In the future, every app will have a clubhouse

Google opens its first physical retail store; the journaling app I'm obsessed with; Spotify launches a Clubhouse competitor called Greenroom; IKEA and Sonos make a picture frame speaker you hang on your wall; the high-tech showerhead that feels great but saves water.Viewers ask about the best laptop for a student starting college; getting high speed internet in a remote area; what the deal is with mobile hotspots; if Roblox works on the Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro; a good iPhone memory cleaner app and if an iPad is good for managing photos.Follow Rich:https://www.instagram.com/richontech/https://twitter.com/richontechSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Google opens its first retail store. Ikea teams up with
Sons for a new picture frame speaker. Suddenly I'm into
journaling plus your tech questions answered.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think you.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Should know about.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's also the place where I answer the questions you
send me.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
My name is Rich Dmiro.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Once again, I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. And boy was
it a scorcher in Los Angeles this week, really really
hot here in Los Angeles. It also happened to be
opening a reopening.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know what you want to call it.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I called it California Independence Day, but that's not the
right explanation because that sounds like something bit different. So
it's really California. I think they called it reopening Day.
I don't know, but anyway, the irony of that day
is that it was like a really hot day this week.
And I also didn't really leave my house that day,

(01:12):
even though it was like the first day where everything,
I mean all the restrictions pretty much all the restrictions
were lifted. I also went into KTLA this week, which
was kind of cool. We're celebrating thirty years for the
Morning News and I've been there for ten of those thirty,
which is wild. So I've been there for a third
of the time that our show has existed. So I
did an interview, was at the station, and you know,

(01:35):
we did the interview in the parking lot, but I
did go into the station to like chat with some folks.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And everyone's like, when are you coming back? When are
you coming back? When are you coming back?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And I'm like, I don't know, I don't know, I
don't know, but I think I came up with a
plan to just kind of go back, so we'll see.
I think my plan is going to work. But they're
you know, it wasn't really my decision. It's still not
my decision. I mean, I have people that I answer to.
I know, it seems like I don't, but I do,
and they are the ones that call the shots, and

(02:02):
believe me, I've been asking them like, hey, when do
I get to go back? And it's a little complicated,
it's a little inside baseball, but you know, I do
a lot of my segment on the anchor desk which
you know right now, we haven't been having other people
on that desk, so that's you know, it's just a
lot of different things. And I think they just got
me comfortable. They just got comfortable with me working from
home and it seemed to work. So but at this point,

(02:22):
you know, the every comment on everything I posted, like
rich when you go back in. So I'm working on it.
Believe me, We're trying to make me back in there.
I mean, I've gotten comfortable working from home. I have
everything at my fingertips, which I love, but I also
missed the energy and you know, the professionalism of working
at work. I mean, I have like a real studio
with real lighting and real microphones and real everything, and

(02:44):
so that's that's kind of nice. So I'll be back
there soon. But yeah, interesting anyway, let's get to a
couple of things this week. By the way, the stories
I did on KTLA just went wild. It was so
so interesting to watch the Tesla of e bikes. The
van move story went completely viral. I don't know how,

(03:07):
but it's it was like the top story on the
KTLA website for so many days, like they were just one.
Everyone was like scratching their heads, like, what's going on here?
I couldn't figure out the source. It just seemed to
go viral, like worldwide, and so it just got picked
up and people just kept clicking it. Same thing on
on my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash rich on tech.
People were watching the video that I did, and it

(03:28):
was like a slow burn, Like sometimes things don't go
viral instantly. It takes a little bit, but all of
a sudden, it's like this video just started like comments
and shares and everything just started pouring in.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
So that was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
And then this other video I did on this oh
my gosh, this ice cube challenge not challenge, this ice
cube grilling trick. I was at my friend's house and
he's grilling up burgers and he has ice cubes on them,
which I had never seen before, and so I was like,
what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
And he's like, oh, I read a.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Trick where it cooks the the inside doesn't get dried
out while the outside cooks.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I don't know, something like that, and so.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I was like, wait what, And so I took a picture,
I posted it and next thing you know, people are
going wild over that on my Facebook page and then
we talked about it on KTLA and then that story
went viral, you know, so they shared it with all
the different stations and then I mean it was it
was a good week. So I will There was actually
another story I did on the shower head that I'm
I'll talk about a little bit later in the show,

(04:25):
but a new shower head that's all high tech, and
that went viral. So I mean it was just pretty wild.
But so and I guess I can talk about you know,
I'll just go into the first story of the week
with this because I've been keeping a new journal with
Day one because they inspired me because they got purchased
by Automatic and Automatic is the company that runs WordPress

(04:48):
and a whole bunch of other things, and so once
and I was familiar with day one, and I've been
keeping a paper journal since the beginning of the year.
But I really am bad about writing in it because
A my handwriting is horrible, and B it's really tough
at the end of the night to like sit there
and like right before you go to sleep, like remember
to write something down. And this is like one page

(05:08):
a day kind of or one line a day, And
so I would be really bad about it, and I
knew once I started writing in that journal that I
really enjoyed doing it because it makes you reflect on
your day. You remember little moments that your kids did
or that you had in your life. And so I
got the journal bug, but I just the execution was

(05:28):
not right. And so once day one was purchased by Automatic,
I said, you know what, I've got this app on
my phone. Let me just start using it because it's
so much easier on our phones anyway. I know we
shouldn't be before we go to sleep, and so it
takes me just a second to type out a little
something on my you know, daily journal. But then I
installed it at my computer and now I'm like, mister journal.

(05:49):
So I'm journaling throughout the day with little moments. And
what I'm talking about with the with the winds at
work is I started a work journal. So now I
can like remember little things for work, like things that worked,
things didn't work, and you know, little wins. I can
take screenshots. I mean, I've got to say, if you've
ever been kind of like thinking about journaling, download the
day one app. And the reason why I say this

(06:10):
is because there's a lot of journaling apps out there
day one seems.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
To be the best.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
It was independent before they got purchased, and now that
they're purchased, hopefully they should be around for a long time.
I mean, that's the idea for a journal, right you
keep it for a really long time. But they also
some really cool features. Privacy is front and center, so
it's end to end encryption, which is in every entry
and every journal. Now they're going to make it so
that you can share to like Tumblr and WordPress, which

(06:37):
is interesting. I don't need that, but maybe some people would.
You can also publish these as hardcover books, so that's
kind of cool, is that you can. You know, I
don't know how you know deep and sentimental you're getting
in your journal, but you know, it could be nice
to print it out and maybe, you know, if you're
not ready to share it with your family, like lock
it away and you know, until whatever, and then they

(07:00):
can open it and for your kids.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I mean, that's the way I feel.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's like it's such an I don't know, Maybe are
my kids gonna want to peer into my mind as
you know, I don't know, I mean when they're older,
I don't know, when I'm gone. I mean, it's kind
of weird, right, but it's also kind of cool. It's
available on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Android, and browser extensions.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
And again it's just you can do audio, you can
do pictures.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
So like last night, my wife and I went to dinner,
and so you know, I just posted like the picture
in there. I said, Hey, first dinner out since the
pandemic kind of not as over, but you know, in
Los Angele in California, they you know, they lifted all
the restrictions, and so we went out for dinner. And
I put that in there as I got, you know,
something that I would see in my photos, but I
might not remember the significance. I mean I probably would

(07:43):
because it's a big one, but it's just kind of
fun to put it in the journal. So anyway, Day
one really cool, and I mentioned it with the work
stuff because with my stories this week that did really well,
I put them in my journal as kind of like
a little win, you know, like here's a you know,
a screenshot of the top stories on the KTLA website.
It just reminds me that, like, you know, the things
that I'm doing do have an impact, and it's just

(08:04):
it's just kind of fun to to I don't know
to do this, so ma'am let me know.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
If you keep a journal.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
I think it's pretty cool. All right, let's get to
the first question of the show. Maria says, good morning.
We're ready to purchase a laptop for our daughter. She
recently graduated from Sonora.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'll just leave that out.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
She's gonna attend you see Santa Cruz and major in
biology and genetics. What's the best laptop on the market,
to the best of your knowledge? And a backup drive?
I think that's what it's called. Where can we find one?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Thank you? Maria?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Uh, all right, so I would recommend I know you're
gonna say.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh, Rich with the Apple fanboy again.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, yes, it's it's gonna be a MacBook. I mean
it's going to be a MacBook. And I would recommend
depending on your budget, because MacBooks are more expensive than
you can buy a five hundred dollars Windows computer. But look,
it's not gonna last you. If you look at you
know what I would consider to be kind of the
Windows equivalent of the MacBook. It's probably the surface and
you know that's gonna run you a thousand dollars by

(09:08):
the time you get all the accessories. So I would say,
go with the MacBook, the m one, the MacBook Air.
It's gonna be about a thousand bucks a little bit
less with the student discount. Definitely take advantage of that.
And I think it's gonna last her. I know it's
gonna last her all four years. Maybe if she's doing
biology and genetics, maybe.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's five years.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
But it's it's a little bit more expensive, but you
have to do the math over the years, and in
that time it will pay. I say it'll pay for
itself because she's gonna get a great job out of this.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
This computer is gonna be no fuss. It's gonna work.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
You've got the Apple stores to bring it to if
there's a problem. While I don't recommend any type of
insurance on it, a lot of people do get that.
I don't personally get that. I don't recommend it. I
would say, if something ever happens to the computer, just
pay for the you know, the repair out of pocket,
and if you want to get insurance.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
You know.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
What I I recommend to people is just save the money,
like save like twenty five dollars a month and put
it in like a little little account on the side
and just call it your your own Apple insurance, right,
and then if something happens by that time, let's say
it's four months down the road, you have one hundred
dollars towards your repair. And let's say it's six months
down the road, now you have you know, six times

(10:20):
twenty five whatever that is. Oh, I need to do
my math. Oh that's terrible that I don't know that
I should know that. That's a buck fifty, so a
dollar one hundred and fifty dollars. Now, the two repairs
that I've gotten on my MacBooks have both been six
hundred dollars repairs. They've been the screen, so those were
that was a pretty hefty repair. You'll be surprised to
find that a lot of the little things that go wrong,

(10:41):
if they do go wrong, Apple will cover because you
have a warranty on this device.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
So that's my advice.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
And I think, you know, if you want to go
with the MacBook Pro, if you have a little bit
more in your budget, that would be just a little
bit more equipped for her. But I don't think she's
doing video editing. I don't think she's doing a lot
of things that require that. So my advice is to
get the most memory, and I think they max out
I think either eight or sixteen on these computers. But

(11:12):
the most memory and the most hard drive. That's my
advice there. Now, as for a backup, you can just
go to Costco buy a standard hard drive there. Last
I saw it was like fifty nine bucks for like
a two terabyte drive. Very inexpensive. Get that and plug
it into the computer and do what's called a time
machine backup. It will back everything up to the hard drive.
Every time you plug in that hard drive, it will

(11:34):
back up the machine automatically. And if you ever have
a problem, you know, keep the two things separate. If
you ever have a problem with the hard drive on
the computer, you just restore it from that time machine.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Backup and it will be perfect. So good luck to
your daughter.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Very exciting that she's going to college and some fun
times ahead for her. Google is opening its first ever
retail store. They say, their first ever physical retail store.
So I think they've had pop ups here and there,
but this is there first ever. You know, they don't
call it a permanent store. They don't call it a
permanent space.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
You never know.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's Google because they cancel things so quickly over there.
But June seventeenth is the date opened in New York City,
and I actually asked them if I can go to
this store and they said no, They're like, we're not
doing any opportunities for for you. I don't know why,
because they let in a whole bunch of like, you know,

(12:28):
Team Pixel folks, but I guess for folks like me,
They're like, nah, we don't really want the coverage from you.
But anyway, I covered it anyway for KTLA because they
did send me some pictures and videos and it looks
really cool.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
It looks very.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Googly, it's got you know, these nice neutral colors. It's
got a lot of different spaces. It's a pretty big store.
So the thing about this store is that, look, it's
not an Apple store, but it's, you know it kind
of it might be a similar space. Apple has like
five hundred stores, and this is Google's first, so they've

(13:01):
got some catching up to do. But we also know
the market share of Pixel is a lot lower, and
a lot of these Google devices, you know, they don't
have the same ecosystem that Apple does. But the reality
is this could be a chicken or the egg kind
of thing, because when you think about why a lot
of people get something like an iPhone or a MacBook

(13:22):
or whatever, it's because you know, you have a place
to go when you have trouble with that. And so
if you knew that for pixel or you can go
somewhere to learn about it, or you can go somewhere
for troubleshooting, maybe you'd get more of those products. So
or if you can try them out. I mean, if
you've been to like a big box retailer so sad
these days, you go in there and everything's broken, and

(13:43):
there's dust everywhere, and the displays are dirty and just
so unkept, and it's one of these things where like
I am truly grateful that I get this stuff sent
to me by the tech companies. I get to play
with it in the you know, privacy of my own
home and the comfort of my home, and and I
get to form my opinions on a lot of stuff
based on what I test out. And if I didn't

(14:06):
have that, like if my only frame of reference was
like going to a big box retailer and looking at
these things. A lot of times they have like you know,
those those security ropes on them.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
They're they're all tied.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Down, you know, they're all just like grimy and yucky,
and half of them are broken, displays don't work, or
it's a dummy model. I mean, that's really tough to
make a six to six hundred to one thousand dollars
decision on a device that you can barely touch and
hold right, and you can buy it and return it,
but that's not very likely for most people. People don't
want to do that. So I think that these are smart.

(14:42):
I think it's a good way for people to actually
play with gadgets that are at these stores and that
Google cells and I thought it was kind of cool.
In their blog post, Google said that they actually built
a full scale mockup of the space at their hangar
in Mountain View, which is so cool.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Only Google would do that, right.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
I'm sure Apple does to me more stuff, but this
is also kind of just showing off everything how Google
products work.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
They say it's a light filled space.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
That's centered around experiencing the helpfulness of our products, which
you know, it looks that way. There's a cool little
exhibit where I guess it'll be changing every so often,
but right now it's a place where you step into
like this half dome and there's a whole bunch of
big screens around you, and you speak and your whatever
you say is instantly translated in real time into twenty

(15:28):
four different languages and displayed on the screen.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
So I thought that was cool.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
And again they do say there's an expert store team
on hand to answer questions, offer repairs, and troubleshoot.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Issues on the spot. So that's key right there.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
And I've talked about this before on the podcast, but
I will likely be switching to the new pixel when
it comes out, the Pixel six. I've been on the
iPhone for a while. While I love it, I am
ready for a change. And I do love the Pixel camera,
so if they mix a good camera with good hardware,
I am totally sold and I will be.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Switching to that.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
So I do think that that Google gets kind of
a raw deal, like Apple gets so much attention. But
and they you look and there's no denying they do
things really really well. But you know, Google really has
an amazing thing happening with their Pixel. It's just that
it's just not in the public kind of eye enough,
Like people don't give it enough credit for all the

(16:22):
amazing things it does, whether it's the camera, whether it's
the software, whether it's the you know, you know, Google lens,
the way you search, the way voice assistant works. And
I think part of that is because there's just not
a strong ecosystem. There's no real companion watch. The hardware
has been every single pixel, the hardware has been hit
or miss, and it's like the it's just you know,

(16:45):
the one pixel that had great hardware was the four
XL and it didn't have an ultra wide when everyone
else was doing ultra wide. And now the new one,
the five has an ultra wide, but it doesn't have
a zoom and the processor is really bad.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
So it's like all these little things.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
And don't get me wrong, for the average person that
just needs a phone to do the things that phones do,
it's fine. Like a Pixel five is fine. I think
it should be a little bit bigger. The four A
is amazing or what is it, the four AXL, No,
the four A five G. Sorry, so you know, it's
a great phone. It's just I think people don't give

(17:18):
them enough credit because Apple just kind of sucks all
the air out of the room with what they're doing.
Because it's just so unbelievable, you know, when you look
at the way the Apple Watch works with, the iPhone,
works with the iPad, works with everything. And then you
add on top of that, the apps are so well
crafted for the iPhone compared to Android. In many circumstances,

(17:39):
it's really tough to be and when I go out
and about, it's like, there is the standard and that
is the iPhone, and it's like, okay, well, you know,
you know there's other things out there, but it's just
tough sometimes. Anyway, Cool for you, Google, I hope you
open one up in Los Angeles. I think that would
be a good place for you to open one as well.
All right, Monica says, my husband and I are buying
a home in Ports Charlotte, Florida. It's in a remote area.

(18:03):
What options do you recommend since internet service is slim
and my husband will be working from home. Thank you
for your help, my husband said, we might have to
back out of the purchase if you can't find a
way to work from home.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Faceplant? Is that face plant? Or hand?

Speaker 1 (18:16):
What's the hand on the face? Is that a face plant?
Can I hover over this emoji and see what it means?

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Nope? I can't wait. Can I let me copy? Oh explore,
here we go.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Let me see woman face palm oh face, palming face palming. Okay,
there you go. You gotta love Google. Find us an
answer in a second. Uh, Monica, Uh okay. So a
couple things. Number one, you can check a website. You
can check like a website called like high Speed Internet
dot com. High Speed Internet Internet dot com is a website. Now,

(18:52):
I found that these Internet checkers are a little bit
hit or miss. A lot of times are just taking
a bunch of data and it's not necessarily very find
like your exact, like specific address. Sometimes it is, sometimes
it isn't. So once you go to high Speed Internet
dot com and put in your address, and let's say
it says like you know, Spectrum and Verizon are are

(19:12):
available there, well, then you want to go to the
Spectrum and Verizon websites and pop in your your address
and then double check and see and you want to
check for the speeds.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Now for your husband.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know, I know he's working from home, but I'm
sure anything you know fifty down should be fine.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know, you don't depending on what he's doing for work.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
But if he's just doing like Microsoft Teams or you know,
Zoom or any of these things.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
You don't need a huge amount of bandwidth.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Now if he's uploading and downloading giant video files like
I do, yeah, you probably want something a lot higher
than that. So that's the recommendation. The other two things
I would check h T Mobile has a new ISP,
so T mobile dot Com slash ISP and T Mobile
ISP is basically they're using their their wireless infrastructure. You

(20:00):
offer you home high speed internet. Now this high speed internet,
the speeds are not guaranteed to be as fast as
something that's wired. But it depends where you live. I mean,
some places T Mobile has really good service, and so
if you're in one of those places, boom you can
have really good service.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Let me just go on the let's go to the T.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Mobile map and I'm looking at Port Charlotte, and from
what I can see, it doesn't have five G coverage,
but it does have four G and it looks like
it's pretty solid coverage like the entire area.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
So I can definitely tell that it's.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
A more rural area than areas around you, which is
like North Point and some of the other cities nearby.
But for for the most part, you're in a service area.
So I would definitely check out T mobile isp. I
think it's like fifty bucks a month and they send
you this router. You put it like near a window,
and you know your speeds are determined by their service there,

(20:57):
So definitely check that out. The other thing, and this
is a little bit more wild, but Starlink is what
SpaceX is doing for high speed internet with satellites, and
so it's a little bit more expensive to get started
with it, but you know, people are reporting that the
service is pretty good. And so again you know, depending
on what your husband needs, you know, this.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Could work for you as well.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
So those are a couple of good options for you,
and check them out and let me know how the
new house is.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
So Spotify is launching their Clubhouse competitor, and what we've
realized it's called green what's it called here, It's called
green Room, and this is an app. It's kind of
like an acquisition they made, but they are opening it up.
I was not able to find it in the app store,
so I couldn't download it and check it out. But

(21:46):
it looks identical to Clubhouse and not just Clubhouse, but
Twitter Spaces and then also Facebook is getting their own
version of this as well, and it's already happening, like
they're beta test it. Thanks to Jim for sending me
the link to that. But here's the thing, so, just

(22:06):
like you know, just like stories, it sounds like these
rooms and these audio rooms are now a feature of everything,
Like every app is going to have an audio feature.
So we've got Twitter with it, We've got Spotify with it,
we've got Facebook with it. You know, Instagram will probably
end up having it. I think they actually talked about

(22:28):
doing like an audio only room for you know, you
can go Instagram Live. It's the same thing, except people
are listening instead of watching. And so you know, this
is this is Spotify's you know, version of this, which
I think is going to be pretty cool because it's Spotify.
And I'll tell you that I've been testing Spotify for
the past couple of weeks. I'm waiting for the feature

(22:51):
for Spotify to come to the Apple Watch. So they
gave me a couple months of Spotify to kind of
test it out. Because they couldn't like enable my account.
I thought was kind of funny they couldn't directly enable
my Spotify account, but they're like, Okay, here's a couple
months of Spotify premiums that you can try it out
when it launches, And so I've installed it.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I've been using Spotify.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm not a Spotify user, but i gotta say I
have been quite impressed with Spotify as a non Spotify user.
They do have a lot of playlists. They do update
their home screen with like a lot of fresh stuff
to listen to all the time. There are so many playlists,
like for every single little slice of how you're feeling
or wanting to listen to. And I'm just waiting for

(23:32):
it to be able to download the music to your
watch because that was the big feature that everyone has
been waiting for for so long. And honestly, it's the
feature that has me subscribing to Apple Music because for many,
many years, that was the only way that you could
get downloaded music to your Apple Watch was to through
Apple Music. And so now that Spotify offers it, I'm

(23:53):
gonna kind of see, like, is it best to keep
Apple Music or do we switch to Spotify as our
main music service. I mean, they're both the same price
fifteen bucks a month for the family plan, so it
also depends on, you know, who has the better offering
for kids, because my kids are starting to listen to music,
and I will say, you know, here's where Apple's you know,
semi evil plan to make everything kind of work together seamlessly.

(24:18):
Is that, you know, since everything is built into their products,
it is so much easier, like when your kid has
an iPad to just literally they're signed into YouTube or
Apple Music and it's like, oh, here, just here's your
music because we're on the family plan and your Apple
idea is linked to mine, and it just does that
over and over. Oh okay, you need to do this,
just use this app that's already on your iPad.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
So I get it.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
And Apple does a really nice job with these apps.
But it's just it's their little plan definitely works. That's
for sure, keeps you from, you know, using some other
products that you might use if you had to download
something you might you might go and research, like what
the best music service is, or you just use Apple
Music because it's on there and it's easy and it's integrated.
So I'm not knocking Apple Music in any way. I

(25:00):
think it's great, but it's just one of those things
where the less friction involved, you know, the better it
is for or the better it is for the company
that's making it less friction involved.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Which is Apple.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
In this case, green Room has a couple of interesting features.
You can have up to one thousand people in a room.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
You can virtually applaud speakers by giving them gems in
the app, and the gems don't have any money value.
But there's and there's no way to make money on
this just yet, but there is some sort of like
Creator's fund that Spotify is launching, and participants will be
able to receive payouts for their work based on their
audience size and consumption, apparently according to Hollywood reporters. So

(25:43):
I think the trend we're seeing with all of these
apps nowadays, these new like you know, not just the
social media apps, well I guess them too, But it's like,
where's you know, show me the money, where's the monetization?
Where how can I make some money if I become
really popular on your platform? How do I make money? Like?

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Can I get a payout from this?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
And it's funny because when when all these platforms first started,
maybe with the exception of YouTube, that really wasn't a thing.
And now we've seen Twitter, they're introducing so many features
that will enable you to get money. And you know,
Patreon is kind of like the third party service that
enables all this stuff. But now we're seeing all these
individual services do it on their own. But it's it's

(26:23):
all over the place. So now it becomes very complicated.
So if I want to follow you on Twitter and
send you a gem on Greenhouse, you know, it's like,
how do you are green.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Room rather not greenhouse green Room.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
It's like it's it's this whole idea. This is why
it all comes back to the same idea I've had
for years. I would love and someone please make this.
I would love for every month, I just have a
little wallet on my It follows me around on my browser,
and it integrates with things like Twitter and Facebook and
YouTube or whatever. And it's just a little tiny like

(27:00):
tip jar, but it follows me. It's like built into
every app. So let's say I put you know, I
just subscribe. I put in you know, ten dollars a month,
and of course, you know, the tip jar company gets
like a dollar of that for me, or ten percent
or thirty percent whatever they want to take. And then
I get the rest as little gems or whatever, and
then I can give those to people as I go along.
So let's say I read a really good article from someone,

(27:21):
I can give them.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
A little tip.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Let's say I watch a cool YouTube video from someone
that I really think is great, I can give them
a little tip. Let's say I listen to someone's speech
on or clubhouse room, I can give them a little tip.
So again, it's not like, you know, to sit there
and subscribe to different creators and stuff for five dollars
a month is really kind of like it backs you
into a corner because you're like, ah, I'm already subscribed

(27:43):
to one person. I can't really do another person. I mean,
that's like a lot of money every month. But if
you just put ten dollars into this little wallet or
whatever it is twenty bucks, who knows, you know, and
the ability to give that to different people, I think
would be really transformative for the web because people would
be able to go on their own Let's say I
ran my own website, you know, rich on tech dot TV.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
That was you know, I was independent.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I would just put this little tip jar on there,
you know, integrate it in there, and you know, when
people read my articles or my posts or whatever, they
can give me a little tip. So I think it
would enable many more people to be creative in the
ways that they want to be on these platforms without
choosing to you know, they have to be on.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
One or give it.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
They're all on one platform, like, they can kind of
be in different places and just all that money comes
to the same place. So I think that would be transformative.
I think I talked about that in my podcast a
long time ago with someone like Stripe that should launch
that or something. Someone needs to do that, because I
really think that rewarding people individually on the web, because
we're getting into this world where like so many people

(28:49):
are building like a little business on the web. It's like,
why can't we reward them in an easy way Without
a subscription to their you know, YouTube, or without you know,
becoming a super follower on on Twitter, or without you know,
on Instagram, there's no way to really tip someone or
give them props or anything, you know. So anyway, I

(29:10):
think it would really really be good. Marilyn says, Hey, Rich,
can you advise about portable Wi Fi? My phone receives
many junk emails about these devices, in particular, I'd like
to know how they work while traveling on vacation.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Thanks Marylyn. Marilyn, you're referring.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
To a Wi Fi hot spot, and I don't know
why you're getting so many junk emails. Maybe you mean
like you're just getting emails from your carrier about them,
But I would say when it comes to a hot spot,
you don't. The average person does not really need one
these days because your phone functions as a perfectly good
personal hot spot. So if you have an iPhone or

(29:49):
an Android just there is a hot spot feature built
in now. The main thing about that is that you
are limited to the data allotted for your hot spot,
and you can call your carrier or look on your
plan on your carrier's app, and it will tell you
how much data is allotted to your hotspot. And I
believe for me it's like fifteen gigabytes a month, which

(30:09):
you know, between me and my wife we both get
fifteen gigs. That's a pretty decent amount. And our kids
have their iPads where they automatically connect to our iPhones
and you know, when they're out and about, they just
use our phones as a hotspot. Otherwise, if you want
a dedicated hotspot. The benefit of that is that it's
a little simpler to manage because you can plug it in,

(30:30):
you can leave it turned on if you're in a
hotel room, you just kind of you know, your hot
spot is independent of your you know, phone, so it's
always turned on. You're creating this little Wi Fi hotspot,
but you will have to pay for a separate plan,
and you'll probably want a data only plan from your
carrier to do that, and you can ask your carrier.
If you're with T Mobile, get a T Mobile hotspot,

(30:50):
add it to your plan and you can do that.
The downside of that is that you're going to be
paying for that every month. No matter what, whether you
use it or not, you're still going to be paying
for this hot spot. So if you have a something
like an RV, or if you travel a real lot
for work, that might make a lot of sense. But
if you're just a casual traveler, just use the hot
spot on your phone, and that's what I recommend. The

(31:11):
only other option I can tell you about is Zte
has a portable hot spot that I did a feature
on and it basically is an unlocked hot spot, and
let's see is it the z ZT e Z max Connect.
And what's cool about that is that it's unlocked. So

(31:33):
you would buy this hot spot. I think you can
get on Amazon and it's I think it was about
a hundred bucks when I did a story on it.
But the cool thing about it is that it's you
can just pop a SIM card into it and oh okay,
it looks like they have a newer one now ZT Velocity.
This is a an unlocked mobile Wi Fi hot spot.

(31:55):
But weird the picture is at and T. But anyway,
so just ZT look them up and see their hotspot.
But you can put a SIM card in there that's
pre paid, and so the benefit of that is that
you can kind of run through your data without paying
a monthly fee. You just kind of buy a bunch
of data and sometimes they expire thirty to ninety days.
But you put that SIM card into this device and

(32:16):
then you can use it, and if you don't need
it the next three months after that, you just let
it sit dormant and you buy.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
A new SIM or you reactivate it.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
But I would go use your phone first, and then
if you need anything else, then you can go the
route of getting a dedicated Wi Fi hotspot. Ikea is
teaming up with Sonos for a brand new picture frame speaker.
This is the SYMPHONIESK picture Frame Wi Fi speaker, and

(32:45):
so it looks like a piece of art, but it's
actually a disguised I guess Sonos speaker, which looks really cool.
Now I'm trying to figure out which room I could
put this in because I already have Sonos in pretty
much all my room except for the office. And if
you follow me on Instagram, you know I just bought
the Sonos Rome, which I like, and it's just small.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
I mean, I like the.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Move better because it's bigger and it's got better sound.
But the Rome is good for, like, you know, taking
it on little trips and vacations because it's so small.
But this one is a two hundred dollars It looks
like a picture frame, not really a picture frame.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
It looks like a piece of art.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
So the fact they're calling it a picture frame Wi
Fi speaker, I think is a little misleading because it's
not a place where you put a picture. It's just
a piece of artwork. And so you can put this
on your wall, you hang it. It does have a
cable coming out from the bottom of it, so you
have to be aware of that.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
But it's white.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
It kind of blends in the picture frame itself comes
in white or black. And then you can also put
in different pieces of artwork that they have from Ikia
and they're each twenty dollars, so it's two hundred dollars
for the speaker, then twenty dollars for the individual pieces
of artwork.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Looks like it comes with one piece.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Of artwork that like the starter artwork, and then if
you want to replace that you can.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
But it looks cool. It's a good idea.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
I have not heard it, so I don't know how
how good it sounds. But if you're looking for that
kind of cool, sleek, you know, room that you want
things to blend in, it's it's definitely cool. I mean
I would I would get this. I just don't really
know of a place. I guess I can get it
in my I don't know what's gonna happen to this
office here that I'm in, probably gonna go back to

(34:26):
becoming a guest room or the kids room once I'm
out of.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Here for work.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Where am I gonna can do my podcast? I gotta
figure out a new home. Uh. The speaker's gonna be
available July fifteenth. Of course, it works with Sonos, which
is the beauty of this speaker, and you know, I
love Sonos. It's basically the Switzerland of streaming services, even
though they do have their own Sonos Radio. You basically
connect all your different streaming services to this Sonos app

(34:52):
and that allows you to listen to the same music
across every room in your house where you have a
Sona speaker, or you you can have every Sona speaker
playing something different at the same time. Now that you
may be limited by your streaming service, they may not
allow you to have, you know, ten different streams going
at the same time. I've noticed that with like what
was Amazon Music the other day? It was like, sorry,

(35:14):
this is already playing in another room. I was like,
oh wow, you guys are good, and so I had
to pause the music on one speaker and then finally
it started on another. But I think that you know,
if you have different services, or you know you can
use some of the free services. You know, there's a
million free services out there, you can connect those to
Sonos as well and just listen to things. So kind
of cool.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Different.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
You know, Ikia had those other two speakers. They look
like I think one was a lamp and one was
a bookshelf speaker. And I did want the lamp. I
actually wanted that from my bedroom. I never got it.
But now that I think about it, maybe I should
reconsider because I didn't realize they were still making those
like I thought. It kind of like it never really
came to be. But July fifteenth. I'm looking at the

(35:58):
different colors here, so yeah, black and white are the
two different colors.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Kind of cool? Oh wow, it looks like, oh here
it is. The other lamp is still around.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Actually, the base of the lamp that they make with
the Sono speaker looks like a HomePod, the big HomePod,
the old one. But yeah, picture frame with Wi Fi
speaker not available just yet. You gotta wait until July fifteenth.
Michael says, Rich, can you download different apps like roadblocks

(36:29):
on the Amazon Fire HD ten Kids Pro. Now, Michael
was referring to a review I did on KTLA for
the fire the brand new Amazon sent them along the
Fire HD ten Kids Pro. They actually sent both of
the fire HD tens, the new ones the kids and
the regular one. Now, I'm just gonna be completely honest here.

(36:51):
I'm not a fan. I'm just not And I'll tell you. Look,
I know there's you know, some of you listening that
are saying, rich, I have one of these things. It's
just fine, and yes it is just fine. But honestly,
you know, Amazon could do better with these things. They're
the software is actually really good. I think that Amazon
does a nice job with the software on these things.
The hardware, it just leaves so much to be desired,

(37:13):
from the low memory, to the low.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Processors, to the screen quality to you know, audio quality
seems to be fine. But it's just.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
I just it's one of these things where, yes, they're cheap,
and I think that's why people buy them, and they're
a very good deal when it comes to the price.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
So you know, especially for Prime.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Day as it's coming up, it's you're gonna be able
to get one of these tablets for such a low
price that it's like a no brainer, Like why would
I pay three hundred and thirty dollars for an iPad
when I can get this tablet for like one hundred bucks?
And I get that, and I totally understand, and I'm
not gonna say don't get it, but just know what
you're getting yourself into. If you're just literally watching things

(37:54):
and listening to music and reading books, it will be
just fine. But it's the experience of you that is
just slow. It's sluggish, it's it's frustrating at times. It's
just not the best experience, especially when you get to
the buttery smooth workings of an iPad. And I know
Rich you love Apple. Oh my gosh, all you do

(38:14):
is ever talk about Apple. I know, But the reality
is the iPad is such a great device that it's
really tough to beat. And so yeah, you're gonna save
a lot of money getting the fire, but it's gonna
be frustrating, and there's gonna be moments when you know
you just don't want to use it or it's just
not that good.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
And it's fine. You know.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
I actually had a friend over and I know her
kids have the kindle the fire or not the kindle
the fire tablet. And I said, you know, if I
sat on TV that the fire tablet is frustrating and
slow and laggy, would you be annoyed?

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Would you be upset?

Speaker 1 (38:48):
And she said, well, I don't know what do you
mean by that? And I said, well, she goes they're
just fine for like the kids playing games. Since I said,
all right, that's that's fair enough. So again it is
just fine, like to the average can assumer that's not
testing a bunch of stuff. It is just fine. But
I'm just saying you can do better. And I think
the iPad entry level iPad on sale, you know, you
get it for two ninety nine or whatever. It's Yes,

(39:09):
it's more expensive, but the experience out of that device
is just going to be so infinitely better. But with
that said Michael, to answer your question, roadblocks. So I
specifically wrote about Roadblocks in my fire Kid's review because
I knew the line was something to the extent of, yes,

(39:30):
it does this and it does that, but let's be honest,
the first app your kid is going to download is Roadblocks,
and it plays that too well. When I went to
shoot my segment for this thing, we downloaded Roblocks because
I wanted to make sure and test it out. I
got so many problems with this situation with the with
the device. It went into a boot loop where it
just kept restarting. It kept restarting every time we tried

(39:53):
to open roadblocks on this thing. Now, this could have
been an isolated incident.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I emailed Amazon.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
I said to them, I said, hey, you know, I'm
having a lot of issues with this. Have you seen
this before? And they said, no, we've never seen that.
No one else is reporting that, and that was it.
They didn't really care to follow up, and so I
just kind of I took that line out of my
piece for KTLA. I didn't I didn't leave in the
line where it can play roadblocks. And I felt bad
because I know that's what parents wanted to know, but
I couldn't feel right, you know, including the robox roadblocks bit,

(40:22):
knowing that we had so many problems running roadblocks, and
I know that's the game that kids want to play.
And I'll be honest what my kids said when I
gave them this tablet to test out with roadblocks, they
they literally threw it back at me and said nobody
should buy this, and that was their words.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
And I'll be honest, that's a kid.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
And so they were able to see the quality difference
between an iPad and a fire tablet. And again, I'm
just telling you this so that you're equipped and you
understand what your situation. The beauty of these tablets is
that you can return them. If you get it and
you hate it and you can't deal with the with
the situation or how it runs, just return it to Amazon.

(41:00):
They'll be more than happy to take it back. If
you get it and you get through all the steps
and you set it up and it works just fine,
and you've got this uh the kids sits, the kids
uh what do they call the parents dashboard on it,
and it works great for you, then fine, just use
it and it's it's I'm just telling you my thoughts.
You're listening to the rich on Tech podcast. This is
rich on Tech's thoughts. These are my thoughts, and so

(41:22):
I'm just giving you my experiences so that you know
and you can compare them against other people's experiences. Read
a couple of reviews online about the fire Kids tablet,
the ten and see what they say about it.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
If they say it's.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Amazing, then you know way those two way, those two
opinions together kind of average amount, and say, Okay, I'll
try this, I'll give it, I'll give it a spin,
and if it's terrible, I'll return it. And with that said,
I will say what I think is really good about
these tablets is the software on them, I think is
pretty darn good. They've got everything built in that you need.

(41:55):
You know, there's a lot of things that are not there,
like the Google apps are not there. You can install
them easily, and yes you can sideload, and yes you
can download you know, ways of getting them, but that's
not for the average consumer. The average consumer is not
sideloading Chrome. The average consumer is not sideloading Gmail. The
average consumers not sideloading YouTube.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
So to get those.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Native apps that work really well, you can't get them easily.
You can't just download them from the Amazon App Store.
And so for all these reasons, it's just kind of
not the best experience. You have to use their apps
and what they you know, their weblinks to YouTube and
to Gmail, so you got to use the web versions
of those things. I do like what Amazon's doing when

(42:38):
it comes to the parental controls. The kid's dashboard is amazing,
And if your interest is in keeping your kids safe
on these tablets, I think these tablets do a really
really good job of that. In fact, really really good.
I'm maybe not better than the iPad about the same
but it's Amazon really has it down. I mean they've
gotten it locked down. So I think that in that case,

(43:01):
I was very very impressed with what they're doing there.
So again I'm just you know, giving you some thoughts
and things to kind of noodle around in your brain.
If you're thinking of getting one of these things, just
know that there is a reason why they cost less
and doesn't make them a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
It just makes it so that if you.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Can, if you're like, if you use it and you're
fine with it, it's fine, Like you just saved a
bunch of money. And it's like, Rich, all I'm doing
is reading a kindle book on here, Well, fine, it's
gonna work great for that. Rich, All I'm watching our
Netflix shows or Prime videos or whatever. Fine, it's gonna
work just fine for that. You don't need a lot
of horsepower to watch videos on a tablet. Now, if
you're telling me you're gonna try to run your home

(43:39):
based business on there, or blog or edit videos or
capture any kind of pictures on this thing, no, that's
not gonna work. If you're using it, you know, to
run a home you know, a little eBay business or
something like for a tablet. No, not gonna work, drawing,
making pictures, creating stuff, not gonna work. Consuming content gonna
be just fine. Michael, Hope that answers your question. Let

(44:02):
me know what you end up doing. All right, let's see,
let's talk about this shower head. So I tested a
shower head called the Nebia. It's got a long name,
the Nebia by Mowen Quatro, and it's a shower head
that it got a lot of publicity because Tim Cook,
Apple CEO, love this shower head. And so this company's

(44:26):
been around, I think they said for six years. The
technology was really expensive, but now it's gotten down to
a price that you know, the rest of us can
actually consider still expensive. It's still ninety nine dollars on Kickstarter,
one hundred and twenty nine dollars when it gets to stores.
But I tried it out, and the thing is, this
is supposed to be easy. They use like this system
called this process called atomization to make the water into

(44:49):
this really fine mist. So it feels the best I
can describe it is it feels like a sauna, but
instead of like a mist of water like that, you know,
you can't really see in the sauna or like a
little little bit. This is like it feels like a
sauna times a thousand. So your entire shower is like
filled with this mist like water that just collects on
your skin, and you know, these.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Droplets are everywhere.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
And so for that reason, a they don't recommend a
shower what's it called a shower curtain set up. They
would recommend kind of like an enclosed shower, like glass doors,
at least, you know, mostly enclosed. Like my shower is
mostly enclosed. It's not fully enclosed. I think that's how
most showers are. Maybe there's some that are fully enclosed,
but I guess there are. So the deal with this

(45:34):
thing is that they sent it to me to test
it out. I installed it on my shower, and of course,
my shower, like a lot of homes in Los Angeles,
is just totally messed up. It doesn't it's not the
standard shower situation. So I had my handyman take a
look and he's like, yeah, the pipe that comes out
of your wall is really short, so you would need

(45:54):
to install like a new pipe.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
And it's this whole big thing.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
So I end up getting it to work on my
kid's shower, which still it was not perfect, and they
have a shower curtain, so it was like this whole
big thing where I got the whole bathroom wet. But
I was able to test this thing out and actually
shower in it and my kids as well, and I
will say it was amazing. It was a great experience,
and it was it was pretty darn different than what

(46:17):
a typical shower head feels like. And the other thing
is that this is saving a ton of water, so
it feels better, but it's also saving like forty percent water.
And I've got a water bill that just keeps getting
out of control, and so this would be very appealing
to me. Now, I didn't end up keeping this on
my shower because it's not really compatible with what I said,
my shower setup, but I would consider this if it was,

(46:40):
and I think that you should too.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
It's a really cool shower head.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
It's it's on Kickstarter, so definitely not Generally, I'm very
skeptical of Kickstarter stuff because it just feels like so
many people get burned with it. But this company says
they've they've already done seven million dollars of Kickstarter on
the platform. They've done other things on Kickstarter. They are
gonna ship this, they said, now here's the thing. This

(47:04):
is why I always say with Kickstarter, I'm very cautious
because when they first told me about this thing, oh yeah,
we're gonna ship it in August, and the day that
I was doing my story, the morning of the story,
they're like, oh, by the way, we're changing that to September.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
I said, what.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
So I had to go back and retape all the
stuff that I use to send out to my partner stations,
because you know it is taped the day before, and
I was like, you've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
And so again this just.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Goes to show that with like Kickstarter, it's like it's
never a firm deal. It's like, how did it go
from August to September? In like literally the day of launch,
it changes And so you just have to be very
aware of the pros and cons of Kickstarter. I love
the fact that Kickstarter can make these amazing ideas come
to reality, but on the flip side, a lot of
stuff gets on there that never really gets made or

(47:52):
worse yet, you know, your money is either taken or
held up and you don't get things, and it's just
delayed upon delay, upon delay upon delay, So just be
aware of that. But if you want to watch the story,
it's called the Uh. Here's the way to find anything
I talk about. By the way, just google ktla DeMuro
plus a keyword, like in this case, it would be Nebia.

(48:14):
And if you can't remember Nebia, just ktl a DeMuro
shower head. So let me just try it ktla DeMuro
shower head and that immediately brings up my story. So
that's how you find something that I've mentioned on TV.
It's very very simple, and it always comes to the
top result.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
I mean, what can I say?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
It's cool, it's great. I mean, it's going to change
the world. I don't know, but it's definitely. My headline
was I took a shower using a shower head that
feels so indulgent it's hard to believe it's actually saving water.
And I will agree with that. I think that it
was a very cool experience. My kid also said the
same thing. He said, that is like the most amazing
shower ever. So I mean, even if if a kid

(48:55):
could say that and understand that that's that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
All right.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Uh, let's see next question. Maren says hey, Rich, Hi
a Rich, what's a good iPhone memory cleaner?

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Thanks? Send for my iPhone, Maren.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
You don't need one. There is no iPhone memory cleaner,
and if you get one, it's bogus. There is no
such thing. iPhone apps can cannot do things to the
operating the core operating system like they can on androids,
so they can't clean out the memory. So you do
not need an iPhone memory cleaner. And if there are
any on the app store, I don't know what they're

(49:35):
doing because it's just not something that's possible. Let me
look memory cleaner, smart cleaner, junk cleaner, phone cleaner, system
phone doctor.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Battery life.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Yeah, there's a ton of them. They're all bogus. Just
ignore them. You don't need them. The only thing you
can do on an iPhone to kind of get things
back up and running or clear out the memory, whatever
you want to call it, is just restart your phone.
And so you can do that by holding down the
power up button and the serie button and that will
give you a slider to power off. Or you can

(50:08):
go into settings and it's settings general, uh reset and
sorry not reset general, and then shut down and you
can shut down your phone and then power it back up.
But those are the only two things you need to know.
There's no way to like really do what you do
on an Android, like the the Samsungs have like that

(50:28):
built in like memory optimization thing, and that's I think,
what a lot of people have gotten used to over
the years. But you don't need that for an iPhone,
and thankfully you don't, because I have literally almost never
seen an iPhone get bogged down with like any sort
of memory issue because all apps run in their own
little sandbox basically, and so when you open up an app,
it runs, it's using the system resources. When you shut

(50:51):
it down, it's when you know, close out of that app.
Even if you don't close it out like people love
to like swipe out their apps, you don't need to
do that on an iPhone. And I've been guilty of it.
I'll do it every once in a while, but it's
mostly just a nervous thing. It's just like a you know,
fiddling with my phone thing.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
It's not really necessary.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Now, if an app is acting up, yes, you can
close it out, and that you know, once you close
it out, you can restart the app and it should
be just.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Fine, all right.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Final question, Martha via Instagram says, Hey, Rich, I've been
following you since the KTLA. Since you join KTLA, you've
never disappointed.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
What's your recommendation of the iPad? I'm a phone fanatic
and I want the best form of reference for my photos.
Laptop versus iPad? Is it the most current model if
I buy it through HSN? Well to answer your iPhone
versus or sorry iPad versus laptop question. If you are
only just doing photos, I would definitely go iPad because

(51:48):
I think it's a great, great canvas for photos, and
you can load all your photos on there using iCloud.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Even if the storage isn't enough.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
You can load them all up there, and you know
they'll be stored in iCloud but in the cloud, but
they'll also be viewable on your iPad. You'll be able
to edit them if you want to get really fancy.
You can use the Apple pencil, but you can you
know your finger will work just fine. But I think
it's a great, great canvas for editing and referencing your
pictures and organizing them and all that stuff. Laptop, I
would say only if you're like really doing maybe some

(52:20):
heavy photo organization.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
I mean, laptop seems like overkill to me. So if
you're just if your only interest is in photos, i'd
say go iPad. As for the most current model through HSN,
I would cross reference HSN with something like the Mac
Rumors Buyer's Guide, and it should tell you on the
Buyer's Guide, like what the latest version of the devices.

(52:44):
So if you look at the let's look at the
eleven inch iPad pro, it's let's see, does it tell
you like what the You gotta find the model number
of the device they're selling on HSN and then compare
at against you know, just look up that model number
and see if it's the most recent.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I think it should.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
I think the Buyer's Guide would show you that, but
I don't really I'm at first glance, I'm not really
seeing it. But if you look at recent releases, you
really need the model number. Oh you know what, you
can just go to I think you can just go
to the Apple website and just look at the model
number and compare those and make sure if it's the
most recent one, and that that should really do it.

(53:26):
But I'd say, yeah, go iPad that's like my dream.
My dream is to just use an iPad for everything
because I'm so dependent on my laptop because I'm video
editing so much. I would love to make that switch
to like an iPad pro or something with a keyboard,
because then you.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Have the best of both worlds.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Touch screen, got all the iPad apps, but then you
can use your your lap or your computer.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Not your computer. You just have the best of both worlds.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Right, you get kind of a computer and a and
a tablet all in one. Oh that sound means it's
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