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The Vergecast

Recapping Code Conference, Youtube’s CEO apologizes, and the Pixel 4 leaks

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off of Code Conference, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s apology and difficult week, and consider whether there’s any viable alternative to Youtube. They also discuss the leaked photo of the upcoming Pixel 4. And later, a recap of what happened at E3 includes video game and hardware updates. Subscribe to the Vergecast here for free in your favorite podcast app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And this episode of the Vergecast, Deeter Paul and I talk about everything that happened at code conference, including YouTube CEO Susan Warchsikis performance on stage.

0:07.5

We go through the Pixel 4 leaks that Google just tweeted out and Megan for a commercial runs on E3 and we get into what's going on with the new Xbox. That's the vergecast coming up now.

0:17.4

Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah. How Steve Jobs revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief second life and then was buried for good.

0:31.4

Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act now on YouTube.

0:36.4

Hello, welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast with the Vox Media Empire. I have to say this week was a code conference and the third day the code conference was like a bunch of

0:54.4

Vox Media podcasts on stage doing the thing live. They didn't ask us because they wanted good shows. But I sat there thinking these people don't know the flagship is here.

1:07.4

Anyhow, I'm Eli. I'm your friend. Deeter Bones here.

1:11.4

Howdy. Paul Miller is here.

1:13.4

I would say we had a rip roaring week in news. It's really funny because last week we did two episodes on Friday because I couldn't figure out how to slam together the YouTube drama with Apple drama.

1:27.4

This week was the code conference a bunch of platform executives from YouTube from Facebook from Twitter were on stage talking about their content moderation policies how they're running their platforms.

1:42.4

We got to talk about that. It was huge. Deeter and I were there. Casey Newton was there. Casey Newton actually interviewed the executives from Instagram Facebook on stage. So you'll hear that next week as part of the interview episode.

1:53.4

We got to talk about that stuff. It was a big deal. Codes always a big deal. Lots of what there. And then it was also E3 and we're going to actually have Megan for a little E3 news rundown for us later on in the show.

2:03.4

There was a new Xbox stuff announced more stadium news. So there's like a lot of that going on. And then we'll just yesterday decided it was just to be a picture of the pixel.

2:14.4

I think it felt left out. I got. So the pixel for was announced yesterday in a tweet Rick Ostrilo the head of hardware at Google just randomly tweeted without a period at the end. Yes, there's a pixel for.

2:28.4

Like the most casual of all phone launches. That's just amazing. So we definitely have to talk about that. But the reason we're you know last week we pulled them apart.

2:38.4

There was definitely an hours worth of stuff. If not more you know with all of WBC and all of the YouTube stuff to fill that space and you know tensions are high. I think this is just a much more normal week of techniques. We're trying them together again this week.

2:53.4

If you think it is too jarring and you want me to start splitting these things apart. Let me know last week was obviously an experiment. I love your feedback on and how sort of diffuse you want the show to be versus mesh together.

3:05.4

You're saying we should break them up. We should break. If you think we should break up the first cast. Let me know. You know where I'm always ready to for our episodes to compete amongst themselves in the market of verga cast.

3:21.4

Anyhow let's start with code. The code conference obviously one of the premier tech conferences in the industry. It is indeed run by our company of Oximedia. But it was Walton carers conference.

3:35.4

Now it is care obviously what we're tired. Kara so sure in Peter Kafka now run it. This was a big year we moved it to Phoenix. It was very was extraordinarily hot in Phoenix.

3:47.4

So it was fun because everyone had to like stay in the hotel to not be in the impressive heat. So we just like ran into a lot of people was a lot of fun. But previous years the code conference and before that the D conference lots of products got launched there.

4:00.4

Yeah right like the Siri before Apple bought it launched it code.

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