Speaker 1: Joining us to explain what's worth your time and what
Speaker 1: is just high biscay Ifvice Tech guy Richard Muro from
Speaker 1: rich on Tech, good morning.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning to you, Heather. Thanks for that great intro.
Speaker 1: Oh you're welcome. It's so nice to talk with you.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite segments.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about Windows. They just got a lot
Speaker 1: smarter with AI. So how exactly does this new feature
Speaker 1: work and could it change how we interact with our devices?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's actually quite interesting. Windows has been
Speaker 3: going through a major evolution. Obviously, Microsoft one of the
Speaker 3: biggest investors in open AI, so they've been building a
Speaker 3: lot of the AI features into Windows software through Copilot,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, their sort of version of CHATCHYBT.
Speaker 2: And so you know, things have been changing.
Speaker 3: But one of the things that they're adding I thought
Speaker 3: was really cool is this idea of AI to change
Speaker 3: the settings on your computer. How many times have you
Speaker 3: looked at your mouse and you're like, I wish that
Speaker 3: mouse cursor was bigger, or I wish that my screen
Speaker 3: would turn off after four minutes and not one minute,
Speaker 3: or I want my screen, you know, my keyboard, you know,
Speaker 3: I want a different a German keyboard, whatever. Now you
Speaker 3: can literally just go into the settings and ask for
Speaker 3: what you want to change. The AI will figure out
Speaker 3: what you're trying to say and it will.
Speaker 2: Do it for you. That's a big shift in how
Speaker 2: we work with our computers.
Speaker 1: Ooh, that sounds fun. I mean definitely the mouse size sometimes,
Speaker 1: especially here when we're kind of following our stories, it's
Speaker 1: like where where's my cursor?
Speaker 2: Where to it go?
Speaker 1: Plus I'm getting old, so it's hard for me to
Speaker 1: see things, so that would be allo.
Speaker 2: I find.
Speaker 3: I find sometimes you know, making the zoom a little
Speaker 3: bit better is a little bit bigger is better. But
Speaker 3: the other thing is that you know, you may find
Speaker 3: settings that you didn't even know you could do, Like
Speaker 3: maybe you just didn't even Hey, where's my emoji keyboard?
Speaker 2: You know, and it brings that up.
Speaker 3: So it's like it's just the idea of Like, to me,
Speaker 3: AI is really opening up this idea of natural language computing,
Speaker 3: Like we just ask what we want to do and
Speaker 3: it helps us do that.
Speaker 2: And I think we're going to see that with all
Speaker 2: of our devices over time. I love that all.
Speaker 1: Right, So Amazon is finally letting users make in app
Speaker 1: purchases on iPhones. And to be honest, I thought we
Speaker 1: could already do that, is what am I missing here?
Speaker 1: I thought, when I go on my Amazon, I can
Speaker 1: make app purchases.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, this is a this is a big shift
Speaker 3: in the way that Apple does business because we had
Speaker 3: a court say, hey, you have to let consumers and developers,
Speaker 3: you know, lead consumers to third party payment methods on
Speaker 3: the iPhone. So right now, on the iPhone, basically, if
Speaker 3: you make any sort of purchase, you know, and I'm
Speaker 3: not talking the Amazon app where you're making like a
Speaker 3: purchase of something that you're shipping to your house. I'm
Speaker 3: talking the Kindle app specifically.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you couldn't.
Speaker 3: You couldn't buy an ebook from the Kindle app for
Speaker 3: many years because Amazon would have to give a thirty
Speaker 3: percent cut to Apple for all those ebooks. And of
Speaker 3: course they're not going to do that because that's just
Speaker 3: a lot of money they're going to waste. And so
Speaker 3: now with this court ruling that says you have to
Speaker 3: offer alternative payment links and ioa apps, all these major
Speaker 3: developers have been updating their apps to be easier where
Speaker 3: you can subscribe. Now in the app, you can get
Speaker 3: alternative payment solutions. You can be led to a website
Speaker 3: that lets you pay outside the app. And so Amazon
Speaker 3: has updated their app immediately and now you can actually
Speaker 3: purchase an ebook through that app. It's not it's kind
Speaker 3: of weird to that leads you to the Amazon website still,
Speaker 3: so it's not a perfect system. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: this has been a major shift in the way developers
Speaker 3: can offer consumers better and different payment methods on the
Speaker 3: iPhone outside of.
Speaker 2: The App Store.
Speaker 3: And we're seeing Spotify update their app, We're seeing Patreon
Speaker 3: update their app. Pretty much every major app maker is
Speaker 3: getting on board because it saves them about thirty percent
Speaker 3: off the top.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's going to be really handy. That's going
Speaker 1: to be really helpful. Okay, let's talk about Samsung. Their
Speaker 1: new tap to transfer payment features sounds a little too easy,
Speaker 1: but is this sort of the future of peer to
Speaker 1: peer payments.
Speaker 3: I just thought this was super cool because you know
Speaker 3: the idea that you you know right now when you
Speaker 3: like the other day I had to pay someone.
Speaker 2: I was like, do you have Venmo? And he's like sure,
Speaker 2: He's like, I'd rather use zell.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, well I don't really want to use Zel,
Speaker 3: can we use Venmo? And then he has to transfer
Speaker 3: the money to his bank account. So it's like this
Speaker 3: whole thing. Whenever it comes to paying someone, you have
Speaker 3: to figure out like which payment app do they use?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Well, Samsung is now letting you literally tap someone's debit
Speaker 3: card right to your phone, so you can just tap
Speaker 3: their card to your phone and transfer the money. So
Speaker 3: if you're like, hey, you know you owe me thirty
Speaker 3: bucks for dinner, I don't, Yeah, just literally tap your
Speaker 3: debit card to my phone and the thirty dollars will
Speaker 3: transfer to me.
Speaker 2: So I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's like to pay the store when we check out,
Speaker 1: we do the tap to check.
Speaker 2: Out exactly, except imagine your phone is now like the
Speaker 2: cash registered checkout thing. So I just thought it was.
Speaker 3: Kind of thing, a neat thing. Now Apple has introduced
Speaker 3: a similar feature. I'm not sure that many people use it,
Speaker 3: but it requires it's not just your regular card, like
Speaker 3: you have to tap your two iPhones together and you
Speaker 3: can exchange cash. I have not used that feature, so
Speaker 3: I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I know
Speaker 3: they did advertise something at one of their events about that.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how widely that's used, but this is
Speaker 3: kind of cool because it's just a debit card. You're like, hey,
Speaker 3: tap your card.
Speaker 2: Tap your card.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. Okay, really quickly before we let you go.
Speaker 1: You just reviewed the Pixel nine A for KTLA. What
Speaker 1: makes this phone a standout?
Speaker 3: I mean really the price four hundred and ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 3: It's got everything you need, it's got a great design,
Speaker 3: it's got great AI, it's got an excellent camera, seven
Speaker 3: years of software support, so there's really nothing inside this phone.
Speaker 3: Like if you just want a value phone, this is
Speaker 3: going to be a fantastic device for the next five
Speaker 3: to seven years. And the only downside I found is
Speaker 3: that a lot of the premium phones now have satellite connectivity.
Speaker 3: So if you're in the middle of nowhere and you
Speaker 3: need to dial nine one one, you can do that
Speaker 3: over satellite, or at least call for help over satellite.
Speaker 3: This phone does not have that feature, which is one
Speaker 3: sort of downside, But otherwise, if you can live.
Speaker 2: With that, this is a great device for five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if I'm ever ready to give
Speaker 1: up my iPhone I know that's terrible.
Speaker 2: But I know that one. I know this is Android.
Speaker 3: So but the iPhone has the iPhone sixteen E which
Speaker 3: is six hundred dollars and it's also a great value.
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Speaker 1: thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Have a great morning, you two. Heather