Kindle 15th anniversary and the problem with US broadband

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week on the flagship podcast of mounting TVs way too high in the hospital room: The Verge's David Pierce chats with Russell Brandom about the state of US broadband, and what we learned from 22,000 people’s internet bills. David also talks with Verge managing editor Alex Cranz about the Amazon Kindle's 15th anniversary, why the Kindle has been so successful, and maybe also why it hasn’t done more. Keep listening for Alex's review of the Kindle Scribe. Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of mounting TV's Way Too High in hospital
0:08.0	rooms.
0:09.0	I'm your friend, David Pierce, and I just had a baby.
0:11.2	As you're hearing this, he's about five days old.
0:13.5	Everybody's doing well.
0:14.5	He has really strong opinions about PS4 and Xbox and iOS and Android and which streaming
0:19.6	service is the best.
0:20.6	And you're going to hear from him a lot on this show at some point, I suspect.
0:24.6	Thank you to everybody who heard on the Friday show and sent me nice emails and tweets.
0:28.4	I really appreciate it.
0:29.9	But he is also the reason this is one of the last episodes you're going to hear me on
0:33.6	for a while.
0:34.6	You're in such good hands with Liam and Andrew and Neely and Alex and the whole Vergecast
0:39.5	crew, but I'm going to be gone for a few months.
0:41.7	I will miss you all terribly.
0:43.5	In the meantime, we have an awesome show for you today.
0:45.5	We're going to talk a lot about ebook readers and Kindles because this is not only right
0:49.8	around the 15th anniversary of the Kindle.
0:52.2	It's also the time that the Kindle scribe, which you could argue is Amazon's most ambitious
0:57.0	Kindle ever is coming out.
0:58.7	So we're going to dig into what all of that means and whether the ebook market is headed
1:02.9	in the right direction.
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