Facebook’s F8, Oculus Go, and Apple earnings

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week on The Vergecast, Nilay returns to the show after welcoming a child! Dieter is out this week, so Nilay and Paul bring on Adi Robertson and Casey Newton to discuss what happened at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the Oculus Go, and some earnings talk. There are also a lot of new Instagram features. Is it slowly just becoming Facebook? There’s a lot more in between that — like Paul’s weekly segment “Safety first!’ they said” — so if you listen through this whole episode, you’ll be all caught up on the tech news this week. 05:51 - All of the news from Facebook’s F8 developer conference 22:51 - Oculus Go review 36:47 - Video calls are coming to Instagram 42:21 - Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker. Inside the Wild Race to Overthrow Every Consumer Category — Inc. 46:14 - Paul’s weekly segment “Safety first!’ they said” 47:45 - Koss Porta Pro Wireless 49:13 - Sprint and T-Mobile have announced that they will merge 59:56 - Verizon is putting Oath bloatware like Go90 on its Galaxy S9 phones 1:04:18 - Apple reports solid iPhone revenue but stays quiet on HomePod sales Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.5	So if you're an advertiser and you listen to this, consider this next hour of your life,
1:05.5	our presentation by some ads. Anyway, I've been gone for three weeks,
1:10.1	and I know Deeter has been hosting a show for those three weeks, and I've removed him.
1:14.3	He's just not here this week, but Paul is here, hey Paul.
1:17.1	Hello. How are you?
1:18.5	I'm good, please don't also hurt me.
1:21.1	I'm
1:23.1	Addy is here, Addy Robertson is here, hey Addy.
1:25.2	Hey.
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