2023 Recap: Alexa, Google Home and Apple's HomePod Plus Starlink's Latest and a Tesla Recall Update.

Ever wonder how Google Home, Apple's HomePod, and Alexa stack up against each other? Prepare to be enlightened as we bring you a seaside session of tech talk, where the sound of waves accompanies our lively discussion on these tech giants. We've just chilled our way through a deep dive on Alexa and can't wait to share our takeaways. Next up, we're teasing the upcoming explorations of Google Home and Apple's HomePod. And trust us, we're bringing the same fun energy from the beach to these episodes!

As waves lap the shore, we also drift into the world of satellite internet, where Starlink's third-gen service promises to shake things up with enhanced mobility. The potential entry of Amazon into the satellite internet market sparks thoughts of a future where high-speed connections rain down from the skies. Meanwhile, we share the latest ripple in the tech ocean: Tesla's autopilot recall affecting Model X and Model S gliders. So, pull up a beach chair and tune in—no sunscreen required! We're keeping this episode as raw and unedited as the beach vibes, just in time for our trip to a podcast convention in Orlando.

Transcript

Adam: 0:00

So we really don't want to do our podcast today, so we're kind of hanging out at the beach.

Ronnie: 0:07

It's 77 degrees, by the way.

Adam: 0:09

Yeah, we don't care, we're gonna be out here. Don't be jealous because of it. We will talk about a few things, and all of this on 5 acre tech. So now, what we never done, what?

Ronnie: 0:42

we're gonna talk about? Yeah, I don't know.

Adam: 0:49

Yeah, it'll be fine. It'll be fine, we're just. We're just hanging today, didn't matter our engineers interrupting our podcast.

Ronnie: 0:56

Yeah, it's alright, though. It's just Melissa, don't worry about it. We like her, she's our friend. Yes, but anyway, our latest, our last episode. We talked about a lot about Alexa. I thought that was fun. If you haven't watched it, guys go check it out.

Adam: 1:08

Yeah go see it. Go see it the next episode, which will be first the year, unless we do something crazy. We'll be about the Google home automated assistant Cool, and then we're gonna do the home pod from Apple cool, and then the last one we're gonna do will be a combination of all of them. What can they all do? Which one do we feel is the best? Not necessarily may it be the best, but that'll be for your comments at the end something you guys can enjoy.

Ronnie: 1:41

Maybe you like them or not. Yeah, did you hear about what Starlink's?

Adam: 1:45

doing.

Ronnie: 1:47

Yeah, I did tell once, tell everybody, just told me actually third gen 3 is coming out real soon, so it's a third generation of Starlink. It's gonna be a little bit more, but it's me mobile so you can be able to take it out wherever you want to go. We can talk about that in more detail later. But there's something cool. And the other thing that I recently read an article it's more rumor, right. Yeah, amazon's talking about potentially a satellite internet based that it's gonna compete with Starlink. Kind of cool, more competition. Maybe it brings the price down or something.

Adam: 2:14

The cool thing is actually Starlink, or SpaceX is launching those for, if I'm not mistaken, for Amazon. Eventually, amazon will probably do their own, since they have their own rockets that they launch. But yeah, everybody can share with everybody on any of this stuff. I think that's neat. It's makes things a lot easier, cheaper. Spacex already has a very good system out there right now.

Ronnie: 2:42

Yeah, and, and quite frankly that's they're not trying to make a bunch of money on it. His whole goal of having the satellite internet base is to provide internet to poor Internet based areas, right, so, like we, part of the area we live is like that. In fact, where my, the property I live on, is like that, we qualify because we can't get high speed internet. So that's what he focuses on. So it's cool that he's doing that. But at the same time, if the price can come, can come down from competition, that's good too, right, yeah.

Adam: 3:14

Is very good if they can come down. Do you see the article about Tesla, about that car, is they're having to do a big recall and they're gonna shut down some of the cars With autopilot, which is their best feature for a while. Not sure exactly which ones. I think it's model X and model S, not the wine, not the three, but I could be wrong on that. I briefly saw that's been a busy week Prepping for a. Actually, we're going out of town and we're going to a podcast convention. Yeah, we're kind of give you guys some Information on that, as it happens that better land.

Adam: 3:56

Yeah, born to Orlando Cool.

Ronnie: 3:58

We'll be some of you guys there.

Adam: 4:00

Yeah, it could happen, yeah, and you know what?

Ronnie: 4:04

We're gonna call this one, take Sunday, we're gonna make this no editing, we're gonna put it together and throw it out to you guys and hopefully enjoy it. It's a super short podcast, but yeah, I'm just trying to give you some content and I mean again, did I say this already?

Adam: 4:20

77 degrees today. Yeah, it's winter. It's like what? Second third day of winter, I might have to put my coat on a little bit. Maybe not maybe, maybe not. Don't hate us Because we're. You know, south Texas is Beautiful sky. You can see right here sunset.

Ronnie: 4:39

I'm just went down, sun goes down. Oh sorry, I put my thing right.

Adam: 4:45

Yeah, we might get in trouble for copyright material.

Ronnie: 4:52

So that's what happened excuse me of seeing in copyrighting anything no no, they trust. Trust me, they won't just kidding, ronnie, all right guys.

Adam: 5:04

That's it.

Ronnie: 5:05

All right on short.

Adam: 5:06

This is this is our version of a short and just remember I Don't know, remember that we're out here.

Ronnie: 5:14

Enjoy the weather where, wherever you're at.