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Speaker 1: this week, we've got Andrew O'Hara from Apple Insider. He

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me here on the show. This week,

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Speaker 1: it a try. I know AI is scary. AI is

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Speaker 1: going to ruin every job in the world, but it's

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Speaker 1: also doing some things that are really, really incredible. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of AI, this new personality test it's called Deep Personality.

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Speaker 1: It promises a deep psychological analysis powered by AI. So

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Speaker 1: it combines twenty eight research based psychology assessments into one

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Speaker 1: test you can complete in under an hour. I did

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Speaker 1: this yesterday. I was writing my newsletter and I just said, okay,

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Speaker 1: let me take this so I can before I write

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Speaker 1: about it. Obviously I want to try it, and so

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Speaker 1: I got down the rabbit hole. You sign up, it's free,

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Speaker 1: and you start answer questions, and man, these questions are personal.

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Speaker 1: I mean you could tell where they're going. It's like

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Speaker 1: every single aspect of who you are and your personality.

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Speaker 1: It's the stuff that like if you went to a

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Speaker 1: therapist or a psychologist, they'd probably ask you like all

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Speaker 1: these tests. It uses the Big five personality traits attachment style, anxiety,

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Speaker 1: depression screening ADHD. I don't have that. Thankfully, I found

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Speaker 1: that out plus your personal values and once you finish,

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Speaker 1: it generates a fifty plus page AI report. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's clear that it's written by AI. But it analyzes

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Speaker 1: your personality patterns, your strengths, your blind spots, relationship tendencies.

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Speaker 1: And then this is where it gets interesting. They have

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Speaker 1: a compare tool, so you can have your partner or

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Speaker 1: a friend or a coworker take the same test, and

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Speaker 1: the system will analyze how your personalities interact. Now, my

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Speaker 1: wife keeps asking me, She's like, should I take this?

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know. What if this thing is like, uh,

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Speaker 1: does not compute? Does not compute? And we've been married

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Speaker 1: for what twenty years now? And what if we find

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Speaker 1: out we are not compatible? That would be horrible. Creators

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Speaker 1: say the goals to give people an owner's manual for

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Speaker 1: their personality. And here's the other really interesting thing. I'm

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Speaker 1: probably gonna lose you all now because you're all gonna

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Speaker 1: go take this test. You're gonna stop listening. Here's what

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Speaker 1: you can do. It actually gives you a button where

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Speaker 1: you can export all of its findings and then plug

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Speaker 1: it in to chat, EBT or claude, and now you

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Speaker 1: have a chatbot that knows you. So I have me,

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Speaker 1: I named mine Me, and now I can say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to a party tonight. Tell me how I

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Speaker 1: should interact with my friends. Now that's silly because I

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Speaker 1: already know how I'm gonna interact. But my point is

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Speaker 1: you can use this and it understands you. Hey, I've

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Speaker 1: got a big project coming up, I'm procrastinating. Why do

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Speaker 1: you think I'm procrastinating? And one of the best ways

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Speaker 1: to get around that procrastination. And because it knows your

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Speaker 1: exact personality, it's gonna give you the tools you need.

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Speaker 1: Now keep in mind before you send me the angry emails.

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Speaker 1: This is not therapy. It is not replacing real therapy,

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Speaker 1: real therapists, real psychologists. And you know this is an

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Speaker 1: online assessment. It's good for self reflection. And you know,

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Speaker 1: of course, there are privacy concerns, So you know I

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Speaker 1: taught you about using email aliases. That's what I used.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't sign up with my real email address.

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Speaker 1: I made one of these cloaked emails. So if my information,

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Speaker 1: if I turn out to be crazy and they've got

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Speaker 1: to commit me because of what I typed into this

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Speaker 1: whole thing. They're never gonna be able to find me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that's gonna happen, but you

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Speaker 1: never know. Oh who knows. Maybe this was all trap

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Speaker 1: just to get all my personal information. But I did

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Speaker 1: answer it truthfully, and here's what I asked it to

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Speaker 1: give me a blurb about myself. I am a curious,

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Speaker 1: mind structured thinker. I'm someone who loves exploring new ideas

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Speaker 1: and turning them into something useful. I'm driven by learning,

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Speaker 1: building and sharing insights that help people understand the world

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Speaker 1: a little better. Always experire me, always improving, and always

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Speaker 1: looking for the next interesting thing to figure out. If

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Speaker 1: that doesn't describe me in three sentences perfectly, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what does. So it's proof that this thing actually

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Speaker 1: does kind of work. Anyway, If you want the link,

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Speaker 1: go to the website. Now, I'm just kidding. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna i'll give you the link. It is deep Personality

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Speaker 1: dot app Deep Personality dot app. Of course I will

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Speaker 1: link that up on the website. Rich on tech dot

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Speaker 1: tv Deep Personality dot App. It is eye opening. Let

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Speaker 1: me just let me update this right here online personality test.

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Speaker 1: I'll put that, just to make sure that link is

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Speaker 1: there when you go to the website, because one thing

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Speaker 1: is my biggest pet peeve. Especially this is coming from

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Speaker 1: working on TV. When people say, oh, go to the

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Speaker 1: website for more information. You go to that website and

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Speaker 1: guess what, It's not there. It's just nowhere to be found.

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Speaker 1: Or you're hunting and pecking and trying to find this thing.

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Speaker 1: I have made up my goal on KTLA when I

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Speaker 1: I say to people, hey, go to the website for

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Speaker 1: more information. You go to my website. Rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. It is there. In fact, I even added

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Speaker 1: a little star at the top so I can even

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Speaker 1: call it out for certain segments I do where I'll say,

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Speaker 1: go tap the star at the top, and I'll make

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Speaker 1: sure it's right there. Rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: I got an email from Marsha on Northridge said, I

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Speaker 1: bought a new Galaxy S twenty five Ultra last December.

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Speaker 1: None of my battery packs seem to fit it. I

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Speaker 1: have an older Samsung Fast Charged battery pack, but the

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Speaker 1: chord that came with it doesn't fit my new phone.

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Speaker 1: My husband suggested buying a converter USBA to USBC, so

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Speaker 1: I ordered it from Amazon. It still didn't fit. Then

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Speaker 1: I spent hours searching for a new Samsung battery pack.

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Speaker 1: I found one online, they said that in ship where

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Speaker 1: I live. So I ordered a Balkan and the cord

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Speaker 1: is too small and falls out of my phone. Can

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Speaker 1: I just get a chord from my old battery pack

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Speaker 1: that works with my new phone? Or do I need

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Speaker 1: a new one? My current one weighs about two pounds.

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Speaker 1: We travel a lot. No, here's the deal, Marcia. Just

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Speaker 1: get a new a new pack. They're cheap enough, and

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Speaker 1: your old one, you know who knows what the deal

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Speaker 1: is with that one. The Galaxy S twenty five Ultra

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Speaker 1: uses what's called USBC, So what you want is a

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Speaker 1: USBC output, and you want one that preferably has a

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Speaker 1: USBC cable built into it. So you don't want to

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Speaker 1: adapt or you don't want to use that because that's annoying.

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Speaker 1: So the easiest thing is to find a case that

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Speaker 1: had or a charger or a portable battery pack that

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Speaker 1: has a USBC cable. Ten thousand million hours is probably sufficient,

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Speaker 1: but if you travel a lot, you want that twenty

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Speaker 1: thousand million hour. It's going to be a little bit Bulk,

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Speaker 1: you're a little bit bigger, and so I recommend Belkin.

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Speaker 1: They've got a great one. If you go on Belkan

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Speaker 1: and look for Belkan USB CWY ten thousand million hours

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Speaker 1: power bank, you'll find one. I'll link it up on

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Speaker 1: the website. But basically they've got one with the power

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Speaker 1: cables built in. That's the one that I like the most,

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Speaker 1: and so I'll up because I think it's easier. The

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Speaker 1: other one I really like is from Ecoflow and this

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Speaker 1: one would also work on there. But the problem is

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Speaker 1: the the Samsung Ultra doesn't have mag Safe built in,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if you have a case with that.

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Speaker 1: So I would say just get the plug in one.

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Speaker 1: It's much easier. So I'll link it up on the

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Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot TV. But get yourself a

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00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: battery pack. You need it. Don't travel without it. I

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00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,719
Speaker 1: always travel everywhere with a battery pack and a cable

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Speaker 1: that I did talk about my newsletter this week. All right,

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Speaker 1: eight to eight rich one O one eighty eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. I see the

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Speaker 1: phone lines. I see you guys. I will get you

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Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here talking technology at

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Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. The website is

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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. Uh links there. Everything I

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Speaker 1: mentioned is right there. Let's go to Stephanie in Glendora. Stephanie,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Oh Hi, Rich.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a question. Maybe it's simple for you,

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Speaker 5: but it's not for me. I've been using Google's for

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Speaker 5: a long time for several years, but I like the

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Speaker 5: Samsung flip phone. I just love it. I tried that

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Speaker 5: once after being on Google system for a long time,

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Speaker 5: and I just couldn't do it. It was very I

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Speaker 5: found it very confusing to try to use it. Is

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Speaker 5: there any way to to make a Samsung flip phone

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Speaker 5: work similarly to the Google Pixel?

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Speaker 1: Okay? This is uh okay. So you're saying you like

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Speaker 1: the flip the Samsung like the Flip seven or.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the flip Yeah, the flip phone. I don't know

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Speaker 5: if they're ld right the same way, but I like

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Speaker 5: that flip.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but you can't. You don't like the software that

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Speaker 1: Samsung puts on.

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Speaker 4: The right okay?

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Speaker 5: It just drives me nuts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, So It's funny you say this because I

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Speaker 1: probably spent the first ten years of my Samsung life

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Speaker 1: making my samsungs act more like Pixels. Because I agree,

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Speaker 1: I love I mean, the Pixel software is clean, it's simple,

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Speaker 1: it's intuitive, and Samsung runs on the same kind of

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Speaker 1: base engine. I mean, they both run Android, but Samsung

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Speaker 1: heavily skins their software and puts their own kind of

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Speaker 1: flavor on it, right, they put their own spin on it.

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Speaker 1: So I would say I've tested every single way. I've

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Speaker 1: tested every single way to make a Samsung more pixel like,

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Speaker 1: and I will tell you what I did at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. Okay, I just went with what

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Speaker 1: Samsung does, because here's a deal. You can add all

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Speaker 1: the software you want. You can add launchers, you can

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Speaker 1: change the icons, you can do all this stuff, and

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the phone just doesn't

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Speaker 1: function as well as it does with Samsung's actual software.

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Speaker 1: I know that's not what you want to hear, but

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Speaker 1: I will say a lot of it is like muscle memory,

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Speaker 1: like for instance, with the Android. You know, for me,

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Speaker 1: on the Pixel, you swipe up from the home screen

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Speaker 1: and boom, You're you're right into like tapping to search

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Speaker 1: for things and stuff like that. So it's really easy,

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Speaker 1: you know, So you can put like a launcher on there,

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Speaker 1: Like there's the popular launcher is Nova, which you can

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Speaker 1: put on there. There's one called lawn chair. But have

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Speaker 1: you even heard of a launcher? Do you even understand

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Speaker 1: what that is?

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Speaker 5: Well, I've googled it, and you know, I get the

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Speaker 5: AI information. I've seen that, but I've never really tried.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you know a simple way to do this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you could. I mean, like lawn chair

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Speaker 1: is the one that looks the most like Pixel, so

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Speaker 1: you can install. The beauty of an Android phone is

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Speaker 1: that you can install software on it to make it

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Speaker 1: pretty much do and act however you want. But I

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Speaker 1: find personally, the more software I add to it, the

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Speaker 1: more it's not as smooth or as fluid, or things

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Speaker 1: just don't work as well. And so when I've installed

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Speaker 1: all these different launchers on a on a Samsung, like

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Speaker 1: the Nova and the lawnchair, there's ones that look just

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Speaker 1: like Pixel, Like I think there might be one called

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Speaker 1: pixel launcher, but don't even don't there isn't one, But

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Speaker 1: I think lawnchair is the one that launchair.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm seeing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not I don't even think it's Let's see,

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Speaker 1: it's open source. It's the last time I was updated

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Speaker 1: on December twenty seventh, so I would say try that.

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Speaker 1: See if you want to install that on your phone,

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Speaker 1: see if that works for you. But here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: I just I feel I was updated on February twenty eighth,

644
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Speaker 1: so it was recently updated, So I would try that's

645
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: probably your best bet. If you install launch Air from

646
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Speaker 1: the Google Play Store, that's going to make your phone

647
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: like an like a pixel, like instantly, and so that's

648
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Speaker 1: your best bet. So if you like that, stick with it.

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Speaker 5: Okay, do you think and because you made it sound

650
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Speaker 5: like Samsung doesn't really allow you to use some thing

651
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Speaker 5: different that would you know, alter the way they do things.

652
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Speaker 5: So even if you this launcher will alter it so

653
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Speaker 5: it will work like a pixel or oh yeah, there's

654
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Speaker 5: still going to be some problems.

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Speaker 1: No, no, they'll let you. I I find and I don't.

656
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Speaker 1: I don't wanna. I don't want to make you think

657
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Speaker 1: something that you don't know. But like what when I

658
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: use these things, I feel like the phone is not

659
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Speaker 1: as responsive. I feel like I have to tap the

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Speaker 1: icons a couple of times I feel like things are

661
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: not like as smooth as the animations, but those are

662
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Speaker 1: all those are all rich problems. If you use this

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Speaker 1: and you install it and you like it, then why not, right,

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Speaker 1: But and you can try it. And here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: So what your homework, Okay, your homework, Stephanie, is to

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Speaker 1: install this launch air launcher. See if you like it.

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00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: Make sure it's set as your launcher because like you

668
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: have to make sure it's your defaults. You have to

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Speaker 1: go into settings and there's instructions on how to do that,

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Speaker 1: but as your default and try it, you know, and

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Speaker 1: you know, just try put some icons on the homescreen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you like it. If you hate it, just install

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Speaker 1: it and uninstall it and your phone goes back to

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Speaker 1: the way it was. Okay, there's really no harm, no

675
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Speaker 1: foul in this. It's not like it's not like the

676
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Speaker 1: old days when I started out installing what was called ROMs.

677
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Speaker 1: So back in the day, I would take a Samsung

678
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Speaker 1: phone and I would install a ROM on it, which

679
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: is like a completely new operating system from the ground up.

680
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: And those were always wonky because nothing would work right.

681
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Speaker 1: But I know, I was younger back then, Stephanie, I

682
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Speaker 1: had more time on my hands to fiddle with stuff

683
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Speaker 1: like this.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, okay, I'll try that and see that works.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, what I will

686
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Speaker 1: tell you is I love the Pixel I love the

687
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Speaker 1: Pixel software, and I wish that Google and Samsung would

688
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Speaker 1: come to an agreement and say, hey, let's make a

689
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Speaker 1: version of these phones that run the Pixel software, because

690
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Speaker 1: we know so many people love it. But the Pixel

691
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: phones are so underpowered for people, and they don't you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't come in every single flavor like the Samsung

693
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Speaker 1: does give us some options, right, yeah, I agree, But

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Speaker 1: I will also tell you. I will also tell you

695
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Speaker 1: that I think Samsung software has gotten a lot better

696
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Speaker 1: over the years, and if you learn to kind of

697
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Speaker 1: embrace it, it's not that bad. It's just a little

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Speaker 1: you know, there's like a little things here and there

699
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Speaker 1: that I don't But at this point, my S twenty

700
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Speaker 1: six Ultra is set up just you know, with the

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Speaker 1: stock stuff, and I've got it set up to do

702
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Speaker 1: what I need to do, and it, you know, it

703
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: works really well.

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Speaker 5: So okay, all right, sounds good, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Stefanie, Well, thank you Rich, Thanks for the call.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it today, Okay, bye eighty eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: one eighty eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. Let's see here, as Stefani in San Diego says, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I've been a fan of your work for a while.

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Speaker 1: I watch your TV segments, follow you on social media,

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Speaker 1: and love the newsletter. Oh my gosh, the trifecta. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: she didn't mention the radio show. Never mind. Even though

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Speaker 1: my family doesn't always follow along, I send them links

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Speaker 1: and screenshots of the tips you share. Thank you, Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, speaking of advice, Okay, I'll get to this

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Speaker 1: after the break. Eighty eight rich one on one eighty

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Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. More

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one on

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Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Get in on the phone lines if you want to

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Speaker 1: be on the show for some tech advice or you

724
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Speaker 1: got a tech question.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Before we went to break, uh a. Stefani and San

727
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: Diego wrote in and said she enjoys the segments, but

728
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Speaker 1: I try to save the tips you mentioned so I

729
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,479
Speaker 1: can find them later. But regular bookmarks on my web

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Speaker 1: browser are not working. I do most of my browsing

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Speaker 1: and research on my phone. At one point I copied

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Speaker 1: all my open tabs put them into Claude how to

733
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Speaker 1: organize them into a note, but it was very clunky.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any recommendations for a better way to

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Speaker 1: manage websites or save useful links? Yes? I use an

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Speaker 1: app called Raindrop dot io rain Drop dot io and

737
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: it works on both your computer and also on your iPhone.

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Speaker 1: That's one way of doing it. There's also another app

739
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: that if you are just on iPhone that's pretty handy.

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Speaker 1: It's called Plinky p l i n ky Planky dot

741
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: app and so you can download that on your iPhone

742
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: and basically it's a way to just remember things, anything

743
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: that you want to read later or you know, reference later.

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Speaker 1: I use Raindrop dot Io. I like it because it's

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Speaker 1: cross platform, and you know, if you listen to me,

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Speaker 1: I like things that are cross platform. Plinky is beautiful,

747
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: but it is pretty much right now on the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a Mac thing iPhone, iPad and Mac

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Speaker 1: and so it looks like, yeah, it's just you can

750
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Speaker 1: save things through your Chrome browser extension. But you know,

751
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: you've got folders, you've got tags, you can search. The

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00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: plank key actually looks it's like a modern version of

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00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: rain Drop. Raindrop's been around forever, so it's a little

754
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: more like old school looking, but it does the trick.

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Speaker 1: And so what I do is so Raindrop you can

756
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Speaker 1: pay like twenty eight dollars a year where if you

757
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: bookmark a website to find it later, you can add

758
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: tags manually, or if you pay the thirty dollars a

759
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: year or whatever it is, it will tag it automatically.

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00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: And it also has a lot of other features for

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Speaker 1: that price. But this is kind of embarrassing, but I

762
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: will go through and I will use chat ebt to

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Speaker 1: give me those tags and I'll put them in because

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Speaker 1: I'm saving the twenty eight dollars. I know, what is it,

765
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: penny wise, pound foolish. It's like so silly. It's like,

766
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: just pay the thirty bucks rich for something you like anyway.

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00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: So that's it Raindrop, dot Io and Plinky. There's a

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Speaker 1: million in one of these apps that you know can

769
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Speaker 1: help remember stuff for later. But those are two that

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Speaker 1: I think are some of the better ones, and I

771
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: like them because they both have browser extensions, So when

772
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Speaker 1: you're browsing the web on Chrome or Firefox or Safari,

773
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 1: you can send stuff right to these apps and read

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Speaker 1: it later or you know, look at it later. Great question,

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Speaker 1: Great question. Estefani eighty eight, rich one On one eighty

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Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one. Marianne in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Hi?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? There you are?

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Speaker 1: You are you're?

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Speaker 6: Are you doing good?

782
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Speaker 1: You sound like you're underwater? Are you on the Titanic?

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Speaker 7: Let me kick out?

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's probably what's happening. Oh so I thought you

785
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Speaker 1: were like at like, you know, SeaWorld or something. I know,

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Speaker 1: like of those underwater you know, with like the fish

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Speaker 1: or above you.

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Speaker 7: No, hey, welcome to my world. But anyways, I wanted

789
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Speaker 7: to please walk kind of go back a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 7: You were speaking about a brother's printer, and I kid

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Speaker 7: you not. I have my MSc four six five C

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Speaker 7: as in Kathy, and it's Nancy for eighteen years. Oh

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Speaker 7: my god, a color I'm gonna give me. I think

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00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 7: older than your son cartridge. It literally never had a

795
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Speaker 7: paper jam. It died after Christmas, and I had a

796
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Speaker 7: paper jam. But I took all the paper out. There

797
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Speaker 7: was one sheet of paper. I think the sences just die.

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00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 7: Perhaps you know at this point are deserving the printer.

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Speaker 7: So I bought a new one. But my point being

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Speaker 7: is that I just think they're you know, they felt

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Speaker 7: like a tank like you had mentioned.

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00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I used that.

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Speaker 7: I used that colored printer just for special projects. I

804
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 7: also love it because I can make photo copies like

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Speaker 7: a hard copy. I get a copy of something I

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Speaker 7: don't want to do PDF or whatever, I can make

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Speaker 7: a make beautiful, wonderful cleric copy. The quality is excellent.

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Speaker 1: Well a secret. Which one did you get? What did

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Speaker 1: you replace it with?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's me right now. I bought the MFC dash

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Speaker 7: teas and Palm nine eight zero d's and David w

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Speaker 7: as M William Okay, and that one's an INCA ink

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Speaker 7: tank printer.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yes, I love the ink tanks. I think

816
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: they're great.

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00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 7: Yea, yeah, well it's the first one I bought. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: and I was a little apprehensive. I'm like, oh, but

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Speaker 7: I think they're all the printers that are going that

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00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 7: route now. Excellent quality, it's one hundred times faster, yes,

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Speaker 7: and it gives me all the features that I want.

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Speaker 1: I I've got a brother ink tank at home, and

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Speaker 1: I've got a I'm sorry, I've got sorry an EPs

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Speaker 1: and ink tank. I need to actually I need to

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Speaker 1: get a brother to try, like to test it out,

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Speaker 1: because right now I've I've tested the HP and I've

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Speaker 1: tested the Epsen and they're both you know, they both

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Speaker 1: have their pros and cons, but they're both ink tank.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's interesting because HP, I'm sure did

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Speaker 1: not want to go ink tank because they make a

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Speaker 1: lot of money on their ink cartridges. Like the last

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Speaker 1: ones I bought for my printer before were like two

833
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars and it was like this is crazy, like

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Speaker 1: two hundred dollars on inc Like what so I think

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Speaker 1: they kind of fought that trend. But that's I think

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Speaker 1: people like the tank because you feel more in control.

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Speaker 1: You can see it through the window, like how much

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Speaker 1: ink you have left? It feels real versus these cartridges.

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Speaker 1: You're like, hold on, is there like one millimeter of

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Speaker 1: ink in that cartridge? Like what's going on here?

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Speaker 7: I know, I think over a period of time, be

842
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 7: on the show, I do think they evaporate over time.

843
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 7: It doesn't say that, but I'm based on my experience,

844
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Speaker 7: but I wanted to emphasize that on the New Brothers.

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Speaker 7: I bought this particular style because it only has the

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00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 7: USB port for my thumb drive. Oh how many other

847
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 7: ones do not? But I can also hook this up

848
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Speaker 7: Wi Fi yes to my computer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and your phone.

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Speaker 7: Oh there you go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, this is great. This is I'm looking at

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00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: it right now. This looks this perfect. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: is it about five hundred bucks? This one's like four sixty.

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Speaker 7: Nine, it's about four God, I think it's for sixty

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Speaker 7: nine anything like that.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's on the price your side. But you're

857
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 1: getting you're getting all the features. Like you said, it's

858
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: got the USB, it's got the little color display, it's

859
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: got the automatic document feeder, duplex print. You know, these

860
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: are all things that are there premium. So there are

861
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: cheaper ones out there, but this has like pretty much

862
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: every feature you would want.

863
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think this one was the Cadillac. Yeah,

864
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 7: and it's just for my knees because I'm sorry for

865
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 7: home purposes, So this is my serves my knees. The

866
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 7: quality is just the curb and it's faster.

867
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 5: Than the speed of light.

868
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: Yes, sixteen sixteen pages per minute. That's that's pretty good.

869
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: That's really fast.

870
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 7: Wow, yeah, really fast.

871
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: Well I do, yeah, go ahead.

872
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 7: I'm sorry on my other printer, the previous one I

873
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 7: had about too, and that one was really slow, which

874
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 7: was that it was very slow the first printer I bought.

875
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: Okay, so you returned there, I got this.

876
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, all right, Well, thank you.

877
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: Uh, Marianne, we're losing a little bit on your signal there,

878
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: but that was uh, you know, you've got some good recommendations.

879
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: And I again, the standard printer that people just love

880
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: is this brother h L L two four six zero DW.

881
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,479
Speaker 1: It's just a simple black and white printer. It's under

882
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. That's the one that I had, maybe

883
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: not that exact model number, but I had it for

884
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 1: no less than ten years. And my kids bugged me, Dad,

885
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: we need a color printer, Dad, we need color. I said, no,

886
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: you guys can color these pages in. I said, that's

887
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: more fun for you, and they said, no, we need color.

888
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: So I bought the color printer and the ink was

889
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: just it was like the printer was nothing. And then

890
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. It was just you know, it

891
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: was just much more you know, spending on that ink anyway,

892
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: So now I'm testing the ink tanks. I like those,

893
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: but I still miss my laser jet. I loved my

894
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: laser jet because well that's a brand name, I think,

895
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: but I love my laser printer. I think laser jet

896
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: is an HP thing. But laser printer is what I

897
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: had from brother and I just if you just need

898
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: black and white, simple workhorse, grab the the brother and

899
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: I'll put it on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.

900
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: Let's see here. So it's tell me, I've got about

901
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: a minute left. Is that right? Okay? It is right? Okay,

902
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: So let's uh, let's see here. What can I do

903
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: in a minute? Oh my gosh, okay, Trish, Hey, Rich,

904
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,479
Speaker 1: I love watching you on TV. I keep getting phone

905
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: messages I'm losing storage space and encouraging me to download

906
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: a cleanup app. What do you recommend? Well, first off,

907
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: those storage warning messages sound bogus because Apple doesn't really

908
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: recommend you to get a cleanup app. They don't say that,

909
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: but those maybe ads you're seeing from third parties. But

910
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: if you want a good cleanup app, the one that

911
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: I recommend. If you listen to this show, you already

912
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna say. It's Clever Cleaner c L

913
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: e v e R Cleaner. So if you're trying to

914
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: clean up all the photos and things on your phone,

915
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: Clever Cleaner is the one I like. You know why

916
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: because it does not have any ads, it does not

917
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: have any payments. It's not bogus. It's really good. And

918
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: so if you want to clean up some storage on

919
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: your iPhone, that's the app that I like. I will

920
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: put a link to it because I know I get

921
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: the emails from people say, Rich, I downloaded this one.

922
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: It's not the right one Clever Cleaner, make sure you

923
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: get the right one. You can also check your settings

924
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: on the iPhone settings General iPhone Storage and that will

925
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: show you exactly what is taking up space. But this

926
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest issues in our world in

927
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Cloud storage versus physical storage. The line

928
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: between them is very tricky for a lot of people

929
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: to figure out, like where is this stuff and why

930
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: is it taking up so much space? Eighty eight rich

931
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two

932
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: four one zero one coming up. I'll tell you how

933
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: Android can now help you find your lost luggage, just

934
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: like the air tags do. I'll explain coming up right

935
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

936
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple

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00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four

938
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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Everything we just talked about,

939
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: all those printers, the apps and the yeah, the app

940
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: to clean up your iPhone, it's all linked up on

941
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: the website rich on Tech dot TV. And I went

942
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,720
Speaker 1: and I checked because I've been talking about Clever Cleaner

943
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,479
Speaker 1: for a while, and so I went to their app

944
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: store listing. It's only for iPhone, by the way, and

945
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 1: I just made sure that they're still not charging anything

946
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: for that app or there's no in app purchases. So

947
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: one of the best ways I think to figure out

948
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 1: if I should download an app, because almost every app

949
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: works on this kind of freemium plan where basically you

950
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: can download the app, but you're gonna use it for

951
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: a minute, and all of a sudden they're gonna ask you, hey, subscribe.

952
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: Like this great disposable camera app I have, It's like

953
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: it really pushes you to subscribe, and you can tell

954
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: this This is actually genius from Apple. If you scroll

955
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: all the way down on the App Store listing, whether

956
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: you're on the computer or on the phone, it's got

957
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: this little information area and it says that who sells

958
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: the app, where it's compatible, the size of the app.

959
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: But there's something that's listed. It says in app purchases.

960
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: And so let me just go to like three other

961
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: cleaner apps. Let me just look up this random cleaner app,

962
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: and sure enough, in app purchases, yes, ten dollars, twelve dollars,

963
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: forty dollars, forty dollars. So that tells me that that

964
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: app is going to immediately try to charge me this

965
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: one AI cleanup kick Pro sure enough in app purchases

966
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: one week, thirteen dollars, one year, fifty dollars. So I

967
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,720
Speaker 1: always check to see if there's an in app purchase

968
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: before I download an app, because that way I know

969
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: what I'm getting into. Are they just gonna give me

970
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 1: a hard sell or they actually giving me something useful

971
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's it's you know a bit of both.

972
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: So just that's just one way to check out the app.

973
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: Google does not do that for some reason. I don't

974
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 1: know why. Android and help you find lost luggage. Google's

975
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: rolling out a new feature on Android called find Hub.

976
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: If you put a Bluetooth tracker tag in your suitcase,

977
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: your phone can show you where it is on a

978
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: map using nearby Android devices. Yes, very similar to the

979
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: way air tags work. That part's not new. The new

980
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: part is that you can create a secure location link

981
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: and send it directly to the airline, so that way

982
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: baggage staff can see the live location of your suitcase

983
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: instead of just you know, searching through their systems. The

984
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: location link is encrypted, it's temporary, it expires after a week.

985
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: You can stop sharing it at any time. If they

986
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 1: don't find your luggage after a week, it's probably gone. Anyway.

987
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: Google worked with a lot of the airline baggage systems

988
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: to kind of integrate this. They can put this right

989
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: into the system. Ten airlines are supporting the future more

990
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: than ten. But I don't see any US names on

991
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: this list just yet. Air India, China Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines,

992
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: Turkish Airlines, Luftanza Quantis. So hopefully we'll see some American

993
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: airlines in there as well, or I should say US

994
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: based airlines. American Airlines is an airline so you know

995
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 1: what I meant. And this comes after Apple did something

996
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: very similar with the air tag, so you should know

997
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: this if you use air tags and you put them

998
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,280
Speaker 1: in your luggage, which you, by the way, should be doing.

999
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: If you go into the find my app and you

1000
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: look at one of your air tags, let's just do

1001
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: this one my key. You can see there's a let's

1002
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 1: see scroll down whereas it share air tag. No, that's

1003
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: not it. Hold on, Why am I not finding this?

1004
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: Uh oh oh, you know what? Maybe it has to

1005
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: get a lock on it first. Okay, here we go. Yep,

1006
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: so you get that. Once you get the lock on,

1007
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: it says share item location, allow others to locate this item,

1008
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: and you press continue, says this person who opens the

1009
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: link will be able to see the location of your

1010
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: air tag for a limited time. And I can't share

1011
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: it right now because it is with me. And Apple

1012
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: is smart like that. So if you ever have an

1013
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: air tag in your luggage, you can share that location

1014
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: of that air tag in live time with the airline.

1015
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: You can send them that link and a lot of

1016
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: these systems have that integrated. So if you go online

1017
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, my luggage is lost, we'll say, oh,

1018
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: do you have a link to your air tag, and

1019
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: now you'll be able to do the same thing with Android.

1020
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: Let's go to Randy in a Granada Hill. Randy, you're

1021
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: on with Rich.

1022
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 9: Say Rich, nice to take my call. Long time, first time.

1023
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 9: I have two questions that time allows, but quickly on

1024
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 9: my news Z fold seven. When I go to a

1025
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 9: site and I want to go back to the previous site,

1026
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 9: I have to literally literally the only way I know

1027
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 9: how to do it so far, and this is when

1028
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 9: the phone is closed. By the way. I don't know

1029
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 9: if that matters, but I have to close the app

1030
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 9: and then go back to you know, I can't navigate

1031
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,439
Speaker 9: between apps. Oh does that make sense?

1032
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: Yeah? I are you using? Which are you using the

1033
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: swipe gestures? Are you using the buttons at the bottom swipe?

1034
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 9: So if you don't, yeah, the body know you can

1035
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 9: on the bottom even the right hand buttons like on.

1036
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: The bottom of your phone screen? Are there are there

1037
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 1: buttons like like digital buttons?

1038
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1039
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh you're using those?

1040
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 9: Okay, so just tap now I'm using I'm using the swipe.

1041
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: Oh you are, okay, so then just just swipe, just

1042
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: swipe right left to right, and that'll swipe between your apps.

1043
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: Do you see that?

1044
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 9: Well, for example, I bring up my tile app right,

1045
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 9: and I want to go back to whatever else happened.

1046
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 9: I'm swiping and it just takes it away, puts it

1047
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 9: back onto the whatever the desktop of the phone.

1048
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: Speaker swiping up or you swiping to the side.

1049
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 9: Well, when I swipe up, it brings up all the

1050
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 9: all the.

1051
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: App okay, so that so that's one way you can

1052
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: switch between them. So you can swipe up a little

1053
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: bit and pause. But the way to switch between the

1054
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: two apps on the on the Samsung, I'm doing it

1055
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: right now. You just swipe at the bottom. Now you

1056
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 1: may have that turned off by mistake.

1057
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's probably due.

1058
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: I don't think that's I think that's part of gestures.

1059
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't think you can turn that off.

1060
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 9: What do you mean, swipe to the right and left

1061
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 9: on the bottom right, swipe right or left?

1062
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just swipe, yeah, it'll it'll swipe between

1063
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: the recent apps that you get.

1064
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's not bringing up my previous at all. So

1065
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:54,760
Speaker 9: I must have a setting.

1066
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: Do you have a big case on this phone?

1067
00:53:58,800 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 9: I have a standard case.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that could also be doing it too. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: sometimes the case will make it so that it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: So there's actually a sensitivity you can adjust inside the

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Speaker 1: gestures as well. So I would look inside the uh,

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Speaker 1: the navigation bar. Let's see, so I mind I have

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Speaker 1: mindset to high because it's you know, yeah, so if

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Speaker 1: you go to navigation bar, it's the swipe gesture. There's

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Speaker 1: not really anything you can do to change it. It's

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Speaker 1: it's just built in where you can swipe from the

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Speaker 1: sides and also to the uh, you know, at the bottom.

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Speaker 1: But if you also pull in from the left, that'll

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Speaker 1: bring you I mean, it's just yeah, you gotta just

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Speaker 1: we're gonna tie. You gotta just swipe in. Just swipe

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Speaker 1: at the bottom. There should be a bar there. You swipe,

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00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 1: it'll swipe between all your apps. I'm doing it right now.

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00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: Restart your phone if that feature is not working. All right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk to Andrew O'Hara

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Speaker 1: from Apple Insider about all of Apple's big announcements this week.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology triple eight Rich one O

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one joining me now, Kim said, we just rickrolled everyone, Yes,

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Speaker 1: we did. I love that song. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: it's a rickroll. Andrew O'Hara joining me from Apple Insider.

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Speaker 1: He was in New York City at the event I

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Speaker 1: was at with Apple. Andrew, thanks for joining me.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, of course, anytime.

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Speaker 1: So, first off, what was your impression of the event?

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Speaker 1: This was a little different because it was not an

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00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 1: Apple event, it was an Apple experience, and they pulled

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Speaker 1: it off in three different cities simultaneously, in three different

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Speaker 1: secret locations, as only Apple could do.

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Speaker 8: It was definitely something different, and it was interesting to

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Speaker 8: see Apple kind of slow roll all the product announcements

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Speaker 8: from Monday Tuesday and then dropping the MacBook Neo on

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Speaker 8: us on Wednesday right at the event. So it was

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00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 8: a massive number of new devices that were you know,

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00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 8: updated across all different product product categories, Mac, iPad and

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00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 8: iPhone all getting refreshes. So it was it was kind

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00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 8: of cool to see.

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Speaker 1: Now, I think I know your answer, but what do

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Speaker 1: you think was the biggest thing that stood out to

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Speaker 1: you this week?

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's got to be the MacBook Neo. I mean,

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Speaker 8: that's that's that's what everybody is most interested in and

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Speaker 8: how this is gonna work. First a series chip that

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Speaker 8: Apple's done in a mac fun new colors, like this

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Speaker 8: thing is going to be crazy popular.

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Speaker 1: Now, Okay, so Apple insider, I would think that that's

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Speaker 1: more like inside like people like that go to that

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Speaker 1: website probably are a little more techy. So what are

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Speaker 1: they saying about this, Like are they saying this a

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Speaker 1: great thing? Or are they saying, Oh, it's underpowered, it's

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Speaker 1: not good for the average person. What do they what

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Speaker 1: do they think?

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Speaker 8: You know, it runs the gamut for sure. There's a

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Speaker 8: lot of people who they feel very siloed in like

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Speaker 8: their workflow and the thing about the MacBook Neo, it's

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Speaker 8: not for everyone, but it's meeting a new price point

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Speaker 8: that Apple really has not like fully done.

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Speaker 4: We've had a five.

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Speaker 8: Ninety nine MacBook before, but it was the twenty twenty

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Speaker 8: m one MacBook Air that has been still selling at Walmart.

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Speaker 8: This thing is brand new, fun colors, even better performance

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Speaker 8: for at least on the you know.

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Speaker 4: The CPU side.

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Speaker 8: I think they did a great job here, even if

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Speaker 8: it's not you know, the core Apple insider audience.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is the biggest compromise.

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Speaker 8: Is it the RAM that's probably going to be it

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Speaker 8: just when you get into like a whole lot of multitasking.

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Speaker 8: For for most people, it is still gonna be fine.

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Speaker 8: You're gonna have slight compromises on the graphics, maybe in

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Speaker 8: comparison to even the M one, but I think the

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Speaker 8: memory that RAM is probably gonna be the biggest bottleneck

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Speaker 8: of all.

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Speaker 1: And I was talking earlier about this computer and I

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Speaker 1: wondered if it could run like Final Cut Pro. Do

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Speaker 1: you think would you be daring enough to run Final

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Speaker 1: Cut Pro on this thing? I mean, because it can

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Speaker 1: run full apps? Is there any do you have you

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Speaker 1: heard of any limitations on the apps that it can't run?

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Speaker 8: No, not really, it's it should run basically any I

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00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 8: mean you're gonna run into issues with games if you're

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00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 8: gonna try to run any super powerful games, of course,

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Speaker 8: but for regular, regular apps, there's gonna be no issues

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Speaker 8: in your day to day you know usage.

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Speaker 1: So I don't really understand because you know, the iPhone

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00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: chip has never run like mac os So how did

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Speaker 1: Apple do they have to do anything like behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes to get that to work.

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Speaker 8: I mean, all Apple Silicon is kind of based on

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Speaker 8: the same you know.

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Speaker 4: Bit of structure.

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Speaker 8: So it was definitely a little bit of work that

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Speaker 8: I think. The biggest thing that I have heard that

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Speaker 8: was a challenge for Apple to do was at the

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Speaker 8: second usbcport. I mean that this is the first kind

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Speaker 8: of a series chip that has had multiple ports on there.

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Speaker 8: There's no max say for anything, and it was a

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Speaker 8: huge amount of engineering work to be able to add

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Speaker 8: two of them on there.

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Speaker 4: You mean, you have different speeds.

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Speaker 8: One's USB three, the other's USB two speeds for most people,

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Speaker 8: again not gonna matter, but little small compromises like that,

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Speaker 8: But it was still a big achievement just to get

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Speaker 8: the second port on an a series chip.

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Speaker 1: That's Wow's But bottom line, it sounds like to me

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Speaker 1: from everything I've read and everything that I've experienced, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be a game changer. People are going

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Speaker 1: to buy this thing, and they're going to sell a

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Speaker 1: lot of them.

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Speaker 8: I think they're going to sell an incredible amount. I mean,

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Speaker 8: the M one MacBook Air was until you know, last

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Speaker 8: week or whatever, is still being sold at Walmart. That

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00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 8: thing originally sold for one thousand dollars when it launched

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00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:26,439
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty, and now we have the MacBook Neo

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Speaker 8: with better single and multi core CPU performance by a

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Speaker 8: lot on your single core, which is launching apps and

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Speaker 8: using your kind of computer. Slightly lower on the graphic

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Speaker 8: side of things, but anything in like Apple Arcade, like

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Speaker 8: all of those titles, the New Ocean Horn three, like

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Speaker 8: all those are going to probably run very fine on here.

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Speaker 8: They're running on phones. They're going to run on this

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Speaker 8: thing without issue, right, So I think this is going

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Speaker 8: to just sell super well.

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Speaker 1: That is my thesis on this. It's like people like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is underpowered, it only has this like hold on,

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of people are doing all this stuff

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Speaker 1: on their phone. You're when I edit videos, I edit

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Speaker 1: on cap cut on my phone, and it's like that

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Speaker 1: works just fine. I'm Premiere on my phone.

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 1: If I want to do something a little higher end,

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Speaker 1: of course, I'll use final Cut. But the point is

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are using their phone as their

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Speaker 1: every device, and so this is just a larger kind

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Speaker 1: of canvas to do that. The other thing is, by

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Speaker 1: the way, my wife is still using the m one

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Speaker 1: MacBook and you know, the MacBook Air, and it's fine.

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Speaker 1: She's surfing the web, she's doing her emails, she's buying

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Speaker 1: stuff on Amazon. It's not. It's a perfectly fine computer

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Speaker 1: for that.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, those things are still running. People are still using

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Speaker 8: those without issue. And this one's even more powerful. But

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Speaker 8: like you said, I run into so many creators that

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Speaker 8: are doing so much video production like on iPhones, and

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Speaker 8: now it's just in a laptop form factor. It shouldn't

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Speaker 8: be scared because it's an iPhone chip. It's it's still

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Speaker 8: just Apple Silicon and it's really powerful.

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Speaker 1: So they also updated the MacBook Air. Anything new about

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Speaker 1: that that we should know because I've got one in

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Speaker 1: the shopping car. I've got an M three right now.

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Speaker 1: This is an M five anything like That's a super

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Speaker 1: new about this?

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Speaker 8: Nothing crazy new. I love the MacBook Air. I like

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Speaker 8: prefer to use it instead of my MacBook Pro because

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Speaker 8: of how like light and thin it is.

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Speaker 4: It's just gorgeous.

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Speaker 8: It is, you know, thinner than the new MacBook Neo is.

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Speaker 8: So like I've always loved the MacBook Air. The new

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Speaker 8: one M five processor. I believe Apple finally updated it

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Speaker 8: to Wi Fi seven, which with fast internet in this house,

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Speaker 8: wi Fi seven speeds are very welcomed. And then they're

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Speaker 8: doubling the base storage, which is probably the biggest messaging

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Speaker 8: around this. You can be able to pick this up

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Speaker 8: and have I think five twelve gigs now as you're

1235
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Speaker 8: starting SSD size. That's going to be really handy for

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Speaker 8: people who are using this as like a great education

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Speaker 8: or work computer. That is ample storage for most people.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the new iPad air anything huge

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Speaker 1: there that they changed.

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Speaker 8: No, so starting storage is going to remain the same.

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Speaker 8: We're moving to the M four processor about twenty five

1242
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 8: percent increase and performance compared to the last generation. Apple's

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Speaker 8: adding the N one ship that's their modem or their

1244
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Speaker 8: networking chip, so Wi Fi seven thread for smart home

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Speaker 8: tech Blue two six. We're getting the C one X,

1246
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 8: which is Apple's modem for better battery performance and some

1247
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 8: privacy features on cellular, but really like those are the

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Speaker 8: big things there. Apple also increased the memory from eight

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Speaker 8: gigs to twelve gigs, so multitasking going to be better.

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Speaker 8: iPads twenty six helps with that significantly, so for people

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Speaker 8: who are using this as like that multitasking tablet, this

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Speaker 8: is going to be a good choice.

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Speaker 1: And the iPhone seventeen E this is kind of their

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01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,920
Speaker 1: entry level iPhone five hundred ninety nine dollars comes in pink.

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Speaker 1: Now it also comes in black and also comes in white.

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Speaker 1: The big things that I noticed at the event they

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Speaker 1: were talking about is mag safe, which is a good

1258
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Speaker 1: addition to that, and then the portrait photography. So what's

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Speaker 1: your I mean, if you had a sixteen E, you

1260
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: wouldn upgrade to this or would you?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 8: I don't think anyone in the market, for you know,

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Speaker 8: who has a sixteen E is going to be upgrading

1264
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Speaker 8: to this. But this is going to be ideal for switchers,

1265
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 8: similar to the MacBook Neo for a lot of people

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Speaker 8: who are going from PC's chromebooks, tired of them not

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Speaker 8: lasting long, or maybe they have an iPhone they want

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Speaker 8: to get into the Mac space. This is a very

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Speaker 8: similar vibe. They want a you know, they want the

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Speaker 8: Apple experience, they want to get an iPhone and they

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Speaker 8: want something new. But it's not going to be as expensive.

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Speaker 8: I mean, this thing is priced like you said, five

1273
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Speaker 8: ninety nine, but I guarantee we're going to see tons

1274
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 8: of deals and carrier discounts on this thing. But again,

1275
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 8: performance wise, it has an eight nineteen ship so latest

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01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 8: chip in there. Again, they doubled the storage, which is huge,

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Speaker 8: and they added mag Safe. So for again most regular

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Speaker 8: people out there, this is going to be plenty enough iPhone.

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Speaker 8: You get lots of cool features with the other ones,

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Speaker 8: like extra cameras and dynamic island and all sorts of things,

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Speaker 8: but for just core iPhone experience, they really really did

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Speaker 8: a good job on this. Compared to the sixteen E.

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Speaker 8: In my opinion, the storage and mac Safe make this

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Speaker 8: a much better deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because it's like all these like entry

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Speaker 1: level Apple products. You know, if you're a high end user,

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Speaker 1: you might point out like, oh, well it doesn't have this,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have a wide angle camera lens, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: have all these features. But for a person who says

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Speaker 1: I just need a phone, right, like, if you're just

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Speaker 1: saying that these things are actually really good for the value,

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Speaker 1: like I would say. The only thing that they didn't upgrade,

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Speaker 1: which I was a little disturbed, not disturbed, but kind

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Speaker 1: of sad at was the and I know, again average

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Speaker 1: person doesn't care, but like it's still I think runs

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Speaker 1: on like sixty hrtz right refresh rate, which is you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like every Android, even the cheap ones are one

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Speaker 1: twenty at this point. But it's it's fine. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's like very nitpicky.

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Speaker 8: I think the only time I hear someone complaining about

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Speaker 8: the refresh rate is in the comments of articles or videos.

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Speaker 8: When I'm talking to people in the real world, I

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Speaker 8: have never had someone come up to me like, oh,

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Speaker 8: but what's the refresh rate? Or this only has sixty

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Speaker 8: herds like I've never heard anyone else complain about that.

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Speaker 8: It's something you feel a little bit when you use them,

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Speaker 8: and it's nicer, But I don't think people are clamoring

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Speaker 8: for that, especially in these entry level devices.

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Speaker 1: Anything we didn't mention before we go that you want

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Speaker 1: to uh, you want to tell or say.

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Speaker 8: I don't think so. My honestly, my biggest excitement was

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Speaker 8: the studio displays. Apple upgraded all their displays and the

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Speaker 8: fact that they have their new Studio Display XDR. That

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Speaker 8: thing looks gorgeous, the million to one contrast ratio, thunderbowl

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Speaker 8: five for Daisy chaining multiple these, and lower price point

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Speaker 8: than the now discontinued Pro Display XDR, and it comes

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Speaker 8: with a stand.

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Speaker 4: I'm very excited for that one.

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Speaker 8: That is like the one thing from this whole event

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Speaker 8: or this experience that I'm probably going to use daily.

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Speaker 8: So for me, that was the thing.

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Speaker 4: I was most excited for.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's expensive. What's the price point on that?

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Speaker 1: Are we talking like what I.

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Speaker 8: Want to say, like thirty two thirty three for that one?

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Speaker 8: I Hey, they have the affordable one. It's not micro

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Speaker 8: it's not micro led, but they do have a more

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Speaker 8: affordable one. Apple's monitors are always premium, but it's hard

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Speaker 8: to arg you with the build quality and the design.

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Speaker 8: Everything else just feels plastic y.

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Speaker 1: And I saw three of them running off a MacBook Air,

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Speaker 1: I believe, at the Apple event, and I was pretty impressed.

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Speaker 1: I would love that setup. All right, Andrew O'Hara from

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Speaker 1: Apple Insider, what's the best place for folks to find?

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Speaker 8: You can find me anywhere. Just google it Apple insider

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01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 8: dot com, find Apple Insider on YouTube, or my podcast

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Speaker 8: Smart Home Insider.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for joining me today, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Eight eight eight rich one O one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one

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Speaker 1: more after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Let's go to line four. Doug is in

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Speaker 1: Temecula California. Doug, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 10: Hello, Rich, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what can I help you with?

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Speaker 10: Well, I have a Lenovo laptop. It's running in the

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Speaker 10: current Windows operating system, but I want to clean it off.

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Speaker 10: I want all my information off of it. I want

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Speaker 10: to restart it now on my phone. They have a

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Speaker 10: reset the factory specs, but I couldn't find anything on

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Speaker 10: the on the computer. I wanted how to go about

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Speaker 10: you know, a fresh input of the operating system and

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Speaker 10: and you know, clearing my information.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So if it's running Windows, you can you can

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Speaker 1: absolutely do this right from Windows. So if you if

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Speaker 1: you type in the search menu right at the bottom

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Speaker 1: a little search bar, just type in reset this PC

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Speaker 1: and that will bring you right to it. And there's

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Speaker 1: a yeah, and it'll bring you to your system recovery

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Speaker 1: and there's a couple options. So you have you said

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Speaker 1: you want to get everything off this computer and start fresh.

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Speaker 1: Is there a reason? Why did you just? You got

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Speaker 1: too much stuff on there? You want to start over?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, And I may be letting it go.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, you may be letting go okay. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: so if you do, there's there's a couple. There's a

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Speaker 1: couple options. There is the option to reset and you

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Speaker 1: can keep your files or you can remove your files.

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Speaker 1: And this process takes it takes a little while, but

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Speaker 1: you're gonna want to do the remove everything option. And

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Speaker 1: so when when you do that, it's going to give

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Speaker 1: you a fresh start on this computer. Now, the next

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Speaker 1: question may be, oh, is my stuff still going to

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Speaker 1: be on there? Can someone recover it, you know, potentially,

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Speaker 1: So if you're worried about something that's very sensitive on

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Speaker 1: this computer, you can do this option again once you

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Speaker 1: set it up, and you can try it again. Or

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Speaker 1: there may be some apps out there that you can

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Speaker 1: use to completely restore, you know, right over the hard drive.

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Speaker 1: But I think that's a little advanced. I don't think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna need to do that. So I would just

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Speaker 1: recommend going into the computer, you know, like I said, system,

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01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: and you can you can also just go into your

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Speaker 1: setting system and then you'll see it says recovery. Let's

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Speaker 1: see if I can find it manually. Here where is it? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like all the other it is system recovery. And

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Speaker 1: then reset this PC. You tap reset PC and it'll

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01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,600
Speaker 1: say keep my files or remove everything, and those are

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Speaker 1: your two options. And I would do the remove everything.

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01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 1: It's going to take a while. Make sure your babysit it,

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01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: because it does take a long time to do this.

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01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:24,639
Speaker 1: It's not something that's really fast. So you know, give

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Speaker 1: yourself half an hour for this process because it sits

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01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: there and it removes everything, and then it reinstalls Windows

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Speaker 1: and then it's basically a fresh computer from the factory. Now,

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Speaker 1: I only recommend doing that if you're you know, a

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01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 1: little more advanced, and also if you just want to

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Speaker 1: start fresh. Like for me, I used to do this

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Speaker 1: once a year when I would get an upgrade to

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Speaker 1: my operating system on Mac. Would always start fresh, and

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Speaker 1: then I just got kind of lazy because it takes

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01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: so much time to like restart and kind of like

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Speaker 1: reset up all my things, and so I would Now

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Speaker 1: I've kind of got a little bit lazier. Now I

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Speaker 1: only do this when I get a new computer. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I like the idea of starting fresh. It's

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Speaker 1: nice because I don't know about you, but I download

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01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: so many things. I'm always testing some software, I'm always

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01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:16,480
Speaker 1: changing some settings, and invariably, even if you uninstall that software,

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Speaker 1: A lot of these little things linger on your computer,

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Speaker 1: and so it's kind of annoying when you have you know,

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01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:23,760
Speaker 1: you start up your computer and a program starts up

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01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: or there's some kind of sort of fragment left behind.

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01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 1: But that's the way to do it again. If you're

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Speaker 1: listening one more time and you want to do this

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01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: to your computer, only delete everything if you are okay,

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01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:38,040
Speaker 1: you know, if you've got everything backed up or you

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01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 1: don't need anything. Because it's going to delete everything off

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Speaker 1: your computer. There is an option that will keep your files.

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Speaker 1: This is also known as refresh, so that will reinstall Windows,

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Speaker 1: but it'll keep your files. But keep in mind there's

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Speaker 1: always something that could go wrong, so you know. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're really advanced, there's another way to do this

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01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: with an app called Rufus. You can create a bootable USB.

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Speaker 1: You can download the Windows media from Windows. This is

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01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: called a clean installation, and you can download this and

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01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 1: you can start up your computer from a flash drive

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01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 1: and install it that way. That's for a little more

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Speaker 1: advanced users. So if you know how to do that

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01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 1: and you understand those terms, you can do that. But

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01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: you already you don't need to hear that from me.

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Speaker 1: That's the way. I had a job once where my

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Speaker 1: whole job was to just clean install these old computers

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Speaker 1: at this school. And I love doing that. Oh, just

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Speaker 1: come in. I would just get my little coffee and

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Speaker 1: I would just sit there. I'd go to a classroom,

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Speaker 1: grab one of these computers, clean, install windows, and just

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Speaker 1: like move on to the next one. That's what I

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Speaker 1: did for like six months. I love that job. It

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01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: was so fun just to wipe everything clean because invariably

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Speaker 1: all these computers had, you know, all the students installed

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01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,680
Speaker 1: stuff on there. The teachers would install and I just

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01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: love that first boot up where everything was just fresh. Ah,

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Speaker 1: I love it. I still love that feeling. Eighty eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: for one zero one. Christine writes in Hey, Rich, we

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Speaker 1: watch you every day on TV. We love your segments.

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Speaker 1: My question is about companies that offer a discount if

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Speaker 1: you sign up for direct pay, where they automatically take

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Speaker 1: the monthly payment from your checking account. I'm a little weary.

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Speaker 1: Is it wary or weary? I never know because it

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Speaker 1: sounds like I'm giving my banking information directly to a

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Speaker 1: vendor like T Mobile, for example. Do you think it's

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01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: safe or wise to sign up for direct pay or

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Speaker 1: is my information protected in some way? Well, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: I personally hate direct pay. I hate to use that

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Speaker 1: word because I think it's very strong and I just

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Speaker 1: don't really like using it. But I don't like direct pay.

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Speaker 1: Why because you're giving access to your checking account and

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Speaker 1: they're taking the money out on their own accord, big

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01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:52,879
Speaker 1: companies taking money out of your account. What could possibly

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Speaker 1: go wrong? Now here's what I don't like about this.

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Speaker 1: It only benefits them. They get to pay less fees

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01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 1: for your payment because it's cheaper to process a payment

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Speaker 1: via a direct I guess you call it direct pay

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Speaker 1: or direct withdrawal, whatever you want to call it, versus

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Speaker 1: a credit card. And so these companies love it because

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Speaker 1: also they have your account information. So when you get

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Speaker 1: your phone bill and it's a little bit higher than

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Speaker 1: it typically is, guess what, they don't care because they're

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Speaker 1: just going to take it out of your banking account

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Speaker 1: no matter what. And believe me, I've done this over

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01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: the years, and I just I really try not to

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01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 1: give it out unless you have to. Now, in the

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01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: case of certain companies like your wireless provider, a lot

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01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 1: of them have said, oh, you got to give us

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01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,680
Speaker 1: your bank account or we're going to charge you more

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01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,559
Speaker 1: every month. And so in that case, yes, you kind

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01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 1: of have to do it unless you want to pay

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Speaker 1: ten dollars extra. But do this very sparingly, very sparingly.

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Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The

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Speaker 1: website for the show is rich on Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: This is episode one sixty four. The phone line for

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Speaker 1: the show is eight eight eight rich one oh one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, we're gonna talk to I as

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Speaker 1: actar Mobile analyst at PC mag. He's gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: Mobile World Congress, which happened this week in Barcelona. Ayas

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Speaker 1: and I actually used to work as scene at together,

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Speaker 1: so we've got a little little thing in common there.

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Speaker 1: But he has been to Mobile World Congress. I have not.

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Speaker 1: I've never been to that show. It used to be

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Speaker 1: much more consumer focused and much more US focused, but

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Speaker 1: now it is much more you know, companies that are

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Speaker 1: doing stuff in other countries. It's still interesting and it

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Speaker 1: still goes to show the trends that are happening. But

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Speaker 1: it's kind of worldwide. Like the Samsung's of the world

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Speaker 1: and stuff, a lot of them aren't releasing there or

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Speaker 1: unveiling their devices that they used to now. They're doing

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Speaker 1: it all at their own events. Anyway, we'll hear from

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Speaker 1: him and see what he thinks about that. Speaking of devices,

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Speaker 1: reviews are in for the Pixel ten A from Google.

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Speaker 1: This is their budget phone. It starts at four ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: I've got one at home to test out. I have

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Speaker 1: not tested it yet, I'll be honest because I kind

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Speaker 1: of know what to expect. It's going to be a

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Speaker 1: basic phone with a great camera, six point three inch display,

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Speaker 1: forty eight megapixel main camera. Google's Tenser G four chips

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Speaker 1: so last year's chip, I believe, with eight gigs a RAM.

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Speaker 1: It's got a clean version of Android, sixteen seven years

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Speaker 1: of software and security updates, which is among the longest

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Speaker 1: for all smartphones. It's got Google's AI stuff built in.

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Speaker 1: It's got great picture quality, I'm assuming because Pixels are

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Speaker 1: known for that. Battery life reviewers say is solid up

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Speaker 1: to two days of use, with lighter usage. The biggest

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Speaker 1: criticism is that the hardware barely changed from last year's

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Speaker 1: Pixel nine A same processor, same cameras, same ram, same battery.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of people are saying it's just more

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Speaker 1: of a refresh, but it's got a flat back this time.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what else? Still the best value under five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and I would say that this is actually

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Speaker 1: do not pay five hundred for this. Make sure you

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Speaker 1: don't pay more than three ninety nine because this phone

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Speaker 1: is always discounted. If it's not discounted today, it will

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Speaker 1: be tomorrow. So three ninety nine is the price point

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Speaker 1: I would say to aim for for the Pixel ten A.

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Speaker 1: If you just want something super basic, super easy, you

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Speaker 1: don't want anything Apple or iPhone because the seventeen E

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Speaker 1: is really competing with this at five ninety nine. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, don't pay that for that phone four

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Speaker 1: ninety nine for the seventeen E, I would I would

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Speaker 1: make my target price. Let's go to Bill in Burbank.

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Speaker 1: Am I getting rickrolled here with Bill? That's uh, this

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Speaker 1: isn't the bill? Is it is?

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Speaker 2: This Bill? Here?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, you don't you don't sound like the bill.

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Speaker 1: I know, so it's a different bill. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think I'm getting fooled here. Okay, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Bill?

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Speaker 9: A new bill?

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Speaker 2: You got a new bill, but it's not in the mail.

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Speaker 1: No, I barely get bills, you know. The only bills

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Speaker 1: I get in the mail at this point are all

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Speaker 1: the medical bills, and those, by the way, pro tip,

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Speaker 1: don't ever pay the medical bill. Oh I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: all the emails from the doctor. People. Don't pay your

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Speaker 1: medical bills the first time you get them, because invariably

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Speaker 1: they send you a bill, Oh, it's eight hundred dollars,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're like what And they

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Speaker 1: send you a bill six weeks you're like, oh, it's

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Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars. You're like, what what if I paid

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Speaker 1: the eight hundred. My wife actually did that. She got

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Speaker 1: a refund from all the money she paid, and they said, oh,

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Speaker 1: your insurance actually paid and they gave her a refund.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't believe it. Anyway, I digress, bill, what's up?

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Speaker 2: That's great information, but you're one in a million. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: every time you end up paying a bill, regardless of

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Speaker 2: whether it's true or not. If it's not the correct bill.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have a hard time collecting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't believe it. They refunded her card. Like

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Speaker 1: we got a text. She showed it to me. She's like,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe this. I'm like, I've ever heard of

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Speaker 1: that in my life and it was automatic, didn't even

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Speaker 1: have to do anything. I was like, those are some

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Speaker 1: Those are some honest doctors, Like that's those are that's

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Speaker 1: a good doctor group.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, you also have a lifestyle that doesn't allow you

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Speaker 2: to get screwed too much. So I think that just

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Speaker 2: being that kind of person opens a bigger door for us.

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Speaker 2: That's me digressing, and I hardly ever even talk on

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Speaker 2: the phone, So let's see what I am my discussion

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Speaker 2: or questions are in regards to the first one. Last week,

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Speaker 2: I remember you were talking to a guy who had

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Speaker 2: had a choice or an option to get an iPhone

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Speaker 2: eleven free from the Obama phone scenario. Yes, I well,

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Speaker 2: I followed through with that entire process because I was

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Speaker 2: waiting around for somebody to offer a Samsung phone instead

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Speaker 2: of the garbage I was getting. So I was going

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Speaker 2: on an immediate replacement by waiting for that opportunity to happen.

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Speaker 2: And the company is air Talk, if you don't mind

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Speaker 2: my saying, but they're the ones that give you the

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Speaker 2: choice of that iPhone eleven and just about eight other phones.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And I was looking for that Samsung option and I

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Speaker 2: found and I got it. And here, speaking of getting

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Speaker 2: something better than you're expected, they were giving, they were

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Speaker 2: going to send me a Samsung, which is my target phone.

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Speaker 2: I just seem to get along with the Samsung phone

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Speaker 2: just fine and very little problems except for me getting

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Speaker 2: mad at it. So they ended up sending a better

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Speaker 2: phone than I expected, and I got an A forty two.

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Speaker 2: And that one, which is what I'm talking on, is

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Speaker 2: really really a good phone, and I'm going to try

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Speaker 2: and protect it as best as possible. And that leads

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Speaker 2: me into my second question. I purchased several different screen protectors.

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Speaker 2: I already have the one on the back. You know,

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Speaker 2: forget these things when you buy the phone. But if

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Speaker 2: you get a cheap phone, they give you those things.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's supposed to make you think you've got,

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Speaker 2: you know, some high quality.

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Speaker 1: Phone with it.

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Speaker 2: No, they did not. And I found that the cheaper

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Speaker 2: the phone, they do include these things, and the higher

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Speaker 2: end phones they don't, so I was stuck with the

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Speaker 2: option of trying to find just the right cover that

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Speaker 2: was difficult in themselves, but best by Finally, I just

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Speaker 2: was able to find a cover that's did on the back.

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Speaker 2: For the front. I purchased a glass option and a

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Speaker 2: plastic option the And my question would be, uh, first

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Speaker 2: of all, as far as application is concerned, it's probably

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Speaker 2: really important to cover the entire front surface. Would you agree?

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Speaker 1: I would say, so, I mean these yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's that's typically how most of them work.

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Speaker 2: Instead of yeah, sometimes they were they're just shy of

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Speaker 2: cover bring that well from my experience anybody, that's probably

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Speaker 2: where the phone would drop right on that edge and

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Speaker 2: then cause a problem. So the glass didn't cover that.

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Speaker 2: I bought it well, it was only a dollar was

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Speaker 2: on the cheap rack, So I decided I didn't want

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Speaker 2: to put that glass on because it's not really protecting

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Speaker 2: the whole thing, and I know how they will want

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Speaker 2: to break that edge first and ignore the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: What can I help you with? What? What can I

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Speaker 1: help with?

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Speaker 7: One?

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Speaker 2: Have you had experience with applying the hard plastic ones

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Speaker 2: that you cut the fit?

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Speaker 1: I I've okay, So here's the deal. This is the

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of experience putting on screen protectors.

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Speaker 1: I would say the cut to fit ones are going

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Speaker 1: to be very tricky because if you don't have a

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Speaker 1: proper applicator, you're going to get bubbles, and that's the

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Speaker 1: main thing you do not want. Now, some of them

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Speaker 1: you can push out. Some you're not gonna be able to.

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Speaker 1: But if you're cutting it to the screen, it's your

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Speaker 1: problem never gonna get a perfect fit. So you know

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Speaker 1: that's that's number one. I would say if you can

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Speaker 1: find a screen protector with an applicator, like it almost

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Speaker 1: comes with a plastic tray to put it on, that

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Speaker 1: would be your best bet. If you want something that's

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Speaker 1: truly gonna protect this thing. I'm looking just a casual

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Speaker 1: look on Amazon, and because this model is a little

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Speaker 1: bit seems like it's a little bit more specialized. This

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Speaker 1: a forty two, I'm not really seeing a screen protector

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Speaker 1: with an applicator. So with that said, I would say,

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Speaker 1: if you're paying a dollar for that, how much was

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Speaker 1: the other the other one that you gotta cut?

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Speaker 2: Oh, then there was just two three dollars for two

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Speaker 2: of them.

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Speaker 1: So I would say, try your best on the first

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Speaker 1: one and if it, you know, doesn't work, then you

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Speaker 1: may have to try, you know, peel it off and

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Speaker 1: put the second one on there. But what about just

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Speaker 1: getting a good case that covers this whole phone with

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Speaker 1: with some raised edges and that will really help with

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Speaker 1: the I mean I personally like a screen protector as

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Speaker 1: well as a case, just to really you know, you

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Speaker 1: can knock that thing around no problem, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, total agreement. And that's what I want. That's what

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Speaker 2: I want to do, because it doesn't make sense to

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Speaker 2: allow yourself because you know you're going to drop it.

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Speaker 1: Oh of course, Oh that's fine.

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Speaker 2: I that's as far as I need to take it.

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Speaker 2: But I'm very careful about doing those detail things. So

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Speaker 2: I'll just put the trust on myself and go ahead

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Speaker 2: and do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I have a question about the lottery, and whether you're

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Speaker 2: familiar with this or not, everybody has like a an

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Speaker 2: account that you log into the lottery and regardless of

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Speaker 2: what you're trying to go after or do. Mine, in

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Speaker 2: particularly would be Scratchers and the second Chances, which is

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Speaker 2: the poor Man's Lottery. But it's still there and it's

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Speaker 2: something worth going for it because you never know. For

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Speaker 2: over a month I have been able to into that

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Speaker 2: to the lottery account.

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Speaker 1: Not once you have not been able to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I would venture to say that if you

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Speaker 2: give it a try, you will learn exactly what I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about. And I smell a really big rat.

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Speaker 1: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is very very It's just it's right in

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Speaker 2: front of your face. Is just like Kim Trail, and

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Speaker 2: it's just very peculiar. And of course I don't trust

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Speaker 2: anything about the lottery. There's too much money that's readily

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Speaker 2: available to steal.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's all going to the schools bill, it's all

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Speaker 1: going to the education. So I mean, look, we got

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Speaker 1: to run. But I've actually downloaded that the California Lottery app,

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Speaker 1: and I've used it to scan. The little trick is

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Speaker 1: you only have to scratch the scratcher. You get to

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Speaker 1: scan a little barcode on the corner and it tells

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Speaker 1: you if it's a win or a loser. I have

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Speaker 1: not tried to sign into an account, but we'll look

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Speaker 1: into that. Thanks for the call, Bill, appreciate it. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the new phone eighty eight rich one oh one more

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Speaker 1: rich on tech right after this Welcome back to Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you like the movie F One, you might be

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Speaker 1: watching Formula One starting this weekend. But guess what, if

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Speaker 1: you want to watch in the US, you'll need Apple TV.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six Formula One season kicks off with

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Speaker 1: the Australian Grand Prix, and this is a big change

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Speaker 1: for people here in the US. Every race weekend will

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Speaker 1: be streaming exclusively on Apple TV in the US. That's

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Speaker 1: for the first time. That includes practices, qualifying sprint races

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Speaker 1: and the Grand Prix itself. That means no more F

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Speaker 1: one races on ESPN, which has had the US rights

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Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen. Apple reportedly spend around seven hundred million

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Speaker 1: dollars on a five year deal to lock in the rights,

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Speaker 1: showing just how valuable live sports are, especially because that

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Speaker 1: movie did so well. I think it really got a

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Speaker 1: lot of people to come out of the woodwork with

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Speaker 1: this stuff. People that maybe didn't think they were fans

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Speaker 1: are like, okay, I might watch that, and Apple said, okay,

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Speaker 1: hold on, let's buy that. So you can watch the

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Speaker 1: Apple TV app on phones, on TV streaming devices, or

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Speaker 1: a web browser. Now here's the thing. You may think, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's Apple TV. I've got Android doesn't work for me.

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Speaker 1: I've got Roku, I've got you know, Google TV. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: there's an Apple TV app for all of those devices.

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Speaker 1: Ever since Apple TV started streaming, they created an Apple

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Speaker 1: TV app that lets you watch all of their Apple

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Speaker 1: TV content no matter what platform you're on. Pretty much,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's available for all of them. The

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Speaker 1: service about twelve ninety nine a month. There's a seven

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Speaker 1: day free trial. And you know that Apple also has MLS.

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Speaker 1: They've got a deal with Major League Soccer, so this

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Speaker 1: is their second big sports deal. And let me check.

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Speaker 1: My friend does Jared Newman, friend of the show, does

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Speaker 1: this Cord Cutter Weekly the big list of streaming deals.

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Speaker 1: So let's see if there's anything for Apple TV. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thirty days. See I just said seven day free trial.

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Speaker 1: That's the one they advertise. So the one you can

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Speaker 1: get if you use his link is thirty days. Yeh,

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Speaker 1: see seven day free trial. And let's click his link

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Speaker 1: and see what happens. Click his link. Thirty days. Look

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Speaker 1: at that, where's my bell? Thirty days of free trial?

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Speaker 1: So if you want that I will put that link

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Speaker 1: on the website rich on tech dot TV, so you

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Speaker 1: can check it out if you like formula one. So

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Speaker 1: do they call formula one F one? Just in general? Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's the same. It's like interchangeable. Let's go. Speaking of TVs,

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Speaker 1: Charlie's got a question in Huntington Beach, looks like about

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Speaker 1: his TV. What's up, Charlie.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I have two TVs. I have a one down stairs,

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Speaker 6: one upstairs. But the one upstairs I have extenders. It

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Speaker 6: constantly is not recognizing the router. It's an LGTV that's upstairs.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the LGTV is upstairs. The router the the where's

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Speaker 1: the signal coming in from? Like, where's the router? The

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Speaker 1: router's downstairs?

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Speaker 6: No, the router is upstairs as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh near the same TV.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well not far from it, maybe thirty feet away.

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Speaker 1: Oh thirty feet And you're having problems.

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Speaker 2: With this.

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Speaker 6: Constantly. And if you go into the setting and you

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Speaker 6: look for you know, are you connected or you're not connected?

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Speaker 6: And you pull it up and it'll indicate nope, and

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Speaker 6: it wants you to go back in put the password.

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Speaker 6: You can put the password in. It will work for

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Speaker 6: a while, and then I say, if you turn the

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Speaker 6: TV off, you come back later and.

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Speaker 1: It's just connect again.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, the.

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Speaker 6: One downstairs never has a problem.

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Speaker 1: What brand is that that one?

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Speaker 6: I switched that one out to a Sony Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well okay, So I mean you got to figure out.

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Speaker 1: Have you tried a like a full reset of this TV,

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Speaker 1: like a factory reset.

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Speaker 6: Unplugging it and plugging it in?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about a factory reset like setting it to

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Speaker 1: its initial settings? How old is this TV?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 6: Maybe?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 6: Maybe this one is eight years old?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I think you're working with a couple of

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Speaker 1: things here, so you've got it. Could be that you've

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Speaker 1: had this thing going for a long time. It just

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Speaker 1: could be confused about your WiFi. Maybe you've changed your

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Speaker 1: settings over the years. Who knows the other thing? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So here's here's what I would do if I were you. Okay, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: Here's what I would do. Number one, I would ditch

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Speaker 1: the extender. I don't think you need that extender. I

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Speaker 1: think that might be confusing things because if your router

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Speaker 1: is thirty feet awa from this TV, it should see

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Speaker 1: that router no problem without an extender. So that's number one,

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Speaker 1: so unplug that. Number two. I would do a full

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Speaker 1: factory reset of this TV, so that means you go

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Speaker 1: into your settings general reset to initial settings, and that

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Speaker 1: will delete everything it's gonna re I mean, yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to reinstall your apps, log in, all that nonsense,

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Speaker 1: but that will clear everything off of this TV as

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Speaker 1: if you just got it from the factory and that

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Speaker 1: and then reconnect it to your Ethernet or it's your

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Speaker 1: Internet that way and see if that fixes it. The

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Speaker 1: other thing I would do is see if you have

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Speaker 1: any software updates before you, you know, do the whole

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Speaker 1: network or the the the reset of the whole device.

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Speaker 1: I would check for software updates, make sure you don't

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Speaker 1: have any software updates there and do that. If your

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Speaker 1: connection is a five gigahertz connection, you might try to

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Speaker 1: connect to the two point four gigahertz band. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if that's an issue with your home or with

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Speaker 1: your router and maybe sending out those dual signals. Try

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Speaker 1: connecting to the two point four. It's an older TV,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean it shouldn't connect to the internet.

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Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't. It's it's still Wi Fi it

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Speaker 1: still should be fine, but I think a couple of

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Speaker 1: those things just to see if you can figure it

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Speaker 1: out and make it work again, that would be your

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Speaker 1: best bet. If it doesn't work after that, the best

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Speaker 1: thing I would say is just to get an Ethernet cable.

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Speaker 1: I know it's annoying, I know it's ugly, but it's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be your best bet is because the router's

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Speaker 1: only thirty feet away. Just run an Ethernet cable to

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Speaker 1: the back of your TV. If none of those other

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Speaker 1: things work, hopefully those things make this work. But again

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Speaker 1: in this order, I would say you tried restarting to TV,

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Speaker 1: I would get rid of the extender. I would check

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Speaker 1: for software updates if you can, if you have a

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Speaker 1: connection for that, and then I would do a factory

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Speaker 1: reset see if that helps connect it back up. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call, Charlie. Coming up, we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: Mobile World Congress. Welcome back to rich on Tech rich

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The website

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Speaker 1: for the show richon tech dot TV. Anything I mentioned

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Speaker 1: is on there, episode one sixty four, and you can

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Speaker 1: get all the links to everything I mentioned earlier, the

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Speaker 1: whole Apple TV. I mentioned my pala Jared Newman. He

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Speaker 1: writes a website called cord Cutter Weekly, and he's got

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Speaker 1: this thing called the Big List of Streaming Deals. And

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Speaker 1: so if you're ever looking for like you know, you're

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Speaker 1: signing up for Peacock or Paramount Plus or whatever, and

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Speaker 1: you want to get like the best possible deal on

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Speaker 1: the sign up, you go to his website. He's got

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Speaker 1: this big list of streaming it's called the Big List

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Speaker 1: of Streaming Deals, and he updates it all the time.

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Speaker 1: Updated on March, yeah, updated yesterday, and so yeah, always

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Speaker 1: go there. That's my first stop. It's a great, great resource.

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Speaker 1: It's linked up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: All right, joining me now, I as actar Mobile Analyst

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Speaker 1: at PC mag Ayas. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me Rich.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of shared history. You used to

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Speaker 1: work at cnet as well as me, and used to

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Speaker 1: work with Leo as well.

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Speaker 11: That's great that I zor up with him and this

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Speaker 11: week in tech and Cataluma, California.

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Speaker 4: It's a really small world that is wild.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show for the first time, and for

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Speaker 1: the first new time, I guess I should say and

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Speaker 1: you were at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. First off,

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Speaker 1: explain what that show is all about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, sure.

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Speaker 11: So Mobile World Congress is the largest mobile trade show

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Speaker 11: in the world, and you have companies from everywhere around

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Speaker 11: the globe come to this event to show off new phones,

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Speaker 11: networking technology, and components. There's a lot of industry insiders

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Speaker 11: there because it is a trade show. What's happening is

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Speaker 11: a lot of deals are being made, like finding technologies

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Speaker 11: to license or to even acquire. So the stuff that

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Speaker 11: happens here will be resonating for several years after the fact.

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Speaker 1: Was this your first time there or have you been before?

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Speaker 11: This was my second one on the floor, and it

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Speaker 11: was just as exciting as last year. And there's just

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Speaker 11: so many different things that people are trying and companies

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Speaker 11: trying just fan out because there's major companies out there

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Speaker 11: that take a lot of the spotlight Apple, I'm looking

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Speaker 11: at you, since you realised to all these devices during

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Speaker 11: Mobile World Congress, so there was a lot of competition

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Speaker 11: in the new circles.

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Speaker 1: They always seem to do that Apple looking at you

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Speaker 1: because they're also launching all these devices on the same

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Speaker 1: day that the Samsung Galaxy S twenty six Ultra launches

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Speaker 1: March eleventh, So I don't know if they do that

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Speaker 1: stuff on purpose, but it certainly seems like the timing

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Speaker 1: always lines up where Apple steals the spotlight. Whether it's

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Speaker 1: CS or whether it's like a show like this, it's

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Speaker 1: just just always seems to happen. But that's neither here

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Speaker 1: nor there. The two things that I saw the big

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Speaker 1: news was number one, six G. Qualcomm made a big

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Speaker 1: deal about you know, they're going to launch six G

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Speaker 1: in a couple of years, like by twenty thirty. And

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Speaker 1: then the other thing I saw was that little phone

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Speaker 1: with like the gimbal thing coming out of the top.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain either of those?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Sure, so six G.

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Speaker 11: I'm going to try to make this as simple as

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Speaker 11: humanly possible, because I had to read about it a

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Speaker 11: lot to figure this out. The main thing that people

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Speaker 11: are going to like about twenty about six G that

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Speaker 11: will be out by twenty twenty nine or twenty thirty,

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Speaker 11: depending on how it actually susses out, is that it

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Speaker 11: will have increased capacity. So let's say you're a trade

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Speaker 11: show or a stadium at airport, You're going to be

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Speaker 11: able to have faster connections to the same networks, and

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Speaker 11: it's going to be consistent because sometimes you'll have a

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Speaker 11: dead zone. Let's say you go to the subway and

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Speaker 11: it's a dead zone. Six gens Reaped is going to

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Speaker 11: get into places that are well kind of dead right now.

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Speaker 11: And the second to answer your second question, the phone

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Speaker 11: with the gimbal camera that came out of it. It's

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Speaker 11: the Honor robot camera, and it is a really interesting

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Speaker 11: idea in the fact that the camera, none of the

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Speaker 11: lives in the body of the phone. A little door open.

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Speaker 11: If the camera itself comes out on a little arm

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Speaker 11: and it's with the gimbal, you can point, tilt and

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Speaker 11: zoom with your phone, so that way you can hold

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Speaker 11: your phone steady, but the camera moves. I don't think

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Speaker 11: we'll be seeing this in the US because Honor they're

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Speaker 11: usually in China, so we don't see their products. But

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Speaker 11: this is the kind of thing that could influence other

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Speaker 11: companies to go, hey, we should do something like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny, it looks like dances and does

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Speaker 1: all like I saw so many videos about it on

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Speaker 1: the social media. It reminds me of one plus one

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Speaker 1: time made a phone I don't know if you remember this,

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Speaker 1: but the selfie cam popped out of the top of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's been stuff that they're motorized.

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Speaker 11: I was thinking about, I don't know how long before

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Speaker 11: we'll get back to like having a little tiny mirror

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Speaker 11: on the back of phones for selfies to use that

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Speaker 11: monstrous camera that's on the back of all of these plays. Now,

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01:36:34,640 --> 01:36:37,720
Speaker 11: it's you gotta just you gotta do something different to

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Speaker 11: stand out, and that definitely stood out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a lot of publicity, but it's like

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Speaker 1: the reality of you know, how many people actually need that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I do see a lot of

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Speaker 1: creators using that little dgi osmo, that little tiny camera

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Speaker 1: that they like, they seem to like, So maybe that's

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Speaker 1: kind of like what it was. What else did you

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Speaker 1: see that was interesting?

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Speaker 11: Okay, So, like my favorite thing I saw there is well,

1946
01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:05,599
Speaker 11: there's two they're both modular. So there was a concept

1947
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Speaker 11: phone called the Techno Adam. It was super thin, it's

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01:37:08,920 --> 01:37:11,960
Speaker 11: kind of like an iPhone Air in size, and it

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Speaker 11: uses magnets, which magnets are really the hottest technology in

1950
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Speaker 11: the world right now because yeh, of all the things,

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Speaker 11: it just snaps together so this one had several magnetic

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Speaker 11: areas and you could snap multiple power banks to the

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Speaker 11: back of it, so you could add battery life. If

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Speaker 11: you wanted a telephoto camera, you could just snap another

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Speaker 11: module on and it would be passive on the cameras,

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01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:36,360
Speaker 11: so you don't need to necessarily have a phone with

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Speaker 11: all of these cameras on it. It also had a

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Speaker 11: giant long range camera twenty three millimeter lens could attach

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Speaker 11: to this, and you you could turn your phone into

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Speaker 11: multiple things at once, or you only bring.

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Speaker 4: With you what you need on the on the day.

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Speaker 11: It's kind of like the old days where you would

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Speaker 11: really old days, you'd take your sin card out of

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01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 11: a phone and then put it in the little phone

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Speaker 11: so you can go out at night with it.

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Speaker 1: So it's this Ideally you did that more nerds only

1967
01:37:59,800 --> 01:38:02,360
Speaker 1: we did that. No normal person ever did that.

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Speaker 11: Yes, I guess it'll make it easier for the normal

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Speaker 11: people to do stuff like this, but that concept device

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Speaker 11: may never come to market.

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Speaker 4: A techno was very clear about that.

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Speaker 11: I was asking them over and over again, like are

1973
01:38:15,439 --> 01:38:18,360
Speaker 11: you showing this so other OEMs will you work with you?

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01:38:18,479 --> 01:38:22,479
Speaker 11: And and these manufacturers will license that technology and Techno

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01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:25,920
Speaker 11: claims that if this product comes out, they will be

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Speaker 11: the ones to introduce it.

1977
01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:30,000
Speaker 1: Okay, it reminds me. Okay, now, I'm just I'm just

1978
01:38:30,800 --> 01:38:32,880
Speaker 1: remembering all these old things I used to cover. That

1979
01:38:32,960 --> 01:38:34,960
Speaker 1: reminds you of the Moto mods. I don't know if

1980
01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:38,880
Speaker 1: you remember, they had like this super slim Moto like

1981
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:42,400
Speaker 1: Motorola phone that was like really thin and you would

1982
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:45,040
Speaker 1: snap on like a little projector or like an extra

1983
01:38:45,080 --> 01:38:47,360
Speaker 1: battery pack or like I don't know if they had

1984
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:49,880
Speaker 1: an extra camera thing or whatever, but or speaker maybe

1985
01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:51,559
Speaker 1: they had for it. But that kind of reminds me

1986
01:38:51,560 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 1: of that. Do you remember that.

1987
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Speaker 11: I totally remember that I did a video about the

1988
01:38:56,720 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 11: Techno and people were writing in the comments you forgot

1989
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 11: about Moto mods LGG five that had components of what

1990
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:06,880
Speaker 11: about project? Are all these components devices? And every one

1991
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:09,200
Speaker 11: of those I root for them. I want this to happen.

1992
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:12,519
Speaker 11: It's not that I've forgotten. I love the idea of

1993
01:39:12,880 --> 01:39:16,200
Speaker 11: a device that can do multiple things and it's not compromised.

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01:39:16,320 --> 01:39:18,639
Speaker 11: Because it's really hard to have all of these great

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01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:21,599
Speaker 11: pieces of technology on a super thin device that people

1996
01:39:21,720 --> 01:39:24,360
Speaker 11: want these days, So why not break it up? And

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01:39:24,400 --> 01:39:27,519
Speaker 11: I and again it's I'm gonna say this. Apple does

1998
01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:30,599
Speaker 11: play a part in this because with mag safe people

1999
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:34,599
Speaker 11: are they're more accepting of this idea. And I have

2000
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:40,599
Speaker 11: a Apple's history as it is, it definitely sets the trend.

2001
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:44,639
Speaker 11: So while this magnetic thing happened before, now that it's

2002
01:39:44,680 --> 01:39:47,680
Speaker 11: accepted with Apple, I'm expecting more companies to continue doing this.

2003
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:51,439
Speaker 11: Like the new Pixel ten series has pixel snap, which

2004
01:39:51,479 --> 01:39:54,439
Speaker 11: is basically mag safe, so I think it's got a

2005
01:39:54,520 --> 01:39:55,760
Speaker 11: better chance of success now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is wild because Samsung still has not jumped

2007
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:01,400
Speaker 1: on that the max safe. They have it in their

2008
01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:04,040
Speaker 1: cases now this year, which is fine, but it's like,

2009
01:40:04,520 --> 01:40:07,799
Speaker 1: what is keeping you from building a magnet into this phone?

2010
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:10,920
Speaker 1: I think it's laziness, I really do, because if you

2011
01:40:10,920 --> 01:40:12,519
Speaker 1: look at the S twenty six culture, as much as

2012
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:15,240
Speaker 1: I love that device, it's basically the same as last

2013
01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:17,280
Speaker 1: year's device. You know, it's just a little bit you know,

2014
01:40:17,439 --> 01:40:19,680
Speaker 1: I don't even know it's different. I mean the screen obviously,

2015
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 1: but it's like they they didn't want to like the

2016
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:25,759
Speaker 1: amount of come, the amount of tie price and costs

2017
01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:28,240
Speaker 1: that it would take to redo the screen the back

2018
01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: of the phone for the magnets probably just would cost

2019
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:30,920
Speaker 1: too much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're right about I think you're right

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01:40:33,560 --> 01:40:34,000
Speaker 4: about the price.

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Speaker 11: By the way, it takes a lot of time to

2023
01:40:35,760 --> 01:40:40,080
Speaker 11: change all the processes of building these devices, so it's

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01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:42,120
Speaker 11: probably years away from now.

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Speaker 4: They probably didn't expect it to hit so big.

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Speaker 1: We got one time for one more, give me one

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01:40:46,360 --> 01:40:48,679
Speaker 1: more thing that you really liked from Mobile World to Congress.

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01:40:49,400 --> 01:40:53,280
Speaker 11: Okay, I gotta find it. Lenovo think book modular AIPC concept.

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Speaker 11: Let me quickly try to explain with this is just

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01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:59,240
Speaker 11: imagine a regular thin, super thin laptop, but the keyboard

2031
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:01,960
Speaker 11: is magnetically. You can pop that off and attach a

2032
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:04,720
Speaker 11: second fourteen inch o LED screen, so you can use

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01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 11: it as a double touchscreen device. If you want, you

2034
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:10,640
Speaker 11: can pop that second screen off, attach it with a

2035
01:41:10,720 --> 01:41:13,400
Speaker 11: magnetic cable of course is magnetic, have it as your

2036
01:41:13,439 --> 01:41:17,040
Speaker 11: second displays, and if you wanted to, you can attack

2037
01:41:17,120 --> 01:41:20,639
Speaker 11: that display to the back of the of the regular

2038
01:41:20,640 --> 01:41:24,960
Speaker 11: display so you can give a presentation to other people. Now,

2039
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:27,040
Speaker 11: the reason why I enjoy this one the most. Lenovo

2040
01:41:27,200 --> 01:41:30,679
Speaker 11: has a tendency to use prods up devices and turn

2041
01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:33,439
Speaker 11: them into real products within several years, so I'm the

2042
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 11: most excited about this because again, people are using their

2043
01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:40,479
Speaker 11: technologies in ways they weren't really designed for. And now

2044
01:41:40,680 --> 01:41:44,840
Speaker 11: these modular concepts allow you to change out the way

2045
01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:46,559
Speaker 11: you use the device. Oh right, I forgot to mention

2046
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:49,120
Speaker 11: that the ports are modular. So if you need a USBA,

2047
01:41:49,240 --> 01:41:50,680
Speaker 11: pop out the C and put it in the A.

2048
01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:53,960
Speaker 11: You need an HDMI, pop that in so you have

2049
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:56,720
Speaker 11: and if technology changes over time, you can get a

2050
01:41:57,160 --> 01:41:57,599
Speaker 11: new port.

2051
01:41:57,720 --> 01:41:59,120
Speaker 4: I just I like this idea.

2052
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:01,680
Speaker 1: Everything is reminding me of something else. This reminds me

2053
01:42:01,760 --> 01:42:08,320
Speaker 1: of framework that's like the podular anyway, exactly, everything old

2054
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:12,439
Speaker 1: is new again. I asz Actar Mobile analyst at pc MAGA.

2055
01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:14,599
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today. Really appreciate it.

2056
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:16,240
Speaker 1: And do you have a good time over there? Was

2057
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:16,599
Speaker 1: it fun?

2058
01:42:17,560 --> 01:42:20,280
Speaker 11: It was a blast, so many things and we have

2059
01:42:20,400 --> 01:42:23,800
Speaker 11: so many videos, pictures, articles at PCMag dot com. Seen

2060
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:25,720
Speaker 11: that dot com. We've got tons of stuff, so check

2061
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Speaker 11: that out. Because there's no way we covered everything in

2062
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Speaker 11: this interview.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, there's no and there's no way even when

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Speaker 1: you go to c Yes, there's no way to cover

2065
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Speaker 1: everything that's there either, but you guys certainly try. Thanks

2066
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:37,320
Speaker 1: so much for joining me today. Appreciate it. I'll put

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Speaker 1: a link on my website rich on tech dot TV.

2068
01:42:41,439 --> 01:42:45,960
Speaker 1: Coming up, it is time to open up the feedback.

2069
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Speaker 1: That's right. These are the emails, the comments, the questions

2070
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Speaker 1: you sent me all week long. We'll open up and

2071
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Speaker 1: get through as many as we can. Coming up right here,

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Speaker 1: I'm rich On tech jamiro here, welcome back. All right,

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Speaker 1: it is time for the feedbag. This is where I

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01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:12,880
Speaker 1: read your emails, your comments, your questions. You send me

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Speaker 1: a lot of them, and I love getting them. Don't

2076
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, but this is the stuff that you

2077
01:43:18,960 --> 01:43:20,599
Speaker 1: know you had to say to me this week, because

2078
01:43:20,600 --> 01:43:22,439
Speaker 1: I say a lot of stuff to you every week.

2079
01:43:22,680 --> 01:43:24,360
Speaker 1: So this is what you had to say to me.

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Speaker 1: So here we go. RJ writes in Hey, rich, I

2081
01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:32,720
Speaker 1: was listening to the recent segment on a show and

2082
01:43:32,800 --> 01:43:35,639
Speaker 1: heard you mention the challenge of having identification while out

2083
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:38,240
Speaker 1: for a run. I wanted to suggest a couple of

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Speaker 1: simple analog options I've used for years. Road Id and

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Speaker 1: breck Id both use a velco velcro wristband with a

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Speaker 1: small engraved metal plate that can hold several lines of information.

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Speaker 1: Mine includes my name and country blood type, and you're

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Speaker 1: a birth passport number two emergency contacts analergies. The nice

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Speaker 1: thing about the metal plate is that it's and it

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Speaker 1: would survive something like a fire. Well, oh gosh, that's

2091
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Speaker 1: really dark. Your show is always enjoyable and informative. Keep

2092
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Speaker 1: up the good work, RJ. Yes, I've actually heard of

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Speaker 1: road id. I had him for my kids when they

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Speaker 1: were little, and I liked that. I never thought about

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Speaker 1: having one for myself while running, but maybe I'll look

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Speaker 1: into that. Thanks for the recommendation there, RJ. And Irma

2097
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Speaker 1: writes in I want to tell you how much I

2098
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Speaker 1: appreciate listening to you. I'm eighty eight years old and

2099
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Speaker 1: a little techie for a lady my age, and I

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Speaker 1: really enjoy the things I learned from your show. I

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Speaker 1: just wanted you to know how much I appreciate what

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Speaker 1: you do. I also tell all my friends about you.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Irma. Appreciate that. Rick and Crabtree Oregon rights. Yes,

2105
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:51,000
Speaker 1: I used to say Oregon before I before I was enlightened.

2106
01:44:52,040 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the caller whose dad is having

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Speaker 1: problems with the free phone program. Since that's a federal program,

2108
01:44:57,120 --> 01:45:00,839
Speaker 1: maybe he should contact his congress person. Sometimes those offices

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Speaker 1: can help sort things out with federal agencies, and since

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Speaker 1: it's an election year, candidates often like helping someone in

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Speaker 1: their district with an issue like that. Good call Rick,

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Speaker 1: That's always an option. Steve and san Diego says, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: regarding your discussion about the possibility of passing away with

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Speaker 1: no one knowing, I wanted to share we had a

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Speaker 1: dark show last week. I wanted to share a few

2116
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Speaker 1: services that can help with daily proof of life check ins.

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Speaker 1: One is called snug Safe, I Am Fine, Daily call

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Speaker 1: Calling Care, I'm okay, and town Care. There are others

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Speaker 1: as well, but these are a few examples that check

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Speaker 1: in on you regularly and alert someone if you don't respond.

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Speaker 1: This reminds me of the app that went viral, the

2122
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Speaker 1: am I Dead. I think it was called like basically

2123
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Speaker 1: in It was big in China where the people that

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Speaker 1: live by themselves would check in every day on the app.

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Speaker 1: They would just press a big button to prove to

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Speaker 1: their loved ones that they're still alive. And the young

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Speaker 1: people were using it, which is wild. Let's see here,

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Speaker 1: Dale in Mansfield, Ohio listening on My name is Dale.

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Speaker 1: I listened to your program on Wman and Mansfield, Ohio

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Speaker 1: ninety eight point three FM. I really enjoy your show

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Speaker 1: and appreciate the insight and advice you share each week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for what you do well. Thank you Dale. Let's

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Speaker 1: see here. Mo writes in Hey Rich, I listened to

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Speaker 1: your show every Sunday. I find it really useful. On

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Speaker 1: today's show, you had a caller asking if there's a

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Speaker 1: device that could alert someone if a person wasn't moving around.

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Speaker 1: I use a setup called Nomo Smartcare. You place censors

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Speaker 1: around the house. There are no cameras. You set parameters

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Speaker 1: like when you're expected to be home, connect it to

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Speaker 1: the app, and pay a subscription of about twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: a month. If there's no motion detected during those expected hours,

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Speaker 1: it sends a text to a contact. It works because

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Speaker 1: I tested it. I also had the real situation where

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Speaker 1: it texted my friend when it didn't detect motion during

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Speaker 1: the time it expected me to be active. I used

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Speaker 1: to be a programmer. I did a lot of research

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Speaker 1: before choosing this. I liked that it did not require

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Speaker 1: checking in every day, and there's no call center involved.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny. It's like the opposite of the other

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Speaker 1: email I'm not affiliated with the company, but I thought

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Speaker 1: you might be impressed with it. Regards Moe, top salesperson

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Speaker 1: at Nomo's Smartcare. No, he's kidding, He's just recommending this.

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Speaker 1: I've actually seen that system. I go to the assist

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Speaker 1: of Tech conference every year, and I saw a system

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Speaker 1: like that that they had, and I think we're going

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Speaker 1: to see more of those as well. Bob listening in Australia, says, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to say, deliver another golden nugget on

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Speaker 1: a hidden golden nugget on the show. Over the years,

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Speaker 1: I've learned. I've added several things you've mentioned to my

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Speaker 1: toolkit Ara Low about five years ago, type list which

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Speaker 1: ended up working better than whisper flow for me, and

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Speaker 1: now Number Barn. I looked into Number Barn after your

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Speaker 1: show because I need a replacement for Mint Mobile. I

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Speaker 1: live in Australia but keep a US phone number. Mint

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Speaker 1: kept losing Wi Fi calling, so I was paying for

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Speaker 1: something I couldn't really use. Now I have a US

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Speaker 1: number that instantly forwards to my use Ustrellian mobile for

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Speaker 1: about seven dollars a month instead of one eighty a year.

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Speaker 1: It also sends an email in SMS after every message

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Speaker 1: with it, which they don't really advertise. Next, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to look into Google Voice, since you need a US

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Speaker 1: number to sign up. Love the show. My only complaint

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Speaker 1: one podcast a week isn't enough. Oh well, thank you,

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Speaker 1: Bob uh Tony in Arizona. Hey, Rich, I was listening

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Speaker 1: to your podcast and I fell asleep. Oh well, that's

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Speaker 1: a glaring review. A glowing review. I had a nightmare

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Speaker 1: that my phone got hacked while I was on a

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Speaker 1: road trip. The screen filled up with video ads and

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Speaker 1: I couldn't turn the volume down. I'm guessing your ads

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Speaker 1: were playing at the time. I don't have my computer

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Speaker 1: with me. I didn't have my computer, so I couldn't

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Speaker 1: boot into recovery mode, and there was nothing I could do.

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Speaker 1: I woke up totally frustrated and had to calm myself

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Speaker 1: down and ask AI, what should I do if that

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Speaker 1: ever happened. I'm fine now, Just a warning, what could

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Speaker 1: happen if you fall asleep listening to Rich on tech?

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Speaker 1: That is hilarious. That's a nerdy you're boring, That's that's

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Speaker 1: a nerdy nightmare. That is really nerdy, Tony, Uh, We're

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Speaker 1: I read I read your newsletter every Saturday morning. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: this this changed it. Hold on, Oh well, maybe it's not.

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Speaker 1: I read your newsletter every Saturday morning with my coffee,

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Speaker 1: and I really enjoy it. Okay, that was I thought

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Speaker 1: that was something else. Okay, I think that's it. That's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I'm mentioned on the website.

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Speaker 1: Go to rich on tech dot tv. You can find

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Speaker 1: me on social media at rich on Tech. Next week,

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Speaker 1: David Pogue, author of Apple the First fifty Years. We'll

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Speaker 1: share stories about Apple's biggest products, Steve Jobs, and much more.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways

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Speaker 1: you can spend your time. I really do appreciate you

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Speaker 1: spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who

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Speaker 1: makes this show possible. Bobo on the board, Kim on

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Speaker 1: the phones. My name is rich Dmiro. I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you real soon.