Everybody wants to buy Chrome

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Some weeks, it just feels like everything is up in the air all at the same time. Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk about all the unrest, starting with the ever-changing tariff rules that are making gadgets hard to price, hard to find, and hard to bet on going forward. (Maybe that’s why it seems everyone on Earth tried to pre-order a Switch 2 this week.) After that, the hosts catch up on the Meta and Google antitrust trials happening this week, and try to figure out who might be interested in the internet’s most popular browser. Finally, in the lightning round, we talk Brendan Carr (who is a dummy), the wood-backed Motorola Razr Ultra, and the 20th anniversary of YouTube. Further reading: Nintendo Switch 2 preorders were a total mess — at first Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are sold out everywhere GameStop’s Switch 2 preorders started poorly, too Auto industry tariffs are doing what now? 24 hours of White House confusion Did Tim Cook finagle a special tariff deal? Senator Warren wants to know The US hikes tariffs on solar products from Asia DHL halts international deliveries to US consumers worth over $800 Game Boy clone maker Anbernic suspends all shipments to US Ayn, like Anbernic, is pausing retro handheld shipments to the US. Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google Former DOJ antitrust chief says a Google break up will benefit the internet Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says Zuckerberg “saw us as a threat” Instagram launches its CapCut clone, Edits Threads adds more ads Former Google exec testifies about the company’s attempt to buy WhatsApp. Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini Google reveals Gemini AI has 350 million monthly active users. Apple and Meta hit with the EU’s first DMA antitrust fines The EU isn’t happy with Apple’s tax on alternative app stores Brendan Carr is a dummy From Puck: David Ellison’s Carr Trouble The Trump FCC’s Coercion Cartel Motorola’s new Razr Ultra brings the wood back panel back YouTube’s TV changes include a redesign and more multiview YouTube is everything and everything is YouTube 20 years ago, the first videos uploaded to YouTube were short and swee Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're feeling bummed about the future of climate change under our new administration,
0:07.3	we've got a podcast for you.
0:08.9	The headlines can sound really bad, but putting those in context often, like they don't
0:13.8	play out the way that they're first portrayed.
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0:22.7	every Sunday morning, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.6	Hello and welcome to the Verchast, the flagship podcast, winning the Webby Awards.
0:37.9	David, tell them what we've won.
0:39.4	We are the flagship podcast of the Webby Awards.
0:41.5	I think that's what they told us.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.2	Thank you to everybody who voted.
0:44.6	We won two Webby Awards, which are the same award but different awards.
0:50.1	For Best Technology Podcasts, basically there's like the judge's award and there's the People's Choice Award. We care a lot more about the People's Choice Award. But it's like, you know what? If there's an award, you might as well win it. You know what I mean? And we did. We won them both. It was very exciting. We're going to get another one of those cool springy statues. I'm very excited about that. Thank you to everybody who voted. I know everybody like tolerated us begging for votes for several
1:13.1	weeks. So I, I appreciate everybody who voted. And we're very excited that we won. And
1:17.5	shouts to everyone else in the category. We appreciate our fellow nominees. We defeated you.
1:23.2	I will say there are some like sincerely very good podcasts in that group. The EFF has had a podcast that was, I think, came in second to us.
1:30.7	It's very good.
1:31.5	But was resoundingly defeated by the Vergecast as were all of our.
1:36.0	We're trying so hard to be gracious winners and we're not.
1:40.1	And I will say the number one piece of feedback that we got was that the Webby's needs a new award for best podcast within a podcast and we are going to win it next year. But we'll get to that later. That's how, you know, we had the president of the Grammys on Decoder, like just before Grammy nominees were announced. And I was like, do you just keep inventing categories so Beyonce can win them? And he was like, yes. I'm I'm open to it. I'm just, I'm putting, you got to put the energy in the world to
2:05.5	collect it in return. You know what I'm saying? Anyway, I'm a friend,
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