Apple gadgets, ranked

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Apple makes a lot of gadgets. You've probably heard of some of them. Most of them are very good! Few companies in tech, or anywhere, can claim a track record as impressive and consistent as the folks in Cupertino. But only one Apple product can be the best Apple product. The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson join David to rank Apple's nine product categories — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, AirPods, AirTags, HomePod, and Apple TV — in order of their best-ness. The gang agrees on a few, disagrees on a few, and gets in one argument that threatens to end the show forever.We want to hear what you think of our ranking! If you have thoughts, on Apple gadgets or anything, you can always call the Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11 or email us at [email protected]. Further reading: Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: playing it safe Apple TV 4K (2022) review: unmatched power, unrealized potential Apple Watch SE 3 review: major glow-up Apple iPad Pro (2025) review: fast, faster, fastest AirTag location trackers are smart, capable, and very Apple Apple iPhone 17 review: the one to get Apple iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max review Apple AirPods (third-gen) review: new design, same appeal Apple MacBook Air M4 review: a little more for a little less Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed.We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of trying to compare $29 products to $3,000 products.
0:09.4	I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am in my new studio.
0:13.1	This is my new studio.
0:14.4	It's also in my basement in my new house.
0:16.8	It's also technically the guest room.
0:19.6	It's also right next to the utility room where the laundry is. But I'm calling it the studio because that sounds fancy. We just moved in. It's all very new. If you're watching this and want to tell me what to put behind me, I would absolutely love to hear from you. Right now it's my wife's artwork. I think it's very cool. But, but this, this needs to, you know, feel a little more
0:38.6	studio-e. I'm a YouTuber now. You know what I mean? Like, help me out. Help me make this look cool. I will be very grateful. But we're not here to talk about that on this episode. On this episode, we are going to try and figure out what the best Apple gadget is. We did this a while ago with Google where we tried to rank all of the gadgets Google makes.
0:55.3	It was really fun exercise to figure out like what matters, what's good, what's bad, what is actually sort of moving the needle for Google. I suspect Apple is going to be much harder because Apple both makes a lot more products and tends to make much better ones, if we're being honest with each other. So V-Song and Alison Johnson are going to come back.
1:11.6	They're going to help me do this.
1:30.6	We're going to rank all of the Apple products we can find. It's going to be a blast. All of that is coming up. But first, the laundry just started, so I have to stop that before we actually record. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back. It's time for Black Friday at Dell Technologies. save big on PCs like the Dell 16 Plus featuring Intelcore ultra processors.
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