Speaker 1: Time for Rich to morrow? Are tech guy. Rich is
Speaker 1: seen every day on k t l A TV. Every Saturday.
Speaker 1: He's here at eleven am to two pm on the
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Speaker 2: Rich.
Speaker 1: At some point, you're going to be changing your name
Speaker 1: to rich on tech you're legally.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that. Yeah, a lot of people sort
Speaker 2: of know me by that name anyway, but I like
Speaker 2: my real name too, so we'll stick to both for now.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough to morrow? Why not? All right? A
Speaker 1: couple things that I want to talk about, and that
Speaker 1: is you attended Apples event and we really don't know
Speaker 1: much about it. We don't know enough about it in
Speaker 1: advance because they're pretty good about hiding what they're going
Speaker 1: to talk about, aren't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty good about it. There are some rumors,
Speaker 2: but yeah, this is their Worldwide Developers Conference that it's
Speaker 2: happening this week, and I was there yesterday for the
Speaker 2: main keynote, which is where they kind of give you
Speaker 2: all the updates on the software that's coming soon. Would
Speaker 2: you like me to talk about the iPhone first known?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's what everybody has and that's what I have.
Speaker 1: I still know how to work it. Yeah, go ahead, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean this is a big part of Apple's business, the
Speaker 2: largest part of Apple's business, and they are number one.
Speaker 2: They're changing sort of the naming convention of all of
Speaker 2: their software. So instead of iOS nineteen coming out in
Speaker 2: the fall, it is going to be called iOS twenty six.
Speaker 2: Similar to the way that the car company is named cars.
Speaker 2: You know, the current model year is named the next year.
Speaker 2: So that's what's going to happen, just to make it
Speaker 2: easier for people to understand, Okay, I'm running iOS twenty six.
Speaker 2: That's from the year twenty twenty six. And don't forget
Speaker 2: the software comes out initially in September, but then new
Speaker 2: features trickle out throughout the year. So I think it's
Speaker 2: smart that they put the next year. So that's number
Speaker 2: one now in iOS, the big feature. So of course
Speaker 2: everyone's going all in on AI right now. Has had
Speaker 2: some setbacks with AI. They're not where they wanted to be.
Speaker 2: They're trying to come up with this smarter serie that
Speaker 2: can look into your email and your messages and your photos.
Speaker 2: That's not happening. They said, that's basically delayed for up
Speaker 2: to another year, which is pretty wild given the advancements
Speaker 2: we've seen from Chat, GVT and Gemini. So what do
Speaker 2: we get on the iPhone. We get a whole new
Speaker 2: look and feel called Liquid Glass. I went hands on
Speaker 2: with it yesterday in a demo and it looks cool.
Speaker 2: It looks different, think translucent, much more bubbly, almost like
Speaker 2: water on glass. Everything looks like a pane of glass.
Speaker 2: So a lot more see through stuff.
Speaker 1: And hold on a minute, I'm a little confused here.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about the not the body of the phone.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the screen or the entire body.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a screen. But it's interesting that you
Speaker 2: say that, because if you think about the iPhone, what
Speaker 2: is it at a tar, It's just a slab of glass.
Speaker 2: And so I think they're really playing upon that idea
Speaker 2: that this thing can become anything. And now everything is
Speaker 2: sort of a sheet of glass on top of the glass.
Speaker 2: So your lock screen, when you slide it up, it's
Speaker 2: sort of like see through your notifications, see through your
Speaker 2: app icons, see through menus, see through. So some people
Speaker 2: are saying it's too see through. It might get annoying,
Speaker 2: but again, this is a whole new look and feel.
Speaker 2: Apple says it's the first the biggest redesign in about
Speaker 2: a decade when it comes to actual new features, and
Speaker 2: it's sort of light on the new features. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's little improvements here and there, but I think people
Speaker 2: will be most impressed or most happy with the new
Speaker 2: call features. It's going to screen for scam call, so
Speaker 2: if someone calls you that you don't know, it's going
Speaker 2: to ask them, hey, why are you calling, and it's
Speaker 2: going to put that information on your screen, and then
Speaker 2: it's going to ring your phone with that information. It'll
Speaker 2: be like, Hey, it's Sandy from the furniture company. We're
Speaker 2: outside trying to deliver your couch. Okay, you pick up
Speaker 2: the phone. You let them in. Same thing with your messages.
Speaker 2: And also they have whole thesist, which means if you're
Speaker 2: on with an airline or your utility company, here's that
Speaker 2: whole music. It will say, hey, do you want us
Speaker 2: to hold for you? And then we'll ring your phone
Speaker 2: when someone picks up.
Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of neat, I know. Is that worth?
Speaker 1: I mean, is that worth eleven or twelve hundred dollars?
Speaker 1: I don't know, But is anything and how much is
Speaker 1: this puppy by the way, this doe.
Speaker 2: Well, so at WWDC they do not show off the
Speaker 2: new phones. In fact, there was no new hardware whatsoever
Speaker 2: at this year's event. It was all software based. Some
Speaker 2: might say it was a little underwhelming, given, like I
Speaker 2: said earlier, all of the strides we've seen with Gemini
Speaker 2: and with Chat GBT, and Apple really had almost nothing
Speaker 2: to say about AI in this presentation. Of course, Apple
Speaker 2: continues to build their AI, which they call Apple Intelligence,
Speaker 2: but again this is really focused on sort of the
Speaker 2: features of the software. I'm trying to think of some
Speaker 2: other things that people might like in this new iOS.
Speaker 2: You know, messages is going to get backgrounds which people
Speaker 2: might like. There's live translation, which if you do speak
Speaker 2: with someone in a different language, it will have live
Speaker 2: translation on both your phone calls, on your I messages
Speaker 2: and also your FaceTime calls. So that was really an
Speaker 2: interesting demo where someone was speaking a different language on
Speaker 2: FaceTime and in real time you share you see the
Speaker 2: translation of what they're saying on screen, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: All right, take a break, We'll come back because I
Speaker 1: have a few other things, some iPad news and the
Speaker 1: Nintendo's switch to which you tried, and we'll get a
Speaker 1: review there. This is KFI. It is a Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: June tenth. Back we go more with Richard Moureau, kfi's
Speaker 1: tech guy, also the KTLA tech guy seen every day
Speaker 1: on TV at KTLA. Rich moving on the iPad. Now,
Speaker 1: I happen to have an iPad, I have my phone,
Speaker 1: I am my iPad, and I really don't use a
Speaker 1: computer that much, even though I'm looking at one now
Speaker 1: in the morning, I do tell me what's new about
Speaker 1: the iPad? And do I get one another one?
Speaker 2: Well, this is the beauty of it. You actually don't
Speaker 2: need a new iPad. And Apple has done something that
Speaker 2: people have been talking about for years, something Steve Jobs
Speaker 2: did not want to do, and that is to turn
Speaker 2: the iPad into sort of a desktop computer. How are
Speaker 2: they doing it, Well, they're adding Windows, so not the software.
Speaker 2: But now, if you've ever used an iPad, which many
Speaker 2: people have, you know that you open an app and
Speaker 2: then you go to the other app, and then you
Speaker 2: go back to that app, and then you go to
Speaker 2: that app. Well, now with Windows, each app is in
Speaker 2: its own window, just like a Windows computer, where you
Speaker 2: can minimize, you can resize, you can float, you can
Speaker 2: have multiple windows on the screen, and there's also support
Speaker 2: for a new mouse pointer and a new menu bar.
Speaker 2: And so basically they have now given people the option
Speaker 2: of do you want to use our laptops, our Mac desktops,
Speaker 2: or do you want to use an iPad that can
Speaker 2: do a lot of the same things that you can
Speaker 2: do on a desktop computer. That's coming soon in the
Speaker 2: new software called iPad OS twenty six.
Speaker 1: And I just put it on my existing iPad. It's
Speaker 1: just a software update, or I have to buy a
Speaker 1: new one.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's gonna work. Yeah, it's gonna work on you know,
Speaker 2: pretty much the whole range of iPads, from the Mini
Speaker 2: to the pro, obviously depending on the model number. You know,
Speaker 2: how old these things are. I imagine it takes a
Speaker 2: lot of horsepower to run this software, because yesterday when
Speaker 2: I was getting a demo of it, you know, they
Speaker 2: had the latest, greatest iPad and you know, it was
Speaker 2: not slow, but it definitely takes much more horsepower than
Speaker 2: what they've been doing in the past. So I think
Speaker 2: you'll need a modern iPad to do that. But I
Speaker 2: think for a lot of people that have been sort
Speaker 2: of riding this line of do I want an iPad
Speaker 2: that can do fun stuff like watch Netflix, or do
Speaker 2: I on a computer that can do important stuff like
Speaker 2: check my email? Now you have the best of both
Speaker 2: worlds built into one device that can do it all
Speaker 2: pretty much. And it's touchscreen, which is nice, all right.
Speaker 1: The Nintendo Switch. To talk about that, Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big gaming person, but it is well obviously it's
Speaker 1: a multi trillion dollar business and my daughter is into
Speaker 1: it big time. So you tried it, tell me about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I've got a review unit from Nintendo.
Speaker 2: It's brand new. It's the first kind of update in
Speaker 2: eight years from Nintendo, the first new device, fully new device,
Speaker 2: and everything has improved so it's bigger, the screen looks better.
Speaker 2: The controllers have this new magnetic mechanism that helps them
Speaker 2: snap into place much easier than the old way. The games,
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Bill, it used to be if you
Speaker 2: had a family of kids that were trying to share
Speaker 2: games on the Nintendo Switch, it was a pain. Now
Speaker 2: Nintendo has taken that customer feedback. They have made changing
Speaker 2: games and swapping games with friends and families playing the
Speaker 2: same game so much easier, which I think is probably
Speaker 2: one of the best new features. And then they've given
Speaker 2: kids the ability to chat with their friends inside the games.
Speaker 2: So I think Nintendo realize that a lot of kids
Speaker 2: are already playing this way. They're playing on their computer
Speaker 2: with FaceTime next to them with their friends, or they're
Speaker 2: on Twitch live streaming with their friends. So now on
Speaker 2: the switch, built in is a microphone. You press a
Speaker 2: button and next thing you know, you can chat with
Speaker 2: your friends while you're playing the game, like voice chat
Speaker 2: with your friends, and optionally you can add a camera. Now,
Speaker 2: this is expensive. It's four hundred and fifty dollars for
Speaker 2: the console. It's five hundred dollars if you get the
Speaker 2: new Mario Kart racing game. I do not expect any
Speaker 2: price drops before the holidays. And when it comes to
Speaker 2: easy to get a hit or miss, if you put
Speaker 2: your mind to it, you'll probably be able to get
Speaker 2: one of these. But I don't think it's as easy
Speaker 2: as walking into a store right now just yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, so when you say five hundred dollars for the
Speaker 1: Mario package, that's not five hundred dollars additional. It's just
Speaker 1: incremental from what four fifty to five hundred do I have.
Speaker 2: That right, Yes, except the game if you bought it
Speaker 2: by itself, games, you're running now about eighty dollars, so
Speaker 2: you're paying only fifty more dollars instead of eighty more dollars.
Speaker 2: So if you're going to play the Mario Kart game,
Speaker 2: you probably want to go with the bundle because if
Speaker 2: you sit there and say, oh, just buy the game later, well,
Speaker 2: now you're spending extra thirty dollars. And by the way,
Speaker 2: eighty dollars games. I mean this is this is a
Speaker 2: pretty big kind of jump in price increase for the
Speaker 2: Nintendo Switch games, which used to be you know, anywhere
Speaker 2: from forty to sixty dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question rich about the entire
Speaker 1: industry gaming and apps and of course new technology. The
Speaker 1: ten major apps that have come out in the last
Speaker 1: two three years, for example, where the creators have become
Speaker 1: literally billionaires. Have any of them gotten their driver's license? Yet?
Speaker 2: It's funny you say that I interviewed. Remember that that
Speaker 2: app watch Duty that everyone was using. You're in the fires? Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: so it was given everyone like the updates and like
Speaker 2: you know where the fires were. View the creator of
Speaker 2: that app yesterday and he walks into the room. I said,
Speaker 2: and he's this young kid. And I was like, I
Speaker 2: would have thought you were like ten times older than
Speaker 2: you are right now. Like I don't know why. I
Speaker 2: just thought, like fire app, you know, you had all this,
Speaker 2: you know, you were like an old school like firefighter
Speaker 2: or something. And no, the guy is just like a
Speaker 2: startup kid. He is like a young guy. And he's like, well,
Speaker 2: thank you. But yes, a lot of these people. And
Speaker 2: I interviewed a student that wrote an app yesterday. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, look, the beauty of writing an app is
Speaker 2: that anyone can do it. If you learn how to
Speaker 2: do it, you can write an app. And yes, there
Speaker 2: have been many people that have been made millionaires from
Speaker 2: just coming up with a good idea and selling it,
Speaker 2: which I still love. I love that idea that people
Speaker 2: can do that.
Speaker 1: All right, Rich, Well, catch a Saturday here eleven am
Speaker 1: to two pm KTLA every day, Instagram at rich on
Speaker 1: Tech website, rich On tech dot tv. Catch over the weekend,
Speaker 1: Rich and then of course next week right here, have
Speaker 1: a good day, you too,