005 Rich on Tech Radio Show - February 4, 2023 - Rich On Tech

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Samsung on veils it's latest smartphone with a two hundred
megapixel camera. The malware making its way into computers through
Google Ads, the new software to detect if something was
written by AI or a human. Plus your tech questions answered,
What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich

(00:23):
on Tech, the show where I talk about the tech
stuff I think you should know about. It's also the
place where I answer your questions.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm the tech.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to
the show. And how about this show number five? So
that's meant to be right? Channel five, show number five.
It's all good today. My dad's birthday actually, so happy
birthday dad. Phone lines are open at triple A Rich
one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,

(00:56):
four to one zero one. This was a really exciting
fighting week in technology because I got to travel. It
was a big event. Samsung held its first in person
event in three years. This happened up in San Francisco.
It was on Wednesday, And you know, I told you
I was in San Francisco last week, so that was now,

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I guess I can tell you that was to get
a little sneak peek at the new phones. So not
every company, I don't even know if I'm allowed to
tell you this, but not every company does this. But
some companies will give tech folks sort of a hands
on preview of gadgets before they launched them. And every
company is different. So for instance, Apple, as far as

(01:39):
I know, nobody gets hands on with stuff before it's
unveiled to the world, Like unless I'm not on some
list somewhere, that is just not happening. Like they used
to have back in the day. There was a couple
of really big time mainstream journalists that Apple would give
early access to their gadgets, but not before they were
announced as far as I knowed know, like it was

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maybe right after they were announced, and nowadays, you know,
it might be a day after or the same day
that they announced them. During the pandemic, everything changed, of course,
because used to have to go to these companies to
pick these things up in person and talk to them
and you know, do what's called a briefing. And then
they just kind of changed it where they would ship
you the stuff, but of course, you know, then they

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don't get to talk to you as much about it
and explain the features, and go through it. So ideally,
these companies want to want to kind of talk to
you in person so they can explain the different features
on these gadgets. Because I know that I've never read
a manual or an instruction book, so there's there's things
that I miss sometimes and I'm checking these things out.
But anyway, so the week before I went up, I

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saw the phones. Of course, you're under sort of what's
called an NDA where you can't really talk about this
stuff until a certain time. But it helps you as
a journalist because you understand what's coming out, what's going
to be announced, what's there, and you can start to
form kind of the questions in your head about these
products and also talk to people immediately about them. So anyway,

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so that was the week before. Then on Wednesday we
went up for the actual event, and so I went
up early in the morning. The event started at ten.
It was in San Francisco, and of course I asked
Twitter the best way to get into San Francisco. I
was there the week before, but I wanted to try
a different way this time, and so I flew into Oakland.
I took public transit because if you know, me. You
know that I love to take public transit whenever possible,

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much to the people around me not liking that very much,
namely my wife and my photographer and anyone else I
travel with on a regular basis. I'm always like, the train,
it goes right there, it's right here, let's go. And
they're like, can't we just take like an uber or
like a lyft it's like direct. I'm like, it's kind
of fun to be on the train. I mean, the
train's going to go anyway, you just have to hop on.

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So I took the train to San Francisco, took it
to this event center which had not been there before.
I'm going to mess up the name. I think it's gosh,
Masonic Temple. I think that was it our Masonic lodge
in San Francisco, or let's see temple, and so it
was in Masonic Temple. Masonic Temple. Yeah, I don't know

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how to say that. But anyway, so that was where
it was, and it was a smaller venue than in
year's past. So in years past these events would be
really really big. And the last one that Samsung did
was actually right before everything closed down for COVID. It
was like February nineteenth or something like twenty nineteen, and
so that was like the last event. And at that event,

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people were like, oh, you might want to wear a mask,
might want to sanitize your hands. We'll take your temperature,
and then everything shut down right after that. So this
was kind of a big deal for Samsung to have
an in person event one more time, and it was small.
It was very, very small, and I think that just
reflects the fact that a lot of people aren't traveling anymore.
They don't you know, they don't see the need to
go to these in person things anymore. But I love it.

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I feel like it's the best time to see people,
to meet with people in person, to talk with people
that you see online. And I mean every tech person
that's either on YouTube or a journalist that covers Samsung
or just tech in general, most of them are there,
or many of them are there, i should say. And
so it's kind of fun because you get to see
these people in person that you see online all the

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time and just chat and actually talk to them in
person about you know, what'd you think about this, what'd
you think about that? For me, with the new radio show,
I'm always like, hey, will you come on the radio
show and talk about these different products, And so a
couple of people were talking to today were some of
the people at this show as well.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
So the show was smaller.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
And it you know, they announced their new S twenty
three Ultra, the S twenty three Plus and the S
twenty three, and the upgrades were really in the camera system.
And I actually find a little fault with what Samsung
did because I don't know if I really like it.
So they had these like big time directors that used

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the Samsung phones, the new ones to shoot like everything
in the presentation, which is great and it just goes
to show like how high quality these cares are. But
the reality is, no average person is going to be
shooting stuff with these cameras the way that Samsung showed
them off. So most people are going to be using

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these cameras at their kid's birthday parties, or their kids
play and or you know, just somewhere at a restaurant
that's darkly lit and it's going to be all handheld.
The way that they showed them off was these directors
using like super big time Hollywood rigs, lighting stabilizers, all
kinds of filters and lenses, and it's like, nobody's going

(06:33):
to use these phones like that. That's an average person
that's trying to buy these things. The average person just
wants to know, Hey, is this S twenty three Ultra
worth an upgrade for my S twenty two Ultra or
is it worth an upgrade from my Samsung S nine
or S ten or whatever you've got, And of course
that answer is yes. So so anyway, it was neat
to see the fact that these cameras can be used

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in a big time way, and Apple has done similar
things in the past. But the reality is, show me
how this camera performs at a birthday party with just
candles in a dimly lit area. Show me how it
works at my kids play where I'm sitting in the
back row and I want to get a closer shot
to the front.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Show me how it works.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'm on a boat and it's shaky and it's
moving and I'm trying to, you know, record some video.
And those are the circumstances where you know, reporters like
myself come into play, because that's where I'm going to
go and test these things out. So I'm going to
use this as a regular person. I've got the phone
in my hand right now. I've been using it for
the past week, and I've got to say I'm impressed.
It is a good camera. Is it infinitely better than before?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
No?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
But is it generating some really nice pictures?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Is the two hundred megapixels something that I need? Probably not.
Unless you're blowing up pictures to be billboard sized, you
probably don't really need that. But the way that Samsung
is taking those two hundred megapixels, they're taking them and
they're kind of collecting them into little groups to make
this a standard. It's kind of sixteen megapixel picture at
the end of the day. So you're not going to
get a full two hundred many a pixel picture every

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time you snap a shot unless you want that. And
if you want that, they have the option. And honestly,
after using this phone for a week or a couple
of days, now, was it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
A couple of days.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
The biggest difference between the Androids and the iPhone is
just it's kind of refreshing to be on Android for
a little bit because it is just a different way
of doing things, you know, it just kind of has
a lot of options. I mean, this Samsung phone just
has so many options built in, like so many different
ways of doing things where I'm just like, oh yeah,
I kind of forgot that that takes like six or
seven steps on an iPhone, but it takes two steps

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on an Android. So they've got their pros and cons.
And believe me, whenever I switch phones and I start
texting my friends when I'm on a test device, I
get the hate.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I get the hate. Believe me.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
My friend this morning he said, when are you gonna
get off this this? I can't say what you said,
Android phone, I said, dude, like fifty percent of America
or the world, you know, half the people are using
an Android, half the people are using iPhone. Everyone has
a different preference, you know. And so anyway, I will
continue to test out the S twenty three Ultra. If
you want to see some of the pictures, I've posted

(09:04):
them to my Twitter and my Facebook and my Instagram
at rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
But save the hate, you know.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's just like, enjoy the fact that we all have
different preferences. Some people are gonna like the Android, some
people are gonna like iPhone. It doesn't make you a
bad person, you see that green or blue Bubble pop up.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Don't judge, just enjoy.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
All Right, we got a great show for you this week.
I've got so many great guests. We're gonna talk to
Jacqueline Dallas, YouTuber extraordinaire. She is from Nothing but Tech.
She's gonna discuss the S twenty three, the new Samsung
phones with me. Brian Tong is back. He's going to
talk about the HomePod. We've been testing that this week,
and later in the show, we're gonna talk to the

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makers of an app called True. If you're looking for
an alternative to Facebook that has no ads and no tracking,
this might be the app for you. Plus, we're gonna
have your calls coming up next at triple eight rich
one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
four to one zero one. My name is Rich Shamiro.
You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to

(10:04):
Rich on Tech. My name is Rich Damiro. Thanks for
joining me here on the show where we are talking
about technology. Phone lines are open at triple eight rich
one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Four to one zero one.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
We've got Mark in Monrovia, California. Mark, You're on with rich.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Hi, you're rich. So I've got this problem with video.
Let's see make sure I from.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
My radio DWN here sorry okay, And I'm on a
Windows ten Dell laptop and you know, of course i's
the video is just don't start, whether it's YouTube or
coming out of Twitter or I don't know, various seasons.
But and I've got good download speed. I've got something

(10:58):
like damn in twenty five up. And I just don't
understand it.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
I mean, I'll start a video and the first thing
it showed me is like the volume is muted, and
so I'll go ahead and unmus the volume, but then
the video wants to start over, and that's when it
started doing so the long buffering and it goes on
and then said, you know, if you have any problem,
try restarting your device. But that doesn't do. But it's

(11:25):
it's really strange. I'm not sure. It's only about two.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Year old machine did this?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
So did it ever work? Has it ever worked?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
So?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I mean the the videos so like YouTube, like you've
had this machine for two years? Has the has it
ever worked before? Like the videos have they played you
know like normally?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah? Yeah, it was it was great everything would launch
just immediately. That's just the way I expected it. Of course,
you know, brand new machine. But in about the last
six months, maybe it's when it's been just really acting up.
Of course I've got that. I was thinking of turning
that off and going with Windows Defender or something.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, so I think it sounds like you may have
what what browser? Does it happen with every video on
all different sites?

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yes, like even coming out of like.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, all right, so it's it sounds like it is
a browser issue. So here's how I would troubleshoot something
like this. So first off, I would I would disable
any extensions I have on my browser. So uh well, actually,
before I even do that, I would probably go through
in my list of software on this Windows computer and

(12:43):
I would uninstall. And I always say to do this,
uninstall any program that you no longer need, want, or
programs that you don't really recognize.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
You're like, wait a second, why is this on my computer?

Speaker 6 (12:53):
Now?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
There may be some like system stuff you don't have
to get rid of those, but you know, stuff that
you just don't need or use, Like you may have
installed something that interfering with your browser. And then once
you do that, restart your computer, obviously, make sure your
computer's up to date with all the latest software updates.
And then I would go to my browser and I
would go on the browser and look at all the
extensions you've got installed, and I would uninstall or at

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least pause the extensions. And you can do that on
Chrome by clicking extensions and then manage extensions, and you
can just turn them all off, you know, and you
can just toggle them off and on. And if you're
not familiar with what extensions are, these are little pieces
of helper software that you can install on your web browser.
Whether it's Chrome, whether it's Firefox, whether it's Safari. They

(13:38):
all support extensions in some way. But sometimes these extensions
can interfere with how our machine operates. And it sounds
like there's an extension that's interfering with the video streaming
on your entire browser. Now it could also be malware
that's interfering as well. So I've often gone to folks
computers that are having trouble and they're like, what's going on?

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And sometimes their homepage has been hijacked or their search
has been hijacked, And a lot of times it's because
you've installed some sort of helper app that is not helping.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
It's hurting.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
And so what I do whenever I'm troubleshooting something is
just turn everything off. Like let's say I go to
a website and it's just not functioning the way I
think it should. I'll turn off some of the extensions.
Sometimes that could be an AD blocker that's messing it up,
and you can turn that off and then the website
will work again. So once you toggle all those extensions off,
obviously close out the browser, open it again, try the

(14:33):
videos on YouTube. I mean, YouTube is a pretty universal website,
so I think that it should work pretty much flawlessly
across the board. So if it's not, there's definitely something interfering.
Now once you do all the extensions, if that's still
not working, if the videos are just not playing, then
I would download or try a different browser. And so
if you're using Chrome, let's say I would open up

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Edge or Firefox on your Windows computer and then try
YouTube or the news website or whatever you're looking for
inside those browsers. And if it's not working there, then
you might have a bigger problem on your hands. But
I think that those solutions are going.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
To solve it.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Also, make sure that your browser is up to date.
So if you're using Chrome, you can click into the
settings on Chrome and if you go to about Chrome,
it will check for updates. And right now, mind saying
up to date. And so that could be another issue,
is whether this browser is up to date, because sometimes
if it's not running the latest software, it just may

(15:34):
not play nicely with the websites that you're trying to
watch stuff on. But that's the way I would do it, Mark,
and hopefully it will work. I mean, this laptop's only
two years old. There is no reason why this thing
should not be working properly. So try out those things
and then let me know if that's going to work.
All right, Speaking of watching stuff, Netflix sent the Internet

(15:59):
into a tizzy this week over its proposed passwords sharing rules.
So we've been hearing over and over that Netflix is
really going to start enforcing some sort of rules for
sharing your account and.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
You know who you are.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
There's, by one estimate, one hundred million people are leeching
off of other people's Netflix accounts.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
And I'm not saying it's a bad thing.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Look, Netflix has let this happen for many, many years,
and there's a lot of arguments why people share their accounts,
whether it's a kid off to college, whether it's a
friend that you're helping out, whether it's a family member.
They didn't really have steadfast rules, like they didn't say, like,
you can't do this, because, believe me, Netflix can detect
when people outside your household are using your account. It's

(16:46):
not that tough. I mean, there's IP addresses, there's you know,
you're streaming at the same time as one of your
family members two different shows. I mean, they have ways
of detecting this stuff. But anyway, one of the things
they posted was some new rules that were suppose going
to be enforced in their help center, and one of
them was that you would have to log in with
the device every thirty one days for it to continue working.

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And so of course people that are maybe using your
account in other states and things that would be tough
and then they would have to be pushed to their
own Netflix account. Well, Netflix came out and said, look,
we pushed those rules to the website just a little early,
so we don't really have any rules to say just yet.
But at the same time, yes, these are coming, so
don't worry about it just yet if you're sharing or

(17:31):
you're a sharer, but yes, just keep in mind that
you may want to put a little line on in
your budget that may include Netflix in the next couple
of months, because these companies are not fooling around anymore.
All right, Coming up, we've got an interview with Jacqueline
Dallas from Nothing But Tech. We're going to talk about
the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty three lineup and get

(17:52):
her impressions about the new camera. You're listening to rich
on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name
is rich Jamiro. Listening to the show where we talk
about technology and take your questions about all things gadgets, electronics,
cell phones.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Whatever you got.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
I mean, everything's electronic these days, right all right on
the line. I've got a great guest, Jacqueline Dallas is
a YouTuber extraordinaire. She also does a podcast, and she
is going to talk to me about the new Samsung
Galaxy S twenty three lineup.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Jacqueline, welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
Genuinely so honored to be on and I was listening
to it before I came on, and you're an incredible host.
I'm so blown to it.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh well, thank you. Now tell me this. Did you
just turn twenty one?

Speaker 7 (18:40):
I did just turn twenty one.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
I saw the picture on your Instagram in the in
the liquor store, so yeah, but you were just camera testing.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
Just camera testing, completely sober.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
No.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
I was doing a the S twenty three Ultra, like
a day life review. And one of the new features
of this phone is like improved performance. And I feel
like liquor stores never have good like lighting quality. It's
always like the dimmest of lighting. So we went in
there to test out the new camera. But cold Brew
has my heart. That's like my diversi of choice.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh, we know.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
If you follow Jacqueline on her YouTube channel, there's lots
of pictures of coffee and cold brew. So, Jacqueline, you
were at the event at the at Samsung. I missed
you somehow, but it was a sad smaller event than typical.
But what are your impressions of this phone? You did
a video on your YouTube channel where you kind of
did your initial testing in San Francisco, and a couple

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of things stood out. The camera, battery life you didn't
think was as good as you thought it might be,
and the camera the shutter lag in low light was
a little bit surprising, So tell me about those two things.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
Well, thank you so much for watching the video. Your
genuinely invest I was loking you out at the events.
I'm so sad that we miss each other. But yeah,
So basically I put the phone in like a real
day in a live scenario where I I was taking
a lot of photos videos, also just using it throughout
the day, and the battery life was not incredible. But
one of the things that people in the comments were

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mentioning that igroue with is that it does have something
called adaptive batteries, which basically means after like the two
week mark of using the phone, it kind of understands
what your usage habits are like and then it supposedly
can get better. So the journey still out on that
not positive yet, but in my initial testing it wasn't amazing.
I was doing a lot of four K video and
that drained it a lot. So I think like the

(20:29):
average user, battery life will be decent. Definitely a one
day phone, but not like a two day phone because
also the million powers is not increased over last year.
Ye Sampsling was saying that batteries could be better because
they just optimized it more. But since it's still the
same actual battery size, I didn't notice the staffic of
an improvement.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
But here's the thing. Here's the thing about the battery
life on the Samsung. So I would agree that I
think that Samsung is kind of chewed through the battery
a lot faster than the iPhone. I think that's part
of the architecture of Android in general versus iOS, like
nothing gets to run in the background on iOS, whereas
on Android things can and so. But here's the difference.
So I was at the airport flying back from San

(21:09):
Francisco and I plugged in the Android and also the iPhone.
The iPhone charges a lot slower than the Samsung. I mean,
the Samsung is like super super speedy charging. Yeah, So
to me, I don't think it's that big of a deal.
As long as you have access to a charger at
some point during the day, you'll be fine, and you'll
be at like one hundred percent quickly or close to it,

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faster than you would on an iPhone.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
That's a really good point. Yeah, that's very true. I
think battery life is one of those things where it's
like you either need super fast charging or really big battery.
You don't necessarily need both. But also there are like
some reports that if you do fast charging all the time,
you can kind of like degrade the battery cycle or
like make it faster, meaning like the battery would become
less good over time. Yeah, I feel like that's important
to know too, Like fast charging isn't.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Always what you want to do, that is true, And
most of the time I'm trickle charging on a on
a you know, wireless anyway. All right, so let's talk
about the camp So two hundred megapixel camera. Are we
seeing this thing? Just blowing away the iPhone right out
of the gate?

Speaker 7 (22:07):
Who Honestly, it was really good. The thing that was
most impressive to me was the zoom quality, and I
think it's because it had like this dedicated optical zoom lens.
The tours of megapixels is more so there for either
really really high right shots if you want to print something,
or more likely, I think most people will use it
in the pixel binning mode, which is basically it takes
the tours or megapixels and it combines either sixteen pixels

(22:29):
into one or four pixels into one depending on the
in lighting environment, and the idea there is that by
combining the pixels you're able to get better dynamic range
and exposure throughout the shots. I thought the images looked
really good in a lot of fers scenarios, and the
video quality was also excellent. The one area that you
mentioned earlier that I noticed a little bit was like
the shutter lag issue where I'd like hit the button

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and then the photo would be a little bit delayed,
so it would look maybe a little bit blurry. But
I would say that in general, in like normal lighting
environment mid lighting environment, images are genuinely incredible.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, and I do think I okay, So first off
on the zoom situation, So this phone, the Ultra, has
a ten times optical zoom. It can zoom up to
one hundred times, but the ten times is incredible because again,
like I was saying earlier in the show, if you're
a parent that's sitting in the you know, in a
back row at your kids play, that ten times zoom

(23:23):
really comes into handy, and not just for that, but
so many scenarios where you're not close up and you
can get a lot closer and optical is always going
to look better than digital zoom for the most part. Yeah,
just for reference, the iPhone, like the latest iPhone has
what like a three time zoom right optical?

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Yeah, three times? Oh, actually, maybe I'm the it could
be five times. It's somewhere between three or five times.
I think it's three.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, I think it's three on the pro phone, So
I mean the regular one is even less than that. Okay,
So now last night I took my phone out. My
wife is is a good companion for me because she's
always like testing of this stuff. And so we went
out to dinner at like a dimly lit restaurant and
I was like, all right, I got to take pictures
of all this stuff. And I will say she noticed

(24:06):
when we took a selfie, she was like, why is
it taking so long? And it's like, you know, in
that moment that's when you get the blur is if
it takes too long and you're trying to hold the phone.
I think that these are things that Samsung will tweak
with software because this is such a new sensor. I
always think the Samsung phones get better six months in.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
Yeah, I totally agree. I think charlag has been something
that people have kind of complained about for a couple
of years of the phones, and I think in the
past years it may have been more of a hardware
issue where they had to have the shutter open for
a long time to get like that lighting environment. But
now since the center is updated, I think that you're right, like,
they definitely could just push out a software update to
lower the amount of time that it takes to take
a picture.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, we're talking to Jacqueline Dallas. She is a
YouTuber and she has a YouTube channel called nothing but
Tech with a lot of subscribers and a lot of
enthusiasm and a lot of creativity. So thanks for joining
me today. We're talking about the Galaxy S twenty three lineup.
So S twenty three starts at eight hundred dollars, the
S twenty three Plus, which is the mid middle of

(25:05):
the line phone with a was six point six inch
screen that is one thousand dollars, and then the top
of the line, Galaxy S twenty three Ultra, starts at
twelve hundred dollars. You get two hundred and fifty six
gigs of storage, you get a six point eight inch screen,
you get the sty list, you get it all with
this phone. So and the phones are out on February seventeenth,

(25:27):
Go ahead, No, it's like a kitchen thing phone.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
I feel like it's like you want all the features,
and this is like the epitomy of that.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Absolutely, And that's what I think really gets me about
this phone. Like I've kind of fallen in love with
it over the past couple of days. Because while you
use an iPhone quite regularly, every time I use like
a Samsung, I just remember how many cool things it does.
And this is a small thing that like, I know
nobody else may care about this, but I love the
fact that when I take a picture, it goes up

(25:55):
into the cloud immediately, like it backs up on Google Photos.
Maybe that's if you use iCloud on the iPhone that happens.
But I use Google Photos on the iPhone, and so
it just bugs me that I have to like open
Google Photos and like wait for it to upload. So
it's little things like that. What else do you think?

Speaker 7 (26:09):
It's like a neat quality of life dings? What else
do I think people should know? Hm, I would say
one of the big ones that is important to know
is that software updates are going to be a more regular,
longer supported thing. I think one of the issues that
I've noticed with a lot of Android for them that
Island doesn't have is that over time they kind of
struggle to keep up with performance. Like I think Pixel

(26:30):
is a great example, where it starts out so fast
and then like a year in there are more glitches
and feature issues even though software is supportive for a
long time. But I think Stampling has a pretty good
track record of having good lungevity with their phones in general,
and so with this one it's the same. I think
it's four years of software updates, definitely on the security end, yeah,
and I think other features ahead.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, they're promising four generations of operating system updates and
five years of security updates. So that's a you know,
do the math. That's a long time. And by the way,
I mentioned the prices for these phones, I should also
say that, like, don't pay full price for a Samsung,
Like there's always some sort of deal out there or
like a trade in deal. So like if you're don't
you know, the twelve hundred dollars, I know it sounds

(27:13):
like a lot, and it is, but you have to
somehow get that down with either a carrier deal or
you know, some sort of rebate or trade in or
just wait for a sale, because these do happen.

Speaker 7 (27:24):
Yeah, what do you think the S twenty two Ultra
users should consider? Like, do you think that there's any
scenario where S twenty two Ultra users should upgrade it?
Or do you think that this is like for pass generation.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
That is a great question.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm like, I come from the side of things where
I always want an upgrade, and I always want the latest, greatest,
So I would say, and I know that Samsung's not
doing as good of a trade in this year, but
just see how much it is. If it's like a
couple hundred bucks, Like if you can get into a
new S twenty three Ultra for like three hundred bucks,
if you're coming from the S twenty two, I think
it's worth it because you do get the newer phone,

(27:57):
you do get the newer camera tech, and I'm telling
you this thing is going to continue to get better
over the next six months to a year with software updates.
All right, Jaqueline, I got a run, So tell folks
how to find you online.

Speaker 7 (28:08):
Ooh, you're the best. Thanks much for having me on YouTube.
It's nothing but tech and if you want to hear
like a tech conversation podcast, it's called The Digital Dive.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Thank you so much, True, thank you, thank you for
being so positive. And by the way, Jacqueline started her
channel when she was just thirteen, so she's been doing
tech for ten years. I'm bad at math, but however
many years that is. It's been a bit and she's
been grown her channel. So awesome to see that. Thanks
Jaqueline for joining me. You're listening to rich DeMuro here.
Rich on Tech is the show? Give me a call

(28:39):
at Triple eight rich one oh one. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. My name is rich Damuro here, tech
reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, hanging out
with you, talking about technology, talking about life. You know,
I have a mantra on life. What do people say?
It's like abt That's what I say. Always be testing.

(29:01):
I'm always trying something out. And it's kind of funny
because if you're around me, you know this, Like you know,
I'm always pulling some random phone out of my pocket
or I'm like, hey, can you come with me to
this event or go with me to this thing, or
can you try this computer or try this gadget, or
let me do this. It's really it's kind of funny

(29:21):
because if I didn't like this stuff, it would be
really tough to do this because it's I mean, okay,
let me give me an example. So I go to
the airport for the San Francisco trip, and you know,
I drive an electric car, okay, And so I get
to the airport and I'm like, ah, they just installed
all these new electric charging stations at the airport. Now,
just like any other person, I want to get to

(29:43):
my flight. I want to get there to the terminal,
I want to get through security, but I also want
to try out the new charging stations at the airport
because that way I can talk about them and I
can tell people like should you use it, should you
not use it? How does it work? How much does
it cost? And so I took the extra you know,
ten minutes to try this out. So I find a
spot and they've got a ton of these charging stations now,

(30:05):
I think they built a couple hundred at the Los
Angeles Airport, and so you know, it was easy to
find a spot. A lot of people don't even know
about this yet, but I get there, I pull in
my car and it's like, okay, you got to scan
a QR code on the charger. I'm like, okay, By
the way, I've used so many different chargers. If you're
not using like a Tesla branded charger, like it's anything

(30:27):
goes right. And so half some of the chargers are free,
which are amazing. Then some of the chargers are just
you got to activate them somehow, that's easy. And then
some of the chargers want you to like sign up
for like this whole app and like load it up
with money. And that's what I had to do here.
So not only did I have to like download an app,
I had to sign up for the app, and then

(30:47):
I couldn't use like Apple pay or Google Pay to
pay for it. I had to like put a credit card in.
Then I had to buy time, like which I'm not
typically you know, I don't like pre paying for stuff
before I use it. But I had to buy like
a block of I guess credit on this app, and
so I did that and then I and then I
had to like set how long I wanted to charge for.
I mean, it was a it was a process, and

(31:10):
you know, if you're a person that's just trying to
get to your flight. It's like, who wants to go
through all this stuff?

Speaker 8 (31:15):
Now?

Speaker 2 (31:15):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
The first time you set it up, it takes the
longest the next couple times you do it.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
But by the way, it's also expensive.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
It's like forty five cents a kilowatt hour, which is
quite pricey. And then you know, you got to pay
two dollars just for the connection in addition, by the way,
to the parking price at the airport, which has now
gone up to sixty dollars for the day. So yeah,
it was very expensive to test this out. But I'll
tell you, it was kind of cool to come back

(31:44):
to a fully charged car, and so that was nice
throughout the whole situation. Once I came back to the
car and it was charged, that was nice. But the price,
you know, I thought they could kind of throw people
a bone at the airport, like you're already paying sixty
bucks to park your car there for the day, Like
why not just keep people free charging? I don't know,
I mean, that's just I know it costs money to
put in all these chargers, but I'm just saying, you know,

(32:05):
I don't know if it costs sixty bucks to have
that parking spot there. Anyway, let's go to Bonnie. Bonnie
is in Charleston, South Carolina. A beautiful city, Bonnie. Welcome
to the show.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
And they're right where they're taking down the balloon. Do
you want me to say the piece if it falls
in my yard?

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Oh my gosh, you have the Chinese spy balloon is
in your backyard.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Well, they're taking it down. They've just canceled all flights
in North Carolina and South Carolina. Nobody can fly in
our air. Oh my, right now, because they're going to
take down the balloon right here.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
How weird is that story? Like I came home last
night from dinner and I see this story and I'm like,
what is happening here?

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Like what is going on? Okay?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Well, if you get a piece of that balloon, I
would save it, and you know it's probably you're probably
gonna have some people come to your front door and like,
you know, like the men in black you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
And they're going to erase your mind a bit. Oh
thank you, you never saw this. We're taking this from that.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I called you rich, Okay, Well what'd you call me about?

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Okay? So I'm a pet portrait artist and I do
a lot of pets that have crossed over to the
Rainbow Bridge already. So people send me the photos of
their pets, and some of these photos are in pretty
bad shape because these dogs have been gone a long time.

(33:30):
And so I tried to download an app that claims
that it can, you know, perk up these photos a
little so I can get a little more detail to
do the pet portrait because I'm a watercolor artist and
I do very detailed work. Well, these these apps don't work.

(33:51):
This app didn't work. Definitely, it didn't do anything. And
I wonder if you know a better app.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Okay, Well what app did you get? And what platform
are you using.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
This app on?

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Well, I'm using it on my high pad.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Okay, so an iPad me.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Through Facebook or email send me the photos. So I
get the photos that way, and then I copy them
and keep them in my files. And so I don't
you want me to say the name of the apps
that I work? I didd okay. They actually gave me
a ten day free day trial, a ten day free trial,

(34:28):
and I put a pet portrait in there and it
did nothing.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Mmmm, Okay, Well, pet portraits. I mean, so I think
a couple of things are happening here. So I think,
you know, pet portraits could be unique because a lot
of these programs are built like if you're using I
mean number one, I would recommend something that's sort of
using AI to restore these things. But I think that
you know, this is still a growing area, and so

(34:53):
you know, the AI may not be trained. I know
that that that animals can trick some of these systems
sometimes because they're built for humans most of the time.
So if you're trying to restore old pictures, you know,
sometimes that can be a thing.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Okay, So a couple of apps.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
I mean, there's so many great apps for video edit
or for photo editing on the iPad. I mean, one
of them that comes to mind is pixel Mater. That's
like a number one kind of big app that a
lot of people use that lets you do a lot
of things.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Obviously, Adobe light.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Room is very popular, which you know is very very
popular there. And then you have a lot of these
newer apps that are sort of like these AI enhanced apps.
One that I like to use onmine is called Prisma
or sorry not Prisma. Pixart is one that I really
like at p I C s ar T and I've

(35:44):
I've thrown a lot at that app and it does
pretty well. And another one that I really like is
called snap seed, and so snap seed will let you
do a lot. Now, it depends what you're trying to do.
If you're really trying to, you know, restore an old picture,
there are some specialty AI programs I can do that,
so I would look for something like that. But again,
you know, it's it's an animal picture, so it could

(36:06):
be a little bit tricky for these AI trained things
that are trained mostly for humans. But those apps will
get you started, I think, and you know, a lot
of these apps you don't have to pay for if
you want it the extra features. But I'm not familiar
with the app that you mentioned. But I would also
just peruse on the iPad the list of the top

(36:26):
photo apps and just kind of try them. I think
the best, you know, the best way to do this
is really trial and error. Just pop one of these
pictures into these apps, try it, see if it does
what you need, and if it does, stick with the app.
That's really the best way I find of you know,
identifying things that work.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
The best for me.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
All right, thanks Bonnie, watch out for that spy balloon.
You're listening to rich on Tech. We'll have more right
after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This is
the show where we talk about technology, answer your questions,
and just have a lot fun. Technology can be fun,
Yes it can.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I know.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
We're very far from the days of the blinking twelve
o'clock on the VCR. Now our problems are a lot harder.
That was easy back in the day. Now we've got
you know, why's my phone doing this? Why is my
computer doing this? Why am I doing this?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
There's a lot to answer.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
My name is Richard Miro and the check reporter at
KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I cover this stuff
for a living, live breathe. I haven't eaten tech, I
don't think.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
I guess I have.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
I've eaten three D printed candy, So does that count
as eating tech? I guess I have. So there we go.
I've eaten this stuff. I don't recommend you eating technology though, well,
I mean, unless it's edible. Don't don't take a bite
out of your phone. Oh man, you can find me
on social media. I am at rich on Tech every week.
I like to talk about the stuff that I upload
to my social media channels this week. On my Instagram,

(37:56):
Let's see, I like to just look at this.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
And see what I Let's see.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh, I think I uploaded a video of me taking
a ride in the way most self driving car up
in San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Let's see, I uploaded a.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Video explaining the new Galaxy S twenty three lineup of smartphones. Oh,
there's a cool new feature on the S twenty three
lineup called Bixby Text Call. And this is this is
a feature that telemarketers and robo callers are gonna hate.
It basically lets you answer the phone with a digital assistant.
So when someone's calling your phone, you just tap a

(38:31):
button and it says, hey.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I'm Bixby.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
You know this caller, this, this phone user is using
me to answer the call. Can you please tell them
why you're calling? And then whatever they say is transcribed
on your phone screen. So if it's like a robo
caller or you know, someone trying to sell you something,
you know, you can just go ahead and hang up
on them, which is sad, but you know whatever, and
then you can type things back. So if you say, hey,

(38:55):
can you explain further. It will speak whatever you say
to the caller, and whatever the caller is says is transcribe.
So it's also equally handy, like if you're in a
meeting or in a quiet place and you just want
to answer the phone you can't talk at that moment.
Instead of just those sort of canned responses where you're
just responding with the text, this actually says whatever you
type out to the caller. So I've got a video

(39:16):
demoing that, which I think is really cool. I could
use that all the time. People call me and you
kind of get caught and you're just like, ah, I'm
a nice person, but I really don't want to talk
to you right now, and I'm trying to get you
off the phone as soon as possible, and I'm going
to hear your spiel for like a minute, but I
just yeah, it's like, come on, Especially with us switching
like cable riders and all that stuff, it happens all

(39:37):
the time. Then I've got a video of me inside
the Samsung Experience up in San Francisco. Can you see
the theme this week? Because Samsung had their big event,
They've got this cool Samsung It's not really a store.
I guess it's kind of a pop up store, but
it's in San Francisco this month only. It's called the
Samsung Galaxy Experience Space, and it's got a giant wall

(40:00):
of Galaxy smartphones. You can see all the Samsung phones
back to like the first Galaxy s back in twenty ten.
They've got this gaming center set up. They've got this
cool like capsule you can stand in, then you put
your phone in this little spinny thing and you take
a recording and you spin the thing and it looks
like you're floating in outer space. That's really cool. They've

(40:21):
got this whole setup of a planet with an astronaut
which you can take pictures.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Of and with.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
It's really cool too. But the coolest thing was two
cool things that are really really neat is this alleyway
that's inspired by the streets of Soul, Korea, which is
where you know Samsung's headquartered, and it just literally looks
like you're there and you can take you know, pictures
in there.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Have fun.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
But there's also a video game in there. I think
it was a pac Man game. And then they also
have you know, it's kind of a place to test
low light photography. That's the reason for it, but it
just looks really cool. You'll take cool pictures. And then
the other really neat thing is this immersive gallery. So
they sit you down in this little room, they take
a whole bunch of headshots using the S twenty three Ultra,

(41:05):
and then you walk into this room next door. It's
filled with like, I don't know, thirty or forty different
video screens. They look like picture frames, and all of
a sudden, all your photos come up on those frames
and it's all mirrored in there too, so you get
really cool pictures inside there, and it's just a fun
thing to see it.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
It'll put a smile on your face.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
So if you happen to be in San Francisco in
the next month, definitely check out the Galaxy Experience Space.
It's at one to eleven Powell Street.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
I thought it was pretty.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Cool, So I love stuff like that, just like different
unique I know, these like pop up things are kind
of cheesy sometimes, like the little like nineties restaurants and
stuff that they put up in town for a little bit,
but this one was pretty cool. What else, What else
do I want to talk about? I guess let's go
to a call right now, Why don't we go to
a call. We've got Carla. Carla is in the Los Angeles. Carla, welcome.

Speaker 9 (42:02):
Oh, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Hell, thanks for listening. I'm doing fantastic. How are you good?

Speaker 9 (42:08):
Okay? So, I know you guys already were talking about
the phones before with the girl and then she left,
so I caught the tell into that. But I have
a friend who has the brand new iPhone fourteen, so
and I finally upgraded from my Note eight to this
Samsung Galaxy Ultra point two. Okay, So the colors are

(42:30):
different in the iPhone. Like we were testing out his videos,
the colors were more vibrant, and I think there's probably
something in the Samsung that you can switch to make
the colors, you know, match what I saw on his phone.

Speaker 10 (42:44):
But what I was more.

Speaker 9 (42:45):
Interested in is blur the blurr in the background, because
his head automatically did it, and I don't know where
to find that in my phone or if it even
does it.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Okay, well, there's it, definitely does it.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
So the situation with color is, you know, that's gonna
be sort of a product of the color tuning of
the phone. So it's gonna be tough. Now, the iPhone
has this thing called like photographic styles, and he may
have chosen one of those that enhances kind of the
way things look. You can choose that in the settings
of your iPhone and it will change pretty much the

(43:18):
way every picture looks. It'll apply like a bunch of
filters and tuning to every single picture depending on what
you like. Some people like brighter, some people like more natural,
some people like more vibrant. But when it comes to
the Samsung, I mean, I think you can get some
really good pictures out of that phone if you want
the blurry background. I mean a couple things. First off,
if you're just taking like a regular picture, depending on

(43:40):
how you're taking it, the background should be somewhat blurred
on the Samsung as long as it's not using what's
called focus enhancer. So if you see that pop up,
that means that it's using sort of the wide angle
lens to take the picture, and so it's gonna make
it more flat and not sort of a blurry background.
So that could be nonumber one number two. There's also

(44:03):
a portrait mode on the phone, and some people I
know just love to take pictures in portrait mode, and
if you take it in portrait mode, that's actually applying
sort of an artificial blur to your picture. And so
that will definitely apply a blur as well, but you
have to you know, that's a little bit trickier to
do that. Also, I would take a look in your settings.

(44:25):
So if you go into your settings on your Samsung,
I would take a look at the different things inside there.
So they have all kinds of stuff. A scene optimizer.
You can turn that on and off, and you can decide,
you know, if you want that to. You know, it'll
notice if you're taking a picture of food, and it'll
make food look a certain way. But there's also a
way that you can go. Let's see, there's a way

(44:48):
that you can go into your picture after you take
it and add a blur. So I'm looking at a
picture on the Samsung right now. If you go into
the Samsung Gallery and you press the little menu, you'll
see where it says add portrait effect, and you tap that,
and it's using sensor data. So it's using depth sensor
data from your phone to separate the foreground from the background,

(45:12):
and then it's blurring the background and you can adjust
the level of blur that you want on the background
and that I'm looking at this in real time and
it looks pretty good. It's not going to get everything
just perfect, but it's doing a pretty good job. Now,
one other thing you can do if you want to
get that blurry background is in Google Photos. It has
an option to give you a blurry background as well,

(45:34):
and you can do this on pretty much any photo
editing app. But just go into the edit function on
Google Photos and then just go into your tools and
you know, you can just tap blur and it will
give you, you know, a blur if you want to
do a depth blur or whatever you want. So but
basically the feature you want is called portrait mode. So
that's that's kind of the thing that you want to do.

(45:56):
I think that with a little bit of practice and
a little bit of you know, using this phone a
little bit, I think you're gonna take some pretty good
pictures at rival your friend with the iPhone. But look,
I mean, iPhone fourteen takes fantastic photos. So believe me,
it's it's you know, their neck and neck, let's put
it that way. But I think some of it is
just getting used to the way that the Samsung works.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
So Carla, good question.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Thanks so much for calling, and enjoy the new phone
and I think you'll like it all right, phone lines
are open triple eight rich one oh one eight eight
eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up,
we're gonna talk to my friend Brian Tong about the
home pod from Apple. We're gonna see how it sounds
compared to the old one. Later, we're gonna talk about
an alternative to Facebook. Plus, we're gonna talk about malvertizing.

(46:41):
What's malvertizing? Find out? Coming up. Welcome back to rich
on Tech. This is the show where we talk about
technology and answer your questions. At triple eight rich one
O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
four to one zero one. Laura sent me an email said, Hey,
I saw your recently on San Francisco TV. How do

(47:02):
I retrieve or receive your recommendation for using travel points?
You mentioned the information was new to you. Looking forward
to your reply. Oh, this was a website. It's actually
a really good website. I've used this several times. It's
called point dot me. So I don't really play the
points game in a big way like I if I

(47:22):
get some points for you know, flights or using my card, whatever,
I'll take them. But I'm not sitting there actively trying
to rack them up. But if I have them, I'm
gonna use them and I want to make the most
of them. But this is a website did a story
on and it's it's a new one. It's a point
dot me. And what's cool about this website is it
helps you figure out ways of booking with your points

(47:45):
that you may not think of. So if you have
like let's say, Chase points or MX points, or you
have United points or south you know, maybe not Southwest,
but you know different airlines you know, it'll figure out
you know the best ways to use those points for flights,
and also taking into consideration transferring those points between different programs.

(48:06):
So even though you have United Points, you may be
able to use those on an airline out of Japan
and it might take less points to redeem for a ticket.
So it goes through all that stuff for you. It
takes a little bit to do the searches, but it's
because it's really like doing a deep dive. So I've
used this personally to book at least two flights one time,

(48:27):
was for my mom, and I couldn't believe, like I
didn't even know she had the use of jet Blue points,
Like I didn't even have a jet Blue account for her,
and you know, whatever points she had somehow transferred into
jet Blue and it was a fantastic deal compared to
the other flights that she typically took. And so we
did that, and then in another flight I found sort
of a premium seat at an economy amount of points,

(48:49):
and so it will figure that out for you too.
So again, the website is point dot me. It is
a paid site. I think you can get a starter
ass or I know there's a rich on tech code
that they had at some point. I don't know if
that still works, but you can try putting in promo
code rich on Tech and see if that gets you,
like something for free. It might get you like a

(49:10):
free month or something, or a month for a dollar,
but definitely give it a try if you have a
bunch of points and you're trying to book a trip.
I would check this out because I was very impressed.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
With this this website, point dot me.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
And by the way I put all the websites, I
tweet them out later on my Twitter so I bookmark
everything that I mentioned in the show, and then I
put the link on my Twitter at rich on Tech,
so you can find that as well. All right, let's
go to Jimmy. Jimmy is in Los Angeles. Jimmy, you're
on with rich I am doing fantastic.

Speaker 6 (49:42):
How are you wonderful?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
What can I help?

Speaker 8 (49:46):
I want to see if you can an Apple wash
into an Android like this?

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Good question. Uh, the short answer is not really what
are you trying to do? You have an Android phone,
but you want to use an Apple Watch? Yes, okay,
So the only way I know that you could do this?
Do you have an Apple ID?

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I'm not going to one, okay. Do you have a.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Friend or a family member that has an iPhone?

Speaker 6 (50:20):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (50:21):
At home?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Oh you do?

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Okay, So here's here's the best way to do it.
That it's not going to be perfect. Like let's just
let's just be clear. Android does not interface with Apple
Watch in any way, shape or form. So it's not
you're not going to get your notifications, uh that you know,
like let's say, you know, your text messages and stuff
like that are not going to come through to this
watch or you're uh some notifications will depending on how

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you set it up. But the only way that you
can kind of hack this together is to set up
the Apple Watch using your iPhone and then just using
the Apple Watch on your wrist and then the Android
as your phone. But the Apple Watches, once you take
it out of range of that I phone, it's going
to be very limited in what it can do. And
so what does that mean. It means that you can

(51:06):
if you have a cellular connection on the Apple Watch,
you'll be able to use things like you know, streaming
music stuff like that, get some notifications on the go,
maybe use Apple Maps.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
But if you just want to use the.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Apple Watch to sort of track your steps or track
your fitness on the go, it'll work for that. Or
use it just as a time piece, it'll work for
that as well, but it's not going to interface with
the Android in a meaningful way. The other thing you
can do is, you know, if you you can set
it up what's called family setup, and so this is

(51:38):
this is if you have a cellular Apple Watch and
you want to use it on the go without an
iPhone at all, you can do what's called the family setup.
And so this is a little bit more probably a
little bit better of a setup if you're trying to
use it with an Android phone, could because it'll work
on its own without having the need for the iPhone nearby.

(51:59):
And this is meant for family members setting up an
Apple Watch for their kid, or maybe for an elderly adult,
or for someone that just doesn't have an iPhone but
wants an Apple Watch that's in the family and so
you can set this thing up that way as well.
And that's the way my kid's Apple Watch is set up.
It's called family set up, and he has cellular and
he basically has a phone on there. He can text message,

(52:22):
he can use limited apps. You know, not every app
works on that sort of setup. But if you just
want this thing to track your steps and just you know,
do basic stuff on there, listen to music, you'll be
able to do that. So that's the only way I
know of doing it. But it's it's definitely not ideal
because it could be frustrating if you're trying to sync

(52:43):
up the actual Android notifications to this watch. It's just
not built that way. And you know, it's the same
thing on the other side it used to be. I
kind of remember that there was there used to be
a way to use an Android watch with an iPhone
for a certain period of time, and I don't think
that's the case anymore either. It was very limited, but nowadays,
I mean, look, the name of the game nowadays is silos.

(53:06):
Every tech company wants to silo you into their stuff,
and Apple is pretty much the best at this. They
have a couple of tricks up their sleeve when it
comes to I Message, when it comes to FaceTime, when
it comes to the Apple Watch. They give you these
things that work really well together, but they don't work
with anything else dimensioned I message. That's probably the biggest

(53:29):
one that gets people walked into the Apple ecosystem. And
once they're on that blue bubble, they just don't want
to ever get out of that blue bubble world. And
when someone texts them with a green bubble, they get
all annoyed. And Apple did that on purpose too. They
made the bubbles different colors. Why they do that so
that you knew, oh, this person's coming from an Android phone,
this person's coming from an iPhone. I am not a

(53:50):
fan of that. I think that that's you know, it's
just sad that people are judging each other based on
the color of bubble coming through on their messaging stone purse.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
And believe me, if you don't think it's a thing,
it is.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
People get on these group texts and you know, one
person's on Android and they get all bent out of
shape in the group text saying, Ah, who's the person
on Android here? That's that's messing up this group text.
So it's a thing, and I think it puts a
little undue pressure on folks, you know, maybe even teenagers
that are getting their first phone. But that was the
whole point, I guess, brilliant marketing by Apple. All right,

(54:24):
coming up next, we're gonna talk about the home Pod.
This is a speaker made for Apple products. I've got
my friend Brian Tongue coming on the show to talk
about how the new HomePod sounds compared to the old
home Pod.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
We'll we'll talk about that, plus we'll.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Take more of your questions at triple eight Rich one
oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
four to one zero one. My name is Rich Dmiro.
We've got so much more in the show to talk about.
You can find me on social media. I am at
rich on Tech. We'll have more of the show right
after this. Welcome back to to Rich on Tech. My

(55:01):
name is Rich Demiro.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Joining me now.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Is Brian Tongue, fellow tech friend and YouTuber.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Brian. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
What's up? Rich?

Speaker 10 (55:13):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Man, Hey, you're.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
The first guest to be on twice woo.

Speaker 10 (55:18):
I feel very honored and I'll do it as as
long as you ask me back and hopefully your listeners like, yeah,
bring them back please, Otherwise I may not ever talk.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
To you again, right I think, well that will never happen.
But welcome to the show. Brian is a YouTuber. He
was up in San Francisco with me at the Samsung event.
But we're not going to talk about that. We're going
to talk about the home Pod because you've been testing
these out in your home, brand new from Apple.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
So just to give you the rundown on the home Pod.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
We talked about it, I think last week, but you know,
it's a two hundred and ninety nine dollars speaker that
is a smart home speaker. It's got some new features,
including a removable cable, which I think is actually I
know it sounds like I'm making fun of it, but
that's actually a good thing, so you can pull out
the power cord and pop it back in. It's got
spatial audio, it sounds good, it looks good, and it's

(56:10):
a great companion for.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
The Apple ecosystem.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Right, So, Brian, you tested this thing out. We texted
each other. We had the same sort of reaction to this.
We both think that the old home pod sounds better
than the new pod.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
How could that be possible?

Speaker 10 (56:25):
You know, it could be possible in a few ways.
Right from a technical standpoint, this new home Pod has
two less tweeters than the original, but at the same time,
because Apple is redesigned it, it leverages what's called computational audio,
which basically means it can analyze the room and the
best sound to deliver to you. It does not. For

(56:47):
the record, it does.

Speaker 11 (56:48):
Not sound bad.

Speaker 10 (56:49):
It sounds really good. But when you and I, you know,
you texted me right out of the gates and I
had already gone through extensive I mean, I match it
up against I think four different speaker sets, and it
just didn't feels as full. When I say that, I
just mean there, if you listen to music, you'll hear,
you know, voices, but you also hear these things called
mids which kind of round out the sound. You'll hear

(57:09):
loads which give you some of that basin ump, and
the original HomePod just sounds better in that regard. But
this is more than just the speaker. I think a
lot of people have purchased this with the intention of
I want a good sounding home smart speaker, so it
goes beyond that, but from just the very basic level
of how does the speaker sound, because I think that's

(57:29):
what everyone wants to know. It sounds great, but the
original HomePod just sounds better.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
In your YouTube video, which was very in depth, you
even enlisted the help of your fiance. She did like
a sort of a blind, blindfolded listening test. And she's
not necessarily a techie, she you know, she just was
enlisted to help and you said, hey, which one of
these sounds better? And she was kind of surprised because
you compared it against the original HomePod, then the Amazon

(57:57):
Echo speaker, and then the Google Nest speaker, which is
like the bigger one. And in all cases, did she
not think that the other speaker sounded better.

Speaker 10 (58:09):
Than the than than the new HomePod?

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (58:13):
Uh? The in Yeah, actually the nets, the Google Nest
speaker did not is honestly the to sound the worst out.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Of all of them.

Speaker 10 (58:21):
It was in a completely like lower tier. Okay, but surprisingly,
the Amazon Echo sounded very good. And you know, when
you listen to any speaker, it comes down to how
you hear things. We all actually hear things differently, we
all have different preferences to.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
The type of sound we like.

Speaker 10 (58:36):
But the Amazon Echo, in both my opinion and her
opinion in these tests, actually sounded slightly better than the
new home.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Pod as well, which is just so wild. I mean,
this thing is, you know, no matter which one you're
looking at. I mean, the Echo fourth generation is a
hunter Bucks. This speaker is is three hundred, which is
fifty dollars less than the original home Pod that was
discontinued back a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
I don't really think any of this matters to the
Apple ecosystem user that wants a good speaker for their
home that looks really nice, plays really nice with all
of their Apple stuff, and it's going to sound good.
And do you think that Apple can improve the audio
on this speaker with software updates?

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Is that even a thing?

Speaker 10 (59:21):
I mean, because it is like you're alluding to computational audio.
They can tweak it. I think that it will. A
lot of people say, hey, you need to listen to
a speaker for a long period of time to break
it in to kind of help the base come in.
And so, you know what, I'm going to give them
the benefit of doubt, and I'm going to do another
speaker test. Let's give them like three or four months
and revisit it and see if anything's changed, match them

(59:43):
up with maybe some other speakers, like the Sono's one
setup that is kind of in that tier when we
talk about price point, the Echo Studio, which is kind
of their larger speakers in that price point, but from
just a basic level, when you turn it on and
when you hear music, if you've owned the original home
it sounds different. But people there's a lot of people
that do not own a HomePod. It never owned the

(01:00:04):
original HomePod. There's a lot of people that own home pod.
Minis that really that was their introduction to get involved
with Apple's smart speakers and home smart speakers. So I
think there's a lot of Mini owners that are like,
I do want better sound now, and this HomePod is
gonna be perfect for them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Let's it sounds good, It's just it's different. Like okay,
so the way I can describe it, and I'm not
an audio file, but when I turned it on and
played the first song, which I think was like Harry
Styles as it was, I was a little bit surprised
at the room filling nature was just not as apparent
as it was on the first home Pod. Like the
first HomePod, when I turned it on, I was like, wow,

(01:00:41):
this is incredible, Like it just felt like the whole
room was filled with sound. With this new HomePod. I
felt like I can pinpoint exactly where the HomePod was
in the room and I can see where the audio
was coming from. That's the best way I can describe it.
And so it's not doesn't sound bad. It almost sounded
like a less full than the original HomePod.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Is that fair?

Speaker 8 (01:01:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:01:02):
You know if for people that are really into I
would say the different genres of music perform differently depending
on how a speaker sounds, and the new HomePod does
really emphasize the highs, which are like the voices, So
the voices are really clear, they feel upfront. But the
word that I used to describe how it's missing the
aspect of when you're saying that it kind of feels
like it's missing something is I use the word presence

(01:01:24):
because when you're listening to the original HomePods, you feel
like the music is like surrounding you. You feel like
you're right in the middle of the heart of it.
And with the new HomePods, it doesn't establish that at all,
and so you only know what you know. But you
and I know, like, man, it just doesn't sound as good.
But hopefully with some sort of tuning and over time
maybe the speaker's breaking a little bit, maybe we start

(01:01:46):
hearing a little some of those deeper tones. It helps
the audio quality. But if it's hard for I could
never you know, looking at someone straight in the eye,
I would never tell them that the new HomePod sounds
as good as.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
The original one.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
That's that's really that's hurtful. Them are fighting words right there.
We're talking to Briantongue YouTube dot com slash at Briantongue
if you want to find his U tech videos there.
Brian typically covers Apple in a big way, but also
other tech as well, so definitely check out his videos.
A couple other features real quick, I've got a couple

(01:02:16):
of minutes here, uh, Enhanced audio return channel.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I thought this was kind of cool. So if you
have an.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
Apple TV four K, you can pair up the home
pod with this and it's got this e ARC support,
which means anything that's connected to that TV will actually
run through the home pod. I thought that was kind
of a cool feature. I don't know if you played with.

Speaker 10 (01:02:35):
That, you know what. I think that's imost forget that
the Apple user, the general apper things to work and
they don't even like they don't even care about ARC.
But the fact that if you have an Apple TV
and everything that kind of flows through that TV is
played on your Apple speatures and you're and you might
be going like, oh wow, I didn't have to plug
anything and it's just work. That's what Apple wants you

(01:02:57):
to feel, right, And so that that's true to how
they build their products for the general consumers.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
So I think feature the way I understand it, If
I have my cable box plugged into the TV through
HDMI and that cable box supports ARC, basically that audio
will flow through the Apple TV and through the speakers
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
That's correct Okay, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 10 (01:03:19):
Yeah, And like I think there are people that won't
even realize that's what's happening, but they'll be like, wow,
this works everything right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Right, Okay, And finally we only have a minute here.
But Matter is also built into this speaker, and you
think that's going to be a pretty pretty good thing
for the smart home ecosystem, huh.

Speaker 10 (01:03:35):
I think this is the biggest thing about Apple's Home
home platform is that they really have been very lacking
with smart devices that are compatible. When we're talking about
doorbell cameras, thermostats, lights, wall plugs. Matter is going to
allow all a lot of these devices that have never
been compatible with Apple's Smart Home to finally be compatible

(01:03:56):
without you even listening to fingers. So I think as
time goes on, this the actual home pod and this
Matter smart home platform is going to really elevate it
and make it just so much easier use. And this
is Apple really getting serious about getting the smart home finally.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Brian tong thanks so much for joining me at Twitter
dot com slash Briantongue. We used to be pals at
c nets, so we've got a long history. Are you
still in San Francisco, Like, are you on the cable
car right now? That's what it sounds like.

Speaker 10 (01:04:22):
I'm not on the cable car, but I am in
a car with my nephew. We are we are driving
to get lunch right now?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
What kind of lunch are we talking? You're making me hungry?

Speaker 10 (01:04:31):
A little bit of country in a little breakfast for lunch.
You know, I'm a breakfast.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Guy, Rich, Oh, I love it. I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
So am all right, Brian, thanks so much for joining me,
and definitely check out Brian's videos and safe travels back
here to Los Angeles. You are listening to Rich on Tech.
My name is Rich Dmiro. The phone lines are open
at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. You got
a tech question, give me a call. Welcome back to

(01:04:58):
Rich on Tech. My name is Rich Tomuro. You're listening
to the show where we talk about technology and answer
your calls at triple A Rich one O one eight
eight rich one oh one. Let's go to Jay in
Woodland Hills, California. Jay, you're on with Wretch.

Speaker 8 (01:05:14):
Thank you, Rich.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
How's going good?

Speaker 8 (01:05:17):
Thank you? I uh, this is a question regarding generated
passwords on bit warten.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:05:27):
So I went to my bank and I changed the password.
And normally when you change the password, you know, you
get that flag on the top of the screen.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Sure updated youah updated. That didn't happen.

Speaker 8 (01:05:43):
And that didn't happen. So I'm out of my bank.
So I googled how do retriees generated passwords? And I
got this. It says, yes, you can view the history
of the password generator from client applications generate a.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Scream and it's not there.

Speaker 8 (01:06:06):
So how do I access the client applications generator screen?

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
So if you go now, do you have bitwarden installed
as a Chrome extension?

Speaker 8 (01:06:16):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
So, and just to give you know, give a little
perspective on this, Bitwarden is a very popular, free and
open source password management system. And I recommend if you're
listening to this, that you use a password generating app.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
And I know that it sounds like rich.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
I don't really want to get into that because, you know,
like Jay is saying, there can be some problems with
this situation. You know, like these passwords that they generate
are twelve fourteen characters, they're long. I can't remember them.
But it's better believe me. So yes. What happens is
most of the time when you are generating a password,

(01:06:55):
these systems will once you put that password in, it'll say, hey,
do you want us to save it? Like the Well,
notice that you've tried a new password or you've generated
a new password, and the system will pop up a
little notification that will say do you want to either
right over the old password or save the new password
or whatever. And sometimes that doesn't happen, just depending on

(01:07:15):
the architecture of the website that you're on, it just
may block that notification or whatever. Well, these password generators
have gotten pretty good over the years and they've realized
that when you generate a password, it should probably save
that password.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
In some way.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
So on the extension, click the extension and there's a
little section called generator and that can be used to
generate a password.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
But there should also be an area that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Says password history, and if you click that password history,
that should give you a list of all the different
passwords that have been generated recently. Now this may not
be perfect. They may not all be there. In fact,
the one that was generated with your bank may not
be there. But that's the first place to look. And
I'm looking at my password management system and it's given

(01:08:03):
me all the different passwords that I've generated all the
way back to December nineteenth, So that's my last twenty
generated passwords. If it's before that, it may not be
on there, but Jay, that's the place to look. If
you can't find it in that Bitwarden password generator history,
then you're going to have to do a password reset

(01:08:26):
on your you know, your bank password, and then do
a new password. And I know that's not ideal, but
sometimes these things do get lost in the system and
the shuffle whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
And for that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
Reason, and you know, I passwords are very tricky because
you don't you want to be very careful about these
generated passwords.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
But what I'll do is.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Sometimes even I'm a little hesitant to give out this advice,
but sometimes if I really want to make sure that
the password I just generated is going to be saved,
I will copy and paste it into sort of my
notes app, and then I'll make sure it's saved in
my password management software and then I will delete it
out of my notes app. Now that can cause some

(01:09:09):
issues because your notes app or wherever you paste this thing.
Just being on the clipboard of your computer could not
be as secure as I'd like, but it's, you know,
in some ways easier just to have that peace of
mind that you have that password somewhere, especially if it's
for a big account like a Google or a Twitter
or an Instagram or a Facebook like you don't want
to lose that password because resetting can sometimes be a

(01:09:30):
pain with those websites. So that's the place to look, Jay.
I'm glad that you're using a password manager, and Bitwarden
is a good one because it's free, it works across
multiple devices, it's relatively easy to use. It's open source,
which means a lot of people have looked into the
security of that password generating software, and a lot of

(01:09:54):
people like it. Other password management software includes dash Lane,
which is good, but it is a little pricey. I
think they've introduced some new plans that are a little
bit easier to manage because they're monthly. Let's see, one
password is also a very popular one. So one password
used to be primarily for just Apple products. Now they've

(01:10:16):
sort of gone across all different platforms, so one Password
is a really good one as well. And if you're
just on if you're just using Apple products, just use
iCloud keychain. I mean, you know, if you've ever used
the iPhone, it popped up where it says, hey, do
you want us to generate a password or save a password?
That's iCloud keychain, and you could just use that. If
you're only using Apple products, that's fine. I'm totally fine

(01:10:39):
with that. But if you're using a combination of Apple
and Android, or Apple and Chrome, or iOS and Chrome,
then I would recommend one of these cross platform password
managers like I just mentioned the other.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
One you can use.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Google also has their own, so they have Google Password
Manager and that realy got an update, and so that
used to be really good. I would recommend it if
you only used Chrome, but now they actually made it
so that it integrates nicely into iOS. And so if
you use a lot of Google products, you can use

(01:11:14):
Google's password manager. And where you want to look on
this is on your iPhone. If you go into your
settings and you go to type in autofill and then passwords,
and then you can look at your password options and
you can see auto fill passwords. You can turn that
on or off, and it gives you the options. It says,

(01:11:35):
where do you want to allow filling from? And it'll
give you all the different options. And one of them,
if you have Chrome installed on your phone, is from
Chrome and it's it's kind of a sleeper kind of
feature because they introduced it, i think late last year
and they didn't really publicize it too much. But if
you want a free option that works and you're you're

(01:11:55):
using let's just give you a scenario. You're primarily a
Chrome user on your desktop computer and then you use
Chrome on your iPhone. That's a great system where you
can just use Chrome's password manager and it will work
on your computer, it will work on your iPhone. It
will automatically fill things on your iPhone, and it's totally free. Now,

(01:12:16):
you may not like Google that much to trust it
with that stuff, but you know it's gonna work, and
it's you know, like I said, it's cross platform. It's
totally free. And some of these other ones, like the
one Passwords of the World and the dash lanes, you know,
they can cost fifty sixty bucks a year, So if
you're not prepared to pay that, and once you get
into these systems, you know it's tough to get out.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Yes, you can.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Export all your passwords, but you know it takes a
little bit to switch. And so my recommendation is to
really think about the products that you use, and these
password managers are sort of a long term thing that
you want.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
To Once you get into it, it's tough to get out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
So Jay, anyway, thanks for bringing up the password manager,
because I'm always ready to talk about that because password
manager two factor authentication, two things that every iPhone user,
Android user, and computer user should absolutely be thinking about
how to keep their data private and their their accounts safe.
All Right, we've got much more of the show, so

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Do you need to pay twenty bucks a month for
chat GPT?

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
I don't know. We'll talk about that. Plus, I've got.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
A great interview coming up with the founders of an
app that is billing itself as an alternative to Facebook.
If you want to protect your privacy, you are listening
to Rich on Tech. Phone lines are open at triple
eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
to two, four to one zero one. You are listening
to Rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro, tech

(01:13:54):
reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, talking about
technology and all all the cool stuff that happens on
your phone, on your computer, on the web, pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Much anything these days. I mean, I can't think of
something that tech doesn't touch at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
You can find me on social media. I am at
rich on Tech, my website rich on tech dot tv.
There you can find links to all my social media
podcast version of this show, as well as some of
the segments I do on KTLA, and just anything that
I mentioned I pretty much put again the website rich
on tech dot TV. All right, let's talk about malvertizing.

(01:14:34):
This is a pretty serious thing. I haven't seen it
in a while, but it definitely happens. And this is
when you search something on Google and one of the
ads at the top of the screen looks like it's
what you're trying to find. And mostly this happens with
software that you're trying to download, but it delivers malware

(01:14:56):
to your computer system. And this is an article out
of Space House Haus Dot com talking about how they're
seeing a whole bunch of malvertizing happening right now across
Google Ads. Now, Google Ads is pretty smart. Google is
pretty smart, but there are people that are trying to
evade their systems at all times. And so as smart

(01:15:17):
as Google can be, they can't find everything, you know, instantly,
and so these you know, bad actors, so to say,
find ways of exploiting the Google system, and you know
they do. So here's how it happens. Let's say you search.
Let's say you want to download a piece of software.
And some of the software examples they give our Adobe Reader,

(01:15:40):
Microsoft Teams, let's see what else, Slack and Thunderbird. And
so you search for that software on Google and the
top thing right at the top, let's just.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Try it Thunderbird, And that's like a.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
You search for that and the first result is from
an advertisment. And so a lot of times two things
are happening here. A lot of times companies like Mozilla
or whatever, they'll take out ads so that when you're
looking for their software, you'll find it right at the top.
And you'll see this is typically ads are marked at
the top of Google. You know, they say ad let's

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see what do they say.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
I think they just changed it recently. I mean, trying
to search for something that'll bring up an AD. There
we go. Yeah, they're marked AD.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
And so if you look at Google, and this is
just general, you know, if you just look at Google
at the top of your search results, just you're going
to see AD right now. I just search for mattresses,
I'm seeing AD, AD, AD AD, then places and then
the first result comes up way after that for mattress warehouse.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
So you're talking.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
If you're just looking at Google and clicking the top
thing every time, you're probably clicking an AD most of
the time. And that's why Google makes billions of dollars
by the way. They've come up with this brilliant system
that most people are just clicking the top link, like
you know, a large percent of searches result and the
first link is what gets clicked. And that's why SEO

(01:17:10):
search engine optimization. That's why it's such a big business,
because people just want to be that first result. Because
people go to Google and they just click the first
result they see, whether it's an AD or not. And
that's what's so brilliant about their their system is that
you just see an AD, and you know, most people
don't distinguish between ads and actual results. We call them

(01:17:30):
organic search results. Those are a little bit further down.
So now if we scroll further down, we can see
the first organic search result is, you know, like I said,
Mattress warehouse. So just in general, be aware of what
you're clicking on Google. So don't always just click the
first thing that you see, especially on your phone. Google
is a little tricky about this because they want they

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want you to click that that's how they make their money.
So they will make it so that the AD results
look the same as what we call organics search results.
Organic search results are the results that companies have earned
right they have made their way to the top because
they're trusted because a lot of other websites link to them.

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Google doesn't exactly tell us the special sauce that goes
into this whole. You know, what makes a link the
number one, but we know there's certain factors that contribute
to that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
So anyway, so I'm telling.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
You all this stuff so that you understand when you
click that first link, it's not always the link of
the organic website. It could be an AD. And so
what these bad actors are doing is they are buying
ads that look like they are going to bring you
that software, whether it's Adobe Reader, whether it's Microsoft Teams,
whether it's Slack, whether it's Thunderbird, and you click it

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and then it loads. In one example, I saw it's
actually a dropbox link and it'll load software onto your system.
It will actually download software. And this is what they
call malvertizing. And I've seen this happen. It's actually happened
to me before. I've actually witnessed it on my own computer.
It's been a couple of years. But this is something
to just look out for. And so if you're clicking,

(01:19:06):
you know, software links, just be aware of this and
really just look at the URL that you're downloading. A
lot of times these companies, these you know, malvertizing, they
will they will buy domains that look very similar to
the domain that you're trying to find, you know, whether
it's software or whatever, and so they'll they'll try to
trick you even further. So just really be aware of

(01:19:29):
what you're clicking, what you're downloading. Anytime you're downloading something
into your system, you really got to be aware of
that download because that's that's when the problems start. If
you're just surfing the web, like most of the time,
it's going to be fine. But if you're downloading something
and running that on your computer, that's when the problems
can start.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
So just be aware. All right. Now, let's talk about
chat GPT, And this is kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
An upfront to Google because Google, we've gotten so used
to Google being a place where we go and let's
say you're searching for something and you click links, and
you click links and you look for results. Well, chat
GPT sort of turns that upside down. Chat GPT makes
it so that you don't really have to click any links.
And people have really gotten excited about this because instead

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of having to click a whole bunch of links, chat
gpt just does all the work for you and says, like,
if you ask what's the best mattress, it will look
out on the web to see all the different resources
that talk about good mattresses, and it will concisely give
you the answer of okay, based on all of our
observations of the web, here's what we think are the

(01:20:37):
top mattresses. And I'm not even sure that chatchipt can
do this. What I'll just ask it. Let's just ask
what are the top mattress brands? Now, remember chat GPT
was they kind of stopped the research in twenty Let's
see it's I think it was in twenty twenty one.
So it's not like up to date per se with

(01:20:59):
the results because this is still a research project. Don't
forget they're still seeing how this works. But I just
asked it. Here are some of the what are the
top mattress brands? That says, here are some of the
top mattress brands Casper, Purple, Nectar, Tufted Needle, Lisa, Temperpedick,
and brook Linnen. And there's a little warning on my
chat GPT that's I don't know what that warning is,

(01:21:21):
but it's but again, it's not giving me a website
result that is telling me these top brands. It went
out and it said, Okay, we see a lot of
people mention Casper, we see a lot of people mentioned Purple.
We see a lot of good reviews for Nectar. Now,
I don't know if these are the best brands in
that order, but I mean again, it's coming up with

(01:21:42):
that on the fly, whereas Google would make me kind
of go to these different websites and look and see like, Okay,
what does this person say about Casper? What does this
person say about Purple? So it's a totally different way
of thinking about search. Well, anyway, chat GPT has really
taken the world by storm because people are finding so
many things they can do with it, creating essays, poems,

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you can write an email to say, hey, can you
apply for this job? Write me a cover letter and
it'll do that, lyrics to songs. So now they already
have their first product, Chat GPT plus. If you've used
chat GPT, you know that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's not very good, and so

(01:22:25):
you may be thinking, Gosh, I would really like a
much more reliable version of chat GPT, and I'm willing
to pay for that, because if you're a salesperson or
I don't know anything practically, some of these things that
chat GPT can do can really help you out in
your job. And so for twenty bucks a month, that
is the new product, chat GPT plus.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Now it depends if.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
This is worth it for you, because if you're using
chat GPT, a lot of people are using the free
version and it's working just fine, but some people have
really kind of honed in on that and they're saying,
I'm using this on a daily basis. Like let's say
you're a salesperson and you're writing like custom emails to
sell people on stuff, or you know, custom cover letters
or custom whatever. This may be worth it for twenty

(01:23:13):
books a month. So what do you get for chat
GBT Plus. Well, you get better access even during peak times.
There's a lot of times when chat GPT says, ah,
we just can't work right now. Faster responses and priority
access to new features and improvements. So chat GPT says,
the free tier is here to stay. But now you've

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got Chat GPT Plus, which, by the way, you can't
sign up for immediately.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
It's kind of a wait list.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
But twenty bucks a month for full access to chat
GBT and all that power is pretty incredible. It's also
incredible that we've been using Google for free for so
long and here's this newcomer and they're already saying, hey, look,
we're going to give you priority access to us for
twenty bucks a month, And the fact that people are
going to pay for that is pretty incredible as well.
You're listening to rich on Tech is Rich Demiro. We're

(01:24:01):
talking technology. We've got more of your calls coming up
at Triple eight rich one on one coming up next.
Uh In the show, I've got a guest who's going
to talk about the alternative to Facebook that they've built.
It's an app that protects your privacy even when you post.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. You're listening to the
show where we talk about technology and answer your questions.
Yogi is in Belmont Shore, California. Yogi, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 6 (01:24:31):
Hi there, Rich Hi, Hi?

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
Hey you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
Good? Right, I hear you great?

Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
Okay, what's going on here?

Speaker 6 (01:24:39):
My question is simple. I'm a T Mobile customer and
my wife is yeah, my daughter's Verizon and all that stuff.
But I hear about Consumer Cellular and Pure Talk and
all these other phone you know, arrangements. I guess we'll
call them. So can you easily explain or just come

(01:25:00):
kind of tell me what would be? Why would I
do that, why would I change to that? And what's
the advantage. I know they're supposed to be cheap of
well no, why is that they exist? And kind of
like what's the whole story around them.

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
Okay, great question. This is uh, this is a really
good question. So these are called mv and os and
that means mobile virtual network operator. And so in the US,
for example, we pretty much have three networks. We have
T Mobile, we have AT and T, and we have Verizon,

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and I believe Dish is building their own network as well,
so that will be up and coming. But the reality
is all of the cell phone service that we have
in America is pretty much these three companies. And so
when you see all these advertisements about Visible and Cricket
and US Mobile and like you said, Consumer Cellular, they

(01:25:59):
are all running on one of these networks. And so
what's the difference. Okay, think about it this way. Let's
say that you know, you get a hamburger and you've
got three friends. They all season that burger differently and
grill it differently and serve it to you differently. One
of those might be better to you, might taste better,
it might look better, it might be more appealing. So
that's really the big difference. So I think it comes

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down to two things. Number One, you want to figure
out which network do you like, and whether you know
you can you can figure out online which of these
networks these mv and o's run off of. So for instance,
if you look up Visible, you'll find that that's actually
owned by Verizon. If you look up Cricket, you'll find
that that's owned by AT and T. T Mobile probably

(01:26:46):
has the most mv and os running off of their network.
It's just I don't know why, it's just the way
it is, but they just have a lot of these
different companies that run off a T Mobile. I guess
T Mobile resells their network a lot, so I would figure,
you know, I'm just looking up a list of some
of these things. Mint Mobile, that's another big one. Ultra

(01:27:08):
Boost Mobile Boost I believe is now owned by Dish Network.
You've got Google five, You've got Red Pocket. I mean,
there are so many different mv and os out there.
So again, what it comes down.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
To is what's best for you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
So what these companies do is the service of the
line and also the features of the line. So for instance,
there's an mv and O called US Mobile, and what
they specialize in is that you can pretty much customize
your plan with exactly the features that you need.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
So let's say you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Want, you know, just texting and calling and just a
tiny bit of data. You can configure a line like that.
Let's say you want unlimited everything. There are systems like that.
Let's say you want unlimited everything for a very cheap
price every month. Visible might be something that appeals to you.
So it all comes down to the network that you

(01:28:03):
want and also the features that you want, and which
one of these companies packages it in a way that
appeals to you most. Now there is another side, and
I was actually talking to the folks at one of
the major cellular companies about this, the idea of do
these third party companies have the same sort of access

(01:28:24):
and priority to the line that you would have if
you were a you know, a subscriber directly. So let's
say you're on T Mobile and the person next to
you is on Mint and you're both trying to access
the network in a crowded place. So there are some
people that think that maybe these mv and o's don't
have as much priority on the network as the you know,

(01:28:46):
first party customers. And I don't know that to be
true or not, Like I didn't really get that sense
from the mobile carrier that I was talking to, Like
they said, no, everyone pretty much has the same act access.
So but there could be a way like your if
your network is way cheaper, that could be another place
where they kind of save, like the priority is just

(01:29:08):
not there. So what it really comes down to again
to me, when it comes to, you know, choosing a
cellular carrier, it's where does it work? Does it work
where you live, does it work where you work? And
does it work where you play? Those are the kind
of things that I think is the most important. So
if you want to go with one of these third
party carriers, you know, see if T Mobile works where you,

(01:29:30):
you know, use your phone the most. See if AT
and T works where your phone is the most, see
if Verizon works where your phone is the most, and
also travel. Some of these third party mv and os
they may not have international data, or it may be
really expensive, or they may not have perks like free
Netflix and stuff like that, so you might not need
all that stuff. But that's really how I size up

(01:29:52):
these networks. So for instance, I've got a family member
who has been on Mint Mobile for a very long time,
and every time she tells people about mint Mobile and
how much she pays, I think it's like fifteen bucks
a month. They're always like, wait, how do you pay
fifteen bucks a month when I'm paying, you know, forty
fifty sixty seventy eighty dollars a month for my phone line.
And it's quite simple. The person who's on that line

(01:30:15):
just doesn't use a lot of data. She doesn't need
a ton of data. So why pay for an unlimited
data plan at sixty to eighty dollars a month when
you're not using a lot of data. You're not streaming music,
you're not streaming YouTube, you're not you know whatever, So
why pay all that extra? So it really the main
carriers have specialized in these unlimited plans that are very

(01:30:39):
very pricey. They're very expensive, they're very premium, and they
come with a lot of stuff. You may not need
all of that stuff, but it's just been the default
forever to go to one of these big plans, and
so that's that's what a lot of people kind of
gravitate to, and they don't really understand, like, I can
get the same level of cellular service from a different
company that's may not be as well known or may

(01:31:01):
not be as big of an advertiser on network TV.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
So anyway, look.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
Into them, see which company does what you need, and
you know, try them out.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
You can always switch back. It's very easy to switch.
You're listening to rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
We're talking technology, we're talking gadgets, and coming up, I'm
going to tell you how to enable Gmail's new package
tracking features, so if you use Gmail, it can now
track your packages right inside your app. We're also going
to talk to the CEO of an app named True.
True bills itself as an alternative to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

(01:31:40):
It's an app that lets you share with your friends,
but it does not collect your personal information. It does
not sell you ads, it does not track you. I
am on there, should you be on there? We'll talk
to the CEO of True. Coming up next, you're listening
to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
My name is Tomiro.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
If you follow me on social media, you know that
I've been testing out a new social media app called True.
This is the anti Facebook. No tracking, no ads, doesn't
collect a whole bunch of personal information, and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
It's kind of slick. Let's bring on.

Speaker 1 (01:32:21):
Brett Coxy is the CEO of True, the San Francisco
based app.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Brett welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (01:32:29):
Rich thanks for having me on.

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
All right, So True, can you explain what it is exactly?

Speaker 6 (01:32:37):
Sure?

Speaker 11 (01:32:37):
So kind of you know, over covid, I got so
fed up with Facebook that I decided to build a replacement,
if you can believe that. It may sound crazy, but
you know, the thinking was, Wow. You know, we never
agreed to allow these large companies to be in the
middle of our friendships, to be in the middle of
our relationships. Yet there they are. You know, they're watching

(01:32:59):
every move that we and they're selling all that information
through the highest bidder and making money through selling us
targeted advertising, our information through targeted advertising. And I thought
that we could build something that respected user privacy and
got back to those things that matter, which we felt
were you know, real friends in real life without monetizing
your personal information.

Speaker 1 (01:33:19):
Now I get a lot of pitches for new apps,
especially apps that want to replace Facebook or social media whatever,
and quite honestly, I don't do a lot of stories
on them because I'm like, I take the let's wait
and see kind of approach. But when I checked out
True and you can go to the website try True
dot com, slash rich on Tech. To see what we're

(01:33:40):
talking about here, try true dot com slash rich on Tech.
What drew me to doing a story with you for
ktla is the fact that this app is well designed.
It works equally well on iOS and Android. It looks slick,
and it seems like it has a chance of taking
off in a big way because all the good boxes

(01:34:03):
are checked like it's not tracking you. It really works nicely.
It allows me to do what I want to do,
which is create a group thread. You can have several
of these, whether it's with your family members, whether it's
with your friends, whether it's with your kids basketball team,
and it lets you share again privately. So tell me
how has it been. What's been the reception of this

(01:34:25):
app brand?

Speaker 11 (01:34:26):
Well, you know, it's funny. We lost it around in
the summer last year and we were watching it grow
and grow and grow over the holidays. It doubled and
tripled and quadrupled in terms of the number of people
using it, and recently it's just kind of exploded. You know.
We said from the very very beginning that we thought
we could build this product. Gone are the days where

(01:34:47):
two guys in a garage can build the next big
thing in social These products are very complicated. You mentioned
that it's a beautiful, functional product, and it's because we
spent a lot of time and effort to make it
that way. We realized that we had to make a
social network that was on par in quality with the
Facebook family of apps, but make it private, and so

(01:35:08):
that's what True is. It's a very high quality product.
As you mentioned on both iOS and androids. It allows
you to be as private or as public as you
want to be, and a lot of thought and time
has gone into it and we're pleased with the growth
so far this year.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
So yeah, So the app is private by default, so
when you set up a thread, it's private, and you
can make it public if you want. Like I have
a thread called rich on Techi's which I've been experimenting with.
I've got a couple hundred people hanging out in there,
and I can make a post and anyone can join
this thread without me approving them.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
But if you.

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
Want, let's say one with just your family members, you
would invite them by sending them a link. They would
you know, you would approve them, and then you would
all be in this group together where you can chat.
You can exchange pictures, you can exchange videos, you can
comment on things. And you might be saying, well, rich,
can I just use group messaging for that? Well, group
messaging is fine, but cross platform if you're just using SMS,

(01:36:06):
is not very good because pictures and videos will not
come through it a good resolution. You know, if everyone
has an iPhone, sure you're using I message, but you
know it can get messy because people text at different
hours of the day. And so this is much more
like a way where you can post something and people
can comment and exchange ideas and thoughts at any time
of the day, and you can come to when you

(01:36:27):
have the chance to kind of look at this stuff.
My next question, Brett, is really about if you're not
doing ads, if you're not tracking people, I mean, Facebook
makes a lot of money on us, how are you
going to keep this thing going right?

Speaker 11 (01:36:40):
So we have a plan to use keyword based advertising
in public threads only. So if you think about it.
When you start with truth, you sign up, you tell
us you know what. The creator creates a thread on Truth,
they decide exactly what keywords apply to it. So a
running thread might have running keywords, a family something that
has to do with hiking. Might have hiking keywords, and

(01:37:03):
then whenever you look for threads to consume untrue that
are public, you also enter keywords. We're doing a system
it's very similar tout got if you're familiar with this,
which is a keyword based advertising system that people can
see ads only in creator threads. The creator has to
publish that thread to us, otherwise we have to approve

(01:37:25):
it more to be released on the platform, but allows
us to monetize through public content, but still keep private
content private and an ad free experience. So we've been
saying for a while we can make enough money with
this model to be wildly successful and you'll never see
another advertisement in a private thread as long as you're

(01:37:45):
on True, so all of your family, everything that you
share with that group remains the same, that experience will
remain the same, and then you can consume public content
if you decide to.

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
My guest right now is Brett Cox. He is the
CEO of San Francisco based True, the website try True
dot com, slash rich on tech. If you want to
join my rich on techies group, you can also download
the app there or become Brett's friend as well. So Brett,
how are people using this.

Speaker 11 (01:38:12):
App right now? You know what we notice? Rich And
by the way, congratulations on having one of the fastest
growing threats I think we've ever seen on True. You
went from zero to I think you're over three hundred
and fifty getting closer to four hundred members, you know,
in no time. But you know, what we're seeing is
we saw people begin to get off the big social

(01:38:35):
networks like Facebook, and they started moving to private messaging products,
specifically with their families. In other words, they did want
to share their personal lives on blasts in a public form.
They wanted to share pictures of their kids and their
pets with smaller groups of families in a private way.
And so I like to explain that True is a
social platform that's organized like a private messaging platform. So

(01:38:59):
this makes it id you'l for sharing privately, you know,
if you kind of think about it, We don't broadcast
our authentic lives and public. We kind of share discreetly
with groups of people we already know. And we also
belong to different communities where we share different parts of ourselves.
And so what we're seeing is people coming onto the product.
They'll typically start with families and then they'll start to

(01:39:19):
consume other contents they find interesting. And right now it's
taking off. We couldn't be happier.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
So when you create a post on the app, once
you sign up, you can post a picture or video,
you can post a jiff, you can post a let's see.
You can make your post public or private. And then
you also have this little lifespan option, so you can
say pick how long your post lives forever, a week
or a day. So that's kind of a cool feature.

(01:39:45):
Tell me about some of the options for posts.

Speaker 11 (01:39:48):
Sure, you know, if you think about it, all the
larger companies they make money by mining all this information,
keeping it for a long period of time, and then
deciding how to sell things to you. Right, we don't
have that. We don't keep any information. We don't monetize
personal information. We don't we don't watch it, we don't
mind it, we don't analyze it, we don't look at it,
and certainly we don't share it with any third parties.

(01:40:10):
So in the example that you just gave, you can
set a live span for your information and you can
live in a bubble as you move through time with
your post deleating themselves behind you, and no one will
see the content forever, if you like. We have a
variety of new things coming. We have the ability to
do things like leave the easter eggs, and we have

(01:40:31):
some interesting things coming around around them, attacking locations and
building interactive stories with your friends. One of the things
I'm most excited about that we have coming up rich
is a product called days which allows you to build
an interactive story over a vacation or a period of
time or a weekend collaboratively with friends, and then share

(01:40:53):
that into a threat either privately, privately or publicly. It's
things like this that I think will set us apart
really strongly from other other big social networks.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
Okay, finally, how do you convince someone to try this,
to download it? I mean, there's so many apps out there,
it's another sign up, it's another thing to check. How
do you convince someone to actually give this a chance?

Speaker 11 (01:41:14):
You know, what we've seen is that there's actually a
built in cohort of people that have had enough. Right,
They're fed up with this surveillance capitalism. They're fed up
with being watched all the time. They're fed up with
these companies knowing what they do before they do, and
so they want there's a gap in the market right
now that we think we can fill that that's caters

(01:41:37):
to those kinds of people we see over and over
again when people come on to the product, they say,
thank you, thank you, thank you. This is great. Please
give us more of it. And what we're trying to
do is explain to people like, look, there's great choices
for sharing things publicly on Blast, Instagram, Facebook, they do
that really, really well. But if you want to have

(01:41:58):
a place that feels like home where you share your
most intimate and genuine memories, True is that product for you.
It allows you to do that with a smaller group
of people. We like to say that we're making social
a safe place again without monetizing your personal information.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
All right, Brett, we're gonna leave it there. Thanks so
much for joining me today. I do appreciate it. Brett Coox,
CEO of San Francisco based True. If you want to
check out the app we were talking about, it is,
try True dot com slash rich on tech. You can
join my rich on Techies group there. I'm still trying
to figure out exactly what to share inside my True app,
but it's kind of a cool place you're listening to

(01:42:35):
rich on Tech. Coming up, we're going to close out
the show. We're going to talk about gmails, new package tracking,
and Apple adds another streaming service. We'll talk about that
when we come back. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Rich Dmiro hanging out with you here talking technology. One
of the things we should talk about is Gmail. They've
got this. If you order as many packages as I do,

(01:42:59):
you're always looking like when they're getting delivered, You're always
tracking them, seeing if they've been delivered or seeing what
day they're supposed to arrive. And so now Gmail can
do this all for you. So new feature inside Gmail.
This was announced back in November, but now it's rolling
out inside the Gmail app. So Google basically scans your

(01:43:19):
emails for package tracking information like a UPS or a
FedEx number, and then it will display that information right
inside your inbox.

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
And so this could be really helpful.

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
Instead of, you know, if you're like me, you get
these tracking emails, you archive them, and then maybe you'll
look for them when you're.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
Like, wait, when's that thing coming again?

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
So now this would just show it right in the
inbox view, so you can just glance at your inbox
and see, you know, okay, is it arriving, is it late?

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
Is it delayed?

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
And so Gmail sort of pings these little tracking numbers
and will update the information in real time so that
you don't have to click every single time you want
to check the status of this package. So the feature
is here, and you may see an option at the
top of your inbox to activate it. If you want
to activate this manually, you can do it. And I

(01:44:09):
looked on my both on Android and iPhone and it
wasn't active, which and I never saw any sort of like, hey,
do you want to activate this? So if you have
an iPhone, you can open up your Gmail app, go
into the menu on the left hand side and then
click settings and then scroll all the way down to
data Privacy, which they kind of put it in a
scary place because who wants to like go into like

(01:44:30):
data privacy and see something that's like inherently not that private,
Like Google's going to look at your tracking numbers, but
they've got your email, so I think it's probably fine.
And then once you go into data privacy, you'll see
an option for package tracking. You can toggle that on
now on Android it's very similar. You go to the

(01:44:51):
Gmail settings, you go to general and then package tracking,
and it says Gmail will share tracking numbers for your
package with shipping carrier, and that's giving them the permission
to look up these various tracking numbers. And so once
you do that, Google will do it and put it
in your inbox. You can always turn this off if
you don't like it. But I have yet to see

(01:45:13):
a package show up with this information. I just ordered
something today, so I'm embarrassed to say what it is,
but i will.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
Yeah, I don't know if I yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
Anyway, it's soaps. It's these soaps that I really like.
It's it's a burly soap brand, like it has a
let's put a sasquatch as their mascot.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
So if you know what I'm talking about, I just
I you know, these.

Speaker 1 (01:45:38):
Soaps are They're more expensive than they should be, but
I've grown to just kind of like them. And so
now I'm ordering soap online and you know, ordering a
bunch of bars at the same time, and they get
shipped out. And the first time I did this, it
was actually during the pandemic, and it took so long
to get my delivery that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
Uh, you know, I've always said that. I always think
this is funny.

Speaker 1 (01:45:59):
If you ever want a toiletry that you have, whether
it is toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, some sort of face wash,
if you ever want it to last a really long time,
just go out and buy a new item, And for
some reason, when you do that, your old item will
last forever because you're excited to use the new one,
whether it has a new scent, whether it's you know,

(01:46:20):
something that hasn't improved formula, whatever it is, different brand,
you're so excited to break into that new toothpaste or whatever,
that the old one just will last forever. Just to
mess with you, And so just try it. I've tried
this so many times. It is a theory that I
have that just seems to work. You want your old
thing to last, just buy the new one.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
So that's what happened with this soap, is that I
was running out of my old soap and the new
one just would not arrive, and I kept checking and
I'm like, what is going on. It turns out that
during the pandemic, I guess this business just had a
lot of business and they couldn't keep up and so
now when I order it come in like a couple
of days. Like the last time I ordered it, I
couldn't believe how fast it came like next day practically,

(01:47:05):
But that will be the first probably use when I
get this tracking number in my Gmail, it'll it'll be
my first use of this new feature, so I can
see where my where my soap is in the world. Okay, uh,
and then let's talk about this Apple. Apple is just
wild with their Their business just sees no end at

(01:47:26):
this point. And so they've got they just purchased Major
League Soccer. Uh, they purchased the streaming rights to Major
League Soccer. I think for like how many years it
might be, is it ten years?

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
So ten years?

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
Major League Soccer is now going to be on Apple TV.
And Apple TV is a little confusing because Apple TV
is a box. But then you have Apple TV, which
is a service now, and then you have Apple TV Plus,
which is like the Apple you know, original programming. So
this is now now inside the Apple TV app. You
can get MLS season pass. Season kicks off February twenty fifth.

(01:48:06):
And I'm not telling you this because I'm a big
soccer fan or anything like that, although I do think
soccer is fun. But I'm telling you this because we
are seeing the first shift in the sports world when
it comes to streaming of sports. Now, sports are streaming
in a lot of different places. We've seen Amazon purchase
the rights to Thursday Night Football, We've seen NBA League Pass.

(01:48:29):
There's a whole bunch of different ways to watch stuff.
The Clippers here in Los Angeles, they've got their own
streaming service that they started this year. But there's one
thing that Apple is doing very differently, and they are
letting you watch every single game without any sort of exclusions.
So typically when these companies negotiate rights, the games that

(01:48:54):
are local to your area are still sort of kept
on a service that is like a local channel or
you know, it's not on them like not anyone can
access that if you're in that area. So if you're
a sports fan, you know what I'm talking about. So
what Apple did and they tried to buy I forget
whatever what else it was, but they tried to buy

(01:49:16):
another sports package, and the sports teams were just like, now,
we're not giving you that because sports is evolving and
they make a lot of money on these games, and
so I guess with MLS. They saw an opportunity and
so every single game will be aired. You'll be able
to access them as a subscriber with consistent match times

(01:49:37):
and no blackouts. This is a first in live sports broadcasting.
So you'll be able to see a couple of games
for free. Actually, so you can go to a MLS
Soccer dot com slash schedule to see the full schedule
and which games are free on Apple TV the app
during the first month. And Apple is also doing a
whole bunch of other things where they've got stuff inside

(01:49:59):
Apple Map where you can see different bars to watch
the games a and to like enjoy. They've got a
new MySports section on the Apple tv app, and then
they've got where you can.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
Ask Siri for information about MLS.

Speaker 1 (01:50:11):
So the first season is going to be fourteen ninety
nine a month or ninety nine bucks for the whole season,
or if you're an Apple TV Plus subscriber, you can
subscribe for twelve ninety nine a month or seventy nine
dollars for the whole season. All right, that is gonna
do it for today's show if you can believe it, Wow,
show number five in the can. Next week we're going

(01:50:31):
to talk to the inventor of an app that lets
you scan your sports cards and your Pokemon cards to
find out their value.

Speaker 2 (01:50:37):
That is a really cool app. Once again, you can.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
Find me on social media at rich on tech across
all the different platforms. I meant to tell you I
did post something silly on Instagram today. I posted my
chocolate sou fla from last night and all the name
of testing the S twenty three Ultra. So if you
want to see that video, go to my Instagram, my
website rich on tech dot tv. There you can watch
my TV segments. My name is rich Demiro. Thanks so

(01:51:02):
much for listening. There are so many ways you can
spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right
here with me. I'll talk to you real soon.

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