Samsung announces Galaxy S22 Ultra / Microsoft announces open app store rules / Peloton fired 2,800 employees and gave them free Peloton memberships

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Chris Welch discuss all the announcements from Samsung's Galaxy S22 Unpacked event. Senior reporter Adi Robertson explains Microsoft's Open App Store Principles and the other tech policy news from the week. Wearables reporter Victoria Song joins the show to discuss Peloton's business troubles. Further reading: Everything announced at Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Unpacked event Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra is a Note successor with a built-in stylus Samsung’s Galaxy S22 and S22 Plus put improved cameras and performance in a samey design Samsung phones will get an extra year of Android updates versus Google’s Pixel Samsung’s new tablets go bigger than ever Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 will track your sleep with cartoon animals Microsoft announces open app store rules to prove it’s okay with new laws Microsoft hints it will open up Xbox store, changing its entire business model Microsoft says it will keep Call of Duty on PlayStation ‘beyond the existing agreement’ Everything you need to know about the bill that could blow up the app store Nvidia’s huge Arm deal has just been scrapped WarnerMedia and Discovery get US government approval to create their new media giant Anti-exploitation bill advances in Senate despite free speech concerns What on Earth is going on with Peloton? Peloton fired 2,800 employees and gave them free Peloton memberships Fired Peloton employees crash new CEO’s first all-hands Mazda head units are getting bricked by a local NPR station in Seattle Twitter finally agrees that 1x is not the only speed for watching a video Is ‘realityOS’ Apple’s newest operating system? Sports streaming is busted — the Super Bowl likely won’t be any different Apple’s Tap to Pay feature lets newer iPhones accept contactless payments Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	As we go to the Verchast, we talk about Samsung's new S22 line with Chris Welch,
0:04.3	the various tech policy bills in Congress and Microsoft planning to make call of duty available
0:08.3	on the PlayStation with Addy Robertson, and we get into what's going on with Peloton with new
0:12.5	Verge reviewer Victoria Song. It's the Verchast, come up now.
0:42.5	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time,
0:55.9	hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is
0:59.6	then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hampsed
1:03.8	heath and you get to the top and you're like, and then you can see the breath, but then your nose
1:08.8	is still freezing to top. Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
1:20.1	Hello and welcome to Verchast, the flagship podcast of ill-advised tech regulation.
1:27.1	Can I get the juices flowing? Yeah. You ready? Ready. We had a marketing meeting,
1:31.7	we got to make it more mainstream and that's my that's my pitch regulations.
1:36.0	Anyway, I'm your friend Eli. Deer bone is back. I am your prodigal son. That's a lot, Deer.
1:44.9	We're going to spend the next hour unpacking that one. It's going to be a wild ride. Alex
1:50.0	trans is here. I'm very worried about my word ol streak. It's bad. Our newsroom just fell into chaos.
1:55.6	Actually, Chris Welch is here. Hi, Chris. Good to be back as always. Chris is part of the chaos.
2:00.1	Like I was like, Hey, the New York Times has its wordle up and then the I'm blaming Apple. I
2:07.1	think whatever Apple did with cookies on the iPhone is messing with people's word ol streak.
2:11.4	Ruin my streak. Because technically power language dot code dot UK on the New York Times website is
2:17.5	a third party cookie. We're not allowed. Tim cut. I know you're listening. Please give me my
2:22.8	streak back. It's tomorrow morning at 4 a.m. He's on a treadmill listening to this and I'm saying
2:28.0	the whole ad tracking thing. Yeah. It was bad for Facebook. The word ol thing is when it blows back
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