This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Aloha, this is Matt Darnell with Comptile.Cloud here on Hawaii, Think Tech Hawaii, absolutely. And what we're going to do, I'm flying solo today, so we're going to be going over some of the Apple products, that's one of the most frequent questions I get is on the portable Apple products, whether it is an iPad or whether it's an iPhone, what one should I buy, because there is a lot of overlap, so we're going to be going over all those products, and which ones we should buy, which ones we shouldn't buy, and what they're kind of used for with that. So as usual we're going to go ahead and start talking about some current events. So first here, first thing we're going to talk about is, I don't know if you've ever seen this face, if you have children probably under the age of 15, they know who this is. If you don't know who this is, this is a gentleman, I don't know his real name, but he goes by his streamer name, is called Ninja, and he made over $10 million last year, soy claims, playing the game called Fortnite, which is a free to download game, but then you're able to buy things like you can buy a different outfit for your character to wear, or a different weapon. Everyone starts off with the same things, if you buy something fancy, it doesn't give you a tactical advantage in the game, it just makes you look different. So they've made billions of dollars off this game, and what these kind of folks do is they will just play the game and stream it over the internet on things called Twitch.tv, YouTube, and people subscribe, they pay money to be able to watch them play games. And again, he made over $10 million last year doing this, so that was just amazing to me. And when I talk to my sons about it, because they both, I have a freshman and elementary school boy, and they say they just enjoy watching it. And the more I think about it, is it any different than me sitting down and watching basketball or football?  So sitting there for an hour watching somebody else play a game, to them is no different than me sitting there for three hours and watching an NFL playoff game. I mean, they know they're never going to be as good as this person, and I know I'm never going to be as good as Tom Brady or anybody like that, but I enjoy watching them, I enjoy what they're able to do, how they're able to do it, and that holds true for these video game folks as well. So the fact that they have tournaments and have that, so I thought that was amazing that somebody could make $10 million doing that. The next thing here is a website called Indiegogo, and if you've never been on that website, it's part of what we call crowd funding, crowd sourcing, and what that allows you to do is let's say you have a great idea and you just want to raise some money, you might want to raise a million dollars, you might want to raise a hundred dollars. What you do is you put your idea up there and people can source the funding for you. They can give $10, they can give $5, they're able to do and help you out, and then you have different levels. So let's say you are going to make a really neat hat. You can say anybody that bids that donates $20 is going to get one of the first 100 limited edition hats or you might say if you vote donate 100 you get 10 hats or they'll be signed by the person that creating that. But one of the biggest problems with this crowd sourcing and crowd funding is you can make your donation and if the person just takes your money and runs you really have no recourse. It's gone to court before and the court has said no, they don't have to give your money back. So one way Indiegogo has done is they have guaranteed delivery for certain projects. So if I'm going to make a new computer, a new camera, a new whatever, a car that if the if you could see that on their guaranteed delivery that if what you paid for doesn't happen then they will give your money back and I think that's really a great thing going forward because there's websites like kickstarter.com the same type of a paradigm there and that's the issue is I'm going to give $300 I want this new gyroscope for my phone so it's always going to stay there but if it doesn't ship I'm out of my 300 bucks but again with this guaranteed delivery what you're able to do is know that if it never gets delivered they don't deliver that Indiegogo is going to give you your money back. So that's really a fabulous thing. So if you ever do that you ever buy into a project that's one thing to really consider is is it guaranteed? If I don't get what I was promised am I going to be able to get my money back? Next one here so this is an electric plane all electric has three engines you can see one on each wingtip and one there at the end and it's being built as an inter-city airplane meaning I want to go from Diamond Head to downtown this kind of plane is what we'll be able to go there now it's not vertical takeoff or anything but it's supposed to be for economical now they're probably thinking mainland city like I want to go from Orange County to say John Wayne airport you know it's probably all within within Los Angeles there but it's you know 40 miles away and a lot of traffic so to get a jet to fly I know we fly from you know it's funny when you fly from say Kona de Hilo or Honolulu to Kaka'a by time you get going up you're already going back down but and it's very expensive for them for them to do that so this is designed to be able to do that and at what point is this going to be the end of it? I mean this is probably close to a flying car realistically that I've I've ever seen you know they've been having flying cars since the 40s right people have been doing that but but this is short runway short takeoff ultra light pretty soon there's just going to be a drone it's not you know there's not even going to be a pilot in there it's going to be all flown there'll be 15 of them flown by one person sitting in in a console somewhere and doing that so it's just the next evolution all battery powered to be able to do that so corporations are going to have those I think for the military trying to get soldiers from one place to the other is going to really be be effective and someone is going to come up I don't I don't think Boeing will be able to do that or Airbus or any of those large companies it's going to be from a startup like like what we have with the rockets with SpaceX and and and those companies it's going to take all new thinking all new engineering and to be able to do that so I think that is the future for the short-haul type of flights it's probably not ready to go over water so I mean I don't think you'd ever for a while you won't see those flying here in Hawaii you know from one point to other but literally if all you needed to do was get from downtown to Barbara's point or even you know up up on the North Shore Dillingham airfield even Fort Island if they reopen that that that airstrip there this kind of plane is is going to make that economical and I could see myself with folding wings parking this in my house and then driving flying that to work be able to do that so I think with the drones with the automation with the self-driving cars with the the battery storage with all those things are coming together and I think the airlines are really going to be able to take care of all take advantage of all those technologies to be able to have a battery-powered plane that the average person can fly and you're be able to do that and and you think okay golly how is an average person going to be able to fly a plane well for a while there they didn't think the average person to be able to drive a car if you look back at windshield wipers back in the day when you wanted to do windshield wipers you actually had to do it yourself there was a little lever on the inside on the top of the windshield and you would go like this on the inside and that would make the wiper go on the outside they thought that if they were automated it would put someone in a trance there are people that didn't think radios should go in cars because people be too distracted by the radio listening to the music or talk radio whatever it was and and not be able to do that so they didn't think people could drive you know but now very much the average person is able to drive now are there bad drivers absolutely are there good drivers absolutely so I think but pilots is going to be the same thing what the what the average person now thinks about being able to drive a hundred years ago I think 20 years from now flying is going to be the same thing if it's not going to be a special thing where you got to go down to the FAA and do a heart check and all those kind of things it's going to be no different than getting a driver's license okay can do you know the rules of the road do you know the basic operation there will be some kind of checkout you'll probably be in a simulator now when you get your driver's license you know the guy guy or gal gets in the car with you can you drive around the neighborhood it'll be in a simulator and they'll throw some failures at you and they'll probably certify just like just like now my driver's license I can't drive an 18-wheeler but I can drive a car I can drive maybe a passenger van so you know you won't be with your regular pilot's license you won't be able to go and fly you know an airliner but for small types of things those things are no more dangerous than than a car there'll be so much automation so much you know where I'll be flying around I'm having trouble I press a button just like in your car where you press the SOS button and someone comes and helps I'll be able to call in somebody remotely hey I need help fly fly this plane for me and it's if it's not completely automated it'll be 90% automated I want to land you know press a button I want to take off press a button so I really think this is the future of not going down to the store but getting 30 40 miles why would you drive when you can fly for sure okay this product here I think this again is is the future every house is going to have them and the question is which appliances are going to have them this is called they call it the treble it's brought up by sprint so they're testing it you know they're limited 5g very limited 5g and 5g is the next generation of wireless now most people most of the country I think 99.9% of the company of the country has 4g probably only the most rural rural back roads where there's any cell coverage are you down to 2g or 1g but pretty much anywhere you're going to live in a semi major place is going to have 4g service so this has got 5g built in it's got amazon alexa built right in so you can just talk to it amazon you know alexa play my music alexa turn on the lights because it's going to be integrated with you with your home home automation turn on the lights turn up the temperature turn down the temperature turn on the fan in the living room turn on the tv you know alexa play music for me all those kind of things and then it's just other things going to be added in pretty soon I'm sure if it's not already on the roadmap it's going to be your wi-fi hot spot so you know you can completely untether because companies like this they want you to completely untether from all of your cable company from your internet provider just use a box like this you need tv not a problem we'll stream it you know whether it's wi-fi we'll stream it over you know put it by the tv it's got hdmi cable coming out but they want all that data coming through to this device and you know the problem is like with hawaii and tau with you know what used to be a road runner now charter i think is the latest one their worry is that they're just going to become pipes these folks want to be the content provider for everything you do in your home so whether it is you're going to be playing games whether you're going to be whatever you're doing watching tv listening to the radio they want to be able to provide you that content if you're just using them for an on ramp into the internet where you then go somewhere else for all of your media then they're in trouble they've got no hope they've got no desire to to to be in that market because it's just a race to the bottom who can provide the cheapest fastest you know most reliable internet and that's not where they want to be so these kind of things where it's going to be you're going to be able to store your photos on there you're going to be able to hook up external hard drive and back up your files to to that all those kind of things so again this is matt darnel with countle.cloud here on think tech hawaii we're gonna take a short break and we're back in 60 seconds aloha this is think tech hawaii raising public awareness i just walked by and now i said what's happening guys they told me they were making music so any chance to play at all you know that's my life i love music so i do aloha and mabuhay my name is emi or tega anderson inviting you to join us every tuesday here on pinoy power hawaii with think tech hawaii we come to your home at 12 noon every tuesday we invite you to uh listen watch uh for our mission of empowerment we aim to enrich and lighten educate entertain and we hope to empower again maraming salamat po mabuhay and aloha aloha this again this is matt darnel with countle.cloud here talking about uh different apple products we're going to focus on the ipads and the iphone today and so let's go ahead and get started with that so here um we have got the ipads and there are a lot of people asking which ipad should i buy what are all the different options with that so we kind of go down each one talk about some use cases and you know the ipads in general so we'll get started with what what we've got here so i've got actually uh there's an ipad pro and that that that's what i have here in front of me it comes in two sizes there's a really big size which literally 12.9 inches and again 12.9 inches what that means is so when i have a screen that's from this corner of the screen to that corner of the screen right it's not sideways it's not anything like that it's from one corner of the screen to to to the other corner of the screen and then so that's the first thing that you need to figure out what size ipad do do i want to buy uh and have that i personally think the 12.9 inch is really over-wieldy i mean it is really large but you want to do that so most people the most popular one is the 11 inch size because it's it's much much easier to handle and it fits in more places you can throw it in your bag and you don't worry about breaking there but that's definitely something you're for your first decision if you're doing if you have sight problems or maybe you're doing a lot of graphic design a lot of artwork and or it's your your main system hey that's when you want to go maybe for the 12.9 inch size that it does give you a lot more detail i don't think that the operating system has caught up with the 12.9 inch meaning when you go to the desktop and you see all the icons they look exactly the same there's just more space in in between them because you have more screen real estate and and so i think it's going to probably be about another year or two before the operating system and all the application developers are able to take advantage of that really big screen of the 12.9 inch so if i decided to tell you without knowing anything about you i would tell you to go ahead and start with the with the 11 inch because that that's that's most size that that that folks want so once you've picked your size then what we got to figure out is how much internal storage do i want to have on this on this device now there is you know two schools of thought there one is i need the minimal amount because everything i do is up in the cloud whether it's my photos whether it's my movies all my documents it's all all up in the cloud you're able to go ahead and decide that yeah so we've got we've got those four capacities the 64 gigabit if you're going to do any movies or any pictures or anything like that strike that one off the list that's just the bare minimum for folks that just need a screen to be able to look to be able to see those things there so probably the most common one that we've seen from the sales is the next one up the 256 gig a byte there and what what that does is that what that that allows me to i have some videos some pictures because videos because this is a really good camera on it so when you take your videos those are large files there so that's probably the the most common if you are again a graphic designer using a tremendous amount of data with pictures and videos that's when you want to start talking about the other two and when you go to to spec those out there's about 150 dollars between each you know every time you go up a step there so it's it's a fairly large investment and one thing that's different from you know it's an android tablet or that you can't put an sd card in here like with like i have a note eight here and i have i think 64 gigabits of storage on here but i can put a sd card in here with another i think 512 so i can you know quadruple and more the storage on this just by adding an sd card i don't have that option here with the ipad so this is the decision you make and once you make that decision there's no going back you're not going to be able to take it back to the store and say man well i'd like some more storage so if i was you and uh based on you know just normal kinds of usage i think you're going to stick with the middle two the 256 if you think you're going to be taking a lot of movies i would you know i would consider the 512 but if you're offloading them if you take them back you plug it in you know itunes will automatically suck those down off of the ipad and if you choose to sink and free up that space so you have a lot of options there and the one terabyte option that's only for an absolute professional you know that that that that that would need that that much storage okay so we got our size now we've got our our capacities the next thing there is do i want to have wi-fi only or do i want to include a cellular radio you think my goodness why would i want cellular on my ipad what that does is it gives me internet access wherever i go so i can literally i just open this up i can check my email i can do all those things right from here i can watch videos and i actually have a sim card much like in your cell phone that goes into the ipad that lets me get data service and data coverage you know wherever the the provider i choose when you buy it you can buy it with Verizon or you can buy it with sprint and sometimes like if you have t-mobile or or you can add this in your t-mobile plan so this you know use your your your bucket of data and have that there also with the cellular it includes a gps and some other small nice things so but again that's a fairly hefty upgrade to add the the cellular in there mine is wi-fi only here because i what i can do is if i need data on my on my uh on my ipad here i just can make my phone into a hot spot and i go wi-fi from my ipad to my phone and then out to the internet so that's how i'm able to get there but if you're a lot of times and you just want to have this as your main work and be able to set it up in your car and do anything and just work with that that's where you might think about having the cellular part but again it's a sim card and you're paying every month for that so you pay extra to get the cellular built in there but then you're going to pay it it's like just like on your cell phone you can be paying for it every single month so be sure to add that into your budget uh if you choose the the the cellular now one of the neat things with this ipad pro is that it charges uh with the usb-c and the usb-c has a connector that's it's round like that it looks like a elongated oval and the best thing about that is there's no up or down right and you can plug it in any single way and that is new with the new ipad pro that they came out with the one that i've got is actually one generation earlier and it has a completely different plug-in so all of my adapters i have for this if i was to get a new ipad pro or you know anything with usb-c you've got to rebuy them you don't want another dongle to to go to the other dongle that you've got you just want to have one dongle per per per uh per thing you're trying to do and that might be hook up to a tv hook up to an old school monitor the one that's got all the pins in it might be to connect a usb drive to there so a lot of different things so that's a huge thing to consider when you're buying any new technology is what about the connector what how much have i invested in charging in dongles in adapters in cases are they going to work like on this one here i've got the the keyboard part built built built right in and is that going to work i don't know i don't i don't even know if that will work with the new ipad pro because it's totally redone i i think it's bluetooth or i don't know if it's a direct connection uh like like like this one is so so definitely no beforehand what kind of adapters you're you're going to need with that now as far as pricing goes you can see here it goes from eight hundred dollars all the way up to 1900 dollars if you're going with you know the 11 inch 64 gigabits wi-fi only you're going to be about 800 dollars if you go with the big one with the one terabyte storage with the cellular 1900 dollars so that's it's amazing that it goes from you know more than doubles in price based on the options that that you choose and again this was really recently released the october of 2018 so it is a very new model so if you know if you think you're you're looking at ipad an ipad pro it's definitely one to consider so the the next one we'll talk about here is the ipad and i know it's ipad pro and now we have an ipad now the ipad you can see is that 9.7 inches and it only comes into the net one size so it's not like you have to choose size but again i've got two capacities 32 gigabytes and a 128 and that is very different from the ipad pro which starts out at 64 so if i go back to ipad pro i can take take take a look at that there i've got four capacities let me see if i can make that a little bit bigger there on the screen yeah the 64 256 and and i had that the here on the ipad i just have the two the 32 and the 128 so again 32 that is no very few moves i don't want to load movies on here i don't want to download movies i don't plan on doing any kind of stuff that would be someone that just wants it for you know words with friends and and do sissiducos and and and uh farm bill is farm bill still a thing i don't know i actually never never played farm bill but i used to be very very popular so and then there's 128 so you think okay well what about a bigger one there there isn't one so again this is more for i just want to have something to watch a movie i just want to be playing games i don't plan to use it for you know hard work i'm not going to be making big power points i'm not going to be editing videos i'm not going to be doing that kind of stuff it's a it's a really good option for that to have that again so this charges uh with the lightning cable which is what mine does as well and you can see the price point is there as well 329 i can get in with 32 gigabytes or the big one you know with cellulars 559 so that that's a really good option now your decision point is going to be here with the the the the ipad mini quite a bit smaller it go we go down from 9.7 to 7.9 inches there only comes in one size 128 gigabytes so this is it like this is one size fits all and you see it's 399 dollars but the very bottom bullet there released in 2017 so in in in a geological sense that's that was just one second ago but in tech sense that's a long time ago that's almost two-year-old technology so that one's probably going to be refreshed so i would say definitely don't buy a mac mini if you're looking if you're just a regular consumer just buy you'll buy an ipad i think it's going to do most of the things you want to do if you want to do it for professional type of things literally aptly named ipad pro i would recommend the 11 inch if you're going to buy the 12.9 inch be sure to go down to an apple store and see how big it is it is very large i you know i'm a big guy and i found it very unwieldy to handle and i didn't want to tuck it away in my in my briefcase i was worried it's going to bend it or it's going to break you know it's heavy and have that but so if you need that go and get that so definitely i would stick to either the 11 inch ipad pro or just the regular ipad if you're looking to buy something now so i like to thank you for tuning in again this is matt darnell i can be reached at comtel.cloud cloud as up in the sky here on think tech kawaii have a great day a lot oh thank you man you you are so good switching back and forth like zooming in i'm all i wish i would have thought that