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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Elon takes over Twitter, Duo Lingo takes over Math, and
will Amazon's one hundred dollars fire tablet take over the iPad?
Spoiler alert Probably not, but I'll tell you when it should.
Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich
Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where
I talk about the tech stuff I think you should
know about. It's also the place where I answer the

(00:33):
questions you send me, and yes, you send me a
lot of them. I'm the tech reporter for KTLA Channel
five in Los Angeles, California, United States, North America. The World, Earth,
the galaxy? What galaxy are we in? Do we have

(00:53):
a name for the galaxy? I'm sure we do. I
should probably know that. Oh my gosh, welcome to the show.
I know it's been a bit since I've done a podcast,
and I officially apologized for that. But it's just one
of these things where I think the last time I
was in a hotel room in New York City, and
then I was in Tokyo and then I don't you know.
It's just it's a lot sometimes. So I do appreciate

(01:15):
Milky Way Galaxy. Oh is that what we're in the
Milky Way. Okay, is that the Milky Way? I thought
that was a candy bar. It is a good candy bar,
but anyway, so I guess we're in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Speaking of galaxies, I was in Japan. In case you
haven't seen any of my stories on KTLA lately, they've
all been sort of international in scope. Was in Japan

(01:39):
for ce Tech twenty twenty two, which is sort of
their version of CS, which is also coming up very
soon in Las Vegas, which I can't believe that always
marks a whole nother year. But Japan se Tech twenty
twenty two. They do this show every year. It's like
kind of their version of CS, but it's more geared
towards it used to be electronic. Now it's more towards

(02:01):
like tech that's going to change our lives. So that
was the first time they were in person in three years,
and you know, I got the opportunity they brought me
over there. It was so fantastic to just be back
in Tokyo in Japan. It just reopened about a week
before I was there, and it was so cool. I
love Japan. I think it is such an amazing place,

(02:21):
the culture, the people, the technology there they are. They
have been so far ahead. I've been going there now
for like ten years. They've been They've been far ahead
for ten years. I mean, it's just the way that
they embraced payments and just their whole like society is
so like futuristic, even all these years later. It's really

(02:43):
quite remarkable. So I took this airline over there called
zip Aar, which full disclosure, they did provide me with
a seat to sort of review them and experience it,
and it's just it was so great. I was very
concerned about taking this airline because I typically make the
same airline everywhere, and to try a different one, especially

(03:03):
one that's built as sort of a low cost carrier
and no frills carrier, I admit I was a little
bit hesitant. I was like, should I do this? And
you know, they gave me this live flat seat, which
you know is typically you know, it's interesting because you
know they build themselves as a low cost carrier and
if you think I have a live flat seat, oh okay,
it's like first class business class it is, but only

(03:25):
in the seat. And this was very unique to me
to everything you wanted to do, you had to pay,
so if you wanted to choose your seat in advance,
if checking luggage costs money, like a blanket cost money,
a pillow cost money, your meal cost money, which is
so wild when you think about buying a seat like that,
like a lie flat seat. So that was really interesting.

(03:46):
They also have economy class seats, which was fine too.
Brand new plane seven eighty seven Dreamliner, which is one
of my my favorite plane. I know I travel enough
where I have a favorite plane, and it sounds so like, oh,
excuse me, you have a favorite plane, You have a
favorite airliner you like to travel on. I do, so
I'll admit it. It's the plane that I seek out

(04:08):
on my flights to Newark when I fly back home,
and it's just you know, you can't fly a Dreamliner everywhere.
But it's funny because they used to not fly them domestically,
like across the country, and now they do onun United,
which is really cool. Someone's asking do you have to
pay to use the lavatory? You do not have to pay.
I actually wondered about that. No, but that was Another

(04:31):
interesting thing is that the front section of the plane,
which typically if you fly traditional airliner. You know, the
first class or the business class section has their own,
you know, toilets, and this was just the same bathrooms
for everyone. So and then of course Nick is asking
the question that I imagine people would wonder wonder, is

(04:53):
what's your favorite airline. I don't know if I have
a favorite, but I have a regular airline. I fly
as United because they used to be Continental back in
the day where I'm from in Newark, and back in
the day you had your choice for direct flight from
lax to New Jersey was only Continental, and so I
would always fly them. My wife always flied United growing

(05:14):
up in Los Angeles, and I was like United, I've
never flown United. I don't even know what United is.
And then those airlines merged to become United with the
Continental logo, and my wife and I got married. So
I thought it was so cool that, like, you know,
my wife and I merged living on the two coasts
and these two airlines. You know, maybe I'm telling you
too much. I don't know. This is the problem with

(05:35):
this podcast. I just start talking and talking and talking. Anyway,
Zip Air was awesome. It was clean, it was friendly,
it was smooth, it was great. You just have to
be prepared to pay for all the extra things along
the way. In fact, on my way back, I've never
experienced this before in my life. They weighed my carry
on and they told me that I had to put

(05:57):
stuff if I didn't want to pay extra, I had
to put stuff from carry on into my checked luggage,
which I was like sitting there, wait what? And so
they said, yeah, it's like whatever, nine point three kilograms
and I needed I don't know if that's it could
be wrong. I don't know what the kilogram could be,
like a thousand pounds, I don't know. Whatever it was.
It was like a tiny bit over. And they said, oh,
can you put that in your check luggage? And I

(06:19):
said really, And so I took out this little bag
of cables I had. I put it in my check
luggage and they said, and by the way, if you
don't want to pay anything more, don't shop at duty free.
And I was like, wait what. So I ended up
taking a chance and I went all out on duty
free and bought all kinds of stuff and I was
just like, you know, I'll pay the extra fifty dollars
to check this or to carry on this luggage. They

(06:41):
didn't actually ask me, so it was fine, but I
think they could do that, but I had never seen
that before. I know, with like international flights, check luggage,
definitely you don't get as much for checked and carry
on as you would like domestically. But I just was like, WHOA.
I really was taken aback by that and super Scientific,

(07:03):
what's up Danny? Danny says that happened to me in
Europe a lot on connecting flights. By the way, follow
super Scientific if you want awesome camera comparisons of the
latest smartphones. He always does an awesome job from his
home base in I think it's like Orlando, Florida because
he's always going to Disney World to do his camera comparison.
So yeah, anyway, zip Air highly recommended if you want

(07:26):
to fly from the West Coast to Tokyo. And the
other thing to know is that that first class or
business class or live flat seat that I had was
you know, it averages about two thousand dollars when realistically
to fly that seat to Japan is like closer to
five to seven thousand dollars on a traditional airline. So

(07:46):
that's what drew me to that airline. I was like wait,
how is this so cheap? And so that's when I
gave him a call to see what the deal was,
and then the the what's the other thing? The economy
seats are also going to be cheap as well on
the back. So if you don't really care about a
lot of frilly stuff on a flight and you just
want a comfortable, nice flight over there, just you know,

(08:07):
save the money for spending in Tokyo. I already mentioned
how amazing Tokyo is the friendly people see tech. One
thing I learned, and this is a thing like, yes
I am. I am a tech guy, and I am
always learning just like you are. Like I don't know
everything in this world. If I did, I would probably
be a lot richer of a person, right, So I

(08:27):
am learning as I go along, and that's why I
test out products. I try things. I really try to like,
you know, just just experience things like a regular person
would and report back to you. And so I don't
have all the answers up front, And so before my flight,
you know, I download a bunch of apps and things
to test out. But one of the things I learned
while I was over there is that Wi Fi calling

(08:51):
you can turn this on on your phone and you
can text, and you can also make phone calls through
a Wi Fi work without triggering any international roaming fees
from your your carrier. Here in the US, I was
not aware of that. So I did not know this,
and so when I was in Rome, for example, I

(09:14):
turned off my Verizon simcard completely because I want you
to avoid all of the like the daily ten dollars
fees or whatever. And I bought an eSIM. But the
problem is when you buy a data only eSIM, you
don't have access to your standard text messages and phone
calls that may come in. And so this actually came
into play in Tokyo because my wife was like, Hey,

(09:35):
I just logged into a website. Can you tell me
the two factor authentication code that was texted to? And
I said, I don't know that. I'm not going to
get that code for a week. And anyway, I was
hanging out with this guy Michael, who is a tech
producer for he does like freelance tech stuff, and he
was like, you know, you can just turn on your
Wi Fi calling and I was like, wait what And
sure enough, all I turn on my Wi Fi calling

(09:57):
and all of my tech started coming in my standard
phone number without triggering any fees, and I was like, wait,
this is groundbreaking. Anyway, I share that with you because
I think the perfect way to do it now is
to turn on your Wi Fi calling, turn off data
roaming on your traditional plan if it doesn't include any
international text, and then get a local SIM. I use

(10:18):
an app called aerlo Ai r Alo. I bought three
sims from them when I was in Japan. Two worked perfectly,
one did not, and I was actually kind of annoyed
with them because I said, hey, can you refund me?
And they said no, we don't give refunds, like if
it's you know, if it's not our problem. I was like, oh,
I don't. How do I decide if it's your problem?
I mean I can't. I've activated four of your sims.

(10:40):
All of them worked except for this one, so I
don't know, Like I and I tried everything, all their
little apns and all these settings you had to change,
which the average person would not know how to do
or not want to do, and the two So bottom line,
I bought three SIM cards when I was in Japan.
One was a local japan simcard. I think it was

(11:01):
called Moshi mosh or moshimoshi, which I think roughly means
like hello in Japanese. And then two of them I
ended up buying that were for Asia in general. So
the two that were for Asia worked perfectly. The local
Japan sim did not work and I could not get
it to work, and it was on an Android, so
maybe that had something to do with it. iPhone is

(11:22):
a little bit easier with the E sims. But anyway, Okay,
that's all my Japan stuff. Let's uh if you have
any questions about Japan, let me know in the comments.
I am streaming on Instagram right now. Oh, let's see
O Dealisa says favorite media during the flight movies, music books,
good question. I was actually testing out the Amazon Fire

(11:46):
tablet on my flight, which I'll talk about later in
the show. But I watched I watched a movie Gremlins,
which obviously old movie, and it held up. I thought
it was really scary, by the way, but great movie.
And then I also watched this show on Hulu called Reboot,
which I feel like not everyone would like that show,

(12:07):
but since I live in Hollywood and I kind of
understand that whole Hollywood world, I thought it was hilarious,
and I guess maybe I don't know if it's getting
a lot of press or a lot of publicity, but
I thought it was really really funny, and so I watched,
like I just kind of binge watched that. I still
have a couple episodes to go. And then the book
I was reading, I know, it's kind of funny, but

(12:27):
it's it was Kelly Rippa's autobiography, I guess, or short
stories whatever. I was more interested in the in the
Regis stories from that show because I always liked Regis
growing up, and so I just was curious what she
had to say about him. Spoiler as arts, she didn't.
She didn't have very nice things to say about him.

(12:47):
So that kind of threw me for a loop. Anyway,
thanks for the badge, Stephanie. Thanks for buying a badge.
That's cool. The fourteen is trash over Apple. I don't
know what that means. Rich How much do you like
the new iPad M chip? I have not tested the
new iPad, but the M chips are amazing, so people
really really like those. All right, let's get to the

(13:09):
first question of the week. Are the first story of
the week. I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of
time on this because this sort of gets into the
realm of like celebrity tabloid reporting with this whole Elon
Musk and Twitter stuff. There's so many hot takes flying
around about this whole Elon Musk buying Twitter. But I'm
going to sort of stick to like what's happening. Elon

(13:31):
Musk has purchased Twitter, and yes, he has now taken
over the company. Yes, it was sort of an unusual thing.
It was going to happen, It wasn't going to happen,
but he tweeted yesterday he brought a kitchen sink or
a sink into Twitter and he said, you know, I
purchased Twitter. Let that sink in. It's you know, kind

(13:52):
of cheesy, corny, but you know, we'll see a Twitter.
I've said this before. Twitter is kind of the perfect
social network because what I love is that just because
I have a Twitter account, anyone in the world can
get in touch with me, and you know, with email
and stuff like that, but it's like a public way
that like if you want to, you know, tweet me,

(14:13):
you can and I may or may not see that tweet,
depending on you know, whatever happens with Twitter, and and
you know, when I'm looking and this and that. But
like that's kind of cool, the fact that I can
tweet a celebrity and they may see my tweet. Now,
if you're a celebrity, you're getting a ton of tweets.
You probably don't, but you never know. Uh So I
always and by the way, the way Twitter does things
where it's available on all platforms where you can put

(14:35):
video on there, you can put pictures, you can see
stuff without logging in on like Instagram, where they only
give you a couple of times, or you can look
at stuff before they say, oh sorry, you gotta log
in Facebook same way. So Twitter, I thought, has always
been sort of a really they don't they don't mess
with like links and stuff like, whereas Instagram you can't
really open up a link. You can't be you know.
It's just it's different. And I love Instagram, don't get

(14:56):
me wrong, But Twitter I've always loved. It's just it's
not a thing that's you used by a lot of
quote unquote regular people, you know what I mean. Like,
it's not the average person is not using Twitter. And
so maybe now with Elon taking over, maybe they will
I don't know. A lot of people are saying they're
gonna leave Twitter because they don't like the way Elon
does things or whatever. But he's already gotten rid of

(15:17):
the top folks at Twitter, so that's those changes are
already in progress. He tweeted the bird is freed, so
a reference to a couple things, maybe the fact that
he feels like Twitter needs to be more of an
open place for people to, you know, voice their opinions.
We'll see what happens there now. Elon runs Tesla, he

(15:39):
run SpaceX, he runs Twitter, big trifecta of companies. You know.
Did he over pay for Twitter? I don't know how much.
Did he pay forty four billion dollars? I don't know
what the end price was, but all tech stocks have
taken a nose dive lately, and so whatever Twitter was
worth when he first gave that offer, is it worth

(15:59):
that same amount right now with today's situation. I'm not sure.
But at the bottom line for me is that, yes,
I will stay on Twitter. I'm not going anywhere. I've
always used Twitter in sort of a different way than
I have, say Instagram or Facebook. It's always been much
more of an inside baseball kind of place where I'm

(16:19):
on there with other tech people and journalists and stuff
like that. We'll see. All right, let's get to the
first question of the day. Chris asks just a basic question.
I have Facebook and I use it for my business,
but I didn't download Messenger on my phone, so I
have to go on my computer, log in and view

(16:40):
messages there, which can take a while for me to
get back to the office. My question is, is Messenger
a safe app to download to my phone? Chris, Yes,
I believe that that Messenger is a safe app to
download your phone. I know there's a lot of talk
about Facebook and listening and you know, scooping up all

(17:01):
your personal data and this and that. But the way
the iPhone is configured, and your email says sent from
my iPhone, the way the iPhone has configured is that
you get to decide the permissions that you give an app.
So when you are downloading Messenger on your phone, my
advice is be very aware of the permissions that it
asks for. It may ask to track you across other apps.

(17:22):
Say no to that, if you don't like that. It
may ask for access to your microphone, say no to that.
If you don't want that. It may ask for access
to your location, Say no if it asks for that.
It may ask for access to your camera, say no
if you don't want that. If you're just using Messenger,
it sounds like you're running a business and you're using
Messenger to reply to your customers. If you just want

(17:42):
to be able to text with them back and forth
and get those immediate notifications on your phone when someone
texts you, absolutely download Messenger. Millions upon millions of people
use it. People have their opinions on Facebook, just like Twitter.
There's a lot of hot takes going on out there,
but the reality is Facebook and Messenger are very very
good tools for connecting with people. And especially if you

(18:04):
run a business and people are messaging you through there,
go for it. I think you'll be just fine. All right,
let's get to the next story of the week. And
I feel like this is just something that it's like
it should be a regular segment, like what streaming service
prices are going up this week? This week it is
Apple and also YouTube. So YouTube raise the price of

(18:25):
its YouTube Premium Family Plan. It's now like twenty three
dollars a month or something like that. Used to be eighteen,
So yeah, like five dollars extra, and I subscribe to that,
and it's a big price increase. I'll probably keep it
because I do like no ads on YouTube, but you know,
it's one of those things that that's like a that's
now I think the most expensive streaming service I have

(18:48):
used to be Netflix. Now it's that. Actually, Netflix and
Hulu are now both twenty dollars a month for me,
I'm the higher plans. I guess Hulu is includes Disney
Hulu and ESPN Plus whatever that is. But anyway, Apple
Music is also going up, and Apple TV Plus and
the Apple One bundle, which I'm also subscribed to. So

(19:09):
Apple Music is now going up to uh ten ninety
nine a month, it used to be nine ninety nine.
The Family Plan is going up by two dollars a
month to sixteen ninety nine, Apple TV Plus going up
to six ninety nine a month, up from five dollars,
and then Apple One is going up to It's going
up by two dollars a month for each plan. And
I'm on the Premiere Plan, which is thirty bucks a month,

(19:31):
so now that's thirty two ninety five, So yeah, two
dollars extra. So My point is, it's pretty wild that
all of these services are going up. Now if you
add everything up that's gone up in the past six months. Sure,
it may only add up to twenty more dollars a month,
but that's still twenty dollars a month. And you do
that over a year, that's twelve times two, two hundred
and forty dollars a year. You do that over five years,

(19:53):
you know, you're talking over one thousand dollars. And by
the way, in the next five years, these prices are
gonna go up more. So it's I get it. It's
little incremental upgrades or updates to these prices, but over
time it just creeps and creeps and creeps. And this
is the problem that people had with cable television. They said,
oh my gosh, my bill creeps and creeps and creeps.
Every year, I get this notice that it's going up

(20:13):
by a couple of dollars. And now we're seeing the
same exact thing happened with streaming services. The free ride
is over, folks. The saving money by having you know,
Netflix versus a cable package, it's all the same. Now
you're paying eighty eighty bucks a month for your streaming
services in just a different way because they're all parsed

(20:33):
out among different you know, providers versus just paying that
one bill to your cable company. And I'll never forget
when I was subscribed to AT and T for everything
with my phone, my internet, and my cable direct TV,
and my bill was like over three hundred dollars. And
when I you know, they finally consolidated, they're like, oh,
do you want us to consolidate all your bills? I'm
like sure, and I get my bill and I'm like, whoa,

(20:55):
this is way. I've never seen all these things together.
Stop it. And I actual I switched out my services
because I didn't like seeing them all on one bill
because it just three hundred dollars just seemed like so much.
But the reality is when you add up your cell
phone bill, your internet bill, which mine just went up
ten dollars a month, and your streaming services, you're probably

(21:16):
paying close to three hundred dollars a month no matter
you know how you're doing it, whether you have you know,
a couple people, like if you have a family like
mine with four people in it, you know you got
a couple of lines here, a couple things it is.
It's getting real, folks, and it's it's pretty much what
we were looking at back in the day, except if
you remember, the price of the triple play back in
the day was with cable, internet and phone was about

(21:38):
ninety bucks or about one hundred dollars, i'd say, And
so for a long time that was kind of like
the average price for like those three services. And now,
of course you know it didn't include the wireless phone,
but you know, include a phone line, which nobody needed.
By the way, it was cheaper to have the phone
line with the triple play than it was to not
have a phone line. Like I remember calling the cable
company and they would say, oh, you got to keep

(21:59):
the phone line. It's it's cheaper to have the phone line.
Otherwise you have to pay extra. Okay, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot says,
Spectrum charges a sixteen dollars ninety seven fee for broadcasting taxes.
That is crazy. Wow, that is crazy. So you know,
this is the other thing that these companies they charge,
you know, these administration fees, and they raise the administration

(22:20):
fees and it's just you know, it's one of those
things that it's just not fun when fees go up,
it's not fun. Oh there's Michael. Michael says, greetings from
Park City. Michael was the guy I was telling you about.
He just joined the Instagram chat. He was the guy
I was telling you about was hanging out with in Japan,
and he was the one who told me, you know,
you can just turn on Wi Fi calling and get

(22:40):
your texts. And I was like, what, how did I
not know that? All right, let's get to the next question.
Paul says, have you heard about these things called signal tech?
I'm wondering if it's legit or an internet scam thing,
or can I even buy this at bet spy And

(23:02):
let's see, let's look up what signal tech is. It
is a signal booster, and it says it can eliminate
dead spots and rooms with weak Wi Fi coverage with
signal tech. And it's got a whole bunch of people
on there that say it works amazingly. And then it
says get yours now, And there's a little pop up
that says Michael just bought one in Missouri. Oh. Now,

(23:24):
it says stock is extremely limited, sell out risk high
what oh and you could buy two oh and another
person just bought one. Oh same guy, Paul and Jackson, Mississippi,
two signal boosters for seventy dollars thirty five dollars each
plus free shipping. Oh Oscar and San Diego just bought
one thirty seven minutes ago. Okay, let me tell you

(23:46):
about these websites. So nothing against signal Tech. I don't
know if this product works well or not, but the
way it's presented, the way that it is on this website,
I don't like, and it raises a major red flag
to me. I am I'm not going to be forced
into buying something online because of a ticking clock, which,

(24:06):
by the way, I think Amazon does that too with
their Lightning deals. So yeah, I mean it's like the
QVC model. You know, it's like these things are selling out,
these things are going you got to buy this right now.
I like to do my research. I like to talk
to people. I like to see kind of like what
people are saying about stuff before I buy. If you
see an ad on Instagram, it brings you to a
website where there's a countdown clock and it says it's

(24:29):
selling out soon, and there's one page that sort of
has everything on it like the entire like check out
process is all on one page. To me, those are
all big red flags. And number one, I would always
look for the return instructions, like what is the return policy? Okay,
so I'm looking for return policy. I don't see that.
I'm looking for an address, a physical address. I don't.

(24:54):
Let's see if do they have a physical address? Oh,
San Diego? Okay, Bizarre Innovations. Let's see what that is.
Bizarre innovations leading direct to consumer development company. So it
looks like it's one of those like as seen on
TV companies. So okay, yeah, they have a whole bunch
of stuff signal tech. I wear glow birds. I mean, look,

(25:16):
it's probably not the worst thing in the world, but
I think that you can probably just get this from
best Buy. And so what I would recommend is go
with a product that is I don't really recommend signal
boosters in general, but I if you need one, if
you don't want to go with a new mesh, you know,
Wi Fi router and all that stuff, then if you

(25:38):
want to go with a booster and try that, I
don't think they boost the signal very well. But you know,
with today's gadgets whatever. It just doesn't work as well
as it used to. But if you're going to get one,
I would recommend one from tp link. Tp Link makes
a lot of networking products. I think they're pretty good
and they're very reasonable. They make one the Wi Fi.
They make a whole bunch of Wi Fi range extenders.

(26:00):
Pick one that you like and go with it. I'm
looking at this popular one on Amazon. It is twenty
two dollars and ninety nine cents, so about the same price,
maybe a little bit cheaper. Amazon Limited time offer says
it covers up to twelve hundred square feet to increase
your boost of your Wi Fi signal. So again, I

(26:20):
just I get a lot of emails from people that
they send me these products they get on as ads
on Instagram and Facebook or any sort of social media,
and I can always tell it's the same kind of website.
It's the same website that just tries to force you
to buy real quick, and it's not always the best
product out there. So there you go. All right, let's

(26:41):
get to the next story. Galaxy S twenty two can
now take pictures of the stars, and so this is
kind of cool. Astrophotography is a feature that is built
into the pixel from Google and it's something that the
other phones have really not done. The Samsungs have done
pictures of the moon, but you know, when it comes
to the stars, they don't necessarily. But now they added

(27:04):
the ability to take photos of the stars. So they
call it astro photography. Astro photo they call it. And
this is it's interesting because they did this not with
a software update, but by downloading an app. So you
download what's called the Expert Raw app, and this is
in the Samsung I know it's confusing. On Samsung sou
they have Google Play, but then they also have their

(27:26):
own Galaxy App Store. So you download this Expert Raw
app in the Galaxy App Store and then you install
it and it adds extra things to your camera. And
then there's also another app called Camera Assistant, which you
don't need to get, but if you want extra features,
you can do that too. So anyway, once you install
this Expert Raw, you can point your phone at the

(27:47):
sky and it will take pictures of the stars. It
will hold the phone, it will hold the exposure for
anywhere between like four and I think ten minutes, which
ten minutes is wild. I tried this the other night.
By the way, I have too much light where I live,
so I can't really get a good photo, but it
definitely you know, it worked. And the coolest thing about
Samsung's implementation of this versus Google is that on Samsung

(28:12):
you've got an overlay of a sky guide. So I
don't know if you've downloaded one of those apps that
lets you see the stars in the sky, but Samsung
just built that into the actual expert Raw app. So
when you aim this up at the sky, you can
see an overlay of the constellations and the stars, which
I thought was really really cool, so you can take

(28:32):
the pictures you want of the stars you want. Anyway,
check it out Expert Raw if you have an S
twenty two series. They're also they have this new Camera
Assistant app which adds new features to the camera, which
auto HDR. You can turn that on or off now
soften pictures. You can turn on auto lens switching. You
can turn off video recording and photo mode. You can

(28:53):
turn off number of pictures you take after timer. You
can change you can make the shutter faster. You can
select tell it takes for the camera app. The previous
screen to time out, and you can enable a clean
preview on HDMI display, So no menuser buttons when you
connect to an HDMI output. And again those are all
features that are really aimed towards someone that's using the

(29:13):
Samsung Galaxy phones as a you know, as a real
pro camera. And so yeah, and folks are asking on
the Instagram, not on iPhone. No iPhone has no ability.
Shouldn't say no ability iPhone? Can you know? It won't
take really great pictures of the night sky, but it
will do it. It's just not as good as what

(29:34):
the pixel can do or what the s twenty two
can now do, so check it out. Always cool when
they add ability for these phones to do things just
with a software update, which is kind of the way
the world now, all right. Next question comes from Gene
Gene says, can you suggest some good free password managers

(29:55):
for both iOS and Android. I used UPM, but the
developer no longer supports it, although he's kept the app open.
I'd expect to use Excel, but it's not secure. Thanks
gene Gene. I agree, do not use Excel, although if
that's your only way of keeping track of passwords, it's
better than nothing. But I would not not recommend that.
I would recommend a secured password manager for sure, and

(30:18):
definitely don't use the same password over and over for
any website. Use a complex password that is I would
say at least eleven characters minimum, maybe twelve, I don't know.
Twelve to sixteen is probably the sweet spot for something
that's that's uncrackable by a lot of systems UPM I'm
not familiar with. But here's what I recommend when it

(30:38):
comes to password managers. So if you are just on iOS,
so if everything is iOS your computer and you know,
you're using Safari on your computer, and you're using iOS
on your phone, you know, and Safari on your phone,
go ahead and just use apples built in password manager,
which I think is called like iCloud keychain. So that's

(30:59):
super sick bolt, super easy. You can use that. Uh.
If you want something that is cross platform that is free,
I would recommend Bitwarden. They are sort of an open
source company. They are I don't if they're open source,
but they're they're anyway, it's is it open source? It
might be I think it is open source. Actually, yeah,
it is open source. So that means that other people

(31:20):
can kind of look at the code behind the password
manager and you know, make sure that it's good and
make sure that it's secure, and so that's really good.
And they have a free fee. They have a completely
free version. Yes, you don't get access to all of
the features of the paid version, but it's enough for like,
you know, some people that just need something very simple
to get by. And of course it's a freemium model,

(31:40):
so eventually they want you to use it. And then
you run up into a wall and say, ah, it'd
be really nice if I have this feature, and they say, well,
for a couple bucks a month, you can have that feature,
and you go, oh, where if you've been all my
life and then now you convert to a paying customer.
That's what freemium means. Otherwise, I like dash Lane for
a full featured but very expensive password manager. I think

(32:01):
they do a really nice job of you know, updating
their apps. They have like a VPN that's included, there's
a couple of features like very it's a very premium
password manager and you're gonna pay. I think it's like
fifty sixty bucks a year for that password manager. So
we did a story with them a couple of years ago.
It was very impressed, and so I like them as well.
But I think for a lot of people, if you

(32:23):
are using Chrome on your desktop computer and an iPhone,
you can use Google's password manager. If you don't mind Google,
you know, you don't have something against Google. They just
change their password manager on Chrome to work natively across
the entire iPhone ecosystem, so not just in Chrome like

(32:45):
you used to work in Chrome, but now their passwords
will fill across any app. And so this is a
free service. You know, it's kind of cool because it
works on your you know, for me personally, if I'm
using an iPhone and I'm also using Chrome on my desktop,
i could switch to this and use this. But it's

(33:05):
one of those things where you have to really like
Google because you're kind of putting a lot into Google.
You can always export your passwords from any of these
services and start with a new one, but it's kind
of a little bit of a process. So but that's
what i'd recommend. So if you want something completely free,
cross platform independent, I'd go with Bitwarden. If you want
something that's dependent on an operating system and your only

(33:26):
Apple products, I would go with iCloud Keychain Manager or
keychain whatever, it's called Cloud Keychain. And then if you
want something that is sort of also independent but priceier
in premium, I'd go with dash Lane. And if you
want something that is it works across platforms, but it's
still put out by a big company like Google, you

(33:46):
can go with Google's password manager. Those are some great options.
Whatever you do, definitely use a password manager. I highly
recommend it. Do not use the same password for various websites.
Make sure that you use two factor authen indication when
you can, and just be very vigilant about passwords because
I know it's a pain. Believe me, When I sign

(34:07):
up for a website and I have to go through
that process of you know, signing up with a unique password,
it is a pain. It takes longer than just clicking
log in with Google or Apple or any of those things,
which I don't recommend doing because I don't think all
your login should be should be linked to another website,
but I just I get it. It takes a long time.

(34:27):
It's annoying. It takes a long time to retrieve the password,
It takes a long time to copy and baste, it
but just please do it. I'm telling you, if there's
a breach of a website and a password gets out
there and it's something simple that can be used across
other websites, you don't want that to happen to you. So,
you know, just just take the extra three seconds to
use a password manager and to really really just embrace it,

(34:50):
and you'll be a happier, safer, more secure person. All right.
Next story up. Apple announces they had a bunch of
new products this weekend, a bunch of new software as well.
So let's see what do they do. They released mac
os Ventura, they released the iPad os I think it's
I don't know whatever they're up to on the iPad,

(35:10):
and then a couple of new products, including a new
iPad was it two new iPads, and also new Apple TV.
So this is kind of like, you know, the end
of the year where they just kind of like dump
a lot of stuff on us, like a, here's the
rest of our stuff, you know, after the iPhone, and
it's all stuff that people like and buy and purchase,
and the software is great. But at the same time,

(35:31):
I think that you know, these are sort of the
lesser announcements towards the end of the year. You know,
most people buy an Apple TV if they even get
an Apple TV, because it's kind of expensive and they
don't replace it for five, you know, five years. iPad
is one of those things when you need one, you
just kind of go in and see, like, okay, here's
the price points, what do I need, and you make
your purchase decision. It's not like a lot of people

(35:52):
are waiting for these products to come out so they
can upgrade, right, and then the software is great. I mean,
the iPad software Stage Manager is one of the big
new features, but it kind of got a lukewarm reception.
And then macOS Ventura. It's like, I've gotten to the
point and I'm a tech person and I love new
technology and I love new software, but I've gotten to

(36:13):
the point where I'm like, all right, Apple, you know,
I just got used to the current macOS, which I
can't even tell you the name of it. Let's see
what it's called, Monterey. So I'm just getting used to
mac Os Monterey. Now you're springing Ventura on me, and
it's like, do I really need anything new on my
desktop unless it's gonna change the way I compute, or

(36:35):
make my Gmail faster, which is super slow on Chrome.
You know, we'll see or my battery life better anyway.
So the thing I think is important is the Apple
TV four K so new model with a new chip
inside the A fifteen Bionic. It's got support for HDR
ten plus, It's got a new or an updated series remote. Oh,

(36:57):
I didn't know I had an updated remote. So faster performance. Okay,
I mean my TV works just fine. But the interesting
thing is that the actual physical Apple TV is thinner,
it's lighter, it's it's fanless for the first time, which
is kind of cool. Used to have this big fan
on the bottom. Uses thirty percent less power than the
last generation. It's got HDR. Oh, I see the serial

(37:21):
remote has USB c now instead of USB lightning. Okay,
that's interesting. Comes in a sixty four gigabyte configuration for
Wi Fi for one hundred and twenty nine dollars. One
hundred and twenty eight gigabyte configuration has an Ethernet port
and thread networking. They'll arrive on November fourth, that's a Friday. Again.

(37:44):
Something that you know. Number one, I rarely get questions
about Apple TV. I think that most most people that
I talk with want either Roku or the Fire TV
sticks because they're cheap, and Apple TV is something that
you want to get if you want something that's a
bit more premium, or you're in that Apple ecosystem and
you know, you just want all things Apple and it's nice.

(38:07):
I mean, look, if you have an Apple TV and
you have AirPods, it's amazing. You sit on your couch
and you know, just watch a show in total peace
without disturbing anyone around you. You also have airplay, you know,
if you're using Eyecloud, you can see your pictures on there.
The apps are robust, but you can do a lot
of the same things with Roku. Don't get me wrong.
You can plug headphones into the Roku remote for many years,

(38:27):
so I thought it was really cool. And Fire TV
lets you link up headphones with Bluetooth too, So it's
not like you can't do these things. It's just more
of like a it's more of an ecosystem play. If
you're getting an Apple TV, you want all things Apple
in your life, which you know, fine, that's that's basically it.
I haven't tested it, so I will tell you more
once I test the Apple TV to see Ronzie says,

(38:52):
does Apple make iPhones last up to two years intentionally
so customers by the next level, No, I would actually
disagree with that. I think that as opposed to Android phones,
which I feel like nowadays they've gotten better for sure,
But you know, you buy an Android phone, like an
iPhone can last like five years, like legitimately the software

(39:13):
and the hardware, I mean, the camera, like iPhones last
on average, people are now spending over three years with
them before they upgrade. It used to be a yearly
upgrade cycle, and then it got a little bit longer
to two years. Now we're up to I think, you know,
thirty eight months or something like that. So I think
the iPhone is actually when you do the price of
the iPhone, I get that it's expensive, but when you

(39:36):
parse that out over the amount of years that that
phone can last, it is quite a good deal. And
by the way, not just how long it lasts, but
the resale value of that iPhone. So if you look
at the resale value of any Android, you know, get
the best Samsung Galaxy S twenty two Ultra, and look
at that resale price a year later from anyone besides Samsung.

(39:57):
That's trying to get you to upgrade to a new phone.
It's not very good. Whereas the iPhone. You can go
on Facebook today and post to your family and friends
and say, hey, I'm selling my iPhone and someone will
purchase that phone for a family member that needs one
at a discounted price, or you can sell it a
million other ways. So I really disagree with the fact

(40:18):
that you know, yes, I get it. The software. You know,
people say it slows down. It does, like I've noticed
that on my phone, But it's not the software that's
slowing down. It's these apps. Have you noticed how big
apps are getting and how processor intense they've gotten over
the years. It used to be, you know, Instagram, Facebook,
they were like ten megabyte apps. Now you're talking. You

(40:39):
look to download some of these apps are like three
hundred megabytes. You're like, wait what I mean? Because think
something like Instagram. If you look at it or TikTok,
there's entire video editing systems built into that app. So
it's not just an app for posting pictures. It is
now become an app that helps you create an entire
video edited reel that is no easy feet and it's

(41:01):
just like that with all these other apps. It's like
they're doing so much. So I know it's easy to
make fun of Apple, and it's easy to, you know,
talk about how expensive everything is. But I see things
a different way. I think that you can get a
lot of use out of these phones in a in
a big way for many, many years, and if you
like to upgrade every year, sure it could be expensive.

(41:23):
Phil says, I don't understand the need for an Apple
TV box when it's an app. That's a good, very
good question. That's and I agree. I think it's very
confusing because Apple decided to call Apple TV plus Apple
TV plus, and then you have the Apple TV app
that runs Apple TV plus, and then you also have
an Apple TV box. Let's break it down. The Apple

(41:47):
TV box is a streaming device that runs Apple TV
Apple TV plus, and it also runs any other streaming
app or any other Apple or any other app in
the Apple App Store for that matter, that works on
that TV. So that is a physical device. The Apple
Apple TV is an app that lives on a kdub

(42:11):
twenty one seventy five. So some still anti Apple too
much money, okay. Apple TV is an app that lives
on the iPhone and on the Apple TV that is
more of a curated destination for streaming. So Apple TV
has a bunch of different products inside of it, so

(42:34):
it may have the Stars Network, it may have HBO.
You know. It also helps you figure out what's streaming
on different services, and that's a whole nother thing. And
by the way, Apple does a really good job on that.
The notable exception is Netflix. Netflix is not integrated with
Apple TV the app. So if you're looking, like, you know,
Apple TV the app, you can go on there and

(42:57):
it'll say like, oh, here's a whole bunch of cool
Halloween movies that are streaming. Well, that's great, but it's
never going to show you anything else on Netflix because
Apple and Netflix are like this, you know, they're front
of mees, just like Apple and every other company at
this point for some reason. What's the reason for that, Apple,
Let's see. And then Apple TV Plus is a streaming service,

(43:18):
and so Apple TV Plus is a streaming service that
you can pay for that has its own content. And
Brian Rose eighty bought a badge. Thank you so much,
Brian for buying that badge. That's always fun. I don't
know exactly what the badges mean. I think they benefit
me in some way, but it's like one of those things.
At the end of the month will be like people
will be like our Facebook will be like, hey, these

(43:38):
people bought you badges. George says, I'm doing a course
on swift with Swift with Apple, and it says apps
should be made with size and power concern, but the
apps are actually the opposite. Yes, that is true. I
get it. And I'm not a developer of an app,
so I'm sure there's something in the idea of you know,
a bigger app is probably less effort to code because

(44:01):
you just kind of keep adding code to it. But
the best apps are probably the leanest apps that are
you know, you code with less and I guess it
takes up less you know, space and resources. But I
get it. All this stuff, it all comes down to money,
all right. Do we have another question? I saw someone
else bought a badge. Actually Liz bought a badge. Oh,
I don't know. Two hearts that must be needed even

(44:22):
better badge, So thank you? I need like, do I
have like applause? Let me see what I have here? Hello?
What's that? I think that was like a viewer question
like on tape. Okay, hold on, okay, there we go.
Is that when you buy a badge, I give you
that I need a badge like a Okay, that was

(44:43):
another thing. Okay, so I don't have anything. This is
I guess that's the badge. I need like an applause
for the badge. So thank you. All right, let's get
to the next question of the podcast. Let's see. Uh,
Janice says, oh, Robert says, you know what, I'll okay,

(45:05):
let's do Robert's question. Good morning, rich I enjoy the
knowledge I received from your rich on Tech. I was
just wondering how come you never review the Samsung tablets
as you have done for the new Amazon kindle. I
feel that some of the segments are very narrow with
some bias, which I guess is somewhat expected. You do
great justice to the Samsung line of phones, however, never
or very anemic reviews of their tablets. Robert sent from

(45:28):
my Verizon Samsung Galaxy smartphone get outlook for Android. Okay, oh, hey,
Seuss just bought three hearts. Oh my gosh, let's go.
That's awesome. Oh my, Okay, there we go. We'll give
you the little Once we receive them, the whole podcast
is going to be that three. That's amazing. Okay, So Robert,

(45:49):
I one hundred percent understand where you're coming from. I
get it. If I am mentioning Apple Apple Apple on TV,
people say I'm an Apple fanboy. All all I care
about is Apple, Apple pays me. Oh my gosh, I'm
you know, Apple, Apple Apple, And I get it. I
get how that can seem to be the case. But

(46:09):
you have to understand where I'm coming from. Number One,
I get two minutes on TV. Right in those two minutes,
I have to make an impact on you. I have
to tell you what's good. I have to tell you
what's bad. And it's really really tricky sometimes because my
audience on TV is a very broad audience. It is
people that don't even care about technology. Sometimes it's people

(46:29):
that are just sitting there watching the news and they
see me come up and they go, oh, what's this
guy talking about? Oh? Apple Apple again. Well, you know,
Apple comes out with a lot of products every year. Now, specifically,
you're asking why I did not cover the Samsung tablets
and why I covered the Amazon tablet, And I'll get
to my Amazon tablet review in just a moment. Easy

(46:51):
Amazon tablet is one hundred dollars. By the way, it'll
be even cheaper over the holidays. So I'm anticipating that
we have a lot of Amazon shop the watching TV.
That tablet is gonna be on their home screen all
throughout the holidays. It's gonna be fifty dollars, it's gonna
be seventy five dollars, and people are going, wait, do
I get this? This is a tablet for seventy five

(47:12):
bucks one hundred bucks. And so what they're gonna do
is they're gonna google rich on Tech, Amazon Kindle tablet
or Fire tablet, and they're gonna see my review, and
now they can see what I think about that one
hundred dollars tablet. Samsung tablets. You know, there's also a
bit of curation that goes along in what I choose
to cover. Samsung tablets. I don't recommend typically because I

(47:32):
think they're way too expensive for what you get, and
I think an iPad is better. If I'm spending three
hundred dollars on a tablet, I'm gonna recommend an iPad
every single day of the week. And the reason for
that is because the ecosystem, the apps, the accessories, it's Apple.
It's gonna run better, it's gonna last many more years.

(47:52):
The Samsung tablets, and yes it's been a while since
I've tested one, they're just way too expensive for an
Android ecosystem that almost barely exists on a tablet. There
are so many amazing applications for an iPad, like I'm
talking world class tablet applications. You go to Android and
you go to download the same apps if they're even available,

(48:15):
and they're horrible. And I'm not knocking what Samsung's doing.
It's just a bigger problem of the Android ecosystem. It
doesn't exist for tablets. It's someplace that has just really
not gone over very well. Now is that not to
say that if you bought a Samsung tablet, and I'm
not judging you if you did, I think it's fine

(48:35):
that things like Netflix are gonna work just fine, things
like Hulu are gonna work fine. Absolutely, But then I
go back to my original argument, which is, go for
the Kindle tablet if you're just reading a Kindle book,
if you're just reading, or the fire tablet. I should say,
if you're just watching shows and movies. You don't need
something that is the Samsung level of price. And I

(48:58):
looked up the Samsung ones. It's about three hundred dollars.
That's a lot of money for a tablet that I
feel like just doesn't have the apps to back it up.
So I hope that explains your question. I'm believe me.
You know, I'm not gonna say my job is, you know, like,
don't cry for me. Like I love my job. I
love what I do. But there is some curation involved
in number one. Anything I mentioned on TV, whether it

(49:21):
is good or bad, people go out and buy it,
and so I've got to take that into consideration. Like
if I'm featuring a Samsung tablet, people are just gonna
see the fact that I'm talking about it and they're
gonna buy it without even listening to what I have
to say about it. So if you listen to my reports,
I really do try to give you like the good
and the bad in a very short amount of time.
If you read my longer reviews online, I typically try

(49:43):
to give you a little bit more perspective. And then
if you listen to my podcast, you really truly sort
of understand where I'm coming from because I get a
lot longer to explain kind of my basis for things.
So I get that it just looks like I cover
a lot of Apple stuff, a lot of Amazon stuff,
a lot of Google stuff. But these are the products
that I feel like want to put out there for
people to know that I'm covering because I do think
that they are the better choices in some of these circumstances.

(50:06):
And Robert who I just I believe that's who. I
just answered your question, just gave me three stars, and
so wow, that's amazing. So I hope I answered your
question and you're still a fan because I just kind
of went off. That's what I do sometimes. All right,
let's get so. Speaking of iPad iPad, Dan Seaffert in

(50:31):
The Verge says, and I didn't review this iPad, so
I can't. I can't tell you if it's good or not.
But basically the standard iPad, which is kind of like
the the you know, the iPad that is the regular iPad.
I call it the standard. It's called the tenth generation iPad.
They just gave it an update this week and it
got USBC great performance in battery. Lots of good apps.

(50:54):
Accessories are confusing and expensive. Yes, the price is high
and displays average, so that kind of sums it up.
And look again, this goes back to my idea of
like the iPad is this amazing tablet, Like it is
the best tablet in the world. Apple invented it, and
I will never forget sitting there watching them unveil the
tablet Steve Jobs on stage. I think it was more

(51:17):
than ten years ago. I was working at the time
at a website called tech Meme and this blew my mind.
I'm sitting there just thinking about, oh my gosh, this
giant screen is going to become everything. It's a movie theater,
it's a book, it's a magazine, it's a news I
already say newspaper. It's a drawing tablet. Even though back

(51:39):
then he didn't really believe in the stylist. That's come
full circle. This is going to revolutionize everything. It's a screen.
You could do work on it, you can write your emails,
whatever it is. I mean, it's still to this day
the most amazing, I think, the most amazing gadgets, one
of the most amazing gadgets in the world outside of
the iPhone. But again, it's one of those things that
you buy when you need it and it's expensive. They
raised the ice basically by over one hundred dollars. So

(52:02):
the entry level price on this this iPad is, you know,
it's like four hundred and I think like four thirty
or four fifty. Now, I mean that's a lot of
money for an iPad. And by the way, that's just
the iPad doesn't include the case, doesn't include the pencil
if you want, it, doesn't include a keyboard. So these
iPads can get very, very expensive. But I think for
the average person who's not video editing and and doesn't

(52:25):
need a computer, they're really really good. And it's kind
of a one size fits all kind of thing, or
not one size fits all, because there's a lot of
different iPads to choose from, but I think it's something
that you know, you can use for a lot of
different things. All Right, we're getting a lot of questions
on the live chat here. RW says, how do you
feel about the new in home cellular connectivity Internet by

(52:46):
T Mobile and Verizon. I think it is amazing if
you can switch to it and the connection is fast
in your home, absolutely enjoy the quote unquote free ride.
We're getting right now because again this goes back to
the streaming services. If you buy internet from T Mobile
or Verizon their new wireless home internet, it is way
cheaper than internet you can get anywhere else. Why you ask,

(53:09):
because they're trying to get people to use it. In
three years, it'll be just as expensive as internet that
you got through your home in a wire in a cable.
But right now, ride that free ride because you're getting
you know, thirty to you know, twenty to thirty to
fifty dollars off every month on your home internet because
the price point is way cheaper than what it will

(53:31):
be later on when adoption is at a place when
T Mobile and Verizon are much more comfortable with and
they feel like they can jack up the prices. So
right now it's cheap. If it works and you have
a good signal at your house, absolutely get it. Coco says,
I got the air iPad Air. I use it all
the time. Laura says, I just noticed eighty dollars in subscriptions,

(53:53):
yet I don't use cancel those subscriptions. You can always resubscribe.
Believe me. It feels like a big deal, but you
kind of get rid of something like a service like
a Hulu or a Spotify or whatever it is, and
you just kind of forget. It's like, okay, I'll use
something else. Like right now, I'm paying for both Apple
Music and YouTube Music, and you know now that they're
both really expensive, I kind of have to make a decision.

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The reason I liked Apple Music is because it worked
on the Apple Watch. But maybe I don't need it
on the Apple Watch. Maybe I just have to deal
with you know, YouTube music that you know is included
with my YouTube and it, you know, doesn't work as simple.
Our subscriptions needed to use Echo, No, they are not.
You do not need a subscription to use the Amazon Echo.
All right, let's talk about the Speaking of tablets, let's

(54:38):
talk about the Amazon Fire HD eight. This is a
one hundred dollars tablet. I tested it. I brought it
on my trip to Japan as my only entertainment option
on the plane, and it was a little nerve racking
because I'm typically, you know, an iPad person, and it
was just fine. It was totally fine. The Fire HD

(54:59):
eight has an eight in screen, it's got USBC charging,
it's faster, it's thinner, it's lighter, it's got thirteen hour
battery life, which the battery was just fine. I tested
the Plus version, which is twenty dollars more. It has
one gigabyte more of RAM, which I'd probably recommend getting, honestly,
a better rear camera. You're not gonna be taking pictures
with this thing. Faster charging, and also wireless charging. They

(55:22):
have a kids version, which I really don't recommend if
your kids are playing Roadblocks and Minecraft. I really think
an iPad is the best thing, even though I'm not
a fan of Roadblocks to this day. I download a
bunch of video apps. I took it on my flight.
It worked great. There's this weird, annoying unlock screen with
an AD on it. Every time you go to unlock it,
it's like a new ad that's like moving. It's either
for a book or a movie, or a Prime show

(55:44):
or a game. It's very distracting. But you just swipe
out and unlock your tablet. You're fine. You can pay
Amazon I think fifteen dollars to get rid of that.
The home screen, I was surprised to find, only gives
a certain level of customization. You can't delete some of
theilon apps, which I thought was weird. Search is bing
which not really a fan of Google. This is the

(56:08):
biggest thing about the the the Amazon tablet, and this
would be if you really love Amazon or Google apps,
why you might want a Samsung tablet is that Google
Play is not on this tablet. Like again, Google and Amazon,
you know, frenemies like every other tech business. And you
can't install Google apps easily like Maps, Gmail YouTube. I mean,

(56:30):
come on, in the year twenty twenty two, why is
that you can use web versions? They're just not very good.
I mean they're fine, but it's just not the same
as a native app. So default memory thirty two sixty
four gigs. You could put a memory card in up
to a terabyte. Let me just explain what this is
all about. This tablet is for content creation. It is

(56:50):
not for content It's sorry. This is not for content creation.
It's for content consumption. So if you are reading books,
watching movie, watching TV shows, listening to music, listening to Audible,
the fire HD eight for one hundred bucks or less,
I would say, wait for this thing to go on sale.
It will go on sale. Amazing deal. There is even

(57:12):
a headphone jack so you can plug in headphones. There's
also a feature called tap to Alexa, which expands accessibility.
It basically lets you interact with Alexa using your a
tap versus your voice. And overall it's just a it's
an inexpensive tablet. It's good for just watching shows, if
you just want something to bring on the plane, or
just you know, sit on your couch and watch content.

(57:34):
It's great. Or read. I personally like a regular Kindle
to read. I like the screen on the regular Kindle.
So that's that's that, all right. Let me get through
a couple more things I just wanted to mention here.
Duo Lingo now has a math app, so definitely download
Duo Lingo Math. I've been playing with it and I've
gotten to the second level above easy and it's it's

(57:55):
pretty cool. So it's just like a little refresher for math,
just like kind of learning a languae, except applying that
same magic to math. And if you have a kid, definitely,
definitely definitely download Duo Lingo Math for them. It is fantastic.
I got both of my kids to use it over
the past couple of days and they both loved it.

(58:16):
Not just liked it, they loved it. You know, a
lot of apps I have them test out or try
you know, they play for a minute and then they
move on. They loved this app and I love that
my kids are playing a quote unquote game that involves math.
So that is a win win win situation in my book.
All Right, what else do I want to talk about

(58:37):
before I go? One more story we did on KTLA.
This was really cool. It's called Flytographer, and I've got
to give a shout out to my pal Johnny Jet
for telling me about this in his newsletter. If you
don't get his travel newsletter, go ahead and subscribe to that.
But Flytographer is basically a website that helps you hire

(58:58):
a professional photographer in any city that you travel to.
And so you can do this. We've been doing this
in various cities that we've gone on family vacations. You
hire a photography, they take family pictures, use them as
your your Christmas card or your holiday card, and it's great.
But this just makes that a little bit easier because
you could just type in Maui, you can type in Rome,

(59:18):
you can type in Honolulu, you can type in Tokyo,
and it gives you a couple of photographers. You can
see what kind of their world is what they you know,
their style of photography, and then you can hire them
two hundred and fifty dollars. Our two hundred and eighty
five dollars for a half an hour session is the minimum.
You can get that cheaper through a referral link. I've
got that on my Instagram stories. It's like takes some

(59:39):
money off of that and that'll get you fifteen curated
photos you can download. So I like that you get
your digital files. Liz says she saw my pictures and
she likes them, thank you. And it's just it's really cool.
I had a blast doing this in Tokyo. It's such
a good idea. I think that it's it's one of
those things where, yes, you can take selfies wherever you

(01:00:00):
but if you're you know, a family picture, is really
is it worth three hundred dollars? Yeah, that's expensive. It's
a splurgch there's no doubt about it. But you're gonna
use this thing, You're gonna frame this picture. You're gonna
have better memories than you can get on your smartphone.
And yeah, I mean maybe the next step of this
is to just have someone take your iPhone and take
or your Samsung and take a bunch of pictures of you.
That's not a bad idea, but you know, it beats

(01:00:23):
taking selfies, it beats taking you know, asking a stranger.
It was seriously, seriously cool. All right Before I go,
let me just answer a couple of these questions I'm
seeing percolating on here. The math app is called Duo
Lingo d U O l I n g O Duo
Lingo Math. They have a language app that's also good,
but this is brand new. It's called Dual Lingo Math.

(01:00:44):
HEYESU says, do you think DGI drones are worth it?
I have a Magic Air first generation. Absolutely. My kid
is a huge fan of flying drones I have. I've
had a couple of them over the years. The Dji
is absolutely the best when we've used I think it
was the Mavick, the little tiny one. I had to
send it back to Dji, but it's actually on my

(01:01:06):
don't tell him, but it's on my Christmas list because
he is a drone whiz and it's you know, these
other drones are fun, but they're only you know, only
a little bit. You know, it's only a you can
only go so far with them. But Dji is like,
you know, the best, and so I think definitely go
with that. Frank says, should I switch to Google Fi?

(01:01:29):
I think if you're on a Google phone, I think
like a pixel, I think Google Fi is worth it. Otherwise,
I think there's better options out there. I think that
Mint Mobile is excellent for a low cost carrier. US
Mobile is really really good for a low cost carrier.
Cricket is really good if you want the AT and
T network. Also, don't discount Boost Mobile. Boost Mobile has

(01:01:52):
a twenty five dollars unlimited plan that I tested and
it was excellent. They're also coming out with this plan
called Boost Infinity or Infinite. I forget what it's called,
but I would wait for that to see what the
details are. It sounds like it's a Google Fi competitor,
and you know, Google Fi is good, but it's not
cheap anymore. It used to be like really kind of

(01:02:12):
like inexpensive. Now I feel like it's kind of the
same price as as a you know, a regular carrier,
and the benefit is not really there because it's just
basically T Mobile repurpose. So if you want that, just
maybe just go T Mobile directly. You know, Oh gosh,

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