“This is some Android shit,” Allison Johnson recalls thinking during her first days with the iPhone Duo. That sentence captures the disorienting experience of reviewing Apple’s first foldable…
Nilay Patel — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Nilay Patel has appeared on 7 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Vergecast. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Nilay said
“If you are a huge gadget nerd and you're like, 'I broke it, amazing,' you're gonna have a good time. And if you're just trying to use your phone, you're gonna be like, 'I don't know what happened to me.'”
— Nilay Patel (64:48)
“The two most shocking things about it. The screen is matte... and then you know they said that the crease was perceptually not there. And it's not there. You can feel it, but you cannot see it.”
— Nilay Patel
“Brendan is so stupid that he caused Neil Gorsuch to point out that he's a danger to the constitution.”
— Nilay Patel, on the Supreme Court citing Brendan Carr's actions.
Episode appearances
7 The Vergecast live stream covered Apple’s big fall hardware event, anchored by the long-anticipated iPhone Duo folding phone. The conversation moved through the new iPhone 18 Pro, two Apple…
"When Did That Come Out?" — The Vergecast's Brutal Gadget Memory Quiz The Vergecast hosts David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Sean Hollister sat down for what sounded like a light game but turned into…
“I have a one-year-old. A one-year-old’s brain can identify what objects belong to him. There’s something that’s not intelligent about the intelligence systems where these little leaps you need to…
Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5: The Vergecast's First Impressions Google announced its new Pixel lineup this morning — four phones, a foldable, and a Pixel Watch 5 — and the Vergecast team gathered to…
“Imagine only one person had a superintelligent lawyer. He would have an unfair advantage in court, even if his position was wrong on the merits.” That thought experiment, offered by Mark…
The video game disc is dead Sony announced it will stop producing PlayStation discs entirely by January 2028. Microsoft is testing a feature that would let you attach a digital game to a disc,…
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