Welcome to the Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Answering Machines.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I'm on vacation.

As you're listening to this, I'm probably in an Airbnb in the woods of Pennsylvania,

pretending to read all of those books that I bought, but ultimately probably just scrolling

through TikTok, watching videos of outtakes from the office because that's what I end up

doing on most of my vacation.

And honestly, no complaints.

It's not a bad life.

Even in our vacation, though, we still have a great show for you today.

We've been really enjoying getting to answer a question from the Verge Cast Hotline every

week, but the truth is we get so many good voicemails to just do one a week.

So today, we're going to do a whole bunch right in a row.

We're going to answer your questions about iPhones and pixels and threads and Instagram,

Max and Windows, security cameras and lots more.

Turns out, a lot of people have buying questions, so we're going to just tell you some stuff

to buy.

So today's the Hotline number is 866-111, and you can also email all of your questions

to Verge Cast at theverge.com.

Thank you, truly, to everyone who calls and emails.

Hearing from you is my absolute favorite thing, and doing the Hotline is, frankly, my favorite

part of the show.

Lots of Hotline coming up in just a second, but first, I got to go watch more office

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