HBO vs. Max and Twitter vs. Substack

The Vergecast

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Tech News, Technology, News

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Warner Bros. Discovery's new streaming service, Sony's mobile gaming move, and Twitter's feud with Substack. Further reading: HBO and Discovery’s ‘Max’ streaming service is here Max is charging more money for 4K, and that means it can't suck this time What we’ve learned about Sony PlayStation’s new smartphone games team Sony is gearing up for a new cloud gaming push amid rumors of a PlayStation handheld NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube starts at $249 for the 2023 season Google TV’s live guide is getting crammed full of over 800 free channels Microsoft is experimenting with a Windows gaming handheld mode for Steam Deck-like devices NPR becomes first major news organization to leave Twitter PBS also stops tweeting after being hit with ‘government-funded media’ label Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best Mini’s cars are getting an ‘intelligent personal assistant’ named Spike You can now talk to Microsoft’s Bing chatbot from your keyboard in iOS with SwiftKey Nvidia RTX 4070 review: a $599 RTX 3080 — kind of Vote for us in the People’s Voice Webby Awards for Best Technology Podcast Email us at vergecast@theverge.com 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	Hello and welcome to Verchast, the flagship podcast of being super right about carplay and
0:17.0	how useful it is.
0:19.6	That's what we're doing.
0:20.6	It's a full hour of me speaking my truth.
0:23.7	I will say we've talked about a lot of things in the show for the past decade that we've
0:28.9	been doing it.
0:29.9	A decade plus if you can't be in gadget podcast.
0:32.6	Never, never have I received the quality of comments that I received when I said carplay
0:37.4	was not as good as sticking your phone running maps to your dashboard.
0:42.0	Like the YouTube commenter is like, I've been listening to this idiot for a decade.
0:45.7	This is the worst thing he's ever saying.
0:47.3	I got emails.
0:49.0	I'm pretty sure I tanked our Apple podcast review.
0:51.2	I'm right.
0:52.2	No.
0:53.2	And I want you to know that my conviction in this opinion is 100%.
0:56.8	I just spent two hours in the car my way here and I got to say being able to use two
1:01.8	apps at once continues to be better than not being able to use to many accidents.
1:07.0	Did you get in on your way to the office?
1:09.0	What's multitasking on the hot.
1:10.6	You got maps in the radio.
1:12.0	I don't understand.
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