September 10, 2019 • 49 mins
A roundup direct from Apple's event in Cupertino. Details on the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, Apple Watch Series 5 and 7th generation iPad. Hands on impressions and when iOS 13 will hit your current device. Plus, your burning Apple iPhone 11 questions answered!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
iPhone eleven, iPhone eleven Pro, Apple Watch series, five new iPads,
and much more. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This
is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
the stuff I think you should know about happening in
the tech world. It's also where I answer the questions
that you send me. And this is a special edition
of the show because it is all about Apple. So
(00:28):
if you're a Samsung or an Android person, you might
not be the happiest listening to this show. But you
know what, don't tune out just yet, because don't you
think it's good to hear the other side? Why not? Megan?
Welcome to the show. Producer Megan is here with me.
We are in Coopertino or just on the outskirts of Pepatino. Yeah,
I think we're technically in Santa Clara, Yes, which is
(00:50):
a nice area.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No Coopertino. But this was Megan's first Apple event and
we just got out of the Apple event. Happen happened
at Apple Park in Cupertino, and this was the big
September event, the iPhone event, whatever you want to call it.
But what was your impression of the event, because I've
been going to these things for many years now. Yeah,
(01:13):
Oh wow, so funny. I guess Siri just activated it
said hey Siri. But this was Megan's first Okay, I
won't say Hey Siri again.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I thought that it was so unique in every way.
I had no idea what to expect, but I genuinely
felt like I was walking around and it was like
an alternate universe of just like Apple Love, Like it
was on a totally different scale than what I was expecting.
And we've gone to I've been to some other events,
I mean, nothing like this.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, this is and that's how the engineer it. I mean, really,
this is the Apple This is the Apple world. Is
that when you step into the Apple world, it is
an alternate reality. And it's not in a bad way,
but it is. It's it's almost like suspension of disbelief.
It's what Steve Jobs they called the reality distortion field.
It's like you may not think about the rest of
the world when you're in an Apple world. And that
(02:05):
deals with a lot of stuff, you know, whether it
comes to their computers, like I'm using a MacBook Pro
and I can't plug in certain things like a bigger
USB or a SD card, because you're living in Apple's world.
It's what Apple wants you to have. And so that's
a good thing and a bad thing because the good
side of that is that their products work in a
certain way, and they usually work pretty well. The bad
side is that they're not very open to other stuff.
(02:27):
So yeah, you know, when you think about Android versus iOS,
Android is kind of very open. iOS is a little
bit more closed, but it has some benefits to that.
So anyway, the campus is beautiful. It's like Disneyland. It
really is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It really is. Yeah, it's so modern and.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Just brand new. It's like two years old. Yeah. And
the Steve Jobs Theater is this great place that they
built to do the events at and I don't know,
maybe they use it for other stuff like internal training
or whatever, but it's the place. It's this giant circular
theater that has this outside and upstairs all enclosed in glass,
and you walk downstairs into this great theater, which by
(03:07):
the way, has like first class leather seats, power in
each seat. And I didn't get to go on Yeah,
you didn't get to go inside to that part, but
you did get to go in the hands on which
you know, here's the thing. People want to go to
this event because yes, you can watch it on YouTube,
and this was the first year that they live streamed
it on YouTube. But it's different being there. Being there,
you get to see how Apple does things, and I
(03:28):
think how Apple does stuff is indicative of why their
products are so successful. Because we've gone to a lot
of these other events. I'm not gonna name names, but
things are not as buttoned up as they are at
an Apple event. It's just the way it is, like
Apple does it best and other companies try to emulate it. Sonya.
With all that said, we're gonna do the show a
little bit differently. I'm going to talk about some of
(03:49):
the products that they announced and give you my thoughts
on those and whether you need to upgrade or think
about upgrade or whatever. And then Megan is going to
be looking at my Facebook page where I had people
submit the questions that they want answered about these devices.
So I have no idea what people wrote on there,
so you're gonna surprise me hopefully I have some answers.
But let me just start with the main event, which is,
(04:11):
let's just start with the iPad or sorry, the iPath
let's just start with the iPhone. So the iPhone eleven
Pro is the top of the line model. Well, actually,
I guess you could argue the iPhone eleven Pro Max
because that has a bigger screen. But these two devices
are the top of the line phones. They look exactly
like the iPhone TENNS and tens Max, except they have
(04:33):
a better screen. It's Apple's like highest resolution screen ever,
also the highest quality screen. The big feature that you're
going to hear the most about is a triple camera.
So you have now a standard camera, then you have
a zoom camera, which like a telephoto, which we've had before.
But the big new lens is the Ultra wide, which
is really cool in certain circumstances. I don't think that
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you need it on a daily basis, but it is
kind of a fun thing to have in your pocket
to take pictures of geography, of scenery, and just in general.
Like it's just a cool, very very cool looking shot.
So that's the main thing. Now when it comes to
the camera, I don't see a huge improvement over kind
of the cameras from before. I think that they're the
(05:16):
quality of the pictures is the same. They do say
that they made some improvements to low light photography with
something they call night Mode, which is automatically triggered when
you're in a low light situation. I saw some nightmode pictures.
I did not think they were like that impressive. It
looked like someone had turned up the brightness a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
We'll see, we'll see in real life. If they're not
gonna be pixel quality, I can guarantee you that. But
then again, nobody has been able to do well. They're
not going to be. Oh they're not, definitely not. Let's
see what else it's got. This new A thirteen bionic chip,
which obviously the chips in these phones are just amazing,
they really are, and the A thirteen bionic. My favorite
(05:56):
part of the whole presentation was when the Apple Engine
You're Gone on stage and he started describing how these
new chips only fire inside the part of the chip
that needs to power what the phone is trying to do.
So if you're making a phone call, the chip isn't
running like full power, it's just using like a tiny
little portion of its power to like run the phone dialer.
But if you're processing like a four K video and
(06:17):
ripping through and trying to encode that it's going to
be using more power. And for that reason, they have
gotten an extra four hours of battery life out of
the iPhone eleven Pro and extra five hours of battery
life out of the iPhone Pro Max. Now, I've never
really had a problem with battery life on my iPhone,
but five extra hours is kind of impressive. Four to
five that's a lot, let's see. So they have a
(06:40):
five point eight inch screen and a six point five
inch screen. They also have a new matt finish on
the back. These phones are getting a little bit tricky
with the lenses because like it's not the best looking
phone on the back because the lenses are kind of
big and bulky. But whatever, I mean, you have a
case on it. It doesn't even matter. And that's about it.
So it's nine to ninety nine for the model, and
(07:00):
I believe that's for sixty four gigs, which is really
sad if that's true.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Wait, nine ninety nine for the base model. So the
eleven the.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Eleven Pro got it. So I say base model of
the eleven Pro got it, So that's nine ninety nine.
I think they that that's the price for that one,
and then the other one is ten ninety nine for
the i iPad iPhone eleven Pro Max with the six
point five in screen. And I believe again that that's
also for a sixty four gig phone, which is not
(07:30):
a lot. You don't you don't want to get a
sixty four gigabyte phone, really not at this point, because
if you're taking videos, it's gonna it's gonna really get
through that sixty four gigs fast. Now, the only reason
I'd say you'll be fine is because iCloud has gotten
so good at sort of offloading your pictures, so you
probably you might be okay for that. So do they
say how much?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Let's see here?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, all right, so let's get into the first question. Okay,
since you have gone to Facebook dot com, slash rich
on tech and I ask people what do they want
to know about apples announcement? Didn't just limit it to iPhone?
So go ahead, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So this first question comes from Robert. He says, he asks,
is this a good year to upgrade my iPhone ten?
Or should I wait till twenty twenty? The facts look
really good on the pro version, but I have read
that they are recommending folks to wait till next year.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Who's they? I want to know who is?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
People say that they reckon It's.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Always like this. They you know, they say coffee's bad
for you, they say red wine is good for you.
They say walking is good for you. Like, Who's they?
I would say it really depends, And I think people
are putting it in a tough place with these Apple
upgrades because you're paying your phone and a lot of
people do by the month, So you're paying off your
phone and then this new one comes along, you want
(08:46):
to get the new one. So is the ten to
the eleven pro going to be a huge improvement? It
really depends what you want out of your phone. I
think that the improved wide angle lens is a really
cool tool to have. I don't think it's a necessity.
We've lived without a while angle for so long that
do you really need that. The battery life is a
non starter. I mean it's cool, but like I don't
have I use my phone a lot, and I've never
(09:08):
really run into a situation where I'm like, oh my gosh,
I am totally out of battery and I have no
way to charge this thing anytime soon. Yeah, it doesn't
really happen. I mean, you bring an extra battery with you,
you can plug in. If you drive your car for
twenty you have a very short commute. But you know,
I have a decent commute. You know, sometimes you can
be in the car for forty minutes and so my
phone is going to recharge in that time most of
(09:28):
the time. So it really depends. The other thing is
the processor from the ten to the eleven pro or
the eleven. Yeah, the eleven pro the process is going
to be faster, but I think it's not. Again, it
depends what you're doing. You're if you're telling me Robert
that you're doing four K videos and you're editing on
Adobe and you're producing stuff every day for social media, yeah,
(09:50):
i'd say to upgrade. But if you're just using your
phone to take regular pictures and you're kind of doing
you know, Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and email, do
you really need to upgrade? Probably not. You could probably
wait until the next phone. And don't forget. The next
phone's probably gonna have five G it's probably gonna have
you know, that fingerprint reader again. Yeah, So it's kind
of one of those things where you have to decide
(10:10):
are you ready to plunk down this money for a
phone that in a year there's gonna be a phone
that we do think is going to be a little
bit more advanced than this device, right, with some new
features including five G. Right, and that's a feature that
I think people want to jump on at that time,
because in a year, five G networks are going to
be much more substantial than they are right now, and
then you've got a five G phone to ride on
(10:32):
top of it. It's gonna be pretty good, all right,
So good question to start off. I'll let you look
at some questions while I talk about the next iPhone
that they announced, which is the iPhone eleven. And the
iPhone eleven is the new iPhone ten R if you
remember that phone that's sort of the entry level phone.
They're still going to sell the ten R apparently, and
I think that got a lower price. My favorite way
(10:53):
of taking notes in these Apple events is actually just
to take a lot of pictures. So that's really that's
really how I do it. Let me look at the
full lineup of the Apple the iPhones and tell you
how much this is going to be. Because they always
do these slides where they show off. Okay, so here's
the whole Apple family. The iPhone eight is gonna be
four forty nine. iPhone ten are they're still selling, but
(11:14):
it's gonna be five ninety nine. iPhone eleven is six
ninety nine, then nine ninety nine, then ten ninety nine. Personally,
I would not save the one hundred dollars and go
with the iPhone ten R over the eleven. Just go
with the eleven. Let me tell you why. So. The
iPhone eleven has the newest processor, which is the A
thirteen Bionic. It is six hundred and ninety nine dollars,
(11:35):
and it's pretty much the identical camera setup, except only
has two lenses instead of three, but you can still
do the same three types of shots. You can still
do a zoom in shot, you can still do your
standard shot, and you can still do an ultra wide shot,
so you really don't miss anything. The biggest difference between
the iPhone eleven and the iPhone eleven Pro is the
(11:57):
battery life. You only get an extra hour out of
the iPhone eleven, which you're gonna be fine with that,
and you also get an LCD screen versus an OLED screen,
so an LCD screen is just not the best screen
quality at this point. It's kind of what we've known
forever old is really the best screen quality gives you
the best colors, the most vibrant screen, the deepest blacks.
(12:18):
But to most people that's not really an issue. It
just doesn't matter, especially if you're not looking at your
phones next to each other. Unless you're comparing to your
friend's phone who has an OLEAD, you're not going to
notice the difference. So to me, I think that the
iPhone eleven at six ninety nine's are really compelling iPhone
yeah for that price. And by the way, last year
when this when the similar phone came out, the ten R,
(12:41):
it was seven forty nine, so they actually dropped the
price by fifty dollars for this device theoretically mm hm.
And it's got better technology, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
An iPhone eight you said, was.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Four four forty nine, which.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're pretty close in price.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A lot of people are gonna be tempted by the
iPhone eight at four forty nine, but I will tell
tell you the camera, if you're gonna do the iPhone
eight for four forty nine, please just go with the
ten R at five ninety nine because the camera jump
from the eight to the ten R is huge. The
eight you have the eight, Yeah, I have the eight.
I will tell you I watched Lindsay because she went
from the eight to the ten ten R and the
(13:18):
camera is night and day. It's really different. Like even
from the ten to the ten S is really a
big camera proven. So the way I see it is
the ten S is like the standard, Like basically that's
the camera we have now inside the eleven and the
eleven pro the quality of the pictures. I don't think
they improve the quality of the pictures just yet. Now.
Apple teased that they will be improving the quality of
(13:40):
the pictures soon with a software update. They didn't really
say when, but they're gonna do more computational photography to
make the pictures look better. Wow, so that would be
a software update, but who knows when and how much
better we don't know. I still don't think they're going
to match the pixel that's my that's my bottom line
with everything. The iPhone eleven is gonna come in six
new colors, including purple, green, yellow, black, white, and red,
(14:02):
and again it pretty much has the same features. Let
me talk about two features I thought were kind of cool.
So these phones are all about the cameras. And one
of the things I've noticed is that Instagram is huge,
Instagram Stories especially, So what I've noticed I was taking
pictures two different ways when I was in the keynote.
I would take them vertically and I would switch my
(14:24):
phone over and take them horizontally, because horizontal is good
for everything, but vertically is good for Instagram. And the
other thing I noticed is when I'm taking a picture,
sometimes I want to take a little video to put
on Instagram Stories, and you can't necessarily do that easily
because you had a swap between like video photo video photo. Well,
now on the new iPhones, you just hold down you
take a picture, snap, snap, Snap, But then you hold
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down the button, the shutter button, and now it takes
a video and if you slide it to the right,
it locks into video. So you can just go hands
free and kind of move your phone around. And then
if you slide it to the left, that's where you
get your burst mode. So they haven't gotten rid of
B but you no longer hold it down for that.
That's a brilliant feature. Yeah, that is really cool because
now you can go from taking a picture to a
(15:07):
short video clip, which is going to be vertical by
the way, because you know you're in that up and
down mode most of the time. Or you can do it,
you know, horizontally as well. But anyway, that's kind of
the nutshell of the iPhone eleven, which I think is
a great phone for most people.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, all right, So this next question comes from Diane.
She asks, I'd like to know what the battery life
is like on the iPhone eleven and is Apple any
closer to a shatter resistant screen?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Ooh, interesting, they're not doing a shadow resistant screen, but
they do say it is the strongest glass they've ever
had on an iPhone. But to be honest, we've heard
that over and over and over. Yeah, and if you
drop it the wrong way, it's still going to shatter.
It's just the way. It is. So interesting thing I
learned from a company that repairs glass on the iPhone
that when you drop your phone and it doesn't shatter,
(15:57):
or just using your phone day to day and getting
those little scrap on the screen actually weakens the makeup
of the glass on your phone. So it's almost like
every day that you're using your phone, it's kind of
getting a little bit weaker in a way if it's
getting jostled around, or if you let's say, you drop
it on the ground and you pick it up and
you're like, oh my gosh, it didn't break. I dodged
(16:17):
a bullet. Well, there might be some tiny little imperfections
in that screen now because you dropped it and kind of,
you know, broke the cohesiveness of that entire screen. So
now the next time you drop it, it may be
more apt to shatter.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Okay, so it takes time.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
So it could take time. You know. The shatterproof screen
is a tough thing. I know that there was one
phone I tested. It was a Motorola that was shatterproof
and we threw this thing around. I should show you
the story. It was great. We threw it around. It
was a fun story. We actually did it on larch
mop Oh really, and I got out of the car,
the phone dropped out of my pocket. I threw it around.
(16:54):
It was fantastic. It was such a It was look
up Moto shatter proof phone Ktla DeMuro and that should
bring it up. But it was just such a fun
I can't remember what the name of the phone was,
but it was definitely a Motorola and it was shatter proof.
I mean the thing did not shatter. Now on the
flip side. Even though it didn't shatter, it still got
(17:15):
scuffed up the whole phone when you've dropped it, so
it's like you still had a scuffy phone, but the
screen just didn't break.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So anyway, but Apple does say that they made some
improvements with the I guess the strength of the phone
in general. And they also made it matt on the back,
so it is a matte device, which I guess maybe
doesn't show as many fingerprints or I guess scratches. Oh okay,
and what was the other question? The battery life? Yes,
(17:45):
I mean so battery life. Let's see what the phones
are rated for for battery life. So iPhone eleven battery
life rating on that device according to Apple is let's
see what it says here.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh my gosh, that's so funny. I'm watching, sorry, the
Motorilla story that you did. And you're walking in front
of a kid's clothing store that I used to work at.
Now you're holding like a baby, like a fake baby.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Might I have funny? Maybe you were in that store
at that time that is really I definitely worked there.
We asked them if they would give us the baby.
I remember a guy coming in and asking if we
could take a baby, and.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, and you know what's funny is that baby particular.
Like people would come in because they're like, where'd you
buy this? Like this is a great, real looking bab
Was it really?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Well? We did it. We did a little joke where
I was like holding them. I didn't want to drop
the baby because I think that would be pretty bad.
But we did some sort of bit with the baby
where it was like I was holding the baby and juggling.
It was when I was like first a dad, like
this a couple of years ago, and so I was
like juggling the baby with my phone. I think I
dropped the phone. But that's really funny. Okay. Video playback
up to seventeen hours, ten hours streamed, and audio playback
(18:59):
sixty five hours. It doesn't really say how long it lasts,
so anyway, to me, it's really tough to say battery
life because for every person it's so different. I mean,
but I'll be honest, Like today I was at an
Apple event all day. My battery was just fine. Now
did I keep it plugged in while I was doing
the event, Like, yeah, of course, but it was fine.
Now let's talk about Apple Watch Series five. This is
(19:20):
the latest apple Watch. And I know, Megan, you have
wanted an apple Watch for a while. No, is this
enough to make you get an Apple Watch? At this point,
I haven't even said what it does. But what you saw,
were you excited or was it like, oh, okay, that's
the same as what you know?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Kind of has you could see the time?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, So the main new feature isn't always on display,
and that means that you no longer have to raise
your wrist to activate the watch, to turn on the screen,
to see what time it is, and to see whatever
you want to see on it. But my thing about
the Apple Watch is that that's never really been an issue.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, it always not that I would know.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well, I've tested a bunch of these gadgets that sort
of light up when you raise your wrist, and I've
always said the Apple Watch is like, so right on
every time. Now, there are times when your wrist is
a certain way and you kind of have to and
you go to move it to look and it doesn't
come on. You're like ah, and you really have to
make like a motion for it to you know, like
a movement is not.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
A dance move I just like definitely like, oh like.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
This like the mockerna. I don't know, but the the
reality is that's not a feature that's gonna make you
get a phone or get a watch. I do think
it's cool, and they're still saying it's got the same
eighteen hours of battery life. And again, when it comes
to battery life on the Apple Watch, it's something that
needs to be charged every night. I know they toew
eighteen hours, but you're not going a day without charging this.
(20:39):
And in a lot of cases, the more you're using
it for fitness, the more it needs to be charged.
People come up to me and they'll be like, hey, Rich,
you know my Apple Watch last two days. I'm like,
are you running for like an hour on the treadmill
because it doesn't last after Well maybe on the treadmill
it will, but when you're activating that GPS chip inside,
that's when that's when the battery gets used up.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
More so, so.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It really depends, you know. I feel like battery life
is so personal that you can't just say like, oh,
this has a lot about it. Yes, if something goes
two weeks without needing to be charged, that's fine. But
it's something like an Apple watch that's eighteen hours. If
it's eighteen, nineteen or twelve, it's kind of all the same.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But if you're sitting there all day playing with it,
it's gonna die faster.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What are you going to be doing on it?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
No, but I'm just saying there's such a range, like
you were saying, there's a range of like usage, of course.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And I think that that's kind of like the main
thing with this is that eighteen hours is just fine.
They let's see what are some of the new features.
So they said, okay, always on display is kind of cool.
So it's got two kind of displays. The first is
it's just always on in a dimmer fashion, So if
your phone is just resting on the table, you look
at it without moving anything, you can still see whatever's
(21:46):
on your screen. Then if you move it, your screen
brightens and kind of some more of it is filled in,
like maybe like let's say the screen I saw had
outlines for letters, and then when I raised my wrist,
the letters filled in with white. So it's like brighter
and boulder the other feature is a compass, which I
don't even realize. The Apple Watch didn't have a compass
(22:07):
in it, and I don't really need a compass for anything.
I'm not like a very outdoorsy person, so I wouldn't
even know how to use a compass, but you.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Would obviously need a GPS in your.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
GPS is great because you can It tracks you very
accurately to where you are and where you go, so
when you're doing physical activity outside like a hike or
biking or anything, GPS helps to get those stats much
more accurate than non GPS, and having GPS on board
is really cool, especially for location and things. The other
(22:40):
thing that it does is it can now complete international
calls to emergency services on the cellular model even if
the plan has not been activated, which is kind of complicated,
but the bottom line is that if you have a
cellular model, you didn't activate the cellular which why would
you buy the cellular if you're not going to pay
for the cellular plan. Maybe I don't know, maybe some
(23:02):
people do that. But if you're traveling in Japan and
there's an emergency, you can still press and hold the
side button and it would dial the current emergency or
the proper emergency number fear location. That's cool, which is
actually great. Yeah, but it's one of those things that
you would expect it to do because you have a
cellular watch, and I mean, I guess if your plan's
not activated, you would not expect it to do that.
But I didn't realize that random.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's it's very like it's like, okay, am I going
to be in like a.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Well, it's good to happen. I think that's probably arguably
the most important time for an emergency service because like,
if I'm in Italy, I don't really know what the
emergency service number is. Like I guess back in the day,
you probably looked it up and kind of said, like, Okay,
I'm going to Greece. You dial three to one one
in Greece or whatever it is. Yeah, I don't know
what is it. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I've never been to Grease.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, where have you've been to Mexico? And do you
know the emergency No? Okay, well you should wait.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Can you do it on your iPhone?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes? You can, So the iPhone does it. You just
press and hold the side button. It's a it's a
future called emergency SOS and hold on sorry not pressing
hold the side button. You have to press and hold
the side and the volume up and it should bring
you to emergency SOS and the and then you can
swipe to to dial.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's like I swipe it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, don't do that. And then once you do that,
your phone actually lockshift to unlock it. Well, you have
touch ID, so but on mine, it's face ID. It
goes back so old school. Oh maybe you still have
to put your number in It kind of like relocks
your phone because it thinks like I mean, I hate
to I mean it gets like very morbid fast. But
like if you press that and like someone's like give
me your phone because they're like trying to like kidnap
(24:35):
you or something. They thought this, yeah it did. It's
like it doesn't work with face ID because they can't
be like all right now pull this in front of
your face. Like it's like no, you got to type
in your number to make it work like you just did.
You can't use your fingerprint. I mean, Apple was like, okay,
what's going to happen to people like on the verge
of getting murdered like with their phone? But it's wild
I know, but it's there for a reason.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I'm positive?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Reason?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Do it? Do the emergency thing and watch you can't
unlock your phone with your with your fingerprint anymore, right,
so activate it? There you go now now can't now
see it says you must.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Not recognize your fingerprint.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, you have to put in your pass code and
you can't use facey. See, these are the little things.
By the way, I write about these things in my
book one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone.
But the new book is coming out all for iOS thirteen,
and I do talk about the emergency features. That's the
only reason I know about this stuff because I literally
sit there like most people are going out, like they're
going out on a Friday night, you know, they're spending
(25:30):
time with their kids.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
They're watching TV.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, they're watching Netflix.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
They're hanging out their children for one ye right.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I sit there, be quiet.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yes, I gotta write my book.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I gotta write my book. And I literally just go
through the iPhone and swipe every which way and like
look through all the menus and I see, like what
these little tips and tricks are all to make this book,
which the new one I haven't finalized the title, but
it is going to get a slightly newer title. Yeah,
but it's still gonna be like a time Well, it's
I don't know if it's finalized, but it's basically one
hundred and one tips again but just simpler. So again, No,
(26:03):
you're still getting one hundred and one tips, but the
title is going to be simpler. Before it was one
hundred and one handy tech tips for the iPhone. Yeah,
kind of a mouthful. This one will be same vein
just simpler. Yeah, clean, cleaner like Apple, and the whole
book is cleaner like the just everything from I can't
wait to get this book.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Now you're it's just like you make some really great software.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh my gosh. Yes, it's going to be a lot better.
I can't wait. Apple Watch let's see, it's got the
new Watch OS six, which is cool. It's got new
features including cycle tracking, the noise app, and activity trends.
I don't know what the activity trends is and cycle
tracking I can't really speak to. But the noise app
is really cool. I tried it out today at the event,
and the noise app will alert you if the noise
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level in the area you're in is kind of like
too loud and it's going to damage your hearing. So
for you, all these Z concerts you're going to, it's
going to be like you're when you get an.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Apple Watch, you're ruining your ears.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
When you go all in, you're gonna realize.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Man, Okay, question from me, which Apple Watched? I get
the four of the five.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I think you would be perfectly served with the four,
but I feel like the five has some really cool features.
What though the always on tracking the four will have
that the four will have. Oh okay, yeah, the four.
They've been talking about this cycle tracking for they're talking
about bicycle right.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Like, yeah, yeah, because I'm a big spinner.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, you love spin class. So but yeah, and apparently
they're doing some They talked about three new research. This
a new app. They're coming out with a research app.
So if you have an Apple Watch, it's called Apple
Research and you can contribute to these new research studies
are doing. One is about hearing, one is about cycle tracking.
One is about heart health, so you can opt in
(27:44):
and help think about it. When was the last time
in the world that they had I don't know how
many Apple watches are out there. But let's say ten
million people participating in a hearing study where the Apple
Watch is pinging what people are hearing on a daily
basis walking around the world and seeing how much noise
they're subjected to and how that effects are hearing. That's
(28:05):
kind of amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, could this be a data issue though, of privacy?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yes, it is, and Apple says that they will not
access any information that can personally identify you, which, okay,
it's true. I mean they're just going to give like
an anonymous like whatever your data is, they're just going
to send it anonymously to the cloud.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And if you're doing this in research, like you don't
really care. You know, you're saying like, I'd rather do
something for the greater good, and I feel like I
think that's cool. I think it's really cool. So you
don't need the built in compass. I mean, are you
a big compass.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Person gonna need that compass?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You use that a lot on your iPhone.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I already need it right now, like I have.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Four Like, well, but you also what you're not a
big fan of, like knowing where things are naturally you
put you will put like the nearest Starbucks into war map.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Are you kidding? You're the one that you've said so
many times that you don't even use Like you don't
you need Google Maps to show you where to go everywhere?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, you don't know how I can't get around LA
without Google Maps.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I've offloaded my brain to the cloud, okay, and I
free up my brain for more pressing matters. I don't
need to navigate Los Angeles. I let Google do that
for okay. So to me, that's kind of like I'm
storing a lot of my information in the cloud at
this point, which is aka Google or anything else that
can help me along. But yes, so that's what I do.
So I don't know. I was actually at my friend's
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pool the other day and the sun was in the
sky and I was like, Oh, which way is the
sun going to go? And he's like, the same way
it's gone.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Are you Well?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I wanted to know like if it was going to
get more in the pool or less in the pool,
you know, more of the sun rays and so you know,
like which way is it going to track the sky?
And my friend's like, it's going to go the same
way it's gone for a million years east to west,
And I was like, oh, okay, So anyway, Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
For someone who can occasionally be kind of paranoid, I'm
surprised you don't want to know where like things are just.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
In case I'd like to know where the closest emergency
exit is. Yeah, let's see. What else are they gonna
do with the iPhone or the Apple Watch. They are
going to have two new finishes, titanium and then also ceramic,
and then I think aluminum is a standard. So again,
all these go get more expensive as they go along.
(30:17):
But I think for the for the average person, I
probably just need an Apple Watch four at this point. Now,
the Apple Watch three I believe they're making cheaper. I
would not do that one because that one does not
have the feature of fall detection, and so don't go
with that one. Let me see do they list all
the Apple Watches again. I'm looking at my notes here
(30:40):
to see kind of like what Apple Watch they put
in there? Now? Okay, I can't find out, but anyway,
I would say with the when it comes to the
Apple Watch, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Four or five.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I'd go with the four or five. Okay, So that's
that's kind of my take on that.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Okay, well I have a quick question from Brian. She says,
when will iOS thirteen point one point one be available?
Point one point one thirteen point one?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Right, Well, she's saying she's I think thirteen. Well, I
think she's making a joke. She doesn't want to get
iOS thirteen. She wants the update to iOS thirteen because
she's skipping the first Like it's like when you make pancakes,
you ever hear the one the first one you give
to the dog?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, you always throw the first pancake away, because have
you ever made pancakes?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
My mom always gives me the first pancake?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
No does she? We need to talk to mom mcmonaga.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is so sad. Why does your mom keep.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Every show.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Mommy?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Is she? Yeah? She always serves you. I knew it,
and not your siblings. They always get that. Your brother
gets you know.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
She's going to get mad at me just for saying
this on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh no, not true.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
She makes amazing pancakes.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Anyways, So my grandma always said you put the you
give the first pancake to the dog. Because I love
to make pancakes and the first one never comes out
right because the pan is not properly whatever. So that's
what she's saying about iOS thirteen, is that iOS thirteen
like you give to the dogs, like you let you know.
I'm not going to deal with that because I'm gonna
wait till thirteen point one comes out and all the
little bugs are squashed and it's more finalized. So when
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will that happen? They did't even tell us when iOS
thirteen is coming out. I'm assuming it has to be
when the iPhone comes out, the new iPhone, which is
September twentieth, So they didn't really say, let's see do
they say when I.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Was September nineteenth? Thursday? September nineteenth, so next week?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh he said that for iOS thirteen.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Wait, how the hecked? Why is according to tech radar?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Who is tech radar? Is is that a new Okay?
They all say September nineteenth. Okay, somehow I missed that. Okay,
Oh Apple pr told them, okay, cool, So oh wow,
So that's I need to get my book done by
the nineteenth so I can have it ready to go.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Can you do it? It's pretty much fast, she can.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I needed like a week though, after the softworks. I
want to make sure everything that I wrote from the
beta is still applicable in the final because things could change.
All right, let's see what else is that it?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
That's the only her only question another question.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Now let me talk because we have a lot of
stuff talk about, and I think we're uh okay, yeah, okay.
So iPad new iPad, seventh generation iPad, and this is
the I call this the entry level iPad or kind
of like the standard iPad. Price is the same three
hundred and twenty nine dollars. They made a bigger screen,
so it's now ten point two inches I believe before
it was like nine point seven So bigger screen, not
(33:31):
by much, but still a little bit better. And it
has Apple support Apple pencil support, which it had before,
but now it has the smart keyboard support. And this
is the first time that the smart keyboard snaps onto
the entry level iPad, which is kind of cool. But
again you're talking three twenty nine. Then you've got Apple pencil,
which is ano one hundred dollars. Now you're up to
(33:52):
four twenty nine. And then you've got the keyboard, which
is I think like one thirty to one fifty, so
you're up to three four twenty nine hundred dollars. Okay,
but when you think about it, this can probably replace
a computer for a lot of people. A lot of
people don't need a standard computer, and iPad in a
lot of ways is kind of cooler because you go
from like typing on email to like watching Netflix. You
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just pop off the screen, sit there and watch, which
is kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah, And it weighs nothing, and.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
It weighs nothing, and it's portable. The battery last forever.
It's a great if I was not creating content for
like social media and logging stuff for TV iPad all
the way. I just love the idea of having this
one device that does everything. Now the keyboard, I was
typing on it today. It's definitely a little tricky. Okay,
It's probably like anything else. You get used to it.
(34:39):
Like I was just on it fresh and like, yeah,
I was making a lot of mistakes. But it doesn't
have the most travel, which means the keys are almost flat,
and so when you're pressing them, it's not as much.
You don't feel like an old keyboard you would like
feel it like this does not do that as much.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And I know you like that, like, you don't really
like this keyboard on the MacBook Pro.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, actually, I feel like it's better than my This
is a I'm on a borrowed MacBook from my work
right now. It's a fifteen inch mine is a thirteen inch,
and so the keyboard, I feel like it is definitely
bigger on here. It's got it. Maybe it's not, but
it feels bigger. It also feels a little bit better,
but I'm not sure, okay, and I'm okay with it.
(35:20):
It's not as good as but you missed the old
key The old keyboard was so great.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, that's what that's rich.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
That's like, you know, like this is me showing my
age saying bt rich that I like the old keyboard
because it's like the new kids don't even know about
the old keyboard. Like I remember the old days when
it was like.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I still have my like eMac with the big chunky
key like keyboard, you know, like the keyboard or was.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
This was this a laptop?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Do you know? Do you know what an eMac is?
Am I about to school?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
You you mean the iMac like the one that was
like a cube.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, no, it was like it was like al.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
eMac or I'm AC. I thought it was maybe it
was AMAC. Oh my god, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I have that was my first computer, really old, and
I watched Princess Diaries on it.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
That's crazy that I don't even remember that, I know,
but to be honest, that was before I was a
Mac person. So my first MacBook was a I'll never forget.
I went into a place called the Good Guys. I
don't remember that. This was in La. This was an
electronics place in LA and it's called the Good Guys.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I believe I only shop at the Bad Guy.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's bye, I just kidding, the Good Guys. Uh electronics store. Yeah,
it was electronics store and they That was the first
I never forgot. I went in to buy a computer
and I somehow just fell in love with this Mac.
And I bought a PowerBook G four I think it
was called, and it was a silver G four.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh I remember this, Oh yeah, this was it. Oh
I love this last so funny. I think of like
the people I like, my aunt had one of these
laptops and I still remember like looking at it and
I thought it was so cool. And then there was
like the colorful laptop back in like early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
It's been a lot.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I really wanted that when I was five five, I
didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
That's funny. Now my kids are asking me for a
computer too, all right, so iPad, let's see what else.
It's got an A ten fusion chip, so it's got
a chip that's a couple of years old. But the
iPad is just fine. I mean, the iPad again, is
the gold standard of tablets. If you're buying a tablet
and you're thinking you're going to spend one hundred and
fifty dollars on an Amazon Fire tablet, I hope the
(37:27):
only thing you're doing on that tablet is watching Netflix
or Amazon Prime, because everything else is not going to
be as good. It's a very and I'm not like,
I don't want to make you feel sad if you
have one of those. It's just it's a very basic
tablet for surfing, you know, web surfing, whatever. But if
you want to get anything done on your tablet, iPad
has the best apps. And I say, I'm like a
(37:48):
broken record with this, but it's just because I believe
so much that, like it's a little bit more, but
you're getting so much more with the ecosystem, you're getting cases,
you're getting accessories, you're getting the best apps, and it's
just something that you can't find on these on these
lower grade Android tablets. So again, iPad three twenty nine,
I think is a fantastic deal and a great tablet
(38:10):
at that. So take that.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Take that. Okay. So Lisa asks, can you compare this
Samsung Note ten plus to the iPhone pro version?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
No, I didn't. By the way, I didn't give him
any of these questions beforehand.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So he's okay, So the I think, Okay, So I'll
be totally honest here. I think when it comes to
the excitement for a device, I will say that I'm
more excited about the Note ten personally.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What yeah, really, But okay.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It ends at the hardware. I think that some of
the hardware on the Note is like sexier. It's got
this bigger screen, it's got the stylists, it's got you
know this like fast like you know WiFi. I mean,
nobody cares about that, but it's got it just feels
like it's like a more futuristic device than the iPhone
eleven Pro, which feels like the same iPhone we've had,
(39:09):
but with slightly upgraded insides. It's the same exact thing.
It looks the same. So with that said, I think
that it really comes down to the ecosystem and what
you're getting with the iPhone Pro is I Message, which
I know I hate to say that it all comes
down to like I Message, but it is a factor.
My message is a pretty amazing communication tool. Sad that
(39:31):
it's relegated just to iPhone. You're getting three lenses, which
I think are really cool and very creative, but you
also get that on the note, I think you are
getting a better processor and a better like, speedier, snappier
phone that's going to last longer. Like the value of
the iPhone eleven Pro Max is going to stay higher
(39:53):
for a longer period of time than the No ten,
which is going to be you know, it's a thousand bucks,
but it gets discounted fast, and in a year when
you go to sell that, it's not gonna be worth
as much as the iPhone eleven Pro. The iPhone eleven
Pro also max works with all kinds of other stuff
as well. Like in the Apple ecosystem, you walk into
any store in the world and you're able to buy
a case, you can get it repaired in an Apple store,
(40:14):
you can get support, all these little things that like
not you know, you don't necessarily get with the note
that said. I mean, it really comes down to a
personal preference. Are you Android or are you iOS? And
they both come with different things.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Very deep question.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, it is tough, and I think that you're gonna
be happy with either one. It depends what you want
to do with your phone as well, Like if you're
truly into content creation, I think that the iPhone eleven
Pro Max is probably a better choice. If you are
just using your phone on a business purpose, like if
you want to do spreadsheets style of stuff, I think
(40:49):
that the Note ten might be a better deal or
a better fit for you. But it comes down to
you if you're trying to switch. Did she say which
phone she's coming from by any chance?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Just yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
A lot of people were asking about the comparison too.
It's oh, this wasn't the only question. It's definitely on
people's minds.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
And I think that it doesn't come down to which
is a better phone. I think it comes down to
which phone is a better fit for what you want
out of a phone. If your whole family is on
an iPhone and you all want to be an I
Message and you want to use FaceTime, and you want
to have an Apple TV, you want to have an iPad,
and you want to have all the apps that share
family sharing, go with the iPhone if you don't really care,
I mean, and you're fine with the Android and you
(41:30):
like kind of like something that's a little bit different
and something that's a little bit you know, kind of
out of the ordinary. I think the Note is a
really cool phone. It is also really big. Just so
you know, I feel like in hand, the iPhone ten
Max or iPhone eleven Pro Max is easier to handle
than the Note. And I'm really mad because I brought
(41:50):
the Note ten today to take a picture that did not.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Take oh comparing.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, I want to take a picture of the Note
ten next to the iPhone eleven and I forgot to
take that picture. Shoot. All right, let's just get through
two quick things before the show is over. Apple TV
Plus this is the new subscription service from Apple. It
will be four dollars and ninety nine cents a month.
It will launch on November first. You'll get a seven
(42:15):
day free trial, but anyone who purchases an iPhone, iPad,
Apple TV, iPod Touch, or Mac will get one year
of Apple TV Plus for free. That's a super long
runway Theoretically, Let's say Apple sells one hundred and fifty
million iPhones in the next year, and let's say that
they do this promotion for a year. I don't know
how long it's going to go on for. That's one
hundred and fifty million subscribers to Apple TV Plus for
(42:37):
a year, subscribers and quotes because they're not paying anything theoretically,
but it gets their shows in front of people.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I have a feeling that Apple is going to do
a lot of promoting to get people to kind of
sample Apple TV Plus, which may include giving you the
pilots to these shows for free to let you watch
them before you subscribe. Like we'll see some Because Apple
TV Plus is pre loaded on all Apple product they
can do some unique things that Netflix can't. Netflix you
have to download it, you got to sign up, you
(43:04):
have to get a free trial. This it's kind of
like in your face on your phone, on your computer, yeah,
on your.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Tablet, staring at you right in the Eye right, So.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
That's Apple TV Plus. And then there's this other thing
called Apple TV Arcade. All right, sorry, Apple Arcade. And
this will launch on September nineteenth with iOS thirteen, and
that's five dollars a month with a free one month trial.
And this is a bunch of games. The one that
we saw and the one that I played was a
new version of Frogger, which was kind of cool. You
(43:34):
remind me of Cross the Road. But there's gonna be
all kinds of games that launch, and you pay one
price and the whole family can get as many games
as they want for five dollars. I will tell you,
as a parent, I will probably do this because all
my kids want to do is download games. If I
know that for five dollars a month, I can let
them play in this walled garden of whatever game they
(43:54):
want to play and get. Hopefully there's some parental controls there.
I love it, and hopefully the games are worth five
dollars a month. That's sixty dollars a year, which if
your kids are buying games on the iPhone, maybe they're
not spending sixty dollars a year. I don't really let
them spend that much but I guess so for Parker's
birthday we give them like a fifty dollars iTunes gift card.
So that's like, you know that birthdays only happen.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
The games looked really interesting different. I mean, I'm not a.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Big game we say, I don't know where's that coming from.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
They looked cool.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
All play them, but all Apple Arcade games can be
played offline, and a single subscription works for up to
six family members. Some of the games debuting will be
Ballistic Baseball, Chew Chew Rocket from Sega, Lego Brawls, pac
Man Party, Royal, ray Man, Mini Steven, Universe, Unleashed a
Light and Where Cards Fall from Snowman. So, I don't know.
(44:48):
I think that's kind of a no brainer as long
as the games are kind of good for kids, So
that's going to do it. Yeah, it's or any more
pressing questions that we need to address.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
There's just one question about from ca In about why
Apple stayed with the Lightning and they didn't move to us.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
That's a good question. Actually, I'm actually kind of bummed
at that. I think there's a reason why they're doing.
I think Apple's next big new iPhone is coming with
the next one, when twenty twenty, when they've got the
touch ID back in the screen, when they've got USBC
on the bottom, and five G those are going to
be the three big new improvements and a better camera
obviously on the next iPhone.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
So if you want that, you probably should wait.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Should wait. But here's the question I got before. Someone said,
but Rich, you know, I'm kind of ready for an
upgrade now, and that means I have to wait a
whole nother year. I mean a year is a long
time if you're on like an iPhone six S and
you're kind of like at the end of the line
with your phone. Now, don't forget. iOS thirteen is only
going to work on iPhone six S and above. So
if you're rocking an iPhone six right now, you might
(45:49):
want to think about if you're kind of getting old
with that phone upgrading because the iOS thirteen software update
is not going to work on anything earlier than iOS
six or iPhone success. So Lightning would have been a
nice thing to ditch at this point in favor of USBC,
because that's kind of what they've gone to with almost everything.
It's like a standard. But we know Apple is not
(46:09):
necessarily caring about all the standards of everyone else. All right,
So Megan, what'd you think of your first Apple event?
Were you happy with it? What do you think about
all like the little touches like that, you know, they
give you lunch, they have like pour over coffee in
the morning. They're also very like.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
They do that at other That's true. I was just
more captivated by just like the overall aesthetic of like
just you know, the beautiful trees and the music and
it just yeah, it felt like Apple Disneyland. You know.
It reminded me a little bit. I mean it's different.
But Google's when we went to CS and Google had
(46:45):
the ride, yeah, and it you kind of felt like, oh,
this is Google's world, Like I feel like this was Apple,
this is Apple's world, and like it's just I don't know,
it's just it was really cool overall.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
That's a great way to think about it. It's like
these companies are creating like their own worlds. Yeah, Like
even Samsung like they have a look and feel like
at their events. Google has a look and feel it's
like very clean, very bright, very modern, very happy, like yeah, optimistic,
I think, and Apple is very much like minimalistic but
controlled and clean Samsung bathroom. Sorry, no they had more bathrooms,
(47:19):
but yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Were somewhere else. They were well I'm thinking of like
a different bathroom situation.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Is always tricky these events, but overall, but overall it's great.
And as Samsung for their aesthetic, it's very much like
I would say, doing things differently and really like kind
of pushing the envelope, you know, like we know that
they're different and they're really like trying to make things
better and newer. But thanks for listening to the show.
Do appreciate it. If you like the show and this
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(48:09):
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appreciate that. Producer Megan, how can people find you?
Speaker 2 (48:26):
I'm on Twitter at producer Megan with an h egh.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
And you know where I am. I am on Rich
on Tech, on Instagram, and I should mention my Twitter because,
by the way, my video on Twitter up to two
point one million views from the Apple event.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
That's insane. And Katie Couric yes retweeted.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
It is It is like literally legit, like the hands
on I did, like the quick one minute hands on
I did with the iPhone eleven Pro is like legit.
The top iPhone eleven Pro video on Twitter probably of
the entire event, because I couldn't find one that did
more than two point one million views, Like it's featured
on like Twitter's like homepage kind of like for the
Apple event, which is crazy. So anyway, so that's kind
(49:11):
of cool, So check it out. I am at rich
DeMuro there, Thanks so much for listening, we do appreciate it.
Have a fantastic day and we will talk to you
real soon. Bye bye.
iPhone eleven, iPhone eleven Pro, Apple Watch series, five new iPads,
and much more. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This
is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
the stuff I think you should know about happening in
the tech world. It's also where I answer the questions
that you send me. And this is a special edition
of the show because it is all about Apple. So
(00:28):
if you're a Samsung or an Android person, you might
not be the happiest listening to this show. But you
know what, don't tune out just yet, because don't you
think it's good to hear the other side? Why not? Megan?
Welcome to the show. Producer Megan is here with me.
We are in Coopertino or just on the outskirts of Pepatino. Yeah,
I think we're technically in Santa Clara, Yes, which is
(00:50):
a nice area.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No Coopertino. But this was Megan's first Apple event and
we just got out of the Apple event. Happen happened
at Apple Park in Cupertino, and this was the big
September event, the iPhone event, whatever you want to call it.
But what was your impression of the event, because I've
been going to these things for many years now. Yeah,
(01:13):
Oh wow, so funny. I guess Siri just activated it
said hey Siri. But this was Megan's first Okay, I
won't say Hey Siri again.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I thought that it was so unique in every way.
I had no idea what to expect, but I genuinely
felt like I was walking around and it was like
an alternate universe of just like Apple Love, Like it
was on a totally different scale than what I was expecting.
And we've gone to I've been to some other events,
I mean, nothing like this.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, this is and that's how the engineer it. I mean, really,
this is the Apple This is the Apple world. Is
that when you step into the Apple world, it is
an alternate reality. And it's not in a bad way,
but it is. It's it's almost like suspension of disbelief.
It's what Steve Jobs they called the reality distortion field.
It's like you may not think about the rest of
the world when you're in an Apple world. And that
(02:05):
deals with a lot of stuff, you know, whether it
comes to their computers, like I'm using a MacBook Pro
and I can't plug in certain things like a bigger
USB or a SD card, because you're living in Apple's world.
It's what Apple wants you to have. And so that's
a good thing and a bad thing because the good
side of that is that their products work in a
certain way, and they usually work pretty well. The bad
side is that they're not very open to other stuff.
(02:27):
So yeah, you know, when you think about Android versus iOS,
Android is kind of very open. iOS is a little
bit more closed, but it has some benefits to that.
So anyway, the campus is beautiful. It's like Disneyland. It
really is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It really is. Yeah, it's so modern and.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Just brand new. It's like two years old. Yeah. And
the Steve Jobs Theater is this great place that they
built to do the events at and I don't know,
maybe they use it for other stuff like internal training
or whatever, but it's the place. It's this giant circular
theater that has this outside and upstairs all enclosed in glass,
and you walk downstairs into this great theater, which by
(03:07):
the way, has like first class leather seats, power in
each seat. And I didn't get to go on Yeah,
you didn't get to go inside to that part, but
you did get to go in the hands on which
you know, here's the thing. People want to go to
this event because yes, you can watch it on YouTube,
and this was the first year that they live streamed
it on YouTube. But it's different being there. Being there,
you get to see how Apple does things, and I
(03:28):
think how Apple does stuff is indicative of why their
products are so successful. Because we've gone to a lot
of these other events. I'm not gonna name names, but
things are not as buttoned up as they are at
an Apple event. It's just the way it is, like
Apple does it best and other companies try to emulate it. Sonya.
With all that said, we're gonna do the show a
little bit differently. I'm going to talk about some of
(03:49):
the products that they announced and give you my thoughts
on those and whether you need to upgrade or think
about upgrade or whatever. And then Megan is going to
be looking at my Facebook page where I had people
submit the questions that they want answered about these devices.
So I have no idea what people wrote on there,
so you're gonna surprise me hopefully I have some answers.
But let me just start with the main event, which is,
(04:11):
let's just start with the iPad or sorry, the iPath
let's just start with the iPhone. So the iPhone eleven
Pro is the top of the line model. Well, actually,
I guess you could argue the iPhone eleven Pro Max
because that has a bigger screen. But these two devices
are the top of the line phones. They look exactly
like the iPhone TENNS and tens Max, except they have
(04:33):
a better screen. It's Apple's like highest resolution screen ever,
also the highest quality screen. The big feature that you're
going to hear the most about is a triple camera.
So you have now a standard camera, then you have
a zoom camera, which like a telephoto, which we've had before.
But the big new lens is the Ultra wide, which
is really cool in certain circumstances. I don't think that
(04:55):
you need it on a daily basis, but it is
kind of a fun thing to have in your pocket
to take pictures of geography, of scenery, and just in general.
Like it's just a cool, very very cool looking shot.
So that's the main thing. Now when it comes to
the camera, I don't see a huge improvement over kind
of the cameras from before. I think that they're the
(05:16):
quality of the pictures is the same. They do say
that they made some improvements to low light photography with
something they call night Mode, which is automatically triggered when
you're in a low light situation. I saw some nightmode pictures.
I did not think they were like that impressive. It
looked like someone had turned up the brightness a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
We'll see, we'll see in real life. If they're not
gonna be pixel quality, I can guarantee you that. But
then again, nobody has been able to do well. They're
not going to be. Oh they're not, definitely not. Let's
see what else it's got. This new A thirteen bionic chip,
which obviously the chips in these phones are just amazing,
they really are, and the A thirteen bionic. My favorite
(05:56):
part of the whole presentation was when the Apple Engine
You're Gone on stage and he started describing how these
new chips only fire inside the part of the chip
that needs to power what the phone is trying to do.
So if you're making a phone call, the chip isn't
running like full power, it's just using like a tiny
little portion of its power to like run the phone dialer.
But if you're processing like a four K video and
(06:17):
ripping through and trying to encode that it's going to
be using more power. And for that reason, they have
gotten an extra four hours of battery life out of
the iPhone eleven Pro and extra five hours of battery
life out of the iPhone Pro Max. Now, I've never
really had a problem with battery life on my iPhone,
but five extra hours is kind of impressive. Four to
five that's a lot, let's see. So they have a
(06:40):
five point eight inch screen and a six point five
inch screen. They also have a new matt finish on
the back. These phones are getting a little bit tricky
with the lenses because like it's not the best looking
phone on the back because the lenses are kind of
big and bulky. But whatever, I mean, you have a
case on it. It doesn't even matter. And that's about it.
So it's nine to ninety nine for the model, and
(07:00):
I believe that's for sixty four gigs, which is really
sad if that's true.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Wait, nine ninety nine for the base model. So the
eleven the.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Eleven Pro got it. So I say base model of
the eleven Pro got it, So that's nine ninety nine.
I think they that that's the price for that one,
and then the other one is ten ninety nine for
the i iPad iPhone eleven Pro Max with the six
point five in screen. And I believe again that that's
also for a sixty four gig phone, which is not
(07:30):
a lot. You don't you don't want to get a
sixty four gigabyte phone, really not at this point, because
if you're taking videos, it's gonna it's gonna really get
through that sixty four gigs fast. Now, the only reason
I'd say you'll be fine is because iCloud has gotten
so good at sort of offloading your pictures, so you
probably you might be okay for that. So do they
say how much?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Let's see here?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, all right, so let's get into the first question. Okay,
since you have gone to Facebook dot com, slash rich
on tech and I ask people what do they want
to know about apples announcement? Didn't just limit it to iPhone?
So go ahead, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So this first question comes from Robert. He says, he asks,
is this a good year to upgrade my iPhone ten?
Or should I wait till twenty twenty? The facts look
really good on the pro version, but I have read
that they are recommending folks to wait till next year.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Who's they? I want to know who is?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
People say that they reckon It's.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Always like this. They you know, they say coffee's bad
for you, they say red wine is good for you.
They say walking is good for you. Like, Who's they?
I would say it really depends, And I think people
are putting it in a tough place with these Apple
upgrades because you're paying your phone and a lot of
people do by the month, So you're paying off your
phone and then this new one comes along, you want
(08:46):
to get the new one. So is the ten to
the eleven pro going to be a huge improvement? It
really depends what you want out of your phone. I
think that the improved wide angle lens is a really
cool tool to have. I don't think it's a necessity.
We've lived without a while angle for so long that
do you really need that. The battery life is a
non starter. I mean it's cool, but like I don't
have I use my phone a lot, and I've never
(09:08):
really run into a situation where I'm like, oh my gosh,
I am totally out of battery and I have no
way to charge this thing anytime soon. Yeah, it doesn't
really happen. I mean, you bring an extra battery with you,
you can plug in. If you drive your car for
twenty you have a very short commute. But you know,
I have a decent commute. You know, sometimes you can
be in the car for forty minutes and so my
phone is going to recharge in that time most of
(09:28):
the time. So it really depends. The other thing is
the processor from the ten to the eleven pro or
the eleven. Yeah, the eleven pro the process is going
to be faster, but I think it's not. Again, it
depends what you're doing. You're if you're telling me Robert
that you're doing four K videos and you're editing on
Adobe and you're producing stuff every day for social media, yeah,
(09:50):
i'd say to upgrade. But if you're just using your
phone to take regular pictures and you're kind of doing
you know, Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and email, do
you really need to upgrade? Probably not. You could probably
wait until the next phone. And don't forget. The next
phone's probably gonna have five G it's probably gonna have
you know, that fingerprint reader again. Yeah, So it's kind
of one of those things where you have to decide
(10:10):
are you ready to plunk down this money for a
phone that in a year there's gonna be a phone
that we do think is going to be a little
bit more advanced than this device, right, with some new
features including five G. Right, and that's a feature that
I think people want to jump on at that time,
because in a year, five G networks are going to
be much more substantial than they are right now, and
then you've got a five G phone to ride on
(10:32):
top of it. It's gonna be pretty good, all right,
So good question to start off. I'll let you look
at some questions while I talk about the next iPhone
that they announced, which is the iPhone eleven. And the
iPhone eleven is the new iPhone ten R if you
remember that phone that's sort of the entry level phone.
They're still going to sell the ten R apparently, and
I think that got a lower price. My favorite way
(10:53):
of taking notes in these Apple events is actually just
to take a lot of pictures. So that's really that's
really how I do it. Let me look at the
full lineup of the Apple the iPhones and tell you
how much this is going to be. Because they always
do these slides where they show off. Okay, so here's
the whole Apple family. The iPhone eight is gonna be
four forty nine. iPhone ten are they're still selling, but
(11:14):
it's gonna be five ninety nine. iPhone eleven is six
ninety nine, then nine ninety nine, then ten ninety nine. Personally,
I would not save the one hundred dollars and go
with the iPhone ten R over the eleven. Just go
with the eleven. Let me tell you why. So. The
iPhone eleven has the newest processor, which is the A
thirteen Bionic. It is six hundred and ninety nine dollars,
(11:35):
and it's pretty much the identical camera setup, except only
has two lenses instead of three, but you can still
do the same three types of shots. You can still
do a zoom in shot, you can still do your
standard shot, and you can still do an ultra wide shot,
so you really don't miss anything. The biggest difference between
the iPhone eleven and the iPhone eleven Pro is the
(11:57):
battery life. You only get an extra hour out of
the iPhone eleven, which you're gonna be fine with that,
and you also get an LCD screen versus an OLED screen,
so an LCD screen is just not the best screen
quality at this point. It's kind of what we've known
forever old is really the best screen quality gives you
the best colors, the most vibrant screen, the deepest blacks.
(12:18):
But to most people that's not really an issue. It
just doesn't matter, especially if you're not looking at your
phones next to each other. Unless you're comparing to your
friend's phone who has an OLEAD, you're not going to
notice the difference. So to me, I think that the
iPhone eleven at six ninety nine's are really compelling iPhone
yeah for that price. And by the way, last year
when this when the similar phone came out, the ten R,
(12:41):
it was seven forty nine, so they actually dropped the
price by fifty dollars for this device theoretically mm hm.
And it's got better technology, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
An iPhone eight you said, was.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Four four forty nine, which.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're pretty close in price.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A lot of people are gonna be tempted by the
iPhone eight at four forty nine, but I will tell
tell you the camera, if you're gonna do the iPhone
eight for four forty nine, please just go with the
ten R at five ninety nine because the camera jump
from the eight to the ten R is huge. The
eight you have the eight, Yeah, I have the eight.
I will tell you I watched Lindsay because she went
from the eight to the ten ten R and the
(13:18):
camera is night and day. It's really different. Like even
from the ten to the ten S is really a
big camera proven. So the way I see it is
the ten S is like the standard, Like basically that's
the camera we have now inside the eleven and the
eleven pro the quality of the pictures. I don't think
they improve the quality of the pictures just yet. Now.
Apple teased that they will be improving the quality of
(13:40):
the pictures soon with a software update. They didn't really
say when, but they're gonna do more computational photography to
make the pictures look better. Wow, so that would be
a software update, but who knows when and how much
better we don't know. I still don't think they're going
to match the pixel that's my that's my bottom line
with everything. The iPhone eleven is gonna come in six
new colors, including purple, green, yellow, black, white, and red,
(14:02):
and again it pretty much has the same features. Let
me talk about two features I thought were kind of cool.
So these phones are all about the cameras. And one
of the things I've noticed is that Instagram is huge,
Instagram Stories especially, So what I've noticed I was taking
pictures two different ways when I was in the keynote.
I would take them vertically and I would switch my
(14:24):
phone over and take them horizontally, because horizontal is good
for everything, but vertically is good for Instagram. And the
other thing I noticed is when I'm taking a picture,
sometimes I want to take a little video to put
on Instagram Stories, and you can't necessarily do that easily
because you had a swap between like video photo video photo. Well,
now on the new iPhones, you just hold down you
take a picture, snap, snap, Snap, But then you hold
(14:46):
down the button, the shutter button, and now it takes
a video and if you slide it to the right,
it locks into video. So you can just go hands
free and kind of move your phone around. And then
if you slide it to the left, that's where you
get your burst mode. So they haven't gotten rid of
B but you no longer hold it down for that.
That's a brilliant feature. Yeah, that is really cool because
now you can go from taking a picture to a
(15:07):
short video clip, which is going to be vertical by
the way, because you know you're in that up and
down mode most of the time. Or you can do it,
you know, horizontally as well. But anyway, that's kind of
the nutshell of the iPhone eleven, which I think is
a great phone for most people.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, all right, So this next question comes from Diane.
She asks, I'd like to know what the battery life
is like on the iPhone eleven and is Apple any
closer to a shatter resistant screen?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Ooh, interesting, they're not doing a shadow resistant screen, but
they do say it is the strongest glass they've ever
had on an iPhone. But to be honest, we've heard
that over and over and over. Yeah, and if you
drop it the wrong way, it's still going to shatter.
It's just the way. It is. So interesting thing I
learned from a company that repairs glass on the iPhone
that when you drop your phone and it doesn't shatter,
(15:57):
or just using your phone day to day and getting
those little scrap on the screen actually weakens the makeup
of the glass on your phone. So it's almost like
every day that you're using your phone, it's kind of
getting a little bit weaker in a way if it's
getting jostled around, or if you let's say, you drop
it on the ground and you pick it up and
you're like, oh my gosh, it didn't break. I dodged
(16:17):
a bullet. Well, there might be some tiny little imperfections
in that screen now because you dropped it and kind of,
you know, broke the cohesiveness of that entire screen. So
now the next time you drop it, it may be
more apt to shatter.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Okay, so it takes time.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
So it could take time. You know. The shatterproof screen
is a tough thing. I know that there was one
phone I tested. It was a Motorola that was shatterproof
and we threw this thing around. I should show you
the story. It was great. We threw it around. It
was a fun story. We actually did it on larch
mop Oh really, and I got out of the car,
the phone dropped out of my pocket. I threw it around.
(16:54):
It was fantastic. It was such a It was look
up Moto shatter proof phone Ktla DeMuro and that should
bring it up. But it was just such a fun
I can't remember what the name of the phone was,
but it was definitely a Motorola and it was shatter proof.
I mean the thing did not shatter. Now on the
flip side. Even though it didn't shatter, it still got
(17:15):
scuffed up the whole phone when you've dropped it, so
it's like you still had a scuffy phone, but the
screen just didn't break.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So anyway, but Apple does say that they made some
improvements with the I guess the strength of the phone
in general. And they also made it matt on the back,
so it is a matte device, which I guess maybe
doesn't show as many fingerprints or I guess scratches. Oh okay,
and what was the other question? The battery life? Yes,
(17:45):
I mean so battery life. Let's see what the phones
are rated for for battery life. So iPhone eleven battery
life rating on that device according to Apple is let's
see what it says here.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh my gosh, that's so funny. I'm watching, sorry, the
Motorilla story that you did. And you're walking in front
of a kid's clothing store that I used to work at.
Now you're holding like a baby, like a fake baby.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Might I have funny? Maybe you were in that store
at that time that is really I definitely worked there.
We asked them if they would give us the baby.
I remember a guy coming in and asking if we
could take a baby, and.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, and you know what's funny is that baby particular.
Like people would come in because they're like, where'd you
buy this? Like this is a great, real looking bab
Was it really?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Well? We did it. We did a little joke where
I was like holding them. I didn't want to drop
the baby because I think that would be pretty bad.
But we did some sort of bit with the baby
where it was like I was holding the baby and juggling.
It was when I was like first a dad, like
this a couple of years ago, and so I was
like juggling the baby with my phone. I think I
dropped the phone. But that's really funny. Okay. Video playback
up to seventeen hours, ten hours streamed, and audio playback
(18:59):
sixty five hours. It doesn't really say how long it lasts,
so anyway, to me, it's really tough to say battery
life because for every person it's so different. I mean,
but I'll be honest, Like today I was at an
Apple event all day. My battery was just fine. Now
did I keep it plugged in while I was doing
the event, Like, yeah, of course, but it was fine.
Now let's talk about Apple Watch Series five. This is
(19:20):
the latest apple Watch. And I know, Megan, you have
wanted an apple Watch for a while. No, is this
enough to make you get an Apple Watch? At this point,
I haven't even said what it does. But what you saw,
were you excited or was it like, oh, okay, that's
the same as what you know?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Kind of has you could see the time?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, So the main new feature isn't always on display,
and that means that you no longer have to raise
your wrist to activate the watch, to turn on the screen,
to see what time it is, and to see whatever
you want to see on it. But my thing about
the Apple Watch is that that's never really been an issue.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, it always not that I would know.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well, I've tested a bunch of these gadgets that sort
of light up when you raise your wrist, and I've
always said the Apple Watch is like, so right on
every time. Now, there are times when your wrist is
a certain way and you kind of have to and
you go to move it to look and it doesn't
come on. You're like ah, and you really have to
make like a motion for it to you know, like
a movement is not.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
A dance move I just like definitely like, oh like.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
This like the mockerna. I don't know, but the the
reality is that's not a feature that's gonna make you
get a phone or get a watch. I do think
it's cool, and they're still saying it's got the same
eighteen hours of battery life. And again, when it comes
to battery life on the Apple Watch, it's something that
needs to be charged every night. I know they toew
eighteen hours, but you're not going a day without charging this.
(20:39):
And in a lot of cases, the more you're using
it for fitness, the more it needs to be charged.
People come up to me and they'll be like, hey, Rich,
you know my Apple Watch last two days. I'm like,
are you running for like an hour on the treadmill
because it doesn't last after Well maybe on the treadmill
it will, but when you're activating that GPS chip inside,
that's when that's when the battery gets used up.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
More so, so.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It really depends, you know. I feel like battery life
is so personal that you can't just say like, oh,
this has a lot about it. Yes, if something goes
two weeks without needing to be charged, that's fine. But
it's something like an Apple watch that's eighteen hours. If
it's eighteen, nineteen or twelve, it's kind of all the same.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But if you're sitting there all day playing with it,
it's gonna die faster.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What are you going to be doing on it?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
No, but I'm just saying there's such a range, like
you were saying, there's a range of like usage, of course.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And I think that that's kind of like the main
thing with this is that eighteen hours is just fine.
They let's see what are some of the new features.
So they said, okay, always on display is kind of cool.
So it's got two kind of displays. The first is
it's just always on in a dimmer fashion, So if
your phone is just resting on the table, you look
at it without moving anything, you can still see whatever's
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on your screen. Then if you move it, your screen
brightens and kind of some more of it is filled in,
like maybe like let's say the screen I saw had
outlines for letters, and then when I raised my wrist,
the letters filled in with white. So it's like brighter
and boulder the other feature is a compass, which I
don't even realize. The Apple Watch didn't have a compass
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in it, and I don't really need a compass for anything.
I'm not like a very outdoorsy person, so I wouldn't
even know how to use a compass, but you.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Would obviously need a GPS in your.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
GPS is great because you can It tracks you very
accurately to where you are and where you go, so
when you're doing physical activity outside like a hike or
biking or anything, GPS helps to get those stats much
more accurate than non GPS, and having GPS on board
is really cool, especially for location and things. The other
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thing that it does is it can now complete international
calls to emergency services on the cellular model even if
the plan has not been activated, which is kind of complicated,
but the bottom line is that if you have a
cellular model, you didn't activate the cellular which why would
you buy the cellular if you're not going to pay
for the cellular plan. Maybe I don't know, maybe some
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people do that. But if you're traveling in Japan and
there's an emergency, you can still press and hold the
side button and it would dial the current emergency or
the proper emergency number fear location. That's cool, which is
actually great. Yeah, but it's one of those things that
you would expect it to do because you have a
cellular watch, and I mean, I guess if your plan's
not activated, you would not expect it to do that.
But I didn't realize that random.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's it's very like it's like, okay, am I going
to be in like a.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Well, it's good to happen. I think that's probably arguably
the most important time for an emergency service because like,
if I'm in Italy, I don't really know what the
emergency service number is. Like I guess back in the day,
you probably looked it up and kind of said, like, Okay,
I'm going to Greece. You dial three to one one
in Greece or whatever it is. Yeah, I don't know
what is it. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I've never been to Grease.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, where have you've been to Mexico? And do you
know the emergency No? Okay, well you should wait.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Can you do it on your iPhone?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes? You can, So the iPhone does it. You just
press and hold the side button. It's a it's a
future called emergency SOS and hold on sorry not pressing
hold the side button. You have to press and hold
the side and the volume up and it should bring
you to emergency SOS and the and then you can
swipe to to dial.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's like I swipe it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, don't do that. And then once you do that,
your phone actually lockshift to unlock it. Well, you have
touch ID, so but on mine, it's face ID. It
goes back so old school. Oh maybe you still have
to put your number in It kind of like relocks
your phone because it thinks like I mean, I hate
to I mean it gets like very morbid fast. But
like if you press that and like someone's like give
me your phone because they're like trying to like kidnap
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you or something. They thought this, yeah it did. It's
like it doesn't work with face ID because they can't
be like all right now pull this in front of
your face. Like it's like no, you got to type
in your number to make it work like you just did.
You can't use your fingerprint. I mean, Apple was like, okay,
what's going to happen to people like on the verge
of getting murdered like with their phone? But it's wild
I know, but it's there for a reason.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I'm positive?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Reason?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Do it? Do the emergency thing and watch you can't
unlock your phone with your with your fingerprint anymore, right,
so activate it? There you go now now can't now
see it says you must.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Not recognize your fingerprint.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, you have to put in your pass code and
you can't use facey. See, these are the little things.
By the way, I write about these things in my
book one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone.
But the new book is coming out all for iOS thirteen,
and I do talk about the emergency features. That's the
only reason I know about this stuff because I literally
sit there like most people are going out, like they're
going out on a Friday night, you know, they're spending
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time with their kids.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
They're watching TV.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, they're watching Netflix.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
They're hanging out their children for one ye right.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I sit there, be quiet.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yes, I gotta write my book.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I gotta write my book. And I literally just go
through the iPhone and swipe every which way and like
look through all the menus and I see, like what
these little tips and tricks are all to make this book,
which the new one I haven't finalized the title, but
it is going to get a slightly newer title. Yeah,
but it's still gonna be like a time Well, it's
I don't know if it's finalized, but it's basically one
hundred and one tips again but just simpler. So again, No,
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you're still getting one hundred and one tips, but the
title is going to be simpler. Before it was one
hundred and one handy tech tips for the iPhone. Yeah,
kind of a mouthful. This one will be same vein
just simpler. Yeah, clean, cleaner like Apple, and the whole
book is cleaner like the just everything from I can't
wait to get this book.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Now you're it's just like you make some really great software.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh my gosh. Yes, it's going to be a lot better.
I can't wait. Apple Watch let's see, it's got the
new Watch OS six, which is cool. It's got new
features including cycle tracking, the noise app, and activity trends.
I don't know what the activity trends is and cycle
tracking I can't really speak to. But the noise app
is really cool. I tried it out today at the event,
and the noise app will alert you if the noise
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level in the area you're in is kind of like
too loud and it's going to damage your hearing. So
for you, all these Z concerts you're going to, it's
going to be like you're when you get an.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Apple Watch, you're ruining your ears.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
When you go all in, you're gonna realize.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Man, Okay, question from me, which Apple Watched? I get
the four of the five.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I think you would be perfectly served with the four,
but I feel like the five has some really cool features.
What though the always on tracking the four will have
that the four will have. Oh okay, yeah, the four.
They've been talking about this cycle tracking for they're talking
about bicycle right.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Like, yeah, yeah, because I'm a big spinner.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, you love spin class. So but yeah, and apparently
they're doing some They talked about three new research. This
a new app. They're coming out with a research app.
So if you have an Apple Watch, it's called Apple
Research and you can contribute to these new research studies
are doing. One is about hearing, one is about cycle tracking.
One is about heart health, so you can opt in
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and help think about it. When was the last time
in the world that they had I don't know how
many Apple watches are out there. But let's say ten
million people participating in a hearing study where the Apple
Watch is pinging what people are hearing on a daily
basis walking around the world and seeing how much noise
they're subjected to and how that effects are hearing. That's
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kind of amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, could this be a data issue though, of privacy?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yes, it is, and Apple says that they will not
access any information that can personally identify you, which, okay,
it's true. I mean they're just going to give like
an anonymous like whatever your data is, they're just going
to send it anonymously to the cloud.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And if you're doing this in research, like you don't
really care. You know, you're saying like, I'd rather do
something for the greater good, and I feel like I
think that's cool. I think it's really cool. So you
don't need the built in compass. I mean, are you
a big compass.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Person gonna need that compass?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You use that a lot on your iPhone.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I already need it right now, like I have.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Four Like, well, but you also what you're not a
big fan of, like knowing where things are naturally you
put you will put like the nearest Starbucks into war map.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Are you kidding? You're the one that you've said so
many times that you don't even use Like you don't
you need Google Maps to show you where to go everywhere?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, you don't know how I can't get around LA
without Google Maps.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I've offloaded my brain to the cloud, okay, and I
free up my brain for more pressing matters. I don't
need to navigate Los Angeles. I let Google do that
for okay. So to me, that's kind of like I'm
storing a lot of my information in the cloud at
this point, which is aka Google or anything else that
can help me along. But yes, so that's what I do.
So I don't know. I was actually at my friend's
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pool the other day and the sun was in the
sky and I was like, Oh, which way is the
sun going to go? And he's like, the same way
it's gone.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Are you Well?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I wanted to know like if it was going to
get more in the pool or less in the pool,
you know, more of the sun rays and so you know,
like which way is it going to track the sky?
And my friend's like, it's going to go the same
way it's gone for a million years east to west,
And I was like, oh, okay, So anyway, Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
For someone who can occasionally be kind of paranoid, I'm
surprised you don't want to know where like things are just.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
In case I'd like to know where the closest emergency
exit is. Yeah, let's see. What else are they gonna
do with the iPhone or the Apple Watch. They are
going to have two new finishes, titanium and then also ceramic,
and then I think aluminum is a standard. So again,
all these go get more expensive as they go along.
(30:17):
But I think for the for the average person, I
probably just need an Apple Watch four at this point. Now,
the Apple Watch three I believe they're making cheaper. I
would not do that one because that one does not
have the feature of fall detection, and so don't go
with that one. Let me see do they list all
the Apple Watches again. I'm looking at my notes here
(30:40):
to see kind of like what Apple Watch they put
in there? Now? Okay, I can't find out, but anyway,
I would say with the when it comes to the
Apple Watch, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Four or five.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I'd go with the four or five. Okay, So that's
that's kind of my take on that.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Okay, well I have a quick question from Brian. She says,
when will iOS thirteen point one point one be available?
Point one point one thirteen point one?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Right, Well, she's saying she's I think thirteen. Well, I
think she's making a joke. She doesn't want to get
iOS thirteen. She wants the update to iOS thirteen because
she's skipping the first Like it's like when you make pancakes,
you ever hear the one the first one you give
to the dog?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, you always throw the first pancake away, because have
you ever made pancakes?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
My mom always gives me the first pancake?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
No does she? We need to talk to mom mcmonaga.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is so sad. Why does your mom keep.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Every show.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Mommy?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Is she? Yeah? She always serves you. I knew it,
and not your siblings. They always get that. Your brother
gets you know.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
She's going to get mad at me just for saying
this on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh no, not true.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
She makes amazing pancakes.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Anyways, So my grandma always said you put the you
give the first pancake to the dog. Because I love
to make pancakes and the first one never comes out
right because the pan is not properly whatever. So that's
what she's saying about iOS thirteen, is that iOS thirteen
like you give to the dogs, like you let you know.
I'm not going to deal with that because I'm gonna
wait till thirteen point one comes out and all the
little bugs are squashed and it's more finalized. So when
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will that happen? They did't even tell us when iOS
thirteen is coming out. I'm assuming it has to be
when the iPhone comes out, the new iPhone, which is
September twentieth, So they didn't really say, let's see do
they say when I.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Was September nineteenth? Thursday? September nineteenth, so next week?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh he said that for iOS thirteen.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Wait, how the hecked? Why is according to tech radar?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Who is tech radar? Is is that a new Okay?
They all say September nineteenth. Okay, somehow I missed that. Okay,
Oh Apple pr told them, okay, cool, So oh wow,
So that's I need to get my book done by
the nineteenth so I can have it ready to go.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Can you do it? It's pretty much fast, she can.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I needed like a week though, after the softworks. I
want to make sure everything that I wrote from the
beta is still applicable in the final because things could change.
All right, let's see what else is that it?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
That's the only her only question another question.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Now let me talk because we have a lot of
stuff talk about, and I think we're uh okay, yeah, okay.
So iPad new iPad, seventh generation iPad, and this is
the I call this the entry level iPad or kind
of like the standard iPad. Price is the same three
hundred and twenty nine dollars. They made a bigger screen,
so it's now ten point two inches I believe before
it was like nine point seven So bigger screen, not
(33:31):
by much, but still a little bit better. And it
has Apple support Apple pencil support, which it had before,
but now it has the smart keyboard support. And this
is the first time that the smart keyboard snaps onto
the entry level iPad, which is kind of cool. But
again you're talking three twenty nine. Then you've got Apple pencil,
which is ano one hundred dollars. Now you're up to
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four twenty nine. And then you've got the keyboard, which
is I think like one thirty to one fifty, so
you're up to three four twenty nine hundred dollars. Okay,
but when you think about it, this can probably replace
a computer for a lot of people. A lot of
people don't need a standard computer, and iPad in a
lot of ways is kind of cooler because you go
from like typing on email to like watching Netflix. You
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just pop off the screen, sit there and watch, which
is kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah, And it weighs nothing, and.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
It weighs nothing, and it's portable. The battery last forever.
It's a great if I was not creating content for
like social media and logging stuff for TV iPad all
the way. I just love the idea of having this
one device that does everything. Now the keyboard, I was
typing on it today. It's definitely a little tricky. Okay,
It's probably like anything else. You get used to it.
(34:39):
Like I was just on it fresh and like, yeah,
I was making a lot of mistakes. But it doesn't
have the most travel, which means the keys are almost flat,
and so when you're pressing them, it's not as much.
You don't feel like an old keyboard you would like
feel it like this does not do that as much.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And I know you like that, like, you don't really
like this keyboard on the MacBook Pro.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, actually, I feel like it's better than my This
is a I'm on a borrowed MacBook from my work
right now. It's a fifteen inch mine is a thirteen inch,
and so the keyboard, I feel like it is definitely
bigger on here. It's got it. Maybe it's not, but
it feels bigger. It also feels a little bit better,
but I'm not sure, okay, and I'm okay with it.
(35:20):
It's not as good as but you missed the old
key The old keyboard was so great.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, that's what that's rich.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
That's like, you know, like this is me showing my
age saying bt rich that I like the old keyboard
because it's like the new kids don't even know about
the old keyboard. Like I remember the old days when
it was like.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I still have my like eMac with the big chunky
key like keyboard, you know, like the keyboard or was.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
This was this a laptop?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Do you know? Do you know what an eMac is?
Am I about to school?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
You you mean the iMac like the one that was
like a cube.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, no, it was like it was like al.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
eMac or I'm AC. I thought it was maybe it
was AMAC. Oh my god, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I have that was my first computer, really old, and
I watched Princess Diaries on it.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
That's crazy that I don't even remember that, I know,
but to be honest, that was before I was a
Mac person. So my first MacBook was a I'll never forget.
I went into a place called the Good Guys. I
don't remember that. This was in La. This was an
electronics place in LA and it's called the Good Guys.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I believe I only shop at the Bad Guy.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's bye, I just kidding, the Good Guys. Uh electronics store. Yeah,
it was electronics store and they That was the first
I never forgot. I went in to buy a computer
and I somehow just fell in love with this Mac.
And I bought a PowerBook G four I think it
was called, and it was a silver G four.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh I remember this, Oh yeah, this was it. Oh
I love this last so funny. I think of like
the people I like, my aunt had one of these
laptops and I still remember like looking at it and
I thought it was so cool. And then there was
like the colorful laptop back in like early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
It's been a lot.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I really wanted that when I was five five, I
didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
That's funny. Now my kids are asking me for a
computer too, all right, so iPad, let's see what else.
It's got an A ten fusion chip, so it's got
a chip that's a couple of years old. But the
iPad is just fine. I mean, the iPad again, is
the gold standard of tablets. If you're buying a tablet
and you're thinking you're going to spend one hundred and
fifty dollars on an Amazon Fire tablet, I hope the
(37:27):
only thing you're doing on that tablet is watching Netflix
or Amazon Prime, because everything else is not going to
be as good. It's a very and I'm not like,
I don't want to make you feel sad if you
have one of those. It's just it's a very basic
tablet for surfing, you know, web surfing, whatever. But if
you want to get anything done on your tablet, iPad
has the best apps. And I say, I'm like a
(37:48):
broken record with this, but it's just because I believe
so much that, like it's a little bit more, but
you're getting so much more with the ecosystem, you're getting cases,
you're getting accessories, you're getting the best apps, and it's
just something that you can't find on these on these
lower grade Android tablets. So again, iPad three twenty nine,
I think is a fantastic deal and a great tablet
(38:10):
at that. So take that.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Take that. Okay. So Lisa asks, can you compare this
Samsung Note ten plus to the iPhone pro version?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
No, I didn't. By the way, I didn't give him
any of these questions beforehand.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So he's okay, So the I think, Okay, So I'll
be totally honest here. I think when it comes to
the excitement for a device, I will say that I'm
more excited about the Note ten personally.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What yeah, really, But okay.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It ends at the hardware. I think that some of
the hardware on the Note is like sexier. It's got
this bigger screen, it's got the stylists, it's got you
know this like fast like you know WiFi. I mean,
nobody cares about that, but it's got it just feels
like it's like a more futuristic device than the iPhone
eleven Pro, which feels like the same iPhone we've had,
(39:09):
but with slightly upgraded insides. It's the same exact thing.
It looks the same. So with that said, I think
that it really comes down to the ecosystem and what
you're getting with the iPhone Pro is I Message, which
I know I hate to say that it all comes
down to like I Message, but it is a factor.
My message is a pretty amazing communication tool. Sad that
(39:31):
it's relegated just to iPhone. You're getting three lenses, which
I think are really cool and very creative, but you
also get that on the note, I think you are
getting a better processor and a better like, speedier, snappier
phone that's going to last longer. Like the value of
the iPhone eleven Pro Max is going to stay higher
(39:53):
for a longer period of time than the No ten,
which is going to be you know, it's a thousand bucks,
but it gets discounted fast, and in a year when
you go to sell that, it's not gonna be worth
as much as the iPhone eleven Pro. The iPhone eleven
Pro also max works with all kinds of other stuff
as well. Like in the Apple ecosystem, you walk into
any store in the world and you're able to buy
a case, you can get it repaired in an Apple store,
(40:14):
you can get support, all these little things that like
not you know, you don't necessarily get with the note
that said. I mean, it really comes down to a
personal preference. Are you Android or are you iOS? And
they both come with different things.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Very deep question.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, it is tough, and I think that you're gonna
be happy with either one. It depends what you want
to do with your phone as well, Like if you're
truly into content creation, I think that the iPhone eleven
Pro Max is probably a better choice. If you are
just using your phone on a business purpose, like if
you want to do spreadsheets style of stuff, I think
(40:49):
that the Note ten might be a better deal or
a better fit for you. But it comes down to
you if you're trying to switch. Did she say which
phone she's coming from by any chance?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Just yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
A lot of people were asking about the comparison too.
It's oh, this wasn't the only question. It's definitely on
people's minds.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
And I think that it doesn't come down to which
is a better phone. I think it comes down to
which phone is a better fit for what you want
out of a phone. If your whole family is on
an iPhone and you all want to be an I
Message and you want to use FaceTime, and you want
to have an Apple TV, you want to have an iPad,
and you want to have all the apps that share
family sharing, go with the iPhone if you don't really care,
I mean, and you're fine with the Android and you
(41:30):
like kind of like something that's a little bit different
and something that's a little bit you know, kind of
out of the ordinary. I think the Note is a
really cool phone. It is also really big. Just so
you know, I feel like in hand, the iPhone ten
Max or iPhone eleven Pro Max is easier to handle
than the Note. And I'm really mad because I brought
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the Note ten today to take a picture that did not.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Take oh comparing.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, I want to take a picture of the Note
ten next to the iPhone eleven and I forgot to
take that picture. Shoot. All right, let's just get through
two quick things before the show is over. Apple TV
Plus this is the new subscription service from Apple. It
will be four dollars and ninety nine cents a month.
It will launch on November first. You'll get a seven
(42:15):
day free trial, but anyone who purchases an iPhone, iPad,
Apple TV, iPod Touch, or Mac will get one year
of Apple TV Plus for free. That's a super long
runway Theoretically, Let's say Apple sells one hundred and fifty
million iPhones in the next year, and let's say that
they do this promotion for a year. I don't know
how long it's going to go on for. That's one
hundred and fifty million subscribers to Apple TV Plus for
(42:37):
a year, subscribers and quotes because they're not paying anything theoretically,
but it gets their shows in front of people.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I have a feeling that Apple is going to do
a lot of promoting to get people to kind of
sample Apple TV Plus, which may include giving you the
pilots to these shows for free to let you watch
them before you subscribe. Like we'll see some Because Apple
TV Plus is pre loaded on all Apple product they
can do some unique things that Netflix can't. Netflix you
have to download it, you got to sign up, you
(43:04):
have to get a free trial. This it's kind of
like in your face on your phone, on your computer, yeah,
on your.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Tablet, staring at you right in the Eye right, So.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
That's Apple TV Plus. And then there's this other thing
called Apple TV Arcade. All right, sorry, Apple Arcade. And
this will launch on September nineteenth with iOS thirteen, and
that's five dollars a month with a free one month trial.
And this is a bunch of games. The one that
we saw and the one that I played was a
new version of Frogger, which was kind of cool. You
(43:34):
remind me of Cross the Road. But there's gonna be
all kinds of games that launch, and you pay one
price and the whole family can get as many games
as they want for five dollars. I will tell you,
as a parent, I will probably do this because all
my kids want to do is download games. If I
know that for five dollars a month, I can let
them play in this walled garden of whatever game they
(43:54):
want to play and get. Hopefully there's some parental controls there.
I love it, and hopefully the games are worth five
dollars a month. That's sixty dollars a year, which if
your kids are buying games on the iPhone, maybe they're
not spending sixty dollars a year. I don't really let
them spend that much but I guess so for Parker's
birthday we give them like a fifty dollars iTunes gift card.
So that's like, you know that birthdays only happen.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
The games looked really interesting different. I mean, I'm not a.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Big game we say, I don't know where's that coming from.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
They looked cool.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
All play them, but all Apple Arcade games can be
played offline, and a single subscription works for up to
six family members. Some of the games debuting will be
Ballistic Baseball, Chew Chew Rocket from Sega, Lego Brawls, pac
Man Party, Royal, ray Man, Mini Steven, Universe, Unleashed a
Light and Where Cards Fall from Snowman. So, I don't know.
(44:48):
I think that's kind of a no brainer as long
as the games are kind of good for kids, So
that's going to do it. Yeah, it's or any more
pressing questions that we need to address.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
There's just one question about from ca In about why
Apple stayed with the Lightning and they didn't move to us.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
That's a good question. Actually, I'm actually kind of bummed
at that. I think there's a reason why they're doing.
I think Apple's next big new iPhone is coming with
the next one, when twenty twenty, when they've got the
touch ID back in the screen, when they've got USBC
on the bottom, and five G those are going to
be the three big new improvements and a better camera
obviously on the next iPhone.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
So if you want that, you probably should wait.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Should wait. But here's the question I got before. Someone said,
but Rich, you know, I'm kind of ready for an
upgrade now, and that means I have to wait a
whole nother year. I mean a year is a long
time if you're on like an iPhone six S and
you're kind of like at the end of the line
with your phone. Now, don't forget. iOS thirteen is only
going to work on iPhone six S and above. So
if you're rocking an iPhone six right now, you might
(45:49):
want to think about if you're kind of getting old
with that phone upgrading because the iOS thirteen software update
is not going to work on anything earlier than iOS
six or iPhone success. So Lightning would have been a
nice thing to ditch at this point in favor of USBC,
because that's kind of what they've gone to with almost everything.
It's like a standard. But we know Apple is not
(46:09):
necessarily caring about all the standards of everyone else. All right,
So Megan, what'd you think of your first Apple event?
Were you happy with it? What do you think about
all like the little touches like that, you know, they
give you lunch, they have like pour over coffee in
the morning. They're also very like.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
They do that at other That's true. I was just
more captivated by just like the overall aesthetic of like
just you know, the beautiful trees and the music and
it just yeah, it felt like Apple Disneyland. You know.
It reminded me a little bit. I mean it's different.
But Google's when we went to CS and Google had
(46:45):
the ride, yeah, and it you kind of felt like, oh,
this is Google's world, Like I feel like this was Apple,
this is Apple's world, and like it's just I don't know,
it's just it was really cool overall.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
That's a great way to think about it. It's like
these companies are creating like their own worlds. Yeah, Like
even Samsung like they have a look and feel like
at their events. Google has a look and feel it's
like very clean, very bright, very modern, very happy, like yeah, optimistic,
I think, and Apple is very much like minimalistic but
controlled and clean Samsung bathroom. Sorry, no they had more bathrooms,
(47:19):
but yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Were somewhere else. They were well I'm thinking of like
a different bathroom situation.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Is always tricky these events, but overall, but overall it's great.
And as Samsung for their aesthetic, it's very much like
I would say, doing things differently and really like kind
of pushing the envelope, you know, like we know that
they're different and they're really like trying to make things
better and newer. But thanks for listening to the show.
Do appreciate it. If you like the show and this
(47:44):
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that by the way, we're cracking the top two hundred.
Now I don't want to you know, totally rough, but yeah,
(48:09):
so we're now that we're cracking the top two hundred,
people are gonna be seeing us in that list. If
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they'll finally see us at the bottom and they'll be like,
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they'll see the reviews and they'll be like, oh, people
seem to like it. Let me listen. So we do
appreciate that. Producer Megan, how can people find you?
Speaker 2 (48:26):
I'm on Twitter at producer Megan with an h egh.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
And you know where I am. I am on Rich
on Tech, on Instagram, and I should mention my Twitter because,
by the way, my video on Twitter up to two
point one million views from the Apple event.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
That's insane. And Katie Couric yes retweeted.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
It is It is like literally legit, like the hands
on I did, like the quick one minute hands on
I did with the iPhone eleven Pro is like legit.
The top iPhone eleven Pro video on Twitter probably of
the entire event, because I couldn't find one that did
more than two point one million views, Like it's featured
on like Twitter's like homepage kind of like for the
Apple event, which is crazy. So anyway, so that's kind
(49:11):
of cool, So check it out. I am at rich
DeMuro there, Thanks so much for listening, we do appreciate it.
Have a fantastic day and we will talk to you
real soon. Bye bye.
Host
Rich DeMuro
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