Tesla’s big, epic, confusing future

Jun 18, 2024 08:11 PM - 4 months ago 61518

/

On The Vergecast: what comes aft being a car company, why Apple Watch remainder days are specified a large deal, and nan upwind app you request now.

By David Pierce, 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.

Jun 18, 2024, 1:11 PM UTC

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge

Elon Musk got paid. A lot. Now comes nan absorbing part: Musk has to make Tesla truthful big, truthful successful, and truthful valuable that nan tens of billions he’s getting look inexpensive by comparison. You mightiness deliberation trading cars is nan measurement to get there, but you mightiness beryllium incorrect astir that. Musk and, by extension, Tesla look acold much willing successful immoderate overmuch bigger, much ambitious, and decidedly much analyzable ideas.

On this section of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Andrew Hawkins joins to talk each nan things Tesla is moving connected — and why it progressively feels for illustration cars are astatine nan bottommost of that list. We talk astir the Optimus robots, nan Tesla Network, nan full “AWS for AI” thing, and what the adjacent 3 enigma vehicles mightiness be. Finally, we look astatine really Musk’s narration to Tesla, and our narration to Musk, has changed since nan past clip Tesla shareholders voted to springiness Musk each that money. Do these 2 request each different much than ever, aliases is this a lucifer doomed to fail?

After that, The Verge’s Victoria Song joins to stock her excitement astir Apple Watch remainder days. Er, excuse me, “ring pauses.” It only took a decade for Apple to recognize what moreover nan astir progressive group request sometimes, and we’re very excited astir nan anticipation of a saner narration pinch our workout streaks. We besides talk astir Pixel Watch leaks, nan caller Samsung Galaxy Watch FE, and whether the Galaxy Ring tin beryllium a game-changer.

Finally, we reply a mobility from nan Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11 aliases vergecast@theverge.com, nonstop america each your questions!) each astir upwind apps. There’s nary champion upwind app for everyone, we recognize — but it’s wholly imaginable to get nan champion 1 for you.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch Tesla:

And connected each things wearables:

And connected upwind apps:

More