WEBVTT - Apple reveals new features coming soon to iPhone 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.520 New features coming soon to the iPhone and Apple Watch. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:18.000 Should you opt out of Amazon's sidewalk I've been riding 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.680 the coolest electric bike ever. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.120 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.720 on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.720 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:34.559 place where I answer the questions you send me. I'm 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.720 the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:42.320 Welcome to the show. Thanks for tuning in. I mentioned 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.000 that last month was the best month for the show 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.440 in a long time, probably like a year, you know, 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.199 since people are finally commuting back to work and all 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.600 that good stuff. So thank you for all the downloads. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.560 Thank you for listening. If you're new, thanks for being 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.120 on board. If you're you know, a regular, Thanks for 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:03.959 sticking with me. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:06.919 Sixty five weeks. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.240 By the way, it's been sixty five weeks that I've 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.520 worked at home. I just asked Siri. I can't believe it. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.320 And you know, I've been asking to go back into work. 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.640 It's kind of complicated. It's not like as easy as 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.760 you think in California at least, so apparently there's some 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.759 rules and regulations for people going back in and it's 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.080 a whole big thing, and so I you know, they said, 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.680 just stay stay at home, just kind of stay put, relax, 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.800 do your thing. You're doing great, everything's good. So I'm 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.000 gonna keep doing what I do. Although the world is reopening, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.360 which is really nice. I mean, you know, we had 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.240 some friends over last night, which was the first time 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.720 that we've all been together. Well that's not true. We 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.720 went to the park a couple times. So what I'm saying, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.640 like in our backyard. It's the first time we've all 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.480 been together at my house in over a year. So 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.040 it felt really good. The kids were just wild. They 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.800 were all running like they were just wild, wild maniacs 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.960 for like the first hour and then they realized like, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.120 oh okay, yes these are all my friends again, like 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.360 I can you know, play again, and it was great. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.360 So it was a nice time and it felt felt 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:15.000 pretty normal. I gotta say, so hopefully things are probably actually, 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.480 if you're listening outside of California, things have probably been 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.960 like that for a while. In California. We're kind of 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.520 like this, we're our own thing, right, I Mean, California 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.480 is just it was just a little bit different throughout 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.040 this whole thing, but it seemed to work because you know, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.960 it's I guess we're getting back to very normal very soon. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.200 So that's going to be exciting for most of us. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:40.200 This week another virtual event from Apple. Apple held their 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.600 Worldwide Developers Conference twenty twenty one, and they showed off 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.440 the new features coming soon to the iPhone, coming soon 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.799 to the iPad, coming soon to mac Os Monterey, keeping 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:58.000 with a California theme, and then what else, there's Apple Watch, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.960 so all kinds of stuff. I'm not going to go 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.800 for everything, honestly, Quite honestly, yes, there was a lot 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.920 of updates. Was any of it like, oh my gosh, Like, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.000 was I sitting in my chair just going this is 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:11.440 just mind boggling? 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.680 Probably not, but a lot of it was cool. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.119 A lot of it, you know, a lot of it's 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.919 catching up to Android. And I know I'm not saying 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.280 that facetiously. It's just kind of like the reality of 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.400 the way Apple does things versus Google, and it's just 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.880 you know, Google kind of does things, or early Samsung 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.800 does things. Early Apple takes a little bit more time, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.760 but they do it with a little bit more refinement. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.360 And it's also just a different way of thinking about things. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.880 And I've talked about this before. With the iPhone, the 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.960 features go to millions and millions of devices around the 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.120 world all at once, whereas with Android things are much 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.280 more fragmented. Google might have a feature and it might 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.640 not reach every phone, but it's available, it's out there, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.960 and it's gotten better, i think in recent years. But 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:59.440 some of the major updates Share play. This is kind 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.880 of like the ability to do things on your phone 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.200 with other people, so share your screen, share TV shows 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.920 and stuff that you're watching. Of course, a lot of 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.160 this requires that you have an iOS device on the 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.400 other end or an iPhone on the other end, and 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.600 also depending on the app letting you do this, So 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:20.240 that's one thing. FaceTime got some big updates. You know, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.239 it's kind of too little, too late, but of course 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.440 a lot of people use FaceTime, so I'm sure these 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.560 features will be used. But it's kind of like all 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.039 the stuff that you had available on Zoom and other 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.240 video chatting programs are now coming to FaceTime. So you 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.680 can look at people in a grid view. There are 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.120 microphone situations to kind of block out background noise, a 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.279 portrait mode to blow your background spatial audio. Apple's really 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.800 big on spatial audio right now, which is audio that 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.719 comes in from all directions. They just introduced it on 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.640 Apple Music, which I tested it out and it was fine. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.680 I mean, it's one of these things that you know, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.919 it's probably a slow burn. You know, it's like, we'll 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.640 take it for granted that will have it in a 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.760 few years right now. It's not like you know, they 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.320 said it was kind of like going from SDTV to 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.480 HDTV or to whatever. But to me it didn't really 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.159 feel that way. But I still need to listen to 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:09.839 it in a better pair of headphones. I just tried 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:10.480 the AirPods. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:10.880 Now. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.560 I will say, if you do listen to this podcast, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:13.000 you say. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.360 Rich, what are you talking about? You were going wild. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.560 Over spatial audio when you listen to it when you 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.479 watch that movie on your iPad up in Seattle or 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.920 Redmond back in January, And yes I did. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:24.520 I was. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.719 I thought the movie sounded fantastic. So maybe I just 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.919 need to listen a little bit more. I think the 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.440 problem with audio is that, you know, like music, the 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.159 way I consume it, I'm always it's either in my 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.200 car or in my house. It's more of a background thing, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.880 like I'm never actively listening per se, and I know 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.320 a lot of people probably do that, but I just don't, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.039 Like I don't sit down on my couch and like 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.120 listen to the new album from someone or listen to music. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:50.800 Like it's always just put on in the background, and 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.039 so the three D spatial audio stuff doesn't really occur 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.679 to me because it's just not a way that I listen. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.359 But in general, it's kind of cool the iPhone getting 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.640 some new ways to focus, these focus filters, so you 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.719 can have like sort of different home screens or different 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.320 setups for your different situations. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.120 I think this is a big one because I struggle 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:09.760 with this a lot. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.960 You know, on the weekends, I really want to be 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.040 a little bit more disconnected from my phone, but it's 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.760 really tough because you know, in social media and with 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.840 just your phone, it's just it's just very tough to 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.960 give it up and just you know, like I ideally 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:25.680 would just travel with my Apple Watch, but then I 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.800 don't have a camera, and then what I'm gonna bring 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.160 like a standalone camera, which I don't really have at 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.360 this point, so I'd have to buy one of those, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.039 and then that's kind of weird because then you got 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.920 to sink all the stuff up, So I haven't found 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.159 a good way of doing that. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:39.480 What else, what Else? 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.039 A big addition, Oh, Apple Wallet, they did this thing 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.159 where it's like you can store your ID, but they 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.080 didn't really say which states you're going to support it, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.000 but that's coming soon. That's kind of my personal dream 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.320 that if that is a thing, that would be amazing. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.920 You know, if I could travel with just my iPhone 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.159 and a couple bucks in my pocket, you know, like 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.440 some cash and then just use tap to pay, that 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.680 would be really cool and have my ID there. I 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.880 know you can in California, at least I believe you 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.840 can use a digital copy of your insurance card on 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.600 your phone. So I've never tried that. I still print 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.960 mine out, but it's still pretty cool that I think 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.400 they accept that in California, So we're getting there. It's 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.280 not like California is not totally on board with that. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.200 What else? What else? Live text? 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.640 So this was a kind of a big demo they did, 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.840 but I didn't find it that exciting because you know, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.920 this is Google Lens, and basically it's the ability to 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.360 use your camera to search for things. So when you 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.680 take a picture of something, you can search the text, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.320 you can scan the text, you can copy a phone number, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.480 you can dial a phone number, you can see a 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:44.560 landmark whatever. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:45.000 I mean. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.160 You know, that's been going on on Android for a 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.280 long time, or not just on Android, It's been going 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.280 on on Google Lens for a very long time. And 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.880 you know the difference is now that Apple's doing it. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.640 It's built into iOS, which means more people will just 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.360 somehow discover it because it's part of the operating system. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:01.560 Now. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.800 You know, with Google you had to use a Google app, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.240 you had to download the app. So this all goes 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.640 back to kind of the way Apple does things versus 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.840 everyone else. And you know Apple, when they do things, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.080 they build it in. It's at it's it's very much 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.320 at the core of their operating system. And that's kind 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.040 of like the big difference. I think that's about it 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:25.160 for for iOS fifteen. Again, nothing to me like screaming 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.240 my name, like, oh my gosh, I can't wait to 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.360 update to get these features, but I think the focus 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.720 will be kind of cool. Notifications got a little upgrade 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.880 as well, so we'll say I mean I think that 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.920 it's always you know, Apple has gotten to the point 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.400 where it's just kind of a solid upgrade. It always 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:44.280 adds useful features. They do a really nice job with things. Yes, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.880 the Android folks will say it's been on Android forever, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.280 but it's you know, I was one of those people 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.640 for so long, But it's just Apple people don't care 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.560 about Android. They're not looking at Android. They're they're not 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.760 using the features on Android. So to them, it's it's 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.640 different and it's new, so you can't really compair the two. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.880 And it's not one of these things where you know 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:05.720 it's one is good, one is bad. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:06.840 They're just different. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.920 There are, like I've always said, there are things I 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.600 like about Android, there's things I like about iOS. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:12.440 And yes, I've been. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.439 Using an iPhone quite regularly for a long time now, 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.240 which is I think the longest I've ever gone. But 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.640 you know, I do find myself itching to get back 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.480 to Android, especially with the Pixel six if that's going 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.520 to be a solid device. I'm hoping that Google launches 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.800 something because I do like to go back and forth, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.600 because they do offer different things and I think that 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:39.520 they both have their pros and cons. All right, let's 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.920 get to the first question. This is actually a comment. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.640 Greg says, hey, Rich last Friday, I believe you were 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.200 answering a question I guess the last podcast about saving 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:48.960 messages from an iPhone a while back. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.640 I use this app called phone View. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.280 Is saves text messages, including photos just as they were written, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.280 also voicemails, media. I'm not sure how up to date 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.160 it is, but it worked very well. Hope this helps. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.120 I looked it up. It's from ECAM and I love 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.120 ECAM software. Some surprised that it wasn't aware of this app, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.360 but phone View it does kind of what we were 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.480 talking about where it's, you know, Apple lets you make 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.640 a backup of your phone, but it doesn't really let 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.920 you see what's in that backup easily. And so this 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.520 is thirty dollars. And again this kind of goes back 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.120 to what I was talking about that it's it's a 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.920 paid thing. So on Android, yes, I believe the app 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.880 I mentioned was free, but it was like five bucks 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.080 if you wanted to get no ads or something. But 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.640 on iPhone they don't really have a free solution that 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.760 I found. So yes, this phone view will do it. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.640 And it seems I haven't tested it, but it looks 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.480 like it would the other one, I think Tony regular 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.480 listener chimed in with I Amazing and I looked at 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.920 that one and I actually got in touch with them 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.320 to get a demo account, and I did download it, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.360 and yes, this one looks like it does exactly what 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.600 you want. It's kind of like their entire business, and 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.280 so it's actually pretty cool. You can browse the contents 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.360 of your phone in a very easy way. It's kind 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.440 of like the app that you wish that Apple would 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.400 have made, right, It's kind of like what iTunes, just 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.520 it covers everything up, makes everything very complicated to kind 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.160 of transfer stuff and things like that. But this seemed 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.720 like it was very easy. Now I could not actually 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.319 test it out just yet because my phone has so 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.640 much stuff on it right now that I need to 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.800 clear off all the pictures because it just tries to 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.079 back up everything and you can't just browse your phone. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.360 It has to actually make a backup of your device 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.600 and then it browses the contents of the backup. So 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.240 it's a little tricky, I think, because they're getting around 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.640 some of the things that Apple puts in place. But again, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.640 it's called Imazing dot com. And now, how much is 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.920 this one? Because they gave me a license. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:44.240 To check it out. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:49.359 This is a device lifetime for five three Apple devices 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.080 is fifty bucks. One device is thirty four ninety nine 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.560 for lifetime. So that's not too bad. You know, one 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.000 time purchase thirty five bucks. You can you know, kind 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.640 of crack into your iPhone. It's not doing anything bad. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.960 It's just that's you know, I just use that term. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.679 It's not a bad thing. But those are some of 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.120 the apps. The other one that I like is called 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.640 Walter and this is kind of a one way app 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.880 but wa lt r and they just come out with 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.840 a new version I believe, called Walter Pro. And this 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.439 allows you to drag and drop any file onto your 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.000 iPad or iPhone. And so if you use an iPad 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.600 or an iPhone a lot with a lot of different 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.400 things like books and kindle books and videos and stuff 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.040 and music and you just want to like drag and drop, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.800 this program is fantastic. I have not tested the new one, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.199 the Pro, but I use the old one for many 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.640 years now and it's the real deal. It just works 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.520 really really well. And that's thirty dollars. But again, all 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.040 these apps, you know a lot of these apps have 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.400 built a world around the iPhones. You know, I'm not 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.640 going to call it trickery, but the complications that arrive 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:56.559 from using a rise from using you know, the whole 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.400 situation with the iPhone. You know, Android's very simple. It 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.840 gives you access to like the file system and all that, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.160 but iPhone is just it's always been a little bit trickier. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.640 But those are some of the ways that you can 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.640 get around that. All right, now, we talked about iOS fifteen. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.040 Let's talk about watch os. I'm not going to go 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.400 into the other stuff because I feel like the Mac stuff, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.800 you know, it's like gets a little nitty gritty there, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.160 and the I can't really remember anything else that I 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.800 saw there that was like totally you know, like I 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:24.680 need to talk about. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.040 But watch os. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.400 Actually, let me look at my story I did for KTLA, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.280 because that's where I put kind of like the big 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.720 things that I thought were interesting. That's probably an easy 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.160 way to do it. So let me see. Okay, let's see. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:42.040 We got iOS fifteen FaceTime spatial audio. Oh, this was interesting. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.360 On iOS fifteen, Apple's adding a feature that lets your 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.160 friends know and you have do not Disturb turned on 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.080 so that when they try to text you. It will say, hey, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.160 your friends got do not disturb? Do you still want 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.920 to send that text? And this got a big reaction 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.920 on Twitter. People were like, hey, I don't want Apple 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.559 telling people when I have d ON d on DN 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.160 d on, but I believe that you'll be able to 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.280 obviously turn this feature on or off. It's kind of 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.520 like CarPlay. In the car they send a text to 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.520 people that says, hey, Rich is driving right now. He'll 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.600 get back to you when he's not driving. Let's see 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.880 what else I talked about, the Apple wallet stuff, the 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.040 live tech stuff, Oh, Legacy Contact. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:15.960 This is a big one. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.840 So Legacy Contact lets you set a loved one or 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.560 a friend that will get access to the contents of 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.280 your iCloud after you die, which I thought was a 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.360 really nice feature because I know it's a topic we 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.320 don't want to talk about. But at the same time, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.120 it does cause a lot of headaches for people, you know, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.040 family members trying to tap into you know, the photos 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.320 or the videos or the you know whatever people had 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.200 stored on their phone. And this also got a lot 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.480 of reaction on Twitter. But again, it's something you can 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.120 set up. You don't have to set it up, but 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.960 if you want to, you can. Google has something called 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.720 Inactive Account Manager, and Facebook also has a legacy contact 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.480 So it's not a new idea, it's just something that 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.320 you can do. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:56.760 All right. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.640 Watch OS eight, Let's see, I didn't really see anything 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.280 huge and Watch OS eight, but they have a new 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.120 photos watch face. It was it was revealed that the 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.720 photos watch face is the most popular watch face on 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.840 the Apple Watch, which I would not have thought of. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.240 But now they have a portrait version, so you can 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.800 now choose your portrait photos to go in there. I 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.880 don't know, I mean, I don't really, I don't know. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.000 I don't really use a photos thing on my watch. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.600 I think it's just not for me. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.800 The Breathe app is gone. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.040 Now it's gonna be called the Mindfulness app because now 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.440 it's gonna be doing daily reflections and daily breathing, which 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.040 you know, I'll be honest. I was at a funeral 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.560 a couple of days ago, and you know, it was 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.720 it was sad, and I actually did use the breathe 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.040 function on my Apple Watch while I was sitting there 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.280 listening to everyone talking, because you know, it was it 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.000 was definitely emotional and I just felt like Okay, this 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.480 probably helped me kind of just you know, rest, you know, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.840 relax a little bit, take it, take some deep breaths, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.560 and it was kind of like, you know, I just 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.400 activated the feature on my watch and I just took 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.200 some nice deep breaths and it did really help. So 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.240 I don't use the breathe app often enough. I feel 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.000 like I should and it really does help. So I 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.800 always ignore the notification and I just shouldn't, you know it, 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.280 because it really the breathing is such a such a 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.480 powerful thing for the body. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:15.960 Let's see what else. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.200 It's gonna support respiration tracking while you sleep, so basically 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.440 kind of how you breathe at night, and it will 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.800 it will. It just uses the accelerometer in your watch. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.320 They're actually not measuring anything on your skin. It's just 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.160 the It's kind of what Google's doing with their home 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:35.000 their Google Home Hub or their Nest Hub whatever they 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.800 call it, a little tiny one that has sleep tracking 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.080 built in. It actually looks at the rise and fall 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.480 of your chest. This is doing the same thing, but 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.880 just figuring out the rise and fall of your body 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.480 using an algorithm. So it's like monitoring micro movements, small things. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.520 There will be the timer app on the Apple Watch 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.240 can handle multiple timers. You can also label them. And 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.600 there's a new contacts app on your wrist on your watch, 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.760 so that's kind of cool. And you can respond to 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.680 mesages using gifts. So I think those are the big, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.840 kind of main things on the Apple Watch. I just 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.080 think the Apple Watch continues to get better and better. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:14.400 It just really really is an amazing device. I've said 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.040 it over and over. I don't think I could live 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.920 without it, And even if I switched to Android, I'd 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.879 still probably find myself using it, Like I'd still keep 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.560 it on and figure out how to still use it. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.680 I mean, my big thing is my minutes every day, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.720 like I've got to hit those, you know. Oh, also 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.440 find my is going to be on the Apple Watch, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:31.879 so that's kind of cool. So you'll be able to 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.400 see where your devices are on your Apple Watch as well. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.760 All right, let's get another question. Hello, Rich, my best 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.600 friend recommended that I contact you about a problem with 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.639 my iPad. I guess you've helped her a lot. My 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.639 iPad pro I bought it July twenty seventeen, still works 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.080 for my needs, email, reading eyebooks, playing solitaire, no music, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.600 very few pictures, it loses battery life very rapidly, so 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.679 I keep it plugged in. My question is is it 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.520 time for a new iPad? If so, which one is 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.760 the best for my limited use? Or do I wait? 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.680 Thank you, Maria, Well, I think in odd July twenty 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:17.120 seventeen to twenty twenty one? Is it twenty twenty two 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:18.520 or twenty Oh my gosh, I don't even know what 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.000 year it is. What year is it? I think it's 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.680 twenty twenty one. Yeah, it's twenty twenty one. Still, Okay, 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.840 that was weird. I like had this feeling it was. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.200 I knew it was twenty twenty one, but I just 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.119 wanted to make sure because I know we've been locked 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.199 up for so long. Okay, yes, twenty twenty one, so 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:38.120 that is three that's four years, So four years your 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.720 iPad should still be working just fine. I mean, it's 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.280 probably slow, and you know, but the funny thing is 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.359 you didn't say that it's slow. So you know, for 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.240 your needs, you're doing email, you're reading books, you're playing Solitaire, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.760 no music, few pictures, so it's not like you're really 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.200 asking a lot of this device. And a four year 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.800 old iPad should still be able to handle those things. Now, 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.919 the battery life depending on how you charged it and 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.840 how you used it, Yes, it could be an issue. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.800 So what I would do is number one, before you 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:11.040 do anything crazy, like you know, buying a new iPad, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.480 I would actually go into settings and then if you 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.159 scroll down, you'll see a battery situation and then you 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.840 click that, and then you click battery health and it 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.240 will tell you under that maximum capacity and see what 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.040 that numbers at. Right now, my phone says one hundred percent. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.760 So if it's at like, you know, sixty percent something 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.680 like that, it it may be you know, that's probably 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:36.840 why your battery is not lasting that long, so you 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:38.000 might want to you. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.040 Know, there's a couple of things you could do. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.840 If your iPad is perfectly fine, I would bring it 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.440 to a place like you break eye fix or any 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:49.200 local place that you have that does repairs and see 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.320 how much they charge for a you know, a repair. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.760 So if you want to do like, let's see, let's 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.000 see how much that's let's see does it give you 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:02.080 like a let's do iPad. Let's do iPad. What did 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.240 you say it was? You said it was an iPad 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.120 pro July twenty seventeen. So let's say iPad Pro. I'm 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.920 guessing that's the maybe the second generation, maybe the first. 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.520 I'm just gonna say, we'll just go with the second 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.399 and we'll just see if it gives me Okay, broken screen. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.360 Don't know, and I don't know if you. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.560 Can get an estimate, because if you can get an estimate, 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.159 you know, what I would say is get an estimate 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.000 from one of these places to see how much it 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.119 costs to do your repair, and you could just replace 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.879 the battery. Yeah, it doesn't say how much, so you know, 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:37.320 take it in and see how much it is to 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:38.040 replace the battery. 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.120 If it is, I would say under one hundred dollars. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:42.159 Maybe I don't even know. 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.560 I'd actually say under eighty bucks because one hundred seems 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.680 like a lot. That's that's a third of the price 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.600 of a new iPad. So basically, what I'm saying is, 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.639 figure out how much it costs to replace the battery, 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.240 figure out if your battery is a problem, and also 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.600 uninstall any apps you don't need, you know, maybe make 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.920 all the software updates, and then figure out the battery situation. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:03.680 Then bring it in see how much it would cost. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.840 They'll give you a free estimate if it's like under 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.400 one hundred dollars, like I'm talking eighty bucks. Maybe if 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.280 that's worth it to you to just replace the battery, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:11.679 you don't have to really deal and you can you know, 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.119 two years, you can figure this out. I mean, you 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:15.879 can go longer, but it may be too slow at 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.399 that point, or you can just buy the new iPad 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.159 for three hundred. I would recommend the one for three 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.720 hundred and twenty nine dollars. It's just a standard iPad. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.240 And I would also go on Google and search iPad deals, 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.959 and the bloggers generally blog about the best iPad deals 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.040 out there, and so you can see the iPad ten 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.080 point two just got a massive price cut, and let's 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:39.320 see how much that is. It is two hundred and 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.439 ninety nine dollars. So I would buy the new iPad 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.360 for two ninety nine if you feel like the battery 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.640 situation is gotten to a place where it's just too 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:49.240 expensive you don't want to deal with it. And then, 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.120 by the way, sell your old iPad pro on Gizmo 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:56.560 Go Gizmo Gizmo Goo dot com and get rid of 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:58.359 it and get some money back for the new iPad. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.040 So a great question. All right, I probably spent way 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.840 too long on that question. All right, Amazon sidewalk, Oh 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.080 my gosh, the scariest thing to ever hit neighborhoods. Right, 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:11.600 if you've been listening to the news, it's like everyone's 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.240 just pooh poohing on Amazon sidewalk. Here's how to opt out, 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.320 here's how to opt out. And you know, I'm guilty 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:19.760 of this somewhat. I did my Amazon Sidewalk story back 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.480 in December. It was my understanding that they were going 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.560 to turn on the network back then. I guess they didn't, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:28.280 but it turned on I believe January or June eighth. 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.440 And so if you have pretty much any echo device, 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.560 or when it comes to ring devices, if you have 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.520 their wired floodlight cameras, and I think there might be 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.640 another one, but it's mostly I think it's a spotlight 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:44.720 cam and the wired floodlight cameras, those are all on 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.240 this Amazon network. And I think the thing that Amazon 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.119 did that everyone got really up in arms about is 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.639 that they they kind of turned it on automatically. They 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:53.480 didn't give people the option to say, hey, do you 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:55.560 want to turn this on or you do not want 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:58.480 to turn it on. So my feeling is number one, 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:01.960 Apple did the same exact thing, by the way, a 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.600 couple of weeks ago when they they, you know, did 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:06.600 the whole find my thing. I mean, that's the same 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:08.480 thing that's going on. I mean, I know it's using 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.880 you know, Bluetooth, but it's it's basically the same thing. 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:15.280 It's a it's a low power, low energy network that 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:19.280 uses a little bit of your phone's power and internet 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.920 to kind of help out other people. That's what Amazon's doing. 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.760 They're using a little bit of your internet to connect, 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.480 you know, help these devices connect to each other and 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:33.479 also to you know, the greater uh situation that's going on. 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:35.639 So let me give you an example. Okay, let me 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.520 give you just a real world example. Let's say that 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.840 you buy a new Amazon product, right and you have 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.600 an iPhone. The way it typically works, you have to 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.919 have your phone sense the product and it you know, 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:49.399 it goes through this whole thing where you might have 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:51.320 to connect to that product's Wi Fi and you have 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.280 to switch in your Wi Fi settings to figure it out. 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:54.600 You got to find the product and you got to 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:56.640 switch back to your WiFi. It's like a whole big 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.760 thing that is a little bit complicated, especially in the iPhone. Now, 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.399 let's imagine that that product can now just find the 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:07.960 Amazon Sidewalk network all by itself, and because it knows 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:10.520 how the proximity to your phone, it says, oh, we 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:12.000 see you've got a new device to set up. 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:13.000 Would you like to set it up? 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:15.520 And it uses the Amazon network to send all of 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.280 your information to that device and set it up automatically 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.520 in about two seconds versus all this back and forth 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:25.320 and go to your Wi Fi settings and it's done. 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:29.639 And not just that, the tiles. Tiles are going to 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:32.280 connect to this Amazon network. So now you have a 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:36.080 nice competitor to Apple. Why should Apple? I mean I 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:38.320 literally was having this debate with my friends last night 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:39.159 about you know. 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:40.160 They were like, oh, I got. 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:41.840 To turn off sidewalk, and I'm like why, Like why 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:44.840 is everyone so ready to turn off sidewalk without even 0:24:44.920 --> 0:24:45.720 knowing anything about it? 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:46.199 And I get it. 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:49.800 Amazon turned it on without people's permission, but so did Apple. 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:52.560 I mean, find myzon by default in your iPhone and 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:53.720 you have to go in and turn it off if 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:55.800 you don't want to be a part of that crowdsource network. 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.880 Amazon's doing the same thing. So the other little nugget 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:01.720 I think thought it was interesting. Someone commented on my 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:04.640 I don't know if it was my Facebook page or whatever, 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:07.280 but they said, and this is a blog post from 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:10.920 twenty nineteen when Amazon was testing sidewalk in Los Angeles. 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:14.879 They said that they got their Amazon employees and friends 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:18.240 and family to conduct a test and with just seven 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:24.160 hundred ring lights that supported nine hundred megahertz connections, they 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:27.840 were able to cover almost all of the Los Angeles 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:32.480 basin with just seven hundred devices. So Amazon knows that 0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:33.960 a lot of people are going to turn this thing off, 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:37.440 But they also know that, like literally, with just their 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.000 devices that their employees are using that are probably gonna 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:42.640 leave them on, or just a fraction of people leave 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:44.600 these things on. Their network's going to be just fine. 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:46.800 And you know what, I'm good with that because I 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:49.879 actually like the fact that we have a competitor to 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:53.640 Apple's Find my Network. Let's give Tile a little run 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:55.600 for its money, or Apple a little run for its 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:58.320 money with these tiles, And I'm totally good with that. 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:01.800 What about when Google decides to do this with Android 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:05.280 phones and Google Nest devices, which they probably will end 0:26:05.359 --> 0:26:07.880 up doing. And yes, Google's going to get a hard 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.760 time as well. But Amazon's just getting a lot, a 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:14.719 lot of a lot of I don't know, they're just 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:16.800 I don't know what the word is. Flack Is that it? 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:19.800 But I thought the best article was actually written by 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:22.000 John Chase of Wirecutter, and. 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:24.000 He was the only one that was. 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:29.320 I don't know, had the courage to write a headline 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:32.679 that said, Amazon sidewalk will share your Internet with strangers. 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:36.320 It's not as scary as it sounds. So John, thank 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:39.399 you for being a voice of reason in this world 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:43.160 of I call him klingons of just all these little 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:45.240 blogs that say, oh, a lot of traffic, let's just 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:47.560 get all the traffic that people are Let's make Amazon 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.560 really scary because it's a big, scary company doing mean things, 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:56.080 and it just that's the way it is. And everyone 0:26:56.200 --> 0:26:59.280 just wrote those articles about here's how to turn off sidewalk, 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:02.200 here's how to turn off sidewalk, without really explaining what 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:04.520 it is and how it works. And yes, there are 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:08.920 definitely some questions about the security, but let's be honest, 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:12.040 Amazon's a big company. I think that I want to 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:14.920 believe they're doing good and I hope they are, and yes, 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:17.639 I think you should be skeptical and very critical of 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:20.160 all these things, but I think that you should also 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:24.919 understand the entire situation and put it into perspective with 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:28.560 what's going on in the world at large, and when 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:31.280 you do that. Personally, I'm leaving the Sidewalk Network on 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:33.879 because I want to help people find their lost dogs 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:35.639 and their lost keys and all that good stuff. And 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:38.119 I want to give Apple a little bit of competition 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:41.240 so that the air tag is not the only thing. 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:43.280 That is able to find stuff. 0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:45.880 So hopefully you still listen to my podcast even though 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.919 I just totally gave my support. 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:56.680 To Amazon's Sidewalk How dare I? All? Right? Hi? Rich? 0:27:56.760 --> 0:27:58.639 We are not too tech savvy and are afraid of 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:01.600 adding apps onto our home computer. We only use a 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:04.280 home computer, no cell phones. We get Instagram posts, but 0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:06.960 we seem to be missing out by not getting Instagram 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:09.760 stories that people are referencing all the time. Is there 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:11.520 a safe and easy way or an app that you 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.520 know is safe so we can get Instagram stories on 0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:14.400 our home computer. 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:18.040 Thank you? Wow, no name given. That's a rarity. 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:23.000 Yes, super easy Instagram dot com. Just go there and 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:26.640 tap Instagram in the upper left hand corner if it's 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:29.960 not already tapped, and you should see a whole bunch 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:33.240 of circles on the upper left hand side of the page. 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:36.880 You click these circles and you will see people's stories 0:28:37.520 --> 0:28:40.240 and you can see and scan through them and swipe 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:43.120 through them. Well, it's mostly clicking, just the way you 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:45.800 would on a phone. Now, if you don't have that option, 0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:48.760 maybe you need to update your web browser. I'm using 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:54.080 a recent Chrome version and it works just fine. It 0:28:54.160 --> 0:28:56.880 might not work on every web browser, so, but that's it. 0:28:56.960 --> 0:28:58.640 Just go to Instagram dot com. As long as you're 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:00.400 logged in, you should be able to see storre worries. 0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:04.040 Instagram has slowly but surely been increasing the amount of 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:08.200 things you can do on their website. Right now, you still, 0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:12.160 as far as I can tell, cannot post. You cannot 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:16.920 post uh posts from Instagram on the website, but you 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:21.280 can upload Instagram TV, IGTV. 0:29:21.480 --> 0:29:23.200 Why am I not able to do that? What's going 0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:24.840 on here? Uh? 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:26.880 Why am I not being able to see that? Usually 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:31.720 I do. I'm curious why mine's not doing this? It 0:29:31.840 --> 0:29:33.440 used to just have a place where I can upload 0:29:33.440 --> 0:29:36.800 a new story. Let's see, do I have to go 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:40.360 to my Huh did they take that away? 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:40.440 Oh? 0:29:40.480 --> 0:29:41.800 Here it is, okay, Yeah, you have to go to 0:29:42.360 --> 0:29:44.040 you have to go to your own profile and then 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:45.440 click igtv and there's. 0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:46.160 An upload button. 0:29:46.200 --> 0:29:50.640 So if you ever want to upload igtv content from Instagram, 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:52.240 you could do that. By the way, can I tell 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:54.880 you that, you know, I'm playing Instagram's game with this 0:29:54.920 --> 0:29:56.320 whole vertical video thing on. 0:29:56.320 --> 0:29:59.240 Instagram, And it's just it's not that you know Instagram. 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:01.120 When ig TV first came out, it had to be 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:02.920 vertical video, and I used to do the thing where 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:05.040 I used to say, oh, rotate your phone because I 0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:07.640 still wanted to make it full screen. But here's the thing. 0:30:08.200 --> 0:30:10.920 I do things the way I consume stuff. So when 0:30:10.960 --> 0:30:14.520 I think about what I do for the viewer on 0:30:14.560 --> 0:30:18.400 my social media I platforms, I'm trying to do things 0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:21.440 in the way that people use the platform. So with Instagram, 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:24.160 I don't sit there and turn my phone to the 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:27.680 side ever. And I also hate looking at videos that 0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:30.640 are small. So if it's a sixteen by nine video 0:30:30.720 --> 0:30:32.840 that yes, you can upload to Instagram TV, it will 0:30:32.880 --> 0:30:37.240 work just fine. It's so tiny on my phone screen 0:30:37.280 --> 0:30:39.200 that I don't want to watch that, and so if 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:41.320 I don't want to watch that, I'm assuming that other 0:30:41.360 --> 0:30:44.120 people don't want to watch it in that format as well. Now, 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:46.960 on the flip side, when I upload stuff to igtv 0:30:47.080 --> 0:30:49.360 in the vertical video format, which I've been doing, I 0:30:49.440 --> 0:30:52.160 love it because it fills up my entire phone screen 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:54.440 and it just feels like I'm immersed in that content. 0:30:54.560 --> 0:30:57.360 And so that's why I've really been doing that with 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:59.080 all my videos. As much as I don't want to 0:30:59.080 --> 0:31:00.920 shoot videos that way because I just feel like they're 0:31:00.960 --> 0:31:05.239 unnatural for Instagram, that's how it works, and that's what 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:08.680 I do, and so that's kind of why when you 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:11.040 look at my Instagram, it's the reason why I. 0:31:11.000 --> 0:31:12.760 Have my videos vertical. 0:31:12.880 --> 0:31:15.480 Because it's IGTV, I can go a little bit longer 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:17.760 than the sixty seconds they give you as a square video, 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:21.400 but it's also not so annoying as a as a 0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:24.680 sixteen by nine horizontal video that's so small that on 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:27.280 a phone screen you just can't see. Now, on Facebook, 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:29.160 it's just the opposite. I don't mind putting things on 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:33.440 Facebook that are sixteen by nine because you know, it's 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:35.400 I don't know, it's Facebook, And that's I'm much more 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:39.080 used to watching video content on there like that, but 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:41.240 also you can watch it on your TV screen, also 0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:44.880 on your computer screen. Most people are consuming Instagram on 0:31:45.040 --> 0:31:48.640 their phone, and it's also in a vertical mode. So 0:31:48.680 --> 0:31:50.240 that's why I'm doing that, and I feel like it's 0:31:50.240 --> 0:31:53.200 the most immersive, even though for me as a quote 0:31:53.240 --> 0:31:56.840 unquote content creator, I mean, you know, to use that 0:31:56.880 --> 0:32:02.360 word loosely. For me, it's it's just not ideal. Like 0:32:02.520 --> 0:32:05.200 I wish I could just do you know, sixteen by nine. 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:07.600 I could fit much more into the video and I 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:10.000 could put it in more places, but it's kind of 0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:12.440 they've locked me in with this IGTV. So that's why 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:16.640 you see my stuff in that format, all right. Speaking 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:19.960 of videos, I did one on this bike. I The 0:32:20.000 --> 0:32:22.480 headline is I rode the Tesla of electric bikes and 0:32:22.480 --> 0:32:25.280 it completely changed the way I think about getting around town. 0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:27.880 This has been the most popular story on the KTLA 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:30.480 website for three days now. I don't know why. I mean, 0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:32.840 it's not like that many people are interested in this bike. 0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:35.800 But I actually emailed our web team to say, hey, 0:32:35.880 --> 0:32:37.760 where is all this traffic coming from? Like, because I 0:32:37.760 --> 0:32:40.360 looked on Reddit, it wasn't on it wasn't posted to Reddit. 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:41.640 It wasn't. 0:32:41.720 --> 0:32:43.560 It's not like a I don't know where this is 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:46.360 coming from, but I now I have an idea because 0:32:46.400 --> 0:32:48.880 he said all the traffic is coming from Google itself, 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:52.080 and so I think what happened is that this story 0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:56.880 got tagged as either a Tesla story or the van moved, 0:32:57.000 --> 0:32:59.960 the bike itself, or electric bikes as a broader top 0:33:00.520 --> 0:33:03.680 and it's being served up to everyone's Google discover feed 0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:08.040 or Google news feed and they're customized Google News And 0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:10.720 when that happens with the story, it's almost magical because 0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:13.720 it just gets taken away in this like whoosh of 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:17.240 like traffic, because it just Google serves your story to 0:33:17.360 --> 0:33:20.520 so many people if they've ever shown a big interest 0:33:20.560 --> 0:33:24.080 in either Tesla electric cars, are sorry, electric bikes or 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:26.640 even I would think less. So the van Move, which 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:29.520 is the specific bike I'm talking about, but anyway, I 0:33:29.840 --> 0:33:31.720 hope I didn't talk about this on the podcast before, 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:33.760 but I've been driving around the van Move, which is 0:33:33.800 --> 0:33:36.640 the electric bike that it took a while for them 0:33:36.680 --> 0:33:38.840 to send it to me because I kept saying, no, no, no, 0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:40.920 this bike is too expensive. I don't want to you know, 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:43.440 I don't really feature super duper expensive stuff in my 0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:45.800 reports because I'm not really expecting people to buy a 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:48.720 twenty two hundred dollars electric bike. But when I go 0:33:48.760 --> 0:33:51.360 to a bike path in Ventura or in Santa Monica 0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:54.000 and I see half the bikes whizzing past me are electric, 0:33:54.440 --> 0:33:56.600 or if I'm stopped on the bike path, you know 0:33:56.680 --> 0:33:59.120 here in La and I'm seeing a lot of electric bikes, 0:33:59.120 --> 0:34:01.080 I'm like, Okay, I gotta do trend piece and I 0:34:01.120 --> 0:34:03.280 need some hands on time. So that's when I said, okay, fine, 0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:05.400 send me the van move I put it together. This 0:34:05.480 --> 0:34:09.080 bike is just phenomenal. It is literally the electric bike 0:34:09.080 --> 0:34:11.040 that I would purchase if I'm going to purchase an 0:34:11.080 --> 0:34:12.919 electric bike, and I may end up buying this bike, 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:17.319 I don't know. But it's expensive. But you set this 0:34:17.360 --> 0:34:20.200 thing up and it looks like it's just sleek, it's slick, 0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:22.960 it charges up nicely, it connects to your iPhone or 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:26.160 your Android. It's got like this little digital display on it. 0:34:26.200 --> 0:34:28.239 I did a video on it on my Instagram of 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:30.319 just the bike. Soon I'll do on me riding it, 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:31.719 so you can get an idea. But it's just so 0:34:31.800 --> 0:34:34.080 cool because you give yourself. I didn't know this about it. 0:34:34.120 --> 0:34:35.960 I didn't know how electric bikes work. And this is 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:37.799 why I like to get hands on time we call 0:34:37.840 --> 0:34:41.080 it background experience with these devices and these things, because 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:44.280 then I can talk about it as someone who's actually 0:34:44.440 --> 0:34:47.319 used it, right, And so that's why it does take 0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:49.200 a little bit extra work for me to do my 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:51.160 reports in the way I do them. But I do 0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:53.440 like to have some hands on time with these gadgets 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:57.080 and these things because then I can talk about them 0:34:57.200 --> 0:35:00.440 and answer questions in a smart way versus reading a 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:02.520 press release and saying, oh, yeah, these electric bikes are 0:35:02.600 --> 0:35:05.359 very popular. People are buying them and you know, and 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:07.480 I don't really know because I've never really been on one. 0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:11.080 So I've been riding this bike around, you know, not 0:35:11.160 --> 0:35:14.600 too much, but enough, and it's it's really fun. It's 0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:17.239 such a slick looking bike. Everyone looks at it when 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:20.640 you stop at a stoplight or whatever, and it's so 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:23.720 smooth you can So I didn't know this about electric bikes. 0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:25.759 You get the power, at least on the ones that 0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:29.040 there's different models, but the one I'm using is the 0:35:29.080 --> 0:35:32.080 power is in the pedaling, so when you pedal, it 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:34.160 actually gives you like a little boost, like when you 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:36.239 one rotation is going to take you a lot further 0:35:36.280 --> 0:35:38.239 because the engine kind of carries you. It gives you 0:35:38.280 --> 0:35:39.920 like or the motor whatever you want to call it, 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:43.399 not the engine, the electric motor kind of like gives 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:45.880 you like this little boost as you press turn the 0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:49.279 pedals and you can decide what kind of boost you want, 0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:50.120 and it's on this bike. 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:52.279 It's from one to four, or you can do no 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:52.880 boost at all. 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:55.160 And that was my big concern with electric bikes was 0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:57.480 that I was like, if I'm gonna be bike riding, 0:35:57.520 --> 0:35:59.919 I want to get the exercise. And on this bike 0:36:00.160 --> 0:36:02.560 and maybe all electric bikes, you can just have the 0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:04.839 option of no boost and so you can ride with 0:36:04.880 --> 0:36:07.480 it as a zero. And so I did that. I 0:36:07.560 --> 0:36:09.279 rode it with my son. We had a great time, 0:36:09.280 --> 0:36:11.799 went on like a nine mile bike ride. And the 0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:13.279 cool thing is you can go on a really long 0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:15.160 bike ride, but then you can use assistance on the 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:17.400 way back. So if you're tired, you get a little assistance. 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:19.839 Then there's a boost button, so on the handlebar there's 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:21.239 a boost so you press that and you get an 0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:25.480 immediate jolt of boom. You just go and the battery 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:29.200 goes anywhere between thirty and ninety miles. This bike goes 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:31.640 up to twenty miles an hour. I test drove another 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:36.600 one at a place called electric Bike Attack rather in Venice, 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:39.360 and they have bikes that are, you know, similar to 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:41.120 the Van Move. The van Move is definitely the most 0:36:41.160 --> 0:36:43.959 high tech I've ever seen. But a lot of electric bikes. 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:45.799 Some of them look like moped, some of them look 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.960 like motorcycles. You know, they're much more electric than this 0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:52.040 this bike that I tested, which is more like a 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:56.120 kind of like an everyday bike, but it's just powered 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:58.839 with electric electricity versus some of these other bikes are 0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:02.120 much more bikey and like motory, right, Is that makes 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:04.600 any sense? It just depends what you want. Some people 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:07.279 want like a high powered motorbike. I would rather have 0:37:07.320 --> 0:37:09.719 something like the van Move that is much more like 0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:12.319 a bike that also happens to be electric. But it's 0:37:12.400 --> 0:37:15.200 kind of sly, right, And so now once you have 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:17.400 an e bike, you're just thinking of all the ways 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:19.400 that you can drive that e bike instead of your car. 0:37:19.840 --> 0:37:21.640 And so around my neighborhood, I'm like, oh, I can 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:23.400 go to breakfast. So I drove to breakfast with my 0:37:23.440 --> 0:37:25.799 friends on a Sunday morning. I said, I'm taking my 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.239 bike and it's you know, it's only fifteen minutes. And 0:37:28.280 --> 0:37:30.319 I used Apple Maps and found my little way there 0:37:30.360 --> 0:37:32.560 on Apple Maps because they have biking maps, and it 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:35.160 was just such a cool experience, something that I just 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:38.560 have never done before. And now that this idea has 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:41.120 gotten in my head, I'm like, Okay, I think I 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.920 could be that person who takes your bike on different 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:45.440 errands for the weekend. You know, if I want to 0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:47.520 go to seven eleven or something, or you know, go 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:49.879 to the I don't know wherever, I could just take 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:52.760 my bike and you know, pick up a little backpack whatever, 0:37:53.840 --> 0:37:55.960 or go out with friends, you know, drive to my 0:37:56.000 --> 0:37:59.080 friend's houses that are nearby and just park my bike 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:01.279 and you know, instead of driving, I just take a bike. 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:04.880 And so anyway, it's it's just a really really cool 0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:07.960 thing that until you actually kind of get on one, 0:38:08.040 --> 0:38:09.920 you don't really think of this stuff. And again, this 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:11.560 is why I like to do this, because I think 0:38:11.600 --> 0:38:14.640 about it and it changes little things. The little pathways 0:38:14.640 --> 0:38:17.360 in your brain change so that you your brain is 0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:20.520 now considering all things, not just one option, which in 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:22.880 the past has been a car or walking or you know, 0:38:23.560 --> 0:38:26.120 a regular bike. But this van Move is just I 0:38:26.160 --> 0:38:28.279 can't speak highly enough. You got to watch the video 0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:30.880 on the Instagram. It's just such a cool, cool bike 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:33.839 and I just can't get over it. And van Move 0:38:33.880 --> 0:38:36.840 from Oh can I talk about that? I don't know 0:38:36.880 --> 0:38:41.600 if I can. Anyway, I can't. I don't know if 0:38:41.600 --> 0:38:43.600 I forget. Sometimes I forget when people tell me I'm 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:45.920 not allowed to talk about something. But anyway, van Move 0:38:46.520 --> 0:38:49.319 is a really cool bike company. They're based out of 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:54.640 somewhere in Europe, and they have some stores in different cities. 0:38:54.840 --> 0:38:56.600 I think they had to pop up in Los Angeles 0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:57.000 at once. 0:38:57.840 --> 0:39:01.680 Maybe they're coming back to LA at some point, But anyway, 0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:04.480 I just thought this was really cool and just I'm 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:07.239 now a believer. I really like my headline said it all. 0:39:07.280 --> 0:39:09.520 I rode the tesla of electric bikes and it completely 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:11.960 changed the way I think about getting around town. It's 0:39:12.000 --> 0:39:14.399 one hundred percent right, because when you're on an electric bike, 0:39:14.760 --> 0:39:17.440 you can go way further than you could on a 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:18.160 standard bike. 0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:19.720 And yeah, I get all these people. 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:22.200 Don't don't come after me for the whole exercise thing, 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:24.239 because I'm I believe that same thing, like you should 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:26.600 get exercise. But at the same time, there's a lot 0:39:26.600 --> 0:39:29.359 of people out there who may have mobility issues, who 0:39:29.440 --> 0:39:32.200 may have joint issues, who may have an injury from 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:35.520 sports or just in general with their knees, and so 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:39.080 this is this also opens up possibilities for them. So 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:41.200 no matter how you look at it, it's just it's 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:43.520 just really cool that we have this option. And seeing 0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:46.200 a bike as slick as van move to me is 0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:49.000 just like this is the future. Like when bikes are 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:51.560 this slick and the price comes down, it's like game over. 0:39:52.000 --> 0:39:55.360 You know, people will be deciding in urban areas of Okay, 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:57.279 I could just get a bike and really get by 0:39:57.320 --> 0:40:00.040 between a bike and Uber and lyft and scooters and 0:40:00.000 --> 0:40:01.880 and it's that's a win for for a lot of 0:40:01.920 --> 0:40:11.960 different situations. All right, let's talk another question. Laura says, Hey, Rich, 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:13.840 I have an iPhone ten R with Boost as my 0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:16.880 current carrier. Is there way to permanently disable the horrible 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:21.040 amber alert alarm I have. I'm fine with a visual notification, 0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:23.440 but that alarm is beyond alarming. Thanks for all you do, 0:40:23.680 --> 0:40:28.080 Laura of Long Beach, Well, Laura, yes, I think you're 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:30.040 doing this. I think you're saying this because we got 0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:33.560 an amber alert in Los Angeles last week, and you know, 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:36.480 in my house with all the various devices around, you 0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:38.400 know it definitely it was like on my watch, it 0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:40.000 was on my phone, it was on my wife's phone, 0:40:40.000 --> 0:40:42.360 it was on my kid's iPad. Maybe not the kids iPad, 0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:46.439 but you know it definitely it definitely rang a few things. So, yes, 0:40:46.520 --> 0:40:49.960 you can turn these off in settings under settings notification 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:52.320 at the very bottom of the screen it says government 0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:55.560 alerts and you can turn the alert on or off. 0:40:55.719 --> 0:41:00.240 But you know, as much as I'm also jarred by them, 0:41:00.440 --> 0:41:03.839 I leave them on because I just I don't know, 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:05.520 Like I just don't want there to be a situation 0:41:05.640 --> 0:41:07.759 in the world where I need to know something right. 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.240 So you have three options, at least on my phone, 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:14.360 you have Amber alerts, you have emergency alerts, and public 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:16.840 safety alerts. So if you want to turn the Amber 0:41:16.840 --> 0:41:19.399 alerts off, go ahead, turn them off. I mean, I'm 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:21.600 I'm not going to recommend it, just because I feel 0:41:21.600 --> 0:41:24.080 like I like the fact that you know, yes, it's 0:41:24.120 --> 0:41:27.240 annoying and it's definitely you know, it butts into whatever 0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:29.400 you're doing. But at the same time, it's like, I 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:31.680 don't know if it's just I don't know. I feel 0:41:31.719 --> 0:41:34.000 better having it on, you know, I'm trying to trying 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:37.239 to be a good human. I guess the you know, 0:41:37.320 --> 0:41:38.759 but you can do whatever you want, and a lot 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:40.640 of people turn these off, believe me. With news and 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.160 internet nowadays, it's like, if there is an amber alert 0:41:43.200 --> 0:41:44.960 in your area that does apply to you, you're probably 0:41:44.960 --> 0:41:48.160 gonna see it in another way so or someone around 0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:49.839 you has a phone where they're gonna get it. So 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:52.440 I've been on planes where we get special alerts and 0:41:52.480 --> 0:41:54.200 the whole plane just erupts in. 0:41:54.239 --> 0:41:54.759 Like you know, the. 0:41:56.760 --> 0:42:01.439 You know sounds. So anyway, that's where you turn them off. Now, 0:42:01.520 --> 0:42:04.520 with the sounds, I think, I don't I could be wrong. 0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:06.279 I'm not sure if that I think the sounds might. 0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:09.320 I think they're silent if your phone is on silent. 0:42:09.400 --> 0:42:11.920 My phone is on silent like ninety nine point nine 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:13.680 percent of the time, and so I don't think I 0:42:13.719 --> 0:42:17.120 ever hear sounds on my phone ever, because I'm always, 0:42:17.120 --> 0:42:19.680 you know, I'm always shooting something like recording something, and 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:22.240 so I've just grown up in TV and I'm always 0:42:22.480 --> 0:42:24.600 you have your phone on silent, you know, it's on vibrate. 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:27.520 And with the Apple Watch, it's been amazing because I 0:42:27.640 --> 0:42:29.400 never need to think because my wrist is going to 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:30.799 tell me what I need to know. But that's how 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:33.480 you do it. And no judgment. If you want to 0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:35.960 turn these off, I'm I'm you know, turn them off. 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:37.800 I mean, that's that's your progative. It's your phone. You 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:41.879 could do whatever you want, you know, so that's that's 0:42:41.960 --> 0:42:43.799 that's your you know, your decision to make. 0:42:43.800 --> 0:42:45.680 But that's how you do it, all right. Uh. 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:48.880 Instagram revealed a little bit about it kind of pulled 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:51.200 the curtain back a little bit, and maybe this is 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:53.920 not interesting to you at all, Maybe it is. 0:42:54.000 --> 0:42:56.200 I don't know, you know, I tweeted this. 0:42:56.280 --> 0:42:58.040 Not too many people care, so I probably shouldn't even 0:42:58.040 --> 0:42:59.759 talk about it on the podcast, but I will just 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:02.719 really quickly. I thought it was interesting because it's always 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:05.120 people are always curious about why isn't my stuff being 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:07.719 shown on Instagram? Who sees my stuff on Instagram? And 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:10.520 you know, people think it's this mysterious algorithm, which it is. 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:14.560 There definitely is some mysteriousness to it, but Instagram kind 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:16.800 of revealed a little bit and I thought it was interesting. 0:43:16.880 --> 0:43:21.040 So here is the bottom line with the signals in 0:43:21.080 --> 0:43:24.640 the algorithm. Right, So number one in order of importance 0:43:24.800 --> 0:43:27.399 when you see feeds and stories, right, this is how 0:43:27.480 --> 0:43:28.359 algorithm ranks them. 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:28.839 Number one. 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:32.320 Information about the post. How many people have liked it before, 0:43:32.880 --> 0:43:35.000 So if a lot of people like a post, yes, 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:37.120 it's going to be shown to more people. Also, how 0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:39.680 old the post is, right, so if it's an older post, 0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:41.520 they're gonna start showing it to less people. That just 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:44.560 makes sense. Information about the person who posted it. So 0:43:45.160 --> 0:43:47.680 if the person is interesting to you, that means like, 0:43:47.719 --> 0:43:48.840 if you interact. 0:43:48.440 --> 0:43:50.000 With that person a lot, they're gonna show you their 0:43:50.000 --> 0:43:50.440 stuff more. 0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:52.880 And you can easily just do this with my account 0:43:53.320 --> 0:43:55.319 if you're tapping on my stories a lot or my 0:43:55.640 --> 0:43:58.960 you're liking my Facebook post or my Instagram posts rather 0:43:59.000 --> 0:44:01.759 a lot Instagram says oh cool, we got one, we 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:02.160 got one. 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:03.719 We're gonna show that person more to them. 0:44:03.760 --> 0:44:05.799 It just makes sense, right, I Mean, if you like something, 0:44:05.840 --> 0:44:10.000 you're gonna see more of it your activity, So how 0:44:10.000 --> 0:44:12.400 many posts you've liked on that person? That's kind of 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:15.640 That's another thing, Like I also, you know This kind 0:44:15.640 --> 0:44:18.719 of goes about the person, but also the activity in 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:20.960 the posts that you like from that person. So you 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:23.200 may you may never like a post on that person, 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:24.920 so they might not show you as many posts, but 0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:26.759 if you like those posts a lot, they're gonna show 0:44:26.760 --> 0:44:29.280 you more. And then of course your history of interacting 0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:31.280 with someone, and this is a big one is the comment. 0:44:31.360 --> 0:44:33.520 So if you don't comment on someone's posts a lot, 0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:38.000 they're gonna show their posts to you less. So that's 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:41.480 basically it. So imagine the more like this is the 0:44:41.480 --> 0:44:44.880 bottom line. They kind of condense it into this. The 0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:49.280 more time that they think you're gonna spend on a post, 0:44:49.719 --> 0:44:52.280 comment on it, like it, save it, or tap the profile, 0:44:52.320 --> 0:44:54.080 the more they're gonna show you that post. That's it 0:44:54.200 --> 0:44:56.240 bottom line. I mean, it's very easy. 0:44:56.280 --> 0:44:56.440 Now. 0:44:56.480 --> 0:44:58.560 Of course, there's a lot of signals that go into that. 0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:01.920 You know a lot of like no crunching and formulas 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:03.480 and all that stuff. But that's the bottom line, and 0:45:03.480 --> 0:45:05.879 it just makes sense. The more you interact with people 0:45:05.920 --> 0:45:07.640 on Instagram, the more they're going to show you their posts. 0:45:07.640 --> 0:45:09.600 The more you do on Instagram, the more you're gonna see, 0:45:10.280 --> 0:45:11.920 the more you like stuff, the more you're gonna see 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:14.439 similar stuff. I mean, it just kind of makes sense, right, 0:45:14.520 --> 0:45:22.680 So now you know, all right, another question, let's see 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:25.520 what question? James says, Hey, Rich A few days ago, 0:45:25.560 --> 0:45:27.439 I went to the Delta website to book round trip 0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:30.680 tickets to Cancun, and the economy plus was seven thirty eight. 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:32.680 I had points to bring it down to three thirty. 0:45:32.719 --> 0:45:34.640 A day and a half later, the same fare increase 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:37.520 to five hundred. I know there are fair checker sites 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:40.440 where you enter a date and destination, but I have 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:43.200 specific Delta flight numbers. Is there a site that can 0:45:43.239 --> 0:45:47.520 alert me when that particular flight changes prices? Thank you, James, Yes, James, 0:45:47.560 --> 0:45:51.080 I use this every day. It's called Google Flights. Super 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:56.719 duper easy Google Flights. Just select the exact flights that 0:45:56.800 --> 0:45:59.919 you want, so these Delta flights, and once you select them, 0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:03.279 there will be a big button that says track prices. 0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:04.520 Sort of in the middle of the screen. 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:07.719 It's a toggle switch, and just track the prices and 0:46:08.440 --> 0:46:10.840 next thing, no, you'll get a bunch of alerts from Google. 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:13.080 You'll get an alert when the price is about to 0:46:13.120 --> 0:46:15.440 go up if their little prediction says, you know what, 0:46:15.480 --> 0:46:17.480 in the next ten hours this is going up fifty bucks. 0:46:17.760 --> 0:46:18.640 You'll get that alert. 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:21.440 You'll get an alert when the price goes up, which 0:46:21.520 --> 0:46:23.759 happens very often, and you also get an alert when 0:46:23.760 --> 0:46:24.560 the price goes down. 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:26.840 And these are not perfect, believe me. 0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:29.080 Sometimes by the time you see them, you know, if 0:46:29.080 --> 0:46:32.080 you're not checking your email every two seconds, or if 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:34.200 you're not on an Android that might deliver these things 0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:37.840 as a notification, you'll you know, you can get to 0:46:37.920 --> 0:46:40.080 the website, the Delta site, and the price is already 0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:40.680 changed again. 0:46:40.719 --> 0:46:41.840 But that's what I use. 0:46:42.239 --> 0:46:46.319 I am always tracking at least one fair and believe me, 0:46:46.360 --> 0:46:50.600 these things they change a lot, and very significantly. I've 0:46:50.640 --> 0:46:53.439 seen prices go up, I've seen prices go down. I've 0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:55.960 seen prices go up and down and all around, and 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:58.200 it's just there's no rhyme or reason. But I will 0:46:58.239 --> 0:47:01.560 tell you one thing, and that it seems to happen 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:04.319 as soon as you track a price, the price goes 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:06.359 up for some reason. And it happens all the time. 0:47:06.400 --> 0:47:09.400 And that's why I always say, you know, book, if 0:47:09.440 --> 0:47:11.920 you see a price that you like, book it immediately 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:13.799 like that first price that you got might have been 0:47:13.840 --> 0:47:16.040 the best price for these Cancun. People are traveling a 0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:19.800 lot right now, and prices are are going pretty wild. 0:47:19.880 --> 0:47:22.640 In fact, I'm gonna work on a story with some 0:47:22.800 --> 0:47:26.080 travel tips because you know, I have a couple sites 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:28.479 that I use. Actually asked folks on Twitter today about 0:47:28.480 --> 0:47:31.560 their favorite travel websites and tools, and it's a lot 0:47:31.600 --> 0:47:33.080 of the stuff that I've known. But you know, there 0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:35.680 are some things that there are some trends where people 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:39.440 you know definitely like the same things and Google flights. 0:47:39.480 --> 0:47:41.439 I feel like it's like a hidden gem. I feel 0:47:41.480 --> 0:47:43.520 like not enough people know about it because most people 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:45.920 know about Kayak, and maybe they do that, I don't 0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:48.360 know if they. If they, I don't really use Kayak. Honestly, 0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:50.799 I haven't used it. I remember when Kayak came out. 0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:53.600 I was a reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, and I thought 0:47:53.600 --> 0:47:56.719 it was just the most amazing thing ever. The fact 0:47:56.719 --> 0:48:00.520 that you could actually compare flight prices on one page 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:04.200 from different airlines was such a new idea. And you're 0:48:04.200 --> 0:48:07.920 talking this was what two thousand, gosh, this was probably 0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:11.960 two thousand. Let's see Kayak launched. I mean this was 0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:14.160 long like two thousand and three, maybe. 0:48:15.440 --> 0:48:15.640 Year. 0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:19.239 Let's see Kayak launch yet two thousand and four. There 0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:23.200 you go, So two thousand and four, I just you. 0:48:23.120 --> 0:48:24.520 Know, it was it was just wild. 0:48:24.560 --> 0:48:26.799 It was a search engine for flights, and that was 0:48:26.840 --> 0:48:29.960 just something I had never been done before Expedia and 0:48:30.000 --> 0:48:32.839 all that stuff. You know it it was a very 0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:35.880 different thing. It was much more of like, you know, 0:48:35.960 --> 0:48:38.759 things were programmed in, but Kayak was much more like, 0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:39.760 we don't really. 0:48:39.680 --> 0:48:41.279 Care where these numbers are coming from. 0:48:41.320 --> 0:48:43.120 We're just gonna find them everywhere and put them all 0:48:43.160 --> 0:48:46.080 on one page, whereas Expedia worked more like a search 0:48:46.200 --> 0:48:50.239 travel engine, I think, and still now I feel like 0:48:50.600 --> 0:48:53.840 Kayak is much more like a search travel engine. 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:54.919 But I don't know if that makes sense. 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:58.319 But anyway, Google Flights is the much I feel like 0:48:58.360 --> 0:49:00.520 it's the most kind of like independent out of all 0:49:00.560 --> 0:49:02.320 of them, and it just gives you like the most 0:49:02.719 --> 0:49:07.600 independent kind of results that are not they're not they're 0:49:07.600 --> 0:49:10.600 not putting one thing higher than another because you know, 0:49:11.200 --> 0:49:13.840 United paid them for that placement. Does that make sense? 0:49:14.280 --> 0:49:16.480 That's kind of anyway. That's where i'd go and that's 0:49:16.480 --> 0:49:18.840 what i'd use. All right, This is kind of interesting. 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:23.400 We talked about this whole idea of limited storage on 0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:26.480 Google Photos, and so of course there's not to me, 0:49:26.600 --> 0:49:30.640 there's not really a good alternative because you know, Google 0:49:30.640 --> 0:49:32.439 Photos just does so much. And I already talked about 0:49:32.440 --> 0:49:34.880 this in the last podcast, but I have been testing 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:38.400 something called Iedrive Photos, and this is a local company 0:49:38.440 --> 0:49:41.600 in Los Angeles. And I'm always very hesitant when it 0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:48.120 comes to talking or you know, discussing any photo backup 0:49:48.200 --> 0:49:50.200 because there have been so many that have come and 0:49:50.239 --> 0:49:54.120 gone that they never survive, and it seems like, you know, 0:49:54.239 --> 0:49:56.719 only the big guys survive, you know, like the Microsofts 0:49:56.719 --> 0:49:58.920 of the world, the dropboxes. 0:49:58.200 --> 0:50:00.319 And you know, so many have come in gone. 0:50:00.320 --> 0:50:03.879 So I'm very hesitant to recommend this, but I will 0:50:03.920 --> 0:50:06.400 say it does work as promised, and I might use 0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:11.160 it as a secondary backup because it is unlimited photo 0:50:11.320 --> 0:50:14.799 and video storage for iOS and Android. For get this 0:50:15.200 --> 0:50:18.320 nine ninety five a year. 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By the way, at full resolution. 0:50:58.160 --> 0:51:01.200 This is called I Drive Photo. And by the way, 0:51:01.200 --> 0:51:04.520 the first year is just ninety nine cents. Ninety nine 0:51:04.600 --> 0:51:06.520 cents for the first year, and then ten dollars a 0:51:06.640 --> 0:51:10.680 year after that. So it's very compelling. And for me, 0:51:11.000 --> 0:51:12.520 I think what I'm gonna do is, I think I'm 0:51:12.560 --> 0:51:14.919 just gonna pay for this every year for ten bucks 0:51:14.920 --> 0:51:17.920 as long as it's around as just a backup backup, 0:51:18.040 --> 0:51:19.879 Like if I take a picture on my phone, it's 0:51:19.920 --> 0:51:21.960 going into this backup and if I ever need it, 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:23.719 I'm not gonna organize them or anything. I'm not gonna 0:51:23.719 --> 0:51:25.399 delete stuff, but I'm just gonna leave it in there. 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:28.040 So if I ever find a thing where my phone 0:51:28.360 --> 0:51:32.040 crashes or whatever, or my other cloud storage goes could put, 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:33.480 I just go in here and I'm like, oh, that 0:51:33.520 --> 0:51:34.600 was the picture I took yesterday. 0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:35.759 Hear it. This is so. 0:51:36.680 --> 0:51:42.040 The website is I drive dot com slash photos. I 0:51:42.239 --> 0:51:46.200 drive dot com slash Photos. You can get a free 0:51:46.239 --> 0:51:49.120 seven day trial with no credit card needed. Again, I 0:51:49.160 --> 0:51:51.520 can't vouch for this company because I don't know how 0:51:51.520 --> 0:51:53.839 long they'll be around doing this, and they could change 0:51:53.840 --> 0:51:56.120 their mind when people start uploading gobs and gobs of 0:51:56.160 --> 0:51:59.520 photos and there's not really like a search functionality. I 0:51:59.520 --> 0:52:02.720 guess there's search, but it's very limited. No, the search 0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:06.920 is either photos or videos and there's like nothing special 0:52:06.920 --> 0:52:09.280 about it except it just organizes them in a timeline 0:52:09.640 --> 0:52:11.560 and you can favorite some as your favorites. 0:52:11.680 --> 0:52:12.400 You can see. 0:52:13.040 --> 0:52:16.719 Yeah, that's basically it, but it's it does what you need. 0:52:16.760 --> 0:52:18.360 It just backs up your photos. So if you just 0:52:18.400 --> 0:52:21.520 want like the cheapest solution that does unlimited and you 0:52:21.640 --> 0:52:23.359 have to think about much, you know, check it out. 0:52:23.880 --> 0:52:26.040 Just make sure it's not your only solution. But I 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:27.920 am going to do a story with this company because 0:52:27.920 --> 0:52:29.799 they are local and I'm curious to hear what the 0:52:29.800 --> 0:52:31.799 founder says, Like how they think they can do this 0:52:32.320 --> 0:52:35.400 when Google itself can't do it is beyond me. So 0:52:35.520 --> 0:52:37.719 maybe they're just figuring that because they're smaller than Google. 0:52:37.760 --> 0:52:39.520 They're not going to get as many people, you know, 0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:42.120 bogging them down. But I feel like if word gets 0:52:42.160 --> 0:52:44.399 out about this, you know, people are definitely gonna try 0:52:44.400 --> 0:52:48.600 it out. So anyway, I drive photos, I signed up 0:52:48.600 --> 0:52:51.319 for it. Will well, I'll keep you posted on how 0:52:51.360 --> 0:53:00.600 it works. All right, let's see question here from Denise. 0:53:00.640 --> 0:53:03.120 Denise says, hey, Rich, we currently have the Apple TV 0:53:03.280 --> 0:53:06.520 third generation and looking to upgrade since YouTube's no longer 0:53:06.520 --> 0:53:09.279 available on it. My husband is somewhat tech savvy, and 0:53:09.320 --> 0:53:11.640 our daughter and son in law more so. But did 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:14.839 see that there is an Apple second generation Apple TV 0:53:14.920 --> 0:53:17.439 four K that launched in April. Have you done any 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:19.440 research on it? Is it user friendly? What model do 0:53:19.480 --> 0:53:21.839 you recommend? We are getting rid of cable and go 0:53:21.880 --> 0:53:24.080 with streaming, do you have any recommendations? Will definitely be 0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:26.919 a learning curve for me. I appreciate any help. I've 0:53:26.960 --> 0:53:28.319 reached out to you in the past, and you are 0:53:28.360 --> 0:53:30.960 a great help. Thank you and stay well Denise. All right, Well, Denise, 0:53:31.680 --> 0:53:34.200 I know that not everyone watches every segment that I 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:36.719 do on TV, but I definitely did a review of 0:53:36.760 --> 0:53:39.200 the Apple TV four K recently when it came out 0:53:39.719 --> 0:53:42.080 and you know, you can watch those, by the way, 0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:44.200 on the ktla plus app no matter where you live, 0:53:44.280 --> 0:53:46.880 download it on your Apple TV, on your Fire TV 0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:49.879 stick or your Roku and just open up. It's called 0:53:49.960 --> 0:53:53.520 ktla plus. It's free, no sign up and you just 0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:55.480 you know, download the app and you can watch all 0:53:55.520 --> 0:53:58.160 my tech segments that are that air on TV. 0:53:58.280 --> 0:54:01.040 So it's pretty handy there. Uh. 0:54:01.080 --> 0:54:03.359 But what I what my conclusion is about the Apple 0:54:03.400 --> 0:54:05.520 TV four K is it's fantastic. I mean, if you 0:54:05.560 --> 0:54:08.080 have an iPhone, it's like the best companion ever. It's 0:54:08.120 --> 0:54:10.480 just a very expensive way to stream and if you 0:54:10.600 --> 0:54:13.000 don't mind paying the money for it, then it's what 0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:15.879 I would recommend because it's it's got great apps. It's 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:18.440 got every app available, it's got a great version of 0:54:18.480 --> 0:54:22.800 every app, and yes, YouTube is on there and it's 0:54:22.880 --> 0:54:27.400 it works. So you know, as far as recommending the model, 0:54:27.520 --> 0:54:31.239 there's two models. There is a sixty four gigabyte and 0:54:31.360 --> 0:54:35.080 a thirty two gigabyte. Oh gosh, is that the case 0:54:35.600 --> 0:54:36.560 Apple TV four K. 0:54:36.640 --> 0:54:37.440 I got to look that up. 0:54:37.480 --> 0:54:40.480 I think it's sixty four, Yeah, thirty two and sixty four, 0:54:40.960 --> 0:54:43.799 And so you know the main thing is just deciding 0:54:44.320 --> 0:54:46.359 which one of those you want this the thirty two 0:54:46.440 --> 0:54:48.680 is one eighty, the sixty four is one ninety nine. 0:54:49.160 --> 0:54:51.760 I would go for the sixty four gigabyte just because 0:54:52.200 --> 0:54:55.120 you know, apps are getting huge these days, and thirty 0:54:55.120 --> 0:54:57.600 two gigs. Not like you're downloading movies to this thing anyway, 0:54:57.640 --> 0:55:00.520 that's the old days. But it's streaming mostly everything. But 0:55:00.560 --> 0:55:03.600 it still does need that space for things like especially 0:55:03.640 --> 0:55:06.360 if you're gonna play some games on it, Apple Arcade, 0:55:07.200 --> 0:55:09.080 you know, if you're downloading just a bunch of apps, 0:55:09.120 --> 0:55:11.719 like I just think for the extra twenty bucks, go 0:55:11.760 --> 0:55:15.040 for the sixty four gigabyte version. You get the new 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:18.680 remote control, which is really nice, and you know, yes 0:55:18.760 --> 0:55:22.680 YouTube does work on there. And as for the streaming, 0:55:22.800 --> 0:55:26.120 like cutting the cord, I always recommend a website called 0:55:26.280 --> 0:55:31.040 untangled dot tv. So Untangled dot tv is the website 0:55:31.040 --> 0:55:34.359 that I recommend you pop in all the shows that 0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:36.440 you want to watch, all the channels that you like, 0:55:36.600 --> 0:55:39.359 and it will give you a list of all of 0:55:39.400 --> 0:55:42.680 the recommendations it has for streaming services. So that's what 0:55:42.719 --> 0:55:46.600 I would recommend. Check those out. And you know I've 0:55:46.680 --> 0:55:48.799 I cut the cord a couple of years ago. It's 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:51.120 been fantastic. I mean, the big missing link in Los 0:55:51.160 --> 0:55:55.319 Angeles was really getting KTLA over an app because we're 0:55:55.320 --> 0:55:58.240 not on the streaming services. And once we're on KTLA Plus, 0:55:58.719 --> 0:56:01.520 I mean, it was pretty transformative for a lot of people. 0:56:01.600 --> 0:56:04.640 I suspect a lot of people cut the chord when 0:56:04.680 --> 0:56:07.600 that happened. And you know, now you can watch your 0:56:07.600 --> 0:56:10.400 local news, you can watch all of our extra programming 0:56:10.400 --> 0:56:13.200 on demand, and then you can also just subscribe to 0:56:13.200 --> 0:56:15.719 the things like Netflix and Disney Plus for all the 0:56:15.719 --> 0:56:17.440 other stuff that you want to watch. It's worked out 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:21.359 perfectly for us. So Untangled dot tv is the way 0:56:21.440 --> 0:56:26.200 to go. Okay, let me just talk about two quick moments, 0:56:26.320 --> 0:56:29.279 two quick things before I go Amazon DJ mode. I 0:56:29.320 --> 0:56:31.799 gotta tell you, I've been testing all the music services 0:56:31.840 --> 0:56:36.320 and I really have Amazon Music is like, I really 0:56:36.440 --> 0:56:38.560 like it, and I just, you know, I think it's 0:56:38.600 --> 0:56:42.359 actually it's simple, it's straightforward, and I'm actually digging it 0:56:42.520 --> 0:56:44.239 because it is so simple, and I find things to 0:56:44.280 --> 0:56:47.160 play very quickly because their playlists are not like Spotify 0:56:47.160 --> 0:56:50.200 has so many playlists. I'm like, what's country chill versus 0:56:50.239 --> 0:56:56.000 country backyard barbecue versus country road versus country, Uh, you 0:56:56.000 --> 0:56:57.839 know whatever. It's like, I don't know, like I have 0:56:57.840 --> 0:56:59.560 to I spend I have to spend so much time 0:56:59.600 --> 0:57:03.200 looking at the nuances of these playlists that it takes 0:57:03.200 --> 0:57:04.880 me so long to figure out which one to play. 0:57:06.160 --> 0:57:08.799 And Apple Music is great, but it's you know, same thing. 0:57:08.800 --> 0:57:10.680 They have so many playlists. I think they said they 0:57:10.680 --> 0:57:14.640 have thirty thousand like human curated playlists on there. I mean, 0:57:14.680 --> 0:57:19.720 that's just unbelievable. Amazon Music they and then they introduced 0:57:19.760 --> 0:57:22.240 this thing called DJ mode, which I personally love because 0:57:22.240 --> 0:57:24.280 I've I've mentioned this before. I'm a radio guy. I 0:57:24.320 --> 0:57:27.360 love radio, and so you know, to me, when a 0:57:27.400 --> 0:57:31.040 streaming service does not have a DJ, it's it's tricky 0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:33.800 because you don't know, you have no context for the 0:57:33.840 --> 0:57:37.280 song that's playing, right. You don't know if the song 0:57:37.360 --> 0:57:40.160 that's playing just came out by that artist or came 0:57:40.200 --> 0:57:42.280 out five years ago and they just picked a cut 0:57:42.320 --> 0:57:45.560 off an album. And so by having a DJ introduced 0:57:45.640 --> 0:57:49.000 songs which like Sirius XM has and iHeartRadio has. It's 0:57:49.080 --> 0:57:51.200 kind of fun because you get a little bit of insight. 0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:54.160 And Apple Music has it with their you know DJ stations, 0:57:54.200 --> 0:57:56.640 like their they have a country radio station, they have 0:57:56.680 --> 0:57:59.320 a hit station, they have their original Zane Low station. 0:57:59.840 --> 0:58:02.240 So I mean, you know, I think and I kind 0:58:02.240 --> 0:58:05.560 of predicted this, but it's the DJ is making a comeback. 0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:08.800 The DJ is making a comeback on streaming music services. 0:58:08.840 --> 0:58:13.800 So now on Amazon you have four DJ stations. It's 0:58:13.800 --> 0:58:17.240 called one is rap Rotation, one is Country Heat, one 0:58:17.320 --> 0:58:18.960 is All Hits, and then another one is a Billie 0:58:18.960 --> 0:58:21.320 Eilish station. So if you want to play these, just 0:58:21.320 --> 0:58:24.360 say the A word, play Rap Rotation in DJ mode, 0:58:24.640 --> 0:58:27.520 or play Country Heat in DJ mode, play all Hits 0:58:27.520 --> 0:58:29.600 in DJ mode, play the Billy Eilish takeover. 0:58:29.880 --> 0:58:30.600 And I listened to this. 0:58:30.680 --> 0:58:33.800 Yesterday in my house two ways. I listened on my iPhone, 0:58:34.080 --> 0:58:36.600 which was fine, it worked great and alex I almost 0:58:36.640 --> 0:58:39.040 said it. The A Word even comes on with some 0:58:39.120 --> 0:58:42.720 music trivia, which is kind of fun in her voice. 0:58:43.360 --> 0:58:44.919 But there's also DJs. They're not live. 0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:47.480 It's it's very clear it's recorded and tracked, but it's 0:58:47.480 --> 0:58:49.720 still kind of fun and maybe they'll do live later. 0:58:49.760 --> 0:58:52.280 Who knows Apple is live, which is kind of fun 0:58:52.480 --> 0:58:54.400 a lot on a lot of their morning shows. 0:58:54.120 --> 0:58:55.880 At least or some of their shows. 0:58:55.880 --> 0:58:58.080 I don't know they're live and taped, but it's definitely 0:58:58.160 --> 0:58:59.960 much more of like a person sitting there for four 0:59:00.080 --> 0:59:02.120 hours like doing the show versus this just sounds like 0:59:02.120 --> 0:59:03.840 they go in with like a paper and read a 0:59:03.840 --> 0:59:06.760 bunch of stuff. It's a start, but it's fun. It 0:59:06.760 --> 0:59:09.000 did not work on Sonos though. I think whatever system 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:11.480 they're using is not you know, it's not compatible with 0:59:11.560 --> 0:59:14.200 Sonos just yet, but it'll come. And then the other 0:59:14.200 --> 0:59:17.160 thing I mentioned earlier in the podcast is that Apple 0:59:17.240 --> 0:59:21.320 Music has this you know this Dolby Atmost spatial audio. 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:24.200 So you can open up your Apple Music app, make 0:59:24.240 --> 0:59:27.520 sure you're updated to the latest iOS fourteen point six, 0:59:27.720 --> 0:59:32.680 and look under Dolby Atmost under you know in the 0:59:32.800 --> 0:59:35.920 music and you can see the spatial audio. They have 0:59:35.920 --> 0:59:38.520 a whole bunch of playlists, so you can use your 0:59:38.560 --> 0:59:40.640 air pods to listen. You can use your AirPods Pro, 0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:44.120 you can use AirPods Max if you have them, beats, 0:59:45.200 --> 0:59:48.320 and then if you want to try other headphones which 0:59:48.360 --> 0:59:50.160 may or may not work, you can go into the 0:59:50.160 --> 0:59:54.440 Apple Music app under settings, choose preferences, and then you 0:59:54.480 --> 0:59:57.439 can turn Dolby Atmost on always and it will try 0:59:57.480 --> 1:00:00.560 to you know, push out that spatial audio no matter 1:00:00.600 --> 1:00:05.560 what headset you're listening on. Oh look at that. You 1:00:05.560 --> 1:00:07.760 know what that sound means. It is the end of 1:00:08.000 --> 1:00:10.600 the show. Thanks so much for listening. That's going to 1:00:10.640 --> 1:00:12.160 do it for this episode. If you'd like to submit 1:00:12.160 --> 1:00:13.680 a question for me to answer, just go to my 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:16.560 Facebook page Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech. 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