is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Netflix has shows and movies. And video games. And unrecorded sports. And podcasts. And also, apparently, YouTube videos? For a institution that utilized to look for illustration the adjacent large point successful TV, it each feels a small frenetic, and maybe a tad desperate. For a institution that sees slumber arsenic its superior competitor, it mightiness each make cleanable sense.
On this section of The Vergecast, David and Nilay effort to fig retired why Netflix continues to grow its contented instrumentality and whether the company’s ongoing YouTube-ification makes immoderate consciousness astatine all. Many person tried to compete pinch YouTube; nary person succeeded. Does that mean Netflix mightiness inch its measurement up the Go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services?
After that, the hosts look into the ongoing strangeness of Meta’s smart glasses strategy. The institution is making immoderate good, privacy-conscious moves, while besides moving full-speed into ever much privacy-invading features. Meta’s stake seems to beryllium that its features will triumph successful the end, but we’re not truthful sure. And we wonderment whether Meta mightiness beryllium ruining smart glasses for everyone else.
Finally, successful the lightning round, it’s clip for Brendan Carr is simply a Dummy, immoderate hilarious and bleak truths astir X, the latest RAMageddon problems, the lawsuit for and against shade guns, and a dumb TV mystery.
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