Apple diversifying business, face unlock for Pixel 4, and a bill banning endless scrolling

The Vergecast

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4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Stories this week:The iPhone now makes up less than half of Apple’s businessApple confirms the Apple Card is coming in AugustGoogle is asking people on the street to scan their faces for $5The Google Pixel 4 will unlock using a face scanThe less expensive Pixel 3A helped Google sell twice as many smartphones last quarterNew bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrollingThe major broadcasters are suing to shut down this app that streams ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC for freeT-Mobile CEO on 5G: Verizon is ‘clueless,’ AT&T is ‘lying, confusing’Dish confirms that it will become a major US mobile carrierVerizon says it has a secret 5G plan after T-Mobile CEO calls company ‘clueless’Verizon expands its 5G network to four more citiesVerizon’s CEO thinks half of the US will have access to 5G next yearLook upon Samsung’s new 3.5mm to USB-C dongle, ye mighty, and despairYou can already reserve the Galaxy Note 10 and it will arrive on August 23rdNew Nvidia Shield TV box shows up at FCCMophie’s iPhone XS and XR battery cases are now available for allIt’s a keyboard! It’s a trackpad! It’s almost a great iPad mouseYou can now run Android on a Nintendo Switch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the VRTCHAS, we talk about Apple's earnings, the future of the iPhone business,
0:03.2	talking about Pixel 4 and its forthcoming face unlock.
0:06.0	We get into the new Josh Holley build that would put a timer on your social media, so this is true.
0:10.0	We talk a little bit about Timo Wolk, Ryzen 5G, and the Galaxy Note 10's coming.
0:13.6	That's the VRTCHAS coming up now.
0:15.8	Sabotage hired Goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:19.6	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa,
0:24.8	earned a brief second life, and then was buried for good.
0:29.6	Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:40.8	Hello and welcome to VRTCHAS, the flagship podcast of the Vox Media Empire,
0:45.2	a growing empire, which will one day come to your city.
0:48.4	Hmm, but like benevolently, like in a fun way.
0:51.2	Does that make you palpatine?
0:53.2	Uh, put in a fun way.
0:56.0	I thought it was like a race to 5G reference.
1:00.0	That's happening whether we wanted to or not.
1:02.0	Which is also a palpatine thing.
1:04.0	Well, it's sort of.
1:06.8	I don't want to get into it.
1:07.6	I'm Eli.
1:08.4	Hi, Deeders here.
1:09.6	Hello.
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