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.
Apple announces Watch Series 6 and new iPad Air / PS5 reveals price tag / Oculus announces Quest 2
Nilay, Dieter, Chaim, and Nicole discuss Apple's newly announced products including the Apple Watch Series 6 and the new iPad Air. Also discussed: the PS5 announced pricing, Oculus has a new headset, and TikTok acquisition news continues to brew.
More stories from this episode:
- Apple Watch’s blood oxygen monitor is for ‘wellness,’ not medicine
- Apple is creating a fitness subscription service called Fitness Plus
- The new Apple Watch Series 6 has blood oxygen monitoring
- The Apple Watch Series 6: first impressions of a very good smartwatch
- The Apple Watch SE is a new lower-cost Watch
- New Apple Watches won’t have a USB power adapter in the box
- Family Setup lets you manage multiple Apple Watches from one iPhone
- There’s a new iPad Air that looks a lot like an iPad Pro
- The updated eighth-generation iPad has a familiar design but a new processor
- New Apple One subscription bundles pack multiple services together
- Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion
- The PS5 will launch on November 12th for $499.99
- PS5 Digital Edition launches November 12th for $399.99
- Connect 7: All the news from Facebook and Oculus’ big VR / AR event
- Oculus Quest 2 review: better, cheaper VR
- Oculus’ new Quest 2 VR headset starts at $299 and ships October 13th
- Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to ‘put an Apple Watch on your face’
- Google to launch Pixel 5, new Chromecast, and smart speaker on September 30th
- Oracle reportedly wins deal for TikTok’s US operations as ‘trusted tech partner’
- Trump to decide on TikTok Oracle deal with Walmart as an …
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