On this episode of The Vergecast, we didn't necessarily set out to talk about smart garage doors for as long as we did, but The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern joined the show with a lot of thoughts about Apple Intelligence, notification summaries, and how we all - and in particular, how Apple's software leader Craig Federighi - manage their own houses. Given the reporting that Apple is gearing up for a big hardware push into the smart home, what does the company really think it can do here?
After seeing the new Mac Mini, the new iMac, the new MacBook Pro, and some new accessories, a lot of people were left with the same question: they put the power button and charging port ? So we talk about power buttons, and chip bumps, and why the Mac Mini feels more important than ever.
We discuss the just-launched search engine inside of ChatGPT, which may be a threat to Google but is definitely a statement about how we use the internet now. We also talk about this week's Big Tech earnings, and what they taught us about how AI is actually being used - and how it makes money.
In the lightning round, we talk about Netflix's gentle push into the social era, and Tony Fadell's decidedly curse-filled thoughts on AI. Then we talk briefly about The Verge's presidential endorsement and all our election coverage, which you should read.
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