Also discussed this week: Nilay’s ideal commute, our CSS hopes and dreams, and all the reasons T-Pain is the absolute ideal Vergecast guest. Plus, you know, Sonos and Google and antitrust and Pixels and the Meta Quest 3 and everything else happening in tech this week. But especially T-Pain.
Adam Mosseri has a lot of thoughts about Threads’ role in the news business. We have a lot of thoughts about his thoughts. We also have thoughts about the intense about-face in the Sonos v. Google speaker fight, the Apple Search Engine that wasn’t, and much more. We also have some CSS news.
Search is the biggest business in the business. And for anyone wanting to make it big in search, the fastest way to win is in Safari.
Pixel 8 reviews are live! So is the Pixel Watch 2 review! AI and cameras and Fitbit everywhere you look. We talked through them both, and then tried to figure out what to make of the new Chromebook Plus designation. Google gadgets: still here, and getting kind of good. Emphasis on kind of.
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Meta’s new headset is better than its predecessors in almost every way. But until there’s more to do in mixed reality, this won’t be the headset that gets everyone wearing headsets.
We tried to talk about gadgets, but ended up talking about the ethics of photography and why, as Nilay put it, “the market won’t correct for truth.” When does a photo become... something else? It’s a complicated question for a brand-new phone. We have some thoughts.
