Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Unfolded Aspect Ratios.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here at the strangely small desk in my hotel

room in Mountain View, California.

Just down the street from me here is Google's campus and more importantly for this week,

the Shoreline Amphitheater, where Google's I.O. developer conference is happening right

now as you're listening to this.

And that is what we're going to talk about this episode.

We're going to talk about some of the news from I.O. especially around hardware because

this was one of the most gadgety I.O.s that I can remember actually.

But we're mostly going to talk about the present and future state of Google.

It's this big complicated earth shatteringly successful company that suddenly feels like

it's under threat in a huge number of ways.

So we're going to lay the stakes a bit and see if we can figure out where Google is headed.

All that's coming up in just a second, but first I have to figure out how to turn up

the temperature in this hotel room because it's like 43 degrees in here.

Why is there always 43 degrees in hotel rooms?

This is the Vergecast.

We'll be right back.

I'm Goodie and Litchfield.

I'm the editor in Chief of Wired.

And I'm Lauren Good.

I'm a senior writer at Wired.

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