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Speaker 1: on Tech dot tv and hit contact Guests. This week
Speaker 1: we've got Patrick Chome of Samsung. He's going to talk
Speaker 1: about the company's new line of foldables and why he
Speaker 1: believes now is the time to jump on board. And
Speaker 1: later we've got Ari Paparo, a former Google executive and
Speaker 1: author of Yield How Google bought, built, and bullied its
Speaker 1: way to advertising dominance. They'll talk about how Google quietly
Speaker 1: took over digital advertising. Well, this week I was on
Speaker 1: the road once again. It has been a very, very
Speaker 1: busy summer. This week I was in Brooklyn for Samsung's
Speaker 1: Unpacked event. Now, they usually do two of these a year,
Speaker 1: one for their standard S series of phones, like the
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty five, and then one for their Z series,
Speaker 1: which are their foldables. Now, if you look at a Z,
Speaker 1: I guess that kind of looks like a fold ball.
Speaker 1: I guess you might remember last year they launched their
Speaker 1: foldable phones in Paris along with their smart ring. The
Speaker 1: year before it was in Seoul, South Korea, where I
Speaker 1: also got to take a tour of their headquarters. By
Speaker 1: the way, if the tech person that you like is
Speaker 1: not going to all of these various events, you got
Speaker 1: to think to yourself, how can they have perspective on
Speaker 1: all of this stuff. It is a lot of work
Speaker 1: to travel to all of these different places to be
Speaker 1: there in person, you know. So I make a point
Speaker 1: to do that because I want to see how Samsung
Speaker 1: does things. I want to see how Nothing does their stuff.
Speaker 1: I want to see how Apple does their stuff. If
Speaker 1: the person you're following is only going to one place
Speaker 1: or no places? How can they have that perspective talking
Speaker 1: to people on the ground, meeting with people going hands
Speaker 1: on with these new devices. Just remember that now this
Speaker 1: event was focused on the Z Fold seven and the
Speaker 1: Z Flip seven. Keep in mind, Samsung has been making
Speaker 1: foldable since twenty nineteen and they've come such a long way.
Speaker 1: The first one was so basic. If you've got to
Speaker 1: speck a dust in the hinge, the entire screen would
Speaker 1: just go caput. It would just be broken. Now, not
Speaker 1: so much anymore. These latest foldables are very refined, and
Speaker 1: this year's models might finally be good enough to replace
Speaker 1: your regular smartphone. Oh my gosh, did I really just
Speaker 1: say that. Let's start with the Fold seven. The first
Speaker 1: thing you notice when you pick this device up I've
Speaker 1: got it here in my hand is how thin and
Speaker 1: light it is. It is a huge departure from the
Speaker 1: bulky design of the previous models. But the biggest improvement
Speaker 1: is really the cover screen. This is the screen you
Speaker 1: use the most when this device is folded. It is
Speaker 1: actually usable for day to day tasks. The outside screen
Speaker 1: is now six point five inches, way wider than before
Speaker 1: previous models. I just couldn't use because the outside screen
Speaker 1: was just too narrow. This one you can actually use
Speaker 1: now when you open it up. It's eight inches, basically
Speaker 1: a mini tablet in your pocket, and for the first time,
Speaker 1: it has Samsung's best two hundred megapixel camera.
Speaker 2: I've been using it for the past few days.
Speaker 1: It takes great pictures, just what you'd expect from a
Speaker 1: Samsung and I think that's a good thing that they
Speaker 1: added to this device because now it's a proper camera
Speaker 1: as well. Now there are a few downgrades for starters.
Speaker 1: Samsung dropped Stylus support. That means you cannot use an
Speaker 1: spen with this device, which is kind of a bummer
Speaker 1: because they say it's a productivity powerhouse. And of course
Speaker 1: the price went up by one hundred dollars, making an
Speaker 1: expensive phone even more expensive. So how much is this
Speaker 1: thing gonna cost? The z Fold seven is two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for a two hundred and fifty six gigabyte version
Speaker 1: with twelve gigabytes of RAM. If you really want to
Speaker 1: go all out and your money's just burning a major
Speaker 1: hole in your pocket, you can get a one terabyte
Speaker 1: version with sixteen gigabytes of RAM. Now I've been using
Speaker 1: this phone for the past few days, and I can
Speaker 1: tell you that it is finally gotten to a place
Speaker 1: that is really good.
Speaker 2: Like I can actually recommend this.
Speaker 1: The outside screen is big enough for doing all the
Speaker 1: day to day tasks you want to do. The inside
Speaker 1: screen is really cool for doing things like your email,
Speaker 1: watching videos, working on spreadsheets. It really is a two
Speaker 1: in one device, so no need to carry a separate
Speaker 1: tablet or even buy one, which, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: that could be you know, three to five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: all by itself, and not one less thing to charge.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're doing your Netflix downloads and things
Speaker 1: when you travel, it's one less thing to worry about.
Speaker 1: But this phone is also super slippery. It does not
Speaker 1: lay flat on a table. It's actually comical how it
Speaker 1: lays When it's on a table. Of course, you'll probably
Speaker 1: put a case on it. And the power button is
Speaker 1: so recessed it is a bit tricky to activate the
Speaker 1: AI or the camera easily, but I did find a workaround.
Speaker 1: There's a little setting in there that will leave the
Speaker 1: power button always on for the fingerprint sensor. You don't
Speaker 1: actually have to push it down to activate it. So
Speaker 1: that makes life a little bit easier. I just figured
Speaker 1: that out. Battery life does not seem great to me.
Speaker 1: They did not improve the battery life on the fold.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I've been using it NonStop for the past couple of days,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's why the battery is just always kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, not that impressive to me. But I will
Speaker 1: have to try this for a little bit longer and
Speaker 1: see if the battery life levels out. Now, onto the
Speaker 1: Flip seven. This is the smaller phone that closes like
Speaker 1: a clamshell or if you had one of those old
Speaker 1: school motorol erasers. It's like that. It's like an old
Speaker 1: school flip phone, except much more modern. Now on this one,
Speaker 1: the first thing you notice is that the outside screen,
Speaker 1: which Samsung calls the cover screen, is now pushed all
Speaker 1: the way to the edges. So basically the entire front
Speaker 1: of the phone is now a screen, and it has
Speaker 1: two camera hole cutouts. They did a cute little thing
Speaker 1: where they showed a picture of the phone on the
Speaker 1: stage like a big screen picture, and it was a
Speaker 1: picture of a dog and the eyes were the camera
Speaker 1: hole cutouts. Now, when you open up the phone, you
Speaker 1: get a proper six point nine inch display in the
Speaker 1: ratio that you're used to, so again it's not as
Speaker 1: narrow as before. The big deal with these phones that
Speaker 1: was kind of a problem was that they were too
Speaker 1: narrow to use. Now Samsung figured out how to make
Speaker 1: them almost as wide as our standard phones that they
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better when you're using them day
Speaker 1: to day.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: One of the big complaints of the Flip has always
Speaker 1: been the battery life. Samsung did address that they increased
Speaker 1: the battery by three hundred million hours, which is just
Speaker 1: under ten percent more battery life while more battery capacity,
Speaker 1: I should say, but that should really help on this
Speaker 1: tiny device. Now, the camera hardware, they didn't add anything new,
Speaker 1: but they did, of course say they improved the software processing,
Speaker 1: but they always say that, but this thing is always
Speaker 1: taking good pictures. Here's the neat part about the foldable
Speaker 1: form factor if you're not familiar with it. Basically, when
Speaker 1: you take your selfies and videos, you can use the
Speaker 1: best cameras, the outer cameras, the main camera lenses. That's
Speaker 1: because you can leave the phone closed and use the
Speaker 1: front screen to see what you're taking a photo off.
Speaker 1: So it's a really nice benefit that no matter what
Speaker 1: kind of photo or video you're capturing, whether it's a
Speaker 1: regular video, regular photo, or a selfie, you're always using
Speaker 1: the best cameras, and so Samsung sort of positions this
Speaker 1: as like a creator's friend. Of course, most of the
Speaker 1: creators I know are using iPhone. Pricing on the z
Speaker 1: Flip stays the same eleven hundred dollars. There's also Gemini
Speaker 1: AI built into both.
Speaker 2: Of these devices.
Speaker 1: Of course we know that, but it's really useful on
Speaker 1: these phones, especially compared to the half baked AI that's
Speaker 1: built into the iPhone. Let's be honest, you're not even
Speaker 1: using AI in the iPhone for anything. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you are, I don't know what you're doing, because for me,
Speaker 1: it's all about chat, GBT and Gemini.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if Siri has the smarts that
Speaker 1: I need. Let's see what else. Oh, these phones are
Speaker 1: also much more usable because of Gemini AI. So you
Speaker 1: can now leave this little flip z flip closed and
Speaker 1: you can just activate the AI to do all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff, including functions on the phone that you.
Speaker 2: Just couldn't do before.
Speaker 1: And I'll have more of my interview later on with
Speaker 1: the Samsung rep but he mentions this that like things
Speaker 1: you couldn't do before, you can now do on these
Speaker 1: phones because of AI, like all the commands you want
Speaker 1: to do are functionable because of that.
Speaker 2: It's pretty neat. Now.
Speaker 1: I know these prices are high, but remember nobody pays
Speaker 1: full price for Samsung products. There's always some sort of promotion,
Speaker 1: trade in deal, or discount out there, so be sure
Speaker 1: to look out for that if you are purchasing one
Speaker 1: of these. Someone my Instagram yesterday sent me a little
Speaker 1: screenshot of them buying the new z Fold and they
Speaker 1: traded in their old phone. They got a bunch of
Speaker 1: money for that, and they also got some sort of discount.
Speaker 1: I think it was like an education discount. So again,
Speaker 1: always be on the lookout for those discounts. Now, if
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars or even eleven hunters too much for you,
Speaker 1: they're also making a flip f e edition which has
Speaker 1: a smaller outside screen, a lesser battery, and no dedicated
Speaker 1: zoom lens. That's going to sell for nine hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: probably cheaper because they'll discount that one even more heavily.
Speaker 1: But if I were you, if you're gonna get these,
Speaker 1: I would go with the standard one. The Z Flip
Speaker 1: is gonna give you much better specs than that the
Speaker 1: fe model. All of these phones go on sale July
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, and so far, pretty much everyone I have
Speaker 1: talked to, all the other folks at the event with me,
Speaker 1: they all agree that these phones have finally hit the
Speaker 1: point where you can comfortably switch and not miss a
Speaker 1: thing now, unless, of course, you have to have an
Speaker 1: iPhone in iOS and a lot of people feel that way.
Speaker 1: They don't want to switch to a Samsung, no matter
Speaker 1: how compelling these new form factors are, because they want Apple.
Speaker 1: And Apple, of course, is rumored to launch their first
Speaker 1: foldable next year in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: And you know that I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1: Talking about it right here on this radio show, and
Speaker 1: people are gonna be going wild over it, and they're
Speaker 1: even going to pretend that Samsung has not been doing
Speaker 1: this for the past six years.
Speaker 2: Now, all right, we got a lot on today's show.
Speaker 2: I am feeling good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about my trip to New York City,
Speaker 1: tell you the rest restaurants I went to and how
Speaker 1: they couldn't be more different. We'll talk about Prime Day,
Speaker 1: and of course we will take your calls at Triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one. Follow along on
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Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. The website is rich on
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. You can find me on Instagram at
Speaker 1: rich on tech. You see the trend going on here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to find me. Let's go to Harland
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: You're on with rich.
Speaker 5: Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: My wife and I purchased a camper that does not
Speaker 5: have a TV or audio equipment in it, and I
Speaker 5: don't need help picking any of that equipment for c
Speaker 5: But what I would like to do is somehow be
Speaker 5: able to screen cast or play Hulu on a TV
Speaker 5: or some device in the camp or from my Android phone,
Speaker 5: and I have not found out a way.
Speaker 3: To be able to do that.
Speaker 5: See what you got for some ideas or suggestions.
Speaker 1: So you want to play Hulu from your phone, but
Speaker 1: you don't, let's see here, So you're.
Speaker 5: Sorry, and without turning on the hot spot on the phone.
Speaker 1: Right, So you're not You're there's no network on the
Speaker 1: TV basically, because my my initial thought is get a
Speaker 1: Chrome cast and just plug that into the back of
Speaker 1: the TV, and you can do it that way, but
Speaker 1: you would need a network for that to run on.
Speaker 5: Correct And and the hotspot turned on on the phone.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, that's a tricky one. Um, let me think about this.
Speaker 1: So what about a cable from the phone to the TV?
Speaker 2: Can you do that? What kind of phone did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've tried it. It's a Samsung A fifty three five, okay,
Speaker 3: And I did get a USB C to HDMI cable
Speaker 3: and I couldn't end up getting it connected to the TV.
Speaker 3: But I was able to connect the TV through the Roku,
Speaker 3: but then it wouldn't play Hulu. And I guess from
Speaker 3: my understanding, Hulu has the restrictions so that you can't
Speaker 3: do screen mirroring on an Android phone for some reason.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? What do you mean
Speaker 1: you got what where's the Roku come into play here?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Well I tried it at home because we have Roku's
Speaker 5: in the house.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well, at home and at home it's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot easier because you have a Wi
Speaker 1: Fi network and that you know, you can you can
Speaker 1: pretty much either cast or whatever you want to the TV.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 1: So it's in the camper where you don't have a network,
Speaker 1: where you're trying to get this connected to the TV wirelessly,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a problem. I mean, there there
Speaker 1: there might be a way that you could set up.
Speaker 1: The thing about chrome cast is that what it's doing
Speaker 1: is it's not actually casting it from your phone. It's
Speaker 1: just taking like an instruction to say, hey, on the
Speaker 1: back end, find this signal and play it, right, like,
Speaker 1: go to this, go to this connection and play that
Speaker 1: that thing. Yeah, so without without a connection like a
Speaker 1: Wi Fi connection, I don't think you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do that very easily. That not that I can
Speaker 1: think of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, because I you know, I tried that,
Speaker 3: and yeah, it won't it won't work. It won't work
Speaker 3: on a chrome cast because yeah, like you said, chrome
Speaker 3: cast takes the you know, app instructions and whatnot permissions
Speaker 3: from the phone and then it streams directly from the
Speaker 3: Wi Fi source. But if I don't have the hot
Speaker 3: spot on, then I won't be able to do that.
Speaker 3: What about like using some sort of a tablet with
Speaker 3: it that has a SIM card in it.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, you can do that, I mean very easily.
Speaker 1: But why would you want that versus just getting If
Speaker 1: you're going to pay for a SIM and the tablet,
Speaker 1: are you going to watch it on the tablet or
Speaker 1: watch it on the TV?
Speaker 5: Well it would probably Well I haven't investigated too much
Speaker 5: into that to find out if I could do anything
Speaker 5: with getting the image from the.
Speaker 3: Tablet out to a TV, but that was my next
Speaker 3: big I guess IDEA.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you could easily do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, a standard iPad will definitely HDMI out
Speaker 1: to the TV. Now whether the app allows, Like you said,
Speaker 1: there are some restrictions on apps that they don't necessarily
Speaker 1: like to mirror to TVs because of copyright reasons. So
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the best solution. I think if
Speaker 1: you're going to get a SIM card in a tablet,
Speaker 1: you might as well just set up the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: network or use the hotspot on your phone, or you
Speaker 1: can get one of these like t Mobile five G
Speaker 1: home Internet devices and just use that for your Internet
Speaker 1: inside the the RV or the camper, or you could
Speaker 1: just you know, or you can just get a better
Speaker 1: plan on your phone and use the hot spot. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, because you're out and about and
Speaker 1: you're on the go, that you're really limited because you
Speaker 1: need that internet connection to get it onto the big screen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1: The other thing you can do, I mean, it doesn't
Speaker 1: help with the content that you are watching on streaming services,
Speaker 1: but you could download content to a flash drive and
Speaker 1: then put it on the TV that way. The problem
Speaker 1: is most of the content these days is all streaming
Speaker 1: and it's not really downloadable unless you're getting into a
Speaker 1: gray area. But I don't really recommend that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: so I can't mention that. But yeah, so I mean
Speaker 1: I think that the hot spot, making the hot spot
Speaker 1: allotment on your phone more generous, I guess would help
Speaker 1: with this situation because I think the chrome cast really
Speaker 1: is the easiest way, or a roku, I mean either way,
Speaker 1: like you can get any stick for the back of
Speaker 1: this TV, plug it in and then you can easily get.
Speaker 2: All the streaming services.
Speaker 1: But without that Wi Fi network or without that hotspot,
Speaker 1: it is really tricky. Harland and now that we talked
Speaker 1: about this. Maybe there are some other folks that are
Speaker 1: listening that have some solutions that they've come up within
Speaker 1: their camper that maybe I'm not thinking about. So we'll
Speaker 1: stay on the lookout for those good question. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call today from Green Bay, Wisconsin eight eight eight
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. We'll talk about Prime Day,
Speaker 1: what shoppers actually bought and how much they saved or spent.
Speaker 1: I guess coming up right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Before the break, we had Harland in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin asking about how to watch Hulu on a tee
Speaker 1: and his camper but without any Wi Fi or hotspot,
Speaker 1: and I think I figured out the way. I think
Speaker 1: he was onto something with the tablet situation. So I
Speaker 1: looked up and Hulu does indeed support an HDMI cable
Speaker 1: to stream from an iPhone or an iPad, so if
Speaker 1: he gets a little adapter he can connect his Let's
Speaker 1: say he bought an iPad, just an inexpensive iPad, gets
Speaker 1: the adapter and plugs that iPad into the TV. That
Speaker 1: way he'd be able to watch Hulu. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: He'd probably have to download the content to that iPad
Speaker 1: before he leaves his home, or he can use the
Speaker 1: hotspot on his phone to download the stuff to the tablet.
Speaker 1: But I think that may work, but it's not the
Speaker 1: best solution. It's not the prettiest solution. But the tricky
Speaker 1: part is that he has that Samsung smartphone that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to support the video out. So if he had
Speaker 1: an iPhone, it'd probably be a little bit easier of
Speaker 1: a process. You just connect it right to the TV.
Speaker 1: So lots of ways to kind of figure out how
Speaker 1: to do that. That's just one of them. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: some others. Prime Day, yes, four days. We made it
Speaker 1: through Prime Day, made it through another Prime Day, if
Speaker 1: you can believe it. We bought just a couple of things.
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of stuff in my car, a
Speaker 1: bunch of plans. Even over four days, I still put
Speaker 1: it off and by the end I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: I guess I won't buy anything. But we did do
Speaker 1: this thing. I don't know if this has ever happened
Speaker 1: to you. But my wife and I will often put
Speaker 1: stuff in the Amazon cart and the other person might
Speaker 1: order it by accident and be like, oh, hey, I
Speaker 1: ordered those pants you wanted. I'm like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: really want them, I just put them in the cart.
Speaker 1: Well this time, And this has happened several times. I
Speaker 1: sometimes put things in the cart multiple times. And so
Speaker 1: I had two pairs of these sweatpants that I wanted,
Speaker 1: and we get them delivered and I'm like, why do
Speaker 1: I have two pairs of sweatpants. She's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: they were just in the car. I said, Ah, it's
Speaker 1: a mistake. So look at the quantities, because if you're
Speaker 1: like me and you're always on Amazon, you're always adding stuff.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you add more than one so that happens. But
Speaker 1: how much did people spend total online spending? This includes
Speaker 1: all retailers online. According to Adobe Analytics, twenty four billion
Speaker 1: dollars over those four days, up thirty percent from last year.
Speaker 1: Mobile shopping dominated over fifty three percent of purchases were
Speaker 1: made on phones, and people were using the AI tools.
Speaker 1: I don't they say they were using Alexa plus. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I believe that. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many people have access to that, but Rufus was the
Speaker 1: one I told you about how to use that to
Speaker 1: find the price history, which is very convenient. Top selling
Speaker 1: items ring battery, doorbell, fire, TV stick, AirPods, Pro two,
Speaker 1: Alexa devices, Bio Dance, Collagen, masks, Dawn powerwash. I mean,
Speaker 1: how unexciting is it to buy dish soap on Prime Day?
Speaker 1: Oh it's Prime Day, Let me buy my dish soap.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that Amazon's calling that out is
Speaker 1: one of the biggest purchases.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt it really works.
Speaker 1: I love don I think down is one of the
Speaker 1: best best dish assurgents, but I mean it's just funny.
Speaker 1: Kids apparel also surged. Home security, refrigerators, headphones, power tools,
Speaker 1: and computers and school supplies also very popular. Biggest discounts clothes, electronics, toys, TVs,
Speaker 1: and appliances.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else.
Speaker 1: Apparently, generative AI and influencer content played a big role.
Speaker 1: AI driven shopping traffic rows three percent. I agree with
Speaker 1: that because a lot of people are starting to use chat,
Speaker 1: GBT and Gemini for product recommendations. There's also a website
Speaker 1: called vetted dot ai which does product recommendations based on
Speaker 1: all the different reviews out there, so worth the stop
Speaker 1: if you want to look at things like if you're
Speaker 1: looking for the best whatever noise canceling headphones, I know
Speaker 1: you can call me, but you can also look at
Speaker 1: this vetted dot AI. You know the stuff that I recommend.
Speaker 1: I typically like to test and try personally before I
Speaker 1: just go ahead and recommend it. Let's go to Adarsha
Speaker 1: in Michigan. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Hi, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I'm a
Speaker 6: hurt patient just got back from Cleveland clinic waiting on
Speaker 6: a heart transplant. Oh wow, and produced significant health issues.
Speaker 6: But I'm fortunate there were people over the house when
Speaker 6: I passed out and they called my one. But most
Speaker 6: of the time, I'm single, and I want to know
Speaker 6: should should I get the life alert or would a
Speaker 6: smart watch be just as comparable for emergency services?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: I know the smart watch is Bluetooth enabled, and you
Speaker 6: know is that you know? Do you have to have
Speaker 6: your phone nearby? I think that's the deal. And is
Speaker 6: it considered reliable enough that you know if something happens,
Speaker 6: Because some of them are say that if you fall,
Speaker 6: they'll automatically call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's the Well. First off, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're doing better. I know this is probably a
Speaker 1: scary situation when that happened, and no one ever wants
Speaker 1: to go through that, But the fact that you're on
Speaker 1: your way to recovery is good.
Speaker 2: I do like that.
Speaker 1: This is you know, this is a tricky situation because
Speaker 1: this is this is a serious condition, and you know
Speaker 1: this is just consumer advice I'm giving. But I would
Speaker 1: say the fall detection is probably the thing you want
Speaker 1: the most because the fact that you may be in
Speaker 1: a position to press this alert on another device to
Speaker 1: call for help, that may not be the case from
Speaker 1: what you're telling me right, Like, you may be in
Speaker 1: a position where you can't press a button or you
Speaker 1: can't dial nine one one. So the fact that the
Speaker 1: smart watch offers the fall detection, I would think would
Speaker 1: push it over the edge to what I would choose.
Speaker 1: But you have to keep in mind this is not perfect.
Speaker 1: Like I've been playing football my kids outside, the thing
Speaker 1: goes off. Other times I'll take a hard fall and
Speaker 1: it doesn't go off. So I think it's gotten better
Speaker 1: over time, but it is an algorithm. But I think
Speaker 1: it's probably your best bet and both. I know the
Speaker 1: pixel watch has fall detection. I know the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: has fall detection. Are you on iOS or Android?
Speaker 6: Android?
Speaker 1: Okay, so which watcher you looking at? I'm trying to
Speaker 1: looks like the Samsung smart watches do have the fall
Speaker 1: detection as well.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think the song eight, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1: That's the one I'm wearing right now. I just just
Speaker 1: got the new one to test. I've not set up
Speaker 1: the safety features, but that I would probably go towards
Speaker 1: the smart watch. The only other thing the consideration that
Speaker 1: you were kind of mentioning is the bluetooth connectivity versus
Speaker 1: cellular connectivity in your case, because you have an established
Speaker 1: medical condition that you're now kind of watching out for.
Speaker 1: I would say I would want the cellular because the
Speaker 1: problem is with the bl tooth. If your phone is
Speaker 1: not in nearby er, that connection is not perfect. Your
Speaker 1: your watch may not be able to get through to
Speaker 1: nine one one, so that could be a problem.
Speaker 6: I was a little worried about that portion because you know,
Speaker 6: I have these little bluetooth speakers. Every once in a
Speaker 6: while it doesn't pick up. You got to turn the
Speaker 6: thing off, turn it back, you know, and try again.
Speaker 6: So I don't know why it does that, it just does.
Speaker 6: And so that's what my concern was. I'm not going
Speaker 6: to have the wherewithal to turn off, turn on, try again.
Speaker 1: No, And most of the time the connection is pretty
Speaker 1: good any and the Samsung Watch will actually alert you
Speaker 1: with a vibration if your watch, if your watch is
Speaker 1: not connected to your phone, or if it loses a connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's a nice thing there, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: happen very often.
Speaker 1: Are you in a large place where you might leave
Speaker 1: your phone in a separate area of the house very often?
Speaker 6: I generally don't. I usually keep my phone with me,
Speaker 6: you know, so that's not really an issue. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I was thinking, should I just get both, you know,
Speaker 6: to be doubly sure.
Speaker 1: The life alert, the LFE alert and the watch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that might be. That might be a bit much, especially
Speaker 1: for the budget. I mean, if budget was no concern,
Speaker 1: you want to do that. But to me, I think
Speaker 1: that what I would do personally is maybe talk to
Speaker 1: a doctor or two that you trust and get their
Speaker 1: take on it and see what they think. But I
Speaker 1: personally think that the the watch detection is probably a
Speaker 1: really good bet, and it's something that you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people are already relying on. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's been proven that it's saved lives over the past
Speaker 1: couple of years that these features have been invented. And
Speaker 1: I would go through and just make sure that everything
Speaker 1: is set up properly on both your phone and your watch.
Speaker 1: And you might also look into getting a smart speaker
Speaker 1: that can handle an emergency alert like the Alexa. I
Speaker 1: know they've got this feature where you can I think
Speaker 1: you pay like five bucks a month, but you can
Speaker 1: call for help. Like let's say you fell and you
Speaker 1: were still able to speak, you could call for help
Speaker 1: through that speaker as well. So that's another avenue just
Speaker 1: to make sure you're covered in every aspect of this.
Speaker 5: But what does it look like you have to pay
Speaker 5: a monthly fee?
Speaker 2: No, no, you just you just buy the watch and
Speaker 2: you're and you're good to go.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Darsha, and we wish you the best.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for the call today. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: I told you I was in New York City this
Speaker 1: week and always always love being there. And my wife
Speaker 1: actually accompanied me on this business trip, which she never does,
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Speaker 1: been traveling for fifteen years. I don't think she's ever
Speaker 1: joined me on a trip. This time she had the time,
Speaker 1: she had some time off, so she did, and of
Speaker 1: of course, you know, I'm working the whole time, and
Speaker 1: I realized I never realized how much I work until
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Speaker 1: I gotta wake up early for this. Oh I gotta
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Speaker 1: go to this party. So it was great, and I
Speaker 1: at one point I made the mistake because I felt
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Speaker 1: and she was like, what do you mean. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just not really working out.
Speaker 2: She's like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: I thought I'd been very accommodating, So I probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: have said that. You ever say something to your wife
Speaker 1: and you see the look on their face and you
Speaker 1: realize like immediately that you should not have said that.
Speaker 1: And that was that experience. I was like just thinking
Speaker 1: I was saying something factual, and she was just like,
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Speaker 1: to a couple good restaurants. We couldn't have gone to
Speaker 1: two more different restaurants we went. We stayed near Little
Speaker 1: Italy and so, which was amazing. You know, I'm Italian
Speaker 1: and so I just had the greatest time walking those
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Speaker 1: and stuff. But we went to this one little place
Speaker 1: that I found, I want to tell you the name,
Speaker 1: Asteria Baroca in Little Italy.
Speaker 2: Loved it.
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Speaker 1: And if you ever go to an Italian restaurant, say
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Speaker 2: And then I went out.
Speaker 1: We had a big dinner at my family members, which
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Speaker 1: We went to this place in Times Square called Tony Dinapolis,
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Speaker 1: I just that puts such a smile on my face
Speaker 1: to hear that from him. I really did like that,
Speaker 1: because you know, we I know, there's all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff going on in the world, but you know, people
Speaker 1: are still happy. There are still happy people out there.
Speaker 1: Archie writes in from Jackson, Mississippi, listening on one oh
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Speaker 1: I used to remove backgrounds from images using PowerPoint, but
Speaker 1: I don't have access to it anymore. Is there a
Speaker 1: free desktop or online tool that lets me remove backgrounds
Speaker 1: manually like PowerPoint used to do?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: A couple things to look out for.
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Speaker 1: see here. We've got Kimberly from New Jersey. I love
Speaker 1: taking pictures of the moon using my iPhone thirteen, but
Speaker 1: at night they just come out looking like a blob.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if the newest iPhone would have better
Speaker 1: results taking pictures of the moon at night. No, you
Speaker 1: don't know, iPhone takes pictures of the moon, unless you
Speaker 1: get They do sell on Amazon, these little magnifiers that
Speaker 1: you can plug into like a telescope and that will
Speaker 1: take a clear picture and they're only like a couple bucks.
Speaker 1: But if you really want to capture the moon, Samsung
Speaker 1: is the only phone that I know of that does
Speaker 1: that in a very good way. Now there's a lot
Speaker 1: of debate around whether that's real or not, but it
Speaker 1: does it. Zoom In's got a hundred times zoom on
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Speaker 1: Gary in Los Angeles, what's up?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I'm able to good and again they're rich.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 8: Anyways, I have a question about four G to five GC.
Speaker 8: I have a Samsung Galaxy SPNN. I love this phone.
Speaker 8: The last time I was out in now do you
Speaker 8: ever go off to the ans of Barrigo Desert yourself?
Speaker 8: You ever watch it?
Speaker 2: Never been? But I'm sure you can take great pictures
Speaker 2: of the moon out there?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, absolutely yeah. Well to take good photos of
Speaker 8: the moon you need a real lens, like a five
Speaker 8: hundred Momter lens. Absolutely now. But I'm out there photographing birds,
Speaker 8: which is what I do. If you talk to Leo,
Speaker 8: I was known as doctor Bird and uh, I'm out
Speaker 8: there and uh I got a flat tire, and so
Speaker 8: I wanted to call and talk to my friend at
Speaker 8: Costco and make sure you can get me a tire
Speaker 8: while I'm out there. And this was two weeks ago.
Speaker 8: In the past, my phone worked out there perfect. But
Speaker 8: I'm thinking maybe they converted all their cell sites to
Speaker 8: five G. And is that why my four G phone
Speaker 8: will not work? Uh?
Speaker 2: What you said you have Samsung?
Speaker 8: What S ten e?
Speaker 2: S ten e?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: And Rachel is a grate puhone, I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, if it's not broke, don't fix it. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're getting software updates on that phone anymore, right,
Speaker 1: I don't think you gotta be you gotta be, you know,
Speaker 1: be careful with you know, if you're clicking things and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, because that could be a problem.
Speaker 1: You know, these these phones that go out of service,
Speaker 1: they find the exploits in them. That's why they're dangerous
Speaker 1: to continue using. So did they convert to five G?
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, five G upgrades are happening everywhere, but
Speaker 1: they're not erasing the four G signal when they upgrade
Speaker 1: to five G, So it could have been a fluke.
Speaker 1: It could have been just happened to be the signal
Speaker 1: at that day. Sometimes they do impact the signals when
Speaker 1: they're taking down or they're upgrading a network or a
Speaker 1: cell tower working on it. Sometimes that signal is impacted.
Speaker 1: But there's a million and one reasons why a signal
Speaker 1: could be different or varied in the area that you're in.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that they're getting rid of the
Speaker 1: four G signal to upgrade to the five G because
Speaker 1: I know that they're continuing to keep the four G
Speaker 1: signal and network alive. Good question, Gary, Thanks for the
Speaker 1: call today. Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight
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Speaker 1: Robin wrote in I heard you talking about fall detection
Speaker 1: and getting help, and we were deciding between Life Alert
Speaker 1: and a smartphone. Robin says, while Life Alert does not
Speaker 1: offer automatic fall detection, one big benefit is that they
Speaker 1: have access to your home. My mom fell when she
Speaker 1: was home alone because Life Alert had access to her
Speaker 1: lock box, Paramedics were able to get in take her
Speaker 1: to the hospital, and Life Alert called me right away.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's pros and cons to all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But Robin, good take on that. And I'm glad that
Speaker 1: your mom was able to get help quick and that
Speaker 1: they called you.
Speaker 2: That's pretty neat as well.
Speaker 1: Let's see, We've got lots going on in this hour,
Speaker 1: including an interview with Patrick Chome of Samsung. He's going
Speaker 1: to talk about the company's new line of foldable phones.
Speaker 1: I've been using the z Fold seven and I gotta
Speaker 1: say it is they They did a great job. Like
Speaker 1: there's no reason why I wouldn't recommend this phone to
Speaker 1: someone that's interested in it, Like there's no big downside
Speaker 1: if you like a nice big screen on the inside.
Speaker 1: The outside screen is finally usable. It's got a good camera,
Speaker 1: it's fast, the software is good. They really did a
Speaker 1: nice job. The only thing is the camera bump on
Speaker 1: this thing is just like out of control. So I
Speaker 1: have not put a case on it just yet. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for my speaking case to put on it with
Speaker 1: mag Safe and all that good stuff. And I'll see
Speaker 1: if it feels like on new usable when you have
Speaker 1: a case on it, because that's going to make it
Speaker 1: much bulkier. But yeah, the Samsung Folda boles are pretty
Speaker 1: good this year. We'll hear from Patrick in just a
Speaker 1: bit eighty eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Nancy, what's going
Speaker 1: on there in Vista, California.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 5: A problem?
Speaker 9: I got a Google Voice.
Speaker 1: Nancy, Uh, you gotta you gotta talk into your phone.
Speaker 1: You sound like you are underwater with SpongeBob.
Speaker 2: Why there you go? Oh my gosh, she comes up.
Speaker 2: We have Nancy there. She is much better. Nancy, what's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 9: Okay? I had a Google Voice installed about three or
Speaker 9: four years ago and everything worked fine with all my device,
Speaker 9: my desktop, my iPhone and my tablets was six eight
Speaker 9: week which goal. For whatever reason, everything when totally got
Speaker 9: put nothing was working. So I ended up to get
Speaker 9: it to work. On my cell phone, I get it.
Speaker 9: I can get incoming call. I can do are going call.
Speaker 9: No problem. On my tablet is the same. But when
Speaker 9: it comes to my desktop, I can get incoming God,
Speaker 9: but I cannot call out.
Speaker 10: I get it.
Speaker 9: When I try to call out to the number I
Speaker 9: get rule of things comes up and tell and tells
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Speaker 9: to connect you to the number I try to call.
Speaker 9: And then this is things in the middusic phone call
Speaker 9: a phone to call, which so when I passed down
Speaker 9: the arrow my back end, my regular phone number comes
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Speaker 9: when I go to con nect, most often called used
Speaker 9: to me back, it doesn't call the other person, or
Speaker 9: it calls bothaba I cannot connect right.
Speaker 2: Well, it's because it's it's getting it's getting confused.
Speaker 3: So I just.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, I.
Speaker 9: Went and I follow all the Google advice I went on.
Speaker 9: I went on YouTube, and nothing seemed to work. The
Speaker 9: thing that tells me to go ahead enable incoming and
Speaker 9: outgoing outgoing calls. But when I pull, you know, bring up,
Speaker 9: I don't get it. I don't get you going, I
Speaker 9: always say incoming, Yes.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's just that's just the way it looks
Speaker 1: on the desktop. But if you go into your settings,
Speaker 1: there's a setting that I need you to check. This
Speaker 1: is I think, what's happening.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: There is a setting under calls that says, for outgoing calls,
Speaker 1: always use my phone to place calls. You want to
Speaker 1: turn that off, and then that way you can call
Speaker 1: through your desktop and it's going.
Speaker 2: To actually.
Speaker 1: Go through your what's that under calls on the outgoing calls?
Speaker 1: Incoming calls, it sounds like it's working. But outgoing there's
Speaker 1: a toggle in your settings that says always use my
Speaker 1: phone to place calls, and so it sounds like you
Speaker 1: have that turned on. If that's turned on, what Google
Speaker 1: Voice is doing the desktop is just a conduit to
Speaker 1: dial the number, and then it's actually just completing everything
Speaker 1: on your phone, which sounds like you don't want to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: So if you want to, if you want to make.
Speaker 9: Calls, I don't kid that. When I want to learn more,
Speaker 9: they and they give me all kinds of different things.
Speaker 9: But I cannot turn nothing on or off.
Speaker 2: It's under settings.
Speaker 9: So you're going to settings.
Speaker 2: Scroll down under call. This says outgoing calls, right, okay?
Speaker 2: Under that, what does it say?
Speaker 9: Learn more?
Speaker 2: Okay? And then what was it.
Speaker 9: That incoming calls?
Speaker 11: So learn more?
Speaker 9: It brings with lure no.
Speaker 2: No, don't talk, don't tap learn more? What does it
Speaker 2: say after that?
Speaker 9: Nothing?
Speaker 2: There's nothing underneath that.
Speaker 9: Always use.
Speaker 1: Yes, turn that off. Oh god, that's it, Nancy. We've
Speaker 1: solved your problems. You're welcome.
Speaker 2: I love it. You're the call of the day.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Nancy.
Speaker 1: Thanks Nancy. Oh my gosh, this we got a smile
Speaker 1: in here. Oh my gosh. This is what I love
Speaker 1: about this show. I mean, it's just you've looked at
Speaker 1: the settings a thousand times.
Speaker 2: You think you have it right.
Speaker 1: You've searched Google to your eyes fall out of your head,
Speaker 1: you've checked a eye and all you gotta do is
Speaker 1: call a human being like myself who's looking at it
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Speaker 2: And they're much easier. Ah, Nancy, that was a great one.
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Speaker 1: they do not send out features to everyone all at once,
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Speaker 1: in the next couple of days eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you how Gemini
Speaker 1: can turn a photo into a video.
Speaker 2: Plus more of your calls.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eighty eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one, the website rich on Tech dot TV. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here eating my uh garbonzo beans for lunch. Bobo
Speaker 1: looks at me and he said, don't tell me you're
Speaker 1: eating beans? Is that like some beans and a thing?
Speaker 1: I said, yes, now, Bobo, I also brought the Selena
Speaker 1: Gomez oreos today.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna comment about those? Or do you like those? Oh?
Speaker 1: He's he's got to think about this one. Wait, you
Speaker 1: brought what the Selena gor Gomez oreos?
Speaker 9: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: What this is?
Speaker 2: My wife was out. I mentioned that I wanted to
Speaker 2: try these oreos. So special about them. They're chocolate and
Speaker 2: cinnamon cream. Actually sounds kind of good. They are good, yea.
Speaker 1: So she was on a hunt every every grocery store
Speaker 1: she went to. I just mentioned this in passing once.
Speaker 2: To my wife. You know what, I'm taking much for them?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: It doesn't, and she just kept.
Speaker 1: Looking for them like it was like she was just
Speaker 1: on automation, Like every grocery store she went to, She's like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't find the Selena Gomez orios. Like I only
Speaker 1: mentioned them once, but now that you say it, now
Speaker 1: you keep reiterating, I gotta try them.
Speaker 2: They are pretty good. So anyway, so I brought those
Speaker 2: two things today. I'm about to have to look for
Speaker 2: him right now because now I gotta try them. Oh no,
Speaker 2: I can't have sweets. I'll share one with you. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's let's go to Jerry and Redondo Beach. Jerry,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 5: They rich, Hi, Well, I don't know se romp account
Speaker 5: was suspended because of inappropriate conduct, you know, inappropriate posting.
Speaker 2: What were you posting?
Speaker 5: I wasn't posting anything, that's the deal. I'm was not
Speaker 5: sending anything to YouTube. And when I got to know this,
Speaker 5: I said, okay, that picture was on my phone, but
Speaker 5: I didn't do a post.
Speaker 8: So I kept telling them.
Speaker 5: They said, your channel will not be you know, reactivated,
Speaker 5: and I thought, I don't even know I had a channel.
Speaker 5: So anyway, I figured something out when I go on
Speaker 5: the website and I they say, log in with Google. Yes,
Speaker 5: by log in with Google, And the unbeknownst to me
Speaker 5: and yours is they want to know this too when
Speaker 5: I do that, Google has access to all my photos.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that.
Speaker 5: Okay, somebody must have posted them when I logged on
Speaker 5: using my Google passwords.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm not going to ask what kind of
Speaker 1: photos these are. But here's the thing. When you sign
Speaker 1: in with Google, you have to be very careful about
Speaker 1: the permissions that a site requests when it does that,
Speaker 1: and every site is different. So just by the virtue
Speaker 1: of signing in with Google, does not hand over access
Speaker 1: to your entire Google account. This is called third party
Speaker 1: signing with Google. So it's a feature that basically lets
Speaker 1: you lets you log in to other apps and websites
Speaker 1: using your Google account. So it's convenient, it's simple, it's
Speaker 1: it's one less password to remember. I always recommend creating
Speaker 1: a unique username and password for every site that you
Speaker 1: visit and sign up for. I think that that is
Speaker 1: the best way to keep things in their own lanes.
Speaker 1: Now I understand, it is very simple to sign in
Speaker 1: with Apple, it's simple to sign in with Google. It's
Speaker 1: simple to sign in with all these third party sites
Speaker 1: because it's one less thing to remember, and you're typically
Speaker 1: always signed in with Apple or Google. So with that said,
Speaker 1: you might have signed into a website that did get
Speaker 1: access to your photos. I don't know why that would
Speaker 1: be connected to YouTube, So it could be that there
Speaker 1: was something that YouTube detected on your account. These could
Speaker 1: be completely unrelated the fact that you had these photos
Speaker 1: on your phone and the fact that YouTube said no,
Speaker 1: we got to take your account away because of these photos.
Speaker 2: So I guess the bottom line is you can appeal
Speaker 2: to YouTube.
Speaker 1: If you're truly not uploading anything that's prohibited to YouTube,
Speaker 1: you can appeal to them and continue to appeal to them.
Speaker 1: And the other thing what I would do is I
Speaker 1: would go to your Google sign in and this is
Speaker 1: called third party.
Speaker 2: You Okay, So here's what you'd want to do.
Speaker 1: So if you go to Okay, I gotta, I gotta
Speaker 1: find this, it's going to take me a second Google
Speaker 1: third party connected apps Google. So there's a section of
Speaker 1: the Google website that you can look at that'll tell
Speaker 1: you all the things that you have connected to your
Speaker 1: Google account. Okay, it is at my account dot Google
Speaker 1: dot com slash connections, my account dot Google dot com
Speaker 1: slash connections. This will bring up a list of third
Speaker 1: party apps and services, and there's a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: Like right now, I've got one hundred and twenty two
Speaker 1: apps and services connected to my Google account, things like Adobe,
Speaker 1: Photoshop or a frames backdrop. Sometimes I do sign in
Speaker 1: with some of these when it's not very important. I'll
Speaker 1: sign in with Google when I want to be quick.
Speaker 1: So there's three sections says sign in with Google linked
Speaker 1: account or access to and if you go to access to,
Speaker 1: that's the really important one because you can see what
Speaker 1: services have access to your Google information, Calendar, Contacts, Drive, Gmail.
Speaker 1: The ones I would look at very closely are Gmail,
Speaker 1: Google Photos, and Google Drive. Those are the three important
Speaker 1: ones because you store a lot of stuff in there.
Speaker 1: So if I go to Google Drive, I've got a
Speaker 1: couple of things that have access to my Google Drive. Space, Cadet, Pinball,
Speaker 1: probably don't need access to my Google Drive. I will
Speaker 1: turn that off Meta, Google Nest. If I go to
Speaker 1: my Google.
Speaker 2: Photos, let's see what it has access or a.
Speaker 1: Frames, Google takeout, Microsoft three sixty five, import, Roku backdrops,
Speaker 1: and photostream.
Speaker 2: So I can go through and delete that if I'm
Speaker 2: not using my Roku.
Speaker 1: And then you can go through and you click one
Speaker 1: of these connections and it says delete all connections you
Speaker 1: have with that service. You delete it, and it will
Speaker 1: confirm it will it won't get rid of whatever that
Speaker 1: data that company has already taken on their own, but
Speaker 1: it will get rid of them accessing it in the future.
Speaker 1: So again, go to this, do a little cleanup. If
Speaker 1: you don't need access to these accounts anymore, you can
Speaker 1: get rid of their Google account access and you can
Speaker 1: always reconnect it later if you need it. But it's
Speaker 1: at my account dot Google dot com slash connections. Typically
Speaker 1: we call this third party connections or third party connected apps.
Speaker 2: Go through there, see what has access, clean it up,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to talk to Patrick Chomey of
Speaker 1: Samsung about the new foldables the company just released. Mark
Speaker 1: cow Bell, Mark cow Bell, That's the only thing I
Speaker 1: can think of when I hear this song. It was
Speaker 1: a Saturday Night Live sketch. Had to look it up
Speaker 1: from April two thousand. I am now referencing something that
Speaker 1: happened twenty five years ago. Oh my gosh, I'm old.
Speaker 5: What the heck?
Speaker 1: I feel like I just watched that. Well, all right,
Speaker 1: I guess it happens, Okay. I talked about the Fold
Speaker 1: seven and the Flip seven, Samsung's new smartphones that are foldable. Now,
Speaker 1: let's hear from Samsung. So I talked to Patrick Chome
Speaker 1: of Samsung about these new foldables and why he believes
Speaker 1: now is the time to jump on board.
Speaker 2: What was sort of the primary focus of the fold
Speaker 2: devices this year.
Speaker 10: This year, actually, we wanted to make a big step
Speaker 10: until we call it a big jump, and there are
Speaker 10: two elements of that jump is our seventh generation of
Speaker 10: follible devices. So we wanted to make it really a
Speaker 10: big step in seeing the key remaining issues we listen
Speaker 10: from our customers definitely about the thickness, the weight, durability
Speaker 10: and performance. All of that is massively improved. And then
Speaker 10: the second leg, if you want, of that big jump,
Speaker 10: is on the x eryance side. Obviously, we have massive
Speaker 10: transformation going on with AI and we announce our AI
Speaker 10: strategy two years ago twenty four and now bringing it
Speaker 10: to life with the wonderful benefits of the fullible from factories.
Speaker 10: The second big wreckfow we are with this new generation.
Speaker 1: What do you think the biggest improvement is to these
Speaker 1: devices that the average person would notice?
Speaker 10: Well, average person, we obviously see the fundamentals from the outside.
Speaker 10: You can compare actually this device to the last fulliable device,
Speaker 10: and there's as much change physically than there have been
Speaker 10: six crevious generations. Is actually as thin as a regular
Speaker 10: smartphone and actually lighter than a regular smartphone, but when
Speaker 10: you open it you have a huge eight inch display. Likewise,
Speaker 10: it's throo the on the flip device, where we have
Speaker 10: a full full screen now, but when you open it,
Speaker 10: you have a twenty by twenty one by nine aspectation,
Speaker 10: which is much more compelling and a regulars math fun
Speaker 10: to watch video. So this is like a novel of technology.
Speaker 10: But I think when people get it in their hands
Speaker 10: they will level be wow.
Speaker 2: I'm sure these phonees happened around for a while.
Speaker 1: What will it take for the average person to want
Speaker 1: to switch to a foldable or a flip like this?
Speaker 3: Not much.
Speaker 10: They need to see it, and I think everybody saw
Speaker 10: it actually really get amazed. And I believe we had
Speaker 10: learned some things over the years. We learned that fundamentals matter,
Speaker 10: So it's fair to say that when we learn the
Speaker 10: third innovation, for example, the flip we did it for
Speaker 10: Initially we are even by the form factor innovation, but
Speaker 10: people told us, yes, it's great from factor, but we
Speaker 10: wish it at a highly forming camera similar towards the flagships,
Speaker 10: so we bought the camera level here similar to seventy five.
Speaker 2: And then the battery.
Speaker 10: Yes, we understand you have to fold it, but it's difficult,
Speaker 10: but I need kind of battery lifetime regular fold, so
Speaker 10: then it should be doable. I don't want to have
Speaker 10: to change it to alsal. And I think all of
Speaker 10: these things which are very basic, I think to really
Speaker 10: deliver them is hard. But that's what we've done actually
Speaker 10: with the previous generation, even more so with that generation.
Speaker 10: So I would say for the normal user, the basics
Speaker 10: are covered, and then on top you have the wall
Speaker 10: and the war. With these amazing use cases that you
Speaker 10: can see, you can work really like, I don't need
Speaker 10: a PC anymore. You can work on the goal and
Speaker 10: manipulating complex documents such as spreadsheets or power points, multitasking.
Speaker 10: You can actually scroll full documents on this side on
Speaker 10: the heightened side, having your Gemini open and asking about
Speaker 10: the documents move drag and drop, cut and paste from
Speaker 10: different inte is is quite amazing. Addition of AI into
Speaker 10: our user interface make it so much more valuable. A
Speaker 10: lot of things that we wanted to do intuitively in
Speaker 10: the first generation we could answer because the UI was
Speaker 10: not that advanced. But now with a natural user interface
Speaker 10: that we have with AI, it really comes to life.
Speaker 10: I noticed on the fold we got a little bit
Speaker 10: of a price increase one hundred dollars. Is there any
Speaker 10: reason for that?
Speaker 2: But there is no magic into it.
Speaker 10: We we obviously strive to make the device affordable to
Speaker 10: our consumers at the most effective price points. Of course,
Speaker 10: this device is packed with technology. We have increased the display.
Speaker 10: You have a two hundred, they get Excel camera which
Speaker 10: the same as obvious. Still you have very very most
Speaker 10: powerful computing engine in that thing, able to compute all
Speaker 10: the AI that we have so obviously we have a
Speaker 10: very advanced screen as well, which is now protected with
Speaker 10: a titanium layer to make it that much more durable.
Speaker 10: So there is a lot of investment in the out
Speaker 10: the way there which is reflecting the price. But we
Speaker 10: will continue to make these devices as much as possible
Speaker 10: thought able at the right rice the same song.
Speaker 1: Notice what the consumer feedback is when you see people
Speaker 1: playing with these new features, enjoying them, giving feedback, you
Speaker 1: listen to that and kind of mix it into the
Speaker 1: next ride.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, so we've been as I said, we started the
Speaker 10: journey S twenty four and it's fair to say if
Speaker 10: you ask consumers do you want AI and what's about AI?
Speaker 10: They get its confused, some might get scared. But actually
Speaker 10: what we noticed is if you ask people about the benefits,
Speaker 10: like you have this picture, you want to get this
Speaker 10: unwanted stuff out, and they go, wow, yes, how can
Speaker 10: you do that?
Speaker 2: Of course because we are AI.
Speaker 10: So what we see is a massive usage of those
Speaker 10: things like Circle to Search is used by over fifty
Speaker 10: five percent of the users, which is big because we
Speaker 10: deployed Circle to Search now on well over twentydred billion devices,
Speaker 10: so this is real. It's not like demos. Deep not
Speaker 10: million was my account last December, so we are way beyond.
Speaker 10: Things like the eraso or the transtation are massively used.
Speaker 10: On S twenty five generation, we notice over seventy percent
Speaker 10: of people use the AI function. They may not even
Speaker 10: know it's AI. They use it because these are basic
Speaker 10: things like dealing with your pictures, taking the unwanted sound off,
Speaker 10: copying documents, summarizing documents, translating, so these becomes like day
Speaker 10: to day activities. And I think it's fine if we
Speaker 10: don't know if it's AI, so long it's useful and
Speaker 10: what we do we carefully monitor what's used and improve
Speaker 10: it based on the feedback. And we carefully motive what's
Speaker 10: not used and figure out why, and if it's not useful,
Speaker 10: then don't add it and we improve. It's the best step.
Speaker 1: People are always concerned about privacy when they're using AI.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me how Samsung approaches privacy on these devices?
Speaker 10: Well, first of all, we actually highly so I think
Speaker 10: people these device contains life or life and a lot
Speaker 10: of very private stuff, so it's very serious matter. From
Speaker 10: the start, we have declared our direction to be an
Speaker 10: ibreed architecture, an I breed apportion. I will explain what
Speaker 10: that is. IBRID means some stuff needs to run in
Speaker 10: the cloud. Like if you want to generate a new video,
Speaker 10: auguste it. It requires a lot of computing and you
Speaker 10: create a new video. It runs on the cloud. But
Speaker 10: a lot of stuff, actually, the majority of things are
Speaker 10: much closer to the customer, and it should be personalized,
Speaker 10: and it should be privates. So in all the future
Speaker 10: I mentioned on communication, for example, you're having a communication
Speaker 10: with a personal partner in a different language, differun country.
Speaker 10: All the transtation happens in real time, stays on device, private,
Speaker 10: your pictures stays on device and private. We have very
Speaker 10: very clever things going on with ELF and the watch
Speaker 10: stays on device and privates. And let's but not the least,
Speaker 10: we have a very clear dashboard where the customer can choose. Actually,
Speaker 10: if customer doesn't want anything to go in the cloud,
Speaker 10: you just have a message Suitech, you say off.
Speaker 1: If someone's considering one of these phones, they see it
Speaker 1: on TV, they see it on social media, they're thinking
Speaker 1: they look pretty good this year.
Speaker 2: What do you think is the reason they should jump in?
Speaker 2: Give this one a try versus other models.
Speaker 10: Have fun and do more. You can do so much more.
Speaker 10: If you don't need two phones, you don't need a
Speaker 10: fun at a tablet. You don't need to have something heavy,
Speaker 10: no more weight, no more complexity. You can do so
Speaker 10: much more. And this one is actually you can have
Speaker 10: a lot more fun. This is really cool device it's small,
Speaker 10: it's compact, it's beautiful, and you have everything in ease.
Speaker 10: So have fun and do much more.
Speaker 1: Have fun and do much more. So I've been using
Speaker 1: the Fold seven, which I will tell you it's a
Speaker 1: great phone. But in my newsletter today I talked about
Speaker 1: how the fact is I'm not really sure what the
Speaker 1: use case scenario is. Like, it's fun to have, and
Speaker 1: if you have a lot of money to spend, sure,
Speaker 1: it's cool to be on the cutting edge, right. I
Speaker 1: think that's what it really comes down to. Also, the
Speaker 1: fact that you can consult your tablet and your phone
Speaker 1: into one, and like he said, if you're working on
Speaker 1: spreadsheets all the time, you want to be real productivity,
Speaker 1: you know, real productive. That's another good use But it's
Speaker 1: tough because it's such a departure from what you're used
Speaker 1: to that it's tricky to sit there and say, Okay.
Speaker 2: This is what I need right now.
Speaker 1: When our phones pretty much do all the stuff we
Speaker 1: already want them to do, this is just a very
Speaker 1: very different form factor. So again, you can read all
Speaker 1: my thoughts on the Samsung foldables on my website rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot tv. Just look for the headline that says,
Speaker 1: Samsung finally nails the foldable. That is my newsletter from
Speaker 1: today and you can read there and see what I
Speaker 1: thought about all these different devices. All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you how Google Gemini can turn a
Speaker 1: photo into a video. And we're gonna taste test the Oreo.
Speaker 1: Bobo has the Selena Gomez Oreo. We're gonna taste it.
Speaker 1: Tell what we think, right or rich on Tech, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Let's go to Devin in
Speaker 1: Long Beach.
Speaker 2: You're on with rich.
Speaker 7: He Hey, what's going on? Rich You are my tech bet.
Speaker 7: I'm it's good to talk to you, brother. Quick question
Speaker 7: here for work, they've had us download the WhatsApp and
Speaker 7: so it's been a couple of weeks now and I'm
Speaker 7: going in my photos here and I'm starting to see
Speaker 7: all kind of photos and videos popping up that aren't mine.
Speaker 4: And that I didn't download or what have you. So
Speaker 4: I'm assuming that they're coming through via the WhatsApp. My
Speaker 4: question here is, well, number one, is that accurate? And
Speaker 4: number two do my co workers are my videos popping
Speaker 4: up in their and their folders or their photo gallery
Speaker 4: in video galleries as well?
Speaker 2: Good question?
Speaker 1: So couple of settings to check on your WhatsApp. Okay,
Speaker 1: because we definitely, especially since this is for work, you
Speaker 1: don't really want this to be, you know, propagating from
Speaker 1: your phone to WhatsApp or vice versa. So couple settings
Speaker 1: that you can check out. First off, for the photos
Speaker 1: that are saving from the chats, it sounds like you
Speaker 1: have photos from the chats automatically being saved into your
Speaker 1: camera roll.
Speaker 2: So there's a way to do that.
Speaker 1: Go into your Settings and then chats, and then there's
Speaker 1: an option under chats that says saved to photos.
Speaker 2: You want to turn that off.
Speaker 1: Ends you a picture in a group chat, it's just
Speaker 1: saving it to your camera roll or your photos on
Speaker 1: Android either way, and so you want to turn that off.
Speaker 1: So again, tap Settings and then tap chats and then
Speaker 1: look under it says save to photos. Make sure that's
Speaker 1: turned off. The other thing you want to do is
Speaker 1: go into your permissions. If you don't want your photos
Speaker 1: to go into WhatsApp. If you're just using this to text,
Speaker 1: you can change it so that WhatsApp does not have
Speaker 1: access to any of your photos. So on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: you can go to Settings, you can go to apps,
Speaker 1: scroll all the way down until you find WhatsApp. Let's
Speaker 1: see where that is, okay, and then where it says
Speaker 1: photos right now, mine says full access. So I would
Speaker 1: either tap limited access or none if you don't want
Speaker 1: any of your photos from your camera and your camera
Speaker 1: roll to ever go to WhatsApp. Now you have to
Speaker 1: remember the caveat here is that if you wanted to
Speaker 1: send a picture to the WhatsApp group, you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to do it if you had none selected. Now,
Speaker 1: limited access works in a little different way. You basically
Speaker 1: pre select just the picture that you want, and then
Speaker 1: the iPhone sends that to the app, so it puts
Speaker 1: like a little barrier between your iPhone and the app.
Speaker 1: There's also a way to do it on Android. I
Speaker 1: don't let's see, I don't have WhatsApp installed in this
Speaker 1: phone that I have right now. But basically the main
Speaker 1: thing on an is you can press and hold any
Speaker 1: app and you can tap the I and then it
Speaker 1: says the permissions. And so if you tap the permissions,
Speaker 1: you'll see what permissions the app has. And right now
Speaker 1: this app I'm looking at has photos and videos. You
Speaker 1: can take that tap it and it says allow all allow, limited,
Speaker 1: don't allow, So you can do pretty much the same
Speaker 1: thing on iPhone and Android when it comes to limiting
Speaker 1: the app's access, we call these permissions, and it's a
Speaker 1: good idea to go through and kind of clean up
Speaker 1: permissions from time to time. I think on Android, the
Speaker 1: Android operating system automatically deletes permissions from apps after a
Speaker 1: certain amount of inactivity. So if you don't use an
Speaker 1: app for let's say three or six months, it will
Speaker 1: automatically stop that app from having a lot of permissions
Speaker 1: on your phone. Whether it's related to location, photos, microphone camera,
Speaker 1: it will just reset all those and it will tell you.
Speaker 1: It'll say, hey, we reset permissions for this app because
Speaker 1: you haven't used in a while. That makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. It just puts a little bit of privacy
Speaker 1: between you and that app. Great question, Devin, thanks for
Speaker 1: the call today, appreciate it. Speaking of photos, if you
Speaker 1: have Gemini and you're a paying Gemini customer, you can
Speaker 1: now transform your photo into an eight second video.
Speaker 2: This is pretty wild.
Speaker 1: So if you go into Gemini Gemini dot Google dot com,
Speaker 1: you select videos from the tool menu, upload a photo,
Speaker 1: still photo, and then you describe the scene plus any
Speaker 1: audio you want in that scene. So, for instance, I
Speaker 1: took a picture of a bee buzzing around a flower.
Speaker 1: I uploaded it and I said, make this bee buzzing
Speaker 1: around this flower with sound. And it took a couple second,
Speaker 1: took maybe a minute to process, two minutes whatever, and
Speaker 1: then you get an eight second video with motion and
Speaker 1: sound and it is wild.
Speaker 2: Like I'm talking, I can't believe this is day one.
Speaker 2: It pretty much nailed it.
Speaker 1: I put it in the newsletter today, so if you
Speaker 1: want to check it out, Rich on tech dot TV,
Speaker 1: it is I showed my kids, my littlest kidd he goes, Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm now scared, he goes, I will never be able
Speaker 1: to tell what's real and what's not. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. So this is rolling out to subscribers, So
Speaker 1: if you pay for Google AI or if you're a
Speaker 1: Google one subscriber on their twenty dollars more plan, you
Speaker 1: can access this gemini dot Google dot com to check
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 2: It's pretty wild, pretty pretty wild. Bobo. You've got a
Speaker 2: question today? Oh yes I do. Hey, Rich, how you doing?
Speaker 2: This is Bobo calling you from Sherman Oaks. Longtime listener,
Speaker 2: first time caller, long time, first time. My question is this,
Speaker 2: I have two Gmail accounts.
Speaker 12: I have my you know, junk mail the one a
Speaker 12: half forever, and I have my more professional Gmail account.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 12: Now the issue is now my phone is saving both
Speaker 12: saving pictures to both accounts to where now I had
Speaker 12: to add the extra storage for both of my Gmail accounts.
Speaker 12: Is there a way I can stop it from doing
Speaker 12: both and like cancel one of these because I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to just donate money to the Google enterprise. No,
Speaker 2: they don't need your money. They don't at all.
Speaker 1: They want it three bucks, so it doesn't still three
Speaker 1: bucks is three bucks?
Speaker 2: Two goes in a chicken sound saying from Jack in
Speaker 2: a box.
Speaker 1: So here's what's happening. I think what's happening. Are you
Speaker 1: signed in on your phone with both of these accounts? Yes,
Speaker 1: because I have to have access to both money. It's
Speaker 1: just convenient because in Gmail you can switch between them whatever.
Speaker 1: So I think what you have to do is go
Speaker 1: into Google Photos and you tap your little icon in
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner, and you should see manage
Speaker 1: your Google account.
Speaker 2: There should be two accounts. Are there two accounts listed there?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it, and I have just to let
Speaker 2: go back and forth with yes.
Speaker 1: So what you want to do on the one account
Speaker 1: you don't want to upload pictures anymore. You want to
Speaker 1: turn off the backup for that account. So once you're
Speaker 1: into that account, you switch into that account, turn off backup,
Speaker 1: and that will stop those new photos from going in.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. You still have the old photos, yeah,
Speaker 1: that are in there. So what you want to do
Speaker 1: is from a desktop. This is the easiest way to
Speaker 1: do it. Go to photos dot Google dot com. Make
Speaker 1: sure you're on that other account, you know, the one
Speaker 1: that you want to get rid of all the pictures,
Speaker 1: and then you can just go through and you can
Speaker 1: select I think you can select like a thousand pictures
Speaker 1: at once. So you can select one and then you
Speaker 1: press shift and you just scroll down, press and select
Speaker 1: and you can delete all those pictures from the desktop
Speaker 1: and that way they will be gone from the cloud.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the best way of.
Speaker 12: Doing it because I have one, like I have one
Speaker 12: email address that I really wanted to use as my
Speaker 12: backup for everything because there's one that no one knows about.
Speaker 12: And then my professional one is the one that I
Speaker 12: want to keep, you know, clean, and nothing attached to it.
Speaker 12: You've got mister Bobo for the professional Yeah, no, I
Speaker 12: got Aaron is my professional one, like my government name.
Speaker 12: And I was like, that's more professional and to have
Speaker 12: with somebody. Yeah, email me your scripted Bobo at gmail
Speaker 12: dot com.
Speaker 3: That's not me.
Speaker 1: All right, let's try Now that we've solved your problem,
Speaker 1: let's try this. Selena Gomez Oreo. So I brought these
Speaker 1: in for my dessert. This is a cookie from Oreo
Speaker 1: limited Edition Flavor or Chata inspired featuring a layer of
Speaker 1: chocolate and cinnamon cream a top, a layer of sweet
Speaker 1: and condensed milk.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's just try it then go that's delicious. That
Speaker 2: is actually pretty brown. Book my wife I had to
Speaker 2: eat it and work.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another hour of Rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Another old reference from old
Speaker 1: man to Muro. When I worked it office depot in
Speaker 1: high school.
Speaker 2: Uh, this was the song. This was like their theme song.
Speaker 5: This was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had commercials and all that and that.
Speaker 1: By the way, I took all of my jobs seriously,
Speaker 1: like all the places I worked before my career. I
Speaker 1: was very serious about office Depot was I think the
Speaker 1: epitome of the It was probably one of my favorite
Speaker 1: jobs I did. We opened up a new store in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, North Jersey, and it was enormous. This was
Speaker 1: back when they sold this is like before best Buy
Speaker 1: was huge for electronics. You would literally buy your electronics
Speaker 1: at all these different stores everywhere before you went online
Speaker 1: and stuff. And so we had a whole section called
Speaker 1: like business Machines, and that's where people came to buy
Speaker 1: computers and equipment and graphics cards and processors, and it
Speaker 1: was just a huge portion of business in addition to
Speaker 1: you know, buying notebooks and envelopes and things like that.
Speaker 1: Like electronics were a huge part of their business. And
Speaker 1: I loved it. I mean, oh man, I had such
Speaker 1: a good time there. I loved just playing with all
Speaker 1: talking all the nerds that would sell the electronics. I
Speaker 1: sold cell phones for a Every time I sold a
Speaker 1: cell phone, we would sell them for like ninety nine cents, right,
Speaker 1: and then without every single time, without fail, the person
Speaker 1: would march back into the store a month later with
Speaker 1: their first bill and they'd be like, I thought this
Speaker 1: thing was ninety nine cents and their first bill was
Speaker 1: like three hundred dollars. You know, for all it was
Speaker 1: like first month, last month, pro rated this fee, activation,
Speaker 1: all this other stuff. It's like, yeah, the phone was
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents, but it's everything else that's really expensive.
Speaker 1: How do you think these companies make money? So but
Speaker 1: good news is I think we took a lot of
Speaker 1: those back. Let's go to Carl in upland. Carl, you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich How Rich?
Speaker 6: How are you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic, good good.
Speaker 11: I'm looking for a new laptop. What I have is
Speaker 11: approximately twelve years old and it's held up that Now
Speaker 11: it's time. A two weeks ago, you mentioned some laptops
Speaker 11: that you liked that were available at Costco. You felt
Speaker 11: for the price, that was a good place to look
Speaker 11: for them. But I was trying to get out get
Speaker 11: from you. You know what I should look for when
Speaker 11: I go down there. They just have folks that want
Speaker 11: to sell whatever they want to sell. So I don't
Speaker 11: know what software looks for. I'm assuming that Windows eleven
Speaker 11: should come with most of them these days. The memory
Speaker 11: and the CPU. I need a little bit of guidance
Speaker 11: on what to look for specifically in the Costco lines
Speaker 11: they offer.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, Costco is a great place because Costco, because
Speaker 1: it's membership base, they always give you a little bit
Speaker 1: more for the money. So whatever you find there is
Speaker 1: going to be a better price and better specs than
Speaker 1: pretty much anywhere else that you go, So you're on
Speaker 1: the right path there. What I'd recommend if you're going
Speaker 1: the Windows route is, you know, Windows eleven should be
Speaker 1: on all the laptops that are there, all the all
Speaker 1: the laptops should have that pre installed. The most basic
Speaker 1: processor you want is either a Core I five or
Speaker 1: the a m D five. So basely five is the
Speaker 1: number you're looking for. If you're just doing basic stuff,
Speaker 1: the Intel five or the am D five should be
Speaker 1: just fine. If you want to do something that's a
Speaker 1: little bit more in depth than I would go with
Speaker 1: either the Intel seven or the rise In seven.
Speaker 2: So seven is going to be a little bit higher end.
Speaker 2: Nine is going to be much higher end.
Speaker 1: So I would say, you know, if you've got a
Speaker 1: little extra money to spend, go with the seven because
Speaker 1: that will.
Speaker 2: Future proof you for just a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: When it comes to RAM, definitely want at least sixteen
Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM. That's going to get you what you
Speaker 1: need for most applications, and then for the hard drive.
Speaker 1: Usually these days there are solid state that you want
Speaker 1: at least five hundred and twelve gigabytes of storage. If
Speaker 1: you are doing a lot of photo or video stuff,
Speaker 1: I would definitely get a terabyte. I've got two terabytes
Speaker 1: on my latest computer that I purchased.
Speaker 2: I do not need that much.
Speaker 1: Even me who works with a lot of video, I
Speaker 1: do not need that much. A terabyte seems to be
Speaker 1: the sweet spot.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: The other main thinging you have to look for is
Speaker 1: do you want a dedicated graphics card or do you
Speaker 1: just want a graphics card that's built in. If it's
Speaker 1: built in, it'll just say like Intel graphics. But if
Speaker 1: it's a if it's an external graphics card, it will
Speaker 1: mention the specific graphics, whether it's in video or something else.
Speaker 1: So that is, if you are doing some high end
Speaker 1: processing like audio, video processing, mostly video and photo, I
Speaker 1: would probably look for a dedicated GPU they call that. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: when it comes to screen size, definitely go for the
Speaker 1: largest screen size you can find. Do not go thirteen inch.
Speaker 1: It'll be way too small. Sixteen inch is probably the best.
Speaker 1: Fifteen sixteen inch is going to be much better. And
Speaker 1: then the other things you want to look for is
Speaker 1: just you know, basic kind of you know, the keyboard.
Speaker 1: Try the keyboard. Make sure the keyboard feels nice and spacious.
Speaker 1: I don't need the dedicated numbers keyboard if you're looking
Speaker 1: for that. You know, if you're doing like accounting and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Brands, you know, look all the brands
Speaker 1: you're gonna find at Costco, We're going to be pretty good.
Speaker 1: I would say, if you don't need the gaming laptop,
Speaker 1: stay away from those, you'll know, because they have all
Speaker 1: the flashing lights and stuff like that. But for your
Speaker 1: basic brands, anything ace Us is really nice. You know,
Speaker 1: the Lenovo's are nice. I mean really anything you find
Speaker 1: there that has the specs I mentioned is going to
Speaker 1: be just fine. Sounds like your old computer lasted a
Speaker 1: very long time, which means you got your money's worth
Speaker 1: there this new one, you know, look to spend I
Speaker 1: would say maybe a thousand, maybe a little bit more,
Speaker 1: depending on how.
Speaker 2: How high end those specs you get are.
Speaker 1: And don't forget Costco also sells a lot of computers online.
Speaker 1: And the way if you want, if you want to
Speaker 1: look there, slick deals dot net has all of the
Speaker 1: latest sort of best computer deals linked up on their
Speaker 1: front page. So if you go in there and then
Speaker 1: you tap categories and we go to UH computers and
Speaker 1: you can sort by the different places they sell them
Speaker 1: and the different you know, deals that they have. And
Speaker 1: so I have a bookmark of all the slick deals
Speaker 1: for the laptops of the day that are really good.
Speaker 1: Here it is laptop deals and usually if I look up,
Speaker 1: let's see if they have any at Costco right now. Yeah, Costco,
Speaker 1: it's got a sixteen inch HP for six ninety nine
Speaker 1: with everything you need. Everything I just mentioned it's got.
Speaker 1: So that's number one. Then you've got let's see they
Speaker 1: have any other costco ones here today that it's a
Speaker 1: MacBook okay, so I mean the one I just mentioned.
Speaker 1: This is everything you need.
Speaker 2: Look at this.
Speaker 1: It's got an AMD rise in seven. It's got a
Speaker 1: sixteen inch screen, thirty two gigs, a RAM one terabyte
Speaker 1: drive seven okay, yeah, seven hundred bucks thirty percent off
Speaker 1: usually one thousand bucks. You can get that right now
Speaker 1: at costco dot com. That is fantastic that's going to
Speaker 1: serve you well hp omnibook five. There you go, Carl,
Speaker 1: all right, have at it, have fun, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: Today FDA clears its first cuffless blood pressure monitor for
Speaker 1: over the counter use.
Speaker 2: How cool is this?
Speaker 1: You can now track your blood pressure without an arm cuff. Well,
Speaker 1: it's coming soon, so already for sale over in Europe.
Speaker 1: They've got one hundred and thirty thousand users over there.
Speaker 1: It's called the High Low Band HILO. It's going to
Speaker 1: launch in the US in twenty twenty six. It is
Speaker 1: the first cuffless blood pressure monitor cleared by the FDA
Speaker 1: for over the counter use. No prescription required. So what
Speaker 1: you do is you have to calibrate it once with
Speaker 1: a traditional cuff all that's included. After that, it's cuff free.
Speaker 1: So once it gets that baseline measurement, it then uses
Speaker 1: an algorithm to figure out your blood pressure. So it's
Speaker 1: going to track blood pressure continuously and passively, just like
Speaker 1: how smart watches track your heart rate.
Speaker 2: How cool is that.
Speaker 1: I think this is a huge moment for anyone who
Speaker 1: has hypertension and needs care because, according to this one
Speaker 1: point three billion people worldwide are affected by high blood pressure.
Speaker 1: So if you can have your blood pressure monitor twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven in a way that's reliable, that is
Speaker 1: game changing because there are large there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there who have to continuously monitor their
Speaker 1: blood pressure several times throughout.
Speaker 2: The week or day, and this is a huge win
Speaker 2: for them.
Speaker 1: So the only the last remaining hurdle we have is
Speaker 1: blood glucose monitoring non evasive and I know a lot
Speaker 1: of companies are working on this. Once they figure that out,
Speaker 1: it is game over. We've got then, you've got blood pressure,
Speaker 1: you've got heart, You've got I mean, this is just
Speaker 1: amazing the stuff that's happening because of these wearables. Once again,
Speaker 1: the company there the Helo brand, Hilo Band. The company
Speaker 1: is uh yeah, that's that's the name of it. Oh
Speaker 1: a company is Akida Acta Actia ak Tiia ak Tiia Actia.
Speaker 1: And if you're looking for a replacement for Pocket, I
Speaker 1: just downloaded a new app called Folio. Save Withfolio dot com.
Speaker 1: Save Withfolio dot Com. So we know that Pocket is
Speaker 1: a popular read it later app, it is officially shutting down,
Speaker 1: so Folio is a replacement app. It's available in iOS, Android,
Speaker 1: and the web. You can save articles videos, threads from
Speaker 1: your favorite social media networks. Then you can access them
Speaker 1: anytime across devices. It's got a nice clean reading view,
Speaker 1: offline access browser extension, and you can even import your
Speaker 1: Pocket data, like if you kept a bunch of articles there,
Speaker 1: you can import it. There's also a premium version which
Speaker 1: you can get free for right now while they test it,
Speaker 1: which reads things to you, highlights, full texturet search, and
Speaker 1: customizable fonts. Folio is AD free, so the premium pricing
Speaker 1: will support development of the feature. They won't track you
Speaker 1: with ads, so again, Save with Save with Folio dot
Speaker 1: com is the app. You can download it there for iOS,
Speaker 1: Android and it looks great. I mean it looks just
Speaker 1: like Pocket. The other alternative is called insta Paper. That's
Speaker 1: what I've been using as well, but this one looks
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 2: Folio. I'll put a link on the website rich on
Speaker 2: tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll tell you about the Amazon the seller
Speaker 1: who got hundreds of unwanted Amazon packages at their house.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology the website for the show
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. This is episode one nine.
Speaker 1: I've got everything listed that we talked about here. Everything
Speaker 1: from the websites I mentioned on how to remove backgrounds
Speaker 1: from your pictures, the restaurants I went to New York,
Speaker 1: the Selena Gomez Oreos, which Bobo has now ordered himself,
Speaker 1: and everything else I mentioned is all on the website.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv. I take very good notes
Speaker 1: during this show, and so if you ever need something
Speaker 1: I mentioned, you could just go there and find it. Weimo,
Speaker 1: which is made by Belkan, they are dropping their support
Speaker 1: for several of their devices, a lot of their stuff
Speaker 1: actually they're smart plugs and light switches, so this is
Speaker 1: a Belcan Wemo support update. They sent out Belcan's going
Speaker 1: to shut down cloud support for older Weimo products on
Speaker 1: January thirty first, twenty twenty six. After that, any devices
Speaker 1: relying on the Wemo app, Alexa or Google Assistant will
Speaker 1: stop working. Only Wemo products set up with the Apple
Speaker 1: home Kit will still continue to work using home Kit
Speaker 1: local Control, So basically they're just shutting off the cloud
Speaker 1: with this stuff. Thread based Wemo products like the Stage
Speaker 1: controller and smart plug with thread are not affected, and
Speaker 1: if you have one of these you might qualify for
Speaker 1: partial refund, but only if your device is still under warranty,
Speaker 1: which you probably I mean probably not going to collect
Speaker 1: very much there. Refunds are available starting January thirty first,
Speaker 1: not before, so you'll have to save your receipts and
Speaker 1: check Belkin's website. Belcan says this move lets them refocus
Speaker 1: on other areas of their business. For now, your Wemo
Speaker 1: devices will continue to work normally, but the countdown is
Speaker 1: on until January thirty first, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: And I got to tell you about this story.
Speaker 1: ABC seven News in San Francisco did a profile of
Speaker 1: a woman in San who's Jose, who got hundreds of
Speaker 1: Amazon packages delivered to her house.
Speaker 2: She didn't order any of them. What were they?
Speaker 1: They were returns. They were fake leather car seat covers
Speaker 1: tied to a third party seller, and the seller listed
Speaker 1: her address as the return location for customers trying to
Speaker 1: send their perch says back. They started arriving a year ago,
Speaker 1: they never stopped. They blocked her driveway, her access to
Speaker 1: her mailbox, and even her eighty eight year old mother
Speaker 1: couldn't walk down the entryway. She called Amazon a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, filed a bunch of complaints. They only offered
Speaker 1: her one hundred dollars gift card and told her to
Speaker 1: donate or return the packages herself. According to Amazon policy,
Speaker 1: international sellers must either give a US return address, issue
Speaker 1: a returnless refund, or send a prepaid shipping label. But
Speaker 1: instead customers paid over one hundred dollars to ship these
Speaker 1: items back to this woman's driveway. This is just a
Speaker 1: wild story. The brand has no contact info on their website,
Speaker 1: the reviews or one star.
Speaker 2: So what did this woman do?
Speaker 1: After she got so frustrated, she called the local news
Speaker 1: and they got involved, you know, like these these troubleshooter
Speaker 1: kind of things, you know, like where are the We'll
Speaker 1: get you help. So once they called Amazon, guess what happened.
Speaker 1: Oh the problem goes away. Amazon stepped in, removed the
Speaker 1: boxes and said they're cracking down on the third party
Speaker 1: sellers violating their policies. The woman called it quote another
Speaker 1: form of hell, and says she's grateful someone finally listened.
Speaker 1: Seven on your side isn't what they do like in
Speaker 1: the local news. I mean, I work in the local news,
Speaker 1: but I don't do that. But it's a funny thing
Speaker 1: about this. It's like I've seen this over and over.
Speaker 1: It's like these big companies don't care until you get
Speaker 1: the local news, because the local news will email the
Speaker 1: PR person. The PR person doesn't want to do a
Speaker 1: bad story, so they say, yes, we'll figure this out
Speaker 1: and we'll get it fixed for that one person. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it helps other people too, but it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the company doesn't care about what you do. It's only
Speaker 1: when the local news steps in then they care because
Speaker 1: you know there's gonna be a lot of publicity there.
Speaker 1: By the way, I had an AI breakthrough today. This
Speaker 1: is incredible because I've been using the Samsung phone. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm playing with Gemini more. I figured out how to
Speaker 1: make an everything notebook using Google Keep. So if you
Speaker 1: start putting a whole bunch of notes into Google Keep,
Speaker 1: you can ask Gemini about those notes.
Speaker 2: So watch what I did. I put in the restaurants
Speaker 2: we went to in New York City, and watch what
Speaker 2: I can do. Now watch check my notes for the
Speaker 2: restaurants I went to in New York City. What were they?
Speaker 2: And let's see what Gemini comes up with. Okay, it's
Speaker 2: looking at Google Keep.
Speaker 7: We went to.
Speaker 2: Osteria Baroka and Tony's DiNapoli in New York City.
Speaker 1: Look at that so it looked through my notes and
Speaker 1: it summarized the two restaurants that I went to.
Speaker 2: How cool is that.
Speaker 1: So I've been using another thing for this called voice
Speaker 1: notes dot com, sort of like an everything notebook, and
Speaker 1: then you can ask it's AI. But the problem is
Speaker 1: that's not integrated with Gemini. So with Gemini and Google Keep,
Speaker 1: you can now just dump a whole bunch of information
Speaker 1: into Google Keep and then ask Gemini at any time
Speaker 1: to look at your notes and tell you.
Speaker 2: So, what could this be good for? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So for me, when my kids say something silly, I
Speaker 1: will record it into my notes and I can say, like,
Speaker 1: tell me something silly that my kids said. Any notes
Speaker 1: I have, or any thoughts I have while I'm traveling,
Speaker 1: I'll put in there. Anything that I read that's interesting.
Speaker 1: I'll put in their quotes and stuff like that. You say, hey,
Speaker 1: give me an inspirational quote for my notes. When I
Speaker 1: learn about people, I'll put notes about them in my notes.
Speaker 1: So if they tell me their kids' names, or you know,
Speaker 1: where they're going to college, so I don't forget that
Speaker 1: those details about our relationship, I'll put that in there.
Speaker 1: Anything I mean, the possibilities are endless. I am so excited.
Speaker 1: I think I've just ruined the rest of my weekend
Speaker 1: because now I'm gonna sit here and program my Google Keep,
Speaker 1: which I typically don't use, but now that it works
Speaker 1: so nicely with Gemini, this is incredible. And then by
Speaker 1: the way, you can say to Gemini, take a note
Speaker 1: and then say whatever you want and it will put
Speaker 1: that into your Google Keep.
Speaker 2: This is big.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Gemini works on iPhone or androids,
Speaker 1: so this will work same on both. Coming up, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about Google and their domination of the ad
Speaker 1: business right here.
Speaker 2: On rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology website rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: Joining me now is.
Speaker 1: Ari Paparo, former Google executive and author of an upcoming
Speaker 1: book called Yield How Google Bought, built, and bullied its
Speaker 1: way to advertising dominance.
Speaker 2: Ari, welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks for having me Rich.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming this book is not so flattering to Google.
Speaker 13: You know, it's not a damning book of Google, but
Speaker 13: they did some things wrong. I mean, they were just
Speaker 13: held to be a monopoly by a federal judge. So
Speaker 13: I'm telling the story of how they got there. I
Speaker 13: would say more arrogance than evil.
Speaker 8: More.
Speaker 13: That's why I use the word bullying, because I think
Speaker 13: that's a pretty good take on what they did, and
Speaker 13: hopefully they'll read it and maybe get some insights as
Speaker 13: to what happened.
Speaker 2: So, what did you do at Google and what they
Speaker 2: do to you that was so bad?
Speaker 13: I don't have any ill will to Google whatsoever, and
Speaker 13: I've partnered with them in other jobs, but it wasn't
Speaker 13: for me.
Speaker 1: Let's just say that, okay, So let's talk about the
Speaker 1: ad world. I mean, it's very much dominated by Google,
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Why do we care?
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, you know when a web page loads, people
Speaker 13: make money or they try to make money, and it
Speaker 13: supports most of modern web based journalism. I mean, obviously
Speaker 13: you have subscriptions if people can afford them, and you
Speaker 13: have you have other ways of making money of emails,
Speaker 13: et cetera. But a lot of it is just based
Speaker 13: on those boxes of ads, the banner ads, the square
Speaker 13: ads on the web pages, and that's what pays for
Speaker 13: journalism and content.
Speaker 1: And how did Google bully its way? I mean, I
Speaker 1: know it and purchased companies over the years but they
Speaker 1: do command. Like if you set up a website and
Speaker 1: I have in the past, you know they got this thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's called what ads, AdWords one of those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have both, okay, but you know that's like the
Speaker 1: way to make money on your site.
Speaker 2: Right absolutely.
Speaker 13: So that's why it's an interesting story because everyone knows
Speaker 13: Google for search, but you don't think so much about
Speaker 13: banner ads. And they went from absolutely nothing where they
Speaker 13: had ad Sense, but it was all text. We're talking
Speaker 13: about the early two thousands. They just showed text ads
Speaker 13: on your site. They went from nothing to total dominance,
Speaker 13: ninety percent market share in some segments. And they did
Speaker 13: it by running the software the actual not the ads,
Speaker 13: but the software that serves the ads. And that's how
Speaker 13: I got involved. Also, Google acquired a company called double
Speaker 13: Click back in two thousand and eight, and it was
Speaker 13: the software that almost every website you could think of,
Speaker 13: like CNN and New York Times and yach not Yahoo,
Speaker 13: but many others would use to show the ads. So
Speaker 13: they controlled the software. And then they said, well, if
Speaker 13: we ConTroll the software and people are sort of bidding
Speaker 13: to buy these ads, we know what prices they're bidding. Well,
Speaker 13: we could bid blood and sent higher and win more often,
Speaker 13: or we can change the amount of revenue that people
Speaker 13: make when they sell the ads into our advantage. So
Speaker 13: they ended up being like basically both the stock market
Speaker 13: and the biggest bank in this market.
Speaker 1: Now, Google has a lot of data about consumers. And
Speaker 1: this is kind of how this all comes together because
Speaker 1: we search on the web, We look for things, and
Speaker 1: then Google builds a profile of us, and then they
Speaker 1: use that to kind of make these ads appeal to us,
Speaker 1: right Like, they kind of they match up the ads
Speaker 1: with what.
Speaker 2: We are looking for. So should we be worried about
Speaker 2: that process at this point?
Speaker 4: You're right.
Speaker 13: The Google has the Chrome browser, they have Gmail, they
Speaker 13: have maps, They know a lot about you that they
Speaker 13: have your search history, and you know, it is a
Speaker 13: little concerning, especially if you're searching for sort of sensitive
Speaker 13: topics around health or whatever. I would say Google's a
Speaker 13: pretty good actor in this regard. I don't think there's
Speaker 13: ever been a allegation that they use data in a
Speaker 13: really bad way or sold your data. But it is
Speaker 13: concerning overall that companies like Meta and Google and TikTok
Speaker 13: knows so much about its consumers and in some cases,
Speaker 13: maybe collecting data from you when you're not aware. You know,
Speaker 13: you're on a website about news. You don't know that
Speaker 13: Google is actually learning about what you're interested in. It's
Speaker 13: important that consumers kind of take control of that at
Speaker 13: some to some degree. But I wouldn't be overly panicked
Speaker 13: about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's that's another side of it. When
Speaker 1: you visit a website, they are typically sending data back
Speaker 1: to Google that says, hey, this person went here. It
Speaker 1: may not be your name per se, but it's linked
Speaker 1: to you somehow, I guess, but it tells you know,
Speaker 1: it sends back data all to feed that beast of like, hey,
Speaker 1: we can target this person because they look at news
Speaker 1: about sneakers all the time.
Speaker 13: It's true because there are these things called pixels. Many
Speaker 13: of your listeners should know that on almost every website
Speaker 13: out there. It's not just Google, though Google has Google Analytics,
Speaker 13: but the meta, the Facebook pixel, or the thumbs button, whatever,
Speaker 13: the like button, you know, those are data collection mechanisms.
Speaker 13: There was just a little bit of a mini scandal
Speaker 13: where it was found out that on Android phones, Facebook
Speaker 13: could recognize its consumers up to their user profile on
Speaker 13: Instagram on every basically every single pixel fire in the browser,
Speaker 13: which is something they shouldn't be able to do, but
Speaker 13: they were able to manipulate around that. So, yeah, as
Speaker 13: you're surfing the web, a lot of folks are collecting
Speaker 13: information about you and there's no way to fully protect yourself.
Speaker 13: But also it's not the most sensitive data. It's not
Speaker 13: something that hopefully you could be you know, lose your
Speaker 13: marriage or your house about you know that I'm interested
Speaker 13: in sneakers or whatnot.
Speaker 1: Now we've heard a lot about Google, and you tossed
Speaker 1: out the word monopoly. There's been two prominent cases involving
Speaker 1: Google lately. One was their ad business and then the
Speaker 1: other was Chrome. So what do we know about this?
Speaker 2: Like, is Google going to be forced to change its ways? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you summarize it.
Speaker 13: Well, the two big cases in the federal there's also
Speaker 13: a state case asking for huge damages. So in the
Speaker 13: search case where they were declared to monopoly, they've already
Speaker 13: had hearings about what they should do about it, and
Speaker 13: the government is trying to force a spin out of
Speaker 13: the Chrome browser. The Chrome browser has I think something
Speaker 13: like sixty percent market share in the US, so that
Speaker 13: being spun out and Google not being a sort of
Speaker 13: beneficial owner that invests a ton of resources into it
Speaker 13: is a big question mark for the future of the web.
Speaker 13: Will there be many browsers, will some be owned by
Speaker 13: commercial institutions like Amazon Browser, and you'll get money off
Speaker 13: who knows where it'll end up.
Speaker 2: It's a big change.
Speaker 13: If they're forced to spin out Chrome on the AD side,
Speaker 13: which is what I wrote my book about, They're also
Speaker 13: being asked to spin out their core AD server that
Speaker 13: I mentioned earlier, but also their exchange and a bunch
Speaker 13: of other tools that publishers used to make money and
Speaker 13: where they have monopoly or near monopoly market share, and
Speaker 13: that could throw a wrench into the ways that the
Speaker 13: revenue streams of media companies and publishers and streaming broadcasters
Speaker 13: and a lot of other folks. It's a very disruptive
Speaker 13: change given how Google is, but a lot of observers
Speaker 13: really think it's due to happen both of those remedies.
Speaker 13: Who's the book for ari I wrote the book as
Speaker 13: narrative journalism, meaning I talk to people and I told
Speaker 13: their stories. It's not a technical book, it's more of
Speaker 13: a business book. I hope people really enjoy it. People
Speaker 13: are interested in advertising, in business, in drama around this
Speaker 13: sort of monopoly big tech. I hope it's pretty readable,
Speaker 13: but I'll only know when the reviews start coming in.
Speaker 2: It's available on August fifth.
Speaker 1: My question for you is is all of this a
Speaker 1: point because the web, the structure of the web is
Speaker 1: changing because of AI. I mean, Google, I feel like
Speaker 1: is in a very precarious position. They have Gemini, but
Speaker 1: we've got open AI, Chat, GBT, Perplexity, all these other
Speaker 1: services are now summarizing the web and not necessarily delivering
Speaker 1: ads in the way that Google has made its bread
Speaker 1: and butter on.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it all starts with the consumers, and the consumers
Speaker 13: are are being referred from search results less. Basically, referral
Speaker 13: traffic is down, and referral traffic is the lifeblood of
Speaker 13: many and supported businesses. So it's an interesting problem. Will
Speaker 13: publishers be able to recapture their audience to go with
Speaker 13: channels they can control better, like podcasts, like like email,
Speaker 13: like some parts of social or will they just lose
Speaker 13: that traffic and they'll never come back and traffic turns
Speaker 13: into advertising. So we don't know.
Speaker 2: Also, the Chrome browser, you know, we probably have heard that.
Speaker 2: Just in the last week.
Speaker 13: I think open Ai said they're making a browser, and
Speaker 13: Perplexity said they're making a browser. And there's also this
Speaker 13: browser called da that's getting a lot of traction because
Speaker 13: that's built in AI.
Speaker 2: So maybe the Chrome browser.
Speaker 13: Case is also you know yesterday's news, it's a really
Speaker 13: interesting time in tech.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always wonder about that because these laws, you know,
Speaker 1: these these court challenges always take so long to get through,
Speaker 1: and by the time they do that, you know, tech
Speaker 1: is evolving so quickly. To me, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if open aies can out their own browser, this DA
Speaker 1: browser that you mentioned from the browser company, like you said,
Speaker 1: is that's getting a lot of publicity. It's like people
Speaker 1: have the options already whether they want to switch and
Speaker 1: whether it means anything. If another company even wants Chrome,
Speaker 1: what does it mean If it's split up from Google,
Speaker 1: it may not mean anything.
Speaker 13: Yeah, there's this concept in antitrust called a natural monopoly,
Speaker 13: and a natural monopoly is just where building the thing
Speaker 13: that you sell is so expensive that someone else can't
Speaker 13: do it. So like cable TV would be an example
Speaker 13: where you have to rip up the streets to put
Speaker 13: your tables in and it may be that the browser
Speaker 13: and search is a natural monopoly, where like it's so
Speaker 13: hard to be good at it that once you're good
Speaker 13: at it, you get more data and you dominate everything.
Speaker 13: And so maybe open ai is going to be able
Speaker 13: to displace Chrome with a better browser because they'll have that,
Speaker 13: and then they'll become a monopoly and government will have
Speaker 13: to come after them. It's just something about this business
Speaker 13: and the and recurring data that makes it hard to compete.
Speaker 1: Wild Times and Technology are Paparo, former Google executive and
Speaker 1: author of Yield How Google Bought, built, and bullied its
Speaker 1: way to advertising dominance. The book is out on August fifth.
Speaker 1: Check it out wherever you buy books. It's on Amazon
Speaker 1: of course. Ari, good luck with the launch.
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me, and thanks for the great questions.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate you coming on the show Rich on tech
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