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.
The war for Reddit, new MacBook Air, and Meta's Twitter competitor
Today on the flagship podcast of suddenly private subreddits:
01:45 - David Pierce and Nilay Patel call up Christian Selig, who runs the popular Reddit app Apollo, to talk about the changes to the platform that have infuriated Redditors, and what it means for the future of Reddit.
- Reddit’s API updates: all the news about changes that have infuriated Redditors
- More than 6,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s API changes
- Apollo’s developer on Reddit’s new API changes, and why users revolted
46:15 - Then, David talks with deputy editor Alex Heath about Meta’s reaction to the new Apple Vision Pro headset, and that new Twitter competitor the company is launching.
- Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro
- Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots
1:09:54 - After that, senior reviewer Monica Chin joins the show to discuss her review of Apple’s new 15-inch Macbook Air.
1:33:24 - Keep listening for this week’s Vergecast hotline question.
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