 1: since I'm not traveling internationally anytime soon, but that's really neat.
Speaker 1: And then weather, they bought this weather app which was
Speaker 1: one of my favorites, called dark Sky, and so now
Speaker 1: the weather app has gotten an update. It'll actually tell
Speaker 1: you when it is going to rain minute by minute.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the first question of the show, and
Speaker 1: Laurie says, here's my question for you. My parents are
Speaker 1: getting older in their eighties. Earlier today, my mom fell
Speaker 1: in the bedroom. Ooh sorry, she needed help. My dad
Speaker 1: was in another room across a large house. My mom
Speaker 1: texted him. He did not see the message. They both
Speaker 1: have iPhones, they don't have Apple Watches, which I know
Speaker 1: have the walkie talkie app. What's the best way for
Speaker 1: them to get an emergency message to each other from
Speaker 1: another room in the house. They do have an Echo
Speaker 1: dot in the kitchen. I was thinking they should get
Speaker 1: a couple more Echo dots. Yes, that is the answer
Speaker 1: I would say, is get a couple more Echo dots.
Speaker 1: There's a feature called Alexa Announcements, and this will enable
Speaker 1: you to, oh, there goes my Alexa. This will enable
Speaker 1: you to have recently installed an Alexa Dot in my
Speaker 1: office for testing purposes.
Speaker 2: And now it's actually gotten quite good.
Speaker 1: Like I'm used to the Google Home but now I
Speaker 1: like kind of comparing the two and seeing what the
Speaker 1: reactions are. But anyway, I would say the Echo dot
Speaker 1: do the broadcast thing or actually on Google it's called
Speaker 1: broadcast and you can say, h Google broadcast this, and
Speaker 1: it will broadcast whatever you say to your all of
Speaker 1: your different devices, or you can choose out a specific
Speaker 1: room and on Amazon's Echo.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the same thing. So I believe the
Speaker 2: syntax is.
Speaker 1: A announce that you know announce, so a you know
Speaker 1: the name announce and then she will announce to the
Speaker 1: other one something. So if you were, you know, A
Speaker 1: announced I've fallen it and I can't get up, and
Speaker 1: then that would broadcast the other one. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a good way to do it. But Laurie, I
Speaker 1: would also look into the Apple Watch with fall detection.
Speaker 1: I know your parents live together, so that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: And by the way, congrats to them for you know,
Speaker 1: being together strong this long.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: But the fall detection is a handy feature in the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch that I think would benefit your parents. You
Speaker 1: might want to think of that. I know it's a
Speaker 1: whole big thing Apple Watch. It adds a whole nother
Speaker 1: level of complications to your parents tech setup. But start
Speaker 1: with the dots and go from there. Now, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Apple Watch Series six that was just announced
Speaker 1: by Apple. It is now available and I've got one
Speaker 1: on my wrist. I've got the blue with the blue
Speaker 1: new band. I forget what the bands are called, but
Speaker 1: I'm still forming my opinions on this watch. But I
Speaker 1: will just tell you this, the Apple Watch is quite
Speaker 1: simply amazing. I would put it in that same category
Speaker 1: as something like a smart home speaker, something like the
Speaker 1: Amazon Dash cart that I just was telling you about.
Speaker 1: And then the Apple Watch, I mean along with the iPhone.
Speaker 1: I mean Apple, when you really think about it, they
Speaker 1: have had some really amazing products. When it comes to
Speaker 1: the iPhone, the iPad, and the Apple Watch, I mean
Speaker 1: these three things. This trio is just unstoppable. And the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch Series six kind of builds upon the series five.
Speaker 1: If you're happy with your watch and you don't need
Speaker 1: these new features, then.
Speaker 2: You're just fine.
Speaker 1: But it does add new features and blood oxygen sensor
Speaker 1: is one of them. So this is a feature that
Speaker 1: takes a blood oxygen reading in about fifteen seconds. Apple
Speaker 1: says it is not a medical device, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to keep track of your blood oxygen,
Speaker 1: get an idea of where you stand. This will do
Speaker 1: it throughout the day when you sleep and then when
Speaker 1: you want to take a manual reading. And the manual
Speaker 1: reading is you know a little tricky. You got to
Speaker 1: sit there, stay still, and you know it works, but
Speaker 1: it you know it works better than other things out there.
Speaker 1: I guess some of the they're smart watches. It also
Speaker 1: hasn't always on altimeter, which can give you real time elevation,
Speaker 1: so if you're a big climber or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to see, oh how you are, you can do that.
Speaker 1: It also comes in two new colors, blue and red,
Speaker 1: and it has that automatic hand washing detection which I
Speaker 1: haven't tried yet. I need to turn that on and see.
Speaker 1: I know I slack some times for the twenty seconds
Speaker 1: I know we all do. Sleep tracking is also in there.
Speaker 1: I did wear it to bed the last two nights,
Speaker 1: so the first night, yes, the sleep tracking worked, and
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool to see, you know, how
Speaker 1: long I slept. It tells you how long you were
Speaker 1: in bed and then how long you slept. It doesn't
Speaker 1: give you really good metrics like the way the fipbit does,
Speaker 1: but you get an idea. And the other thing I
Speaker 1: noticed last night is that if you don't activate the
Speaker 1: bedtime setting, it will not track your sleep.
Speaker 2: That's what happened to me last night.
Speaker 1: I just turned on do not disturb, and I guess
Speaker 1: that's not enough for it to go into sleep mode.
Speaker 1: The other thing is if you're using sleep tracking on
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch, you need to figure out when you're
Speaker 1: gonna charge your Apple Watch. So now I usually charge
Speaker 1: at bedside. I will probably move my charger into the
Speaker 1: bathroom and I'll charge it while I shower, so you'll
Speaker 1: have to top it off throughout the day. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna be long enough for you know,
Speaker 1: to probably not, but the watch does charge faster now
Speaker 1: an hour and a half to top off, I guess
Speaker 1: to get to one hundred percent eighty percent I think
Speaker 1: was like half an hour or something like that. Forty minutes.
Speaker 1: So again, it's a great watch. They're you know, the
Speaker 1: two main things the oh, the always on screen is brighter,
Speaker 1: So when you're not when the screen is not fully lit,
Speaker 1: the always on displays lit and that's actually brighter, and
Speaker 1: I have noticed it is brighter. And it's also a
Speaker 1: little bit faster, runs twenty percent faster. Has a new chip,
Speaker 1: the U one chip, which will enable things like making
Speaker 1: your watch a car key digital car key, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of it. The prices remain the same three ninety
Speaker 1: nine or four ninety nine for the cellular version. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's already available and this is one of
Speaker 1: those devices that unless you the new features, you don't
Speaker 1: really need to upgrade it. You know, people are still
Speaker 1: rocking like a Series three. If it's working for you,
Speaker 1: it's working just fine. If you want the blood oxygen,
Speaker 1: then that is something. You know, if there's something with
Speaker 1: your health that requires that or that would be helpful
Speaker 1: to you, then yeah, this would be great. But again
Speaker 1: it's evolutionary. It just continues to get better. The battery
Speaker 1: life is the same about eighteen hours, which you know,
Speaker 1: it'd be nice if Apple could get that up a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But at this point it seems like
Speaker 1: the way Apple's seeing this device is that people charge
Speaker 1: it on a daily basis. It's a little trickier when
Speaker 1: you're tracking your sleep. But again, forming my opinions on this,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they have two new types of bands. Let
Speaker 1: me get my notes again. The bands are interesting because
Speaker 1: they have a soft silicone solo loop and then braided yarn.
Speaker 1: So it's like basically this little stretchable. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a rubber band that you put around your wrist,
Speaker 1: and one's silicone and rubbery, the other one has this
Speaker 1: braided yarn over it.
Speaker 2: I've got the braided yarn.
Speaker 1: The one thing to know about these bands is that
Speaker 1: they're now sized, so they come in different sizes, like
Speaker 1: a seven, a six, four. I don't know what they
Speaker 1: go down to, but you do need to figure out
Speaker 1: what size you are. I am wearing a size six.
Speaker 1: My wrist is pretty small and it fits perfectly. And
Speaker 1: it's funny because you can see as your wrist expands
Speaker 1: throughout the day.
Speaker 2: When you're in the.
Speaker 1: Heat, your watch is a little bit tighter. But I
Speaker 1: find the six works for me. So if you have
Speaker 1: a bigger rist, you might need a seven. If you
Speaker 1: have a smaller rist, you might need a smaller size.
Speaker 1: All right, Valentina says, I need a few suggestions on
Speaker 1: online sales sites. I usually have yard sales once to
Speaker 1: twice a year to clean house, but everything going on,
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable having one. With so many sites
Speaker 1: to sell from home, I'm not sure which is the
Speaker 1: best and easiest for a non tech savvy person. I
Speaker 1: would recommend offer up so well, I'd recommend too. I
Speaker 1: would say offer up, and they just bought the other
Speaker 1: one called let's let's go or let go, Let's go,
Speaker 1: let go, So I would recommend the offer up app
Speaker 1: which now has uh let Go, and then Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 1: Those are the two that I would recommend. And we
Speaker 1: did a story about this. I think it was two
Speaker 1: years ago. It's been a while, and my friend who
Speaker 1: sells a bunch of stuff on these apps, he recommended
Speaker 1: those two and it's funny that they merged offer up
Speaker 1: and let.
Speaker 2: Go, Oh, let Go.
Speaker 1: Now I've sold stuff on offer up. Personally, it's great,
Speaker 1: it's easy, it's simple. It's kind of like a little chat.
Speaker 1: You post stuff from your phone. People text you and
Speaker 1: then you text back and you say, all right, let's meet.
Speaker 1: And I did sell stuff through the pandemic and I
Speaker 1: just put on a mask. The other person had a
Speaker 1: mask and.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can use cash. I guess you
Speaker 1: could use Venmo if you wanted to, but cash is king.
Speaker 1: Facebook Marketplace is neat because it's built into Facebook, so
Speaker 1: it's just there. And also I think I would assume
Speaker 1: that Facebook. If I search for a new boat on Facebook,
Speaker 1: I would assume that would put some of those Facebook
Speaker 1: Marketplace adds in my feed for a new boat, because
Speaker 1: if someone's selling it locally, there's like, hey, here you go.
Speaker 1: That's kind of using the magic of what they know
Speaker 1: about me to market to me. The other thing I
Speaker 1: would recommend if you're using one of these services and
Speaker 1: you don't want to give out your phone number is
Speaker 1: an app called burner b U r n er, and
Speaker 1: that will provide you with a temporary phone number that
Speaker 1: people can call or text for a low fee. And
Speaker 1: then the other recommendation the article that we did, my
Speaker 1: friend Chris said is the best day to sell is Sunday.
Speaker 1: I guess Sunday is a day of leisure. People are
Speaker 1: looking to, you know, do things around the house, sell stuff,
Speaker 1: buy stuff, whatever. But those are the places I'd recommend
Speaker 1: and just you know, obviously be safe, be aware, and
Speaker 1: it generally helps to have someone with you when you
Speaker 1: do that in person handoff, I would just recommend that
Speaker 1: as well. Let's talk about another Apple Why this is
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch. There's gonna be a lot of Apple news,
Speaker 1: so spoiler alert. Apple Watch S is the new I guess,
Speaker 1: lower priced Apple Watch. And the big difference between the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch S is the display. I have not gone
Speaker 1: hands on with this just yet, but the display and
Speaker 1: also the sensors that you get. So two main sensors
Speaker 1: you do not get in the Apple Watch s are
Speaker 1: the EKG and the new Blood Oxygen. So otherwise you
Speaker 1: get pretty much what you need. You get GPS, you
Speaker 1: get accelerometer, you get gyroscope, you get the always on altimeter,
Speaker 1: you get fall detection, you get emergency SOS, you get
Speaker 1: the noise app.
Speaker 2: So you do get a lot of stuff in this s.
Speaker 2: I think that they just wanted to make something that
Speaker 2: was a little bit cheaper than the big one, and
Speaker 2: it also has a lesser processor.
Speaker 1: So Apple very very smart company. Since they make all
Speaker 1: these processors, it's like, well, why make this processor? They
Speaker 1: make a new one every year, but then they've got
Speaker 1: the old ones that are still pretty good, and so
Speaker 1: they put those in their products that are a little
Speaker 1: bit cheaper because they've already put all the R and
Speaker 1: D into these processors, so why not get more use
Speaker 1: out of them. The Apple Watch SE also has a
Speaker 1: speaker and a microphone Siri walkie talkie. Like I said,
Speaker 1: fall detection. Trying to see what else it has in here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: two seventy nine starting at for the GPS version. The
Speaker 1: GPS plus cellular starts at three twenty nine, And I
Speaker 1: think that this is a great option if you don't
Speaker 1: need the blood oxygen and also the heart rate stuff,
Speaker 1: or it's not heart rate because it still will take
Speaker 1: your heart rate, it's just not going to do the ECG.
Speaker 1: So that's like the heart you know, when it detects
Speaker 1: if your heart has a fib or something like that.
Speaker 1: So this is a great solution. It's less expensive. And
Speaker 1: also they're targeting it towards their new family setup because
Speaker 1: a lot of parents are going to be buying Apple
Speaker 1: watches for their kids now. And I will get into
Speaker 1: that after the next question. I will explain all of that,
Speaker 1: all right, Chris says. And I know I'm going through
Speaker 1: this stuff fast. I just feel like I have so
Speaker 1: much stuff to go through that I want to get
Speaker 1: through it all. Chris says, I follow you and a listener.
Speaker 1: You make me look techy to my grandchildren.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I have Wi Fi from Frontier since they were a Verizon.
Speaker 1: My router is a Verizon. I've had it for years.
Speaker 1: Should I buy my own? What is the benefit of
Speaker 1: replacing Chris? So, the benefit, Chris is that you would
Speaker 1: theoretically get higher speeds, but only if you subscribe to
Speaker 1: higher speeds. So what you need to do is number one,
Speaker 1: call Frontier and ask them and just say, hey, what
Speaker 1: is the speed that I'm supposed to be getting at
Speaker 1: my house? And they may say something like one hundred,
Speaker 1: and you go, okay, well here's my router. Can my
Speaker 1: router get to one hundred? Most routers can. It's really
Speaker 1: I think that the well, sorry, a lot of the
Speaker 1: older route couldn't get the higher speeds. They were a
Speaker 1: different I think it was called dosis doccis. So there's
Speaker 1: like a certain level of software on those modems or
Speaker 1: maybe it was the whatever the whatever the specs were.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't handle the higher speed, so that when
Speaker 1: you got newer, higher Internet they would say, oh, we
Speaker 1: have to swap out your modem. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's the case with you, but this kind of
Speaker 1: applies to if you're listening and you have had your
Speaker 1: router for a long long time, and maybe your company
Speaker 1: has increased speeds in your area.
Speaker 2: You can't really.
Speaker 1: Take advantage of those speeds if you have one of
Speaker 1: these older routers. But the only way to figure that
Speaker 1: out is to really ask, and so call up Frontier
Speaker 1: say what's the speed I'm paying for? And is my
Speaker 1: router able to handle that. If they say yes, then
Speaker 1: you're fine. If you want to upgrade and get faster speed,
Speaker 1: you probably will need a.
Speaker 2: Newer router with the newer specs.
Speaker 1: So if it's been this long, which sounds like it's
Speaker 1: been a while, you it's in your best interest to
Speaker 1: figure out if you the newer router, and the benefit
Speaker 1: of replacing again is just those faster speeds and also
Speaker 1: maybe the Wi Fi network. So back in the day
Speaker 1: the routers might have only had a two point four
Speaker 1: gigahertz network. Maybe now they have two point.
Speaker 2: Four gigaherts and five gigaherts.
Speaker 1: So again I would just call Frontier, talk to them,
Speaker 1: ask them and see what they say. And if you're
Speaker 1: paying for a router, you're paying for a rental of
Speaker 1: this modem, then you know, if it's included anyway, you
Speaker 1: might as well get the new one. Might just be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hassle of switching it out.
Speaker 1: You might have to do that yourself. Every company is different.
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff is self installed nowadays. But again, yeah,
Speaker 1: just see what the deal is with your speed and
Speaker 1: if your modem can handle it. If they can't, get
Speaker 1: the new one, good question. Well, I promised i'd talk
Speaker 1: about the new Apple Watch Family Setup, and this is brilliant.
Speaker 1: Apple is going to sell a whole lot of watches
Speaker 1: thanks to this new feature and on this podcast. Although
Speaker 1: I have no good way of figure out what I've
Speaker 1: said on this podcast, you know what I should do.
Speaker 1: I should transcribe each episode after I'm done with it,
Speaker 1: because there's always like little things that I say that
Speaker 1: I want to remember or bring back and I can
Speaker 1: never remember. But I know for a fact on this podcast,
Speaker 1: I talked about the fact that Apple should free the
Speaker 1: iPhone from the or sorry, free the Apple Watch from
Speaker 1: the iPhone, because overnight it would become the most popular
Speaker 1: kids watch in America. And if you've ever seen these
Speaker 1: kids watches, they are terrible. They're just they're terrible. They're
Speaker 1: really gross. They're big, they're bulky, they're expensive, the software
Speaker 1: is horrible. Kids are wearing them and it's like this
Speaker 1: giant thing on their wrist. Well, I said that Apple
Speaker 1: should make the Apple Watch work with kids, and they
Speaker 1: did so. For the first time, an Apple Watch can
Speaker 1: be set up through a parent's iPhone through this feature
Speaker 1: called family set Up, so the parent sets up the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch through their phone, and then they can monitor
Speaker 1: pretty much what the kid is able to do on
Speaker 1: the device. So what does the kid get? They get texting,
Speaker 1: they get calling, they get Apple Maps, they get Siri,
Speaker 1: they get alarms, they get the app store. But the
Speaker 1: parents can pretty much regulate everything that's available on their
Speaker 1: device and what they can do and when they can
Speaker 1: do it, kind of like screen time but for the watch.
Speaker 2: But the reality of this.
Speaker 1: Is that this is amazing for parents, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the whole debate over,
Speaker 1: you know, whether kids should have a phone or device.
Speaker 2: I don't think they should.
Speaker 1: I think you should wait as long as humanly possible
Speaker 1: to give them to your kids. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: do my kids have an iPad?
Speaker 2: Yes? They do. Do they love it? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Do I have to pry it from their tiny little
Speaker 1: hands every once in a while, Yes, But that's the
Speaker 1: world we live in. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: Am I on my phone more than I should be?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 1: Did you watch the Social Dilemma documentary on Netflix? If
Speaker 1: you didn't, please watch it because it's very eye opening,
Speaker 1: even though I already kind of knew what they're talking
Speaker 1: about all These notifications are just there to lure you in.
Speaker 1: They're like the equivalent of when you went fishing, you
Speaker 1: had a lure that was shiny and the fish would
Speaker 1: you go for it? Well, that's what these notifications are.
Speaker 1: They're shiny little objects that they dangle in front of
Speaker 1: us and we go, Oh, what's that? Someone liked my picture?
Speaker 2: What's that? Someone commented? What's that? Someone texted me?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I gotta check my phone right now.
Speaker 1: And I'm guilty of it all the time. And that's
Speaker 1: why I have most of my notifications turned off. But
Speaker 1: these apps are tricky. They make notifications kind of tricky
Speaker 1: because you don't want to turn off all of the
Speaker 1: notifications because you might miss an important one that you
Speaker 1: actually need. And so anyway, round and round in circles
Speaker 1: we go. So here is the trick about family set up. When,
Speaker 1: as I understand it, from Apple, they want you to
Speaker 1: use an Apple Watch that has a cellular antenna in it.
Speaker 1: So you actually need to use an Apple Watch with cellular,
Speaker 1: but from what I'm hearing, it sounds like you don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have They don't require you to activate the cellular
Speaker 1: although it is only strongly suggested.
Speaker 2: That you do that.
Speaker 1: And the reason they say that is because think about it,
Speaker 1: your kids at school, your kid is at their friend's house,
Speaker 1: your kid is at the playground. These are places where
Speaker 1: they may not have the Wi Fi connection available on
Speaker 1: their watch, or they're not gonna be able to connect
Speaker 1: to Wi Fi because when they go to the mall,
Speaker 1: yeah there's free Wi Fi, but what kid is gonna
Speaker 1: sit there and connect it on their Apple Watch. Now,
Speaker 1: if your kids ate and go to the mall by themselves,
Speaker 1: that's a whole nother story that's really not probably not happening.
Speaker 1: But the reality is there are lots of places where
Speaker 1: they would not necessarily have a Wi Fi connection. And
Speaker 1: so Apple is asking parents to use a watch or
Speaker 1: requiring that parents use a watch with cellular and it
Speaker 1: seems like you can still use this feature, but they
Speaker 1: want you to activate the cellular so that you get
Speaker 1: the full use out of this entire thing. And what
Speaker 1: they can do is they kind of have a phone
Speaker 1: on their wrists. They can make calls, they have their
Speaker 1: own I Message, you know, they can send texts, they
Speaker 1: can do a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: And so they can also use emergency sos so they
Speaker 1: can press the side button and notify people automatically. There's
Speaker 1: medical idea on this thing. There's a feature called school Time,
Speaker 1: which this is a special watch face designed for parents
Speaker 1: and teachers. So this is a watch face called school
Speaker 1: Time that when it's on there, you can look at
Speaker 1: it and be like, okay, cool. The apps are restricted
Speaker 1: and do not disturb is turned on, so during school.
Speaker 1: Because Apple already saw that some teachers are gonna have
Speaker 1: a problem with this, they will be able to see
Speaker 1: that school Time watch face and say, Okay, Johnny is
Speaker 1: paying attention because he's got that on, so he's not
Speaker 1: sitting there playing with his watch. So Family Setup is available.
Speaker 1: I again have not tested this just yet. I will
Speaker 1: be testing this to see how it works. But the
Speaker 1: reality is I think this is really really smart. And
Speaker 1: here's the way they put it. To set up Apple
Speaker 1: Watch with family set up to a new assistant guides
Speaker 1: users through the configuration steps on iPhone. Family setup requires
Speaker 1: family sharing and an Apple ID for the child or
Speaker 1: older member of the household, and cellular service enables all
Speaker 1: of its features. So it's not saying you have to
Speaker 1: but you will have to use a watch with cellular,
Speaker 1: So no matter what, you have to have an Apple
Speaker 1: Watch Series four or an Apple Watch se with cellular.
Speaker 2: So that makes it a little bit more expensive to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: And then I'm looking at these plans, like T Mobile
Speaker 1: emailed me and they said, oh, we have a great
Speaker 1: new plan for the kids with his family set up.
Speaker 1: It's ten dollars a month on promo for a limited time,
Speaker 1: and that's including a you know, discount of something and
Speaker 1: another discount.
Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1: Hold on to add an Apple Watch to an iPhone
Speaker 1: plan was always ten bucks a month, and now you're
Speaker 1: telling me that these plans are going to be more expensive.
Speaker 2: So it sounds like.
Speaker 1: The wireless carriers really like this because they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to charge Johnny twenty five dollars because well,
Speaker 1: they don't have a an iPhone associated with this, so
Speaker 1: we need to.
Speaker 2: Charge them more.
Speaker 1: Even though we all know Apple watches are using like
Speaker 1: a tiny they're data sippers. They're using a tiny bit
Speaker 1: of data. I mean, mine is like it's almost negligent
Speaker 1: how much it is using. And yet you know I
Speaker 1: only pay a ten bucks a month, thankfully, but you know,
Speaker 1: the twenty five dollars a month. If that's where they
Speaker 1: want to try to charge us for this family setup.
Speaker 2: That's a little steep.
Speaker 1: But with that said, it does give you peace of mind.
Speaker 1: And my wife and I were debating this last night.
Speaker 1: I get it, you don't have to agree that kids
Speaker 1: need a watch or anything, but there are many many
Speaker 1: circumstances where parents will feel more at ease knowing that
Speaker 1: their kids are connected using this setup.
Speaker 2: Dominic says Rich.
Speaker 1: Do you have any recommendations for blue light filter screens
Speaker 1: for the Mac Book Air? Thanks for your great tips
Speaker 1: and Dominic, the answer is no, I do not. Now,
Speaker 1: there are a couple things out. Recommend Number one, I've
Speaker 1: been testing out blue blocking glasses. Apparently a lot of
Speaker 1: people are emailing me about these because they're feeling the
Speaker 1: strain on their eyes because they're working from.
Speaker 2: Home so much.
Speaker 1: I don't you know. I've tried to wear them for
Speaker 1: the last couple of mornings. I don't really see a difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe a little bit, but it could be
Speaker 1: psychological that I feel better. But the other feature I
Speaker 1: would definitely turn on in your Mac is the.
Speaker 2: I think it's called night shift.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so go into your Mac preference system preferences, search
Speaker 1: for night shift on your display, and night shift automatically
Speaker 1: shifts the color of your display to the warmer end
Speaker 1: of the color spectrum after dark. This can help you
Speaker 1: get a better night's sleep. So that's mainly meant for,
Speaker 1: you know, blocking out a little bit of that blue
Speaker 1: light during the night, you know, the afternoon hours till
Speaker 1: you know bed, but you can also use it during
Speaker 1: the day if you want. Again, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: one of these things where I know we hear a
Speaker 1: lot about blue blocking. We're actually working on a story
Speaker 1: about that for KTLA. Apparently our interviews came back from
Speaker 1: my producer Megan, and she said that one person said yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it's great, and the other person said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's not that great, So we will find out. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of these things where if it makes
Speaker 1: you feel better and you personally feel better using a
Speaker 1: blue light filter, then go ahead. And to answer your question,
Speaker 1: I would assume that three M has some privacy screens
Speaker 1: or some sort of screens you can attach that have
Speaker 1: blue light filter in them, but I'm not completely sure,
Speaker 1: but if you want, you can also try some blue
Speaker 1: light blocking glasses, and there are a whole bunch like Felix.
Speaker 1: Gray is the big one that makes them. I think WARB.
Speaker 1: Parker does it. I've been testing. Let's see what are
Speaker 1: the ones I'm testing. These are called pixel pix e
Speaker 1: L pixel blue blockers. I've got the toros, which are nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're great. They're just they feel like
Speaker 1: window glasses, but they block blue light. So you know,
Speaker 1: if it makes you feel better, do it. But I
Speaker 1: can't say with certainty that it works or it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: All right, So more Apple News. Apple One. This is
Speaker 1: the subscription bundle plan. So if you have a bunch
Speaker 1: of these Apple services like Apple Music, Apple TV plus
Speaker 1: Apple Arcade, iCloud and more, you can get them all
Speaker 1: now in one plan. So let me just go over
Speaker 1: these plans that launch later this year. Individual plan includes
Speaker 1: Apple Music, Apple TV plus Apple Arcade and fifty gigs
Speaker 1: of iCloud storage that is fifteen dollars a month. Then
Speaker 1: you've got the Family plan. This includes Apple Music, Apple
Speaker 1: TV plus Apple Arcade, and two hundred gigs of iCloud
Speaker 1: storage that is twenty dollars a month and can be
Speaker 1: shared among six family members.
Speaker 2: So let's just do the math.
Speaker 1: If you're paying for Apple Music Family Plan, which I
Speaker 1: think is fifteen, Apple TV Plus, which I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone's paying for yet, but Apple Arcade, which I am,
Speaker 1: that's five dollars a month, so right, there is twenty
Speaker 1: bucks a month. So now you get the other two
Speaker 1: for free, Apple TV Plus and two hundred gigs of
Speaker 1: iCloud storage, which I think I pay three dollars a
Speaker 1: month for, so right there is gonna save you eight bucks.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the Premiere Plan. This is Apple Music,
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade, Apple Newsplus, Apple Fitness Plus,
Speaker 1: and two terabytes of iCloud storage, all for thirty dollars
Speaker 1: a month that can be shared among six family members.
Speaker 1: And it sounds a lot thirty dollars a month, but
Speaker 1: that is a fantastic deal. If you purchased all those
Speaker 1: things separately, I mean Apple Music, that's let's just say
Speaker 1: it's fifteen, Apple TV Plus. I think it's five. That's twenty,
Speaker 1: Apple Arcade, twenty five, Apple News ten. That's thirty five,
Speaker 1: Apple Fitness that's ten forty five two terabytes of storage.
Speaker 1: I think it's ten fifty five sixty five so that's
Speaker 1: like thirty dollars a month you're saving. So that's a
Speaker 1: pretty good deal. I don't know which one I'll do.
Speaker 2: I might do.
Speaker 1: I already see the problem is I get Apple Music
Speaker 1: including my Verizon plan, So that makes it very very
Speaker 1: tricky because I have to extract that from my plan
Speaker 1: and see but I I would think the Family Plan
Speaker 1: would be really good for me for twenty bucks a month,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna look into that. Maybe I can downgrade
Speaker 1: my Verizon plant and not include the music. You know what,
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do that, downgrade my Verizon plant to not
Speaker 1: include But then I got then I got rid of
Speaker 1: the gotta get rid of the HD video streaming. If
Speaker 1: you drop down anyway, it's very complicated. So let me
Speaker 1: go over another another subscription service I mentioned called Apple
Speaker 1: Fitness Plus. This is sort of just a lot of
Speaker 1: people are saying it's their answer to Peloton, which is true,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of fitness apps out there that
Speaker 1: do video classes. Peloton is just the most popular. But
Speaker 1: one I really like is called Aptive. They do they
Speaker 1: started out as audio, now they do video. But Fitness
Speaker 1: Plus is Apple's version, so you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: more apply. You know, it's gonna keep you in that
Speaker 1: Apple ecosystem with the Apple Watch, the Apple TV, and
Speaker 1: of course the iPad and the iPhone. Most of the
Speaker 1: workouts can be done with no equipment or just a
Speaker 1: set of dumbbells. They've got cycling, treadmill, rowing, hit, strength, yoga,
Speaker 1: dance core, and mindful cool down. And they also have
Speaker 1: an absolute beginner program. This would be good for me,
Speaker 1: just to give you the basics of movement and exercise.
Speaker 1: And the big thing that Apple is promoting in this
Speaker 1: is the on screen kind of handoff of information between
Speaker 1: your Apple Watch and your iPad or however you're doing
Speaker 1: these things. So on screen you're gonna see all your metrics,
Speaker 1: like in real time, so how many calories you're burning,
Speaker 1: your heart rate, your rings and if you close a ring,
Speaker 1: it's going to like burst on the screen, so you
Speaker 1: can be very excited. Then of course, they have this
Speaker 1: curated selection of fitness trainers that are all Apple employees now,
Speaker 1: and they're all sort of different. You know, some are
Speaker 1: martial arts backgrounds, some are yogis, some are runners. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the way Peloton does it. It's they've
Speaker 1: got all these really kind of fun, energetic folks that
Speaker 1: you can identify with, right, so that you find the
Speaker 1: people that you identify with, and that's the classes that
Speaker 1: you sort of stick to. So I've got my favorite
Speaker 1: trainers on Peloton. One interesting thing that Apple said, and
Speaker 1: that I think they called this out for a reason.
Speaker 1: They said, you know, privacy is huge on this, and
Speaker 1: the workouts or the trainers that you use will not
Speaker 1: be stored with your Apple ID, So basically this stays
Speaker 1: private on your phone. So I find that really interesting
Speaker 1: because you know, Peloton has a whole bunch of data
Speaker 1: on us about who we like to take classes with
Speaker 1: and you know how we're working out. But the workout
Speaker 1: data here is staying private, which I find to be
Speaker 1: really different compared to what everyone else is doing. Apple
Speaker 1: Fitness Plus is ten dollars a month or eighty dollars
Speaker 1: for a year. It's going to launch sometime later this year.
Speaker 1: All right, next question from Wilmer. Hey, Rich, I'd like
Speaker 1: to start a podcast. Any insight on the equipment one
Speaker 1: should purchase in order to make it sound as good
Speaker 1: as yours. The podcast would be interview style, so two
Speaker 1: to four mics would be the ideal setup I'm looking for. Well,
Speaker 1: here's my advice, because I've been doing this podcast for many,
Speaker 1: many years, and if you've been listening since the beginning,
Speaker 1: you know that it is sounded vastly different over the years.
Speaker 1: And I like to think that I've improved it, but
Speaker 1: a lot of it stayed the same. I mean, most
Speaker 1: of it's just me talking into a microphone. And yes,
Speaker 1: I try to do the occasional callers, occasional guest host
Speaker 1: to bring in you know, other folks to read the questions,
Speaker 1: like producer Megan. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: if you're starting a podcast, you know, the reality is
Speaker 1: you just need a.
Speaker 2: Board and microphones.
Speaker 1: So I would recommend just getting I started with a
Speaker 1: really inexpensive mixer, a barringer mixer that I bought on Amazon,
Speaker 1: and I would just look for a USB version of that,
Speaker 1: and then look for some mics. Go on YouTube and
Speaker 1: everyone recommends stuff that they want, you know, beginner podcasts.
Speaker 2: Just see, just get a good, good mic, a good
Speaker 2: MIC's stand.
Speaker 1: I've got like an extension arm stand and you know,
Speaker 1: a mixer, and that's all you need. But the reality
Speaker 1: is just kind of upgrade as you go along, So
Speaker 1: I assume you're not going to be making millions of
Speaker 1: dollars on this podcast overnight. So my advice is to
Speaker 1: just build as you get into a groove. And my
Speaker 1: my biggest thing with this podcast is I want to
Speaker 1: be able to do it on a regular basis, So
Speaker 1: I don't want to just have one episode one week
Speaker 1: and then ah, three weeks go by and I'm on
Speaker 1: vacation and I don't do another one for another month,
Speaker 1: and how annoying is that? And yes, there's been times
Speaker 1: when I go on vacation and I don't file a podcast.
Speaker 1: That happens a couple times a year, but most of
Speaker 1: the time I have stuck to my schedule of Thursday
Speaker 1: or Friday recording to put the podcast out, and that's
Speaker 1: what I want to do, and that's the main thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, I think it's more important to stick to
Speaker 1: a schedule than to worry about the quality being being perfect,
Speaker 1: perfect perfect. And as you get along, you can get
Speaker 1: more things. In my room here, I've got little drapes
Speaker 1: that I are little moving blankets from Harbor Freight that
Speaker 1: you can just hang on the wall or put over
Speaker 1: your furniture so that the room doesn't sound so hollowy.
Speaker 1: I've got an extension arm. Like I said that that works,
Speaker 1: and now I've got the road the road Caster. Let's
Speaker 1: see what are these mics. The mics are the road
Speaker 1: pro Caster, the road Caster Pro. It's always like I think,
Speaker 1: once pro Roadcaster and then road Caster Pro. But those
Speaker 1: are the things I use to do this podcast. And
Speaker 1: I also use an app called Seconds to time things
Speaker 1: out so that I can stay on time and stay
Speaker 1: on task. But again, you know, then I just use
Speaker 1: a pair of Apple headphones. But again it just just
Speaker 1: start small and build up as you go along. The
Speaker 1: main thing is to just you know, you can start
Speaker 1: with the app called Anchor and just record it into
Speaker 1: your iPhone. But if you have two to four people,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't really do that, I don't think,
Speaker 1: But you know, you can experiment along the way. I've
Speaker 1: experimented with a lot of different ways of doing this,
Speaker 1: and you know, just see what works for you, what
Speaker 1: works for your podcast, and most importantly, just continue to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about this story because
Speaker 1: I know by the time you hear this, who knows
Speaker 1: if it's still going to be happening, but I'll mention
Speaker 1: it since it's really interesting. But the US is going
Speaker 1: to start banning downloads new downloads of TikTok and we Chat.
Speaker 1: This news dropped from the US Commerce Department, and we've
Speaker 1: heard back and forth about TikTok for a couple months now.
Speaker 1: Now we Chat is somehow in the mix. I wasn't
Speaker 1: aware of that before, but now it is. And so
Speaker 1: we Chat and TikTok are both owned or I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're owned by the Chinese government,
Speaker 1: but they obviously are based in China, and that scares
Speaker 1: the US, and so the US is worried that some
Speaker 1: of the data that these apps collect could be, you know,
Speaker 1: somehow funneled to the Chinese government, and so therefore they
Speaker 1: are either banning them outright or just kind of limiting
Speaker 1: their access here in the US. So Sunday, September twentieth,
Speaker 1: theoretically you will not be able to download Chat or
Speaker 1: TikTok on.
Speaker 2: Google Play or the Apple App Store.
Speaker 1: And then they're going a step further and on November twelfth,
Speaker 1: for TikTok, they're gonna really kind of clamp down on
Speaker 1: it and say that you know, ISPs here in the
Speaker 1: US can't even give people access, So there's basically no
Speaker 1: way you'd be able.
Speaker 2: To access TikTok after November twelfth. Do I think that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. Absolutely not. I think that this is gonna
Speaker 2: be resolved.
Speaker 1: I think that this is a little bit of politics
Speaker 1: mixed into a little bit of fear, mixed into a
Speaker 1: little bit of you know, someone wants to deal and
Speaker 1: so I'm not too concerned that TikTok is going to
Speaker 1: go away in the US. And we Chat, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty concerning because we Chat is the the
Speaker 1: app over in China. And so if you imagine people
Speaker 1: that are here in the US that are conversing with
Speaker 1: their friends and family in China, they're probably using we Chat.
Speaker 1: And so if that's cut off here, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a problem because people rely on that. Yes, you can
Speaker 1: find something else, but you know, so in China you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to use some of these other options, which
Speaker 1: would be like something like Facebook or you know, Instagram,
Speaker 1: you can't really access those. Now that goes to this
Speaker 1: whole big problem of you know, is China suppressing.
Speaker 2: Speech over there? Yeah? Probably, because when I was over there.
Speaker 1: It's really tough to talk to people in the US
Speaker 1: unless you're on the terms that China.
Speaker 2: Wants you to use.
Speaker 1: So do I think this is gonna happen in full?
Speaker 1: I don't think so, but it's something to be aware of.
Speaker 1: And if you want these apps on your phone, you
Speaker 1: gotta download them now and see what happens. So for
Speaker 1: for we Chat, it seems like it's gonna go away,
Speaker 1: like all the functionality seems like it's gonna go away
Speaker 1: over the weekend on September twentieth.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I assume there's gonna be some sort of
Speaker 1: last minute deal to save these things. But for TikTok,
Speaker 1: you have a little bit longer November twelfth. But again,
Speaker 1: you won't be able to download either of these theoretically
Speaker 1: after Sunday, September twentieth, So we're gonna keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that one. See what's gonna happen. But now you
Speaker 1: know what the deal is, all right? Do I have
Speaker 1: another question here.
Speaker 2: Online sales? We did that? Ah, here we go.
Speaker 1: Robert says, good afternoon, Rich you said you only got
Speaker 1: good mornings.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's funny. I did say that. Oh you
Speaker 2: listened to the podcast.
Speaker 1: I installed iOS fourteen on both and both my iPhone
Speaker 1: and iPad no longer show chrome Cast as an option
Speaker 1: to cast. They still show the fire TV stick. Do
Speaker 1: you have an idea on how to cast with a
Speaker 1: new update?
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So what I think is happening, Robert, is there's a
Speaker 1: lot of new security procedures built into iOS fourteen, and
Speaker 1: one of those I don't know if you've noticed, but
Speaker 1: every app that you open it says can this app
Speaker 1: discover things on your network? And you're like, wait, what
Speaker 1: what do you mean discover things on my network? So
Speaker 1: the inkling is to say no. And I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that to number one, you got to do two things.
Speaker 1: Number one, you got to open up these apps again
Speaker 1: to see if you mistakenly hit no to the network discovery.
Speaker 1: Because what that network discovery is it is like it's saying,
Speaker 1: like YouTube, when you open it up, it needs to
Speaker 1: be able to look on your network, on your Wi
Speaker 1: Fi network and discover the Chrome cast device. That's what
Speaker 1: it's asking for. I know it sounds scary, and Apple
Speaker 1: makes all these things sound very scary, like this app
Speaker 1: got your precise location seventeen thousand times. Do you want
Speaker 1: to allow that? You're like, yeah, it's Google Maps. I
Speaker 1: mean I think it needs that to function. Now for
Speaker 1: other apps you don't need that, And I think it's
Speaker 1: very smart that Apple's done this because for something like
Speaker 1: a photo app, like you know, a photo editing app
Speaker 1: that makes your face look better, does not need access
Speaker 1: to your location twenty four to seven. So I think
Speaker 1: it's smart that Apple's done this, But it does get confusing.
Speaker 1: So anyway, go ahead and open up these apps. Make
Speaker 1: sure that you are saying yes to network discovery on
Speaker 1: the ones that need to discover the things on your network.
Speaker 1: So if it's something like you're trying to use, you know,
Speaker 1: Hulu and you want a Chrome cast, and maybe you
Speaker 1: can if it's not showing up, delete Hulu, reinstall it,
Speaker 1: and when you get to that network discovery question, just
Speaker 1: say yes, good question.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: We have the PlayStation five details launching this November. Three
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars for the digital edition, four
Speaker 1: ninety nine for the addition with an Ultra HD Blu
Speaker 1: Ray disk drive, so one hundred bucks more for the
Speaker 1: disk drive, which you may or may not need. I
Speaker 1: don't think you need it, but you know I don't.
Speaker 1: I have not had a disk drive in my house
Speaker 1: in so long. Both use the same processor, which is
Speaker 1: kind of cool, high fidel De graphics up to four K.
Speaker 1: They both have the same high speed solid state drive,
Speaker 1: and both models offer better dual Sense wireless controllers with.
Speaker 2: Three D audio.
Speaker 1: So you basically get the same thing, except a disk
Speaker 1: drive on one, no disk drive on the other. Did
Speaker 1: I say when it's launching? It is coming to us
Speaker 1: on November twelfth, So this price at three makes the
Speaker 1: digital edition of the PlayStation five one hundred dollars more
Speaker 1: than the digital edition of the Xbox series. I think
Speaker 1: it's the s the smaller one, So that's a decision
Speaker 1: you have to make. There are a lot of options
Speaker 1: with this thing, too, a lot of accessories you've got.
Speaker 1: Let's see, a dual Sense wireless controller is seventy bucks
Speaker 1: if you want extra one of those. They've got a
Speaker 1: three D wireless headset with three D audio that's one
Speaker 1: hundred bucks, with a microphone, HD camera sixty bucks, a
Speaker 1: remote control thirty dollars, and a charging station for your
Speaker 1: remote controls all right, sorry for your two controllers, that's
Speaker 1: thirty dollars, so oo start saving now for those holidays.
Speaker 1: I'm likely getting my kids the Xbox I think it's gosh,
Speaker 1: which one is it?
Speaker 2: The Xbox Series? Is it the S? I'm thinking it's
Speaker 2: the S, right, yeah, the S. So I want the S.
Speaker 1: So that one's the digital Xbox and I think my
Speaker 1: kids will like that one. Oh I hear my kids
Speaker 1: scream right now? Isn't that funny? Working from home? It's
Speaker 1: just the stuff that goes on is just wild, because
Speaker 1: you know, we're all here, my wife, me, my two kids,
Speaker 1: and my one kid is in kindergarten. He doesn't you know,
Speaker 1: it's really tough for kindergartener to be on Zoom for classes.
Speaker 1: So my other one, my older kid, takes everything very seriously,
Speaker 1: and the little one, of course, gets bored after a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, and he starts jumping around, you know,
Speaker 1: upsetting my older kid.
Speaker 2: It is pretty wild.
Speaker 1: So if you hear them screaming in the background, that's
Speaker 1: the backstory. Now, you know, let's go to one more
Speaker 1: story or do I have time for one?
Speaker 2: Or two?
Speaker 1: Maybe two quick stories here? Arlow has a new wire
Speaker 1: free video doorbell. This is a one and ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars device that's launching in a little bit later this year.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like the same thing as their
Speaker 1: wired video doorbell, except it has.
Speaker 2: You know, it's battery.
Speaker 1: So the the interesting feature about this is that they
Speaker 1: have this thing. Now I need to test this outcause
Speaker 1: I'm very curious how this works. But they call it
Speaker 1: direct to mobile video call. So I get a lot
Speaker 1: of emails from folks that have a ring video doorbell
Speaker 1: and they say, ah, my ring takes so long. By
Speaker 1: the time I get the notification, tap it, and then
Speaker 1: the video starts, the person's either walked away or it's
Speaker 1: just too slow. And a lot of that has to
Speaker 1: do with your Wi Fi signal, because for mine, it's
Speaker 1: pretty darn fast and I've got decent Wi Fi. But
Speaker 1: Arlow must know that there's a pain point because they
Speaker 1: have something called direct to mobile video call, and calls
Speaker 1: go to your phone directly, so you don't miss a visitor.
Speaker 1: Now what does that mean.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's setting up some sort of ad
Speaker 1: hoc network, but I guess it's somehow routing these calls
Speaker 1: faster through your home Wi Fi to your phone, so
Speaker 1: immediately the video stream is on your phone and you
Speaker 1: can answer it and see the person. Also has two
Speaker 1: way audio video messaging, so your guests can now leave
Speaker 1: a voice message if you're unable to answer the door,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: HD video with HDR.
Speaker 1: Night vision, it's weather resistant, it's got a built in
Speaker 1: siren so you can trigger it if there's a problem
Speaker 1: at your house, and one hundred and eighty degree viewing angle.
Speaker 1: So it is going to be one hundred ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars two hundred bucks when it launches later this year.
Speaker 1: But again, people love Arlow because they make these video
Speaker 1: cameras that are super easy to put up anywhere, and
Speaker 1: they were kind of the only game in town until
Speaker 1: you know, Rain came along with their stick up cams,
Speaker 1: and then now you've got the Wisecam outdoors which.
Speaker 2: Are super cheap.
Speaker 1: But people love Arlow, and again, this will probably be
Speaker 1: something if you're in that Arlow ecosystem that you'll really
Speaker 1: like having. And I think that's all the questions I
Speaker 1: get I had today. One more thing. Verizon is acquiring
Speaker 1: Trackphone Wireless. Not much to tell you about there, but
Speaker 1: you know, if you have Trackphone, Verizon is going to
Speaker 1: be purchasing them, which you know, is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean track phone. The The interesting thing about this
Speaker 1: is that I was under the impression that trackphone worked
Speaker 1: with all of the mobile wireless providers, and I assume
Speaker 1: that they're only going to work with Verizon now. So
Speaker 1: it says that let's see, yeah, trackphone has approximately twenty
Speaker 1: one million subscribers, and thirteen million of them are on Verizon,
Speaker 1: So that leaves what eight million subscribers that are on
Speaker 1: some sort of other network I'm guessing at and T.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what that means, Like, are they
Speaker 1: gonna make all those people switch to Verizon? I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but it's just something good to know keep a lookout
Speaker 1: at on the horizon, because that is something that is
Speaker 1: one of those need to know kind of things. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, the music, it's already here.
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