iPod nano discontinued, Microsoft Paint's fate, and Foxconn's new factory

The Vergecast

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The Vergecast summer 2017 continues! This week, The Verge launched Verge Guidebook, a new guide to show you what to buy, what you shouldn't, and how to use it all. Nilay, Dieter, and Paul start off the show discussing the new review system and how-tos coming to the site. Then, there’s another set of obituaries this week: Apple nano, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Paint. The crew pays their respects to the weird moments these products gave us. Returning for episode 3 of her series Next Level, Lauren Goode stops by to give us behind-the-scenes info on the latest episode and what’s in store for episode 4. There’s a whole lot of stuff in between, so listen to it all and you’ll get it all. 03:22 - Welcome to Verge Guidebook 16:51 - Apple confirms iPod nano and iPod shuffle have been discontinued 22:20 - Adobe will finally kill Flash in 2020 29:35 - Microsoft Paint isn’t dead yet, will live in the Windows Store for free 39:02 - Next Level episode 3 with Lauren Goode 56:12 - A Wisconsin company will let employees use microchip implants to buy snacks and open doors 1:00:20 - Pixel 2 headphone jack 1:01:21 - Apple supplier Foxconn unveils plan to build a $10 billion LCD factory in Wisconsin 1:17:18 - Paul’s weekly segment “Meizu? Me, too” 1:22:22 - Twitter stalls, fails to add new users this quarter 1:23:43 - YouTube’s head of music confirms YouTube Red and Google Play Music will merge to create a new service 1:33:23 - Elon Musk dismisses Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI threat as “limited” 1:37:37 - An eight-year-old reviews the Nintendo Switch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Verge on YouTube and Facebook
0:12.5	and Instagram and your podcast app because that's also where we are but here we are everywhere
0:19.3	that you are.
0:20.3	Anyway, I'm Neil Ipatel, I'm here, Paul Miller is here.
0:24.2	Hello.
0:25.2	Indeed your bone is here.
0:26.2	Hey, how's it going?
0:27.4	We are all in totally different places today.
0:29.5	It's very strange for me.
0:31.5	Yeah, the title of this episode will be Skype Delay, I think, is where we're going.
0:39.7	We are, I think it's amazing that podcasting relies to this day on Skype in a way that
0:46.5	very few other media industries rely on a single application.
0:51.2	Like, you know, if you're like a video editor, there's like a big argument between Final
0:55.4	Cut and Premiere.
0:57.5	If you are an audio engineer, you can use audition or logic or what, like there's all this stuff,
1:04.9	pro tools.
1:05.9	But if you make podcasts, there's just Skype.
1:09.2	There's, I literally nobody ever asked me to be on a podcast using another app than Skype.
1:14.5	I wonder if the people at Skype know this.
1:16.1	I wonder if it's just like a business for them.
1:18.1	I think it is.
1:19.1	I feel like Skype doesn't actually offer anything over any other chat app that you can
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