Speaker 1: New features coming soon to Apple products, including iOS fourteen,
Speaker 1: Wise Cam does it again? Google now auto delete search
Speaker 1: and location data after eighteen months. But there is a catch.
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
Speaker 1: and it's also the place where I answer the questions
Speaker 1: that you send me What's going on? I already said
Speaker 1: that if you don't know who I am, I'm Rich Demiro,
Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Usually
Speaker 1: producer Megan accompanies me on this show. She is on vacation.
Speaker 1: I hope she's enjoying a much needed break. I know
Speaker 1: I got one a couple of weeks ago, exactly two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and it felt pretty good to be on
Speaker 1: the open road and just do a little road trip.
Speaker 1: It was a little, you know, a little scary with
Speaker 1: the whole coronavirus stuff going around, and you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was different, but we did survive, and we
Speaker 1: took all the precautions necessary and wearing masks and sanitizing
Speaker 1: and Clorox wipes everywhere, but we did it and it
Speaker 1: was fun and I think that is going to be
Speaker 1: the only way that people really travel this summer is
Speaker 1: by road trip. So just talk to a cool guy
Speaker 1: named Josh who actually does a website and a YouTube
Speaker 1: channel called California through my Lens. So he just did
Speaker 1: a road trip and he makes a living by going
Speaker 1: to different places, and for like a couple of months
Speaker 1: he just stopped and he finally did a road trip
Speaker 1: recently and we were talking about it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: he was one of these people that when you talk
Speaker 1: to you just kind of connect with like everything he said,
Speaker 1: like I liked as well, so I feel like him
Speaker 1: and I should be friends. So I'm gonna once the
Speaker 1: pandemic is over, hopefully it's over soon. Once that's over
Speaker 1: and you can actually do normal things again, definitely gonna
Speaker 1: hang out with Josh and and just kind of see
Speaker 1: if we can be buddies because it's pretty cool. He
Speaker 1: cool story too. He actually quit his job to do
Speaker 1: a blog and then YouTube and it's been five years.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I tell you this because he's gonna be
Speaker 1: on KTLA in one of my segments about road tripping,
Speaker 1: and he had some great information. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen that.
Speaker 1: I tweeted a picture from our story that we were
Speaker 1: shooting the other day, and I'm at richon tech on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I did it in front of it. We shot
Speaker 1: in front of Pasadena City Hall because I thought that
Speaker 1: was like a kind of a cool looking location. And
Speaker 1: all these people start tweeting me back saying, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you're in Pawnee, and I'm like, what Pawnee like parks
Speaker 1: and rec And sure enough, parks and Rec. I guess
Speaker 1: that's where they do the exterior for the city hall.
Speaker 1: But which is kind of funny because this isn't Wasn't
Speaker 1: that city like a tiny little city and that's such
Speaker 1: a grand city hall. Maybe that's part of the joke.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I had no idea, even though I watched
Speaker 1: that show. I love that show. In fact, I was
Speaker 1: out to dinner once and the oh my gosh, you
Speaker 1: now I'm blanking on her name, the lead woman. She
Speaker 1: was out to dinner with us in the restaurant. This
Speaker 1: was a long time ago. Anyway, I digress. We're talking
Speaker 1: about technology. There's a lot of stuff happening this week,
Speaker 1: and WWDC twenty was the big event. Now it's thirty
Speaker 1: one years, which is pretty wild. Apple says this is
Speaker 1: the biggest WWDC today. I don't know where they got that,
Speaker 1: but I guess technically it is because there's more developers
Speaker 1: than ever, twenty three million Apple developers. And this year
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool because they all got to
Speaker 1: attend if they wanted to, because it was all virtual,
Speaker 1: so everyone got to see this stuff if they wanted to,
Speaker 1: and the entire keynote was virtual as well, and we
Speaker 1: learned a lot about what the future of the iPhone
Speaker 1: is going to hold, not just the iPhone, but all
Speaker 1: kinds of gadgets from Apple and just some number on
Speaker 1: the app Store launched in two thousand and eight. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that? So the first iPhone didn't have the
Speaker 1: App Store, which now seems crazy. Two million apps on there,
Speaker 1: five hundred and nineteen billion dollars in billiing and sales
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Wow, And that's all just virtual. It's
Speaker 1: all just digital. It doesn't even exist in real life
Speaker 1: except in bits wild. All right, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: biggest thing that is going to affect the most people,
Speaker 1: which is iOS fourteen. And I installed iOS fourteen, a
Speaker 1: developer edition on a spare iPhone. You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: put this on your main one, although I really really
Speaker 1: want to because it just looks so cool and it
Speaker 1: brings so many of the features that I want on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, and the two biggest features are widgets on
Speaker 1: the home screen. And also you can finally stop organizing
Speaker 1: your apps. So I only organized my first two pages
Speaker 1: of apps, and then I just, you know, declare bankruptcy
Speaker 1: on the rest, and they I'll just float on the
Speaker 1: extra pages as they go along, and I just don't
Speaker 1: care because I'll just search for an app. Most of
Speaker 1: the time after my first page. I'm not even using
Speaker 1: those apps except maybe once in a while, and so
Speaker 1: I don't need them all in little folders and perfectly
Speaker 1: figured out and set up. So Apple is now letting
Speaker 1: us do something called the app library, which if you've
Speaker 1: ever had an Android phone, that's called the app drawer.
Speaker 1: You swipe up and you can see all your apps
Speaker 1: in alphabetical order, or you can sort them the way
Speaker 1: you want on certain launchers, but anyway, on iPhone, it's
Speaker 1: all going to be organized. So when you get to
Speaker 1: your last page, all of the apps will be in
Speaker 1: an app library that lets you see the apps organized
Speaker 1: by Apple into categories, so all your communication apps, all
Speaker 1: your entertainment apps, whatever, and then you have if you swipe,
Speaker 1: I think it's down from that screen or up. It's
Speaker 1: very complicated to get used to it. But then you
Speaker 1: have a list of all your apps in alphabetical order.
Speaker 1: So the good news is you can also delete home screens.
Speaker 1: You only have to have one home screen now, so
Speaker 1: for me, I'm just gonna have two home screens. My
Speaker 1: main apps, my secondary apps, and the rest are all
Speaker 1: going to live in that app library. Other notable improvements
Speaker 1: to iOS fourteen phone calls and FaceTime calls when they
Speaker 1: come in do not take up your entire screen, which
Speaker 1: is kind of nice and picture and picture so you
Speaker 1: can watch a video like a YouTube video, or you
Speaker 1: can do FaceTime. And this happened to me the other day.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I'm facetiming. I think it was
Speaker 1: my sister and I want to look something up, and
Speaker 1: I swipe down to you to or bring up an app,
Speaker 1: and she goes away, and I'm like, wait, what that
Speaker 1: seems kind of crazy And it just didn't even occur
Speaker 1: to me because I don't use FaceTime that often that
Speaker 1: they didn't have picture and picture, and sure enough that's there.
Speaker 1: When it comes to messages, you can now pin a
Speaker 1: conversation to the top, which I love. I use Telegram
Speaker 1: for a lot of my conversations and I pin the
Speaker 1: most important ones to the top. I can finally do
Speaker 1: that in messages, although for the majority of people that
Speaker 1: I talk to the most, I don't use I message anymore.
Speaker 1: See you can mention and you can also do inline replies,
Speaker 1: so if you're having a long conversation with someone and
Speaker 1: you want to reply to something they said, you know,
Speaker 1: three lines up, you can finally do that. What else
Speaker 1: maps There are cycling directions that doesn't really appeal to me,
Speaker 1: but ev directions is kind of cool. So you can
Speaker 1: route based on your you know, availability of charging stations.
Speaker 1: If you have an electric car, digital car key, so
Speaker 1: you can use your iPhone as a key for your car,
Speaker 1: which I think is really cool. And I know I
Speaker 1: did a story about this on KTLA, and of course
Speaker 1: all the comments come in about how it's not going
Speaker 1: to be safe and what if you lose your phone
Speaker 1: and what if your phone dies? And yes, of course
Speaker 1: Apple has thought of all of these things. And if
Speaker 1: you lose your phone, yeah, that's tricky because you don't
Speaker 1: have your phone, but I believe you'll be able to
Speaker 1: do it with your watch as well, so you still
Speaker 1: have your watch hopefully if you have a watch. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not assuming everyone out there has an Apple Watch
Speaker 1: as an iPhone, but if you do, that's one way.
Speaker 1: You can also share keys with friends. So maybe with
Speaker 1: your spouse or significant other, you share a key and
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully they didn't lose their phone as well.
Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of this. If you ever lose
Speaker 1: a real key fob, you're gonna you're paying a couple
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. Now, if you lose your iPhone, yes, that's
Speaker 1: definitely a problem, but you have ways of finding it,
Speaker 1: like find my iPhone. So there are pros and cons
Speaker 1: to everything, But personally, I love the idea of one
Speaker 1: less thing to carry around. So I've got electronic door
Speaker 1: locks on my house and now I've got my phone
Speaker 1: working as a key. I'm just saying theoretically, so I
Speaker 1: don't even have to carry keys around anymore. How cool
Speaker 1: is that? I love it. That's gonna happen actually in July,
Speaker 1: starting with the BMW five series, and it's gonna expand
Speaker 1: to other BMW's. And this isn't just Apple, by the way,
Speaker 1: and it's not just iPhone. This is going to be
Speaker 1: something that happens in the future. There's a big consortium
Speaker 1: of all how do you say that word consortium? Consortium?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's see. Let's see what Google says consortium.
Speaker 1: Let's see how to pronounce that consortium. There's a big
Speaker 1: consortium of companies and this includes you know, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Volkswagen,
Speaker 1: so Samsung. So believe me, Google wasn't on there though.
Speaker 1: So but these companies want to make the phone everything
Speaker 1: and they will continue on their way of doing that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to let's get to the first
Speaker 1: question here. Usually producer Megan would chime in here with
Speaker 1: the first question, but it's going to be me. You
Speaker 1: get all me for this podcast. Let's start with don
Speaker 1: Don says, I have a question I guess I should
Speaker 1: know the answer to, but I do not, And some
Speaker 1: others I've asked don't either. It seems pretty simple. This morning,
Speaker 1: Sam Rubin had a segment that's our entertainment guy at
Speaker 1: KTLA on a new movie called irresistible and stated it
Speaker 1: as being released on video on demand. Okay, how does
Speaker 1: one find VOD? Is it a streaming service? I have
Speaker 1: a Samsung Q ninety, top of the line on this stuff,
Speaker 1: and the caves and canyons of online streaming is endless.
Speaker 1: One friend says, may it's something you get on your
Speaker 1: smartphone or iPad and watch it there, not on your
Speaker 1: big screen. What's the use of that? This seems like
Speaker 1: a catch twenty two. You have to know. But how
Speaker 1: by some strange brew of mental osmosis, is this a
Speaker 1: paid streamer like Disney or Amazon or something you find
Speaker 1: magically somewhere hidden in the canyons of mystery? He liked
Speaker 1: that word canyons seems like something I should understand, but
Speaker 1: short of geekiness. Thanks Don, It's a good question, and
Speaker 1: I don I get it. I think that this is
Speaker 1: it's something that like I would take for granted, but
Speaker 1: I would not. I would not automatically assume everyone knows
Speaker 1: how to get a movie that's VOD. And this is
Speaker 1: new for these video on demand movies that are being
Speaker 1: released straight to demand. Video on demand has been around forever,
Speaker 1: mostly on cable boxes, but there is a weird delineation
Speaker 1: nowadays that you have sort of picked up upon. And
Speaker 1: we've got two things going on right now. You've got
Speaker 1: streaming services, which ninety nine point nine percent of the
Speaker 1: conversation is about all the time, Netflix, Disney Plus, Quibi
Speaker 1: even what are some of the other ones, Hulu, Hbo
Speaker 1: and those are services that you pay a monthly fee
Speaker 1: for and then you get to watch as much as
Speaker 1: you want. It's the all you can eat kind of method,
Speaker 1: and that's what most people do. Then you have something else,
Speaker 1: which is you can buy a digital copy of a movie.
Speaker 1: You can rent a digital copy of a movie, and
Speaker 1: examples of this include the iTunes Store, include Google Play Store,
Speaker 1: Google Play Movies, I should say, and there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of other ones. There's Voodoo, there's Microsoft, There's a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of ways to buy movies. Now here's where
Speaker 1: it gets really confusing. Amazon Prime Video is a way
Speaker 1: to get subscription stuff because it's including an Amazon Prime
Speaker 1: but it's also has paid movies as well, and so
Speaker 1: I think that's where it gets a little complicated. And
Speaker 1: the bottom line for your TV, a Samsung TV, I
Speaker 1: believe you'll just have to look for the app on
Speaker 1: that TV that actually sells or rents movies, and that
Speaker 1: won't be Netflix, that won't be Disney Plus, that will
Speaker 1: be something like I'm guessing because it's running Android or
Speaker 1: a version of that, maybe something like Google Play Movie Store,
Speaker 1: so look for that. Maybe Samsung has their own movie store.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But it gets really complicated because
Speaker 1: you have like the Apple TV app on your TV,
Speaker 1: perhaps you have a new Samsung, and you can't rent
Speaker 1: or buy anything through it. You can only view stuff
Speaker 1: through it, So I get it. Don It has become
Speaker 1: a little bit confusing, and to be honest, a lot
Speaker 1: of people aren't buying movies. They're just watching what's on streaming,
Speaker 1: So when these new movies come out, it takes a
Speaker 1: little bit of figuring out. We watched the new Trolls
Speaker 1: movie on Fandango now, which who knew that that was
Speaker 1: sort of a streaming service that you can buy and
Speaker 1: rent movies on. But yes you can. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a good question. And for me personally, I do
Speaker 1: everything in my power to not purchase or rent movies
Speaker 1: anymore because there are just so many services that I
Speaker 1: pay for that I would rather watch a movie that
Speaker 1: I pay for. That a movie that's streaming on a
Speaker 1: service I already pay for. And I know I've mentioned
Speaker 1: this before, but two ways to find movies on services
Speaker 1: that you're already paying for. The first is an app
Speaker 1: called Real Good are e E, L g oo D,
Speaker 1: and you pop in all the services that you subscribe to,
Speaker 1: and they slice and dice this in a million different ways,
Speaker 1: so you can keep a list of the things you
Speaker 1: want to see and it will tell you when they're
Speaker 1: streaming for free. Or you can browse the newest movies,
Speaker 1: the most popular movies, movies in various categories, movies just
Speaker 1: added to your services, so if you're all caught up
Speaker 1: on everything, you can see sort of what's new. The
Speaker 1: other thing I like is a website and it's called
Speaker 1: only on Streaming dot Com. Only on Streaming dot Com.
Speaker 1: And what's magical about this website is that they give
Speaker 1: you all the newest stuff. So I just sit here
Speaker 1: and watch the newest or I can see what the
Speaker 1: newest items are original streaming content coming to Netflix, Amazon,
Speaker 1: Disney Plus, Hulu, CBS DC YouTube, Crackle, Apple TV plus, Facebook,
Speaker 1: and more. So, for instance, I can see on July third,
Speaker 1: Hamilton is coming to Disney. Plus, I can see that
Speaker 1: Little Voice season one is coming to Apple TV. Plus
Speaker 1: I can see that Muppets Now Season one is coming
Speaker 1: to Disney. Plus I can see that Let's see what
Speaker 1: else is on here, Animaniacs season one is coming to
Speaker 1: Hulu on oh in twenty twenty. Okay, some of these
Speaker 1: are way far out, but I can see Pete the Cat,
Speaker 1: which my kids like, just launched on Amazon Prime Video. Okay,
Speaker 1: I told you there'd be a couple of ways. So
Speaker 1: one more way is on on Google. You type in
Speaker 1: oh gosh, hold on, hold on. I think it's called
Speaker 1: what to Watch, And let me just confirm that, yes,
Speaker 1: if you search on Google what to watch, they have
Speaker 1: their own secret little place where you can find all
Speaker 1: the movies on your provider. And I keep a list
Speaker 1: in here. It's a little confusing because I keep a
Speaker 1: list in Real Good and I also keep a list
Speaker 1: on what to watch on Google. I haven't decided which
Speaker 1: one I think is better. Real Good is definitely the
Speaker 1: more elaborate app. It has many more features. But I
Speaker 1: got to say. Google has the power of Google Search,
Speaker 1: so they know exactly what people are searching for at
Speaker 1: that very moment and what people are watching, so you
Speaker 1: can see all the popular stuff. And again you can
Speaker 1: see stuff that's just on your streaming providers or stuff
Speaker 1: that's free. You can see TV shows and you can
Speaker 1: keep a watch list. So again all you have to
Speaker 1: do is search what to watch on Google and do
Speaker 1: it from your mobile phone because that's like the easier
Speaker 1: way of doing it. So anyway, Wow, good information, good question,
Speaker 1: and again find those free movies. That's my recommendation. Moving on, now,
Speaker 1: let's talk more about WWDC because there are more features
Speaker 1: I want to talk about. Let's move into iPad iPad
Speaker 1: os four ten. The main feature they're bringing there is Scribble,
Speaker 1: and I will be honest, I've been testing out a
Speaker 1: iPad pro with the Apple keyboard case and I haven't
Speaker 1: opened the Apple pencil yet, but it's got one and
Speaker 1: also the track pad, and I'll say I love the
Speaker 1: big screen and I've been basically just reading the newspaper
Speaker 1: on it every day, and you know, that's kind of it.
Speaker 1: And I actually used it as a workout thing the
Speaker 1: other day to watch my peloton and use that on
Speaker 1: my bike, which was great the big screen. But I
Speaker 1: did also do a blog post on the iPad as well,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you it, it's really tricky because I
Speaker 1: think it's one of those things where you just have
Speaker 1: to get into it and use it. But I am
Speaker 1: so used to my computer. That is sort of my world.
Speaker 1: That is how I know how to do everything. I drag,
Speaker 1: I drop, I move, I've got my apps that I like,
Speaker 1: and so I think you can do a lot of
Speaker 1: the same stuff on the iPad and especially the iPad Pro,
Speaker 1: but it just takes a lot of getting used to. Now.
Speaker 1: With that said, and I always say this on this podcast,
Speaker 1: if I was not editing video and I was a
Speaker 1: business person that was doing blog posts and social media,
Speaker 1: I would be on the iPad Pro in one second
Speaker 1: as my daily driver computer with the keyboard and the pencil,
Speaker 1: because you can do so much, and I love the
Speaker 1: fact that it's got a touch screen. I find myself
Speaker 1: trying to touch my screen on the MacBook Pro and
Speaker 1: it's not there, and sometimes I'm like, oh, this would
Speaker 1: be so much easier, And then sometimes on the iPad,
Speaker 1: I'm using it and I forget that it's a touch screen. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the feature they're bringing is called Scribble to the iPad,
Speaker 1: which means you can use the Apple pencil to type
Speaker 1: or to write in any text field and it will
Speaker 1: convert it to handwriting. And there's been this long dream
Speaker 1: of converting handwriting to text. It's not very good in
Speaker 1: my opinion, but who knows, maybe this will work. When
Speaker 1: it comes to the Apple Watch, and you know, I
Speaker 1: love the Apple Watch. It is such a great device.
Speaker 1: A couple things are doing there. You can share watch faces,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. So I see a lot
Speaker 1: of celebrities and influencers and writers sharing kind of the
Speaker 1: best setup for a watch face. Let's say you love
Speaker 1: hiking and you've got a favorite hiker that you follow
Speaker 1: on a blog. He's like, here's he or she is like,
Speaker 1: here's my watch face. Go ahead. You can just download
Speaker 1: it and there's a click to download, and now you've
Speaker 1: got their watch face with all their setup and everything.
Speaker 1: And if you don't have the apps that they have,
Speaker 1: it'll direct you to do that. Now. From Apple standpoint
Speaker 1: of course, this up sells apps. So if they've got
Speaker 1: a complication on there, that's a buck ninety nine. Now
Speaker 1: they've just sold that to you. Brilliant sleep tracking. Now
Speaker 1: I think Apple is tiptoeing into sleep tracking. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure this is going to beat something like a fitbit
Speaker 1: to track your sleep, but it's a step. It's a
Speaker 1: first step. It's gonna get you to see just how
Speaker 1: much you're sleeping. I'm not sure how rich the data is,
Speaker 1: but we'll have to see just how good that is.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of nice to have that. It's gonna
Speaker 1: make a lot of people try to figure out when
Speaker 1: they can charge their Apple Watch because it does not
Speaker 1: last for more than pretty much a day, especially if
Speaker 1: you're working out hand washing feature, so this will detect
Speaker 1: when you're washing your hands. This is their coronavirus toss
Speaker 1: in here, so if you're washing your hands, it will
Speaker 1: start a twenty second countdown timer to make sure you
Speaker 1: wash for twenty seconds, which I'm guilty of not washing
Speaker 1: for that full time every time, but maybe I would
Speaker 1: if my watch prompted me to do that. And it's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting how they did this. They're using the
Speaker 1: motion sensors in the watch to kind of figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: did he start washing his hands. Yes, Then they tap
Speaker 1: on the microphone to listen for the sound of water
Speaker 1: running and also the sound of soap being squished between
Speaker 1: your fingertips, so a very interesting way to detect hand washing.
Speaker 1: And finally, the activity app in iOS fourteen is going
Speaker 1: to be called Fitness. Now they've added four new fitness types,
Speaker 1: core training, Dance, functional strength training, and cool down. So
Speaker 1: that's pretty nice. And now there's some privacy things as well,
Speaker 1: and I love that Apple just continues to hammer down
Speaker 1: on privacy. Users can share their approximate location with developers,
Speaker 1: which is so nice because on Twitter, I used to
Speaker 1: think it was really a good idea to share your
Speaker 1: exact location, but guess what, they're collecting way too much
Speaker 1: data on exactly where I am. So I would very
Speaker 1: much be happy if Twitter just knows that when I'm tweeting,
Speaker 1: I'm in Los Angeles, not exactly where I am in
Speaker 1: the city or anywhere. Then there's indicator lights now, so
Speaker 1: whenever an app has access to your device's camera or microphone,
Speaker 1: there will be a little tiny indicator light on your screen.
Speaker 1: On the iOS iOS I should just say iPhone, iPad
Speaker 1: and watch. That is a brilliant move because everyone is
Speaker 1: so concerned about these apps having secret access, especially Facebook.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks that they're listening to them. Now you'll know
Speaker 1: if you see your camera or mic light up. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that app is listening, and this will keep bad developers
Speaker 1: out of the store as well, or malicious developers or
Speaker 1: malicious apps, whatever you want to call it, but bad stuff. Now,
Speaker 1: with that said, there's another feature which shows when an
Speaker 1: app spies on your clipboard. And it's already getting a
Speaker 1: lot of publicity because a bunch of apps look at
Speaker 1: what you copy and paste on your iPhone. Surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1: If you've ever wondered why when you send a text
Speaker 1: to someone you get an ad for that exact thing
Speaker 1: ten minutes later in your Instagram or Facebook feed, Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, now we have a little idea why. So
Speaker 1: a lot of users have been posting videos of screencaps
Speaker 1: because they've installed the developer version of iOS fourteen, And
Speaker 1: when you open up an app, it says at the
Speaker 1: top of the screen app whatever the app name, just
Speaker 1: access to your clipboard. WHOA wait? What? So this is
Speaker 1: again built into iOS fourteen so that you have the
Speaker 1: power as an individual to say, hmm, I just open
Speaker 1: up a weather app. Why does it need access? Why
Speaker 1: is it taking a look at my clipboard? Now there
Speaker 1: are some benefits to this, so Let's let me give
Speaker 1: you one example. Let's say you have Apple or Google Maps,
Speaker 1: and Google google Maps looks at the clipboard to see
Speaker 1: if you copied and paste copied an address, and if
Speaker 1: you did, if you ever noticed, when you go to
Speaker 1: search on Google Maps on iOS, it'll say, do you
Speaker 1: want to search for the clipboard the address you just copied?
Speaker 1: So I get it. There are valid reasons for this behavior,
Speaker 1: but it's nice now that it's out in the open
Speaker 1: that it will definitely catch some bad actors for sure.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the next question here in the show,
Speaker 1: and Steve says, good morning, rich. My wife is a
Speaker 1: makeup artist, but she has about twenty five thousand pictures
Speaker 1: on her iPhone and it's already reaching Your iPhone could
Speaker 1: not back up due to limited storage. Our next option
Speaker 1: is getting the one terabyte for nine to ninety nine
Speaker 1: a month. Isn't there a better option? And my answer
Speaker 1: to this is, before you pay that ten bucks a month,
Speaker 1: you might want to check a few things. So number one,
Speaker 1: iPhone and Apple are notorious for gobbling up your iCloud
Speaker 1: storage and with stuff that is unnecessary. So the first
Speaker 1: thing before you pay for this extra storage, what I
Speaker 1: want you to do is check the iCloud backups for
Speaker 1: older backups that you might not need anymore. What happens
Speaker 1: when you update or upgrade your iPhone or an iPad
Speaker 1: or an Apple Watch or anything, iCloud keeps that old
Speaker 1: backup of that device, even after you've started using your
Speaker 1: new device and backing that one up. So let's say
Speaker 1: your old phone was twenty five gigs backed up, and
Speaker 1: then your new phone has twenty five gigs on it
Speaker 1: because you moved everything over. Well, now you're taking up
Speaker 1: double the storage in iCloud because you never deleted that
Speaker 1: old phone out of iCloud and you don't need it
Speaker 1: in there because guess what the data is on your
Speaker 1: new phone and it's backed up into iCloud, so you
Speaker 1: can delete that old backup. So the number one thing
Speaker 1: to do is look for old backups you don't need anymore.
Speaker 1: So that means you got to go into settings Apple ID,
Speaker 1: which is right at the top. It has your little
Speaker 1: picture iCloud, then manage storage and backups. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: make this easy to find, and then look for old
Speaker 1: devices that you're not using. If it says this phone,
Speaker 1: that means it's your phone. That you're using. If there's
Speaker 1: any other old phones in there from years past, you
Speaker 1: can go ahead and safely delete those as long as
Speaker 1: you know that that data has been moved to a
Speaker 1: new device. Make sure you do that. Don't just delete
Speaker 1: stuff without thinking, because you could get rid of something important. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're using iCloud for photos, you need to do
Speaker 1: another thing because if you're running out of storage on
Speaker 1: your phone, which this sounded like it was an iCloud thing,
Speaker 1: not an iPhone thing, you still want to check this
Speaker 1: option to make sure that you're optimizing the storage on
Speaker 1: your iPhone as well, because a lot of people buy
Speaker 1: extra storage on iCloud not realizing that it doesn't really
Speaker 1: have to do with their iPhone. So you want to
Speaker 1: go into settings Apple id iCloud then Photos and there's
Speaker 1: a toggle says that says optimized optimize Phone Storage. And
Speaker 1: what this does is it will look at how much
Speaker 1: space is on your phone and it will make sure
Speaker 1: you don't run out with all your pictures taking up
Speaker 1: space on your phone. So what it does is, if
Speaker 1: you're using iCloud, let's say you've got, you know, a
Speaker 1: sixty four gigabyte iPhone and you've got fifty gigs of
Speaker 1: pictures and you're getting close to that sixty four gigabyte
Speaker 1: limit on your iPhone. Well, Apple is smart enough to say, well,
Speaker 1: they've got one hundred gigs out here in iCloud. Let's
Speaker 1: offload some of these pictures from the iPhone. Let's offload
Speaker 1: fifteen gigs. But we'll keep little thumbnails on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: so if you ever need to scroll through your photo library,
Speaker 1: you'll still see those, and when you tap one, we'll
Speaker 1: just download that photo on demand from the cloud instantly.
Speaker 1: So it seems like everything's on your phone, but in reality,
Speaker 1: it's been offloaded to the cloud. Google Photos works in
Speaker 1: very much the same way. It's a little bit different
Speaker 1: on the iPhone, but yes, that's kind of how Google
Speaker 1: Photos works is you can have Google Photos on your phone.
Speaker 1: It will delete the originals from your phone and it
Speaker 1: will keep them in your library. So when you're searching
Speaker 1: on Google Photos, seems like everything's there. It's just really
Speaker 1: in the cloud. So those are my two recommendations. I
Speaker 1: would recommend the Google Photo but if you're already using
Speaker 1: iCloud and backing up your photos there, Steve, I think
Speaker 1: that just stick with what she got but that's my recommendation,
Speaker 1: and hopefully you're not paying for storage that you don't
Speaker 1: really need. Wise Cam has done it again. Wise Cam
Speaker 1: is the company that you probably know. They make a
Speaker 1: twenty dollars security camera that many many people did not
Speaker 1: believe me when I first presented this on TV back
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. They said, what, there's no way that
Speaker 1: a security camera can be twenty dollars. And here's the thing,
Speaker 1: I actually take the time to test this stuff before
Speaker 1: I just talk about it. Now. I get it. If
Speaker 1: something is announced like this camera that I have not tested,
Speaker 1: I will talk about it without having tested it. But
Speaker 1: most of the time, if I'm doing a story on
Speaker 1: TV about a product, I have done my research. I
Speaker 1: have figured out who are the people behind this company?
Speaker 1: How is this so cheap? What are they doing? Is it,
Speaker 1: you know, sending data to China like everyone accused it
Speaker 1: of doing. No, it was just a bunch of smart
Speaker 1: Amazon people who saw what Amazon was doing. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at them. They came out with a thirty five
Speaker 1: dollars streaming stick. Google came out with a Chrome cast
Speaker 1: device that was dirt cheap and let you stream stuff
Speaker 1: to your TV for the first time, cheaper than any
Speaker 1: other method in the history of mankind. So yes, these
Speaker 1: companies figure stuff out and they cut things out of
Speaker 1: the system that you may not need in a more
Speaker 1: expensive system. Apple TV is two hundred dollars. Do you
Speaker 1: need all the features in there? Probably not, but you're
Speaker 1: getting something that's in the Apple ecosystem. Chrome cast dirt cheap.
Speaker 1: A lot of people love it. Didn't believe when I
Speaker 1: talked about that either. So again, these companies do this,
Speaker 1: and the Wyscam outdoor is now just forty dollars. Now
Speaker 1: before you, let me give you some details on this.
Speaker 1: So this is a wireless outdoor security camera. It records
Speaker 1: in full HD ten ADP. It is IP sixty five
Speaker 1: weather resistant, which is not the highest, but it will
Speaker 1: be just fine. I got a question of about the
Speaker 1: temperature rating, and it operates from negative four degrees to
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty degrees, so pretty much. Maybe some
Speaker 1: places in America might be outside of that range, but
Speaker 1: that's gonna cover a lot of people. And for this
Speaker 1: price forty bucks, you probably set it up and see
Speaker 1: if it works, I mean, if it's not gonna work,
Speaker 1: if it if it bottoms out, well, you're only out
Speaker 1: a couple bucks. The device is fifty dollars for a
Speaker 1: starter kit because this does require a base station, and
Speaker 1: the base station to me, it looks like it has
Speaker 1: to plug in via Ethernet, so there are some caveats
Speaker 1: to this little setup. But with that said, you can
Speaker 1: hook up to four cameras to a base station. So
Speaker 1: if you want to put a wireless camera on all
Speaker 1: four corners of your home, you can now do this
Speaker 1: for under four times three is one twenty plus fifty
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy dollars. And by the way, the
Speaker 1: monthly service is free. So the way they do that,
Speaker 1: which nobody believed me by the way, when this first
Speaker 1: came out, is they give you fourteen days of rolling
Speaker 1: cloud storage. So what does that mean. That means that
Speaker 1: this thing is not live streaming to the cloud twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven. It just isn't going to be able
Speaker 1: to do that on a battery. But when it senses
Speaker 1: motion or people, this has a people detection. When it
Speaker 1: senses a person walking by or motion, you can set
Speaker 1: how you want it to react. It will record a
Speaker 1: clip and then it will send that clip to the cloud.
Speaker 1: That clip is saved for fourteen days and it's rolling,
Speaker 1: so that clip is deleted after fourteen days. Now, can
Speaker 1: you buy extra storage in the cloud, I'm sure you can.
Speaker 1: Can you have local storage on this Yes, you can,
Speaker 1: up to thirty two gigabytes. You can put in a
Speaker 1: micro SD card. But again, and the battery is gonna
Speaker 1: last three to six months? Now, I always think it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna last closer that three months. Six is probably
Speaker 1: if nobody's walking in front of this thing. But I
Speaker 1: would say three months. So you are gonna have to
Speaker 1: get up on a ladder, depending on how you mount
Speaker 1: this thing, pop it off there it's magnetic, and charge
Speaker 1: it up every couple of months. I do that with
Speaker 1: my ring doorbell. It's fine, I do it. I actually
Speaker 1: have two batteries for it, so I just keep one
Speaker 1: charging and then when I have to pop it out,
Speaker 1: which I can never remember how to take the front
Speaker 1: off of the ring doorbell for some reason. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I pop it out and I put the new one in,
Speaker 1: and it's just fine. And of course the battery doesn't
Speaker 1: last as long as it used to. When ring first
Speaker 1: came out, it was almost as if you could have
Speaker 1: that battery in there forever and it would just work.
Speaker 1: But now they've added a lot of new features to
Speaker 1: the ring video doorbell, and the battery gets used up
Speaker 1: much quicker than it ever has in the past. So
Speaker 1: the wise outdoor cam. What else do you want to
Speaker 1: know about it? Let's see, it's small, it looks like
Speaker 1: the old camera, the standard one. It's got one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight megabytes on board memory. The battery is
Speaker 1: there's two batteries inside, twenty six millionmp hours, two of those,
Speaker 1: so there's you know, so that's for fifty two hundred
Speaker 1: million hours. It's kind of like a cell phone, a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger than cell phones are limited to five
Speaker 1: thousand million hours, so it's a little bit bigger resolution,
Speaker 1: night vision up to twenty five feet, let's see eight
Speaker 1: times digital zoom. It's got Ethernet. Oh, the base station, yes,
Speaker 1: has Ethernet on board and wireless, so maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think from what I could tell, it looked like
Speaker 1: you had to put the Ethernet into the base station,
Speaker 1: so that could be a catch for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but you'll figure it out. There's also this weird offline
Speaker 1: travel mode, so you can take this with you and
Speaker 1: put it, they say, in your hotel room, which I
Speaker 1: guess if you want to keep an eye on, like
Speaker 1: who's cleaning your room while you're not there? That's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. And then you can also do time lapses
Speaker 1: of says bring it on vacation, or take time lapses
Speaker 1: of your campsite while sleeping under the stars. That's also
Speaker 1: kind of strange. But I guess, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: expecting a bear to interrupt you at your camp sence.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's the wisecam and I would
Speaker 1: definitely I can't wait to test this thing out because
Speaker 1: for forty dollars or fifty dollars, that is a fantastic
Speaker 1: value when it comes to home security. There are other
Speaker 1: cameras that are pretty cheap. The Blink cameras from Amazon
Speaker 1: are pretty cheap, so are the Ring cameras. But you're
Speaker 1: still talking with the Ring at least you know. I
Speaker 1: saw I think it was a three pack for two
Speaker 1: point fifty for their stick up cam that's wireless outside,
Speaker 1: so this is still significantly cheaper. Babs writes in Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: can you please explain why iPhone users were not given
Speaker 1: the option to accept or reject or made aware of
Speaker 1: the COVID tracker now under health that came with the
Speaker 1: latest iOS update. You need an app for it to
Speaker 1: actually work, but shouldn't have Apple asked permission. Plus they
Speaker 1: don't let you know what the corresponding app is. Hmmm.
Speaker 1: I have gotten so many questions about this, And whenever
Speaker 1: I get a lot of questions about something, I know
Speaker 1: that it is making the rounds on social media, and
Speaker 1: usually what happens on social media, only one portion of
Speaker 1: the story is being given out. So people put a
Speaker 1: and some people send me the screenshot so I see
Speaker 1: them and it'll be like this has been installed on
Speaker 1: your phone secretly by the government. What to? How dare they?
Speaker 1: And there's a story behind everything. And again this is
Speaker 1: me coming out as a journalist saying I've done my
Speaker 1: research on this. I've talked to Apple about this, We've
Speaker 1: heard from Google about this. This is a joint effort
Speaker 1: and here's the real deal. Yes, with the latest operating
Speaker 1: systems on Android and iOS, they introduced what's called contact tracing,
Speaker 1: and this is Apple and Google's hope or I guess,
Speaker 1: attempt at helping stem the pandemic. And what they did
Speaker 1: was they came up with a system that does not
Speaker 1: use location. That's number one. It does not use personally
Speaker 1: identifiable information about you. In fact, all it does is
Speaker 1: send out a Bluetooth beacon from your phone and from
Speaker 1: everyone else's phones. And when you walk past a phone,
Speaker 1: or you spend a certain amount of time with someone
Speaker 1: in a room at a certain distance from them, and
Speaker 1: again it's not using location. It's using Bluetooth low energy,
Speaker 1: which measures the distance between you and the other person.
Speaker 1: It will record that person's number, and then if that
Speaker 1: person says, oh, shoot, I got coronavirus, they will flag
Speaker 1: their number in the database, and your phone says, oh,
Speaker 1: I have that number of my database, and it will
Speaker 1: tell you that, hey, someone who came in contact with
Speaker 1: has coronavirus. It doesn't give you their name, doesn't tell
Speaker 1: you when. Maybe it tells you the time and the date,
Speaker 1: but it does not tell you. It does not tell
Speaker 1: you the location. Now, with all that said, it's not
Speaker 1: secretly tracking you. In fact, in the US, at least,
Speaker 1: there really are no apps that take advantage of this.
Speaker 1: There's three states that have signed on and that's about it.
Speaker 1: And I believe it's like North Dakota, South Dakota and
Speaker 1: maybe Alabama or something, but again not California, where a
Speaker 1: majority of my listenership is from. California did not sign
Speaker 1: on to this. They don't have a COVID tracing app
Speaker 1: as far as I know right now, the WHO does
Speaker 1: not have one, the CDC does not have one. There's
Speaker 1: no nationwide app. So the reason why BABS is saying
Speaker 1: you need an app but they're not telling you what
Speaker 1: the corresponding app is is because there really aren't any
Speaker 1: now now. I do think in the future, if companies
Speaker 1: decide to build an app or organizations decide to build
Speaker 1: an app that takes advantage of this system, which I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if this is effective or not. I think
Speaker 1: it would be if people used it, but it's opt
Speaker 1: in and so nobody has to use it. So again,
Speaker 1: I would think that Apple would put the list of
Speaker 1: apps inside that little area so that you can see
Speaker 1: which apps would activate this feature. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: doing that just yet. But if you want to see
Speaker 1: this feature on your phone, yes it's there and no,
Speaker 1: it's not active for ninety nine point nine percent of you.
Speaker 1: You can go into your settings on the iPhone. Let's
Speaker 1: see under oh, gosh, is it privacy? And then let's
Speaker 1: see health and then COVID nineteen exposure logging and it
Speaker 1: should say off and it says no installed app. And
Speaker 1: there's not even a place to find apps right now.
Speaker 1: I assume they should have some links to apps in
Speaker 1: the future. But that's the explanation. On Android, it's in
Speaker 1: different places, but I have gotten some screenshots from folks
Speaker 1: on Android. I will do a story on this on
Speaker 1: TV so I can explain this to people. And here's
Speaker 1: the world we live in now, with all the fake
Speaker 1: news and this stuff. I am a journalist that does
Speaker 1: do research and I do try to present stuff on
Speaker 1: TV that is factual. I mean, for twenty years now,
Speaker 1: that has been my goal is to not to lie
Speaker 1: to people on TV. I'm trying to do my best
Speaker 1: at that and I have. But it is so crazy,
Speaker 1: which this is a change that is not you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty new that people don't believe the stuff that
Speaker 1: I even post to my social media. And it used
Speaker 1: to be if you saw a journalists post something, you
Speaker 1: would believe it. But I get it. There are so
Speaker 1: many opinions out there that are masquerading as fact. There
Speaker 1: are so many people out there that just talk and
Speaker 1: put stuff out there without any sort of basis to
Speaker 1: whether it's true or false. That I get why you
Speaker 1: might not believe me And you don't know who I
Speaker 1: am if you're just scrolling through and someone shared one
Speaker 1: of my posts on your page, And are you going
Speaker 1: to go through the effort of looking up who I
Speaker 1: am and verifying that I'm actually on TV because I
Speaker 1: say I am, and verifying that I know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. No, And so I get it. But it's
Speaker 1: we live in a very tricky time right now for information.
Speaker 1: And with that said, let me tell you one thing
Speaker 1: that Facebook is doing. You hear them all my papers here,
Speaker 1: I've got so much stuff. Let's see, do I have
Speaker 1: it here? No? I don't, Okay, Well, I know that
Speaker 1: Facebook is doing something where oh here it is. Facebook
Speaker 1: is rolling out a new Facebook. You know, they got
Speaker 1: drugged through the mud when it came to the twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen election, and you know, Facebook is making sure they're
Speaker 1: doing everything in their power to not be blamed for
Speaker 1: anything when it comes to fake news and all this
Speaker 1: stuff in the future. And so they just keep making
Speaker 1: these changes and one of them is now they are
Speaker 1: rolling out a notification screen. So if you try to
Speaker 1: share an article that's more than ninety days old, they'll say, WHOA,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, are you sure you want to
Speaker 1: share that? That article is more than ninety days old?
Speaker 1: And so you can decide if you want to share
Speaker 1: that or not to make sure that people are sharing
Speaker 1: relevant new information. And it's just again, it's just a
Speaker 1: sign of our times where it's tough. All right, I
Speaker 1: do have a lot more to go through here and
Speaker 1: shows almost over. I can't believe it. Google, this is
Speaker 1: a new one. Google is privacy. Privacy is big. Google
Speaker 1: is introducing new controls that they are well, they're introducing
Speaker 1: a new protocol for saving your data. So they are
Speaker 1: now going to save data but for eighteen months by default.
Speaker 1: And data. This is not your Gmail, This is not
Speaker 1: your photos, not your calendar. This is your location data,
Speaker 1: your search history, your voice data, and your YouTube activity data.
Speaker 1: So by default, when you open up a Google account,
Speaker 1: they will just keep that information for eighteen months. And again,
Speaker 1: you know that Google relies on this data to help
Speaker 1: personalize the service, to help sell you stuff, to help
Speaker 1: you create ads, whatever, to help just market to you.
Speaker 1: They want to know as much about you as possible,
Speaker 1: and of course as a consumer, you want them. You
Speaker 1: want to ride this line of I want when I
Speaker 1: start searching for something in Google Maps for them to
Speaker 1: know the restaurant that I just searched for yesterday, because
Speaker 1: then it'll come up quicker, or the place I search
Speaker 1: for that I want to go on vacation because then
Speaker 1: they can target you know, vacation ads to me, or
Speaker 1: you know, more information about the place I'm going to.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I don't want them to
Speaker 1: retain this stuff forever. So now it will be deleted
Speaker 1: after eighteen months. But here is the catch. This is
Speaker 1: only for new Google accounts. And guess what, over a
Speaker 1: billion people have Google accounts, So if you're one of
Speaker 1: those billion people, you have to go in and change
Speaker 1: this manually. Now I did a step by step on
Speaker 1: my Instagram at richontech on how to do that. It's
Speaker 1: quite easy. In fact, all you have to do is
Speaker 1: go to myactivity dot Google dot com. You tap the menu,
Speaker 1: you go to activity controls and there's an option for
Speaker 1: auto delete right now on my it says off. You
Speaker 1: tap it and it says auto delete activity older than
Speaker 1: three months, Auto delete activity older than eighteen months, or
Speaker 1: you can just leave it on off. I would recommend
Speaker 1: three months if you're really worried about your privacy, eighteen
Speaker 1: months if you're like me and you actually value some
Speaker 1: of the personalizations that Google has. I've actually kept this
Speaker 1: on indefinitely for right now because it's like, it's sad
Speaker 1: for me to like give up all my Google Search
Speaker 1: history because even when you look through it, you can see, like,
Speaker 1: you know, like I can go back and see the
Speaker 1: voice commands I said to Google when I first had
Speaker 1: my kid, and you know, back in the day a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I mean, how crazy is that?
Speaker 1: So it's weird, I know. But again, it's good to
Speaker 1: have this choice, and it's good that they're actually going
Speaker 1: to turn this on by default for new accounts, so
Speaker 1: again I'll put the link to how to do that.
Speaker 1: For YouTube, it's still going to remain thirty six months
Speaker 1: by default, and that makes sense because on YouTube, they're
Speaker 1: trying to give you recommended videos, and the more information
Speaker 1: they have about what you're watching, the better recommendations you get.
Speaker 1: And they're also making it easier to access incognito mode.
Speaker 1: So from now on, when you see your little Google
Speaker 1: logo or your profile picture on a Google app on
Speaker 1: iOS and Android, you can just long press that picture
Speaker 1: and it will bring you into incognito mode. This will
Speaker 1: work on Google App, maps, and YouTube now. Right now
Speaker 1: it's only active on iOS for the Google app, but
Speaker 1: it will be across all the the maps, the YouTube,
Speaker 1: and the Google App on iOS and Android in the
Speaker 1: near future. All right, let's see one more question. Uh Jackie, Gosh,
Speaker 1: she'se are all iPhone? So many people have iPhone questions?
Speaker 1: There always iPhone? All right, let's do this one from Jennifer.
Speaker 1: She says, I lost my iPhone over the weekend. It
Speaker 1: turns out someone found it and returned it. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: bought another phone, changed my plan, even got a five
Speaker 1: dollars iPad out of the deal. Okay, that's cool, but
Speaker 1: of course you're going to be paying the data on that.
Speaker 1: I bet sort of too late to go back. But
Speaker 1: what should I do with my old phone? Other than
Speaker 1: a tiny chip in the top right corner it works perfectly.
Speaker 1: Should I fix the screen and sell it? Or forget
Speaker 1: fixing the screen and just try to sell it? Where
Speaker 1: would you sell it? Well, you've got a couple options. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're definitely not going to go back. You probably don't
Speaker 1: want to return the new phone by now. I assume
Speaker 1: you also upgraded your phone. But I would do two things.
Speaker 1: Number One, if you don't care about the money, you
Speaker 1: can keep this as a backup phone. So if something
Speaker 1: ever happens to your new iPhone, you've got a backup device,
Speaker 1: and that is not a bad thing to have just
Speaker 1: sitting around the house. You can always use a different
Speaker 1: an old iPhone for something, even if it's like a
Speaker 1: music player or a remote control whatever. Now, if you'd
Speaker 1: like to just rid this thing of your life, you
Speaker 1: do have to erase all your data from it. Make
Speaker 1: sure you do that now. The way that I have
Speaker 1: sold old iPhones in the past, if I'm not keeping them,
Speaker 1: is to friends and family because it's so easy. You
Speaker 1: don't have to deal with eBay, you don't have to
Speaker 1: deal with a third party website. Someone out there on
Speaker 1: your social networks needs a new phone. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know how old this phone is, so but you never know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people out there, and in my
Speaker 1: history I have posted I can remember at least twice
Speaker 1: where boom. People buy these things in seconds and the
Speaker 1: good news is you're selling it to a friend, so
Speaker 1: it's easier. You can just give it to them, or
Speaker 1: I should say get it to them because you can
Speaker 1: you can make money off the deal, or I should
Speaker 1: say you should there should be a transaction unless you're
Speaker 1: giving it to them. I've given phones to friends and
Speaker 1: family as well. But just make a post on Facebook
Speaker 1: or Instagram and say, hey, I've got my old phone.
Speaker 1: Hey it's the screen is chipped, if you want to
Speaker 1: do it that way, or you can get the screen
Speaker 1: fixed if you want to be really nice and get
Speaker 1: a little bit more money for it. But you have
Speaker 1: to kind of take everything into consideration, see how much
Speaker 1: it is to get this thing repaired, and factor all
Speaker 1: that in. Also to get kind of an idea of
Speaker 1: the price you should charge for this phone. I would
Speaker 1: just go on a site like Swapa or eBay and
Speaker 1: see what people are charging for that phone, whether it's
Speaker 1: cracked or not cracked. And then if it's friends and family,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna charge the same amount because the reason
Speaker 1: you're selling to friends and family, Let's say you probably
Speaker 1: want to take ten percent off the price because by
Speaker 1: the time you give eBay their cut and ship it out,
Speaker 1: you know, you're talking ten to twenty percent of the
Speaker 1: price of the purchase price, and you know, collect the payment,
Speaker 1: so you can offer this to your friends at a
Speaker 1: discount at a lower price than they would purchase it
Speaker 1: from eBay four. So that would be my advice, you know,
Speaker 1: And if you need to get it fixed, actually, Swapa
Speaker 1: has a new repair section of their website where you
Speaker 1: can find a repair place that has a thirty day guarantee.
Speaker 1: So you can go to swapa dot com slash repair,
Speaker 1: or you can check out a U break I Fix,
Speaker 1: I like that place there in a lot of areas,
Speaker 1: and that's another way you can do it. All right,
Speaker 1: show is almost is pretty much over, so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna get through two more stories real quick, just so
Speaker 1: you guys are up to date. Microsoft Store is closing sadly,
Speaker 1: all physical locations or a majority of physical locations of
Speaker 1: the Microsoft Store are closing, and they paint a Rosie
Speaker 1: picture for the retail team members that work there. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're losing their jobs or they're
Speaker 1: going to move on to different positions in the company,
Speaker 1: but they say they're kind of going to go to
Speaker 1: corporate facilities or continue to serve customers remotely, providing sales,
Speaker 1: training and support. So I guess Microsoft decided they don't
Speaker 1: really need these stores. And if you ever went to
Speaker 1: a mall where there's a Microsoft store and an Apple store,
Speaker 1: it's kind of sad because the Apple store would be
Speaker 1: packed and the Microsoft store would be empty, and it's
Speaker 1: just I don't know, you know, And it's probably because
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the people in the Apple store
Speaker 1: there for an iPhone, and then they see an iPad,
Speaker 1: and then they see maccomputer and then they see all
Speaker 1: these other things and they just get it. Whereas with Microsoft,
Speaker 1: most people have a Microsoft computer and that's about it.
Speaker 1: They don't need to go in for repairs and questions
Speaker 1: and things all the time, so they just Microsoft just
Speaker 1: has a different business. So they are going to keep
Speaker 1: Microsoft Experience centers in London, New York, Sydney, and on
Speaker 1: their campus in Redmond, Washington, but that's it. And the
Speaker 1: stores have been closed since late March, which means it's
Speaker 1: kind of sad that they're just not going to reopen,
Speaker 1: which is really really crazy. So that's sad. And on
Speaker 1: a final note, Google nest Hub Max, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many of you have one of these, but if
Speaker 1: you do, they've added some pretty cool features. You can
Speaker 1: now do group calling, which is really cool. So you
Speaker 1: can say, h, Google, make a group call, and you
Speaker 1: have to set up your groups in duo on the
Speaker 1: app first before you do this on the screen, But
Speaker 1: once you do, you can meet with those people on
Speaker 1: duo and Duo is up to thirty two people. But
Speaker 1: if you really want to take it to the next level,
Speaker 1: you can connect with up to one hundred people on
Speaker 1: Google Meet right from this little nest Hub Max. And
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with the Nest Hub Max, this
Speaker 1: is their smart display that's also smart speaker, but it
Speaker 1: also has a camera inside and the screen is a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger, and this is really really cool. You
Speaker 1: can also have a speed dial for your contact so
Speaker 1: you can call them from this thing. But here's my
Speaker 1: favorite part is that you can use Google Meet to
Speaker 1: start your meeting and you can just say h Google,
Speaker 1: start a meeting to connect with up to one hundred
Speaker 1: people on Google Meet. Or you can say join a meeting,
Speaker 1: or you can say join my next meeting if your
Speaker 1: meeting is in your calendar, and it will just automatically
Speaker 1: do that. Now, why do I think that's so cool
Speaker 1: is because let's say you had one of these things
Speaker 1: on your desk, it now frees up your computer because
Speaker 1: you can type on your computer and do all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But you're joining your meeting, your group meeting from the
Speaker 1: nest hub Max. I'm saying all this with the reality
Speaker 1: that nobody's using Google Meet except people that are forced to,
Speaker 1: perhaps from their organization, and ninety nine point nine percent
Speaker 1: of people are actually just using Zoom. So I wish
Speaker 1: that Google would have enabled Zoom functionality on there because
Speaker 1: it would have been a game changer and people probably
Speaker 1: would have bought these things for that. But again, there
Speaker 1: are two competing companies, and everything we have nowadays with
Speaker 1: technology has to live in a silo by some unspoken rules.
Speaker 1: So sadly we're all being pushed to silos, and I
Speaker 1: don't see a day where nest hub Max is going
Speaker 1: to work with Zoom. So sadly, all right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for this episode of the show. Can you
Speaker 1: believe it's over? I've got some housekeeping. I was on
Speaker 1: Brian Tong's Apple Bits XL podcast, So if you know
Speaker 1: Brian Tong, him and I used to work at c
Speaker 1: neet together and he went off on his own became
Speaker 1: very successful as a YouTuber. I couldn't believe. I just
Speaker 1: checked his Twitter and wow, he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: Twitter followers. He's got hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers,
Speaker 1: so he is killing it on his own. Good job,
Speaker 1: Brian Tong. Check out his podcast called Apple Bits XL.
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