Speaker 1: The Apple event invites have arrived. Google Photos gets a
Speaker 1: useful new feature, Fitbit has a new smart watch, testing
Speaker 1: out sprints new five G Plus. I'm answering your tech questions.
Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Dimiro. This is Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. Plus, I answer
Speaker 1: the questions that you email me, you tweet me, you
Speaker 1: send me, you DM me, however you get message in
Speaker 1: a bottle.
Speaker 2: You asked me at the market, ask.
Speaker 1: Me at the market, set me up at the market. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: inside jokes. They're always such a fun way to start
Speaker 1: a podcast. What's up, producer, Megan, you know.
Speaker 2: This week is flying by.
Speaker 1: I thought this was a very fast week. It was
Speaker 1: a quick week, and now we have Labor Day approaching,
Speaker 1: So either we'll have more people listening to the podcast
Speaker 1: or more people not listening because they're on vacation. What
Speaker 1: are you doing? I'll be on vacation. I'm taking the
Speaker 1: day off, so I can't wait. I I've got a
Speaker 1: family trip plan, so I'm excited to do that and
Speaker 1: little R and R. I may not turn on my
Speaker 1: phone for the I'll probably have my phone on I
Speaker 1: probably won't be on social media. You know that. I
Speaker 1: said in last week's episode that I had acquired a
Speaker 1: Pixel three Excel smartphone, so I've been using that and
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Number One, I will tell you when you
Speaker 1: use Android, like I go back and forth throughout the
Speaker 1: year with Android and iOS just to stay fresh. So
Speaker 1: it's funny because in the afternoons I'm all iOS because
Speaker 1: I've been writing the book, and in the mornings I've
Speaker 1: been using the Pixel And the funniest thing to me,
Speaker 1: it was not funny. It's kind of sad that the
Speaker 1: Android stuff does a lot of things better when it
Speaker 1: comes to like anticipating your next move, but almost in
Speaker 1: the camera, almost everything else is worse. Like I hate
Speaker 1: to just knock it, but like I've gotten so used
Speaker 1: to some of the simplest things on iosa, everything just
Speaker 1: works when you get on Android. It's like who knows
Speaker 1: what's gonna work. You try something, it's like it just
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Like yesterday, what was I was trying to
Speaker 1: like upload something? So you know, this way I like
Speaker 1: to test both is I went through my normal workflow
Speaker 1: of shooting an entire social media video on my phone
Speaker 1: and editing it and posting it all through my phone
Speaker 1: on my pixel, which is something that's very simple to
Speaker 1: do on an iPhone. Well, the pixel, It's like it
Speaker 1: just everything was a lot slower. Everything was just took
Speaker 1: a little bit more time, and then when you upload it,
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know. It's it's really tough because
Speaker 1: I love Android and I love iOS, but I see
Speaker 1: the beauty of why Apple has pulled so far ahead
Speaker 1: because everything just seems to work. So long story short,
Speaker 1: what I was gonna mention is one of the features
Speaker 1: that I'm really loving that they're adding to Android, which
Speaker 1: is really cool, and it just appeared on my pixel.
Speaker 1: I'm not running any special software, but it's called Focus Mode.
Speaker 1: And what you do is you set up the apps
Speaker 1: that distract you, and then with one tap, you can
Speaker 1: press this focus mode. And those taps are those apps
Speaker 1: not only get grayed out, but you can't use them,
Speaker 1: but you also don't see any notifications from them during
Speaker 1: that time. So I've been loving this because I'm let's
Speaker 1: face it, we're all easily distracted with our smartphones. This
Speaker 1: is just one of those things that makes it so
Speaker 1: easy to just say, you know what, I want to
Speaker 1: do something right now, I need a half an hour
Speaker 1: or an hour or a couple of hours, and I'm
Speaker 1: just going to enable this mode. And it's not forever, right,
Speaker 1: But it's just one of those things where if you
Speaker 1: want to check it, you turn it off and all
Speaker 1: your notifications then pop up. So you turn it on,
Speaker 1: they go away, don't it's really got.
Speaker 2: That stressed you out when they all pop up again.
Speaker 1: No, I have my notification set so only important ones
Speaker 1: actually notify me. So on Twitter, I don't get all
Speaker 1: the tweets, I don't get all the likes and stuff,
Speaker 1: And on Instagram, I don't get everything, so I only
Speaker 1: get a couple anyway, and on Facebook I don't get
Speaker 1: any so but anyway, it's just one of those cool
Speaker 1: things that I've just been loving and I know you
Speaker 1: can do. I actually wrote about this, I think, in
Speaker 1: a blog post about you can kind of hack that
Speaker 1: same feature on the iPhone if you who's the downtime feature.
Speaker 1: But it's not as simple. It's not as like easy,
Speaker 1: like there's not one tap to enable and disable, which
Speaker 1: maybe Apple will do that in the future, because I
Speaker 1: think that's really cool. One other thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up before we get into the meat of the podcast,
Speaker 1: is back up your stuff, Backup, Backup, back Up. Last
Speaker 1: week's show, I talked about how my computer crashed, and
Speaker 1: the main thing I was worried about was the fact
Speaker 1: that my son's iPad pictures were on there. I went
Speaker 1: into my time machine backup, which I don't do all
Speaker 1: the time, but I do it kind of regularly, and
Speaker 1: I will tell you that the pictures are there. Ooh, big,
Speaker 1: big relief. So yeah. So my other point is I've
Speaker 1: been kind of holding off with the computer of kind
Speaker 1: of reformatting it and seeing if the hard drive is
Speaker 1: totally shot or if it can just be reformatted and
Speaker 1: set up again. But now I know I can try
Speaker 1: it because I have a picture safe and sound so good. Okay,
Speaker 1: So okay, let's move on to the first story of
Speaker 1: the podcast, which is the Apple Invite have officially gone
Speaker 1: out join us on September tenth for a special event.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because you noticed this but I didn't.
Speaker 1: It says by innovation only, not invitation only. And it's
Speaker 1: tough to describe what it looks like, but it's a
Speaker 1: orb of an Apple logo kind of split in half.
Speaker 1: Like a I would call it series style, like a
Speaker 1: kind of that wavy look, and it's in different colors.
Speaker 1: And this is happening at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino,
Speaker 1: where it normally does now. September tenth, twenty nineteen. This
Speaker 1: is the date that I had marked on my calendar.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to do it on September eleventh. Obviously,
Speaker 1: September ninth is Monday, it's too early, So September tenth perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that is the date that I will be up in. Uh,
Speaker 1: where's it Coupertino? I was gonna say San Clementy for
Speaker 1: some reason? Where is that? I was gonna say San Clementi,
Speaker 1: But no San Francisco or Coupertino, gotcha? So very exciting, exciting.
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to most? Because I've been
Speaker 1: playing with the iOS thirteen, so it's like I already
Speaker 1: know everything that's happening with iOS. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of what's going to happen with the iPhone.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like it's just going to look
Speaker 3: exactly the same, which is what we've spoken about. There's
Speaker 3: the camera that's the wide wide angle camera right that
Speaker 3: you can now if you.
Speaker 1: Take a picture, recrop it and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Recrop it. I mean, I don't know if I'm going.
Speaker 1: To get it, because I what do you want? iPhone eight?
Speaker 2: I'm on eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still have a home button. It might be
Speaker 1: time for an upgrade. It might be time.
Speaker 2: It might be time.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the wrong time. This is the right time.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So this.
Speaker 1: For that sound if your first time listener means it
Speaker 1: is time for producer Megan to select one of the
Speaker 1: questions that you have emailed or sent me and read
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So this first question comes from Rich's Facebook page, which
Speaker 3: is Facebook dot com slash Rich on tech as Morelda writes,
Speaker 3: she said, not sure if you've posted on issues regarding
Speaker 3: the cam Scanner app, but she currently has a Samsung
Speaker 3: Note E and she uses the app regularly. And she's
Speaker 3: noticed that several tech sites are saying to delete the
Speaker 3: app off your phone.
Speaker 2: Asapp it's safe to say that?
Speaker 3: Or she asks is it safe to upload documents to
Speaker 3: Google Drive or email them to myself? I would like
Speaker 3: to preserve them somehow. Also, what alternative apps do you recommend?
Speaker 3: And she says she's a big fan and she's freaking out.
Speaker 1: Okay, I would probably get rid of this app just
Speaker 1: based on principle alone, and that would be my thought.
Speaker 1: I've never used cam Scanner. I'm not a fan of it.
Speaker 1: I'm actually it's funny. In life, I'm never a fan
Speaker 1: of like the number one thing. I'm always a fan
Speaker 1: of it. I talked about this before. I'm always a
Speaker 1: fan of the number two thing, except when it comes
Speaker 1: to courses PEPSI. Oh, okay, But like everything else, like
Speaker 1: almost everything else in life, if it's the number one,
Speaker 1: I'm generally not gravitated.
Speaker 2: Towards it, Like I found iOS Android. Do you gravitate
Speaker 2: towards Android?
Speaker 1: I actually do, But that's funny. That's not for Anny,
Speaker 1: That's that's more for different reasons. But I'm talking just
Speaker 1: in general when it comes to big brands, because I
Speaker 1: always feel like, I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 1: but there used to be ads for like Avus. I
Speaker 1: think it was like we do someone one of them
Speaker 1: tried harder, like Hurts. I think was like the main company,
Speaker 1: and then like aviis like tried harder, and like it
Speaker 1: just seems to me that the second always tries harder.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Cam Scanner the way big tangent.
Speaker 2: This is like a very broad general but like I'm curious.
Speaker 1: But you see what I'm saying, Like, I always like
Speaker 1: kind of the second, like the underdog, I guess you
Speaker 1: can say, because I feel like they try harder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's always why on Yelp, I never call the
Speaker 1: first person that is in the list of results. I
Speaker 1: always call the second because the first is getting so
Speaker 1: many phone calls. They're the top dog, they have too
Speaker 1: much business. I always go with the second guy. It's
Speaker 1: getting a little less phone calls, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I see that you're trying to say.
Speaker 1: So cam Scanner I never really used cause I think
Speaker 1: it was one of the more popular scanning apps on androids.
Speaker 1: So that's I just disliked it immediately. But they here's
Speaker 1: what happened. So cam Scanner apparently Kasperski who they investigated
Speaker 1: cam Scanner, which is a phone pdf yeah, scans things
Speaker 1: like into PDFs. But they found a malicious software on
Speaker 1: I get it's kind of tough to explain, but bottom line,
Speaker 1: somehow this program was allowing malicious software to be installed
Speaker 1: on your phone once you install this app. And the
Speaker 1: scary part about it is that this app was available
Speaker 1: through Google Play, which is weird because you would think
Speaker 1: that they would scan that app for anything malicious, which
Speaker 1: is odd. So long story short, I would say personally
Speaker 1: that you probably want to uninstall cam Scanner, ditch it.
Speaker 1: Even though cam Scanner officially said that they detected an
Speaker 1: advertisement at SDK provided by a third party named ad Hub,
Speaker 1: integrated in Android version five point eleven point seven has
Speaker 1: been reported for containing a malicious module that produces unauthorized
Speaker 1: advertising clicks. So basically, this little module inside their program
Speaker 1: was using your phone to create cash for this advertising
Speaker 1: company ad Hub. Not good, not very not a very
Speaker 1: nice use of your phone. This is why I always
Speaker 1: also favor paid versions of apps from independent developers versus
Speaker 1: you know, I call them garbage apps, the apps that
Speaker 1: are just like these big apps that just have a
Speaker 1: lot of users, but all their their whole goal is
Speaker 1: like just infiltrate your phone with.
Speaker 2: Advertising like Instagram.
Speaker 1: No, not Instagram there, that's a nice app, but just
Speaker 1: just ran I don't know, I just I just I'm
Speaker 1: really not hot on this camp scanner app. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I just don't. Let me just see how many downloads.
Speaker 2: This definitely delete, so I.
Speaker 1: Would delete it they they do have a way that
Speaker 1: you can get rid of uh, you know, upload or
Speaker 1: download an update that doesn't have all this malware. But
Speaker 1: I would just get rid of it. So I personally
Speaker 1: would you either in Google Drive. You can just go
Speaker 1: to Google Drive and there's a big blue button that
Speaker 1: says scan in the lower right hand corner. You press
Speaker 1: the big blue plus sign and then just says scan.
Speaker 1: You can just use Google Drive to scan your stuff
Speaker 1: into PDFs. That's number one. That's my main recommendation. Then
Speaker 1: I would recommend Adobe Scan, which is you know, it's
Speaker 1: a little bloated, but it will work. And then on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, I actually like, let me say, I've got
Speaker 1: two apps. I like Scannable, which is my favorite that
Speaker 1: does not have an Android counterpart, and the other one
Speaker 1: is doc Scanner from Zoho that's my new favorite, and
Speaker 1: they also do not have an Android equivalent. So get
Speaker 1: rid of cam scanner. That's bad bad actor, bad bad
Speaker 1: bad acting. I don't even know what that means. Speaking
Speaker 1: of apologies, Apple is apologizing. See what happens to the
Speaker 1: best of them. Apple is apologizing because they you found
Speaker 1: out that they were listening to their your serie commands
Speaker 1: so they had a bunch of people at Apple listening
Speaker 1: to Siri commands, which makes sense. How do you make
Speaker 1: things better if you don't listen to what people are
Speaker 1: saying and listen to the computer's response. I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: that any voice commands are being listened to. I mean
Speaker 1: they have to be listened to. Apple says that they
Speaker 1: listen to less than two percent, or I guess less
Speaker 1: than point zero two percent, So that's not that many.
Speaker 1: But when you do it times how many Siri commands are,
Speaker 1: it's a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They call it Siri grating, which makes sense. So if
Speaker 1: you say, hey, Siri, what's the weather and it says
Speaker 1: the NFL game is starting at three pm today, they
Speaker 1: would want to know that that was not the right
Speaker 1: response to your question. That makes sense, And the only
Speaker 1: way they know that is if someone if a human
Speaker 1: listens and goes, wait, she didn't ask about the NFL game,
Speaker 1: but it sounded like Seattle Seahawks, so it misinterpreted. You see,
Speaker 1: I'm saying what's the weather in Seattle and it says
Speaker 1: the Seahawks play tonight at three pm? You know that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So three changes they're making. Number one
Speaker 1: they're no longer going to retain audio recordings of what
Speaker 1: you say to Siri. Number two, you have to opt in.
Speaker 1: So if you want your recordings to be used by
Speaker 1: these people to make Siri better, you will opt in.
Speaker 1: A lot of people will opt in because if you
Speaker 1: look at the flow of Siri of the way you
Speaker 1: set up an iPhone right now, it says data and analytics,
Speaker 1: and it's like the default is, yes, I want to
Speaker 1: opt in. I always opt out, by the way, Oh
Speaker 1: you do, I always always opt out.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought you were going to say, you do opt.
Speaker 1: In, always opt out? Because why I bought your phone
Speaker 1: for one thousand dollars. Why am I the guinea pig
Speaker 1: that's giving you all my data to make your.
Speaker 2: Phone better and make someone else the guinea pig.
Speaker 1: Now I'm fine with you doing it or whoever else,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but personally, like, I like to be
Speaker 1: more private, So why am I giving you? Like if
Speaker 1: you want to pay me for those analytics like Google
Speaker 1: on there, I do this Google Play like rewards or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they ask me questions and they pay me like
Speaker 1: hard cash that I can use for Google Play goods.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So if I wanted to opt out.
Speaker 1: Right, now you can opt out. This is this is
Speaker 1: they still have to they have to enable this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then when customers opt in, only Apple employees will
Speaker 1: be allowed to listen to audio samples. So they're not
Speaker 1: going to use like third party randos to do that.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So this next question comes from actually someone who emailed
Speaker 3: you on your website, which is rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 3: You just click the contact button and you fill out
Speaker 3: your question. So this comes from Mike and he asks,
Speaker 3: I'll be traveling next month and with lost luggage on
Speaker 3: the rise, would you happen to know any low cost
Speaker 3: GPS luggage trackers?
Speaker 2: I love this question.
Speaker 1: This is a good question. I'm curious where is he
Speaker 1: getting his data that lost luggage is on the rise.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But I hear about people losing their luggage.
Speaker 1: Do you really never hear that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on, I never hear of people losing Okay, tell
Speaker 1: me a story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yesterday day, not me. I was watching someone story.
Speaker 1: Okay, random story. Do you know this person?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I don't know them?
Speaker 1: Okay, never mind, no, no, hold on, you don't know
Speaker 1: this person. You can't. This is This is like when
Speaker 1: people tell me they'll be like, oh, everyone's going to Fiji.
Speaker 1: I'm like who, They're like, well, I see them my stories.
Speaker 1: Do you know those people?
Speaker 3: No, Still, it happens. I have a friend that lost
Speaker 3: her Anyways.
Speaker 2: It's fine. I feel like you don't think it happens.
Speaker 1: I've traveled. I've traveled around the world. I've traveled around
Speaker 1: the world. So of you, yes, and for this job
Speaker 1: and I knock on wood, have yet to ever have
Speaker 1: a piece of luggage missing?
Speaker 2: Wake Really, I've had two.
Speaker 1: In ten I've actually, hold on, I've been I've been
Speaker 1: flying for twenty something years. I can remember one time
Speaker 1: that I have my luggage lost. And this was back
Speaker 1: in the nineties. Wow. So I feel like luggage has
Speaker 1: gotten a lot better. Okay, like the whole luggage process
Speaker 1: with airlines. But that's besides the post.
Speaker 2: I've had. It happened twice.
Speaker 1: If it makes you feel better, then get a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would buy a tracker. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying now.
Speaker 1: With that said, I used to keep a tile in
Speaker 1: my suitcase in case it did get lost.
Speaker 2: Get out of here.
Speaker 1: But you know if it did. Okay, So here's the
Speaker 1: challenge of tracking your luggage. Number one, you have to
Speaker 1: have a GPS tracker because something like a tile may
Speaker 1: or may not work. You want exact tracking. So there
Speaker 1: used to be a product called track Dot and that
Speaker 1: was the big one, and it was pretty inexpensive. It
Speaker 1: was like fifty bucks and it would track your luggage
Speaker 1: for I think it was like three years. I used
Speaker 1: to have one of these. They sent me a test model.
Speaker 1: It worked for like two years. I don't remember if
Speaker 1: I ever actually put it in my luggage. That was
Speaker 1: number that's gone out of business. Okay, So the three
Speaker 1: that I found that are still around. There is one
Speaker 1: from Sprint called Tracker plus Tracker Safe and Sound, and
Speaker 1: this is two dollars and fifty cents a month for
Speaker 1: twenty four months. Can you do the math on that? Okay?
Speaker 1: Two dollars and fifty cents a month for twenty four
Speaker 1: months plus five dollars a month for service, and that
Speaker 1: seems like a lot of money.
Speaker 2: If he's five dollars a month for.
Speaker 1: Service plus plus twenty four dollars a month, I mean
Speaker 1: two dollars and fifty cents a month for twenty four months. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's number one. Then you've got the Geobit location monitor,
Speaker 1: which we did a story on and this is a
Speaker 1: good little tracker that can be used for anything, including
Speaker 1: kids and elderly. This is one hundred and thirty dollars
Speaker 1: plus nine dollars a month for two years, or you
Speaker 1: can get it month a month for thirteen dollars a month.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the Luglock tracker, which is seventy dollars
Speaker 1: and it's sold out so you can't even get that one.
Speaker 1: Then they have a new one called gig which is
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars month. Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is this.
Speaker 1: Is my point. Just to trust that your airline is
Speaker 1: gonna have your luggage when you get there, and if
Speaker 1: they don't, I mean number one, I always do. I
Speaker 1: try to do carry on as much as possible. That's different,
Speaker 1: I know, But my point is I'm just saying this
Speaker 1: person is saying Mike is saying that he's traveling next month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which means he's telling me he's not a frequent traveler.
Speaker 1: So in the span of that one time he travels,
Speaker 1: I say, take your chances and save the three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars or whatever. We just decided this cost to have this.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. If you you know, if
Speaker 1: you bought your you know these companies the time that
Speaker 1: they did lose the luggage, they will buy you new
Speaker 1: clothes and they will also bring your luggage to your
Speaker 1: place for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but what if Mike's diamond necklace was it?
Speaker 1: Don't put your diamond necklace in luggage. Don't everything I
Speaker 1: have in my supers.
Speaker 3: I think what we're trying to say is you should
Speaker 3: probably carry on if you're really, really, really worried, save
Speaker 3: save the one hundred and eighty dollars on the tracker
Speaker 3: and just carry.
Speaker 1: Am I getting angrier as the podcast? No.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like every time I have
Speaker 3: one idea, you're just like, Nope, how right.
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta label these Why you're getting frustrated.
Speaker 1: This is when Megan has an idea.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well that was just not nice.
Speaker 1: It launched their new smart watch. It's called the Versa two.
Speaker 1: When the Versa came out, the original one, I was
Speaker 1: a big believer in that watch. I really liked it.
Speaker 1: I liked it as a alternative to the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: and I still do. I still think the Versa is
Speaker 1: the best alternative to the Apple Watch. The reason why
Speaker 1: is because it's simple. It works with every phone, including
Speaker 1: iOS and Android devices, and it's just a it's it's
Speaker 1: just a kind of the basic nice tracker, and I
Speaker 1: thought it had a lot of features. The things I
Speaker 1: didn't like about it was the music and the slowness.
Speaker 1: Now they fix those, so they say the Versa two
Speaker 1: is faster. Now Spotify is built in. Before you only
Speaker 1: had Pandora, which is really cool. They built in Alexa,
Speaker 1: but I don't care about that at all. I don't
Speaker 1: want Alexa on my smart watch again the anger I don't.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, so now you're talking. If you have
Speaker 1: a Google phone and a Fippit Versa, now you're talking,
Speaker 1: you have to use Alexa on your wrist and Google
Speaker 1: on your phone. It's just or if you have an
Speaker 1: iPhone and you're using this, now you have to use
Speaker 1: Siri on your phone and Alex on your wrist. Nightmare
Speaker 1: things to talk to. Thank you a lot of keeping trying.
Speaker 2: I already talk to myself enough, so you do.
Speaker 1: This is about the only time someone listens to you
Speaker 1: when you talk.
Speaker 2: Oh do you guys hear this?
Speaker 1: Let's see five day battery life on the fipbit versa two,
Speaker 1: which is really nice. The other thing I really like,
Speaker 1: and this was my other problems about the Fippit versus
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch. When you lift your wrist with the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, it lights up immediately to show you what's
Speaker 1: on the screen. The versa there's a tiny delay, which
Speaker 1: is really frustrating when you're using this thing and you
Speaker 1: want to just glance at the time. So now they
Speaker 1: do have an all day on mode which will only
Speaker 1: give you two days a battery life. But to me,
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have that. Yeah, because when you lift
Speaker 1: up your wrist, the clearly Fippit can't figure out how
Speaker 1: to get the beauty of the Apple Watch, where it
Speaker 1: just comes immediately to life. Yeah, as soon as you
Speaker 1: lift your wrist. For some reason, phippeit can't get that.
Speaker 1: That's why they're doing the always on.
Speaker 2: So it also looks a lot like the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: It does look a lot like the Apple Watch, so
Speaker 1: you might fool your friends.
Speaker 2: Be like, yes, maybe I'll just get the Fippit versus.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like that we talk to Alexa all
Speaker 3: the time, especially when you're near other things.
Speaker 1: I like about this. It has a sleep score, which
Speaker 1: is something the Apple Watch does not do. Maybe the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch with the next generation will do sleep, but
Speaker 1: that's a that's a glaring omission.
Speaker 2: That's weird that they that it does.
Speaker 1: We need sleep. On the Apple Watch, they do oxygen tracking,
Speaker 1: which is really cool because a lot of people, if
Speaker 1: you have like sleep apnea, this will be handy to
Speaker 1: kind of see like how often it happens. You can
Speaker 1: show your doctor be like, look, my oxygen is going
Speaker 1: like this while I'm sleeping, like up and down and
Speaker 1: up and down, and your doctor can maybe do some
Speaker 1: more tests and you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Or if you have like sleep paralysis, which you don't
Speaker 3: know what it is, Is this what you have?
Speaker 1: When are we going to get into Megan's sleep issues? Here,
Speaker 1: no sleep paralysis, so tell me again. You basically wake
Speaker 1: up and you feel like you can't move.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which, by the way, Rich didn't know what this
Speaker 3: was and I had. I said, oh, I have sleep proalysis.
Speaker 3: He was like, I've never heard of that. So basically, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like say you're taking a nap.
Speaker 1: Right and like that'd be a dream.
Speaker 3: Okay, that sounds like you're saying you're just taking a nap,
Speaker 3: and then it's this feeling where your your brain is awake,
Speaker 3: like you're trying to wake up, but your body's asleep.
Speaker 1: That's so weird. So you feel like you carry but
Speaker 1: you can't move.
Speaker 2: But see, I feel you feel paralyzed.
Speaker 1: I feel like you were talking about the thing where
Speaker 1: if you're in a dream and you're trying to move,
Speaker 1: it feels like you're moving through water or like, olass,
Speaker 1: it's really slow. Oh okay, never had those dreams totally.
Speaker 1: You're trying to run from someone. It's like you literally feel.
Speaker 2: Like have you ever liked when you're falling asleep?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you're like any fast you like?
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, that's my favorite. I love when that happens.
Speaker 1: That happens on the plane all the time, where.
Speaker 2: You're just like, oh my gosh, I hate sleeping on planes.
Speaker 1: Love it. Two hundred dollars for the fippit. It's available
Speaker 1: on a Fippit versus two. It's available on September fifteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The thing I don't like about fippit, they
Speaker 1: like everyone else has real that subscriptions seem to be
Speaker 1: a nice source of income now Fippit is offering a
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month service, which I don't even I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna go into what it includes because just
Speaker 1: by principle, I don't want it. I don't want another subscription.
Speaker 2: So many subscriptions?
Speaker 1: How many?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: So this next question comes from Bruce. He emailed you
Speaker 3: and he wrote Rich, I've called Apple about this and
Speaker 3: ended up at Goldman Sachs. They weren't completely sure about
Speaker 3: their answer. The question is if I set up a
Speaker 3: monthly subscription, say for Netflix, and give them my card
Speaker 3: number to draw it from each month, then later I
Speaker 3: generate a new card for a purchase online, does that
Speaker 3: negate the number Netflix is using? In other words, each
Speaker 3: time I generate a new number, are the old ones trashed?
Speaker 2: Is he talking about credit card?
Speaker 1: Yes, he's talking about Apple card. Oh okay, got it interesting?
Speaker 1: So he said he couldn't find the answer to this,
Speaker 1: and yeah, So the Apple Card is is Apple's new
Speaker 1: credit card which is linked to the iPhone and it
Speaker 1: works in several ways. Number One, you sign up for it,
Speaker 1: you get it immediately on your phone. Then you can
Speaker 1: request to have a physical card sent to you. The
Speaker 1: physical card has no numbers on it. So how do
Speaker 1: you use a number? You create a virtual number inside
Speaker 1: the app. And this can be handy for several reasons,
Speaker 1: the first being that it's for security. If you are
Speaker 1: doing like a free trial online or sketchy website, you
Speaker 1: can use a virtual number and it won't affect your
Speaker 1: credit card and that's kind of nice. And you can
Speaker 1: cut off that virtual number at any time. So let's
Speaker 1: say you do a Netflix trial and you're like, eh,
Speaker 1: I don't want this anymore. Instead of like calling Netflix,
Speaker 1: you could literally just like turn off that number. So,
Speaker 1: and this is not the first credit card to do this.
Speaker 1: A lot of the other banks offer these virtual numbers.
Speaker 1: I think it sounds very complicated to like do this,
Speaker 1: like to set up different numbers all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I can see where it can come in handy,
Speaker 1: especially with free trials, because you just don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with getting charged for a free trial that you
Speaker 1: don't want. What he's asking is if he generates one number,
Speaker 1: does it push out the old number and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, all his subscriptions on that number go
Speaker 1: like haywire. Yeah, that's not how it works. You can
Speaker 1: pretty much generate new numbers and keep the old numbers.
Speaker 1: You'll see a whole list of your numbers and then
Speaker 1: you can delete them as you want. That's how it
Speaker 1: normally works, and that's that's the way it would work
Speaker 1: to make the most sense, because if you do want
Speaker 1: to set these things up, like you can type in
Speaker 1: on your you know, I haven't used this can I
Speaker 1: don't have the Apple card. But if you theoretically would
Speaker 1: type in like Netflix card, and it would just generate
Speaker 1: the number and you have it labeled as your Netflix card, Okay.
Speaker 1: And then next thing, you know, you want to sign
Speaker 1: up for a subscription for your kids for something like
Speaker 1: one of those box you know they come every month,
Speaker 1: like a science experiment box or something. But you think
Speaker 1: that you're going to like totally ghost the company, and
Speaker 1: you're just like, I don't want to really get this,
Speaker 1: but I'll just try it. So you put in that
Speaker 1: number and then after a month, you just delete that number, okay,
Speaker 1: after you get your box. So that's the way I
Speaker 1: understand it. I think that that's cool, and I'm not
Speaker 1: you know, you know me, I love credit cards, but
Speaker 1: I hate credit cards. I you know, I love the
Speaker 1: credit cards for the convenience, but I like spending money
Speaker 1: that I feel and so totally I get the Apple
Speaker 1: card I feel like is actually kind of in the
Speaker 1: middle there. And I I find that the tap to
Speaker 1: pay is really interesting because we've talked about this before.
Speaker 1: If I am handing you cash, it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: little bit longer for you to pull it out of
Speaker 1: my hand. Right if I'm handing you my debit card,
Speaker 1: it's going to take a little bit less time, but
Speaker 1: similar to that, you still feel it. If I hand
Speaker 1: you my credit card, I'm just like doing a dance
Speaker 1: move and I'm like swiping it or putting that chip
Speaker 1: in whatever. It's no big deal, even for when it's
Speaker 1: one hundred three hundred, four hundred dollars transaction, even the
Speaker 1: biggest transaction, I still don't feel it. Tap to pay
Speaker 1: I feel like might even be less friction than the
Speaker 1: credit card because it's so easy to just tap your phone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you have this setup tap to pay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I have?
Speaker 2: You mean, well, there are credit cards that have the tap.
Speaker 1: There are some credit cards. Now I know that's even
Speaker 1: more I don't have tap to pay. So you have
Speaker 1: a card that has the tap to pay? Yes, So
Speaker 1: that's kind.
Speaker 3: Of and it's funny because they don't even like I
Speaker 3: was paying for something. Once I was like, where do
Speaker 3: I tap this card? And they were like, oh, I
Speaker 3: don't know, yeah, and I was like, oh, well, it says.
Speaker 2: Like anyways, so I just it's the same as a
Speaker 2: credit card to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, feel the same.
Speaker 2: Feeling of like I won't see this for a month, right,
Speaker 2: And that's so the Apple card.
Speaker 1: The Apple card, you would see it because now with
Speaker 1: the app, it's it's all in the app, itemized, like
Speaker 1: immediately your transaction. So anyway, I will not be getting
Speaker 1: the Apple card. But I'm not saying like that. It's
Speaker 1: it's terrible, like if you're on top of your finances
Speaker 1: and all that stuff like it can be. It can
Speaker 1: be a good tool, let's put it that way. But
Speaker 1: the virtual cards, yes, you should be able to delete
Speaker 1: those at will and have several of them at the
Speaker 1: same time to manage everything that you've got. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see, do you want to talk about Yelp. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Yelp. This is the first time
Speaker 1: that Yelp kind of revamped their app to be personalized. Now.
Speaker 1: In the past, I always had my way of searching Yelp.
Speaker 1: Did I ever tell you how I do it? No,
Speaker 1: So when I search Yelp, I would do something like,
Speaker 1: let's say I was in San Francisco for the day
Speaker 1: and I wanted to eat at a restaurant. I would
Speaker 1: go into Yelp and I would search restaurants, and then
Speaker 1: I would go into the the sort filters and I
Speaker 1: would do by most reviewed, which is near me, So
Speaker 1: that would tell me not the most popular restaurant, per se,
Speaker 1: but kind of it's like the restaurant that has the
Speaker 1: most like people are going and they're reviewing. This restaurant's trendy.
Speaker 1: It's kind of yeah, like people know about it. So
Speaker 1: I'd just be like, well, that's basically the restaurant that
Speaker 1: I need to go to. Go ahead, try see what's
Speaker 1: in this area. You can, I'll talk about what Yelp's
Speaker 1: doing is. So that was always my way of finding
Speaker 1: like the little hotspots without a lot of work, you know,
Speaker 1: because if you're only in a city for a day,
Speaker 1: you don't want to really spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: researching restaurants. So I'd just be like, let me just
Speaker 1: go to the place everyone's reviewing. So I would do
Speaker 1: that most reviewed?
Speaker 2: Okay, I see it. Do you find a place why
Speaker 2: it's loading?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: So most reviewed? That's sponsored okay, carda.
Speaker 1: Mom, Nope, keep going. They changed it so now you
Speaker 1: have to look for all results there. It is Pink
Speaker 1: hot Dogs seven thousand. So that's not a place that
Speaker 1: I would normally go, but it's kind of funny. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been there?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, if you I had it once they came here
Speaker 1: to the station. I'm not a big hot dog person,
Speaker 1: so I don't really like seek them out, but I
Speaker 1: will eat one. But it's just funny because if I
Speaker 1: was in La, like that is one of the places
Speaker 1: that you should probably hit up. Everyone knows pinks and
Speaker 1: so it kind of worked. The second one, i'd never
Speaker 1: heard of Republic. Oh I've heard of it, but it
Speaker 1: sounds fancy, so I would. I also buy the way,
Speaker 1: so it's that's nothing.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely easy.
Speaker 1: I would totally a five dollars if it's if it
Speaker 1: gets up to the five, I would. I would have
Speaker 1: a little pause anything, swipe that credit card one dollar,
Speaker 1: sign to four. No big deal. I'm kidding. It's actually funny. No,
Speaker 1: what's funny is when I travel on business, I am
Speaker 1: definitely like a cheaper eater, so I will I don't
Speaker 1: want to name names with some of my other colleagues here,
Speaker 1: but I will generally try to find places that are
Speaker 1: like two to three versus like a force four dollars sign.
Speaker 2: But you told me that I can only eat at
Speaker 2: one one dollar.
Speaker 1: Hey, Megan, don't give everyone your secrets here. I'm just kidding, Okay,
Speaker 1: So for the first time, you can now tell Yelp
Speaker 1: what your preferences are. And those preferences now are your diet,
Speaker 1: so you can specify if you're gluten free, halal quito, kosher, pescatarian, vegan,
Speaker 1: or vegetarian, or as Megan likes to call it, all
Speaker 1: the above.
Speaker 2: Good one.
Speaker 1: You can do your lifestyle, which is car owners, homeowners, parents,
Speaker 1: and pet owners. You can do wheelchair accessibility. You can
Speaker 1: also choose your favorite food and drink categories, including happy hour, bronze,
Speaker 1: Chinese pizza. And then you can choose your interests like bookstores,
Speaker 1: late night, late nights, date nights, hair salons, hiking, home decor,
Speaker 1: kid activities, and more. And immediately what came to mind
Speaker 1: when I saw this new feature which yelp gave me
Speaker 1: early access to for a week. I'll just humble brag there.
Speaker 2: But don't toot your own horn.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying i'd access this access to this feature
Speaker 1: quicker than more people. But the first thing I thought
Speaker 1: of is, oh my gosh, I'm handing over all my
Speaker 1: datity yelps so they can now sell this to advertisers.
Speaker 1: But Yelp says that they do keep this information private
Speaker 1: and it's only shared with the app, So I don't
Speaker 1: know how true that is, but that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: So bottom line, love Yelp. By the way, Yelp is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not sponsored by Yelp, but like love Yelp.
Speaker 1: But once you choose these things about your life, it
Speaker 1: makes sense. If you are vegan, it would make sense
Speaker 1: for Yelp to put the vegan restaurant, or not even
Speaker 1: a vegan restaurant, let's just say a restaurant is known
Speaker 1: for like some great vegan options. It would put those
Speaker 1: towards the top of the list. The only thing that
Speaker 1: they're doing here that's kind of weird to me is
Speaker 1: it throws me off. They put little hearts next to
Speaker 1: things that are sort of tailored for you. Yeah, to me,
Speaker 1: when I see a heart, that means something is heart healthy,
Speaker 1: like a healthy restaurant. Really it just to me, it
Speaker 1: just seems like it's heart healthy, but it means no.
Speaker 1: This is personalized. So the other thing they do that's
Speaker 1: really cool is they tell you why something is sort
Speaker 1: of elevated for you. It'll say, yelpers report that this
Speaker 1: location has a lot of vegan options, or Yelpers like
Speaker 1: this place for its kid friendly pancakes. Right, It'll kind
Speaker 1: of give that information so you understand why it shows
Speaker 1: those I think that this is very much evolving. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's perfect. I don't think that Yelp has
Speaker 1: a level of AI that Google has just yet. But
Speaker 1: it's a start, and it's a good way to kind
Speaker 1: of personalize the Yelp experience. I worry a little bit
Speaker 1: about things being too personalized where it's like, rich, you
Speaker 1: love pizza, just keep going to pizza places. I don't
Speaker 1: want that to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But at the same time, it's like, you do
Speaker 2: eat a lot of.
Speaker 1: Pizza, Hey, but you would what now you're saying, just
Speaker 1: because I'm Italian, I eat a lot of pizza. Huh,
Speaker 1: all right, I do.
Speaker 2: Love pizza though, right, so.
Speaker 1: I will have Italian food any day of the week.
Speaker 2: There you go. You probably want to try different places too,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I want to help.
Speaker 1: I did try Boba tea though, I loved it, so
Speaker 1: now maybe I'll heart Boba all right.
Speaker 3: This next question comes from Facebook. Monica writes, what's your
Speaker 3: opinion on VPNs?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Another VPN question? We got one? I think last week?
Speaker 3: She keeps reading about added security for online banking fraud?
Speaker 3: Are they that secure? This from from Monica?
Speaker 1: No, I mean, who's Monica reading this from? Okay?
Speaker 2: So yeah, I know everyone's citing things and we don't
Speaker 2: really know.
Speaker 1: Well, here's what happened. I will tell you where they're
Speaker 1: hearing it, Megan. They're hearing it from ads. When they
Speaker 1: browse online, A lot of the stuff they see is
Speaker 1: sort of clutter and it's ads. It's advertising. I'm at
Speaker 1: the gym and I'm watching on the TV, like what
Speaker 1: I sometimes don't connect or I do connect what I
Speaker 1: see on TV to questions that I get because people
Speaker 1: are heavily being advertised and I've seen My.
Speaker 3: Sister asked me this question this weekend, and I was like,
Speaker 3: how do you not like I didn't know what a
Speaker 3: VPN was until I started working with you, because.
Speaker 1: We because I always use one to secure all my travels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but anyways, I will tell you my thoughts on VPNs.
Speaker 1: The main number one is a vp Okay, VPN is
Speaker 1: virtual private network. And if you have a job at
Speaker 1: a corporation, a lot of times you will use a
Speaker 1: corporate VPN to access your network at work. And what
Speaker 1: that does is think of a VPN as a tunnel.
Speaker 1: It's a direct line from your computer tunnel under all
Speaker 1: the crap that's on the internet, right to your company
Speaker 1: so that you can access company servers. You can access
Speaker 1: company files, company data without Imagine you're in a tunnel
Speaker 1: that has just you know, it's totally secured. No one
Speaker 1: can get into that tunnel because it's kind of like
Speaker 1: there's a big like, you know, there's just no way in.
Speaker 1: So you can take that tunnel to your company's network.
Speaker 1: That's what a VPN is in its simplest definition. What
Speaker 1: people use VPNs for normally is to get around geo
Speaker 1: location restrictions that a lot of websites put on so
Speaker 1: that you can't access stuff from certain places. So for instance,
Speaker 1: let's say Netflix had a show in Germany that's not
Speaker 1: offered in the US. A lot of people would use
Speaker 1: a VPN to say they're in Germany and then they can,
Speaker 1: you know, watch that show that's yeah in Germany.
Speaker 2: That was the question my sister asked me.
Speaker 3: She said, do you recommend any VPNs so that I
Speaker 3: can so that you can watch Netflix from other countries. Yes,
Speaker 3: she's not leaving the country anytime soon. I don't know where,
Speaker 3: but she's planning ahead.
Speaker 1: She's planning ahead. Another one the another way people do
Speaker 1: it is with sporting events. A lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of the games are blacked out. So let's say, and
Speaker 1: I never understood this, I'm not a big sports guy,
Speaker 1: but let's say you live in Los Angeles and you
Speaker 1: have a subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket. Who's our team
Speaker 1: here in LA? Like, who's the football team? The Rams? No,
Speaker 1: not the Trojan Sorry the Rams. You can't watch Rams
Speaker 1: games on Sunday Ticket because they want you to watch
Speaker 1: it on broadcast TV. Makes no sense, Okay, same thing
Speaker 1: for baseball. You're in Atlanta, you can't watch I believe
Speaker 1: it's the Braves. You can't watch the Braves when you
Speaker 1: have a subscription at MLB TV because they want you
Speaker 1: to tune into. However, the Braves are broadcast on TV.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not sure if that's still the way it is,
Speaker 1: but that's crazy. Generally, how VPNs came into the public
Speaker 1: spotlight is because people wanted to get around these rules,
Speaker 1: and so that's the main thing. There's other reasons to
Speaker 1: have VPNs when it comes to securing your data. Here's
Speaker 1: when I recommend using a VPN. Number one, if you're
Speaker 1: at a hotel like a Hilton or whatever main hotel chain,
Speaker 1: nine times out of ten, you don't need a VPN
Speaker 1: unless you're accessing really secure stuff. Generally, I try not
Speaker 1: to access my bank account on anything that's not LTE connection,
Speaker 1: So I would, yep, if you're on public Wi Fi,
Speaker 1: I would not access bank accounts. Now, is it secure, Yes,
Speaker 1: it is, but because your bank is encrypted, but there
Speaker 1: is a little bit better of a chance that someone
Speaker 1: might be able to do something when you're on a
Speaker 1: public network versus LTE, which is much more secure cellular,
Speaker 1: if you're on a random if you love getting on
Speaker 1: random Wi Fi networks, like that's like.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things to do in life.
Speaker 1: I actually just hop on random.
Speaker 2: Megan loves to get on random.
Speaker 1: But it's true. It's it's you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where if you because some people are are
Speaker 1: sort of Wi Fi like they love always getting on
Speaker 1: Wi Fi like they just they do the save battery.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's for, but it's like they
Speaker 1: just don't use their data whatever it is. Like, Yeah, personally,
Speaker 1: I avoid Wi Fi at all costs, Like, if I
Speaker 1: can use my cellular, I'm gonna use that. But some
Speaker 1: people just love to always like, you know what the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi is for this place, I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I don't care. So that's the other reason is
Speaker 1: if you're always using random Wi Fi networks, then I
Speaker 1: would probably use a vv VPNs I recommend. I don't
Speaker 1: really have one, but the one that a lot of
Speaker 1: people like is I believe it's called Private Internet Access.
Speaker 1: I think that's the one that a lot of people use.
Speaker 1: I think that's the I think that's the one people use.
Speaker 1: There's just so many are there's so many.
Speaker 2: I don't know any so I can't recommend any.
Speaker 1: Nor it is another one that people like we use here, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we use a corporate one. So it doesn't really care. Okay,
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay. Now with that said, if you are
Speaker 1: traveling to a country like I would definitely use a
Speaker 1: VPN for all of your stuff and may have to.
Speaker 1: Or if you're in Russia, or if you're in a
Speaker 1: country like follow the trend here Russia, China, you get it.
Speaker 1: If you going to Italy, you don't need one, You're fine. Okay.
Speaker 2: I want to go to Italy, so do I.
Speaker 1: I'd love to get some pizza. All right, Two quick
Speaker 1: things I want to get through before the end of
Speaker 1: the show. We tried out Sprint's new five G network,
Speaker 1: which is called True Mobile five G, and I will
Speaker 1: tell you it's cool that they lit this up in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and Washington, and I tried
Speaker 1: it out. They gave me a phone to try it
Speaker 1: out on and it's the one plus or no, they
Speaker 1: give me the one plus. No, they gave me a
Speaker 1: Samsung five G phone. It's cool if it works. So
Speaker 1: my advice on five G. You're gonna be hearing a
Speaker 1: lot of hype about five G. I don't think you
Speaker 1: need to worry about hopping on five G or I
Speaker 1: don't think you need to upgrade now if you have
Speaker 1: no need for it, you know, like if you're just
Speaker 1: thinking like, oh now, if you're a nerd like me
Speaker 1: who loves like I will never forget. When Sprint got
Speaker 1: what they called the Vision network back in the day,
Speaker 1: I was living in Treeport and they turn on this
Speaker 1: Sprint Vision it was called, and it was like a
Speaker 1: faster three G network that they launched. I had to
Speaker 1: get the phone the first day I ran to Sprint.
Speaker 1: I got the phone and it was it was a
Speaker 1: flip phone and it had a little tiny screen. But
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the fastest data you've ever experienced,
Speaker 1: and I had to have it. And I'm still like that.
Speaker 1: I'm a nerd. So if I was a Sprint customer
Speaker 1: and I was upgrading my phone, I would definitely get
Speaker 1: one of these five G phones because that's just who
Speaker 1: I am. If your average person doesn't really care, like
Speaker 1: your four G is just fine. It works everything.
Speaker 2: And if you're a gamer, if you're.
Speaker 1: A gamer, that's a good thing. If you're gaming on
Speaker 1: your phone, it could give you a little advantage on
Speaker 1: Fortnite because there's less latency. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: the main thing I learned in reporting. The Sprint story
Speaker 1: is that Sprint is not using millimeter wave, which is
Speaker 1: what Verizon and AT and Tier. Using millimeter wave does
Speaker 1: not travel as far, but it gives you much faster speeds.
Speaker 1: So the reason SO and Sprint what they're doing is
Speaker 1: they're kind of using a modified I don't I don't
Speaker 1: really know, but basically they're modifying their LTE network to
Speaker 1: accommodate five G speeds, so they're not as fast. They're
Speaker 1: averaging about two hundred versus on Verizon AT and T
Speaker 1: you'll probably average closer to like a thousand. Wow, But
Speaker 1: do you need all that at the end of the day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it'd be nice.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: Sprint says their average five G download is two hundred
Speaker 1: and three megabits per second, which is six times faster
Speaker 1: than their LTE which is thirty five megabits per second.
Speaker 1: But bottom line, it's cool. I love believe me. Seeing
Speaker 1: those speed tests and that thing just go off the
Speaker 1: chart was kind of cool. All right. One more thing
Speaker 1: to mention, Google Photos got a really cool feature. It
Speaker 1: might still be rolling out, it's already live in my
Speaker 1: Google Photos, but it's really really cool. And that is
Speaker 1: you can now search for text inside pictures. So if
Speaker 1: you were in Italy and you remember some random sign
Speaker 1: that you saw, it would be an Italian. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Probably maybe well man, maybe it recognized different languages. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But let's I'll give you a better example.
Speaker 1: Let's say you travel a lot for work, and you
Speaker 1: take pictures of your receipts, and you want to remember
Speaker 1: you need to submit a receipt for that Burger place
Speaker 1: that you went to. You can type in Burger and
Speaker 1: that receipt would show up. It's a really cool little feature.
Speaker 1: It's it's just makes Google Photos that much more useful.
Speaker 1: And so try it out. Just try searching for some things.
Speaker 1: I've started to use Google Photos now to take pictures
Speaker 1: of my receipts for that reason, because now it's so easy.
Speaker 1: I used to not do that because I used to
Speaker 1: use them in Google Drive. But now it's like, just
Speaker 1: go ahead. One more thing. The Microsoft Surface event will
Speaker 1: be happening October second in New York City, and we
Speaker 1: are expected to expecting to see some new surface laptop,
Speaker 1: surface tablets, whatever whatever they got. And I'm predicting too
Speaker 1: that the pixel from Google the new one will be
Speaker 1: around that same date, October first or third in New York.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's in New York, so I only have to
Speaker 1: go to one place and hit up. That'd be ideal.
Speaker 1: That's like best case scenario. That'd be like.
Speaker 2: That that there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: All right. I think that's gonna do it for the show, Megan.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. I talked. I talked way too much this show.
Speaker 1: You didn't, Yeah, I did, because I went off about
Speaker 1: cam Scanner. I just did.
Speaker 3: Know.
Speaker 2: You're just excited, you know.
Speaker 1: I get very excited about technology, and I get very
Speaker 1: excited about all the stuff that we talked about.
Speaker 2: Its probably a good sign that you love what you do.
Speaker 1: That is a good sign. How did you enjoy the show?
Speaker 2: I thought it was fun.
Speaker 1: You seemed a little disappointed that it was not what
Speaker 1: there wasn't as much. Maybe you didn't get as many
Speaker 1: questions and as you want, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to feel bad.
Speaker 1: Do you have a really good question that we should
Speaker 1: extend the show?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm just reading them.
Speaker 1: Don't be sorry.
Speaker 2: Actually, I think we're good.
Speaker 1: I think we're good. Okay, good, Okay, Well there you
Speaker 1: have it, all right, well, I do want to mention
Speaker 1: that I was on another podcast. It was called The
Speaker 1: Valve Show Side Show. If you're in Los Angeles, we
Speaker 1: have the station called one O four three MYFM Valentine
Speaker 1: and Morning. I went into this show and you came
Speaker 1: with me, and you saw they just started recording without
Speaker 1: even me knowing that we were doing the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 1: They literally just called me to like they emailed me.
Speaker 1: They're like, would you come to the one oh four
Speaker 1: to three studios on Friday, September whatever August. I'm like, sure, whatever,
Speaker 1: and I go there and it's like I had no
Speaker 1: idea what they were gonna do, what they're gonna talk about,
Speaker 1: what they wanted whatever, And it's just like all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we get in. They're like, what's up, Rich,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, uh, saying all this stuff and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're done with the podcast. We just rolled for like
Speaker 1: forty minutes on whatever you said.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what, you know you were on air?
Speaker 1: You know I was on air on the radio.
Speaker 2: I think you some of your interview from the podcast
Speaker 2: was also on air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very weird, different, It's very different than us,
Speaker 1: like yeah, you know, when I'm recording you. What do
Speaker 1: you mean the red lights?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and also like for broadcast, like when you're
Speaker 3: watching Channel five, like everything's live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but on radio, on radio, it's all blurred.
Speaker 2: I don't think people know that.
Speaker 1: No, it's all it's all very very.
Speaker 2: Giving away secrets.
Speaker 1: No, I will tell you that Val did say that
Speaker 1: he likes to be as live as possible as opposed
Speaker 1: to some other morning show hosts out there, which will
Speaker 1: remain unnamed. Oh, now, we're giving away scenes anyway. If
Speaker 1: you want to check it out, just search Val Show
Speaker 1: sideshow in your favorite podcasting app, or just go to
Speaker 1: my website rich on tech dot tv and you can
Speaker 1: just click the link and listen to the podcast. I
Speaker 1: think I said too much, which is why I said.
Speaker 1: I keep telling my wife I'm no longer doing podcasts
Speaker 1: except my own because I always say too much.
Speaker 2: On that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did I reveal things about KTLA that should
Speaker 1: not be revealed.
Speaker 2: Oh I think you were. I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're too hard. You weren't the one saying it.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to deal with the repercussions.
Speaker 2: That's also true, all.
Speaker 1: Right, anything else I should mention. You can find our
Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot tv. If you're a new
Speaker 1: listener to the show, please subscribe, rate and review the show.
Speaker 1: Just go to I don't know however you do that
Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts. Just leave a rating whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as it's five stars. If it's not,
Speaker 1: don't bother a little shout out yeah and if you yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm just talking to talk, so thanks so much
Speaker 1: for listening. Producer Meghan, thanks so much for joining me
Speaker 1: on the show. Have a fantastic day. We will talk
Speaker 1: to you real soon. Bye bye.