WEBVTT - Alexa barks like a dog to keep intruders out 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.600 Ring makes its cheapest video doorbell yet, but there is 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.320 a catch. Who's the winner In smartphones? Another streaming service 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.840 raises prices? Plus Your tech questions answered? What's going on? 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.840 I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.200 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.240 you should know about, and it's where I answer the 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.480 questions you send me. My name is Rich Dmiro, tech 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.839 reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you're 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:41.640 having a fantastic day. So I finally did something that 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.960 I've wanted to do for so long. This has been 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.440 a project that is I don't know, evaded me for many, 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.440 many years. I took down my NASS, which is my 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.320 network attached storage drive, probably a couple of years ago, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:55.920 like maybe two three years ago. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.040 It's probably two years ago. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.760 I never set it back up again, and I just 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.600 always wanted to, but I never got around to it. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.360 And so finally I've been running up against this problem. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.000 It's this whole Google thing charging for storage that has 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.720 really gotten me to clean up my act with my 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:15.520 cloud files. So I wanted to back up my Google 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.120 Drive to the NAS and then move a bunch of 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.759 files in the Google drive to the NAS, and NAS 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:27.039 means network attached storage. It's basically a hard drive that 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.880 plugs into your network so that you can access it 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.800 from all your computers. And you know, you can have 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.560 these big hard drives in it. Right now, I've only 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.520 got like a four terabyte in there. But ideally what 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.479 you do is you mirror the drives and that way, 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.720 whatever you put on the one drive copies to the 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.440 other drive, and so if something ever happened to one 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.760 of the drives they fail, you've got the other drive, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.040 and so it's kind of a fail safe method for 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.840 backing up your stuff. You should also have your stuff 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.520 in a third place, which is, you know, a cloud 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.520 or the original file itself, which in my case would 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.960 be Google Drive. But anyway, I finally did this. I 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.320 finally SYNCD my Google Drive to it, and now I'm 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.240 ready to move out this giant batch of files and 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.840 free up some space on my Google Drive. And it's 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.800 a long story what the files are, but they're basically 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.080 the old Google photos files, and so I'm not sure 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.959 this is what I don't know just yet. I don't 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.400 know if those Google file Google photos files are actually 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.600 taking up storage on my Google drive right, like my 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.040 quota of two terabytes, I'm not sure. I don't know, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.399 so when I move them out, I will find out. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.560 I have a feeling they are, but I don't know. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.720 Originally they were not, and then I feel like maybe 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.760 they are now. So anyway, the network attached drive is 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.560 great because you just have a ton of storage that 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.400 you can just move files between. And it's been a 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.560 lot of fun. The one I have in case you're 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:49.200 interested in, is from snology sy no l O g 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.720 Y Snology. I have the disk station and it's an 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.959 old one, but I looked up the new one. It's 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.800 the DS two twenty plus, which is kind of the 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:58.720 consumer solution. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.160 It holds too hard drive and was at USBC on 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:02.480 the front. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.600 No, it's just regular and that is three hundred dollars 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.919 on Amazon. I believe I paid a little bit less 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.400 than that, but anyway, really cool, and I'm you know, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.520 I'm trying to not pay extra for Google Drive at 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.640 this point because now they're charging for everything in my 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.680 Google Photos. They're charging for that starting soon, so I 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.280 want to make sure that I don't have anything in 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.520 my Google Drive. And those two terabytes I pay ten 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.240 dollars a month for any more than I need in there, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.320 like I only need the absolute essentials. So I'm going 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.079 through my whole drive file by file and just making 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.240 sure that it's all cleaned up and ready to go. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.360 Let's move on to the first story in today's podcast. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:41.640 Thanks for listening. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:46.320 By the way, Apple crosses one billion active iPhone users 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.600 for the first time this according to nine to five Mac, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.520 Tim Cook, in an interview with Reuter, said they have 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.200 one hundred one point sixty five billion devices active, but 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.720 one billion of those are iPhones. Can you imagine a 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.960 billion iPhone around the world. I mean, this company is 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.200 just printing money all those iCloud messages every day. Oh 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.000 you have no more storage in your iCloud. We couldn't 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.880 back up your phone. Oh charge me some more. They 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.760 last time they mentioned how many active iPhones, it was 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.880 nine hundred million in twenty nineteen. That's a lot of 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.400 phones and Apple is just killing it. The latest numbers 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.920 from IDC, who tracks this stuff, that's International Data Corporation. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.080 The fourth quarter was really good for smartphone makers and 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.239 really really good for Apple. In the top five Apple 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:39.200 number one, they sold ninety million phones or they shipped 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.279 I should say, I don't know if that actually means 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.560 they sold them, but I think that means pretty much 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.920 the same ninety million devices, and mostly that was driven 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.120 by the the iPhone twelve. How successful that is, So 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.800 ninety million phones in one quarter, I mean, that's just phenomenal. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.839 Samsung number two with seventy three million, well, let's round 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.520 it up to seventy four million now the twenty nineteen 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.320 Q four. So just to give you an idea of 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.719 how many people upgraded in twenty twenty versus twenty nineteen, 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.279 seventy three, let's say seventy four million were sold in 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.159 twenty nineteen the last quarter, compared to ninety million for Apple, 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.800 sixty nine million. Well, let's say seventy million for Samsung 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.599 versus seventy four million. So both companies did see an increase, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.520 which is pretty amazing during a pandemic. But for Apple 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.599 that increase was very dramatic and very pronounced. The rest 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.279 of the companies, there's really no competition anymore. There's only 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.720 Samsung and Apple, and the other ones are all Chinese 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.800 manufacturers Jaomi. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.120 Appo and Huawei. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.440 And Huawei has been hit really hard. I think on 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.640 this very podcast I mentioned how Huawei was like number 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.679 one for global shipments and now for this fourth quarter 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.200 of twenty twenty they're down to the one, two, three, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.400 four fifth. But if you take it big picture, for 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.680 the whole year in twenty twenty, Samsung number one, Apple 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:05.560 number two, Huaweih number three. So it's interesting. I'm obsessed 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.320 with smartphones. I love them. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:08.160 Today. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.920 The Samsung Galaxy S twenty one series is out best 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.240 Samsung devices in years. I will say it again. If 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.680 you're gonna upgrade your Samsung, do it this year. The 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.440 phones they came out with are just phenomenal. The S 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.200 twenty one series is fantastic. I find that the S 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.440 twenty one Ultra, as I find with a lot of 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.640 these big phones nowadays, it's just too big. And I 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.280 love that phone and I want to carry it around. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.920 I want to switch to it, but I can't. It's 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.640 just too big. I can't carry that thing in my pocket. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.760 I always use the kind of the wedding as the example. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.360 You know, if you're dancing at a wedding, could your 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.360 phone be in your pocket? With the Ultra no Way, 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:50.440 no Way, iPhone twelve pro, Yes, Samsung S twenty one, Yes, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.760 S twenty one plus I'm not sure. I have not 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.680 held that one yet, but that would be probably. I 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.559 gotta say the S twenty one is a perfect size. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.480 It's the same exact size as the I Phone twelve 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.240 Pro and the iPhone twelve. So if that's you know, 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.040 if you like a nice size phone, nice screen size, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.560 but not giant, go with the S twenty one. It's 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.720 a great little device, and I have not found any 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.080 problems with it whatsoever. I wish it had a little 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.560 bit more memory. It has eight gigs of RAM. I 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.720 wish it had closer to the I think the Ultra 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.880 comes with sixteen or twelve, but I wish it had that. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:28.160 I think the Ultra sixteen. But anyway, let's get to a. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:39.320 Question, shall we. Jody Wrights, Hello, they're rich. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.320 I'm wondering if you have any recommendations for wireless earbuds 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.960 that are not over one hundred dollars sent for my iPhone. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.120 You know, it's funny when people send me questions, I 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.239 generally get a little indication of the answer I should 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.160 give them with how they're sending me. So if it 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.800 says sent for my iPhone, generally I will recommend AirPods 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.280 ten out of ten times times because air pods are amazing. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.520 They sync with the iPhone, they seamlessly switch between devices. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:07.360 They're just perfect. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.760 Now, Jody is asking me for something under one hundred dollars, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.840 and generally you can't get the air pods for under 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.880 one hundred dollars. So in that case, I will defer 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.680 to two different pairs of headphones that I've liked in 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.120 the past year. Number one are called the Let's Fit 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.560 T thirteen. They are dirt cheap under thirty dollars and 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.480 they work fantastic. I will say for under thirty dollars, 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.960 the Let's Fit T thirteen are just great, not a 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.840 lot of fuss. They work great, they charge fast, the 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.600 battery lasts, they stay in your ears, they feel good, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.360 they sound good, and actually sound amazing. So that's my 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:44.200 number one pick. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:44.800 Now. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.720 The second pair that I like is from one Plus. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.280 They made a pair this year called or last year 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.200 called the one plus buds Z. These were fifty dollars 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.000 and I find myself going back to them over and over. 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.120 They're excellent and they stay ears. They had a little 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:07.040 problem at the beginning where they were pausing during workouts 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.120 a lot because there's something with the sensor, but I 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.160 think they fix that with the softwareupdates. I don't really 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.199 see that happening much anymore. And those are fifty dollars. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.079 You might be able to get them cheaper online if 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.480 you look around, but those are the two that I recommend, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.840 and they will both cost you under one hundred dollars, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.680 and I think you'll be very happy with either pair. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.760 Jody, thanks for the question. Now. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.679 I don't know if you're following what was going on 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.160 this week with Robin Hood and these stocks, but these 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.800 Reddit traders were pumping up the prices of these random 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.679 stocks like game Stop, BlackBerry, AMC movie Theaters. I think 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.880 American Airlines was in there at some point, but oh, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:45.400 they have them. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.800 All listed here BB. I think that's best buy. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.400 But what they did was they pumped up the prices 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.240 because all of these hedge fund traders apparently. And I'm 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.240 not a stock market person, believe me, I know nothing 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.680 about this. I only do mutual funds. That's the only 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.440 thing I invest in. I don't do individual stocks. I 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.040 set it, I forget it, that's it. I don't even 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.840 look at it again ever again. I just put the 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.400 money in and leave it there. So that's my way 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.000 of doing investing. I just don't really put a lot 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.680 of thought into it. I figure, you put it in early, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.080 and you'll leave it in there for as long as 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.560 humanly possible, and hopefully when I retire something will be 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.160 made off of this stuff. But these people are you know, 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.600 if you know what you're doing, you could day trade 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:28.560 and you could make money. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.559 I guess I, you know. I to me, it's just 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.080 much too much work. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.160 So this whole thing of robin Hood is is one 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.120 of these apps that people were using to buy these stocks, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:44.720 and apparently they stopped people from trading these random stocks 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.000 like game Stop and you know all these other ones. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.960 And the Robinhood traders were pretty mad because they were 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.319 all on Reddit, and you know, from everything I read 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.000 what they were doing, there's really nothing wrong with you're 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.679 you're allowed to unless someone was giving false information or 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.800 you know, putting out misleading information or insider information about 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.240 the companies. Like what they were doing seems to be 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.040 legal from everything that I saw. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.440 Now, is it right? I don't know. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.000 I mean that's a whole nother topic, you know, I 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.240 think what the the bottom line about all this is 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.360 that we are seeing the use of the Internet and 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.960 social media to coordinate things in ways that we never imagined, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.920 in ways that were never possible before. And we're going 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.840 to continue to see this. We are going to continue 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.360 to see social media enable things that we never thought 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.720 was possible in our society. And I'm telling you, the 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.160 implications of this stuff is very, very far reaching. We've 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.760 seen it with election We've seen it with protests, We've 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.440 seen it with anything where you can get a whole 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.199 bunch of people together all at the same time and 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.560 move things in big ways very fast. And sometimes that's 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.800 good and sometimes it's not so good. I'm just saying 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.120 that we're going to see more of this, and I'm 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.520 not sure that the social media companies can keep up 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.400 with the implications of their technology. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:08.160 Now. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.360 A lot of this is inspired by that documentary on 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.800 Netflix that I watched, This Social Dilemma. It really resonated 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.720 with me because we know, when I was a kid, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.920 you'd go on the BBS, right the bulletin board system, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.600 and you'd write something, and you know, you'd go to 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.679 sleep and you'd wake up and you'd see a couple 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.360 replies to what you said. It was really cool. Now 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.760 you talk about teenagers posting on Instagram, and they refreshed 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.679 their Instagram posts so fast to see how many likes 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.160 they're getting and how many comments they're getting. If they 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:41.679 don't get enough in a certain amount of times, they 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.480 delete their post. That's how immediate gratification we have gotten 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.480 to in our society. And so same thing here with 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.680 this Robinhood stuff. These people just banded together, they decided 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.960 to do what they wanted to do, and it worked. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.920 They got these stock prices up and up and up. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.680 But then all of a sudden, robin Hood said never mind, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.839 you can't trade. And they're like, wait, hold on, is 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.640 that is that what you're allowed to do? Because I 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.320 didn't realize that was in part of the terms of service. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.640 So they went on Google Play. They gave it one 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.200 hundred tons of one star reviews. They are asking for 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.600 Apple to remove robin Hood from the App Store, and 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.200 I think we're just gonna see this kind of shake 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.200 out more and more because I guess they were trying 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.439 to stick it to the man. The hedge fund folks, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.400 who I guess have like giant short positions in these 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.840 big you know, in these in these in these troubled 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.440 companies like game Stock, and when game stop stock starts 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.600 going up and up and up, these hedge fund traders 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.000 lose their shirts and they lose a lot of money. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.040 And I'm simplifying this in a way that I this 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.760 is what I understand from this, but it just it 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.280 was wild. I was looking at these stock prices and wow, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.720 uh no, it did not tempt me to jump in 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.160 or jump out. And so that's that's kind of my 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.200 thoughts on this stuff. But it's pretty wild to watch, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:04.920 that's for sure. I have a little sip of my 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.360 tea here. Annabella says, Hey, rich, I wanted to talk 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.200 to you to ask what device do you recommend to 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.400 download and store pictures from my iPhone? I have over 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.840 thirty six thousand pictures currently on my phone. Whoa any 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.800 and need to do something to save them and delete 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.800 them from my phone? Anything you can recommend, TIA. I'm 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:30.080 guessing that means thanks in advance. Thank you, Annabella. Okay, 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.000 this is a great question, and thirty six thousand pictures 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.880 on your phone that is a lot. I would recommend 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.280 a couple things. So number one, you can go with 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.520 something like this synology that I recommended that earlier in 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.400 the show, but that seems to be a very it's 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.160 kind of a a you're putting a fire hose. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.360 On a on a I don't know what would the 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:51.280 term be? A matchstick? 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.400 Is that even like a phrase sounds good though right 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.120 you're using you know it's it might be too much 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.520 for your what you need. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.360 So a couple of things you can do. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.880 Number one, if you want a free solution and an 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.080 easy solution, just get Google Photos. Install that on your phone, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.480 let it go to work. It will back up all 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.040 thirty six thousand pictures and then it will give you 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.000 a message when it's done, and it will say now 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.400 you can go ahead and delete all these pictures from 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:15.760 your phone. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.880 It will actually do that for you. That's one way 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:19.400 of doing it. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.120 The downside of that is that I would recommend at 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.240 this point don't use high quality for Google Photos anymore, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.560 because there's no point that they're not giving it away 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.880 for free anymore, So why you're going to degrade the 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.000 quality of your pictures. So in that case, you would 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.320 want to spring for Google Storage. You get fifteen gigs, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.760 which might hold your thirty six thousand pictures, depending how 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.680 big they are, or you might have to pay a 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.880 little bit more each month, maybe three dollars a month 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.440 to store all those I think that's perfectly reasonable, and 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.840 I think that's a great way to do this. If 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.600 you want something that's more integrated with the iPhone, you 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.840 can just go ahead and sign up for iCloud and 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.840 you can get fifty gigs of iCloud storage for I 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.440 think it's a couple bucks a month, three dollars a 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.360 month I pay, or maybe I pay for two hundred gigs. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:09.240 Let's see iCloud storage pricing. Let's see how much your 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.160 pricing plan is for this. So with iCloud in America, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.320 it's fifty gigs for ninety nine cents, which I think 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.240 would hold your pictures, or two hundred gigs for three 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.480 dollars a month. Either way, you're looking at under three 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.120 hundred three dollars a month. So a year, that's thirty 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.040 six dollars a year. Now, if you don't want to 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.600 do the cloud route, which it sounds like you might 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.840 not because you're asking me this question, so you may 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.280 not want them in the cloud, I would say the 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.400 next best thing is probably this device called eb that's ibi. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.720 It's made by sand Disc. It's very similar to the 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.400 synology that I was talking about, but it's just for 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.359 pictures and it's. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:46.800 It's very simple. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.480 You install the EB app on your phone, you hook 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.560 up this hard drive to your Wi Fi at home, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.000 and next thing you know, every time you open up 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.120 this app on your phone, it will back up the 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.720 pictures to this hard drive. And it's store not in 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.640 the cloud, It's stored on the drive in your house. Now, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.639 the danger of that is that your photos are not 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.160 properly backed up because you need them in two places. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.520 So I'd want to see them on this hard drive 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.280 and then somewhere else as well, And so for that reason, 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.760 I'd probably go with the iCloud. I'd go with a 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.720 combination of two things. I'd probably go with like an 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.439 iCloud storage or Google Photos. Maybe do Google Photos for 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.480 free as much free as you can get, and then 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.639 go with the EB for the rest of it. The 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.199 EB is like a hundred bucks for one terabyte, so 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.520 good question. I get that a lot, but back up 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.680 those pictures. Back up those pictures. You do not want 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.080 to lose your pictures. I get so many emails from 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.960 people saying, rich is there any way to recover my 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:47.719 pictures anyway. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.119 And I say, did you back them up? 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.600 Because yeah, it's really easy when you back them up, 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.480 and they say, no, I didn't back them up, and 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.320 I say, I don't know what to say because I 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.879 always talk about backing them up. You're not listening to 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.520 this podcast, and I get it. A lot of people aren't, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.719 but a lot of people are. But I know if 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.080 you're listening to the podcast, you probably are backing up now, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.320 full disclosure. Right now, at this moment in time, my 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.080 Google Photos are not backed up. And so that's a 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:19.040 big old for rich DeMuro. And again that is what 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.639 I'm working on with my This is all part of 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.720 my snology plan, because I am working on a plan 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:30.280 to get my Google Photos backed up on a reasonable schedule. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.720 And you can actually do this, by the way, in 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.720 something called Google Takeout. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.800 They will. It's a little complicated, but. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.560 What they can do is they can automatically export your 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.760 data to a cloud service on a schedule, so on 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.320 a on a regular basis, you can have your Google 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:53.160 Photos backed up to a random you know, like these 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:54.560 various let me see. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:55.120 What I think. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.439 I talked about this on the show before. But you 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.800 can have your Google Photos backed up to like a 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.880 cloud service. And this is my ultimate plan. So look 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:09.719 at export every two months for one year, and you 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.640 can back up to Google Drive, which is what I'm 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:17.000 gonna do. So my goal is to basically I need 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.000 to free up my space on Google Drive so that 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.639 this can just back them up to Google Drive regularly. 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.320 And then you can also do Dropbox. You can do 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.359 one drive and you can do Box. So again you 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:32.040 would just have your photos backed up every two months 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:33.840 for a year, so you don't have to think about 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.720 this and your photos are backed up in a physical place. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:42.120 That's what I recommend, all right, Sling TV, we talk 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.160 about these streaming services. We talk about how everyone wants 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.720 to cut the cord to save money. Guess what we've 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:51.720 all learned. The cutting cord saves you exactly zero dollars 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:57.439 unless you are only subscribed to one streaming service like 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.360 you know, like Netflix or some thing. But in the end, 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.199 what we're seeing here is that these streaming services, you 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.439 have to have multiple streaming services if you want to 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.760 watch all the shows that everyone's talking about. And yes, 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.679 everyone's talking about Bridgerton right now. No, I have not 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.560