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The Vergecast

Juice responsibly

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, Jake, and Nicola review the reviews! The iPad Pro 9.7, Soundcloud Go, and the Microsoft Build developer conference; with much talk about bots. We're covering all the top tech news so if you liked what you read this week, listen in for the in depth discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the Vergecast. The flagship podcast is Verge.com. Vergecast is brought to you by

0:09.1

Cisar Vodka, which is a vodka brand that I made up and that I will continue pimping until somebody

0:15.1

pays for it. Cisar Vodka. Got to the night. Hi, I'm Neil Apital. I'm here, host of Vergecast. I'm

0:21.4

joined today by J. Kasternakis. Hello. Dieter Bowne. Sorry, I can't focus right now. I'm making a

0:26.4

bot ponds on Twitter. Oh my god. Nikola. Hello. What up? I wish I had something good to tell you.

0:34.4

Well, no, I want to I want to actually start with you. There's a thing I want to talk to you about.

0:37.9

Tell me. And it's actually you're going to argue with Jake. I'm setting you up for it. Oh, man.

0:42.4

This morning, yeah, you tweeted something insane. What? You tweeted soundcloud go is the best thing

0:49.7

to happen. Yo, I didn't want to respond to that, but I deleted Spotify. I mean, I got a

0:58.4

soundcloud is the thing that makes me feel old more than Snapchat, more than anything. Really?

1:04.4

It's soundcloud. It did take me a long time to figure soundcloud out, but I'm here. I get it.

1:10.3

I know how to use it. What do you listen to on soundcloud? Okay, wait, let's all stop for one second.

1:14.9

Jake, give me two sentences on what soundcloud go is. Soundcloud launched its Spotify

1:20.9

competitor. You pay $10 a month and you get to stream music from legitimate musicians and not

1:28.3

like the random soundcloud people. Okay, Nikola, why are you in love with Soundcloud go?

1:32.4

Spotify, I mean, Soundcloud isn't all random though, because like a lot a lot of musicians,

1:40.5

rappers and such put music there that you can't get on Spotify. So like, there's a new song

1:46.1

right now by Drake Prodeje Party Next Door. I can't listen to that on Spotify. So if I'm on the

1:52.8

subway and I'm off of any kind of network, I don't can't listen to that song. So which is fine,

1:58.4

you know, I just wait till I get to the office. Listen to that song. It's the only time I listen to

2:01.2

this week. But now today, I listened to it on the subway like four times. I know it was glorious.

2:07.8

Wait, Soundcloud didn't have any kind of offline before? No. I feel like I've listened to something

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