meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Vergecast

Surface Go, Apple earnings, and HipChat memories

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the thrilling conclusion to our three part epic miniseries, "Apple doesn't make the laptops we want," Nilay, Paul, and Dieter discuss how nothing really even matters because Apple is a phone company worth $1 trillion. Samsung, Amazon, and Tesla earnings are also discussed, along with Farhad Manjoo's "Frightful Five" thesis. Then, in "The Bezel Wars," our hosts discuss the Surface Go, iPad rumors, and the Windows 10 S life Dieter has been living. Paul's weekly segment about "Wireless Vapes" is as poignant as ever. Ultimately, the final question is something like, "How many notches can you fit on the blockchain?" 02:19 - The race to $1 trillion 05:25 - Phones, not Macs 14:18 - Amazon's cloud power 24:53 - Dieter's Surface Go impressions 26:41 - Can you name ten Windows 10 S apps? 34:20 - #donglelife 38:44 - Paul's weekly segment, "Wireless Vapes" 44:35 - Two notches, max 46:31 - Pixel 3 leak 47:54 - Mergers and acquisitions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello and welcome to our cast, the flagship podcast of The Smotzer Truck Rally.

0:09.0

Uh, I don't know.

0:12.0

We're in the middle of this whole project, like professionalized the show and do sexless.

0:17.0

Who?

0:18.0

It will me.

0:20.0

And then I keep thinking the intro should be more professional.

0:24.0

Now I just want to go to a monster truck.

0:26.0

Literally every time I start trying to do the professional intro, I just like a marriage cast,

0:31.0

marriage cast, marriage cast.

0:32.0

Anyway, I'm, I'm Neely.

0:34.0

Your old friend, the guy you know, here's Paul.

0:38.0

Hello, Deeter.

0:39.0

How are you feeling?

0:40.0

I love the audience this week.

0:42.0

I need to start preparing you for this is going to be a running joke.

0:47.0

But we're feeling out whether it's going to be a running joke with your little hostility.

0:54.0

I'm your friend of me this week.

0:56.0

Oh, that's a good.

0:58.0

Okay, this is a true thing.

1:00.0

I spent the last two days in like Vox media leadership off sites.

1:06.0

And so like yesterday, our head of revenue, Lindsey Nelson, who's like a brilliant person came and explain out, you know, how she sees our business going, advertising.

1:20.0

And there's a book that just came out called frontamies by brilliant New Yorker reporter named Ken Oletta, like another legend of the field.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.