WEBVTT - 005 Rich on Tech Radio Show - February 4, 2023 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:05.640 Samsung on veils it's latest smartphone with a two hundred 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:10.680 megapixel camera. The malware making its way into computers through 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.960 Google Ads, the new software to detect if something was 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:20.479 written by AI or a human. Plus your tech questions answered, 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.880 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.120 on Tech, the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.000 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.840 place where I answer your questions. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:33.080 I'm the tech. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.800 Reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.559 the show. And how about this show number five? So 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.640 that's meant to be right? Channel five, show number five. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.240 It's all good today. My dad's birthday actually, so happy 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.120 birthday dad. Phone lines are open at triple A Rich 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.560 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.000 four to one zero one. This was a really exciting 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.800 fighting week in technology because I got to travel. It 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.520 was a big event. Samsung held its first in person 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.880 event in three years. This happened up in San Francisco. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.880 It was on Wednesday, And you know, I told you 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.000 I was in San Francisco last week, so that was now, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.000 I guess I can tell you that was to get 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.200 a little sneak peek at the new phones. So not 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:24.840 every company, I don't even know if I'm allowed to 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.600 tell you this, but not every company does this. But 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.320 some companies will give tech folks sort of a hands 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:35.280 on preview of gadgets before they launched them. And every 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.160 company is different. So for instance, Apple, as far as 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.240 I know, nobody gets hands on with stuff before it's 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.880 unveiled to the world, Like unless I'm not on some 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.480 list somewhere, that is just not happening. Like they used 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.840 to have back in the day. There was a couple 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.960 of really big time mainstream journalists that Apple would give 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.560 early access to their gadgets, but not before they were 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.000 announced as far as I knowed know, like it was 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.200 maybe right after they were announced, and nowadays, you know, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.800 it might be a day after or the same day 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.080 that they announced them. During the pandemic, everything changed, of course, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.720 because used to have to go to these companies to 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.079 pick these things up in person and talk to them 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.600 and you know, do what's called a briefing. And then 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.320 they just kind of changed it where they would ship 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.640 you the stuff, but of course, you know, then they 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.320 don't get to talk to you as much about it 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.560 and explain the features, and go through it. So ideally, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.519 these companies want to want to kind of talk to 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.639 you in person so they can explain the different features 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.639 on these gadgets. Because I know that I've never read 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.000 a manual or an instruction book, so there's there's things 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.399 that I miss sometimes and I'm checking these things out. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.600 But anyway, so the week before I went up, I 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.239 saw the phones. Of course, you're under sort of what's 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.600 called an NDA where you can't really talk about this 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.920 stuff until a certain time. But it helps you as 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.480 a journalist because you understand what's coming out, what's going 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.560 to be announced, what's there, and you can start to 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.600 form kind of the questions in your head about these 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.920 products and also talk to people immediately about them. So anyway, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.800 so that was the week before. Then on Wednesday we 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.720 went up for the actual event, and so I went 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.120 up early in the morning. The event started at ten. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.239 It was in San Francisco, and of course I asked 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.920 Twitter the best way to get into San Francisco. I 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.079 was there the week before, but I wanted to try 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.320 a different way this time, and so I flew into Oakland. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.200 I took public transit because if you know, me. You 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.000 know that I love to take public transit whenever possible, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.560 much to the people around me not liking that very much, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.720 namely my wife and my photographer and anyone else I 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.080 travel with on a regular basis. I'm always like, the train, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.640 it goes right there, it's right here, let's go. And 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.520 they're like, can't we just take like an uber or 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.760 like a lyft it's like direct. I'm like, it's kind 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.680 of fun to be on the train. I mean, the 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.360 train's going to go anyway, you just have to hop on. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.000 So I took the train to San Francisco, took it 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.160 to this event center which had not been there before. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.240 I'm going to mess up the name. I think it's gosh, 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.000 Masonic Temple. I think that was it our Masonic lodge 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.360 in San Francisco, or let's see temple, and so it 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:08.080 was in Masonic Temple. Masonic Temple. Yeah, I don't know 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:09.680 how to say that. But anyway, so that was where 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.800 it was, and it was a smaller venue than in 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.360 year's past. So in years past these events would be 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.400 really really big. And the last one that Samsung did 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.279 was actually right before everything closed down for COVID. It 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.880 was like February nineteenth or something like twenty nineteen, and 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.719 so that was like the last event. And at that event, 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.400 people were like, oh, you might want to wear a mask, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.880 might want to sanitize your hands. We'll take your temperature, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.520 and then everything shut down right after that. So this 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.200 was kind of a big deal for Samsung to have 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.400 an in person event one more time, and it was small. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.719 It was very, very small, and I think that just 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.640 reflects the fact that a lot of people aren't traveling anymore. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.240 They don't you know, they don't see the need to 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.160 go to these in person things anymore. But I love it. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.640 I feel like it's the best time to see people, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.560 to meet with people in person, to talk with people 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.400 that you see online. And I mean every tech person 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.839 that's either on YouTube or a journalist that covers Samsung 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.520 or just tech in general, most of them are there, 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.560 or many of them are there, i should say. And 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.039 so it's kind of fun because you get to see 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.320 these people in person that you see online all the 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.680 time and just chat and actually talk to them in 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.720 person about you know, what'd you think about this, what'd 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.960 you think about that? For me, with the new radio show, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.479 I'm always like, hey, will you come on the radio 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.640 show and talk about these different products, And so a 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.040 couple of people were talking to today were some of 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:28.440 the people at this show as well. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.760 So the show was smaller. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.400 And it you know, they announced their new S twenty 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.160 three Ultra, the S twenty three Plus and the S 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.800 twenty three, and the upgrades were really in the camera system. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.360 And I actually find a little fault with what Samsung 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.479 did because I don't know if I really like it. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.040 So they had these like big time directors that used 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.120 the Samsung phones, the new ones to shoot like everything 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.240 in the presentation, which is great and it just goes 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.080 to show like how high quality these cares are. But 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.920 the reality is, no average person is going to be 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.360 shooting stuff with these cameras the way that Samsung showed 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.359 them off. So most people are going to be using 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.559 these cameras at their kid's birthday parties, or their kids 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.719 play and or you know, just somewhere at a restaurant 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.200 that's darkly lit and it's going to be all handheld. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.159 The way that they showed them off was these directors 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:29.520 using like super big time Hollywood rigs, lighting stabilizers, all 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.080 kinds of filters and lenses, and it's like, nobody's going 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.279 to use these phones like that. That's an average person 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.640 that's trying to buy these things. The average person just 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.119 wants to know, Hey, is this S twenty three Ultra 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.360 worth an upgrade for my S twenty two Ultra or 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.120 is it worth an upgrade from my Samsung S nine 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.400 or S ten or whatever you've got, And of course 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.839 that answer is yes. So so anyway, it was neat 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.920 to see the fact that these cameras can be used 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.919 in a big time way, and Apple has done similar 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.320 things in the past. But the reality is, show me 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.279 how this camera performs at a birthday party with just 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.960 candles in a dimly lit area. Show me how it 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.960 works at my kids play where I'm sitting in the 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.840 back row and I want to get a closer shot 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:10.480 to the front. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:11.560 Show me how it works. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.720 And I'm on a boat and it's shaky and it's 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.120 moving and I'm trying to, you know, record some video. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.440 And those are the circumstances where you know, reporters like 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.120 myself come into play, because that's where I'm going to 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.720 go and test these things out. So I'm going to 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.240 use this as a regular person. I've got the phone 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:27.760 in my hand right now. I've been using it for 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.360 the past week, and I've got to say I'm impressed. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:34.120 It is a good camera. Is it infinitely better than before? 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:34.360 No? 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.280 But is it generating some really nice pictures? 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:38.960 Yeah? 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.120 Is the two hundred megapixels something that I need? Probably not. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.640 Unless you're blowing up pictures to be billboard sized, you 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.040 probably don't really need that. But the way that Samsung 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.960 is taking those two hundred megapixels, they're taking them and 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.720 they're kind of collecting them into little groups to make 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.240 this a standard. It's kind of sixteen megapixel picture at 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.040 the end of the day. So you're not going to 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:00.920 get a full two hundred many a pixel picture every 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.040 time you snap a shot unless you want that. And 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.960 if you want that, they have the option. And honestly, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.280 after using this phone for a week or a couple 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.160 of days, now, was it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:10.760 A couple of days. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.440 The biggest difference between the Androids and the iPhone is 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.720 just it's kind of refreshing to be on Android for 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.720 a little bit because it is just a different way 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.680 of doing things, you know, it just kind of has 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.960 a lot of options. I mean, this Samsung phone just 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.560 has so many options built in, like so many different 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.920 ways of doing things where I'm just like, oh yeah, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.640 I kind of forgot that that takes like six or 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.840 seven steps on an iPhone, but it takes two steps 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.560 on an Android. So they've got their pros and cons. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.160 And believe me, whenever I switch phones and I start 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.959 texting my friends when I'm on a test device, I 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:42.600 get the hate. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:43.920 I get the hate. Believe me. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.400 My friend this morning he said, when are you gonna 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.320 get off this this? I can't say what you said, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.480 Android phone, I said, dude, like fifty percent of America 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.880 or the world, you know, half the people are using 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.520 an Android, half the people are using iPhone. Everyone has 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.240 a different preference, you know. And so anyway, I will 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.920 continue to test out the S twenty three Ultra. If 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:04.559 you want to see some of the pictures, I've posted 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.320 them to my Twitter and my Facebook and my Instagram 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.280 at rich on Tech. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:09.720 But save the hate, you know. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.520 It's just like, enjoy the fact that we all have 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.120 different preferences. Some people are gonna like the Android, some 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.080 people are gonna like iPhone. It doesn't make you a 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.840 bad person, you see that green or blue Bubble pop up. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.600 Don't judge, just enjoy. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.320 All Right, we got a great show for you this week. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.000 I've got so many great guests. We're gonna talk to 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.480 Jacqueline Dallas, YouTuber extraordinaire. She is from Nothing but Tech. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.000 She's gonna discuss the S twenty three, the new Samsung 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.400 phones with me. Brian Tong is back. He's going to 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.840 talk about the HomePod. We've been testing that this week, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.640 and later in the show, we're gonna talk to the 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.280 makers of an app called True. If you're looking for 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.960 an alternative to Facebook that has no ads and no tracking, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.280 this might be the app for you. Plus, we're gonna 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.880 have your calls coming up next at triple eight rich 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.960 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.360 four to one zero one. My name is Rich Shamiro. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.520 You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.920 Rich on Tech. My name is Rich Damiro. Thanks for 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.360 joining me here on the show where we are talking 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:14.280 about technology. Phone lines are open at triple eight rich 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.520 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.520 Four to one zero one. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.760 We've got Mark in Monrovia, California. Mark, You're on with rich. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:33.680 Hi, you're rich. So I've got this problem with video. 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.559 Let's see make sure I from. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:41.000 My radio DWN here sorry okay, And I'm on a 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:46.720 Windows ten Dell laptop and you know, of course i's 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.439 the video is just don't start, whether it's YouTube or 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:54.840 coming out of Twitter or I don't know, various seasons. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.679 But and I've got good download speed. I've got something 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.800 like damn in twenty five up. And I just don't 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:03.360 understand it. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.319 I mean, I'll start a video and the first thing 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:11.640 it showed me is like the volume is muted, and 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.800 so I'll go ahead and unmus the volume, but then 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.720 the video wants to start over, and that's when it 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:20.560 started doing so the long buffering and it goes on 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.720 and then said, you know, if you have any problem, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.439 try restarting your device. But that doesn't do. But it's 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.960 it's really strange. I'm not sure. It's only about two. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.200 Year old machine did this? 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:36.120 So did it ever work? Has it ever worked? 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:38.840 So? 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.120 I mean the the videos so like YouTube, like you've 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.360 had this machine for two years? Has the has it 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.280 ever worked before? Like the videos have they played you 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:47.040 know like normally? 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.199 Yeah? Yeah, it was it was great everything would launch 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.600 just immediately. That's just the way I expected it. Of course, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.960 you know, brand new machine. But in about the last 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.520 six months, maybe it's when it's been just really acting up. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.000 Of course I've got that. I was thinking of turning 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.480 that off and going with Windows Defender or something. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.520 Yeah, so I think it sounds like you may have 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.600 what what browser? Does it happen with every video on 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:13.760 all different sites? 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.800 Yes, like even coming out of like. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.720 Okay, all right, so it's it sounds like it is 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.839 a browser issue. So here's how I would troubleshoot something 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.880 like this. So first off, I would I would disable 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:37.559 any extensions I have on my browser. So uh well, actually, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.280 before I even do that, I would probably go through 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.360 in my list of software on this Windows computer and 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.800 I would uninstall. And I always say to do this, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.760 uninstall any program that you no longer need, want, or 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.520 programs that you don't really recognize. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.600 You're like, wait a second, why is this on my computer? 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:53.960 Now? 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.640 There may be some like system stuff you don't have 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.000 to get rid of those, but you know, stuff that 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.360 you just don't need or use, Like you may have 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.360 installed something that interfering with your browser. And then once 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.679 you do that, restart your computer, obviously, make sure your 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.160 computer's up to date with all the latest software updates. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.120 And then I would go to my browser and I 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.000 would go on the browser and look at all the 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:17.120 extensions you've got installed, and I would uninstall or at 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.280 least pause the extensions. And you can do that on 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.080 Chrome by clicking extensions and then manage extensions, and you 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.840 can just turn them all off, you know, and you 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.640 can just toggle them off and on. And if you're 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.400 not familiar with what extensions are, these are little pieces 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.320 of helper software that you can install on your web browser. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.320 Whether it's Chrome, whether it's Firefox, whether it's Safari. They 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.239 all support extensions in some way. But sometimes these extensions 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.079 can interfere with how our machine operates. And it sounds 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.600 like there's an extension that's interfering with the video streaming 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.079 on your entire browser. Now it could also be malware 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.200 that's interfering as well. So I've often gone to folks 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.600 computers that are having trouble and they're like, what's going on? 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.920 And sometimes their homepage has been hijacked or their search 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.959 has been hijacked, And a lot of times it's because 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.520 you've installed some sort of helper app that is not helping. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:11.160 It's hurting. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.120 And so what I do whenever I'm troubleshooting something is 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.079 just turn everything off. Like let's say I go to 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.120 a website and it's just not functioning the way I 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.760 think it should. I'll turn off some of the extensions. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.200 Sometimes that could be an AD blocker that's messing it up, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.840 and you can turn that off and then the website 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.800 will work again. So once you toggle all those extensions off, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.520 obviously close out the browser, open it again, try the 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.720 videos on YouTube. I mean, YouTube is a pretty universal website, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:41.200 so I think that it should work pretty much flawlessly 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.400 across the board. So if it's not, there's definitely something interfering. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.400 Now once you do all the extensions, if that's still 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.320 not working, if the videos are just not playing, then 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.480 I would download or try a different browser. And so 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.760 if you're using Chrome, let's say I would open up 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.360 Edge or Firefox on your Windows computer and then try 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.800 YouTube or the news website or whatever you're looking for 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.760 inside those browsers. And if it's not working there, then 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.760 you might have a bigger problem on your hands. But 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.320 I think that those solutions are going. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:12.600 To solve it. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.600 Also, make sure that your browser is up to date. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.800 So if you're using Chrome, you can click into the 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.600 settings on Chrome and if you go to about Chrome, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.760 it will check for updates. And right now, mind saying 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.280 up to date. And so that could be another issue, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.160 is whether this browser is up to date, because sometimes 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.600 if it's not running the latest software, it just may 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.960 not play nicely with the websites that you're trying to 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.640 watch stuff on. But that's the way I would do it, Mark, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.840 and hopefully it will work. I mean, this laptop's only 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.200 two years old. There is no reason why this thing 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.800 should not be working properly. So try out those things 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.640 and then let me know if that's going to work. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:59.600 All right, Speaking of watching stuff, Netflix sent the Internet 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:05.840 into a tizzy this week over its proposed passwords sharing rules. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.560 So we've been hearing over and over that Netflix is 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.840 really going to start enforcing some sort of rules for 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.960 sharing your account and. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.280 You know who you are. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.760 There's, by one estimate, one hundred million people are leeching 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.800 off of other people's Netflix accounts. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.240 And I'm not saying it's a bad thing. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.280 Look, Netflix has let this happen for many, many years, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.680 and there's a lot of arguments why people share their accounts, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.240 whether it's a kid off to college, whether it's a 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.640 friend that you're helping out, whether it's a family member. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.640 They didn't really have steadfast rules, like they didn't say, like, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.800 you can't do this, because, believe me, Netflix can detect 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.680 when people outside your household are using your account. It's 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.600 not that tough. I mean, there's IP addresses, there's you know, 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:51.960 you're streaming at the same time as one of your 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.840 family members two different shows. I mean, they have ways 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.640 of detecting this stuff. But anyway, one of the things 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.520 they posted was some new rules that were suppose going 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.040 to be enforced in their help center, and one of 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.359 them was that you would have to log in with 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.320 the device every thirty one days for it to continue working. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.320 And so of course people that are maybe using your 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.480 account in other states and things that would be tough 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.479 and then they would have to be pushed to their 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.080 own Netflix account. Well, Netflix came out and said, look, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.840 we pushed those rules to the website just a little early, 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.639 so we don't really have any rules to say just yet. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.760 But at the same time, yes, these are coming, so 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.359 don't worry about it just yet if you're sharing or 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.679 you're a sharer, but yes, just keep in mind that 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.320 you may want to put a little line on in 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.600 your budget that may include Netflix in the next couple 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.400 of months, because these companies are not fooling around anymore. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.200 All right, Coming up, we've got an interview with Jacqueline 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.880 Dallas from Nothing But Tech. We're going to talk about 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.400 the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty three lineup and get 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.520 her impressions about the new camera. You're listening to rich 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.640 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.160 is rich Jamiro. Listening to the show where we talk 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:08.080 about technology and take your questions about all things gadgets, electronics, 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:09.480 cell phones. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:10.080 Whatever you got. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.840 I mean, everything's electronic these days, right all right on 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.800 the line. I've got a great guest, Jacqueline Dallas is 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:20.800 a YouTuber extraordinaire. She also does a podcast, and she 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.280 is going to talk to me about the new Samsung 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.000 Galaxy S twenty three lineup. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.760 Jacqueline, welcome to the show. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.560 Genuinely so honored to be on and I was listening 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.280 to it before I came on, and you're an incredible host. 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:35.360 I'm so blown to it. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.760 Oh well, thank you. Now tell me this. Did you 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:39.880 just turn twenty one? 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:41.720 I did just turn twenty one. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:42.800 Happy birthday. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.960 I saw the picture on your Instagram in the in 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.560 the liquor store, so yeah, but you were just camera testing. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.040 Just camera testing, completely sober. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:53.600 No. 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.879 I was doing a the S twenty three Ultra, like 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.320 a day life review. And one of the new features 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.359 of this phone is like improved performance. And I feel 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.479 like liquor stores never have good like lighting quality. It's 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.800 always like the dimmest of lighting. So we went in 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.520 there to test out the new camera. But cold Brew 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.439 has my heart. That's like my diversi of choice. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:13.000 Oh, we know. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.560 If you follow Jacqueline on her YouTube channel, there's lots 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.679 of pictures of coffee and cold brew. So, Jacqueline, you 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.320 were at the event at the at Samsung. I missed 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:27.119 you somehow, but it was a sad smaller event than typical. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.479 But what are your impressions of this phone? You did 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.240 a video on your YouTube channel where you kind of 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.000 did your initial testing in San Francisco, and a couple 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.800 of things stood out. The camera, battery life you didn't 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.119 think was as good as you thought it might be, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.840 and the camera the shutter lag in low light was 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.600 a little bit surprising, So tell me about those two things. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.440 Well, thank you so much for watching the video. Your 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.000 genuinely invest I was loking you out at the events. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.919 I'm so sad that we miss each other. But yeah, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.240 So basically I put the phone in like a real 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.480 day in a live scenario where I I was taking 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.159 a lot of photos videos, also just using it throughout 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.720 the day, and the battery life was not incredible. But 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:08.760 one of the things that people in the comments were 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.040 mentioning that igroue with is that it does have something 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.080 called adaptive batteries, which basically means after like the two 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.080 week mark of using the phone, it kind of understands 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.760 what your usage habits are like and then it supposedly 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.600 can get better. So the journey still out on that 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.520 not positive yet, but in my initial testing it wasn't amazing. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.399 I was doing a lot of four K video and 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.119 that drained it a lot. So I think like the 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.320 average user, battery life will be decent. Definitely a one 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.640 day phone, but not like a two day phone because 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.240 also the million powers is not increased over last year. 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.399 Ye Sampsling was saying that batteries could be better because 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:42.960 they just optimized it more. But since it's still the 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.320 same actual battery size, I didn't notice the staffic of 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:46.920 an improvement. 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.879 But here's the thing. Here's the thing about the battery 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:51.639 life on the Samsung. So I would agree that I 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.719 think that Samsung is kind of chewed through the battery 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.520 a lot faster than the iPhone. I think that's part 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.560 of the architecture of Android in general versus iOS, like 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.720 nothing gets to run in the background on iOS, whereas 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.920 on Android things can and so. But here's the difference. 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.399 So I was at the airport flying back from San 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:14.080 Francisco and I plugged in the Android and also the iPhone. 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:17.919 The iPhone charges a lot slower than the Samsung. I mean, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.280 the Samsung is like super super speedy charging. Yeah, So 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.520 to me, I don't think it's that big of a deal. 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:25.120 As long as you have access to a charger at 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.280 some point during the day, you'll be fine, and you'll 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.440 be at like one hundred percent quickly or close to it, 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:31.480 faster than you would on an iPhone. 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:34.600 That's a really good point. Yeah, that's very true. I 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.760 think battery life is one of those things where it's 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.280 like you either need super fast charging or really big battery. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.760 You don't necessarily need both. But also there are like 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.360 some reports that if you do fast charging all the time, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.320 you can kind of like degrade the battery cycle or 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.360 like make it faster, meaning like the battery would become 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.439 less good over time. Yeah, I feel like that's important 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.080 to know too, Like fast charging isn't. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:55.439 Always what you want to do, that is true, And 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.240 most of the time I'm trickle charging on a on 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.520 a you know, wireless anyway. All right, so let's talk 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:03.000 about the camp So two hundred megapixel camera. Are we 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.080 seeing this thing? Just blowing away the iPhone right out 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:06.440 of the gate? 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.639 Who Honestly, it was really good. The thing that was 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:11.960 most impressive to me was the zoom quality, and I 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.440 think it's because it had like this dedicated optical zoom lens. 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.560 The tours of megapixels is more so there for either 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.040 really really high right shots if you want to print something, 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.440 or more likely, I think most people will use it 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:25.840 in the pixel binning mode, which is basically it takes 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.679 the tours or megapixels and it combines either sixteen pixels 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:31.760 into one or four pixels into one depending on the 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.440 in lighting environment, and the idea there is that by 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.960 combining the pixels you're able to get better dynamic range 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.920 and exposure throughout the shots. I thought the images looked 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.480 really good in a lot of fers scenarios, and the 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.760 video quality was also excellent. The one area that you 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.000 mentioned earlier that I noticed a little bit was like 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:50.600 the shutter lag issue where I'd like hit the button 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:52.520 and then the photo would be a little bit delayed, 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.479 so it would look maybe a little bit blurry. But 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.760 I would say that in general, in like normal lighting 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.000 environment mid lighting environment, images are genuinely incredible. 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:04.720 Yeah, and I do think I okay, So first off 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.840 on the zoom situation, So this phone, the Ultra, has 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:10.679 a ten times optical zoom. It can zoom up to 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:15.200 one hundred times, but the ten times is incredible because again, 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:17.320 like I was saying earlier in the show, if you're 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:19.800 a parent that's sitting in the you know, in a 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.960 back row at your kids play, that ten times zoom 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.119 really comes into handy, and not just for that, but 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:28.199 so many scenarios where you're not close up and you 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:30.639 can get a lot closer and optical is always going 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:34.399 to look better than digital zoom for the most part. Yeah, 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.600 just for reference, the iPhone, like the latest iPhone has 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:39.720 what like a three time zoom right optical? 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:43.120 Yeah, three times? Oh, actually, maybe I'm the it could 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.439 be five times. It's somewhere between three or five times. 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:46.160 I think it's three. 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.199 Yeah, I think it's three on the pro phone, So 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:50.840 I mean the regular one is even less than that. Okay, 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.080 So now last night I took my phone out. My 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:56.080 wife is is a good companion for me because she's 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:59.119 always like testing of this stuff. And so we went 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.199 out to dinner at like a dimly lit restaurant and 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:03.560 I was like, all right, I got to take pictures 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.359 of all this stuff. And I will say she noticed 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.119 when we took a selfie, she was like, why is 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:10.280 it taking so long? And it's like, you know, in 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:13.160 that moment that's when you get the blur is if 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:15.280 it takes too long and you're trying to hold the phone. 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:17.959 I think that these are things that Samsung will tweak 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:21.080 with software because this is such a new sensor. I 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:23.720 always think the Samsung phones get better six months in. 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:27.560 Yeah, I totally agree. I think charlag has been something 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:29.359 that people have kind of complained about for a couple 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:30.879 of years of the phones, and I think in the 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.280 past years it may have been more of a hardware 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:35.639 issue where they had to have the shutter open for 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:37.679 a long time to get like that lighting environment. But 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:40.199 now since the center is updated, I think that you're right, like, 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:42.840 they definitely could just push out a software update to 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:44.560 lower the amount of time that it takes to take 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:44.960 a picture. 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.600 All right, we're talking to Jacqueline Dallas. She is a 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:51.800 YouTuber and she has a YouTube channel called nothing but 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:54.520 Tech with a lot of subscribers and a lot of 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:57.680 enthusiasm and a lot of creativity. So thanks for joining 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:01.000 me today. We're talking about the Galaxy S twenty three lineup. 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:03.520 So S twenty three starts at eight hundred dollars, the 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:05.800 S twenty three Plus, which is the mid middle of 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:08.280 the line phone with a was six point six inch 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:11.320 screen that is one thousand dollars, and then the top 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:14.040 of the line, Galaxy S twenty three Ultra, starts at 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:16.640 twelve hundred dollars. You get two hundred and fifty six 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:19.720 gigs of storage, you get a six point eight inch screen, 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:21.840 you get the sty list, you get it all with 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:27.679 this phone. So and the phones are out on February seventeenth, 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:30.640 Go ahead, No, it's like a kitchen thing phone. 0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:32.640 I feel like it's like you want all the features, 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:33.959 and this is like the epitomy of that. 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:36.560 Absolutely, And that's what I think really gets me about 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:38.359 this phone. Like I've kind of fallen in love with 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:41.000 it over the past couple of days. Because while you 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:44.320 use an iPhone quite regularly, every time I use like 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:48.040 a Samsung, I just remember how many cool things it does. 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:50.840 And this is a small thing that like, I know 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:53.000 nobody else may care about this, but I love the 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:55.080 fact that when I take a picture, it goes up 0:25:55.080 --> 0:25:58.080 into the cloud immediately, like it backs up on Google Photos. 0:25:58.480 --> 0:26:01.040 Maybe that's if you use iCloud on the iPhone that happens. 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:02.959 But I use Google Photos on the iPhone, and so 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:04.720 it just bugs me that I have to like open 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:07.600 Google Photos and like wait for it to upload. So 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:09.640 it's little things like that. What else do you think? 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:12.600 It's like a neat quality of life dings? What else 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:15.000 do I think people should know? Hm, I would say 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:17.240 one of the big ones that is important to know 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:21.359 is that software updates are going to be a more regular, 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:23.760 longer supported thing. I think one of the issues that 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:25.919 I've noticed with a lot of Android for them that 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:28.480 Island doesn't have is that over time they kind of 0:26:28.520 --> 0:26:30.520 struggle to keep up with performance. Like I think Pixel 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:32.639 is a great example, where it starts out so fast 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:34.760 and then like a year in there are more glitches 0:26:34.960 --> 0:26:37.639 and feature issues even though software is supportive for a 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:39.760 long time. But I think Stampling has a pretty good 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:42.439 track record of having good lungevity with their phones in general, 0:26:42.800 --> 0:26:44.560 and so with this one it's the same. I think 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:49.880 it's four years of software updates, definitely on the security end, yeah, 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:52.200 and I think other features ahead. 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:56.240 Yeah, they're promising four generations of operating system updates and 0:26:56.400 --> 0:26:58.560 five years of security updates. So that's a you know, 0:26:58.640 --> 0:27:00.960 do the math. That's a long time. And by the way, 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:03.480 I mentioned the prices for these phones, I should also 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:06.280 say that, like, don't pay full price for a Samsung, 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:09.080 Like there's always some sort of deal out there or 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:11.440 like a trade in deal. So like if you're don't 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:13.160 you know, the twelve hundred dollars, I know it sounds 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:15.320 like a lot, and it is, but you have to 0:27:15.400 --> 0:27:18.520 somehow get that down with either a carrier deal or 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:20.600 you know, some sort of rebate or trade in or 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:22.720 just wait for a sale, because these do happen. 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:26.920 Yeah, what do you think the S twenty two Ultra 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:29.280 users should consider? Like, do you think that there's any 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:31.679 scenario where S twenty two Ultra users should upgrade it? 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:34.159 Or do you think that this is like for pass generation. 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:35.600 That is a great question. 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:39.000 I'm like, I come from the side of things where 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:41.680 I always want an upgrade, and I always want the latest, greatest, 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:44.040 So I would say, and I know that Samsung's not 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:46.320 doing as good of a trade in this year, but 0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:48.159 just see how much it is. If it's like a 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:50.040 couple hundred bucks, Like if you can get into a 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:52.600 new S twenty three Ultra for like three hundred bucks, 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:54.560 if you're coming from the S twenty two, I think 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:57.080 it's worth it because you do get the newer phone, 0:27:57.080 --> 0:27:59.359 you do get the newer camera tech, and I'm telling 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:01.280 you this thing is going to continue to get better 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:04.520 over the next six months to a year with software updates. 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:06.560 All right, Jaqueline, I got a run, So tell folks 0:28:06.560 --> 0:28:08.320 how to find you online. 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:11.280 Ooh, you're the best. Thanks much for having me on YouTube. 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:13.040 It's nothing but tech and if you want to hear 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:16.040 like a tech conversation podcast, it's called The Digital Dive. 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:18.479 Thank you so much, True, thank you, thank you for 0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:20.840 being so positive. And by the way, Jacqueline started her 0:28:20.920 --> 0:28:24.240 channel when she was just thirteen, so she's been doing 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:28.480 tech for ten years. I'm bad at math, but however 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:30.880 many years that is. It's been a bit and she's 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:33.080 been grown her channel. So awesome to see that. Thanks 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:36.080 Jaqueline for joining me. You're listening to rich DeMuro here. 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:38.680 Rich on Tech is the show? Give me a call 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:42.680 at Triple eight rich one oh one. Welcome back to 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:45.920 rich on Tech. My name is rich Damuro here, tech 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:49.560 reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, hanging out 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:54.479 with you, talking about technology, talking about life. You know, 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:57.640 I have a mantra on life. What do people say? 0:28:57.680 --> 0:29:01.120 It's like abt That's what I say. Always be testing. 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:04.400 I'm always trying something out. And it's kind of funny 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:07.800 because if you're around me, you know this, Like you know, 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:10.560 I'm always pulling some random phone out of my pocket 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:12.600 or I'm like, hey, can you come with me to 0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:14.840 this event or go with me to this thing, or 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:18.440 can you try this computer or try this gadget, or 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:21.400 let me do this. It's really it's kind of funny 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:23.880 because if I didn't like this stuff, it would be 0:29:23.960 --> 0:29:27.600 really tough to do this because it's I mean, okay, 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:29.680 let me give me an example. So I go to 0:29:29.720 --> 0:29:32.840 the airport for the San Francisco trip, and you know, 0:29:33.200 --> 0:29:35.360 I drive an electric car, okay, And so I get 0:29:35.360 --> 0:29:37.680 to the airport and I'm like, ah, they just installed 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:40.800 all these new electric charging stations at the airport. Now, 0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:43.000 just like any other person, I want to get to 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:45.080 my flight. I want to get there to the terminal, 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:48.080 I want to get through security, but I also want 0:29:48.120 --> 0:29:50.680 to try out the new charging stations at the airport 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:52.440 because that way I can talk about them and I 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:54.240 can tell people like should you use it, should you 0:29:54.280 --> 0:29:56.280 not use it? How does it work? How much does 0:29:56.320 --> 0:29:58.959 it cost? And so I took the extra you know, 0:29:59.040 --> 0:30:02.200 ten minutes to try this out. So I find a 0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:05.000 spot and they've got a ton of these charging stations now, 0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:08.040 I think they built a couple hundred at the Los 0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:11.440 Angeles Airport, and so you know, it was easy to 0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:13.320 find a spot. A lot of people don't even know 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:16.360 about this yet, but I get there, I pull in 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:19.280 my car and it's like, okay, you got to scan 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:22.040 a QR code on the charger. I'm like, okay, By 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:24.760 the way, I've used so many different chargers. If you're 0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:27.520 not using like a Tesla branded charger, like it's anything 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.960 goes right. And so half some of the chargers are free, 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:34.000 which are amazing. Then some of the chargers are just 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:37.239 you got to activate them somehow, that's easy. And then 0:30:37.280 --> 0:30:39.320 some of the chargers want you to like sign up 0:30:39.720 --> 0:30:41.760 for like this whole app and like load it up 0:30:41.760 --> 0:30:43.320 with money. And that's what I had to do here. 0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:45.920 So not only did I have to like download an app, 0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:47.920 I had to sign up for the app, and then 0:30:47.960 --> 0:30:50.200 I couldn't use like Apple pay or Google Pay to 0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:52.200 pay for it. I had to like put a credit card in. 0:30:52.520 --> 0:30:55.320 Then I had to buy time, like which I'm not 0:30:55.400 --> 0:30:58.320 typically you know, I don't like pre paying for stuff 0:30:58.440 --> 0:31:00.160 before I use it. But I had to buy like 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:03.320 a block of I guess credit on this app, and 0:31:03.360 --> 0:31:05.400 so I did that and then I and then I 0:31:05.440 --> 0:31:07.480 had to like set how long I wanted to charge for. 0:31:07.600 --> 0:31:10.040 I mean, it was a it was a process, and 0:31:10.240 --> 0:31:11.920 you know, if you're a person that's just trying to 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:14.560 get to your flight. It's like, who wants to go 0:31:14.640 --> 0:31:15.360 through all this stuff? 0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:15.520 Now? 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:16.200 I get it. 0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:17.880 The first time you set it up, it takes the 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:19.600 longest the next couple times you do it. 0:31:19.800 --> 0:31:21.440 But by the way, it's also expensive. 0:31:21.920 --> 0:31:25.360 It's like forty five cents a kilowatt hour, which is 0:31:25.440 --> 0:31:28.160 quite pricey. And then you know, you got to pay 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:31.240 two dollars just for the connection in addition, by the way, 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:33.880 to the parking price at the airport, which has now 0:31:33.880 --> 0:31:38.720 gone up to sixty dollars for the day. So yeah, 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:41.760 it was very expensive to test this out. But I'll 0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:44.400 tell you, it was kind of cool to come back 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:47.240 to a fully charged car, and so that was nice 0:31:47.720 --> 0:31:50.160 throughout the whole situation. Once I came back to the 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:52.920 car and it was charged, that was nice. But the price, 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:55.360 you know, I thought they could kind of throw people 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:57.360 a bone at the airport, like you're already paying sixty 0:31:57.400 --> 0:31:59.520 bucks to park your car there for the day, Like 0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:01.560 why not just keep people free charging? I don't know, 0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:03.400 I mean, that's just I know it costs money to 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:05.720 put in all these chargers, but I'm just saying, you know, 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:07.240 I don't know if it costs sixty bucks to have 0:32:07.240 --> 0:32:11.920 that parking spot there. Anyway, let's go to Bonnie. Bonnie 0:32:11.960 --> 0:32:16.360 is in Charleston, South Carolina. A beautiful city, Bonnie. Welcome 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:16.840 to the show. 0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:20.320 And they're right where they're taking down the balloon. Do 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:22.200 you want me to say the piece if it falls 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:22.800 in my yard? 0:32:23.000 --> 0:32:26.320 Oh my gosh, you have the Chinese spy balloon is 0:32:26.320 --> 0:32:27.200 in your backyard. 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:32.760 Well, they're taking it down. They've just canceled all flights 0:32:32.920 --> 0:32:36.680 in North Carolina and South Carolina. Nobody can fly in 0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:40.160 our air. Oh my, right now, because they're going to 0:32:40.240 --> 0:32:41.760 take down the balloon right here. 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:45.440 How weird is that story? Like I came home last 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:47.720 night from dinner and I see this story and I'm like, 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:49.440 what is happening here? 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:51.760 Like what is going on? Okay? 0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:53.640 Well, if you get a piece of that balloon, I 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:56.240 would save it, and you know it's probably you're probably 0:32:56.240 --> 0:32:58.520 gonna have some people come to your front door and like, 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:01.200 you know, like the men in black you know what 0:33:01.240 --> 0:33:01.520 I mean. 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:03.640 And they're going to erase your mind a bit. Oh 0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:06.600 thank you, you never saw this. We're taking this from that. 0:33:07.120 --> 0:33:09.640 I called you rich, Okay, Well what'd you call me about? 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:14.520 Okay? So I'm a pet portrait artist and I do 0:33:14.600 --> 0:33:17.240 a lot of pets that have crossed over to the 0:33:17.320 --> 0:33:21.720 Rainbow Bridge already. So people send me the photos of 0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:26.200 their pets, and some of these photos are in pretty 0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:29.320 bad shape because these dogs have been gone a long time. 0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:35.560 And so I tried to download an app that claims 0:33:35.640 --> 0:33:38.560 that it can, you know, perk up these photos a 0:33:38.600 --> 0:33:41.640 little so I can get a little more detail to 0:33:41.760 --> 0:33:45.160 do the pet portrait because I'm a watercolor artist and 0:33:45.200 --> 0:33:51.000 I do very detailed work. Well, these these apps don't work. 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:54.920 This app didn't work. Definitely, it didn't do anything. And 0:33:55.000 --> 0:33:56.959 I wonder if you know a better app. 0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:59.720 Okay, Well what app did you get? And what platform 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:00.440 are you using. 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:00.760 This app on? 0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:03.080 Well, I'm using it on my high pad. 0:34:03.240 --> 0:34:04.720 Okay, so an iPad me. 0:34:04.960 --> 0:34:09.520 Through Facebook or email send me the photos. So I 0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:12.759 get the photos that way, and then I copy them 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:16.880 and keep them in my files. And so I don't 0:34:17.040 --> 0:34:19.080 you want me to say the name of the apps 0:34:19.120 --> 0:34:23.719 that I work? I didd okay. They actually gave me 0:34:23.800 --> 0:34:27.640 a ten day free day trial, a ten day free trial, 0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:32.200 and I put a pet portrait in there and it 0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:32.880 did nothing. 0:34:33.440 --> 0:34:36.200 Mmmm, Okay, Well, pet portraits. I mean, so I think 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:38.839 a couple of things are happening here. So I think, 0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:41.520 you know, pet portraits could be unique because a lot 0:34:41.560 --> 0:34:44.759 of these programs are built like if you're using I 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:46.640 mean number one, I would recommend something that's sort of 0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:49.839 using AI to restore these things. But I think that 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:53.040 you know, this is still a growing area, and so 0:34:53.920 --> 0:34:55.799 you know, the AI may not be trained. I know 0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:59.560 that that that animals can trick some of these systems 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:01.759 sometimes because they're built for humans most of the time. 0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:04.200 So if you're trying to restore old pictures, you know, 0:35:04.280 --> 0:35:05.680 sometimes that can be a thing. 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:08.080 Okay, So a couple of apps. 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:10.160 I mean, there's so many great apps for video edit 0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:15.040 or for photo editing on the iPad. I mean, one 0:35:15.040 --> 0:35:16.960 of them that comes to mind is pixel Mater. That's 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:19.040 like a number one kind of big app that a 0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:20.839 lot of people use that lets you do a lot 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:21.320 of things. 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:23.920 Obviously, Adobe light. 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:26.960 Room is very popular, which you know is very very 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:29.719 popular there. And then you have a lot of these 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:33.080 newer apps that are sort of like these AI enhanced apps. 0:35:33.120 --> 0:35:36.239 One that I like to use onmine is called Prisma 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.520 or sorry not Prisma. Pixart is one that I really 0:35:40.600 --> 0:35:43.600 like at p I C s ar T and I've 0:35:44.160 --> 0:35:45.759 I've thrown a lot at that app and it does 0:35:45.800 --> 0:35:48.239 pretty well. And another one that I really like is 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:51.319 called snap seed, and so snap seed will let you 0:35:51.320 --> 0:35:53.239 do a lot. Now, it depends what you're trying to do. 0:35:53.280 --> 0:35:56.560 If you're really trying to, you know, restore an old picture, 0:35:56.600 --> 0:36:00.680 there are some specialty AI programs I can do that, 0:36:01.320 --> 0:36:03.319 so I would look for something like that. But again, 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.239 you know, it's it's an animal picture, so it could 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:08.839 be a little bit tricky for these AI trained things 0:36:08.880 --> 0:36:12.040 that are trained mostly for humans. But those apps will 0:36:12.160 --> 0:36:15.279 get you started, I think, and you know, a lot 0:36:15.280 --> 0:36:16.759 of these apps you don't have to pay for if 0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:20.240 you want it the extra features. But I'm not familiar 0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:23.080 with the app that you mentioned. But I would also 0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:26.479 just peruse on the iPad the list of the top 0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:28.839 photo apps and just kind of try them. I think 0:36:28.880 --> 0:36:31.040 the best, you know, the best way to do this 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:32.920 is really trial and error. Just pop one of these 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:35.239 pictures into these apps, try it, see if it does 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:37.759 what you need, and if it does, stick with the app. 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:40.839 That's really the best way I find of you know, 0:36:41.000 --> 0:36:42.200 identifying things that work. 0:36:42.239 --> 0:36:42.759 The best for me. 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:45.480 All right, thanks Bonnie, watch out for that spy balloon. 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:49.600 You're listening to rich on Tech. We'll have more right 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:55.680 after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This is 0:36:55.719 --> 0:36:58.880 the show where we talk about technology, answer your questions, 0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:02.520 and just have a lot fun. Technology can be fun, 0:37:02.640 --> 0:37:03.359 Yes it can. 0:37:03.480 --> 0:37:03.799 I know. 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:07.120 We're very far from the days of the blinking twelve 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:10.360 o'clock on the VCR. Now our problems are a lot harder. 0:37:11.560 --> 0:37:14.240 That was easy back in the day. Now we've got 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:16.520 you know, why's my phone doing this? Why is my 0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:19.480 computer doing this? Why am I doing this? 0:37:19.840 --> 0:37:21.320 There's a lot to answer. 0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:23.880 My name is Richard Miro and the check reporter at 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:27.320 KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I cover this stuff 0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:31.200 for a living, live breathe. I haven't eaten tech, I 0:37:31.200 --> 0:37:31.560 don't think. 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:32.399 I guess I have. 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:36.040 I've eaten three D printed candy, So does that count 0:37:36.120 --> 0:37:38.560 as eating tech? I guess I have. So there we go. 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:42.919 I've eaten this stuff. I don't recommend you eating technology though, well, 0:37:43.360 --> 0:37:45.640 I mean, unless it's edible. Don't don't take a bite 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:48.080 out of your phone. Oh man, you can find me 0:37:48.160 --> 0:37:51.359 on social media. I am at rich on Tech every week. 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:53.160 I like to talk about the stuff that I upload 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:56.840 to my social media channels this week. On my Instagram, 0:37:56.920 --> 0:37:58.520 Let's see, I like to just look at this. 0:37:58.440 --> 0:38:00.280 And see what I Let's see. 0:38:00.480 --> 0:38:04.640 Oh, I think I uploaded a video of me taking 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:06.880 a ride in the way most self driving car up 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:07.719 in San Francisco. 0:38:08.880 --> 0:38:10.440 Let's see, I uploaded a. 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:16.000 Video explaining the new Galaxy S twenty three lineup of smartphones. Oh, 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:17.719 there's a cool new feature on the S twenty three 0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:21.400 lineup called Bixby Text Call. And this is this is 0:38:21.520 --> 0:38:24.640 a feature that telemarketers and robo callers are gonna hate. 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:29.040 It basically lets you answer the phone with a digital assistant. 0:38:29.080 --> 0:38:31.680 So when someone's calling your phone, you just tap a 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:33.000 button and it says, hey. 0:38:32.960 --> 0:38:33.640 I'm Bixby. 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:37.160 You know this caller, this, this phone user is using 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:39.200 me to answer the call. Can you please tell them 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:42.760 why you're calling? And then whatever they say is transcribed 0:38:42.800 --> 0:38:45.120 on your phone screen. So if it's like a robo 0:38:45.239 --> 0:38:47.840 caller or you know, someone trying to sell you something, 0:38:48.239 --> 0:38:49.880 you know, you can just go ahead and hang up 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:53.239 on them, which is sad, but you know whatever, and 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:55.319 then you can type things back. So if you say, hey, 0:38:55.320 --> 0:38:58.399 can you explain further. It will speak whatever you say 0:38:58.440 --> 0:39:01.279 to the caller, and whatever the caller is says is transcribe. 0:39:01.320 --> 0:39:03.440 So it's also equally handy, like if you're in a 0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:05.319 meeting or in a quiet place and you just want 0:39:05.360 --> 0:39:07.280 to answer the phone you can't talk at that moment. 0:39:07.680 --> 0:39:10.279 Instead of just those sort of canned responses where you're 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:13.880 just responding with the text, this actually says whatever you 0:39:14.000 --> 0:39:16.280 type out to the caller. So I've got a video 0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:18.440 demoing that, which I think is really cool. I could 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:20.759 use that all the time. People call me and you 0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:23.040 kind of get caught and you're just like, ah, I'm 0:39:23.080 --> 0:39:25.440 a nice person, but I really don't want to talk 0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:27.360 to you right now, and I'm trying to get you 0:39:27.400 --> 0:39:29.719 off the phone as soon as possible, and I'm going 0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:32.200 to hear your spiel for like a minute, but I 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:35.200 just yeah, it's like, come on, Especially with us switching 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:37.640 like cable riders and all that stuff, it happens all 0:39:37.680 --> 0:39:41.600 the time. Then I've got a video of me inside 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:44.480 the Samsung Experience up in San Francisco. Can you see 0:39:44.480 --> 0:39:46.400 the theme this week? Because Samsung had their big event, 0:39:46.960 --> 0:39:49.960 They've got this cool Samsung It's not really a store. 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:52.600 I guess it's kind of a pop up store, but 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:55.920 it's in San Francisco this month only. It's called the 0:39:56.000 --> 0:40:00.640 Samsung Galaxy Experience Space, and it's got a giant wall 0:40:00.760 --> 0:40:03.880 of Galaxy smartphones. You can see all the Samsung phones 0:40:03.880 --> 0:40:07.120 back to like the first Galaxy s back in twenty ten. 0:40:07.840 --> 0:40:10.040 They've got this gaming center set up. They've got this 0:40:10.160 --> 0:40:12.879 cool like capsule you can stand in, then you put 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:16.600 your phone in this little spinny thing and you take 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:18.680 a recording and you spin the thing and it looks 0:40:18.719 --> 0:40:21.839 like you're floating in outer space. That's really cool. They've 0:40:21.880 --> 0:40:24.600 got this whole setup of a planet with an astronaut 0:40:24.960 --> 0:40:26.560 which you can take pictures. 0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:26.880 Of and with. 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:29.439 It's really cool too. But the coolest thing was two 0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:32.719 cool things that are really really neat is this alleyway 0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:35.799 that's inspired by the streets of Soul, Korea, which is 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:39.440 where you know Samsung's headquartered, and it just literally looks 0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:42.480 like you're there and you can take you know, pictures 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:42.839 in there. 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:43.560 Have fun. 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:45.680 But there's also a video game in there. I think 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:48.760 it was a pac Man game. And then they also 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:51.560 have you know, it's kind of a place to test 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:53.719 low light photography. That's the reason for it, but it 0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:56.200 just looks really cool. You'll take cool pictures. And then 0:40:56.239 --> 0:40:58.719 the other really neat thing is this immersive gallery. So 0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:01.359 they sit you down in this little room, they take 0:41:01.400 --> 0:41:05.320 a whole bunch of headshots using the S twenty three Ultra, 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:08.960 and then you walk into this room next door. It's 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:12.120 filled with like, I don't know, thirty or forty different 0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:15.560 video screens. They look like picture frames, and all of 0:41:15.560 --> 0:41:18.520 a sudden, all your photos come up on those frames 0:41:18.560 --> 0:41:20.879 and it's all mirrored in there too, so you get 0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:23.000 really cool pictures inside there, and it's just a fun 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:23.560 thing to see it. 0:41:23.560 --> 0:41:24.800 It'll put a smile on your face. 0:41:25.120 --> 0:41:26.640 So if you happen to be in San Francisco in 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:29.880 the next month, definitely check out the Galaxy Experience Space. 0:41:29.960 --> 0:41:31.720 It's at one to eleven Powell Street. 0:41:32.680 --> 0:41:33.759 I thought it was pretty. 0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:36.600 Cool, So I love stuff like that, just like different 0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:38.880 unique I know, these like pop up things are kind 0:41:38.920 --> 0:41:42.719 of cheesy sometimes, like the little like nineties restaurants and 0:41:42.719 --> 0:41:44.879 stuff that they put up in town for a little bit, 0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:47.879 but this one was pretty cool. What else, What else 0:41:47.880 --> 0:41:49.680 do I want to talk about? I guess let's go 0:41:49.680 --> 0:41:51.600 to a call right now, Why don't we go to 0:41:51.640 --> 0:42:01.480 a call. We've got Carla. Carla is in the Los Angeles. Carla, welcome. 0:42:02.200 --> 0:42:03.680 Oh, thank you for taking my call. 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:08.000 Hell, thanks for listening. I'm doing fantastic. How are you good? 0:42:08.200 --> 0:42:11.680 Okay? So, I know you guys already were talking about 0:42:11.719 --> 0:42:13.840 the phones before with the girl and then she left, 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:16.920 so I caught the tell into that. But I have 0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:20.160 a friend who has the brand new iPhone fourteen, so 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:24.040 and I finally upgraded from my Note eight to this 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:30.319 Samsung Galaxy Ultra point two. Okay, So the colors are 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:34.080 different in the iPhone. Like we were testing out his videos, 0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:37.760 the colors were more vibrant, and I think there's probably 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:40.200 something in the Samsung that you can switch to make 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:44.360 the colors, you know, match what I saw on his phone. 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:45.960 But what I was more. 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:50.880 Interested in is blur the blurr in the background, because 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:54.399 his head automatically did it, and I don't know where 0:42:54.400 --> 0:42:55.960 to find that in my phone or if it even 0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:56.239 does it. 0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:58.400 Okay, well, there's it, definitely does it. 0:42:58.440 --> 0:43:01.839 So the situation with color is, you know, that's gonna 0:43:01.840 --> 0:43:05.520 be sort of a product of the color tuning of 0:43:05.560 --> 0:43:08.240 the phone. So it's gonna be tough. Now, the iPhone 0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:10.719 has this thing called like photographic styles, and he may 0:43:10.719 --> 0:43:13.640 have chosen one of those that enhances kind of the 0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:15.840 way things look. You can choose that in the settings 0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:18.880 of your iPhone and it will change pretty much the 0:43:18.920 --> 0:43:21.200 way every picture looks. It'll apply like a bunch of 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:24.799 filters and tuning to every single picture depending on what 0:43:24.840 --> 0:43:27.840 you like. Some people like brighter, some people like more natural, 0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:30.680 some people like more vibrant. But when it comes to 0:43:30.680 --> 0:43:32.440 the Samsung, I mean, I think you can get some 0:43:32.520 --> 0:43:35.160 really good pictures out of that phone if you want 0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:37.960 the blurry background. I mean a couple things. First off, 0:43:37.960 --> 0:43:40.560 if you're just taking like a regular picture, depending on 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:43.880 how you're taking it, the background should be somewhat blurred 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:47.279 on the Samsung as long as it's not using what's 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:50.520 called focus enhancer. So if you see that pop up, 0:43:50.840 --> 0:43:52.839 that means that it's using sort of the wide angle 0:43:52.920 --> 0:43:56.440 lens to take the picture, and so it's gonna make 0:43:56.480 --> 0:43:59.400 it more flat and not sort of a blurry background. 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:03.440 So that could be nonumber one number two. There's also 0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:05.480 a portrait mode on the phone, and some people I 0:44:05.520 --> 0:44:08.239 know just love to take pictures in portrait mode, and 0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:11.279 if you take it in portrait mode, that's actually applying 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:15.840 sort of an artificial blur to your picture. And so 0:44:16.280 --> 0:44:20.200 that will definitely apply a blur as well, but you 0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:22.040 have to you know, that's a little bit trickier to 0:44:22.080 --> 0:44:24.759 do that. Also, I would take a look in your settings. 0:44:25.160 --> 0:44:28.120 So if you go into your settings on your Samsung, 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:30.799 I would take a look at the different things inside there. 0:44:30.840 --> 0:44:34.160 So they have all kinds of stuff. A scene optimizer. 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:36.360 You can turn that on and off, and you can decide, 0:44:36.360 --> 0:44:38.520 you know, if you want that to. You know, it'll 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:40.920 notice if you're taking a picture of food, and it'll 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:45.000 make food look a certain way. But there's also a 0:44:45.000 --> 0:44:48.040 way that you can go. Let's see, there's a way 0:44:48.080 --> 0:44:50.600 that you can go into your picture after you take 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:53.080 it and add a blur. So I'm looking at a 0:44:53.120 --> 0:44:56.200 picture on the Samsung right now. If you go into 0:44:56.239 --> 0:45:00.319 the Samsung Gallery and you press the little menu, you'll 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:03.680 see where it says add portrait effect, and you tap that, 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:07.400 and it's using sensor data. So it's using depth sensor 0:45:07.520 --> 0:45:12.080 data from your phone to separate the foreground from the background, 0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:15.080 and then it's blurring the background and you can adjust 0:45:15.280 --> 0:45:18.320 the level of blur that you want on the background 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:21.400 and that I'm looking at this in real time and 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:23.080 it looks pretty good. It's not going to get everything 0:45:23.160 --> 0:45:26.279 just perfect, but it's doing a pretty good job. Now, 0:45:26.320 --> 0:45:27.680 one other thing you can do if you want to 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:31.279 get that blurry background is in Google Photos. It has 0:45:31.520 --> 0:45:34.239 an option to give you a blurry background as well, 0:45:34.280 --> 0:45:35.880 and you can do this on pretty much any photo 0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:38.759 editing app. But just go into the edit function on 0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:42.160 Google Photos and then just go into your tools and 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:45.399 you know, you can just tap blur and it will 0:45:45.400 --> 0:45:47.880 give you, you know, a blur if you want to 0:45:47.880 --> 0:45:51.040 do a depth blur or whatever you want. So but 0:45:51.120 --> 0:45:54.040 basically the feature you want is called portrait mode. So 0:45:54.120 --> 0:45:55.759 that's that's kind of the thing that you want to do. 0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:58.239 I think that with a little bit of practice and 0:45:58.239 --> 0:46:00.160 a little bit of you know, using this phone a 0:46:00.160 --> 0:46:01.759 little bit, I think you're gonna take some pretty good 0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:04.919 pictures at rival your friend with the iPhone. But look, 0:46:05.000 --> 0:46:08.239 I mean, iPhone fourteen takes fantastic photos. So believe me, 0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:10.920 it's it's you know, their neck and neck, let's put 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:12.480 it that way. But I think some of it is 0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:15.280 just getting used to the way that the Samsung works. 0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:17.080 So Carla, good question. 0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:19.920 Thanks so much for calling, and enjoy the new phone 0:46:20.239 --> 0:46:22.560 and I think you'll like it all right, phone lines 0:46:22.600 --> 0:46:25.600 are open triple eight rich one oh one eight eight 0:46:25.680 --> 0:46:28.440 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, 0:46:29.000 --> 0:46:31.239 we're gonna talk to my friend Brian Tong about the 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.200 home pod from Apple. We're gonna see how it sounds 0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:36.439 compared to the old one. Later, we're gonna talk about 0:46:36.440 --> 0:46:40.920 an alternative to Facebook. Plus, we're gonna talk about malvertizing. 0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:45.839 What's malvertizing? Find out? Coming up. Welcome back to rich 0:46:45.920 --> 0:46:48.160 on Tech. This is the show where we talk about 0:46:48.160 --> 0:46:52.799 technology and answer your questions. At triple eight rich one 0:46:52.800 --> 0:46:55.040 O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:46:55.200 --> 0:46:59.120 four to one zero one. Laura sent me an email said, Hey, 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:02.120 I saw your recently on San Francisco TV. How do 0:47:02.200 --> 0:47:06.280 I retrieve or receive your recommendation for using travel points? 0:47:07.440 --> 0:47:10.200 You mentioned the information was new to you. Looking forward 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:13.440 to your reply. Oh, this was a website. It's actually 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:17.160 a really good website. I've used this several times. It's 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:20.840 called point dot me. So I don't really play the 0:47:20.840 --> 0:47:22.759 points game in a big way like I if I 0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:26.240 get some points for you know, flights or using my card, whatever, 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:30.000 I'll take them. But I'm not sitting there actively trying 0:47:30.040 --> 0:47:32.400 to rack them up. But if I have them, I'm 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:33.719 gonna use them and I want to make the most 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:35.560 of them. But this is a website did a story 0:47:35.560 --> 0:47:38.480 on and it's it's a new one. It's a point 0:47:38.560 --> 0:47:42.080 dot me. And what's cool about this website is it 0:47:42.120 --> 0:47:45.280 helps you figure out ways of booking with your points 0:47:45.280 --> 0:47:47.560 that you may not think of. So if you have 0:47:47.760 --> 0:47:50.480 like let's say, Chase points or MX points, or you 0:47:50.560 --> 0:47:53.719 have United points or south you know, maybe not Southwest, 0:47:53.719 --> 0:47:57.440 but you know different airlines you know, it'll figure out 0:47:57.760 --> 0:48:00.440 you know the best ways to use those points for flights, 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:05.960 and also taking into consideration transferring those points between different programs. 0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:08.480 So even though you have United Points, you may be 0:48:08.480 --> 0:48:11.240 able to use those on an airline out of Japan 0:48:11.440 --> 0:48:14.720 and it might take less points to redeem for a ticket. 0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:17.680 So it goes through all that stuff for you. It 0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:19.960 takes a little bit to do the searches, but it's 0:48:20.000 --> 0:48:23.200 because it's really like doing a deep dive. So I've 0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:26.879 used this personally to book at least two flights one time, 0:48:27.000 --> 0:48:29.160 was for my mom, and I couldn't believe, like I 0:48:29.200 --> 0:48:31.720 didn't even know she had the use of jet Blue points, 0:48:31.719 --> 0:48:33.640 Like I didn't even have a jet Blue account for her, 0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:38.120 and you know, whatever points she had somehow transferred into 0:48:38.200 --> 0:48:41.160 jet Blue and it was a fantastic deal compared to 0:48:41.200 --> 0:48:43.000 the other flights that she typically took. And so we 0:48:43.040 --> 0:48:46.359 did that, and then in another flight I found sort 0:48:46.400 --> 0:48:49.760 of a premium seat at an economy amount of points, 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:51.640 and so it will figure that out for you too. 0:48:52.040 --> 0:48:55.360 So again, the website is point dot me. It is 0:48:55.400 --> 0:48:59.800 a paid site. I think you can get a starter 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:02.560 ass or I know there's a rich on tech code 0:49:02.600 --> 0:49:04.040 that they had at some point. I don't know if 0:49:04.040 --> 0:49:06.720 that still works, but you can try putting in promo 0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:08.440 code rich on Tech and see if that gets you, 0:49:08.520 --> 0:49:10.640 like something for free. It might get you like a 0:49:10.680 --> 0:49:12.640 free month or something, or a month for a dollar, 0:49:13.000 --> 0:49:14.759 but definitely give it a try if you have a 0:49:14.760 --> 0:49:16.440 bunch of points and you're trying to book a trip. 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:19.760 I would check this out because I was very impressed. 0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:21.640 With this this website, point dot me. 0:49:22.280 --> 0:49:24.920 And by the way I put all the websites, I 0:49:24.960 --> 0:49:27.680 tweet them out later on my Twitter so I bookmark 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:29.640 everything that I mentioned in the show, and then I 0:49:29.680 --> 0:49:31.960 put the link on my Twitter at rich on Tech, 0:49:32.000 --> 0:49:34.239 so you can find that as well. All right, let's 0:49:34.280 --> 0:49:38.480 go to Jimmy. Jimmy is in Los Angeles. Jimmy, you're 0:49:38.520 --> 0:49:42.000 on with rich I am doing fantastic. 0:49:42.000 --> 0:49:43.759 How are you wonderful? 0:49:45.080 --> 0:49:45.839 What can I help? 0:49:46.880 --> 0:49:51.640 I want to see if you can an Apple wash 0:49:51.960 --> 0:49:54.200 into an Android like this? 0:49:54.920 --> 0:49:55.200 Oh? 0:49:55.360 --> 0:50:01.000 Good question. Uh, the short answer is not really what 0:50:01.360 --> 0:50:03.320 are you trying to do? You have an Android phone, 0:50:03.360 --> 0:50:08.240 but you want to use an Apple Watch? Yes, okay, 0:50:08.280 --> 0:50:10.759 So the only way I know that you could do this? 0:50:11.080 --> 0:50:12.120 Do you have an Apple ID? 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:16.600 I'm not going to one, okay. Do you have a. 0:50:16.400 --> 0:50:19.600 Friend or a family member that has an iPhone? 0:50:20.400 --> 0:50:20.600 Yes? 0:50:21.719 --> 0:50:22.120 At home? 0:50:22.400 --> 0:50:22.799 Oh you do? 0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:25.239 Okay, So here's here's the best way to do it. 0:50:25.320 --> 0:50:27.880 That it's not going to be perfect. Like let's just 0:50:28.080 --> 0:50:31.200 let's just be clear. Android does not interface with Apple 0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:33.520 Watch in any way, shape or form. So it's not 0:50:33.640 --> 0:50:37.040 you're not going to get your notifications, uh that you know, 0:50:37.120 --> 0:50:39.760 like let's say, you know, your text messages and stuff 0:50:39.800 --> 0:50:41.120 like that are not going to come through to this 0:50:41.239 --> 0:50:44.279 watch or you're uh some notifications will depending on how 0:50:44.280 --> 0:50:45.719 you set it up. But the only way that you 0:50:45.719 --> 0:50:48.960 can kind of hack this together is to set up 0:50:48.960 --> 0:50:52.800 the Apple Watch using your iPhone and then just using 0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:55.920 the Apple Watch on your wrist and then the Android 0:50:55.960 --> 0:50:58.919 as your phone. But the Apple Watches, once you take 0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:00.759 it out of range of that I phone, it's going 0:51:00.800 --> 0:51:03.200 to be very limited in what it can do. And 0:51:03.239 --> 0:51:06.600 so what does that mean. It means that you can 0:51:06.920 --> 0:51:09.080 if you have a cellular connection on the Apple Watch, 0:51:09.160 --> 0:51:11.120 you'll be able to use things like you know, streaming 0:51:11.200 --> 0:51:13.560 music stuff like that, get some notifications on the go, 0:51:13.960 --> 0:51:15.080 maybe use Apple Maps. 0:51:15.440 --> 0:51:17.480 But if you just want to use the. 0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:20.000 Apple Watch to sort of track your steps or track 0:51:20.040 --> 0:51:23.200 your fitness on the go, it'll work for that. Or 0:51:23.280 --> 0:51:26.120 use it just as a time piece, it'll work for 0:51:26.160 --> 0:51:28.560 that as well, but it's not going to interface with 0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:30.920 the Android in a meaningful way. The other thing you 0:51:30.920 --> 0:51:33.680 can do is, you know, if you you can set 0:51:33.680 --> 0:51:36.520 it up what's called family setup, and so this is 0:51:38.000 --> 0:51:41.040 this is if you have a cellular Apple Watch and 0:51:41.080 --> 0:51:43.960 you want to use it on the go without an 0:51:44.000 --> 0:51:47.280 iPhone at all, you can do what's called the family setup. 0:51:47.400 --> 0:51:51.640 And so this is a little bit more probably a 0:51:51.640 --> 0:51:53.320 little bit better of a setup if you're trying to 0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:56.239 use it with an Android phone, could because it'll work 0:51:56.280 --> 0:51:59.560 on its own without having the need for the iPhone nearby. 0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:02.480 And this is meant for family members setting up an 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:06.440 Apple Watch for their kid, or maybe for an elderly adult, 0:52:06.640 --> 0:52:09.840 or for someone that just doesn't have an iPhone but 0:52:09.920 --> 0:52:12.480 wants an Apple Watch that's in the family and so 0:52:12.600 --> 0:52:14.440 you can set this thing up that way as well. 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:16.640 And that's the way my kid's Apple Watch is set up. 0:52:16.680 --> 0:52:19.040 It's called family set up, and he has cellular and 0:52:19.080 --> 0:52:22.280 he basically has a phone on there. He can text message, 0:52:22.760 --> 0:52:25.640 he can use limited apps. You know, not every app 0:52:25.680 --> 0:52:28.200 works on that sort of setup. But if you just 0:52:28.239 --> 0:52:31.400 want this thing to track your steps and just you know, 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:33.719 do basic stuff on there, listen to music, you'll be 0:52:33.719 --> 0:52:36.000 able to do that. So that's the only way I 0:52:36.080 --> 0:52:39.960 know of doing it. But it's it's definitely not ideal 0:52:40.160 --> 0:52:43.359 because it could be frustrating if you're trying to sync 0:52:43.440 --> 0:52:47.480 up the actual Android notifications to this watch. It's just 0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:49.439 not built that way. And you know, it's the same 0:52:49.440 --> 0:52:52.400 thing on the other side it used to be. I 0:52:52.480 --> 0:52:54.400 kind of remember that there was there used to be 0:52:54.440 --> 0:52:57.080 a way to use an Android watch with an iPhone 0:52:57.200 --> 0:52:59.520 for a certain period of time, and I don't think 0:52:59.520 --> 0:53:02.960 that's the case anymore either. It was very limited, but nowadays, 0:53:03.000 --> 0:53:05.600 I mean, look, the name of the game nowadays is silos. 0:53:06.160 --> 0:53:10.440 Every tech company wants to silo you into their stuff, 0:53:10.760 --> 0:53:14.200 and Apple is pretty much the best at this. They 0:53:14.200 --> 0:53:15.920 have a couple of tricks up their sleeve when it 0:53:15.920 --> 0:53:19.239 comes to I Message, when it comes to FaceTime, when 0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:21.479 it comes to the Apple Watch. They give you these 0:53:21.520 --> 0:53:25.359 things that work really well together, but they don't work 0:53:25.440 --> 0:53:29.080 with anything else dimensioned I message. That's probably the biggest 0:53:29.120 --> 0:53:33.359 one that gets people walked into the Apple ecosystem. And 0:53:33.400 --> 0:53:35.359 once they're on that blue bubble, they just don't want 0:53:35.360 --> 0:53:38.359 to ever get out of that blue bubble world. And 0:53:38.400 --> 0:53:40.520 when someone texts them with a green bubble, they get 0:53:40.560 --> 0:53:42.839 all annoyed. And Apple did that on purpose too. They 0:53:42.840 --> 0:53:45.200 made the bubbles different colors. Why they do that so 0:53:45.239 --> 0:53:48.120 that you knew, oh, this person's coming from an Android phone, 0:53:48.160 --> 0:53:50.600 this person's coming from an iPhone. I am not a 0:53:50.640 --> 0:53:53.960 fan of that. I think that that's you know, it's 0:53:54.000 --> 0:53:56.840 just sad that people are judging each other based on 0:53:57.040 --> 0:54:00.400 the color of bubble coming through on their messaging stone purse. 0:54:00.880 --> 0:54:02.919 And believe me, if you don't think it's a thing, 0:54:03.080 --> 0:54:03.440 it is. 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:06.440 People get on these group texts and you know, one 0:54:06.480 --> 0:54:08.799 person's on Android and they get all bent out of 0:54:08.800 --> 0:54:11.280 shape in the group text saying, Ah, who's the person 0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:13.880 on Android here? That's that's messing up this group text. 0:54:13.920 --> 0:54:16.239 So it's a thing, and I think it puts a 0:54:16.280 --> 0:54:19.840 little undue pressure on folks, you know, maybe even teenagers 0:54:19.840 --> 0:54:21.719 that are getting their first phone. But that was the 0:54:21.719 --> 0:54:24.680 whole point, I guess, brilliant marketing by Apple. All right, 0:54:24.960 --> 0:54:27.040 coming up next, we're gonna talk about the home Pod. 0:54:27.520 --> 0:54:30.560 This is a speaker made for Apple products. I've got 0:54:30.600 --> 0:54:33.120 my friend Brian Tongue coming on the show to talk 0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:36.960 about how the new HomePod sounds compared to the old 0:54:37.040 --> 0:54:37.600 home Pod. 0:54:37.760 --> 0:54:39.600 We'll we'll talk about that, plus we'll. 0:54:39.440 --> 0:54:42.160 Take more of your questions at triple eight Rich one 0:54:42.239 --> 0:54:45.719 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:54:45.840 --> 0:54:48.920 four to one zero one. My name is Rich Dmiro. 0:54:49.040 --> 0:54:51.480 We've got so much more in the show to talk about. 0:54:52.080 --> 0:54:54.399 You can find me on social media. I am at 0:54:54.760 --> 0:54:58.080 rich on Tech. We'll have more of the show right 0:54:58.120 --> 0:55:01.840 after this. Welcome back to to Rich on Tech. My 0:55:01.960 --> 0:55:02.920 name is Rich Demiro. 0:55:03.080 --> 0:55:04.040 Joining me now. 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:10.880 Is Brian Tongue, fellow tech friend and YouTuber. 0:55:10.960 --> 0:55:12.160 Brian. Welcome to the show. 0:55:12.880 --> 0:55:13.520 What's up? Rich? 0:55:13.600 --> 0:55:14.239 Thanks for having me. 0:55:14.280 --> 0:55:15.240 Man, Hey, you're. 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:18.160 The first guest to be on twice woo. 0:55:18.760 --> 0:55:21.839 I feel very honored and I'll do it as as 0:55:21.880 --> 0:55:24.520 long as you ask me back and hopefully your listeners like, yeah, 0:55:24.680 --> 0:55:27.320 bring them back please, Otherwise I may not ever talk. 0:55:27.160 --> 0:55:30.600 To you again, right I think, well that will never happen. 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:34.359 But welcome to the show. Brian is a YouTuber. He 0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:37.440 was up in San Francisco with me at the Samsung event. 0:55:37.520 --> 0:55:38.920 But we're not going to talk about that. We're going 0:55:39.000 --> 0:55:42.280 to talk about the home Pod because you've been testing 0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:45.160 these out in your home, brand new from Apple. 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:47.160 So just to give you the rundown on the home Pod. 0:55:47.200 --> 0:55:49.960 We talked about it, I think last week, but you know, 0:55:50.000 --> 0:55:53.000 it's a two hundred and ninety nine dollars speaker that 0:55:53.280 --> 0:55:56.200 is a smart home speaker. It's got some new features, 0:55:56.239 --> 0:55:59.360 including a removable cable, which I think is actually I 0:55:59.360 --> 0:56:00.880 know it sounds like I'm making fun of it, but 0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:03.040 that's actually a good thing, so you can pull out 0:56:03.040 --> 0:56:06.080 the power cord and pop it back in. It's got 0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:10.919 spatial audio, it sounds good, it looks good, and it's 0:56:10.960 --> 0:56:13.080 a great companion for. 0:56:13.200 --> 0:56:14.600 The Apple ecosystem. 0:56:14.719 --> 0:56:17.680 Right, So, Brian, you tested this thing out. We texted 0:56:17.719 --> 0:56:19.600 each other. We had the same sort of reaction to this. 0:56:19.719 --> 0:56:23.279 We both think that the old home pod sounds better 0:56:23.320 --> 0:56:23.919 than the new pod. 0:56:23.920 --> 0:56:24.960 How could that be possible? 0:56:25.880 --> 0:56:27.720 You know, it could be possible in a few ways. 0:56:27.920 --> 0:56:31.520 Right from a technical standpoint, this new home Pod has 0:56:31.600 --> 0:56:35.080 two less tweeters than the original, but at the same time, 0:56:35.200 --> 0:56:40.360 because Apple is redesigned it, it leverages what's called computational audio, 0:56:40.360 --> 0:56:43.839 which basically means it can analyze the room and the 0:56:43.840 --> 0:56:47.319 best sound to deliver to you. It does not. For 0:56:47.360 --> 0:56:48.320 the record, it does. 0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:49.160 Not sound bad. 0:56:49.320 --> 0:56:53.200 It sounds really good. But when you and I, you know, 0:56:53.280 --> 0:56:54.680 you texted me right out of the gates and I 0:56:54.680 --> 0:56:56.799 had already gone through extensive I mean, I match it 0:56:56.840 --> 0:56:59.200 up against I think four different speaker sets, and it 0:56:59.360 --> 0:57:02.719 just didn't feels as full. When I say that, I 0:57:02.800 --> 0:57:05.600 just mean there, if you listen to music, you'll hear, 0:57:05.840 --> 0:57:07.680 you know, voices, but you also hear these things called 0:57:07.760 --> 0:57:09.560 mids which kind of round out the sound. You'll hear 0:57:09.640 --> 0:57:11.839 loads which give you some of that basin ump, and 0:57:12.080 --> 0:57:16.640 the original HomePod just sounds better in that regard. But 0:57:17.000 --> 0:57:19.000 this is more than just the speaker. I think a 0:57:19.000 --> 0:57:21.720 lot of people have purchased this with the intention of 0:57:21.880 --> 0:57:25.360 I want a good sounding home smart speaker, so it 0:57:25.400 --> 0:57:28.520 goes beyond that, but from just the very basic level 0:57:28.520 --> 0:57:29.960 of how does the speaker sound, because I think that's 0:57:29.960 --> 0:57:32.920 what everyone wants to know. It sounds great, but the 0:57:32.960 --> 0:57:34.320 original HomePod just sounds better. 0:57:34.840 --> 0:57:35.000 Now. 0:57:35.040 --> 0:57:37.520 In your YouTube video, which was very in depth, you 0:57:37.560 --> 0:57:40.840 even enlisted the help of your fiance. She did like 0:57:40.840 --> 0:57:44.919 a sort of a blind, blindfolded listening test. And she's 0:57:45.040 --> 0:57:48.160 not necessarily a techie, she you know, she just was 0:57:48.240 --> 0:57:50.400 enlisted to help and you said, hey, which one of 0:57:50.440 --> 0:57:53.040 these sounds better? And she was kind of surprised because 0:57:53.080 --> 0:57:57.600 you compared it against the original HomePod, then the Amazon 0:57:57.640 --> 0:58:01.720 Echo speaker, and then the Google Nest speaker, which is 0:58:01.760 --> 0:58:05.280 like the bigger one. And in all cases, did she 0:58:05.360 --> 0:58:07.680 not think that the other speaker sounded better. 0:58:09.080 --> 0:58:11.720 Than the than than the new HomePod? 0:58:11.920 --> 0:58:12.240 Yeah? 0:58:13.280 --> 0:58:17.400 Uh? The in Yeah, actually the nets, the Google Nest 0:58:17.720 --> 0:58:21.120 speaker did not is honestly the to sound the worst out. 0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:21.480 Of all of them. 0:58:21.720 --> 0:58:25.280 It was in a completely like lower tier. Okay, but surprisingly, 0:58:25.360 --> 0:58:28.760 the Amazon Echo sounded very good. And you know, when 0:58:28.760 --> 0:58:31.360 you listen to any speaker, it comes down to how 0:58:31.400 --> 0:58:33.720 you hear things. We all actually hear things differently, we 0:58:33.760 --> 0:58:35.400 all have different preferences to. 0:58:35.520 --> 0:58:36.560 The type of sound we like. 0:58:36.960 --> 0:58:40.520 But the Amazon Echo, in both my opinion and her 0:58:40.560 --> 0:58:44.360 opinion in these tests, actually sounded slightly better than the 0:58:44.840 --> 0:58:45.520 new home. 0:58:45.360 --> 0:58:48.000 Pod as well, which is just so wild. I mean, 0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:50.240 this thing is, you know, no matter which one you're 0:58:50.280 --> 0:58:53.320 looking at. I mean, the Echo fourth generation is a 0:58:53.400 --> 0:58:56.800 hunter Bucks. This speaker is is three hundred, which is 0:58:56.840 --> 0:58:59.280 fifty dollars less than the original home Pod that was 0:58:59.320 --> 0:59:01.280 discontinued back a couple of years ago. 0:59:01.640 --> 0:59:02.480 But here's the thing. 0:59:02.840 --> 0:59:04.960 I don't really think any of this matters to the 0:59:05.160 --> 0:59:09.560 Apple ecosystem user that wants a good speaker for their 0:59:09.560 --> 0:59:12.800 home that looks really nice, plays really nice with all 0:59:12.800 --> 0:59:15.240 of their Apple stuff, and it's going to sound good. 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:18.400 And do you think that Apple can improve the audio 0:59:18.560 --> 0:59:20.240 on this speaker with software updates? 0:59:20.280 --> 0:59:21.080 Is that even a thing? 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:25.280 I mean, because it is like you're alluding to computational audio. 0:59:25.320 --> 0:59:27.800 They can tweak it. I think that it will. A 0:59:27.800 --> 0:59:29.600 lot of people say, hey, you need to listen to 0:59:29.600 --> 0:59:32.240 a speaker for a long period of time to break 0:59:32.280 --> 0:59:34.520 it in to kind of help the base come in. 0:59:34.560 --> 0:59:36.320 And so, you know what, I'm going to give them 0:59:36.320 --> 0:59:37.840 the benefit of doubt, and I'm going to do another 0:59:37.880 --> 0:59:40.479 speaker test. Let's give them like three or four months 0:59:40.480 --> 0:59:43.560 and revisit it and see if anything's changed, match them 0:59:43.640 --> 0:59:46.400 up with maybe some other speakers, like the Sono's one 0:59:46.440 --> 0:59:48.440 setup that is kind of in that tier when we 0:59:48.480 --> 0:59:51.440 talk about price point, the Echo Studio, which is kind 0:59:51.440 --> 0:59:54.760 of their larger speakers in that price point, but from 0:59:54.800 --> 0:59:57.400 just a basic level, when you turn it on and 0:59:57.400 --> 1:00:00.000 when you hear music, if you've owned the original home 1:00:00.320 --> 1:00:03.240 it sounds different. But people there's a lot of people 1:00:03.240 --> 1:00:04.920 that do not own a HomePod. It never owned the 1:00:04.920 --> 1:00:07.400 original HomePod. There's a lot of people that own home pod. 1:00:07.440 --> 1:00:10.320 Minis that really that was their introduction to get involved 1:00:10.320 --> 1:00:13.800 with Apple's smart speakers and home smart speakers. So I 1:00:13.800 --> 1:00:16.240 think there's a lot of Mini owners that are like, 1:00:16.320 --> 1:00:18.240 I do want better sound now, and this HomePod is 1:00:18.240 --> 1:00:19.120 gonna be perfect for them. 1:00:19.560 --> 1:00:20.280 And here's the thing. 1:00:20.360 --> 1:00:24.240 Let's it sounds good, It's just it's different. Like okay, 1:00:24.240 --> 1:00:25.720 so the way I can describe it, and I'm not 1:00:25.760 --> 1:00:27.480 an audio file, but when I turned it on and 1:00:27.480 --> 1:00:29.360 played the first song, which I think was like Harry 1:00:29.360 --> 1:00:32.840 Styles as it was, I was a little bit surprised 1:00:32.960 --> 1:00:37.680 at the room filling nature was just not as apparent 1:00:37.800 --> 1:00:39.480 as it was on the first home Pod. Like the 1:00:39.480 --> 1:00:41.440 first HomePod, when I turned it on, I was like, wow, 1:00:41.480 --> 1:00:44.160 this is incredible, Like it just felt like the whole 1:00:44.200 --> 1:00:46.920 room was filled with sound. With this new HomePod. I 1:00:46.920 --> 1:00:49.520 felt like I can pinpoint exactly where the HomePod was 1:00:49.560 --> 1:00:51.880 in the room and I can see where the audio 1:00:52.000 --> 1:00:54.120 was coming from. That's the best way I can describe it. 1:00:55.480 --> 1:00:57.840 And so it's not doesn't sound bad. It almost sounded 1:00:58.360 --> 1:01:01.000 like a less full than the original HomePod. 1:01:01.080 --> 1:01:01.640 Is that fair? 1:01:02.480 --> 1:01:02.720 Yeah? 1:01:02.840 --> 1:01:05.360 You know if for people that are really into I 1:01:05.400 --> 1:01:08.560 would say the different genres of music perform differently depending 1:01:08.600 --> 1:01:10.560 on how a speaker sounds, and the new HomePod does 1:01:10.600 --> 1:01:13.440 really emphasize the highs, which are like the voices, So 1:01:13.440 --> 1:01:17.480 the voices are really clear, they feel upfront. But the 1:01:17.520 --> 1:01:20.200 word that I used to describe how it's missing the 1:01:20.360 --> 1:01:21.800 aspect of when you're saying that it kind of feels 1:01:21.840 --> 1:01:24.360 like it's missing something is I use the word presence 1:01:24.360 --> 1:01:26.800 because when you're listening to the original HomePods, you feel 1:01:26.840 --> 1:01:29.200 like the music is like surrounding you. You feel like 1:01:29.240 --> 1:01:30.720 you're right in the middle of the heart of it. 1:01:31.000 --> 1:01:33.880 And with the new HomePods, it doesn't establish that at all, 1:01:33.920 --> 1:01:37.120 and so you only know what you know. But you 1:01:37.160 --> 1:01:39.880 and I know, like, man, it just doesn't sound as good. 1:01:39.880 --> 1:01:43.320 But hopefully with some sort of tuning and over time 1:01:43.400 --> 1:01:45.959 maybe the speaker's breaking a little bit, maybe we start 1:01:46.040 --> 1:01:48.680 hearing a little some of those deeper tones. It helps 1:01:48.720 --> 1:01:50.840 the audio quality. But if it's hard for I could 1:01:50.880 --> 1:01:53.000 never you know, looking at someone straight in the eye, 1:01:53.040 --> 1:01:54.760 I would never tell them that the new HomePod sounds 1:01:54.760 --> 1:01:55.160 as good as. 1:01:55.080 --> 1:01:55.720 The original one. 1:01:56.360 --> 1:01:59.919 That's that's really that's hurtful. Them are fighting words right there. 1:02:00.080 --> 1:02:04.720 We're talking to Briantongue YouTube dot com slash at Briantongue 1:02:04.760 --> 1:02:06.959 if you want to find his U tech videos there. 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:10.320 Brian typically covers Apple in a big way, but also 1:02:10.520 --> 1:02:13.680 other tech as well, so definitely check out his videos. 1:02:13.920 --> 1:02:16.520 A couple other features real quick, I've got a couple 1:02:16.520 --> 1:02:19.760 of minutes here, uh, Enhanced audio return channel. 1:02:19.800 --> 1:02:21.680 I thought this was kind of cool. So if you 1:02:21.680 --> 1:02:22.000 have an. 1:02:21.920 --> 1:02:25.320 Apple TV four K, you can pair up the home 1:02:25.360 --> 1:02:28.320 pod with this and it's got this e ARC support, 1:02:28.360 --> 1:02:31.240 which means anything that's connected to that TV will actually 1:02:31.320 --> 1:02:32.800 run through the home pod. I thought that was kind 1:02:32.800 --> 1:02:35.320 of a cool feature. I don't know if you played with. 1:02:35.320 --> 1:02:39.760 That, you know what. I think that's imost forget that 1:02:39.800 --> 1:02:43.920 the Apple user, the general apper things to work and 1:02:43.960 --> 1:02:46.960 they don't even like they don't even care about ARC. 1:02:47.040 --> 1:02:49.040 But the fact that if you have an Apple TV 1:02:49.440 --> 1:02:51.400 and everything that kind of flows through that TV is 1:02:51.440 --> 1:02:53.120 played on your Apple speatures and you're and you might 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:54.840 be going like, oh wow, I didn't have to plug 1:02:54.840 --> 1:02:56.920 anything and it's just work. That's what Apple wants you 1:02:57.000 --> 1:03:00.200 to feel, right, And so that that's true to how 1:03:00.480 --> 1:03:02.960 they build their products for the general consumers. 1:03:03.160 --> 1:03:05.960 So I think feature the way I understand it, If 1:03:06.000 --> 1:03:08.600 I have my cable box plugged into the TV through 1:03:08.720 --> 1:03:13.320 HDMI and that cable box supports ARC, basically that audio 1:03:13.400 --> 1:03:15.560 will flow through the Apple TV and through the speakers 1:03:15.600 --> 1:03:16.439 as well. 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:18.640 That's correct Okay, that's pretty cool. 1:03:19.360 --> 1:03:21.320 Yeah, And like I think there are people that won't 1:03:21.360 --> 1:03:23.400 even realize that's what's happening, but they'll be like, wow, 1:03:23.440 --> 1:03:24.880 this works everything right. 1:03:24.840 --> 1:03:27.400 Right, Okay, And finally we only have a minute here. 1:03:27.400 --> 1:03:30.600 But Matter is also built into this speaker, and you 1:03:30.680 --> 1:03:33.120 think that's going to be a pretty pretty good thing 1:03:33.160 --> 1:03:35.360 for the smart home ecosystem, huh. 1:03:35.640 --> 1:03:37.919 I think this is the biggest thing about Apple's Home 1:03:38.520 --> 1:03:41.560 home platform is that they really have been very lacking 1:03:41.760 --> 1:03:44.760 with smart devices that are compatible. When we're talking about 1:03:45.080 --> 1:03:50.800 doorbell cameras, thermostats, lights, wall plugs. Matter is going to 1:03:50.880 --> 1:03:53.160 allow all a lot of these devices that have never 1:03:53.200 --> 1:03:56.160 been compatible with Apple's Smart Home to finally be compatible 1:03:56.200 --> 1:03:58.919 without you even listening to fingers. So I think as 1:03:58.960 --> 1:04:01.640 time goes on, this the actual home pod and this 1:04:01.800 --> 1:04:04.720 Matter smart home platform is going to really elevate it 1:04:04.760 --> 1:04:07.120 and make it just so much easier use. And this 1:04:07.160 --> 1:04:10.000 is Apple really getting serious about getting the smart home finally. 1:04:10.320 --> 1:04:10.720 Awesome. 1:04:10.760 --> 1:04:13.120 Brian tong thanks so much for joining me at Twitter 1:04:13.280 --> 1:04:16.560 dot com slash Briantongue. We used to be pals at 1:04:16.600 --> 1:04:18.680 c nets, so we've got a long history. Are you 1:04:18.720 --> 1:04:20.640 still in San Francisco, Like, are you on the cable 1:04:20.640 --> 1:04:22.160 car right now? That's what it sounds like. 1:04:22.920 --> 1:04:24.520 I'm not on the cable car, but I am in 1:04:24.560 --> 1:04:26.760 a car with my nephew. We are we are driving 1:04:26.800 --> 1:04:27.880 to get lunch right now? 1:04:28.560 --> 1:04:30.840 What kind of lunch are we talking? You're making me hungry? 1:04:31.520 --> 1:04:33.760 A little bit of country in a little breakfast for lunch. 1:04:33.760 --> 1:04:35.160 You know, I'm a breakfast. 1:04:34.800 --> 1:04:37.000 Guy, Rich, Oh, I love it. I love it. 1:04:37.080 --> 1:04:39.440 So am all right, Brian, thanks so much for joining me, 1:04:39.600 --> 1:04:42.840 and definitely check out Brian's videos and safe travels back 1:04:42.880 --> 1:04:47.000 here to Los Angeles. You are listening to Rich on Tech. 1:04:47.120 --> 1:04:49.520 My name is Rich Dmiro. The phone lines are open 1:04:49.640 --> 1:04:52.640 at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 1:04:52.720 --> 1:04:55.320 seven four to two four one zero one. You got 1:04:55.320 --> 1:04:58.000 a tech question, give me a call. Welcome back to 1:04:58.440 --> 1:05:01.160 Rich on Tech. My name is Rich Tomuro. You're listening 1:05:01.200 --> 1:05:03.640 to the show where we talk about technology and answer 1:05:03.680 --> 1:05:06.680 your calls at triple A Rich one O one eight 1:05:06.840 --> 1:05:11.080 eight rich one oh one. Let's go to Jay in 1:05:11.600 --> 1:05:14.240 Woodland Hills, California. Jay, you're on with Wretch. 1:05:14.960 --> 1:05:15.600 Thank you, Rich. 1:05:16.120 --> 1:05:17.720 How's going good? 1:05:17.840 --> 1:05:24.440 Thank you? I uh, this is a question regarding generated 1:05:24.600 --> 1:05:26.320 passwords on bit warten. 1:05:26.520 --> 1:05:26.800 Okay. 1:05:27.400 --> 1:05:31.280 So I went to my bank and I changed the password. 1:05:33.080 --> 1:05:35.520 And normally when you change the password, you know, you 1:05:35.600 --> 1:05:39.640 get that flag on the top of the screen. 1:05:39.800 --> 1:05:43.280 Sure updated youah updated. That didn't happen. 1:05:43.680 --> 1:05:48.000 And that didn't happen. So I'm out of my bank. 1:05:48.080 --> 1:05:54.360 So I googled how do retriees generated passwords? And I 1:05:54.400 --> 1:05:57.080 got this. It says, yes, you can view the history 1:05:57.120 --> 1:06:02.880 of the password generator from client applications generate a. 1:06:02.840 --> 1:06:04.800 Scream and it's not there. 1:06:06.040 --> 1:06:10.880 So how do I access the client applications generator screen? 1:06:12.040 --> 1:06:12.400 Okay? 1:06:12.440 --> 1:06:14.880 So if you go now, do you have bitwarden installed 1:06:14.920 --> 1:06:16.080 as a Chrome extension? 1:06:16.600 --> 1:06:16.800 Yes? 1:06:16.920 --> 1:06:17.240 Okay. 1:06:17.800 --> 1:06:20.800 So, and just to give you know, give a little 1:06:20.840 --> 1:06:24.760 perspective on this, Bitwarden is a very popular, free and 1:06:24.920 --> 1:06:29.000 open source password management system. And I recommend if you're 1:06:29.040 --> 1:06:32.520 listening to this, that you use a password generating app. 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:34.560 And I know that it sounds like rich. 1:06:34.600 --> 1:06:37.120 I don't really want to get into that because, you know, 1:06:37.200 --> 1:06:39.840 like Jay is saying, there can be some problems with 1:06:39.920 --> 1:06:42.800 this situation. You know, like these passwords that they generate 1:06:42.880 --> 1:06:46.240 are twelve fourteen characters, they're long. I can't remember them. 1:06:47.120 --> 1:06:51.680 But it's better believe me. So yes. What happens is 1:06:52.040 --> 1:06:55.120 most of the time when you are generating a password, 1:06:55.160 --> 1:06:58.720 these systems will once you put that password in, it'll say, hey, 1:06:58.800 --> 1:07:00.120 do you want us to save it? Like the Well, 1:07:00.200 --> 1:07:03.240 notice that you've tried a new password or you've generated 1:07:03.240 --> 1:07:05.600 a new password, and the system will pop up a 1:07:05.640 --> 1:07:08.880 little notification that will say do you want to either 1:07:08.960 --> 1:07:12.360 right over the old password or save the new password 1:07:12.480 --> 1:07:15.680 or whatever. And sometimes that doesn't happen, just depending on 1:07:15.680 --> 1:07:17.720 the architecture of the website that you're on, it just 1:07:17.760 --> 1:07:21.760 may block that notification or whatever. Well, these password generators 1:07:21.760 --> 1:07:24.920 have gotten pretty good over the years and they've realized 1:07:24.920 --> 1:07:26.960 that when you generate a password, it should probably save 1:07:27.040 --> 1:07:28.080 that password. 1:07:27.640 --> 1:07:28.200 In some way. 1:07:28.720 --> 1:07:33.680 So on the extension, click the extension and there's a 1:07:33.680 --> 1:07:37.680 little section called generator and that can be used to 1:07:37.680 --> 1:07:38.600 generate a password. 1:07:38.600 --> 1:07:41.080 But there should also be an area that. 1:07:41.000 --> 1:07:46.360 Says password history, and if you click that password history, 1:07:46.600 --> 1:07:49.160 that should give you a list of all the different 1:07:49.200 --> 1:07:52.520 passwords that have been generated recently. Now this may not 1:07:52.600 --> 1:07:54.560 be perfect. They may not all be there. In fact, 1:07:54.600 --> 1:07:56.840 the one that was generated with your bank may not 1:07:56.920 --> 1:07:59.520 be there. But that's the first place to look. And 1:07:59.520 --> 1:08:03.560 I'm looking at my password management system and it's given 1:08:03.600 --> 1:08:06.640 me all the different passwords that I've generated all the 1:08:06.720 --> 1:08:11.960 way back to December nineteenth, So that's my last twenty 1:08:12.040 --> 1:08:14.760 generated passwords. If it's before that, it may not be 1:08:14.880 --> 1:08:17.920 on there, but Jay, that's the place to look. If 1:08:17.920 --> 1:08:22.760 you can't find it in that Bitwarden password generator history, 1:08:22.800 --> 1:08:26.080 then you're going to have to do a password reset 1:08:26.400 --> 1:08:31.080 on your you know, your bank password, and then do 1:08:31.160 --> 1:08:33.680 a new password. And I know that's not ideal, but 1:08:33.800 --> 1:08:36.760 sometimes these things do get lost in the system and 1:08:36.760 --> 1:08:38.280 the shuffle whatever you want to call it. 1:08:38.760 --> 1:08:39.240 And for that. 1:08:39.280 --> 1:08:43.519 Reason, and you know, I passwords are very tricky because 1:08:43.520 --> 1:08:45.519 you don't you want to be very careful about these 1:08:45.560 --> 1:08:46.600 generated passwords. 1:08:47.000 --> 1:08:48.040 But what I'll do is. 1:08:48.040 --> 1:08:52.920 Sometimes even I'm a little hesitant to give out this advice, 1:08:52.960 --> 1:08:55.519 but sometimes if I really want to make sure that 1:08:55.560 --> 1:08:58.200 the password I just generated is going to be saved, 1:08:58.280 --> 1:09:00.680 I will copy and paste it into sort of my 1:09:00.800 --> 1:09:03.840 notes app, and then I'll make sure it's saved in 1:09:03.920 --> 1:09:07.479 my password management software and then I will delete it 1:09:07.479 --> 1:09:09.120 out of my notes app. Now that can cause some 1:09:09.200 --> 1:09:12.040 issues because your notes app or wherever you paste this thing. 1:09:12.640 --> 1:09:15.040 Just being on the clipboard of your computer could not 1:09:15.160 --> 1:09:18.320 be as secure as I'd like, but it's, you know, 1:09:18.360 --> 1:09:20.680 in some ways easier just to have that peace of 1:09:20.720 --> 1:09:23.080 mind that you have that password somewhere, especially if it's 1:09:23.080 --> 1:09:25.559 for a big account like a Google or a Twitter 1:09:25.680 --> 1:09:28.479 or an Instagram or a Facebook like you don't want 1:09:28.520 --> 1:09:30.840 to lose that password because resetting can sometimes be a 1:09:30.920 --> 1:09:34.799 pain with those websites. So that's the place to look, Jay. 1:09:35.439 --> 1:09:38.640 I'm glad that you're using a password manager, and Bitwarden 1:09:38.760 --> 1:09:42.559 is a good one because it's free, it works across 1:09:42.640 --> 1:09:48.479 multiple devices, it's relatively easy to use. It's open source, 1:09:48.520 --> 1:09:50.479 which means a lot of people have looked into the 1:09:50.520 --> 1:09:54.160 security of that password generating software, and a lot of 1:09:54.160 --> 1:09:59.160 people like it. Other password management software includes dash Lane, 1:09:59.600 --> 1:10:03.160 which is good, but it is a little pricey. I 1:10:03.160 --> 1:10:05.120 think they've introduced some new plans that are a little 1:10:05.120 --> 1:10:09.280 bit easier to manage because they're monthly. Let's see, one 1:10:09.360 --> 1:10:13.080 password is also a very popular one. So one password 1:10:13.240 --> 1:10:16.040 used to be primarily for just Apple products. Now they've 1:10:16.080 --> 1:10:19.760 sort of gone across all different platforms, so one Password 1:10:19.880 --> 1:10:22.439 is a really good one as well. And if you're 1:10:22.520 --> 1:10:26.800 just on if you're just using Apple products, just use 1:10:27.000 --> 1:10:28.960 iCloud keychain. I mean, you know, if you've ever used 1:10:28.960 --> 1:10:30.600 the iPhone, it popped up where it says, hey, do 1:10:30.600 --> 1:10:32.840 you want us to generate a password or save a password? 1:10:33.120 --> 1:10:35.880 That's iCloud keychain, and you could just use that. If 1:10:35.920 --> 1:10:39.599 you're only using Apple products, that's fine. I'm totally fine 1:10:39.600 --> 1:10:42.759 with that. But if you're using a combination of Apple 1:10:42.920 --> 1:10:47.400 and Android, or Apple and Chrome, or iOS and Chrome, 1:10:47.960 --> 1:10:51.320 then I would recommend one of these cross platform password 1:10:51.360 --> 1:10:53.360 managers like I just mentioned the other. 1:10:53.240 --> 1:10:54.040 One you can use. 1:10:54.439 --> 1:10:58.519 Google also has their own, so they have Google Password 1:10:58.560 --> 1:11:01.800 Manager and that realy got an update, and so that 1:11:01.880 --> 1:11:03.600 used to be really good. I would recommend it if 1:11:03.640 --> 1:11:06.600 you only used Chrome, but now they actually made it 1:11:06.640 --> 1:11:10.840 so that it integrates nicely into iOS. And so if 1:11:10.840 --> 1:11:13.760 you use a lot of Google products, you can use 1:11:14.920 --> 1:11:18.960 Google's password manager. And where you want to look on 1:11:19.040 --> 1:11:21.840 this is on your iPhone. If you go into your 1:11:21.880 --> 1:11:27.840 settings and you go to type in autofill and then passwords, 1:11:28.080 --> 1:11:30.680 and then you can look at your password options and 1:11:30.760 --> 1:11:33.600 you can see auto fill passwords. You can turn that 1:11:33.680 --> 1:11:35.599 on or off, and it gives you the options. It says, 1:11:35.600 --> 1:11:37.920 where do you want to allow filling from? And it'll 1:11:37.920 --> 1:11:39.559 give you all the different options. And one of them, 1:11:39.600 --> 1:11:41.960 if you have Chrome installed on your phone, is from 1:11:42.040 --> 1:11:45.640 Chrome and it's it's kind of a sleeper kind of 1:11:45.760 --> 1:11:48.880 feature because they introduced it, i think late last year 1:11:49.479 --> 1:11:52.760 and they didn't really publicize it too much. But if 1:11:52.800 --> 1:11:55.679 you want a free option that works and you're you're 1:11:55.800 --> 1:11:59.120 using let's just give you a scenario. You're primarily a 1:11:59.200 --> 1:12:02.120 Chrome user on your desktop computer and then you use 1:12:02.200 --> 1:12:06.200 Chrome on your iPhone. That's a great system where you 1:12:06.240 --> 1:12:09.320 can just use Chrome's password manager and it will work 1:12:09.400 --> 1:12:12.479 on your computer, it will work on your iPhone. It 1:12:12.479 --> 1:12:16.960 will automatically fill things on your iPhone, and it's totally free. Now, 1:12:16.960 --> 1:12:19.000 you may not like Google that much to trust it 1:12:19.040 --> 1:12:21.960 with that stuff, but you know it's gonna work, and 1:12:22.200 --> 1:12:24.800 it's you know, like I said, it's cross platform. It's 1:12:24.840 --> 1:12:27.360 totally free. And some of these other ones, like the 1:12:27.400 --> 1:12:29.439 one Passwords of the World and the dash lanes, you know, 1:12:29.520 --> 1:12:32.439 they can cost fifty sixty bucks a year, So if 1:12:32.479 --> 1:12:34.280 you're not prepared to pay that, and once you get 1:12:34.320 --> 1:12:36.880 into these systems, you know it's tough to get out. 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:37.599 Yes, you can. 1:12:37.479 --> 1:12:39.920 Export all your passwords, but you know it takes a 1:12:39.920 --> 1:12:44.000 little bit to switch. And so my recommendation is to 1:12:44.080 --> 1:12:47.840 really think about the products that you use, and these 1:12:47.880 --> 1:12:50.640 password managers are sort of a long term thing that 1:12:50.680 --> 1:12:51.240 you want. 1:12:51.040 --> 1:12:53.519 To Once you get into it, it's tough to get out. 1:12:53.680 --> 1:12:57.799 So Jay, anyway, thanks for bringing up the password manager, 1:12:57.840 --> 1:13:00.679 because I'm always ready to talk about that because password 1:13:00.680 --> 1:13:05.200 manager two factor authentication, two things that every iPhone user, 1:13:05.400 --> 1:13:09.200 Android user, and computer user should absolutely be thinking about 1:13:09.439 --> 1:13:12.280 how to keep their data private and their their accounts safe. 1:13:12.880 --> 1:13:15.880 All Right, we've got much more of the show, so 1:13:16.000 --> 1:13:17.599 much more to talk about. We're going to talk about 1:13:17.800 --> 1:13:20.200 malvertizing in the next hour. I'm going to tell you 1:13:20.200 --> 1:13:23.519 how to stay safe from that. Open ai is going 1:13:23.600 --> 1:13:27.200 to launch a paid version of their popular chat GPT. 1:13:27.439 --> 1:13:29.080 Do you need to pay twenty bucks a month for 1:13:29.160 --> 1:13:29.759 chat GPT? 1:13:29.960 --> 1:13:33.160 I don't know. We'll talk about that. Plus, I've got. 1:13:33.000 --> 1:13:35.559 A great interview coming up with the founders of an 1:13:35.560 --> 1:13:39.600 app that is billing itself as an alternative to Facebook. 1:13:39.960 --> 1:13:42.920 If you want to protect your privacy, you are listening 1:13:42.920 --> 1:13:45.200 to Rich on Tech. Phone lines are open at triple 1:13:45.240 --> 1:13:48.080 eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four 1:13:48.120 --> 1:13:51.400 to two, four to one zero one. You are listening 1:13:51.400 --> 1:13:54.040 to Rich on Tech. 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All right, let's talk about malvertizing. 1:14:34.840 --> 1:14:38.000 This is a pretty serious thing. I haven't seen it 1:14:38.000 --> 1:14:40.960 in a while, but it definitely happens. And this is 1:14:41.240 --> 1:14:44.240 when you search something on Google and one of the 1:14:44.320 --> 1:14:47.840 ads at the top of the screen looks like it's 1:14:48.040 --> 1:14:50.439 what you're trying to find. And mostly this happens with 1:14:50.520 --> 1:14:56.240 software that you're trying to download, but it delivers malware 1:14:56.320 --> 1:14:59.680 to your computer system. And this is an article out 1:14:59.720 --> 1:15:03.639 of Space House Haus Dot com talking about how they're 1:15:03.680 --> 1:15:07.559 seeing a whole bunch of malvertizing happening right now across 1:15:07.600 --> 1:15:11.200 Google Ads. Now, Google Ads is pretty smart. Google is 1:15:11.200 --> 1:15:13.720 pretty smart, but there are people that are trying to 1:15:13.720 --> 1:15:17.200 evade their systems at all times. And so as smart 1:15:17.200 --> 1:15:22.200 as Google can be, they can't find everything, you know, instantly, 1:15:22.680 --> 1:15:25.679 and so these you know, bad actors, so to say, 1:15:26.280 --> 1:15:30.880 find ways of exploiting the Google system, and you know 1:15:30.960 --> 1:15:33.639 they do. So here's how it happens. Let's say you search. 1:15:33.680 --> 1:15:35.799 Let's say you want to download a piece of software. 1:15:36.160 --> 1:15:39.880 And some of the software examples they give our Adobe Reader, 1:15:40.800 --> 1:15:46.640 Microsoft Teams, let's see what else, Slack and Thunderbird. And 1:15:46.680 --> 1:15:49.880 so you search for that software on Google and the 1:15:49.920 --> 1:15:51.639 top thing right at the top, let's just. 1:15:51.600 --> 1:15:54.160 Try it Thunderbird, And that's like a. 1:15:55.600 --> 1:15:58.920 You search for that and the first result is from 1:15:59.240 --> 1:16:02.639 an advertisment. And so a lot of times two things 1:16:02.680 --> 1:16:06.160 are happening here. A lot of times companies like Mozilla 1:16:06.360 --> 1:16:10.040 or whatever, they'll take out ads so that when you're 1:16:10.040 --> 1:16:12.320 looking for their software, you'll find it right at the top. 1:16:12.400 --> 1:16:15.320 And you'll see this is typically ads are marked at 1:16:15.320 --> 1:16:19.360 the top of Google. You know, they say ad let's 1:16:19.360 --> 1:16:20.000 see what do they say. 1:16:20.040 --> 1:16:23.120 I think they just changed it recently. I mean, trying 1:16:23.120 --> 1:16:24.840 to search for something that'll bring up an AD. There 1:16:24.840 --> 1:16:26.040 we go. Yeah, they're marked AD. 1:16:26.560 --> 1:16:29.479 And so if you look at Google, and this is 1:16:29.560 --> 1:16:32.000 just general, you know, if you just look at Google 1:16:32.040 --> 1:16:34.840 at the top of your search results, just you're going 1:16:34.880 --> 1:16:37.480 to see AD right now. I just search for mattresses, 1:16:37.840 --> 1:16:42.000 I'm seeing AD, AD, AD AD, then places and then 1:16:42.040 --> 1:16:45.599 the first result comes up way after that for mattress warehouse. 1:16:46.000 --> 1:16:46.759 So you're talking. 1:16:47.240 --> 1:16:49.760 If you're just looking at Google and clicking the top 1:16:49.840 --> 1:16:52.439 thing every time, you're probably clicking an AD most of 1:16:52.479 --> 1:16:54.519 the time. And that's why Google makes billions of dollars 1:16:54.600 --> 1:16:57.040 by the way. They've come up with this brilliant system 1:16:57.120 --> 1:17:00.920 that most people are just clicking the top link, like 1:17:01.240 --> 1:17:05.519 you know, a large percent of searches result and the 1:17:05.560 --> 1:17:09.679 first link is what gets clicked. And that's why SEO 1:17:10.000 --> 1:17:12.879 search engine optimization. That's why it's such a big business, 1:17:12.920 --> 1:17:16.559 because people just want to be that first result. Because 1:17:16.600 --> 1:17:19.120 people go to Google and they just click the first 1:17:19.160 --> 1:17:21.240 result they see, whether it's an AD or not. And 1:17:21.280 --> 1:17:24.040 that's what's so brilliant about their their system is that 1:17:24.520 --> 1:17:26.639 you just see an AD, and you know, most people 1:17:26.640 --> 1:17:30.040 don't distinguish between ads and actual results. We call them 1:17:30.160 --> 1:17:33.920 organic search results. Those are a little bit further down. 1:17:34.040 --> 1:17:35.840 So now if we scroll further down, we can see 1:17:35.840 --> 1:17:38.960 the first organic search result is, you know, like I said, 1:17:39.000 --> 1:17:43.120 Mattress warehouse. So just in general, be aware of what 1:17:43.160 --> 1:17:46.400 you're clicking on Google. So don't always just click the 1:17:46.400 --> 1:17:49.559 first thing that you see, especially on your phone. Google 1:17:49.720 --> 1:17:51.680 is a little tricky about this because they want they 1:17:51.760 --> 1:17:53.639 want you to click that that's how they make their money. 1:17:53.920 --> 1:17:57.080 So they will make it so that the AD results 1:17:57.160 --> 1:18:00.639 look the same as what we call organics search results. 1:18:00.760 --> 1:18:06.320 Organic search results are the results that companies have earned 1:18:06.680 --> 1:18:09.320 right they have made their way to the top because 1:18:09.320 --> 1:18:12.479 they're trusted because a lot of other websites link to them. 1:18:12.680 --> 1:18:15.720 Google doesn't exactly tell us the special sauce that goes 1:18:15.760 --> 1:18:18.600 into this whole. You know, what makes a link the 1:18:18.680 --> 1:18:22.320 number one, but we know there's certain factors that contribute 1:18:22.360 --> 1:18:22.559 to that. 1:18:22.880 --> 1:18:24.480 So anyway, so I'm telling. 1:18:24.200 --> 1:18:25.920 You all this stuff so that you understand when you 1:18:25.920 --> 1:18:29.000 click that first link, it's not always the link of 1:18:29.360 --> 1:18:32.000 the organic website. It could be an AD. And so 1:18:32.080 --> 1:18:34.320 what these bad actors are doing is they are buying 1:18:34.360 --> 1:18:37.760 ads that look like they are going to bring you 1:18:38.120 --> 1:18:41.280 that software, whether it's Adobe Reader, whether it's Microsoft Teams, 1:18:41.320 --> 1:18:44.479 whether it's Slack, whether it's Thunderbird, and you click it 1:18:45.120 --> 1:18:48.120 and then it loads. In one example, I saw it's 1:18:48.120 --> 1:18:52.439 actually a dropbox link and it'll load software onto your system. 1:18:52.439 --> 1:18:55.320 It will actually download software. And this is what they 1:18:55.320 --> 1:18:58.639 call malvertizing. And I've seen this happen. It's actually happened 1:18:58.680 --> 1:19:01.240 to me before. I've actually witnessed it on my own computer. 1:19:01.320 --> 1:19:03.559 It's been a couple of years. But this is something 1:19:03.640 --> 1:19:06.200 to just look out for. And so if you're clicking, 1:19:06.360 --> 1:19:09.400 you know, software links, just be aware of this and 1:19:09.520 --> 1:19:12.920 really just look at the URL that you're downloading. A 1:19:12.920 --> 1:19:16.960 lot of times these companies, these you know, malvertizing, they 1:19:16.960 --> 1:19:20.800 will they will buy domains that look very similar to 1:19:20.840 --> 1:19:22.760 the domain that you're trying to find, you know, whether 1:19:22.760 --> 1:19:26.040 it's software or whatever, and so they'll they'll try to 1:19:26.080 --> 1:19:29.360 trick you even further. So just really be aware of 1:19:29.400 --> 1:19:32.559 what you're clicking, what you're downloading. Anytime you're downloading something 1:19:32.560 --> 1:19:35.400 into your system, you really got to be aware of 1:19:35.439 --> 1:19:38.479 that download because that's that's when the problems start. If 1:19:38.479 --> 1:19:40.120 you're just surfing the web, like most of the time, 1:19:40.160 --> 1:19:42.960 it's going to be fine. But if you're downloading something 1:19:43.000 --> 1:19:45.839 and running that on your computer, that's when the problems 1:19:46.160 --> 1:19:46.679 can start. 1:19:46.840 --> 1:19:50.080 So just be aware. All right. Now, let's talk about 1:19:50.120 --> 1:19:51.960 chat GPT, And this is kind of. 1:19:53.560 --> 1:19:56.439 An upfront to Google because Google, we've gotten so used 1:19:56.479 --> 1:20:00.200 to Google being a place where we go and let's 1:20:00.200 --> 1:20:03.280 say you're searching for something and you click links, and 1:20:03.320 --> 1:20:06.679 you click links and you look for results. Well, chat 1:20:06.720 --> 1:20:10.719 GPT sort of turns that upside down. Chat GPT makes 1:20:10.720 --> 1:20:12.839 it so that you don't really have to click any links. 1:20:13.280 --> 1:20:16.519 And people have really gotten excited about this because instead 1:20:16.560 --> 1:20:18.920 of having to click a whole bunch of links, chat 1:20:19.000 --> 1:20:21.800 gpt just does all the work for you and says, like, 1:20:21.840 --> 1:20:24.000 if you ask what's the best mattress, it will look 1:20:24.040 --> 1:20:26.920 out on the web to see all the different resources 1:20:26.920 --> 1:20:31.599 that talk about good mattresses, and it will concisely give 1:20:31.640 --> 1:20:34.680 you the answer of okay, based on all of our 1:20:34.720 --> 1:20:37.160 observations of the web, here's what we think are the 1:20:37.160 --> 1:20:40.920 top mattresses. And I'm not even sure that chatchipt can 1:20:40.960 --> 1:20:43.439 do this. What I'll just ask it. Let's just ask 1:20:43.520 --> 1:20:49.760 what are the top mattress brands? Now, remember chat GPT 1:20:50.320 --> 1:20:54.280 was they kind of stopped the research in twenty Let's 1:20:54.280 --> 1:20:56.240 see it's I think it was in twenty twenty one. 1:20:57.000 --> 1:20:59.600 So it's not like up to date per se with 1:20:59.840 --> 1:21:02.880 the results because this is still a research project. Don't 1:21:02.920 --> 1:21:05.519 forget they're still seeing how this works. But I just 1:21:05.560 --> 1:21:07.559 asked it. Here are some of the what are the 1:21:07.560 --> 1:21:09.400 top mattress brands? That says, here are some of the 1:21:09.439 --> 1:21:14.640 top mattress brands Casper, Purple, Nectar, Tufted Needle, Lisa, Temperpedick, 1:21:14.680 --> 1:21:18.880 and brook Linnen. And there's a little warning on my 1:21:19.560 --> 1:21:21.840 chat GPT that's I don't know what that warning is, 1:21:21.920 --> 1:21:26.720 but it's but again, it's not giving me a website 1:21:26.800 --> 1:21:29.960 result that is telling me these top brands. It went 1:21:30.000 --> 1:21:31.600 out and it said, Okay, we see a lot of 1:21:31.640 --> 1:21:34.839 people mention Casper, we see a lot of people mentioned Purple. 1:21:35.120 --> 1:21:37.479 We see a lot of good reviews for Nectar. Now, 1:21:37.520 --> 1:21:39.640 I don't know if these are the best brands in 1:21:39.680 --> 1:21:42.840 that order, but I mean again, it's coming up with 1:21:42.920 --> 1:21:45.680 that on the fly, whereas Google would make me kind 1:21:45.680 --> 1:21:49.320 of go to these different websites and look and see like, Okay, 1:21:49.600 --> 1:21:51.439 what does this person say about Casper? What does this 1:21:51.479 --> 1:21:54.040 person say about Purple? So it's a totally different way 1:21:54.080 --> 1:21:57.519 of thinking about search. Well, anyway, chat GPT has really 1:21:57.560 --> 1:22:00.040 taken the world by storm because people are finding so 1:22:00.120 --> 1:22:04.360 many things they can do with it, creating essays, poems, 1:22:05.160 --> 1:22:07.120 you can write an email to say, hey, can you 1:22:07.320 --> 1:22:09.360 apply for this job? Write me a cover letter and 1:22:09.400 --> 1:22:13.639 it'll do that, lyrics to songs. So now they already 1:22:13.640 --> 1:22:17.000 have their first product, Chat GPT plus. If you've used 1:22:17.080 --> 1:22:20.799 chat GPT, you know that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. 1:22:21.120 --> 1:22:25.160 Sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's not very good, and so 1:22:25.840 --> 1:22:27.800 you may be thinking, Gosh, I would really like a 1:22:27.880 --> 1:22:32.519 much more reliable version of chat GPT, and I'm willing 1:22:32.600 --> 1:22:36.320 to pay for that, because if you're a salesperson or 1:22:36.560 --> 1:22:40.200 I don't know anything practically, some of these things that 1:22:40.320 --> 1:22:42.880 chat GPT can do can really help you out in 1:22:42.920 --> 1:22:45.680 your job. And so for twenty bucks a month, that 1:22:45.840 --> 1:22:48.240 is the new product, chat GPT plus. 1:22:48.800 --> 1:22:51.280 Now it depends if. 1:22:51.120 --> 1:22:53.639 This is worth it for you, because if you're using 1:22:53.720 --> 1:22:55.800 chat GPT, a lot of people are using the free 1:22:55.880 --> 1:22:58.439 version and it's working just fine, but some people have 1:22:58.680 --> 1:23:00.599 really kind of honed in on that and they're saying, 1:23:00.600 --> 1:23:03.599 I'm using this on a daily basis. Like let's say 1:23:03.640 --> 1:23:07.760 you're a salesperson and you're writing like custom emails to 1:23:07.960 --> 1:23:10.639 sell people on stuff, or you know, custom cover letters 1:23:10.720 --> 1:23:13.719 or custom whatever. This may be worth it for twenty 1:23:13.720 --> 1:23:16.040 books a month. So what do you get for chat 1:23:16.040 --> 1:23:20.799 GBT Plus. Well, you get better access even during peak times. 1:23:21.080 --> 1:23:23.280 There's a lot of times when chat GPT says, ah, 1:23:23.320 --> 1:23:27.200 we just can't work right now. Faster responses and priority 1:23:27.200 --> 1:23:31.479 access to new features and improvements. So chat GPT says, 1:23:31.520 --> 1:23:34.040 the free tier is here to stay. But now you've 1:23:34.040 --> 1:23:36.080 got Chat GPT Plus, which, by the way, you can't 1:23:36.120 --> 1:23:37.080 sign up for immediately. 1:23:37.120 --> 1:23:38.479 It's kind of a wait list. 1:23:39.000 --> 1:23:41.439 But twenty bucks a month for full access to chat 1:23:41.520 --> 1:23:43.920 GBT and all that power is pretty incredible. It's also 1:23:44.000 --> 1:23:46.720 incredible that we've been using Google for free for so 1:23:46.840 --> 1:23:49.960 long and here's this newcomer and they're already saying, hey, look, 1:23:50.200 --> 1:23:52.160 we're going to give you priority access to us for 1:23:52.240 --> 1:23:54.120 twenty bucks a month, And the fact that people are 1:23:54.160 --> 1:23:57.680 going to pay for that is pretty incredible as well. 1:23:57.720 --> 1:24:01.040 You're listening to rich on Tech is Rich Demiro. We're 1:24:01.080 --> 1:24:03.800 talking technology. We've got more of your calls coming up 1:24:03.840 --> 1:24:06.080 at Triple eight rich one on one coming up next. 1:24:06.880 --> 1:24:08.800 Uh In the show, I've got a guest who's going 1:24:08.880 --> 1:24:12.320 to talk about the alternative to Facebook that they've built. 1:24:12.560 --> 1:24:15.639 It's an app that protects your privacy even when you post. 1:24:16.200 --> 1:24:16.840 We'll be back. 1:24:17.800 --> 1:24:21.560 Welcome back to rich on Tech. You're listening to the 1:24:21.560 --> 1:24:24.360 show where we talk about technology and answer your questions. 1:24:25.960 --> 1:24:31.160 Yogi is in Belmont Shore, California. Yogi, you're on with Rich. 1:24:31.880 --> 1:24:34.840 Hi there, Rich Hi, Hi? 1:24:35.080 --> 1:24:36.080 Hey you hear me? 1:24:36.120 --> 1:24:37.280 Good? Right, I hear you great? 1:24:37.840 --> 1:24:39.080 Okay, what's going on here? 1:24:39.800 --> 1:24:44.040 My question is simple. I'm a T Mobile customer and 1:24:44.080 --> 1:24:48.360 my wife is yeah, my daughter's Verizon and all that stuff. 1:24:48.840 --> 1:24:51.920 But I hear about Consumer Cellular and Pure Talk and 1:24:52.000 --> 1:24:56.760 all these other phone you know, arrangements. I guess we'll 1:24:56.760 --> 1:24:59.880 call them. So can you easily explain or just come 1:25:00.560 --> 1:25:03.120 kind of tell me what would be? Why would I 1:25:03.280 --> 1:25:05.559 do that, why would I change to that? And what's 1:25:05.600 --> 1:25:07.519 the advantage. I know they're supposed to be cheap of 1:25:08.200 --> 1:25:12.640 well no, why is that they exist? And kind of 1:25:12.680 --> 1:25:14.679 like what's the whole story around them. 1:25:14.920 --> 1:25:17.559 Okay, great question. This is uh, this is a really 1:25:17.560 --> 1:25:21.920 good question. So these are called mv and os and 1:25:21.960 --> 1:25:27.480 that means mobile virtual network operator. And so in the US, 1:25:27.520 --> 1:25:31.840 for example, we pretty much have three networks. We have 1:25:31.960 --> 1:25:35.919 T Mobile, we have AT and T, and we have Verizon, 1:25:36.240 --> 1:25:39.240 and I believe Dish is building their own network as well, 1:25:39.360 --> 1:25:42.160 so that will be up and coming. But the reality 1:25:42.280 --> 1:25:44.599 is all of the cell phone service that we have 1:25:44.720 --> 1:25:48.160 in America is pretty much these three companies. And so 1:25:48.240 --> 1:25:54.480 when you see all these advertisements about Visible and Cricket 1:25:54.920 --> 1:25:59.599 and US Mobile and like you said, Consumer Cellular, they 1:25:59.600 --> 1:26:02.800 are all running on one of these networks. And so 1:26:02.920 --> 1:26:05.840 what's the difference. Okay, think about it this way. Let's 1:26:05.880 --> 1:26:09.439 say that you know, you get a hamburger and you've 1:26:09.439 --> 1:26:12.439 got three friends. They all season that burger differently and 1:26:12.479 --> 1:26:14.760 grill it differently and serve it to you differently. One 1:26:14.800 --> 1:26:17.120 of those might be better to you, might taste better, 1:26:17.120 --> 1:26:19.479 it might look better, it might be more appealing. So 1:26:19.600 --> 1:26:22.120 that's really the big difference. So I think it comes 1:26:22.160 --> 1:26:25.080 down to two things. Number One, you want to figure 1:26:25.080 --> 1:26:28.240 out which network do you like, and whether you know 1:26:28.280 --> 1:26:31.360 you can you can figure out online which of these 1:26:31.360 --> 1:26:34.759 networks these mv and o's run off of. So for instance, 1:26:34.840 --> 1:26:37.559 if you look up Visible, you'll find that that's actually 1:26:37.640 --> 1:26:41.120 owned by Verizon. If you look up Cricket, you'll find 1:26:41.120 --> 1:26:46.479 that that's owned by AT and T. T Mobile probably 1:26:46.520 --> 1:26:50.240 has the most mv and os running off of their network. 1:26:50.280 --> 1:26:51.960 It's just I don't know why, it's just the way 1:26:52.000 --> 1:26:54.960 it is, but they just have a lot of these 1:26:54.960 --> 1:26:57.400 different companies that run off a T Mobile. I guess 1:26:57.479 --> 1:27:01.839 T Mobile resells their network a lot, so I would figure, 1:27:02.000 --> 1:27:04.080 you know, I'm just looking up a list of some 1:27:04.120 --> 1:27:07.920 of these things. Mint Mobile, that's another big one. Ultra 1:27:08.240 --> 1:27:13.559 Boost Mobile Boost I believe is now owned by Dish Network. 1:27:14.120 --> 1:27:16.680 You've got Google five, You've got Red Pocket. I mean, 1:27:16.680 --> 1:27:19.080 there are so many different mv and os out there. 1:27:19.400 --> 1:27:21.559 So again, what it comes down. 1:27:21.360 --> 1:27:23.800 To is what's best for you. 1:27:24.400 --> 1:27:28.080 So what these companies do is the service of the 1:27:28.120 --> 1:27:30.960 line and also the features of the line. So for instance, 1:27:31.000 --> 1:27:34.040 there's an mv and O called US Mobile, and what 1:27:34.080 --> 1:27:37.400 they specialize in is that you can pretty much customize 1:27:37.439 --> 1:27:41.080 your plan with exactly the features that you need. 1:27:41.560 --> 1:27:42.799 So let's say you. 1:27:42.720 --> 1:27:47.360 Want, you know, just texting and calling and just a 1:27:47.400 --> 1:27:50.280 tiny bit of data. You can configure a line like that. 1:27:50.760 --> 1:27:54.400 Let's say you want unlimited everything. There are systems like that. 1:27:54.479 --> 1:27:56.800 Let's say you want unlimited everything for a very cheap 1:27:56.880 --> 1:28:00.680 price every month. Visible might be something that appeals to you. 1:28:00.880 --> 1:28:03.840 So it all comes down to the network that you 1:28:03.920 --> 1:28:06.639 want and also the features that you want, and which 1:28:06.720 --> 1:28:09.800 one of these companies packages it in a way that 1:28:10.520 --> 1:28:12.960 appeals to you most. Now there is another side, and 1:28:13.000 --> 1:28:15.200 I was actually talking to the folks at one of 1:28:15.240 --> 1:28:19.439 the major cellular companies about this, the idea of do 1:28:19.600 --> 1:28:24.080 these third party companies have the same sort of access 1:28:24.160 --> 1:28:27.519 and priority to the line that you would have if 1:28:27.560 --> 1:28:32.000 you were a you know, a subscriber directly. So let's 1:28:32.000 --> 1:28:34.439 say you're on T Mobile and the person next to 1:28:34.479 --> 1:28:37.040 you is on Mint and you're both trying to access 1:28:37.080 --> 1:28:40.680 the network in a crowded place. So there are some 1:28:40.760 --> 1:28:43.639 people that think that maybe these mv and o's don't 1:28:43.680 --> 1:28:46.720 have as much priority on the network as the you know, 1:28:46.840 --> 1:28:50.280 first party customers. And I don't know that to be 1:28:50.360 --> 1:28:54.519 true or not, Like I didn't really get that sense 1:28:54.600 --> 1:28:57.680 from the mobile carrier that I was talking to, Like 1:28:57.720 --> 1:29:00.479 they said, no, everyone pretty much has the same act access. 1:29:00.800 --> 1:29:02.720 So but there could be a way like your if 1:29:02.760 --> 1:29:06.439 your network is way cheaper, that could be another place 1:29:06.439 --> 1:29:08.280 where they kind of save, like the priority is just 1:29:08.320 --> 1:29:10.840 not there. So what it really comes down to again 1:29:11.280 --> 1:29:13.360 to me, when it comes to, you know, choosing a 1:29:13.400 --> 1:29:16.320 cellular carrier, it's where does it work? Does it work 1:29:16.360 --> 1:29:19.280 where you live, does it work where you work? And 1:29:19.400 --> 1:29:22.120 does it work where you play? Those are the kind 1:29:22.120 --> 1:29:24.320 of things that I think is the most important. So 1:29:24.479 --> 1:29:26.120 if you want to go with one of these third 1:29:26.160 --> 1:29:30.479 party carriers, you know, see if T Mobile works where you, 1:29:30.479 --> 1:29:32.439 you know, use your phone the most. See if AT 1:29:32.560 --> 1:29:35.080 and T works where your phone is the most, see 1:29:35.120 --> 1:29:37.120 if Verizon works where your phone is the most, and 1:29:37.160 --> 1:29:41.320 also travel. Some of these third party mv and os 1:29:41.360 --> 1:29:43.920 they may not have international data, or it may be 1:29:43.960 --> 1:29:47.400 really expensive, or they may not have perks like free 1:29:47.439 --> 1:29:49.519 Netflix and stuff like that, so you might not need 1:29:49.560 --> 1:29:52.680 all that stuff. But that's really how I size up 1:29:52.760 --> 1:29:55.920 these networks. So for instance, I've got a family member 1:29:55.920 --> 1:29:58.759 who has been on Mint Mobile for a very long time, 1:29:59.240 --> 1:30:01.320 and every time she tells people about mint Mobile and 1:30:01.360 --> 1:30:03.240 how much she pays, I think it's like fifteen bucks 1:30:03.280 --> 1:30:05.479 a month. They're always like, wait, how do you pay 1:30:05.520 --> 1:30:08.240 fifteen bucks a month when I'm paying, you know, forty 1:30:08.320 --> 1:30:11.360 fifty sixty seventy eighty dollars a month for my phone line. 1:30:11.960 --> 1:30:15.880 And it's quite simple. The person who's on that line 1:30:15.920 --> 1:30:17.960 just doesn't use a lot of data. She doesn't need 1:30:18.000 --> 1:30:20.720 a ton of data. So why pay for an unlimited 1:30:20.760 --> 1:30:24.360 data plan at sixty to eighty dollars a month when 1:30:24.720 --> 1:30:27.639 you're not using a lot of data. You're not streaming music, 1:30:27.640 --> 1:30:31.200 you're not streaming YouTube, you're not you know whatever, So 1:30:31.240 --> 1:30:34.479 why pay all that extra? So it really the main 1:30:34.640 --> 1:30:39.360 carriers have specialized in these unlimited plans that are very 1:30:39.520 --> 1:30:42.599 very pricey. They're very expensive, they're very premium, and they 1:30:42.600 --> 1:30:45.040 come with a lot of stuff. You may not need 1:30:45.120 --> 1:30:47.559 all of that stuff, but it's just been the default 1:30:47.640 --> 1:30:50.880 forever to go to one of these big plans, and 1:30:50.920 --> 1:30:53.000 so that's that's what a lot of people kind of 1:30:53.000 --> 1:30:55.840 gravitate to, and they don't really understand, like, I can 1:30:55.880 --> 1:30:58.920 get the same level of cellular service from a different 1:30:58.960 --> 1:31:01.920 company that's may not be as well known or may 1:31:01.920 --> 1:31:05.559 not be as big of an advertiser on network TV. 1:31:05.840 --> 1:31:07.759 So anyway, look. 1:31:07.600 --> 1:31:11.519 Into them, see which company does what you need, and 1:31:11.800 --> 1:31:12.559 you know, try them out. 1:31:12.560 --> 1:31:14.639 You can always switch back. It's very easy to switch. 1:31:15.920 --> 1:31:18.719 You're listening to rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. 1:31:18.800 --> 1:31:22.880 We're talking technology, we're talking gadgets, and coming up, I'm 1:31:22.880 --> 1:31:25.280 going to tell you how to enable Gmail's new package 1:31:25.320 --> 1:31:27.400 tracking features, so if you use Gmail, it can now 1:31:27.439 --> 1:31:30.280 track your packages right inside your app. We're also going 1:31:30.360 --> 1:31:34.759 to talk to the CEO of an app named True. 1:31:35.439 --> 1:31:40.080 True bills itself as an alternative to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. 1:31:40.400 --> 1:31:42.599 It's an app that lets you share with your friends, 1:31:42.960 --> 1:31:45.920 but it does not collect your personal information. It does 1:31:45.960 --> 1:31:49.200 not sell you ads, it does not track you. I 1:31:49.280 --> 1:31:52.439 am on there, should you be on there? We'll talk 1:31:52.439 --> 1:31:55.080 to the CEO of True. Coming up next, you're listening 1:31:55.080 --> 1:31:59.439 to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:31:59.479 --> 1:32:00.559 My name is Tomiro. 1:32:01.760 --> 1:32:03.920 If you follow me on social media, you know that 1:32:03.960 --> 1:32:09.720 I've been testing out a new social media app called True. 1:32:09.960 --> 1:32:15.000 This is the anti Facebook. No tracking, no ads, doesn't 1:32:15.040 --> 1:32:17.840 collect a whole bunch of personal information, and. 1:32:18.560 --> 1:32:21.400 It's kind of slick. Let's bring on. 1:32:21.600 --> 1:32:26.360 Brett Coxy is the CEO of True, the San Francisco 1:32:26.479 --> 1:32:27.240 based app. 1:32:27.520 --> 1:32:28.960 Brett welcome to the show. 1:32:29.560 --> 1:32:30.720 Rich thanks for having me on. 1:32:30.800 --> 1:32:31.719 I appreciate it. 1:32:31.840 --> 1:32:36.280 All right, So True, can you explain what it is exactly? 1:32:37.120 --> 1:32:37.400 Sure? 1:32:37.680 --> 1:32:41.680 So kind of you know, over covid, I got so 1:32:41.800 --> 1:32:44.680 fed up with Facebook that I decided to build a replacement, 1:32:44.840 --> 1:32:47.479 if you can believe that. It may sound crazy, but 1:32:47.680 --> 1:32:50.679 you know, the thinking was, Wow. You know, we never 1:32:50.760 --> 1:32:53.280 agreed to allow these large companies to be in the 1:32:53.280 --> 1:32:55.519 middle of our friendships, to be in the middle of 1:32:55.520 --> 1:32:59.080 our relationships. Yet there they are. You know, they're watching 1:32:59.160 --> 1:33:01.599 every move that we and they're selling all that information 1:33:01.680 --> 1:33:03.840 through the highest bidder and making money through selling us 1:33:03.880 --> 1:33:08.120 targeted advertising, our information through targeted advertising. And I thought 1:33:08.160 --> 1:33:11.479 that we could build something that respected user privacy and 1:33:11.520 --> 1:33:13.759 got back to those things that matter, which we felt 1:33:13.800 --> 1:33:17.880 were you know, real friends in real life without monetizing 1:33:17.960 --> 1:33:19.040 your personal information. 1:33:19.880 --> 1:33:22.439 Now I get a lot of pitches for new apps, 1:33:22.560 --> 1:33:27.000 especially apps that want to replace Facebook or social media whatever, 1:33:27.439 --> 1:33:29.839 and quite honestly, I don't do a lot of stories 1:33:29.880 --> 1:33:32.599 on them because I'm like, I take the let's wait 1:33:32.640 --> 1:33:35.040 and see kind of approach. But when I checked out 1:33:35.200 --> 1:33:38.000 True and you can go to the website try True 1:33:38.040 --> 1:33:40.400 dot com, slash rich on Tech. To see what we're 1:33:40.400 --> 1:33:45.000 talking about here, try true dot com slash rich on Tech. 1:33:45.600 --> 1:33:47.880 What drew me to doing a story with you for 1:33:48.000 --> 1:33:51.160 ktla is the fact that this app is well designed. 1:33:51.880 --> 1:33:55.840 It works equally well on iOS and Android. It looks slick, 1:33:55.960 --> 1:33:59.080 and it seems like it has a chance of taking 1:33:59.120 --> 1:34:03.120 off in a big way because all the good boxes 1:34:03.200 --> 1:34:07.080 are checked like it's not tracking you. It really works nicely. 1:34:07.240 --> 1:34:08.840 It allows me to do what I want to do, 1:34:08.880 --> 1:34:11.799 which is create a group thread. You can have several 1:34:11.840 --> 1:34:15.200 of these, whether it's with your family members, whether it's 1:34:15.200 --> 1:34:18.520 with your friends, whether it's with your kids basketball team, 1:34:18.840 --> 1:34:23.000 and it lets you share again privately. So tell me 1:34:23.080 --> 1:34:25.559 how has it been. What's been the reception of this 1:34:25.640 --> 1:34:26.200 app brand? 1:34:26.920 --> 1:34:30.000 Well, you know, it's funny. We lost it around in 1:34:30.080 --> 1:34:32.400 the summer last year and we were watching it grow 1:34:32.439 --> 1:34:35.040 and grow and grow over the holidays. It doubled and 1:34:35.120 --> 1:34:37.920 tripled and quadrupled in terms of the number of people 1:34:38.040 --> 1:34:41.000 using it, and recently it's just kind of exploded. You know. 1:34:41.240 --> 1:34:45.160 We said from the very very beginning that we thought 1:34:45.200 --> 1:34:47.760 we could build this product. Gone are the days where 1:34:47.800 --> 1:34:50.160 two guys in a garage can build the next big 1:34:50.200 --> 1:34:53.240 thing in social These products are very complicated. You mentioned 1:34:53.240 --> 1:34:55.519 that it's a beautiful, functional product, and it's because we 1:34:55.600 --> 1:34:57.760 spent a lot of time and effort to make it 1:34:57.800 --> 1:35:00.920 that way. We realized that we had to make a 1:35:01.000 --> 1:35:05.160 social network that was on par in quality with the 1:35:05.200 --> 1:35:08.240 Facebook family of apps, but make it private, and so 1:35:08.439 --> 1:35:11.200 that's what True is. It's a very high quality product. 1:35:11.240 --> 1:35:14.160 As you mentioned on both iOS and androids. It allows 1:35:14.160 --> 1:35:16.080 you to be as private or as public as you 1:35:16.120 --> 1:35:18.519 want to be, and a lot of thought and time 1:35:18.560 --> 1:35:20.639 has gone into it and we're pleased with the growth 1:35:20.840 --> 1:35:21.719 so far this year. 1:35:22.120 --> 1:35:24.760 So yeah, So the app is private by default, so 1:35:24.880 --> 1:35:28.880 when you set up a thread, it's private, and you 1:35:28.920 --> 1:35:31.880 can make it public if you want. Like I have 1:35:31.920 --> 1:35:34.840 a thread called rich on Techi's which I've been experimenting with. 1:35:34.880 --> 1:35:37.320 I've got a couple hundred people hanging out in there, 1:35:37.680 --> 1:35:39.760 and I can make a post and anyone can join 1:35:39.840 --> 1:35:41.400 this thread without me approving them. 1:35:41.840 --> 1:35:42.760 But if you. 1:35:42.680 --> 1:35:45.559 Want, let's say one with just your family members, you 1:35:45.560 --> 1:35:48.160 would invite them by sending them a link. They would 1:35:48.280 --> 1:35:50.720 you know, you would approve them, and then you would 1:35:50.720 --> 1:35:53.080 all be in this group together where you can chat. 1:35:53.200 --> 1:35:56.280 You can exchange pictures, you can exchange videos, you can 1:35:56.280 --> 1:35:58.360 comment on things. And you might be saying, well, rich, 1:35:58.400 --> 1:36:01.320 can I just use group messaging for that? Well, group 1:36:01.360 --> 1:36:05.560 messaging is fine, but cross platform if you're just using SMS, 1:36:06.200 --> 1:36:08.479 is not very good because pictures and videos will not 1:36:08.600 --> 1:36:11.439 come through it a good resolution. You know, if everyone 1:36:11.479 --> 1:36:14.400 has an iPhone, sure you're using I message, but you 1:36:14.400 --> 1:36:16.799 know it can get messy because people text at different 1:36:16.800 --> 1:36:19.479 hours of the day. And so this is much more 1:36:19.600 --> 1:36:21.840 like a way where you can post something and people 1:36:21.880 --> 1:36:25.400 can comment and exchange ideas and thoughts at any time 1:36:25.439 --> 1:36:27.000 of the day, and you can come to when you 1:36:27.040 --> 1:36:28.880 have the chance to kind of look at this stuff. 1:36:30.439 --> 1:36:33.720 My next question, Brett, is really about if you're not 1:36:33.800 --> 1:36:36.519 doing ads, if you're not tracking people, I mean, Facebook 1:36:36.520 --> 1:36:38.120 makes a lot of money on us, how are you 1:36:38.160 --> 1:36:40.599 going to keep this thing going right? 1:36:40.680 --> 1:36:44.160 So we have a plan to use keyword based advertising 1:36:44.240 --> 1:36:47.120 in public threads only. So if you think about it. 1:36:47.160 --> 1:36:50.160 When you start with truth, you sign up, you tell 1:36:50.240 --> 1:36:52.799 us you know what. The creator creates a thread on Truth, 1:36:53.120 --> 1:36:56.439 they decide exactly what keywords apply to it. So a 1:36:56.479 --> 1:37:00.439 running thread might have running keywords, a family something that 1:37:00.479 --> 1:37:03.080 has to do with hiking. Might have hiking keywords, and 1:37:03.160 --> 1:37:06.320 then whenever you look for threads to consume untrue that 1:37:06.360 --> 1:37:09.920 are public, you also enter keywords. We're doing a system 1:37:09.920 --> 1:37:13.000 it's very similar tout got if you're familiar with this, 1:37:13.720 --> 1:37:17.519 which is a keyword based advertising system that people can 1:37:17.560 --> 1:37:21.880 see ads only in creator threads. The creator has to 1:37:22.360 --> 1:37:24.920 publish that thread to us, otherwise we have to approve 1:37:25.000 --> 1:37:27.679 it more to be released on the platform, but allows 1:37:27.760 --> 1:37:32.920 us to monetize through public content, but still keep private 1:37:33.000 --> 1:37:36.360 content private and an ad free experience. So we've been 1:37:36.400 --> 1:37:39.040 saying for a while we can make enough money with 1:37:39.120 --> 1:37:42.639 this model to be wildly successful and you'll never see 1:37:42.640 --> 1:37:45.360 another advertisement in a private thread as long as you're 1:37:45.360 --> 1:37:47.840 on True, so all of your family, everything that you 1:37:47.920 --> 1:37:50.880 share with that group remains the same, that experience will 1:37:50.880 --> 1:37:54.000 remain the same, and then you can consume public content 1:37:54.120 --> 1:37:54.960 if you decide to. 1:37:55.560 --> 1:37:57.960 My guest right now is Brett Cox. He is the 1:37:57.960 --> 1:38:02.599 CEO of San Francisco based True, the website try True 1:38:02.640 --> 1:38:05.040 dot com, slash rich on tech. If you want to 1:38:05.120 --> 1:38:08.240 join my rich on techies group, you can also download 1:38:08.240 --> 1:38:11.439 the app there or become Brett's friend as well. So Brett, 1:38:11.439 --> 1:38:12.599 how are people using this. 1:38:12.640 --> 1:38:15.800 App right now? You know what we notice? Rich And 1:38:15.840 --> 1:38:18.639 by the way, congratulations on having one of the fastest 1:38:18.680 --> 1:38:21.000 growing threats I think we've ever seen on True. You 1:38:21.040 --> 1:38:24.759 went from zero to I think you're over three hundred 1:38:24.760 --> 1:38:28.000 and fifty getting closer to four hundred members, you know, 1:38:28.479 --> 1:38:31.600 in no time. But you know, what we're seeing is 1:38:32.040 --> 1:38:35.000 we saw people begin to get off the big social 1:38:35.040 --> 1:38:39.040 networks like Facebook, and they started moving to private messaging products, 1:38:39.080 --> 1:38:41.920 specifically with their families. In other words, they did want 1:38:41.920 --> 1:38:45.799 to share their personal lives on blasts in a public form. 1:38:46.040 --> 1:38:48.040 They wanted to share pictures of their kids and their 1:38:48.080 --> 1:38:51.320 pets with smaller groups of families in a private way. 1:38:51.720 --> 1:38:54.160 And so I like to explain that True is a 1:38:54.200 --> 1:38:59.120 social platform that's organized like a private messaging platform. So 1:38:59.240 --> 1:39:02.040 this makes it id you'l for sharing privately, you know, 1:39:02.120 --> 1:39:04.280 if you kind of think about it, We don't broadcast 1:39:04.320 --> 1:39:07.440 our authentic lives and public. We kind of share discreetly 1:39:07.479 --> 1:39:10.160 with groups of people we already know. And we also 1:39:10.240 --> 1:39:13.960 belong to different communities where we share different parts of ourselves. 1:39:14.120 --> 1:39:17.120 And so what we're seeing is people coming onto the product. 1:39:17.280 --> 1:39:19.800 They'll typically start with families and then they'll start to 1:39:19.800 --> 1:39:23.240 consume other contents they find interesting. And right now it's 1:39:23.280 --> 1:39:24.719 taking off. We couldn't be happier. 1:39:25.240 --> 1:39:27.639 So when you create a post on the app, once 1:39:27.680 --> 1:39:30.360 you sign up, you can post a picture or video, 1:39:30.600 --> 1:39:33.880 you can post a jiff, you can post a let's see. 1:39:33.880 --> 1:39:36.559 You can make your post public or private. And then 1:39:36.600 --> 1:39:39.280 you also have this little lifespan option, so you can 1:39:39.320 --> 1:39:42.880 say pick how long your post lives forever, a week 1:39:43.080 --> 1:39:45.400 or a day. So that's kind of a cool feature. 1:39:45.439 --> 1:39:47.439 Tell me about some of the options for posts. 1:39:48.320 --> 1:39:51.240 Sure, you know, if you think about it, all the 1:39:51.320 --> 1:39:54.560 larger companies they make money by mining all this information, 1:39:54.800 --> 1:39:57.200 keeping it for a long period of time, and then 1:39:57.280 --> 1:40:00.400 deciding how to sell things to you. Right, we don't 1:40:00.439 --> 1:40:03.280 have that. We don't keep any information. We don't monetize 1:40:03.280 --> 1:40:05.639 personal information. We don't we don't watch it, we don't 1:40:05.640 --> 1:40:07.840 mind it, we don't analyze it, we don't look at it, 1:40:07.880 --> 1:40:10.160 and certainly we don't share it with any third parties. 1:40:10.439 --> 1:40:12.960 So in the example that you just gave, you can 1:40:13.000 --> 1:40:15.000 set a live span for your information and you can 1:40:15.080 --> 1:40:17.240 live in a bubble as you move through time with 1:40:17.280 --> 1:40:20.760 your post deleating themselves behind you, and no one will 1:40:20.760 --> 1:40:24.640 see the content forever, if you like. We have a 1:40:24.760 --> 1:40:27.720 variety of new things coming. We have the ability to 1:40:28.560 --> 1:40:31.000 do things like leave the easter eggs, and we have 1:40:31.040 --> 1:40:36.640 some interesting things coming around around them, attacking locations and 1:40:36.680 --> 1:40:40.000 building interactive stories with your friends. One of the things 1:40:40.000 --> 1:40:42.840 I'm most excited about that we have coming up rich 1:40:42.960 --> 1:40:46.280 is a product called days which allows you to build 1:40:46.280 --> 1:40:49.360 an interactive story over a vacation or a period of 1:40:49.400 --> 1:40:53.000 time or a weekend collaboratively with friends, and then share 1:40:53.040 --> 1:40:57.160 that into a threat either privately, privately or publicly. It's 1:40:57.200 --> 1:41:00.599 things like this that I think will set us apart 1:41:00.840 --> 1:41:03.320 really strongly from other other big social networks. 1:41:03.400 --> 1:41:06.080 Okay, finally, how do you convince someone to try this, 1:41:06.200 --> 1:41:08.280 to download it? I mean, there's so many apps out there, 1:41:08.360 --> 1:41:10.960 it's another sign up, it's another thing to check. How 1:41:11.000 --> 1:41:13.799 do you convince someone to actually give this a chance? 1:41:14.560 --> 1:41:16.960 You know, what we've seen is that there's actually a 1:41:17.000 --> 1:41:20.720 built in cohort of people that have had enough. Right, 1:41:20.880 --> 1:41:24.920 They're fed up with this surveillance capitalism. They're fed up 1:41:25.040 --> 1:41:27.479 with being watched all the time. They're fed up with 1:41:27.520 --> 1:41:30.439 these companies knowing what they do before they do, and 1:41:30.520 --> 1:41:34.360 so they want there's a gap in the market right 1:41:34.400 --> 1:41:37.639 now that we think we can fill that that's caters 1:41:37.640 --> 1:41:40.519 to those kinds of people we see over and over 1:41:40.600 --> 1:41:42.439 again when people come on to the product, they say, 1:41:42.479 --> 1:41:45.360 thank you, thank you, thank you. This is great. Please 1:41:45.479 --> 1:41:47.760 give us more of it. And what we're trying to 1:41:47.800 --> 1:41:52.160 do is explain to people like, look, there's great choices 1:41:52.200 --> 1:41:56.040 for sharing things publicly on Blast, Instagram, Facebook, they do 1:41:56.120 --> 1:41:58.240 that really, really well. But if you want to have 1:41:58.439 --> 1:42:01.120 a place that feels like home where you share your 1:42:01.160 --> 1:42:04.600 most intimate and genuine memories, True is that product for you. 1:42:04.680 --> 1:42:06.519 It allows you to do that with a smaller group 1:42:06.520 --> 1:42:09.439 of people. We like to say that we're making social 1:42:09.520 --> 1:42:12.559 a safe place again without monetizing your personal information. 1:42:12.960 --> 1:42:14.720 All right, Brett, we're gonna leave it there. Thanks so 1:42:14.800 --> 1:42:17.280 much for joining me today. I do appreciate it. Brett Coox, 1:42:17.360 --> 1:42:20.120 CEO of San Francisco based True. If you want to 1:42:20.200 --> 1:42:22.519 check out the app we were talking about, it is, 1:42:22.800 --> 1:42:26.400 try True dot com slash rich on tech. You can 1:42:26.479 --> 1:42:29.519 join my rich on Techies group there. I'm still trying 1:42:29.560 --> 1:42:32.599 to figure out exactly what to share inside my True app, 1:42:32.960 --> 1:42:35.479 but it's kind of a cool place you're listening to 1:42:35.600 --> 1:42:37.360 rich on Tech. Coming up, we're going to close out 1:42:37.360 --> 1:42:39.799 the show. We're going to talk about gmails, new package tracking, 1:42:39.920 --> 1:42:44.000 and Apple adds another streaming service. We'll talk about that 1:42:44.040 --> 1:42:46.960 when we come back. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:42:47.080 --> 1:42:51.960 Rich Dmiro hanging out with you here talking technology. One 1:42:52.000 --> 1:42:55.240 of the things we should talk about is Gmail. They've 1:42:55.280 --> 1:42:58.240 got this. If you order as many packages as I do, 1:42:59.120 --> 1:43:02.000 you're always looking like when they're getting delivered, You're always 1:43:02.040 --> 1:43:05.439 tracking them, seeing if they've been delivered or seeing what 1:43:05.520 --> 1:43:08.120 day they're supposed to arrive. And so now Gmail can 1:43:08.160 --> 1:43:11.759 do this all for you. So new feature inside Gmail. 1:43:11.800 --> 1:43:14.800 This was announced back in November, but now it's rolling 1:43:14.840 --> 1:43:19.280 out inside the Gmail app. So Google basically scans your 1:43:19.360 --> 1:43:23.200 emails for package tracking information like a UPS or a 1:43:23.200 --> 1:43:27.240 FedEx number, and then it will display that information right 1:43:27.479 --> 1:43:28.760 inside your inbox. 1:43:29.320 --> 1:43:30.799 And so this could be really helpful. 1:43:31.280 --> 1:43:33.680 Instead of, you know, if you're like me, you get 1:43:33.680 --> 1:43:37.360 these tracking emails, you archive them, and then maybe you'll 1:43:37.360 --> 1:43:38.400 look for them when you're. 1:43:38.280 --> 1:43:40.000 Like, wait, when's that thing coming again? 1:43:40.520 --> 1:43:42.200 So now this would just show it right in the 1:43:42.240 --> 1:43:44.839 inbox view, so you can just glance at your inbox 1:43:44.920 --> 1:43:47.840 and see, you know, okay, is it arriving, is it late? 1:43:47.960 --> 1:43:48.679 Is it delayed? 1:43:49.160 --> 1:43:51.639 And so Gmail sort of pings these little tracking numbers 1:43:51.680 --> 1:43:54.720 and will update the information in real time so that 1:43:54.800 --> 1:43:56.760 you don't have to click every single time you want 1:43:56.760 --> 1:44:00.759 to check the status of this package. So the feature 1:44:00.880 --> 1:44:03.880 is here, and you may see an option at the 1:44:03.880 --> 1:44:06.760 top of your inbox to activate it. If you want 1:44:06.800 --> 1:44:09.240 to activate this manually, you can do it. And I 1:44:09.280 --> 1:44:12.120 looked on my both on Android and iPhone and it 1:44:12.200 --> 1:44:15.080 wasn't active, which and I never saw any sort of like, hey, 1:44:15.120 --> 1:44:16.960 do you want to activate this? So if you have 1:44:16.960 --> 1:44:19.479 an iPhone, you can open up your Gmail app, go 1:44:19.520 --> 1:44:22.000 into the menu on the left hand side and then 1:44:22.080 --> 1:44:25.519 click settings and then scroll all the way down to 1:44:25.640 --> 1:44:27.880 data Privacy, which they kind of put it in a 1:44:27.880 --> 1:44:30.160 scary place because who wants to like go into like 1:44:30.240 --> 1:44:33.679 data privacy and see something that's like inherently not that private, 1:44:33.840 --> 1:44:36.760 Like Google's going to look at your tracking numbers, but 1:44:37.439 --> 1:44:39.840 they've got your email, so I think it's probably fine. 1:44:40.600 --> 1:44:43.000 And then once you go into data privacy, you'll see 1:44:43.000 --> 1:44:46.479 an option for package tracking. You can toggle that on 1:44:47.240 --> 1:44:51.760 now on Android it's very similar. You go to the 1:44:51.960 --> 1:44:56.000 Gmail settings, you go to general and then package tracking, 1:44:56.120 --> 1:44:58.519 and it says Gmail will share tracking numbers for your 1:44:58.560 --> 1:45:02.600 package with shipping carrier, and that's giving them the permission 1:45:02.640 --> 1:45:06.040 to look up these various tracking numbers. And so once 1:45:06.080 --> 1:45:08.960 you do that, Google will do it and put it 1:45:09.000 --> 1:45:11.080 in your inbox. You can always turn this off if 1:45:11.080 --> 1:45:13.360 you don't like it. But I have yet to see 1:45:13.360 --> 1:45:16.400 a package show up with this information. I just ordered 1:45:16.400 --> 1:45:21.880 something today, so I'm embarrassed to say what it is, 1:45:22.120 --> 1:45:22.960 but i will. 1:45:23.400 --> 1:45:25.040 Yeah, I don't know if I yeah. 1:45:25.080 --> 1:45:28.000 Anyway, it's soaps. It's these soaps that I really like. 1:45:28.080 --> 1:45:31.720 It's it's a burly soap brand, like it has a 1:45:32.520 --> 1:45:34.880 let's put a sasquatch as their mascot. 1:45:34.960 --> 1:45:37.160 So if you know what I'm talking about, I just 1:45:37.240 --> 1:45:38.280 I you know, these. 1:45:38.120 --> 1:45:40.880 Soaps are They're more expensive than they should be, but 1:45:40.960 --> 1:45:42.840 I've grown to just kind of like them. And so 1:45:43.120 --> 1:45:46.360 now I'm ordering soap online and you know, ordering a 1:45:46.360 --> 1:45:48.240 bunch of bars at the same time, and they get 1:45:48.240 --> 1:45:50.080 shipped out. And the first time I did this, it 1:45:50.120 --> 1:45:52.599 was actually during the pandemic, and it took so long 1:45:52.640 --> 1:45:54.800 to get my delivery that. 1:45:55.560 --> 1:45:58.519 Uh, you know, I've always said that. I always think 1:45:58.560 --> 1:45:59.160 this is funny. 1:45:59.200 --> 1:46:01.639 If you ever want a toiletry that you have, whether 1:46:01.680 --> 1:46:06.280 it is toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, some sort of face wash, 1:46:06.360 --> 1:46:08.920 if you ever want it to last a really long time, 1:46:09.400 --> 1:46:12.240 just go out and buy a new item, And for 1:46:12.320 --> 1:46:14.519 some reason, when you do that, your old item will 1:46:14.560 --> 1:46:18.160 last forever because you're excited to use the new one, 1:46:18.200 --> 1:46:20.200 whether it has a new scent, whether it's you know, 1:46:20.640 --> 1:46:23.840 something that hasn't improved formula, whatever it is, different brand, 1:46:24.320 --> 1:46:28.160 you're so excited to break into that new toothpaste or whatever, 1:46:28.680 --> 1:46:32.000 that the old one just will last forever. Just to 1:46:32.080 --> 1:46:35.200 mess with you, And so just try it. I've tried 1:46:35.200 --> 1:46:37.080 this so many times. It is a theory that I 1:46:37.160 --> 1:46:40.479 have that just seems to work. You want your old 1:46:40.520 --> 1:46:42.400 thing to last, just buy the new one. 1:46:42.520 --> 1:46:42.960 Anyway. 1:46:43.160 --> 1:46:45.200 So that's what happened with this soap, is that I 1:46:45.320 --> 1:46:47.800 was running out of my old soap and the new 1:46:47.840 --> 1:46:49.960 one just would not arrive, and I kept checking and 1:46:50.000 --> 1:46:52.479 I'm like, what is going on. It turns out that 1:46:52.600 --> 1:46:55.720 during the pandemic, I guess this business just had a 1:46:55.720 --> 1:46:58.400 lot of business and they couldn't keep up and so 1:46:58.880 --> 1:47:00.840 now when I order it come in like a couple 1:47:00.840 --> 1:47:02.200 of days. Like the last time I ordered it, I 1:47:02.200 --> 1:47:04.920 couldn't believe how fast it came like next day practically, 1:47:05.800 --> 1:47:08.280 But that will be the first probably use when I 1:47:08.320 --> 1:47:11.439 get this tracking number in my Gmail, it'll it'll be 1:47:11.479 --> 1:47:13.240 my first use of this new feature, so I can 1:47:13.280 --> 1:47:18.040 see where my where my soap is in the world. Okay, uh, 1:47:18.320 --> 1:47:22.200 and then let's talk about this Apple. Apple is just 1:47:22.400 --> 1:47:26.760 wild with their Their business just sees no end at 1:47:26.760 --> 1:47:30.920 this point. And so they've got they just purchased Major 1:47:31.000 --> 1:47:35.559 League Soccer. Uh, they purchased the streaming rights to Major 1:47:35.640 --> 1:47:38.040 League Soccer. I think for like how many years it 1:47:38.120 --> 1:47:40.360 might be, is it ten years? 1:47:41.200 --> 1:47:42.200 So ten years? 1:47:42.320 --> 1:47:44.759 Major League Soccer is now going to be on Apple TV. 1:47:45.439 --> 1:47:47.639 And Apple TV is a little confusing because Apple TV 1:47:47.800 --> 1:47:50.559 is a box. But then you have Apple TV, which 1:47:50.600 --> 1:47:53.040 is a service now, and then you have Apple TV Plus, 1:47:53.080 --> 1:47:58.800 which is like the Apple you know, original programming. So 1:47:59.520 --> 1:48:01.840 this is now now inside the Apple TV app. You 1:48:01.880 --> 1:48:06.200 can get MLS season pass. Season kicks off February twenty fifth. 1:48:06.280 --> 1:48:07.960 And I'm not telling you this because I'm a big 1:48:08.000 --> 1:48:10.160 soccer fan or anything like that, although I do think 1:48:10.200 --> 1:48:13.120 soccer is fun. But I'm telling you this because we 1:48:13.160 --> 1:48:16.880 are seeing the first shift in the sports world when 1:48:16.920 --> 1:48:20.759 it comes to streaming of sports. Now, sports are streaming 1:48:20.800 --> 1:48:23.519 in a lot of different places. We've seen Amazon purchase 1:48:23.960 --> 1:48:29.040 the rights to Thursday Night Football, We've seen NBA League Pass. 1:48:29.080 --> 1:48:31.240 There's a whole bunch of different ways to watch stuff. 1:48:31.800 --> 1:48:34.000 The Clippers here in Los Angeles, they've got their own 1:48:34.000 --> 1:48:37.679 streaming service that they started this year. But there's one 1:48:38.160 --> 1:48:42.360 thing that Apple is doing very differently, and they are 1:48:42.600 --> 1:48:48.200 letting you watch every single game without any sort of exclusions. 1:48:48.720 --> 1:48:54.600 So typically when these companies negotiate rights, the games that 1:48:54.680 --> 1:48:59.479 are local to your area are still sort of kept 1:48:59.680 --> 1:49:03.599 on a service that is like a local channel or 1:49:03.720 --> 1:49:06.000 you know, it's not on them like not anyone can 1:49:06.040 --> 1:49:08.920 access that if you're in that area. So if you're 1:49:08.960 --> 1:49:11.320 a sports fan, you know what I'm talking about. So 1:49:11.600 --> 1:49:14.320 what Apple did and they tried to buy I forget 1:49:14.320 --> 1:49:16.080 whatever what else it was, but they tried to buy 1:49:16.120 --> 1:49:19.400 another sports package, and the sports teams were just like, now, 1:49:19.400 --> 1:49:22.080 we're not giving you that because sports is evolving and 1:49:22.120 --> 1:49:25.280 they make a lot of money on these games, and 1:49:25.360 --> 1:49:29.320 so I guess with MLS. They saw an opportunity and 1:49:29.360 --> 1:49:34.320 so every single game will be aired. You'll be able 1:49:34.400 --> 1:49:37.639 to access them as a subscriber with consistent match times 1:49:37.680 --> 1:49:41.600 and no blackouts. This is a first in live sports broadcasting. 1:49:42.120 --> 1:49:44.080 So you'll be able to see a couple of games 1:49:44.080 --> 1:49:47.120 for free. Actually, so you can go to a MLS 1:49:47.160 --> 1:49:49.639 Soccer dot com slash schedule to see the full schedule 1:49:49.680 --> 1:49:52.679 and which games are free on Apple TV the app 1:49:52.760 --> 1:49:56.120 during the first month. And Apple is also doing a 1:49:56.160 --> 1:49:59.320 whole bunch of other things where they've got stuff inside 1:49:59.360 --> 1:50:01.719 Apple Map where you can see different bars to watch 1:50:01.760 --> 1:50:04.880 the games a and to like enjoy. They've got a 1:50:04.920 --> 1:50:08.160 new MySports section on the Apple tv app, and then 1:50:08.200 --> 1:50:09.160 they've got where you can. 1:50:09.080 --> 1:50:11.040 Ask Siri for information about MLS. 1:50:11.080 --> 1:50:12.880 So the first season is going to be fourteen ninety 1:50:12.920 --> 1:50:15.040 nine a month or ninety nine bucks for the whole season, 1:50:15.479 --> 1:50:17.640 or if you're an Apple TV Plus subscriber, you can 1:50:17.680 --> 1:50:20.479 subscribe for twelve ninety nine a month or seventy nine 1:50:20.520 --> 1:50:23.679 dollars for the whole season. All right, that is gonna 1:50:23.720 --> 1:50:27.519 do it for today's show if you can believe it, Wow, 1:50:27.960 --> 1:50:31.120 show number five in the can. Next week we're going 1:50:31.160 --> 1:50:32.840 to talk to the inventor of an app that lets 1:50:32.880 --> 1:50:35.880 you scan your sports cards and your Pokemon cards to 1:50:35.960 --> 1:50:37.080 find out their value. 1:50:37.439 --> 1:50:40.040 That is a really cool app. Once again, you can. 1:50:39.920 --> 1:50:43.439 Find me on social media at rich on tech across 1:50:43.520 --> 1:50:46.320 all the different platforms. I meant to tell you I 1:50:46.360 --> 1:50:49.160 did post something silly on Instagram today. I posted my 1:50:49.560 --> 1:50:52.679 chocolate sou fla from last night and all the name 1:50:52.800 --> 1:50:55.160 of testing the S twenty three Ultra. So if you 1:50:55.160 --> 1:50:57.240 want to see that video, go to my Instagram, my 1:50:57.320 --> 1:50:59.840 website rich on tech dot tv. There you can watch 1:50:59.840 --> 1:51:02.160 my TV segments. My name is rich Demiro. Thanks so 1:51:02.240 --> 1:51:04.360 much for listening. There are so many ways you can 1:51:04.400 --> 1:51:06.720 spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right 1:51:06.760 --> 1:51:08.599 here with me. I'll talk to you real soon.