iPhone 16 Hands-On, Scrubbing Personal Data & Decoding Wireless Speeds

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world of tech together. Some great guests this week, Washington

(01:07):
Post tech columnist Jeffrey Fowler. We'll talk about Apple Intelligence
and his test drive and how it's still a little quirky.
Then later we've got top tech YouTuber I Justine She's
going to share her thoughts on the new iPhone sixteen
and the other Apple products. And later in the show,
YouTube creator John from gen X Grown Up is going

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to talk all things eighties, nostalgia, retrogaming, and how classic
brands want in on the modern tech landscape. Well, this
was the probably the biggest week in technology of the year,
Apple's annual iPhone event in Kopertino, where they introduced new
iPhone sixteen models, AirPods four, and Apple Watches. And yes,

(01:52):
I was there, probably my fourteenth year of covering Apple events. Wow,
it's a lot. It's a lot of iPhones. It's been
a lot of iPhones over the years. So I was
at the original iPhone event launch in New York City
back in two thousand and seven, and then my job
kind of took me in different directions, so I wasn't

(02:12):
at some of the launches. Then when I got to
KTLA started covering all of the iPhone events starting in
twenty eleven, so it's been a bit And yeah, I've
seen the iPhone evolve over the years. This is the
iPhone sixteen and sixteen plus. So basically you sit through
the presentation up in Cooper Tino these days. Now, they

(02:33):
used to all be live, right, so everything was live.
They would have, you know, the CEO come out, whether
it was Steve Jobs back in the day and now
Tim Cook, and then he would come out welcome everyone,
and then they would literally show off these products to
a live audience. And the products were there on stage,
they would literally pull a veil off of them sometimes
or hold them up in their hand to show them off.

(02:55):
Now ever since COVID, they do everything pre taped, so
it's a lot slick, but you know, not as much
can go wrong because it's all they're done, and you
know it's it's on tape, so it's not as it's exciting,
but it's not the same energy as it used to
be because you're just basically watching a movie when you
go up there. But it's still fun because the best

(03:17):
part is after the presentation ends, you all run into
this other room and go hands out with the new devices.
So basically everyone that's invited to the event are the
first people in the world to experience these new products.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
So let's go through them. First.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Off, iPhones sixteen and sixteen plus. These are the base
Apple iPhones, modest upgrades, slightly improved camera. The action button
is now replacing the mute and ringer switch. This is
what they did last year with the Pro models. Now
it's across all models. And then there is this new
touch sensitive camera control area. They don't call it a button,

(03:53):
but I do. It is basically a dedicated button on
the side on the right side of the iPhones that
not only when press activates the camera, A second press
will take a picture, a press and hold will take
a video, and then you can lightly press or lightly
tap and bring up camera controls like focus and zoom.

(04:14):
It's a little complicated. Yes, it's gonna take some getting
used to, Yes, but this is a new way to
launch the camera on the iPhone and eventually maybe other
things as well. A lot of developers already tapping into this, so,
for instance, if you're in something like Snapchat, you would
be able to use that button for an added functionality.

(04:34):
So it's one more physical button on the iPhone and
it's going to open up some possibilities. It's a little weird,
I'll be honest. My initial hands on time was a
little shaky. I would say I wasn't able to master it. Immediately,
but we'll see as time goes on. But it does
free up one icon on your home screen because you
no longer need that camera icon because now you can

(04:55):
just press the side of the phone. Seven and ninety
nine dollars for the iPhone sixteen, nine hundred dollars for
the iPhone sixteen plus. Now when it comes to the
iPhone sixteen Pro and Pro Max, this is where a
majority of the major improvements are larger screens than ever
before on an iPhone six point three inches up from

(05:16):
six point one inches and six point nine inches up
from six point seven inches.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Now in the hand, they don't.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Feel much bigger, but they are a little bit bigger,
but Apple stretch the screen more to the edges to
make them so that they can still make these bigger screens.
But the phone overall doesn't feel much bigger. It does
feel a little bit bigger.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I'll be honest.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
What I like that they've done here is the specs
are the same. So if you want a big phone,
you can go for a big phone. If you want
a smaller phone, you can go for the smaller phone,
and you still get the same specs except for the
screen size and battery it's the same exact thing that
Sam that Google did with the Pixel nine Pro and
the Pixel nine Pro XL. Samsung still reserves their best

(05:59):
feet for the Ultra.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
We will see if.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
They change their tune this next time around, because people
have a choice with the iPhone and Google. Now we'll
see if they get a choice with Samsung as well.
Five times optical zoom on both models. As you might remember,
last year, it was a three X on the Pro
and a five X on the Promax.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Now it's five X on both.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Improved ultra wide camera, so you're getting a forty eight
megapixel ultra wide camera, so everything's going to look just
a little bit better in the ultra wide and you're
getting four K, one hundred and twenty frames per second video.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
That is quite incredible.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
All the nerds in the audience, especially the video creators,
were going nuts over that because it is super smooth
video and you can slow it down after the fact
and it's still gonna look really good. Better heat dissipation,
so if your phone heats up a lot, especially when
it's charging or when it's in the sun. They've improved
I don't know if they called it the vapor chamber,

(06:58):
but that's what they call it in the other phone.
So apparently these phones will have better heat dissipation, which
means your phone should stay cooler while it's charging and
while it's under heavy use. And the batteries are bigger
across the board, so better battery life by the tune
of a couple hours for each model, So that's always
a good thing.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Whenever we see improved battery life.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Prices on the sixteen Pro and Promax nine hundred ninety
nine dollars basically one thousand bucks for the Pro, twelve
hundred dollars for the Pro Max. My advice do not
get the base model. One hundred and twenty eight gigabytes
is not enough for these phones. These are powerhouse phones.
If you're recording four K video at one hundred and
twenty frames, you're going to go through that one hundred

(07:40):
and twenty eight gigabytes in about two days, So you
need to get the two hundred and fifty six minimum.
And yes, Apple plays pricing game, so it's only one
hundred do dollars extra.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Now, don't complain to me. You're already spending one thousand.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Go the extra ten percent to get that eleven hundred
dollars price point and double the storage on your phone.
You'll thank me later. I don't care if you have iCloud.
It still makes a huge difference to have that storage
on your phone. And you're paying basically fifty percent less
for the two hundred and fifty six gigs than you
are for the one twenty eight. All right, now, let's
talk Apple Watch ten Thinner and lighter. It is noticeably

(08:18):
thinner and lighter on your wrist. It also sits lower
to your wrist. That big back bump is sort of gone.
Comes in this new Jet black finish, which is really nice.
Screens are larger, so they're saying I think like ten
percent larger on the screens, faster charging. It now detects
sleep apnea, so this is something that's undiagnosed in like

(08:38):
eighty percent of people. It will diagnose that now and
give you if it thinks you have it. It will
give you a PDF that you can print out and
bring to your doctor. A new tides app, So if
you like to serve or do anything with the ocean,
this will tell you the high and low tides. You
can save your favorite beaches, and the built in speaker
can now play audio. So it used to be the
built in speaker on the Apple Watch could only do

(09:00):
Siri and also phone calls. Now you can listen to, say,
streaming music or a podcast, or any kind of music
you want on the built in speaker. I know it's
a small thing, but if you forget your headphone somewhere,
if you're on a walk, maybe you're by yourself, you
just want some companionship on the audio there on the
built in speaker.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
You don't want to have headphones in.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
You've got that option that starts at three hundred and
ninety nine dollars to the Apple Watch ten, the Ultra two.
They did not come out with an Ultra three. The
Ultra two now comes in titanium black. Yes, it is
very good looking. That's if you're the ultrasports enthusiast. That
starts at eight hundred dollars. All right, let's go to
the air pods. Now, AirPods four these are the new

(09:41):
entry level AirPods one hundred and twenty nine bucks. Do
not buy them at that price. They often go on
sale for cheaper, especially during the holidays. But they have
a new active noise cancelation option. For one hundred and
seventy nine dollars. So this is an open ear design,
which means you don't have to seal out your ears,
and you'll still get that active noise cancelation. Probably not
going to be as good on a plane, but for

(10:01):
every day when you're just out and about. If you
like to have some of those noises canceled but you
still want to have your ear open to the world,
that's a nice option. You also get a wireless charging
case for that one seventy nine, And this is really neat.
The AirPods Pro two is actually now FDA approved for
use as hearing aids. This is going to open up
hearing aids for many many people who already have these

(10:24):
or who just want hearing aids. They're two hundred and
forty nine dollars, but right now I just check they're
on Amazon for like less than that, so you can
get that hearing aids for less than two hundred and
fifty bucks. And the health app inside the phone is
going to help you test your hearing. I took a
sample of this, and you basically tap the screen as
you're listening to different frequencies. It gives you a little

(10:46):
report and it says, hey, do you want us to
tune these as hearing aids? And now you can hear
everything around you much better than before. Finally, Apple Intelligence
AI features not launching the same day as these new devices.
All these new devices are going to be available on
Septem number twentieth. The AI stuff is going to roll
out later that will work on the iPhone fifteen Pro
models and later. And if you don't want to get

(11:07):
a new phone, September sixteenth, iOS eighteen is going to
launch as a free update that's going to be compatible
with the iPhone ten R and later. So that's the eleven,
the twelve, the thirteen, the fourteen, the fifteen, and the sixteen,
as well as the iPhone S two. If you want
to check which iPhone you have it if it's been
a while since you upgraded, you can go into Settings General,

(11:29):
about and model name and that will tell you which
one you have. But basically the bottom line is modest
upgrades this year. I think a lot of the pro
phones have some great upgrades, but only if you are
using your camera a lot, your video a lot. And
also if you want those AI features, you're going to
have to update unless you have that iPhone fifteen Pro.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
But across the board, Apple.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Did some really cool stuff, very exciting, and I have
it all linked up on my newsletter this week. Just
go to Rich on tech dot TV and you can
read everything that I think about these new devices in depth.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Right there, All.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Right, coming up, it's your turn. Let's get some of
your calls in at eight eight eight Rich one oh one.
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Speaker 3 (12:12):
If you got a tech question, don't be shy, give
me a ring.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
I'm Rich Demiro. You are locked into Rich on Tech.
Stay tuned right here. Let's go to uh Bill in
Los Angeles. Bill, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, I asked the question earlier.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
I guess I have to repeat the question again.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yes, you probably talked to Kim. Now you're talking Rich
on the radio live.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
All right.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, I wanted to ask you. One question was about
on the web right now. You know, when you're on
these sites, it always says that with the new sixteen
coming on, Apple is trying to get rid of the fifteen,
so there are a lot of sites giving it away
for free. I don't think that's really true. It's one
of those things that you know sounds too good to
be true, So I don't that's probably not true, right.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
It depends on the website.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Look, I mean, if you're talking about one of these
websites that's like get a free iPhone fifteen, that's a scam.
But if you're talking about one of the carriers advertising
a free iPhone, that is not a scam, but it
is scamy, and I can explain that. So yeah, anything
that's offering a free phone with no strings attached or
like you know, fill out a survey, that is a
scam for sure.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
And the ones that with the like T Mobile, Verizon,
those are because you're going to commit to them for
a couple.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Of years or something like that exactly. So my fends
up one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
So my friend and I we were chatting about this
last night because we were talking about all the deals
out there because whenever this happens, basically the carriers go
nuts and they say get a free iPhone, and it's
either with trade in or even without trade in sometimes.
But here's here's how it works, and here's the basic math.
So the basic bottom line is you're paying more every

(13:54):
single month for three years to get that free iPhone
if you were not sticking with that carrier. Let's just
say you went with something like let's say you bought
the iPhone outright for a thousand bucks and then you
went to Mint Mobile, which is unlimited for thirty dollars
a month. You know, you're talking a year of service
would be the phone would be one thousand plus three

(14:15):
hundred and sixty dollars. That's thirteen hundred and sixty dollars. Now,
let's say you went with a big carrier that's saying, hey,
we'll give you a free iPhone, but you have to
stick with us for three years. And by the way,
you have to be on our highest price unlimited plan,
which is about ninety dollars a month. So now times
ninety dollars a month times thirty six months, or let's

(14:36):
just yeah, let's just yeah. So that's thirty two hundred
and forty dollars, you know, and you're not getting the
and you're getting the phone for free quote unquote, and
a lot of those you have to kind of pay
as well, so or trade in a phone as well.
So again it really comes down to when you do
the math, it's not a better deal necessarily but here's
the caveat, and here's here's the thing. If you're already

(14:59):
on an unlimited plan and you're already with one of
the big carriers and they're giving you that upgrade deal,
and you're not going to switch carriers to an MV
and O or a cheaper carrier, then it's not the
end of the world to get the free phone from them,
as long as you are going to stick with them
for the next couple of years, because if you don't
stick with them, they will make you pay the balance
of whatever they're doing. Because they don't give you that

(15:20):
phone for free upfront. They do it as a credit
on your bill over the next three years, just to
ensure that you.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Stick with them.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
So it's not like, you know, you can just leave
after two months and they forget about it. No, no, no,
they've got you signed there. So again, if you do
the math quickly, you know there are some ways to
really save if you buy the phone out right, and
quite frankly, I think that is the best way to
buy the phone because it gives you the most options,
and then the next year when you want to trade
it in, if you want to upgrade again, you can

(15:48):
get a pretty good amount for that iPhone because iPhones
do not lose a lot of value over the years.
So a good question, Bill, appreciate it. I know it's
a lot of math, it's a lot of kind of
figuring out.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
But the main carriers that are really.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Good with unlimited are something like A Visible from Verizon,
a Mint Mobile, and even Total from Verizon. They're doing
some good deals as well. AT and T has a
lot of mv and os, and mv and O is
what's called a mobile virtual network operator. So basically these
companies buy network space from one of the big companies

(16:23):
like an AT and T, a T Mobile or Verizon,
and then they repackage it and their whole thing is
just marketing to consumers, and they often don't have all
of those like extra perks like a free Netflix or
free this or free that, or international roaming. It's just
basically unlimited data and sometimes unlimited hotspot eighty to eight
rich one on one if you want to hop on

(16:44):
the phones. Coming up, we're going to talk to Jeffrey
Fowler of The Washington Post about Apple's AI. Rich DeMuro
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.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
We'll get back to those phone lines in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
But first joining me now is Jeffrey Fowler, technology columnist
for the Washington Post.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Jeffrey, thanks so much for joining me.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
So thank glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
So you took a look at the new AI features
on the iPhone, which are not arriving on the first
day that the iPhones are going to be available. It's
going to be a software update later on. But this
is Apple Intelligence and you wrote all about it in
your column this week.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
What were your first impressions.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
I found Apple Intelligence to be useful except for when
it went completely bonkers.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
And I think it's definitely worth explaining.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
To folks who are thinking about buying a new iPhone
exactly what state this Apple Intelligence software is at, because
from what I've seen, it might tick them awhile and
make this something that.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
You really want to have a part of your daily life.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, it's interesting because the iPhone has gotten so slick
and so good that, according to your column, it almost
takes it a step back because now we're dealing with
hallucinations and mistakes by the AI.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, so One of the things that I think anybody
with putting the software on their phone will notice most
is that Apple Intelligence is constantly trying to summarize the
information coming into your phone.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
So every email in your inbox.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
Get says instead of like seeing the two lines, you
get an AI written summary.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Same thing goes for alerts on your lock screen.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Instead of just seeing, you know, an alert that says
somebody press your doorbell, you'll see a summary of all
the alerts that you've gotten from that app. Sometimes those
are super useful, Like looking at the first two lines
of most people's email is a complete waste of time, right,
That's where they say, That's where they say, oh, oh,
I hope you are well.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
I just wanted to clear my throat.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
So the idea that an AI can read the email
for you and tell you what it's really about to
help you decide whether to tap in and read the
whole thing is useful.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
It's useful, I would even argue most of the time.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
The problem is right now, Apple Intelligence sometimes gets it
completely wrong, will confuse people's names and get the information backwards,
and then you have these kind of like either laugh
out loud moments at your phone like one that I had,
for example, was when in an email summary it said
to me that I was teaching a course at Berkeley.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
I'm not.

Speaker 6 (19:38):
It actually meant that somebody else was teaching of course
at Berkeley, but it got it confused.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, I was going to say.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
The other example you mentioned was the social security spam email,
and it's like, hey, hi, alert, you got this email
about your social Security number being stolen or whatever.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
Yeah, It's thet thing it does is it moves.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
It decides what is like a super important email, and
it moves to the top of your inbox and it's
just on that.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
For me so far has been carible. It also can
get crazy when it.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Tries to summarize news alerts or social media alerts.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
I get push alerts from.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Donald Trump's Truth social and I got one the other
day that said Trump endorses walls and I was like what,
And again it just got it backwards.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
And look like, here's the challenge.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
We know that this is a fundamental problem with today's
generative AI technology. Every big company who's putting out products
with this faces this.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Jack QPT faces this. Google faces this with Gemini.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
But what's different here is you're not using a separate
app for Apple Intelligence. It's not like you go over
to the Apple Intelligence app where you know, like, Okay,
sometimes it's gonna be a little crazy. This stuff is
integrated throughout your phone, so there is like a sprinkling
of crazy all over your phone right now that I
think might make.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
People feel a little weird or just make them feel
like their phone is their smartphone is less smart.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Now, now you kind of mentioned the bad, what about
the good?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Was there any highlights of how this AI worked to
your advantage?

Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yeah? I actually now super rely on those little summaries
of my emails to decide which ones to open up,
and you know, spend the time to look at They're
much more useful than than you know, looking at the
first two.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
Lines of an email.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
There's a there's a capability that's kind of a new
more natural language search for your for your photos, and
I found that useful to kind of pull back memories
from you know, like oh yeah, there was a place
I went to once that had stripes on it, and
you can just sort of search in that kind of way.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
Now, I found that useful.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Is that is that as good as Apple is advertising?
Because I haven't tested that feature. I've been playing with
the one inside Google Photos.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's good Apple.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Saying, you know, I dove into a lake and I
was wearing a striped swimsuit and you can find that
exact moment. Is that true?

Speaker 5 (22:02):
It is pretty good? Like, it's funny you mentioned stripe.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
So my my my test search that I think of
is I asked it to find a striped playground that
I once went to, and it was.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Able to find it. It didn't find all of it.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
And but the thing is like, that's a pretty low
stake situation. Well, okay, if it missed a couple, it's
not not a big deal.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
And that's that's where Apple, I think, has mostly.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
Focused its energy with with Apple Intelligence on things like that.
But you know, if you do the head to heat
versus what Google can do with photos, I would suspect
that Google probably still a little bit better.

Speaker 7 (22:39):
Now, why are we talking about beta software?

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Because typically, you know, you cover for the average consumer,
as do I. Typically I don't cover beta software because
it's beta, it's not done yet.

Speaker 7 (22:50):
So why are we even talking about this?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Absolutely a great question.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
I I don't think I've I'm trying to think of
I ever written about beta software before from Apple.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
You know, for the average consumer. Here's what's different this time.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Apple is already selling these iPhones with the marque feature
of Apple Intelligence.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
It is asking people to plunk down.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
At least eight hundred bucks today for a phone on
the promise that this thing is going to that that
is you know, purpose built in the iPhone sixteen, is
going to make their lives better, is going to make
their phone smarter. And I think that raises the bar
Apple has to then really show us, well, how good
is it? Otherwise we're just buying based on the promise

(23:36):
of marketing and I don't I don't.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
I don't believe in that. I believe trust but verifies,
and that what Reagan said.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
So it's important for journalists and independent people like yourself
and me to really say, Okay, what can it really
do and where does it let us down?

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Because here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (23:51):
With all of these AI products that have been coming
out over the last year or two, so many of
them that I've used and tested and written about really
are up being disappointments. They end up promising things to
consumers that they don't deliver on. They maybe even deliver
misinformation because of this problem with just making stuff up.
So I think we have to be especially attuned to

(24:14):
sort of challenging some of the claims about artificial intelligence,
because despite what marketers think, it is not just magic.
It is actually software and software with a lot of
known problems.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
What about privacy?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Did you you know, because this is making use of
a lot of the data on your phone, do you
feel like there's any privacy concerns or do you feel
like Apple got that part right?

Speaker 5 (24:34):
I don't think we really know enough yet.

Speaker 8 (24:36):
So part of the challenge in writing about Beata software
is only parts of it already, and unfortunately one of
the parts that's not ready even to test at this
point is the part.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
That digs deep into your data to make serious s marter.
For example, Apple has said that they've done some things
that make sense to me.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
You know, again, we just.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
I think we don't really know enough information about that yet,
and and independent people haven't been really been able to.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Poke at it all.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Right, Finally, you've been covering this stuff for a long time.
Do you feel like this is a pretty exciting time
in the tech world with all this AI stuff? Even
though there are many pitfalls and there are many stumbles,
do you.

Speaker 7 (25:14):
Still feel like it's pretty exciting.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Look, AI is allowing people to do things that previously
would have required a lot of expertise.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
There's so much opportunity here.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
I just think we're at a moment though, where the
rush is on from Silicon Valley to make money from
this stuff, And a lot of these big tech companies
in particular, are selling snake oil, and they're promising things
that these technologies can't do, or they're even introducing things
that could be harmful for individual users or for society.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
So I think we're at this moment where it has
never been more.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Important to have independent journalists and researchers and other folks
really probing what these things really.

Speaker 9 (25:58):
Do so that we can get that balance right, especially
as we also think about what should the laws be,
who should be responsible, what should we expect paw should
we expect a big tech company to act when somebody
buying a problem with the AI that it's making something
that's dangerous.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
You know, all that still has to be worked out.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
So, uh, this is I think a key moment for
US voices outside the companies.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
All right.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Jeffrey Fowler with The Washington Post check out the column.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
You can read them there. What's the best way for
folks to follow you online?

Speaker 5 (26:32):
I'm on threads and on Twitter at Jeffrey Fowler.

Speaker 6 (26:35):
And then of course you can go over to the
post and you can click on a button to get
an email at the time, I have a column.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Thanks so much for joining me today to talk Apple
AI or rich on Tech coming your way right after this,
and Net.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Wrote in on the website rich on Tech dot TV.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
I have an Android and I can't figure out how
to stop group chat notifications. Even when I turn them off,
they reactivate as soon as someone replies I've tried looking
online for a solution but can't find one.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
How do I stop this madness?

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, Annette, I'm glad you found me because I will
help you stop this madness right now. All right, you
said you're on Android, So open up the messages app
on Android, tap the message that you want to silence,
and then you go to the upper right hand corner.
There is three little dots. That's your overflow menu. You

(27:27):
tap that and it says details Now. Once you get
in there, there's an option for notifications. You are now
modifying the notifications for this specific text this group text,
and on a Samsung for instance, it gives you a
choice of priority, alert or silent. If you're on Pixel,
it might be slightly different. But what you're looking for

(27:48):
is that silent, and so you tap that and next
thing you know, you're not gonna get those notifications. Now
you can leave it as alert, but you can turn
the sound and the vibration off. So if you still
want it to show you the alert on your screen
like that, you have a notification, but you don't want
the sound or the vibration of your phone. You can

(28:10):
then tap under sound where it says default notification and
then you tap silent. So if you tap silent up
at the top, that removes the notification altogether, but if
you go into sound that will remove the sound notification.
Great question, Annette. Those group chats can really be fun
to be on. But for me, I find that when

(28:31):
people start group chatting, it's always in the middle of something.
When I'm trying to do something, whether it's work, whether
it's come out on a choote, whether it's you know,
I'm trying to focus or concentrate, it's like all of
a sudden, everyone in the group chat starts chatting and
then you can't stop it and you're like silencing your
phone and all these different things.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
So hopefully that will help you do that. Let's go
to ed in Tarzana. Ed you're on with rich.

Speaker 10 (28:54):
Yeah, Hi, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Absolutely, what can I help you with?

Speaker 10 (28:59):
Okay? So I heard in your earlier segment that the
Apple Watch can diagnose sleep apnia. So I'm a pomonologist
and I also am certified in sleep and I treat
sleep apnia. And apnia is when hear doesn't enter doesn't
enter the lungs for ten seconds. Hypopnia is when they

(29:21):
are full decreases by thirty percent accompanied by a dropping oxygen.
So the number of events per hour is how you
diagnose sleep appen So you need to measure the flow
of air, you need to measure the chess movement. So
how in the world does an Apple watch do that?

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Great question, and thanks for asking me to clarify on here.
So if I did say diagnosis in the earlier segment,
it is not a diagnosis. It is meant to alert
users who may have undiagnosed sleep apnea. So let me
run through how it works. So it's actually using so
you have to wear the Apple Watch while you sleep,

(30:00):
and it's using the accelerometer, the sensor in the Apple Watch,
and of course machine learning algorithm, so it's an algorithm
that's using this accelerometer to detect what they're calling breathing
disturbances during sleep. So this feature will track those breathing
disturbances every night, display them in the Health app, and
then you can see your nightly values and trends over time.

(30:21):
And this feature is going to look at a thirty
day window of data. So I understand if you're getting
this diagnosed by an actual sleep clinician, you may have
to wear something for a while or take a test
or something, but this is where you wear your watch
every night, and then you'll get that notification if at
least in half of the nights in thirty days you

(30:42):
show some sort of elevated breathing disturbance. So you have
to wear your watch a lot, at least ten nights
out of the thirty for this feature to work, and
then once it's triggered, you'll get that notification saying you
may have potential sleep apnea and you should talk to
your doctor, and that's when they're going to send you
that QR code that you can scan, download the pdf,

(31:03):
bring that to your doctor and see what's going on.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
The way they validated this was with over eleven thousand
nights of sleep data and they compared it, of course
against clinical sleep tests. It showed sixty six point three
percent sensitivity detecting cases and ninety eight point five percent specificity,
which means, you know, avoiding those false positives. So it's
really designed for people that don't know they have sleep

(31:27):
apnea and to get more people diagnosed with sleep apnea
so that they can do something about it. And this
is going to work on the Apple Watch Series nine,
the Series ten, and the Ultra two. It did get
the let's see, did it get the FDA clearance. I
don't know if it got it just yet, but it is.
I believe it's it's pending FDA clearance. So the hearing

(31:50):
aid I know featured that just did get the clearance.
This is probably any day now as well. So it's Apple.
You know, they're forging ahead with these health features, and
I do think that it probably will help a lot
of people, so I know I'll be testing it out,
so I will bring you some updates. I don't think
I have sleep apnea, but then again, how do I know?
I guess I will now add in Tarzana, thanks so

(32:12):
much for the call today.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
I appreciate it. Let's go to Let's see how long
do I have?

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Two minutes?

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Oh, two and a half minutes.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay, let's see if I can answer Tom's question in
two and a half minutes.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Tom, You're on with Rich.

Speaker 11 (32:26):
Good morning. Regarding the AirPods Gen two pros and all
the new features, I have three sets of Gen two
AirPod Pros, and I am a hearing aid user. I
tend to use the AirPod Pro for just casual listening
when it's non critical, and they work relatively well for that.
But as I look at the Apple website and all

(32:47):
the new features on the Pro twos, it says for
hearing health coming soon, for voice isolation coming this fall,
new hands free serie experience coming this fall. New Pro
two is going to be any different than the old
Pro twos.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
No, No, you're they changed the name. No you're getting
these features. This is just this is just a software update.
So you already if you already have these air Pods
Pro too, you're getting the hearing aid feature. So they're
going to roll this out to potentially hundreds of thousands
of people overnight. So anyone who has these current AirPods

(33:24):
Pro two only the second model, which you know they've
been these been have been on sale for two years now,
I believe, So it is a it is a software update,
so yes, you will get the hearing aid feature. And
this again is for users with mild to moderate hearing loss. Uh.
And again Apple is calling this clinical grade hearing aids.
And I took the test. You do it on the iPhone,

(33:46):
takes about five minutes. It's inside the Health app, and
it can detect hearing levels from little to no loss
up to severe and profound loss. And then of course
you can fine tune once you get your results the
settings like tone balance and amplification, and you can even
do that in real time. Plus you can use the
microphones and noisy environments to focus on human voices. And

(34:08):
there's just a lot going on here, and I think
that this is something that Apple I think hit out
of the park because AirPods, like you said, you already
own a couple of pairs, and they're they're very prevalent
everywhere and the fact that they've had similar features in
the past, like the live listening feature, and they've had
some adjustments that you can do. But the fact that
these are now going to sort of check your hearing

(34:31):
and then adjust based on that, I think is going
to be game changing. So Tom, no need to do
anything except just wait for that software update, and of
course I will update you on when that's available. Eight
to dight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. My name is
rich Dmiro. You are doing something smart for yourself. You're
listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

(34:57):
Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking tech now oology.
This is a show where I talk about the tech
stuff I think you should know about. It's also the
place where I answer your questions. You can give me
a call at triple eight Rich one O one. That's
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Yes,
you have to use that thing in your pocket as

(35:17):
a phone. I know it's a social media machine, it's
an email device, it's a YouTube video watcher, but it's
also a phone and you can dial that number and
connect to me. Well, first you'll connect to Kim. If
you can get through Kim, then you can get to me.
Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. Give me a

(35:39):
call if you have a question about maybe upgrading to
a new phone, thinking about a new device, you need
an app for something, something's not working, whatever it is,
I'll do my best to see if I can answer it.
The website is richontech dot tv. You can go there
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(36:01):
and you can hit the light bulb if you want
to link to something I mentioned in today's show.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
It was funny my mom yesterday.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
You would not believe I've been doing a radio show
now for a year and a half, over a year
and a half, and you know, I've been on TV
for I don't know, twenty years or something like that.
But it's so interesting when someone actually sees you doing
what you do. So my mom yesterday calls me and
you would think that she just saw I don't know,
like she it was like this this like sound in

(36:30):
her voice where she was so excited and she's like,
I just heard you on the radio. I said, oh
my gosh, that's amazing. I was in my car, I'm
listening to Z one hundred in New York City and
I hear Ryan Seacrest say, we're talking to Rich Demiro
and she said what, and so yes, I said, mom,
I was talking about the new iPhone with Ryan Seacrest

(36:50):
on his morning show. And she was just she thought
it was the greatest thing. And I was like, well,
you know, and she does listen to this show on
her smart speaker, she'll listen live. But same thing happens
all the time. Like I ran into a friend and
he was like, I was in South Carolina. We're driving
and all of a sudden, we tune to you and
on the radio and we hear your voice, and it
just happens over and over. Like people will tell me

(37:11):
these stories what I'm out and about. I'm like, yeah,
I love it.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Is My point is there's a certain like fun of
seeing yourself on TV or hearing yourself on the radio,
and there's still some sort of energy that I don't
think is matched in any other way than sort of
that live broadcast energy. It's the reason why when you're
standing at a basketball game doing a live shot and

(37:35):
people are behind you making faces and you know, hand
gestures and all trying to get on TV and all
that stuff. It still happens no matter what across the world. Anyway,
I thought that was pretty fun, So thank you for listening.
I do appreciate it. Get to the phone lines in
just a second here, but I want to tell you
about this twenty three and Me settlement. Reuter's reporting that

(37:57):
twenty three and Me has agreed to a thirty million
dollar settlement in this data breach lawsuit. Some of you
remember last year, this data breach that happened with twenty
three and me affected about seven million customers personal information.
And hackers got access to one of the databases that
twenty three and Me had, and I guess they cleaned

(38:19):
it out and got all this information on these people.
And this is like you know, DNA information whatever they
have in twenty three and me. If you want to
check to see if you are affected, you probably got
an email from twenty three and Me at this point,
I guess. But you can go to that website have
I been poned dot com? Have I been pwned dot com?

(38:40):
And you can type in your email address and it
will tell you. Now, I did do the twenty three
and me DNA test. I guess I was not involved
in this breach because it does not come up. What
does come up is that my info was breached with
AT and T, Bitley, Canva, Dzer, Discus, Dropbox, hot Look.
I don't even know signing up for a hot Look, Kickstarter,

(39:02):
MGM Resorts minted my fitness Pal, National Public Data, Patreon,
share This, Trello, Zinga, White Pages. So yeah, my info's
out there, so is yours. I'm sure that website is.
Have I been ponned pwned dot com anyway? So twenty
three and meters will I guess payout once a federal

(39:24):
judge approves this, So if you were affected, you might
have a little money coming your way.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
They expect. I thought this was interesting.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Twenty five million dollars of this thirty million dollar settment
will be covered by their cyber insurance. So I bet
they're thinking, Wow, I'm glad we had that cyber insurance.
Glad Jim recommended we go we opt for the cyber
insurance because it really is going to pay off. Eighty
eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
to two four to one zero one. Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 12 (39:53):
You're on with Rich Rich Rich. I've got the Android
tablet with a five point two Bluetooth and I've hooked
it up to a wireless earbus. Not a problem. But
I've got a keyboard. I watch you teke keyboard, and
also I wanted to take the mouse, two separate ones.

(40:14):
But I want to pair it to my tablet without
using the doggle because the has a C connector, which
you are very flimsy, and I have used two adapters
to get the receiver built into. You know, either one
can I Can I pair this tablet to either the

(40:35):
keyboard or the mouse without using that the receiver?

Speaker 1 (40:40):
No, not if it doesn't have Bluetooth. So a lot
of these mobile keyboards are mice that are wireless. They
use their own frequency to transmit. Some of them are both,
some are Bluetooth, and some have the dongle, and you
can choose. But if this product does not have the
Bluetooth built in, you're not gonna be able to connect
it without the dog go because it does not use

(41:02):
that dongle, does not use Bluetooth. It's not recreating a
Bluetooth signal. It's it's creating its own wireless signal, probably
a two point four gig Hurtz or something like that.
So your options are to get an adapter, like you said,
and they do make some slim adapters. But the problem
is if you're using this for a tablet, you probably
don't want adapter sticking out because it's going to just

(41:22):
get caught up on things and get messed up. Do
you know what kind of keyboard this is?

Speaker 12 (41:28):
Yeah, it's a Logitech tape I've done on your website.
They don't tell you much about it. They gave me
a bunch of letters and numbers or the bluetooth, but
apparently it doesn't correlate to the tablet of it at all.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah, I'm looking up this keyboard.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
This does not have bluetooth, so it is a It
is just using its own wireless system.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
So, uh, with that said.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
You could the popular keyboard that that you know a
lot of people use with Logitech is the Keys to Go,
and so it's a little bit more expensive. It's seventy bucks.
The one that you're talking about is closer to twenty five.
But this seventy dollars keyboard does have the Bluetooth built in,
and so I know that. And Logitech has a bunch

(42:17):
of keyboards that are like mobile keyboards, so you can
check there, or you can just go online and find
a Bluetooth keyboard that would work with this. So yeah,
it's it's funny. A lot of people don't realize that
you can connect a keyboard or you can actually just
plug in a mouse to your I believe to your
iPhone as well as your Android phone. But you know,

(42:39):
if you have like a corded mouse, just do it.
It's kind of funny. You just plug it in as
long as it's USBC, which all the modern phones are,
plug it in and it will you'll see that little
cursor pop up on your phone, and it's it's kind
of a weird experience. I think I did an Instagram
video about this once on the iPhone. But yeah, you
can do that and again with these keyboards and the mice.

(43:00):
You know, you buy these wireless mice. So that's one
good thing to look for if you're ever if you're
ever shopping for a Bluetooth or I should say a
mouse or a keyboard that's wireless, make sure you check
to see what the specs are on the wireless sort
of transmission because you want to make sure that you
have something that's going to work with your device.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
If you don't want to use that dongle, you need
to make sure it's Bluetooth.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
And so it throws a lot of people off because
you think, oh, I don't need the dongle, I've got
a Bluetooth device. No, it's the keyboard doesn't have that
Bluetooth built in to take advantage of it.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Jerry and Hatfield, Pennsylvania, Thanks so much for the call today.
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Eight eight eight rich one on one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. You might
have gotten an email from Microsoft saying you got to
do something, You got to take action or else your
email is going to stop sinking.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
So here's what's happening.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Starting September sixteenth, you will not be able to sink
your email unless you switch to a modern email program
for your Outlook email. And when they say Outlook, that
usually means any sort of Microsoft email. So what happened
is you probably authenticated your email a long time ago
on the iPhone or on an Android device, or on

(44:12):
your computer, and now Microsoft needs to make sure that
it's using modern authentication, so instead of just that basic
authentication method, which is your username and password back in
the day, it's now using a higher level of security
to make sure you are who you say you are.
So in many cases, especially if you're using the iPhone,

(44:33):
all you have to do is delete your account off
of your iPhone, delete that Outlook account or that Microsoft
account off your iPhone, and then just readd it. So
the system has been upgraded over the years, and so
all you have to do is just.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Relog in and it should work.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
They have different kind of instructions for all these different
setups you might have. So if you're on Outlook for Windows,
you might have to upgrade to a newer version of
Outlook or switch to Outlook dot Com slash exchange sinking.
If you're on Mozilla Thunderbird, which is a free email
app on your computer, all you have to do is
remove and read the count the account. That should be

(45:12):
just fine. On Apple again Apple Mail, just remove that
account and read as Outlook dot com. And on any
other app basically just just log in using that Outlook
dot Com option and that's pretty much it. So this
timeline started on June eleventh, so they probably been bugging
folks since then, but September sixteenth, if that day comes

(45:34):
and you have not switched over to a better log in,
they are going to stop your email from sinking. So
if that's happening to you, or if you've gotten this message,
that's what you need to do is just basically delete
your account and relog in. Unless you're using a super
old version of Outlook, which is twenty seven, twenty ten,
twenty thirteen, twenty sixteen, and twenty nineteen, you have to

(45:54):
download the new free version of Outlook, which they do
offer for both Windows, Mac, and and also the mobile devices.
Eighty eight rich one on one. Coming up this hour,
we're going to talk to tech YouTuber I Justine. She's
going to share her thoughts on the new iPhone sixteen
plus the other Apple products.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
My name is Rich Dmiro.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
This is Rich on Tech, the website for the show
richon Tech dot TV. We'll get back to those phone
lines in just a few minutes here. Eighty eight rich
one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Give me a call if you
have a question about technology.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Redondo Beach. So you're on with Rich.

Speaker 13 (46:35):
Hi, Rich. I don't know if I'm being skeptical or not,
but uh, I had to sign up with Experience for
three months for free through Triple A because our truck
was stolen, And now that the three months have lapsed,
I'm getting all these messages from Experience saying that my
social Security number is now on the dark Web, And

(46:57):
I'm thinking, do they just want me to sign up
for a fee now that I surpassed the threeb three months.

Speaker 14 (47:07):
I don't know whether you believe it or not.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Well, you can believe it. Your information is out there
for sure. There's nothing you can do about it. That's
the sad part. So there's a difference. And I've talked
about this before on the show that the difference is
there are data brokers, and that's all those like Spokeyo
and people finders and stuff like that. They have your
data and yes, it's like your name, your address, your

(47:29):
phone number, your age.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
And then there's the dark web.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
And the dark web is where this stuff lives in
a much more unstructured format. So this is information that
is stolen from databases and hackers have gotten a hold
of it and it is just freely being passed around
on the Internet and there's really nothing you can do
about it because it lives in these repositories online that

(47:54):
just nobody has control over.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
It's just data files being exchanged.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
So I don't think that Experience is lying that your
information is out there on the dark web. But until
they give you a specific example of what that information
is and specifically the data that's out there, I will
tell you I feel like Experience and all these companies
that we've signed up for to protect our information, like
we you know, we all froze our information after the

(48:20):
big data breach, they are using this as a huge
opportunity to spam us, to sell us on all of
this data protection privacy policy stuff. You know, Experience should
be protecting you no matter what, because they're the ones
that you know approve these uh you know, these credit
score things, you know, like we're all your your credit

(48:41):
report and things like that. So, Sue, the short answer
is your information's probably out there.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
There's not really much you can do about it. Sadly.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Now, if you want a free way to check to
see what your uh what information is actually out there,
I use Google. It's called Results about You, and it's
free and so It used to be that you had
to pay for this, but now they actually they actually
give you a free access to this, and that is

(49:11):
rolling out, so she may not have access immediately. But
if you do a Google search for Google results about you,
you can set up a profile to monitor the dark web.
And Google obviously crawls the web every single day and
they go into the far reaches of the Internet, so
if your information is out there, they will unearth it.
And the stuff that you can search for is your name,
your address, your phone number, your email, your social security number,

(49:35):
your use your name.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
And your password.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
And so once you add that information to your Google profile,
they will say anytime that that information is found in
the dark Web, they will alert you. And it's actually
legitimate because I get those alerts and it tells you
it's like, here's the actual information we found, whereas the
experience email that you're getting is saying we found your
information on the dark Web.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Here sign up to learn more.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
That's, you know, in effect, is just kind of baiting
you into into signing up for something you may or
may not need.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
So does that help Sue.

Speaker 13 (50:10):
Yes, it does. But if you see it on Google
and it does come out positive and all that, then
what do you do about it?

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Then there's nothing you can do about it, sadly. If
it's so, there's again it comes back to two things.
So Google will do two things for you. They will
tell you, hey, we just found your information on whitepages
dot com or spochio dot com or housefinder dot com.
Would you like us to take down that search result.
It doesn't take down the information, but it takes down

(50:38):
that link on Google to your information. So if someone's
searching for you, that link will not show up, and
you can do that in about a second through the
notification they send you, and they will say do you
want this on the web? And you say no, and
it will just basically ninety nine percent of the time
they approve it and they will take it down. When
it comes to the dark web, it's more of an
awareness thing. So the dark web is more of an

(51:00):
awareness that your information is out there. Your usernames, your passwords,
your social those are the pieces of information that are
pretty much at this point out there for everyone, sadly
because of some of the recent data breaches. But there's
not really much you can do to pull that back.
But what you can do is understand the fact that
once that information's out there, you have to protect your

(51:23):
identity at any cost, which means freezing your credit reports,
putting a fraudler on your credit reports as well, and
making sure you're not using the same password over and
over or the same user name over and over, because
once they're out there, these hackers are trying them on
different websites and that's many times how people get hacked.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
So, Sue, great question.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I know it sounds a little disconcerting to know that
this information is out there and there's not.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Much we can do. But is that is the reality
of all these data breaches?

Speaker 2 (51:54):
All right?

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Coming up, we are going to talk with I Justine.
You might know her from YouTube. She's going to share
her thought thoughts on all of the new Apple products
right here on rich on Tech.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
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. We will
get back to those phone lines in just a few minutes.
But first, very excited to have my next guest on
the show. She has over seven million subscribers on YouTube.

(52:31):
One of the ogs. She might have invented the genre
of covering tech in the way that you see it
covered today on the internet. I Justine, Justine, welcome to
the show.

Speaker 15 (52:43):
Hello, thank you so much for having me. This is incredible.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Thanks for being on. And saw you up at the event.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
This actually was one of the first times that we
actually did not chat at the Apple event because things
were so frantic.

Speaker 15 (52:57):
It was very frandt.

Speaker 16 (52:58):
I did see you on the news in the hotel
lobby while I was eating breakfast.

Speaker 15 (53:03):
The picture I need to send it to you.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
That is awesome and see and I actually just told
the story about my mom seeing me on or hearing
me on the radio, And there is just something exciting.
Even when I see you like pop up somewhere, I'm like, oh,
I know her, Like it's just there's something fun about it, right,
I know.

Speaker 15 (53:18):
It was so good.

Speaker 16 (53:18):
I was hoping to see you come around the corner
of really surprise. I'm also here too, Yes.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
We have We've traditionally stayed at the same place sometimes,
but I chose a different place this time and it
was fine, you know, so I mine had free breakfast
as well, which I always like in a hotel that's.

Speaker 15 (53:33):
Honestly all that matters. Free breakfast and Wi Fi.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Oh and my WiFi was not good at this hotel,
which was really sad. I actually think one of the
main hotel chains in French their name means bad WiFi.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
That's what I've come to the conclusion of.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Okay, so Apple Event, what's your initial initial takeaway from
the Apple Event this year with the iPhones, the Apple Watch,
and the AirPods.

Speaker 15 (53:55):
You know, I'm I'm obviously excited.

Speaker 16 (53:57):
I think one of the most surprising things was the
I think we knew it was already coming, but like
the air Pods Pro too, Like that update is huge,
you know, the fact that we're going to be getting
all of those health features for hearing and health and
it's just it's amazing because it's at that price point too,
Like that can help so many people that need that
extra hearing assistance.

Speaker 15 (54:19):
Obviously, the iPhone sixteen Pro and.

Speaker 16 (54:21):
The capture button, I feel like that's going to take
some getting used to because even trying to use it
during the hands on events, I kept forgetting that I
could hit the button, and they kept reminding me, no, no,
you can hit the button.

Speaker 15 (54:31):
You don't have to go and like search for the
camera app and do it the ways that you normally did.
So it's going to be so fun to try that out.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yeah, it's like anything else. It takes a little bit
of muscle memory.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Although I will say, and you can, you can tell
me what your thoughts are on this. So the action
button I still a year in do not. I always
forget it's there, and so I haven't set a good
shortcut for it. I haven't really set a good use
for it. What are you using that for? That's the
other button they added last year. Now that's coming to
the fifteen are sorry they started it on the fifteen

(55:02):
Pro lineup. Now it's on the entire sixteen lineup. Which
is the button on the left hand side. It used
to be the Ringer silent switch. Now it's like a
programmable button you can make do anything.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Really.

Speaker 15 (55:13):
Yeah, I just have it set up as my silent.

Speaker 16 (55:17):
Which my phone is always on silent, so it's you know,
it doesn't really get that much use, but I have
seen a lot of people do a lot of really
cool things with it, like set it up to use
as shortcuts. But most of the time, you know, I
have my camera app on like my main home screen,
so I just tap that, don't even have to like
log into my phone and just start going to themer

(55:39):
because I think that's going to be the biggest feature
for me, is being able to just hit that button
on the side and the camera actually just pop up
and open.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Yes, it's interesting because I thought that Apple might because
on the on the androids, basically it's all of them
kind of do the double tap of the power button
will bring up the camera.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
And so now on I phone you have it.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
I mean, they kind of one uped it because I
was always like, oh, that's reserved for Apple Pay on
the iPhone, but now they actually added a whole other
way to launch the camera, which in some ways is
even better because now you can launch your Apple Pay
and your camera dedicated buttons, which is nice, which is rare.

Speaker 15 (56:15):
Oh I too for sure.

Speaker 16 (56:16):
No, I mean I use the Apple Pay button all
the time because I don't even ever carry actual credit cards,
So it's amazing to sort of have that sort of
be its dedicated thing.

Speaker 15 (56:25):
And I think it's cool because this is still the
beginning for that. So you know what.

Speaker 16 (56:29):
Apple showed us there could be more things down the line.
That they update in the software to give us more features,
and having third party developers be able to really.

Speaker 15 (56:38):
Tap into that for their apps.

Speaker 16 (56:40):
I mean, it's going to be a whole kind of
new way, and I think this really shows Apple's dedication
to making these be so much more than phones be
content creation devices.

Speaker 15 (56:51):
And even on the fifteen shooting in pro res log.

Speaker 16 (56:55):
I mean, I don't think enough people experience the full
capacity of like what you can do with that footage
and how amazing you can make it look. So as
soon as we get our hands on that one twenty
progress and shooting in log on like an external drive,
it's going to be so amazing.

Speaker 15 (57:12):
So I'm just getting so excited.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Explain that for the light person, Like, what does that
mean exactly? It's like basically like Hollywood style creation or what.

Speaker 16 (57:21):
Yeah, So it basically will give you kind of like
a very flat image, but it's preserving a lot of
the color data inside of it to give you the
ability to collagrade it and kind of add your own style.
So it's kind of preserving a lot of those low lights,
highlights and that color to let you kind of have
more creative style. And then one hundred and twenty frames
a second is just some super set up video that

(57:43):
you can then slow down to make it very slow
and cinematic. And for that you do need to use
an external drive, So any of those like faster USBC drives,
you can plug those directly into your phone now and
record right to the drive and you basically have all
of your footage there that you can take edit and
it's so exciting.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
So on the base models, you got five colors, black, white, pink, teal,
and ultramarine. Which is your pick? Which one did you
like the most?

Speaker 15 (58:11):
I mean, is that even a question? Obviously the pink one.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I was gonna say, because I use my Pink Eye
Justine cable every single day. So I set it up
actually on the side of my couch. I have the
cable coming out from the back of the wall so
I can like just sit down. I've got my little
table and my little cable where I can charge my
phone while I'm sitting there. And I love it, so
I use it every day. You did that, what was
it a couple of years ago?

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Right?

Speaker 15 (58:33):
Yeah, that was like two years ago.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Oh my gosh, I still love it. You're still selling it.

Speaker 15 (58:37):
I know, yeah, I know they're still there.

Speaker 16 (58:39):
I think we're going to be doing something for breast
cancer where it is in October, so stay tuned.

Speaker 15 (58:44):
Very excited about that. Okay, But yeah, the pink iPhone.

Speaker 16 (58:48):
It's funny because I kept looking at the color and look,
I had a graphic design background, so as soon as
I looked at it, I was like, that's.

Speaker 15 (58:54):
Actually more of a barry color than pink. But okay,
it's all right.

Speaker 16 (58:59):
It does have a little more of a purple kind
of look to it, like when we were looking at
them at the hands on, but you know what, pink
is pink.

Speaker 15 (59:07):
It's pink enough for me and.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
I'll take it now.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
On the pro models, the colors are a little more
muted because I guess the way that you affect titanium
is tougher. I don't know, I'm not an expert in
this stuff, but four finishes black, natural white, and desert titanium,
So what's your pick there?

Speaker 15 (59:24):
Definitely going to go with the desert. I keep wanting
to call it a desert rose because it does sort.

Speaker 16 (59:28):
Of have like that warm kind of gold feeling, which
matched really well.

Speaker 15 (59:33):
With the new gold titanium watch band.

Speaker 16 (59:37):
As well and that new gold finish, because it did
look a little bit different when we were kind of
holding them up in the hands on events and I
did compare them side by side to each other, and
they just they look stunning.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
So you've been covering this stuff for a long time.
A what keeps you excited? And B what are people
saying to you about these new devices? Like what are
they asking about the most?

Speaker 16 (01:00:00):
I think everyone just kind of really wants to see,
like what's the differences? And I think the hard thing is,
you know, there's not huge differences in between each of
these upgrades, Like if you have a fifteen, like you
really don't need to go and get as sixteen, but
do you want to?

Speaker 15 (01:00:15):
Yeah? Maybe I think that's where it's.

Speaker 16 (01:00:18):
It's the hard thing is like there are kind of
these incremental updates where you don't need to update every
single year. I think if I wasn't a tech reviewer
that was doing this every single year, I probably wouldn't need.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
To That's not true. You come on, you're I know
you're like me.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
It's like to me, like my brain just works like
I want the latest, Like I just no matter what,
I'm just.

Speaker 16 (01:00:37):
Trying to be like logical, Like you know, if I'm
just like, you know, every day hanging out, like you
really don't need it because it's still so great. And
then you know, I see photos and videos that people
are taking on their you know, iPhone twelves, I'm like, oh.

Speaker 15 (01:00:48):
They still look incredible. So there is a big difference.

Speaker 16 (01:00:51):
I think when you kind of go from you know,
five generations before to one of these, it is a
holy world, Like everything just is so smooth and snappy.
And the biggest difference that I have seen from the
sixteen Regulars to the sixteen pros is the screen how fast?
Because it's one hundred and twenty perks on the pros

(01:01:13):
and it's still only sixty on the regulars. So there
is a bit of screen discrepancy. But if you've never
actually used one of the faster promotion displays, you're not
going to realize it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Yeah, Well, when I use my wife's phone, I like,
you know, swipe and I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Like, wait, why is this so slow? It's like it
literally looks to me like it's in slow motion. But again,
she's a casual user. She doesn't even care, Like I'm like,
don't you want the new phone? Don't you want the
new watch? Don't you want the new And she's like,
why what do I need? Like I don't And really
sometimes it just comes down to color. All right, we've
got it run. But I'm just curious. You know I
said this earlier, but you know you've been covering this

(01:01:48):
for a while. What keeps you going, Justine? What keeps
you excited about this stuff? What keeps you energized? I
know you work very very hard to keep all these
things up to date for your followers.

Speaker 15 (01:01:59):
Yeah, no, I think it's it really is fun for me.

Speaker 16 (01:02:01):
And I think taking these devices and going somewhere cool
and kind of just really showing what they can do
is what's so fun for me. And I like to
use as an excuse to like go do fun stuff
like oh it's a fine season, gotta go somewhere cool
and make a review.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
I love that great, great outlook. Thanks so much for
joining me today. I appreciate it.

Speaker 15 (01:02:20):
Yes, thank you, so great to chat with you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
I Justine follow her on on YouTube obviously, but on
all social media you can find her.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
It's pretty easy to find.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Just start just type I into Google and it might
be like I Justine an iPhone might come up.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
The first two things.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four two four one zero one coming up. I'll take
more of your calls and I'll tell you which major
airline is putting Starlink on board for super fast Wi Fi.
And I've tried it and it's incredible. This is Rich
on Tech Brian in Marietta, California.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
Brian, you're on with Rich Hey, how are you today?
I am doing excellent. I hope you can hear it
in my voice. What's up?

Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
That's a quick ones, A couple of quick questions.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
Actually, So, I know.

Speaker 12 (01:03:15):
You were talking about carriers this.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
Morning, and so like Verizon and you know, or Visible
or Total.

Speaker 17 (01:03:28):
If I go with the cheap the other carriers other
than Variegon he's all owned by Verizon doing peak, Are
they gonna problem throw me back?

Speaker 5 (01:03:38):
Or you know I'm not going to get act.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
You know I'm gonna have problems getting.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Onto the network today.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Prioritize people who who pay for Veriding direct versus like
Visible or Total.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Wireless.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
It's interesting questions. So okay, number one. My My main
response to this is that if you're doing any sort
of job where you're truly relying on the speed and
availability of a network anywhere you need to go with
one of these high priced, you know, traditional plans, that

(01:04:16):
is first party and it's through AT and T, it's
through T Mobile, it's through Verizon. Because if your if
your job or what you're doing relies on it, and
you always need that priority, then yes, that's going to
be the best possible way to get that priority. Because
typically with the mv and os, there is a provision
that says, yeah, we may slow you down when we

(01:04:38):
need to, and that is in the provision of the
plan that you're signing up for now. It's also in
the provision of the major plans as well. But in general,
the you know, if your Verizon, you're going to prioritize
your your top customers first because they're the ones paying
the premium plans. So with that said, I think that

(01:04:59):
ninety nine point nine percent of people are fine on
these mv and O plans because most of the time
you just want to check Facebook, Instagram, whatever. Now, for
me personally, I will tell you that in a lot
of times, like I want to have the best access
to the network because I'm uploading large videos. I'm downloading
large videos and I just want to have that ability.

(01:05:21):
So the cool thing is there's this new thing called
Broadband Facts. It's kind of like nutrition facts, but for
all of the cellular companies, anyone that provides internet in
America has to now do this Broadband Facts label. It
looks just like the nutrition facts on the side of
you know, a piece of food or you know, some

(01:05:41):
sort of food, but it's all about broadband. And so
it'll tell you what the monthly price is, what the
additional charges and fees are, any discounts, what the typical
speeds are of that plan, the data that's included with
your monthly plan. And then there's something called network management,
and that's what you want. Click and you can go

(01:06:01):
in and read how they will manage your network. So,
for instance, I popped Mint's Network Management plan into my
AI to summarize it, and it says Mint Mobile may
slow down your data speeds in the following scenarios after
reaching your plans high speed data allotment. So for the
unlimited plan, this occurs after using forty gigs of five

(01:06:23):
G or four G in your monthly period. Let's see
during times of network congestion. Mint Mobiles network supplier may
reduce speeds during periods of high network traffic, even if
you haven't exceeded your high speed data allotment.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
So what does that mean.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
It means that basically they reserve the right to throttle
your data speed no matter what.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Now, does that happen every single day all over the place.
Probably not.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
I test a lot of phones, I test a lot
of networks, and quite honestly, I almost never have a
problem anywhere. You might notice when you go to a
football game there's a lot of people in the stadium. Sure,
your Instagram story may take a little bit longer to
go through if they're doing that, but in general, I
think you could safely save the money and be okay.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I went to Visible's website and their network management policy
is just redirected to Verizon, and so I asked to
see what their policy is, and it says, after reaching
your plans high speed data, we may slow down your
data during times of network congestion. On certain plans, Verizon

(01:07:37):
may prioritize your five G and four G data behind
other traffic. If the cell site you're connected to experiences
high demand during your session, your data speeds may be
slower than other traffic. Once demand lessons or you connect
to a different site not experiencing high demand, your speed
should return to normal.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
So again, any of these.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Carriers are going to reserve of the right to manage
their network speed no matter what. And if you look
at AT and T, they offer something called first Net,
which is like for their first responders, and so that
network is sort of prioritized above and beyond. I guess
they're regular folks that are not on that you know,
first responder network.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
So you know, look, there's a lot to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
This, but I think in general, I think you're gonna
be fine unless you are in some sort of role
where you require unlimited access all the time and the
fastest access all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Brian, thanks so much for the call. Do appreciate it.
I say, save the money, you'll probably be okay.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
Speaking of super fast internet, United Airlines the first major
airline to sign up with SpaceX Starlink. That means you
are going to have super speedy in flight Wi Fi
coming soon to United. Over one thousand aircraft they're gonna
outfit with this Starlink Wi Fi. It's going to take

(01:09:00):
a couple of years. It's not gonna be instant. And
I'm old enough to remember when Wi Fi on planes
was not a given, and I remember United was slowly
rolling this out over all of their planes, and now
they've got to go in and do it all over
again with Starlink.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
But this is going to be much much better.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
It's going to be super super fast gate to gate connectivity,
high speed, low latency internet. I've tested this on Hawaiian Airlines.
They were the first. I guess you can't call them
the major airline because they're not like an American or
a Delta or United, but it's still a pretty big airline.
But they have it and I tried it, and it
is incredible. We're talking speed you have at home. The

(01:09:39):
things you can do at home you can now do
on that airplane from the second you get on board
to the second you land. That includes live TV, streaming,
social media, shopping, gaming. My kid this morning was like,
you mean I could play roadblocks on our flights home
to New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
Now, I said, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Soon.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
United is the first major carrier, like I said, and
testing is going to begin in early twenty twenty five,
with the first passenger flights expected later that year.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
I cannot wait.

Speaker 1 (01:10:08):
This is the airline that I take home to Newark
all the time, and I cannot wait to have Starlink
because I do like to work on the plane. And
now you don't have to download stuff in advance. It's
gonna be incredible. Let's see what happens with the other airlines. Oh,
by the way, did I mention they're offering it for free?

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Even better?

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
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show number eighty nine. You can tap that to see
all of the guests, all of the links that I mention,
and all of the information that I mentioned in the
show Let's see mela in Whittier wrote in what is
this high split? I've been hearing about Spectrum working on
a high split. Do you have any clue what that's about? Yes,

(01:11:31):
I do, good question. So this is a cable this
is cable network. So the biggest difference between cable internet
and fiber internet is that fiber internet typically has the
same upload and download speed, So if you get a
thousand down, you're usually getting a thousand up as well.

(01:11:53):
Now with cable typically they have reserved fast download speeds,
but the upload speed is a lot slower. And they
did that for a reason. It helps them manage the
network where they know most people are downloading stuff and
streaming stuff, and not so many people are uploading stuff
back to the network, unless you're someone like myself who's
dealing with large video files or any sort of large

(01:12:15):
file that you're constantly uploading back to the network. And
so they created these cable networks where they advertise, oh,
get three hundred down. That's three hundred megabits per second
down or five hundred megabits per second down. But then
if you look at the upspeeds, they're typically much slower
and so they might be thirty megabit, thirty megabits per

(01:12:35):
second up or twenty or ten, depending on what the
download speed is. So typically the download speed is really fast,
the upload speed is a lot slower.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
The high split.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
Means that they are now configuring this cable network to
put a larger portion of that bandwidth for the traffic
going back up to the network, so the upload traffic.
That's what they've been doing in a lot of neighborhoods
to compete with Fiber. I'm assuming because Fiber advertises, hey,
we've got the same speed up and down. You get
five hundred up, five hundred down, it's going to be

(01:13:10):
super fast no matter what you're doing, and so that's
been a marketing kind of differentiator for Fiber, and cable
wants in on that. So they're saying, okay, let's do
this high split where now we're giving people a very
similar upload speed or a faster upload speed relative to
their download speed.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
So hope that answers your question.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
I think it's a good thing because even with the
download speeds, I mean, they're advertised heavily, but to be honest,
unless you're doing something pretty wild with your internet connection,
downloading big files all the time. You don't need the
fastest download and upload speeds like even Netflix. If you're streaming,
which is like ninety percent of what people are doing

(01:13:53):
these days, you don't need that much speed. Netflix can
work on a very slow Internet connection. That's part of
the magic that makes streaming so great. You don't want
buffering and all that stuff. But you know, a very
typical connection these days will will work just fine. So
if you're overpaying for your internet kind of take a
look at that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
You may not.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Need that super super duper fast speed. Let's go to
Patrick in Colorado Springs. Patrick, what's going on?

Speaker 17 (01:14:20):
Yes, thank you for taking my call. I'm coming off
of thirteen years using an Apple Nano and I wanted
to replace it because it's not working. And I'm wondering
if you have a recommendation for a small unit that
would have the two features that I need, which is
FM radio and MP three player. I tried the one

(01:14:43):
that Sony offers is called the E three ninety four,
and I'm not happy with it. It has intermittent success
with the feature that has automatically starts the next song,
and so I don't want to have problems with that,
But I'm looking at something between one hundred and two
hundred bucks, maybe the highs to fifty. If you have
a recommendation.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Oh wow, Well I don't have a recommendation. Off the
top of my head. I have it's been a while
since I used a product like this. It's very specific
at this point, and I'm actually surprised that you had
a problem because Sony is such high quality. What is
the issue with this device? Because it looks exactly like
what you need.

Speaker 17 (01:15:19):
It's a nice unit, is sixty nine dollars. It's called
the E three ninety four. And when you have say
twenty songs on there, and you play one and you're
not touching it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
When you finish that.

Speaker 17 (01:15:29):
Song, it automatically starts the next. But in this case,
it doesn't work. It just sits there and pauses. I
can push pause, So I said, they were very nice.
We worked through it about two and a half hours
on technical Sport. They sent me a new one and
it did the same thing. Now it only does it
about one out of ten times. It will automatically start
the next song nine times and.

Speaker 12 (01:15:51):
Then it won't one.

Speaker 17 (01:15:52):
But if you're using it at night, like I am.
It means getting up, putting on the lights, putting on
your glasses, and then I will say that the controls
are our cake and cumbersome compared to the Apple product.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
Yeah, of course, that's that's why Apple is a number
one tech company in the world, because they've they've done
pretty well with their software. Well look, my initial thought
here is that the only other company, like the main
brand that I know that does stuff like this is
sand Disc. I don't know if you've heard of them,
but you know, they've been around forever, and they did

(01:16:26):
I mean, this was Actually it's funny because I think
it was the Rio, but I had like basically, this
was the MP three player that I was using before
I switched to the iPod and before I switched to
the iPhone. I've been a runner for a long time,
so I can tell you over the years. I can't
believe how many devices I have run with over the

(01:16:46):
years before the iPhone and actually now it's just the
Apple Watch, but it's or a smart watch in general.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
But it's pretty wild, like.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
The transition between like going from a tape player to
a mini disc player. I think I had a CD
player that I was running with at some point, which
was rough because that was bouncy all the time, to
to an iPod, to a nano, to a shuffle to
a you know, an iPhone, and now of course the
Apple Watch.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
But it's it's just wild anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
The sand Disc, they've got a thing called the sand
Disc Clip, and this is an MP three player plus.
It does have an FM radio tuner built in as well,
so it gives you everything you need. It's pretty inexpensive.
You got sixteen gigs for fifty bucks, thirty two gigs
for sixty dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
But that is probably the one that I would recommend.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
Sand Disc Clip Sport Plus, and they have a couple
of them, so I would just look on the sand Disc. Now,
sand Disc got they're owned by Western Digital, but they've
got a couple. They've got the sand Disc Clip, Jam
MP three, the Sport Go and the Sport Plus.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
So the thing you want to make sure is.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
That they have the the FM tuners. So I'm going
to compare these real quick and see which one has
the FM tuner because I know the one I mentioned does,
but I don't know if the other one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
Does that the other Okay, let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
Okay, they all have the FM, so all three of
them have the features that you want. So the sand
disk clip, whether you go at the JAM, the Sport
or the Sport Plus, they all have everything you need,
which is an MP three player and the FM radio
built into it, and you should be good to go.
And I think, you know, obviously you're gonna have to
test it out and see if it has the same
issue that you had with your sony, but these are

(01:18:34):
very inexpensive. I would buy it on Amazon so that
you can return it if it doesn't work, and that
should be exactly what you need. Now, if you don't
want those, you can just go on Amazon and look
up MP three FM player and there are a whole
bunch of no name brands on there that may do
exactly what you need. And in that case, when I'm

(01:18:56):
looking for something on Amazon something like this, you're not
going to find a lot of reviews online for or
because they're just you know, no one's really reviewing these
products at this point. But I personally would look for
something that is prime, look at the reviews, make sure
it has at least four maybe four and a half stars.
You can look at Amazon's picks. They typically will tell

(01:19:17):
you if an item is returned a lot, So click
through and see if it says this item is commonly returned,
and if it says that, stay away. Because Amazon has
the data on these products, it looks good. They sell
them on there and then people get them for a
week and they return them. So I would look for
one that has high ratings, maybe best seller overall, pick

(01:19:37):
is prime and does not say that it's returned often.
All right, Patrick and Colorado Springs, thanks so much for
the call today. I do appreciate it. Sony has a
new PlayStation five pro ps five pro. This is going
to launch on November seventh. Can you believe this price tag?

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
You ready?

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
Six hundred and ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents, even
more expensive than the PlayStation five. So I am curious
how this is going to do. This is for really,
I guess dedicated gamers seven hundred bucks. It's got a
two terabyte solid state drive, It's got the Dual Sense
wireless controller. It has Wi Fi seven, which I don't

(01:20:18):
think the PlayStation five has, so that's gonna be nice.
But the problem is who has Wi Fi seven in
their house? Not many people now, of course, they're going
to tell you that it is better and faster than
the current PlayStation five and better at doing the ray tracing,
which is all the buzzword in the gaming community. Ray
tracing is sort of like what shadows and things look

(01:20:39):
like when they're rendered and reflections on the screen. The
higher the better the ray tracing, the more realistic things
look like. If you're walking down a street and the
sun is shining from the right, you'll see that nice
shadow on the left of you, and it's refreshed and
made to look very good when it's when the ray tracing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
Is at a higher uh just a higher caliber.

Speaker 5 (01:21:03):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
Anyway. Pre Orders open on September twenty sixth.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
The thing to know about the PlayStation five Pro is
that even though it is more expensive, it and the
visuals are supposed to look better. There's no disc, so
no physical drive. You have to pay extra to add
that on to this device. So there you have it.
PlayStation five Pro coming out November seventh, seven hundred dollars.

(01:21:26):
This is not the new PlayStation. This is not the
next generation PlayStation. This is sort of a stop gap
until Sony comes out with something brand new. Whether that's
I don't follow the rumors on that, but that may
be a couple of years out. Eighty eight rich one
one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
zero one.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
My name is Rich Dmiro. This is rich on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Tech, the website for the show richon Tech dot tv.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
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Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
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This is through the eleven Labs Reader app. This is
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Eleven Labs is sort of the leader in AI voices

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Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
And it can read you anything.

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
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Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
If you pop in an article from the Internet, it
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they have a whole bunch of voices you can choose
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on my website. Rich on tech dot Tv hit the
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it on your phone, It's pretty incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
I use it when I'm at the gym to catch
up on articles that I am have been meaning to read.
It's a much easier to have someone to read them
to you. Let's go to Linda in Glendale. Linda, you're
on with Rich.

Speaker 18 (01:24:08):
Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. How do
I remove personal information from Google? Such as my past
and currents addresses, phone numbers, and names of relatives and
court cases?

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Okay, so I mentioned this earlier, but it's a feature
on Google called Google Results about You. So it's a
weird name. I don't know why they call it that,
but that's what they call it. But basically, if you
type Google Results about You into Google, the first couple
of results, actually this looks like the sixth result on

(01:24:44):
Google is my article for KTLA back in August of
twenty twenty three, I first talked about this. But the
thing is, you sign up. You already have a Google account.
You sign up, you tell it the information that you
want it to look for, and once you do, it
will put its little feelers out on the web, and
when it finds that information on a website, it will

(01:25:06):
alert you. So, for instance, it found my information on
a website called unmasked dot com. And the information that
was in there was I don't know, it looks like
my address and my name, and so you can tell Google, hey,
I want this information taken out of Google searches. Now,

(01:25:29):
that information is only removed from Google Search itself. That
means that ninety percent of people when they're searching for you,
they're just gonna pop your name into Google and these
are the results that come up. That result will no
longer be shown. It does not remove it from the
original company. So if you want to remove it from
the original company, you either have to do it yourself,
which you can go to these websites.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
So if you if you go to a website, let's.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Say for this unmasked dot com, right, so you can
type in unmasked and say, uh, take down request. So
if you type that in, you'll get information on how
to opt out of that website. And the website that
comes up is opty dot com how to opt out

(01:26:12):
of unmask And you can do this for all the
different websites and so, or you can subscribe to a service.
There's a lot of these services like delete me and
many many others out there that will. You can pay
them a couple bucks a month and they will. They
will remove your information from these services, or at least
attempt to. It's not the fastest process in the world.

(01:26:33):
You can do it by yourself, and I probably recommend
doing that. So what I would do personally, Linda, is
that I would go on Google whatever you're worried about,
search for that information, and whatever website comes up, whether
it's people results finder dot Com or true people Search,
check People or whatever it is, and then just say
opt out and you can fill out that opt out form.

(01:26:55):
And it takes a while sometimes and they kind of
throw you through some hoops to do it, but once
you do that, they will say, okay, fine, we'll take
your information out of there now. If you live in California,
there's also another way you can opt out of these
things because we have some specialized laws in California. Not
many people use it, but there is a privacy kind

(01:27:19):
of law in California that allows you to opt out
of this stuff quicker. I don't have the instructions on
how to do that right now, but I will post
them as a link on the show notes. But that's
another option. If you live in California, which you do anyway. Yeah,
this stuff is a mess. It's all over and if
you want to clean up your stuff, you can also
hire a professional that does this for a living.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
There are people out there that will do that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
I've done stories with them, and it's a big business,
especially for like celebrities and things, and also reputation management.
If you have an article out there that you don't
necessarily like about yourself, people want to get that off
Google too.

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
That's a little bit trickier. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Coming up, we are going to talk to John from
jen K Grown Up about eighties nostalgia. Fun topic coming up,
rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology the website
for the show rich on Tech dot TV. I know

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we had some questions about removing data from Google. I
have updated the show notes and if you're in California,
I put the specific California opt out information there from
Consumerwatchdog dot org. They just came out with a report
that says less than one percent of Californians exercise their

(01:28:38):
privacy rights with data brokers. So they've got a lot
of good information about how to remove your data from
various websites, not just Google. So definitely check that out
Rich on tech dot tv. Once you get there, hit
the light bulb icon and that'll bring you the wiki.
Check show number eighty nine for the show notes.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Joining me now is.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
YouTube creator John Reddick. He runs a YouTube channel called
jen x Grown Up, which explores eighties nostalgia, retro gaming,
and all these old brands that are coming back again.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
John.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 14 (01:29:16):
Hey, Rich, this is It's always a good day to
talk about nostalgic tech and games.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
So great to be here. Thanks.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
It's so wild because I don't know why we are
all so nostalgic for things, And I mean, you've created
a whole channel based on it. So tell me about
your YouTube channel, what you sort of cover on there.
I kind of mentioned it, but I want to hear
your take.

Speaker 14 (01:29:39):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I have a kid of
the seventies and eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
I was born in nineteen sixty nine.

Speaker 14 (01:29:44):
I grew up in the origin of a lot of
I lived through the transition from vinyl.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
To cassettes to CDs and all that.

Speaker 14 (01:29:50):
And video gaming didn't exist when I was born, and
I grew up and so I love that stuff, and
so I'm inundated. You know, I used to work in
broadcasting many lives ago, and you know, I had a
chance to create my own stuff. So, you know, on
gen X Grown Up on the YouTube channel, I cover
all sorts of nostalgic you know, gaming and technology and
new modern consoles that come out and throwback stuff, and

(01:30:13):
you know, we host a weekly audio podcast every Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
I co host nineteen Eighties now every Monday, and.

Speaker 14 (01:30:20):
Anytime I get a chance to talk about this stuff
that I love growing up, the nostalgic stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
As you said, Uh, that's where I do it, and
that's my outlet.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
I love that title, by the way, nineteen eighties now,
that's like so like it's such a great title.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
So how do you define nostalgia?

Speaker 14 (01:30:37):
I mean, I think every generation has a nostalgia for
what what what was new to them, what they enjoyed
when they were kids.

Speaker 12 (01:30:45):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:30:45):
I people say, kind of it's a desire to go
back to a simpler time. But even if the times
weren't that much simpler, our lives were simpler, you know
when we were you know, in our in our teens,
and we didn't yet have jobs and families and mortgages
and cars and you know, a roof to.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
Fix and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:31:02):
And so I think that it colors the things we
enjoyed at that age because we had no other worries
at the time other than you know, who am I
going to ask to the prom? And am I going
to get my allowance this week? You know, those sorts
of things, and it's so much simpler. And I think
as we get older and things get more complicated and
more complex, it's fun to go back and there's some endorphit.

(01:31:23):
I think that kicks off when you can go back
and remember that thing from a time when you had
an easier or more carefree life.

Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
And of course these companies want to tap into it.
So like, for instance, we had some pizza Hut last
night and I was cracking up because if you look
at their logo, they've gone back to like their old
school logo. And when I held these pizza boxes, I'm
sitting there, I'm like, I just it just warms something
in your heart, right that, like, this is what I
had as a kid, and now I'm having it here

(01:31:52):
as an adult with a mortgage and with things and kids.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
And other stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:31:56):
Yeah, I've seen some places that pizza have they bring
back the stained glass lamps and the red cups, all
the things that made pizza hut magic.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
Oh my gosh, I am. I am.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
So there's actually a list of the old school pizza
huts that are still around that where you can go
in and eat there. I want to bring my kids
to that, but I haven't found a location that's close by.
But I really want to do that because I didn't
appreciate it back.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Then, but now I do. Yeah, we do.

Speaker 1 (01:32:21):
So what's popular with your with your viewers? Like what
I mean, gaming obviously is kind of probably top. So
is that pretty much tops right now?

Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
Well, certainly.

Speaker 14 (01:32:31):
I mean on my YouTube channel, I predominantly cover gaming.
It's just kind of what I've the niche kind of
fallen into. Even though I enjoy all things nostalgia, you know,
tech and pop culture. But I mean anything Atari is
of interest. You know, Tari as a company is kind
of emblematic of nostalgic gaming certainly. You know, they were
one of the originators of both arcade and then home gaming,

(01:32:53):
and they've had quite a resurgence in the last couple
of years. Ever, since Wade Rosen took over as the CEO,
and he's really trying to drive that company, you know,
out of obscurity and back into the its rightful place.
All these mini consoles and many computers like the Little
Commodore and the Little Atari eight bit, the ZX Spectrum
that just got announced. I think it's just goes back
to that nostalgia we were just talking about. People love

(01:33:16):
a chance to sample that stuff or remember it if
they if they already know it.

Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
And all the little plug and.

Speaker 14 (01:33:23):
Play toys that you know, they oh, there's twenty games,
you're plug in your TV.

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
It's not quite right, but it's right enough.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:33:29):
Those are sort of things that are really they've had
They've always been around a bit. They've had quite a
resurgence and a push in the last couple of years.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
Yeah, we we've We've had a couple of those over
the years.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
Also, like the NYS Classic that came out.

Speaker 1 (01:33:45):
So what what So when when you talk about these games,
are you talking do they come out with new games
for this or's always like old games that are just
sort of new again.

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:33:56):
It's both and Atari, especially who I just mentioned, they're
doing some amaze. Like just the last week, two weeks ago,
they announced the Atari seventy eight hundred Plus, which is
a throwback to the seventy eight hundred from the I
guess late eighties. I think came out eighty nine or
something like that anyway, But in addition to re releasing
some older games on physical media, which is what these

(01:34:18):
consoles do, these plus consoles, since they recently purchased Atari Age,
which is a forum and community for Atari fans, they
have embraced the homebrew developers. I just had a chance
to speak with Bob de Grezenzo, who's a long time
homebrew developer, and they embraced him. They took some of
his homebrew games that he wrote, and you asked, but older,

(01:34:39):
newer games. These are games he's written the last two
or three years. And they're making the legitimate. They're making
the part of the Atari library. Now it's not just
a hobbyist who wrote something and had a cartridge built.
So many of the plug and plays are compilations, as
you said, of stuff that's been around for thirty forty years.
But Atari is doing a lot to breathe new life

(01:35:01):
into these consoles with titles that are written by enthusiasts
and now becoming legitimized as part of the game library
of Atari.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
So the reason why I found you was because I
was doing a story on sort of retro gaming. Visited
a store in the LA area called retro Respawn, which
is like, you know, these people go in there and
they buy, sell, and trade old games, and it was
just wild to see that kind of community. And he
was telling me Pokemon is really hot. Obviously Mario is

(01:35:33):
always hot, but it's wild to go into this store
where you have physical cartridges, you have games that haven't end.

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
It's like almost like a mini.

Speaker 1 (01:35:41):
Movie compared to today's games like a Fortnite or a
you know what's the other one that all the kids
like roadblocks, like these games never end. Back when we
played games, or I guess you still do, you know,
they had a beginning of middle and an end. It
was a storyline and now it's just open ended forever.

Speaker 14 (01:35:59):
Right, Or it was designed to kill you in about
three minutes like an arcade game, get another quartery out
of your pocket.

Speaker 12 (01:36:04):
Right.

Speaker 14 (01:36:04):
It was either a story that had beguinea midle end,
as you said, or it was something that was fast
action and twitch and how far can you get? What
high score can you get? Wait a second, you know
you just high scores. You just made me realize something
that we have been getting played by these games for
many years, because nowadays, like the kids are asking their
parents for these little InApp purchases, right, ninety nine cents here,

(01:36:27):
a dollar there.

Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
But now I think about it, Yeah, the whole point
was to get those quarters out of your pocket into
the game when you.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Were a kid.

Speaker 14 (01:36:35):
That was the metric for old arcade games. Try to
get your quarter and kill you in three minutes because
that was how long it would take before to make money.
Get another quarter every three or four minutes was the goal.
So better you got, the worse it was for the
owner of that machine.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
And I guess there's probably some rev share too with
the you know, the pizza place that had the machine
in there, right right? What are your favorite games? What
are you into these days?

Speaker 14 (01:36:58):
So look, I still play old stuff. I go back
and play old Atari twenty six hundred titles regularly today.
I'm also really enjoying some of the reimagined games, and
I keep mentioning Atari, but they're doing so much in
the space right now they are doing these recharged games
where they take a classic game like Breakout or Missile

(01:37:19):
Command or Asteroids or Centipede, and they're reimagining it with
a techno soundtrack and power ups and things like that.
They just came out with a new one called Yars Rising,
which was actually a kind of a metroid Vania exploration,
power up your character sort of thing, nothing like the
original Yars Revenge that Howard Scott Warshaw wrote decades ago,
but in that universe. I like how especially Atari and

(01:37:42):
some other companies are starting to do this, are exploring
their library and not just regurgitating the same games, but
iterating upon them and expanding the lore or the story
or the gameplay in ways that makes sense to modern gamers,
but still try to appeal to the older guys like
us who sorry, older guys like me, I won't group
you with.

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
I was gonna say, I don't know here, you're putting
me in a big grout home.

Speaker 3 (01:38:03):
So yeah, yeah, we can enjoy it too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
John Reddick from gen X Grown Up, thanks so much
for joining me today.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
Appreciate it one hundred percent. Thank you for having me.
It's been great, all right, find his YouTube channel.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
If you're a nostalgic for a simpler time or simpler games,
check it out on YouTube. Jen X grown up. All right,
coming up, it is the feedbag. Plus I'm gonna tell
you why weaimo's expanding, how much data we used in
twenty twenty three, and what YouTube is doing to squeeze
some more money out of you. That's all coming up

(01:38:37):
right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
on Tech. Closing out the show, a couple of news
items before we get to the feedbag. Johnny B in
Sunny San Diego sent a note that said TurboTax is
discontinuing its CD format for its desktop software. TurboTax desktop

(01:39:03):
products will only be available via download from tax here
twenty twenty four and on. The CD format is discontinued.
You could download products from retailers. I guess you could
buy like the download there and TurboTax dot com. It
will still have a license code in installation instructions. The
software functionality will remain unchanged. The download products will be

(01:39:26):
available in early November, and again this only affects TurboTax
desktop customers. If you're using TurboTax dot com that's a
little bit different. But this is if you bought the
box at the store like a Staples or office depot
and did your taxes that way.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
Thanks Johnny B.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
Waimo and Uber are teaming up and expanding their partnership.
They are gonna start driving in Austin and Atlanta. So
basically Uber is gonna supply these fully autonomous, all electric
self driving cars, and Uber is going to supply the app.
Reabook them service is going to start in twenty twenty five,

(01:40:04):
and Waimo one currently provides over one hundred thousand trips
weekly in their three cities, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
I know, I see them on the streets of Los
Angeles and every time I see one, seeing that car
driving by itself with no one in the driver's seat
always throws me for a loop. But people seem to
like them right now. They don't drive on freeways, that's

(01:40:25):
the limitation. Apparently, Americans using a record number of a
record number of data wireless data in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (01:40:38):
Wireless data, according.

Speaker 1 (01:40:39):
To the CTIA, that's the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association,
the big trade group that represents you know, Verizon, T Mobile,
AT and T all the rest. Wireless data usage reached
over one hundred trillion megabytes in twenty twenty three, thirty
six percent increase from twenty twenty two. Five G devices
are now about forty percent of all wireless devices, up

(01:41:01):
from thirty four percent in twenty twenty two. Total wireless
connections in the US five hundred and fifty eight million.
That's more than one point six per American. That makes
a lot of sense because it's not just cell phones.
They are building Internet connections into everything, tablets, watches, cars,
pretty much anything you can think of your coffee mug.

(01:41:23):
Just kidding, but they might. Let's see, total cell sites
four hundred and thirty two, four hundred and sixty nine,
twenty four percent more since twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
So they continue to build those.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
And Americans exchange over two point one trillion text messages
in twenty twenty three. Keep in mind that does not
include I message. That's Apple's own thing. It doesn't get
registered through this. Voice calls two point four trillion minutes
in twenty twenty three. That's actually down just slightly. Probably
makes a lot of sense. We talk on the phone less,
we text more and finally YouTube introducing pause as so,

(01:42:01):
if you're on YouTube on your TV, you pause the
video and you see an AD. Yes, that is the
new trend. We've seen all of these services do it.
YouTube is the new one. It squeezes more money out
of us because we're pausing. Why not just have an
AD on the screen while we're pausing. There's typically a
little ad on the right. The video kind of goes
to the left. You see an AD on the right

(01:42:22):
with a QR code that you can scan for more information.
That was spotted by our pal Bensheon of nine to
five Google. So when you pause, pretty much when you
pause any of these services, now you're gonna see ads.
Now time for the feedbag. This is where your feedback
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Thank you.

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First customers take care.

Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
Oh that's funny you say that, because Apple's gonna one
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It's got all of the support documents built into Siri now,
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you having to look it up, so I may be
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No, I don't think so.

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I think there will always be a place for a
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you can look up articles on the web until your
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Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
What does that mean?

Speaker 5 (01:44:49):
It's it.

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That's why I'm here.

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You know, when I started this show, things were a
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It's not just for techies. You can listen and pick
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If you can believe it. That's going to wrap up
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