The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss President Biden signing the TikTok ban bill, Apple's May 7th iPad event, Tesla's flop era, and more.
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00:00 - Intro
01:14 - TikTok bill signed
18:45 - Who should buy TikTok?
38:44 - Rabbit R1 released
1:03:48 - Apple iPad "event" announced
1:07:33 - Meta Ray Bay smart glasses update
1:16:44 - Tesla is in its flop era
1:25:51 - Lightning Round
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Happy Friday everyone
It's Tuesday
My week is already completely off, and now this? Screw it tomorrow's the weekend.
@@enterfluxI wonder if I can use this as a reason for skipping work tomorrow - I listened to the Vergecast yesterday therefore it was Friday 😂
You mean Thursday?
Happy ttheruday
23:07 Nilay there confidently forgot about a huge social network that Microsoft runs - LinkedIn. But who can blame him, we all forget about it every time
“Social”
Forgetting Amazon owns Twitch feels about right for Twitch lol
nilay! the new home office looks so good. i have to buy a frame tv and start a podcast in that order
“The conflation of ‘can you talk’ with ‘are you smart’ is in a real weird place on the internet right now” can also be applied to most people posting on the internet as well
It's awesome that this is a real video episode!
"Maybe he's just a grifter trying to sell a book" - Didn't expect a Jonathan Haidt shot this morning 😂
Yey, finally today is tomorrow.😂
Is it possible for option 5th? TikTok creates a copy of the platform, e.g. TikTok2, and migrates all users to that platform. They will do that every 9 months, after every doj decision. Yeah, I know it is very abstract thinking.
Here’s something I don’t really hear anyone talking about: how important to TikTok is the US market? How big of a loss would it be for them to just go with “option two” and get banned?
I can tell you 100% I bought a Mustang Mach E instead of a Tesla because of Elon
oops
That's illogical but I guess emotions are not supposed to be rational. In other words, you would have bought a better product by your admission but bought something worse because you did like the CEO?!
@@kevikiru first off the mach e slaps. I definitely got the better vehicle in the end. Second it's not just emotion. Elon musk is actively making the world a worse place and I'm not going to help him by giving him my money.
What is the rabbit R1 is just a bunch of underpaid people in India ordering all the stuff for you?
Amazon also owns Twitch! Might be a strong case. 30:33
Yes but AirPlay can’t do Dolby for the Sonos 300 and that is a real bummer
Emergecy Pod??? Cause it definitely aint Friday in this universe
I wonder why Nilay thinks that a 4G connection in the States wouldn’t allow for a fast response from the Rabbit. How much data is being transmitted per query that would facilitate that level of skepticism. Especially if Rabbits servers are doing the majority of the processing. Let me know if I’m off base on anything.
I really hope you are getting all the revenue from KZhead Premium views! The Vergecast is still the best! 🙏
How is it we are 40 minutes in and we still haven’t talked about what the actual bill says? We need to have a deep dive into that section of the bill.
they covered this extensively in the prev episode :)
I only recently started listen to the podcast and I'm already hooked. Love the video episodes. Not sure if it was just me but i feel like at least in this episode I had a hard time understanding Nilay sometimes. I'm not sure if he mumbles or just has bursts of saying things really quickly and idk if it's just me?? Maybe my volume just wasn't loud enough
I’m about a quarter of the way through this video and I really need to know: is that a blackberry charging in the background behind David Pierce?
There's something that's not quite clear to me. Does TikTok has to be bought by an US company exlusively? Is any other country (other than Russia) be a viable solution?
It does not have to be bought by a US company, the company just has to be not considered a threat to the US (Like in your example Russia). However, given the cost of buying Tiktok, in the tens of billions of dollars or even over $100 billion, you can safely assume only a US company can afford it.
Football aka soccer is such a huge sport WORLDWIDE, restricting something like that to apple plus would be quite interesting. Especially when it comes to viewership
With MLS anyone sans a few counties can watch by subscribing
Please bring arc to vision pro 🙏
Where's the Tesla Speedster? No-one is talking about it anymore (eve though it's an insane US$250K price point...apparently)
"Sponsor the lightning round you degenerates..." underrated comment!
What about OpenAI buy TikTok ? or Microsoft fund OpenAI to buy TikTok ?
Something is wrong with my phones dark mode and saturation settings which is making everyone look super tanned. 😅
surprised Apple hasn’t tried to make a deal with (or acquire) Liberty media and just completely take over f1
Apple does not normally buy big companies for integration issues (read problems with company culture conflict). That's why the biggest company they acquired is Beats at just 3 billion dollars for the audio talent of Jimmy Iovine and his team. They are extremely focussed for that reason, and they do not grow the company through acquisitions, they normally grow products and services or acquire small focussed companies.
The other day, I spent half an hour going through a list of “The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons” and turning it into a playlist on my Plex server. I’m looking forward to the day when AI makes this kind of thing a lot quicker.
😂😂😂 Just as you guys talk about the bad Tesla cars I get an add for Polestar 😂😂😂
yay!!!
Twitch is a social platform and Amazon owns it.
twitch 🤝 linkedin don’t look at our parent company don’t worry about it
Doesn’t Amazon own Twitch?
Yes
Google would probably be the one to buy up TikTok. It would support their ads business. They can position the acquisition as creating more competition in the social media space, which Facebook dominates. The US Government would be more amenable towards big tech taking it over. Google also has the money to do it. Tiktok has the data that Google needs for AI.
thank god it’s hard fork friday
I want AI earbuds with local storage for music and a screen on the case like an iPod
If Amazon is a contender to buy TikTok, then why not Walmart who also dabbled in video?
that click was SO HARD to hear
Hasn't Walmart flirted with video services in the past? If Amazon is a contender for TikTok, then why not Walmart...
Why am I so okay with Pepsi buying TikTok
Not allowed to say dead on tiktok? What??
That's why everyone started saying things like "unalive".
"We went way over" 🙄
TikTok is the worst thing to happen to Americans since high fructose corn syrup.
I don't know if a significant amount of people above the age of 20 think tiktok is good for society
Inb4 Aramco buys TikTok
Tiktok Sold Me Fentanyl They Should've Sold Me Ice Cream Instead 😎
Alex with a k is a dummy
Anyone else thinks Nilay’s speech is becoming more and more sloppy and incomprehensible?
On one hand we'd all be mentally and emotionally better off without TikTok. On the other hand, banning it sets a nasty precedent that I can't support.
When Eli says China isn’t a capitalist country I laughed out loud. This whole debate, which showed be about ALL data brokers, keeps getting framed. In these ridiculously biased terms. Eli’s on going faith in western billionaires to act “in the interest of democracy”, or whatever, is just ridiculous.
Who is Eli
@@reckless1280very sad he doesn’t know who Neil Guy is
im not a parent, is this all just because TikTok motivates kids to twerk or whatever? that's only a security issue in that it triggers parent's insecurities
The US is slowly turning into china they have been criticizing for building a firewall.. Slowly they're getting there 😅
The best thing and only thing Biden has done positive for our country 😂
Am I the only one obsessed with David? What a handsome man!
you guys are definitely doubling down on this topic. Just for the views. Not adding anything additional.
The Qualcomm “Born Mobile” Horizon Quest. !fuego !dieter