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The Vergecast

Sonos' headphones are extremely Sonos

The Vergecast

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4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today on the flagship podcast of audio over Wi-Fi: 03:02 - The Verge’s Chris Welch shares his review of Sonos's Ace headphones. Sonos Ace review: was it worth it? Sonos CEO Patrick Spence addresses the company’s divisive app redesign 28:58 - MoviePass, MovieCrash director Muta’Ali and MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes discuss what went wrong with the MoviePass subscription service and how that story was documented in the film. MoviePass, MovieCrash review: a damning account of corporate greed MoviePass is using you to ruin the movies 56:47 - Jennifer Pattison Tuohy answers a question from The Vergecast Hotline about smart home gadgets for renters. Home Assistant: Setting up the Aqara FP2 Presence Sensor - Derek Seaman's Tech Blog Yale launches its first retrofit smart lock — the Yale Approach with Wi-Fi The new Yale Keypad Touch brings fingerprint unlocking to August smart locks Aqara kick-starts its first Matter-over-Thread smart lock with a promise of Home Key support The new Yale Keypad Touch brings fingerprint unlocking to August smart locks Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast of audio over Wi-Fi. I'm your friend David

0:07.0

Pierce and I am currently waiting on my breakfast order. That doesn't sound like big

0:11.7

news but as I've mentioned on the show before whenever I get to a new city

0:16.4

I immediately go looking for like a handful of staples.

0:19.4

Really great cup of coffee, really great donut, really great pizza is I think one I forgot to

0:23.8

mention the last time and a really great bacon egg and cheese. I haven't really

0:28.2

found one in this neighborhood but there's this place that I'm at right now that is on

0:32.2

the way to daycare for me, which means I walk by it like 40,000 times a week.

0:37.0

And they just got a new name, a new owner, a new chef, and a new menu, including a breakfast sandwich.

0:42.0

I keep hearing good things. This would be huge for me.

0:44.4

This is where I'm at in life as a breakfast sandwich would change things for me.

0:48.0

So I ordered it. It was $8, which is a little high but manageable and we're going to see how we do.

0:53.7

Anyway we have an awesome show coming up for you today.

0:56.2

We're going to do two things. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to talk about

0:59.4

Sonos. There's a bunch of new Sonos gear. Chris Welch reviewed it all.

1:03.0

I have been wondering about the Sonos Ace headphones forever.

1:06.0

And Chris has them, he's used them, he's tested them, he's reviewed them,

1:09.0

we're going to talk to him about it,

1:11.0

and maybe if we're lucky, hear how it went. We're also going to talk about the new documentary about movie pass. It's called

1:16.7

movie pass, movie crashed, and it tells the story of one of the fastest growing tech companies of all time and also one of the fastest dying

1:24.4

tech companies of all time. It's a really interesting sort of because it is kind of every tech story

1:29.3

all rolled into one bundle of total chaos. We're going to talk to the director and the CEO get the whole story.

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