June 30, 2026 • 11 mins
KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich talks about Apple and Microsoft raising prices, Supreme Court ruling geofence warrants are protected. and GasBuddy releasing its latest data on the cheapest days of the week to buy gas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time for Tech Tuesday with Rich Tomorrow, kfi's
tech Guy. He's live every Saturday eleven am to two
pm rich on Tech. You can follow him on Instagram
at rich on Tech and his website rich on tech
dot TV. Okay, good morning, Rich, Good morning to you Bill. Okay,
(00:22):
we've got a few things to talk about. Apple and
Microsoft both raise prices on some of their products. Quick
question before we talk about how much is it come
to the point where almost doesn't matter the prices where
we pay for We're willing to pay for virtually anything
in the world of these handheld devices.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's like utilities. He can't live.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Without them, and no matter how much they raise the
price of electricity, you got to buy it. It's almost
reached that point, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You know, I don't think so for most consumers. I
think that it depends. I think people are keeping things longer,
and when these prices go up, it definitely has an
impact for some people. Which you know, if you're looking
for something new, you're thinking of buying something new, you
had your eye on it. Now you're in a mode
of like, let's just sit back and wait. Now. If
(01:12):
you need something sure like you're going to get it right.
Your kids going to school, they need a laptop for school.
Your laptop broke, you're going to replace it. But if
you are just thinking about, oh, i'd like a new computer.
I'd like a new iMac, like a new iPad, all
these prices went up, and Bill, these prices went up
a lot in pretty wild, I.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Mean, interrupting you for just a moment, we go through
these prices. If I'm not mistaken, did you actually disagree
with me when I asked you this question. If you did,
which I think you did, we will not be doing
that again.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, I knew it. I know we do not disagree
with me.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But moving on, let's talk about the prices.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, here's the deal. Okay. So the one thing that
is really interesting here is that, well let me tell
you the price. Okay. So number one, you heard me
talking about this MacBook Neo, right, this was Apple's inexpensive laptop.
It was the savior for the actually the killer for
the PC industry, the savior for Apple for these inexpensive
laptops and the competitions to the Chromebook that went up
(02:16):
by one hundred dollars. So when I first told you
about it. It was a price tag of five ninety
nine for the average person, four ninety nine for students.
Now it's five ninety nine for students, six ninety nine
for the average person. That is no longer a bargain.
It used to be a bargain now it's not. MacBook
airs went up by two hundred dollars, MacBook pros went
up by as much as five hundred dollars. Even things
(02:39):
like the iPad. Like I was in the Apple Store
a day before these were announced. I was looking at
a new iPad and all the iPads went up at
least one hundred bucks. Home Pod Mini, which is their speaker,
thirty dollars. I mean that's a thirty percent increase.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, this is no small amount. This is not incremental.
This is not inflation has hit us and we're raising
our price. These are massive increases.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, it's and it's not really inflation. It's it's all
because of AI. So the AI companies are scooping up
just about every chip in the world, every piece of
ram in the world, every storage drive in the world,
and these big companies that make all this stuff have
kind of said, you know what, we're going to focus
on making stuff for AI companies because guess what, Joe
(03:25):
Schmoe over here buys one thing from US for one
hundred dollars every five years. This company Open AI buys
five hundred million dollars worth of stuff from US. You know,
every six months they ask for more. So that's what's
happening here, is that all these companies are passing along
these higher costs to consumers. And anyway, the one bright
spot in this bill is that iPhone prices did not raise.
(03:48):
But here's the deal that's very strategic. Because the new
iPhones launched in September, I can almost guarantee you that
we will be talking about higher prices across the board
on iPhones, which is going to be tough for Apple
because they're introducing this new serie AI. They want people
to buy the new phones, so they're going to somehow
have to candy code it and you know, make it
(04:09):
palatable for the average person to want to buy a
new phone and not just keep what they have.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Hey, has there ever been a I don't keep up
with this and you obviously do. Has there ever been
a release of a new phone or a new device
that just didn't do very well? Because the benefits were incremental,
and you go, I'm not getting what I need. I'm
not going to pay extra money for what I'm getting here,
there's not enough.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I think there's always been a pressure from the phone companies,
you know, the phone manufacturers, to talk about a feature
that is a must have feature, right, better camera, better zoom,
better screen, more privacy, you know, better battery life, more AI.
I mean, these are all things that are used to
sell phones. But the reality is, over the years, we've
(04:55):
seen the number creep up on the months people are
keeping their phone. So I think now we're holding steady
at around thirty six to thirty nine months, which is,
you know, over three years for a phone. Used to
be remember back in the day when you used to
pay like ninety nine bucks for a new phone and
it was all part of your you know, plan or whatever.
So people were upgrading every year. Every time the new
(05:16):
iPhone came out. There were these huge, you know kind
of upgrades to the phone, and people would feel compelled
to buy a new one. And now they just don't
feel that way anymore for the most part.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
All Right, what's going on with WhatsApp and that seems
to be good news because I use WhatsApp.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, this is great news. It's actually getting a lot
more private, getting a feature that people have wanted for
a very long time, and that is user names. In
the past, you had to give out your phone number
for someone to contact you on WhatsApp. Now you will
be able to use a username, just like you do
on a whole bunch of other apps like Instagram and
Facebook and things like that. So right now you can
(05:54):
reserve your user name by going into your WhatsApp settings,
tap a count and then tap username. If you don't
see it, it's still rolling out because they're not going
to actually enable these until a little bit later this year.
So this is a good thing for privacy. Now you'll
be able to tell people in your class or you know, friends, family,
(06:15):
whoever you meet, hey, here's my username text me on
WhatsApp does not give them. It does not reveal your
phone number to them. Phone number is still required though,
to create a WhatsApp account.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, so I on a personal note, then if your
username is rich Tomurrow cleverly enough, does that mean that
everybody on the planet just has to go with WhatsApp
and connect with rich to Murrow and they reach you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Bill, you are such a smart guy. Seriously, I mean,
that's exactly. So here's the deal. That is one of
the reasons why some people may not want to use
their name right, Like you may want to come up
with a username that is not your true name. Like
for me, I'm trying to debate, do I want rich
on Tech because I could tell people on the radio, hey,
text me on WhatsApp just search rich on Tech. I
(07:04):
don't have that yet, but maybe I want something that's
more complicated because then you can't just find me because
there is no directory by the way, so you can't
just like search for people's names. You would actually have
to type in the name and then send them a message.
So I think that, you know, we'll see how this
kind of plays out for privacy purposes. You know, people
may want to use their real names. You may not
(07:25):
want to use your real name because you do have
to think about that privacy aspect.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
All right, So I got a name for you. How
about Neil Savedra can be you your user.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Name and taking it right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Absolutely nothing like it. It's like these passwords that it
just drives me nuts. I'm trying to get passwords and
there's just not enough of them. So I have to do.
You have to do those magical passwords that come up
every you know where they come up randomly, and you
then have to have people connect with them, which is
impossible anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So this is now.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
This came up with the with what's app simply because
of the pressure that the users were telling the WhatsApp folks,
you got to do this.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I think that WhatsApp probably expanded in the early days
pretty quickly, and you know, it's used internationally. It's it's
very it's pretty much the way to communicate internationally here
in the US, where of course most people are obsessed
with I Message from Apple, but you know that does
use your phone number. Two, they're in the way to
use a username on I message, but nobody does that.
(08:34):
So I think for WhatsApp to expand and you know,
truly be useful here in the US, not everyone wants
to give out their phone number, and so I think
that they just realized it's easier, it's simpler, and especially
you know, like for me personally, it's like a lot
of international friends will give you their WhatsApp, they give
you their phone number. It's like this long string of digits.
You don't know if you should include the one or not.
(08:55):
It's like a whole thing. And so I think by saying, hey,
here's my username on WhatsApp, it's just makes life a
lot easier.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, last topic, gas Buddy the latest data on the
cheapest day of the week to buy gas, because that's
part of the part of formula two.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Do you want to guess which data is?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, just pulling it out of my butt. Wednesday night, Wednesday, okay?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Interesting is According to gas Buddy, they looked at all
of their data for a year of gas prices in
all fifty states. Gas Buddy, as you know, is the
app that kind of helps you figure out where the
cheapest gas is around you. They found that Sunday is
the cheapest day to buy gas in most states, and
then Monday is a close follow Tuesday not very good,
(09:47):
Saturday not very good, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday avoid at all costs.
And I think you know, if you read between the lines,
you kind of understand why Number one, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
everyone's gearing up for the weekend. People are buying more gas.
Maybe it drives up prices. Number two think about the
news cycle in America right, things sort of amp up
(10:08):
towards the end of the week. Anything bad that happens
that it might affect gas prices happens, and then the
gas prices react, So Sunday quieter day. These are all
just theories. They don't say that, but basically they're saying,
if you see prices spike waight five to seven days,
you can often save money, and good timing you could
save you anywhere from five to ten cents. But they'd say,
(10:30):
in general, makes Sunday your fill up day and avoid
the middle of the week.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
God, oh, you know we should do this, but we're
not gonna have enough time the Supreme Court talking about
geo fencing warrants, but I'll do that tomorrow probably and
my discussion of what the decisions were. So rich, thank
you and we'll catch you this Saturday, eleven am right
here on KFI, Instagram, at rich on Tech website, rich
(10:57):
on tech dot TV. I have a good one.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thanks, Bill, promised never to disagree again.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Thank you. Yeah, let's see you guys. That's what that
was your last shot? Okay, fair enough,
It is time for Tech Tuesday with Rich Tomorrow, kfi's
tech Guy. He's live every Saturday eleven am to two
pm rich on Tech. You can follow him on Instagram
at rich on Tech and his website rich on tech
dot TV. Okay, good morning, Rich, Good morning to you Bill. Okay,
(00:22):
we've got a few things to talk about. Apple and
Microsoft both raise prices on some of their products. Quick
question before we talk about how much is it come
to the point where almost doesn't matter the prices where
we pay for We're willing to pay for virtually anything
in the world of these handheld devices.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's like utilities. He can't live.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Without them, and no matter how much they raise the
price of electricity, you got to buy it. It's almost
reached that point, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You know, I don't think so for most consumers. I
think that it depends. I think people are keeping things longer,
and when these prices go up, it definitely has an
impact for some people. Which you know, if you're looking
for something new, you're thinking of buying something new, you
had your eye on it. Now you're in a mode
of like, let's just sit back and wait. Now. If
(01:12):
you need something sure like you're going to get it right.
Your kids going to school, they need a laptop for school.
Your laptop broke, you're going to replace it. But if
you are just thinking about, oh, i'd like a new computer.
I'd like a new iMac, like a new iPad, all
these prices went up, and Bill, these prices went up
a lot in pretty wild, I.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Mean, interrupting you for just a moment, we go through
these prices. If I'm not mistaken, did you actually disagree
with me when I asked you this question. If you did,
which I think you did, we will not be doing
that again.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, I knew it. I know we do not disagree
with me.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But moving on, let's talk about the prices.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, here's the deal. Okay. So the one thing that
is really interesting here is that, well let me tell
you the price. Okay. So number one, you heard me
talking about this MacBook Neo, right, this was Apple's inexpensive laptop.
It was the savior for the actually the killer for
the PC industry, the savior for Apple for these inexpensive
laptops and the competitions to the Chromebook that went up
(02:16):
by one hundred dollars. So when I first told you
about it. It was a price tag of five ninety
nine for the average person, four ninety nine for students.
Now it's five ninety nine for students, six ninety nine
for the average person. That is no longer a bargain.
It used to be a bargain now it's not. MacBook
airs went up by two hundred dollars, MacBook pros went
up by as much as five hundred dollars. Even things
(02:39):
like the iPad. Like I was in the Apple Store
a day before these were announced. I was looking at
a new iPad and all the iPads went up at
least one hundred bucks. Home Pod Mini, which is their speaker,
thirty dollars. I mean that's a thirty percent increase.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, this is no small amount. This is not incremental.
This is not inflation has hit us and we're raising
our price. These are massive increases.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, it's and it's not really inflation. It's it's all
because of AI. So the AI companies are scooping up
just about every chip in the world, every piece of
ram in the world, every storage drive in the world,
and these big companies that make all this stuff have
kind of said, you know what, we're going to focus
on making stuff for AI companies because guess what, Joe
(03:25):
Schmoe over here buys one thing from US for one
hundred dollars every five years. This company Open AI buys
five hundred million dollars worth of stuff from US. You know,
every six months they ask for more. So that's what's
happening here, is that all these companies are passing along
these higher costs to consumers. And anyway, the one bright
spot in this bill is that iPhone prices did not raise.
(03:48):
But here's the deal that's very strategic. Because the new
iPhones launched in September, I can almost guarantee you that
we will be talking about higher prices across the board
on iPhones, which is going to be tough for Apple
because they're introducing this new serie AI. They want people
to buy the new phones, so they're going to somehow
have to candy code it and you know, make it
(04:09):
palatable for the average person to want to buy a
new phone and not just keep what they have.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Hey, has there ever been a I don't keep up
with this and you obviously do. Has there ever been
a release of a new phone or a new device
that just didn't do very well? Because the benefits were incremental,
and you go, I'm not getting what I need. I'm
not going to pay extra money for what I'm getting here,
there's not enough.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I think there's always been a pressure from the phone companies,
you know, the phone manufacturers, to talk about a feature
that is a must have feature, right, better camera, better zoom,
better screen, more privacy, you know, better battery life, more AI.
I mean, these are all things that are used to
sell phones. But the reality is, over the years, we've
(04:55):
seen the number creep up on the months people are
keeping their phone. So I think now we're holding steady
at around thirty six to thirty nine months, which is,
you know, over three years for a phone. Used to
be remember back in the day when you used to
pay like ninety nine bucks for a new phone and
it was all part of your you know, plan or whatever.
So people were upgrading every year. Every time the new
(05:16):
iPhone came out. There were these huge, you know kind
of upgrades to the phone, and people would feel compelled
to buy a new one. And now they just don't
feel that way anymore for the most part.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
All Right, what's going on with WhatsApp and that seems
to be good news because I use WhatsApp.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, this is great news. It's actually getting a lot
more private, getting a feature that people have wanted for
a very long time, and that is user names. In
the past, you had to give out your phone number
for someone to contact you on WhatsApp. Now you will
be able to use a username, just like you do
on a whole bunch of other apps like Instagram and
Facebook and things like that. So right now you can
(05:54):
reserve your user name by going into your WhatsApp settings,
tap a count and then tap username. If you don't
see it, it's still rolling out because they're not going
to actually enable these until a little bit later this year.
So this is a good thing for privacy. Now you'll
be able to tell people in your class or you know, friends, family,
(06:15):
whoever you meet, hey, here's my username text me on
WhatsApp does not give them. It does not reveal your
phone number to them. Phone number is still required though,
to create a WhatsApp account.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, so I on a personal note, then if your
username is rich Tomurrow cleverly enough, does that mean that
everybody on the planet just has to go with WhatsApp
and connect with rich to Murrow and they reach you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Bill, you are such a smart guy. Seriously, I mean,
that's exactly. So here's the deal. That is one of
the reasons why some people may not want to use
their name right, Like you may want to come up
with a username that is not your true name. Like
for me, I'm trying to debate, do I want rich
on Tech because I could tell people on the radio, hey,
text me on WhatsApp just search rich on Tech. I
(07:04):
don't have that yet, but maybe I want something that's
more complicated because then you can't just find me because
there is no directory by the way, so you can't
just like search for people's names. You would actually have
to type in the name and then send them a message.
So I think that, you know, we'll see how this
kind of plays out for privacy purposes. You know, people
may want to use their real names. You may not
(07:25):
want to use your real name because you do have
to think about that privacy aspect.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
All right, So I got a name for you. How
about Neil Savedra can be you your user.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Name and taking it right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Absolutely nothing like it. It's like these passwords that it
just drives me nuts. I'm trying to get passwords and
there's just not enough of them. So I have to do.
You have to do those magical passwords that come up
every you know where they come up randomly, and you
then have to have people connect with them, which is
impossible anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So this is now.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
This came up with the with what's app simply because
of the pressure that the users were telling the WhatsApp folks,
you got to do this.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I think that WhatsApp probably expanded in the early days
pretty quickly, and you know, it's used internationally. It's it's
very it's pretty much the way to communicate internationally here
in the US, where of course most people are obsessed
with I Message from Apple, but you know that does
use your phone number. Two, they're in the way to
use a username on I message, but nobody does that.
(08:34):
So I think for WhatsApp to expand and you know,
truly be useful here in the US, not everyone wants
to give out their phone number, and so I think
that they just realized it's easier, it's simpler, and especially
you know, like for me personally, it's like a lot
of international friends will give you their WhatsApp, they give
you their phone number. It's like this long string of digits.
You don't know if you should include the one or not.
(08:55):
It's like a whole thing. And so I think by saying, hey,
here's my username on WhatsApp, it's just makes life a
lot easier.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, last topic, gas Buddy the latest data on the
cheapest day of the week to buy gas, because that's
part of the part of formula two.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Do you want to guess which data is?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, just pulling it out of my butt. Wednesday night, Wednesday, okay?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Interesting is According to gas Buddy, they looked at all
of their data for a year of gas prices in
all fifty states. Gas Buddy, as you know, is the
app that kind of helps you figure out where the
cheapest gas is around you. They found that Sunday is
the cheapest day to buy gas in most states, and
then Monday is a close follow Tuesday not very good,
(09:47):
Saturday not very good, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday avoid at all costs.
And I think you know, if you read between the lines,
you kind of understand why Number one, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
everyone's gearing up for the weekend. People are buying more gas.
Maybe it drives up prices. Number two think about the
news cycle in America right, things sort of amp up
(10:08):
towards the end of the week. Anything bad that happens
that it might affect gas prices happens, and then the
gas prices react, So Sunday quieter day. These are all
just theories. They don't say that, but basically they're saying,
if you see prices spike waight five to seven days,
you can often save money, and good timing you could
save you anywhere from five to ten cents. But they'd say,
(10:30):
in general, makes Sunday your fill up day and avoid
the middle of the week.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
God, oh, you know we should do this, but we're
not gonna have enough time the Supreme Court talking about
geo fencing warrants, but I'll do that tomorrow probably and
my discussion of what the decisions were. So rich, thank
you and we'll catch you this Saturday, eleven am right
here on KFI, Instagram, at rich on Tech website, rich
(10:57):
on tech dot TV. I have a good one.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thanks, Bill, promised never to disagree again.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Thank you. Yeah, let's see you guys. That's what that
was your last shot? Okay, fair enough,
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