Apple debrief: iPhone 13 models, Apple Watch 7, new iPads and more

to you today from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Why am I in Chattanooga, Tennessee? Will I am here to see Volkswagen's electric car plant. So they are making their new ID four electric car here in the US in Chatta Nuga, Tennessee. So h yeah, I'm here for like twenty four hours to check this thing out. So I'm very excited. I took a run this morning in this fine little town and it is beautiful.

It reminds me of living in Louisiana. So I used to live in Shreveport, Louisiana for a couple of years as a reporter, and it's it's so interesting because when I lived in a small city, I did not respect this small city lifestyle. So I grew up just outside New York City. So even though I lived in a suburban area, it was very much you know, an urban area because it was just a community for New York City, right, people commuted in from my city to the city. In

the city we call New York City the city. And then I moved to Los Angeles for college. Then I moved to Louisiana, well, Washington State, Louisiana, back to New York and then back to LA. So a lot of my time has been I guess most of my time at this point has been spent in big cities. But I did spend you know, four years in small cities, and I didn't I didn't like them back then because I was young and I wanted to you know, go

out and do stuff and you know, hang out. And now that I'm older and have a family, that stuff is not as important. Like I want a nice family place, and LA is fine, but it's definitely, you know, not the easiest place in the world to raise a family and also to live. I mean, you know, small smaller cities like this are just so much more geared towards you know, working and raising a family. So anyway, beautiful place. This run this morning totally reminded me of living in Louisiana,

fresh clean air. I ran across the river and then I ran back on this like pedestrian bridge they have here, which apparently the driver from last night told me that this that's the longest pedestrian bridge in the US. I don't know, I have to fact check that, but it

was great, and so here I am. I actually if this if you're sitting there thinking rich the podcast actually sounds pretty good, it's because I actually lugged all of my podcasting equipment with me this time, so I made sure that I wanted it to sound really nice, and I wanted all of my bells and whistles literally bells and whistles, to make this podcast sound as good as possible. All Right, So here's the deal. I've got a couple things. I'm gonna tell you something that I did personally, little

personal news that's exciting. I'll get to that a bit later in the show. But this show is primarily going to be focused on Apple's announcements. So if you don't like Apple, if you're not an Apple fan, or you don't want to hear about iPhones and iPads and all that good stuff. It's probably not the podcast for you, so go ahead, see you later. Pick it up the next episode. Because Apple announced a lot they were small

changes to some of their devices. But when it's Apple, they kind of suck all the air out of the room in the tech world, and you know, they command the respect that they get. I mean, a lot of people in the US have these phones, so I'm gonna give it the respect it deserves. I'm gonna go over all that stuff. I've got a couple of other things, and I'll still take questions from you, but this will primarily be about the Apple event. So let's get started

with the with the first news. We got news about the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and Apple Fitness. Let's start with the iPhone thirteen and the iPhone thirteen Mini. So here's the deal. A lot of the changes with the devices with the iPhone specifically, are you know this might be an S model right in iPhone twelve S and they do call it the iPhone thirteen. But and some of the improvements, especially on the iPhone thirteen Pro and Promax are definitely big improvements to the cameras but

in the battery life. But the rest of these improvements are pretty minor, so I'm going to go through kind of the biggest things that I noticed. So iPhone thirteen and thirteen Mini same size as before, six point one inch screen and a five point four inch screen. The cool thing is what they did with both of these phones now, the dual phones, they're basically the same, so you only have to choose the size you want, so you either want to go with Mini or regular, or

regular and Max. So the cameras are pretty much identical now across the board, which I like. They made the true depth camera sensor a little bit smaller, so the face ID area at the top, I mean, it's still a pretty big notch. It doesn't bother me. I don't really know why people are so bothered by that. Battery life improvement pretty big on the iPhone thirteen and thirteen Mini.

It's got this new A fifteen bionic, so the battery is up to two and a half hours more on the iPhone twelve than the iPhone twelve, and the iPhone thirteen Mini you get up to an hour and a

half more than iPhone twelve Mini. So that's a pretty big improvement, especially because these phones last year took a pretty major hit, so I feel like maybe we're just getting back to old battery life on the iPhone, but Apple still says this is some of the best battery life we've seen now on the iPhone thirteen and Mini.

The wide camera is the one that's improved, so just one of the lenses, and the wide is kind of your everyday camera, so that's the most important, and that has the biggest sensor ever, so forty seven percent more light it captures, which is really good. So when you're taking your everyday pictures, that's the lens that you use the most. It's gonna be a lot better. Now I haven't tested these, so I can't say that for certain,

but that's kind of what they're saying. The other thing they did is they brought this censorshift technology, which means it stabilizes the sensor instead of the lens, which you know, it's kind of it gets a little in the weeds there, but the reality is your shots, even if you have a shaky hand, should be more steady, and that means that they'll be more in focus, and that means, especially in low light photography, things will be more in focus.

They've got this new cinematic mode across all the phones that kind of brings portrait mode to video. So if you're thinking that, you know, you like these portrait mode photos, now you can do that with your videos. Now. I think this is kind of cool, but I don't think it's feature that I have to rush out and upgrade my phone for. If you think about smartphone video, it kind of just you want everything to be in focus.

That was always the goal. Right now it's gonna be where you can kind of have the background blurry and the subject is in focus, but if you move the camera to someone else in the background, it will now focus on them and the foreground will be blurry. So it kind of gives you that look that you see in movies versus just a flat, kind of clear look. Across the board, the A fifteen processor, they're not saying that it's a lot faster, but I guess it does

certain things faster, like the graphics. But that's about it all right. So the colors for the iPhone thirteen and thirteen many pink, blue, midnight, starlight, and red, and they also did double the entry level storage, so it's one hundred and twenty eight gigs that gets a ding. I have this video on YouTube from a couple of years ago called Apple Math, and I kind of went through the reality of what Apple has been doing with customers.

They've been playing games with them with iPhone storage for many, many years. For many years, the entry level storage was not half of the middle storage. It was like almost a quarter. So it used to be like sixty four, then two fifty six, then five twelve, which is not right. So if you do the math, you're actually paying way more for the entry level phone. Now it's the right way, So it's one twenty eight, two fifty six, five twelve

On the thirteen and thirteen Mini. These phones start at six ninety nine for the Mini, seven ninety nine for the thirteen and they will be available on pre orders Friday, September seventeenth, and then the phones will be in stores on the twenty fourth of September. So that's pretty much it. So do you upgrade if you have the iPhone twelve, I don't think you need the upgrade to the thirteen or thirteen Mini. When it comes to the iPhone thirteen Pro and Pro Max, that's where it gets a little

more interesting. That's where we're seeing a bit more improvement. But if you're on one of those upgrade plans anyway, of course, it's always nice to get the new phone, especially for the new battery life. But we'll talk about the iPhone th thirteen and thirteen pro after this first question. All right, first question from Dan. Hey Rich, I need to join a Zoom conference as a participant for the first time ever. I will be using my computer, a PC,

and I'm concerned about security. So if I have any if I have Chrome or Edge, can I join the conference and not need to open a Zoom account or download any software on my computer? And if that's possible, then can I be sure nothing will be downloaded by Zoom without me knowing it. I would hope they don't get my IP address or any other information. There have been so many stories about Zoom and security. Thank you, Dan. All right, Dan, So couple things here. Number One, Yeah,

they're going to get your IP address. I mean, that's that's pretty standard for any website that you visit, unless you're using a VPN. Number Two, I don't know what kind of Zoom you're doing, but I mean, is it really that secretive what you're talking about or what you're doing. I mean, this is a free service on the public Internet. So there's only so much, so many precautions you can take. Now. Number one, you don't need to download Zoom to run a Zoom to run a zoom like to be a

participant on Zoom. Now. The thing is they use what do they call this, They call this dark dark patterns? Is that what they call it? Where Zoom tries to convince you you have to download software to join. So when you click that Zoom link immediately it will say, oh, we just put the installer on your computer. Make sure you press run to join your meeting. And if you don't do anything, you wait a little bit. Now it'll say, oh, shoot,

they didn't fall for our tricks, so hold on. Oh let's give them a link now on their web page. So they refresh the web page and then it says, oh, do you want to join from browser? And then you can join from your browser. But they really hide that and they make it, you know, they force you to or they try to force you to download the software and make you think that's the only way to join. That is not the case. WebEx does the same thing.

It's all these video conference apps because they want the software on your computer because then you'll probably use it again. And it's just easier. I mean, I get it. It's just easier to join from the software. They get a better experience. But you can join from just your browser, but you have to kind of just wait and wait for that link to come up that says join from your browser, and you will see it. You might have to scroll down to the bottom of your screen to

see it, but will it will show up eventually. Just don't run the software that they download your computer automatically. Now with that said, can you join a zoom without logging in? I do believe you can, because typically you just have to give a person a link which includes the user kind of like the one time user and password. But it depends how this zoom is set up. Sometimes you will have to log in. I believe. I don't

know because I kind of forget. I do know that I log into WebEx without signing up for a WebEx account, so I think Zoom lets you do the same thing. So that's that. Now. The other thing, the IP address um or other information. I mean, they're gonna get your IP unless you use a VPN if you want, just use a VPN and log in that way. But that's about it. Zoom insecurity Zoom is it's not. I don't believe it's end to end encrypted by default, but you

could enable that in the settings. But it is encrypted in transit, so whatever you're saying, no one else can see theoretically, but I will tell you if you're putting personal information out there on the Zoom call, yeah, there's always a chance that someone could could sniff that information out. But I do believe it's encrypted so that it should be fine. And if the if the Zoom itself is

password protected, you should be okay. But in general, look, if you're using a public service that is free, there's only so much expectation of privacy that you can have when you use that. So just keep that in mind. And I think the big thing is just to join it without signing up, and to join it without downloading the software, and you should be fine. So good question there. All right, Now, let's talk about the iPhone thirteen Pro

and Pro Max. These are the iPhones that got a much bigger leap than the standard iPhone, and the reason they do this is because Apple kind of like the way Samsung does it. They do kind of an ultra model. This would be their Ultra and they put all of their newest technologies in the Pro models and then they trickle them down to the regular models later on. Now with the Max this year, I like what they did and thank you Apple for doing this. They made the

iPhone Pro and Promax the thirteen models the same. They are identical except for the screen size, so you no longer have to choose. Last year you had to choose the Promax had slightly better specs in certain aspects. This time they're the same. So all you need to do is say do I want that big screen or do I want the standard size screen? And so last year I went with the standard size. This year I may be tempted to go with the Pro Max just to

get a bigger screen. I was watching Stuff, a little movie yesterday on the airplane No Sudden Move on HBO Max, which by the way, was pretty good. I didn't watch all of it, so don't tell me anything. No spoilers here. But I was watching my tiny iPhone because I love packing really lean, especially for a trip like this that's less than twenty four hours, and so I was watching on my little tiny iPhone screen. It was just horrible, like so small I could barely see what was going

on on the screen anyway. Aside, so what's new on the iPhone thirteen pro models. They've got a new what

they call super Retina XDR display with promotion. I mean, all that means is that it's a really good screen that's brighter than before, and it has an adaptive refresh rate up to one hundred and twenty hurts, which means that when you're scrolling through things especially like Twitter, social media, watching videos, and playing games, the refresh rate should be better, so it will be buttery smooth versus a little I

noticed yesterday on my iPhone. Of course, now they announced it that it's a little bit choppy when you scroll. Not a deal breaker, it's not that big of a deal. But most videos in the US at least are thirty frames per second, maybe sixty, and so you probably never noticed on videos. But when it comes to gaming and scrolling, that's when the adaptive refresh rate will come in handy. Let's see, so the camera's got improvements in a big way.

All the sensors and lenses for all three of the rear cameras are new, and so you've got much better low light performance up to two times two and a half time, two point two times when compared to iPhone twelve Pro and one point five when compared to iPhone twelve Pro Max. You see what they did there, So now they're revealing that the Pro Max was a little bit better. You also have that sensor shift optical image

stabilization on both models. And let's see what else. The Ultra wide Excuse me, the Ultra wide camera features a much wider one point eight aperture and autofocus. So this is we're talking the ultra wide lens. That's the one that you can take in a lot more wide frame on your photography. So ninety two percent improvement for low light, which means if you took an ultra wide, So a lot of times if I'm out and about at night, I want to take a cool cityscape photo and I

go ultra wide. Immediately on the iPhone twelve Pro, you notice that the whole screen went dark because it just didn't take in very much light on that Ultra Wide. Now it's going to take in almost one hundred percent more so that's really really cool. So that means that your ultrawide photos are going to be a lot better. They also have auto focus on the Ultra Wide, which is really cool, and that unlocks macro photography. Using the Ultra whites, you can take macro pictures from a distance

of two centimeters, which is really close up. Now. I'm not a huge macro photography guy, but you know, it's kind of cool. I'll use it once in a while, take some pictures of the flowers or whatever. Bugs. There's also a new seventy seven millimeter telephoto lens. So the telephoto lens now lets you do three times optical zoom. It used to be two or two and a half.

Now it's three, and so that's nice. Now if you look at Samsung, they're doing like I think, ten times and obviously up to one hundred times on the Ultra. I think the Ultra there, I can't remember. Don't quote me, but I think it was thirty times optical. But maybe it was ten times. I can't remember at this point, it's been too long. But so the fact that iPhone is pretty far behind in the optical zoom, you know, but they're getting there three times is a good thing.

So you know, the more you can get with zoom optical, the better. And quite frankly, when you zoom in, even with the you know, the software assistance, it still looks pretty good. On the iPhone, let's see, night Mode is now available on all three cameras on the Pro models, including the Telephoto. That's the first first time ever. So when you take nightmode on all those cameras, it will work, and it will capture more light and make your photos

look better. They've got this new thing called photographic Styles, which I'll probably never use, but if you're a pro photographer maybe you would. They've got pro res Video which is coming later, and that's going to be a better format if you're like a pro videographer. But again, if you notice I keep saying the words pro, this new Promax and Pro are really aimed at the person who is very much interested in really really the best photos and videos you can get, which aka is not the

average consumer. So when someone asks me rich do I need to upgrade? I mean the iPhone, even the iPhone like from a couple of years ago, cakes really good pictures in everyday light when you get in those challenging lighting situations when you're in a darkly lit bar or restaurant or action with your kids, that's when these newer phones will shine. So if you feel like your phone is lagging those areas, that's where these would be a

good upgrade. Battery life definitely improved to the iPhone thirteen Pro is gonna get you one and a half hours longer than iPhone twelve Pro, up to two and a half hours longer than the Pro Max on the twelve. So if you have an iPhone twelve Pro like I do, battery life has been a very sore issue. So I'll take an hour and a half longer for sure, I'll take two and a half hours longer, which would be even longer. I mean, that's that's really good. That means

less charging for me, all right. Availability iPhone thirteen Pro and Pro Max available in graphite, gold, silver, and Sierra Blue, which would be my choice that Sierra blue one twenty eight again two fifty six five twelve, and a new

one terabyte storage option. Now, this one terabyte storage is great if you're shooting a lot of video, like for me personally, I'll be shooting my entire story on the iPhone here in Chattanooga, and so I would need a lot of storage, but I bumped it down to ten EP because we don't air in in four K anyway. So it's fine to just do ten ADP because I don't need all that extra storage gobbling up my phone. So the one terabyte do you really need it? Know,

some people get it because they just want it. And if you're a pro videographer, fine nine ninety nine for the Pro, ten ninety nine for the Promax in one twenty eight. I would not recommend getting the one twenty eight. If you're going pro, you probably want to go two fifty six minimum because one twenty eight is just going to be way way too little storage. That's it. I think that's it for the for the iPhone thirteen pro in Promax. So am I impressed? I mean, obviously Apple

does a nice job of improving these phones. This is what I call an S improvement. We didn't get a major new feature like mag safe or Touch ID or face ID or Apple Pay on these phones, but they are really nice improvements, especially if you're interested in the best video and audio. Are sorry, best video and pictures you can get on a smartphone. And if you're on

one of these upgrade plans. It's great. I think ninety nine point nine percent of people will be perfectly happy with the iPhone twelve standard model Mini if they want just a little tinier phone, and the Max if they want or Pro rather if they want the best videos and pictures, and Max if you want the best videos and pictures with a big screen. All right, let's get to a question, and we'll go to an audio question this time.

and what they do is they send malicious code. The best code that they can send is code that doesn't even need to be tapped. That's These are taps that are like zero click exploits, which means you don't even have to click the whatever they send in the attachment for it to infiltrate your phone. And that's really bad. And that's kind of the patch that we saw with iOS fourteen point eight. That's the one that you saw recently.

If you haven't updated your phone, definitely update it. Because the ways that hackers were able to get into these phones was through I message and also through web pages that had malicious code in them, and you really didn't have to do much. In fact, I believe that all they had to do was send the message to your phone and that was it. Whatever the phone did to like process the message would be enough for them to

gain access to your phone. Now, I don't think that's happening here with these spam texts that you're talking about.

They are just mostly annoying, But what the endgame is with these spam texts is that they are trying to get your personal information which you know, if you click the links, it tells them that you have an active phone number, and it also if you follow the links, it will you know, they'll just either try to get your personal information, your personal data, or they will try to say that you won something like I and I do this stuff for you and I you know, I'd

click these links just to see what the deal is. And the last one I clicked was it led me to a website where I won a free pair of I think they called them air phones, which looked strikingly similar to air pods. And all I had to do as the winner of the hour was to pay nine to ninety nine for shipping for these air pods. So do not fall for those kind of tricks. Don't even

reply stop. Now there are legitimate texts that you can get to your phone and a lot of companies now you do use text to get in touch with you. But if it's a legitimate company, it will respond to the word stop. So if you get a text from a company like you know, I don't know, let's say you sign up. You sign up for Wendy's Text Alerts. You want to get some coupons in your in your text and you know, once you sign up for these things,

they really take advantage. Once they get a hot number, they're like, all right, we're gonna we're gonna text you, and you'll get a text every day from Wendy's about you know, trying the spicy chicken nugs or trying the new baconate or sandwich or whatever. And so they'll they'll text you over and over and you know, until you say, oh gosh, I'm really craving Wendy's. But at some point, if you get sick of those texts, you can just text the word stop back and they will respect that

and they will stop texting you. That's a legitimate company sending legitimate texts that you signed up for. If these are not legitimate texts, if they are just scammers, you do not want to respond at all. You can block the number, but it doesn't really matter because they generate random numbers anyway when they text you. But you can just go ahead and delete that message. Do not respond, do not reply, and definitely don't click the link in

that message. Andrew, great question, and thanks for texting in or sorry calling leaving a voicemail I think you used. There's two ways you can leave a voicemail. If you want to email me, you can just email record it on your phone and then email me the video the voice message to hello at Richontech dot tv. Or you can go to podpage dot com slash rich on Tech and you can look for a microphone in the lower right hand corner and you can send mic a message

that way. All right, next story is iOS fifteen. I just talked about iOS fourteen point eight, but I talked about all the new iPhones. If you're sitting there listening and saying, rich you didn't really convince me. I don't think I need a new iPhone. I think my iPhone is going to be just fine. So in that case, you will get a fresh new iPhone when you install iOS fifteen, or at least it'll feel like a fresh new iPhone. iOS fifteen is releasing on September twentieth. Now

this is this is so typical Apple. And you know, I love Apple, but I also hate Apple in certain ways because they do things that are just There's always this idea of it's not I don't want to say lying biomission, but it's kind of the idea of leaving out information and then people have to seek out that information. And as a journalist, I feel like this often happens to me when I go and talk to someone about something, whether it's a new car, whether it's a new gadget,

whether it's a new whatever. The person the representative never sits there and tells me what the gadget doesn't do. They only tell me what it does, and so it is then my job to sit there and figure out Okay, well they mentioned that it does this, but hold on, did you drop support for this? And I have to do a little slew thing to figure out this stuff. And so Apple, I'm not saying that they were omitting information,

but let's be honest. For the millions upon millions of people that have an iPhone out there, what are they most excited about right now? Is it the new iPhone or is it the upgrade to iOS fifteen. And yes, there's always a couple of people out there that don't want to upgrade, and that's fine. You should be doing

security updates. And in the future, Apple I believe, is going to be separating out security updates from iOS updates so that you can stick with an older version of iOS, but you can still be nice and safe and secure from hackers by installing the software updates. So that's a good thing. But with that said, I think a lot of people would have been interested to know that iOS fifteen is launching on Monday, September twentieth, but Apple conveniently

left that out of their big old announcement. And so why did they leave it out? Well, because why do they want to advertise the fact that your old iPhone is going to get a new lease on life in a couple of weeks. It's gonna feel fresh. And then if you get iOS fifteen installed, why do you need

to upgrade to a new iPhone? Because, by the way, you're going to get some of the same features that are coming to the new iPhones in the in the current iPhones that you have, and by the way, this works all the way back to the iPhone six S and success plus. So if your iPhone is running iOS fourteen right now as we speak, it will be able to run iOS fifteen on September twentieth. Now do you need to run out and install iOS fifteen on the first day? I don't know. If you're nerd like me,

of course you want to. I mean I can't wait to get that on my phone because it feels like an new phone. And yeah, probably slows down your phone just a little bit. Remember people talk about that, the idea that Apple slows down the old devices, and then it came out that yeah, they kind of did because of battery issues. But now they're much more open about that,

much more honest. You can look in your battery settings and see if it's being if it's if your battery is wearing out to the point where your phone is being throttled. But anyway, iOS fifteen coming out on September twentieth. It'll work on all the iPhones, and a couple of the features won't be available at launch, at least according to nine to five, Mac share play will not be there. But one of the big features that will be is

called Focus. And I'm hoping that this will help me separate my work and my personal life a little bit better. And you know, if you follow me on social media at rich on Tech, you know my personal life and my work life are very much intertwined. And I'll get more to that in just a moment with my personal announcement after the next question. But I will tell you it's tough to keep the personal from the public. I mean,

it's just I am who I am. I cover this stuff for a living, but I also live the life. I mean, I live the life of wanting to check out these gadgets and play with these gadgets and figure out what works with gadgets and what doesn't work with gadgets.

And so I'm very open with you. I'm open with the fact that you know, I'm going to be struggling in the next couple of weeks to decide do I want to stick with the iPhone or do I want to switch my personal device to the Pixel six Pixel six Pro, I should say, And that's going to be a big decision because I've gotten so used to iPhone and the iPhone lifestyle with my Apple Watch and air

tags and all this good stuff. But at the same time, I'm kind of ready for something new, and just like I don't actually, I don't think that's like a lot of people. I don't think a lot of people are thinking about switching because they're they're in their their lane. You know, if you're Apple, they're very good at getting

you to stick with Apple, especially because of I message. Now, I'm not going to be beholden to a platform because Apple basically took my phone number and linked it up to this I Message account that yes, it's so nice and it's so great and it works so perfectly and friends love it. But I don't need to be identified by an I message blue bubble. That's just not Sorry, like I will give up I message and when people text me and it comes up green, oh sorry, I

mean you deal with it. And yeah, if you want to take me off your group texts and all this good stuff, you don't want to send me pictures and videos, fine, then you know, find me on telegram. That's that's all I have to say there. All right, what else is new? And iOS fifteen? Weather application is going to be new Ooho new weather application, new design for Safari, but Focus is the big thing. This is again kind of a smaller update, but there will be some new things in

iOS fifteen. All right, let's get to another question. Richard says, Hello, rich I have a question about to do list apps for iPhones. I have used three by five cards to write my to do list seems like forever, but I'm looking for a better system to organize tasks for a work week. Any suggestions. Thank you, Richard. Well, Richard, the system that you are describing is what I use, and so I use three I use a combination of two things. I use three by five cards, and then I use

a task list like a to do list. And believe me, Richard, I have tried everything under the sun. So one of my favorites used to be called wonder list. I've tried Google tasks, I've tried Microsoft tasks or is it Microsoft to do Microsoft to do. I've tried all the different ways that you can keep track of your tasks. I've tried apples, built in reminders, and here here's what's worked

for me. And I do two things now. I do a combination of physical because I decided that I can't give up the three by five index cards at the end of the day. It is the best way. It's just I like to see. And what I use the index cards for is to plan out my stories. I do a story for KTLA and our affiliated stations on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and I have decided that the best way of keeping track of my stories is to write them out on it used to be index cards. And I'll tell you

what I use now. And put them up on a a what do you call a bulletin board with pins, And that is the best way because what happens is, let's say I've got next week stories all planned out. I know, Monday, I'm doing a crime story on a crime app On Wednesday I'm doing the Ford Maverick, and then on Friday, I've got something else planned. And so I know, let's say on Monday something comes up and I've got to push Wednesday story to something else. I

got to push that to Friday. Well, it's easy for me to just move the index cards around and with the push, you pull it out, you move it, and now Wednesday story becomes Friday story. I write a new card for Wednesday and everyone is happy. Now I have graduated those index cards to post it notes on a whiteboard, and I discovered that through the pandemic, and it's just much easier. It's just like a post It's just like a card that you stick into the wall, but it's

a post it note and so it just sticks. I put it on the wall, same principle, and that's how I cover that. When it comes to my to do list, the best to do list that I have found you ready is Microsoft to Do List. And the reason I like it is because a it is platform agnostic, which means if I'm on my Android phone it works. If I'm on my iPhone, it works, if I'm if I'm on Windows, it works, if I'm on Mac it works,

and they've got apps across all those platforms. The other thing I like about it is that you get this thing called my Day, which is a fresh task list for every day. And so if you're like me and you put a lot of tasks on your list that are sort of longer term and not just something you want to accomplish on that day, it gets a little cluttered with your typical task lists because you're looking at

stuff every day that's the same. But with this every day, you get a fresh canvas, and so you can add tasks just to that day and check them off just for that day. But if you don't do them on that day, guess what they go to your big list of all of your tasks. And so I love that aspect. I also love the fact that you can share this easily with someone. So you can share the task list with someone, all they have to do is sign up and you can share that list with them and they

can be on board and so that really helps. Now you asked for a three x five index card system, and so I think what's closest to that if you want to truly go just digital, I think what you would like is called Trello t R E l l O, and that is the most similar you can get to sort of the physical card system, because the way that you set it up, it looks like a board of cards,

and you can rearrange them, you can move them. You can actually set up your Monday, Wednesday, Friday stories like I do, and you can put them in you know, you can put your cards underneath and you can shuffle them around and it works really well. And then you can make you know, even more board. So if you want to have three columns for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and you want a fourth column for your task list, you

can do that. So Trello is probably the best. They do have a free plan and it works really well. I personally don't use it because it just it's just a little bit. I like the system I've settled on, which is a combination of the post it notes and Microsoft to do works for me. Oh yeah, One more thing I like about Microsoft to do that not all of the to do lists offer, is you can drag and drop in your tasks an attachment like a file, and so that's really easy. Like on Apple Reminders, I

can't find a way to attach a file. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they've added that functionality, but I really like the fact that I can just add a file to my reminder. So if I take a screenshot, or if I have a PDF of a bill I need to pay or whatever, I can just toss it in there and when I get to it on my to do list, I don't have to go phishing for that information. It's right in the in the task itself. So great question, Richard, Thank you for asking. And let's talk about the Apple Watch

and then I'll get to my personal info. I put the personal info deep into the podcast so that way you have to be a true listener to really get it, because you know, if you're just listening and you kind of tune now after five minutes and you say, eh, what another yawner from rich then you don't get to share in my personal news. All right, Apple Watch, you have a method to my madness. Apple Watch series seven, So what can I say about the Apple Watch series seven? Well,

number one, all the rumors were wrong. It did not get flatter and look like an iPhone and all that. They didn't change anything. They just made it. They made the screen go a little bit more edge to end. That's kind of what they did. And so twenty percent more screen area and thinner borders, so you know, the screen just goes much more. So the screen looks bigger, even though they didn't really increase the amount of screen

real estate. I mean they did a little bit. They made thinner borders, right, so it does look like it goes a little bit more to the edges. Big whoop. I mean, is this a reason to upgrade?

thing every day. They did improve battery charging time, though, so does charge thirty three percent faster through a new charging architecture and magnetic fast charger USBC cable. I don't know if that means you need a new one to get that. I think it does. That's what it sounds like. Let's see what's the other improvement. They made the screen stronger, so it's got this new fifty percent thicker front crystal. And I will tell you I talked about how my

Apple Watch Series six scratched easily. We'll see they didn't say anything about scratching, but they said crack resistant. Now, I don't think this thing scratches very easily. I think it scratches if it's if it's rubbed up against a certain type of material and it's kind of like your teeth. You know, they're pretty strong, but if you're if you're chomping on ice, which is made of crystals, and those crystals the architecture of them just erecs havoc with the

architecture of whatever it's up against. There are certain things that are just a stronger architecture, geometry. This is like and look at this is actually what Apple says. Look what they say, redesigned front crystal with a stronger and more robust geometry. So I'm not a math expert, I'm not a geometry major, but I just know that certain shapes are are more are harder than other shapes. And you can think about this when you look at supports.

If you have one beam like that looks like a toothpick, and if you ever built one of these like toothpick things in your life for like, you know, a project, you know that like a toothpick just standing upright, if you crush it is gonna crush pretty easily. But if you make that toothpick into more of a of a triangle, it's gonna support more of the weight, I think. I mean, that's kind of what I remember. So this is That's what I'm talking about here. So fifty percent thicker whatever

crystal that's supposedly more crack resistant. Also, for the first time, the Apple Watch seven is IPX six dust resistant. Now I have brought my Apple Watch to the beach and the desert, not so much the desert. I mean, I live in a desert in Los Angeles, but it's not like there's like, you know, dust storms swirling around like I'll never forget. I was driving to Texas one time, and I'm not kidding. We got caught in a real life dust storm and I've never ever seen anything like

it ever again in my life. I think it was called Peko's Texas, and it was unbelievable. I remember we got to our hotel. We could barely see anything in front of you, and we get to our hotel and it's just like dust swarming everywhere. And I remember we ordered a pizza. We had to go out and get the pizza, and it was just like I never had experienced anything like it. So yeah, I guess dust could get in this thing. I've never had problems with sand at the beach ever with the Apple Watch Series six

and earlier. But now it is more dust resistant, so it'll be more durable. It's still swim resistant, which is really good. Now they added some updates with WATCHSOS eight, and some of those updates include a keyboard, a quirdy keyboard on it, so you now get a you know, a real keyboard that's built in. You can either swipe or you can tap the keys on it. So that's cool. Let's see there's let's see what else, a new mindfulness app.

There's sleep, respiratory rate tracking, tai chi, and pilates workout types. Let's see what else, what else? What else? Watch OS eight now has new improvements if you ride a bike. So I did not know this, but fall detection apparently did not work really well if you're on a bike or really working out, and I guess the algorithms have been tweaked, so now know if you fall off a bike, which is really really important. So now it also automatically

knows when you start a bike workout. And so again these are some of those things will come to other watches because it's in Watch OS eight, so some of those things, those improvements will work. Five brand new aluminum case colors, including Midnight, Starlight green, and a new blue and product red. When does the Apple Watch Series seven come out We don't know. Available later this fall. So remember the rumors about the the shipping the Apple Watch

seven would not be available at launch. Well, they said it was going to be available in limited quantities. Well turns out it's yeah, that was right. Actually, Apple Watch Series seven same price three ninety nine, Apple Watch se two seventy nine, Apple Watch Series three at one ninety nine. Don't go Series three. Please, don't go Series three. That's way too old. Series three launched a bunch of years ago, and gosh, let's see how old that is at this point.

If you have one, it's fine, but I would not purchase a new one. I don't think that that's that's a smart thing to do at this point. Let's see, where where's my Wikipedia? Let's see Apple Watch serious three Wikipedia. Okay, let's see. It was first available April twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, No. Twenty twenty seventeen, three years ago. So I mean, that's not too old as far as Apple products go, and

it's nice that it still works. But I would definitely go se minimum and then I go Series seven if you can. And I would personally go with Cellular if you can, because I think cellular is the watch. I mean, if you ever, well, I run a lot outside by myself and without my phone, and so for me, Cellular is the feature of the Apple Watch. And if I ever do switch to the Pixel, I'm gonna activate my Apple Watch with Cellular on the family plan, which is

gonna be a little wonky. I'm gonna use the family setup, which is not ideal because it won't be perfect. But anyway, that's a whole nother story. All right, let's get to another question and then I'll do my personal info. Okay, let's do another recording. Here we go another voice memo here.

about this website on the website, which is odd. So I would definitely not use this as my primary storage in fact, I would not even trust the you know, the encryption, Like if you're just sharing like random, like if you just need a terabyte of storage space to store random stuff that's not very personal, that's just easy, and you don't really care about the privacy, then I think this would work. But I would I would not guarantee or expect this to be around in a year

or two, like you just don't know. And that's I'm only saying that because there's nothing about it on the website like usually it would say about there'd be a Twitter link or a LinkedIn, or a Facebook or an Instagram. There's none of that stuff. But it looks like a nice website. You can log in with Google log in, create an account. There's an Android client and iPhone client. And if you go to the iPhone client, let's see what the ratings are. There's only nine hundred and twelve ratings.

It says it's owned by FlexTech, and so if you look at the developer website, let's see, yeah, brings you back to Terrorbox now. I was able to find a press release. It says Terrorbox surpasses ten million global downloads. This was on September fourteenth, twenty twenty one comes out of sunny Veil, says terror Box, a cloud based storage

subscription provider, announced ten million downloads. While many competitors offer free cloud most don't exceed five gigabytes without a paid subscription, Terrorbox gives users one terabyte a free cloud storage space, which is approximately two hundred and fifty six thousand and four megabyte photos. Terrorbox automatically sinks files across devices and local storage. Oh that's interesting, so you can ability, you can upload files up to four gigs in size or

twenty gigs with paid easily share files online previews. Compatibility with iOS, Android, and desktop computers, and it also sorts into categories like flowers, food, and home. Available in iOS and Android. TERBYX for Windows will be available on September sixteenth, twenty twenty one. Oh that's interesting. Okay, that's like very soon.

Tear Box is a okay, and it actually has a contact, a PR contact in the US, So I mean, look, and I've actually gotten emails from these people, so like the other let's see have I gotten from this agency? Have I gotten anything? Yeah? I have so oh wow, oh yeah, Okay, it's a legit agency because I've worked with them on other things, so t E R A box. Yeah, it seems legit, but again I would be cautious. I would just be cautiously optimistic. Use this for like a

way to store stuff. You've got a terabyte in the cloud, but just don't bank too much on it. And apparently the company that it's owned by. I looked up a little bit more and it apparently it's owned by a Japanese division of a China company. So I don't know take that at I just you know, we just don't know. There's just not too much that I just wish it had more information about who like owns this, but it

just doesn't. And you would think, okay, now I got to another page that tells me a little bit more about it. But again, okay, so if I go to membership pages, normal user gets one terabyte and then a premium user. Okay, so it tells you, oh, okay, this is interesting. You don't get high speed downloads, and you don't get automatic video back up. You can only say five hundred files, playback resolution is seven to twenty, maximum

file size four gigs, and it's not ad free. Okay, So there are some limitations to the free but again, you can upgrade to premium for gosh, see I don't I hate when they don't say how much pricing is on their page anyway, So this is again terror Box is something that you only want to do if you

are in need of some storage. There are other places out there where you can get storage, maybe not a terabyte for free, but you know, you can always exhaust your other options like dropbox and one edrive and Google Drive. But again they're all kind of clamping down on that free storage. All right, let's get to my news. So I've talked about this in the podcast before, but you know,

this podcast is called Rich on Tech. It's a lot about me and my world, and I try to make it as personal as possible because I'm a real person. I'm a human being that covers technology in Los Angeles. Yes, I'm on TV, so that makes me like, oh my gosh, this guy's on TV. And you know, it's so interesting that when you're on TV people think you're different than you know, people that are not on TV. And I'm not. I'm just a regular person that happens to be on TV.

So yes, you see me on there, anyone can see me, anyone can know who I am. But the reality is I'm just a regular person and I'm going through everything in life just like you are. And whether that's family, whether that's kids, whether that's problems, whether that's good things, whether that's highs, whether that's lows, it's all there. My life is no different than yours except for the fact that I have to get up really early and be on TV, and that's basically it. I have a job

just like everyone else. Some days are better than others. So anyway, the reason why I tell you all that is because some people try to, you know, hide their personal life. I feel like I can't because my life is so intertwined with what I do, whether I'm sharing pictures of my kids, whether I'm sharing where I am going, whatever. So with all that said, I'm not you know, this is not like a big life change. Well it kind

of is. But the reason I tell you this is because I wouldn't typically tell you about the type of car I drive, because there's no reason to unless it was pertinent to what I cover. And now I feel like it is because this week I purchased a Tesla and I'm very excited about that fact, because it's been a long time coming. If you've listened to this podcast in the past, you've known that I've or you know that I've talked about the fact that my next car

will probably be a Tesla. And so it came to a point where I felt like I wanted a new car. I was ready, and I bought a Tesla. I bought it on September first. I got it a couple of days ago. How did I get it so fast? Well, there's a little secret on the Tesla website called existing inventory. And if you go on that website and you look at the existing inventory, Tesla releases a couple of cars looks like every day that are already made. Now, I

don't know what's wrong with these cars. Like I'm not what's wrong, but like, how do they have these cars? I'm not really sure. Is it someone that says I'll never mind, I don't want it. They build these cars and then they're just ready or do they just build a couple extras. I don't know. But I got my car in two weeks versus months. And the reason I tell you this is because I will probably be talking about the Tesla more and more and I will say,

I'm already obsessed. I love it. It has changed my world. I'm learning all about it. I'm watching multiple YouTube videos about all the different features. I'm getting used to the idea of charging at work, you know, wherever I go. I haven't done the home charger yet. But again, it's this is a new experience in my life, and it feels like when I first got the iPhone. That's really what it feels like, because I'm exploring this new way of doing things that is just so different and it's

really amazing. And I feel like I'm driving like something that Elon Musk personally like gave me. It's so weird because I feel like his imprints are on this car with the humor that's built into it. But anyway, so I tell you this because I will be talking about it in future episodes. I am now on a very different path in life, the EV path, which is really you know, it's it's something new and in America we are so gas centric that it is it is really a leap of faith to go down this road of

EV and so I'm there. It's exciting. I will tell you also that I sold my old car through Shift, so that was an experience in itself. I you know, with these new you know, I used to sell my car with Carmacks when I've purchased cars in the past, and I thought that was amazing. The fact that you can just go somewhere and they purchase your car from you and give you money for it is on the spot. It is amazing. And then when Carvana came along, I said, oh my gosh, now I can sell it to Carvana.

They come to you, Oh my gosh. And then I saw Shift and I basically compared the pricing from Shift, Carvana and Carmacks. Carmacks could not give me a quote on my phone. Carvana was a couple thousand less than Shift and Shift. The big difference is that when Carvana takes your car, according to my friend, the money is

in your account immediately. With Shift, it does go through a kind of a little more of a holding period where they do come to your house, they do the evaluation, but there is a final inspection off site that does take a little bit longer to get your money. So I was very nervous in handing my car over along with my pink slip. I think that is that what they call it the title whatever, you know, the slip

for the title and not having the money. But every person I talked to from Shift assured me that I would get my money, and I did after only twenty four hours. They sent me an email saying, your car passed the final inspection. Your money is on its way, but it could take three to four days to get it. So I can't say with certainty that the Shift process worked out. It's Shift dot com Shift, by the way. That's what I'm saying. But I can't say with certainty

that it worked out. But it seems to have worked out, and I seem to have gotten more than Carvana. So the way I understand it is that Carvana gives you a little bit more than Carmak, and then Shift, it seems, is paying people a little bit more than CarMax. Right now, it's probably because they probably do less advertising on TV, they have maybe a little bit less overhead, and they're probably just less known, so they need more cars to

do the same thing as Carbona. So I think it's an amazing world we live in today, the fact that we have this already. I will tell you that range anxiety is real. Every trip that I go on. I'm just sitting there thinking, Oh my gosh, do I have enough mileage to get there? How am I going to charge once they get there? Am I gonna be able to get back home? How am I going to charge

at home? Because I don't have a charger yet. But it's a new world, and I've got to say, I have not been this excited about something in the tech world for many, many years, and so I am very excited about that. And oh my gosh, we're already fifty five minutes into the show. I haven't even gotten to the rest. I have so much more to talk about. I've just been very long winded, so I'll just keep going a little bit. Let's talk about the iPad Mini

iPad MANI. This got some of the biggest improvements. What do you need to know about the iPad MANI. It is totally brand new. It's got this big eight point three inch screen, comes in pink, starlight, purple, and gray. It's got touch ID at the top on the fingerprint sensor I guess, on the power button. It now supports the second generation Apple pencil. It's got the new A fifteen bionics, so a really fast chip that is in the new iPhones. It's got the center stage, so the

cameras are improved. Center stage means that the camera will follow you when you're doing a video chat. It's got USB C, it's got five G optional cellular, and I'll be honest, I think this is something that I am going to purchase because I love the idea that I

can take this on trips. I know, I try to pack light, but I still like the idea of a little iPad, and especially if I'm gonna be using the pixel, I'll still want the iOS for you know, researching and just in general, and so this is kind of a nice way of having that iOS experience. Maybe I don't need it if I just do the new iPhone, but this would be six hundred and forty nine dollars with cellular,

four ninety nine without cellular. And the annoying thing here is that Apple raised the price by one hundred dollars on this thing. It used to be three ninety nine and now it's four ninety nine, and that is a I just hate the fact that in twenty twenty one. You know, I get it, they improved a lot of stuff, but why do we have to have a price increase. I don't like that. So yeah, all right, let's should we do another question? Let's do another question? Uh, Dixon

writes in Oh, this isn't a question, it's actually a complaint. Hey, Rich, I took your advice and bought one of these earbuds. It arrived a couple days ago, since I live in Irvine. First glance, the packaging was professional and I pleasing. I immediately tested the sound quality compared to my Bose earbuds that I've been using for years. I'm sorry to inform you with big disappointment of the bad quality of the sound, not even close to my bows and clarity and sound.

I reached out, Oh, these are one plus buds. I reached out to one plus online to return the item. As of today, five business days have gone by, still waiting for the return label. I emailed them twice. The response was wait twenty four to forty eight hours. I'm still waiting. Their customer service is super slow. Just to let you know my thoughts. I know you get paid by sponsoring products on air, but this one is a

big disappointment compared to Bo's users. Best regards, Dixon. All right, Dixon, Number one, I do not get paid to sponsor products on air, So I don't get paid to sponsor pretty much anything. Now, I will tell you there's a couple of things that I do have happened to me, and I will always let you know. Number One, I've said this before. My paycheck comes from KTLA, So that is how I make my money. I do not make money

by sponsored content almost ever. Now. In the past, yes, I have done I think two sponsored Instagram posts when I was allowed to do that under my previous company. They allowed, I asked for permission, they let me do it. I did it. That's that's the only thing. But if you see me post about anything on my social media, it is something that I just find interesting. It's something

I'm doing a story on. That's it. That there's no money changing hands, and if there ever is, if there's ever a situation where that happens, I will let you know and I will be very clear about it. But that does not happen because it's not really allowed to happen under my current agreement unless I make other agreements with my company, and so I don't get paid by sponsoring products. That's just not something that I do in the future. That may change. It could change, but that's

not currently how I operate, so that doesn't happen. That's I reviewed the one plus buds because I genuinely love them, and these are the one plus buds Pro that you're talking about. I fell in love at these. I think they are the I still think that they are some of the best Android earbuds you can get for one hundred and fifty dollars, which I think is a fantastic price. Now you're talking about Bo's. I did not compare these

in my report to BOS. I just said that I thought they were the best alternative to the air pods for Android users. I am not an audio file I am not a sound guy. I just come from a personal experience of I've tested a lot of headphones out there, or a lot ofhone earbuds. Some sound better than others, some are better than others. But the reality is I was very impressed with these. I thought they were amazing, and I recommended them to everyone and anyone who was

willing to listen. Now, you are totally you are one hundred percent entitled to your opinion, and that is what makes the world go round. So if you found that these don't compare to your bows. Go back to your bows. I would have helped you. If OnePlus does not get back to you in a timely manner, yes, I will jump in and help you get satisfaction on this return. I will not leave you hanging because, yes, this is something I recommended you bought them didn't work out. I

think OnePlus is just smaller than Apple. They're not as nimble, and they're not as like you know, they're not as well positioned for returns like a big company like Samsung or Apple. So yeah, it might take a little bit longer for them to get you your money and your return, But I do think it will happen. If it doesn't, please get in touch with me, and I know you will, but that in that aspect, I will help you. So thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. It's what makes

the world go round. Not everyone shares the same opinion, and so it's you know, it's totally within your reason to email me something like this. All right, let's just get through some of these other announcements before the show ends. Here, Apple's standard iPad, the three hundred and twenty nine dollars iPad, which I still think is the best iPad out there for the average person. What did it get new? It got a new chip A thirteen bionics so it's more powerful.

It got a new front facing cam and with that center stage feature I was talking about, And that's about it. So that's pretty much all you need to know. The standard iPad at three twenty nine is still I think the best iPad for the average person, especially if you have kids. People email me all the time saying rich which I perhap should I get from my kids? The Mini I would recommend, but it's too expensive at four ninety nine's that's like really a lot three twenty nine.

This typically goes on sale for cheaper, so I would say go for that Apple Fitness plus a couple things to note there. They built new guided meditation into the app and also pilates into the app, and that's going to launch on September twenty seventh. Then later this fall they're going to launch this new thing called group workouts, where you can invite up to thirty two friends to work out at the same time, kind of like a group FaceTime, but with workouts. All right, let's get to

another question. Then I'll round up two more news stories and then we'll go all right. Fred Wrights, Hey Rich, how are you? I have a Samsung S ten Android at and T is the provider my issue. I can't find a way to stop the camera from identifying the location the picture was taking. I already turned off the location stamp and the camera settings menu and the main settings. I deny GPS access to the camera. The interesting part is that the location stamp is not on every picture.

It's very random. Sometimes it shows up on every second or third picture. Other times maybe on the ninth or eighth picture. All the firmware and software on the picture, on the camera, on the are updated. Any ideas on how to stop the camera from accessing location? Thanks for your help, Fred, Fred here is what I think is happening. Because you're on Samsung, I was gonna recommend that you turn off the There's a thing called location tags. If you go into your camera, open it up, open up settings,

and there's something called location tags. You can toggle that off. Once you toggle that off, you can confirm that location is no longer being attached to a picture. How can you confirm that by opening Samsung's gallery app? I have a feeling I know what's going on here. I have a feeling that you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos. And I'll explain what's going on in a second. But in the gallery app, the only way to confirm that. There's two ways. In the Gallery app, open up a

picture and with all these settings turned off. You said you turn off GPS on the camera, you deny GPS in the permissions. That's a great start. That's basically the way to deny GPS what they call EXIF data to being written, to being written on these photos. To confirm it, open up these Samsung Gallery app, it is called Gallery. Open it up, open up a picture, and if you look at the details of that picture, you have to use a little menu. Look at details. There should be

no location attached to those pictures. There's no way your phone is still attaching location because you've turned it off and you've disabled it. What I think is happening is I think you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos. And what Google Photos does is, because Google is so smart, it is not just looking at the GPS tags on

those pictures. It's also looking at something called location history, which is an aggregate of your location every time you open up any sort of Google app on your phone. It kind of figures out where you are. It takes that into consideration. It says, oh, okay, Riches in Chattanooga, he took a picture at nine am. Although it doesn't have GPS, we know he's there. We're going to say

estimated location Chattanooga, Tennessee. Now, so I want you to open up these pictures in Google Photos and see if it says estimated location when you look at the location. If it does, I think I've solved your problem. The location is not actually being attached to this picture physically. It is being estimated by Google. And what that means is that only you can see where that picture was theoretically taken, because Google is only showing you that data.

The other tool you can use is called Jeffries x IF Viewer, and if you google Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer, you can click that and you can upload the picture there and it will show you the EXIF data. And this is a good way to see if EXIF data is being attached to the picture. If it is, you'll see GPS coordinates. If it's not, you will not. So great question there. Let me just get through two more

stories before this show is over all. Right, So Kindle getting an update for the first time in a long time, and if you've already seen it, maybe you have. But Kindle software update is rolling out as we speak. The new software update gives you more direct access to home library in their current book, as well as easy access to commonly used settings. So that is the main feature.

Now when you swipe down from the top, you can get access to kind of the things that you need, which is, let's see the airplane mode, Bluetooth sync settings and brightness and so this is an easy way to do just that, which is really nice. Also, then you can get your access to her font and all that stuff. My wife and I always crack up because she looks at my font that I use on my Kindle and it's super small. But I do adjust the lighting every so often, like I find that the automatic adjustment of

the back light isn't the best. Maybe it's better with a new update. So if you want the new update, you can go into your settings and go to software update in the Kindle. Otherwise you can just wait for it to hit your Kindle. It's going to be hitting it for a while. The feature that I do like that. I think I've been talking I've already talked about on the Kindle is the fact that you can now display the book you're reading on your cover when your Kindle

is is not in use. And that's only if you have the ad free version of the Kindle, which I don't think most people have. Okay, Earlier in the show, I mentioned that Google has Google has answered my Google Cloud storage dreams and they came up with a middle ground tier. So it used to be you had to choose between two terabytes, which I used to pay ten dollars for and ten terabytes, which I had to upgrade to and pay fifty dollars for a month for my

Google Photos. Now they have a new five terabyte storage plan which is twenty five dollars a month, which just saved me. Get this, twenty five dollars a month, so that is amazing. Thank you Google for doing that. And I'm not going to go into detail on what I still need to do with this situation, but I am currently saving twenty five dollars a month on my plan,

which is really great. You can actually pay the whole year in advance for two hundred and fifty dollars, So two fifty divided by twelve actually brings your monthly payment down to twenty dollars and eighty three cents a month, which is even four dollars less a month than when I'm currently paying. So I will eventually do that. I just didn't, you know, I bought the car, so I didn't really feel like spending another two hundred fifty dollars when I saw this. So I will eventually do that

very soon. And thank you Google for doing that. Oh, thank you for listening. That is going to do it for this episode of the show. If you're listening on Facebook, stay tuned. Afterwards, I will come to you and chat for just a moment, even after the podcast recording ends. If you would like to submit a question for me to answer, just go to my Facebook page Facebook, dot com slash rich on Tech, hit the big blue send email button. I would also love it if you would

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rich Dmiro. Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways you can spend well over an hour of your time this time around, I do appreciate you spending it with me. I will talk to you real soon. Mhmm.