Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: IoT Upgrades

Episode Date: May 7, 2016

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Hey, yesterday we found out that if you use Gmail, hotmail, or Yahoo Mail, you should change your password now. Reuters was reporting that Russian hackers have stolen more than 273 million email passwords and are selling them online. If true, this would be the largest security breach since hackers attacked the U.S. banks retailers two years ago. So, change your password. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, or MailRU,

which, you know, a lot of people complain about the Google, but I'm telling you, they're making their experience pretty good. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. We can talk a little bit about some big tech stuff. I was reading a big article by Business Insider. intelligence. It's one of their inside reports. And they were going through some of the big tech predictions of 2016. And some of those tech predictions are actually coming true and will come

true. And as I'm going through them, I'm just fascinated by what's happening in the world. According to a business insider intelligence, you know, retailers have been shifting from brick and mortar stores to online outlets. We know that. Payment cards. are moving from our wallets to our smartphones. I mean, they aren't accepting sweaty money anymore. Publishers of ditched paper and are now sending content in real time, which, you know, we love. Those of you listening on the Blaze Radio Network, thank you. Automakers have said that the next five years will disrupt the industry more than the last 50 years.

Amazing. And tech giants are replacing our PCs with mobile devices. No question. about that. If I could do, I'm just getting ready to get a new mobile device. I have the Samsung, what is this, the five. And I would have already gotten rid of it except, well, some sort of contractual arrangement that I made with them makes me spend a million dollars if I get rid of this phone. And I love this phone anyway. I really like this phone a lot, so it's fine. I got, I really have no problem with the phone at all, and it still works great. However, I looked at the,

the seven, the seven sport or the seven note, whatever the, whatever one of the sevens are, it was beautiful. That will be my next phone. And if I can do, like I have, I have a couple laptops and a desktop, we have a desktop at home, we have a couple of laptops, we have a couple of tablets, Android tablets. I do not have an iPhone tablet. If I can do what I do, and right now I can do, I got the Android tablet. and I barely use it anymore because I can do everything I did on the tablet on my phone.

At the time, when I got the tablet, it was just before I got the five, the phone, the Samsung five, so I wanted the tablet because there were some stuff I wanted to be able to do. Ah, boom, I got the five and I didn't need the tablet anymore. If I can do almost everything on my phone that I can do on any device. Okay. So if I could, and I'm sure that there's a way, I just have not done it. If I could set up so I could print from my phone, and I just haven't done it because I've got a couple of desktops

that I can print from if I want things printed, and a couple of laptops as well. I wouldn't use the desktop or the laptop. There is some Blaze Radio, technical stuff behind the scenes that I take care of that I can't do on my phone. Once I can do that on my phone, I'll just use the phone. I'm good with that.

I'm all ready for that. No problem. They claim that Facebook and YouTube will battle in mobile video. Indonesia will become one of the largest smartphone markets. The blockchain will be recognized as more than a fad. Amazon will leave its shipping partners and oil companies will embrace

IoT technology as the price of oil continues to drop. Well, oil is kind of going back up, but the IoT technologies is going to be embraced and already is being embraced by almost everyone right now, right? I mean, the Internet of Things is everywhere. And their Internet of Things predictions, two-thirds of new cars shipped to the U.S. will be connected to the Internet. I mean, that's probably already true. The U.S. will finally get federal guidance surrounding self-driving cars, leading many states to enact legislation.

We know that's already true. And we're going to get to the self-driving cars faster than they predicted. The growth of enterprise of Internet of Things initiatives will increase in demand for cyber insurance policy. season 2016. That's, I mean, think about that. They've got to find a way to insure your self-driving car, which, you know, will be nothing. If the only reason you'll need insurance on the self-driving car is because there'll be other cars out there that aren't self-driving and you can't, you know, humans will crash, right?

Because the self-driving car should see each other and not crash. As oil prices continue to crash, which they haven't, by the way, but this is their prediction will look at the Internet of Solution to maximize efficiency throughout the supply chain. I mean, they're already doing that, really. But it's going to be a while before gas prices go back down again. And here in Texas, there's many people that are kind of happy about that. The insurance industry will embrace health care and connected home Internet of thing devices as a way to price insurance policies. Oh, yeah?

Oh, you don't have the app. To update your medical information directly to our database. Oh, no, we've got to charge you more money. We want to be able to dial in and have your medical information updated immediately whenever we call. Otherwise, we're going to charge you $8 million. The Mobile Video Wars will heat up with winners and losers starting to emerge in distinct content categories. brands, media companies to celebrate the number of videos they publish

directly to Facebook. Facebook will eventually surpass YouTube. I know they've got a ways to go for that, but they are trying. Snapchat continued to pen exclusive partnerships with major media companies, large brands. Video viewing audience will still grow significantly.

YouTube will remain a huge player, but rely heavily on its YouTube stars to drive video views and paid subscribers to its YouTube. Red service. Have you subscribed yet to YouTube Red? Have you? Okay. They're YouTube stars. My kids live. There's several. I mean, there's a list of them that my kids love. So they're there. Don't fool yourself. They're out there. And I mean, they have, they have these, I'll call them conventions, but they're not that. They're gatherings of the YouTube stars. And I mean, they are

packed with thousands of people. These guys, stars in the YouTube world. So don't think it doesn't exist. Standards for online video news and tracking will become a major point of contention. That's for sure, and it already is. We want to be able to know, you know, you want to get feedback. And the feedback is who's listening, when they're listening, how long they're listening, where they're listening from.

And different companies say that they can do it, but different companies also have different ways of manipulating that data. So the companies that are able to do that and not manipulate it and able to give you as close to real-time information as possible will be the winners in that. I mean, we have a system here for just the website that gives you real-time. How many people are looking at each story? How many people are online? What story they came from to get to this story, where they came from, their mobile device, where they came from, where they got the story from, Twitter, Facebook, desktop. It's pretty fascinating. Native advertising, we'll see an uptick and ad spend as publishers and advertisers like focus on the user experience. Yeah, I mean,

the user experience is also the best, but they've still got to advertise. Nobody knows how to make any money off of this yet. They're trying to figure out ways. They're trying to figure out ways. but nobody knows how to really make money because nobody wants the advertising, all right? Everybody says, hey, we want everything free, but how do you pay for it? It's funny how things free still cost money? Cable companies will continue to embrace streaming, but cost for consumers will rise. You can count on that. You know, they've got declining revenue, so they're going to try to.

to up their streaming services. But they will also up their cable costs because less and less people are using their services. Claims here, Yahoo will sell its core business, likely to telecommunications company. Yahoo insists its core business is currently not for sale. I'm pretty sure everything is for sale. Google and Facebook will be drawn into the fray based on Yahoo's fantasy sports, mail and finance digital properties. and, you know, in Charter, right,

but it just okayed, I think yesterday, the deal with Time Warner. Fios just was brought out by Frontier. And by the way, that, speaking of that, I got news for you. That happened almost,

and I'll say almost overnight, it was like, oh, okay, Verizon Fios is now Frontier, and there you go. And so, when they had problems with their switchover for their Wi-Fi and some of their cable services, when you called and talked to a human being that didn't appear to be or didn't sound like they were living here in the United States, however they could be.

They could have been. They said, oh, you were notified of the change, and the time is passed now that you can't do anything. It's still going to cost you so much money to get out of your contract because you were notified. No. Frontier, you can keep saying that to people, but that doesn't make it true. Unless we were notified in an email in my junk mail, or we were notified in small writing at the bottom of our online bill, which is the only bill we get, then it's not true.

I'm sure that's what happened, though. Oh, we notified you. Look, it's on page three, paragraph two, negative, two-size font saying that you have exactly seven days to let us know whether you want out of this deal because we're taking over Verizon Fios and we put it on every bill, including the bills that were sent out online. So if you don't get a paper bill, you should have seen it on your online bill. Raise your hand if you look at every page and read every word of your online bill except for what you're being charged and what you're being charged for. Oh, look at you with your hand up.

Aren't you special? Aren't you special unlike the rest of us? Top five mobile predictions from Business Insider Intelligence for 2016. A major wireless carrier and pay TV company will merge. That's already happening, right? Cable companies have extensive Wi-Fi networks, and that could add capacity to wireless networks. Better coverage.

It means faster wireless networks, heavier data loads. Absolutely. will, that will happen. Cable industry is under pressure from over the top device operators and streaming video. Apple TV, Roku, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu,

the Blaze for falling pay TV subscriptions. Mobile, T-Mobile and Sprint. This is a surprise to me. T-Mobile and Sprint, the wireless industry, number three and four carriers, respectfully, and Prime Acquisition Target, Sprint continues to hemorrhage cash.

That's amazing to me. I don't know why. I love Sprint. I've had Sprint for a long time. They've been a great, they've been a wonderful mobile companion to me. They're not even a sponsor, Sprint. Indonesia is going to join India as the next big smartphone market.

Think of that. Think of that. Indonesia will join India as the next big smartphone market to watch out for. 250 million people, Indonesia is approaching the population of the United States. And India's smartphone user base is expected to match the U.S. this year, 204 million smartphone users in 2016, 4 million less than the U.S. Indonesia, the country's per capita income is rising fast, which will obviously help its people, and about half of whom are under 30,

and of course that's mobile device world. The company, Show Me, will begin selling phones in the U.S. That's X-I-O-M-I. Shelby will begin selling phones in the U.S. They are known for making high-quality devices at a fraction of the price. They're not in the U.S.

I'd be surprised if that's allowed to come into the U.S. I'll bet you there's some kind of deal. that they can't come into the U.S. Disappearing carry contracts in the U.S. will accelerate the smartphone upgrade cycle. We'll kill mobile service contracts. Price were after a volatile to mobile carry industry has ushered and the decline of smartphone contracts.

Gatekeeper status. They're going to lose that. More customers purchased devices directly manufacturers. My wife just did that. Purchased a device directly from the manufacturer and then went to the company, which was Sprint, and they activated it through their carrier service. Absolutely.

You get your phone through the direct manufacturer. If that's the phone you want, that's the phone you should get. Enterprise apps are going to hit a new high. Those are just a few of the 2016 predictions from Business Insider Intelligence, and we are just five months into the year. So in another seven months, where will we be? It will be amazing and it's where we'll be. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.

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