It’s all the time felt to me like there’s a threshold foldables must hit earlier than they’ll really develop into mainstream: they should be no greater than a daily outdated telephone. And now Samsung has lastly gotten its flagship there with the Z Fold 7, which is simply barely thicker than an iPhone 16 Professional. I bought to see one within the workplace this week, and I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. It actually does really feel totally different.
This week on The Vergecast, Vee Tune and Allison Johnson be part of me to speak all about Samsung’s new foldables and smartwatches. Then, we dive into company shake-ups throughout the tech world. One in every of Tim Prepare dinner’s doable successors is on his means out, Mark Zuckerberg is shopping for Meta a brand new AI group, X’s CEO has departed (and, remind me, did something notable occur with Grok this week?).
And at last, some massive information in regards to the Lightning Spherical: I’ve had sufficient of it. As an alternative, we’ve bought one thing daring, one thing new, one thing altogether unique and unprecedented: the Thunder Spherical. And sure, we now have sound results. Tons to debate: AI internet browsers, Lorde’s see-through CD, and HBO Max lastly does the factor we’ve all been ready for.
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