EV startup Rivian goes public / Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options / Microsoft announces Windows 11 SE

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Sean O'Kane discuss electric vehicle startup Rivian becoming a publicly traded company after executing one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. The crew also cover multiple stories about Apple from this week, Microsoft's Windows 11 SE release, and a new Surface Laptop for schools. Further reading: Rivian goes public in one of the biggest IPOs ever Rivian’s mega IPO is a good test of the meme stock craze Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple Apple backs off of breaking Face ID after DIY iPhone 13 screen replacements Tim Cook says he owns cryptocurrency Apple hires Tesla’s former Autopilot software director Johnson & Johnson’s CEO joins Apple’s board iPhone 13 Pro vs. Pixel 6 Pro: what 2,000 photos tell us Microsoft announces Windows 11 SE, a new Chrome OS competitor Microsoft’s new $249 Surface Laptop SE is its first true Chromebook competitor Microsoft partners with Meta to integrate Teams into its Facebook-like Workplace Microsoft fixes Windows 11 features failing due to an expired certificate Updating The Verge’s background policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on The Vergecast, Alex Cran's and Sean O'Kane joined the show.
0:03.5	We talk about Rivian, the new electric car company that just had one of the hottest IPOs ever.
0:07.8	We get into buttons and links, of course.
0:10.0	Let me talk about Microsoft News. It's coming up on The Vergecast now.
0:17.5	Hello and welcome to The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Zoom enthusiasts.
0:22.8	There's one of you out there. We saw the photo. Explain the joke.
0:26.2	There's 35 more if I get it. We have the numbers right, which we don't because podcast
0:31.4	statistics are bad. But according to those statistics, 36 of you are listening to this show on a
0:36.7	Zoom. And we're very proud of you. And one of you sent us a photo. The rest of you sent us a photo.
0:41.2	We're very into it. Anyway, I'm Neil. I'm your friend. Deeter Bones here.
0:44.4	I am actually. I am the host of a run of special Tuesday Vergecast, so I hope you're listening to. We just
0:51.2	did over an hour on USB-C. And next week, we've got a really cool subject to talk about.
1:00.4	Wow, Teeter. Absolutely hype. I'm so hyped now.
1:04.2	I was going to say that we've often used the second episode of The Vergecast to pilot formats.
1:09.2	We piloted an interview show that became decoder. Ashley did a mini series about AI.
1:14.3	Deeter was doing holiday spec tacklers. Yeah. That's USB-C. But now instead of teasing another one,
1:19.6	you're like a cool subject. No, it's a really cool subject. Is it refrigerators? Freezers.
1:26.7	I understand what I'm getting at it even if you don't. I believe you. Alex Kranz is here.
1:32.0	I'm still trying to figure out what an NFT is.
1:36.0	Who would send? And Sean O'Kane is here. I am telling Alex Kranz to go to our website to read
1:41.4	our very good NFT explainer. Oh, I'm the only one who hasn't read it in the whole world.
1:46.5	That's definitely true. You in the zoo and owner. I will tell you this, the incoming
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