The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Microsoft Major Announcements, Apple Invests In Housing & Other Tech News Nov 4, 2019

Episode Date: November 4, 2019

Microsoft Major Announcements, Apple Invests In Housing & Other Tech News Nov 4, 2019

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Snapchat me. Whatever. I don't know. Let's get into news. Damn it. It's Monday. For hell's sakes. We've got to cover news because you don't want to work.

You want to listen to podcasts, right? There you go. I give you an escape for that. That's what I'm here for. WCCF Tech. Not even sure what kind of website that is i guess whatever imran hussein this is what his website is he says he's reporting all that crap uh you know he seems like a good guy i'm not saying crap that doesn't sound right the the photoshop for ipad is now available in the i store with full psd that's photoshop editing it's got layers uh context aware tools and more for 9.99 per month in a 30-day free trial one of that includes the uh you know you can pay like 9.99 a month and you can access like

photoshop and adobe premiere and you know all sorts of other different things of course sometimes you may need to pay more to get some of the uh better video editing stuff they do but uh this is part of the big package that photoshop has been doing for a lot of years just kind of lease their products i think this one's smart uh i think it's great because it's much cheaper than you know paying like 800 to buy one of their apps. And they probably get more money over time. I've certainly bought it over years, paid the $999 a month and never used the service. But whatever, man.

I think people seem to like it. So you can use it now on the iPad and you can be able to do your editing on that stuff and get your photos looking really beautiful. So be sure to check that out. According to The Verge, Adobe is also developing Illustrator for iPad, which will include the core tools alongside new tools made for Touch to be released by the end of 2020. So it looks like Adobe is really adopting to Apple and getting all sorts of good apps over there. Kind of funny if you remember the story from years and years and years and years and years ago with Steve Jobs when he said crap on Adobe by saying that they were killing and cutting up Adobe.

I forget what they call it. Adobe Flash. They were killing Adobe Flash. And Adobe Flash is dying. In fact, Chrome has announced it's ending it. And I don't think you can really use it in Chrome anymore. But yeah, that thing is going to go die. This is kind of interesting.

This has been making the tech news channels this morning. Apple is announcing a $2.5 billion plan to combat the housing availability and affordability in crisis. This is really important for them, I think, and most of these businesses to invest in because Silicon Valley has a huge, huge housing problem. California has a huge housing problem. It's really amazing because when you drive, like I do, from California to Vegas, there's so much land, man.

Like, as soon as you leave Vegas and, Gene, I can't remember what the border town is called. As soon as you leave the border town, it's just like endless freaking land. You would think that Vegas would have, like, stretch into that. And it's just like endless land. I think what we should do is we should move all these poor people in the middle of nowhere land states that all the jobs have left their areas. We should move them to some of these areas in California. They'd have better access to the beach, better weather, and more jobs.

Hey, I'm all for that. I mean, you can't expect the jobs to stay where you're at. You've got to move with the industry you know even back in the day people you know they move close to the spice routes because that's where the money in the trade was you got to move to where the trade was times change people anyway i think this is cool uh i think it's good they invest in it you know i've been to silicon valley there's huge swaths of empty, unadulterated, untapped land that are up there. They just need to seize all that fucking property.

And one of the problems is the stupidity of the laws in Silicon Valley and San Francisco that make it so that you can't build. And part of the laws are these laws that basically, if you live in San Francisco on the hills, they're like, you can't build like a skyrise because you'll ruin my view. And they have all these laws to protect that sort of bullshit. So I don't know what the, I don't know what's going to do, but I don't know. You think they'll improve the problems they have there in California and their housing and all that kind of crap would be brilliant. And really, you know, some of these companies should start investing in other areas. And a lot of people in Silicon Valley have started to move out and are taking and doing that.

And I think that would be really brilliant for them to take and do. And they need to expand Silicon Valley outside of Silicon Valley and probably outside of California. So there's that. So you may want to take and keep that in mind, Apple, when you're doing stuff. Of course, they did build that big new spaceship that they got to fill with employees. So there's that. But if you've ever been to Silicon Valley, especially during rush hour, you just want to kill yourself like in your car. No wonder everyone owns Teslas because that way they can at least do stuff while they're spending 50 000 fucking hours in their cars uh next up in the news

the verge is reporting that microsoft has unveiled a new office app for ios and android it combines word excel powerpoint into a single download with a new logo because does anyone still use Microsoft Office I guess people do I don't I haven't used it for so freaking long I don't even know that exists anymore but I guess maybe businesses do so anyway they got a new Office app so you can have your Word your Excel your PowerPoint and all that good stuff, and away you go. So cool, man. You can do your text editing and your spreadsheets on your mobile phone because God knows that boss wants you to work on that vacation

or when you're at home, you know, babysitting the kids, playing with them in front of the TV. You better get that Excel spreadsheet done. Damn itrosoft also has added according to verge uh cortana to outlook for ios which uh enables features including reading emails aloud adding a male voice option and android app to follow in spring uh that's kind of interesting i don't know cortana i just always have so many issues with it's like whatever man so far behind the times this is kind of interesting but not according to verge as well microsoft unveils a new logo for edge chromium ahead of the release of the final version of the browser they're actually going to try and re-release Edge, but I guess it's a Chromium-based Edge browser,

so I believe that's built on the technology of Chrome, so I don't even know, man, the thing's such a fucking turd, I try and use it actually for some marketing, I do the Edge browser for Microsoft, because I need like 50,000 browsers for some of the stuff I do. And I guess this is still such a turd. So evidently Microsoft's Chromium based edge browser is going to be available on January 15th. It's going to have new privacy features, including in private browsing and tracking prevention. Starting to see more and more of this. Recently, we put a new VPN. We've been testing the firewall VPN on the Chris Vosch Show network here in the office. Works really good.

It's a darn good thing. We reviewed it on the Chris Vosch Show. But one thing that's interesting is now they have these fight with your blocker, your ad blocker software now and some of these sites like the Washington Post and it goes and then if you really want to read our site there's pop that comes up and once that you read it says amen if you really want to read or say you know turn if you're on blocking you're like okay kind of feeds whole purpose after a while but most websites don't have it

evidently I don't know maybe it's expensive or a pain in the ass to install. According to Wired, Wikipedia is going to partner with the Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page reviews using archives scanned in books as archives for 130,000 links. So the operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia users to check citations from books as well as the web. That should be fun. Have fun with that, people. Microsoft is going to add new features to Teams, including Outlook and Yammer integrations,

pin channels, private channels, polls, tasks, surveys, and more. It's according to The Verge. And basically, they claim that they're going to be the, you know, they're just giving a competition for Slack and other different things for teams and all that sort of good stuff. So let them have fun with that. I don't know. I don't use it much. So there you go.

There's a lot of Microsoft stuff today, a lot of announcements going on with those folks and what they're doing. They've also announced Azure Arc, which extends its hybrid cloud management tech to Linux and Windows servers and Kubernetes clusters running in any infrastructure. So there you go. And they've also unveiled Azure Blockchain Tokens, a platform for minting enterprise-ready crypto tokens.

So that should be interesting as well. Lots of different things going on with these miners, folks. You got to love it. According to Wired, researchers have spotted the first successful attack using Windows Blue Keep vulnerability. The exploit is not a worm and installs crypto miners instead of ransomware. So basically they hijack you, use your power to do crypto mining on their behalf instead of ransomware.

I don't know, that might be more profitable. It's dependent upon what you're mining for and how it's working. You're like, why is my computer doing a lot in the background? So there you go. Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today. I found this is interesting because Snapchat, if you're familiar with those guys, I thought they were dead. They've actually rebounded.

We covered this a short while ago on the Chris Voss Show. If you follow that, make sure you do. Make sure you catch those old articles. So they've got an article in Wall Street Journal with Evan Spiegel, claims he stands by the big bet that Sink snaps stock, and they said they turned a corner with their controversial redesign that's finally paying off. Really interesting article that they took and have,

and basically their stock has risen more than 150% since the start of last year, about $15 a share, close to its IPO price of $17. He rebuilt his management team, and he expects Snap to report its first profitable quarter soon. So that's going to be interesting. It's going to be where the company's adjusted earnings metric, whatever that means. So they retweet the design, fixed bugs rolled back a couple features but uh says the change

increased the amount of time users spent watching premium content in the snapchat app it's also released a new version of its android app which has helped attract users in developing markets so uh evidently they're doing really, really fricking well. And, um, yeah, they, uh, announced their, I forget what they call it. UA UAs, their, uh, unique, uh, their daily or their DUAs, I believe it is a daily user. Um, people that are using the site, they increased that, they increased the time people are on there. And they sold a ton of ads and made really good money. So I guess Snap's still a thing. What don't I know?

In fact, I talked to some of my relatives who are in the teenage realm, and they affirmed to me that Snapchat, Snap, whatever you want to call it, is the thing that they use i guess they're still hiding their things from their parents and stuff so they love snapchat i thought instagram had eaten the lunch on snap but i guess i was wrong what do i know i'm old you don't know what the teenager is doing chris and it's probably appropriate that i don't this is kind of interesting uh mcdonald's fired ceo steven or steve easter rook over a relationship with employee made a joke on facebook i'm like

was he dating ronald mcdonald on the side never eat where you poop people that and if you work at mcdonald's you probably shouldn't eat there either i'm just saying it's not good food. It's not even food. It's not even healthy for you. Just don't do it. Seriously. If you want to eat some McDonald's, just take like a pound of salt, shove it in your mouth.

That's pretty much what you're after. You're after the sodium taste. That's really what it is. Because if you don't eat McDonald's for a long time, you go eat one, you're like, wow, this is a lot of freaking salt anyway whatever you want to eat that's your business just try and eat healthy be careful you put your body and make sure you work out so you get rid of all that crap that you took and ate um anyway that's uh kind of the rundown of the news today some of the different things that stuck out. I mean, lots of Microsoft announcements, et cetera, et cetera. We'll be going to our other show segment for

watch for that, where we run down some of the different product hunt things that we liked and all that good stuff. We'll probably be doing some other things. Of course, like I said, watch our event coverage here coming up for SEMA. There's Fabtech that we're going to be covering. It's a big industrial show for all sorts of cool stuff and fabrication for metals and different things. We'll be doing that in Chicago later on, I think next week or the week thereafter. And then we have CES

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