WEBVTT - Slowing Down iPhones, Better Android SMS App & Fire TV Web Browsers [211] 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.840 Welcome to rich on tech Live, Umrich Dmiro, And this 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.000 is the show where I talk about technology we can 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.000 all use every day. Plus I take your calls live 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.200 and answer your tech questions. What is going on on? 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.560 Rich Dmiro the tech reporter at KTLA five News in 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.800 Los Angeles. You can learn more about me at richon 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:35.440 tech dot tv. This is episode two hundred and eleven. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.680 You can find show notes at richon tech dot tv 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:44.040 slash two eleven. Rich on tech dot tv slash two eleven. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.840 And if you're listening to this by podcast, I would 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.280 love if you shared a screenshot with your friends. Just 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.720 take a screenshot of you listening to the podcast on 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.080 your screen and share it on social media. Phone lines 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.160 are open right now for all you folks watching on 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.800 Facebook live three one zero five nine four three zero 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.640 zero three three one zero five nine four three zero 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:10.480 zero three. So welcome. This is the last show before Christmas. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.040 Can you believe it? Christmas always seems to creep up 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.800 on me. I don't get why it happens every year, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.160 but for some reason, I don't know, I always feel 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.480 like I run out of time, and this year I 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.200 feel like it's really weird because Christmas is on a Monday, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.760 and so I feel like it's just really strange because 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.559 I'm off next week and not this week. So usually 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.160 I have time off before the holiday and then you 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.520 get time, but now I don't. So but it's fine. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.240 We all have Saturday and Sunday, which is kind of 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.320 fun and that's different. So if you want to call 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.160 me and talk tech, you are free to do that. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.479 But I want to talk about this big story first 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.920 that everyone is talking about, and this is the thing 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:50.000 about Apple with their iPhones. This is Apple confirming that 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:55.400 iPhones with older batteries are sort of slowed down. And 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.240 this is the thing I've been getting this question as 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.560 a tech tech reporter for Everyone's always like, hey, Rich, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.600 does Apple slow down my old iPhone? Because it sure 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.640 feels that way, And I always said no, of course, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.600 they would never do that. Why would Apple do that? 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.760 They would never knowingly slow down your phone. Well, it 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.720 turns out they do. So this all started with a 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.000 bunch of people on Reddit noticing that their phones were 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.800 slowed down if they were a little bit older. And 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.840 then people did a bunch of tests and they figured 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.079 out that if they replaced the battery on the phone, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.960 it would actually speed up again. So people figured, h 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.560 is it a battery thing? And then of course they 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.560 asked Apple some some tech reporters, and next thing, you know, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.240 Apple says, oh, yeah, actually, here's what we do. Because 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.680 lithium ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.840 demands and cold conditions, or they age over time, the 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.360 device can unexpectedly shut down. So we released a feature 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.360 last year for the iPhone six, iPhone Success and iPhone 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.600 se to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.760 to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down. Now what 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:02.959 does all that mean. Basically, what it means is Apple 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.480 is saying as the batteries age on these phones, they 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.000 don't work as well, and Apple doesn't get the performance 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.840 that they deserve out of these devices, and so they 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.040 slow them down to kind of smooth it out. Now 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.840 do they slow them down to a crawl? How slow 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.920 do they make them? We're not really sure. But the 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.360 reality is Apple did this. People are just finding out 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.119 about it. People are up in arms about it. They're 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.800 not happy. And here's my advice for Apple, because you know, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.720 I don't think this is a bad thing. On part 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.800 of the iPhone. And it's kind of interesting because if 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.640 you look at the Android world, here's the biggest difference 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.040 I see. When you're on an Android device, you feel 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.320 like you're in control of that device. And that's what 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.480 Android lovers, and that's why a lot of them are 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.080 kind of nerds love about their Android phones is they 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.960 can tweak everything they need to about that device. When 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.800 you're on an Apple device, you can't really tweak very much. Yes, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.720 you can download some apps and pick things up, but 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.560 you can't really you can't even put apps on the 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.760 home screen the way you want to. You know, you 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.400 have to arrange them the way that Apple wants you 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.560 to arrange them. And that's nice and it keeps the 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.360 phone working very nicely. But the reality is, I think 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.640 Apple needed to tell people they were doing this, just 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.960 let them know, and then if they could put the 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.800 option in the settings to say, hey, I don't want 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.120 this done on my phone. I have an older phone. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.160 I'll deal with the peaks and whatever and the automatic shutdowns, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.200 but I don't want to have my phone slowed down. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.279 So that's the difference here, and I think that's the 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.120 mistake they made. We'll see what they do. It's you know, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.920 it's still not the company. Look, it's still a good phone. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.040 The iPhone is still a great phone. It's and they 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.120 do run longer than most of the phones out there, 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.560 So I still think in that aspect, they're pretty darn good. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.680 They last a long time. You know, when you get 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.240 when you're done with your iPhone, you give it to 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.279 someone else. You sell it to a family member, you 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:45.640 give it to a I mean you sell it to 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.880 a friend or you give it to a family member. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.360 I don't really see that happen as much with Android phones. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.400 When those things are done, they're like they're they're toast. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.640 You're not giving those to someone else to use. So Apple, 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.200 interesting little story. Apple seems to not be able to 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.359 catch a break late. They had the home Pod delayed, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.919 They had the mess up on the Mac operating system 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.840 with the hacker issue with the route, they had the 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.120 iOS eleven problems. I mean, just so many. I feel 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.640 like there's a new iOS update all the time. Doesn't 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.640 mean it's over for this company. Look, you got to 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.919 hand it to all these tech companies. They're doing stuff 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.520 in a way now that they never did before, and 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.640 that's making fast iterations on things, and so you have 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.400 to give them credit for that. We're living in a 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.440 new time. This is not the old days where you 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.200 buy a washing machine and it does the same thing 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.080 for ten years. This is a phone that constantly changes, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.880 and that's what we're dealing with. So phone lines are 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.400 open three one zero five nine four three zero zero 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.159 three three one zero five nine four three zero zero three. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.240 You want to talk about tech, you want to talk 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.039 about your iPhone slowing down, tell me what you're getting 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.279 for Christmas, whatever you want, or you can chat on 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.640 if you're watching on Facebook Live, just go ahead and 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.279 chat me up and I will tell you. Jill says 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.400 on Facebook Live, I just got a new computer. It 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.000 already says my one drive is full. Am I supposed 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.360 to update it and add more storage? Well, Jill, it 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.360 sort of depends on what you have in your one 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.960 drive already. So if you're signing in on a Windows machine, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.480 it's probably carrying over everything from your other device. So 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.560 it really depends on how much you have in that 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.160 one drive and how much you want to pay for storage. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.400 So let's see what the one drive pricing plans are. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.320 So I think it's like ten dollars for a terabyte. Yeah, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.880 so let's see one drive plans. Let's see here we go. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.600 One hundred dollars for the year gives you five gigabytes 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:42.080 five terabytes total. So or you can pay seventy dollars 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.560 for the year and get one terabyte. Or you can 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.680 pay fifty gigs and pay for two dollars a month. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.280 So I say go with the fifty gigs for two 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.960 dollars a month and see if you need more than that. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.280 All right, nine o nine, you're on with Rich? 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.279 Hey, Rich, I am watching your show right now, and 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.240 I had a quick question. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.320 Sure who speaking with the Holidays? 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:02.520 My name is Vince. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.360 Vince Yeah, okay, cool, what's up? 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:07.960 Awesome? 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.040 So I am getting the Apple air Pods for Christmas, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.440 and I really have been reading the reviews online that 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.640 you know it's at, you know, being Apple's first venture 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.040 and the wireless headphones and so forth and so on, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.040 and I wanted to know your take on the Apple AirPods. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:27.679 Apple AirPods are the best, the best headphones I've ever used. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.840 So I hope that answers your question. They are amazing. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:32.520 Did you are you a runner at all? What are 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:33.280 you gonna use these for. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.960 Basically, I just don't want to carry my phone around 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.160 and I'm basically going to stream music from my watch. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.280 Well I'm out and about just kind of just trying 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:44.160 to ditch the phone. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.880 Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely amazing. They are. They are 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.560 my favorite gadget of all time when it comes to 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.360 these headphones. So there's two that I like, and one 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.280 of them is the air pods. And what I love 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.720 about the AirPods is number one, they work with both 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.720 iPhones and Android devices, so you don't have to use 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.560 them just with the iPhone. They work equally well with Android. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.760 On iPhone. You get some benefits like they pair up 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.240 to your phone really fast, you can put them in 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.239 your ears, you can take them out, they will pause 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.560 the music on your phone. You can summon Siri from 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.720 them as well. So there's a lot of things that 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.520 they do when they're connected to an iPhone. But they 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.760 also work really well with Android, which is really nice 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.960 and most people don't talk about that. They don't fall 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.720 out of my ears, so I love that aspect. The 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.080 battery lasts so long on these things, I really don't 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.520 even think about charging them ever because it always just 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.959 seems to work and so every time, and if you 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.720 do need to charge them, they will charge up really fast. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.600 So I mean, I literally if I need to go 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.680 out on like a run, I'll just put them on 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.080 the charger for a couple of minutes. So I mean 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.959 they're really really good little devices. Is there anything specific 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.920 that you were wondering, like anything you read in reviews 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.640 that you were worried about. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.960 Yeah, I actually you just brought it up when you 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.040 said they don't fall out of your ears. That's the 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.000 thing I was worried about, Like am I going to 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.400 be running or am I going to be somewhere and 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.240 they just fall out? And if they do, ever do 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.959 is there's like a like a I don't know how, 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.320 like string or something that you suggest that they're that 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.680 they make that holds them together so they don't fall out. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:14.120 So I. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.880 I mean, I've run many many miles in mine and 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.800 I've never even thought about them falling out. And if 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.920 they do fall out, the one thing that's good is 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.880 that your music will pause, so you'll you'll have like 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.320 an audio queue that something happened. But I've never even 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.319 I've never even had like a thought that they might 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.640 fall out. They're that secure in your ears. Now, I'm 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.640 sure you can look online and they might have like 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.199 little rubber tips you can put on them, like maybe 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.240 that that go around the tops of these things that 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.319 will keep them in your ear even more. I don't 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.960 think you need them. I don't think you need the string. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.840 I really think you're going to be just fine with 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.240 these things, because I was very skeptical because every single 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.760 pair of headphones that I get, they fall out of 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.440 my ears. No, no headphones ever stay in my ears. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.440 And I put these things in at the Apple event 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.360 back when they came out. God, it's going on like 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.320 two years ago, I feel like now, or maybe this 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.760 was last year, but they just stayed in and I 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.959 moved my head around and it was fine. So I 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.040 think you're gonna love these things. I really I want 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.840 to get my wife a pair, but they've been out 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.920 of stock. Now they're back in stock. But I've really 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.280 just been talking up the praise on these things. So 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.839 I hope that helps answer your question, does it, Vince? 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.640 It sure does? And thank you for your advice, Richie. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.440 All right, good good luck, and send a tweet with 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.480 a picture of you with these headphones on. All right, Vince, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.719 take care, thanks for calling. I appreciate it, all right. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.360 Phone number is three one zero five nine four three 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.959 zero zero three three one zero five nine four three 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.120 zero zero three. So you know, it's so funny this 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.320 whole uh, this whole Skype thing. They are, yeah, they 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.200 I always tell you, guys the problems I have with 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:54.400 this podcast, but so they change Skype and literally I'm like, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.760 for the life of me, cannot figure out how to 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.160 turn off all these like while you guys, you guys 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.760 keep calling in, and the problem is when you're calling in, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.320 I get like a thousand notifications while I'm on the 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.000 phone with the caller. And it doesn't make sense to 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.000 me that that Skype while you're on the phone with 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.600 someone would literally give you one hundred and fifty notifications 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.640 with all these different sounds and stuff of people calling. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.920 So Skype, come on, figure this out. Please. People want 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.200 to do a radio show with Skype? All right? Six 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.000 three zero You are on with Rich six three zero. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:24.800 Who am I speaking with? 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.200 How you doing Rich? This is Giuseppe from Chicago. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.640 Giuseppe and Chicago. How you doing. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:34.680 Good? How are you good? 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.319 I'm doing great? Are you ready for the holidays? Or 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:42.319 what I think. I think I am very good. Okay, well, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:43.640 you've got. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.120 Enough electronics and more than that, I can imagine that 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.360 I really want that I can't get yet, but I will. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.720 Okay, that's the way I feel. Sometimes we all do. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.679 So what's on your mind? What can I help you with? 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:56.600 All right? 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.640 So my question is on the Google Hole, yes, and 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.080 Google Mini. So I've had the Google Home for since 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.199 it pretty much came out, and uh, I love it. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.600 And then I started adding, uh, you know, the smart 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.640 plugs and everything, and then and that's after I got 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:19.160 the Google Mini. But I've noticed that the Google Home 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:26.760 has a problem a talking to the smart plugs, like 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.320 I have the Smart. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.440 Life okay plug. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:34.360 Yeah, So if I tell say, I say, okay, Google, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.880 turn on the Christmas tree. I on my Google Home. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.520 I can't do that. I have to I have to 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.520 go into Google Home like this. I have to say, okay, 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.400 Google talk to smart Life and then smart Life comes 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:48.800 on and says what would you like to do? And 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.040 if I turn on the Christmas tree by that time, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.360 I could go over there and hit the switch. But 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.080 my Google Mini, which is my master bedroom, I could 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.880 tell it automatically, you know, Okay, Google, turn out my 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.960 my my Christmas tree, and it'll do it right away. Well, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.280 I don't know if if it's just something that because 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.480 Google Home is a little older. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.760 And it doesn't have that absolutely no, no, no, I 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.920 mean I'm I use mine for my Christmas tree every day. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.080 I think it sounds like there's something that's not set 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.760 up properly because okay, so you're saying you can say 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.480 the exact same thing to the mini and it will 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.120 turn on the Christmas tree, and you can say that 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.679 exact same thing to the other one and it won't. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.679 Yeah. And I was driving my wife nuts one day 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.120 because I kept trying it. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:38.359 Oh yeah, my wife is always Google. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.040 Yeah, She's like, get up and do it. I'm like, no, 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.040 this is why I got this thing. But I don't know. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.760 I don't know if it's because Google Home is a 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.320 little older and it's an older version. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.200 No, absolutely no, I'm thinking of that. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:50.520 No. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.000 Have you so you've have you been in the app? 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.280 And have you have you been inside the Google Home 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.080 app on your phone and have you looked at all 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:58.839 the settings in there? 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:00.200 Yeah? 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.679 Because of what I noticed yesterday, I noticed that all 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.760 my settings were reset inside my app because I was 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.840 having some trouble with one of my devices and I 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.480 noticed that everything had gotten reset, and I was like, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.280 that's weird because I didn't do anything differently, So maybe 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.120 your setting's got reset. But I would go in and 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.040 kind of look through everything and see or maybe just 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.000 kind of refresh the Google Home and just start fresh 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.160 with it and see if it kind of picks up 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.960 everything once again. But it should absolutely be able to 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.400 do that command, and the same command should work across 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.720 both of them. There's no different software. Believe me, these 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.400 things are almost one hundred percent software based at this point, 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.800 so they're getting the same. I mean, yeah, they don't 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.760 have different capabilities based on the Home, the Mini or 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.000 the Home. So but yeah, I've got all that stuff 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.280 set up. I love it. I mean I've got my 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.520 Christmas tree, I've got my lights outside inside, I got 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.720 the smart plugs, I've got the lights. And the best 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.040 thing I was telling this story to my friends at 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.280 work today, the best thing that ever happened was I 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.200 was in my office right here when you see me 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.920 on the Facebook, and I was testing something for Halloween 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.080 where you can say, okay, Google, get spooky or something 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.800 like that. And I thought it would just like change 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.040 the stuff in my office. Well, it was changing everything 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.000 throughout the entire house. So my wife comes running in. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.640 She's like, what are you doing? Everything is messing up 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.760 and I was like, oh, whoops. So these these smartphone 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.720 things are really fun for some reason. We really like 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.320 love it. We love to play with these things. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.800 Yeah, I'm love it where it's going And. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.000 Yeah, have you checked out the Max that's the one 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.040 I was playing with today. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:33.760 Oh? 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:35.560 Max, not yet. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.040 So that's like the Giant. That's the giant Google Home one. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:40.880 And this thing. I had it at the office today. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.880 I was doing a segment with it and it is 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.080 so loud that I mean, that thing is unbelievable. So 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.760 it's four hundred dollars. It's way way expensive compared to 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.240 the Mini. Is like pretty awesome for like thirty bucks, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.800 forty bucks whatever they charge now. Yeah, but Max is, uh. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.200 You really need the speaker than okay, maybe the Max, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.480 but I mean the Google Home is a pretty good 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.400 speaker of the many you know esause she putting it 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:04.680 in every room in the house. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.480 Yeah, I agree. I think I think the speakers on 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.840 these things are awesome, even though they're they're pretty small, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.520 and the MAX just takes it to a next level. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.600 I have a so no speaker that's pretty loud, so 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.200 I use that most of the time for my music, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.200 so I don't necessarily need to get the MAX just yet. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.360 But we'll see, we'll see. Schoogles slowly converted me. All right, Jeppe, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.120 thanks so much for calling in from Chicago. How cold 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:24.760 is it over there? 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.120 Only forty degrees today. We've been having a pretty good one. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:36.720 Okay yet, oh well we expected Okay, all right, we'll 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.520 have a great day and have a merry Christmas. Okay, okay, 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.600 bye bye. All right, there you have it. Uh oh sorry, 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.960 I am so sorry. Oh I just got Amy on 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.880 the live stream is saying, oh my god, my Mini 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.400 is hearing you say the words. So I'm so sorry. Uh, 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.080 I know it's I it's one of these things where, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.320 uh you know. That's why I don't really try to 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.120 say this stuff on TV or on the air, because 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.159 if you say these code words, basically, the problem is 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.199 that they all these things go crazy, they all go nuts. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.000 So I don't say the word the a word I 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:17.240 call it, which is I don't want to say. It's 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.320 like the Amazon One, you know. And then the the 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.639 B word, which is a R. I'm sorry, the A 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.600 word and the B word. Sorry, I'm trying to figure 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.800 out these notifications on my computer, so I'm a bit distracted. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.480 But the A word, which is you know, A L 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.359 E X A, or the G word which is g O. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.159 You know, okay, g O O G L E. All right, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.320 let me talk about something else I think is really interesting. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.800 And I feel like this is something that I predicted 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.840 in my mind a while back. But GM turning a 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:50.560 million cars into basically rolling podcasts destinations. I guess they're 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.040 saying it on the USA today. So you know, these 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.399 new General Motors cars have a infotainment system with a 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.720 four G L T E connection, right, And so now 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.080 what they did was they have eight news and entertainment 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:09.200 companies like Fox Sports, USA Today, New York Times, Wall 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.680 Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, People Magazine, and Dash Radio. 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:18.160 And now you can download an icon for those services 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.719 right onto your home screen on your GM car. And 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.400 what does this mean? Well, that means you get one 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.760 click access to that audio. And you're like, okay, well 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.400 big deal, Rich, I can do that with my phone. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.800 I can get any audio I want. But here's the difference, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.680 and this is what's kind of crazy, is that this 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.200 is coming right to your dashboard. So I'm talking. Imagine 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.119 if there was a one touch button for rich on 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.200 Tech and you get in your car in the morning 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:44.840 and you just tap that and next thing you know, 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.360 it's streaming this podcast twenty four to seven and you're 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.959 always hearing the latest tech news. That's pretty cool, now, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.240 I get it. You can already do that with your phone. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.000 But this is kind of cutting out the middleman. And 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.119 this is what's really interesting when you think about radio stations, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.159 how they have the broadcast territory in a market or 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.000 like serious you know fifteen one hundred and fifty different stations. Well, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.320