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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the
Speaker 1: place where I answer the questions you send me. I'm
Speaker 1: the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thanks for tuning in. I mentioned
Speaker 1: that last month was the best month for the show
Speaker 1: in a long time, probably like a year, you know,
Speaker 1: since people are finally commuting back to work and all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. So thank you for all the downloads.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. If you're new, thanks for being
Speaker 1: on board. If you're you know, a regular, Thanks for
Speaker 1: sticking with me.
Speaker 2: Sixty five weeks.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's been sixty five weeks that I've
Speaker 1: worked at home. I just asked Siri. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: And you know, I've been asking to go back into work.
Speaker 1: It's kind of complicated. It's not like as easy as
Speaker 1: you think in California at least, so apparently there's some
Speaker 1: rules and regulations for people going back in and it's
Speaker 1: a whole big thing, and so I you know, they said,
Speaker 1: just stay stay at home, just kind of stay put, relax,
Speaker 1: do your thing. You're doing great, everything's good. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing what I do. Although the world is reopening,
Speaker 1: which is really nice. I mean, you know, we had
Speaker 1: some friends over last night, which was the first time
Speaker 1: that we've all been together. Well that's not true. We
Speaker 1: went to the park a couple times. So what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like in our backyard. It's the first time we've all
Speaker 1: been together at my house in over a year. So
Speaker 1: it felt really good. The kids were just wild. They
Speaker 1: were all running like they were just wild, wild maniacs
Speaker 1: for like the first hour and then they realized like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, yes these are all my friends again, like
Speaker 1: I can you know, play again, and it was great.
Speaker 1: So it was a nice time and it felt felt
Speaker 1: pretty normal. I gotta say, so hopefully things are probably actually,
Speaker 1: if you're listening outside of California, things have probably been
Speaker 1: like that for a while. In California. We're kind of
Speaker 1: like this, we're our own thing, right, I Mean, California
Speaker 1: is just it was just a little bit different throughout
Speaker 1: this whole thing, but it seemed to work because you know,
Speaker 1: it's I guess we're getting back to very normal very soon.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be exciting for most of us.
Speaker 1: This week another virtual event from Apple. Apple held their
Speaker 1: Worldwide Developers Conference twenty twenty one, and they showed off
Speaker 1: the new features coming soon to the iPhone, coming soon
Speaker 1: to the iPad, coming soon to mac Os Monterey, keeping
Speaker 1: with a California theme, and then what else, there's Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: so all kinds of stuff. I'm not going to go
Speaker 1: for everything, honestly, Quite honestly, yes, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of updates. Was any of it like, oh my gosh, Like,
Speaker 1: was I sitting in my chair just going this is
Speaker 1: just mind boggling?
Speaker 2: Probably not, but a lot of it was cool.
Speaker 1: A lot of it, you know, a lot of it's
Speaker 1: catching up to Android. And I know I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that facetiously. It's just kind of like the reality of
Speaker 1: the way Apple does things versus Google, and it's just
Speaker 1: you know, Google kind of does things, or early Samsung
Speaker 1: does things. Early Apple takes a little bit more time,
Speaker 1: but they do it with a little bit more refinement.
Speaker 1: And it's also just a different way of thinking about things.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this before. With the iPhone, the
Speaker 1: features go to millions and millions of devices around the
Speaker 1: world all at once, whereas with Android things are much
Speaker 1: more fragmented. Google might have a feature and it might
Speaker 1: not reach every phone, but it's available, it's out there,
Speaker 1: and it's gotten better, i think in recent years. But
Speaker 1: some of the major updates Share play. This is kind
Speaker 1: of like the ability to do things on your phone
Speaker 1: with other people, so share your screen, share TV shows
Speaker 1: and stuff that you're watching. Of course, a lot of
Speaker 1: this requires that you have an iOS device on the
Speaker 1: other end or an iPhone on the other end, and
Speaker 1: also depending on the app letting you do this, So
Speaker 1: that's one thing. FaceTime got some big updates. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of too little, too late, but of course
Speaker 1: a lot of people use FaceTime, so I'm sure these
Speaker 1: features will be used. But it's kind of like all
Speaker 1: the stuff that you had available on Zoom and other
Speaker 1: video chatting programs are now coming to FaceTime. So you
Speaker 1: can look at people in a grid view. There are
Speaker 1: microphone situations to kind of block out background noise, a
Speaker 1: portrait mode to blow your background spatial audio. Apple's really
Speaker 1: big on spatial audio right now, which is audio that
Speaker 1: comes in from all directions. They just introduced it on
Speaker 1: Apple Music, which I tested it out and it was fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of these things that you know,
Speaker 1: it's probably a slow burn. You know, it's like, we'll
Speaker 1: take it for granted that will have it in a
Speaker 1: few years right now. It's not like you know, they
Speaker 1: said it was kind of like going from SDTV to
Speaker 1: HDTV or to whatever. But to me it didn't really
Speaker 1: feel that way. But I still need to listen to
Speaker 1: it in a better pair of headphones. I just tried
Speaker 1: the AirPods.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I will say, if you do listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: you say.
Speaker 2: Rich, what are you talking about? You were going wild.
Speaker 1: Over spatial audio when you listen to it when you
Speaker 1: watch that movie on your iPad up in Seattle or
Speaker 1: Redmond back in January, And yes I did.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I thought the movie sounded fantastic. So maybe I just
Speaker 1: need to listen a little bit more. I think the
Speaker 1: problem with audio is that, you know, like music, the
Speaker 1: way I consume it, I'm always it's either in my
Speaker 1: car or in my house. It's more of a background thing,
Speaker 1: like I'm never actively listening per se, and I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably do that, but I just don't,
Speaker 1: Like I don't sit down on my couch and like
Speaker 1: listen to the new album from someone or listen to music.
Speaker 1: Like it's always just put on in the background, and
Speaker 1: so the three D spatial audio stuff doesn't really occur
Speaker 1: to me because it's just not a way that I listen.
Speaker 1: But in general, it's kind of cool the iPhone getting
Speaker 1: some new ways to focus, these focus filters, so you
Speaker 1: can have like sort of different home screens or different
Speaker 1: setups for your different situations.
Speaker 2: I think this is a big one because I struggle
Speaker 2: with this a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, on the weekends, I really want to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more disconnected from my phone, but it's
Speaker 1: really tough because you know, in social media and with
Speaker 1: just your phone, it's just it's just very tough to
Speaker 1: give it up and just you know, like I ideally
Speaker 1: would just travel with my Apple Watch, but then I
Speaker 1: don't have a camera, and then what I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: like a standalone camera, which I don't really have at
Speaker 1: this point, so I'd have to buy one of those,
Speaker 1: and then that's kind of weird because then you got
Speaker 1: to sink all the stuff up, So I haven't found
Speaker 1: a good way of doing that.
Speaker 2: What else, what Else?
Speaker 1: A big addition, Oh, Apple Wallet, they did this thing
Speaker 1: where it's like you can store your ID, but they
Speaker 1: didn't really say which states you're going to support it,
Speaker 1: but that's coming soon. That's kind of my personal dream
Speaker 1: that if that is a thing, that would be amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, if I could travel with just my iPhone
Speaker 1: and a couple bucks in my pocket, you know, like
Speaker 1: some cash and then just use tap to pay, that
Speaker 1: would be really cool and have my ID there. I
Speaker 1: know you can in California, at least I believe you
Speaker 1: can use a digital copy of your insurance card on
Speaker 1: your phone. So I've never tried that. I still print
Speaker 1: mine out, but it's still pretty cool that I think
Speaker 1: they accept that in California, So we're getting there. It's
Speaker 1: not like California is not totally on board with that.
Speaker 2: What else? What else? Live text?
Speaker 1: So this was a kind of a big demo they did,
Speaker 1: but I didn't find it that exciting because you know,
Speaker 1: this is Google Lens, and basically it's the ability to
Speaker 1: use your camera to search for things. So when you
Speaker 1: take a picture of something, you can search the text,
Speaker 1: you can scan the text, you can copy a phone number,
Speaker 1: you can dial a phone number, you can see a
Speaker 1: landmark whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: You know, that's been going on on Android for a
Speaker 1: long time, or not just on Android, It's been going
Speaker 1: on on Google Lens for a very long time. And
Speaker 1: you know the difference is now that Apple's doing it.
Speaker 1: It's built into iOS, which means more people will just
Speaker 1: somehow discover it because it's part of the operating system.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You know, with Google you had to use a Google app,
Speaker 1: you had to download the app. So this all goes
Speaker 1: back to kind of the way Apple does things versus
Speaker 1: everyone else. And you know Apple, when they do things,
Speaker 1: they build it in. It's at it's it's very much
Speaker 1: at the core of their operating system. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of like the big difference. I think that's about it
Speaker 1: for for iOS fifteen. Again, nothing to me like screaming
Speaker 1: my name, like, oh my gosh, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: update to get these features, but I think the focus
Speaker 1: will be kind of cool. Notifications got a little upgrade
Speaker 1: as well, so we'll say I mean I think that
Speaker 1: it's always you know, Apple has gotten to the point
Speaker 1: where it's just kind of a solid upgrade. It always
Speaker 1: adds useful features. They do a really nice job with things. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Android folks will say it's been on Android forever,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, I was one of those people
Speaker 1: for so long, But it's just Apple people don't care
Speaker 1: about Android. They're not looking at Android. They're they're not
Speaker 1: using the features on Android. So to them, it's it's
Speaker 1: different and it's new, so you can't really compair the two.
Speaker 1: And it's not one of these things where you know
Speaker 1: it's one is good, one is bad.
Speaker 2: They're just different.
Speaker 1: There are, like I've always said, there are things I
Speaker 1: like about Android, there's things I like about iOS.
Speaker 2: And yes, I've been.
Speaker 1: Using an iPhone quite regularly for a long time now,
Speaker 1: which is I think the longest I've ever gone. But
Speaker 1: you know, I do find myself itching to get back
Speaker 1: to Android, especially with the Pixel six if that's going
Speaker 1: to be a solid device. I'm hoping that Google launches
Speaker 1: something because I do like to go back and forth,
Speaker 1: because they do offer different things and I think that
Speaker 1: they both have their pros and cons. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to the first question. This is actually a comment.
Speaker 1: Greg says, hey, Rich last Friday, I believe you were
Speaker 1: answering a question I guess the last podcast about saving
Speaker 1: messages from an iPhone a while back.
Speaker 2: I use this app called phone View.
Speaker 1: Is saves text messages, including photos just as they were written,
Speaker 1: also voicemails, media. I'm not sure how up to date
Speaker 1: it is, but it worked very well. Hope this helps.
Speaker 1: I looked it up. It's from ECAM and I love
Speaker 1: ECAM software. Some surprised that it wasn't aware of this app,
Speaker 1: but phone View it does kind of what we were
Speaker 1: talking about where it's, you know, Apple lets you make
Speaker 1: a backup of your phone, but it doesn't really let
Speaker 1: you see what's in that backup easily. And so this
Speaker 1: is thirty dollars. And again this kind of goes back
Speaker 1: to what I was talking about that it's it's a
Speaker 1: paid thing. So on Android, yes, I believe the app
Speaker 1: I mentioned was free, but it was like five bucks
Speaker 1: if you wanted to get no ads or something. But
Speaker 1: on iPhone they don't really have a free solution that
Speaker 1: I found. So yes, this phone view will do it.
Speaker 1: And it seems I haven't tested it, but it looks
Speaker 1: like it would the other one, I think Tony regular
Speaker 1: listener chimed in with I Amazing and I looked at
Speaker 1: that one and I actually got in touch with them
Speaker 1: to get a demo account, and I did download it,
Speaker 1: and yes, this one looks like it does exactly what
Speaker 1: you want. It's kind of like their entire business, and
Speaker 1: so it's actually pretty cool. You can browse the contents
Speaker 1: of your phone in a very easy way. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like the app that you wish that Apple would
Speaker 1: have made, right, It's kind of like what iTunes, just
Speaker 1: it covers everything up, makes everything very complicated to kind
Speaker 1: of transfer stuff and things like that. But this seemed
Speaker 1: like it was very easy. Now I could not actually
Speaker 1: test it out just yet because my phone has so
Speaker 1: much stuff on it right now that I need to
Speaker 1: clear off all the pictures because it just tries to
Speaker 1: back up everything and you can't just browse your phone.
Speaker 1: It has to actually make a backup of your device
Speaker 1: and then it browses the contents of the backup. So
Speaker 1: it's a little tricky, I think, because they're getting around
Speaker 1: some of the things that Apple puts in place. But again,
Speaker 1: it's called Imazing dot com. And now, how much is
Speaker 1: this one? Because they gave me a license.
Speaker 2: To check it out.
Speaker 1: This is a device lifetime for five three Apple devices
Speaker 1: is fifty bucks. One device is thirty four ninety nine
Speaker 1: for lifetime. So that's not too bad. You know, one
Speaker 1: time purchase thirty five bucks. You can you know, kind
Speaker 1: of crack into your iPhone. It's not doing anything bad.
Speaker 1: It's just that's you know, I just use that term.
Speaker 1: It's not a bad thing. But those are some of
Speaker 1: the apps. The other one that I like is called
Speaker 1: Walter and this is kind of a one way app
Speaker 1: but wa lt r and they just come out with
Speaker 1: a new version I believe, called Walter Pro. And this
Speaker 1: allows you to drag and drop any file onto your
Speaker 1: iPad or iPhone. And so if you use an iPad
Speaker 1: or an iPhone a lot with a lot of different
Speaker 1: things like books and kindle books and videos and stuff
Speaker 1: and music and you just want to like drag and drop,
Speaker 1: this program is fantastic. I have not tested the new one,
Speaker 1: the Pro, but I use the old one for many
Speaker 1: years now and it's the real deal. It just works
Speaker 1: really really well. And that's thirty dollars. But again, all
Speaker 1: these apps, you know a lot of these apps have
Speaker 1: built a world around the iPhones. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to call it trickery, but the complications that arrive
Speaker 1: from using a rise from using you know, the whole
Speaker 1: situation with the iPhone. You know, Android's very simple. It
Speaker 1: gives you access to like the file system and all that,
Speaker 1: but iPhone is just it's always been a little bit trickier.
Speaker 1: But those are some of the ways that you can
Speaker 1: get around that. All right, now, we talked about iOS fifteen.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about watch os. I'm not going to go
Speaker 1: into the other stuff because I feel like the Mac stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like gets a little nitty gritty there,
Speaker 1: and the I can't really remember anything else that I
Speaker 1: saw there that was like totally you know, like I
Speaker 1: need to talk about.
Speaker 2: But watch os.
Speaker 1: Actually, let me look at my story I did for KTLA,
Speaker 1: because that's where I put kind of like the big
Speaker 1: things that I thought were interesting. That's probably an easy
Speaker 1: way to do it. So let me see. Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1: We got iOS fifteen FaceTime spatial audio. Oh, this was interesting.
Speaker 1: On iOS fifteen, Apple's adding a feature that lets your
Speaker 1: friends know and you have do not Disturb turned on
Speaker 1: so that when they try to text you. It will say, hey,
Speaker 1: your friends got do not disturb? Do you still want
Speaker 1: to send that text? And this got a big reaction
Speaker 1: on Twitter. People were like, hey, I don't want Apple
Speaker 1: telling people when I have d ON d on DN
Speaker 1: d on, but I believe that you'll be able to
Speaker 1: obviously turn this feature on or off. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like CarPlay. In the car they send a text to
Speaker 1: people that says, hey, Rich is driving right now. He'll
Speaker 1: get back to you when he's not driving. Let's see
Speaker 1: what else I talked about, the Apple wallet stuff, the
Speaker 1: live tech stuff, Oh, Legacy Contact.
Speaker 2: This is a big one.
Speaker 1: So Legacy Contact lets you set a loved one or
Speaker 1: a friend that will get access to the contents of
Speaker 1: your iCloud after you die, which I thought was a
Speaker 1: really nice feature because I know it's a topic we
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it does cause a lot of headaches for people, you know,
Speaker 1: family members trying to tap into you know, the photos
Speaker 1: or the videos or the you know whatever people had
Speaker 1: stored on their phone. And this also got a lot
Speaker 1: of reaction on Twitter. But again, it's something you can
Speaker 1: set up. You don't have to set it up, but
Speaker 1: if you want to, you can. Google has something called
Speaker 1: Inactive Account Manager, and Facebook also has a legacy contact
Speaker 1: So it's not a new idea, it's just something that
Speaker 1: you can do.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Watch OS eight, Let's see, I didn't really see anything
Speaker 1: huge and Watch OS eight, but they have a new
Speaker 1: photos watch face. It was it was revealed that the
Speaker 1: photos watch face is the most popular watch face on
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch, which I would not have thought of.
Speaker 1: But now they have a portrait version, so you can
Speaker 1: now choose your portrait photos to go in there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, I don't really, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't really use a photos thing on my watch.
Speaker 1: I think it's just not for me.
Speaker 2: The Breathe app is gone.
Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be called the Mindfulness app because now
Speaker 1: it's gonna be doing daily reflections and daily breathing, which
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be honest. I was at a funeral
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: it was sad, and I actually did use the breathe
Speaker 1: function on my Apple Watch while I was sitting there
Speaker 1: listening to everyone talking, because you know, it was it
Speaker 1: was definitely emotional and I just felt like Okay, this
Speaker 1: probably helped me kind of just you know, rest, you know,
Speaker 1: relax a little bit, take it, take some deep breaths,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like, you know, I just
Speaker 1: activated the feature on my watch and I just took
Speaker 1: some nice deep breaths and it did really help. So
Speaker 1: I don't use the breathe app often enough. I feel
Speaker 1: like I should and it really does help. So I
Speaker 1: always ignore the notification and I just shouldn't, you know it,
Speaker 1: because it really the breathing is such a such a
Speaker 1: powerful thing for the body.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else.
Speaker 1: It's gonna support respiration tracking while you sleep, so basically
Speaker 1: kind of how you breathe at night, and it will
Speaker 1: it will. It just uses the accelerometer in your watch.
Speaker 1: They're actually not measuring anything on your skin. It's just
Speaker 1: the It's kind of what Google's doing with their home
Speaker 1: their Google Home Hub or their Nest Hub whatever they
Speaker 1: call it, a little tiny one that has sleep tracking
Speaker 1: built in. It actually looks at the rise and fall
Speaker 1: of your chest. This is doing the same thing, but
Speaker 1: just figuring out the rise and fall of your body
Speaker 1: using an algorithm. So it's like monitoring micro movements, small things.
Speaker 1: There will be the timer app on the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: can handle multiple timers. You can also label them. And
Speaker 1: there's a new contacts app on your wrist on your watch,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. And you can respond to
Speaker 1: mesages using gifts. So I think those are the big,
Speaker 1: kind of main things on the Apple Watch. I just
Speaker 1: think the Apple Watch continues to get better and better.
Speaker 1: It just really really is an amazing device. I've said
Speaker 1: it over and over. I don't think I could live
Speaker 1: without it, And even if I switched to Android, I'd
Speaker 1: still probably find myself using it, Like I'd still keep
Speaker 1: it on and figure out how to still use it.
Speaker 1: I mean, my big thing is my minutes every day,
Speaker 1: like I've got to hit those, you know. Oh, also
Speaker 1: find my is going to be on the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. So you'll be able to
Speaker 1: see where your devices are on your Apple Watch as well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get another question. Hello, Rich, my best
Speaker 1: friend recommended that I contact you about a problem with
Speaker 1: my iPad. I guess you've helped her a lot. My
Speaker 1: iPad pro I bought it July twenty seventeen, still works
Speaker 1: for my needs, email, reading eyebooks, playing solitaire, no music,
Speaker 1: very few pictures, it loses battery life very rapidly, so
Speaker 1: I keep it plugged in. My question is is it
Speaker 1: time for a new iPad? If so, which one is
Speaker 1: the best for my limited use? Or do I wait?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Maria, Well, I think in odd July twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen to twenty twenty one? Is it twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: or twenty Oh my gosh, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: year it is. What year is it? I think it's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Yeah, it's twenty twenty one. Still, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was weird. I like had this feeling it was.
Speaker 1: I knew it was twenty twenty one, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure because I know we've been locked
Speaker 1: up for so long. Okay, yes, twenty twenty one, so
Speaker 1: that is three that's four years, So four years your
Speaker 1: iPad should still be working just fine. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: probably slow, and you know, but the funny thing is
Speaker 1: you didn't say that it's slow. So you know, for
Speaker 1: your needs, you're doing email, you're reading books, you're playing Solitaire,
Speaker 1: no music, few pictures, so it's not like you're really
Speaker 1: asking a lot of this device. And a four year
Speaker 1: old iPad should still be able to handle those things. Now,
Speaker 1: the battery life depending on how you charged it and
Speaker 1: how you used it, Yes, it could be an issue.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is number one, before you
Speaker 1: do anything crazy, like you know, buying a new iPad,
Speaker 1: I would actually go into settings and then if you
Speaker 1: scroll down, you'll see a battery situation and then you
Speaker 1: click that, and then you click battery health and it
Speaker 1: will tell you under that maximum capacity and see what
Speaker 1: that numbers at. Right now, my phone says one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So if it's at like, you know, sixty percent something
Speaker 1: like that, it it may be you know, that's probably
Speaker 1: why your battery is not lasting that long, so you
Speaker 1: might want to you.
Speaker 2: Know, there's a couple of things you could do.
Speaker 1: If your iPad is perfectly fine, I would bring it
Speaker 1: to a place like you break eye fix or any
Speaker 1: local place that you have that does repairs and see
Speaker 1: how much they charge for a you know, a repair.
Speaker 1: So if you want to do like, let's see, let's
Speaker 1: see how much that's let's see does it give you
Speaker 1: like a let's do iPad. Let's do iPad. What did
Speaker 1: you say it was? You said it was an iPad
Speaker 1: pro July twenty seventeen. So let's say iPad Pro. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that's the maybe the second generation, maybe the first.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, we'll just go with the second
Speaker 1: and we'll just see if it gives me Okay, broken screen.
Speaker 2: Don't know, and I don't know if you.
Speaker 1: Can get an estimate, because if you can get an estimate,
Speaker 1: you know, what I would say is get an estimate
Speaker 1: from one of these places to see how much it
Speaker 1: costs to do your repair, and you could just replace
Speaker 1: the battery. Yeah, it doesn't say how much, so you know,
Speaker 1: take it in and see how much it is to
Speaker 1: replace the battery.
Speaker 2: If it is, I would say under one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I'd actually say under eighty bucks because one hundred seems
Speaker 1: like a lot. That's that's a third of the price
Speaker 1: of a new iPad. So basically, what I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: figure out how much it costs to replace the battery,
Speaker 1: figure out if your battery is a problem, and also
Speaker 1: uninstall any apps you don't need, you know, maybe make
Speaker 1: all the software updates, and then figure out the battery situation.
Speaker 1: Then bring it in see how much it would cost.
Speaker 1: They'll give you a free estimate if it's like under
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, like I'm talking eighty bucks. Maybe if
Speaker 1: that's worth it to you to just replace the battery,
Speaker 1: you don't have to really deal and you can you know,
Speaker 1: two years, you can figure this out. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can go longer, but it may be too slow at
Speaker 1: that point, or you can just buy the new iPad
Speaker 1: for three hundred. I would recommend the one for three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine dollars. It's just a standard iPad.
Speaker 1: And I would also go on Google and search iPad deals,
Speaker 1: and the bloggers generally blog about the best iPad deals
Speaker 1: out there, and so you can see the iPad ten
Speaker 1: point two just got a massive price cut, and let's
Speaker 1: see how much that is. It is two hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars. So I would buy the new iPad
Speaker 1: for two ninety nine if you feel like the battery
Speaker 1: situation is gotten to a place where it's just too
Speaker 1: expensive you don't want to deal with it. And then,
Speaker 1: by the way, sell your old iPad pro on Gizmo
Speaker 1: Go Gizmo Gizmo Goo dot com and get rid of
Speaker 1: it and get some money back for the new iPad.
Speaker 1: So a great question. All right, I probably spent way
Speaker 1: too long on that question. All right, Amazon sidewalk, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, the scariest thing to ever hit neighborhoods. Right,
Speaker 1: if you've been listening to the news, it's like everyone's
Speaker 1: just pooh poohing on Amazon sidewalk. Here's how to opt out,
Speaker 1: here's how to opt out. And you know, I'm guilty
Speaker 1: of this somewhat. I did my Amazon Sidewalk story back
Speaker 1: in December. It was my understanding that they were going
Speaker 1: to turn on the network back then. I guess they didn't,
Speaker 1: but it turned on I believe January or June eighth.
Speaker 1: And so if you have pretty much any echo device,
Speaker 1: or when it comes to ring devices, if you have
Speaker 1: their wired floodlight cameras, and I think there might be
Speaker 1: another one, but it's mostly I think it's a spotlight
Speaker 1: cam and the wired floodlight cameras, those are all on
Speaker 1: this Amazon network. And I think the thing that Amazon
Speaker 1: did that everyone got really up in arms about is
Speaker 1: that they they kind of turned it on automatically. They
Speaker 1: didn't give people the option to say, hey, do you
Speaker 1: want to turn this on or you do not want
Speaker 1: to turn it on. So my feeling is number one,
Speaker 1: Apple did the same exact thing, by the way, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago when they they, you know, did
Speaker 1: the whole find my thing. I mean, that's the same
Speaker 1: thing that's going on. I mean, I know it's using
Speaker 1: you know, Bluetooth, but it's it's basically the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a low power, low energy network that
Speaker 1: uses a little bit of your phone's power and internet
Speaker 1: to kind of help out other people. That's what Amazon's doing.
Speaker 1: They're using a little bit of your internet to connect,
Speaker 1: you know, help these devices connect to each other and
Speaker 1: also to you know, the greater uh situation that's going on.
Speaker 1: So let me give you an example. Okay, let me
Speaker 1: give you just a real world example. Let's say that
Speaker 1: you buy a new Amazon product, right and you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone. The way it typically works, you have to
Speaker 1: have your phone sense the product and it you know,
Speaker 1: it goes through this whole thing where you might have
Speaker 1: to connect to that product's Wi Fi and you have
Speaker 1: to switch in your Wi Fi settings to figure it out.
Speaker 1: You got to find the product and you got to
Speaker 1: switch back to your WiFi. It's like a whole big
Speaker 1: thing that is a little bit complicated, especially in the iPhone. Now,
Speaker 1: let's imagine that that product can now just find the
Speaker 1: Amazon Sidewalk network all by itself, and because it knows
Speaker 1: how the proximity to your phone, it says, oh, we
Speaker 1: see you've got a new device to set up.
Speaker 2: Would you like to set it up?
Speaker 1: And it uses the Amazon network to send all of
Speaker 1: your information to that device and set it up automatically
Speaker 1: in about two seconds versus all this back and forth
Speaker 1: and go to your Wi Fi settings and it's done.
Speaker 1: And not just that, the tiles. Tiles are going to
Speaker 1: connect to this Amazon network. So now you have a
Speaker 1: nice competitor to Apple. Why should Apple? I mean I
Speaker 1: literally was having this debate with my friends last night
Speaker 1: about you know.
Speaker 2: They were like, oh, I got.
Speaker 1: To turn off sidewalk, and I'm like why, Like why
Speaker 1: is everyone so ready to turn off sidewalk without even
Speaker 1: knowing anything about it?
Speaker 2: And I get it.
Speaker 1: Amazon turned it on without people's permission, but so did Apple.
Speaker 1: I mean, find myzon by default in your iPhone and
Speaker 1: you have to go in and turn it off if
Speaker 1: you don't want to be a part of that crowdsource network.
Speaker 1: Amazon's doing the same thing. So the other little nugget
Speaker 1: I think thought it was interesting. Someone commented on my
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was my Facebook page or whatever,
Speaker 1: but they said, and this is a blog post from
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen when Amazon was testing sidewalk in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: They said that they got their Amazon employees and friends
Speaker 1: and family to conduct a test and with just seven
Speaker 1: hundred ring lights that supported nine hundred megahertz connections, they
Speaker 1: were able to cover almost all of the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: basin with just seven hundred devices. So Amazon knows that
Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to turn this thing off,
Speaker 1: But they also know that, like literally, with just their
Speaker 1: devices that their employees are using that are probably gonna
Speaker 1: leave them on, or just a fraction of people leave
Speaker 1: these things on. Their network's going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm good with that because I
Speaker 1: actually like the fact that we have a competitor to
Speaker 1: Apple's Find my Network. Let's give Tile a little run
Speaker 1: for its money, or Apple a little run for its
Speaker 1: money with these tiles, And I'm totally good with that.
Speaker 1: What about when Google decides to do this with Android
Speaker 1: phones and Google Nest devices, which they probably will end
Speaker 1: up doing. And yes, Google's going to get a hard
Speaker 1: time as well. But Amazon's just getting a lot, a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of I don't know, they're just
Speaker 1: I don't know what the word is. Flack Is that it?
Speaker 1: But I thought the best article was actually written by
Speaker 1: John Chase of Wirecutter, and.
Speaker 2: He was the only one that was.
Speaker 1: I don't know, had the courage to write a headline
Speaker 1: that said, Amazon sidewalk will share your Internet with strangers.
Speaker 1: It's not as scary as it sounds. So John, thank
Speaker 1: you for being a voice of reason in this world
Speaker 1: of I call him klingons of just all these little
Speaker 1: blogs that say, oh, a lot of traffic, let's just
Speaker 1: get all the traffic that people are Let's make Amazon
Speaker 1: really scary because it's a big, scary company doing mean things,
Speaker 1: and it just that's the way it is. And everyone
Speaker 1: just wrote those articles about here's how to turn off sidewalk,
Speaker 1: here's how to turn off sidewalk, without really explaining what
Speaker 1: it is and how it works. And yes, there are
Speaker 1: definitely some questions about the security, but let's be honest,
Speaker 1: Amazon's a big company. I think that I want to
Speaker 1: believe they're doing good and I hope they are, and yes,
Speaker 1: I think you should be skeptical and very critical of
Speaker 1: all these things, but I think that you should also
Speaker 1: understand the entire situation and put it into perspective with
Speaker 1: what's going on in the world at large, and when
Speaker 1: you do that. Personally, I'm leaving the Sidewalk Network on
Speaker 1: because I want to help people find their lost dogs
Speaker 1: and their lost keys and all that good stuff. And
Speaker 1: I want to give Apple a little bit of competition
Speaker 1: so that the air tag is not the only thing.
Speaker 2: That is able to find stuff.
Speaker 1: So hopefully you still listen to my podcast even though
Speaker 1: I just totally gave my support.
Speaker 2: To Amazon's Sidewalk How dare I? All? Right? Hi? Rich?
Speaker 1: We are not too tech savvy and are afraid of
Speaker 1: adding apps onto our home computer. We only use a
Speaker 1: home computer, no cell phones. We get Instagram posts, but
Speaker 1: we seem to be missing out by not getting Instagram
Speaker 1: stories that people are referencing all the time. Is there
Speaker 1: a safe and easy way or an app that you
Speaker 1: know is safe so we can get Instagram stories on
Speaker 1: our home computer.
Speaker 2: Thank you? Wow, no name given. That's a rarity.
Speaker 1: Yes, super easy Instagram dot com. Just go there and
Speaker 1: tap Instagram in the upper left hand corner if it's
Speaker 1: not already tapped, and you should see a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of circles on the upper left hand side of the page.
Speaker 1: You click these circles and you will see people's stories
Speaker 1: and you can see and scan through them and swipe
Speaker 1: through them. Well, it's mostly clicking, just the way you
Speaker 1: would on a phone. Now, if you don't have that option,
Speaker 1: maybe you need to update your web browser. I'm using
Speaker 1: a recent Chrome version and it works just fine. It
Speaker 1: might not work on every web browser, so, but that's it.
Speaker 1: Just go to Instagram dot com. As long as you're
Speaker 1: logged in, you should be able to see storre worries.
Speaker 1: Instagram has slowly but surely been increasing the amount of
Speaker 1: things you can do on their website. Right now, you still,
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, cannot post. You cannot
Speaker 1: post uh posts from Instagram on the website, but you
Speaker 1: can upload Instagram TV, IGTV.
Speaker 2: Why am I not able to do that? What's going
Speaker 2: on here? Uh?
Speaker 1: Why am I not being able to see that? Usually
Speaker 1: I do. I'm curious why mine's not doing this? It
Speaker 1: used to just have a place where I can upload
Speaker 1: a new story. Let's see, do I have to go
Speaker 1: to my Huh did they take that away?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Here it is, okay, Yeah, you have to go to
Speaker 1: you have to go to your own profile and then
Speaker 1: click igtv and there's.
Speaker 2: An upload button.
Speaker 1: So if you ever want to upload igtv content from Instagram,
Speaker 1: you could do that. By the way, can I tell
Speaker 1: you that, you know, I'm playing Instagram's game with this
Speaker 1: whole vertical video thing on.
Speaker 2: Instagram, And it's just it's not that you know Instagram.
Speaker 1: When ig TV first came out, it had to be
Speaker 1: vertical video, and I used to do the thing where
Speaker 1: I used to say, oh, rotate your phone because I
Speaker 1: still wanted to make it full screen. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I do things the way I consume stuff. So when
Speaker 1: I think about what I do for the viewer on
Speaker 1: my social media I platforms, I'm trying to do things
Speaker 1: in the way that people use the platform. So with Instagram,
Speaker 1: I don't sit there and turn my phone to the
Speaker 1: side ever. And I also hate looking at videos that
Speaker 1: are small. So if it's a sixteen by nine video
Speaker 1: that yes, you can upload to Instagram TV, it will
Speaker 1: work just fine. It's so tiny on my phone screen
Speaker 1: that I don't want to watch that, and so if
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch that, I'm assuming that other
Speaker 1: people don't want to watch it in that format as well. Now,
Speaker 1: on the flip side, when I upload stuff to igtv
Speaker 1: in the vertical video format, which I've been doing, I
Speaker 1: love it because it fills up my entire phone screen
Speaker 1: and it just feels like I'm immersed in that content.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I've really been doing that with
Speaker 1: all my videos. As much as I don't want to
Speaker 1: shoot videos that way because I just feel like they're
Speaker 1: unnatural for Instagram, that's how it works, and that's what
Speaker 1: I do, and so that's kind of why when you
Speaker 1: look at my Instagram, it's the reason why I.
Speaker 2: Have my videos vertical.
Speaker 1: Because it's IGTV, I can go a little bit longer
Speaker 1: than the sixty seconds they give you as a square video,
Speaker 1: but it's also not so annoying as a as a
Speaker 1: sixteen by nine horizontal video that's so small that on
Speaker 1: a phone screen you just can't see. Now, on Facebook,
Speaker 1: it's just the opposite. I don't mind putting things on
Speaker 1: Facebook that are sixteen by nine because you know, it's
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's Facebook, And that's I'm much more
Speaker 1: used to watching video content on there like that, but
Speaker 1: also you can watch it on your TV screen, also
Speaker 1: on your computer screen. Most people are consuming Instagram on
Speaker 1: their phone, and it's also in a vertical mode. So
Speaker 1: that's why I'm doing that, and I feel like it's
Speaker 1: the most immersive, even though for me as a quote
Speaker 1: unquote content creator, I mean, you know, to use that
Speaker 1: word loosely. For me, it's it's just not ideal. Like
Speaker 1: I wish I could just do you know, sixteen by nine.
Speaker 1: I could fit much more into the video and I
Speaker 1: could put it in more places, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: they've locked me in with this IGTV. So that's why
Speaker 1: you see my stuff in that format, all right. Speaking
Speaker 1: of videos, I did one on this bike. I The
Speaker 1: headline is I rode the Tesla of electric bikes and
Speaker 1: it completely changed the way I think about getting around town.
Speaker 1: This has been the most popular story on the KTLA
Speaker 1: website for three days now. I don't know why. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like that many people are interested in this bike.
Speaker 1: But I actually emailed our web team to say, hey,
Speaker 1: where is all this traffic coming from? Like, because I
Speaker 1: looked on Reddit, it wasn't on it wasn't posted to Reddit.
Speaker 2: It wasn't.
Speaker 1: It's not like a I don't know where this is
Speaker 1: coming from, but I now I have an idea because
Speaker 1: he said all the traffic is coming from Google itself,
Speaker 1: and so I think what happened is that this story
Speaker 1: got tagged as either a Tesla story or the van moved,
Speaker 1: the bike itself, or electric bikes as a broader top
Speaker 1: and it's being served up to everyone's Google discover feed
Speaker 1: or Google news feed and they're customized Google News And
Speaker 1: when that happens with the story, it's almost magical because
Speaker 1: it just gets taken away in this like whoosh of
Speaker 1: like traffic, because it just Google serves your story to
Speaker 1: so many people if they've ever shown a big interest
Speaker 1: in either Tesla electric cars, are sorry, electric bikes or
Speaker 1: even I would think less. So the van Move, which
Speaker 1: is the specific bike I'm talking about, but anyway, I
Speaker 1: hope I didn't talk about this on the podcast before,
Speaker 1: but I've been driving around the van Move, which is
Speaker 1: the electric bike that it took a while for them
Speaker 1: to send it to me because I kept saying, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this bike is too expensive. I don't want to you know,
Speaker 1: I don't really feature super duper expensive stuff in my
Speaker 1: reports because I'm not really expecting people to buy a
Speaker 1: twenty two hundred dollars electric bike. But when I go
Speaker 1: to a bike path in Ventura or in Santa Monica
Speaker 1: and I see half the bikes whizzing past me are electric,
Speaker 1: or if I'm stopped on the bike path, you know
Speaker 1: here in La and I'm seeing a lot of electric bikes,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I gotta do trend piece and I
Speaker 1: need some hands on time. So that's when I said, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: send me the van move I put it together. This
Speaker 1: bike is just phenomenal. It is literally the electric bike
Speaker 1: that I would purchase if I'm going to purchase an
Speaker 1: electric bike, and I may end up buying this bike,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But it's expensive. But you set this
Speaker 1: thing up and it looks like it's just sleek, it's slick,
Speaker 1: it charges up nicely, it connects to your iPhone or
Speaker 1: your Android. It's got like this little digital display on it.
Speaker 1: I did a video on it on my Instagram of
Speaker 1: just the bike. Soon I'll do on me riding it,
Speaker 1: so you can get an idea. But it's just so
Speaker 1: cool because you give yourself. I didn't know this about it.
Speaker 1: I didn't know how electric bikes work. And this is
Speaker 1: why I like to get hands on time we call
Speaker 1: it background experience with these devices and these things, because
Speaker 1: then I can talk about it as someone who's actually
Speaker 1: used it, right, And so that's why it does take
Speaker 1: a little bit extra work for me to do my
Speaker 1: reports in the way I do them. But I do
Speaker 1: like to have some hands on time with these gadgets
Speaker 1: and these things because then I can talk about them
Speaker 1: and answer questions in a smart way versus reading a
Speaker 1: press release and saying, oh, yeah, these electric bikes are
Speaker 1: very popular. People are buying them and you know, and
Speaker 1: I don't really know because I've never really been on one.
Speaker 1: So I've been riding this bike around, you know, not
Speaker 1: too much, but enough, and it's it's really fun. It's
Speaker 1: such a slick looking bike. Everyone looks at it when
Speaker 1: you stop at a stoplight or whatever, and it's so
Speaker 1: smooth you can So I didn't know this about electric bikes.
Speaker 1: You get the power, at least on the ones that
Speaker 1: there's different models, but the one I'm using is the
Speaker 1: power is in the pedaling, so when you pedal, it
Speaker 1: actually gives you like a little boost, like when you
Speaker 1: one rotation is going to take you a lot further
Speaker 1: because the engine kind of carries you. It gives you
Speaker 1: like or the motor whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: not the engine, the electric motor kind of like gives
Speaker 1: you like this little boost as you press turn the
Speaker 1: pedals and you can decide what kind of boost you want,
Speaker 1: and it's on this bike.
Speaker 2: It's from one to four, or you can do no
Speaker 2: boost at all.
Speaker 1: And that was my big concern with electric bikes was
Speaker 1: that I was like, if I'm gonna be bike riding,
Speaker 1: I want to get the exercise. And on this bike
Speaker 1: and maybe all electric bikes, you can just have the
Speaker 1: option of no boost and so you can ride with
Speaker 1: it as a zero. And so I did that. I
Speaker 1: rode it with my son. We had a great time,
Speaker 1: went on like a nine mile bike ride. And the
Speaker 1: cool thing is you can go on a really long
Speaker 1: bike ride, but then you can use assistance on the
Speaker 1: way back. So if you're tired, you get a little assistance.
Speaker 1: Then there's a boost button, so on the handlebar there's
Speaker 1: a boost so you press that and you get an
Speaker 1: immediate jolt of boom. You just go and the battery
Speaker 1: goes anywhere between thirty and ninety miles. This bike goes
Speaker 1: up to twenty miles an hour. I test drove another
Speaker 1: one at a place called electric Bike Attack rather in Venice,
Speaker 1: and they have bikes that are, you know, similar to
Speaker 1: the Van Move. The van Move is definitely the most
Speaker 1: high tech I've ever seen. But a lot of electric bikes.
Speaker 1: Some of them look like moped, some of them look
Speaker 1: like motorcycles. You know, they're much more electric than this
Speaker 1: this bike that I tested, which is more like a
Speaker 1: kind of like an everyday bike, but it's just powered
Speaker 1: with electric electricity versus some of these other bikes are
Speaker 1: much more bikey and like motory, right, Is that makes
Speaker 1: any sense? It just depends what you want. Some people
Speaker 1: want like a high powered motorbike. I would rather have
Speaker 1: something like the van Move that is much more like
Speaker 1: a bike that also happens to be electric. But it's
Speaker 1: kind of sly, right, And so now once you have
Speaker 1: an e bike, you're just thinking of all the ways
Speaker 1: that you can drive that e bike instead of your car.
Speaker 1: And so around my neighborhood, I'm like, oh, I can
Speaker 1: go to breakfast. So I drove to breakfast with my
Speaker 1: friends on a Sunday morning. I said, I'm taking my
Speaker 1: bike and it's you know, it's only fifteen minutes. And
Speaker 1: I used Apple Maps and found my little way there
Speaker 1: on Apple Maps because they have biking maps, and it
Speaker 1: was just such a cool experience, something that I just
Speaker 1: have never done before. And now that this idea has
Speaker 1: gotten in my head, I'm like, Okay, I think I
Speaker 1: could be that person who takes your bike on different
Speaker 1: errands for the weekend. You know, if I want to
Speaker 1: go to seven eleven or something, or you know, go
Speaker 1: to the I don't know wherever, I could just take
Speaker 1: my bike and you know, pick up a little backpack whatever,
Speaker 1: or go out with friends, you know, drive to my
Speaker 1: friend's houses that are nearby and just park my bike
Speaker 1: and you know, instead of driving, I just take a bike.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, it's it's just a really really cool
Speaker 1: thing that until you actually kind of get on one,
Speaker 1: you don't really think of this stuff. And again, this
Speaker 1: is why I like to do this, because I think
Speaker 1: about it and it changes little things. The little pathways
Speaker 1: in your brain change so that you your brain is
Speaker 1: now considering all things, not just one option, which in
Speaker 1: the past has been a car or walking or you know,
Speaker 1: a regular bike. But this van Move is just I
Speaker 1: can't speak highly enough. You got to watch the video
Speaker 1: on the Instagram. It's just such a cool, cool bike
Speaker 1: and I just can't get over it. And van Move
Speaker 1: from Oh can I talk about that? I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can. Anyway, I can't. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I forget. Sometimes I forget when people tell me I'm
Speaker 1: not allowed to talk about something. But anyway, van Move
Speaker 1: is a really cool bike company. They're based out of
Speaker 1: somewhere in Europe, and they have some stores in different cities.
Speaker 2: I think they had to pop up in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: at once.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're coming back to LA at some point, But anyway,
Speaker 1: I just thought this was really cool and just I'm
Speaker 1: now a believer. I really like my headline said it all.
Speaker 1: I rode the tesla of electric bikes and it completely
Speaker 1: changed the way I think about getting around town. It's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right, because when you're on an electric bike,
Speaker 1: you can go way further than you could on a
Speaker 1: standard bike.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I get all these people.
Speaker 1: Don't don't come after me for the whole exercise thing,
Speaker 1: because I'm I believe that same thing, like you should
Speaker 1: get exercise. But at the same time, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there who may have mobility issues, who
Speaker 1: may have joint issues, who may have an injury from
Speaker 1: sports or just in general with their knees, and so
Speaker 1: this is this also opens up possibilities for them. So
Speaker 1: no matter how you look at it, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just really cool that we have this option. And seeing
Speaker 1: a bike as slick as van move to me is
Speaker 1: just like this is the future. Like when bikes are
Speaker 1: this slick and the price comes down, it's like game over.
Speaker 1: You know, people will be deciding in urban areas of Okay,
Speaker 1: I could just get a bike and really get by
Speaker 1: between a bike and Uber and lyft and scooters and
Speaker 1: and it's that's a win for for a lot of
Speaker 1: different situations. All right, let's talk another question. Laura says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I have an iPhone ten R with Boost as my
Speaker 1: current carrier. Is there way to permanently disable the horrible
Speaker 1: amber alert alarm I have. I'm fine with a visual notification,
Speaker 1: but that alarm is beyond alarming. Thanks for all you do,
Speaker 1: Laura of Long Beach, Well, Laura, yes, I think you're
Speaker 1: doing this. I think you're saying this because we got
Speaker 1: an amber alert in Los Angeles last week, and you know,
Speaker 1: in my house with all the various devices around, you
Speaker 1: know it definitely it was like on my watch, it
Speaker 1: was on my phone, it was on my wife's phone,
Speaker 1: it was on my kid's iPad. Maybe not the kids iPad,
Speaker 1: but you know it definitely it definitely rang a few things. So, yes,
Speaker 1: you can turn these off in settings under settings notification
Speaker 1: at the very bottom of the screen it says government
Speaker 1: alerts and you can turn the alert on or off.
Speaker 1: But you know, as much as I'm also jarred by them,
Speaker 1: I leave them on because I just I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I just don't want there to be a situation
Speaker 1: in the world where I need to know something right.
Speaker 1: So you have three options, at least on my phone,
Speaker 1: you have Amber alerts, you have emergency alerts, and public
Speaker 1: safety alerts. So if you want to turn the Amber
Speaker 1: alerts off, go ahead, turn them off. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not going to recommend it, just because I feel
Speaker 1: like I like the fact that you know, yes, it's
Speaker 1: annoying and it's definitely you know, it butts into whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing. But at the same time, it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just I don't know. I feel
Speaker 1: better having it on, you know, I'm trying to trying
Speaker 1: to be a good human. I guess the you know,
Speaker 1: but you can do whatever you want, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people turn these off, believe me. With news and
Speaker 1: internet nowadays, it's like, if there is an amber alert
Speaker 1: in your area that does apply to you, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna see it in another way so or someone around
Speaker 1: you has a phone where they're gonna get it. So
Speaker 1: I've been on planes where we get special alerts and
Speaker 1: the whole plane just erupts in.
Speaker 2: Like you know, the.
Speaker 1: You know sounds. So anyway, that's where you turn them off. Now,
Speaker 1: with the sounds, I think, I don't I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that I think the sounds might.
Speaker 1: I think they're silent if your phone is on silent.
Speaker 1: My phone is on silent like ninety nine point nine
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and so I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever hear sounds on my phone ever, because I'm always,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always shooting something like recording something, and
Speaker 1: so I've just grown up in TV and I'm always
Speaker 1: you have your phone on silent, you know, it's on vibrate.
Speaker 1: And with the Apple Watch, it's been amazing because I
Speaker 1: never need to think because my wrist is going to
Speaker 1: tell me what I need to know. But that's how
Speaker 1: you do it. And no judgment. If you want to
Speaker 1: turn these off, I'm I'm you know, turn them off.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's your progative. It's your phone. You
Speaker 1: could do whatever you want, you know, so that's that's
Speaker 1: that's your you know, your decision to make.
Speaker 2: But that's how you do it, all right. Uh.
Speaker 1: Instagram revealed a little bit about it kind of pulled
Speaker 1: the curtain back a little bit, and maybe this is
Speaker 1: not interesting to you at all, Maybe it is.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I tweeted this.
Speaker 1: Not too many people care, so I probably shouldn't even
Speaker 1: talk about it on the podcast, but I will just
Speaker 1: really quickly. I thought it was interesting because it's always
Speaker 1: people are always curious about why isn't my stuff being
Speaker 1: shown on Instagram? Who sees my stuff on Instagram? And
Speaker 1: you know, people think it's this mysterious algorithm, which it is.
Speaker 1: There definitely is some mysteriousness to it, but Instagram kind
Speaker 1: of revealed a little bit and I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1: So here is the bottom line with the signals in
Speaker 1: the algorithm. Right, So number one in order of importance
Speaker 1: when you see feeds and stories, right, this is how
Speaker 1: algorithm ranks them.
Speaker 2: Number one.
Speaker 1: Information about the post. How many people have liked it before,
Speaker 1: So if a lot of people like a post, yes,
Speaker 1: it's going to be shown to more people. Also, how
Speaker 1: old the post is, right, so if it's an older post,
Speaker 1: they're gonna start showing it to less people. That just
Speaker 1: makes sense. Information about the person who posted it. So
Speaker 1: if the person is interesting to you, that means like,
Speaker 1: if you interact.
Speaker 2: With that person a lot, they're gonna show you their
Speaker 2: stuff more.
Speaker 1: And you can easily just do this with my account
Speaker 1: if you're tapping on my stories a lot or my
Speaker 1: you're liking my Facebook post or my Instagram posts rather
Speaker 1: a lot Instagram says oh cool, we got one, we
Speaker 1: got one.
Speaker 2: We're gonna show that person more to them.
Speaker 1: It just makes sense, right, I Mean, if you like something,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see more of it your activity, So how
Speaker 1: many posts you've liked on that person? That's kind of
Speaker 1: That's another thing, Like I also, you know This kind
Speaker 1: of goes about the person, but also the activity in
Speaker 1: the posts that you like from that person. So you
Speaker 1: may you may never like a post on that person,
Speaker 1: so they might not show you as many posts, but
Speaker 1: if you like those posts a lot, they're gonna show
Speaker 1: you more. And then of course your history of interacting
Speaker 1: with someone, and this is a big one is the comment.
Speaker 1: So if you don't comment on someone's posts a lot,
Speaker 1: they're gonna show their posts to you less. So that's
Speaker 1: basically it. So imagine the more like this is the
Speaker 1: bottom line. They kind of condense it into this. The
Speaker 1: more time that they think you're gonna spend on a post,
Speaker 1: comment on it, like it, save it, or tap the profile,
Speaker 1: the more they're gonna show you that post. That's it
Speaker 1: bottom line. I mean, it's very easy.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's a lot of signals that go into that.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of like no crunching and formulas
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But that's the bottom line, and
Speaker 1: it just makes sense. The more you interact with people
Speaker 1: on Instagram, the more they're going to show you their posts.
Speaker 1: The more you do on Instagram, the more you're gonna see,
Speaker 1: the more you like stuff, the more you're gonna see
Speaker 1: similar stuff. I mean, it just kind of makes sense, right,
Speaker 1: So now you know, all right, another question, let's see
Speaker 1: what question? James says, Hey, Rich A few days ago,
Speaker 1: I went to the Delta website to book round trip
Speaker 1: tickets to Cancun, and the economy plus was seven thirty eight.
Speaker 1: I had points to bring it down to three thirty.
Speaker 1: A day and a half later, the same fare increase
Speaker 1: to five hundred. I know there are fair checker sites
Speaker 1: where you enter a date and destination, but I have
Speaker 1: specific Delta flight numbers. Is there a site that can
Speaker 1: alert me when that particular flight changes prices? Thank you, James, Yes, James,
Speaker 1: I use this every day. It's called Google Flights. Super
Speaker 1: duper easy Google Flights. Just select the exact flights that
Speaker 1: you want, so these Delta flights, and once you select them,
Speaker 1: there will be a big button that says track prices.
Speaker 2: Sort of in the middle of the screen.
Speaker 1: It's a toggle switch, and just track the prices and
Speaker 1: next thing, no, you'll get a bunch of alerts from Google.
Speaker 1: You'll get an alert when the price is about to
Speaker 1: go up if their little prediction says, you know what,
Speaker 1: in the next ten hours this is going up fifty bucks.
Speaker 2: You'll get that alert.
Speaker 1: You'll get an alert when the price goes up, which
Speaker 1: happens very often, and you also get an alert when
Speaker 1: the price goes down.
Speaker 2: And these are not perfect, believe me.
Speaker 1: Sometimes by the time you see them, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're not checking your email every two seconds, or if
Speaker 1: you're not on an Android that might deliver these things
Speaker 1: as a notification, you'll you know, you can get to
Speaker 1: the website, the Delta site, and the price is already
Speaker 1: changed again.
Speaker 2: But that's what I use.
Speaker 1: I am always tracking at least one fair and believe me,
Speaker 1: these things they change a lot, and very significantly. I've
Speaker 1: seen prices go up, I've seen prices go down. I've
Speaker 1: seen prices go up and down and all around, and
Speaker 1: it's just there's no rhyme or reason. But I will
Speaker 1: tell you one thing, and that it seems to happen
Speaker 1: as soon as you track a price, the price goes
Speaker 1: up for some reason. And it happens all the time.
Speaker 1: And that's why I always say, you know, book, if
Speaker 1: you see a price that you like, book it immediately
Speaker 1: like that first price that you got might have been
Speaker 1: the best price for these Cancun. People are traveling a
Speaker 1: lot right now, and prices are are going pretty wild.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm gonna work on a story with some
Speaker 1: travel tips because you know, I have a couple sites
Speaker 1: that I use. Actually asked folks on Twitter today about
Speaker 1: their favorite travel websites and tools, and it's a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff that I've known. But you know, there
Speaker 1: are some things that there are some trends where people
Speaker 1: you know definitely like the same things and Google flights.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like a hidden gem. I feel
Speaker 1: like not enough people know about it because most people
Speaker 1: know about Kayak, and maybe they do that, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they. If they, I don't really use Kayak. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I haven't used it. I remember when Kayak came out.
Speaker 1: I was a reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was just the most amazing thing ever. The fact
Speaker 1: that you could actually compare flight prices on one page
Speaker 1: from different airlines was such a new idea. And you're
Speaker 1: talking this was what two thousand, gosh, this was probably
Speaker 1: two thousand. Let's see Kayak launched. I mean this was
Speaker 1: long like two thousand and three, maybe.
Speaker 2: Year.
Speaker 1: Let's see Kayak launch yet two thousand and four. There
Speaker 1: you go, So two thousand and four, I just you.
Speaker 2: Know, it was it was just wild.
Speaker 1: It was a search engine for flights, and that was
Speaker 1: just something I had never been done before Expedia and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know it it was a very
Speaker 1: different thing. It was much more of like, you know,
Speaker 1: things were programmed in, but Kayak was much more like,
Speaker 1: we don't really.
Speaker 2: Care where these numbers are coming from.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna find them everywhere and put them all
Speaker 1: on one page, whereas Expedia worked more like a search
Speaker 1: travel engine, I think, and still now I feel like
Speaker 1: Kayak is much more like a search travel engine.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Google Flights is the much I feel like
Speaker 1: it's the most kind of like independent out of all
Speaker 1: of them, and it just gives you like the most
Speaker 1: independent kind of results that are not they're not they're
Speaker 1: not putting one thing higher than another because you know,
Speaker 1: United paid them for that placement. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: That's kind of anyway. That's where i'd go and that's
Speaker 1: what i'd use. All right, This is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: We talked about this whole idea of limited storage on
Speaker 1: Google Photos, and so of course there's not to me,
Speaker 1: there's not really a good alternative because you know, Google
Speaker 1: Photos just does so much. And I already talked about
Speaker 1: this in the last podcast, but I have been testing
Speaker 1: something called Iedrive Photos, and this is a local company
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And I'm always very hesitant when it
Speaker 1: comes to talking or you know, discussing any photo backup
Speaker 1: because there have been so many that have come and
Speaker 1: gone that they never survive, and it seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: only the big guys survive, you know, like the Microsofts
Speaker 1: of the world, the dropboxes.
Speaker 2: And you know, so many have come in gone.
Speaker 1: So I'm very hesitant to recommend this, but I will
Speaker 1: say it does work as promised, and I might use
Speaker 1: it as a secondary backup because it is unlimited photo
Speaker 1: and video storage for iOS and Android. For get this
Speaker 1: nine ninety five a year. That's nine dollars and ninety
Speaker 1: five cents a year.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I Drive has been around for a long time. They're
Speaker 1: actually a company. I think it's been around for like
Speaker 1: over twenty years, and so they are doing this. I
Speaker 1: guess they have experience in the field. But I downloaded
Speaker 1: the app.
Speaker 2: I signed up. You can do a seven day.
Speaker 1: Free trial, and so far I've uploaded in my free trial,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking just the just the photos that are
Speaker 1: on my phone or my new photos. I guess I
Speaker 1: have uploaded, tells you which I also like in the
Speaker 1: settings fifty nine gigabytes, so sixty gigabytes and no problem.
Speaker 1: It's unlimited photos and videos. By the way, at full resolution.
Speaker 1: This is called I Drive Photo. And by the way,
Speaker 1: the first year is just ninety nine cents. Ninety nine
Speaker 1: cents for the first year, and then ten dollars a
Speaker 1: year after that. So it's very compelling. And for me,
Speaker 1: I think what I'm gonna do is, I think I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna pay for this every year for ten bucks
Speaker 1: as long as it's around as just a backup backup,
Speaker 1: Like if I take a picture on my phone, it's
Speaker 1: going into this backup and if I ever need it,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna organize them or anything. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: delete stuff, but I'm just gonna leave it in there.
Speaker 1: So if I ever find a thing where my phone
Speaker 1: crashes or whatever, or my other cloud storage goes could put,
Speaker 1: I just go in here and I'm like, oh, that
Speaker 1: was the picture I took yesterday.
Speaker 2: Hear it. This is so.
Speaker 1: The website is I drive dot com slash photos. I
Speaker 1: drive dot com slash Photos. You can get a free
Speaker 1: seven day trial with no credit card needed. Again, I
Speaker 1: can't vouch for this company because I don't know how
Speaker 1: long they'll be around doing this, and they could change
Speaker 1: their mind when people start uploading gobs and gobs of
Speaker 1: photos and there's not really like a search functionality. I
Speaker 1: guess there's search, but it's very limited. No, the search
Speaker 1: is either photos or videos and there's like nothing special
Speaker 1: about it except it just organizes them in a timeline
Speaker 1: and you can favorite some as your favorites.
Speaker 2: You can see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's basically it, but it's it does what you need.
Speaker 1: It just backs up your photos. So if you just
Speaker 1: want like the cheapest solution that does unlimited and you
Speaker 1: have to think about much, you know, check it out.
Speaker 1: Just make sure it's not your only solution. But I
Speaker 1: am going to do a story with this company because
Speaker 1: they are local and I'm curious to hear what the
Speaker 1: founder says, Like how they think they can do this
Speaker 1: when Google itself can't do it is beyond me. So
Speaker 1: maybe they're just figuring that because they're smaller than Google.
Speaker 1: They're not going to get as many people, you know,
Speaker 1: bogging them down. But I feel like if word gets
Speaker 1: out about this, you know, people are definitely gonna try
Speaker 1: it out. So anyway, I drive photos, I signed up
Speaker 1: for it. Will well, I'll keep you posted on how
Speaker 1: it works. All right, let's see question here from Denise.
Speaker 1: Denise says, hey, Rich, we currently have the Apple TV
Speaker 1: third generation and looking to upgrade since YouTube's no longer
Speaker 1: available on it. My husband is somewhat tech savvy, and
Speaker 1: our daughter and son in law more so. But did
Speaker 1: see that there is an Apple second generation Apple TV
Speaker 1: four K that launched in April. Have you done any
Speaker 1: research on it? Is it user friendly? What model do
Speaker 1: you recommend? We are getting rid of cable and go
Speaker 1: with streaming, do you have any recommendations? Will definitely be
Speaker 1: a learning curve for me. I appreciate any help. I've
Speaker 1: reached out to you in the past, and you are
Speaker 1: a great help. Thank you and stay well Denise. All right, Well, Denise,
Speaker 1: I know that not everyone watches every segment that I
Speaker 1: do on TV, but I definitely did a review of
Speaker 1: the Apple TV four K recently when it came out
Speaker 1: and you know, you can watch those, by the way,
Speaker 1: on the ktla plus app no matter where you live,
Speaker 1: download it on your Apple TV, on your Fire TV
Speaker 1: stick or your Roku and just open up. It's called
Speaker 1: ktla plus. It's free, no sign up and you just
Speaker 1: you know, download the app and you can watch all
Speaker 1: my tech segments that are that air on TV.
Speaker 2: So it's pretty handy there. Uh.
Speaker 1: But what I what my conclusion is about the Apple
Speaker 1: TV four K is it's fantastic. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: have an iPhone, it's like the best companion ever. It's
Speaker 1: just a very expensive way to stream and if you
Speaker 1: don't mind paying the money for it, then it's what
Speaker 1: I would recommend because it's it's got great apps. It's
Speaker 1: got every app available, it's got a great version of
Speaker 1: every app, and yes, YouTube is on there and it's
Speaker 1: it works. So you know, as far as recommending the model,
Speaker 1: there's two models. There is a sixty four gigabyte and
Speaker 1: a thirty two gigabyte. Oh gosh, is that the case
Speaker 1: Apple TV four K.
Speaker 2: I got to look that up.
Speaker 1: I think it's sixty four, Yeah, thirty two and sixty four,
Speaker 1: And so you know the main thing is just deciding
Speaker 1: which one of those you want this the thirty two
Speaker 1: is one eighty, the sixty four is one ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I would go for the sixty four gigabyte just because
Speaker 1: you know, apps are getting huge these days, and thirty
Speaker 1: two gigs. Not like you're downloading movies to this thing anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the old days. But it's streaming mostly everything. But
Speaker 1: it still does need that space for things like especially
Speaker 1: if you're gonna play some games on it, Apple Arcade,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're downloading just a bunch of apps,
Speaker 1: like I just think for the extra twenty bucks, go
Speaker 1: for the sixty four gigabyte version. You get the new
Speaker 1: remote control, which is really nice, and you know, yes
Speaker 1: YouTube does work on there. And as for the streaming,
Speaker 1: like cutting the cord, I always recommend a website called
Speaker 1: untangled dot tv. So Untangled dot tv is the website
Speaker 1: that I recommend you pop in all the shows that
Speaker 1: you want to watch, all the channels that you like,
Speaker 1: and it will give you a list of all of
Speaker 1: the recommendations it has for streaming services. So that's what
Speaker 1: I would recommend. Check those out. And you know I've
Speaker 1: I cut the cord a couple of years ago. It's
Speaker 1: been fantastic. I mean, the big missing link in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles was really getting KTLA over an app because we're
Speaker 1: not on the streaming services. And once we're on KTLA Plus,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was pretty transformative for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I suspect a lot of people cut the chord when
Speaker 1: that happened. And you know, now you can watch your
Speaker 1: local news, you can watch all of our extra programming
Speaker 1: on demand, and then you can also just subscribe to
Speaker 1: the things like Netflix and Disney Plus for all the
Speaker 1: other stuff that you want to watch. It's worked out
Speaker 1: perfectly for us. So Untangled dot tv is the way
Speaker 1: to go. Okay, let me just talk about two quick moments,
Speaker 1: two quick things before I go Amazon DJ mode. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I've been testing all the music services
Speaker 1: and I really have Amazon Music is like, I really
Speaker 1: like it, and I just, you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: actually it's simple, it's straightforward, and I'm actually digging it
Speaker 1: because it is so simple, and I find things to
Speaker 1: play very quickly because their playlists are not like Spotify
Speaker 1: has so many playlists. I'm like, what's country chill versus
Speaker 1: country backyard barbecue versus country road versus country, Uh, you
Speaker 1: know whatever. It's like, I don't know, like I have
Speaker 1: to I spend I have to spend so much time
Speaker 1: looking at the nuances of these playlists that it takes
Speaker 1: me so long to figure out which one to play.
Speaker 1: And Apple Music is great, but it's you know, same thing.
Speaker 1: They have so many playlists. I think they said they
Speaker 1: have thirty thousand like human curated playlists on there. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just unbelievable. Amazon Music they and then they introduced
Speaker 1: this thing called DJ mode, which I personally love because
Speaker 1: I've I've mentioned this before. I'm a radio guy. I
Speaker 1: love radio, and so you know, to me, when a
Speaker 1: streaming service does not have a DJ, it's it's tricky
Speaker 1: because you don't know, you have no context for the
Speaker 1: song that's playing, right. You don't know if the song
Speaker 1: that's playing just came out by that artist or came
Speaker 1: out five years ago and they just picked a cut
Speaker 1: off an album. And so by having a DJ introduced
Speaker 1: songs which like Sirius XM has and iHeartRadio has. It's
Speaker 1: kind of fun because you get a little bit of insight.
Speaker 1: And Apple Music has it with their you know DJ stations,
Speaker 1: like their they have a country radio station, they have
Speaker 1: a hit station, they have their original Zane Low station.
Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, I think and I kind
Speaker 1: of predicted this, but it's the DJ is making a comeback.
Speaker 1: The DJ is making a comeback on streaming music services.
Speaker 1: So now on Amazon you have four DJ stations. It's
Speaker 1: called one is rap Rotation, one is Country Heat, one
Speaker 1: is All Hits, and then another one is a Billie
Speaker 1: Eilish station. So if you want to play these, just
Speaker 1: say the A word, play Rap Rotation in DJ mode,
Speaker 1: or play Country Heat in DJ mode, play all Hits
Speaker 1: in DJ mode, play the Billy Eilish takeover.
Speaker 2: And I listened to this.
Speaker 1: Yesterday in my house two ways. I listened on my iPhone,
Speaker 1: which was fine, it worked great and alex I almost
Speaker 1: said it. The A Word even comes on with some
Speaker 1: music trivia, which is kind of fun in her voice.
Speaker 2: But there's also DJs. They're not live.
Speaker 1: It's it's very clear it's recorded and tracked, but it's
Speaker 1: still kind of fun and maybe they'll do live later.
Speaker 1: Who knows Apple is live, which is kind of fun
Speaker 1: a lot on a lot of their morning shows.
Speaker 2: At least or some of their shows.
Speaker 1: I don't know they're live and taped, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: much more of like a person sitting there for four
Speaker 1: hours like doing the show versus this just sounds like
Speaker 1: they go in with like a paper and read a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. It's a start, but it's fun. It
Speaker 1: did not work on Sonos though. I think whatever system
Speaker 1: they're using is not you know, it's not compatible with
Speaker 1: Sonos just yet, but it'll come. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing I mentioned earlier in the podcast is that Apple
Speaker 1: Music has this you know this Dolby Atmost spatial audio.
Speaker 1: So you can open up your Apple Music app, make
Speaker 1: sure you're updated to the latest iOS fourteen point six,
Speaker 1: and look under Dolby Atmost under you know in the
Speaker 1: music and you can see the spatial audio. They have
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of playlists, so you can use your
Speaker 1: air pods to listen. You can use your AirPods Pro,
Speaker 1: you can use AirPods Max if you have them, beats,
Speaker 1: and then if you want to try other headphones which
Speaker 1: may or may not work, you can go into the
Speaker 1: Apple Music app under settings, choose preferences, and then you
Speaker 1: can turn Dolby Atmost on always and it will try
Speaker 1: to you know, push out that spatial audio no matter
Speaker 1: what headset you're listening on. Oh look at that. You
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