WEBVTT - Instagram now lets you hide likes 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.160 Apple sets a date to show off new features coming 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.360 soon to the iPhone. Instagram now lets you hide likes, 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:22.079 how to stop those annoying spam calls. Plus your tech 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.320 questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and this 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.520 is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.200 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.680 also the place where I answer the questions you send me. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.760 And as I say every week, you sure do send 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.760 those questions along. You're not shy. I'm the tech reporter 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.519 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I get it. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.600 You see me on TV. You say, I'm gonna ask 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.519 that guy a question, and you know what. That's what 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.760 this podcast is all about. So thanks for sending him in, 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.800 because if you didn't, I wouldn't be able to do 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.440 this show. Well, I want to say thank you for 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.600 something that happened to me. You know, I post stuff 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.360 on Instagram and I never you know, you never know 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.320 what the reaction is going to be, right, and so 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.200 you know, last night before bed, I was going through 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.960 some of my memories on Google Photos as I sometimes do, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.840 and I came across a picture of me that I 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.720 was like, what is that? And it said, thirteen years ago, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.080 and it was my headshot from when I started at 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.400 another TV station here in Los Angeles called k CAL nine. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.880 And I'll just tell you the story because I didn't 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.920 I didn't tell the whole story on Instagram, but I 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.880 kind of told a little bit of it. But I'll 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.240 give you the kind of the cliffs notes version. But basically, 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:37.920 you know, I was doing my job at CNET. I 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.800 was working at CNET in New York City, and I'd 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.000 been a reporter in other places, but I was now 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:43.960 working for a website and I thought I had the 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.880 best job ever. I mean, I would have stayed at 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.160 c NET for the rest of my life. I worked 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.920 in New York City. My team was awesome. Everyone there 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.160 was just amazing. And this was like in the early 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.480 days of video and tech and all that stuff. And 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.400 I'm just doing my job and lobby blah blah blah. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.640 I get a call from someone in Los Angeles at 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.440 CA CAW and They're like, hey, can you do what 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.600 you're doing over there here? And I'm like what, And 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.680 I mean, this is Los Angeles. My wife is from 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.000 LA She had been kind of itching to get back 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:15.840 a little bit, and so I was like, well, I 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.920 think so, and so they fly me out to La 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.000 me I think they flew me out. I can't really remember. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.560 But anyway, so I get out there, I get the 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.880 job at CA CAL. Everything's fine, you know, I do 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.920 my job for a year. My contract's up and no renewal. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.639 It's just like you're done. You're like, oh, okay, see you. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.760 So my wife and I, you know, we go home 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.960 and I'm sitting there. And this was, by the way, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.840 two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, when like 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.799 the entire economy collapsed and so there was no jobs 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.800 to be had out there, and so it was like, okay, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.600 but I made a decision. I you know, we'd moved 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.080 around several times in the world to you know, be 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.120 a reporter, and I'd lived in Washington State, Louisiana. We'd 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.560 actually moved to LA another time before I moved back 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.640 to New York for CNET, and so I was kind 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.080 of done moving, and I said, you know what, but 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.520 do you just want to like stick it out here 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.440 and we'll just stay put in LA and just kind 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.840 of see what happens. And she was like sure, And 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.200 she had a job at the time, and so we did. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.400 We just stayed put. We stayed put in our little apartment. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.640 We just kept on going and I did some other things. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.799 I worked for a website called tech Meme. I worked 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.640 at CANBC as a producer, and all of a sudden, 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.280 I get a call from the same person that called 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.000 me the first time at k CAL, who is now 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.480 working at KTLA, and said, hey, can we try this again? 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.160 Can you do what you're doing again again? And I said, okay, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.400 but I have a good job again. So you know, 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.400 by this time, I actually had a full time job 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.400 at CANBC as a producer and it was a pretty 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.800 decent job. And I said, oh gosh, I don't know. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.880 I'm a little scared this time, and he said, no, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.680 it's going to be great. And so sure enough, it's 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.800 been ten plus years since that conversation and it has 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.040 been great, and I just want to say thank you. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.480 I posted the picture to Instagram and I don't even 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.880 think most people knew I was on k CAL well, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.400 but the comments have just been pouring in, and I 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.320 really I sometimes forget how many people kind of see 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.160 what I do on TV, and it makes it very 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.800 clear that you're watching, you're listening, and the things that 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.560 I do do have an impact on you. So thank you. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.800 I just want to say thanks. That's that's it. So 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.839 all right, let's get to the first question or the 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.160 first story of the week. Apple. Apple Apple. I know, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.799 of Rich you're such an Apple lover, Oh my gosh, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:37.320 but you know, Apple kind of commands everything. But Apple 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.120 announced their Worldwide Developers Conference is going to be held 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:45.040 on June seventh. Official invites went out to the media, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.080 including myself. Keno is at ten am on June seventh 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.200 Pacific time, which is nice. I mean Samsung when they 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.160 do theirs, it's like seven am Pacific. Why, I mean, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.039 I guess they're more New York centric, But seven am 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.359 or ten am on June seventh WWDC. This will be 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:06.560 the second virtual WWDC, maybe the third. I don't even 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.600 know now. Twenty nineteen was live, twenty twenty was in virtual, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.359 twenty twenty one was virtual or is going to be virtual? 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.080 So what are they going to announce? Well, of course 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.000 we always get to see kind of what's next with 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.400 the iPhone, and for my purposes, I think that's one 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.960 of the biggest things is you know, the iPhone is 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.320 kind of like the biggest product from Apple. So when 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.839 we see the new features coming to like it's either 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.600 going to be iOS fifteen perhaps or you know, maybe 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.680 another version of iOS fourteen. Usually they go to the fifteen. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.359 But I mean, can you believe we're getting into like 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.720 fifteen major versions of iOS. I mean, it's just unbelievable. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.560 But it's not just iOS. There's also mac os. There's 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.200 also iPad os, there's also tvOS, there's also watch os. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.599 So we get to see all the new features that 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.719 are coming to all the different Apple products. They don't 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.480 come overnight, but you know, we get a little glimpse 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.760 into the future, and generally the new software launches, you know, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.040 sometime later in the year September October when the new 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.640 devices launch. But anyway, I find it really fun. It's 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.720 it's usually a pretty pretty good keynote to get some 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.880 some insight on new features, and it always really I 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.080 was thinking about this, which keynote gets me the most 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.200 amped up about their products, and it's it's a war 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.880 between Apple and Google, because Google always gets me really 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.200 excited for this idea that like Google is trying to sell. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.640 I think I talked about this, but may did I 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.320 leave my last podcast with this. I hope I didn't. Uh, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.000 maybe this was announced last week. No, No, it was 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.360 Google that I talked about. That's right, Okay, it was 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.240 Google i OWE and I kind of mentioned this, but 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.080 I said, you know, Google, IOWE and Apple, they always 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.640 get me so excited. It's like a very like positive, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.719 bright outlook on the future. I know, say what you 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.960 will about privacy and all the issues with these tech 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.920 companies and how they're monopolies and whatever antitrust, but at 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.279 the end of the day, they do affect our lives 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.920 and pretty amazing ways. And the benefits are there. If 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.760 you're if you're a typical consumer, you're you're getting a 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.279 lot of benefits from these companies. And so yeah, there's 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.160 people out there that say, oh, they're evil, they're they're terrible. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.000 But the reality is when I sit there and do 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.280 a lot of the stuff that I do on a 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.440 daily basis, I literally sit there and think to myself, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.280 this is quite amazing. What I'm able to do with 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.480 my phone right now, what I'm able to do with 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.720 my house right now, what I'm able to do on 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.440 my TV right now. It's just you know, with fitness, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.480 with with my photos, with my editing with Instagram, with Twitter, 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:40.120 with Facebook. It's just quite amazing anyway. So June seventh, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.239 ten am, can't wait. We will have more info about 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.000 what they announce in the next podcast. Let's get to 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:52.720 the first question of the day. All right, Bob says, Hey, Rich, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.000 my wife is a nanny and the parents just move 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.560 to a new house in Stevenson's Ranch. That's an area 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.640 in Los Angeles. I think it's like a nice area too, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.880 and cannot seem to get coverage for her phone. Do 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.520 you possibly know what alternative she has in order to 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:13.120 get a signal to use her iPhone? Thank you, Bob, Bob. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.680 What she needs to do is latch onto their WiFi 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.520 and turn on Wi Fi calling. So most of the 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.480 carriers offer it. I'm pretty sure that the if she's 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.040 a nanny, I'm pretty sure she's either already on their 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.680 WiFi or it would be a polite ask to get 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.600 on their WiFi. But I think if if there's any 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.400 issue with that, you know, if they're like, no, you 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.439 cannot have our WiFi, I mean, that would be indicative 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.080 of a bigger issue. I think would trust but I 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.360 would ask to get on the Wi Fi and then 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.320 go into iPhone and turn on Wi Fi calling. So 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.280 the way that you do that is, let's see here, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.600 turn on Wi Fi calling. Let's see you open. Oh gosh, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.400 that's for your Mac. You can do that on your Mac. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:09:00.560 Let's see iPhone. I know it's in somewhere in your phone. Okay, 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:05.880 settings Phone, No, that's not it. Oh, come on Wi 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:11.120 Fi calling, Apple Support, Okay, Wi Fi calling. Go into 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.959 settings phone, Wi Fi calling. That's it. Now. You may 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.160 have to once you toggle it on for the first time, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.839 you may have to set up an emergency address. And 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:25.080 so because she's a nanny at this house, and you know, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.400 God forbid she ever had to make a call for 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.319 an emergency, I would set their address as my emergency address, 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.800 because you know that would help. Now, just so you know, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.400 the Wi Fi calling is going to continue at home, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.520 So there's two options, you know, And if she ever 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.760 had to call nine one one from home, it would 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.120 deliver that the Stevenson's Ranch address to the nine one 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.320 one call or dispatch. So you have to kind of 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.840 think about that with the with respect to the address, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.400 but I think because she's a nanny, it's probably more 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.360 important to have it go to the address of the 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.920 Stevenson ranch. But she could turn on and off Wi 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.920 Fi calling, like maybe just make it part of her day. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.560 So every day that she gets to the house, she 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.280 turns on Wi Fi calling. When she exits, she just 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:10.800 turns it off. And that's kind of like part of 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.640 the routine. So anyway, good question, and it's surprising to 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.640 me how many people don't have Wi Fi calling on. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.640 I actually I by default like it off because I'm like, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.000 if I'm paying for my service, right like, if I'm 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.920 paying for Verizon, I would like my calls to be 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.120 routed through Verizon towers and not freeload on my Wi Fi. 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.800 But where my in laws live, there is no cell 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.960 phone service on Verizon, and so I have to turn 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.480 it on for that And so for that reason, my 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.480 calls do go through my Wi Fi at home, so 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.679 I can see my phone right now, says Verizon Wi Fi, 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.160 which is kind of a misnomer because it's not really 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.920 Verizon Wi Fi. It's Verizon and Wi Fi because my 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.920 WiFi is not Verizon. But anyway, so anyway, I have 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.040 a little you know, I generally if you don't need 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.880 Wi Fi calling at home, I would just leave it off. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.480 There's no real benefit except you're just saving your carrier. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.400 And with money, which I mean we pay them enough, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.800 I think they can afford it. So that's my thoughts 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.840 on that. All right, let's talk about Instagram now. It's 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.080 ironic that the photo I was just talking about on 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.880 my Instagram of my old headshot for Kkel is like 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.280 one of the most liked photos I've posted in a 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.199 long time. And the irony is that I actually turned 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.000 off the ability for people to see how many likes 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.600 my photos are getting because of a new feature on Instagram. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.200 So Instagram and Facebook have done this, but I think 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.280 it's most important. On Instagram. They are giving folks the 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.920 ability to hide the like counts on their posts, and 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.440 not just that, you can also hide all the like 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.040 counts that you see as you scroll through. So I 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.040 have turned on the hiding. There's two ways to do this. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.640 You can turn on you know, as you scroll through Instagram, 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.280 you don't see any likes. It just says liked by 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.880 one of your you know, one random person plus others. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.440 That's what we'll say, instead of liked by you know 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.480 someone plus seventy hundred twenty five others. It'll just say others. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.680 So that's the number one thing. And to turn that on, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.960 you go into click your little profile profile icon. Then 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.160 you click the three little lines that look like a 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 well I call it a hamburger, but it's like a menu. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.640 Then you go into settings, and then you go into gosh, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.120 there's a privacy. Then you go into privacy. Then you 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.760 go into posts and then it says likes and views, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.640 hide like and view count. I mean, could they have 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.920 made that any tougher to find? But they are going 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.960 to put like a banner on your home screen as 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.720 well that says do you want to hide likes? So okay, 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.400 So I did that and now when I scroll through, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.480 I don't see any likes when I'm scrolling through. And 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.120 I will tell you, after twenty four hours of this setup, 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.880 I really do like it. And I'll tell you why. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.640 It frees my mind. It frees my mind to actually 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.520 look at the content and not worry about how popular 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.080 this person is. And so when I see a big 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.240 account that I know has thousands and hundreds of thousands 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.320 of likes that I just feel really, you know, like 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.920 insignificant or what's the word. I don't know, you know, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.280 I just feel like I'm not as good, like why 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.160 is this person have so many in one minute? But 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.959 it doesn't. I don't do that anymore because I don't 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.880 have to think about it. So and the best part 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.600 is the smaller accounts are now elevated in my head 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.040 because it doesn't matter. They're the same. So let me 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.640 give you an example. A peloton instructor that gets, you know, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.640 thirty four thousand likes in an hour is now on 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.280 the same playing field as an old friend from high 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.560 school who might get twenty five likes in an hour. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.560 It doesn't matter. And so now I don't feel bad 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.520 like my brain used to just feel bad for the 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.360 one person and like a little bit jealous of the 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.680 other person, And now my brain doesn't have that knowledge, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.640 so it's like whatever, I just look at the post 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.199 and if I like it, I'll like it or a 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.760 comment on it. So I think it's actually a really 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.800 good thing to turn that on and just test it 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.480 with yourself and see, I think it's good for the mind. 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.720 The second thing you can do so is even if 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.800 someone doesn't turn off the ability to see likes and 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.440 view counts, you can turn them off on your posts. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.040 So every time that you make a post, there's now 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.360 an option to hide the like count, So you can 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.320 do that while you post, or you can do it 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.640 after you post by going to one of your posts 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.680 hitting the three little dots and it says hide like count. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.600 And so that's a really nice way to do it 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.720 as well. So I don't know, I'm testing it out. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.000 I'm gonna see how it works, but so far, I'm 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.680 kind of digging it, and I think that it's a 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.360 good thing for people to at least test this. I 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.480 think especially you know, my wife and I were debating 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.760 this last night, like is it good for teenagers? And 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.600 you know, she said it was, but they're not going 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.000 to do it, And I said, well, I think it's 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.120 good for adults too, because I think that no matter 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.080 what the way that our brain works as a human, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.080 that's just programmed a certain way. You look at the 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.960 picture and then you immediately look at the likes. It's 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.720 just the way we've been programmed, because that's what the 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.960 app is all about. So the fact that you don't 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.360 have to do that anymore, I think really frees up 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:10.880 your brain to do other stuff. All right, let's get 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:17.160 to another question Sean, with the subject line, Android says, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.920 how about a wireless service that actually works and reliable? 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:27.080 They are all horrible. Okay, Well, I don't necessarily agree 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:31.360 with that. I mean, I've been around the world with 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:38.040 varying wireless services, mostly at and T and Verizon, and 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.000 I am actually quite amazed at where I've been in 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.760 the world and have a cell phone signal, and so 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.560 just to kind of just say a blanket statement that 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:53.560 they're all horrible, I just can't agree with. I actually 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.240 think it's quite magical that it's getting harder and harder 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.800 to escape from the connected world that we live in, 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:07.080 and so these services are quite amazing. They connect people, 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.800 they help people. You know, there's there was a story 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.840 about and I forget but there was like a car 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.480 that had crashed, and you know, these cars have like 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.600 there's a couple of ways that it can do it. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.000 Like you know, your Apple Watch can help respond. Now 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.040 your car can have like on Star on the pixel. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.240 They've got the the crash feature where if you're you know, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.120 you crash, it'll call for help. And all of those 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.160 things rely on sort of a signal. And so if 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.040 you don't have a signal, that's going to be a problem. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.320 And and most of the time there is a signal 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.680 now and yes, in some of the rural areas there 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.320 it's spotty. I mentioned where my in laws live, they 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.520 don't have a signal there. But the funny thing is 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.680 they actually so for many many years they didn't have 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.320 a signal. But now T Mobile works one hundred percent there, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.680 and at and T works I think pretty well like 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.560 ninety percent. And Verizon works if you stand in like 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.919 a certain place, but only a little tiny bit like 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.760 you might get a notification. So yeah, Verizon, you know, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.760 is the odd man out there. But the reality is 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.480 it just can you know, it's continued to get better 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.280 over the years. You know, in the past ten years, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.800 I've seen that it's gotten better. And now when it 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.240 comes to these new five G networks, like yeah, people say, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.960 oh they're not that fast, it's not that great. But yeah, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.000 if you get like if you capture one of those 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:32.120 like five G ultra wideband signals from Verizon, I mean, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.840 it's it's like lightning in a bottle, it's so fast. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.840 And so you know, and again I've I've been all 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.400 over the place. I've been all over the place, and 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.919 I would say ninety nine point nine percent of the 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.919 time there's a signal. Now, calls used to drop back 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.119 in the day, like yes, of course I used to, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.080 you know, even driving over the four or five, like, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.200 there used to be one spot where every single time 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.880 the call would drop, and that's been patched. I mean, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.200 so it's you know, these carriers, say what you will. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.359 I mean, I think we pay too much for some 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.560 of this cell service unless you're you know, on a 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.879 on a smaller carrier or on a smaller plan. I 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:12.240 think the it's expensive, but you know, the service are 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.080 providing I think has gotten better over the years, and 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.359 I think that you know, you could debate me on that, 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.280 but just you know, send in your info. What do 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.440 you think, I mean, send in your your thoughts. Has 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.280 service gotten better at your house? Has there been a 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.080 place where you used to drop out? Or you don't? 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.280 You know. So I don't think they're all horrible. Now, 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.960 I will say, I do think that Verizon and AT 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.560 and T are are really good. I think a T 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.520 mobile is coming up, but you know, the uh, it's 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.440 just one of these things. Well, I guess T Mobile 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.200 now they have Sprint. I mean, it's probably even getting 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.200 better and it's funny because most of the test lines 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:48.800 that you know, when they send me a phone to test, 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.320 generally they send like a you know, thirty days of 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.399 service or something so you can test out the phone, 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.639 and a lot of times, I would say nine out 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.160 of ten it's T Mobile. So if I'm testing a phone, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.800 I'm using like the Tea Mobile network, and I will admit, 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:03.800 I mean, I'm just gonna be honest, I do notice 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.560 that my Verizon or AT and T signals are better, 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:11.280 Like the latency I've noticed the latency, the availability of 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.560 a good signal, and the latency on and the speed 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.760 some most of the time is just a little bit 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.679 better on the two historic carriers. But then again, a 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.000 lot of times T Mobile charge less than the two 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.640 biggest and so you know, it's it's one of these 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.479 things that's trade off. Not everyone needs like the best, latest, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.680 greatest everything. So I'm not knocking T Mobile in any way. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.439 I actually, if I had my preference for how I 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.080 like a company run, T Mobile actually kind of I 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.640 really like how they run their company, like the way 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.120 that they kind of approach their customers and their customer 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.520 service and the way they do things. I really do like. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.800 So it's all good, and I you know, I just anyway, 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.399 that's a that's a long answer for a kind of 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.680 a one line question, but or a one line statement, 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.160 I should say. But there you have it. You're listening 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:00.800 to the Rich on Tech show. Oh so you're gonna 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.600 get rich on tech. All right, let's talk about one 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.240 of the big, big, big stories of the week, Amazon 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:14.600 acquiring MGM. I mean, this is just wild. It's just 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.960 the fact that we have these tech companies. And I 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.480 tweeted about this, you know, I said that here we are. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:28.720 It's just wild to me that literally tech is just 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.400 eating through Hollywood. I mean, think about what they've done 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.919 over the years. They totally changed the way music is. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.760