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do you send a lot of them? And yeah, yeah, yeah, I get them always. I mean Instagram, DMS, email, Facebook posts, text messages. I mean, you guys, you find me, you figure out how to get in touch with me, and I reply to a lot of them. But this is the place where I really take the time to kind of share what I'm talking to you about privately with everyone, whether you like it or not, if you email me or text me, that's just what happens. I'm the tech

reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Yeah, it's been quite the year. We're almost done with it, if you can believe it. And I've been enjoying the holidays a lot last night, we went to this. It's so funny that a drive through Christmas light display is a thing, but that's the thing here in Los Angeles. And we went through this it's called like Wonderland last night. It was really cool and they put a lot of work into it. It was like, you know, a whole drive through.

We went to one that was just lights. This one was sort of a whole wonderland, you know, with like snow and you know, different buildings and just all kinds of stuff and dancers moving around like it was. It was pretty well done. I got to say, seventy bucks for a car loads, so I mean, you know, it wasn't cheap, but I mean, we're My wife and I were discussing this and it's like, well, you know, if you go to a movie for a family of four,

you're gonna easily spend seventy bucks. I mean, tickets alone here in La are probably you know, depending on the depending on the time in the theater. You know, I've gotten them as low as like nine dollars for like a cheap matinee to like as much as like eighteen dollars depending on where you go.

What did I say good? Who did I offend? And the one word that I was looking for last week was nesting. That's what I've been doing. And so everything is nice and cozy in my place, lots of fireplaces at night.

canceled everything. We canceled Near's Eve, Christmas Eve, all of our vacations this year. And yeah, I know, poor Rich, I know, so tough, but.

You know, I think I'm having deja vu. I think I already talked about this, but anyway, I've been cleaning up my Google Drive because you know, I'm on this mission to get it, you know, as low as possible, so I don't have to pay any extra come June next year or whenever they're doing it. I think it's June, and I've been I've been making some progress on that. All right, let's get to some of the news. I guess this was big news for the week. I mean,

if it's Apple, it's always big news, right. Apple introduced a new pair of headphones called the AirPods Max. They love, they love using. For a while, it was plus. Now plus is anything like a subscription that you're paying extra for, like Disney Plus US or the upcoming Apple Fitness Plus. Anything with a plus at the end means they're going to be slowly but surely sapping the money out of your bank account over a long period of time. That's what the plus means in any name, ESPN plus. Oh,

we'll take this six ninety nine a month. Where's the Spotify Plus? All these music services started before there was plus in the name. So the AirPods Max are headphones that go over the ear. And the big headline that you know everyone was talking about is that these are five hundred and forty nine dollars WHOA for a.

they're still still cranking. And three point fifty was very well spent because I've divided up by all the international trips I've and air trips I've taken with them, and yeah, you do by the hour, and it's like a penny per hour at this point. So anyway, now I'm not defending these AirPods Max. I know that that price is extremely high. But with s said, they've got the Apple Magic built in, they've got the noise cancelation, they've got you know, three D audio, they've got adaptive sound.

what are they gonna say. I mean, they're these these headphones are probably beautiful, they probably sound great, and they're probably nice and lightweight, just as advertised. But the reality is, is the average person ready to plunk down five hundred and forty nine dollars? Probably not? But will there be enough people that say, yeah, I was thinking of spending three fifty. I mean, what's another two hundred if I'm

going to three fifty? And I don't think that's me per se, but there will be a lot of people, especially I'm thinking like the frequent flyer set, sort of the influencer set, the quasi celebrity set, and you know, the business folks set, and you know, the typical person, you know, the average Joe might get these. Yeah, probably not, I don't think so. So twenty hours of audio and you know, it does everything as you would imagine. It's basically a beautiful pair of AirPods in a different form

function or different form factor. Five hundred forty nine dollars shipping on Tuesday, December fifteenth. You know, I'll be honest if I'm if I'm being completely honest with you, if I was, you know, using an iPhone, which you know I do, but I struggle because I always want to switch to my Android. But if I'm using an iPhone, you know, like permanently, which I have been for two years.

feel great. I mean, AirPods are pretty magical, and so if you can get that same thing with a pair of over the year headphones, I mean, that's pretty awesome. All right, let's get to our first question, and this one is a little different because I've got a new podcast home. Just go to podcast dot rich on tech dot TV or rich on TV, rich on TV, rich on tech dot TV, slash podcast, and that will take you to the new home for my podcast.

pretty complex stuff. You know, let people know that it's not difficult to step your level of security a notch.

looking at the website and it looks really cool. So what sort of if I'm understanding this, it's kind of like a physical key that unlocks your two factor authentication for your various accounts. So instead of having to like type in a number with like an authenticator app, you would just use this and it would authenticate automatically and seamlessly. Because the idea being is that you have this little key and it's on your body, and you're the one that that would be able to authenticate.

I use one, my wife uses one. I told my dad about it on or who'd I tell to just use it? You know, Like the iPhone and Android have them built in, and they're getting a little bit more aggressive now, like it's kind of on by default. I feel like when you download Chrome on Android or it's called like Google smart lock or something, it's like the first time you type in a pass word, it's like, do you want us to save that for you, and you're like what, Or I've noticed on iPhone it will

just suggest them for you if you're in Safari. So we're making progress, folks. It's just a matter of like this this UBI key is like next next level, and so I'm not sure. In the past, I've kind of shied away from this with a mainstream audience because it it might like you also have to think on TV, how do you tease something? How do you say to people you know, you know why they should tune in and watch your story, And with this one it would

be kind of tough. I mean, it's like, you know, a better way to secure your accounts, you know, and maybe it's easier, but again I need to research. So thank you for the for the voicemail and thanks for the story suggestion. I will definitely look into it. And

it looks cool. I remember so many years ago my roommate was he had a job, and he sat down at his computer and he had like this little keychain thing that would like I think it was for like e trade or something, and it would like randomly generate a number every thirty seconds or whatever it was, and it was a two factor authenticator and at the time I didn't even know what it was, but he's like, yeah, I got to pop in this number to make sure

it's me when I log in. I was like, oh, interesting, So I'm guessing this ubkey sort of functions in that way without a physical display.

what is happening here? Disney had a big announcement. They said they have one hundred and thirty seven million paid subscribers, which is eleven and a half million ESPN Plus subscribers, thirty eight point eight million Hulu subscribers, and eighty six point eight million Disney Plus subscribers. That's just since launched

in November twenty nineteen. So we are just one year into Disney Plus and they think they're gonna hit three hundred to three hundred and fifty million total subscribers by twenty twenty four, and they say Disney Plus is gonna release more than one hundred titles this year.

I mean, here's the thing about these subscriptions. It's great that they're monthly, but I like the fact that you can save yearly. But who wants to pay these bills yearly?

You know, if you do the math, I think it's twenty dollars a year saves me, but I just can't get myself to do it because I'm like, ah, I hate when these bills just like bill your account randomly, Like I got my bill for like Nest and it was like one hundred and fifty bucks for the year, just like randomly, like it just shows up on your card and you're like, oh, I forgot about that, or like sirious XM used to be a big one that used to do that, but now I have them bill me.

talking you're getting your values worth. I personally am watching a lot of Hulu recently, and I have I pretty much have all the streaming services because my feeling is I just you know, when you add them all up for me personally, it's kind of like what I was paying for cable, and I'm just like This is so much easier.

three dollars a month now. And okay, the music services they have not budged from nine ninety nine for a long time, so I feel like maybe they're gonna sneak in a dollar price increase in twenty twenty one, so now they can be up to ten ninety nine a month. I mean, it gets so when you have five or six of these things, when they all start raising the bills, you know, it's just like cable TV back in the day,

they always raised the bill like clockwork. Cable TV rates went up every year, and that's sort of what we're seeing with a lot of these streaming services. It's just a little more staggered because not all of them do the price increase every year, but enough of them do where it's becoming kind of in line with what.

with probably a fitbit. I would also kind of, you know, see what he needs, see what he wants, Like, he may not need all the features of the smart watch. Maybe he just needs a regular fitbit or maybe even like the whys they're coming out with the new smart watch. Maybe wait till that one comes out in January, and that's only twenty dollars. But the fitbits, you know, the versus is kind of pricey. You're looking at probably over one hundred dollars for that, but you can get cheaper

fitbits as well. It really depends what he wants to do with this thing. If he really wants, like all the features on a smart watch, yeah.

I think he'll be very happy with it. The main thing about that, you know what, there's no downside. I think he'll be just fine speaking of smartphones. You know, look, I don't want to get into like the whole you know, this whole coronavirus stuff. It's so it's so wild to me that it has become polarizing to try to get through this virus, right And look, do I want to sit there and wear a mask every day? Of course, not like I want to be on with my regular life.

You know, because it's been around for a while. Well, they finally did get on board this week with an app called ca Notify. And the way this works is if you have a you know, Android or iPhone, it basically sends out a little tiny Bluetooth number that changes like all the time, and when the two devices are near each other within six feet for fifteen minutes, they

exchange those numbers. And what this does is if someone comes down with COVID nineteen, they pop a special code into their phone and their phone will then notify the other phones that belong to those random numbers. It's all anonymous, there's no location, and it was you know, this system was created by like really smart people at Apple and Google, and I mean, come on, these two giants are working together, like there's not any secrets here. You know, they had

everything published. It was all up and up and like you know, long story short, I published these videos and everyone was just like Rich, oh my gosh, no way, Like I'm not big brother government, well whatever, and like yeah, I mean is does government always do like what's best? I don't, you know, don't want to get into that either. But the reality is, I think this program's pretty good. I think if a lot of people use it, it would help notify you earlier that you came into contact

with someone coronavirus. But the reality is a lot of people don't want to use it. Clearly is evidence by the comments on my social media. And maybe that's just the commenters on social media.

you turn it on. There is no personal information that's collected now, and I will tell you if I thought there was, because when when Los Angeles partnered with with Citizen for their I think it was called a safe Path something, I recommended that you don't use it because it did use personal information, it had location, they didn't turn off GPS it. You know, it was just the privacy policy was like kind of tough to figure out, and so I recommended that people did not participate in that.

And so with this one, I do think it's different, and I do recommend that you participate. But again, you know, we can have different opinions and it's fine. I'm not you know, I'm not saying that you have to agree with me, but I do think that if a lot of people are on board, it probably would help in the bigger scheme of things.

app you like? I agree Midge that the podcast app on iPhone is very, very complicated if you want to do anything more than just like subscribe to a couple shows and play them, but you can't build a playlist, you know. It's like it's just very weird, and it downloads everything all the time. It's like, if you ever look in your storage on your iPhone, if you have podcasts enabled, it's it's gobbling up like gigs and gigs of data just by itself if you don't change the

default settings. And I've tried to change the defaut settings, but there's there's no one way to turn them all off or turn them all on. It's really really tricky. So I agree it is a frustrating app, and I'm not sure why Apple doesn't put more effort into like giving it some features, or maybe purchasing one of the other podcast apps and incorporating some of their features in there.

And there are a lot of alternatives. I mean, The big difference is that you know, they just don't integrate as well with your iPhone as the of course Apple version does. But the one that I go back to over and over is called pocket Casts, And again it's got a lot of features under the hood. You don't need to necessarily use all of them, but it does

have a lot of stuff. A couple of the features I like is the ability to create smart playlists where I like to back when I was like driving to work, I like to have a podcast, like almost like a playlist of all the little things I want to listen to on my ride into work. And it can easily do that and filter out by like Okay, I want these five podcasts. I want them in this order, and I want them to play only one episode, and I want it to be the most recent, like you can

do that. It's powerful, and you can do where it automatically downloads like a podcast that you star or it can you know, it's just it just does a lot of stuff. So I have my podcast kind of organized by I have like interviews, and so I go through and any interview I want to listen to in that list, I download and then I look at my downloads and see the list of things that I wanted to listen to, and then I have like a tech list, and then I have like a you know, like a news list,

and then I have, uh, what's the other one. I have a special list for Leo Laporte. Every Monday, I listen to his we call it the Leo log or you know, the monologue that he does on Saturday morning. Like I don't know if you know, but Leo on his show, you know, for the when he first comes on, he says like a it's like a ten minute like I don't know what you call it monologue basically like you know whatever, And so I like to listen to that because I like to hear what he has to say.

So I listen to that on my commute and anyway, that's on Monday mornings.

pocket Cast is pretty good and pretty popular. So talking about music, and I was really surprised at this announcement. Apple Music is now available on Google smart speakers and displays. I thought this was fantastic. I love to see that Google continues to be a little bit more open than you would expect when it comes to integrating different services.

Apple has gotten a lot better too, but they always prefer their own stuff over anyone else for a long long time, and they begrudgingly kind of incorporate other stuff. But Google, I feel like they they always try to do you know, like the right thing by you know, incorporating every service and like giving you a choice. And

I think that that's lessening, but it's still going. And I think these tech companies are realizing as they get bigger and bigger, that they kind of need to do this to you know, stay out of the the ire of you know, all those those government regulators that want to regulate them and say like, uh, well you gotta break up because you know, uh all the it's like Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple Apple Apple. Okay, Google, Google, Google Google Google.

I've talked about using iHeartRadio as an alternative, but I realized my mistake with that, and the mistake is that you can't off load the music offline. So I was up on a hike and there was no signal for my watch and guess what. I could not listen to iHeartRadio. And that was a it came to me. I was like, oh,

here's the downside of this setup. So as much as I wanted to save that ten dollars a month, I'm back to being an Apple Music subscriber so I can download music to my Apple Watch and my wife as well. But so my point is that I've always had Google Play as my music of choice on the Google smart speakers, but now I'm kind of like, okay, well now i could use Apple Music. That's really cool. But the only thing, and this is where they get kind of tricky. Google's

very smart. They link Google Play music or sorry, YouTube music to a YouTube premium subscription, so you sort of get it thrown in, and as far as I know, there's not a way to separate them.

network effect took over. Or maybe it was just because so many people like the idea of under fifty dollars gadgets recommended by tech experts. Whatever it was, it was super duper popular. And the I'll just go over the gadgets real quick, since i'm talking this up right. One of them was this sand disc drive or I expand from sand Disc and it was it was a It was a pick from Jefferson Graham, who is my friend over at USA Today.

five bucks. Lance Yulanoff, he works on the Or he's a guest on the Live with Kelly and Ryan Show. He does tech stuff there and all kinds of he's been. I mean, he's just you know, legend in tech. He liked the Nintendo game and Watch for fifty bucks. Jefferson Graham, like I said, USA Today Tech columnists, who just recently announced his retirement from USA today, but he's still going

to be doing stuff, just not there. He recommended the sand Disc I Expand flash Drive Go, which is all drive you plug into the bottom of your iPhone and it, you know, backs up the pictures. And so the question is is there a Android version? The answer is yes. In fact, pretty much any flash drive will plug into the bottom of an Android phone. It's just copying the pictures over that could be kind of tough, and that's what the sand disc software does nicely. It does it automatically.

But if you go on sand discs I expand, if you if you just type in sand disk I expand, micro USB or USB C. It depends on what kind of phone you have which device you would get, Brian. So if you just search that on you on Google, you'll find it, and yeah, they make it for sure. Andrew Edwards gear Live. He picked the Chrome Cast with

Google TV for fifty bucks. Jacqueline Dallas from Nothing but Tech we met at a one plus event many years ago, or probably like three, but still and we've kept in touch. She's doing really well on YouTube and she's she recommended a USBC hub from Hutu for twenty three dollars, which you got to have a USBC hub if you've got one of these newer laptops. And Leo Laporte, my pal that I just mentioned earlier, he recommended the au Key Omnia one hundred watt charger, which I will probably end

up purchasing because he talked it up. And it's a charger that's one hundred watts, so that means it can charge everything, your computer, your phone, anything that's USBC from a laptop to a tablet to a phone. And I'm getting into this whole thing of you know, less is more and so if I can plug everything into that Omnia USBC charger, that's that's a win in my book. And then I threw in my recommendation, which is the

Nano Leaf Essential Smart Bulb nineteen dollars. And this is a smart bulb that is really tough to find, but they sell it at the Apple Store and online on the Apple Store, and it's just easy to set up, it's fun, it's hubless, which means you know, it connects easily to your iPhone or Android, and it changes to sixteen million different colors. So there the picks, and that was a fun story. I got emails, I got tweets. I mean, people really liked that story. And my editor

Luis put it together. I gathered all the videos and then I said, hey, ar, I wrote like kind of a rough script, but he didn't follow it. He just like kind of made a montage and graphics and it just really came out nice. So if you want to watch that, go to my website rich on tech dot tv and look for I'll tell you what the uh come on, I'll tell you what to look for on there. It's tech experts recommend their favorite stocking stuffers under fifty

dollars speaking, I always say speaking. But Apple and Google another thing that they're doing this is gosh a lot of Apple and Google news this week, but it's kind of light on tech news now right now because of the holidays. But I thought this was fantastic.

Go to Google Photos, tap your profile account photo in the upper right hand corner, tap photo settings, Apple Photos, and sink favorites, and then turn on SINK or turn off SNC.

I would, you know, look for my favorites and then they would all be there, like in a row, instead of having to look through each one individually. Now, with Google Photos, which is my preferred photos app, I would have to not use that. I would have to go into Apple Photos and heart them there, because you know, on iOS it does not interface with Google Photos. Now an Android it does, but it doesn't even show your favorites.

It's it's getting there. We're getting there on Android. And in fact, this is the extent to which I test stuff, just so you know. And this is why I say when I struggle carrying an iPhone versus Android, it's because I love aspects of both, because I use both of them so much. So, for instance, on Android, I love

how there's a lot less clicks required to do things. So, for instance, on iPhone, when you want to connect to something on Bluetooth, you have to swipe down, you have to, you know, look at your little Bluetooth indicator in the control center. You have to press and hold to see all the Bluetooth and then you have to press settings and then it brings you to settings. It's like ten clicks. On Android, you literally just swipe down from the top, press and hold on the Bluetooth and it brings you

directly to the settings. So it's just like a couple steps less, and it's like that with a lot of things on Android anyway, So to challenge myself, because I do think social media is way tougher on an Android than it is on iPhone, I was like, Okay, I'm going to post all these pictures that I took, which I took, by the way, with the Samsung S twenty fe and they came out pretty darn good. I gotta

say that phone is really rocking. I took them all with that, and I went through the gallery on Samsung and I favorited the pictures that I liked, and then I went into Instagram and I found the native gallery chooser and it worked, and I posted all the pictures and anyway, if you want to see them, we can go on Instagram and see those. But so I you know,

I do this stuff for a reason. There's a method to my madness so that I understand how these things work, because if I only used an iPhone every single day of my life and never went to an Android or never went back and forth, I wouldn't really understand the nuances between the two, and it's tough to compare in contrast if you're not using them. So it all worked out, and I always joke that whenever I post something from my Android. It never does as well as stuff I

post from iPhone. I'm not sure if they favor iPhone posts on social media for some reason, but that post did find so I guess that's not really a thing. I'm not going to spread conspiracy theories here in the rich on Tech podcast, Marty is it March. I'm guessing it's Marty, but it looks like they put an extra

letter in. Marty says, help please. I adopted my son and lost a very valuable picture of him and his biological father when he was a baby that was deleted from an SD card during a Samsung S twenty fe factory or set.

theoretically if if you know, this software works. So again I haven't tried it personally, but stellarinfo dot com slash uh. Just go to their website and it should say somewhere on there free Data recovery.

told the story last week, but I can't remember. But when you know, I had all these gigs of pictures from my sister and my dad on my Google Drive because when I was upgrading their phones, they'd be like, I'd be like, all right, now, what would you like me to do with your pictures? Like, Ah, don't care about them? And I go, what do you mean you don't care about them? Of course you care about the

pictures that were on your phone. Why would you just get rid of all these pictures because you're upgrading to a new phone and it's just you know, they didn't want to clog up their memory or whatever. And I was like, look, I'll take the pictures and I'll put them my Google Drive and one of these days I'll

get him back to you. And I think it was like before Google Photos, so it was like there was no easy way to like just kind of put their pictures back because they don't want to pay for like iCloud drive or something dumb like that, and I already gave my dad the warning. I said, look, once we get all these pictures in there, you may have to pay the two dollars a month, you know, to Google Photos, because they're going to start charging. And he's like, oh,

that's okay. I mean, you know, hopefully that's okay, you pictures all right. Here's another reason I was. I was talking about the reasons why I like Android, certain aspects of it better than iPhone, and this is a prime example. So they added this feature this week called a Google Assistant Routines shortcuts. So I have one Google Assistant routine that I use almost every single night is called turn on my night Stands, and it turns on my night stands next to my bed, and it also dims them

to a reading light level, so nice level. I had at one point some like nice soothing music play as well on the speaker. I turn that off because you know, I don't know why I turned it off, but I just did. But it was kind of like a bedtime routine, right. So but the thing is, every single night I feel kind of dumb going into my room and be like,

h Google, turn on the night stands. It just sounds weird, right, So now you can take these little routines that you build and you can make a home screen shortcut out of them. And of course, every time I go into my room at night, I always take my phone and I put it out on my charger.

So I was saying how I had a couple of these routines and he's like, he tweeted me and he's like, Oh, I've got a routine that when I go into my office and start editing, there's an emotion sensor under my desk that notices my legs and it will cue this routine which dims the lights and it turns on XM chill serious, XM im my smart speaker, and I think, I don't know if it does something else, but I was like, ah see, that's cool, and so I need to do that for my office because I do like

to have my lights at a certain level and a little music playing in the background. So I'm calming, you know. I do like the XM chill. That's one of my favorite stations as well, but I haven't done that yet. So I need to do that. And we just need to. It's just some of this smart home stuff can get a little intimidating because it's like how many things like I you know, it's like, oh, I got the Christmas

tree on. I've got all these things like with the smart stuff, and you know, it's fun, but it does take a little bit of work to set it up. But once you set it up and you kind of get used to it and you remember to do it, it is kind of fun.

don't log in, will it default to sidewalk? Thanks sent for my iPad iPhone Sharon, Sharon, great question, and it's not a silly question because it's exactly what Amazon doesn't want people to do. This is why they made sidewalk on by default, because half the people that you know set up an Alexa. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that word and echo. You know, they set it up and they just don't think twice about the app. Maybe they deleted off their phone, maybe they don't need

it anymore. Maybe the thing comes set up from the factory.

these settings. You can follow the instructions I posted on the blog post. If you look at richontech dot tv or on my scroll through my Instagram and you'll see the post with the app on there, and I show you exactly how to turn it off. And again I've said that I'm leaving mine on. I'm excited. I think sidewalk is kind of cool, even though I know that I was having a big debate with my brother. He was saying that, you know, no way would he ever

do this. Well, maybe he would like later on, but he's not going to be part of the first wave. And I'm like, all, I understand that, but I'm kind of a tech optimist. I think it's really cool and I see the potential of this thing. I just hope that I'm proven right and not wrong, and I hope that there's no major security gaffes with the Amazon sidewalk. Anyway, if you want to get out of it, download the app and change those settings, all right. I thought this

was interesting for several reasons. This is an article from Fast Company, and they did a little piece about how a new study from a Utah pharmacy student suggests that mail order prescriptions are spending too much time in too hot or too cold temperatures in root to your house. And I thought this was interesting for a couple reasons.

Number one, recently Amazon started their own pharmacy like mail delivery kind of thing, our mail order prescription thing, and you know, anytime I think of stuff that arrives through the mail, I always think about the whole temperature thing, because if you think about it, when you leave stuff in your car or overnight in a truck, it gets

really hot or really cold. And so I always think about this, like we're members of a wine club, and you know, it's like, okay, well, they actually wait to ship the wine even though it's just coming from California. They wait to ship it, you know, a on a week where the temperatures are not extreme. And I was like, oh, okay, that's smart, because you don't want it to, you know,

turn to vinegar in a hot fed X truck. So with these prescriptions, they found that in the winter, packages spend sixty eight to eighty seven percent of the time in conditions outside the ideal range for medications, and twenty seven to fifty four percent during the summer. Most medications are purposely formulated to be stored at room temperature around sixty eight to seventy seven degrees, and they shipped like forty eight bubble wrapped packages to six cities nationwide during

the summer and winter. So I bring this up just because I always think about this, like the other day, I ordered these energy drinks from Amazon. It was a good deal on Slick Deals, so I got them as like five bucks.

a couple bucks for a bar. And I was like, oh, I bet you. Amazon has it cheaper. And I was like, oh, okay, well, isn't it gonna be like a melted blob by the time I get it? And then I think, well, wait a second, doesn't it have to like get from wherever it comes from the factory to the grocery store. So I mean, clearly it's not being anyway.

a Samsung S eight phone. Most recent results show fifteen up thirteen down on the tablet versus three eighty two up, twenty three down on the phone. Or I guess vice versa. Why in your opinion the big difference?

my speed here? So I would say it's probably due to the antennas and the tablet versus the antennas in the phone, if I had to guess, I don't want to get too complicated, but there's different arrays. There's different types of antenna arrays that you know, newer gadgets like the new Roku.

they mentioned that there. I think it was called like memommo, and it's like, you know, gives you better range on these tablets, and it's like stuff you don't think about, you know, as an average consumer, you're not necessarily thinking about the fact that, you know, what do you get for a four hundred dollars tablet versus a fifty dollars tablet.

They both seem to do the same thing. They let you watch Netflix, but the little nuances are things like that the antenna range to drop off, how fast it you know, like those kind of things. So that would be my guest Dave, And I'm sure that's probably what it is. Oh I hear it. That is the sound that means it is the end of the show. If you'd like to submit a question for me to answer, all you have to do is go to rich on tech Actually, you know it's even easier now, so easy.

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