Hello, Vergecast universe. This is Ross Miller, a senior editor with the Verge.

As you might know, there was an Apple event this week.

After the event, we hosted a live show and we thought you'd like to listen to the audio portion of that.

So we're adding it to the feed. Please enjoy and we will see you later this week for the Vergecast.

Hello, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the Verge Live. I'm Ross Miller.

I'm Chris Siggler. And today on the show, we're going to be talking about all the things Apple just

announced at Spring 4 event. Later on, Casey Newn will be joining us from San Francisco with first

hand impressions. Okay, so what all did we actually see today? Well, first we started with a sort of

surprise HBO announcement. They'll be launching HBO now. They're calling it next month, exclusive to

Apple at launch. Then they went through an all new MacBook, just MacBook, not Pro, not Air,

just MacBook. And then finally, we got into some Apple Watch stuff. Yep. And I, that's the one I

want to talk about the most. But first, let's just really quickly get through Apple TV. Yeah.

$69 now. $69. Actually, surprise price drop, which makes sense because every other set top box does

everything that thing does now. Yeah, they're at the point where the hardware is old enough and the

functionality is commoditized enough so that they really had no option but to drop the price.

A little surprising that they didn't follow it up with another box that maybe has a little bit

more functionality, 4K, whatnot. But I guess they're not ready yet. Yeah, that's maybe something

later this fall. I mean, the Apple TV rumors of be it set top box or actual set itself has always

been around. But there is something that's been rumored forever, which is content deals. Which is

Apple is trying to talk to every single content provider to get exclusive deals. This is the first

of that. Right. And also it's a big deal because everyone wants standalone HBO. Right. And so this is,

I mean, we knew that HBO was was unbundling, right? This was in the pipeline. I was going to be a

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