Why Apple is trying to save Google
Why Apple is trying to save Google Google is in antitrust court, fighting to preserve the search engine business that has made it so historically successful. At a few different moments through the various stages of the trial, high-powered executives from Apple have taken the stand – and largely taken Google’s side. Just this week, […]
How Apple lost control of the App Store
How Apple lost control of the App Store “Cook chose poorly” is one of those phrases you’ll someday read in a history book about the tech industry. That’s just one of the memorable lines from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ stinging rebuke of Apple this week, in which she ruled that Apple needed to change the […]
The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car
The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car The generally accepted way to launch your new car company is by building something fancy and expensive. Call it Founder’s Edition or name it after a precious metal, hope people pay for the privilege of exclusivity, and go from there. Slate Auto is doing… the […]
Everybody wants to buy Chrome
Everybody wants to buy Chrome For sale: one browser, very popular. As the remedies phase of the Google Search trial heats up, two things have become very clear. The US government would really like to force Google to sell Chrome, and there are a lot of companies interested in buying it. What do you really […]
How the tech world is responding to tariff chaos
How the tech world is responding to tariff chaos (If youâre reading this, please go vote for The Vergecast in the Webby Awards! Voting is open for roughly another week, and weâre up against some steep competition â it would mean the world to us if youâd pick us. Thank you so much!) Itâs important […]
Switch 2: the good news and bad news
Switch 2: the good news and bad news In most ways, Nintendoâs Switch 2 is exactly what we wanted: a Switch, only better. Nintendo has an occasional tendency to follow its best and most successful consoles with some of its weirdest ideas â Wii U, anyone? â but this time seems to have stayed the course […]
How tariffs will change your gadgets
How tariffs will change your gadgets First things first, some exciting news: The Vergecast has been nominated for a Webby Award! This one means a lot to us, especially because itâs an award you get to vote on. Weâd be so grateful if youâd go vote for us once, or 40 times, or however many […]
Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone
Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone Smartphones are great. Theyâre also⦠a lot. The idea of a more balanced device, one that gives you all of the most important and useful features of a smartphone but keeps you out of the infinite-doomscrolling loops, has been an enticing one for a long time. Nailing that balance, […]
OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem
OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem When you can create art just by asking for it, what might you create? If youâre anything like the internet these last few days, youâd create some lovely things â stylized family portraits, a thousand different looks for the Distracted Boyfriend meme â and some truly, deeply, unfathomably horrifying ones. […]
How Roomba got stuck
How Roomba got stuck In the robot vacuum world, thereâs Roomba and thereâs everybody else. iRobotâs autonomous cleaner may not have been the very first of its kind, but it was the first one most people knew about, and for many years it was clearly the best one you could buy. But now, more than […]