Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
Kanye wants Parler, smartwatch showdown, and the Vergecast Hotline returns
Today on the flagship podcast of slightly inaccurate fitness trackers:
02:15 - David Pierce and Makena Kelly chat about Ye buying Parler, as well as the other new set of apps and app owners entering the space.
- Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler
- The ugly business logic behind Kanye West’s Parler acquisition
24:44 - Victoria Song and Dan Seifert return to the show for a smartwatch showdown between the Pixel Watch, the Apple Watch Series 8, and the Samsung Galaxy Watch.
- Google Pixel Watch review: it’s a smarter Fitbit
- Apple Watch Series 7 review: time and time again
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 review: if it only had a better battery
- We could all use a ‘This is Fine’ Focus mode
1:02:07 - Lastly, we return to the Vergecast Hotline to answer your burning tech questions.
1:14:55 - We explain why we still don't have chapters on The Vergecast
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