iOS 18 Deep Dive, Automation's Job Impact & iPhone 16 Review

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The iPhone sixteen lineup has landed. Did you make the leap?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm going to share the best new features in iOS
eighteen that are worth checking out. Amazon is at it
again with yet another Prime Day. I've got the dates
and some smart shopping strategies to help you save and
remember Flappy Bird, the addictive mobile game making an unexpected comeback.
I will tell you why, plus your tech questions answered.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This
is the show where I talk about the tech stuff
I think you should know about. It's also the place
where I answer your questions about technology. I believe the
tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up
those phone lines at triple eight Rich one oh one.
That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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zero one. Give me a call if you have a
question about technology, don't be shy. Also, a lot of
iPhone upgraders and questions about that today. I'm assuming just
because it's a big deal with this iPhone sixteen. So
if you upgraded, or you're thinking about upgrading, or maybe
you're having an issue or maybe it didn't upgrade, give
me a call. We'll get you on the show and

(01:09):
we'll talk about that. Email is also open. Just go
to the website rich on tech dot tv and hit
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and if you want a link to something I mentioned
here on the show, just go to the website and
tap the light bulb icon. Well, welcome to the show

(01:31):
from Las Vegas Today, Live from Las Vegas. I'm here
for the iHeartRadio Music Festival. iHeart certainly knows how to
put on a good show. This is a two day
music festival, and my wife and I were curious about
how this would work, and it worked out pretty well.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
So they have a bunch of artists that are all playing,
and they all play, you know, some of their best songs,
and it moves very quickly. They've actually had this like
rotating stage so that they can set up one band
to the front, the other band setting up in the back.
As soon as that one band is done, they rotate
the stage and the next one comes out. So I
was pretty impressive that. So we've been having a really
good time here doing that. You know, Vegas is it's

(02:11):
one of those places where you either love it or
hate it. Personally, I really like it. I really enjoy it.
You know, we do some simple things here, just enjoy shows,
enjoy nice dinner, and a little maybe a little little
bit of gambling here and there. Believe me, I'm too
frugal to part with all of my cash or what
little I have. You know, I do have kids. So
we've got some guests this week. Brian Merchant, author of

(02:35):
Blood in the Machine. He's going to talk about that
trend at Chipotle. I don't know if you heard about this,
but they are now automating some of their stores making
those burrito bowls by robots. So he's going to talk
about that, and then later on Friend of the Show,
Matt Swider, he writes the excellent newsletter called the Shortcut.
He's going to talk about the iPhone sixteen new features

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and compare it to the previous models. Now, if you
did update your iPhone to iOS eighteen, you got a
pretty new iPhone just by updating the software. So iOS
eighteen is available if you haven't downloaded it. So far,
I haven't seen any real major issues on it. They've
been testing this for a long time, but it's available
for the iPhone ten s and up models. So remember

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the ten. It was like, the X is not the X,
that one's not included, but it's the ten s. The
ten are the eleven, the twelve, the thirteen, the fourteen,
the fifteen, the sixteen. And if you have an iPhone
S second generation or later, So.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
What are you gonna get?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, you're not gonna get Apple Intelligence that is coming soon.
And so everyone is talking about this AI stuff and
Apple kind of missed the boat on that. But here's
the thing. They have released it as a public beta.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't recommend typically that you download public betas because
it can really mess up your phone because it's just
like the beta software. But if you're really adventurous, you
can now get this AI stuff in the public beta
eighteen teen point one. Siri can rewrite your stuff, you know,
like your text messages and your emails. Siriri has a
whole new design. You can erase things from your photos

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and much more. Just keep in mind if you do
the beta, if you want to go back to the
regular software, you do have to erase your entire phone,
So I don't typically recommend it for that. But if
you've got IOSA teen, just the regular version of it,
what can you do. Everything looks so new and different.
Number one, your home screen. You can now place icons
anywhere you want. And I know that's a small weird

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thing that Android has had forever, but it's kind of
nice to be able to do that. And if you
press and hold on any app, you can now turn
it into a widget. So just press and hold on
an app you'll see some icons that look like widgets.
That's really cool because let's say you have a clock app.
You can now just press and hold and turn that
into a clock widget. So that's really handy. Your app icons,
you can now make them light, you can make them dark,

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you can tint them a certain color if you want,
and maybe you want to be a little easier on
your eyes. You can change your icons into large icons.
So if you press a hold on there, it'll say
use large icons in the edit area, and all of
your names of the icons go away, but they will
become much bigger.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Over in Control Center, this is when you swipe down
from the right side of your phone. That is much
more customizable. This is where you find your Wi Fi
and your cellular settings. Now you can have multiple pages
so you can completely customize the things that are on
these pages, so I put a lot of shortcuts in there.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's very very handy.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
You can also have a separate page just for your
media playback, a connectivity page. So this is really really
a place where you want to dive in and customize
your phone. Like, for instance, this morning, I was out
at a restaurant and I basically added a QR code scanner,
because you know how you aimed your phone at, a
QR code doesn't always find it. Well, you can add
a QR code scanner shortcut to your control center and

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now when you tap that, it'll immediately go into the
mode where it's scanning for a QR code. So that's
very handy, and there's so many of those types of things.
You can also customize the shortcuts on the home screen,
so when you're I should say the lock screen, so
when your phone is locked, you used to only be
able to activate the flashlight in the camera. Well, now
you can replace those with whatever shortcuts you want. So

(06:16):
for me personally, let's see what I replaced them with,
because I forget already. Oh I still have the flashlight
and the camera. I got to replace those with something better. Now,
the action button, this is something that was on the
iPhone fifteen Pro models last year.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's now on the iPhone sixteen models.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
That has replaced on the left side of your phone
the Ringer silent switch, So if you got a new
iPhone sixteen, you can customize that button to do whatever
you want.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
So on my phone, I've got it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Where it immediately starts recording a voice memo and it
transcribes it and sends it to my email. It is
really really handy. It's an app called Whisper Whisper Memos
Whispermemos dot com.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
I absolutely love this app.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
It'll change your life if you like to take a
lot of voice memos and have them transcribed, and it's
in your inbox, which means you can deal with them
whenever you feel like it, so you never forget anything anymore.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
The photos app got a big redesign. Good luck with that.
Just kidding.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I mean it is a lot more complicated. It looks
like there's like a lot more going on. But my
recommendation open up the photos app if you're on iOS eighteen,
scroll all the way down to the bottom and there
is an option to customize and reorder what they show
in the photos app. I got rid of everything except
recent photos, media types, and utilities, which means I see

(07:35):
all my recent photos. I can see like if I
want selfies or videos or whatever, and then utility shows
things like duplicate photos. So if you want to clean
up kind of your photos app, I know Apple added
a lot of stuff in there. Just scroll all the
way down to the bottom of the screen and you
can do that now. When it comes to messages, this
got a lot of updates. So messages obviously is where

(07:56):
a lot of people spend a lot of time on
the iPhone. The big, big, big change is that you
now have support for RCS, so that means rich communication services.
That means when you text an Android phone, you can
send bigger files, you can see when someone's typing, you
can see read receipts. The problem is, I am having
trouble with this on my phone. Messages are not getting

(08:18):
delivered from Android phones to my phone for some reason.
So if that's happening, if you're texting people and they're
not texting you back, and you're wondering why, it could
be some sort of issue that we're seeing right now
with the rollout of all this, because a lot of
people jumped on board rcs all at the same time,
So be patient with that and ask your friends maybe
call them and be like, hey, are you trying to
type me something because it's not working. So many things

(08:41):
you can do in messages now. You can make your
text like jump and add effects to it. You can
format your text. You can use any emoji to respond
to text. You can send a text later, so you
can schedule a text to send later. So to do that,
tap the plus sign next to the message box and
look for an option called send later. You might have
to like scroll to find it, but if you press

(09:01):
an hold on it, you can drag that up to
the top of the list. So messages really really improved.
You also might notice there's a new passwords app. Please
use this app. I beg of you stop making passwords
up that are really bad. Use this app to generate
strong passwords. Apple will store them. You can see your
Wi Fi passwords, your two factor authentication codes. You can

(09:24):
even make a group where you share your passwords with
Like if you want to share a password for your
Netflix with your significant others you both have access to it.
You can do that all in this app. Please use
that passwords app. It is much much safer than making
your own passwords and trying to remember them.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
A couple other things you can do.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
You can now lock app, so if you want an
app to require face ID or touch ID before you
can actually use it, you can lock down an app.
So press and hold and it will say require face ID,
enable that, and now nobody can open that app without
your face or your or your fingerprint or your passcode.
You can even hide an app, so if you don't
want an app to show up on your phone at all,

(10:01):
you can hide it once you lock it. You can
say hide this app, and it will put it in
a special folder that doesn't even show up on your
phone unless you are looking at your phone screen.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
So this is really good for privacy.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I put all my financial apps in there, so if
someone ever got a hold of my phone, they don't
even see the bank that I use or the card
that I have or anything like that because it's totally
completely just blanked out for their eyes. Let's see what else. Oh,
couple of accessibility features.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I tracking.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
You can now control your phone with your eyes, so
go into accessibility for that. And you can also set
vocal shortcuts, so if you have an atypical speech issue,
you can record a vocal shortcut that will trigger certain
actions on the phone with the sound that you make.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
So that's really great for accessibility.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
And inside calculator, you got to find this little easter egg.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
So if you tap in.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
The lower left hand corner, you'll notice they have a
thing called math notes. And if you type or you know,
draw on your screen, you can literally use your finger
to draw out a math problem and it will solve
it in your handwriting. And by the way, the calculator,
after I don't know how many years of the iPhone,
fifteen years of the iPhone, finally got a backspace button.

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So if you make a mistake on one of the
numbers you type in, you can finally.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Press backspace and it will delete it. All right.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
If you want to read about all of these new features,
I'll put the link on the website.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Rich on tech dot TV. So much to talk about today.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
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Speaker 1 (11:43):
Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. Coming to
you live from Las Vegas today. Always a fun time.
It's actually one of the few times I've been in
Vegas where the weather is nice, because typically i'm here
for Ces that's in January, it is brutally cold, and

(12:07):
then I'm here in the summer sometimes when it is
really really hot. So this is like perfect perfect weather
in Las Vegas. And what an interesting town. Eighty eight
rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
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to send in a question, and you can also hit
the light bulb if you want to show notes from
this week's show. Let's go to Kevin, Line one in
San Clemente. Kevin, you're on with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Hello you there. Okay, don't don't hear Kevin.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Let's see. Let's try one more time. Kevin on Line one.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
You there, Nope, Okay, let's try line two. Matthew in Sonora, California. Matt,
are you there?

Speaker 4 (13:02):
And I'm looking for an electronic engineer to take my
schematics and take my shoebox size prototype and scale it
down to what it needs to be. Is the size
of one of those road reflector bumps in the road.
Where's the best place to find a talented electronic engineer
to help me with this project? Is there a school

(13:24):
I could reach out to for graduates or is there
a website or a Facebook page you could subject? You
could suggest?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
So you've invented something and you need someone to take
your design and bring it to life.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
And I have the schematics already, all the hard bits,
I just need someone to build it.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Really, what's can you? Can you tell us about the product?

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Or no?

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Absolutely, it's a smart road reflector. It's known as a boxtop,
those little bumps to reflector. Yeah, as a battery and
a solar panel, and that condict detect the presence of
wildlife like deer and an approaching car. When it detects
both both of them, it starts blinking to warn the
car and emits a sound to drive the animal away
from the road roadside. You can see my website if

(14:07):
I may mention it.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Let's not mention the website. Yeah, no problem, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
But but yeah, that's that's interesting. I mean, as someone
who has had a close call with a deer, believe me,
those you know it's it's bad.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know, you don't you don't A lot of people
dodge a.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Dear and hit a tree. So yeah, my lifelong ambition
is to get this on roads and in national parks
and indots and areas that have high incident of roadkill.
It's really meant to end roadkill.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Okay, so this is your Okay, so the website, Okay,
this is the website is I think we can mention it.
I'll see why we can't end roadkill dot com. Kim
is telling me end road kill dot com.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yes, my numbers on there. If any talented electronic engineers
want to join me. I'm also going to try to
audition for twenty twenty five season of Shark Tank.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh that's awesome that, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Look, this is this is a great idea and uh
what so what's your background?

Speaker 4 (15:09):
I'm an engineer mostly mechanics. I build race cars and
but I'm also an inventor. I have a lot of
different inventions that require electronics and everything in this already exists.
No one's ever put it together in a small package
that will work at the in the middle of the.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Road, right right, and that's and this can handle like
cars driving over it and things like that.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yes, absolutely, Wow.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well, I love It's funny that you mentioned the bot
because those things I always use that as trivia to
ask people like, because you know, those are a like
I never saw those tykeing to California, the bots in
the road, you know, right, and and so are they
using them now nationwide?

Speaker 1 (15:47):
I don't even know, but California, like.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
They were developed in the sixties by the gentleman who
it's named after, bot Stops, but he didn't get credit
for it.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
He died.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Someone else took it off the shelf and it started
out as just a round bump in the road that
was white and it's moved on to become reflectors and
this is the next stage for it being making a
smart box stock.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, so, I mean, I guess my recommendation would be,
I mean, hopefully you get on shark tank.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
But I think the recommendation is to you know, you've
got to just you sound like a smart guy.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
You know what you're doing. So I think you get
you got to put some.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Posts out there about this, maybe on uh, you know,
maybe something like Reddit, like maybe you got to find
the communities where these people are hanging out. And I
think the schools is probably the best way to do it.
So I would start with the schools. See if someone
you know is willing to help you on this project.
Do you have funding for this?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (16:40):
I do, okay, And I've also reached out to the
San Jose State University in Silicon Valley to try to
get one of their engineers to make it a class project.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I mean, so do you do you have one of
these like ready to go, like a proof of concept
kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
It's the size of a shoebox.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Oh okay, got it? So somebody to shrink down the tech?

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, I'm rooting for you. I think this sounds like
a really neat piece of technology. And I think that
you know, uh, we put the website out there, so
if someone wants to help out there, you go and uh,
I get in touch with those schools.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's what you need to do. You got to get
this as a joint project. Thanks for the call. Matthew
in Sonora, California.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up,
we're gonna talk to Brian Merchant about Chapotle's automation push.
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first want to welcome Brian Merchant to the show, author
of Blood in the Machine, to talk about Chipotle and
what they're doing with automation.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Brian, welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Hello, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
So, thanks for joining me. Let's tell me about your book.
First off, Blood in the Machine. What do you discuss
and I know you have a sub stack, what do
you discuss on all these platforms?

Speaker 6 (18:13):
Yeah, well, so the Blood in the Machine was a
book that came out last year. I had written it
actually before the AI boom was underway, but it really
looks at automation and the way throughout history that that
that technologies are used to both enhance and replace labor

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and workers, and what happens when there's a situation where
you know, factory owners or bosses or entrepreneurs, are you
bring a technology to try to replace a worker or
a group of workers and there isn't any real set
of options for those workers with their job is gone.

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So it's it's basically a look at how these forces
interact over history, starting from the first time this happened
in the Industrial Revolution and then fast boarding until today, well.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
And today, so you know, it's no secret I cover
a lot of these companies that are using automation, and
of course now AI is a big part of it.
In the past, I've covered robotic machines that make pizza,
that make jamba juice, you know, automated growing facilities where
they're growing lettuce. I mean, there's just so many that

(19:34):
I've seen in the past, and now Chipotle, oh the Burger,
the one that started all was I don't know if you
remember Flippy the burger flipping robot. Do you remember that one,
that that was a big one. Oh, I think we've
lost Brian. Well, this week Chipotle announced that they are
using an automated system. So they've got one called Autocato.

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This cuts cores and peels avocados for guacamole. And then
they've got this augmented make line which assembles bulls and
salads for digital orders. So, Brian, what do you make
of this news? I mean this, does this just make
sense that companies are trying to do this or does
this have real implications for for actual workers?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah? So, I mean the time will tell. Right.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
You just mentioned Flippy. I think Flippy is already coming gone.
It's this kind of automation where you're doing a sort
of a complex task that a human would usually do
with their hands, is something that workers have been trying.
I mean that that that's the tech companies and and

(20:41):
and corporate bosses have been trying to figure out how
to do for a long time.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Amazonal with their goal, like I've said before, their goal
is to not have humans. Basically, like if if a
company could, they would not want humans.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
That that's that is the end goal of all of
these I mean they give them cute names they they
call them cobots.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Like you'll notice in all of the materials.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
About the the the Chipotle robot, they call it a
cobot because they want to they want to sort of
present this uh, this front like that they're just you know,
they're helping workers, and they're going to coexist with the
with the workers, and it's gonna be a big, shiny future.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
But of course what they really want to do is
cut out those labor costs.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Eventually, it's what they.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Whether you're Uber or whether you're Amazon, or whether you're Chipotle. Uh,
the future that you want is one where you can
replace your workforce with robots, so that so that you
can you know, ostensibly have a you know, a cheaper product,
a bigger bottom line, and in some cases, you know,
they think of these robots as more reliable, right, but

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the old adage among the among the bosses is that
you know, a robot never causing sick, so they would.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
I mean, look, look, humans are messy. Humans are you know,
they're they're people. They're human, like they they call in sick,
they come in hungover, they're you know, they have a
bad day. They don't feel like you know, they put
two much guacamole in the bowl and they're in they're
every you know, ounce that's extras costing these companies' money,
you know, and they or they pour a drink that's
you know, you know, too much vodka in the drink

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or whatever.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
I've seen robots that do uh, you know, they make drinks.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I mean, there's just so I understand why it's the
goal of these companies to do this, But what's the
answer do we I mean, do we stop companies from
doing this or is there going to be a world
where we just if we continue to march on it's
humans are.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Just x out of this whole situation.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
So the first thing I'd say is that that folks
have been trying to.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Do this since the beginning of the industrial Revolution.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
You look at those first factories where you know, you
have kind of crude machines that can automate the production
of cloth or a garment or something, and they barely
can do it. It's much less high quality than a
human or a skilled worker can. But you still have
people at the at that time writing these treatises like, oh,
the end of.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
The human worker is right around the corner. So two
hundred years.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Basically we've been hearing these yeah, so that you have
the they called it, the automaton, we will have we
will have a factory working as an automaton before you
know it, and we won't need human workers. Two hundred
years later, we can see that that's not true. All
of our factories are still filled with human workers. So,
needless to say, this is a very hard problem. Even

(23:22):
in the last ten years, we've seen so many startups
promise to automate, you know, the these service tasks or
human labor, or even just the act of picking an
object off a shelf at an Amazon warehouse. They haven't
even been able to master that. So keep a big
old grain of salt handy when you're thinking about all
of these claims that the companies are making. So that's

(23:43):
number one, right, I don't think there's anything that we
need to worry about in terms of like a human
free you know situation with with speculus, service work and
manual labor in a lot of these cases. Number two
is like, we just have to think about what kind
of a future we do want. What do we want
humans to do versus robots to do? Right now, there's

(24:04):
a big struggle between artists and the generative AI companies
because it's a slightly different context.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
But one thing that AI can do.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Is create sort of regurgitated art that's based on human work.
Do we want to replace illustrators with this sort of
regurgitated you know, digital imagery that an AI can can write.
That is a question we kind of have to answer
right now. Do we want to protect the artists? Do
we want to protect the act of having an illustrator
as a job, like, do we want to protect that

(24:35):
kind of stuff? So a lot of this stuff is
we're going to have to find out answers and just
keep that grain of salt handy. When the tech companies
are promising that they can deliver this human free future.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Have you I mean, do you think anyone's doing this
stuff right?

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Like?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I mean you have like something like Waimo right like
it it's there's cars all over the streets of Los Angeles.
I even saw them here in Las Vegas where they're
you know, they're driving themselves.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
I mean, but is it scalable?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
And there's also that the idea of cost, like all
these companies are trying, like you know, Chipotle's got this
in two restaurants or something, but you know, to roll
it out to seven thousand restaurants that they want to
have in North America.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Like that, the cost is probably so expensive.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, the cost is high, and there's gonna be a
lot of maintenance issues. There's gonna be a lot of
complications that they're not foreseeing right now, and they may
well just decide that it's cheaper to have a human
do this task again, Right, That's all that as far
as the company is concerned, especially for stuff that's taking
place in the back rooms, preparing the food, preparing a process.
If if a human can wind up doing it cheaper,

(25:39):
then then they're just gonna have a human doing They're
gonna they're gonna sort of cancel the experiment.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
So we'll see there.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
With waime O, it's another case where I'd say, you know,
it seems like they're driving themselves, but we know that
every time they're faced with a tough decision that gets
a little flag to the command center, there's people who
are real people who are sitting sort of watching these
cars and they have to make what's called an intervention.
You know, it's a if it detects us, is that

(26:05):
a squirrel on the road. Can I keep driving or
is that just a bump? It'll send a little notification
to somebody in Scottsdale, Arizona, who's watching four or five
of these cars at a given time, and it'll they'll
have to take over and make the call. So there
is still somebody driving the car right in a sense,
they're just the driver has been moved from the driver's

(26:26):
seat to a sort of a command center at an
off site location. And that's happening with the delivery robots
you've probably seen crawling around LA. These are not fully
autonomous systems. There's always a person still in the loop
because there has to be. It's too it's too messy,
as you said, and too complicated and too potentially dangerous
or cost producing to the company to not have that

(26:49):
human still watching them. If and when we finally, you know,
do have a self driving car that is properly self
driving and is not having a number of interventions every minute.
By the way, we saw when the Cruise car crashed
in San Francisco and hit a pedestrian and they were
forced to sort of turn over their logs that it
was multiple times almost every minute that a human was

(27:11):
brought into the loop to tell it what to do.
So there is still a person involved in that, and
there's still going to be a person looking at this
autocado thing in the Chipotle background saying like, is this
doing a good enough job?

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Do I have to fix it?

Speaker 6 (27:22):
So we just can't ever dismiss the amount of human
labor still required to make all these automated or so
called automated systems work.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
I like the positivity because as grim as it seems
as a future for humans with all this speak of automation,
you're right, I mean, every one of these systems, at
the end of the day, still relies on humans. And
by the way, it's a lot easier to teach a
human to grab something off a shelf than it is
to program a robot.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Right now, I get it.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
With AI and all this stuff, maybe it'll get easier,
but it's just so funny how you can literally teach
anyone to do that in about ten seconds versus all
the programming in lines it takes to program I'm a robot.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
And that's what it is at the end of the day.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
And not to say this isn't grim, because what the
companies are gonna do is they're gonna they're gonna sell
the automation. They're gonna sell the fact that hey, this
can be cheaper, this should be cheaper. And companies are
still going to buy into that sales pitch, and they're
going to layoff workers. They're going to assign more work
to people who are currently uh you know, having a
job that might you know, be potentially uh abetted by automation.

(28:29):
And in a lot of cases, what we see is
that firms will go ahead and lay off workers, layoff
service staff, and then the people who are remaining will
be left with even more work.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
And the companies, oh yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
We're gonna leave it there, Brian, We're gonna leave it there.
What's the best website for folks to find you?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Blood in Theemachine dot Com.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Okay, awesome conversation. Thanks so much for joining me today.
Really appreciate it. Brian Merchant, Blood in Theemachine dot Com
eight A eight rich one O one eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one more rich on
Tech right after this, Welcome back.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
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Speaker 2 (29:07):
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Speaker 1 (29:26):
Coming to you from Las Vegas today. Fun city.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
If you haven't been here, leave the kids at home.
Just leave the kids at home, come to Las Vegas
and have a good time. It's it's like people just
I don't know what it is about Las Vegas, but
people are just I don't know if i'd consider them
their best selves here or living their best lives, but
they are definitely living an interesting life. They just go
all out. Denise writes in on the website. Hey, I

(29:52):
was listening to the show. I heard the guy about
his invention regarding bots dots. He could try putting an
ad on Craigslist in the gigs CA category. There are
lots of those types of ads, and they seem to
get responses because they are not on there for long.
Just to thought, have a great day, Denise. Denise, that's
a great idea. Craigslist always a good good place for
things like that. Any kind of community, you know, any

(30:13):
type play like a form or something like that. Eighty
eight rich one oh one Mike in Irvine, Line three,
Mike in Irvine, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (30:25):
Oh, thanks, Rich. I appreciate the information on the new
iOS eighteen.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
But you said it has the ability to.

Speaker 9 (30:33):
Hide apps, which as an adult for financial records like
you mentioned, makes sense. But what about as a parent
of teens. Is there any type of print of controls
or overrides for that sort of.

Speaker 10 (30:47):
System.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, great question, because you know the teenagers are going
to really take advantage of this, and in many times
they know more about their phones than we do. And
I think in the past they've already had with of
hiding apps, like with sneaky little shortcuts and things like
that where they can change the icon or you know,
my kids would put them like in a folder like
buried Deep, so you wouldn't see what.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
They have in there.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
But according to Apple, children under thirteen in family sharing,
So this is the main thing, is that you have
to put your kids in your family sharing with Apple ID.
If they have their own Apple ID, they could basically
do whatever they want. So put them in a family
sharing group if they're under thirteen, and of course you've
signed them up with the proper age on their phone

(31:30):
in their account they cannot lock or hide apps. So again,
kids under thirteen in a family sharing group cannot hide
or lock.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Apps in iOS eighteen.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Now, if they are thirteen to seventeen and they're in
a family group, they can lock or hide an app,
but a parent or guardian in the family group can
see the app was downloaded, how much time it's being used,
and restrict access to it using screen time. So what
they're saying there is that under thirteen can't hide her lock.

(32:02):
Thirteen to seventeen they can hide er lock their apps.
But when you go on to their list of apps
that was downloaded, you can see in the list of
like if they're using it a lot, you'll see it
at the top of.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
The list of screen time apps.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
You can also block that app completely using screen time,
so you can say that app is not allowed. Now, personally,
if I was Apple and i think I'm getting a
lot of questions about this, I've already seen a bunch
of people asking about this, I think that Apple should
straight up make a toggle in screen time. No matter
what age the kid is, parents need to have the
ability to turn off this feature. Why do kids need

(32:39):
to lock or hide apps they're in your house. They
are a kid, they are under your supervision. They should
not be able to hide her lock apps. Now, maybe
there are some reasons for this. I'm trying to think. Obviously,
I can't think of every single situation that's known to mankind.
And sure there may be an app that you know,
teenager doesn't want their friends seeing on their on their

(33:01):
phone or something like that or their iPad. So yes,
I'm sure maybe there are some things. But again, maybe
parents should have that option of being able to allow
this or not allow it. So my great question, uh,
get those kids inside the family sharing and you have
the control. But we all know that screen time can
be very, very complicated in general, and kids know how

(33:21):
to use this stuff way better than a lot of
their parents. So it is going to be tricky and
it's going to cause some issues. And I think this, uh,
this locking apps is going to cause issues in a
lot of ways. You know, it's not just the kids
that are doing this. I think it's going to be
a lot of the adults as well. You know, people
might be hiding apps that they don't want their spouses
to see or something like that. So again, there are

(33:41):
useful features and that's why Apple came out with this,
but they're you know, no matter what, anytime there's a
useful feature for something, people are going to find a
more evil use of it as well.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Let's go to.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Kevin online one Kevin, I only got two minutes, So
Kevin and San Clementy, can you get your.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Question in quick?

Speaker 5 (33:59):
I'll make you real quick. It's a two questions, but
related these guys showing up on my Facebook. But how
to turn off certain things on your computer?

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Ie, if you do you.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
Know X y Z, type in you know this, that
and that or the other and it shows you what
to turn off so you're not trapped on your computer.
So my question is are those legit? And then related
to that, also some of these softwares and I don't
know if I can give a couple of the names
that came through PC magazine that clean out all your
computer information and people that have access to you and

(34:34):
you know, some say they you know, track two hundred
companies that follow you, five hundred companies that follow you.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, great question.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
So first off, on the first question, I'd be very
careful with with you know, following some of these instructions,
especially if you're getting into settings that you don't understand.
So anytime you're doing something you don't understand, I would
be careful because you can change something that might mess
up your computer or your or whatever. I see all
these things like about how to access secret codes on
your phone to do things and stuff like that. If

(35:06):
you don't understand that, I don't think you should be
doing that. When it comes to tracking, uh, these there's
there's millions of data broke. There's many many data brokers
out there that have information about us. Consumer reports found
that most of those data removal sites that you pay
for don't really work very well and they're not worth
the money. The two that they liked are called easy

(35:28):
opt outs and opt e O P T E R Y.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
I've tested one of these. I tested Mozilla.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
They had one, and yeah, it does remove stuff, and
yes it'll work. It's gonna cost you though usually these
things cost anywhere. You know, twenty dollars a month is
about the main price.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
So you can do it.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
But I'd be much more concerned about my information out
there on the dark web and instead of on these
paid people finder websites. Eight to eight rich one O
zero one.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
You are listening to rich Onte.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Welcome back to rich On tech rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you talking technology.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Now.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
If you don't know this song, where have you been?
Shaboozie Tipsy played it, played it at the Iheartfestival. We
are here in Las Vegas for.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Just came out and sang this and went back in.
It was you know, this is what people wanted to hear,
so why not? That is certainly a fun song. Eighty
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(36:41):
to anything I mentioned here. You can hit contact if
you want to send me a message. You can also,
of course, go on X, which is what Nicholas did.
Nicholas said, everyone, hey, rich everyone with a modern Android
phone is laughing about all of these quote unquote new
Apple updates. Apple always seem delayed by a couple of years.
Love the show, you know, Nicholas, I it's so interesting.

(37:06):
I understand that sentiment and I totally get it, like
there's been this kind of back and forth for years
about Android versus iPhone, iPhone versus Android, and believe me,
I really love both platforms for different reasons. I think
that the difference is, like, let's say someone like Samsung,
They're always putting new features out right, like years years

(37:27):
in advance, and then eventually those features typically make their
way to the iPhone. I think the difference is what
Apple does is they try to add like their own
little Apple magic to things. And for something like the
iPhone sixteen, you know, models and all of the iOS
eighteen stuff, like yeah, moving an app wherever you want
on the screen, But like there are certain things that

(37:48):
like Apple just makes simple and easy compared to some
of the Android stuff. So I think it just depends
on the audience and who's using it. But to iPhone users,
a lot of this stuff is new. But Android users
definitely love giving their iPhone users a hard time, that's
for sure, and that's fun. I mean, I hope that
doesn't go away ever, because I love My wife is
so sick of hearing me talk about what I like

(38:09):
about iPhone versus Android and vice versa, because she hears
it all the time because I'm always testing both, Uh,
let's go to line four Tony in the Inland Empire.
Tony Line four, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 11 (38:22):
Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Absolutely, thanks for listening today and calling in.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
What can I help you with? Yes?

Speaker 11 (38:30):
Yes, I was wondering is there any way I can
remove myself from a large texting group. I did not
sign up for it, don't know how I got on it.
And it does include I have an iPhone, it does
include iPhones and Android. The back and forth within the
texting group is becoming it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Can I real annoying? Okay? So have you updated to
iOS eighteen?

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Okay, So if you tap the message, this looks like
a brand new feature in iOS eighteen. Because I was
just checking this out, this has been a known issue.
You know, you can easily leave I Message conversations right
because they you know, everyone's on I Message.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Apple can handle it. It's very simple.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
But when you get the mixture of I Message and Android,
you know whether people that are not using it, you
see the green bubbles, and it's just it's a whole
different ballgame because now you're talking about just regular phone numbers,
and it's tough for Apple to just sort of remove
you from that because anyone can text you anytime, right,
and so this is where it becomes an issue. But

(39:35):
it looks like in iOS eighteen in the messages. If
you go into the message up at the top where
it says how many people are in the message, I've
got this message where it says two people, there's a
new option that says delete and block this conversation.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Do you see that? Okay?

Speaker 11 (39:52):
Do I go into the actual text and group itself?

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (39:57):
So open up your messages app, tap into that messa
and then up at the top you'll see it usually
has like a couple icons of people's heads up there
or whatever like profile faces. So you tap where it
says how many people are in there where it says
two people, and then you tap there and you'll see
all the info about this group chap.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
It'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Who's in it and give you some some options.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Have you ever seen this screen?

Speaker 11 (40:24):
Okay, well I'm not sure I'm in it now where
it's listing all or long lists of people within this group.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
That where it could be Yep, that's where you should be.
Now when you go in there, do you scroll down?
Do you see something that says, delete and block this conversation. Yes, okay,
so tap that and that should take care of it.

Speaker 11 (40:44):
Okay, So that'll totally remove me out of the group itself.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Well, so it's going to see it can't be removed
from the group because the persons set up just as
it's tougher than that, because it's not like living on
a server somewhere. Just started a thread with a whole
bunch of people in it, and if that person texts again,
you're still gonna be included. Your phone is just not
gonna show you that anymore. Does that make more sense?

Speaker 11 (41:10):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (41:11):
So it's not like where you can silence the group
or the text in itself and you'll still see the messages.
Business stand that it won't actually come to me.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, it's not even gonna show up on your list
of messages anymore.

Speaker 12 (41:25):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, that's the idea. So try that, see if it works.
If it doesn't, give me a call back, okay, okay,
appreciate it, Thank you so much, all right, Tony, really
appreciate you. How's the how's the weather out there in
the in the Inmblem Empire today?

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Oh, she's gone Okay, reminds, Okay, let's talk about Amazon
Amazon Prime Day. Doesn't it feel like Amazon does a
Prime Day like every day?

Speaker 12 (41:50):
Now?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
What is up with this?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
It's like they're gonna They're gonna dilute this. Uh this
excitement over Prime Day? Is there any excitement? I think
it's I think the last Prime Day we had was
that actually very good. I think that Apple did our
See we talk so much about Apple, Rich.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
You're such an Apple fanboy. All you do is talk
about Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
So Amazon they announced the Big Deal Okay, Prime Big
Deal Days, that's what it's called this year October eighth
through ninth. And this will start on October eighth run
through October ninth. And what are they promising? More of
the same millions of deals for their Prime members. Yes,
winter fashions, Halloween costumes, electronics, and everyday essentials. New deals

(42:33):
will drop as much as every five minutes. Then they've
got Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant. They want you to
try that out. It can help you with recommendations. Now
tell me this. Do you think Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping
assistant whatever advise you against buying something?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Hey, rufus. Should I buy this?

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Let me check my status, let me check my sources. Yes,
you should spend your money with Amazon. I mean, I
don't know if that's a look.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
They have they have this program to kind of help
you compare products and things like that. But I just
find it ironic that you're taking advice from a shopping
assistant from the place that wants to sell you something.
That's like asking the person at the you know, the mall,
should I buy this?

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Is this cool? Is this great? Yeah? Of course they're
going to tell you to buy it. They're there to
sell it to you.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Early deals right now on Amazon Music Unlimited, so if
you haven't tried that out, they've got like four months
free of that. I saw Audible, couple months free there,
Kindle unlimited, grub Hub plus. Those are deals you can
take advantage of right now. I talked about that in
my newsletter this week. So if you want to get that,
just go to Rich on tech dot tv. You can
see it on the homepage. Prime Membership, don't forget. You
do have to be a Prime member to take advantage

(43:42):
of Prime Day fifteen dollars per month or one hundred
and thirty nine dollars for the year. My advice for
Prime Day, same advice I give every single year. I
sound like a broken record. Put the stuff that you
want in your cart now and that way, or save
it for later.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Whatever you know.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Amazon gives you like an and ability to save stuff
for later. Put it in your cart or save it
for later, and then when these deal day hits on
October eighth and ninth, or even leading up to it,
you can see if the price drops on any of
the things that you actually want. And that is the
best way to do it. That is the way I've
been doing it for years. And it just comes down

(44:20):
to you wake up that morning October eighth, instead of
searching for stuff to spend your money on, you just
go through your cart and you say, oh that okay,
And there's usually like a little banner that says Prime
Day or deal or deal drop or price drop, and
that way you can quickly and instantly spot when these
things go on sale. So that is my advice. The
other thing I really like is a service from Honey

(44:42):
called drop List. So if you look, if you go
to honey, Honey is sort of a browsing helper. It
gives you the coupon codes, but they have a feature
called drop list. So once you add this Honey Extensions
from PayPal now they bought them.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Once you add this to your Chrome browser, web browser
or whatever, anything that you put in your shopping cart
or your list on Amazon, they will track the price
and actually send you an email when that price drops.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
And it's not always perfect, but it does really really help.
All Right, let's see. Okay, you know what I was
gonna do an Apple story.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
I won't.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
I'll do Instagram.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Instagram this week launched some enhanced safety features for teen accounts. Now,
if you've listened to this show, you know that I
think that all of these social media networks are just
almost borderline pure evil for teenagers because they don't need
to be on these things like why do you need
to be comparing yourself as a seventeen year old to

(45:40):
you know, the most beautiful people that you're scrolling through
on Instagram? You know, these models and things like that.
I get it, we get it from TV and all
that stuff, but like on these social media networks, we
know that it causes depression, anxiety, distractions, shorter attention spans.
It's like keep these kids off of these things as
long as humanly possible. With that said, we know that

(46:01):
kids want to be on them because their friends are
on them, and in fact, a lot of kids, you know,
the people make businesses on them and become influencers.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
But now, by default.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Under eighteen, Instagram is instituting some things like accounts will
be private by default, messaging will be restricted to just
your followers. They're gonna have content filters so that kids
aren't seeing stuff like fight videos and cosmetic procedures. Tagging
and mentions are gonna be limited. There's a sixty minute
daily time limit.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Reminder. They don't stop you after sixty minutes.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
They just say, hey, it's a good idea to get
off of this app, and then sleep mode from ten
pm to seven am. And parents will need to approve
any changes to these automatic restrictions. And you might be saying,
rich kids are just gonna lie about the age when
they sign up for Instagram.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Yes they are.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
But Instagram is fighting back against that with a whole
bunch of ways, especially using AI to figure out if
this person signing up is actually under a eighteen. They
will sniff them out and they will make sure that
they are included in this, so it's a start. I'm
not saying Instagram is perfect for doing this, but I
do think it's better than nothing. Eight eight eight rich

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one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. The website richon tech dot tv.
Coming up, I'll tell you about the California driver's license
making its way into the iPhone wallet.

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This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
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UH for the iHeart Music Fest. This is an incredible

(47:54):
two day festival that I'm just here for just for fun.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
So it's kind of nice.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
When you, you know, work for iHeart and are able
to come to these kind of things. And du A
Lipa last last night you just heard her there stole
the show. I mean, my wife and I were not
really like big Dual Liapa fans, and then we watched
her perform and I just unbelievable, really really just great show.

(48:21):
And each person performs a couple of songs. Maybe you
know some of their best songs, but she just really
closed out the show and did a really, really nice job.
So we're now new fans, and I guess that's the
point of it, right, You're exposed to some artists that
you may not be totally familiar with. I mean, I
knew du Liipa, But anyway, eighty and eight rich one
on one eight eight eight seven four to two four

(48:44):
one zero one. I said I wasn't gonna do another
Apple story, but I have to because if you live
in California, you can now put your state ID or
your driver's license in Apple wallets, so California driver's license
and state.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Id's can be added.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
This is part of Calilifornia DMV's MDL pilot program. Apparently
it's limited to like one and a half million people.
But I have now put my driver's license in like
three different phones. So I don't know if I'm taking
up three spots or they're just letting a lot of
people do this or what. But if you have a
California driver's license, you can add it to your Apple wallet.

(49:19):
So people are a little confused about this, but basically
you open up Apple Wallet to do this. You don't
have to download any separate app to your phone. So
on your phone, just type in wallet and you'll see
where you can press the plus sign and it says
driver's license or state ID. You tap there right now,
you've got Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, and Ohio

(49:43):
are all part of this. And so you basically scan
the front and back of your driver's license and then
you take a whole bunch of pictures of yourself like selfies.
And no, you don't have to be like all posing
and making the duck lips or whatever they call that.
You know, you just sit there and they're making sure
that you're actually a human, right, so they want to
make sure you're moving. They say, like blink your eyes.

(50:03):
I had to like open my mouth or like smile
or something. But yeah, and then they send it all
off and verify it, and next thing you know, you
get a little notification this says, hey, your driver's license
is ready, and it took like literally a minute for
mine to be approved. So if you want to have
your driver's license on your phone, do it. But here's
the deal. Good luck using it. Anywhere you can't. There's

(50:28):
so I did use it last time at the TSA checkpoint.
That's basically the only place that you can use it
at this point. So if you're flying, but you cannot
use this for a police officer. It does not replace
your ID in any way. And it's almost like comical
why we're doing this, And I get it, it's a start,
but it's just kind of funny that you have this
thing and it's so great, and it's like we're all

(50:48):
on board, but you can't actually.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Use it anywhere.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Nobody's gonna accept this except the TSA, and I'll tell
you what my experience was there. So I said, hey,
do you take the new digital driver's license on my phone?
And they said yeah, sure, you got to stand over
there and go talk to that person. So I go
over there and the guy says, nah, the machine's not
on for that. I said, well, can we turn it
on because I'd really like to try this. I kind
of cover technology for a living and I'd like to

(51:11):
see if this works. And he, you know, kind of
grumbled a little bit. He said, sure, okay, scan it below.
I said, no, I think I tap it to the
to the reader because it's NFC and he goes, Nope,
you scan it. I said, okay, I don't think you
scan it, and so I just tapped it anyway without
them looking, and you know, the guy was like kind
of talking to someone else and I tapped it and
it worked.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
He's like, all right, that worked.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
I'm like, yeah, I know it's you're supposed to tap,
but anyway, maybe there is a scan QR code something
like that, but yes, you're supposed to tap anyway. The
beauty of these things of the driver's license. I get
that it's weird and it's scary that we're doing, you know,
away with a physical license, but it's actually much more
secure because what happens is a lot of times, let's
say you're buying booze right at a at a store

(51:55):
right now, the clerk they look at your physical ID
and they see your name, they see your address, they
see your data birth, and they look at your picture
they match it up against your face. The way that
this new system works is it only exchanges the information
it needs to exchange, and it's really not even the information.
So it's not transmitting to the grocery store your name, address,

(52:17):
and your data birth and verifying that it's actually just
transmitting a verification that says you are over twenty one.
So that's hard coded into this app using algorithms and
encryption and all this stuff that they've some very smart
people have figured out, like let's only transmit the information
that is necessary, and if that information doesn't need to

(52:38):
be transmitted, like if target doesn't need to store your
data birth for that transaction, it will just literally transmit
yes or no to approve that transaction. So it's a
small but kind of meaningful thing where I actually think
this is very private and done in a really interesting
future kind of forward thinking way where less of our
personal information is just out there for everyone to see.

(53:02):
Like why is this sixteen year old at the place
that's checking my ID? Well, maybe they're not sixteen if
they're checking my ID, but you know what I mean, Like,
why is that person need to see all of my
personal information? They don't anyway. This is also available for
Android wallet as well. Android happened a few weeks ago,
So if you want to put your driver's license, just
open up the wallet app on your phone and see
if you're in one of the states that has it.

(53:23):
You can't use it in too many places, but it's
kind of cool to be on that cutting edge. Eighty
to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
One zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. The website
for the show Richontech dot TV.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Let's go to line one. We've got Bonnie in Charleston,
South Carolina. Bonnie in Charleston, South Carolina, Line one. Welcome
to the show.

Speaker 10 (54:00):
Well, Rich, thank you for making me feel really really old,
because I have no idea who that singer was you
were talking about, Oh.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Which one dua lipa?

Speaker 10 (54:10):
Yeah, well you know what like a maybe it was
a disease of.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Some sort, but my gosh, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
She is Albanian, so that is Albanian and British, and
so that that that describes the or I guess makes
up for the unique name there.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
So that's why.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
But you know, hey, maybe maybe if you like some
you know, rocky music, you'll you'll like it. She's kind
of like a tailor swiftish kind of thing, but maybe
more more dancing anyway, what can I help you with?

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Bonnie?

Speaker 10 (54:40):
Okay, So I have a question. I don't know if
you can help me. I'm a senior citizen and so
I get an awful lot of scam calls, and I
know I can block them, but I'm also a pet
portrait artist, so when people call me up, and I
need the names and ideas people that call so that

(55:02):
I can see at the customer. But all these scam
people are using phony caller IDs, phony names, and phony
phone numbers with local area codes.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 10 (55:21):
Is there a way to stop them from actually using
phony caller IDs? I mean, do we need to get
a law so that they can't do it? Because usually
I'll answer the phone and it's some guy from you know,
the Philippines trying to sell me I don't know, trying
to give me something and try to get my credit
card number. So I'm wondering, isn't there a way? Isn't

(55:43):
there a law that can stop them from using these
phony call names and collor IDs.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Yes, there are laws, and they don't follow them because
they could care less because you know, they're not based
here in the US. Most of the time, they're not.
They're not on the up and up, so you know,
if you are. Let's say you put your phone number
on a list. Let's say you go to Macy's right
and they say, hey, give us your phone number and
we'll text you and we'll call you with deals or whatever.
And you get sick and tired of them texting you

(56:10):
or calling you.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
You know, you can.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Reply stop to their texts, or you can opt out
of your phone number being used, and they will respect it.
They will stop using your information and stop calling you.
The problem is when these are kind of operating in
the gray area that ninety nine percent of these robo
calls are or even if they're just you know, sort
of uh, you know, even if it's a live person,

(56:33):
they're still robo calling. And yes, they're using local phone
numbers to try to trick you because it looks like
it's coming from you know, your area. So when I
you know, for instance, especially when you have kids like myself,
you're going to always pick up the phone when it's
a number that looks like your local area code, because
it could be their school, it could be a babysitter, whatever,
And that's what they're praying upon they're praying upon you know,

(56:55):
tricking us. Can you stop these That is the multi
billion dollar question that nobody seems to have figured out.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Now I will tell you. I'm assuming you have an iPhone.

Speaker 10 (57:06):
Right, Okay, so I still have my landline. I know
it's not a real land.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Okay, yeah, okay, Well there actually is a way.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
So there's a company called Nomo Robo n O m
O r O b O, and they actually will help
protect you from some of this stuff on landlines. And
it's it's actually free for the kind of the basic
service on land lines. And I know you said it's
not a real landline. I know, but they support like
all the voice voice over IP landlines, which are you know,

(57:39):
from the different companies like Cox or FiOS or Spectrum
and Infinity Uma, and so you can sign up. You
can sign up with them and they can help control
some of these callers. Now, I know you run a business,
so you don't really want to like intercept a lot
of these calls and have them, you know, you don't
want to have a lot of issues with that. But

(58:00):
I will tell you you know, in my experience, I
think that these calls come and go in waves, and
it really depends on how many lists you're on and
how many times your phone number has been shared and
how it's out there.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
So the more that you can.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
You're a business too, so they are obviously your phone
numbers out there because it's a business, and I think
that's unfortunate that you need your number out there. But
then these people, of course use that to their advantage.

Speaker 10 (58:23):
Well, I will tell you rich, once I realize it
is one of those scam calls, I usually ask the
guy what he's wearing, and then he doesn't know really
how to handle me and usually hang up.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Oh my gosh, Okay, well hey, at least you have
a sense of humor there, you know. Hey, And I've
heard people, you know, they kind of mess with these
people and they you know, but at the end of
the day, I mean, what I typically do is I
try to be nice and it's just like I'm not interested, no,
thank you, please take me off this list. But most
of the time they're not respecting those rules because they

(58:56):
are operating sort of in a gray area. So I
would my recommendations for the you know, for the landline,
I would check out the Noomo robo dot com.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
If you're on a smartphone.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
All of the major carriers have their own call filtering apps,
so you can use those.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
I find that they're very hit or miss.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
There is one interesting thing that's happening on the iPhone
with iOS eighteen.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Uh. Traditionally, you couldn't.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Really get caller ID look up through a third party
app on the iPhone because of the way the iPhone
is set up. But they're now actually allowing that with
this new thing that they enabled in iOS eighteen. So
I actually think that some of these caller ID apps
that we're going to see that you know, something like
a true caller or something like that, is actually going
to get more helpful. And even the caller ID uh,

(59:45):
the spam filtering apps from the carriers, I think are
going to get more helpful. It's going to take a
little bit of time because it's a brand new feature
for the iPhone, but I think that's gonna help now.
If you're on Android, it's actually already much much better.
So if you're on Samsung or the Pixel, they both
have an incredible feature that lets you filter or lets
you screen calls through their digital Assistant. So when you're

(01:00:09):
on a Pixel smartphone and it's an unknown caller or
caller that's not in your address book. It'll say, you know,
would you like to screen this call? And it's quite
incredible where it will say, Hi, I'm the Google Assistant.
I'm helping this person screen their calls. Can you tell
me what you're calling about? And that person says what
they're calling about. It will say on your screen, this

(01:00:31):
is John from you know, pest Control or whatever. Now,
ninety nine percent of the time in my experience, when
I'm using that phone, they'll.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Just hang up because they don't want to deal with it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
But Sam Samsung has a similar feature as well, which
is really really great, and you can actually type back
to the person and it will read that in a
voice to text things. So it's getting better, Bonnie. But
I think your method works pretty well. Just say hey,
what are you wearing?

Speaker 10 (01:00:55):
And you know, okay, Thanks Ton, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Yeah, thanks, thanks a lot for the call. Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
In a beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, I've been there. I've
been to Charleston and it is a beautiful city. I
feel like there's all these cities like the Charleston's of
the world that had like this, like resurgence with like,
you know, just embracing the beauty of these cities in
a new way and restaurants and walkways on the water
and things like that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
So thanks for the call.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Eight to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. I will
say the most annoying thing about I was on Android
for a while with the Pixel nine, I went back
to iPhone. I will say the most annoying thing about
the iPhone is answering phone calls because there is no
good screening app at this point or screening method. Yeah,

(01:01:46):
Apple has their own which lets it go to voicemail
and kind of reads it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
But that's not what I want. I want.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
I want the feature that Samsung and Google have on
their phones on the iPhone. I mean, it's it's game
changing because I literally don't dread answer the phone on
Samsung or Pixel because you just have the assistant answer it.
If it's important, they're going to tell you what it's for,
and if it's not, they're going to hang up.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
And by the way, if it's someone in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Your address book and you can't answer the phone, it
knows that too. Or you know you're in a position
where it's it's it's calling you. Let's say it's like
for me, it was my mom and I was out
having dinner and it was a loud place and I
couldn't pick up the phone. But because it knows that
she's in my address book, instead of the standard like hey,
this is Google whatever, it actually does a custom thing

(01:02:32):
where you can say is it urgent? And so you
tap one thing on your screen that says is it urgent,
and it will say to them, hey, you know, Rich
is busy, but like, is this an urgent call? And
my mom said no, and then I just replied back,
I'll call you in a little bit. So it's that
level of smarts that I think is just it just
frees you up because you're no longer like worried about

(01:02:53):
answering the phone, which is just we shouldn't be worried
about answering our own phone calls at this point. But
the problem is there's just so much spam out there
and so much nonsense, and so many people trying to
get money from us. The worst is like the cable companies.
It's like it's like you feel like you fell into
a trap. They call you, you answer the phone, and
they're like hi. After like that pause, you know that
that dreaded pause where you pick up you say hello,

(01:03:16):
you don't hear anything for five seconds. You still stay
on the line, and next thing you know, they're like, oh, Hi,
we have a great offer for you from you know,
cable company, uh one oh one Mega Mega Monopoly. You're
like oh, and then you know this person's so nice
on the other end, you feel bad you're getting off
the phone with them anyway. Eighty eight rich one on

(01:03:37):
zero one. If you call Kim to get on the
phones here, she's our screener. She'll be very nice to
you and hopefully you can get on the line here.
Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. This is rich
on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
here hanging out with you talking technology. The phone lines

(01:04:00):
are open at eight and eight rich one O one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Still got over an hour of the show, so give
me a call. If you have a question about technology.
Maybe you upgraded to the new iPhone. You can tell
me why or what your reasoning was or maybe you're
skipping this year. Coming up later in the show, we're

(01:04:20):
going to talk to Matt Swider. He runs a great
newsletter called The Shortcut. He's going to talk about the
the iPhone sixteen. He was at the launch event in
New York City where Tim Cook was, and he can
talk about No Apple puts on these like wild parties
for the launch of things that seems like only they
can do. So there's a lot of I saw a
lot of my friends there. They were all all outside

(01:04:42):
that store. Let's see here. Let's go to line two.
Line two is Kelly in Santa Clarita. Kelly, you're on
with Rich.

Speaker 12 (01:04:53):
Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Sure. I have.

Speaker 12 (01:04:58):
Two Amazon Echo Dot. One's about sixty seven years old.
One is maybe two to three years old. Left town
for a couple of days, had several power surges during
the heat waves. Came home and neither of them were working,
and couldn't pair either of them and plug them both,
let them, you know, clear their memory or whatever their

(01:05:20):
issue was. And the older one I was able to
pair and get working. The newer one would not pair.
So it took it to a friend's house to see
if it was you know, here or somewhere else that
would work.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
It worked beautifully at someone else's home.

Speaker 12 (01:05:40):
Brought it back, let the memory clear for about twenty
four hours. Again, tried to pair it and it will
not pair. So I'm at a loss. I don't know
what to think.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
When you say pair, you mean like get it back
on your account, like on your phone.

Speaker 12 (01:05:58):
Yeah, get it back to the internet and working so
I can listen to camfi.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Okay, Well, it's uh and it is very easy to
listen to uh the radio stations, any radio station really
by by calling it out. It's quite quite incredible, incredible
how simple the voice is on this thing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
And if you listen to the show, you know that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
I recently put a whole bunch of these things in
my house because I'm upset at my Sono speakers. And
it's wild how much more I'm listening to things because
it's so easy to call up stuff through these uh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
So the main.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Yeah, I would understand that. So a couple of things,
A couple thoughts. Number one, have you tried to do
a complete reset of this echo dot? Like I know
you said you unplugged it and plugged it back in,
but have you done like a factory reset where it
actually like reboots everything back to factory.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Have you tried that?

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Okay, well that's what I think you need to try.

Speaker 12 (01:06:54):
But it did work up my friend's house immediately.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Yeah, and that could be for various reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
But I think we're we're trying to get it to
work at your house, and I think this is the
best way to do that. I think that this will
basically you are resetting it. I think maybe this thing
is confused at this point because it was you know,
it was shocked with the power surges. You brought it
to a friend's house, so it doesn't know, you know,
if it should be what's what.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
It doesn't even know what it's doing at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
So it's been connected to different had you I don't
even know how you set it up at your friend's house.
Did you set up with their internet or something?

Speaker 10 (01:07:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:07:27):
Oh interesting, My granddaughter took it and it's paired right
up to his network and came on no bumb Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
All right, So what I would do is I would
I would do the factory reset, and you know the
way that you do this is I would do the
factory reset completely there's two different levels of reset. One
is like like a soft reset. One is a factory.
I think the factory is going to be the easiest
and it's probably going to give you the best results.
So what you want to do is press and hold

(01:07:56):
the volume down and the microphone off buttons for twenty
seconds until the light turns on and off again, and
then your device will will enter set the initial set
up mode and phone Yeah, like plug it in, volume down,
press those two buttons at the same time, Volume down,
microphone off for twenty seconds. This thing is gonna kind of,

(01:08:19):
you know, go through some cycles of resetting, and it's
going to be as if you just got it from
the Amazon factory and then you try to pair it
if it doesn't work to pair after that. Is this
the two to three year old one or the seven
year old.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
One year old one?

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Okay, so it's not that old, So you can you
can appeal to Amazon. I know this is way out
of its you know, warranty, but you never know it's Amazon.
You may, you know, with the way I would approach it,
I'd say, hey, I've had this thing and it's just
I don't know, it's not working anymore. You know, is
there anything we can do to swap this out for
a new one. You guys can take the old one
to check it out and see what what went wrong.

(01:08:59):
Or know, we do have Prime Day coming up. These
things are not, you know, not terribly expensive. Obviously I
don't I don't like to throw around. Oh, just buy
a new one, but you know they do have the
fifth generation is like thirty five bucks right now and
over Prime Day will probably be even cheaper.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
So if you want to solve your hand, like playing a.

Speaker 12 (01:09:16):
New one because I love it so much, but it
was weird that it works somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Yeah, I agree, that is strange. I agree with that part.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
So but do the do the factory reset, try to
pair it up again and let me know if it works.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Send me an email.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Go to the website rich on tech dot Tv, hit
contact and h Kelly. I will be very curious to
see if that fixes the issues.

Speaker 12 (01:09:37):
Okay, Okay, well, rich on what's it? Rich On.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Rich on tech dot tv, And you'll see a little
thing where it says contact and that's where you can
send me an email.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
So I want an update, so I can update folks.

Speaker 12 (01:09:49):
Okay, I will give it a try which button is
the microphone?

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
It's not obvious the microphone, the microphone button, microphone off button.
So it's the one that looks like it's the the
one with like an X through it usually, or the
microphone with an X through it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
It depends on your model.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
But I'll i'll yeah, ok, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 13 (01:10:09):
It's got like a life through it.

Speaker 8 (01:10:11):
Okay, yep, I'll get it.

Speaker 11 (01:10:12):
Try and I'll send you an email.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
All right, Kelly, appreciate the call today.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
This week, UH, Spectrum made a big deal about their
new customer commitment. So if you have Spectrum Internet, they
gave you a free speed upgrade. So the three hundred
megabits per second plan is now up to four hundred
megabits per second, the five hundred is up to six hundred.
That's free, so you don't have to do anything. You'll

(01:10:42):
just get I don't know, just I think it's probably
already happened. So if your Internet feels a little bit speedier,
that's what's going on.

Speaker 13 (01:10:48):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
They also, you know, gave some commitments saying if if
there's any issue before five pm. They'll have a same
day technician come to your house. If an outage lasts
over two hours, they'll give you a bill credit. They've
got whole dollar pricing with taxes and fees included. No
annual contracts, twenty four to seven US based customer service,
thirty day money back guarantee for new services, fourteen days

(01:11:11):
for mobile services.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
It's all good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
I think the main the main issue I have with
Spectrum and all of these cable companies is they still
want you to bundle. And I get that bundling is cheaper,
and yes, you can save a lot of money if
you bundle some of these Spectrum services.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
But I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
It's easy to get started with these services. It is
a lot tougher to switch or cancel or change when
you're doing stuff like this. You know you've gotten so
used to Netflix. If you don't look it, you cancel online.
It takes two seconds. With something like this, you do
have to call in and ask and figure it out,
send back. The equipment and the upload speeds for cable

(01:11:49):
internet are still not as fast as fiber. But hey,
you know what, I like what they're doing. I like
customer commitments. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. Rich zero here hanging out with you,
talking technology. This is the show where I talk about
the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
also the place where I answer your questions and yeah,

(01:12:10):
you bring them every weekend right here eighty eight rich
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Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
That's exactly what Jill did. Let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Jill listens on KFI in Los Angeles says, I currently
use the Apple password manager. Will it automatically be transferred
to the new password manager in iOS eighteen?

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Thank you? The answer is yes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
If you are using iCloud keychain, you've got a bunch
of passwords in there already. When you download iOS eighteen
and open up that passwords app, it will all be there.
I noticed I don't use iCloud keychain, but I do
have a couple of passwords in there for certain things,
and they all came over to the new app.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
So eighty five Wi Fi passwords, let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
And yeah, just a couple of other passwords as well.
So interesting. Oh oh, that's the other thing it does.
This is actually I meant to mention this if you
used if you use that thing where it says like
log in with Apple, right, like you know how sometimes
you can sign up for a website says log in

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with Google, log in with Apple, log in.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
With Facebook, whatever. I don't really see that much anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
But you'll see all the places that you've actually signed
in with Apple in your list. So it's actually like
the first time I've ever seen that where I can
see all these different websites that I've signed up for
using Apple's log in, And so you can go in
there and let's see what you can do. You can edit,
Let's see can you delete these logins if you want? Yeah,
you can delete the logins. You can see what you did.

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So that's a nice way to clean up some of
the logins that you may not want anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
But yes, that passwords app is great.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
I typically prefer third party apps for everything because let's
say you start using this passwords app a lot, you
store all your passwords, and all of a sudden, Android
comes out with the best phone you've ever seen in
your life.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
You want to switch.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Well, guess what, You're not gonna be able to use
that passwords app on Android because it's Apple. You know,
most of their stuff only works on Apple stuff. So
that's why I typically prefer a third party program that
works across all platforms, something like a dash Lane, something
like a bit Warden, something like a one password. But
if you are just wanting something for free, you're not

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going to leave Apple anytime soon, and you know you're
not going to use anything else, use the passwords app.
It's way better than not using a passwords app. Let's
go to line two.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
We've got Leslie in Coda de Casa California. In parentheses
it says where the Real Housewives lived? Did Kim add that?
Or did Leslie say that you're on with Rich?

Speaker 13 (01:15:40):
Kim added that we had about it?

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Okay, I don't know that nonsense, but I'm sure I
know those are popular shows. And I did watch a
little bit of The New Jersey Housewives back in the
day before it, you know, I just actually saw it
on the one of the systems. It had like fourteen seasons.
I'm like, wait, what I watched like the first one? Anyway,
what can I help you with today?

Speaker 13 (01:16:04):
I need assistance with either recovering or resetting my Microsoft
account log in, which I apparently have but I did
not know I had, and I don't know if it
was an eight hundred number. I'm trying to do it
online and it's not working.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Okay, so you're trying. What are you trying to do? Exactly?

Speaker 13 (01:16:28):
So Cox, the cable company that's who I had my
email addressed with forever, We're talking twenty thirty years and
they recently got out of the business. I don't know
if you knew that the email business, and they transitioned
our accounts to Yahoo.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Correct, So I've heard nothing about horrible stories.

Speaker 13 (01:16:49):
Yes, thank you. So we can still use Cox dot net.
We don't have to change that, which is good. But
obviously it's just a background process through Yahoo. So I
can access my new emails, send emails, et cetera through
their app. That's working fine. However, I've had Microsoft Outlook
installed on my laptop computer forever and it was always

(01:17:11):
attached to cocks So now I need to go in
and update the settings, the incoming outgoing servers whatnot to
attach to my Yahoo. Yes, but they're saying I have
a Microsoft account. Well I've I've had this Outlook set
up since the beginning of time. There was not even
such a thing as a Microsoft account. So they say

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I have one. I'm trying to reset it. It's forcing
me to answer all these questions on a recovery email.
What's the name of the email, what's the subject line?
I've tried it three times.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
It doesn't work, Okay, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
I don't think you need the Microsoft account to access
your Yah your coxmail through Yahoo.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Mal because those are two separate things. So what what
are you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Trying to log in with the Microsoft account because you
don't need to log into the Microsoft account to use Outlook.

Speaker 13 (01:18:03):
Well, I can't send and receive emails anymore through Microsoft
Outlets outlooks it's the data.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Book, right, Okay, So here's what you need to do.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
I think what happened is when you added the cos email,
it was using Cox servers, right, and those servers.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Are no longer. They're no longer doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
So it used to be the email address was like
something like let's say like imap dot Cox dot net, right,
So that's probably how your Outlook is set up.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
So what I would do is I.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Would add the Yahoo mail account. So when you go
into when you're in Outlook, it says add a new account.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
Do you know what? Can you get to that screen
where it says add a new account?

Speaker 13 (01:18:49):
I'm sure I can, Yes, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
So go to that screen and you're gonna choose Yahoo.
I know it's it's odd that you're choosing Yahoo, but
basically you're gonna choose the Yahoo mail account.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
And when you do that, it will ask you for
your log in.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
Your log in is going to be your full email address,
which is your you know, whatever your email address is
at Cox. Is that still your That's still your email address.

Speaker 8 (01:19:11):
Right it is? Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Yeah, okay, so there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
So you you put that in the in the log
in information under the email, and then the password is
going to be your cos email password. You still have
that somewhere, I'm not sure, okay, so that okay? Yeah,
So once you have that, you popped that into the
password and it should automatically find all these settings by itself.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
So that's what I would do first.

Speaker 13 (01:19:42):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
Yeah, updating the servers is that's another way of doing it,
but I think that's too complicated. So I think that
the way to the way to do this first is
just you want access to your email, So let's get
that first by logging in and getting it. And then
once you have access and you see all your emails
and all of your back emails, then you can go
ahead and delete that old whatever your old connection was,

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you know, if it was set up as Cox dot net,
whatever it was, you can just go ahead and delete
that out of outlook.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
The only caveat here is the way that your email
was set up as there's two different ways that email
can be set up. One is called POP and one
is called IMAP. Now, if it's set up as POP,
and I know this gets a little confusing, but POP
actually downloads all the information from the remote server and
stores it on your computer, whereas IMAP just mirrors the server.

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And that's the much more modern method that most email
accounts use because you make one change on your computer
and if you go on that same email account on
your phone, that change is reflected there. With POP, it
only changes it on your computer, and that's like a
little bit of a different thing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
But anyway, my point is, use both of.

Speaker 13 (01:20:59):
Those at some point, and hopefully it's on IMAP now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
But yeah, exactly, a lot of a lot of the
old school stuff was popped now it's all IMAP. But
the main thing you want to do is just add
that account. Once it's on there, then you can go
ahead and make sure you have access to all of
your old emails, and then you can just delete that
old account off of there and that should really fix it.
But that's it, and I think it's gonna work. And

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by the way, and what's.

Speaker 13 (01:21:28):
What if I get a new computer, a new laptop,
and I don't know my Microsoft log in and I'm
trying to install out.

Speaker 10 (01:21:35):
The whole suite.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Yeah, so that is something that you're gonna have to
You're eventually going to have to figure out that log in.
The only the only hint I can give you there is,
you know, Microsoft usually has like some sort of like
recovery page, Like if you go to Microsoft Account recovery,
hopefully you can get some sort of information that can
get you back online with that. The only thing I
would do is and by the way, if do you

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have access to like three six, are you paying for
that right now?

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Or no?

Speaker 9 (01:22:03):
No, not yet.

Speaker 13 (01:22:04):
I'm sure I will in the new computer. But I
have been doing the recovery suggestions for Microsoft because I
thought I was resending the server and it's so confusing.
It's asking me questions I'm answering, and it's just saying, sorry,
we can't find it, we can't help you.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
Yeah, and that could be the case.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
So that the bottom line is maybe just sign up
for a new Microsoft account if you need that down
the line, and that way you have it fresh, you
know what you're doing, and you've got all the information saved.
The other the only other hint I would give you
is that sometimes a Microsoft account, like if you sometimes
it's like an email address like mine is actually another
email address, which is thoroughly confusing and it you know,

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it's just one of those things where it's kind of weird.
So it's like a different email address from a different
company that I use as my Microsoft account like username,
which is just totally like that doesn't make any sense,
but that's the way I said it. Yeah, Leslie, thanks
so much for the call today. Do you ever see
any the housewives when you're out and about or.

Speaker 13 (01:22:57):
No, all the time?

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
Uh, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Well, it's a beautiful area, so I understand why they
might want to live there. Thanks so much for the
call today. Hopefully you get access to that account. Eighty
to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Coming up, we'll take more of your calls.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
I'm gonna explain why if you drive a GM EV
you've got many more charging options, and later on we're
gonna talk to Matt Swider about the new iPhone sixteen.
This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology live
from Las Vegas today.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
And uh, let's see. Yeah, beautiful day here, one of
the most beautiful days I've remembered in Las Vegas because
the weather is perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
I'm I'm here doing the show. Wife is out by
the pool. It's a it's a good day, and we're
going to a concert. It's you know, it's just fun.
It's fun to get away for a little bit and
enjoy things like this. Uh, let's go to line four.
Line four is Karen and San Pedro. Karen, you're on
with Rich.

Speaker 8 (01:24:05):
Hi, good morning, Thank.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
You absolutely what can I help you with this morning?

Speaker 8 (01:24:10):
When I turned on my phone, I have a Samsung
S twenty four, it's only a couple months old. Instead
of the home screen opening up, a different page showed up.
It was a message saying that they were going to
install apps on my phone, and I had a choice
of two things at the bottom, once said information or continue.

(01:24:34):
I pressed information and it said if you press continue,
you will have apps installed that we think you will need.
It did not give me a back arrow, a forward arial.
It did not give me any way to get out
of the screen. I kept tapping it. I kept going
backwards and forwards on it up and down sideways trying

(01:24:55):
to get out of it. I'm not sure how I
got out of it, but I finally did. But I
want to know what to do the next time as
this comes up. But I think it's quite I'm not
sure the word, but for them to say that they're
going to install apps on my phone without my permission basically.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Well, okay, so I got to break this down. I
got to figure out what's happening here. So this is
Was this a software update? Like, were you installing a
major software update?

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:25:24):
No, it just the screen came up when I Instead
of my homepage coming up, this page came up and
it was in different colors, quite pretty, and it said
we're going to start installing apps on your screen. And
at the very bottom you had a choice of two things,
which said information or continue. I don't have the page

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in front of me because I got rid of it,
and I pushed information rather than continue. And it basically said,
we are going to start installing apps on your phone
based on things that we think you will need. And
I thought, no, I want to stall my own apps.

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I want the choice. And so I sat scrolling back
and forth and tapping it and scrolling up, scrolling down, sideways,
trying to figure a way to get out of the
screen because it did not offer me an option other
than let them install.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Interesting, I'm wondering, I'm trying to figure out if this
is a Samsung thing or a third party app thing.
And I'm thinking that it might be a third party app.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
When was the last time you installed an app on
your phone?

Speaker 8 (01:26:45):
Only when I bought it. When I bought it, they
took the apps that I had from my previous phone
and brought them over. I don't usually have too many
apps on usually just what is required to on the
phone and a couple others. But I don't like to
have a lot of apps.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Okay, so a couple things first off, so physically to
get around, so a lot of times, whenever there's a
menu in the middle of your phone that you can't
get out of, there's typically you have to keep swiping
to get out of it, which this I'm just saying
in general, Like I don't know exactly what this screen showed,
but I'm just saying the things that I've seen. But

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a lot of apps try to trick us into doing
things we don't want to do.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
It's called a dark pattern.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
And so with this one, with this one specifically, you know,
there may have been a thing where you had to
swipe or you had to keep moving to the final
screen before you can say no, that could have happened otherwise.
A lot of times I noticed app developers will put
a tiny X somewhere on the screen in the menu

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that you can't really see. It's very faint, and a
lot of times it says, oh, do you want to
subscrib and subscribe as in big bold letters in the
middle or the bottom, or download this, But in the
upper right hand corner, upper left hand corner, there's a
tiny faint X that you can use.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
To X out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Now, for the future, I would look for something like that,
but in this case to get out of something like this,
typically are you using the physical keys at the bottom two?
Are they using the virtual keys to move around your
phone or using the swipe gestures.

Speaker 8 (01:28:34):
Well to ulpen it. I usually just to swipe, and
then if I want to change pages, I usually use
the little upside down arrow to go from left page
to the next to that.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
What you mean, okay?

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
So usually so at the bottom of your phone, is
there are there a little like three buttons there or
no like on your screen?

Speaker 8 (01:28:56):
Ah, yes, yes buttons okay.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
So like one'll take you to the homepage, one will
take you back, one will take you to the Uh. Yeah,
I gotta remember because mine is not set up that way.
But the bottom line is right.

Speaker 8 (01:29:10):
Those were not available to me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Nothing, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:29:12):
Page just had their suggestion that I let them apply
apps to the phone.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Okay, So in the future when that happens, I would
just go ahead and restart your phone and see if
that goes away. Otherwise you can swipe in from the
right hand corner to go back and maybe just keep
going back until you get rid of it. But I
would go through if I were you, Karen, I would
go through your list of apps, make sure there are

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no apps that you do not recognize or need uninstall
those apps, restart your phone, and hopefully that does not
happen again. Coming up, we're gonna talk iPhone sixteen. This
is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology the
website rich On Tech dot TV. Well, it is the

(01:30:06):
big iPhone week. iPhone sixteen now in stores. I shared
my review of it on TV and on my website,
rich on tech dot TV. Bottom line, I think this
year for these phones, do you upgrade? That's what everyone
always wants to know, right, I think the bottom line
is if you have an iPhone fifteen Pro, Right, if

(01:30:31):
you have an iPhone fifteen Pro or Promax, I think
you skip this upgrade. If you have anything else, I
think that this would be a good upgrade.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
I know the changes are subtle on these phones, but
I think that they prep you for a world of AI.
If you don't want that, don't upgrade. The cameras are better,
the microphones are better. This is on the Pro stuff.
They've got the new action button. They've got the new
camera control. I think is very hit or miss. But

(01:31:00):
you know, it's one of these things where you have
to decide, are you happy with your phone that you have,
then you probably.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
Don't need a new one.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
But if you want to be prepped for the AI
stuff and you don't have the fifteen Promacs, then you
know you probably want to get one of these new phones.
And I'll be honest, the video and pictures that I'm
taking on these phones.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
Are really really good. Like I am.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
I was at the concert last night and the photos
and videos I got are just truly incredible. Let's bring
on the guy that was at the launch of the
iPhone sixteen in New York City, Matt Swider. He is
a writer of a newsletter called The Shortcut.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
Let's see here. Why am I echoing here?

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
Up?

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
There we go, Matt, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
Hi, Rich, how you doing? Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
I am doing fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
So tell me you were out at the fifth Ave
store in New York City. That's where it all started
for me. I was there for the original iPhone in
two thousand and seven.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
What was it like?

Speaker 14 (01:31:56):
Yeah, it's always a spectacle and it actually makes you know,
pre order your iPhone at eight am, you know, getting
that first time slot worth it because you know, I
got to see Tim Cook, I got to see Jaws,
who was in charge of marketing at Apple, and like
all the key players are there, there's a lot of
excitement and you get to be around really big fans

(01:32:19):
of Apple products. So the iPhone came out, the Apple
Watch and two new sets of AirPod AirPods four with
a lot of pro features.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
When you say Jaws, you mean Greg jawswac He is
the kind of worldwide head of Apple marketing. He's a
big guy there. I mean, he's like very he knows
his stuff, and it's it's so funny. I had a
meeting with Apple once and like he was in the meeting.
It was me and him, and I'm like, wait, I'm
you're literally just meeting with me to like talk about
some new product. And he's like, yeah, it's your time.
You got fifteen minutes. I was like, oh, okay, cool. Anyway,

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that's a.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
Good long time with him.

Speaker 14 (01:32:53):
I take a photo with him every year with the
new iPhone, which I've been playing with, the iPhone sixteen
Pro Max along with the original iPhone, the iPhone one,
just to compare how they are. So it's been three
years running that he takes a photo with me. So
I force them into that, but it's it's the start
contrast of where we've gone with the latest phones.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
And do you post those I've seen this before. I
kind of forgot that you did this, But do you
post it on the shortcut dot com?

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
I do?

Speaker 14 (01:33:20):
I do, And it takes a little while to get
those photos off of the old iPhone because iTunes doesn't
exist anymore. And you know, get grabbing those photos is
a little difficult, but I managed to do it every year.
So you'll see that on the shortcut coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
That is so wild. It's tough to get the photos
off the old phone.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
That is.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
I wish I kept my original iPhone.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
I probably howked it on eBay at some point for
like one hundred bucks and like I now, I'm really
kicking myself.

Speaker 1 (01:33:45):
It's an antique now. Yeah, all right, so what's your advice?
What's your impressions of these devices? I know people are like, oh,
it's a iteration, it's you know, it's not a big deal,
but like, I actually think they did a really good
job this year. It's like a sleeper awesome iPhone.

Speaker 8 (01:34:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:34:00):
I called it Apple's smartest upgrade yet, and that's simply
because it's gonna have Apple Intelligence on there. And I'm
on the iOS eighteen point one betas that's coming in October.
But what I really like is one extra battery life
and two I've been having a lot of fun that
the four K one hundred and twenty frames per second,

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and that means it takes excellent slow motion video, almost
like you're in a movie, and you know, I've been
taking pictures of like New York City cabs and the
crowds and everything, and it seems like the opening shot
to a movie, and that's been a lot of fun.
So definitely those are like the UNSOUMD features in my

(01:34:41):
opinion that I didn't realize until I opened up the box.
And then there's camera control, which is a very obvious
new button to make stylizing your photos and opening up
the camera app and capturing things really easy. So camera
control is a new multifunction button, and that's brand new
to all four new iPhones.

Speaker 10 (01:34:59):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
I do like the camera control for opening the camera.
I sometimes forget to use it because it's still, you know,
getting that muscle memory, and it saved me an icon
on my home screen. But I do think that it's
gonna take some getting used to if I ever use
it for anything beyond opening up, Like I'm not really
using it as the shutter are.

Speaker 14 (01:35:16):
You sometimes And I just like the versatility of it,
and I really feel like there are people I talk
to that say I didn't know I could stylize my
photos because the auction was previously hidden too many, too
many menus deep on screen, right, and so I'm almost

(01:35:38):
finding people as I hand my phone to them saying,
oh you can. You can change the undertones, you can
change the styles of things. So it's kind of highlighting
a lot of the versatility of the iPhone camera that
was buried a little bit before. So it's that's where
I see the functionality playing a big role.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Yeah, and the thing that's new with all the photograph styles,
I think that's what they used to call it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
I don't know if they still do. You know, if you
want to.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Take like photos that are kind of like, you know,
just the contrast is boosted or something like that, you
can do it every single time and you can set
that just once before it would change the actual photo.
Now it's like non destructive, Like if you want, you
can actually go back and let's say, let's say you
took all your pictures black and white right for like
a week and you're like, oh, man, like now I
want these in color again. You can actually go through

(01:36:26):
and like remove that which before you couldn't right.

Speaker 14 (01:36:29):
Right to give you an analogy of those Instagram photos
that we all took back in the day that kind
of looked like old faded polaroids that was like a style,
but you know, if you didn't keep the original photo
from before that you can't really go back, so you're
your point of like, it's non destructive. It's like if
the style changes in the future, those original photos still exist.
So I find that really helpful to you can you

(01:36:51):
can set the tone and set the style live in
the camera, but you can also change it in post,
which is really nice.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
What do you make of the different models?

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
So, I know the iPhone sixteen is typically for you know,
the average person doesn't necessarily need like all the wild
features on the pro models.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
You know, what's your recommendation here?

Speaker 14 (01:37:13):
Yeah, so you know, the prices start at seven ninety
nine for the regular iPhone at sixteen. I really like
the colors ultramarine is this like bluish purple color that
I highly recommend. They also have pink, teal, white, and black.
Those are really good photos out of the main camera
and the ultra wide camera. But it lacks a telephoto camera.

(01:37:36):
So if you want to spend you know, two hundred
more dollars, you can get the iPhone sixteen Pro as
opposed to the iPhone sixteen and sixteen plus. I think
that is worth it for a lot of people out there.
They might not know it because they all have really
excellent battery life up to four extra hours than last
year's iPhones. But the telephoto makes the difference. There's a

(01:37:57):
couple extra things like sensors, and I just I bought
my parents last year. I upgraded them from the iPhone.
You know, they were on the iPhone se two, right,
I was a bad son. They had that for way
too long, so I upgrade them to the last year's iPhone.
Getting a bigger screen is a big deal, and so

(01:38:18):
the pros have a slightly bigger screen and it makes
just life easier in my opinion, it's it's small, it's
point two inches bigger six point three inches and six
point nine inches for the Pro and the Pro Max.
The keyboard is just easier to use. And that's the
first thing my parents told me when they tried a
new phone, going from four point five inches to six

(01:38:39):
point one So that is like, it's the life improvement
for a lot of people using their phone daily. So
those what the pros offer, you know, the telephoto camera,
the key the keyboard that's bigger because the screen is
bigger and six point three inches is a good happy
medium for a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
And also, I mean, I know it's it's kind of
like a nerdy thing to talk about the refresh rate,
and I know it's gotten, you know, in the tech circles,
it's like overdone.

Speaker 1 (01:39:07):
It's over talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
And I will say, like my wife has one that
with the you know, it's a standard model right without
the higher refresh rate, And when I go from my
phone to hers, it's like, wait, what this is really slow?
Everything looks like the animations are slow because it's got
what's called a sixty Hurtz refresh rate versus one twenty
I think is on the pro And so it's just

(01:39:28):
everything looks smoother and more buttery with your you know,
movements and animations on your phone because the screen is
a little bit better.

Speaker 1 (01:39:35):
I think next year that's going to be fixed.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
But I don't think the average person even notices that,
right if you're not looking at both phones at the
same time all the time.

Speaker 14 (01:39:43):
There's a very vocal group that you know can see
the difference, that you can see it side by side,
but a lot of people don't notice it until they
experience it for a while. Where that screen refresh rate
even scrolling through Instagram. You don't have to be like
a hardcore gamer to really appreciate it. So once you
begin to use it, it's hard to go back. But
if you don't notice it, you know, and you your

(01:40:05):
price point is like I can't spend more than seven
ninety nine and you still want to upgrade to the
latest iPhones. You know that the iPhone sixteen is a
pretty good deal, and a lot of carriers are offering
up to one thousand dollars off. Apple will give you
six hundred and fifty dollars off if you trade it
in the latest iPhone fifteen Pro Match, but carriers, because

(01:40:25):
they have you know you're paying more over time, we'll
give you up to one thousand dollars off. So there
are good deals out there if you hunt for them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
All right, Matt Swider the Shortcut dot com. Subscribe to it.
It is free. It's a great newsletter. You got what
one hundred and something thousand people that get this every
week and some really great information there.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
Thanks so much for joining me today.

Speaker 14 (01:40:48):
Absolutely thanks for having me on Rich All right.

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
Matt, looking forward to seeing that comparison picture again. It's
so wild.

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
We thought pictures were so good on the older iPhones,
and now every time we get a new one, it's like, wait,
that's what we used to have.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
Fun stuff eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Actually, let's not do the phone number because we're gonna
do the feedback when we come back. So if you
want to get in on that Richontech dot TV, hit contact.
We'll get some of your messages coming up right after this.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here closing
out the show. Let me get through a couple of
news headlines before we get to the feedback. GM You

(01:41:26):
have a GM EV. You now have access to Tesla superchargers.
You do need an adapter though you got to buy
the adapter. It's two hundred and twenty five dollars. Once
you have that, you can plug in at Tesla superchargers.
There are seventeen eight hundred of them, and if you
have experience with other chargers, throw it all away, because
the Tesla chargers are incredible. They work, they're fast, and

(01:41:50):
it's all automatic. It is not like what you're used to.
This is a big deal as all of these automakers
adopt the Tesla superchargers.

Speaker 1 (01:42:00):
If you're a gm EV. Definitely get that adapter. Check
it out. Flappy Bird making a comeback. Flappy Bird. Remember
this game.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
You've flopped the bird, you know, you get through all
the little things in the on the screen and it's uh,
it was got God. It's been ten years since it
went away, but it's returning to iOS and Android in
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:42:19):
Not by the original creator.

Speaker 2 (01:42:21):
He removed it in twenty fourteen because too many people
were addicted to it. I don't think it was that addictive,
but I guess maybe it was. Flappy Bird Foundation bought it.
Now they're going to have all new game modes, basketball,
competitive practice. Look for it in twenty twenty five. They've
got a one minute teaser trailer if you have a

(01:42:41):
Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra got a huge software update,
all new AI enhancements, sketched image, AI portrait styles, writing,
assistant call, real time call translation, PDF stuff, voice recording
to text notes. All the stuff that they introduced on
their foldable phones earlier this couple months ago is now

(01:43:05):
on the S twenty four Ultra.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
That phone just keeps getting better.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
I still think on the Android side of things, that
is the powerhouse that's the phone to beat pixels.

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
Nice, but the S twenty four Ultra actually feels powerful. YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
When you pause YouTube on your TV, don't be surprised
if you see an ad. YouTube is rolling out pause ads,
so when you pause a video on your TV screen,
you will see an ad. We're seeing this with so
many streaming services. What's the other one? Peacock has it
at and t DirecTV. So many of these things have it.

(01:43:41):
So if you're not paying for the service, like if
you have an AD supported, you're going to be seeing
those ads on the pause screen.

Speaker 1 (01:43:48):
Makes sense, right. Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
We've got Gail from Huntington Beach Rights in I've received
several alarming emails I suspect or spam. They include my
personal information and an attachment. The letter claims they've tracked
me visiting adult sites, added something to my apps to
monitor me, and threatened to share compromising pictures with my
contacts unless I pay bitcoin. I've received four of these

(01:44:12):
from different senders. What steps should I be taking to
protect myself? There are no steps you can take. Just
protect your email address as much as possible. This is
this is basically referred to as an extortion email. What
they're doing is they're finding personal information on the web,
like an old password or something, and they're pasting in

(01:44:33):
that pasting it in that email, and they're making it
seem like they know about you, but they're just sending
this out to all people. Don't respond, don't click links
in the email. Change your password. If one of the
passwords they mentioned is one that you still use, do
not reuse that. That's why I never say to reuse
the passwords, and obviously don't pay the ransom. They don't
actually have anything on you. Bob writes in from Baron

(01:44:58):
Dooda Baron Doudah. After getting the official iOS eighteen update
as a beta subscriber, I noticed issues the next day.
Calls weren't coming through, and my Apple Watch wasn't tracking walks.
Turns out Do not Disturb was on full time despite
being scheduled for night hours only. The update might have
occurred during the schedule do not Disturb time. Watch out

(01:45:19):
for this. If you update, check your do not Disturb settings.
After Steve from Beaumont writes in, Hey, Rich, I know
you are frugal, so this is an observation rather than
a question. In many instances, Amazon tax on the cost
of shipping to an item that might cost less at
other vendors. Case in point, I needed to resupply my
men in skin bracer aftershave Amazon's price two for seventeen

(01:45:41):
nineteen Walmart six dollars twenty seven cents. I ordered it
and picked it up within an hour. I suppose that
my order met a certain amount, I could have had
it shipped to me for free, but that's not the point.
Amazon tacked on a couple bucks and has the chutzpah
to say free shipping. I thought I paid for shipping
with my annual fee. Yes, Steve, you're right. You notice something.

(01:46:03):
People don't price check Amazon because they have the prime
and they just order stuff on there. They don't realize
sometimes it is cheaper on other websites. You found that out.
Dylan from our we did a story with retro Respawn
on TV. This was a video game used video game shop.

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
Just want to congratulate you on the awesome story about
the retro gaming community and to personally express my gratitude
for covering our video game store.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
Video games have always been my passion.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
It makes me happy to be able to reach more
people in our community who are rediscovering their childhood or
have yet to discover the pioneers of gaming world. Nothing
beats a newcomer super excited to see and talk about
all the retro stuff from their childhood. Some carry sentimental,
cherished memories behind them and always warms my heart knowing
I could spark an emotion in others.

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
It reminds me why I do what I do.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
Yeah, if you want to watch that story Retro Respawn,
it was great. We did it on TV and you
can check the newsletter this week for that. Tony writes
in thank you Rich Honestly I appreciate it. I mentioned
I religiously listen to all of your podcasts.

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
You have a unique way of helping people.

Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
Love when you personalize your events, your wonderful family, love
when your mom, wife and kid was on your show.
Very entertaining. Thank you again. Well, thank you Tony for listening.
I really do appreciate it. And you know, look, we're
all human.

Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
I'm just sharing my experience going through this world as
a person that's really into technology, and hopefully along the
way I can help you and others as well. That
is going to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
For this episode of the show, You can find links
to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to
rich on tech dot TV. That's Rich on tech dot TV.
You can find me on social media. I am at
rich on tech. Next week I will be back in
Los Angeles. I will have more tech news, tips, reviews,
and all kinds of fun stuff for you. Thanks so

(01:47:54):
much for listening. As always, there are so many ways
you can spend your time. You know, I do appreciate
you spending it right here with me. That is not
lost on me. You take time out of your day
to sit here with me and listen. I absolutely appreciate that.
Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. My name
is rich Demiro, signing off this time from Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
I will talk to you real soon.

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