One company’s quest for the perfect charger
One company's quest for the perfect charger One company’s quest for the perfect charger As the tech world has standardized on USB-C, charging your devices has become much simpler. But it’s still not simple enough. Sure, most things plug into most other things, but now you have to worry about power and data throughput, making […]
Can a redesign save Apple’s software?
Can a redesign save Apple's software? Can a redesign save Apple’s software? There’s a running theory in tech circles that says, basically, AI is the new UI. Not long from now, some people argue, you simply won’t need a homescreen full of app icons or a traditional web browser or really anything other than an […]
How private equity kills companies and communities
How private equity kills companies and communities Today, I’m talking with Megan Greenwell, a former top editor at Wired and Deadspin, about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. It comes out on June 10th, and it’s a searing account of how private equity goes far beyond impacting […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome Today, I’m talking with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. We recorded this conversation in person after the Google I/O developer conference last week in what’s becoming a bit of a Decoder tradition. This is the third year that we’ve done […]
OpenAI and Jony Ive’s AI super-gadget
OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI super-gadget OpenAI and Jony Ive’s AI super-gadget Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that it’s some kind of AI super-gadget. But after a couple of years […]
The Razr Ultra proves flip phones are almost ready
The Razr Ultra proves flip phones are almost ready Phones that flip and fold have been The Next Big Thing so long it almost seems like they might never happen. Even as they’ve gotten better, faster, and more durable, devices from Google, Samsung, and others have just had too many compromises. (They also cost way […]
HBO’s no good very bad rebrand
HBO's no good very bad rebrand HBO’s no good very bad rebrand It’s not TV, it’s HBO. No, sorry, it’s HBO Go. And also HBO Now. But now it’s HBO Max, except wait, now it’s not HBO at all? It’s just Max? Actually, I’m being told it is once again HBO Max. Thank you for […]
Workday’s new head of product wants you to like Workday as much as he does
Workday's new head of product wants you to like Workday as much as he does Workday’s new head of product wants you to like Workday as much as he does Today, I’m talking with Gerrit Kazmaier, the new president of product and technology at Workday, an enterprise software company. Decoder listeners probably know the name […]
A buggy Sonos mystery
A buggy Sonos mystery Product design requires considering lots of different things. How things look; how they work; how people will understand how to use them. Here’s one probably not on a lot of designers’ lists, though: the insect enticement factor. Maybe that needs to change, because as The Verge‘s Will Poor discovered, the way […]
Did Apple get too big for its own good? With Daring Fireball’s John Gruber
Did Apple get too big for its own good? With Daring Fireball's John Gruber Did Apple get too big for its own good? With Daring Fireball’s John Gruber We’re doing something a little different on today’s episode of Decoder. I asked my friend John Gruber, of the website Daring Fireball, to come on the show […]