Compute This 12-7-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Shrock Innovations presents the midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln, Omaha, Papillion, Des Moines
and across the country via the Shrock desk.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is compute this. Good morning, folks, welcome in to
compute this. My name's Thor schrock On, the owner of
the Shrock Innovations computer company. If you'd like to join
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You can also reach us at eight eight eight two
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dot com slash Shrock Innovations where we are broadcasting live
right now. Background's a little different. It's not a tech failure.
I'm just going to own it. The failure this morning
was Thor forgot his backpack when he walked out the door.

(00:56):
Less sleep equals forgotten bag. Should have put the bag
in the car. I don't like to put my bag
in the car when it's cold outside because the cold
is not good for batteries.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
No, it never is.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, So the lithium batteries really suffering the cold. So
I didn't want to do that, so I didn't And
now as a result, I don't have my I don't
have my bag, so I'm using the phone camera. So
if you're watching on Facebook, I'm gonna do my best
to give you a great Facebook experience. However, one thing
that is cool about when it's set up this way
is you actually get to hear what happens in the

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studio during the commercial breaks, and sometimes there's some funny stuff.
We have all kinds of conversations in here during the
commercial breaks, so sometimes it's funny stuff. So we be
aware build that day we are going to be live
during commercial breaks.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
I will be on my best behavior. We'll try not
to talk about that stable coins and all sorts of.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Things, none of your normal shenanigans. All right, all right,
So guys, I got a pretty serious, a pretty serious
show today for you. If you missed last week's show,
of course, you can go to Facebook dot com slash
Rock Innovations watch it there. You can pick it up
on YouTube wherever you pick up your podcast. Last week
we did introduce the concept about memory prices. Computer memory

(02:03):
prices specifically going parabolic, in some cases five hundred percent
higher in the last thirty days. You're not seeing this
in the retail market yet, but you're gonna see it
really soon, and it's way worse than I thought even
I'm gonna get into that on the show today, we
also warned you about Black Friday deals that were too
good to be true, things you should avoid in the
Black Friday technology realm. And we also asked the depressing

(02:26):
question when you're at the grocery store and you're asked
to round up for charity X, do you round up
or do you say no? Automatically? I thought it was
kind of funny it happened to me and I just
automatically say no, because you know, if I want to
give to a charity, I'll give you a charity. I'm
not gonna let the grocery store pick the charity for me.
And you know, they said, would you like to round
up two cents to feed hungry children, you know, in

(02:48):
the community or something, and they're like no, And then
I realized how ridiculous that sounded, Like, no, I'm not
gonna give two pennies to feed those hungry brats. Bah humbug.
You know, no call for you, you know, uh no,
no no. And then I was like, fine, yeah, rounded
up the two cents. Go ahead and round it up.
You know, I'm gonna be generous this year. Put that.
I gave it the office, thank you, I gave it

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the grocery store. I put two cents in the till.
All right, So for zero, two, five, five, eight to
eleven ten, I'm gonna get right to it because there's
a lot to cover today, guys. Last week we introduced
what's going on with the memory market, and of course,
who cares if you're not shopping for a computer right now?
Who cares? If you're not in the going to be
shopping for a computer in the next twelve months? Who cares?

(03:32):
So what is happening? As a recap in case you
missed the show last week, companies are switching production from
consumer grade memory memory intended for computers, PCs and other
consumer electronics devices, and creating memory for AI chips and
AI devices instead. It's a different kind of memory. It
goes onto graphics cards and things like that. It's the

(03:54):
v RAM instead of the d RAM, and so d
RAM is like your your DDR five memory that goes
in your or in your cell phone or in your tablet.
The VRAM is the bremer that goes on your Nvidio
graphics card specifically. So these companies they can make either one,
and the demand right now is astronomical for v RAM.
Every everybody wants more Nvidia chips, and Nvidia chips are

(04:17):
sold on GPUs. GPUs need VRAM to work. When you
buy a graphics card and it says it comes with
twelve gigs a RAM or sixteen gigs a RAM, that's
what we're talking about, that memory. Those chips are built
into the board. So the profitability of AI memory is
off the charts right now. Whereas consumer memory, it's profitable,

(04:38):
but it's nowhere near as profitable as AI memory, and
there is no end in sight for this. Graphics cards
are sold out for years to come. You literally can't
get them if you want to put in an order
for them, and video requires you to take delivery of
your existing order and then deploy it before you can

(04:59):
even play another order. So it's not like you can
anticipate we'll be ready to roll with a new order
in two years. We'll put in our order now and
get a chain going, you have to deploy everything, then
you can put in your next order and Nvidia checks.
So that's the demand is just insane and it's not
gonna go away. The estimates are that we're going to
continue to see upward pressure on memory prices through twenty

(05:23):
twenty seven, So all of next year the prices are
going to continue to go up and into twenty twenty
seven before they might start to come down. Now, the
only thing that's gonna make the memory prices come down
is an increased production. So I beg to ask you
the question if companies like Micron, for example, who last
week announced not only were they ending their consumer memory

(05:45):
division entirely the Crucial if you ever bought Crucial memory
or Crucial storage, they're all gone. They not only did
they just decide they're gonna stop making that consumer grade
stuff so they can make more AI stuff, they laid
off the entire team of people that runs the Crucial division.
They found apparently it was not very crucial to their operations,

(06:06):
and so they got rid of them all. They fired
them all while they still defended the product. There was
an amazing product. It's good stuff, but we're just not
going to make it right now because a reorientation of
our priorities or whatever. You know, Micron is the only
US based chip manufacturer that makes memory chips and storage chips.
They're gone. They are literally gone. So do not buy

(06:27):
Micron stuff if you can help it, because the company
that warranties it, it's not making it anymore. It's gone
forever on toos the list they decide to bring it back,
which is the only reason I can say. They're maybe
praising the product so they can kill it, so that
maybe they can bring it back someday, because you know,
the AI boom isn't going to last forever. Eventually there's
going to be enough AI stuff and then people are

(06:49):
going to start making consumer stuff again. But we need
more production or a lower demand on the AI side.
Both of those things take a long time. It's way
worse than we thought. Way worse. Only is memory. I
started to think about this and I'm like, well, what
other things if memory is going up like this, what
other areas that could impact shock and impact you indirectly

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through shrock would be touched by the same concern. And
it turns out I thought, you know, there's a lot
of storage for AI like actual not just memory, but
actual storage. I wonder if nanded chips the storage chips
on solid state drives are impacted in the same way.
So we went ahead and did a deep dive on that.
I used my GPT to help me out a little

(07:31):
bit to do some analysis on this, and it turns
out that I am absolutely one hundred percent correct. The
prices of nand memory chips have gone up by almost
sixty percent in the last six months. Now. Granted, nand
memory was pretty cheap, so a sixty percent increase means,
you know, the price of your solid state drive went
for a one to twenty for example, went from sixteen

(07:53):
dollars to twenty dollars or something like that. It was
it wasn't like, you know, show stopping right, a four
terabyte hard drive went from like couple hundred bucks to
two hundred and twenty or two hundred and thirty. It's not.
With all the tariff news and everything else, you would
be forgiven if you thought if you missed the price increase.
But here's the bad thing. The bad news. Not only

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is demand for NAND chips going to increase further, going
all the way through twenty twenty seven the price for
actual old school hard disk drives, you know, mechanical, you
know those hard drives, spinning discs with arms and everything.
They are sold out right now. So data centers use

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those drives for long term storage because they're a cheaper
storage solution, so they can't keep them in stock either.
So what you're seeing is even legacy tech like hard
disk drives sold out because of memory nand chips are
also becoming more and more rare, even as larger and
larger drives come online, like eight terabyte drives that require
way more chips to do. But those are big enough

(08:57):
and fast enough and low power enough that data centers
want those two. So what you're going to see is
a doubling or a tripling in storage prices as well.
So then I said, okay, let's zoom out a little
bit on this and say, I know this is really
bad news for computer manufacturers. That's bad news for shock.
How are we supposed to not raise prices under this circumstance?

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So if we zoom out a bit, the thought occurred
to me, what products specifically are going to be impacted
by this? So here's the thing. Number one, What you're
going to see is The thing that Shock does is
we buy units for specifically as US units that are
manufactured in Mexico and Taiwan and in the southern United

(09:39):
States to some extent, not very much, but more so
since Trump put tariffs on everything, so they can make
the point that they make them in America too. We
purchase those chassis that come with storage in the chassis.
They come with a hard drive, a solid state drive,
and they come with a stick of memory in there.
The memory is low grade memory. It's not great. The

(09:59):
hard is like a Gen two. Sometimes sometimes it's not
even an NVMe for those of you in the tech industry.
Sometimes it's an m DOT two SATA drive. They are slow.
They're slow tech. That's why when you buy an Asus
Vivo book at the Mart, for example, you're getting a
computer and you're saying, why is this computer costs one
hundred dollars more at Shrock costs one hundred dollars more.

(10:20):
Because we took all the garbage out, We took the
garbage memory out of it, we took the garbage drive
out of it. We actually replaced it with a drive
that can max out what the motherboard can do and
That's why Schrock's versions of these Vivo books boot faster,
run faster, last longer because they're built with better quality components.
That's because we can remove the components and replace them
with new ones. If companies like Micron abandon consumer products

(10:45):
so you can't buy the products to put them on
the board, the manufacturers of motherboards are not just gonna
sit by and say, well, shucks, I guess we're going
to sell fewer motherboards because people can't afford to buy memory.
If you want to put a computer into service, if
you're going to build your own computer, for example, you
have to buy a motherboard. And when you buy a motherboard,
you have to buy memory to work on the motherboard.
And because most people who buy motherboards are buying new technology,

(11:08):
the memory from your old computer doesn't work in the
new computer. That's why the memory from your recycles, for example,
isn't worth anything, but new memory is worth. A sixteen
gigabyte stick of DDR five laptop memory is currently selling
retail for one hundred and thirty dollars. That's what I
pay for it, or so not retail wholesale is one
hundred and thirty dollars. I have a tray that we

(11:32):
ordered too much. I have a tray of fifty sticks
of this sixteen gig DDR five memory that we paid
thirty nine dollars for when originally and now we're looking
at this like it's a tray of gold. How long
do we hold onto it? Do we sell it? Do
we just hang on to it and use it and
builds and you know, help it to help avoid pricing
increases for another few months. You know, what do we

(11:52):
do here? What's going to happen is manufacturers are going
to start putting those memory chips directly on the motherboards.
The motherboard manufacturer are going to take away the memory
slot to expand the memory because no one's going to
want to spend the money on the memory, and they're
going to instead put the chips directly on their motherboards,
which will cause the cost of motherboards to increase. But

(12:12):
you won't have to buy a stick of memory, which
means for those of you who are upgrading just your
motherboard or replacing just your motherboard, you're gonna have fewer
memory slots, which means lower upgradeability. And if you want
the memory slots, you're going to have to pay a
lot more for the motherboard and then buy the more
expensive memory. So whether you're buying if you're buying a
low end device like a Black Friday special, the price

(12:34):
of those are going to go way up percentage wise,
because if a computer is three hundred and four hundred,
the average laptop Guys nationwide sells for eight hundred and
nineteen dollars right now. That's the average price people spend
on a brand new laptop. Some spend less, some spend more.
Eight nineteen is the sweet spot where they're smack in
the middle. That's the median. So if that goes up

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to nine hundred dollars median to do that, all of
your price is below it. All your smaller prices, they're
going to have to go up quite a bit because
the expensive computers, there's a ceiling. People won't spend more
than X amount of dollars. That's why we price the
Gallant at nine ninety nine. We should have raised that.
We should have raised that a year ago to eleven
hundred dollars, but there's a there's a psychological barrier when

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you cross that thousand dollars threshold, So we leave it
at nine to ninety nine. So the expensive computers can't
go up, which means the inexpensive computers have to go
up by a lot. So your low end devices are
going to go up by a lot. And this is
going to impact everything. This is going to impact cell phones, tablets,
all the consumer grade electronics that you're using to do

(13:39):
computing work. Right, next question, logical leap for thor. Here
this is my COVID breath. I'm switching into COVID mode here, guys.
We're talking shortages. We're talking massive price increases. We're talking
you not being able to get what you want to buy,
regardless of how much money you have to spend on it.
Remember that from COVID government giving your fat checks. You

(14:00):
want to go spend it somewhere, and all you can
do is buy bitcoin because everybody's out of everything, and
toilet paper is really expensive for some reason. And I
already have enough toilet paper. I got a closet full
of bit. We're good there. And not that Amazon basic stuff.
We're talking Sharman good, the good stuff, you know, the stuff,
the stuff you can squeeze and it bounces back, you know, Yeah,
not that Amazon basic stuff. Where have you have you
tried to use Amazon Basics. One time, we bought Amazon

(14:23):
Basics tissues like for sneezing, you know, and like you
sneeze into the tissue and you blow a hole through it,
you may as well just sneeze in your hand and
wipe it on your jeans, because that's what it's worth.
So my wife is like, from now on, thou shalt
buy Kleenex brand anti viral Kleenex, no more, no more
Amazon Basics. And uh, you know, our employees don't get
sick anymore. It's amazing funny how that works. Yeah, funny.

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So the thought occurs to me, let's zoom out on
this and say, what other kinds of devices are going
to see price increases besides computers, Because obviously I can
sit here and do a whole show on why you
need to buy a computer right TF now, because you're
gonna spend a lot more money. We're talking one hundred
dollars more plus to buy it next year. We've already

(15:11):
eaten about one hundred dollars per unit in cost increases. Guys,
I can't eat another hundred. The prices are gonna go up.
The prices have gone up to the point where Amazon,
the Best Buy, and the Mart will not allow AI
agents to automatically skim the prices on their websites, so
you can do price comparisons, just the prices they tell
the The AI bot can't look at prices. They can

(15:34):
look at all the inventory, they can tell you to
go shop there to buy a specific unit, but they
cannot look at the prices, either current or historical, because
the prices have gone up. What else is gonna go up?
We already talked about smartphones and tablets. Here's the short
list of things that are gonna go up and cost cars,
especially self driving systems, navigation systems, digital cameras, which are

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making a comeback. By the way, that's a hot gift
idea this year is the digital camera with an SD card.
EV battery management, so this is any kind of battery
chargeable battery management, solar generators, anything like that. Ford, GM, Toyota,
and Hundai have already warned of incoming cost increases. If
you are looking for a router like a Wi Fi router,

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a switch. If you're a business, Wi Fi enabled appliances,
every appliance to buy anymore has an app. All those
are going to go up. Smart TVs, smart speakers like
Amazon and Alexa or Amazon Alexa, Smart thermostats like Nest,
security cameras, and video door bells all going to go up.
Robot appliances and interactive toys, they all require memory, processors

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and storage to do their thing. They're going to go up.
Game consoles, the Wei, the Xbox, all those things are
going to go up. Smart wearables like watches, rings, fitness trackers,
stuff like that same thing all going to go up.
Medical equipment, the cost of going to the hospital is
going to go up because the medical equipment that's required
uses these same chips. Manufacturing equipment. Nobody thinks about that.

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If you're trying to automate your manufacturing process because labor
costs are high, and you're trying to bring manufacturing back
to America, that necessitates robotics. What do robots need? Memory
and storage? Amazon is already planning on replacing three quarters
of their warehouse workers with automated robots. How much memory
and storage? What is that going to do to the

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cost of everything that you buy at Amazon?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
You might make the argument that robots still work cheaper
than people over time, but we haven't got the government
involved yet. To build a social safety net for companies
that are eliminating social security contributions by using robots. That's
going to happen. Eventually, it's going to have to happen.
Computer or commercial point of sales systems like Square. Yeah,
radical costing if you're a small business buying all that

(17:50):
Square equipment when you move to a new POS system
going to go up. Any kind of self service Kiosk
but you use at the airport and ATM the dry cleaner,
when you do an Amazon return at Whole Foods, any
kind of self service Kiosk is gonna go up because
essentially it's a computer that needs memory and storage. All
that is going to go up. So here's the deal, guys.

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We have the holiday special going on at Shock right now.
We've made some adjustments. We're continuing to sell. We've made
some adjustments. Everything is going to be okay on that
side of the sale. We can continue to sell based
on the adjustments that we have made. Remember that tray
of memory that I have, we're actually selling that tray

(18:32):
of memory back to time Tech, So we buy memory
from Time Tech. I just sent them sixteen thousand dollars
to buy fifty sticks of memory. I can build fifty
holiday specials. Guys. The memory alone cost me sixteen thousand dollars.
I'm gonna take this tray of fifty sticks and I'm
gonna sell them back to Time Tech where we bought

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them from, for three times what we paid for them.
That way, I don't have to deal with eBay and
shipping and returns and all that stuff. I can just
sell it right back to the manufacturer. When is the
last time a wholesale manufacturer has purchased their own product
back through the retail channel from a retailer so that
they could sell it to somebody else for a for

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one hundred and thirty dollars a stick. They're going to
give me seventy eight dollars a stick. When does that
ever happen? When does Forward buy the vehicles back from
the dealership so they can turn around and sell them
to other dealerships for you know, thirty forty fifty percent more.
That never happens. That is happening right now in the
consumer electronics market. This is going to get stupid, guys.

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Next year. It's going to get so stupid that if
you don't the average person, the average consumer keeps their
store bought laptop eighteen to twenty four months. So, if
you're looking at a core upgrade at Shock, where we're
going to upgrade your motherboard, your your processor to give
you all the current tech so you can use get
that in your existing computer and save a bunch of
money on your build. Part of that is new memory.

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We have to raise the prices on the core upgrades.
We just we just doubled our memory prices. So if
you want to come in now for a memory upgrade
on the bench, we had to double the memory prices
and we're still not keeping up with the cost increase,
but at least we can still sell it and not
lose money. We've had customers coming in trying to just
buy sticks of memory, like can I just buy a
stick of memory? We've stopped selling sticks of memory direct

(20:20):
to customers. We'll sell them as part of a repair
when it's coupled with an hour of labor, but we
will not sell them directly. Just Hey, I want to
buy a stick of memory. Sorry, we don't sell memory.
We're not a retailer like that. You can go to
Best Buy and buy some memory and you'll pay a
lot more than what you'd get it for at Shrock. Now,
of course, if you get an hour of labor, we'd
have us install it. Then we're happy to sell you
the memory. So there you go. We're going to take

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a quick break. I want you guys to keep this
in mind when I tell you this is the this
is COVID stuff. I just want to remind everybody I
really hesitate to do this. I'm not tooting my own horn.
But if you were listening to me six months before
COVID happened in the United States, you knew what was
going to happen. Now, I didn't predict the lockdowns and
all the craziness, but I did predict what was going

(21:03):
to happen with the quote unquote pandemic, how it was
going to come to America. It was just a matter
of time. Prepare. Now, what I'm telling you is it
is only a matter of time until the costs get
out of hand. If you're thinking about a Christmas gift
for somebody, any of those items that I mentioned, fitness trackers,
ring video door bells, a roomba, you know, anything like that,

(21:24):
They're gonna be great gifts that are going to be
more valuable next year. Then you purchase them than you
price that you pay right now. In fact, you'll be
able to sell those devices neew or used online probably
for more than you paid for them now. So there
you have it, guys, for zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
We're going to take a quick break when we come back.
Do you know how much technology died in twenty twenty five?

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There were so many products that you guys use all
the time that are gone in twenty twenty five. I've
got a short list. There was like one hundred on
this list, a one hundred different pieces of tech. Most
of you don't even know a lot of them, but
I picked out the ones that everyone's gonna know and
why they die. It's a crazy list. Let's see if
anything that you had been using is on the dead
tech from twenty twenty five list. Coming up next on compute.

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Welcome back into compute.

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This.

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My name's four Schrock and the owner of the Shock
Innovations computer Company four zero two five five eight eleven
ten or eight hundred two five zero two zero nine one.
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your podcasts. All right, so there's a we've just done
talking about all the technology devices that are going to

(24:44):
go up in price in twenty twenty six. They're going
to go up now. But it hasn't worked its way
through the retail chain yet. The stuff that is on
the shelf right now in retail was purchased six months
ago by somebody. The stuff that they're purchasing to replace
the stuff on the shelf. You know, for example, computers
that we paid for chassis that we paid three or
four hundred dollars for now cost four or five or

(25:06):
six hundred dollars for the same chassis, sometimes with less
options in it, like smaller amounts of memory, with smaller
hard drives in it. The junk drives we don't care
so much about. We strip them out. I've got a
bag literally, like a ziplock freezer bag full of m
DOT two Sata drives, because that's the junk that comes
in a sus Vivo books. If you just buy them
off the shelf, it's tech from like ten years ago.

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But it'll work in those slots, so they put it
in there so it's cheap and it works. We bundle
them up into into like ten hard drive bundles and
we sell them on eBay for like thirty five dollars
for ten hard drives, and we sell them by the
bundle because we don't really care. They're just sitting on
the shelf aging more and they're worthless. So that's the
tech that's going to go up in price. But what
is the technology that went away this year? What died?

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So I've got a list of thirteen or so products
here that you may or may not know. Maybe you
use some of these, but these are the ones that
are most likely to impacts somebody listening to the show
right now. Number one Microsoft Defender VPN. That's right, Microsoft.
For anyone who had a Microsoft three sixty five subscription,

(26:12):
you got a free Windows Defer Microsoft Defender VPN with
your purchase of Office three sixty five, so it was
like a little bonus. Microsoft is discontinued Defender VPN so
they can invest in other areas. In other words, it
was costing too much to have all that traffic re
repointed through Microsoft servers. Kind of like Apple does with
their stuff. So they just stopped doing it. That's it

(26:37):
the end. I'll go one. Now, I don't know how
many listeners and viewers that we have in the New
York metro area. I'm going to be in New York
in March actually to take in a Broadway show, so
I'll ask while i'm there. But AT and T Home
Cellular went away for residents of New York this year.
Wait wait what Yeah, five G home Internet the little

(26:59):
internet tower that you put in your house and you
can get cellular internet instead of having a cable modem
from the cable company or something. AT and T completely
pulled out of the New York market in the entire
state of New York. Why because the government passed the
law that said, if you are providing high speed internet
services in New York, you must have a package for
fifteen dollars a month or less that provides twenty five

(27:21):
megabit per second service or more. In other words, you
had to provide internet speeds at a cost that is
below what it would cost to deliver those speeds. And
AT and T said, we'd lose money. So why we're
just not going to serve the New York market at all,
and they pulled out of New York. This is what
happens when you try to mandate things on businesses that
don't make financial sense. Businesses will make the proper financial

(27:43):
decision to just abandon the market. And that's what happened
to New York. This should be a cautionary tale for
any other metro area that thinks that they can legislate affordability.
You can't do it. Price controls don't work. Price controls
create shortages. Now there's one less player for in in
New York. Next thing that died Skype died this year.

(28:04):
We talked about this one on the radio show. If
you were a user of Skype, that has gone Now
it has now been merged into Microsoft Teams, so Skype
has gone.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
This one.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I remember this one from Covid. This was a Covid baby,
the Dyson Zone Air purifying headphones. I remember those. Yeah.
So it's a set of headphones and it came down
with a mask that covered your mouth and nose and
went up into the headphones and the ears.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
It made you look like Baine, you know, I know,
it was so awesome. I remember seeing a pair of them.
I actually wanted them. I couldn't get them because they
were sold out. Every thought they looked freaky about COVID.
They wanted a personal the thing. It didn't seal on
your face like Baines didn't see as and you didn't.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Even get to sound cool, like you were some kind
of evil overlord.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
No, it just made your sound like a mobile moral
and you know, it's like, you know, it's those those
went away. Dyson admitted that, you know, while the idea
was good to take our air purification technology and merge
it with a headphone technology, just what kind of the
demand wasn't there. So yeah, people didn't want to wear
a mask, let alone a high tech mask that made

(29:04):
you look like an evil hero from Batman or an
anti hero from Batman. Amazon, they dropped their their Amazon
app store. Most people didn't even know Amazon had an
Android app store that they had, so oh it was great.
So let's say you were playing a game, you know,
you know those games where you have to buy packs
to win, like those military games or whatever, win games. Yeah,
play a win game or pay to win, I should say,

(29:27):
So you can play it, but you'd have to play
it like NonStop for hundreds and hundreds of hours. A
Mobile Strike was one that I played for a while.
They advertised during all a bunch of sporting events, they
had Arnold Schwarzenegger doing commercials that expensive stuff. That's why
the packs were one hundred bucks. But you could go
and buy Amazon Coins through your Amazon account get the
same pack for seventy five dollars. It would save you
twenty five percent. So if you had kids or something

(29:47):
that were buying Robox playing on packs or whatever, you
could save twenty five percent by buying it through the
Amazon Store instead of the Android App Store. Well that
went away, and all the Amazon coins, if you had any,
they were cashed out and refunded to your Amazon account
because that's gone. You may not if you're a gamer,
you know what Steam is, But did you know that

(30:08):
there was a Steam for chromebooks, which is just the
stupidest thing you've ever heard of. Chromebooks. There's a reason
that you can buy a chromebook for what you used
to be able to buy a chromebook for one hundred
and seventy five bucks. Now, chromebooks, because of the memory
and the storage prices, they're going to go up more
than anything else because the lower tiered computers in the
market are going to see the high If you double
the cost of memory in a chromebook in storage or

(30:29):
triple it, the price of a chromebook necessarily has to
go up by a lot because there's not that many
components in a chromebook. So you get rid of chromebooks,
they're gone. Steam for chromebooks is gone. You can't really
game on a chromebook anymore. Elon very rarely has a
product that completely fails. But do you remember earlier in
the year he talked about the Dojo supercomputer.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
I don't remember, I don't remember. Yeah, tell me about it.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
This is going to be a competitor for Nvidia. This
was going to be this was going to be the chip.
Had a team working on chips that he was going
to use for his x Ai. He was going to
make his own chips so he wouldn't have to buy
in Vidio chips. Turns out it's a little harder to
do that in videos. Chips are very very good at
what they do. Look at China trying to make their
own chips with Huawei and they're still smuggling in AM

(31:14):
or AMD and in Vidio chips. AMD, by the way,
has a whole new series of APUs coming out that
are going to essentially replace the need for graphics cards
in some computers, especially some gaming computers. Watch for that
next year. That's going to be prettystantial, substantial if you're
building a new computer. We're keeping an eye on that
for sure. But yeah, the Dojo supercomputer went away. I

(31:37):
was a competitor for Nvidio. Elon came out and just
said there is no there is no competition you need
in video chips. That's just what it comes down to.
AOL dial up officially died in September. In September of
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
I'll be honest, I didn't even know it was still around.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Neither did I. And I'm like, they're like, you can
still get it in rural areas, and now it is gone.
It's dead. Jim, Windows ten, we all talked about this forever.
Windows ten died this year in October. So Windows ten
is a technology that went away. Now do you remember
when DVRs were a big thing. You still have a
host on Fox News like Larry Cudlow Tank If you
can't catch the show, Ashker, thirteen year old granddaughter, how

(32:15):
to DVR the program you'd have a DVR box that
would record shows like a TVO Remember tv O boxes,
they're dead. TVO no longer makes a box. They are
gone because streaming allows you to watch what you want
on demand and deposit and fast forward through commercials and
do whatever. Why would you need a tv O box
to do that for you? Now you just do it
online with Hulu or whatever. You say, I want to

(32:37):
record every Stewart, Varney Shock Business on Fox Business, and
it just records every show and then you can go
back and watch it on demand. If you don't want
to watch one, you just skip it. It's not a
big deal. You don't need a TVO box anymore to
do what they do for you in the cloud. So
that's a huge difference.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
There.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Also, something that died this year is Microsoft Publisher. Microsoft
Publisher is gone. It does not exist anymore. So if
you use Publisher to do a church bulletin or a
newsletter or something like that, treasure the installation of Publisher
that you have, because it is gone, and soon you
won't be able to reactivate that license. If you purchased
into a solo license, you won't be able to reinstall

(33:17):
it anymore. It's gone, So publisher, rest in peace. Another
thing that died is IRS Direct File. This came and
went quickly, so a Biden era program said, you know,
you should be able to go to IRS dot gov
and just file your taxes. You shouldn't have to go
to a tax prepare if you have a this is
like telefile. You know, you shouldn't have to. Why are
we making people use a phone and push the numbers

(33:39):
on the touchpad like it's you know, nineteen seven or
nineteen eighty five, when you can just go online and
you should be able to type the numbers and then
file your taxes. That was IRS Direct File. Huge lobby
by the tax prep industry to get rid of this,
and as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, it
was eliminated. So yeah, no more IRS Direct file. That
died this year. And of course, as we just introduced

(34:01):
to you, newest death of the year is Microns Consumer Business.
Their entire commercial line known as Crucial both storage and
memory chips. Not only did they end the product, they
laid off the entire teams of people. All the people
involved in producing, marketing, selling, you know, servicing, all of

(34:21):
them are gone. The entire Micron Consumer Division is gone.
It's gone, and it's gone. Everybody lost their job. It's
not coming back anytime soon, at least until twenty twenty seven.
So huge, huge death there for zero two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. We're gonna take a quick break when we
come back. Bob, Bob and Bob two. Yes, this is

(34:41):
like Daryl and your other his other brother named Darryl.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Uh something like that.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Do you know what show that's from?

Speaker 7 (34:47):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
No, yeah, I didn't think so. You looked at me, like,
what are you talking about Daryl and his other brother Darryl. Oh,
when you're getting old. I always thought my dad made
up all those stupid songs that he's sang when he's
working around. Then I found out one time that they
were from old war movies. I just thought he made

(35:08):
up songs and he was just talented. Like that made
me want to make up songs. So I actually made
up the songs, and mine were way stupid wa wa,
way dumber. My kids like him, though, so someday I'll
be that grandpa that sings stupid, made up songs to
his grandkids and everybody laughs at him in the house.
All Right, we're gonna take a break before I get
into trouble here, Bob, Bob too, your calls coming up
next on compute this.

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Speaker 2 (37:54):
Alrighty folks, Wow, the show's flying by. We're way behind
schedule because I talk too much. Welcome back into Let's
jump right into those phones for zero, two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten the og Bob, you are the first one.
I'm realizing neither Bob knows which one I'm talking to.
They're both going to say hello, and only one of
them is going to win. So let's see if it
is Bob's lucky day. Bob, welcome to the program. How

(38:16):
can I help you on compute this?

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Well?

Speaker 8 (38:19):
Thank you thor You're welcome, Bob. I just first, I
want all I wanted to say, and I think I've
told you before, is I got twelve years out of
a big Box store laptop thanks to your service. But
my partner recently had to upgrade her computer. She has

(38:41):
her dad's computer, which is Windows eleven. Hers was Windows ten,
and we got it done. Right under the wire, but
she was having trouble getting his scanner to work on
the computer. She was had to scan some papers for
estate things in Chicago where her mom lives, and she

(39:04):
called the Omaha Service Center and Madison, she said, was
very helpful in helping her find the drivers and load
them to get the scanner working. And I just wanted to.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Give a shout out, well, thank you. I honestly think
this is the first call that Madison has received on
the show. Now, a lot of my employees get calls
on the show, and I do encourage you if you
have a great experience with one of my employees, please
do call and let me know, because a lot of
people will call me and let me know if they
have a bad experience, for sure, but when we have
those good experiences, we actually keep track. If you review
our people on Google or some other place and you

(39:36):
mentioned a name, we actually track that so that we
can when we do our evaluations. You know, for a
new employee like Madison who's in her ninety days, her
first ninety days at Shrock, we do thirty day evaluations
up to ninety days, and then after that, you know,
you go to an annual evaluation, but reviews are probably
the number one determining factor of pay increases and longevity

(39:57):
in their in positions. At Shock, you know, if you're
not delivering award winning customer service, especially, it's gonna sound
really stupid guys, because of course we always want to
deliver good service, but I kind of feel like everybody
is delivering service that is lower than the level of
service they were delivering pre COVID, and consumers have come

(40:18):
to expect that, and so a lot of businesses think
it's okay to push your customers through an AI bought
with an endless loop that you can't get to a
human and eventually customers will just accept the fact that's
how it is, and they'll deal with the AI bot
or not take their return or refund or whatever. At Shrock,
we don't want that experience. We want you to be
able to call and like Bob did, and have your
friends and family members be able to access a human

(40:40):
being who can actually help you. Now, those human beings
are going to be backed by AI. Yesterday, I had
a technician in the Omaha group chat who had a
particularly difficult problem with Outlook popped in and was like, hey,
senior text, I need help. I was a junior tech.
And he's like, I've tried everything I know how to
do and I can't get this guy's outlook to work.
And he's and really upset with me about it. I

(41:01):
need to get this working. What am I not thinking about?
And I said, listen, I'm not the super tech that
you guys are. I have some really talented technicians that
work for me that will that can tech me under
the table like they're they're good, right, go ahead and
use AI. It's okay to ask an AI to help
you solve the problem. You know the customer, so you know,

(41:22):
I did a quick search. I asked AI, Hey, my
outlook won't open. It's Outlook three sixty five. What are
some reasons why it won't open? And it gives me
a solution of how to how to start outlooking safe
mode safe mode for Outlook, which of course is the
first diagnostic, except the junior technician thought it meant to
start the computer in safe mode. That's why that you
know it's a junior technician. It's learning the strings as

(41:42):
part of the part of the game. He starts outlooking
safe mode and it starts up fine. There's an add
on in Outlook that the customer has installed that's preventing
Outlook from opening. Turn off the add ons one by one,
figure out which one is blocking it. There you go,
problem solved thanks to AI pointing you in the right direction.
You still need the tech skills and you still need
the service skills, but you can use AI as a tool.

(42:03):
But customers don't want to use AI. They don't want
to ask an AI, how do I fix my Outlook?
And then they learn a bunch of computer commands and
do that. Nobody wants to do that. So thank you
for the call, Bob. I really appreciate you joining us
on the program. And Bob number one, we have you
in the drawing for a Shrock Innovations. Give certificate. Now,
Bob number two, you're not number two because you're not
as good as Bob number one. You're Bob number two

(42:25):
because you just happened to be the second Bob that
called the program today.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
So well, yeah, I take that something.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Bob Douce, How can I help you?

Speaker 4 (42:32):
Have a compliment for you? Twenty five ahs two. I
had two computers and I paid for one and I
come back. When it started, there was some weird stuff
on there. I didn't think much about it. Then I
come up again and whenever restarted computers, they said it
was a bug. Okay, Well the other day again I

(42:52):
got office, home and business, and all of a sudden,
my email wasn't working very good. So I called up
and Evan got everything. He remoted in and he got
everything fixed, and that was great.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Nice. Yeah, Evan and the guys in Des Moines, we
found out a couple of weeks ago. You know, the
Iowa basketball team has been doing really good, and so
there we've been preempted quite a few times on our
who on the radio station in Des Moines that we're on,
and uh, there was a new program director who didn't
know if we get preempted, they re air our show
at four pm. So for three weeks the Des Moines

(43:28):
service center didn't have a radio show that aired at all.
And you know, the guys at Des Moines are like,
you know, what did we do to tick everybody off?
It's like crickets in here. There's nothing going on. And
so that when the other service centers were hopping because
it's the thing, it is the most wonderful time of
the year. We're selling a lot of computers, we're helping
a lot of people, and the phones ring a lot,
and so des Moines has been taking a lot of
our overflow calls for the entire company. They have really

(43:50):
been providing clutch service in support of all three of
the other service centers because they had some time on
their hands in des Moines. So number one, if you're
listening in des Moines right now, this is an hour
standing time to bring your computer in to use those
maintenance certificates and do other things. Because the turnaround times
are outstanding. I think going into this weekend they had
one device on the bench. One They have forty bench spots.

(44:14):
So if like I said, now is your turnaround time,
g if you need it back quick, this is gonna
be the quickest time that you're gonna get it back
ever all year long in des Moin. It won't last
long though, because now they know that they weren't airing
the show, and not only are they going to start
airing the program like they're supposed to, but we're going
to get a pretty sweet make good schedule to make
up for the fact that they you know what do

(44:36):
they call that deplatformed us? For the busiest month of
the year for the IT industry in November after Windows
ten is dying. Yeah, that's when they took us off
the air. So anyway, thank you for the call, Bob.
I appreciate you letting me know that Evan helped you
out and did a great job. I've been getting a
lot of calls about Evan and his team in Des
Moines because they've just been doing such an outstanding job

(44:57):
for everyone in the company for zero, two, five, eight,
eleven ten. We're gonna take the next break here. We
still need two breaks, don't we now, We're just gonna
do one, all right. Dale's gonna love that, and Lincoln
I'll tell you what he's gonna all right, quick break, guys.
When we come back, oh gosh, I forgot what we
were gonna do because it's just been that kind of day.
It's been that kind of day. When we come back,

(45:19):
we're going to talk about this new console. If you're
looking for the great the greatest gift that you can
buy this year, that the gift for people who like
to game, especially kids. I've got a console. It's a
new console that you've never heard of. If you remember
the Connect you know, you could jump around and dance
in front of it, and it would track your body motions,
so you didn't need a controller. And if you remember

(45:40):
the Wii, we could play like Wii bowling and you
could fly. You can do all that stuff. Take those
two consoles and merge them together, and you have a
new console that sold more units than the PlayStation for
Black Friday. We're gonna tell you what it is and
how much it costs them where you can get it.
Coming up next on Compute this.

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Speaker 2 (48:25):
All right, guys, welcome back into compute this. My name
is Storre Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shock Innovations
computer Company. Four zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten
is the final number to join us on the program today.
Bob and Bob are both in the drawing right now.
I'm pretty sure Bob's gonna win. Just you know, if
I was a betting man, I'd say Bob's gonna win.
All right, So on Black Friday there was all kinds

(48:47):
of technology on special. But there's a gaming console out
there now, the number one gaming console if you're buying,
if you're looking for the most popular gaming console to
buy this holiday season, it is the Nintendo Switch To,
specifically the Mario Kart bundle. That one is the number
one most popular console. It sold more than any console
on the market for Black Friday slash Cyber Monday sales.

(49:08):
The number two, however, was not PlayStation like you would
expect or Xbox or any of the big names. Number
two was some rinky dink little company you've never heard
of called The Next Playground n ex. The Next Playground
Next Playground is a four inch by four inch cube.
It's about the size of a Rubik's cube. It sits
on the shelf. It's got a camera on the front

(49:30):
that looks looks just like a cell phone camera. It's
nothing special. There's not a whole bunch of sensors. Like
remember the Connect was like had had a radar looking bar,
and it had like an IR camera and a tracking
camera and then a third camera for three dimensional depth,
and it would it would you know, if you watch
Ghost Adventures, they find ghosts with the Connect camera and
it's mapping people in that aren't there and stuff, which

(49:50):
if you ever played with the Connect, you know it
always maps in people that aren't there. So either their
are ghosts around us all the time, or the connect
sensor just to text things that aren't there. Don't know
which it was, but you know, the connect is kind
of gone by the wayside. There's not an Xbox connect
sensor anymore. You know. The WE used to be a
big thing where you could go WI bowling and WE baseball,
and the controller detected motion and sometimes button pushes, but

(50:11):
mostly just motion. And if you wanted to fly, you
would hold the controller level. And you wanted to turn
left or turn right or pitch up and down, you
just move the controller and it would use the gravity
sensor and the controller to determine what you were doing.
So imagine those two technologies were merged together. So now
if you want to, for example, play fruit slice, you

(50:31):
take your arms like swords and you swipe, and it
slices the fruit in the direction your hands are moving.
I don't know what happens if you swipe two different
directions at once. Those are the kind of things I
want to know. Are you like a do you have
two swords on the screen and now you could like
bisect a fruit in three plays and you get three slices.
I don't know how that works. You get bonus points

(50:52):
for that interesting things. You want to fly, put your
arms out like a bird and tilt and guess what
you're flying. To go up, you lean back, you want
to go down, you lean forward. You want to play
a platform game like Mario Brothers, Well, you're walking from
left to right across the screen and you need to
jump up on a ledge. Just hop and you want

(51:13):
to jump higher, hop harder, or hop faster, and you'll
go higher on the screen and then you can go
and avoid enemies and do all the things and you're
actually moving around. The thing that I like about this,
especially for my special needs daughter, is that it doesn't
require her to have the hand eye coordination to use
a controller. She can just jump up and down what
she does all the time. She can. There's dancing games
that Dance Revolution. It watches you to see if you're

(51:35):
dancing right. You don't have to have the pad to
jump on to detect where your feet are at. The
cameras just watching your feet to figure out where it's at.
And so it's a game that anyone in the family
can play, whether you're young, whether you're old, everybody can
play it. There all the sports games are there. There's
one they show that a guy shooting basketballs and it's
detecting where your hands are at and how you're flicking
your wrists to see where your ball is going to go. Again,

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I'm just curious how accurate would it be? You know,
it's like one of those things if you're playing we
golf and you're you're really good at we golf, and
you think you can maybe golf for real, like if
you're good at Golden Tea, and you decide you're gonna
golf for real, not that I've ever done this, And
so you go buy a driver, not that I've ever
done that, and you buy a giant box or box
a bucket of balls, not that I've ever done that,
and you don't buy a glove because who needs glove,

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And then you get blisters on your hands, not that
I've ever done that, because you know, you're trying to
learn how to drive, which is the hardest club to use,
and no one never taught you that. You and by
the time you've done, you bought a bucket of fifty balls,
but you've swung at each ball three or four times,
so you've got like one hundred and fifty swings in
one afternoon and your hands are hamburgered and you're like,
people do this for fun. I don't get it. And

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so to this day, I don't swing the sticks, you know,
I just don't do it. But the content partnerships are
also super exciting for this thing. The next playground has
games like Bluey, Gabby's Dollhouse, Barbie care Bears, like all
these things that that preteen girls, especially with really be into.

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And it's all on there. There's all kinds of sports
games for the boys that you can get into. My
seven year old's going through a big football phase right
now where he wants to throw the nerve football in
the basement with Dad, and he wants to tackle. He
wants to play tackle. And you know the other time Dad,
you know, dropped a shoulder and you know, pancake to
kiddo in the basement, one of those like he was

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running at me as hard as he could and I
just lowered my shoulder. And he found out that speed
times mass has a reaction and if you were going
fast and you have low mass, you tend to bounce
off objects that have higher masses that are planted, like Dad,
and so you're looking at your kid on the ground
thinking I did that. That's not good. All right, we're
gott to wrap it up there, guys. The Next Playground

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is available for two hundred and fifty bucks Amazon dot com.
You can pick it up there. Pretty reasonable price. We'll
see you next week for compute this