Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2: September seventeenth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, all right. Rich to Moureau, it's Tech Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Rich who has heard, Well, he's heard every Saturday eleven
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Speaker 2: on tech website at or website, rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you. Bill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as soon as we get off the air, I
Speaker 2: want you to call Neil. Okay, it was very strong.
Speaker 2: Now here's what I would like to ask you, because
Speaker 2: this is exactly in my wheelhouse, and that is I
Speaker 2: have an iPhone.
Speaker 3: Most people I know have iPhones.
Speaker 2: My daughter has an Android, and sending messages between iPhone
Speaker 2: iPhones and an Android is a nightmare.
Speaker 3: And that is changing correct.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is starting yesterday. So this is a new feature,
Speaker 5: so Iowa. So Apple came out with all of their
Speaker 5: major software updates for the iPhone, for the Apple Watch,
Speaker 5: for iPad, for Mac computer, even that Vision pro remember
Speaker 5: that thing, the headset. Yeah, yes, there are new software
Speaker 5: updates for all of those. So if you want to
Speaker 5: go out and update your stuff, go ahead. For me,
Speaker 5: it takes like a week or so to get all
Speaker 5: my stuff updated. But the best new feature in iOS eighteen,
Speaker 5: I think for ninety nine point nine percent of people
Speaker 5: is going to be that messaging between iPhone and Android
Speaker 5: is very much improved. So this is something called RCS
Speaker 5: Rich Communication Services. It's been on Android to Android for
Speaker 5: a long time now it's finally iPhone to Android, which
Speaker 5: I think makes a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: So what do you get?
Speaker 5: You can get typing indicators when your Android friends are typing,
Speaker 5: you can get read receipts both ways. Obviously, you can
Speaker 5: send large file sizes and also tap back, so you know,
Speaker 5: if you want to react to a message with a
Speaker 5: smiley face or a thumbs up or whatever, you can
Speaker 5: do that. And it all works across Green and Blue,
Speaker 5: whether Android or iPhone.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned that when you send photos and.
Speaker 5: Videos they will actually be high quality, so no more
Speaker 5: postage stamp sized videos when you're sending it between the
Speaker 5: two platforms.
Speaker 1: This is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2: I would think now virtually everybody I know has an iPhone,
Speaker 2: I mean across the board, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's Southern California. I have no idea because if you
Speaker 2: look at the number of people I know, it's ten
Speaker 2: to one Android versus Apple. Does this translate into all
Speaker 2: of a sudden people I know, for example, would consider
Speaker 2: would buy Android phones because they can talk to iPhone users.
Speaker 5: You know, I think it's definitely going to make things
Speaker 5: easier for if you're thinking of switching, or if you're
Speaker 5: considering a phone that's not an iPhone. But I think
Speaker 5: that the main thing here that we have going on
Speaker 5: is that a lot of people are in the iPhone
Speaker 5: or the Apple ecosystem, let's call it. So they may
Speaker 5: have the AirPods, they may have an iPad, they may
Speaker 5: have a MacBook computer, they may be in iCloud. And
Speaker 5: so Apple has done a really good job over the.
Speaker 1: Years of.
Speaker 5: You know, promoting their stuff first over anything else when
Speaker 5: it comes to apps, when it comes the way they work.
Speaker 5: And so I think that's really paying off for them
Speaker 5: in the the fact that people are really loyal to
Speaker 5: their products, even though they may be tempted to switch.
Speaker 5: It's really tough to switch. I mean even if you
Speaker 5: have a couple of air tags that you have on
Speaker 5: different things, or your kid has.
Speaker 1: An Apple Watch.
Speaker 5: It's all these ecosystem ties that keep you on iPhone.
Speaker 5: And by the way, people are very happy with iPhone
Speaker 5: most I would say ninety nine percent of people that
Speaker 5: I talk to that have an iPhone are very happy
Speaker 5: with it, and they're not really considering switching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've ordered my new iPhone, Okay, just put in
Speaker 2: the order pre order and I don't know, it's eleven,
Speaker 2: twelve hundred bucks whatever it is. I do that through
Speaker 2: T Mobile now, and you know they give you if
Speaker 2: you sign up for an overpriced twenty eight year contract.
Speaker 2: You get to upgrade, you know, every couple of years.
Speaker 2: So I've got my new one coming in and I'm
Speaker 2: not even blinking at eleven hundred dollars when I could
Speaker 2: get an Android for thirty eight dollars for example.
Speaker 3: This just is good. I mean, just look at it.
Speaker 2: The amount of money that we Apple users pay is
Speaker 2: still ridiculous, and we line up to do it.
Speaker 5: Why Well, again, I think, you know, look, and here's
Speaker 5: the thing, and I am very much a fan of
Speaker 5: what Android's doing. I think the Pixel nine Pro, I
Speaker 5: think the S twenty four Ultra from Samsung are both
Speaker 5: incredible phones. By the way, both of those phones cost
Speaker 5: about a thousand dollars each, so it's not as if
Speaker 5: Android is super cheap. I think that the difference is
Speaker 5: Android has a lot of low priced options out there, and.
Speaker 1: So people that don't want to spend a lot they
Speaker 1: have opted it. And I think that's the biggest difference.
Speaker 2: Got it, Where Apple does not have a lot of
Speaker 2: low priced options. I get that. No, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: That resonates all right? Rich Prime Day in October? Okay,
Speaker 2: how many how many Prime Days they have?
Speaker 3: By the way.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question.
Speaker 5: I think it's two a year, so that's what they started,
Speaker 5: or they started with one and then they added a second.
Speaker 5: I think it's just too a year. It feels like
Speaker 5: much more, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: It does. It seems like sort of every other month
Speaker 3: there's a Prime Day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because we did the we did the back to
Speaker 5: school one, but during the July like that, you know,
Speaker 5: June July is when it started, and now we're into
Speaker 5: the back you know, the holiday one. But I think
Speaker 5: the holiday one keeps getting earlier every year.
Speaker 3: Hey, let me ask this.
Speaker 2: The Prime Day, which of course known as the day
Speaker 2: where you get insane bargains on Amazon, do you really
Speaker 2: get those kinds of bargains? And has the costs kind
Speaker 2: of crept up on items that you here the four
Speaker 2: got for an insanely low price.
Speaker 1: I think it depends on the item.
Speaker 5: But I will say the last Prime Day, which whatever
Speaker 5: it was, a couple months ago, I felt like they
Speaker 5: actually delivered with the deals, and so I didn't feel
Speaker 5: that way for many of them before that. And I
Speaker 5: think that that Amazon got the message and probably told
Speaker 5: their you know, their internal people and also the third
Speaker 5: party companies that sell stuff through there saying hey, you
Speaker 5: really need to have some good deals here because people
Speaker 5: are going to get tired of this and your sales
Speaker 5: are going to go down. I think that's what they saw,
Speaker 5: so I do think they have good deals. My advice
Speaker 5: always remains the same. And by the way, this one
Speaker 5: is called the Prime Big Deal Days. It's on October
Speaker 5: eighth through ninth this year. Remember you have to have
Speaker 5: a Prime membership. You know, everyone talks about this stuff,
Speaker 5: but you have to remember you do have to pay
Speaker 5: that fifteen bucks a month or one hundred and forty
Speaker 5: dollars a year for Amazon Prime. And you know they're
Speaker 5: promising big deals again, but they don't know.
Speaker 1: The specifics are very light.
Speaker 5: So but by the way, Bill first time they're doing
Speaker 5: it in Turkey, so I guess they're getting their fill
Speaker 5: of Prime Day as well.
Speaker 2: Now, well, I would think it's international anybody who deals
Speaker 2: with Amazon. Oh, by the way, that's a question. Is
Speaker 2: the Prime membership international?
Speaker 5: Oh that's a good question. You know, I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's international.
Speaker 1: I would assume. Let's see.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm trying to think of what that means.
Speaker 5: So let's say, if you're in the US your addresses
Speaker 5: in the US, then you go to London on vacation
Speaker 5: and order an item prime. Would your membership still carry
Speaker 5: over the benefits? I would think so, but I don't know.
Speaker 5: I should try that next time I'm in a different country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or Turkey, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean how do they yeah, how do they? Hell
Speaker 3: do they deliver on time in Turkey? Where I don't know?
Speaker 3: I don't even know what the mail delivery system is
Speaker 3: like in Turkey.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't have their own vans Amazon.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know if you see this in
Speaker 5: your neighborhood, but it's it's incredible to see the journey
Speaker 5: that Amazon has had with delivery. So, I mean at
Speaker 5: the beginning, they were using FedEx, then they went to
Speaker 5: like you know, UPS or you know, some other third party,
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, now they're doing you know,
Speaker 5: they went to USPS as well, and now they're doing
Speaker 5: all their own stuff from already of items. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's quite incredible the logistics operation that that Amazon runs.
Speaker 2: Well, I see more Amazon trucks than I do fed
Speaker 2: X or UPS trucks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think they've taken a lot of
Speaker 5: a lot. I remember you know, remember the big fat
Speaker 5: with fed X where they took all their business away
Speaker 5: from them, So I think that that has I'm sure.
Speaker 5: I'm sure at the same time, FedEx was relieved because
Speaker 5: I was probably plogging all of their systems up with nonsense.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, I'm sure that was a
Speaker 5: big amount of business that that fed X lost in
Speaker 5: the process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the now, you know, we're used to UPS planes,
Speaker 2: FedEx planes. Now it's the Amazon fleet of planes that
Speaker 2: are out there now. I don't know how they compare
Speaker 2: with each other, but I'm assuming Amazon is on a
Speaker 2: growth curve way beyond UPS and FedEx at this point.
Speaker 5: I've been on those planes. I went to San Bernardino
Speaker 5: where they have a bunch of them sitting there and
Speaker 5: it's it is a full operation.
Speaker 1: Bill.
Speaker 5: I mean, these things come in. It's a giant, empty
Speaker 5: cargo plane. I mean, I'm in the entire back where
Speaker 5: you'd have like passengers is just open and it's just cargo.
Speaker 5: They loaded up and there's just two people the flight,
Speaker 5: you know, the captain and the pilot, and they just
Speaker 5: fly on out and it's a twenty four to seven operation.
Speaker 1: It's pretty incredible, actually.
Speaker 2: Crazy all right, let's move into a Spectrum. I'm a
Speaker 2: customer of Spectrum, and as usual, I hate every service
Speaker 2: that I pay money for. So let's talk about Spectrum
Speaker 2: and what's going on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Spectrum coming out with this new, like brand
Speaker 5: new customer commitment promise. So first thing they did for
Speaker 5: all customers, you're getting an upgrade in your speed automatically.
Speaker 5: So if you're on the three hundred, it's now four hundred,
Speaker 5: if you're on the five hundred, it's now six hundred
Speaker 5: megabits per second.
Speaker 1: So that's great.
Speaker 5: So if you have Spectrum Internet, you're basically getting a
Speaker 5: free speed boost. The problem is, if you're talking about
Speaker 5: cable internet, the download speeds are very fast, the upload
Speaker 5: speeds are not so fast.
Speaker 1: And they didn't the upload speeds across the board right now.
Speaker 1: So it's fine.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think for most people to download is
Speaker 5: probably the most important. A couple other things are doing.
Speaker 5: They've got some really nice new deals where the pricing
Speaker 5: is very very attractive. Bill but they want you to bundle.
Speaker 5: That is what I'm my takeaway is bundle, bundle, bundle.
Speaker 5: They want you to bundle their cellular service. They want
Speaker 5: you to bundle their TV service in an age of streaming,
Speaker 5: and no matter what, that's how you're going to get
Speaker 5: the best prices with Spectrum is when you bundle something.
Speaker 3: Okay, by the way, is that worth it?
Speaker 2: Really worthwhile to bundle, because certainly is when you're dealing
Speaker 2: with ensh home insurance and auto insurance and all.
Speaker 3: Of that, I mean, is a huge difference.
Speaker 5: Here's the downside to bundling, especially through a company like Spectrum, is.
Speaker 1: That when you need to unbundle, it's not simple.
Speaker 5: So what we like about all these streaming services bill
Speaker 5: is that you can subscribe to Netflix and by the way,
Speaker 5: you can cancel in one click through your email in
Speaker 5: about ten seconds. With Spectrum, they want you to bundle
Speaker 5: because they know people are lazy, and they know if
Speaker 5: you don't like this service or if you don't like
Speaker 5: that service, you're going to call in, which by the way,
Speaker 5: takes time, and then they can convince you to stay
Speaker 5: because they say, well, you can cancel this service, you
Speaker 5: can cancel that mobile line. But by the way, your
Speaker 5: internet is going to go off by twenty dollars a month,
Speaker 5: and you go, oh, I might as well just keep it.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I don't like about bundling. But yes,
Speaker 1: do you save money? Of course.
Speaker 5: I mean if you're using their TV, their internet and
Speaker 5: their mobile, you're saving a ton of money if you
Speaker 5: would have those products. Generally, anyway, it's just a little
Speaker 5: bit more work because now you're going through this company. Otherwise,
Speaker 5: two other things are doing credits. If you have an
Speaker 5: outage in your neighborhood that lasts more than two hours,
Speaker 5: they're going to give you a credit for a full day.
Speaker 5: And if you have an outage, they're going to tell
Speaker 5: you within fifteen minutes, which is pretty nice. So better
Speaker 5: just you know, they're just kind of elevating things a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all good stuff, all right, Rich, thank you.
Speaker 2: This weekend coming up on Saturday eleven at two here
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Speaker 2: richontech dot TV, and you can see them.
Speaker 3: On Channel five whenever the hell you're.
Speaker 2: On Channel five is yeah, yeah, just is it every day?
Speaker 1: Yes? Every day? Every day.
Speaker 5: My main times are five am, seven am, nine am,
Speaker 5: and then they run it throughout the day and then.
Speaker 1: On the weekends, Bill I have a weekend show. It's
Speaker 1: called Rich on Tech Weekly.
Speaker 5: There's at eleven am on KTLA streaming, so you know
Speaker 5: that's where a lot of people see it, you know who.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I apologize for I don't watch much local TV,
Speaker 2: so I apologize for that.
Speaker 1: And one day you'll see me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I will no, I see you, you know
Speaker 2: occasionally when someone points you out. And so by the way, okay, today,
Speaker 2: I don't know when you're on, but by next week
Speaker 2: I'll also not remember it. All all right, Rich, thank you,
Speaker 2: catch over the weekend, all right, before we veil it,
Speaker 2: I'll do the topics tomorrow about Rupert Murdoch because that's
Speaker 2: a whole thing. Sean Diddy Combs just indicted, and the
Speaker 2: US Attorney for the Southern District of New York just
Speaker 2: came up with these insane allegations, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: I will leave because.
Speaker 3: We know Shan Didi Combs had a whole issue.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Southern District of New York is
Speaker 2: probably the most expense the most famous southern district. I
Speaker 2: think Giuliani was the US attorney there in the Southern District.
Speaker 2: So amy really quick in two minutes, Uh, let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and repeat of what's happening, because it is worth.
Speaker 6: Repeating, Okay, So he has been indicted on I'm not
Speaker 6: sure exactly the number, but basically, it's accused of abusing
Speaker 6: women for over a decade, providing an empire of sexual crimes.
Speaker 6: And they outlined a lot of things like having these
Speaker 6: so called freakoffs in hotel rooms where it looks like
Speaker 6: prostitution and sex trafficking. They brought in paraphernalia, they brought
Speaker 6: in drugs, They seized a thousand containers of baby oil
Speaker 6: that they usually that they said that they used in
Speaker 6: these so called freak offs. And he is charged with
Speaker 6: arson on with bribery of getting everybody who worked for him,
Speaker 6: maybe not everybody, but the people who worked for him
Speaker 6: involved in it. So it's conspiracy, it's racketeering, it's a lot, it's.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just crazy. I mean a thousand bottles
Speaker 3: of baby oil.
Speaker 2: And I assume it's not for an orphanage that has
Speaker 2: a lot of babies involved.
Speaker 1: That is a good assumption, you know that, just.
Speaker 2: Real quickly before we get out of here, and we'll
Speaker 2: certainly talk about more.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more about this tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Is there are a group of people that are insanely
Speaker 2: wealthy that have power that just believe they the.
Speaker 3: Rules don't apply to them.
Speaker 2: I've met these people before, and it is they're always
Speaker 2: the smartest people in the room, and they're always a
Speaker 2: cut above where the rules just don't apply.
Speaker 3: And he is certainly one of those people. And I'm
Speaker 3: gonna make a.
Speaker 2: Generalization here, I would say more rappers are in the group,
Speaker 2: insanely that say, only successful.
Speaker 3: Rappers are probably in that group. Certainly more violence.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't see any you know, Sinatra tribute
Speaker 2: guys shooting people up.
Speaker 4: Maybe you do, I don't know, you might have seen
Speaker 4: Sinatra shooting people. Yeah, but what about the tie like
Speaker 4: the in the world of Epstein and his island and
Speaker 4: this type of thing. Do you think there's a black book?
Speaker 4: Do you think there's going to be people of fame,
Speaker 4: you know, like everyone talked about his parties.
Speaker 2: Not like no, not like Epstein. But I'll but I'll
Speaker 2: tell you there will be a black book because there
Speaker 2: are circles that were around We're around comes, you bet
Speaker 2: with people. I mean, the Posse's are just enormous around
Speaker 2: people like that.
Speaker 4: And you know, Moe Kelly, I've heard him say many
Speaker 4: many times on his program for years now. He said
Speaker 4: that the YouTube movement has not hit the music industry yet,
Speaker 4: and when it does, it's going to be huge. And
Speaker 4: this is the tip the iceberg.
Speaker 2: I bet okay, all right, so we'll talk more about
Speaker 2: that tomorrow. Also, quick quick reminder, I'm taking a handle
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