Dieter Bohn is in the center chair today, flanked by Dan Seifert and Russell Brandom, with Sam Sheffer in the Hypeseat. It’s an old-school tech episode about Alphabet, Samsung, and a disturbingly long argument around hardware keyboards on smartphones.
The Vergecast 166: Alphabet, Samsung, and hardware keyboards
In the desert building balloons
In the desert building balloons


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