August 7, 2025 • 8 mins
There's a new Instagram map now that people can see where your location is. Google is giving college kids a free pass for their A.I. features.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh about that Apple investment in America, And that's all
because of Donald Trump. All of it's because of Donald Trump.
He threatened to put twenty He's been using the tariffs
as a weapon. He threatened to put twenty five percent
tariffs on all Apple parts and iPhones if they didn't
(00:20):
build in America. And man, did they respond.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And I'm very proud to say that today we're committing
an additional one hundred billion to the United States, bringing
our total US investment to six hundred billion over the
next four years.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, making the announcement.
With that, let's talk to Rich DeMuro from rich on
Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven PM
on wr Rich is with us every Thursday at this time.
You can also follow him at rich on Tech on
Instagram where you can ask him your own questions as well,
(00:57):
and you can ask him during his show from eight
to eleven on WOR on Sunday nights. Rich, what a
big day it was for Apple, for Donald Trump and
for America with that announcement at the White House.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Today. You know, because Apple had already pledged five hundred
billion dollars, so that was a good start, but then
they said we want more, and so now they're pledging
the other one hundred billion dollars. It's all part of
an effort to bring more of Apple's supply chain to
the US. There's not going to be a scenario where
the iPhone is made in the US anytime soon. Tim
(01:32):
Cook said that himself in the Oval Office. But we
can make more of the parts of the iPhone here
in the US, and the final assembly can still be overseas.
And with that, that's a big part of this announcement.
A lot of the chips, a lot of the components,
and all of the glass moving forward on both the
iPhone and the Apple Watch will be made in Kentucky.
(01:53):
And if you watch the announcement, Tim Cook actually gave
Trump a gift made of glass and gold, the glass
from that high tech Kentucky glass plant. So yeah, a
lot more of the iPhone gonna be made here in
the US because of this.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It reminded me back when Obama was first running for president.
He had a meeting with Steve Jobs and he said
to him, how do I get the manufacturing in China
to move here? And Steve Jobs looked him in the
eyes and said it's never going to happen. It can happen. Yeah,
well I guess it can happen.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah. Look, I think the Apple is so intertwined with
China with what they've built over the past twenty years,
so it is not an easy process to move all
of that to the US. But again, I think what
they're doing here is they're saying, look, we're going to
prioritize the US in the way that we make these
pieces and components, and of course US jobs. Apple puts
(02:48):
a lot of people to work a lot, and so
I think by them pluging this money and prioritizing, you know,
if we can do things in the US, let's try
to do things here. That's a good start.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah. Being threatened with twenty five percent tariffs that helped
a little bit too, But they did the right thing
in the end. So everybody's happy. And I think everybody's
going to be happy with the new Instagram too.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah. I think this is a huge feature, especially for creators,
anyone who's trying to increase their following. I mean, there's
a couple of new features they're adding. First off, repost
as soon as you open up Instagram, the next time,
you're going to see a new icon underneath the stuff
that you're looking at. Typically you see, you know, a
comment icon, a share icon, and this is a new
(03:37):
repost icon. And basically anytime you tap that, if you
like something, you're going to send that content to your
friends' feeds. They're not guaranteed to see it, but it's
almost like making a post of your own. So for
people that are creating content on Instagram, this can really
amplify their reach, which I think a lot of them
will like. Now, the thing that's really interesting that they're
(03:58):
doing for the average person is this new Instagram map.
And I don't think everyone's gonna like this. I think
younger people are going to take to it quicker than
maybe some of the older folks. But here's what it does.
It puts you on a map. So every time you
open up the Instagram app, your location will be shared
to this map, where you can now see where all
of your friends are in one place. This is opt in,
(04:21):
which means Instagram smartly is not turning it on by default,
but if you tag your location in a post or
a story, you will show up on that map, So
just be aware of it. I think it's pretty cool.
I understand that not everyone wants to see or know
wants their friends to know where they are at all times.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
My kids love that they do it on Snapchat all
the time. They're always looking to see what friends are
around them. So I think this is mostly for young
adults and teenagers because they love that. But it sounds
like they're just taking the things that worked on some
other apps and integrating it into their system. Is that right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think we've seen that over the years, Larry over
and over with Instagram. I mean, you know, it's become very,
very popular in spite of the fact that they've pretty
much borrowed quote unquote all of their most popular features
from every other app out there, whether it's Twitter with
the reposts, whether it's TikTok with the reels, whether it
is Snapchat with the maps now and also the stories.
(05:23):
But you're right, young people love that feature on Snapchat
and it creates it creates a lot of fomo And
I love that feature too, even though I'm older. But
I love the idea of landing in a city for
a story that I'm shooting or whatever and being like,
oh wow, there's five of my friends in this city
that are around, let me call them up. I mean,
there are benefits to that idea of connecting with people
(05:44):
that you're online with.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah. Everywhere I go with my son, who's a teen,
he looks at Snapchat to see if there's any friends nearby,
so we can leave me and go hang out with
his friends.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Sad for that, but it is cool. I mean, it's
it's the beauty of the world. Connect with the people
around you that you already know. It's kind of neat,
but not everyone's gonna use it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'm a little surprised by this next story because I
thought Disney Plus and Hulu were always together because when
I bought my original subscription to Disney Plus, I got
Hulu with it. You got one price to get them both.
But now there's a bigger merger going on.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah. So, over the years, you know, Hulu and Disney
were separate companies. Disney had an interest and investment in them,
but they bought it out over the past couple of years,
so they completely own Hulu at this point. But what
they're gonna do is phase out the Hulu standalone app,
So they've been integrating the content into the Disney app
over the past couple of years, but it's been kind
(06:42):
of frustrating for users because you click something and it's like, oh, sorry,
you're not subscribed to Hulu, so you're still gonna have
to subscribe separately to Hulu, or like you said, you
might have a bundle that includes all of these things.
But the idea is that Disney is gonna have one
mega app with all of their content eventually in this
same app, including Hulu, including Disney Plus, including Fubo, which
(07:07):
they've recently purchased as well, so that's Live TV. So
the idea is that you can get everything all in
one place. You only have to open up one app.
You will have to subscribe to the services separately, but
a lot of people do the bundle, like you said,
And this is all to help them compete better with
something like a Netflix, because guess what, once Hulu's merged
with Disney Plus, now they can report those subscriber numbers
(07:29):
as one and say, look, we've got three hundred million
people using our app versus Netflix two hundred million, whatever
they've got.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'll tell you what. I have two sons in college
right now, and I love how colleges have started to
accept artificial intelligence more and more, and I also love
what Google's doing. Explain.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, Google is giving AI for free to college students.
So basically, if you're in college, you can get Google's
most advanced AI, which is Gemini. Can get that for free,
and so all you have to do is claim this
by October sixth. The idea is that you know, they
want college students using this because they are the future,
(08:10):
and you're gonna get access to everything that they've got,
including their Gemini for homework help and research notebook LM,
which we've talked about. It's a really cool AI notebook,
video creation coding assistant, plus two terabytes of Google storage,
which is also really great for storing all that stuff
in the cloud. So again this is you know, war
(08:30):
against chat GPT because they know that a lot of
people are using that. They want college students to use Gemini,
giving them twelve months for free if you claim it
by October six.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Rich Samira rich on tech has heard Sunday nights from
eight to eleven pm on WLR. Rich is with us
every Thursday at nine thirty five, and make sure you
sign up for his newsletter at richontech dot TV. Thanks
a lot rich.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Thank you, Larry
Oh about that Apple investment in America, And that's all
because of Donald Trump. All of it's because of Donald Trump.
He threatened to put twenty He's been using the tariffs
as a weapon. He threatened to put twenty five percent
tariffs on all Apple parts and iPhones if they didn't
(00:20):
build in America. And man, did they respond.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And I'm very proud to say that today we're committing
an additional one hundred billion to the United States, bringing
our total US investment to six hundred billion over the
next four years.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, making the announcement.
With that, let's talk to Rich DeMuro from rich on
Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven PM
on wr Rich is with us every Thursday at this time.
You can also follow him at rich on Tech on
Instagram where you can ask him your own questions as well,
(00:57):
and you can ask him during his show from eight
to eleven on WOR on Sunday nights. Rich, what a
big day it was for Apple, for Donald Trump and
for America with that announcement at the White House.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Today. You know, because Apple had already pledged five hundred
billion dollars, so that was a good start, but then
they said we want more, and so now they're pledging
the other one hundred billion dollars. It's all part of
an effort to bring more of Apple's supply chain to
the US. There's not going to be a scenario where
the iPhone is made in the US anytime soon. Tim
(01:32):
Cook said that himself in the Oval Office. But we
can make more of the parts of the iPhone here
in the US, and the final assembly can still be overseas.
And with that, that's a big part of this announcement.
A lot of the chips, a lot of the components,
and all of the glass moving forward on both the
iPhone and the Apple Watch will be made in Kentucky.
(01:53):
And if you watch the announcement, Tim Cook actually gave
Trump a gift made of glass and gold, the glass
from that high tech Kentucky glass plant. So yeah, a
lot more of the iPhone gonna be made here in
the US because of this.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It reminded me back when Obama was first running for president.
He had a meeting with Steve Jobs and he said
to him, how do I get the manufacturing in China
to move here? And Steve Jobs looked him in the
eyes and said it's never going to happen. It can happen. Yeah,
well I guess it can happen.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah. Look, I think the Apple is so intertwined with
China with what they've built over the past twenty years,
so it is not an easy process to move all
of that to the US. But again, I think what
they're doing here is they're saying, look, we're going to
prioritize the US in the way that we make these
pieces and components, and of course US jobs. Apple puts
(02:48):
a lot of people to work a lot, and so
I think by them pluging this money and prioritizing, you know,
if we can do things in the US, let's try
to do things here. That's a good start.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah. Being threatened with twenty five percent tariffs that helped
a little bit too, But they did the right thing
in the end. So everybody's happy. And I think everybody's
going to be happy with the new Instagram too.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah. I think this is a huge feature, especially for creators,
anyone who's trying to increase their following. I mean, there's
a couple of new features they're adding. First off, repost
as soon as you open up Instagram, the next time,
you're going to see a new icon underneath the stuff
that you're looking at. Typically you see, you know, a
comment icon, a share icon, and this is a new
(03:37):
repost icon. And basically anytime you tap that, if you
like something, you're going to send that content to your
friends' feeds. They're not guaranteed to see it, but it's
almost like making a post of your own. So for
people that are creating content on Instagram, this can really
amplify their reach, which I think a lot of them
will like. Now, the thing that's really interesting that they're
(03:58):
doing for the average person is this new Instagram map.
And I don't think everyone's gonna like this. I think
younger people are going to take to it quicker than
maybe some of the older folks. But here's what it does.
It puts you on a map. So every time you
open up the Instagram app, your location will be shared
to this map, where you can now see where all
of your friends are in one place. This is opt in,
(04:21):
which means Instagram smartly is not turning it on by default,
but if you tag your location in a post or
a story, you will show up on that map, So
just be aware of it. I think it's pretty cool.
I understand that not everyone wants to see or know
wants their friends to know where they are at all times.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
My kids love that they do it on Snapchat all
the time. They're always looking to see what friends are
around them. So I think this is mostly for young
adults and teenagers because they love that. But it sounds
like they're just taking the things that worked on some
other apps and integrating it into their system. Is that right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think we've seen that over the years, Larry over
and over with Instagram. I mean, you know, it's become very,
very popular in spite of the fact that they've pretty
much borrowed quote unquote all of their most popular features
from every other app out there, whether it's Twitter with
the reposts, whether it's TikTok with the reels, whether it
is Snapchat with the maps now and also the stories.
(05:23):
But you're right, young people love that feature on Snapchat
and it creates it creates a lot of fomo And
I love that feature too, even though I'm older. But
I love the idea of landing in a city for
a story that I'm shooting or whatever and being like,
oh wow, there's five of my friends in this city
that are around, let me call them up. I mean,
there are benefits to that idea of connecting with people
(05:44):
that you're online with.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah. Everywhere I go with my son, who's a teen,
he looks at Snapchat to see if there's any friends nearby,
so we can leave me and go hang out with
his friends.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Sad for that, but it is cool. I mean, it's
it's the beauty of the world. Connect with the people
around you that you already know. It's kind of neat,
but not everyone's gonna use it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'm a little surprised by this next story because I
thought Disney Plus and Hulu were always together because when
I bought my original subscription to Disney Plus, I got
Hulu with it. You got one price to get them both.
But now there's a bigger merger going on.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah. So, over the years, you know, Hulu and Disney
were separate companies. Disney had an interest and investment in them,
but they bought it out over the past couple of years,
so they completely own Hulu at this point. But what
they're gonna do is phase out the Hulu standalone app,
So they've been integrating the content into the Disney app
over the past couple of years, but it's been kind
(06:42):
of frustrating for users because you click something and it's like, oh, sorry,
you're not subscribed to Hulu, so you're still gonna have
to subscribe separately to Hulu, or like you said, you
might have a bundle that includes all of these things.
But the idea is that Disney is gonna have one
mega app with all of their content eventually in this
same app, including Hulu, including Disney Plus, including Fubo, which
(07:07):
they've recently purchased as well, so that's Live TV. So
the idea is that you can get everything all in
one place. You only have to open up one app.
You will have to subscribe to the services separately, but
a lot of people do the bundle, like you said,
And this is all to help them compete better with
something like a Netflix, because guess what, once Hulu's merged
with Disney Plus, now they can report those subscriber numbers
(07:29):
as one and say, look, we've got three hundred million
people using our app versus Netflix two hundred million, whatever
they've got.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'll tell you what. I have two sons in college
right now, and I love how colleges have started to
accept artificial intelligence more and more, and I also love
what Google's doing. Explain.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, Google is giving AI for free to college students.
So basically, if you're in college, you can get Google's
most advanced AI, which is Gemini. Can get that for free,
and so all you have to do is claim this
by October sixth. The idea is that you know, they
want college students using this because they are the future,
(08:10):
and you're gonna get access to everything that they've got,
including their Gemini for homework help and research notebook LM,
which we've talked about. It's a really cool AI notebook,
video creation coding assistant, plus two terabytes of Google storage,
which is also really great for storing all that stuff
in the cloud. So again this is you know, war
(08:30):
against chat GPT because they know that a lot of
people are using that. They want college students to use Gemini,
giving them twelve months for free if you claim it
by October six.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Rich Samira rich on tech has heard Sunday nights from
eight to eleven pm on WLR. Rich is with us
every Thursday at nine thirty five, and make sure you
sign up for his newsletter at richontech dot TV. Thanks
a lot rich.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Thank you, Larry
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