Rich DeMuro, host of ‘Rich on Tech’ on WOR Sundays Interview

Rich DeMuro joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the latest in the tech world including a new Apple iOS and the Google photos anniversary.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's time for Rich DeMuro.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to
eleven pm on wor. You can also reach out to
Rich and ask him questions and see what he has
to say at rich on Tech on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Rich as always, thanks for being here.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hey, good morning, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Larry incredible. We're up to iOS twenty six. Tell us
about it.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, this is wild. So there's a new report from
Bloomberg that says instead of iOS nineteen, the next update
will be called iOS twenty six. And Apple plants do
the same for all of its other operating systems. You know,
they've got them now for the Mac, the iPad, the Watch,
and Apple TV. Of course, they've got this big event

(00:44):
coming up I'll be at called WWDC. That's happening on
June ninth, the Worldwide Developers Conference. This is when they
talk about all the new software features coming to the iPhone,
and that's when they are expected to unveil this new
naming convention, which will be sort of like Car years,
you know, the year of the it'll be for the
next year.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, all right, and do you know much about this
new system?

Speaker 3 (01:10):
We don't know too much yet, although all the rumors
point to a major redesign of iOS, So we'll see.
I mean, it could be a big change, but I
know Apple doesn't like to do things totally wild and
like toss up everything in the air because so many
people rely on this, so they usually do things a
little bit slower and more methodical. But we'll see. I

(01:31):
don't know what new features we need except for more
AI that works better. But that's about it.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
The iPhone in Apple, they're having a good year so far.
They took the top three spots on the list of
best selling smartphones. That's incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, they're actually top top four spots. And then they
have five out of the top ten, which is just
wild and that's a big change. So you've got iPhone
all the iPhone sixteen models, iPhone sixteen, sixteen PROC sixteen
Pro top three, then the iPhone fifteen and then the
iPhone sixteen Uh well yeah, sixteen plus is number ten.

(02:09):
So Samsung, this is interesting. They've got four out of
the top ten. But if you look at their phones,
only one is their premium handset. So Samsung a lot
of their inexpensive phones, like we're talking the A series.
That's what's reaching the top ten, which tells me that
worldwide they're selling a lot of inexpensive phones. I can

(02:29):
guarantee you Samsung would much rather have their premium phones
on this list.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
You you test out all of these products. I've always
been an iPhone person. Is Samsung worth it if you
want to pay less?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Uh? Interesting? Not if you want to pay less? I
actually think Samsung. I think Apple overperforms with their less
expensive phones. So if you've got something like their five
hundred and ninety nine dollars iPhone sixteen E, that is
an incredible device for the price tag. So when you
get into the cheap Samsung phones, you're getting a cheap phone,

(03:06):
but I don't think you're getting the best phone out there.
I think if you're not looking to spend a lot
and you want an Android, I think the Pixel lineup
is the way to go. The Pixel nine to A
is a fantastic phone for about four hundred five hundred dollars,
So that is to me a great value for the price.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Great advice. Google Photos has a birthday.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Huh yeah, ten years of I know, Larry, I know
you're an iPhone guy. You probably use Apple Photos, which
a lot of people do in iCloud, but Google Photos
is also very popular of course worldwide, celebrating ten years
of helping people not only back up their photos, but
also organize them and edit them. And so now if

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you're using Google Photos, you might have noticed the whole
app got a redesign, so everything's all over the place
in different places. But a couple of new features to highlight.
Number one, search has gotten really good, so if you're
searching for a very specific picture, it is now easier
to find than ever. And then this is a great
feature if you're trying to share photos with friends and family,

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especially across different platforms. They've got a new QR code functionality.
Everybody knows how to use a QR code. Now you
can finally share entire photo albums using QR codes, which
means if you're taking a bunch of pictures with friends
and family or at a group event, you can say, hey, look,
scan this, scan this QR code and you can add
your pictures, or you can grab some of mine. That

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is going to be really handy.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh that's really cool, you know. I think this next
story is near and dear to my heart because I
go through I don't know what I do. I don't
know what I do, but I go through power cords
like I go through ice cream. It's they're always not working.
I have them for a short while on the networking.
I'm not sure. I'm sure it's my fault. But there's
a new one coming out that you're high on.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You sound like my kids because they're always so hard
on their power cable. They are always needing new ones
because they just you know, most of the time we're
stretching them, we're bending them, and if you're using them
a lot, you know, look, they're gonna get a lot
of wear and tear. But this new gadget I love.
It's very simple. It's from a company called twelve South.
They make really nice successories for the iPhone and Apple products.

(05:17):
It's called the power cord, and it's pretty simple. It
combines a thirty watt power adapter, which is you know,
good for almost everything you want to charge, and the
charging cable in one unit. So instead of plugging that
little brick into the wall and then plugging the charging
cable into the brick, this is all in one, which
means you can pack just one thing there's nothing to

(05:39):
pull out of the wall. It's simple, it's easy, and
the best part is Larry. It comes in a ten
foot length, which is perfect because I don't know, if
you ever tried to sit on the couch and like
charge your phone, or sit on the bed and charge
your phone or your tablet, you're always like pulling at
the cable at the wall because they're too short. Ten
feet gives you more than enough cable length, uh to

(06:01):
use your device anywhere you want in the house. My
kids love this thing. It's fifty dollars and uh it's USBC,
so it works with almost every device.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
And now I'll trip over it. That's going to be
the problem with.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
The I'm just glad I don't have anymore. I'm own
cords that were like coiled. Oh yeah, this reminds.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Me of Okay, yeah, I know, that's a great idea.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
It's not coiled.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And you since you compared me to your kids, I'm
sure they're beautiful and I'm sure that they're very smart,
So I'm going to take that.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
As a compliment.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, they're very very smart and good looking too.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
There you go, that's exactly what I was looking for.
I don't even know what the Pocket app is. I
know it's very popular with you and a lot of people,
but so I'm not going to miss it now that
it's shutting down.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Tell me what.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Happened, well, Pocket is I'm sure you read a lot
of articles every day. Pocket is for folks like me
who are always seeing something cool online and you want
to read it later, And so what you do is
you bookmark it inside this app called Pocket, and then
it has an ongoing list of all the things that
you want to read online, like all the web articles.

(07:12):
It's owned by Mozilla. After many years, they are shutting
this down, and it was a great freeway to just
be like, oh, I want to read that article later,
and if you go to your phone, it'll be on there.
If you go to your computer, it'll be on there.
And so they are shutting it down unfortunately. So the
best alternative is an app called insta Paper. Same thing.
Insta Paper lets you bookmark the articles that you want

(07:34):
to read, and it also puts them by the way
in a nicely formatted reading ability like it just makes
it nice to read, like it strips all of the
nonsense from the website, so you can just read the
actual text of the article.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I had a chance to listen to your show. It
was wonderful.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And what's great about your show is that people can
call in because everybody has questions and everybody looks for
the tech guy at a party to talk to. My
son used to be that guy, but here you are
available to everybody and you do a tremendous job. So
congratulations on the show.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
And wow, it was. It was great. I'm not even
a tech guy and I loved it.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Ah, that means so much coming from you. Thank you, Larry.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
So you can listen to Sunday nights right here on
WR from eight to eleven pm Rich de Muro. You
can also reach out to him at rich on Tech
on Instagram. Thanks a lot, Rich, talk to you again
next week.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Thanks, have a great weekend.