Speaker 1: iPhone eleven, iPhone eleven Pro, Apple Watch series, five new iPads,
Speaker 1: and much more. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
Speaker 1: the stuff I think you should know about happening in
Speaker 1: the tech world. It's also where I answer the questions
Speaker 1: that you send me. And this is a special edition
Speaker 1: of the show because it is all about Apple. So
Speaker 1: if you're a Samsung or an Android person, you might
Speaker 1: not be the happiest listening to this show. But you
Speaker 1: know what, don't tune out just yet, because don't you
Speaker 1: think it's good to hear the other side? Why not? Megan?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Producer Megan is here with me.
Speaker 1: We are in Coopertino or just on the outskirts of Pepatino. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're technically in Santa Clara, Yes, which is
Speaker 1: a nice area.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: No Coopertino. But this was Megan's first Apple event and
Speaker 1: we just got out of the Apple event. Happen happened
Speaker 1: at Apple Park in Cupertino, and this was the big
Speaker 1: September event, the iPhone event, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: But what was your impression of the event, because I've
Speaker 1: been going to these things for many years now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so funny. I guess Siri just activated it
Speaker 1: said hey Siri. But this was Megan's first Okay, I
Speaker 1: won't say Hey Siri again.
Speaker 2: I thought that it was so unique in every way.
Speaker 2: I had no idea what to expect, but I genuinely
Speaker 2: felt like I was walking around and it was like
Speaker 2: an alternate universe of just like Apple Love, Like it
Speaker 2: was on a totally different scale than what I was expecting.
Speaker 2: And we've gone to I've been to some other events,
Speaker 2: I mean, nothing like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is and that's how the engineer it. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: this is the Apple This is the Apple world. Is
Speaker 1: that when you step into the Apple world, it is
Speaker 1: an alternate reality. And it's not in a bad way,
Speaker 1: but it is. It's it's almost like suspension of disbelief.
Speaker 1: It's what Steve Jobs they called the reality distortion field.
Speaker 1: It's like you may not think about the rest of
Speaker 1: the world when you're in an Apple world. And that
Speaker 1: deals with a lot of stuff, you know, whether it
Speaker 1: comes to their computers, like I'm using a MacBook Pro
Speaker 1: and I can't plug in certain things like a bigger
Speaker 1: USB or a SD card, because you're living in Apple's world.
Speaker 1: It's what Apple wants you to have. And so that's
Speaker 1: a good thing and a bad thing because the good
Speaker 1: side of that is that their products work in a
Speaker 1: certain way, and they usually work pretty well. The bad
Speaker 1: side is that they're not very open to other stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, when you think about Android versus iOS,
Speaker 1: Android is kind of very open. iOS is a little
Speaker 1: bit more closed, but it has some benefits to that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the campus is beautiful. It's like Disneyland. It
Speaker 1: really is.
Speaker 2: It really is. Yeah, it's so modern and.
Speaker 1: Just brand new. It's like two years old. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: the Steve Jobs Theater is this great place that they
Speaker 1: built to do the events at and I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe they use it for other stuff like internal training
Speaker 1: or whatever, but it's the place. It's this giant circular
Speaker 1: theater that has this outside and upstairs all enclosed in glass,
Speaker 1: and you walk downstairs into this great theater, which by
Speaker 1: the way, has like first class leather seats, power in
Speaker 1: each seat. And I didn't get to go on Yeah,
Speaker 1: you didn't get to go inside to that part, but
Speaker 1: you did get to go in the hands on which
Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing. People want to go to
Speaker 1: this event because yes, you can watch it on YouTube,
Speaker 1: and this was the first year that they live streamed
Speaker 1: it on YouTube. But it's different being there. Being there,
Speaker 1: you get to see how Apple does things, and I
Speaker 1: think how Apple does stuff is indicative of why their
Speaker 1: products are so successful. Because we've gone to a lot
Speaker 1: of these other events. I'm not gonna name names, but
Speaker 1: things are not as buttoned up as they are at
Speaker 1: an Apple event. It's just the way it is, like
Speaker 1: Apple does it best and other companies try to emulate it. Sonya.
Speaker 1: With all that said, we're gonna do the show a
Speaker 1: little bit differently. I'm going to talk about some of
Speaker 1: the products that they announced and give you my thoughts
Speaker 1: on those and whether you need to upgrade or think
Speaker 1: about upgrade or whatever. And then Megan is going to
Speaker 1: be looking at my Facebook page where I had people
Speaker 1: submit the questions that they want answered about these devices.
Speaker 1: So I have no idea what people wrote on there,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna surprise me hopefully I have some answers.
Speaker 1: But let me just start with the main event, which is,
Speaker 1: let's just start with the iPad or sorry, the iPath
Speaker 1: let's just start with the iPhone. So the iPhone eleven
Speaker 1: Pro is the top of the line model. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: I guess you could argue the iPhone eleven Pro Max
Speaker 1: because that has a bigger screen. But these two devices
Speaker 1: are the top of the line phones. They look exactly
Speaker 1: like the iPhone TENNS and tens Max, except they have
Speaker 1: a better screen. It's Apple's like highest resolution screen ever,
Speaker 1: also the highest quality screen. The big feature that you're
Speaker 1: going to hear the most about is a triple camera.
Speaker 1: So you have now a standard camera, then you have
Speaker 1: a zoom camera, which like a telephoto, which we've had before.
Speaker 1: But the big new lens is the Ultra wide, which
Speaker 1: is really cool in certain circumstances. I don't think that
Speaker 1: you need it on a daily basis, but it is
Speaker 1: kind of a fun thing to have in your pocket
Speaker 1: to take pictures of geography, of scenery, and just in general.
Speaker 1: Like it's just a cool, very very cool looking shot.
Speaker 1: So that's the main thing. Now when it comes to
Speaker 1: the camera, I don't see a huge improvement over kind
Speaker 1: of the cameras from before. I think that they're the
Speaker 1: quality of the pictures is the same. They do say
Speaker 1: that they made some improvements to low light photography with
Speaker 1: something they call night Mode, which is automatically triggered when
Speaker 1: you're in a low light situation. I saw some nightmode pictures.
Speaker 1: I did not think they were like that impressive. It
Speaker 1: looked like someone had turned up the brightness a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see in real life. If they're not
Speaker 1: gonna be pixel quality, I can guarantee you that. But
Speaker 1: then again, nobody has been able to do well. They're
Speaker 1: not going to be. Oh they're not, definitely not. Let's
Speaker 1: see what else it's got. This new A thirteen bionic chip,
Speaker 1: which obviously the chips in these phones are just amazing,
Speaker 1: they really are, and the A thirteen bionic. My favorite
Speaker 1: part of the whole presentation was when the Apple Engine
Speaker 1: You're Gone on stage and he started describing how these
Speaker 1: new chips only fire inside the part of the chip
Speaker 1: that needs to power what the phone is trying to do.
Speaker 1: So if you're making a phone call, the chip isn't
Speaker 1: running like full power, it's just using like a tiny
Speaker 1: little portion of its power to like run the phone dialer.
Speaker 1: But if you're processing like a four K video and
Speaker 1: ripping through and trying to encode that it's going to
Speaker 1: be using more power. And for that reason, they have
Speaker 1: gotten an extra four hours of battery life out of
Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven Pro and extra five hours of battery
Speaker 1: life out of the iPhone Pro Max. Now, I've never
Speaker 1: really had a problem with battery life on my iPhone,
Speaker 1: but five extra hours is kind of impressive. Four to
Speaker 1: five that's a lot, let's see. So they have a
Speaker 1: five point eight inch screen and a six point five
Speaker 1: inch screen. They also have a new matt finish on
Speaker 1: the back. These phones are getting a little bit tricky
Speaker 1: with the lenses because like it's not the best looking
Speaker 1: phone on the back because the lenses are kind of
Speaker 1: big and bulky. But whatever, I mean, you have a
Speaker 1: case on it. It doesn't even matter. And that's about it.
Speaker 1: So it's nine to ninety nine for the model, and
Speaker 1: I believe that's for sixty four gigs, which is really
Speaker 1: sad if that's true.
Speaker 2: Wait, nine ninety nine for the base model. So the
Speaker 2: eleven the.
Speaker 1: Eleven Pro got it. So I say base model of
Speaker 1: the eleven Pro got it, So that's nine ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I think they that that's the price for that one,
Speaker 1: and then the other one is ten ninety nine for
Speaker 1: the i iPad iPhone eleven Pro Max with the six
Speaker 1: point five in screen. And I believe again that that's
Speaker 1: also for a sixty four gig phone, which is not
Speaker 1: a lot. You don't you don't want to get a
Speaker 1: sixty four gigabyte phone, really not at this point, because
Speaker 1: if you're taking videos, it's gonna it's gonna really get
Speaker 1: through that sixty four gigs fast. Now, the only reason
Speaker 1: I'd say you'll be fine is because iCloud has gotten
Speaker 1: so good at sort of offloading your pictures, so you
Speaker 1: probably you might be okay for that. So do they
Speaker 1: say how much?
Speaker 2: Let's see here?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so let's get into the first question. Okay,
Speaker 1: since you have gone to Facebook dot com, slash rich
Speaker 1: on tech and I ask people what do they want
Speaker 1: to know about apples announcement? Didn't just limit it to iPhone?
Speaker 1: So go ahead, okay.
Speaker 2: So this first question comes from Robert. He says, he asks,
Speaker 2: is this a good year to upgrade my iPhone ten?
Speaker 2: Or should I wait till twenty twenty? The facts look
Speaker 2: really good on the pro version, but I have read
Speaker 2: that they are recommending folks to wait till next year.
Speaker 1: Who's they? I want to know who is?
Speaker 2: People say that they reckon It's.
Speaker 1: Always like this. They you know, they say coffee's bad
Speaker 1: for you, they say red wine is good for you.
Speaker 1: They say walking is good for you. Like, Who's they?
Speaker 1: I would say it really depends, And I think people
Speaker 1: are putting it in a tough place with these Apple
Speaker 1: upgrades because you're paying your phone and a lot of
Speaker 1: people do by the month, So you're paying off your
Speaker 1: phone and then this new one comes along, you want
Speaker 1: to get the new one. So is the ten to
Speaker 1: the eleven pro going to be a huge improvement? It
Speaker 1: really depends what you want out of your phone. I
Speaker 1: think that the improved wide angle lens is a really
Speaker 1: cool tool to have. I don't think it's a necessity.
Speaker 1: We've lived without a while angle for so long that
Speaker 1: do you really need that. The battery life is a
Speaker 1: non starter. I mean it's cool, but like I don't
Speaker 1: have I use my phone a lot, and I've never
Speaker 1: really run into a situation where I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I am totally out of battery and I have no
Speaker 1: way to charge this thing anytime soon. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really happen. I mean, you bring an extra battery with you,
Speaker 1: you can plug in. If you drive your car for
Speaker 1: twenty you have a very short commute. But you know,
Speaker 1: I have a decent commute. You know, sometimes you can
Speaker 1: be in the car for forty minutes and so my
Speaker 1: phone is going to recharge in that time most of
Speaker 1: the time. So it really depends. The other thing is
Speaker 1: the processor from the ten to the eleven pro or
Speaker 1: the eleven. Yeah, the eleven pro the process is going
Speaker 1: to be faster, but I think it's not. Again, it
Speaker 1: depends what you're doing. You're if you're telling me Robert
Speaker 1: that you're doing four K videos and you're editing on
Speaker 1: Adobe and you're producing stuff every day for social media, yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd say to upgrade. But if you're just using your
Speaker 1: phone to take regular pictures and you're kind of doing
Speaker 1: you know, Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and email, do
Speaker 1: you really need to upgrade? Probably not. You could probably
Speaker 1: wait until the next phone. And don't forget. The next
Speaker 1: phone's probably gonna have five G it's probably gonna have
Speaker 1: you know, that fingerprint reader again. Yeah, So it's kind
Speaker 1: of one of those things where you have to decide
Speaker 1: are you ready to plunk down this money for a
Speaker 1: phone that in a year there's gonna be a phone
Speaker 1: that we do think is going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more advanced than this device, right, with some new
Speaker 1: features including five G. Right, and that's a feature that
Speaker 1: I think people want to jump on at that time,
Speaker 1: because in a year, five G networks are going to
Speaker 1: be much more substantial than they are right now, and
Speaker 1: then you've got a five G phone to ride on
Speaker 1: top of it. It's gonna be pretty good, all right,
Speaker 1: So good question to start off. I'll let you look
Speaker 1: at some questions while I talk about the next iPhone
Speaker 1: that they announced, which is the iPhone eleven. And the
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven is the new iPhone ten R if you
Speaker 1: remember that phone that's sort of the entry level phone.
Speaker 1: They're still going to sell the ten R apparently, and
Speaker 1: I think that got a lower price. My favorite way
Speaker 1: of taking notes in these Apple events is actually just
Speaker 1: to take a lot of pictures. So that's really that's
Speaker 1: really how I do it. Let me look at the
Speaker 1: full lineup of the Apple the iPhones and tell you
Speaker 1: how much this is going to be. Because they always
Speaker 1: do these slides where they show off. Okay, so here's
Speaker 1: the whole Apple family. The iPhone eight is gonna be
Speaker 1: four forty nine. iPhone ten are they're still selling, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be five ninety nine. iPhone eleven is six
Speaker 1: ninety nine, then nine ninety nine, then ten ninety nine. Personally,
Speaker 1: I would not save the one hundred dollars and go
Speaker 1: with the iPhone ten R over the eleven. Just go
Speaker 1: with the eleven. Let me tell you why. So. The
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven has the newest processor, which is the A
Speaker 1: thirteen Bionic. It is six hundred and ninety nine dollars,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much the identical camera setup, except only
Speaker 1: has two lenses instead of three, but you can still
Speaker 1: do the same three types of shots. You can still
Speaker 1: do a zoom in shot, you can still do your
Speaker 1: standard shot, and you can still do an ultra wide shot,
Speaker 1: so you really don't miss anything. The biggest difference between
Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven and the iPhone eleven Pro is the
Speaker 1: battery life. You only get an extra hour out of
Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven, which you're gonna be fine with that,
Speaker 1: and you also get an LCD screen versus an OLED screen,
Speaker 1: so an LCD screen is just not the best screen
Speaker 1: quality at this point. It's kind of what we've known
Speaker 1: forever old is really the best screen quality gives you
Speaker 1: the best colors, the most vibrant screen, the deepest blacks.
Speaker 1: But to most people that's not really an issue. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't matter, especially if you're not looking at your
Speaker 1: phones next to each other. Unless you're comparing to your
Speaker 1: friend's phone who has an OLEAD, you're not going to
Speaker 1: notice the difference. So to me, I think that the
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven at six ninety nine's are really compelling iPhone
Speaker 1: yeah for that price. And by the way, last year
Speaker 1: when this when the similar phone came out, the ten R,
Speaker 1: it was seven forty nine, so they actually dropped the
Speaker 1: price by fifty dollars for this device theoretically mm hm.
Speaker 1: And it's got better technology, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: An iPhone eight you said, was.
Speaker 1: Four four forty nine, which.
Speaker 2: They're pretty close in price.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are gonna be tempted by the
Speaker 1: iPhone eight at four forty nine, but I will tell
Speaker 1: tell you the camera, if you're gonna do the iPhone
Speaker 1: eight for four forty nine, please just go with the
Speaker 1: ten R at five ninety nine because the camera jump
Speaker 1: from the eight to the ten R is huge. The
Speaker 1: eight you have the eight, Yeah, I have the eight.
Speaker 1: I will tell you I watched Lindsay because she went
Speaker 1: from the eight to the ten ten R and the
Speaker 1: camera is night and day. It's really different. Like even
Speaker 1: from the ten to the ten S is really a
Speaker 1: big camera proven. So the way I see it is
Speaker 1: the ten S is like the standard, Like basically that's
Speaker 1: the camera we have now inside the eleven and the
Speaker 1: eleven pro the quality of the pictures. I don't think
Speaker 1: they improve the quality of the pictures just yet. Now.
Speaker 1: Apple teased that they will be improving the quality of
Speaker 1: the pictures soon with a software update. They didn't really
Speaker 1: say when, but they're gonna do more computational photography to
Speaker 1: make the pictures look better. Wow, so that would be
Speaker 1: a software update, but who knows when and how much
Speaker 1: better we don't know. I still don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to match the pixel that's my that's my bottom line
Speaker 1: with everything. The iPhone eleven is gonna come in six
Speaker 1: new colors, including purple, green, yellow, black, white, and red,
Speaker 1: and again it pretty much has the same features. Let
Speaker 1: me talk about two features I thought were kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So these phones are all about the cameras. And one
Speaker 1: of the things I've noticed is that Instagram is huge,
Speaker 1: Instagram Stories especially, So what I've noticed I was taking
Speaker 1: pictures two different ways when I was in the keynote.
Speaker 1: I would take them vertically and I would switch my
Speaker 1: phone over and take them horizontally, because horizontal is good
Speaker 1: for everything, but vertically is good for Instagram. And the
Speaker 1: other thing I noticed is when I'm taking a picture,
Speaker 1: sometimes I want to take a little video to put
Speaker 1: on Instagram Stories, and you can't necessarily do that easily
Speaker 1: because you had a swap between like video photo video photo. Well,
Speaker 1: now on the new iPhones, you just hold down you
Speaker 1: take a picture, snap, snap, Snap, But then you hold
Speaker 1: down the button, the shutter button, and now it takes
Speaker 1: a video and if you slide it to the right,
Speaker 1: it locks into video. So you can just go hands
Speaker 1: free and kind of move your phone around. And then
Speaker 1: if you slide it to the left, that's where you
Speaker 1: get your burst mode. So they haven't gotten rid of
Speaker 1: B but you no longer hold it down for that.
Speaker 1: That's a brilliant feature. Yeah, that is really cool because
Speaker 1: now you can go from taking a picture to a
Speaker 1: short video clip, which is going to be vertical by
Speaker 1: the way, because you know you're in that up and
Speaker 1: down mode most of the time. Or you can do it,
Speaker 1: you know, horizontally as well. But anyway, that's kind of
Speaker 1: the nutshell of the iPhone eleven, which I think is
Speaker 1: a great phone for most people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So this next question comes from Diane.
Speaker 2: She asks, I'd like to know what the battery life
Speaker 2: is like on the iPhone eleven and is Apple any
Speaker 2: closer to a shatter resistant screen?
Speaker 1: Ooh, interesting, they're not doing a shadow resistant screen, but
Speaker 1: they do say it is the strongest glass they've ever
Speaker 1: had on an iPhone. But to be honest, we've heard
Speaker 1: that over and over and over. Yeah, and if you
Speaker 1: drop it the wrong way, it's still going to shatter.
Speaker 1: It's just the way. It is. So interesting thing I
Speaker 1: learned from a company that repairs glass on the iPhone
Speaker 1: that when you drop your phone and it doesn't shatter,
Speaker 1: or just using your phone day to day and getting
Speaker 1: those little scrap on the screen actually weakens the makeup
Speaker 1: of the glass on your phone. So it's almost like
Speaker 1: every day that you're using your phone, it's kind of
Speaker 1: getting a little bit weaker in a way if it's
Speaker 1: getting jostled around, or if you let's say, you drop
Speaker 1: it on the ground and you pick it up and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my gosh, it didn't break. I dodged
Speaker 1: a bullet. Well, there might be some tiny little imperfections
Speaker 1: in that screen now because you dropped it and kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, broke the cohesiveness of that entire screen. So
Speaker 1: now the next time you drop it, it may be
Speaker 1: more apt to shatter.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it takes time.
Speaker 1: So it could take time. You know. The shatterproof screen
Speaker 1: is a tough thing. I know that there was one
Speaker 1: phone I tested. It was a Motorola that was shatterproof
Speaker 1: and we threw this thing around. I should show you
Speaker 1: the story. It was great. We threw it around. It
Speaker 1: was a fun story. We actually did it on larch
Speaker 1: mop Oh really, and I got out of the car,
Speaker 1: the phone dropped out of my pocket. I threw it around.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic. It was such a It was look
Speaker 1: up Moto shatter proof phone Ktla DeMuro and that should
Speaker 1: bring it up. But it was just such a fun
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the name of the phone was,
Speaker 1: but it was definitely a Motorola and it was shatter proof.
Speaker 1: I mean the thing did not shatter. Now on the
Speaker 1: flip side. Even though it didn't shatter, it still got
Speaker 1: scuffed up the whole phone when you've dropped it, so
Speaker 1: it's like you still had a scuffy phone, but the
Speaker 1: screen just didn't break.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, but Apple does say that they made some
Speaker 1: improvements with the I guess the strength of the phone
Speaker 1: in general. And they also made it matt on the back,
Speaker 1: so it is a matte device, which I guess maybe
Speaker 1: doesn't show as many fingerprints or I guess scratches. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: and what was the other question? The battery life? Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean so battery life. Let's see what the phones
Speaker 1: are rated for for battery life. So iPhone eleven battery
Speaker 1: life rating on that device according to Apple is let's
Speaker 1: see what it says here.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's so funny. I'm watching, sorry, the
Speaker 2: Motorilla story that you did. And you're walking in front
Speaker 2: of a kid's clothing store that I used to work at.
Speaker 2: Now you're holding like a baby, like a fake baby.
Speaker 1: Might I have funny? Maybe you were in that store
Speaker 1: at that time that is really I definitely worked there.
Speaker 1: We asked them if they would give us the baby.
Speaker 1: I remember a guy coming in and asking if we
Speaker 1: could take a baby, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what's funny is that baby particular.
Speaker 2: Like people would come in because they're like, where'd you
Speaker 2: buy this? Like this is a great, real looking bab
Speaker 2: Was it really?
Speaker 1: Well? We did it. We did a little joke where
Speaker 1: I was like holding them. I didn't want to drop
Speaker 1: the baby because I think that would be pretty bad.
Speaker 1: But we did some sort of bit with the baby
Speaker 1: where it was like I was holding the baby and juggling.
Speaker 1: It was when I was like first a dad, like
Speaker 1: this a couple of years ago, and so I was
Speaker 1: like juggling the baby with my phone. I think I
Speaker 1: dropped the phone. But that's really funny. Okay. Video playback
Speaker 1: up to seventeen hours, ten hours streamed, and audio playback
Speaker 1: sixty five hours. It doesn't really say how long it lasts,
Speaker 1: so anyway, to me, it's really tough to say battery
Speaker 1: life because for every person it's so different. I mean,
Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, Like today I was at an
Speaker 1: Apple event all day. My battery was just fine. Now
Speaker 1: did I keep it plugged in while I was doing
Speaker 1: the event, Like, yeah, of course, but it was fine.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about Apple Watch Series five. This is
Speaker 1: the latest apple Watch. And I know, Megan, you have
Speaker 1: wanted an apple Watch for a while. No, is this
Speaker 1: enough to make you get an Apple Watch? At this point,
Speaker 1: I haven't even said what it does. But what you saw,
Speaker 1: were you excited or was it like, oh, okay, that's
Speaker 1: the same as what you know?
Speaker 2: Kind of has you could see the time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the main new feature isn't always on display,
Speaker 1: and that means that you no longer have to raise
Speaker 1: your wrist to activate the watch, to turn on the screen,
Speaker 1: to see what time it is, and to see whatever
Speaker 1: you want to see on it. But my thing about
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch is that that's never really been an issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it always not that I would know.
Speaker 1: Well, I've tested a bunch of these gadgets that sort
Speaker 1: of light up when you raise your wrist, and I've
Speaker 1: always said the Apple Watch is like, so right on
Speaker 1: every time. Now, there are times when your wrist is
Speaker 1: a certain way and you kind of have to and
Speaker 1: you go to move it to look and it doesn't
Speaker 1: come on. You're like ah, and you really have to
Speaker 1: make like a motion for it to you know, like
Speaker 1: a movement is not.
Speaker 2: A dance move I just like definitely like, oh like.
Speaker 1: This like the mockerna. I don't know, but the the
Speaker 1: reality is that's not a feature that's gonna make you
Speaker 1: get a phone or get a watch. I do think
Speaker 1: it's cool, and they're still saying it's got the same
Speaker 1: eighteen hours of battery life. And again, when it comes
Speaker 1: to battery life on the Apple Watch, it's something that
Speaker 1: needs to be charged every night. I know they toew
Speaker 1: eighteen hours, but you're not going a day without charging this.
Speaker 1: And in a lot of cases, the more you're using
Speaker 1: it for fitness, the more it needs to be charged.
Speaker 1: People come up to me and they'll be like, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: you know my Apple Watch last two days. I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you running for like an hour on the treadmill
Speaker 1: because it doesn't last after Well maybe on the treadmill
Speaker 1: it will, but when you're activating that GPS chip inside,
Speaker 1: that's when that's when the battery gets used up.
Speaker 2: More so, so.
Speaker 1: It really depends, you know. I feel like battery life
Speaker 1: is so personal that you can't just say like, oh,
Speaker 1: this has a lot about it. Yes, if something goes
Speaker 1: two weeks without needing to be charged, that's fine. But
Speaker 1: it's something like an Apple watch that's eighteen hours. If
Speaker 1: it's eighteen, nineteen or twelve, it's kind of all the same.
Speaker 2: But if you're sitting there all day playing with it,
Speaker 2: it's gonna die faster.
Speaker 1: What are you going to be doing on it?
Speaker 2: No, but I'm just saying there's such a range, like
Speaker 2: you were saying, there's a range of like usage, of course.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's kind of like the main
Speaker 1: thing with this is that eighteen hours is just fine.
Speaker 1: They let's see what are some of the new features.
Speaker 1: So they said, okay, always on display is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So it's got two kind of displays. The first is
Speaker 1: it's just always on in a dimmer fashion, So if
Speaker 1: your phone is just resting on the table, you look
Speaker 1: at it without moving anything, you can still see whatever's
Speaker 1: on your screen. Then if you move it, your screen
Speaker 1: brightens and kind of some more of it is filled in,
Speaker 1: like maybe like let's say the screen I saw had
Speaker 1: outlines for letters, and then when I raised my wrist,
Speaker 1: the letters filled in with white. So it's like brighter
Speaker 1: and boulder the other feature is a compass, which I
Speaker 1: don't even realize. The Apple Watch didn't have a compass
Speaker 1: in it, and I don't really need a compass for anything.
Speaker 1: I'm not like a very outdoorsy person, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even know how to use a compass, but you.
Speaker 2: Would obviously need a GPS in your.
Speaker 1: GPS is great because you can It tracks you very
Speaker 1: accurately to where you are and where you go, so
Speaker 1: when you're doing physical activity outside like a hike or
Speaker 1: biking or anything, GPS helps to get those stats much
Speaker 1: more accurate than non GPS, and having GPS on board
Speaker 1: is really cool, especially for location and things. The other
Speaker 1: thing that it does is it can now complete international
Speaker 1: calls to emergency services on the cellular model even if
Speaker 1: the plan has not been activated, which is kind of complicated,
Speaker 1: but the bottom line is that if you have a
Speaker 1: cellular model, you didn't activate the cellular which why would
Speaker 1: you buy the cellular if you're not going to pay
Speaker 1: for the cellular plan. Maybe I don't know, maybe some
Speaker 1: people do that. But if you're traveling in Japan and
Speaker 1: there's an emergency, you can still press and hold the
Speaker 1: side button and it would dial the current emergency or
Speaker 1: the proper emergency number fear location. That's cool, which is
Speaker 1: actually great. Yeah, but it's one of those things that
Speaker 1: you would expect it to do because you have a
Speaker 1: cellular watch, and I mean, I guess if your plan's
Speaker 1: not activated, you would not expect it to do that.
Speaker 1: But I didn't realize that random.
Speaker 2: That's it's very like it's like, okay, am I going
Speaker 2: to be in like a.
Speaker 1: Well, it's good to happen. I think that's probably arguably
Speaker 1: the most important time for an emergency service because like,
Speaker 1: if I'm in Italy, I don't really know what the
Speaker 1: emergency service number is. Like I guess back in the day,
Speaker 1: you probably looked it up and kind of said, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Greece. You dial three to one one
Speaker 1: in Greece or whatever it is. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what is it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've never been to Grease.
Speaker 1: Okay, where have you've been to Mexico? And do you
Speaker 1: know the emergency No? Okay, well you should wait.
Speaker 2: Can you do it on your iPhone?
Speaker 1: Yes? You can, So the iPhone does it. You just
Speaker 1: press and hold the side button. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: future called emergency SOS and hold on sorry not pressing
Speaker 1: hold the side button. You have to press and hold
Speaker 1: the side and the volume up and it should bring
Speaker 1: you to emergency SOS and the and then you can
Speaker 1: swipe to to dial.
Speaker 2: It's like I swipe it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't do that. And then once you do that,
Speaker 1: your phone actually lockshift to unlock it. Well, you have
Speaker 1: touch ID, so but on mine, it's face ID. It
Speaker 1: goes back so old school. Oh maybe you still have
Speaker 1: to put your number in It kind of like relocks
Speaker 1: your phone because it thinks like I mean, I hate
Speaker 1: to I mean it gets like very morbid fast. But
Speaker 1: like if you press that and like someone's like give
Speaker 1: me your phone because they're like trying to like kidnap
Speaker 1: you or something. They thought this, yeah it did. It's
Speaker 1: like it doesn't work with face ID because they can't
Speaker 1: be like all right now pull this in front of
Speaker 1: your face. Like it's like no, you got to type
Speaker 1: in your number to make it work like you just did.
Speaker 1: You can't use your fingerprint. I mean, Apple was like, okay,
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to people like on the verge
Speaker 1: of getting murdered like with their phone? But it's wild
Speaker 1: I know, but it's there for a reason.
Speaker 2: Are you sure?
Speaker 1: I'm positive?
Speaker 2: Reason?
Speaker 1: Do it? Do the emergency thing and watch you can't
Speaker 1: unlock your phone with your with your fingerprint anymore, right,
Speaker 1: so activate it? There you go now now can't now
Speaker 1: see it says you must.
Speaker 2: Not recognize your fingerprint.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to put in your pass code and
Speaker 1: you can't use facey. See, these are the little things.
Speaker 1: By the way, I write about these things in my
Speaker 1: book one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone.
Speaker 1: But the new book is coming out all for iOS thirteen,
Speaker 1: and I do talk about the emergency features. That's the
Speaker 1: only reason I know about this stuff because I literally
Speaker 1: sit there like most people are going out, like they're
Speaker 1: going out on a Friday night, you know, they're spending
Speaker 1: time with their kids.
Speaker 2: They're watching TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're watching Netflix.
Speaker 2: They're hanging out their children for one ye right.
Speaker 1: I sit there, be quiet.
Speaker 2: Yes, I gotta write my book.
Speaker 1: I gotta write my book. And I literally just go
Speaker 1: through the iPhone and swipe every which way and like
Speaker 1: look through all the menus and I see, like what
Speaker 1: these little tips and tricks are all to make this book,
Speaker 1: which the new one I haven't finalized the title, but
Speaker 1: it is going to get a slightly newer title. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's still gonna be like a time Well, it's
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's finalized, but it's basically one
Speaker 1: hundred and one tips again but just simpler. So again, No,
Speaker 1: you're still getting one hundred and one tips, but the
Speaker 1: title is going to be simpler. Before it was one
Speaker 1: hundred and one handy tech tips for the iPhone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of a mouthful. This one will be same vein
Speaker 1: just simpler. Yeah, clean, cleaner like Apple, and the whole
Speaker 1: book is cleaner like the just everything from I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get this book.
Speaker 2: Now you're it's just like you make some really great software.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yes, it's going to be a lot better.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Apple Watch let's see, it's got the
Speaker 1: new Watch OS six, which is cool. It's got new
Speaker 1: features including cycle tracking, the noise app, and activity trends.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the activity trends is and cycle
Speaker 1: tracking I can't really speak to. But the noise app
Speaker 1: is really cool. I tried it out today at the event,
Speaker 1: and the noise app will alert you if the noise
Speaker 1: level in the area you're in is kind of like
Speaker 1: too loud and it's going to damage your hearing. So
Speaker 1: for you, all these Z concerts you're going to, it's
Speaker 1: going to be like you're when you get an.
Speaker 2: Apple Watch, you're ruining your ears.
Speaker 1: When you go all in, you're gonna realize.
Speaker 2: Man, Okay, question from me, which Apple Watched? I get
Speaker 2: the four of the five.
Speaker 1: I think you would be perfectly served with the four,
Speaker 1: but I feel like the five has some really cool features.
Speaker 1: What though the always on tracking the four will have
Speaker 1: that the four will have. Oh okay, yeah, the four.
Speaker 1: They've been talking about this cycle tracking for they're talking
Speaker 1: about bicycle right.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, yeah, because I'm a big spinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you love spin class. So but yeah, and apparently
Speaker 1: they're doing some They talked about three new research. This
Speaker 1: a new app. They're coming out with a research app.
Speaker 1: So if you have an Apple Watch, it's called Apple
Speaker 1: Research and you can contribute to these new research studies
Speaker 1: are doing. One is about hearing, one is about cycle tracking.
Speaker 1: One is about heart health, so you can opt in
Speaker 1: and help think about it. When was the last time
Speaker 1: in the world that they had I don't know how
Speaker 1: many Apple watches are out there. But let's say ten
Speaker 1: million people participating in a hearing study where the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch is pinging what people are hearing on a daily
Speaker 1: basis walking around the world and seeing how much noise
Speaker 1: they're subjected to and how that effects are hearing. That's
Speaker 1: kind of amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, could this be a data issue though, of privacy?
Speaker 1: Yes, it is, and Apple says that they will not
Speaker 1: access any information that can personally identify you, which, okay,
Speaker 1: it's true. I mean they're just going to give like
Speaker 1: an anonymous like whatever your data is, they're just going
Speaker 1: to send it anonymously to the cloud.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And if you're doing this in research, like you don't
Speaker 1: really care. You know, you're saying like, I'd rather do
Speaker 1: something for the greater good, and I feel like I
Speaker 1: think that's cool. I think it's really cool. So you
Speaker 1: don't need the built in compass. I mean, are you
Speaker 1: a big compass.
Speaker 2: Person gonna need that compass?
Speaker 1: You use that a lot on your iPhone.
Speaker 2: I already need it right now, like I have.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 2: Four Like, well, but you also what you're not a
Speaker 2: big fan of, like knowing where things are naturally you
Speaker 2: put you will put like the nearest Starbucks into war map.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding? You're the one that you've said so
Speaker 2: many times that you don't even use Like you don't
Speaker 2: you need Google Maps to show you where to go everywhere?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know how I can't get around LA
Speaker 2: without Google Maps.
Speaker 1: I've offloaded my brain to the cloud, okay, and I
Speaker 1: free up my brain for more pressing matters. I don't
Speaker 1: need to navigate Los Angeles. I let Google do that
Speaker 1: for okay. So to me, that's kind of like I'm
Speaker 1: storing a lot of my information in the cloud at
Speaker 1: this point, which is aka Google or anything else that
Speaker 1: can help me along. But yes, so that's what I do.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I was actually at my friend's
Speaker 1: pool the other day and the sun was in the
Speaker 1: sky and I was like, Oh, which way is the
Speaker 1: sun going to go? And he's like, the same way
Speaker 1: it's gone.
Speaker 2: Are you Well?
Speaker 1: I wanted to know like if it was going to
Speaker 1: get more in the pool or less in the pool,
Speaker 1: you know, more of the sun rays and so you know,
Speaker 1: like which way is it going to track the sky?
Speaker 1: And my friend's like, it's going to go the same
Speaker 1: way it's gone for a million years east to west,
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, okay, So anyway, Wow.
Speaker 2: For someone who can occasionally be kind of paranoid, I'm
Speaker 2: surprised you don't want to know where like things are just.
Speaker 1: In case I'd like to know where the closest emergency
Speaker 1: exit is. Yeah, let's see. What else are they gonna
Speaker 1: do with the iPhone or the Apple Watch. They are
Speaker 1: going to have two new finishes, titanium and then also ceramic,
Speaker 1: and then I think aluminum is a standard. So again,
Speaker 1: all these go get more expensive as they go along.
Speaker 1: But I think for the for the average person, I
Speaker 1: probably just need an Apple Watch four at this point. Now,
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch three I believe they're making cheaper. I
Speaker 1: would not do that one because that one does not
Speaker 1: have the feature of fall detection, and so don't go
Speaker 1: with that one. Let me see do they list all
Speaker 1: the Apple Watches again. I'm looking at my notes here
Speaker 1: to see kind of like what Apple Watch they put
Speaker 1: in there? Now? Okay, I can't find out, but anyway,
Speaker 1: I would say with the when it comes to the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: Four or five.
Speaker 1: I'd go with the four or five. Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of my take on that.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I have a quick question from Brian. She says,
Speaker 2: when will iOS thirteen point one point one be available?
Speaker 2: Point one point one thirteen point one?
Speaker 1: Right, Well, she's saying she's I think thirteen. Well, I
Speaker 1: think she's making a joke. She doesn't want to get
Speaker 1: iOS thirteen. She wants the update to iOS thirteen because
Speaker 1: she's skipping the first Like it's like when you make pancakes,
Speaker 1: you ever hear the one the first one you give
Speaker 1: to the dog?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you always throw the first pancake away, because have
Speaker 1: you ever made pancakes?
Speaker 2: My mom always gives me the first pancake?
Speaker 1: No does she? We need to talk to mom mcmonaga.
Speaker 2: This is so sad. Why does your mom keep.
Speaker 1: Every show.
Speaker 2: Mommy?
Speaker 1: Is she? Yeah? She always serves you. I knew it,
Speaker 1: and not your siblings. They always get that. Your brother
Speaker 1: gets you know.
Speaker 2: She's going to get mad at me just for saying
Speaker 2: this on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not true.
Speaker 2: She makes amazing pancakes.
Speaker 1: Anyways, So my grandma always said you put the you
Speaker 1: give the first pancake to the dog. Because I love
Speaker 1: to make pancakes and the first one never comes out
Speaker 1: right because the pan is not properly whatever. So that's
Speaker 1: what she's saying about iOS thirteen, is that iOS thirteen
Speaker 1: like you give to the dogs, like you let you know.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to deal with that because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: wait till thirteen point one comes out and all the
Speaker 1: little bugs are squashed and it's more finalized. So when
Speaker 1: will that happen? They did't even tell us when iOS
Speaker 1: thirteen is coming out. I'm assuming it has to be
Speaker 1: when the iPhone comes out, the new iPhone, which is
Speaker 1: September twentieth, So they didn't really say, let's see do
Speaker 1: they say when I.
Speaker 2: Was September nineteenth? Thursday? September nineteenth, so next week?
Speaker 1: Oh he said that for iOS thirteen.
Speaker 2: Wait, how the hecked? Why is according to tech radar?
Speaker 1: Who is tech radar? Is is that a new Okay?
Speaker 1: They all say September nineteenth. Okay, somehow I missed that. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh Apple pr told them, okay, cool, So oh wow,
Speaker 1: So that's I need to get my book done by
Speaker 1: the nineteenth so I can have it ready to go.
Speaker 2: Can you do it? It's pretty much fast, she can.
Speaker 1: I needed like a week though, after the softworks. I
Speaker 1: want to make sure everything that I wrote from the
Speaker 1: beta is still applicable in the final because things could change.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what else is that it?
Speaker 2: That's the only her only question another question.
Speaker 1: Now let me talk because we have a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff talk about, and I think we're uh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So iPad new iPad, seventh generation iPad, and this is
Speaker 1: the I call this the entry level iPad or kind
Speaker 1: of like the standard iPad. Price is the same three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine dollars. They made a bigger screen,
Speaker 1: so it's now ten point two inches I believe before
Speaker 1: it was like nine point seven So bigger screen, not
Speaker 1: by much, but still a little bit better. And it
Speaker 1: has Apple support Apple pencil support, which it had before,
Speaker 1: but now it has the smart keyboard support. And this
Speaker 1: is the first time that the smart keyboard snaps onto
Speaker 1: the entry level iPad, which is kind of cool. But
Speaker 1: again you're talking three twenty nine. Then you've got Apple pencil,
Speaker 1: which is ano one hundred dollars. Now you're up to
Speaker 1: four twenty nine. And then you've got the keyboard, which
Speaker 1: is I think like one thirty to one fifty, so
Speaker 1: you're up to three four twenty nine hundred dollars. Okay,
Speaker 1: but when you think about it, this can probably replace
Speaker 1: a computer for a lot of people. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't need a standard computer, and iPad in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways is kind of cooler because you go
Speaker 1: from like typing on email to like watching Netflix. You
Speaker 1: just pop off the screen, sit there and watch, which
Speaker 1: is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it weighs nothing, and.
Speaker 1: It weighs nothing, and it's portable. The battery last forever.
Speaker 1: It's a great if I was not creating content for
Speaker 1: like social media and logging stuff for TV iPad all
Speaker 1: the way. I just love the idea of having this
Speaker 1: one device that does everything. Now the keyboard, I was
Speaker 1: typing on it today. It's definitely a little tricky. Okay,
Speaker 1: It's probably like anything else. You get used to it.
Speaker 1: Like I was just on it fresh and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was making a lot of mistakes. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: have the most travel, which means the keys are almost flat,
Speaker 1: and so when you're pressing them, it's not as much.
Speaker 1: You don't feel like an old keyboard you would like
Speaker 1: feel it like this does not do that as much.
Speaker 2: And I know you like that, like, you don't really
Speaker 2: like this keyboard on the MacBook Pro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually, I feel like it's better than my This
Speaker 1: is a I'm on a borrowed MacBook from my work
Speaker 1: right now. It's a fifteen inch mine is a thirteen inch,
Speaker 1: and so the keyboard, I feel like it is definitely
Speaker 1: bigger on here. It's got it. Maybe it's not, but
Speaker 1: it feels bigger. It also feels a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure, okay, and I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: It's not as good as but you missed the old
Speaker 1: key The old keyboard was so great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what that's rich.
Speaker 1: That's like, you know, like this is me showing my
Speaker 1: age saying bt rich that I like the old keyboard
Speaker 1: because it's like the new kids don't even know about
Speaker 1: the old keyboard. Like I remember the old days when
Speaker 1: it was like.
Speaker 2: I still have my like eMac with the big chunky
Speaker 2: key like keyboard, you know, like the keyboard or was.
Speaker 1: This was this a laptop?
Speaker 2: Do you know? Do you know what an eMac is?
Speaker 2: Am I about to school?
Speaker 1: You you mean the iMac like the one that was
Speaker 1: like a cube.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was like it was like al.
Speaker 1: eMac or I'm AC. I thought it was maybe it
Speaker 1: was AMAC. Oh my god, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I have that was my first computer, really old, and
Speaker 2: I watched Princess Diaries on it.
Speaker 1: That's crazy that I don't even remember that, I know,
Speaker 1: but to be honest, that was before I was a
Speaker 1: Mac person. So my first MacBook was a I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: I went into a place called the Good Guys. I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. This was in La. This was an
Speaker 1: electronics place in LA and it's called the Good Guys.
Speaker 2: I believe I only shop at the Bad Guy.
Speaker 1: That's bye, I just kidding, the Good Guys. Uh electronics store. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was electronics store and they That was the first
Speaker 1: I never forgot. I went in to buy a computer
Speaker 1: and I somehow just fell in love with this Mac.
Speaker 1: And I bought a PowerBook G four I think it
Speaker 1: was called, and it was a silver G four.
Speaker 2: Oh I remember this, Oh yeah, this was it. Oh
Speaker 2: I love this last so funny. I think of like
Speaker 2: the people I like, my aunt had one of these
Speaker 2: laptops and I still remember like looking at it and
Speaker 2: I thought it was so cool. And then there was
Speaker 2: like the colorful laptop back in like early two thousands.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot.
Speaker 2: I really wanted that when I was five five, I
Speaker 2: didn't get it.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Now my kids are asking me for a
Speaker 1: computer too, all right, so iPad, let's see what else.
Speaker 1: It's got an A ten fusion chip, so it's got
Speaker 1: a chip that's a couple of years old. But the
Speaker 1: iPad is just fine. I mean, the iPad again, is
Speaker 1: the gold standard of tablets. If you're buying a tablet
Speaker 1: and you're thinking you're going to spend one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars on an Amazon Fire tablet, I hope the
Speaker 1: only thing you're doing on that tablet is watching Netflix
Speaker 1: or Amazon Prime, because everything else is not going to
Speaker 1: be as good. It's a very and I'm not like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make you feel sad if you
Speaker 1: have one of those. It's just it's a very basic
Speaker 1: tablet for surfing, you know, web surfing, whatever. But if
Speaker 1: you want to get anything done on your tablet, iPad
Speaker 1: has the best apps. And I say, I'm like a
Speaker 1: broken record with this, but it's just because I believe
Speaker 1: so much that, like it's a little bit more, but
Speaker 1: you're getting so much more with the ecosystem, you're getting cases,
Speaker 1: you're getting accessories, you're getting the best apps, and it's
Speaker 1: just something that you can't find on these on these
Speaker 1: lower grade Android tablets. So again, iPad three twenty nine,
Speaker 1: I think is a fantastic deal and a great tablet
Speaker 1: at that. So take that.
Speaker 2: Take that. Okay. So Lisa asks, can you compare this
Speaker 2: Samsung Note ten plus to the iPhone pro version?
Speaker 1: Oh I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. By the way, I didn't give him
Speaker 2: any of these questions beforehand.
Speaker 1: So he's okay, So the I think, Okay, So I'll
Speaker 1: be totally honest here. I think when it comes to
Speaker 1: the excitement for a device, I will say that I'm
Speaker 1: more excited about the Note ten personally.
Speaker 2: What yeah, really, But okay.
Speaker 1: It ends at the hardware. I think that some of
Speaker 1: the hardware on the Note is like sexier. It's got
Speaker 1: this bigger screen, it's got the stylists, it's got you
Speaker 1: know this like fast like you know WiFi. I mean,
Speaker 1: nobody cares about that, but it's got it just feels
Speaker 1: like it's like a more futuristic device than the iPhone
Speaker 1: eleven Pro, which feels like the same iPhone we've had,
Speaker 1: but with slightly upgraded insides. It's the same exact thing.
Speaker 1: It looks the same. So with that said, I think
Speaker 1: that it really comes down to the ecosystem and what
Speaker 1: you're getting with the iPhone Pro is I Message, which
Speaker 1: I know I hate to say that it all comes
Speaker 1: down to like I Message, but it is a factor.
Speaker 1: My message is a pretty amazing communication tool. Sad that
Speaker 1: it's relegated just to iPhone. You're getting three lenses, which
Speaker 1: I think are really cool and very creative, but you
Speaker 1: also get that on the note, I think you are
Speaker 1: getting a better processor and a better like, speedier, snappier
Speaker 1: phone that's going to last longer. Like the value of
Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven Pro Max is going to stay higher
Speaker 1: for a longer period of time than the No ten,
Speaker 1: which is going to be you know, it's a thousand bucks,
Speaker 1: but it gets discounted fast, and in a year when
Speaker 1: you go to sell that, it's not gonna be worth
Speaker 1: as much as the iPhone eleven Pro. The iPhone eleven
Speaker 1: Pro also max works with all kinds of other stuff
Speaker 1: as well. Like in the Apple ecosystem, you walk into
Speaker 1: any store in the world and you're able to buy
Speaker 1: a case, you can get it repaired in an Apple store,
Speaker 1: you can get support, all these little things that like
Speaker 1: not you know, you don't necessarily get with the note
Speaker 1: that said. I mean, it really comes down to a
Speaker 1: personal preference. Are you Android or are you iOS? And
Speaker 1: they both come with different things.
Speaker 2: Very deep question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is tough, and I think that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be happy with either one. It depends what you want
Speaker 1: to do with your phone as well, Like if you're
Speaker 1: truly into content creation, I think that the iPhone eleven
Speaker 1: Pro Max is probably a better choice. If you are
Speaker 1: just using your phone on a business purpose, like if
Speaker 1: you want to do spreadsheets style of stuff, I think
Speaker 1: that the Note ten might be a better deal or
Speaker 1: a better fit for you. But it comes down to
Speaker 1: you if you're trying to switch. Did she say which
Speaker 1: phone she's coming from by any chance?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Just yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 2: A lot of people were asking about the comparison too.
Speaker 2: It's oh, this wasn't the only question. It's definitely on
Speaker 2: people's minds.
Speaker 1: And I think that it doesn't come down to which
Speaker 1: is a better phone. I think it comes down to
Speaker 1: which phone is a better fit for what you want
Speaker 1: out of a phone. If your whole family is on
Speaker 1: an iPhone and you all want to be an I
Speaker 1: Message and you want to use FaceTime, and you want
Speaker 1: to have an Apple TV, you want to have an iPad,
Speaker 1: and you want to have all the apps that share
Speaker 1: family sharing, go with the iPhone if you don't really care,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you're fine with the Android and you
Speaker 1: like kind of like something that's a little bit different
Speaker 1: and something that's a little bit you know, kind of
Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. I think the Note is a
Speaker 1: really cool phone. It is also really big. Just so
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like in hand, the iPhone ten
Speaker 1: Max or iPhone eleven Pro Max is easier to handle
Speaker 1: than the Note. And I'm really mad because I brought
Speaker 1: the Note ten today to take a picture that did not.
Speaker 2: Take oh comparing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to take a picture of the Note
Speaker 1: ten next to the iPhone eleven and I forgot to
Speaker 1: take that picture. Shoot. All right, let's just get through
Speaker 1: two quick things before the show is over. Apple TV
Speaker 1: Plus this is the new subscription service from Apple. It
Speaker 1: will be four dollars and ninety nine cents a month.
Speaker 1: It will launch on November first. You'll get a seven
Speaker 1: day free trial, but anyone who purchases an iPhone, iPad,
Speaker 1: Apple TV, iPod Touch, or Mac will get one year
Speaker 1: of Apple TV Plus for free. That's a super long
Speaker 1: runway Theoretically, Let's say Apple sells one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million iPhones in the next year, and let's say that
Speaker 1: they do this promotion for a year. I don't know
Speaker 1: how long it's going to go on for. That's one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million subscribers to Apple TV Plus for
Speaker 1: a year, subscribers and quotes because they're not paying anything theoretically,
Speaker 1: but it gets their shows in front of people.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that Apple is going to do
Speaker 1: a lot of promoting to get people to kind of
Speaker 1: sample Apple TV Plus, which may include giving you the
Speaker 1: pilots to these shows for free to let you watch
Speaker 1: them before you subscribe. Like we'll see some Because Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus is pre loaded on all Apple product they
Speaker 1: can do some unique things that Netflix can't. Netflix you
Speaker 1: have to download it, you got to sign up, you
Speaker 1: have to get a free trial. This it's kind of
Speaker 1: like in your face on your phone, on your computer, yeah,
Speaker 1: on your.
Speaker 2: Tablet, staring at you right in the Eye right, So.
Speaker 1: That's Apple TV Plus. And then there's this other thing
Speaker 1: called Apple TV Arcade. All right, sorry, Apple Arcade. And
Speaker 1: this will launch on September nineteenth with iOS thirteen, and
Speaker 1: that's five dollars a month with a free one month trial.
Speaker 1: And this is a bunch of games. The one that
Speaker 1: we saw and the one that I played was a
Speaker 1: new version of Frogger, which was kind of cool. You
Speaker 1: remind me of Cross the Road. But there's gonna be
Speaker 1: all kinds of games that launch, and you pay one
Speaker 1: price and the whole family can get as many games
Speaker 1: as they want for five dollars. I will tell you,
Speaker 1: as a parent, I will probably do this because all
Speaker 1: my kids want to do is download games. If I
Speaker 1: know that for five dollars a month, I can let
Speaker 1: them play in this walled garden of whatever game they
Speaker 1: want to play and get. Hopefully there's some parental controls there.
Speaker 1: I love it, and hopefully the games are worth five
Speaker 1: dollars a month. That's sixty dollars a year, which if
Speaker 1: your kids are buying games on the iPhone, maybe they're
Speaker 1: not spending sixty dollars a year. I don't really let
Speaker 1: them spend that much but I guess so for Parker's
Speaker 1: birthday we give them like a fifty dollars iTunes gift card.
Speaker 1: So that's like, you know that birthdays only happen.
Speaker 2: The games looked really interesting different. I mean, I'm not a.
Speaker 1: Big game we say, I don't know where's that coming from.
Speaker 2: They looked cool.
Speaker 1: All play them, but all Apple Arcade games can be
Speaker 1: played offline, and a single subscription works for up to
Speaker 1: six family members. Some of the games debuting will be
Speaker 1: Ballistic Baseball, Chew Chew Rocket from Sega, Lego Brawls, pac
Speaker 1: Man Party, Royal, ray Man, Mini Steven, Universe, Unleashed a
Speaker 1: Light and Where Cards Fall from Snowman. So, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of a no brainer as long
Speaker 1: as the games are kind of good for kids, So
Speaker 1: that's going to do it. Yeah, it's or any more
Speaker 1: pressing questions that we need to address.
Speaker 2: There's just one question about from ca In about why
Speaker 2: Apple stayed with the Lightning and they didn't move to us.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Actually, I'm actually kind of bummed
Speaker 1: at that. I think there's a reason why they're doing.
Speaker 1: I think Apple's next big new iPhone is coming with
Speaker 1: the next one, when twenty twenty, when they've got the
Speaker 1: touch ID back in the screen, when they've got USBC
Speaker 1: on the bottom, and five G those are going to
Speaker 1: be the three big new improvements and a better camera
Speaker 1: obviously on the next iPhone.
Speaker 2: So if you want that, you probably should wait.
Speaker 1: Should wait. But here's the question I got before. Someone said,
Speaker 1: but Rich, you know, I'm kind of ready for an
Speaker 1: upgrade now, and that means I have to wait a
Speaker 1: whole nother year. I mean a year is a long
Speaker 1: time if you're on like an iPhone six S and
Speaker 1: you're kind of like at the end of the line
Speaker 1: with your phone. Now, don't forget. iOS thirteen is only
Speaker 1: going to work on iPhone six S and above. So
Speaker 1: if you're rocking an iPhone six right now, you might
Speaker 1: want to think about if you're kind of getting old
Speaker 1: with that phone upgrading because the iOS thirteen software update
Speaker 1: is not going to work on anything earlier than iOS
Speaker 1: six or iPhone success. So Lightning would have been a
Speaker 1: nice thing to ditch at this point in favor of USBC,
Speaker 1: because that's kind of what they've gone to with almost everything.
Speaker 1: It's like a standard. But we know Apple is not
Speaker 1: necessarily caring about all the standards of everyone else. All right,
Speaker 1: So Megan, what'd you think of your first Apple event?
Speaker 1: Were you happy with it? What do you think about
Speaker 1: all like the little touches like that, you know, they
Speaker 1: give you lunch, they have like pour over coffee in
Speaker 1: the morning. They're also very like.
Speaker 2: They do that at other That's true. I was just
Speaker 2: more captivated by just like the overall aesthetic of like
Speaker 2: just you know, the beautiful trees and the music and
Speaker 2: it just yeah, it felt like Apple Disneyland. You know.
Speaker 2: It reminded me a little bit. I mean it's different.
Speaker 2: But Google's when we went to CS and Google had
Speaker 2: the ride, yeah, and it you kind of felt like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is Google's world, Like I feel like this was Apple,
Speaker 2: this is Apple's world, and like it's just I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's just it was really cool overall.
Speaker 1: That's a great way to think about it. It's like
Speaker 1: these companies are creating like their own worlds. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: even Samsung like they have a look and feel like
Speaker 1: at their events. Google has a look and feel it's
Speaker 1: like very clean, very bright, very modern, very happy, like yeah, optimistic,
Speaker 1: I think, and Apple is very much like minimalistic but
Speaker 1: controlled and clean Samsung bathroom. Sorry, no they had more bathrooms,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they.
Speaker 2: Were somewhere else. They were well I'm thinking of like
Speaker 2: a different bathroom situation.
Speaker 1: Is always tricky these events, but overall, but overall it's great.
Speaker 1: And as Samsung for their aesthetic, it's very much like
Speaker 1: I would say, doing things differently and really like kind
Speaker 1: of pushing the envelope, you know, like we know that
Speaker 1: they're different and they're really like trying to make things
Speaker 1: better and newer. But thanks for listening to the show.
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Speaker 1: Now I don't want to you know, totally rough, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: they'll finally see us at the bottom and they'll be like,
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Speaker 1: seem to like it. Let me listen. So we do
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Producer Megan, how can people find you?
Speaker 2: I'm on Twitter at producer Megan with an h egh.
Speaker 1: And you know where I am. I am on Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, on Instagram, and I should mention my Twitter because,
Speaker 1: by the way, my video on Twitter up to two
Speaker 1: point one million views from the Apple event.
Speaker 2: That's insane. And Katie Couric yes retweeted.
Speaker 1: It is It is like literally legit, like the hands
Speaker 1: on I did, like the quick one minute hands on
Speaker 1: I did with the iPhone eleven Pro is like legit.
Speaker 1: The top iPhone eleven Pro video on Twitter probably of
Speaker 1: the entire event, because I couldn't find one that did
Speaker 1: more than two point one million views, Like it's featured
Speaker 1: on like Twitter's like homepage kind of like for the
Speaker 1: Apple event, which is crazy. So anyway, so that's kind
Speaker 1: of cool, So check it out. I am at rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro there, Thanks so much for listening, we do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Have a fantastic day and we will talk to you
Speaker 1: real soon. Bye bye.