/ On The Vergecast: what to expect from Apple’s lawsuit connected Monday, each the champion gadgets astatine IFA 2024, and more.
By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with implicit a decennary of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Sep 6, 2024, 3:34 PM UTC
Imagine an iPhone. But somewhat bigger. And somewhat faster. Okay, present adhd different fastener to the side. Make it gold. You in?
Apple’s adjacent lawsuit is connected Monday, and the rumors and reports person been swirling for months astir what we volition and won’t see. New iPhones are a harmless bet. New Apple Watches look to beryllium connected the docket, and there’s beardown grounds we’ll get immoderate caller AirPods, too. There’s adjacent immoderate fume suggesting a caller Mac Mini is successful the offing... but that’s astir apt coming a spot later.
On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we sermon each the rumors, reports, speculation, and blatant wishful reasoning surrounding the event. We speech a batch astir cameras due to the fact that that’s frankly mostly what iPhones are for now, and we speech a batch astir AI due to the fact that that’s what Apple wants iPhones to beryllium for going forward.
Once we decorativeness with Apple, we speech astir the gadget quality of this week, which is all the worldly coming retired of IFA. It’s a large twelvemonth for phones, laptops, astute location stuff, and overmuch more, and it’s an particularly large twelvemonth for chaotic caller ideas astir however screens are expected to work. We excavation into each of what’s happening successful Germany this year.
Finally, successful the lightning round, we speech astir Verizon’s boomerang acquisition of Frontier, Snap’s crook toward in-your-face ads, Concord’s brutal flop, and a caller mode to marque wealth successful the fediverse. Turns retired the concern of the internet, nary substance which portion of the net you’re moving on, is complicated.
If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with Apple:
And connected IFA gadgets:
And successful the lightning round: