 It went live on MySys. OK, yeah, I hit it again. But it failed to go live the first time. And when that happens, we usually have problems with it on the YouTube archive side. So here's to hoping. It's crossed. Yes. If you can see this, Google didn't add the video version to the podcast or anyway. Chirks. Oh, they did it. Is it only audio? They have the, so Sean, who does our video feed, submitted it. And it's there. But it only has the audio episodes that he adds to the feed because Peter doesn't do a video version for day six. So that's the only ones in there. So it says DTNS video, but there is actually no video. And it's only like two, three episodes. That's weird. It's like it's not herding their servers. It's a, yeah. They'll probably add it eventually. They just, it's part of Google Music. So I think what they're thinking is like, let's just do audio first. We can roll in video later. All right. Not very auspicious. We don't have to talk about it now. We just talked about it. That's it. That's the story. Next. All right. Yeah, right. Whoa, crap. You blew the show. The only story in the show. As usual. So one of these days, you know, OK, there's the, I don't think it's necessarily untrue, but I think it's a truism that the Inuit have many words for snow because there are different types of snow. I would like someday to create many different types of news days, like words for the different types of news day. Because sometimes there's like, the rarest news day is the one where like it is really obvious what, like there are eight stories and everybody's on them. And it's like, that's it. There are, that's the stories. There's no question about it. When there's days where like, TechMeme and Google News don't even have the same, don't have any of the same stories up, and it's just like all over the place. Like nobody can agree what the stories of the day are. Those are pretty rare too. Usually it's around like four or five stories that everybody's like, those are the big stories. And then there's like a smattering of other stories. Today is one of those days, like four stories. And then on the tail, after the four stories, sometimes those can be closer or wider. Yeah, I was looking at Apple News this morning. It's on my tablet. And I didn't see most of these stories on there. They were, it was all they're not. Oh, one of the Apple News app, you mean? Yeah, yeah, so you write about the smattering. It's just a different, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Every feed has a different take of what they feel is important, I guess. Yeah. All right, well, speak enough. But we should probably do the show. Oh, yeah, yeah, we have a show to do. Yeah. Thank you for being here, Lamar. You're welcome, sir. Oh, I thought Netflix was doing their earnings tomorrow. Roger, can you just, like, I'm going to put the links in. Can you just flesh out the actual numbers? I'm just going to. Yes. Thank you. That made Roger sound like he was in a booth somewhere with a cough button. I was like, is that Roger Bot that you have there? Yes. That is Roger Bot. All right, I am almost ready to go. After I just said we should go, we should definitely go, and then I didn't go. No, bro, I was going to play with my little BB-8 here. Hi, BB-8. You watch Force Awakens with that? I need to watch it tonight with us. All right, here we go. Good day. This is The Daily Tech News Show. I'm American, and this is my best attempt at an Australian accent. If you'd like to hear a real Australian accent, go to dailytechnewshow.com slash support and pledge an amount so Peter Wells can do a sixth day of DTNS. Shrimp on the Barbie. This is The Daily Tech News for Monday, April 18, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today. Showcase-er and entertainer, it says here. Lamar Wilson, how's it going? I'm going good. Yes, I put my own title in there. I like it. Yeah, like, why not? Why not? It's good to see you, Tom. Yeah, it's good to see you, too. Veronica Belmont has the day off again. She will be back, though, I promise. But we're very happy to have Lamar. Because we don't get enough Lamar Wilson on the show, so I'm excited. An Amazon video is now available on its own, which is weird, and we're going to talk about that. It is, yeah. It's intriguing, right? It's very intriguing, and I definitely have some opinions about this. All right, well, we are going to get to those after the headlines. Here are the basics, though. Amazon introduced a $10.99 a month payment option for Amazon Prime. Now, that's not only the video, but the Kindle lending library, and the shipping, the two-day shipping, and all of that. There's also a separate $8.99 a month plan for just Prime Video. That's what we were just talking about. These are available in the United States. Now, Amazon UK already offered Prime Video separately for £5.99 a month, but they're going to start promoting that a little more. There is no monthly Prime shipping option in the UK yet. The Verge notes that Amazon started offering Sprint customers a monthly Prime option last month. That may have been a little bit of a test here. But yeah, that's what we're going to talk about, because Amazon, I don't know, feels like they've got a little incubator going on with Amazon Prime. Yeah, they're always very mysterious. So we definitely want to pick their brain a little bit as much as they let us a little bit later. You should pick the brain of Siri when you want to as well, because occasionally she will break news, apparently. Oh. That when you ask Siri when the WWDC is, sometime this morning, it started responding June 13th or June 17th in San Francisco. Apple has not yet confirmed this or posted it on its website. At least it may have by the time you hear this, but it hadn't by the time we started recording. So an interesting way for Apple to kind of leak out the dates. Kind of fun, very fun for Apple. I mean for Apple. Yeah, well, who was this person that was sitting there probably every day asking Siri when WWDC was? It's funny, someone on Twitter earlier this morning, like way earlier in the morning, Eastern Time, had posted a screenshot with Siri saying, I don't have that information yet, and wrote worth a try. And then later in the day, they were just, that person was just a little too early. Ah, okay. Let's see if they answered. When is WWDC? The Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC, will be held the 13th of June through the 17th of June in San Francisco. I can't wait. Yeah, I think the most important question here is, why is your guy British, and why don't I have mine to be British as well? Yeah, well I think the second question is really the answer to the first. Yeah, I need to fix that immediately. Why don't you have yours set to be a British guy? That is amazing. The US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge from the author's guild to a decision that allows Google to scan books for its online library project, Google Books. That leaves in place the October 2015 ruling by the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that the project was quote, at the boundaries of fair use. Google Books scans books in order to index them and then makes small excerpts available of just the page or portion of the page that your search terms apply to. Publishers can request that even that excerpt not be viewed, but the idea is to push people into buying the books. Google has always said, look, it's fair use for us to scan these to make an indexable database of it. It would be copyright violation to display the whole books, but that's not what we do. Author's Guild has taken a hard line on it and they've lost. Yeah, you know, this is an interesting thing because I totally like this idea. Someone out there has to archive our history and our writings. And I know you're author, you may have a different opinion, but I really feel like this is a good thing on the surface. And from what it sounds like, like you said, they're not giving like the book for free. I mean, you still have to pay for it. But I think the idea of scanning, let's say wartime happens and all of our things get destroyed. I mean, we've seen many movies like that. At least we have this archive of all of our great works. I don't see a problem with it for some reason. I would have preferred that Google team up with archive.org whose stated purpose is to be the library of the internet. Archive.org has their own book scanning procedure and this decision will help them. But that's neither here nor there. That's not about the law. That's just about, oh, I would like to see those two team up on this. But Google definitely had the right to make this database the same way they have the right to make a database of indexable search engine results for the web. So as somebody who, you know, I've just done self publishing, but I give away my books. I give them for free with a Creative Commons license because I want people to read them. At the same time, I can understand where there are definitely cases where a publisher would not want them given away for free and what Google's doing is trying to help expose people to books that they might then want to buy. I think the author's guilt just didn't like that they couldn't make money off of all parts of this. YouTube launched a live streaming 360 degree video and that's at NAB where my wife is because she works for YouTube. Monday, support for spatial audio was added for on demand 360 degree video. That's where you can tell which direction the sound is coming from. Select concerts from Coachella will be streamed in 360 degrees this coming weekend. Google also launched a live API for adding the streams into an app or service, though it's limited to makers of 360 degree cameras at this point. Yeah, so to be clear, 360 has been around for a while on YouTube, but this live edition is really interesting and I think for a place like Coachella or any other type of event where the audience themselves can choose what they want to see, I think it's a great feature, it doesn't hurt anything. I mean, YouTube is not going to do any kind of VR or AR list for a while, so they have to have some kind of extra gimmick to get people to stay on the site longer. I tell you, when I get in a 360 video, I'm there the whole time because I'm just being nosy, looking at every part that's going on. Well, I was just a good idea. Eileen and I were watching the Coachella streams this weekend and of course they're going to stream again this coming weekend and so there's one reason why I might watch again some bands that maybe I already saw because I'll get to play around 360 degrees, but also there are always somebody doing something in the audience where they take a quick shot of it and then they cut back to the stage and you're like, wait, what was that person wearing? What were they doing? And this way you'd be able to just go back and take a look. Yeah, yeah, good idea. CBS 60 Minutes on Sunday showed off the well-known but not widely exposed ability to use Signal System 7 or SS7 to intercept phone communication on a cellular network. This isn't really news, or at least it shouldn't be, German security researcher Karsten Null demonstrated the flaw at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg back in December, 2014, but this has certainly put it in front of a wider audience of people, including a congressman. Yeah, I can't actually tell you how terrified I was to read this article because I didn't, I mean, we know things like this is possible to actually read that they only need your cell phone and they can get a ton of information and the actual carriers are just pretty much worthless in a scenario. Well, it's honestly not as terrifying as it sounds, although maybe it's because you don't think the internet is as terrifying as it should be when I say you, I mean, the wider populace. We are very concerned with encryption, an end-to-end encryption on email because right now if you send email on the internet, you have to assume that anybody along the chain could take a look at it if they really wanted to. And all this is saying is, same is true for your phone conversations out there. Right, and it was interesting, which I was looking about these apps. Now we know iMessage is person-to-person encryption, but I've always thought Facebook Messenger wasn't, I was, and it's not. And some other apps, even WhatsApp is not 100% encrypted yet. So I think we're gonna see a rise. This recently did become end-to-end 100%. Is it 100% now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was just last week, actually. Oh! It was for messages, but not for voice, and now it is for everything. Okay, I wanna check them out if you wanna have a really private conversation. And they're using the open signal protocol, which by the way, signal is probably your best bet if you really wanna have a secure conversation. But WhatsApp has more people using it and uses the same protocol that signal does, so there you go, it's not a bad choice. Google has launched its podcast option in Google Play Music, according to the company blog post, the service is available in the U.S. and Canada on both the web and Android. It is coming to iOS, but it's not there yet. Creators interested in making their podcasts available on Google Play Music are urged to visit g.co slash podcast portal. So I have some thoughts on this. So remember when, I feel like Google, like what took them so long? That's really my question, because they're the archive of everything on the internet. I know archive.org technically is, but do you know what I mean? And remember they had the app called Listen on Android? Yeah, it was kind of like a 10% project for one of the people and it got discontinued. But I've always wondered why Google allowed Apple to kind of have the sole product with iTunes. Apple, in my opinion, doesn't even want it. They don't like podcasts, they can't monetize it. You can put as many ads in there as you want. The podcasting section of iTunes might disagree with you there, but it's... I don't think they like podcasts at all. They take forever to make the apps for the Apple TV or make them good. Yeah, it just seems like it's not a big priority for their business. It's not as much as you might have thought it would become. And I think it's the same cause in both situations, which is you have people assuming podcasts are dead multiple times throughout podcasting history. And in fact, Google kind of let Feedburner just burn away. It's still working, but it hasn't been really actively developed in years, and now suddenly podcasts are back with Avengers again. And I think that's what's going on, is Apple's interest in podcasting is rekindling from what I can tell. And we have yet to see that really happen in public, but the podcast app coming to Apple TV I think is one instance of that. And Google, obviously, is getting back into it, like, wow, I guess we should have been paying attention to this. It's podcasting wasn't dead, so it's a good step. Interesting. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if either company, I know we're primarily talking about Google here, as they will try to monetize this somehow. Cause it is, I mean, it's not taking up their server space cause you know, you're still hosting the file on your own, but it'll just be interesting. Yeah, well, I mean, they want you to pay for Google Music, which is $10 a month, but that also gets you YouTube red. And it also gets you the, you know, dropping the commercials on YouTube, et cetera. So it's all kind of similar to the strategy we're gonna be talking about with Amazon here. Interesting, that's a good point. Now, and one other thing to point out too is video is not part of this. The DTNS video podcast is subscriberable through Google Play Music now, but it is just the audio podcasts. It is not the video podcast, and you may be wondering why there are audio podcasts at all, Sean who volunteers and does the Google or does the DTNS video subscription feed puts the audio versions of day six with Peter Wells in there because there is no video version of those. And so those show up in Google Play Music. Okay, wow. But not a thing. And also, if anyone ever doubts that when I say that even though my wife works for a Google company, I don't really have any influence over there, go look at what they're promoting on the technology page of Google Play Music. You won't find DTNS. GameStop announced its new project called Game Trust that's going to publish new games. Game Trust will focus on marketing. They'll leave the creative process to the actual game developers, but they will work with game developers. Insomniac Games, which by the way, announced two new VR games today. And Insomniac Games will do Song of the Deep, a Ratchet and Clank title. That'll be the first Game Trust title launching this summer on PS4, Xbox One and PC. And Game Trust will also be working with Frozen Byte to Key to the Works and Ready at Dawn as well. Are you into gaming a lot, or are you? What's your? Question fraught with so much peril these days. Because if I say yes, then I'll be accused of, no you're not because you don't play this often or this much. I like to play video games sometimes. Yeah, I guess I was asking because I wonder if you're surprised at this announcement about games. It seemed like GameStop has to do with this. It's the natural evolution of securing their name in the business in the next five, 10 years by offering marketing services. It makes sense. I went into a GameStop a couple weeks ago. It was full of people, had games for sale. But you can see that they are definitely, they have lots of displays talking about their online products. They are definitely moving into a showroom mentality of sorts. I think they're doing it well, which is like, they're not stopping selling used games. They're not stopping selling consoles. But they're saying, look, if you are someone who loves video games, we want to be the place you want to go when you're at the mall to entertain you and maybe offer you something. And so being able to provide games like this, so when they come to the mall, maybe you go into GameStop and you play these games and you order them, but you don't necessarily walk out with a physical copy of them there. It still is going to work for you. Yeah, they still get cut off, whatever, they did. Yeah, actually, sounds good. I have no complaints here. Yeah, how about this? Maybe you'll move to Australia. The Australia Post will begin making test deliveries by UAV, aka drones, to customers' homes later this year. Packages will include medication and online purchases. Australia Post has completed successful field trials for small packages. So they're forging ahead. They're going to start delivering stuff by drone. I kept saying to myself, wait a minute, what does UAV mean? And I was saying unannounced aerial vehicle. I had to look it up, unmanned aerial vehicle. The University of Antelope Valley. No, it's unmanned aerial vehicle. Yeah, I was just trying to figure out what that stood for before the show started. Yeah, you know what I got from this article was interesting thing about Amazon, who we'll talk about in a couple of minutes, is that when they tested it out, the maximum range was only 15 miles, which I mean, 15 miles is a big range, but it was just interesting. I always thought these things would go much further. So in Australia, everybody's spread out even more. So they were saying there's probably can only be limited to the major city areas. Yeah, at least at the beginning, it's only going to be in the metro areas. But yeah, I mean, drone range will get better over time. One would assume so maybe someday. I like it. Not all the drone news is good though. The pilot of a British Airways Airbus A320 en route from Geneva and landing at London's Heathrow Airport reported something struck at the front of the aircraft during landing, and the pilot believed it was an unmanned aerial vehicle. UK Civil Aviation Authority said that the operator of the drone could face prison time if they can determine who it was. That's a big if. Yeah, this is getting, it's gonna get worse and worse. The article mentioned they need a sense of kind of geo, well they believe it's called geofencing where the drone just cannot go past. It's like it just won't let it register your drone. I think that the fence is probably better than the registration fence, because I don't know, are some of these toys, like somebody should go buy a tourist, right? Like how would that work? Yeah, and you don't have to register under a certain weight, but even if you have registered your drones with the FAA, it's gonna be hard to tell what the drone serial number was from an Airbus A320. So I'm not sure how practical that is in hunting down the operator anyway. Good point, good point. The better thing would be preventive measures. Yeah, more education, and I think the geo-fencing is a good idea to say, hey, voluntarily, companies should turn this on and until we have a regulation that requires it, but yeah, you or UAV should not accidentally be able to fly into airport airspace. Absolutely. EU Land Trust Chief Marguith Vestiger said on Monday that her department is investigating complaints of Google's exclusive contracts for Android phone makers. Reuters sources say it's gonna be creating some charges here pretty soon, maybe even this week. The contracts in question require phones that carry the Google Play Store to install a suite of other apps. A Google spokesperson told Reuters that the company does not force phone vendors into exclusive contracts, but that's what's being investigated. Vestiger said she doesn't mind that Google bundles all their apps together and says, hey, if you take the Google Play Store, you gotta take Gmail and Maps and all of that. She says the problem is the exclusivity of the contract that says you can't sell any other versions of Android. Oh, that's what the issue is. Okay, I was trying to figure out what's different than what they were doing, but yeah, that's an interesting twist on it. Now Google says it does not force phone vendors into exclusive contracts. That's different than saying we don't have any exclusive contracts. Right. You're not forced, but hey, that's a nice lamp you have over there. Right. And here's where I go from one side to the other. I think it's fine. Android's an open source, right? It's fine for Google to say if you wanna put Google on your phone and if you wanna have the Google Play Store, you gotta take these apps. I think there's nothing wrong with that. That's a fair deal. If you don't want it, don't take the Google Play Store. That's fine. I do think though that it is a little bit, especially with the market dominance that Android has, I think it's possibly antitrust to say, and you can also not sell any other Android-based operating system. And I think that's a problem. Okay. WeChat Enterprise 1.0 version launched Monday. It's available in Chinese for iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X. Employees can use it for chat. Things like reimbursement and vacation management. They can make calls with it. Companies with official business WeChat accounts already can take advantage right away. Others will need to register with an official Chinese business license. But Tech in Asia is calling it WeSlack because it's essentially like the Slack client, but for WeChat. Okay. I've never even used WeChat. Is that something that's even available here? Yeah, you can use WeChat in the US. It's not terribly popular over here. Have you ever used Slack, though? No, I haven't. Well, there you go. So this story... I'm not an interesting person, Tom. No, yeah, but I don't believe the interestingness of a person resides in their level of familiarity with either WeChat or Slack. But you might want to check out Slack, for sure, because we use it for DTNS, and it's pretty good at helping people plan stuff. I'll invite you in. Okay, got to do it. IBM reported a 4.6% decline in quarterly revenue. That's for the first quarter ending in March 31st. Revenue was $18.68 billion down from $19.59. This is the 16th straight quarter of revenue decline according to Fortune. That income fell to $2.01 billion or $2.09 a share from $2.33 billion or $2.35 a share. And Netflix reported $0.06 a share earnings on $1.96 billion in revenue for Q1. The analysts were expecting three cents per share on $1.97 billion. So they got close to matching revenue and definitely beat earnings per share. Netflix also reported 4.5 million new international subscribers for a total growth of 6.74 new subscribers in Q1. It had forecast $6 million for Q1, so pretty much right on there, even a little above. Yeah, they were actually down in stock about 4% because of the Amazon thing, so it's good to see maybe they'll pop back up now. Thanks to Abitua La Condulce, Jason Phil, and all those who submitted things from our subreddit, submit stories, and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. That's a look at the headlines. So I thought there was a really interesting take on this Amazon Prime video story from Romain Dillette from TechCrunch, calling Prime a subscription launchpad. Now here's why. When you subscribe to Amazon Prime, I'm gonna talk about the US package. It varies at different parts of the world. Amazon Prime in the US gives you two-day shipping for free. It gives you Kindle Lending Library, which is different than Kindle Unlimited, but it allows you to check out one book a month. It gives you Amazon Prime Video, it gives you Amazon Music, and it gives you unlimited photo storage, and that's all for 99 bucks a year. So what they've done now is say, okay, well you don't have to pay 99 bucks a year, you can do this on a monthly basis, 10.99 a month. That would turn out to be $131.88 a year, but maybe you're not sure you wanna pay for a whole year yet, so you just try it out for a couple months before you convert to yearly. And then if you're just like, you know what, I don't buy things on Amazon, I don't need shipping, I don't read eBooks, I just wanna watch Mozart in the Jungle. Well you can do that now for $8.99 a month, that's $107.88 a year. Before we get into the wider platform here, what's curious about that Lamar, $8.99 a month looks really cheap. It's actually more expensive than it is now for the entire Amazon Prime thing, but if you just want the video for $107.88 a year, you look cheaper than Netflix, which is $9.99 a month, or Hulu, which is $7.99 a month with commercials, but $11.99 without, and Amazon Prime has no commercials, HBO's $15, Showtime's $11, even Starz is $8.99 a month. So it feels like that is the reason for this Amazon video-only subscription is to compete with those. No, I think you're right. And it's interesting, the unbundling of that. Not just on this article, but I've read comments in the past with people who have said, look, I don't like yearly subscriptions. I would rather pay more, so I have control each month of whether I want to pay it or not. And so there is a market out there of people who understand that it's gonna be more expensive in the long run, but they like the idea of having their budgeted thing per month to deal with. And so Amazon is very wisely catering to both customers in that scenario. Yeah, I've lived month to month at points in my life. I know what that's like, where you're like, no, I'm not paying $99 for a year. I can't afford that, but I'll pay for this month because I know I can afford it this month. So that's good. I think what remained a left from TechCrunch, and apologies to remain if I'm butchering the pronunciation of your name, but I think you have a really good point here, which is, yeah, there's the Kindle Lending Library, when you check out one thing a month, that might lead you eventually into Kindle Unlimited, which is a different subscription at $10 a month, which has more recent books. Then there's Amazon Cloud Drive. So you get the free unlimited Amazon photo storage as part of Prime, but if you wanna store more than photos, you pay $60 a year, and you can get the Amazon Cloud Drive, which has unlimited storage for more than just photos. So the supposition here is, while right now Prime Video is just a play for people who are like, I don't want shipping, I don't wanna pay for a year, I just want the video on a month-to-month basis. He success maybe Amazon is turning Amazon Prime into a little breeding ground to spin this off, and maybe we'll see a situation where Amazon Video has a different version that gives you more than the version that's bundled in with Amazon Prime. Oh, okay, that is really interesting. I had another little spin that I didn't see written anywhere was that with as many people shipping things now, and it's just more packages, shipping is more expensive for them than when they made Prime, I don't know, was it five years ago, 15 years ago, they made Prime, and so maybe this whole idea, I mean, they went up for 79 to 99, maybe this whole idea of unbundling maybe just a safe cost, maybe it is really expensive to add the video with the different licensing agreements, plus add this free shipping, which I mean, if you look at regular shipping, if I was to ship a Mark-A-Wave or an Xbox or something big normally, next day, I mean, that's a pretty expensive, you know, some places will charge 30, 40, 50 bucks for that, and you're getting away with it for, you know, $3.99, so it just makes me wonder, are they looking to spin it off entirely its own products so that they can, you know, just save on the whole shipping? I don't know, does that make sense to you that they were trying to do that? They did raise the price of Amazon Prime, but I can't imagine that that really covered all of the things, especially as people are shipping more and more. I know personally, when we first got Prime, I wasn't sure if it was worth it, and these days, we ship enough things from Amazon that it is definitely worth it, and that means that it's probably not worth it for Amazon, although, you know, they do the accounting on these things, so maybe they're wrong. But just to be clear, Amazon Prime, for $99 a year in the U.S., does include the video. It does still, right, absolutely. It does, so they're not gaining any extra money by spinning it out, except for the incremental money gained of people who didn't want the shipping portion, or the music, or photos, or whatever portion, that just want the video, and it does allow them to market it right next to Netflix and say, hey, that's $9.99 a month. We have award-winning shows here, plus Woody Allen film that's gonna premiere at Cannes, and we're only $8.99 a month. And then there's the, of course, there's always the value proposition, as people are already saying, wait a minute, I only watch three things in Amazon. They have a garbage selection, and my answer to that is always, well, that's your take on it. What you may see as garbage is someone else's treasure. So, I mean, I know they don't have as much content as Netflix, but I mean, there's things that I can't get on Netflix and I can't get on Amazon, so I think it's a good value to have. Would I pay the $8.99 with all the subscriptions I have now, Tom, as a quarter-cutter? I don't know. I mean, I already do Netflix, I do the expensive Netflix for 4K. I do the no commercials things on Hulu already, and HBO occasionally. I'm not sure I would. I'm not sure that it's that great of a value for me, maybe for other people though. Well, and that's the thing, right? If you, Amazon has got you coming and going here. They're like, look, if you want our video, you get the shipping, it's just, we're just gonna throw it in. And that's similar to what YouTube's doing. We're like, you want commercial free on YouTube? Pay $9.99 a month, but you also get access to Google Music, and now the podcast, and now the YouTube Red Originals, and the ability to download and play offline. Like they added all this stuff. That's what Amazon's doing. Amazon now going the other way and saying, yes, but if you don't want all that stuff, we'll allow you to pay more for less. But I'm not gonna pay for it. And again, you can do this in the UK at 5.99. Germany and Japan also have Prime Video, where it was available as part of Prime. I think Laura Roman makes a good point. He's like, maybe they, so they did this at Sprint as a possibility, as a test. Now they're rolling out to markets that already have Amazon Prime Video. What if the next step is to say, well, now that we've set up that infrastructure, Amazon Prime Video is available worldwide for $8.99 or the equivalent per month, although we don't have the shipping deal everywhere. Now, that's a good idea. Now, would they then make a Prime that is just for shipping? You'd think that wherever. They end up spending off the music, spending off the books for these little, maybe $3.99 for a Delaney Library, maybe $4.99 for the music, photo storage, just maybe a couple bucks. What would that look like and could they get away with that? Yeah, I don't know if they ever spent out the shipping. I think the idea with shipping, and this is the only reason I think you might not be barking up the right tree with the cost, is that they feel like giving you the free shipping makes you buy more, and so it pays for itself, right? Right, right. Because you're spending more on the platform and they get profits from that. So I don't think they'd ever push the shipping out as its own thing, but I do like what TechCrunch is saying here about, maybe they use Amazon Prime as a way to launch more services, right? You have an instant built-in audience if you say we've just added it to Amazon Prime. So if you already pay the $99 a year or the $10.99 a month, now you have access to this ex-new thing, and then if it gets, they can try it out in there, perfect it if it seems popular, then roll it out as its own service. Yeah, I think that's what eventually happened with Kindle Unlimited, right? It's its own thing. I don't know if they tested it in Prime, but it's not part of Prime. You can't get unlimited books with it, so that's one example. Because I'm like, well wait, don't I get that with Prime? Oh right, no, I get a version of that with Prime, but it's not the same thing. Exactly, so yeah, I just think they need to be clear, but I like that they're willing to try stuff. And they have the money to do it, and if they fail, like they did with the phone, it's fine. They get back up and try something else, so why not do it? Let's get to our pick of the day from Mike and Laurel Maryland, who wants us to pick PlayStation View, speaking of online video. I said it was finally allowed my wife and I to get rid of our $100 a month Direct TV bill and watch our DVR content on our iPhones and iPad. We're paying $35 a month for PlayStation View. Get all the channels we used to watch, including some of the regional sports networks, Go Capitals, he says, not me, I say Go Blues. There are some annoyances. NBC Universal channels can't be watched on the mobile devices. Our area, DC and Baltimore, isn't one of the markets where you can get the major networks live through View. We use an over-the-air antenna and the on-demand through View to supplement that. There's no Roku app, so they had to buy a Fire TV. But Mike says to save $65 a month, it's worth some small annoyances and from reading other people's posts, a lot of other people feel the same way. Yeah, you know, I gave it a try. You know, I was listening to your other show, Court Killers. I found it, I used it the first week. I found it to be pretty buggy in the first week and I never went back to it and I didn't like the interface over sling. You know, but I heard it got better. It's a good value proposition. I just, I'm never on my PlayStation forward to take it back. I'm always on my Xbox, so. Yeah, I liked a lot of things about it, but it was buggier in the early days and Theater Mucky uses it and relies on it and he says it's gotten way better. So I'm thinking about dipping back in and maybe trying it out again this summer. But yeah, good, and now Mike agrees. He says, oh no, it's definitely working for me. Send your picks to us, folks. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewShow.com slash picks. Message of the day from Keith in Beautiful. Brownwood, Texas says, thanks for the show. I've been listening since day one. I've been following your work since Buzz Out Loud. I had a quick thought on podcasts in the Google Play Music app. I'm an avid Android wearer. I'm a terrible runner, but one of the things I've always desired is an easy way to bring a podcast with me on the run without my phone, just my smartwatch. I can do this with music, but until now I couldn't do it easily with podcasts. In theory, the integration of podcasts will let me offload my podcast to my watch daily. Might be a niche case, but one I've been hoping would come. And of course, by the time you read this email, this thought may be validated by Google's announcement. Yeah, Keith, I haven't seen whether this will, in fact, work with Android wearer, so let me know now that it's launched if that's working for you, but it does seem like it should since Google Music does. And that will be a no-brainer. It's audio, so shit, in theory, work. Keith, if you're hearing me on your watch, tell your watch to remind you to email me that you're hearing me on your watch. That's funny. Hey, thanks to Lamar Wilson, who is also funny, and you should go subscribe to his channel, youtube.com slash Lamar Wilson. That's L-A-M-A-R-R-W-I-L-S-O-N. What shenanigans have you been getting up to lately? Let's see, I've done some grocery shopping. That sounds really exciting. I have a gruel. Sir, you have more of a hudgings, or? Kind of a VONGE, not VONGE. Okay, I can see that, yeah. It was a fun video I did for a grocery haul. The audience really wanted it, and so I did, we rented a zip car, and we went to Costco and did a whole montage video. People loved it, yeah. So my next video coming up is probably gonna be a, it's a highly requested one, what's on my iPad? Now, I generally wouldn't give two rats anything what someone has on their iPad, but people wanna know what apps am I using now. So, look for that this week. Yeah, I've done several of those sort of what's on your iPad type of things, and yeah, it can be fun to see, like you wouldn't think so, but it can be fun to see, because it's not what you expect, right? If it's what's on my iPad, and you're like, here's my Twitter app, and here's my default music app, and my email, it's the default email app. That would not be fun, but it's when you find those weird things, like what is that app? Where did you get that? What do you use that for? That's what it's about. Absolutely. I mean, even though most of mine are all Candy Crush, but besides that, there's some other interesting apps that I use, so. By the way, Peter Wells just at replied me on Twitter with an error message, because he tries out a lot of devices. Can't deauthorize this device. You can only deauthorize four devices a year. What? This is Google Play Music, by the way. He wants to deauthorize a device so that he can use his account on a different device, and they're like, no, you can't deauthorize the device. Seriously? Apple gives you 10, and you can come and go as you please. Yeah, well, you can only have 10 at a time, but you can deauthorize them as often as you want, right? I mean, maybe there's a limit, but I've never run into it. Yeah, that's just ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Stop it, Google. Yeah, or as Peter Wells says, sigh. Thank you to everybody who supports this show, dailytechnewshow.com, slash support. There are lots of ways that you can support the show. If you're already giving us something that you think is an equitable exchange for the value you get from the show, you're awesome. Thank you so much. You are the only way that we fund the show. We don't have sponsors. We don't have a trust fund. We don't have secret offshore accounts. We only have you. So if you get some value out of the show, dailytechnewshow.com slash support is the place to go to give some value back. Reminder, tomorrow the show will be recorded two hours later than usual, 6.30 p.m. Eastern. It's our Japan special, or Patrick Beja gets to sleep until 7 a.m. special, because he's in Japan tomorrow. We'll do it a little later so that he can actually get up at a decent hour, and he's gonna share a lot of his observations of the technology culture that he's run into over in Japan. He's been in a few different areas besides Tokyo, so check that out. But if you're waiting for it on time in your podcatcher, or if you're coming for the livestream, just remember we'll be recording it at 6.30 p.m. Eastern tomorrow. Sounds fun. Yeah, should be. I'm looking forward to it. 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Yeah, I pretty much just need to be here daily. So just, I have enough to do for a level. The Lamar Wilson Cinecura level. Tom, I have enough to do that's going on in my life. Let's just do it. You guys have so much going on. Please, happy daily. No, you are my favorite. You already know that. You're my favorite. Oh, stop. You're my favorite. No, you've known it. I love doing these shows with you. Yeah, you are my favorite guy on the internet. You are awesome. She sucks. You make me blush. If you start turning red, Tom, everybody will see. I know. Watch your arms, it'll be impossible. You can tell. You look close. You can tell. What should we call this? Working at NAB. Roger, we can hear you. Are you muted? You're viewed from above. You're talking really silently. Oh, he's muted. Man, my MacBook Pro screen is dying. It's more than three years old now. Really? And something hit it in the corner, and it started showing a line. And then, all of April, it's just slowly eating the right side of the screen. And I'm like, just please hang in there until New Macs are announced. Just I got other laptops I can use. Because we can get these patrons going. I can tell them right now on this microphone. Guys, Patreon him a laptop. What are you doing? But no, see, I want to wait until the new ones come out. I don't want to buy one of the old ones like a month before they announce a new one. OK. I mean, that's fair. I mean, it always gives me a free one. I always have that battle with technology. It's like, as soon as you buy it, it's going to be something new coming out anyway. I've always missed the boat on GoPros. I've been wanting to get one for three years, and I always forget. And then I think about the middle of the year, and I was like, well, shoot. They come out in around October. I might as well just wait for the next one. What's going on with Roger's audio? He still can't hear. Oh, man. Maybe Roger needs a new laptop first. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, man. You need to sign language to the title, then, to us. Showbot.tv, folks. Play along at home. We'll be picking title shortly. No, he's out. He's like, goodbye. I'm going to re-log in. How about a prime view? Ah. That's so funny. Now it's terrible. I'll stop. You know I'm a sucker for that, though. You are. What do we got? Amazon Video has reached its prime. Tom's wife working at NAB. Amazon wants its prime cut. Ooh, that's clever. OK, OK. That's the winner. You going with that? I'm going to get me now. Yes, we can finally hear you. It said it. What was that? He just left. Did he leave or? He did. He got kicked out. Yeah, he's like, it said. We were having this problem before the show where it was saying it couldn't authenticate him. I think he's got some kind of browser cache issue. We stopped using Netscape Navigator, Roger, and just used a regular browser. Upgrade from Mosaic. Hey, so Amazon has reached its prime. I like that one. Amazon wants its prime cut is what we were thinking. Oh, that's good, unless you're a vegan or vegetarian, never heard of prime cut. Oh, they've heard of it. They've heard of it. Prime cut of squash. Give me some of that. The vegetarians secretly admire the prime cuts. They just won't eat them, but they admire them. I am not big on the red meats as they used to be. I think it's just age and health. Oh, it's age. I feel the same way. Like, it's so heavy. Lately, I've been eating. I've done a couple of Instagrams on this. Sorry, Tom, you probably have overloaded you with Armenian food. But I have, like, got a Armenian food kick. And it's so light. Like, there's a number of it, a good amount. You know, it's a nice plate. But I do not like hummus at all, because it's never made right. They're hummus. Oh, my goodness, it's good. I will say that most packaged hummus, like, you get in the supermarkets, kind of bland and off-tasting. But, like, really fresh, like, fresh-made or stuff you can actually get at, like, that's, like, like the organic brand, they actually sell in the supermarkets, actually not too bad up here. But, like, it's, like, Persian. And there was another, there was like a Middle Eastern restaurant, really amazing chicken. Oh, my gosh. Like, if you eat, you can stuff yourself, but you don't feel bloated or sick. Yeah. And so, that's the, as I'm getting older, I'm looking for more food like that, that's quality. Like, I went to one restaurant, and it felt like, it was a tiny restaurant, really, really small. But I felt like the lady was, like, cooking for me in her house. Yeah. You know, it was just that feel, and loved it. Well, and when you have a small restaurant, it makes your portions seem bigger. That's an interesting point. No, no, my stomach tells me. My stomach got smaller as I got older. No, it has scientifically proven that if you serve the same amount of food on a smaller plate, you will get full faster. What do you need? I'm working right now. Hello? Hello? Roger's on the phone. Hello? We can hear you, Roger. I'm working right now, what do you need? I'm going to mute Roger. Casey, what, my social security number? It's one, two, three. He's making a mob deal there. What do you need? I'm sorry, I didn't answer it. All right, I'm still exporting. But yeah, man, I love those kind of places. Yeah, like the place, I mean, you took me to. You were there with your dog the other day, right? Or yesterday? Yeah, I was swear. Yeah, I recognized the table. Sorry, I was like, I like that place. I like little places like that. Yeah, it might be a little bit higher, but it's like you get kind of a, you really good customer service. Yeah. Because they know they need you. And you generally get better food. Yeah, I think so. It's probably what I'll, I'll probably recreate that today. Cause I told the lady I'll be back. So I have to, I have to go back now. You know, it's not actually a restaurant. You just wanted into a lady's house. And she was nice enough to be back for you. I was like, I smell some good food here. Oh, come on, baby. I don't know, you got 20 bucks. I'll make some for you. She got 20 bucks out of me, too. But the LA health code doesn't know is won't hurt anybody. I'm like, where is your, where's the letter A or anything? Oh, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry about that. She's like, oh, I'll, I'll get all the alphabet. It's fine. Have you ever eaten at a place with a B? Yeah, yeah, but it should be months to go there. I went to a place that I had gone to regularly and it had a B. And I was like, whoa, like dude. Yeah. It was a trendy restaurant. It was back to an A, so. It was a trendy restaurant, so they had an A. It was in Hollywood for the longest. And I just kept looking in every day as I went to a restaurant next to it. And I finally said, let me give them a try, because they see, it was a lot of people in there. So it seemed like they were doing something right. There was a place by the cemetery I saw once that had an F. And then of course, not too long after that, it was out of business. I've never seen a C or anything. I've only ever seen an A, B, and an F. Like the F was like, whoa, yeah, that's not good. Wow. Okay, that's a, yeah, we got an F. You shouldn't even be open. Why was somebody walking there? The next time I drove past there, there was no restaurant. It was gone. Roger, I unmuted you now. I'm sorry. I didn't want you to accidentally say something on the phone that everyone would hear. No, my dad, my CPA kept calling me and I didn't get it. I can't do that. I'll still pay taxes later. Don't make me pay today. Oh no, it's, yeah, no. It is tax day, though. It is, it is, we didn't mention that, but it's kind of obvious. It's not a tech story, it's just file electronically. Well, you can actually file by post date, right? Like, those you have the post marked, you get to start at the end of the day, April 18th. Yeah. Man, we used to run tax stories on techTV.com and CNET, and they would never do well. It was always this thing like, oh, you gotta run a tax story, because it's tax day. And I'm like, no, it's too late, and nobody wants to be reminded about it. No, almost, yeah. Or if they didn't do it, they don't want to, yeah, they don't want to throw it in their face. Right, yeah. So prime cuts, prime cut. Amazon wants its prime cut. Oh, yeah, a couple of states it is tomorrow. Tomorrow? Really? Because they have all this? But that's a state income tax, right? Well, the state income tax is the same for everyone. Should be. Otherwise, I'm moving. You get that extra day. That's what I have an account for. They better did it on time. They said they did it electronic, you know what I'm saying? All right, because it's Patriots Day today in Massachusetts. Good point, Captain Jack. Patriots Day, okay. So if that's the case, Boston Marathons today, and that means that the Federal Government Postal Office has to deliver mail, because it's not a federal holiday. May I still look? Oh, taxes. I actually don't mind paying a reasonable amount of tax to support the government that does many things, and it gives me the right to complain about what those things are. I would just like it to be simpler. And obviously I'd like it to be more order too, but yeah. The issue is the simplest. I mean, I have to hire a company for mine now, because it's just, it's too detailed, and I don't know, and now we have to do estimated quarterly taxes. Well, they're not required, but they strongly encourage you to. Because they want to make the interest off your money, not you. Right. That's like, well, yeah, that's my, yeah, because this is my first year I've been doing that, and they're like, well, you know, you don't, they said you don't have to, but we strongly encourage it if you want to make sure that you're not hit with a big bill next year. What's a good safety measure to make sure you have enough money to pay your taxes? Absolutely. Yeah. And so, you know, they're right, and when I have the money, I will. Okey-dokey. That was fun talking about money I'm losing today, or we're all losing. I ended on a downer. I agree, I just really need the money to pay right in two weeks, so. But thanks everybody for watching, and... Oh, no. Don't cry, Roger. Have a lovely Patriots Day. Patriots. Yes. Go Patriots.