Welp, I bought an iPhone again
3/24/202659 min
David is bored with his iPhone. Over the last few months, he has been testing every other phone he could get his hands on, from the Pixel to the Razr to the Unihertz Titan. And at the end of it all... David bought another iPhone. The Verge's Allison Johnson joins the show to recount some of her own phone-testing experiences, to litigate the quality of foldable and flippable phones, to debate Android vs. iOS, and ultimately to help David decide whether he actually bought the right phone. After all that, David answers a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about whether AI can help us figure out how to use our devices better. Or maybe just use them for us. Devices are too complicated. Further reading: Motorola Razr Ultra (2025) review: looking sharp Google Pixel 10 review: perfectly fine Apple iPhone 17 review: the one to get The iPhone Air makes a strong statement Why flip phones should be the future of smartphones Who needs a laptop when you have a folding phone? Gemini’s task automation is here and it’s wild Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed.We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsDavid Pierce· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of weird ideas about smartphones. I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am sitting here reading this book, Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue. Uh, I got an advance copy of it, not to brag, but it is exactly what you think it is. It is an epic, like, 600-page tome all about the first 50 years of Apple. Uh, it's fascinating. There's so much in here that I didn't know. Like, I, I, I have covered Apple so much as a product company, but understanding what was going on inside of the company, and particular, the ways in which Steve Jobs was both unbelievably good at his job and managed to drive absolutely everybody insane all of the time, is just fascinating. There's so much interesting sort of internal machination drama in this story. It's very good, and even if you are somebody who knows a lot about Apple, uh, as I like to think that I am, this book is worth a read. It's the 50th anniversary of Apple starting next week. We're gonna have a bunch of Apple coverage, lots to do, very excited about it. I gotta finish this book in part so that I can do all of that coverage. Anyway, today on the Vergecast, most of the show is going to be my conversation with Allison Johnson, our senior reviewer, about my phone journey. I've mentioned this a few times, but I've spent the last several months trying, like, every phone I could get my hands on. I've tried flip phones and foldable phones. I tried a phone with a keyboard. I just tried to go and see if there is something better than the phone everybody just defaults to, right? I've had an iPhone for