June 26, 2020 • 50 mins
A look at the new software features coming soon to the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch; Wyze's new affordable outdoor security camera; Facebook warns if users share an article over 90 days old; group video calling comes to Google Nest Hub Max; iOS 14 catches spying apps; Google now automatically deletes location and search data after 18 months; Microsoft permanently closes down its retail locations.Listeners ask about buying more iCloud storage on the iPhone, why COVID tracking was automatically installed on phones, what do to with an old iPhone after an upgrade and how to find movies to purchase or rent on a smart TV.Follow Richhttps://twitter.com/richontechFollow Meghanhttps://twitter.com/producermeghaniOS 14https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview/watchOS 7https://www.apple.com/watchos/watchos-previewiOS 14 catches spying appshttps://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/25/new-ios-14-feature-prompts-tiktok-to-end-clipboard-snoopingWyze Cam Outdoorhttps://wyze.com/wyze-cam-outdoor.htmlFacebook old article warninghttps://about.fb.com/news/2020/06/more-context-for-news-articles-and-other-content/Group video calling on Nest Hub Maxhttps://www.blog.google/products/assistant/hey-google-make-group-call-now-available-nest-hub-maxReview setting for Google auto delete datahttps://ktla.com/morning-news/technology/google-auto-delete-history-location-how-to-2020/Microsoft shuts down storeshttps://news.microsoft.com/2020/06/26/microsoft-store-announces-new-approach-to-retail/Reelgood Apphttps://reelgood.com/Google "What to Watch" featurehttps://blog.google/products/search/google-search-what-to-watchSee 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 (00:10):
New features coming soon to Apple products, including iOS fourteen,
Wise Cam does it again? Google now auto delete search
and location data after eighteen months. But there is a catch.
Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
(00:33):
and it's also the place where I answer the questions
that you send me What's going on? I already said
that if you don't know who I am, I'm Rich Demiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Usually
producer Megan accompanies me on this show. She is on vacation.
I hope she's enjoying a much needed break. I know
(00:54):
I got one a couple of weeks ago, exactly two
weeks ago, and it felt pretty good to be on
the open road and just do a little road trip.
It was a little, you know, a little scary with
the whole coronavirus stuff going around, and you know, it
was it was different, but we did survive, and we
took all the precautions necessary and wearing masks and sanitizing
(01:17):
and Clorox wipes everywhere, but we did it and it
was fun and I think that is going to be
the only way that people really travel this summer is
by road trip. So just talk to a cool guy
named Josh who actually does a website and a YouTube
channel called California through my Lens. So he just did
(01:38):
a road trip and he makes a living by going
to different places, and for like a couple of months
he just stopped and he finally did a road trip
recently and we were talking about it. And by the way,
he was one of these people that when you talk
to you just kind of connect with like everything he said,
like I liked as well, so I feel like him
and I should be friends. So I'm gonna once the
pandemic is over, hopefully it's over soon. Once that's over
(02:01):
and you can actually do normal things again, definitely gonna
hang out with Josh and and just kind of see
if we can be buddies because it's pretty cool. He
cool story too. He actually quit his job to do
a blog and then YouTube and it's been five years.
So anyway, I tell you this because he's gonna be
on KTLA in one of my segments about road tripping,
and he had some great information. By the way, if
(02:24):
you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen that.
I tweeted a picture from our story that we were
shooting the other day, and I'm at richon tech on Twitter,
and I did it in front of it. We shot
in front of Pasadena City Hall because I thought that
was like a kind of a cool looking location. And
all these people start tweeting me back saying, oh my gosh,
you're in Pawnee, and I'm like, what Pawnee like parks
and rec And sure enough, parks and Rec. I guess
(02:47):
that's where they do the exterior for the city hall.
But which is kind of funny because this isn't Wasn't
that city like a tiny little city and that's such
a grand city hall. Maybe that's part of the joke.
But anyway, I had no idea, even though I watched
that show. I love that show. In fact, I was
out to dinner once and the oh my gosh, you
now I'm blanking on her name, the lead woman. She
(03:09):
was out to dinner with us in the restaurant. This
was a long time ago. Anyway, I digress. We're talking
about technology. There's a lot of stuff happening this week,
and WWDC twenty was the big event. Now it's thirty
one years, which is pretty wild. Apple says this is
(03:29):
the biggest WWDC today. I don't know where they got that,
but I guess technically it is because there's more developers
than ever, twenty three million Apple developers. And this year
it was kind of cool because they all got to
attend if they wanted to, because it was all virtual,
so everyone got to see this stuff if they wanted to,
and the entire keynote was virtual as well, and we
(03:51):
learned a lot about what the future of the iPhone
is going to hold, not just the iPhone, but all
kinds of gadgets from Apple and just some number on
the app Store launched in two thousand and eight. Can
you believe that? So the first iPhone didn't have the
App Store, which now seems crazy. Two million apps on there,
five hundred and nineteen billion dollars in billiing and sales
(04:14):
in twenty nineteen. Wow, And that's all just virtual. It's
all just digital. It doesn't even exist in real life
except in bits wild. All right, let's talk about the
biggest thing that is going to affect the most people,
which is iOS fourteen. And I installed iOS fourteen, a
developer edition on a spare iPhone. You're not supposed to
(04:36):
put this on your main one, although I really really
want to because it just looks so cool and it
brings so many of the features that I want on
the iPhone, and the two biggest features are widgets on
the home screen. And also you can finally stop organizing
your apps. So I only organized my first two pages
of apps, and then I just, you know, declare bankruptcy
(04:59):
on the rest, and they I'll just float on the
extra pages as they go along, and I just don't
care because I'll just search for an app. Most of
the time after my first page. I'm not even using
those apps except maybe once in a while, and so
I don't need them all in little folders and perfectly
figured out and set up. So Apple is now letting
us do something called the app library, which if you've
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ever had an Android phone, that's called the app drawer.
You swipe up and you can see all your apps
in alphabetical order, or you can sort them the way
you want on certain launchers, but anyway, on iPhone, it's
all going to be organized. So when you get to
your last page, all of the apps will be in
an app library that lets you see the apps organized
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by Apple into categories, so all your communication apps, all
your entertainment apps, whatever, and then you have if you swipe,
I think it's down from that screen or up. It's
very complicated to get used to it. But then you
have a list of all your apps in alphabetical order.
So the good news is you can also delete home screens.
You only have to have one home screen now, so
for me, I'm just gonna have two home screens. My
(06:03):
main apps, my secondary apps, and the rest are all
going to live in that app library. Other notable improvements
to iOS fourteen phone calls and FaceTime calls when they
come in do not take up your entire screen, which
is kind of nice and picture and picture so you
can watch a video like a YouTube video, or you
can do FaceTime. And this happened to me the other day.
(06:23):
I'm sitting there and I'm facetiming. I think it was
my sister and I want to look something up, and
I swipe down to you to or bring up an app,
and she goes away, and I'm like, wait, what that
seems kind of crazy And it just didn't even occur
to me because I don't use FaceTime that often that
they didn't have picture and picture, and sure enough that's there.
When it comes to messages, you can now pin a
(06:45):
conversation to the top, which I love. I use Telegram
for a lot of my conversations and I pin the
most important ones to the top. I can finally do
that in messages, although for the majority of people that
I talk to the most, I don't use I message anymore.
See you can mention and you can also do inline replies,
so if you're having a long conversation with someone and
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you want to reply to something they said, you know,
three lines up, you can finally do that. What else
maps There are cycling directions that doesn't really appeal to me,
but ev directions is kind of cool. So you can
route based on your you know, availability of charging stations.
If you have an electric car, digital car key, so
you can use your iPhone as a key for your car,
(07:28):
which I think is really cool. And I know I
did a story about this on KTLA, and of course
all the comments come in about how it's not going
to be safe and what if you lose your phone
and what if your phone dies? And yes, of course
Apple has thought of all of these things. And if
you lose your phone, yeah, that's tricky because you don't
have your phone, but I believe you'll be able to
do it with your watch as well, so you still
(07:50):
have your watch hopefully if you have a watch. I mean,
I'm not assuming everyone out there has an Apple Watch
as an iPhone, but if you do, that's one way.
You can also share keys with friends. So maybe with
your spouse or significant other, you share a key and
you know, hopefully they didn't lose their phone as well.
But that's the beauty of this. If you ever lose
a real key fob, you're gonna you're paying a couple
(08:12):
hundred bucks. Now, if you lose your iPhone, yes, that's
definitely a problem, but you have ways of finding it,
like find my iPhone. So there are pros and cons
to everything, But personally, I love the idea of one
less thing to carry around. So I've got electronic door
locks on my house and now I've got my phone
working as a key. I'm just saying theoretically, so I
don't even have to carry keys around anymore. How cool
(08:35):
is that? I love it. That's gonna happen actually in July,
starting with the BMW five series, and it's gonna expand
to other BMW's. And this isn't just Apple, by the way,
and it's not just iPhone. This is going to be
something that happens in the future. There's a big consortium
of all how do you say that word consortium? Consortium?
I don't know. Let's see. Let's see what Google says consortium.
(08:58):
Let's see how to pronounce that consortium. There's a big
consortium of companies and this includes you know, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Volkswagen,
so Samsung. So believe me, Google wasn't on there though.
So but these companies want to make the phone everything
and they will continue on their way of doing that.
(09:19):
All right, let's get to let's get to the first
question here. Usually producer Megan would chime in here with
the first question, but it's going to be me. You
get all me for this podcast. Let's start with don
Don says, I have a question I guess I should
know the answer to, but I do not, And some
others I've asked don't either. It seems pretty simple. This morning,
(09:39):
Sam Rubin had a segment that's our entertainment guy at
KTLA on a new movie called irresistible and stated it
as being released on video on demand. Okay, how does
one find VOD? Is it a streaming service? I have
a Samsung Q ninety, top of the line on this stuff,
and the caves and canyons of online streaming is endless.
One friend says, may it's something you get on your
(10:01):
smartphone or iPad and watch it there, not on your
big screen. What's the use of that? This seems like
a catch twenty two. You have to know. But how
by some strange brew of mental osmosis, is this a
paid streamer like Disney or Amazon or something you find
magically somewhere hidden in the canyons of mystery? He liked
that word canyons seems like something I should understand, but
short of geekiness. Thanks Don, It's a good question, and
(10:25):
I don I get it. I think that this is
it's something that like I would take for granted, but
I would not. I would not automatically assume everyone knows
how to get a movie that's VOD. And this is
new for these video on demand movies that are being
released straight to demand. Video on demand has been around forever,
mostly on cable boxes, but there is a weird delineation
(10:49):
nowadays that you have sort of picked up upon. And
we've got two things going on right now. You've got
streaming services, which ninety nine point nine percent of the
conversation is about all the time, Netflix, Disney Plus, Quibi
even what are some of the other ones, Hulu, Hbo
and those are services that you pay a monthly fee
(11:12):
for and then you get to watch as much as
you want. It's the all you can eat kind of method,
and that's what most people do. Then you have something else,
which is you can buy a digital copy of a movie.
You can rent a digital copy of a movie, and
examples of this include the iTunes Store, include Google Play Store,
Google Play Movies, I should say, and there's a whole
(11:34):
bunch of other ones. There's Voodoo, there's Microsoft, There's a
whole bunch of ways to buy movies. Now here's where
it gets really confusing. Amazon Prime Video is a way
to get subscription stuff because it's including an Amazon Prime
but it's also has paid movies as well, and so
I think that's where it gets a little complicated. And
(11:54):
the bottom line for your TV, a Samsung TV, I
believe you'll just have to look for the app on
that TV that actually sells or rents movies, and that
won't be Netflix, that won't be Disney Plus, that will
be something like I'm guessing because it's running Android or
a version of that, maybe something like Google Play Movie Store,
so look for that. Maybe Samsung has their own movie store.
(12:17):
I don't think so. But it gets really complicated because
you have like the Apple TV app on your TV,
perhaps you have a new Samsung, and you can't rent
or buy anything through it. You can only view stuff
through it, So I get it. Don It has become
a little bit confusing, and to be honest, a lot
of people aren't buying movies. They're just watching what's on streaming,
(12:38):
So when these new movies come out, it takes a
little bit of figuring out. We watched the new Trolls
movie on Fandango now, which who knew that that was
sort of a streaming service that you can buy and
rent movies on. But yes you can. So I think
that's a good question. And for me personally, I do
everything in my power to not purchase or rent movies
anymore because there are just so many services that I
(13:01):
pay for that I would rather watch a movie that
I pay for. That a movie that's streaming on a
service I already pay for. And I know I've mentioned
this before, but two ways to find movies on services
that you're already paying for. The first is an app
called Real Good are e E, L g oo D,
and you pop in all the services that you subscribe to,
(13:23):
and they slice and dice this in a million different ways,
so you can keep a list of the things you
want to see and it will tell you when they're
streaming for free. Or you can browse the newest movies,
the most popular movies, movies in various categories, movies just
added to your services, so if you're all caught up
on everything, you can see sort of what's new. The
other thing I like is a website and it's called
(13:45):
only on Streaming dot Com. Only on Streaming dot Com.
And what's magical about this website is that they give
you all the newest stuff. So I just sit here
and watch the newest or I can see what the
newest items are original streaming content coming to Netflix, Amazon,
Disney Plus, Hulu, CBS DC YouTube, Crackle, Apple TV plus, Facebook,
(14:08):
and more. So, for instance, I can see on July third,
Hamilton is coming to Disney. Plus, I can see that
Little Voice season one is coming to Apple TV. Plus
I can see that Muppets Now Season one is coming
to Disney. Plus I can see that Let's see what
else is on here, Animaniacs season one is coming to
Hulu on oh in twenty twenty. Okay, some of these
(14:30):
are way far out, but I can see Pete the Cat,
which my kids like, just launched on Amazon Prime Video. Okay,
I told you there'd be a couple of ways. So
one more way is on on Google. You type in
oh gosh, hold on, hold on. I think it's called
what to Watch, And let me just confirm that, yes,
if you search on Google what to watch, they have
(14:54):
their own secret little place where you can find all
the movies on your provider. And I keep a list
in here. It's a little confusing because I keep a
list in Real Good and I also keep a list
on what to watch on Google. I haven't decided which
one I think is better. Real Good is definitely the
more elaborate app. It has many more features. But I
(15:15):
got to say. Google has the power of Google Search,
so they know exactly what people are searching for at
that very moment and what people are watching, so you
can see all the popular stuff. And again you can
see stuff that's just on your streaming providers or stuff
that's free. You can see TV shows and you can
keep a watch list. So again all you have to
do is search what to watch on Google and do
(15:36):
it from your mobile phone because that's like the easier
way of doing it. So anyway, Wow, good information, good question,
and again find those free movies. That's my recommendation. Moving on, now,
let's talk more about WWDC because there are more features
I want to talk about. Let's move into iPad iPad
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os four ten. The main feature they're bringing there is Scribble,
and I will be honest, I've been testing out a
iPad pro with the Apple keyboard case and I haven't
opened the Apple pencil yet, but it's got one and
also the track pad, and I'll say I love the
big screen and I've been basically just reading the newspaper
on it every day, and you know, that's kind of it.
(16:20):
And I actually used it as a workout thing the
other day to watch my peloton and use that on
my bike, which was great the big screen. But I
did also do a blog post on the iPad as well,
and I'll tell you it, it's really tricky because I
think it's one of those things where you just have
to get into it and use it. But I am
so used to my computer. That is sort of my world.
(16:44):
That is how I know how to do everything. I drag,
I drop, I move, I've got my apps that I like,
and so I think you can do a lot of
the same stuff on the iPad and especially the iPad Pro,
but it just takes a lot of getting used to. Now.
With that said, and I always say this on this podcast,
if I was not editing video and I was a
business person that was doing blog posts and social media,
(17:07):
I would be on the iPad Pro in one second
as my daily driver computer with the keyboard and the pencil,
because you can do so much, and I love the
fact that it's got a touch screen. I find myself
trying to touch my screen on the MacBook Pro and
it's not there, and sometimes I'm like, oh, this would
be so much easier, And then sometimes on the iPad,
I'm using it and I forget that it's a touch screen. Anyway,
(17:30):
the feature they're bringing is called Scribble to the iPad,
which means you can use the Apple pencil to type
or to write in any text field and it will
convert it to handwriting. And there's been this long dream
of converting handwriting to text. It's not very good in
my opinion, but who knows, maybe this will work. When
it comes to the Apple Watch, and you know, I
love the Apple Watch. It is such a great device.
(17:53):
A couple things are doing there. You can share watch faces,
which is kind of cool. So I see a lot
of celebrities and influencers and writers sharing kind of the
best setup for a watch face. Let's say you love
hiking and you've got a favorite hiker that you follow
on a blog. He's like, here's he or she is like,
here's my watch face. Go ahead. You can just download
it and there's a click to download, and now you've
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got their watch face with all their setup and everything.
And if you don't have the apps that they have,
it'll direct you to do that. Now. From Apple standpoint
of course, this up sells apps. So if they've got
a complication on there, that's a buck ninety nine. Now
they've just sold that to you. Brilliant sleep tracking. Now
I think Apple is tiptoeing into sleep tracking. I'm not
(18:34):
sure this is going to beat something like a fitbit
to track your sleep, but it's a step. It's a
first step. It's gonna get you to see just how
much you're sleeping. I'm not sure how rich the data is,
but we'll have to see just how good that is.
But it's kind of nice to have that. It's gonna
make a lot of people try to figure out when
they can charge their Apple Watch because it does not
last for more than pretty much a day, especially if
(18:57):
you're working out hand washing feature, so this will detect
when you're washing your hands. This is their coronavirus toss
in here, so if you're washing your hands, it will
start a twenty second countdown timer to make sure you
wash for twenty seconds, which I'm guilty of not washing
for that full time every time, but maybe I would
if my watch prompted me to do that. And it's
(19:18):
kind of interesting how they did this. They're using the
motion sensors in the watch to kind of figure out, Okay,
did he start washing his hands. Yes, Then they tap
on the microphone to listen for the sound of water
running and also the sound of soap being squished between
your fingertips, so a very interesting way to detect hand washing.
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And finally, the activity app in iOS fourteen is going
to be called Fitness. Now they've added four new fitness types,
core training, Dance, functional strength training, and cool down. So
that's pretty nice. And now there's some privacy things as well,
and I love that Apple just continues to hammer down
on privacy. Users can share their approximate location with developers,
(20:01):
which is so nice because on Twitter, I used to
think it was really a good idea to share your
exact location, but guess what, they're collecting way too much
data on exactly where I am. So I would very
much be happy if Twitter just knows that when I'm tweeting,
I'm in Los Angeles, not exactly where I am in
the city or anywhere. Then there's indicator lights now, so
(20:22):
whenever an app has access to your device's camera or microphone,
there will be a little tiny indicator light on your screen.
On the iOS iOS I should just say iPhone, iPad
and watch. That is a brilliant move because everyone is
so concerned about these apps having secret access, especially Facebook.
Everyone thinks that they're listening to them. Now you'll know
(20:44):
if you see your camera or mic light up. Okay, yeah,
that app is listening, and this will keep bad developers
out of the store as well, or malicious developers or
malicious apps, whatever you want to call it, but bad stuff. Now,
with that said, there's another feature which shows when an
app spies on your clipboard. And it's already getting a
(21:05):
lot of publicity because a bunch of apps look at
what you copy and paste on your iPhone. Surprise, surprise.
If you've ever wondered why when you send a text
to someone you get an ad for that exact thing
ten minutes later in your Instagram or Facebook feed, Well,
guess what, now we have a little idea why. So
(21:26):
a lot of users have been posting videos of screencaps
because they've installed the developer version of iOS fourteen, And
when you open up an app, it says at the
top of the screen app whatever the app name, just
access to your clipboard. WHOA wait? What? So this is
again built into iOS fourteen so that you have the
power as an individual to say, hmm, I just open
(21:47):
up a weather app. Why does it need access? Why
is it taking a look at my clipboard? Now there
are some benefits to this, so Let's let me give
you one example. Let's say you have Apple or Google Maps,
and Google google Maps looks at the clipboard to see
if you copied and paste copied an address, and if
you did, if you ever noticed, when you go to
(22:08):
search on Google Maps on iOS, it'll say, do you
want to search for the clipboard the address you just copied?
So I get it. There are valid reasons for this behavior,
but it's nice now that it's out in the open
that it will definitely catch some bad actors for sure.
(22:29):
Let's get to the next question here in the show,
and Steve says, good morning, rich. My wife is a
makeup artist, but she has about twenty five thousand pictures
on her iPhone and it's already reaching Your iPhone could
not back up due to limited storage. Our next option
is getting the one terabyte for nine to ninety nine
a month. Isn't there a better option? And my answer
(22:49):
to this is, before you pay that ten bucks a month,
you might want to check a few things. So number one,
iPhone and Apple are notorious for gobbling up your iCloud
storage and with stuff that is unnecessary. So the first
thing before you pay for this extra storage, what I
want you to do is check the iCloud backups for
(23:10):
older backups that you might not need anymore. What happens
when you update or upgrade your iPhone or an iPad
or an Apple Watch or anything, iCloud keeps that old
backup of that device, even after you've started using your
new device and backing that one up. So let's say
your old phone was twenty five gigs backed up, and
then your new phone has twenty five gigs on it
(23:30):
because you moved everything over. Well, now you're taking up
double the storage in iCloud because you never deleted that
old phone out of iCloud and you don't need it
in there because guess what the data is on your
new phone and it's backed up into iCloud, so you
can delete that old backup. So the number one thing
to do is look for old backups you don't need anymore.
So that means you got to go into settings Apple ID,
(23:50):
which is right at the top. It has your little
picture iCloud, then manage storage and backups. Yeah, they don't
make this easy to find, and then look for old
devices that you're not using. If it says this phone,
that means it's your phone. That you're using. If there's
any other old phones in there from years past, you
can go ahead and safely delete those as long as
you know that that data has been moved to a
(24:13):
new device. Make sure you do that. Don't just delete
stuff without thinking, because you could get rid of something important. Now,
if you're using iCloud for photos, you need to do
another thing because if you're running out of storage on
your phone, which this sounded like it was an iCloud thing,
not an iPhone thing, you still want to check this
option to make sure that you're optimizing the storage on
(24:35):
your iPhone as well, because a lot of people buy
extra storage on iCloud not realizing that it doesn't really
have to do with their iPhone. So you want to
go into settings Apple id iCloud then Photos and there's
a toggle says that says optimized optimize Phone Storage. And
what this does is it will look at how much
space is on your phone and it will make sure
(24:56):
you don't run out with all your pictures taking up
space on your phone. So what it does is, if
you're using iCloud, let's say you've got, you know, a
sixty four gigabyte iPhone and you've got fifty gigs of
pictures and you're getting close to that sixty four gigabyte
limit on your iPhone. Well, Apple is smart enough to say, well,
they've got one hundred gigs out here in iCloud. Let's
(25:19):
offload some of these pictures from the iPhone. Let's offload
fifteen gigs. But we'll keep little thumbnails on the iPhone,
so if you ever need to scroll through your photo library,
you'll still see those, and when you tap one, we'll
just download that photo on demand from the cloud instantly.
So it seems like everything's on your phone, but in reality,
it's been offloaded to the cloud. Google Photos works in
very much the same way. It's a little bit different
(25:40):
on the iPhone, but yes, that's kind of how Google
Photos works is you can have Google Photos on your phone.
It will delete the originals from your phone and it
will keep them in your library. So when you're searching
on Google Photos, seems like everything's there. It's just really
in the cloud. So those are my two recommendations. I
would recommend the Google Photo but if you're already using
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iCloud and backing up your photos there, Steve, I think
that just stick with what she got but that's my recommendation,
and hopefully you're not paying for storage that you don't
really need. Wise Cam has done it again. Wise Cam
is the company that you probably know. They make a
twenty dollars security camera that many many people did not
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believe me when I first presented this on TV back
in twenty seventeen. They said, what, there's no way that
a security camera can be twenty dollars. And here's the thing,
I actually take the time to test this stuff before
I just talk about it. Now. I get it. If
something is announced like this camera that I have not tested,
(26:43):
I will talk about it without having tested it. But
most of the time, if I'm doing a story on
TV about a product, I have done my research. I
have figured out who are the people behind this company?
How is this so cheap? What are they doing? Is it,
you know, sending data to China like everyone accused it
of doing. No, it was just a bunch of smart
Amazon people who saw what Amazon was doing. I mean,
(27:04):
look at them. They came out with a thirty five
dollars streaming stick. Google came out with a Chrome cast
device that was dirt cheap and let you stream stuff
to your TV for the first time, cheaper than any
other method in the history of mankind. So yes, these
companies figure stuff out and they cut things out of
the system that you may not need in a more
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expensive system. Apple TV is two hundred dollars. Do you
need all the features in there? Probably not, but you're
getting something that's in the Apple ecosystem. Chrome cast dirt cheap.
A lot of people love it. Didn't believe when I
talked about that either. So again, these companies do this,
and the Wyscam outdoor is now just forty dollars. Now
before you, let me give you some details on this.
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So this is a wireless outdoor security camera. It records
in full HD ten ADP. It is IP sixty five
weather resistant, which is not the highest, but it will
be just fine. I got a question of about the
temperature rating, and it operates from negative four degrees to
one hundred and twenty degrees, so pretty much. Maybe some
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places in America might be outside of that range, but
that's gonna cover a lot of people. And for this
price forty bucks, you probably set it up and see
if it works, I mean, if it's not gonna work,
if it if it bottoms out, well, you're only out
a couple bucks. The device is fifty dollars for a
starter kit because this does require a base station, and
the base station to me, it looks like it has
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to plug in via Ethernet, so there are some caveats
to this little setup. But with that said, you can
hook up to four cameras to a base station. So
if you want to put a wireless camera on all
four corners of your home, you can now do this
for under four times three is one twenty plus fifty
one hundred and seventy dollars. And by the way, the
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monthly service is free. So the way they do that,
which nobody believed me by the way, when this first
came out, is they give you fourteen days of rolling
cloud storage. So what does that mean. That means that
this thing is not live streaming to the cloud twenty
four to seven. It just isn't going to be able
to do that on a battery. But when it senses
motion or people, this has a people detection. When it
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senses a person walking by or motion, you can set
how you want it to react. It will record a
clip and then it will send that clip to the cloud.
That clip is saved for fourteen days and it's rolling,
so that clip is deleted after fourteen days. Now, can
you buy extra storage in the cloud, I'm sure you can.
Can you have local storage on this Yes, you can,
up to thirty two gigabytes. You can put in a
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micro SD card. But again, and the battery is gonna
last three to six months? Now, I always think it's
probably gonna last closer that three months. Six is probably
if nobody's walking in front of this thing. But I
would say three months. So you are gonna have to
get up on a ladder, depending on how you mount
this thing, pop it off there it's magnetic, and charge
it up every couple of months. I do that with
my ring doorbell. It's fine, I do it. I actually
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have two batteries for it, so I just keep one
charging and then when I have to pop it out,
which I can never remember how to take the front
off of the ring doorbell for some reason. But anyway,
I pop it out and I put the new one in,
and it's just fine. And of course the battery doesn't
last as long as it used to. When ring first
came out, it was almost as if you could have
that battery in there forever and it would just work.
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But now they've added a lot of new features to
the ring video doorbell, and the battery gets used up
much quicker than it ever has in the past. So
the wise outdoor cam. What else do you want to
know about it? Let's see, it's small, it looks like
the old camera, the standard one. It's got one hundred
and twenty eight megabytes on board memory. The battery is
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there's two batteries inside, twenty six millionmp hours, two of those,
so there's you know, so that's for fifty two hundred
million hours. It's kind of like a cell phone, a
little bit bigger than cell phones are limited to five
thousand million hours, so it's a little bit bigger resolution,
night vision up to twenty five feet, let's see eight
times digital zoom. It's got Ethernet. Oh, the base station, yes,
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has Ethernet on board and wireless, so maybe I don't know.
I think from what I could tell, it looked like
you had to put the Ethernet into the base station,
so that could be a catch for a lot of people,
but you'll figure it out. There's also this weird offline
travel mode, so you can take this with you and
put it, they say, in your hotel room, which I
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guess if you want to keep an eye on, like
who's cleaning your room while you're not there? That's kind
of weird. And then you can also do time lapses
of says bring it on vacation, or take time lapses
of your campsite while sleeping under the stars. That's also
kind of strange. But I guess, you know, if you're
expecting a bear to interrupt you at your camp sence.
I don't know, but that's the wisecam and I would
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definitely I can't wait to test this thing out because
for forty dollars or fifty dollars, that is a fantastic
value when it comes to home security. There are other
cameras that are pretty cheap. The Blink cameras from Amazon
are pretty cheap, so are the Ring cameras. But you're
still talking with the Ring at least you know. I
saw I think it was a three pack for two
point fifty for their stick up cam that's wireless outside,
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so this is still significantly cheaper. Babs writes in Hey, Rich,
can you please explain why iPhone users were not given
the option to accept or reject or made aware of
the COVID tracker now under health that came with the
latest iOS update. You need an app for it to
actually work, but shouldn't have Apple asked permission. Plus they
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don't let you know what the corresponding app is. Hmmm.
I have gotten so many questions about this, And whenever
I get a lot of questions about something, I know
that it is making the rounds on social media, and
usually what happens on social media, only one portion of
the story is being given out. So people put a
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and some people send me the screenshot so I see
them and it'll be like this has been installed on
your phone secretly by the government. What to? How dare they?
And there's a story behind everything. And again this is
me coming out as a journalist saying I've done my
research on this. I've talked to Apple about this, We've
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heard from Google about this. This is a joint effort
and here's the real deal. Yes, with the latest operating
systems on Android and iOS, they introduced what's called contact tracing,
and this is Apple and Google's hope or I guess,
attempt at helping stem the pandemic. And what they did
(33:32):
was they came up with a system that does not
use location. That's number one. It does not use personally
identifiable information about you. In fact, all it does is
send out a Bluetooth beacon from your phone and from
everyone else's phones. And when you walk past a phone,
or you spend a certain amount of time with someone
in a room at a certain distance from them, and
again it's not using location. It's using Bluetooth low energy,
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which measures the distance between you and the other person.
It will record that person's number, and then if that
person says, oh, shoot, I got coronavirus, they will flag
their number in the database, and your phone says, oh,
I have that number of my database, and it will
tell you that, hey, someone who came in contact with
has coronavirus. It doesn't give you their name, doesn't tell
you when. Maybe it tells you the time and the date,
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but it does not tell you. It does not tell
you the location. Now, with all that said, it's not
secretly tracking you. In fact, in the US, at least,
there really are no apps that take advantage of this.
There's three states that have signed on and that's about it.
And I believe it's like North Dakota, South Dakota and
maybe Alabama or something, but again not California, where a
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majority of my listenership is from. California did not sign
on to this. They don't have a COVID tracing app
as far as I know right now, the WHO does
not have one, the CDC does not have one. There's
no nationwide app. So the reason why BABS is saying
you need an app but they're not telling you what
the corresponding app is is because there really aren't any
now now. I do think in the future, if companies
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decide to build an app or organizations decide to build
an app that takes advantage of this system, which I'm
not sure if this is effective or not. I think
it would be if people used it, but it's opt
in and so nobody has to use it. So again,
I would think that Apple would put the list of
apps inside that little area so that you can see
which apps would activate this feature. I don't think they're
(35:24):
doing that just yet. But if you want to see
this feature on your phone, yes it's there and no,
it's not active for ninety nine point nine percent of you.
You can go into your settings on the iPhone. Let's
see under oh, gosh, is it privacy? And then let's
see health and then COVID nineteen exposure logging and it
should say off and it says no installed app. And
(35:48):
there's not even a place to find apps right now.
I assume they should have some links to apps in
the future. But that's the explanation. On Android, it's in
different places, but I have gotten some screenshots from folks
on Android. I will do a story on this on
TV so I can explain this to people. And here's
the world we live in now, with all the fake
news and this stuff. I am a journalist that does
(36:10):
do research and I do try to present stuff on
TV that is factual. I mean, for twenty years now,
that has been my goal is to not to lie
to people on TV. I'm trying to do my best
at that and I have. But it is so crazy,
which this is a change that is not you know,
it's pretty new that people don't believe the stuff that
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I even post to my social media. And it used
to be if you saw a journalists post something, you
would believe it. But I get it. There are so
many opinions out there that are masquerading as fact. There
are so many people out there that just talk and
put stuff out there without any sort of basis to
whether it's true or false. That I get why you
(36:52):
might not believe me And you don't know who I
am if you're just scrolling through and someone shared one
of my posts on your page, And are you going
to go through the effort of looking up who I
am and verifying that I'm actually on TV because I
say I am, and verifying that I know what I'm
talking about. No, And so I get it. But it's
we live in a very tricky time right now for information.
(37:13):
And with that said, let me tell you one thing
that Facebook is doing. You hear them all my papers here,
I've got so much stuff. Let's see, do I have
it here? No? I don't, Okay, Well, I know that
Facebook is doing something where oh here it is. Facebook
is rolling out a new Facebook. You know, they got
(37:33):
drugged through the mud when it came to the twenty
sixteen election, and you know, Facebook is making sure they're
doing everything in their power to not be blamed for
anything when it comes to fake news and all this
stuff in the future. And so they just keep making
these changes and one of them is now they are
rolling out a notification screen. So if you try to
share an article that's more than ninety days old, they'll say, WHOA,
(37:57):
hold on, hold on, are you sure you want to
share that? That article is more than ninety days old?
And so you can decide if you want to share
that or not to make sure that people are sharing
relevant new information. And it's just again, it's just a
sign of our times where it's tough. All right, I
do have a lot more to go through here and
shows almost over. I can't believe it. Google, this is
(38:21):
a new one. Google is privacy. Privacy is big. Google
is introducing new controls that they are well, they're introducing
a new protocol for saving your data. So they are
now going to save data but for eighteen months by default.
And data. This is not your Gmail, This is not
your photos, not your calendar. This is your location data,
(38:42):
your search history, your voice data, and your YouTube activity data.
So by default, when you open up a Google account,
they will just keep that information for eighteen months. And again,
you know that Google relies on this data to help
personalize the service, to help sell you stuff, to help
you create ads, whatever, to help just market to you.
They want to know as much about you as possible,
(39:05):
and of course as a consumer, you want them. You
want to ride this line of I want when I
start searching for something in Google Maps for them to
know the restaurant that I just searched for yesterday, because
then it'll come up quicker, or the place I search
for that I want to go on vacation because then
they can target you know, vacation ads to me, or
you know, more information about the place I'm going to.
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But at the same time, I don't want them to
retain this stuff forever. So now it will be deleted
after eighteen months. But here is the catch. This is
only for new Google accounts. And guess what, over a
billion people have Google accounts, So if you're one of
those billion people, you have to go in and change
this manually. Now I did a step by step on
my Instagram at richontech on how to do that. It's
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quite easy. In fact, all you have to do is
go to myactivity dot Google dot com. You tap the menu,
you go to activity controls and there's an option for
auto delete right now on my it says off. You
tap it and it says auto delete activity older than
three months, Auto delete activity older than eighteen months, or
you can just leave it on off. I would recommend
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three months if you're really worried about your privacy, eighteen
months if you're like me and you actually value some
of the personalizations that Google has. I've actually kept this
on indefinitely for right now because it's like, it's sad
for me to like give up all my Google Search
history because even when you look through it, you can see, like,
you know, like I can go back and see the
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voice commands I said to Google when I first had
my kid, and you know, back in the day a
couple of years ago. I mean, how crazy is that?
So it's weird, I know. But again, it's good to
have this choice, and it's good that they're actually going
to turn this on by default for new accounts, so
again I'll put the link to how to do that.
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For YouTube, it's still going to remain thirty six months
by default, and that makes sense because on YouTube, they're
trying to give you recommended videos, and the more information
they have about what you're watching, the better recommendations you get.
And they're also making it easier to access incognito mode.
So from now on, when you see your little Google
logo or your profile picture on a Google app on
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iOS and Android, you can just long press that picture
and it will bring you into incognito mode. This will
work on Google App, maps, and YouTube now. Right now
it's only active on iOS for the Google app, but
it will be across all the the maps, the YouTube,
and the Google App on iOS and Android in the
near future. All right, let's see one more question. Uh Jackie, Gosh,
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she'se are all iPhone? So many people have iPhone questions?
There always iPhone? All right, let's do this one from Jennifer.
She says, I lost my iPhone over the weekend. It
turns out someone found it and returned it. Anyway, I
bought another phone, changed my plan, even got a five
dollars iPad out of the deal. Okay, that's cool, but
of course you're going to be paying the data on that.
(42:07):
I bet sort of too late to go back. But
what should I do with my old phone? Other than
a tiny chip in the top right corner it works perfectly.
Should I fix the screen and sell it? Or forget
fixing the screen and just try to sell it? Where
would you sell it? Well, you've got a couple options. Yeah,
you're definitely not going to go back. You probably don't
want to return the new phone by now. I assume
you also upgraded your phone. But I would do two things.
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Number One, if you don't care about the money, you
can keep this as a backup phone. So if something
ever happens to your new iPhone, you've got a backup device,
and that is not a bad thing to have just
sitting around the house. You can always use a different
an old iPhone for something, even if it's like a
music player or a remote control whatever. Now, if you'd
like to just rid this thing of your life, you
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do have to erase all your data from it. Make
sure you do that now. The way that I have
sold old iPhones in the past, if I'm not keeping them,
is to friends and family because it's so easy. You
don't have to deal with eBay, you don't have to
deal with a third party website. Someone out there on
your social networks needs a new phone. Now, I don't
know how old this phone is, so but you never know.
(43:13):
There's a lot of people out there, and in my
history I have posted I can remember at least twice
where boom. People buy these things in seconds and the
good news is you're selling it to a friend, so
it's easier. You can just give it to them, or
I should say get it to them because you can
you can make money off the deal, or I should
say you should there should be a transaction unless you're
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giving it to them. I've given phones to friends and
family as well. But just make a post on Facebook
or Instagram and say, hey, I've got my old phone.
Hey it's the screen is chipped, if you want to
do it that way, or you can get the screen
fixed if you want to be really nice and get
a little bit more money for it. But you have
to kind of take everything into consideration, see how much
it is to get this thing repaired, and factor all
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that in. Also to get kind of an idea of
the price you should charge for this phone. I would
just go on a site like Swapa or eBay and
see what people are charging for that phone, whether it's
cracked or not cracked. And then if it's friends and family,
you're not gonna charge the same amount because the reason
you're selling to friends and family, Let's say you probably
want to take ten percent off the price because by
the time you give eBay their cut and ship it out,
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you know, you're talking ten to twenty percent of the
price of the purchase price, and you know, collect the payment,
so you can offer this to your friends at a
discount at a lower price than they would purchase it
from eBay four. So that would be my advice, you know,
And if you need to get it fixed, actually, Swapa
has a new repair section of their website where you
(44:39):
can find a repair place that has a thirty day guarantee.
So you can go to swapa dot com slash repair,
or you can check out a U break I Fix,
I like that place there in a lot of areas,
and that's another way you can do it. All right,
show is almost is pretty much over, so I'm just
gonna get through two more stories real quick, just so
you guys are up to date. Microsoft Store is closing sadly,
(45:03):
all physical locations or a majority of physical locations of
the Microsoft Store are closing, and they paint a Rosie
picture for the retail team members that work there. So
I don't know if they're losing their jobs or they're
going to move on to different positions in the company,
but they say they're kind of going to go to
corporate facilities or continue to serve customers remotely, providing sales,
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training and support. So I guess Microsoft decided they don't
really need these stores. And if you ever went to
a mall where there's a Microsoft store and an Apple store,
it's kind of sad because the Apple store would be
packed and the Microsoft store would be empty, and it's
just I don't know, you know, And it's probably because
ninety nine percent of the people in the Apple store
(45:45):
there for an iPhone, and then they see an iPad,
and then they see maccomputer and then they see all
these other things and they just get it. Whereas with Microsoft,
most people have a Microsoft computer and that's about it.
They don't need to go in for repairs and questions
and things all the time, so they just Microsoft just
has a different business. So they are going to keep
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Microsoft Experience centers in London, New York, Sydney, and on
their campus in Redmond, Washington, but that's it. And the
stores have been closed since late March, which means it's
kind of sad that they're just not going to reopen,
which is really really crazy. So that's sad. And on
a final note, Google nest Hub Max, I don't know
how many of you have one of these, but if
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you do, they've added some pretty cool features. You can
now do group calling, which is really cool. So you
can say, h, Google, make a group call, and you
have to set up your groups in duo on the
app first before you do this on the screen, But
once you do, you can meet with those people on
duo and Duo is up to thirty two people. But
if you really want to take it to the next level,
(46:49):
you can connect with up to one hundred people on
Google Meet right from this little nest Hub Max. And
if you're not familiar with the Nest Hub Max, this
is their smart display that's also smart speaker, but it
also has a camera inside and the screen is a
little bit bigger, and this is really really cool. You
can also have a speed dial for your contact so
you can call them from this thing. But here's my
(47:10):
favorite part is that you can use Google Meet to
start your meeting and you can just say h Google,
start a meeting to connect with up to one hundred
people on Google Meet. Or you can say join a meeting,
or you can say join my next meeting if your
meeting is in your calendar, and it will just automatically
do that. Now, why do I think that's so cool
is because let's say you had one of these things
on your desk, it now frees up your computer because
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you can type on your computer and do all that stuff.
But you're joining your meeting, your group meeting from the
nest hub Max. I'm saying all this with the reality
that nobody's using Google Meet except people that are forced to,
perhaps from their organization, and ninety nine point nine percent
of people are actually just using Zoom. So I wish
that Google would have enabled Zoom functionality on there because
(47:56):
it would have been a game changer and people probably
would have bought these things for that. But again, there
are two competing companies, and everything we have nowadays with
technology has to live in a silo by some unspoken rules.
So sadly we're all being pushed to silos, and I
don't see a day where nest hub Max is going
to work with Zoom. So sadly, all right, that's gonna
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do it for this episode of the show. Can you
believe it's over? I've got some housekeeping. I was on
Brian Tong's Apple Bits XL podcast, So if you know
Brian Tong, him and I used to work at c
neet together and he went off on his own became
very successful as a YouTuber. I couldn't believe. I just
checked his Twitter and wow, he's got a lot of
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Twitter followers. He's got hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers,
so he is killing it on his own. Good job,
Brian Tong. Check out his podcast called Apple Bits XL.
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Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
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that you send me What's going on? I already said
that if you don't know who I am, I'm Rich Demiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Usually
producer Megan accompanies me on this show. She is on vacation.
I hope she's enjoying a much needed break. I know
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I got one a couple of weeks ago, exactly two
weeks ago, and it felt pretty good to be on
the open road and just do a little road trip.
It was a little, you know, a little scary with
the whole coronavirus stuff going around, and you know, it
was it was different, but we did survive, and we
took all the precautions necessary and wearing masks and sanitizing
(01:17):
and Clorox wipes everywhere, but we did it and it
was fun and I think that is going to be
the only way that people really travel this summer is
by road trip. So just talk to a cool guy
named Josh who actually does a website and a YouTube
channel called California through my Lens. So he just did
(01:38):
a road trip and he makes a living by going
to different places, and for like a couple of months
he just stopped and he finally did a road trip
recently and we were talking about it. And by the way,
he was one of these people that when you talk
to you just kind of connect with like everything he said,
like I liked as well, so I feel like him
and I should be friends. So I'm gonna once the
pandemic is over, hopefully it's over soon. Once that's over
(02:01):
and you can actually do normal things again, definitely gonna
hang out with Josh and and just kind of see
if we can be buddies because it's pretty cool. He
cool story too. He actually quit his job to do
a blog and then YouTube and it's been five years.
So anyway, I tell you this because he's gonna be
on KTLA in one of my segments about road tripping,
and he had some great information. By the way, if
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you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen that.
I tweeted a picture from our story that we were
shooting the other day, and I'm at richon tech on Twitter,
and I did it in front of it. We shot
in front of Pasadena City Hall because I thought that
was like a kind of a cool looking location. And
all these people start tweeting me back saying, oh my gosh,
you're in Pawnee, and I'm like, what Pawnee like parks
and rec And sure enough, parks and Rec. I guess
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that's where they do the exterior for the city hall.
But which is kind of funny because this isn't Wasn't
that city like a tiny little city and that's such
a grand city hall. Maybe that's part of the joke.
But anyway, I had no idea, even though I watched
that show. I love that show. In fact, I was
out to dinner once and the oh my gosh, you
now I'm blanking on her name, the lead woman. She
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was out to dinner with us in the restaurant. This
was a long time ago. Anyway, I digress. We're talking
about technology. There's a lot of stuff happening this week,
and WWDC twenty was the big event. Now it's thirty
one years, which is pretty wild. Apple says this is
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the biggest WWDC today. I don't know where they got that,
but I guess technically it is because there's more developers
than ever, twenty three million Apple developers. And this year
it was kind of cool because they all got to
attend if they wanted to, because it was all virtual,
so everyone got to see this stuff if they wanted to,
and the entire keynote was virtual as well, and we
(03:51):
learned a lot about what the future of the iPhone
is going to hold, not just the iPhone, but all
kinds of gadgets from Apple and just some number on
the app Store launched in two thousand and eight. Can
you believe that? So the first iPhone didn't have the
App Store, which now seems crazy. Two million apps on there,
five hundred and nineteen billion dollars in billiing and sales
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in twenty nineteen. Wow, And that's all just virtual. It's
all just digital. It doesn't even exist in real life
except in bits wild. All right, let's talk about the
biggest thing that is going to affect the most people,
which is iOS fourteen. And I installed iOS fourteen, a
developer edition on a spare iPhone. You're not supposed to
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put this on your main one, although I really really
want to because it just looks so cool and it
brings so many of the features that I want on
the iPhone, and the two biggest features are widgets on
the home screen. And also you can finally stop organizing
your apps. So I only organized my first two pages
of apps, and then I just, you know, declare bankruptcy
(04:59):
on the rest, and they I'll just float on the
extra pages as they go along, and I just don't
care because I'll just search for an app. Most of
the time after my first page. I'm not even using
those apps except maybe once in a while, and so
I don't need them all in little folders and perfectly
figured out and set up. So Apple is now letting
us do something called the app library, which if you've
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ever had an Android phone, that's called the app drawer.
You swipe up and you can see all your apps
in alphabetical order, or you can sort them the way
you want on certain launchers, but anyway, on iPhone, it's
all going to be organized. So when you get to
your last page, all of the apps will be in
an app library that lets you see the apps organized
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by Apple into categories, so all your communication apps, all
your entertainment apps, whatever, and then you have if you swipe,
I think it's down from that screen or up. It's
very complicated to get used to it. But then you
have a list of all your apps in alphabetical order.
So the good news is you can also delete home screens.
You only have to have one home screen now, so
for me, I'm just gonna have two home screens. My
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main apps, my secondary apps, and the rest are all
going to live in that app library. Other notable improvements
to iOS fourteen phone calls and FaceTime calls when they
come in do not take up your entire screen, which
is kind of nice and picture and picture so you
can watch a video like a YouTube video, or you
can do FaceTime. And this happened to me the other day.
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I'm sitting there and I'm facetiming. I think it was
my sister and I want to look something up, and
I swipe down to you to or bring up an app,
and she goes away, and I'm like, wait, what that
seems kind of crazy And it just didn't even occur
to me because I don't use FaceTime that often that
they didn't have picture and picture, and sure enough that's there.
When it comes to messages, you can now pin a
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conversation to the top, which I love. I use Telegram
for a lot of my conversations and I pin the
most important ones to the top. I can finally do
that in messages, although for the majority of people that
I talk to the most, I don't use I message anymore.
See you can mention and you can also do inline replies,
so if you're having a long conversation with someone and
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you want to reply to something they said, you know,
three lines up, you can finally do that. What else
maps There are cycling directions that doesn't really appeal to me,
but ev directions is kind of cool. So you can
route based on your you know, availability of charging stations.
If you have an electric car, digital car key, so
you can use your iPhone as a key for your car,
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which I think is really cool. And I know I
did a story about this on KTLA, and of course
all the comments come in about how it's not going
to be safe and what if you lose your phone
and what if your phone dies? And yes, of course
Apple has thought of all of these things. And if
you lose your phone, yeah, that's tricky because you don't
have your phone, but I believe you'll be able to
do it with your watch as well, so you still
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have your watch hopefully if you have a watch. I mean,
I'm not assuming everyone out there has an Apple Watch
as an iPhone, but if you do, that's one way.
You can also share keys with friends. So maybe with
your spouse or significant other, you share a key and
you know, hopefully they didn't lose their phone as well.
But that's the beauty of this. If you ever lose
a real key fob, you're gonna you're paying a couple
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hundred bucks. Now, if you lose your iPhone, yes, that's
definitely a problem, but you have ways of finding it,
like find my iPhone. So there are pros and cons
to everything, But personally, I love the idea of one
less thing to carry around. So I've got electronic door
locks on my house and now I've got my phone
working as a key. I'm just saying theoretically, so I
don't even have to carry keys around anymore. How cool
(08:35):
is that? I love it. That's gonna happen actually in July,
starting with the BMW five series, and it's gonna expand
to other BMW's. And this isn't just Apple, by the way,
and it's not just iPhone. This is going to be
something that happens in the future. There's a big consortium
of all how do you say that word consortium? Consortium?
I don't know. Let's see. Let's see what Google says consortium.
(08:58):
Let's see how to pronounce that consortium. There's a big
consortium of companies and this includes you know, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Volkswagen,
so Samsung. So believe me, Google wasn't on there though.
So but these companies want to make the phone everything
and they will continue on their way of doing that.
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All right, let's get to let's get to the first
question here. Usually producer Megan would chime in here with
the first question, but it's going to be me. You
get all me for this podcast. Let's start with don
Don says, I have a question I guess I should
know the answer to, but I do not, And some
others I've asked don't either. It seems pretty simple. This morning,
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Sam Rubin had a segment that's our entertainment guy at
KTLA on a new movie called irresistible and stated it
as being released on video on demand. Okay, how does
one find VOD? Is it a streaming service? I have
a Samsung Q ninety, top of the line on this stuff,
and the caves and canyons of online streaming is endless.
One friend says, may it's something you get on your
(10:01):
smartphone or iPad and watch it there, not on your
big screen. What's the use of that? This seems like
a catch twenty two. You have to know. But how
by some strange brew of mental osmosis, is this a
paid streamer like Disney or Amazon or something you find
magically somewhere hidden in the canyons of mystery? He liked
that word canyons seems like something I should understand, but
short of geekiness. Thanks Don, It's a good question, and
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I don I get it. I think that this is
it's something that like I would take for granted, but
I would not. I would not automatically assume everyone knows
how to get a movie that's VOD. And this is
new for these video on demand movies that are being
released straight to demand. Video on demand has been around forever,
mostly on cable boxes, but there is a weird delineation
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nowadays that you have sort of picked up upon. And
we've got two things going on right now. You've got
streaming services, which ninety nine point nine percent of the
conversation is about all the time, Netflix, Disney Plus, Quibi
even what are some of the other ones, Hulu, Hbo
and those are services that you pay a monthly fee
(11:12):
for and then you get to watch as much as
you want. It's the all you can eat kind of method,
and that's what most people do. Then you have something else,
which is you can buy a digital copy of a movie.
You can rent a digital copy of a movie, and
examples of this include the iTunes Store, include Google Play Store,
Google Play Movies, I should say, and there's a whole
(11:34):
bunch of other ones. There's Voodoo, there's Microsoft, There's a
whole bunch of ways to buy movies. Now here's where
it gets really confusing. Amazon Prime Video is a way
to get subscription stuff because it's including an Amazon Prime
but it's also has paid movies as well, and so
I think that's where it gets a little complicated. And
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the bottom line for your TV, a Samsung TV, I
believe you'll just have to look for the app on
that TV that actually sells or rents movies, and that
won't be Netflix, that won't be Disney Plus, that will
be something like I'm guessing because it's running Android or
a version of that, maybe something like Google Play Movie Store,
so look for that. Maybe Samsung has their own movie store.
(12:17):
I don't think so. But it gets really complicated because
you have like the Apple TV app on your TV,
perhaps you have a new Samsung, and you can't rent
or buy anything through it. You can only view stuff
through it, So I get it. Don It has become
a little bit confusing, and to be honest, a lot
of people aren't buying movies. They're just watching what's on streaming,
(12:38):
So when these new movies come out, it takes a
little bit of figuring out. We watched the new Trolls
movie on Fandango now, which who knew that that was
sort of a streaming service that you can buy and
rent movies on. But yes you can. So I think
that's a good question. And for me personally, I do
everything in my power to not purchase or rent movies
anymore because there are just so many services that I
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pay for that I would rather watch a movie that
I pay for. That a movie that's streaming on a
service I already pay for. And I know I've mentioned
this before, but two ways to find movies on services
that you're already paying for. The first is an app
called Real Good are e E, L g oo D,
and you pop in all the services that you subscribe to,
(13:23):
and they slice and dice this in a million different ways,
so you can keep a list of the things you
want to see and it will tell you when they're
streaming for free. Or you can browse the newest movies,
the most popular movies, movies in various categories, movies just
added to your services, so if you're all caught up
on everything, you can see sort of what's new. The
other thing I like is a website and it's called
(13:45):
only on Streaming dot Com. Only on Streaming dot Com.
And what's magical about this website is that they give
you all the newest stuff. So I just sit here
and watch the newest or I can see what the
newest items are original streaming content coming to Netflix, Amazon,
Disney Plus, Hulu, CBS DC YouTube, Crackle, Apple TV plus, Facebook,
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and more. So, for instance, I can see on July third,
Hamilton is coming to Disney. Plus, I can see that
Little Voice season one is coming to Apple TV. Plus
I can see that Muppets Now Season one is coming
to Disney. Plus I can see that Let's see what
else is on here, Animaniacs season one is coming to
Hulu on oh in twenty twenty. Okay, some of these
(14:30):
are way far out, but I can see Pete the Cat,
which my kids like, just launched on Amazon Prime Video. Okay,
I told you there'd be a couple of ways. So
one more way is on on Google. You type in
oh gosh, hold on, hold on. I think it's called
what to Watch, And let me just confirm that, yes,
if you search on Google what to watch, they have
(14:54):
their own secret little place where you can find all
the movies on your provider. And I keep a list
in here. It's a little confusing because I keep a
list in Real Good and I also keep a list
on what to watch on Google. I haven't decided which
one I think is better. Real Good is definitely the
more elaborate app. It has many more features. But I
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got to say. Google has the power of Google Search,
so they know exactly what people are searching for at
that very moment and what people are watching, so you
can see all the popular stuff. And again you can
see stuff that's just on your streaming providers or stuff
that's free. You can see TV shows and you can
keep a watch list. So again all you have to
do is search what to watch on Google and do
(15:36):
it from your mobile phone because that's like the easier
way of doing it. So anyway, Wow, good information, good question,
and again find those free movies. That's my recommendation. Moving on, now,
let's talk more about WWDC because there are more features
I want to talk about. Let's move into iPad iPad
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os four ten. The main feature they're bringing there is Scribble,
and I will be honest, I've been testing out a
iPad pro with the Apple keyboard case and I haven't
opened the Apple pencil yet, but it's got one and
also the track pad, and I'll say I love the
big screen and I've been basically just reading the newspaper
on it every day, and you know, that's kind of it.
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And I actually used it as a workout thing the
other day to watch my peloton and use that on
my bike, which was great the big screen. But I
did also do a blog post on the iPad as well,
and I'll tell you it, it's really tricky because I
think it's one of those things where you just have
to get into it and use it. But I am
so used to my computer. That is sort of my world.
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That is how I know how to do everything. I drag,
I drop, I move, I've got my apps that I like,
and so I think you can do a lot of
the same stuff on the iPad and especially the iPad Pro,
but it just takes a lot of getting used to. Now.
With that said, and I always say this on this podcast,
if I was not editing video and I was a
business person that was doing blog posts and social media,
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I would be on the iPad Pro in one second
as my daily driver computer with the keyboard and the pencil,
because you can do so much, and I love the
fact that it's got a touch screen. I find myself
trying to touch my screen on the MacBook Pro and
it's not there, and sometimes I'm like, oh, this would
be so much easier, And then sometimes on the iPad,
I'm using it and I forget that it's a touch screen. Anyway,
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the feature they're bringing is called Scribble to the iPad,
which means you can use the Apple pencil to type
or to write in any text field and it will
convert it to handwriting. And there's been this long dream
of converting handwriting to text. It's not very good in
my opinion, but who knows, maybe this will work. When
it comes to the Apple Watch, and you know, I
love the Apple Watch. It is such a great device.
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A couple things are doing there. You can share watch faces,
which is kind of cool. So I see a lot
of celebrities and influencers and writers sharing kind of the
best setup for a watch face. Let's say you love
hiking and you've got a favorite hiker that you follow
on a blog. He's like, here's he or she is like,
here's my watch face. Go ahead. You can just download
it and there's a click to download, and now you've
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got their watch face with all their setup and everything.
And if you don't have the apps that they have,
it'll direct you to do that. Now. From Apple standpoint
of course, this up sells apps. So if they've got
a complication on there, that's a buck ninety nine. Now
they've just sold that to you. Brilliant sleep tracking. Now
I think Apple is tiptoeing into sleep tracking. I'm not
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sure this is going to beat something like a fitbit
to track your sleep, but it's a step. It's a
first step. It's gonna get you to see just how
much you're sleeping. I'm not sure how rich the data is,
but we'll have to see just how good that is.
But it's kind of nice to have that. It's gonna
make a lot of people try to figure out when
they can charge their Apple Watch because it does not
last for more than pretty much a day, especially if
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you're working out hand washing feature, so this will detect
when you're washing your hands. This is their coronavirus toss
in here, so if you're washing your hands, it will
start a twenty second countdown timer to make sure you
wash for twenty seconds, which I'm guilty of not washing
for that full time every time, but maybe I would
if my watch prompted me to do that. And it's
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kind of interesting how they did this. They're using the
motion sensors in the watch to kind of figure out, Okay,
did he start washing his hands. Yes, Then they tap
on the microphone to listen for the sound of water
running and also the sound of soap being squished between
your fingertips, so a very interesting way to detect hand washing.
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And finally, the activity app in iOS fourteen is going
to be called Fitness. Now they've added four new fitness types,
core training, Dance, functional strength training, and cool down. So
that's pretty nice. And now there's some privacy things as well,
and I love that Apple just continues to hammer down
on privacy. Users can share their approximate location with developers,
(20:01):
which is so nice because on Twitter, I used to
think it was really a good idea to share your
exact location, but guess what, they're collecting way too much
data on exactly where I am. So I would very
much be happy if Twitter just knows that when I'm tweeting,
I'm in Los Angeles, not exactly where I am in
the city or anywhere. Then there's indicator lights now, so
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whenever an app has access to your device's camera or microphone,
there will be a little tiny indicator light on your screen.
On the iOS iOS I should just say iPhone, iPad
and watch. That is a brilliant move because everyone is
so concerned about these apps having secret access, especially Facebook.
Everyone thinks that they're listening to them. Now you'll know
(20:44):
if you see your camera or mic light up. Okay, yeah,
that app is listening, and this will keep bad developers
out of the store as well, or malicious developers or
malicious apps, whatever you want to call it, but bad stuff. Now,
with that said, there's another feature which shows when an
app spies on your clipboard. And it's already getting a
(21:05):
lot of publicity because a bunch of apps look at
what you copy and paste on your iPhone. Surprise, surprise.
If you've ever wondered why when you send a text
to someone you get an ad for that exact thing
ten minutes later in your Instagram or Facebook feed, Well,
guess what, now we have a little idea why. So
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a lot of users have been posting videos of screencaps
because they've installed the developer version of iOS fourteen, And
when you open up an app, it says at the
top of the screen app whatever the app name, just
access to your clipboard. WHOA wait? What? So this is
again built into iOS fourteen so that you have the
power as an individual to say, hmm, I just open
(21:47):
up a weather app. Why does it need access? Why
is it taking a look at my clipboard? Now there
are some benefits to this, so Let's let me give
you one example. Let's say you have Apple or Google Maps,
and Google google Maps looks at the clipboard to see
if you copied and paste copied an address, and if
you did, if you ever noticed, when you go to
(22:08):
search on Google Maps on iOS, it'll say, do you
want to search for the clipboard the address you just copied?
So I get it. There are valid reasons for this behavior,
but it's nice now that it's out in the open
that it will definitely catch some bad actors for sure.
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Let's get to the next question here in the show,
and Steve says, good morning, rich. My wife is a
makeup artist, but she has about twenty five thousand pictures
on her iPhone and it's already reaching Your iPhone could
not back up due to limited storage. Our next option
is getting the one terabyte for nine to ninety nine
a month. Isn't there a better option? And my answer
(22:49):
to this is, before you pay that ten bucks a month,
you might want to check a few things. So number one,
iPhone and Apple are notorious for gobbling up your iCloud
storage and with stuff that is unnecessary. So the first
thing before you pay for this extra storage, what I
want you to do is check the iCloud backups for
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older backups that you might not need anymore. What happens
when you update or upgrade your iPhone or an iPad
or an Apple Watch or anything, iCloud keeps that old
backup of that device, even after you've started using your
new device and backing that one up. So let's say
your old phone was twenty five gigs backed up, and
then your new phone has twenty five gigs on it
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because you moved everything over. Well, now you're taking up
double the storage in iCloud because you never deleted that
old phone out of iCloud and you don't need it
in there because guess what the data is on your
new phone and it's backed up into iCloud, so you
can delete that old backup. So the number one thing
to do is look for old backups you don't need anymore.
So that means you got to go into settings Apple ID,
(23:50):
which is right at the top. It has your little
picture iCloud, then manage storage and backups. Yeah, they don't
make this easy to find, and then look for old
devices that you're not using. If it says this phone,
that means it's your phone. That you're using. If there's
any other old phones in there from years past, you
can go ahead and safely delete those as long as
you know that that data has been moved to a
(24:13):
new device. Make sure you do that. Don't just delete
stuff without thinking, because you could get rid of something important. Now,
if you're using iCloud for photos, you need to do
another thing because if you're running out of storage on
your phone, which this sounded like it was an iCloud thing,
not an iPhone thing, you still want to check this
option to make sure that you're optimizing the storage on
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your iPhone as well, because a lot of people buy
extra storage on iCloud not realizing that it doesn't really
have to do with their iPhone. So you want to
go into settings Apple id iCloud then Photos and there's
a toggle says that says optimized optimize Phone Storage. And
what this does is it will look at how much
space is on your phone and it will make sure
(24:56):
you don't run out with all your pictures taking up
space on your phone. So what it does is, if
you're using iCloud, let's say you've got, you know, a
sixty four gigabyte iPhone and you've got fifty gigs of
pictures and you're getting close to that sixty four gigabyte
limit on your iPhone. Well, Apple is smart enough to say, well,
they've got one hundred gigs out here in iCloud. Let's
(25:19):
offload some of these pictures from the iPhone. Let's offload
fifteen gigs. But we'll keep little thumbnails on the iPhone,
so if you ever need to scroll through your photo library,
you'll still see those, and when you tap one, we'll
just download that photo on demand from the cloud instantly.
So it seems like everything's on your phone, but in reality,
it's been offloaded to the cloud. Google Photos works in
very much the same way. It's a little bit different
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on the iPhone, but yes, that's kind of how Google
Photos works is you can have Google Photos on your phone.
It will delete the originals from your phone and it
will keep them in your library. So when you're searching
on Google Photos, seems like everything's there. It's just really
in the cloud. So those are my two recommendations. I
would recommend the Google Photo but if you're already using
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iCloud and backing up your photos there, Steve, I think
that just stick with what she got but that's my recommendation,
and hopefully you're not paying for storage that you don't
really need. Wise Cam has done it again. Wise Cam
is the company that you probably know. They make a
twenty dollars security camera that many many people did not
(26:23):
believe me when I first presented this on TV back
in twenty seventeen. They said, what, there's no way that
a security camera can be twenty dollars. And here's the thing,
I actually take the time to test this stuff before
I just talk about it. Now. I get it. If
something is announced like this camera that I have not tested,
(26:43):
I will talk about it without having tested it. But
most of the time, if I'm doing a story on
TV about a product, I have done my research. I
have figured out who are the people behind this company?
How is this so cheap? What are they doing? Is it,
you know, sending data to China like everyone accused it
of doing. No, it was just a bunch of smart
Amazon people who saw what Amazon was doing. I mean,
(27:04):
look at them. They came out with a thirty five
dollars streaming stick. Google came out with a Chrome cast
device that was dirt cheap and let you stream stuff
to your TV for the first time, cheaper than any
other method in the history of mankind. So yes, these
companies figure stuff out and they cut things out of
the system that you may not need in a more
(27:26):
expensive system. Apple TV is two hundred dollars. Do you
need all the features in there? Probably not, but you're
getting something that's in the Apple ecosystem. Chrome cast dirt cheap.
A lot of people love it. Didn't believe when I
talked about that either. So again, these companies do this,
and the Wyscam outdoor is now just forty dollars. Now
before you, let me give you some details on this.
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So this is a wireless outdoor security camera. It records
in full HD ten ADP. It is IP sixty five
weather resistant, which is not the highest, but it will
be just fine. I got a question of about the
temperature rating, and it operates from negative four degrees to
one hundred and twenty degrees, so pretty much. Maybe some
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places in America might be outside of that range, but
that's gonna cover a lot of people. And for this
price forty bucks, you probably set it up and see
if it works, I mean, if it's not gonna work,
if it if it bottoms out, well, you're only out
a couple bucks. The device is fifty dollars for a
starter kit because this does require a base station, and
the base station to me, it looks like it has
(28:29):
to plug in via Ethernet, so there are some caveats
to this little setup. But with that said, you can
hook up to four cameras to a base station. So
if you want to put a wireless camera on all
four corners of your home, you can now do this
for under four times three is one twenty plus fifty
one hundred and seventy dollars. And by the way, the
(28:52):
monthly service is free. So the way they do that,
which nobody believed me by the way, when this first
came out, is they give you fourteen days of rolling
cloud storage. So what does that mean. That means that
this thing is not live streaming to the cloud twenty
four to seven. It just isn't going to be able
to do that on a battery. But when it senses
motion or people, this has a people detection. When it
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senses a person walking by or motion, you can set
how you want it to react. It will record a
clip and then it will send that clip to the cloud.
That clip is saved for fourteen days and it's rolling,
so that clip is deleted after fourteen days. Now, can
you buy extra storage in the cloud, I'm sure you can.
Can you have local storage on this Yes, you can,
up to thirty two gigabytes. You can put in a
(29:38):
micro SD card. But again, and the battery is gonna
last three to six months? Now, I always think it's
probably gonna last closer that three months. Six is probably
if nobody's walking in front of this thing. But I
would say three months. So you are gonna have to
get up on a ladder, depending on how you mount
this thing, pop it off there it's magnetic, and charge
it up every couple of months. I do that with
my ring doorbell. It's fine, I do it. I actually
(30:00):
have two batteries for it, so I just keep one
charging and then when I have to pop it out,
which I can never remember how to take the front
off of the ring doorbell for some reason. But anyway,
I pop it out and I put the new one in,
and it's just fine. And of course the battery doesn't
last as long as it used to. When ring first
came out, it was almost as if you could have
that battery in there forever and it would just work.
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But now they've added a lot of new features to
the ring video doorbell, and the battery gets used up
much quicker than it ever has in the past. So
the wise outdoor cam. What else do you want to
know about it? Let's see, it's small, it looks like
the old camera, the standard one. It's got one hundred
and twenty eight megabytes on board memory. The battery is
(30:42):
there's two batteries inside, twenty six millionmp hours, two of those,
so there's you know, so that's for fifty two hundred
million hours. It's kind of like a cell phone, a
little bit bigger than cell phones are limited to five
thousand million hours, so it's a little bit bigger resolution,
night vision up to twenty five feet, let's see eight
times digital zoom. It's got Ethernet. Oh, the base station, yes,
(31:05):
has Ethernet on board and wireless, so maybe I don't know.
I think from what I could tell, it looked like
you had to put the Ethernet into the base station,
so that could be a catch for a lot of people,
but you'll figure it out. There's also this weird offline
travel mode, so you can take this with you and
put it, they say, in your hotel room, which I
(31:27):
guess if you want to keep an eye on, like
who's cleaning your room while you're not there? That's kind
of weird. And then you can also do time lapses
of says bring it on vacation, or take time lapses
of your campsite while sleeping under the stars. That's also
kind of strange. But I guess, you know, if you're
expecting a bear to interrupt you at your camp sence.
I don't know, but that's the wisecam and I would
(31:47):
definitely I can't wait to test this thing out because
for forty dollars or fifty dollars, that is a fantastic
value when it comes to home security. There are other
cameras that are pretty cheap. The Blink cameras from Amazon
are pretty cheap, so are the Ring cameras. But you're
still talking with the Ring at least you know. I
saw I think it was a three pack for two
point fifty for their stick up cam that's wireless outside,
(32:08):
so this is still significantly cheaper. Babs writes in Hey, Rich,
can you please explain why iPhone users were not given
the option to accept or reject or made aware of
the COVID tracker now under health that came with the
latest iOS update. You need an app for it to
actually work, but shouldn't have Apple asked permission. Plus they
(32:30):
don't let you know what the corresponding app is. Hmmm.
I have gotten so many questions about this, And whenever
I get a lot of questions about something, I know
that it is making the rounds on social media, and
usually what happens on social media, only one portion of
the story is being given out. So people put a
(32:51):
and some people send me the screenshot so I see
them and it'll be like this has been installed on
your phone secretly by the government. What to? How dare they?
And there's a story behind everything. And again this is
me coming out as a journalist saying I've done my
research on this. I've talked to Apple about this, We've
(33:12):
heard from Google about this. This is a joint effort
and here's the real deal. Yes, with the latest operating
systems on Android and iOS, they introduced what's called contact tracing,
and this is Apple and Google's hope or I guess,
attempt at helping stem the pandemic. And what they did
(33:32):
was they came up with a system that does not
use location. That's number one. It does not use personally
identifiable information about you. In fact, all it does is
send out a Bluetooth beacon from your phone and from
everyone else's phones. And when you walk past a phone,
or you spend a certain amount of time with someone
in a room at a certain distance from them, and
again it's not using location. It's using Bluetooth low energy,
(33:55):
which measures the distance between you and the other person.
It will record that person's number, and then if that
person says, oh, shoot, I got coronavirus, they will flag
their number in the database, and your phone says, oh,
I have that number of my database, and it will
tell you that, hey, someone who came in contact with
has coronavirus. It doesn't give you their name, doesn't tell
you when. Maybe it tells you the time and the date,
(34:17):
but it does not tell you. It does not tell
you the location. Now, with all that said, it's not
secretly tracking you. In fact, in the US, at least,
there really are no apps that take advantage of this.
There's three states that have signed on and that's about it.
And I believe it's like North Dakota, South Dakota and
maybe Alabama or something, but again not California, where a
(34:40):
majority of my listenership is from. California did not sign
on to this. They don't have a COVID tracing app
as far as I know right now, the WHO does
not have one, the CDC does not have one. There's
no nationwide app. So the reason why BABS is saying
you need an app but they're not telling you what
the corresponding app is is because there really aren't any
now now. I do think in the future, if companies
(35:03):
decide to build an app or organizations decide to build
an app that takes advantage of this system, which I'm
not sure if this is effective or not. I think
it would be if people used it, but it's opt
in and so nobody has to use it. So again,
I would think that Apple would put the list of
apps inside that little area so that you can see
which apps would activate this feature. I don't think they're
(35:24):
doing that just yet. But if you want to see
this feature on your phone, yes it's there and no,
it's not active for ninety nine point nine percent of you.
You can go into your settings on the iPhone. Let's
see under oh, gosh, is it privacy? And then let's
see health and then COVID nineteen exposure logging and it
should say off and it says no installed app. And
(35:48):
there's not even a place to find apps right now.
I assume they should have some links to apps in
the future. But that's the explanation. On Android, it's in
different places, but I have gotten some screenshots from folks
on Android. I will do a story on this on
TV so I can explain this to people. And here's
the world we live in now, with all the fake
news and this stuff. I am a journalist that does
(36:10):
do research and I do try to present stuff on
TV that is factual. I mean, for twenty years now,
that has been my goal is to not to lie
to people on TV. I'm trying to do my best
at that and I have. But it is so crazy,
which this is a change that is not you know,
it's pretty new that people don't believe the stuff that
(36:32):
I even post to my social media. And it used
to be if you saw a journalists post something, you
would believe it. But I get it. There are so
many opinions out there that are masquerading as fact. There
are so many people out there that just talk and
put stuff out there without any sort of basis to
whether it's true or false. That I get why you
(36:52):
might not believe me And you don't know who I
am if you're just scrolling through and someone shared one
of my posts on your page, And are you going
to go through the effort of looking up who I
am and verifying that I'm actually on TV because I
say I am, and verifying that I know what I'm
talking about. No, And so I get it. But it's
we live in a very tricky time right now for information.
(37:13):
And with that said, let me tell you one thing
that Facebook is doing. You hear them all my papers here,
I've got so much stuff. Let's see, do I have
it here? No? I don't, Okay, Well, I know that
Facebook is doing something where oh here it is. Facebook
is rolling out a new Facebook. You know, they got
(37:33):
drugged through the mud when it came to the twenty
sixteen election, and you know, Facebook is making sure they're
doing everything in their power to not be blamed for
anything when it comes to fake news and all this
stuff in the future. And so they just keep making
these changes and one of them is now they are
rolling out a notification screen. So if you try to
share an article that's more than ninety days old, they'll say, WHOA,
(37:57):
hold on, hold on, are you sure you want to
share that? That article is more than ninety days old?
And so you can decide if you want to share
that or not to make sure that people are sharing
relevant new information. And it's just again, it's just a
sign of our times where it's tough. All right, I
do have a lot more to go through here and
shows almost over. I can't believe it. Google, this is
(38:21):
a new one. Google is privacy. Privacy is big. Google
is introducing new controls that they are well, they're introducing
a new protocol for saving your data. So they are
now going to save data but for eighteen months by default.
And data. This is not your Gmail, This is not
your photos, not your calendar. This is your location data,
(38:42):
your search history, your voice data, and your YouTube activity data.
So by default, when you open up a Google account,
they will just keep that information for eighteen months. And again,
you know that Google relies on this data to help
personalize the service, to help sell you stuff, to help
you create ads, whatever, to help just market to you.
They want to know as much about you as possible,
(39:05):
and of course as a consumer, you want them. You
want to ride this line of I want when I
start searching for something in Google Maps for them to
know the restaurant that I just searched for yesterday, because
then it'll come up quicker, or the place I search
for that I want to go on vacation because then
they can target you know, vacation ads to me, or
you know, more information about the place I'm going to.
(39:26):
But at the same time, I don't want them to
retain this stuff forever. So now it will be deleted
after eighteen months. But here is the catch. This is
only for new Google accounts. And guess what, over a
billion people have Google accounts, So if you're one of
those billion people, you have to go in and change
this manually. Now I did a step by step on
my Instagram at richontech on how to do that. It's
(39:48):
quite easy. In fact, all you have to do is
go to myactivity dot Google dot com. You tap the menu,
you go to activity controls and there's an option for
auto delete right now on my it says off. You
tap it and it says auto delete activity older than
three months, Auto delete activity older than eighteen months, or
you can just leave it on off. I would recommend
(40:11):
three months if you're really worried about your privacy, eighteen
months if you're like me and you actually value some
of the personalizations that Google has. I've actually kept this
on indefinitely for right now because it's like, it's sad
for me to like give up all my Google Search
history because even when you look through it, you can see, like,
you know, like I can go back and see the
(40:33):
voice commands I said to Google when I first had
my kid, and you know, back in the day a
couple of years ago. I mean, how crazy is that?
So it's weird, I know. But again, it's good to
have this choice, and it's good that they're actually going
to turn this on by default for new accounts, so
again I'll put the link to how to do that.
(40:53):
For YouTube, it's still going to remain thirty six months
by default, and that makes sense because on YouTube, they're
trying to give you recommended videos, and the more information
they have about what you're watching, the better recommendations you get.
And they're also making it easier to access incognito mode.
So from now on, when you see your little Google
logo or your profile picture on a Google app on
(41:15):
iOS and Android, you can just long press that picture
and it will bring you into incognito mode. This will
work on Google App, maps, and YouTube now. Right now
it's only active on iOS for the Google app, but
it will be across all the the maps, the YouTube,
and the Google App on iOS and Android in the
near future. All right, let's see one more question. Uh Jackie, Gosh,
(41:46):
she'se are all iPhone? So many people have iPhone questions?
There always iPhone? All right, let's do this one from Jennifer.
She says, I lost my iPhone over the weekend. It
turns out someone found it and returned it. Anyway, I
bought another phone, changed my plan, even got a five
dollars iPad out of the deal. Okay, that's cool, but
of course you're going to be paying the data on that.
(42:07):
I bet sort of too late to go back. But
what should I do with my old phone? Other than
a tiny chip in the top right corner it works perfectly.
Should I fix the screen and sell it? Or forget
fixing the screen and just try to sell it? Where
would you sell it? Well, you've got a couple options. Yeah,
you're definitely not going to go back. You probably don't
want to return the new phone by now. I assume
you also upgraded your phone. But I would do two things.
(42:31):
Number One, if you don't care about the money, you
can keep this as a backup phone. So if something
ever happens to your new iPhone, you've got a backup device,
and that is not a bad thing to have just
sitting around the house. You can always use a different
an old iPhone for something, even if it's like a
music player or a remote control whatever. Now, if you'd
like to just rid this thing of your life, you
(42:52):
do have to erase all your data from it. Make
sure you do that now. The way that I have
sold old iPhones in the past, if I'm not keeping them,
is to friends and family because it's so easy. You
don't have to deal with eBay, you don't have to
deal with a third party website. Someone out there on
your social networks needs a new phone. Now, I don't
know how old this phone is, so but you never know.
(43:13):
There's a lot of people out there, and in my
history I have posted I can remember at least twice
where boom. People buy these things in seconds and the
good news is you're selling it to a friend, so
it's easier. You can just give it to them, or
I should say get it to them because you can
you can make money off the deal, or I should
say you should there should be a transaction unless you're
(43:34):
giving it to them. I've given phones to friends and
family as well. But just make a post on Facebook
or Instagram and say, hey, I've got my old phone.
Hey it's the screen is chipped, if you want to
do it that way, or you can get the screen
fixed if you want to be really nice and get
a little bit more money for it. But you have
to kind of take everything into consideration, see how much
it is to get this thing repaired, and factor all
(43:55):
that in. Also to get kind of an idea of
the price you should charge for this phone. I would
just go on a site like Swapa or eBay and
see what people are charging for that phone, whether it's
cracked or not cracked. And then if it's friends and family,
you're not gonna charge the same amount because the reason
you're selling to friends and family, Let's say you probably
want to take ten percent off the price because by
the time you give eBay their cut and ship it out,
(44:18):
you know, you're talking ten to twenty percent of the
price of the purchase price, and you know, collect the payment,
so you can offer this to your friends at a
discount at a lower price than they would purchase it
from eBay four. So that would be my advice, you know,
And if you need to get it fixed, actually, Swapa
has a new repair section of their website where you
(44:39):
can find a repair place that has a thirty day guarantee.
So you can go to swapa dot com slash repair,
or you can check out a U break I Fix,
I like that place there in a lot of areas,
and that's another way you can do it. All right,
show is almost is pretty much over, so I'm just
gonna get through two more stories real quick, just so
you guys are up to date. Microsoft Store is closing sadly,
(45:03):
all physical locations or a majority of physical locations of
the Microsoft Store are closing, and they paint a Rosie
picture for the retail team members that work there. So
I don't know if they're losing their jobs or they're
going to move on to different positions in the company,
but they say they're kind of going to go to
corporate facilities or continue to serve customers remotely, providing sales,
(45:24):
training and support. So I guess Microsoft decided they don't
really need these stores. And if you ever went to
a mall where there's a Microsoft store and an Apple store,
it's kind of sad because the Apple store would be
packed and the Microsoft store would be empty, and it's
just I don't know, you know, And it's probably because
ninety nine percent of the people in the Apple store
(45:45):
there for an iPhone, and then they see an iPad,
and then they see maccomputer and then they see all
these other things and they just get it. Whereas with Microsoft,
most people have a Microsoft computer and that's about it.
They don't need to go in for repairs and questions
and things all the time, so they just Microsoft just
has a different business. So they are going to keep
(46:06):
Microsoft Experience centers in London, New York, Sydney, and on
their campus in Redmond, Washington, but that's it. And the
stores have been closed since late March, which means it's
kind of sad that they're just not going to reopen,
which is really really crazy. So that's sad. And on
a final note, Google nest Hub Max, I don't know
how many of you have one of these, but if
(46:28):
you do, they've added some pretty cool features. You can
now do group calling, which is really cool. So you
can say, h, Google, make a group call, and you
have to set up your groups in duo on the
app first before you do this on the screen, But
once you do, you can meet with those people on
duo and Duo is up to thirty two people. But
if you really want to take it to the next level,
(46:49):
you can connect with up to one hundred people on
Google Meet right from this little nest Hub Max. And
if you're not familiar with the Nest Hub Max, this
is their smart display that's also smart speaker, but it
also has a camera inside and the screen is a
little bit bigger, and this is really really cool. You
can also have a speed dial for your contact so
you can call them from this thing. But here's my
(47:10):
favorite part is that you can use Google Meet to
start your meeting and you can just say h Google,
start a meeting to connect with up to one hundred
people on Google Meet. Or you can say join a meeting,
or you can say join my next meeting if your
meeting is in your calendar, and it will just automatically
do that. Now, why do I think that's so cool
is because let's say you had one of these things
on your desk, it now frees up your computer because
(47:33):
you can type on your computer and do all that stuff.
But you're joining your meeting, your group meeting from the
nest hub Max. I'm saying all this with the reality
that nobody's using Google Meet except people that are forced to,
perhaps from their organization, and ninety nine point nine percent
of people are actually just using Zoom. So I wish
that Google would have enabled Zoom functionality on there because
(47:56):
it would have been a game changer and people probably
would have bought these things for that. But again, there
are two competing companies, and everything we have nowadays with
technology has to live in a silo by some unspoken rules.
So sadly we're all being pushed to silos, and I
don't see a day where nest hub Max is going
to work with Zoom. So sadly, all right, that's gonna
(48:18):
do it for this episode of the show. Can you
believe it's over? I've got some housekeeping. I was on
Brian Tong's Apple Bits XL podcast, So if you know
Brian Tong, him and I used to work at c
neet together and he went off on his own became
very successful as a YouTuber. I couldn't believe. I just
checked his Twitter and wow, he's got a lot of
(48:39):
Twitter followers. He's got hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers,
so he is killing it on his own. Good job,
Brian Tong. Check out his podcast called Apple Bits XL.
I'm on the latest show talking about WWDC and all
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