Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of phones that look like phones.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am decluttering, starting to anyway.

So it looks like my wife and I are going to be moving at the end of October,

which means that I have now six weeks to get most of the things out of my house.

And I would say, like, I'm not a pack rat or, like, a hoarder person in general,

but I do accumulate things.

Part of that is just the nature of this job.

There's a lot of, like, iPad boxes and random accessories lying around in the basement near me,

and a lot of that needs to get shipped, and a lot of that needs to get thrown away.

But I just, I need a moment, like a few times a year to just really be like,

okay, time to get rid of most of the things that I own. It's a very productive moment. It's a moment I actually really enjoy. I should probably do it more often. So I have six weeks now to

essentially declutter, pack up, and move sometime in the near

future. I suspect I'm going to be doing this podcast from an entirely new place. But that is not

what we're here to talk about today or any of the days for the next six weeks. We're here to

talk about Apple. So it's Apple review season. We have lots of new devices. Our team has been

testing the new devices. And this is one of the most interesting gadget moments of the year. Not necessarily because the Apple products themselves are so interesting, but because this is a moment to kind of take stock of the whole gadget world. This isn't the end of gadget season. We're about to have Metacconnect. We're about to have some interesting Amazon hardware news, I suspect, in a couple of weeks.

There's a lot of stuff left to come.

But this is kind of the end of phone season in a certain way.

It's also a good time to just take stock of where we are, how Apple is doing, and whether or

not any of these gadgets are still moving forward in an interesting way. So that's what we're going to talk about. We're going to have Allison Johnson, V-Song, and Jake Castronakis on. They've been reviewing the devices. They have lots of thoughts. I don't know anything about how they feel about these devices yet. So hopefully we're going to get some fireworks. All of that is coming up in just a second. But first, I just saw like 12 more things that

I need to throw away and post for free on Nextdoor. By the way, posting stuff for free on Nextdoor,

incredible. This is the first cast. We'll be right back.

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