449: ‘Live From WWDC 2026’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.
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Links:
Apple’s WWDC keynote and State of the Union videos.
New Things — Joanna’s new thing.
Joanna’s first take on Apple’s announcements.
I Am Not a Robot — Joanna’s new bestselling book on consumer AI.
Sandwich — the team behind the video version of this show.
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How AI Almost Led To This Tech Reporter’s Divorce - The Story
What happens when you let technology take over your life? Joanna Stern (Fmr. Wall Street Journal / New Things) found out. She spent all of 2025 letting the robots in: Waymos, AI therapists, robot massagers, assistant researcher agents…
During that yearlong experiment, Joanna Stern chronicled her findings in a new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. She speaks to Oz about letting AI diagnose her son’s praying mantis, sending Bill Gates her health log, and how she sees AI impacting the job market.
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I Am Not A Robot | Joanna Stern
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Joanna Stern is PROBABLY Not a Robot
Joanna Stern stopped by to chat with Marques about everything from John Ternus becoming the new Apple CEO to whether or not humanoid robots are the correct form factor for the future of helpful AI robots. They also talk about her new book (out now!) where she let AI run her life for a full year. Then they talk YouTube and going independent in media before wrapping it up with A Race to Z typing test. It's a very interesting conversation and we hope you enjoy!
Links:
Joanna Stern - I Am Not a Robot
New Things with Joanna Stern
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Joanna Stern Turned Her Life Over to AI For A Year — Here’s What She Learned
For her new book, “I Am Not a Robot,” journalist and longtime technology columnist Joanna Stern turned her life over to AI for one whole year. She let it fold her laundry, conduct interviews, drive her family around on vacation, review her mammograms — she even tried out a romantic relationship with a bot. Her experiences tell us a lot about the benefits — and limits — of this transformative technology.
Kara and Joanna talk about how Joanna went about weaving AI into her life, where it helped and where it didn’t, and the gap between Silicon Valley’s promises and the reality of using AI for everyday tasks. They also talk about the growing public backlash to AI and where people should draw personal lines around its use.
Special thanks to The 92nd Street Y for hosting this live event.
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Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? + The Allure of AI Love — With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern is the author of "I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything" and the founder of The New Thing. Stern joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss what happens when you infuse AI into every part of your life. Tune in to hear about her 48-hour road trip with an AI boyfriend, why she found chatbot relationships genuinely tempting, and what the sycophancy of these tools means for how we relate to each other. We also cover the promise and limits of AI wearables, how AI is quietly reshaping healthcare diagnostics from mammograms to dental X-rays, and whether Apple can finally deliver on Siri. Hit play for a fascinating look at the human side of living with AI, and why the biggest risks might not be technical.
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Raising kids in an AI-driven world
In order to write her new book “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI To Do ‘Almost’ Everything," journalist Joanna Stern decided to invite artificial intelligence into every aspect of her life — including her family life.
She has a wife and two sons. On their spring break, she took them to Phoenix, where it's easy to hail a driverless car. They rode in a bunch of them, including one that totally freaked out.
She brought home an AI-powered toy (which her four-year-old quickly tired of), and says she realized her kids will "grow up never knowing a world without computers as smart as them.”
Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Stern about how she hopes her children will navigate that world.
What AI can and can't do for you (for now)
Imagine if you invited robots - smart ones or “smart-ish,” at least - into every aspect of your life. Your emails and texts are all composed by an AI, the bots look at a photo of what’s in your fridge and figure out what you can make for dinner. They even become emotional support, providing advice and sometimes companionship. Journalist and founder of media company New Things, Joanna Stern, decided to try this and she wrote about it in her new book “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI To Do Almost Everything.” Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Stern about how AI did and didn’t help her and ultimately what she sacrificed by inviting AI into her life.
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of my co-founders at The Verge, and also just one of my very closest friends.
Joanna just left that lofty perch at the Journal to start her own media company called New Things, and she’s starting with her new book about AI called I Am Not a Robot, which is out this week on May 12th. So we had Joanna on to talk about all of that, especially what she learned going all in on automation.
Read the full interview transcript on The Verge.
Links:
I Am Not a Robot | Harper Collins
It’s time. Meet my New Thing | Joanna Stern
Why I left My prestigious job to make YouTube videos | Joanna Stern / YouTube
Signing off from this column after 12 years. Here’s what’s changed in tech | WSJ
I tried the robot that’s coming to live with you. It’s still par human | WSJ
The people do not yearn for automation | Decoder
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Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School
This week we’re taking another look at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then, the journalist Joanna Stern returns to the show to discuss her new book “I Am Not A Robot,” all about turning her life over to a chatbot for a year. And finally, Hard Fork’s Rachel Cohn reports back on her month attending classes at the Strother School of Radical Attention, the center of a movement to resist the commodification of attention by technology companies.
Guests:
Joanna Stern, chief everything officer at New Things
Rachel Cohn, producer of “Hard Fork”
Additional Reading:
Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster, U.S. Says
Soldier Pleads Not Guilty in $400,000 Betting Case Over Maduro’s Ouster
French weather service alerts police to tampering after suspicious Polymarket bets
The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie
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Tim Cook Steps Down — With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern is the ex-WSJ senior personal technology columnist and author of I Am Not a Robot. News of Tim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple broke as Stern and I were recording a forthcoming episode of Big Technology Podcast. In this episode, we discuss Cook's exit, his successor, John Ternus, and his legacy. Tune in for a quick but substantial look at what's next for Apple after Cook's exit.
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Bytes: Week in Review — Anthropic's new AI model, a referendum on data centers, and NASA livestreams journey to space
This week, a Wisconsin city votes to restrict future data center development. Plus, the astronauts on Artemis II take their journey to social media. But first, Anthropic announced this week it has a new AI model called Claude Mythos Preview.
The company says it’s extremely good at finding security vulnerabilities. So good that Anthropic is not releasing the model to the general public. Instead, it is granting access to a group of over 40 companies and tech organizations, a collaboration called Project Glasswing.
Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Joanna Stern, founder of the media company New Things, to discuss all these topics and more.
The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions
A year ago, David and Nilay sat down with Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to make a bunch of confident predictions about 2025. We got them... you know what, never mind. Let's look ahead to 2026! This year, we gather again to make increasingly bold bets about the year to come, including the future of a few of the world's biggest companies and whether we're finally going to get a foldable iPhone. Last year's predictions may not have been our best, but we're feeling good about these.
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Bytes: Week in Review - Apple's leadership departures raises concerns over its AI future
There’s been something of a critical mass of high-profile departures and retirement announcements at Apple in recent weeks. Plus, how will consumers be helped or hurt by a potential merger between Netflix and Warner Bros or a hostile takeover from Paramount? And McDonald's pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad because some folks on social media weren't “lovin' it.”
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
2025 year in review
Well, friends, it's been a year. And before we turn the page to 2026 and all the stories of 2025 begin to blur together, we decided to take stock of things. Nilay and David are joined by Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to debate the best products of the year, the biggest policy moves, the people who broke bad, the good AI things, the bad AI things, and much more. It's been a vibe-everything kind of year, and there's a lot to discuss.
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Valve made Microsoft's dream console
The console wars are back on. This week, Nilay Patel sits down with Jake Kastrenakes, Sean Hollister, and special guest Joanna Stern, senior columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to talk about Valve's return to the living room gaming race with the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR headset. Then, Joanna discusses her time putting the Neo robot to the test and seeing whether it's capable of loading a dishwasher. Finally, it's time for the Lightning Round, where the crew is talking the YouTube/Disney spat, Apple's new mini apps, and letting Waymo speed down the highway.
Further reading:
Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console
Valve enters the console wars
Valve just built the Xbox that Microsoft is dreaming of
Valve’s new Steam Controller might be my dream controllerThe Steam Frame is a surprising new twist on VR
Steam Machines have returned: all the news about Valve’s new hardware universe
The Steam Frame has two speakers on each side of your face for vibration cancellation
Valve’s new VR streaming trick won’t just work with its own headset
How the Steam Frame compares to other VR headsets
Valve thinks Arm has ‘potential’ for SteamOS handhelds, laptops, and more
Valve is welcoming Android games into Steam
Valve has stopped manufacturing its Index VR headset
Valve has no news about Steam Deck 2 — because it’s still waiting for the right chip
We tried Valve’s new VR headset, PC, and controller — ask us anything!
I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird
Know Your Meme
1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation
Meet NEO, the AI-Driven Robot That’s Coming to Lend a Hand Around the House — for a Steep Price
The Problem with this Humanoid Robot
Samsung brings a generative AI-powered Bixby to its TVs
Gemini for TV is coming to Google TV Streamer starting today
Google says its confusing Gemini Home rollout is going just great
Google Photos lets iPhone users edit images by describing changes
Disney is losing over $4 million a day in revenue on the YouTube TV blackout
Disney is “trying really hard” to get ESPN back on YouTube TV
Peyton and Eli Manning Drop the Ball, Embarrass Themselves With Bob Iger Interview
Apple made a $230 crossbody… sock
Steve Jobs introduces iPod socks in 2004
Mini apps
Apple will take a mini commission from mini app developers
Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick
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Version History: BlackBerry Messenger
Back when text messages cost 10 cents each, BlackBerry came up with a better way: BlackBerry Messenger, commonly known as BBM. It was the first new idea about messaging in a long time, and it was a huge hit… for a while. Nilay Patel and Joanna Stern join David Pierce to talk about a messaging service that was years ahead of WhatsApp and iMessage, but ultimately fizzled.
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424: ‘Live From WWDC 2025’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2025.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
WWDC 2025 Keynote.
Joanna’s full 24-minute interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak this week.
The Verge: 28-minute supercut of the WWDC 2025 keynote and their take on the 13 biggest announcements.
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Previewing Apple's 2025 WWDC
Developer conference season is almost over, but we've got one show left to see: Apple's WWDC begins on Monday. Nilay, David, and Joanna Stern spend time going through both what they expect to see at the show, and why this year's WWDC might feel a bit different than in years past. Apple is in a tricky place with regulators, developers, and users alike, and has some genuine explaining to do. After that, they talk about the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, and David's surprisingly easy adventure to acquire one. We also have a bit of smart glasses and AI gadgets news to discuss, so we do that too. Then it's time for Brendan Carr is a Dummy, and an update on a couple of the interesting new fediverse projects launching this week.
Further reading:
Verge subscriptions are on sale 40 percent off
American Society of Magazine Editors Announces National Magazine Awards 2025 Winners
Apple ordered to keep web links in the App Store
Payment companies team up to help developers ditch App Store billing
Apple could be adding camera controls and sleep detection to your AirPods
Switch 2 launch: where to find restocks online and in-store
Look inside the Nintendo Switch 2 with the console’s first teardown
Mario Kart World’s designers had to rethink everything to make it open world
Nintendo is updating even more games for the Switch 2
Here’s what’s inside Meta’s experimental new smart glasses
Meta’s reportedly shopping for exclusive content on its upcoming VR headset
Meta reportedly sidelined ‘Quest 4’ designs for a goggles-like mixed-reality headset
FCC investigation looms over EchoStar’s missed interest payments and a new satellite
From Ars Technica: FCC Republican resigns, leaving agency with just two commissioners
Jony Ive’s OpenAI device gets the Laurene Powell Jobs nod of approval
ChatGPT’s goal is to be a ‘super assistant’ for every part of your life
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Tech in 2025: who's in and who's out
For the second episode in our two-part 2025 preview, Nilay and David are once again joined by Wall Street Journal columnist (and friend of The Verge) Joanna Stern to talk about what will, and won't, happen in tech next year. This time, David joins us after a quick jaunt to the end of next year, and relays a bunch of things that happened in tech in 2025. But some of them are lies. Joanna and Nilay have to decide which things really will happen next year, and which won't. As always, the hosts get points for good guesses and negative points for bad ones. And once we're all in late 2025, we'll declare a winner.
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Our hottest and coldest 2025 takes
Welcome to our two-part preview of the year to come! For the first installment, Nilay, David, and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern bring all the predictions for 2025 — their mildest, medium-est, and spiciest ideas about the year to come. Each host presents their take on TikTok bans, social platforms, smart homes, streaming services, and more, and the others get to decide whether they agree. Whoever gets the most right at the end of the year will win a big prize. (There's a points system for determining all that, but we'll figure that out later.)
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414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.
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Links:
Joanna on YouTube: “I Spent 24 Hours in the Woods With Talking AI Chatbots”.
Joanna’s excellent interview with Craig Federighi on Apple Intelligence, which is also on YouTube.
My commentary linking to it.
Ann-Marie Alcántara’s Wall Street Journal piece: “When Did Apple’s Notes App Become an Extension of Our Brains?” (also on News+)
Larry David on Siri.
Voight-Kampff Test.
There’s a social media thing where people are posting ChatGPT’s illustrations from the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.”
Here’s mine: I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter.
Here’s Joanna’s: Boy Scouts, basketball, cameras, computers, and lots of bagels.
Here’s an alternate from Joanna.
The Gruber and Coudal families, leaving Barack Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago in 2008.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Musk vs. OpenAI + Europe’s Tech Crackdown + A Month With the Vision Pro
OpenAI responded to Elon Musk’s lawsuit this week, with a blog post that included emails dating to 2015. We talk about whether the lawsuit could have any impact on the company, and who stands to benefit from it. Then, will the European Union’s Digital Markets Act make the tech industry a more competitive environment for entrepreneurs? We look at how some of the biggest tech giants are changing their services to comply with the law. And finally, Kevin Roose and the Wall Street Journal reporter Joanna Stern compare notes on using the Apple Vision Pro.
Today’s guest:
Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal Personal Tech columnist
Additional Reading:
Open AI Says Elon Musk Tried to Merge It With Tesla
Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules
One Month With Apple Vision Pro: In the Air, on a Train … in a Drawer
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Is the Apple Vision Pro All That?
Kara got a sneak peek of the Apple Vision Pro, and sat down before the official launch with tech reporters Joanna Stern, Nilay Patel and Mark Gurman to discuss why it took so long for Apple to get into the world of "spatial computing" headsets, who will buy it at a steep $3500 price tag, and what Steve Jobs might make of this new device. Note: This episode was taped on Wednesday, January 31st.
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Hands-On With the Vision Pro, Big Tech's Back in Washington, Elon Musk’s $55 Billion Payday — With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal joins us to talk about her hands-on experience with the Vision Pro. We also break down the dramatic big tech hearings in Washington, Meta's monster earnings report, Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package, and Peter Thiel’s steroid Olympics.
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381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.
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Links:
Joanna’s Rock ’Em Sock ’Em CEOs, Zuck vs. Musk Edition.
Zuck vs. Cook, back in 2021.
Joanna and Nicole Nguyen’s investigative series for the WSJ on organized thieves stealing Apple IDs after stealing iPhones and gleaning their passcodes:
February: “A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life”
April: “The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account”
Me and Joanna trying to figure out whether Facebook should make an iPad app or web app next for Threads. (It’ll probably be the web app.)
Hillary Clinton joins Threads with a joke, and the top replies are civil and fun.
Paris Hilton’s collection of old — really old — phones.
Mark Zuckerberg posting on Threads:
Chatting with Sundar Pichai.
And Jeff Bezos.
Dunking on Elon Musk.
And tweeting for the first time in 11 years.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
332: ‘The Post-Doom Era’, With Joanna Stern
Emmy Award-winning Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new iCloud “legacy contact” feature, the current state and future of VR headsets, Elon Musk, and more.
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Links:
Joanna on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week. (Really fun!)
Gita Mini by Piaggio — the follow-along robot demoed on The Tonight Show.
“Stuck in the Metaverse for 24 hours” — Joanna spends 24 hours alone in a hotel room wearing an Oculus Quest 2.
“E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever” — Joanna’s Emmy-winning documentary.
Joanna’s “new roommate”.
iOS 15.2’s “Legacy Contact” feature.
“Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone”.
“General Magic: The Movie.”
Joanna Stern interviews Elon Musk at the WSJ CEO Council Summit — video and transcript.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Pivot Predictions Special: 2022
Kara, Scott and a handful of Friends of Pivot make some predictions about what 2022 has in store for the Metaverse, China, Apple and more.
In this episode, we hear predictions from Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box Andrew Ross Sorkin, LightShed Partners’ Rich Greenfield, Senator Amy Klobuchar, author Cory Doctorow, WSJ Senior Personal Technology Columnist Joanna Stern, NBC News Senior Business correspondent Stephanie Ruhle, NYU Professor Aswath Damodaran, author Sheera Frenkel, and actor George Hahn.
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315: ‘I Don’t Know How to Read’, With Joanna Stern
Special guest: the one and only Joanna Stern. Topics: new iMacs, Touch ID vs. Face ID, remote controls, surveillance advertising, and people who want to make everything a video call when a good old-fashioned voice call would do.
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Links:
Function101 Remote Control for Apple TV.
Robert G. Reeves's tweet thread about getting Twitter ads for the brand of toothpaste his mother uses after spending a week at her house.
"Apple declined to comment on if this is just an elaborate troll at this point.".
Joanna's latest: "Stop With the Video Chats Already. Just Make a Voice Call.".
Joanna Stern Interviews Craig Federighi About ATT and 'Superman'.
Joanna on AirTags vs. Tile.
Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: "Apple’s New iPad Pro vs. MacBook Air".
Apple Platform Security Guide: "Secure Intent and Connections to the Secure Enclave".
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301: ‘A Craptastic Craptacular’, With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
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Joanna Stern in the WSJ: “Apple’s M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Review: The Laptop’s Biggest Leap in Years”.
And on YouTube: “Goodbye, Fan Noise”.
My review of the M1 MacBook Pro.
Joanna’s and my joint appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Alley, which started the webcam-gate scandal.
Joanna’s epic breakdown of the best available USB-C chargers.
Aukey’s adorable $50 90-watt 3-port charger, and their even smaller $45 65-watt 2-port charger.
Joanna, back in July: “Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers for You and Your Computer.”
Camo — excellent app that lets you use your iPhone or iPad as a Mac webcam.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
iPhone 12 and 12 Pro review with Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel
Every Tuesday this month, Vergecast co-host Dieter Bohn is hosting a series of discussions diving deep into tech review season, each focusing on a specific product.
This week, Dieter brings back Vergecast co-host Nilay Patel and senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal Joanna Stern to discuss their reviews of the latest iteration of the iPhone.
Dieter reviewed the iPhone 12, Nilay reviewed the iPhone 12 Pro, and Joanna reviewed them both side by side. The trio discusses what they focused on in their reviews — like 5G, Dolby Vison, and MagSafe — and how significant the upgrades are for this year’s devices.
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