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<v Speaker 1>Mark Saltzman gets us up to date with all things tech.

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<v Speaker 1>At this time of the day and week.

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<v Speaker 2>Day and week, the machines are getting smarter. This is

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<v Speaker 2>tech Talk, brought to you by Skynet.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, it's something we all go through in our lives.

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<v Speaker 1>We know at least somebody who when you text them,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the green bubble, isn't it? Absolute iPhone or Android?

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<v Speaker 1>Which is the best mark. You know, you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>piss off a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't win this argument.

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<v Speaker 1>You cannot.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, you're you're probably one of those rare individuals who

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<v Speaker 3>has tested.

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<v Speaker 1>He probably has one of both, hundreds of probably one

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<v Speaker 1>of both.

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<v Speaker 4>Right, Yeah, I'm a dual wheelder. Yeah, it's just you know,

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<v Speaker 4>it's occupational hazard. I have to use both iPhone and

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<v Speaker 4>Android to review apps.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>And then and then you have all those burner phones,

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<v Speaker 1>of course I do.

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<v Speaker 4>Actually, there's a burner app that's great really both Android

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<v Speaker 4>and iPhone. It's called text Now. It's free t e

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<v Speaker 4>X T n OW one word and you choose what

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<v Speaker 4>city you want to look like you're from. You could

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<v Speaker 4>say La or wherever, and it'll give you an available

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<v Speaker 4>area code and it'll ring just differently on your existing phone.

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<v Speaker 4>You don't need a separate phone, and you can call

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<v Speaker 4>and text as if you had another phone.

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<v Speaker 1>You just helped so many people commit crimes and affairs.

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<v Speaker 2>It can be used for legit purposes.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's say you're going on okay, you're set up on,

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<v Speaker 4>you go on a date through a dating platform, and

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<v Speaker 4>you don't want to give out your real work and

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<v Speaker 4>they could they could turn out to be a creepy.

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<v Speaker 4>Or you're selling something on Craigslist or I don't know, Facebook, Marketplace,

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<v Speaker 4>and you don't want to give out your real info.

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<v Speaker 4>You have a fake number that you choose until you

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<v Speaker 4>gain trust with the person your dating.

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<v Speaker 1>One of my girlfriends she had somebody tried to open

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<v Speaker 1>up a bank account and her name, and she on

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<v Speaker 1>the group chat she asked our single girlfriend, how do

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<v Speaker 1>I get a burner number again? And she I think

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<v Speaker 1>sends something to this effect exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>I used to have an iPod in high school and

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<v Speaker 3>the way to get around not having.

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<v Speaker 2>A cell phone was to use text. Now, Oh awesome, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>great hack. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>If you had an iPod Touch, which doesn't need a

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<v Speaker 4>cellular connection as long as you have Wi Fi, you

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<v Speaker 4>can make calls over well, you can do that over what's.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, great, all right.

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<v Speaker 3>So when it comes down to it iPhone or Android.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, So yeah, I open up that can of

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<v Speaker 4>worms in a recent article looking at a very subjective

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<v Speaker 4>look at different categories and who's the winner for each

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<v Speaker 4>and then I know it's kind of lame, but I

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<v Speaker 4>didn't come up with a conclusive winner at the end,

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<v Speaker 4>but I did think that I gave the reader enough

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<v Speaker 4>info to make a decision. So ease of use iPhone.

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<v Speaker 4>Android's getting better and iPhone's getting more difficult over time

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<v Speaker 4>as it's adding new features, which I welcome, but it

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<v Speaker 4>is a little more difficult to use generally an Android

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<v Speaker 4>than it is iPhone. So iPhone wins in the ease

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<v Speaker 4>of use. You're buying a phone for your ninety five

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<v Speaker 4>year old Ma or granddad iPhone. There are exceptions, but

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<v Speaker 4>that's my two cents. For cost Android, you know, iPhones

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<v Speaker 4>are even the least expensive iPhone, They're not. They're not

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<v Speaker 4>cheap as Android. On the other hand, for under one

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<v Speaker 4>hundred dollars, you can get a decent, not great, but

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<v Speaker 4>a decent Android phone or you know, I'm talking about

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<v Speaker 4>like a Moto G Play or a Samsung Galaxy A

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<v Speaker 4>series phone not S series. So hundred bucks for an

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<v Speaker 4>Android that is going to be good enough for most

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<v Speaker 4>people out there. Form factors, as in what the choices

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<v Speaker 4>you've got for how your phone looks and operates, Android

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<v Speaker 4>is the winner because iPhone only comes in one basic

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<v Speaker 4>rectangular or candy bar shape they call it. Whereas Android

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<v Speaker 4>you can get phones that flip, that that open up

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<v Speaker 4>to become a tablet like they fold.

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<v Speaker 2>There's more sized.

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<v Speaker 4>Options because Android, you know there, iPhone are the only

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<v Speaker 4>folks who Apple are the only people who make iPhone,

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<v Speaker 4>and so you're limited in what you can buy. Android

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<v Speaker 4>is open to everyone else, so you've got a lot

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<v Speaker 4>more selection, and so in price and in form factors,

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<v Speaker 4>Android wins there. For photos, I say it's a tie

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<v Speaker 4>because yes, iPhone, especially the sixteen Pro, and it is

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<v Speaker 4>as good as the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Ultra

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<v Speaker 4>or the Pixel nine Pro, which are Android based.

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<v Speaker 2>So it really, it really is.

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<v Speaker 4>A tie because both the high end Androids and the

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<v Speaker 4>high end iPhones are great. Video calling. iPhone FaceTime is

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<v Speaker 4>just easier and smoother, more intuitive, I think than Google

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<v Speaker 4>Meet or other platforms like Zoom works on both, but natively,

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<v Speaker 4>I think FaceTime is just the easiest you can get.

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<v Speaker 3>And can't I use FaceTime with others now.

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<v Speaker 2>You can, but it's not so graceful.

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<v Speaker 4>You get a link like if you're on Windows or Android,

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<v Speaker 4>there's a way to FaceTime with I Phone people, but

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<v Speaker 4>it's almost as if Apple was forced and they probably

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<v Speaker 4>were by the EU to make it work, but it

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<v Speaker 4>just doesn't work that great. So yes, thank you Gary

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<v Speaker 4>that I that FaceTime is still the best experience between

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<v Speaker 4>Apple devices. And then finally, security is I would say

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<v Speaker 4>Apple still with Android, when you install an app, you

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<v Speaker 4>don't get prompted do you want it to track you?

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<v Speaker 4>Whereas iPhone for the last three years. Now, if you

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<v Speaker 4>install an Apple I'll say ask do not to track?

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<v Speaker 4>Do not track and you can say yes, and then

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<v Speaker 4>the app that you're installing they won't know where you

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<v Speaker 4>were before or after you use the app. But Android

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<v Speaker 4>it's a little bit more difficult to install. Better cybersecurity.

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<v Speaker 4>Apple just I think they have your back. There's things

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<v Speaker 4>I don't like about Apple, but definitely I think they

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<v Speaker 4>take privacy and security a little bit more seriously overall

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<v Speaker 4>than Android. And it's easier to control because it's just

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<v Speaker 4>one company that makes that phone where you know, but

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<v Speaker 4>you got that walled garden, right, You can't download apps

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<v Speaker 4>from other app stores easily on iPhone. They want you

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<v Speaker 4>to stay in the ecosystem. What is the market share

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<v Speaker 4>between the two? So iPhone is number one in the US,

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<v Speaker 4>but worldwide, Android is number one. So yeah, in the

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<v Speaker 4>West where there's money, so Canada, US, Mexico, and the UK,

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<v Speaker 4>iPhone is number one. Virtually every other country Android is

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<v Speaker 4>number one. So market share worldwide it still goes to Android,

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<v Speaker 4>but there's also a lot more Android phones because it's

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<v Speaker 4>open to multiple companies. But yeah, you can't touch Apple

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<v Speaker 4>in the US. They're just by far the number one

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<v Speaker 4>phone maker. But people have money. They have a thousand

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<v Speaker 4>dollars generally speaking, Let it not be lost that we

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<v Speaker 4>also like things that are dumb. I mean, we like

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<v Speaker 4>the things that are the easiest to use in many cases.

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<v Speaker 1>We ran out of time, but I wanted to talk

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<v Speaker 1>to you about your iPhone spying on you. Maybe we

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<v Speaker 1>can do that next week.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I ad related issue.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I was having a phone conversation with a friend

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<v Speaker 1>and I said a phrase let's just say it was

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<v Speaker 1>let it Go, something like that, let it Go. I

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<v Speaker 1>repeated it, and then I got off the phone and

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<v Speaker 1>I hit Spotify and I hit shuffle, and the son

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<v Speaker 1>that came up was again, I don't remember exactly the phrase.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't as trite. It wasn't as trite as let

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<v Speaker 1>it Go. It was something a little bit more nuanced.

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<v Speaker 1>But it played the song with that is the title,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was like, what the hell?

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<v Speaker 2>That's a little sas says. The kids would say that

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<v Speaker 2>is sus as hell.

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<v Speaker 1>And I've noticed that on my Spotify, you know, created

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<v Speaker 1>for you podcast that comes out every Thursday or Tuesday

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<v Speaker 1>or whatever where like things that I say, or things

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<v Speaker 1>that I'm looking up or things it's it's it shows

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<v Speaker 1>up in the titles of the songs that it's suggesting

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<v Speaker 1>to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, chat next week. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>She was having a conversation about as a soda water

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<v Speaker 4>that you wanted to buy with probiotics in it, and

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<v Speaker 4>she mentioned the name of the company and it shook.

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<v Speaker 4>The next ad she saw was that ad. So it's

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<v Speaker 4>like a little too coincidental, but yeah, all right, well

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<v Speaker 4>we'll put a pin in that for next week.

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<v Speaker 3>Talk to you then, Mark, have cheers bet Mark Saltzman there,

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<v Speaker 3>of course, host of the Tech and Out podcast and

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<v Speaker 3>an author of great articles when it comes to technology,