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Humane's AI Pin hit the reviewers' rounds this week. Now it's time for the meta cut. Join the Android Police podcast as we rack the dominoes back from execution to concept and see if there's any salvation to be had from the fall. Also, loads of Android news, an e-reader to best the Kindle perhaps, and a Vampire Weekend album review. Hit the decks.
01:36 | This Our Future?
Google I/O 2024: What to expect and when it’s happeningHumane reviews are out, and they are bad
27:54 | Droidy
Google finally launches its Find My Device networkDbrand just spent 24 hours doubling down on racist remarks before apologizingYouTube has a new design on desktop and everyone is mad about itApple may not end up beating Android at the emulation game after allGoogle’s AI Magic Editor is coming to all devices for free, but there's a catch
47:54 | Read This
Android 15 Beta 1 is here, but many details are still under wrapsKobo's new color e-readers add some saturation to your readingOnly God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend Reviews and Tracks - MetacriticThe Pixel 8 Pro was all I needed to create my solar eclipse memories
Excerpts from The Verge, Pornhub, The Punisher (Netflix via Shabeebstyle), Cyberpunk 2077 (CD: Projekt Red), and Infraction and Aim To Head.
Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.
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The 100th Android Police podcast is everything you've wanted it to be. Google this, Android that, Samsung's broken, OnePlus's broken, and we finally see what's inside The Hatch from Lost. Gemini takes a page from a BAFTA vote that has gone completely insane and the streaming industry makes money on top of showbuilding practices that are incredibly destructive to viewer habits (and, thus, their revenue), but at least Skynet's incompetent intelligence means we get to live another day, folks. Nothing gets cut. Everything's here.
This is the show you've been waiting for.
01:54 | Spatially Aware
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka: Penguin Random HouseTesting the New Apple Vision Pro Spatial Persona - MacRumors
07:49 | I've Paid Money For Worse AI
Google may charge you for generative AI search in the futureLara Croft Crowned Most Iconic Video Games Character of All Time, According to BAFTA Poll | BAFTASonic the Hedgehog Chia Pet® - Chia.com
27:05 | How Many Ways Can Google Piss People Off?
Google Podcasts is dead but Google’s own podcast isn't on YouTube MusicGoogle Podcasts is gone — and YouTube Music can’t replace it - The Verge
41:16 | Update Downgrade
Some Pixel owners are experiencing network issues after Google's March 2024 updateGoogle's premium Pixel 9 plans feel too big, too soonSamsung's latest update is causing headaches for Galaxy S23 usersOnePlus just launched a worse version of Magic Eraser for its phones
1:02:32 | Get Lost
Striking numbers: writers work less with streaming TV (axios.com)
Excerpts from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (New Line Cinema), hbomberguy (via Sven Bender), retsupurae, Top15s, Blizzard Entertainment (via vannero).
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Google's had it out for the Android Police podcast all this time. No, not in the ways in which it's made it difficult for us to write the stories we talk about on the show, but with how its grown its phones. Android. Nexus. Pixel. All of it. The bulk of this 99th episode — which does not contain four minutes of cut-out frolicking midshow banter between our hosts — will cover the latest we're hearing about the Pixel 9 very big triple threat XL with a cherry on top. Man, it's like we've been an Android podcast, right?
01:19 | Pixel Pursuit
New Pixel 9 renders point to 3 Google flagships coming this fallGemini Nano is coming to the Pixel 8 after all
33:09 | SUX (Stupid User Experience)
The Disney Plus-Hulu merger is way more than a streaming bundle
42:10 | Heady Stuff
Transformed by AI: How generative artificial intelligence could affect work in the UK – and how to manage it | IPPROntario school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for $4.5 billion, alleging they're deliberately hurting students (thestar.com)(NEW) Apple Vision Pro - 256GB (woot.com)
Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.
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The Department of Justice serves Apple a whopper of an antitrust suit, the consequences of which will take years to suss out and reverberate with impacts on competitors, developers, and consumers. So, what do we see from the shores of Android? The Android Police podcast is all about insights this week, some of them from our interview with Eric Migicovsky of Beeper and Pebble fame. And then we get broken down by a hilariously bad Moto G that should've been kept back in the dusty drawers of 2015.
02:03 | US v. Apple
US sues Apple for iPhone monopoly, points to iMessage and Apple Watch dominance, among other tacticsThe US v. Apple monopoly case was inevitable, Beeper's CEO explainsFive takeaways from the huge US antitrust lawsuit against Apple - The Verge
38:21 | Didn't Moto Have a Good Year?
Moto G Power 5G (2024) review: Simply not good enough
Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.
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Marques Brownlee commissions a tiny little coffin into which he places the ZenFone 10 and we're over here trying to trigger the next wave of tiny little phones. As people keep saying, time is a flat circle. That conversation plus another notch in the epoch that is Samsung's management in mobile decline, the big TikTok sovereignty debate, and a couple of tangents on the artist formerly known as Twitter, late-90's MMOs, and tin rooves on this Android Police podcast!
01:19 | TikTok
The House has taken a key step toward banning TikTok in the USIs TikTok safe to use?Montana's statewide TikTok ban awaits governor's signature (from April 2023)Chances of a national TikTok ban grow with upcoming bill in Senate (from March 2023)TikTok is now banned from devices used in the US House of Representatives (from December 2022)
20:50 | Subspace
Continuum - Meet people from all over the world...then kill them
25:56 | Beeg and Leetle
The Pixel 8 feels small after the Galaxy S24 Ultra, but I want a truly tiny phoneAsus Zenfone 11 Ultra review: just another big phone - The Verge
42:41 | eX-popular
Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet - ABC News (Australia)
47:11 | Last Call
Samsung isn't bringing its Pixel 8a competitor to the US this yearThe Google I/O 2024 puzzle has been solved, and now we have a date
Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.
Android Police lives here. Reach out to us at podcast@androidpolice.com
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Man, since when did Google's pre-release tracks of Android return to just utter garbage? And how much longer can Apple sustain its flat-footed outrage against the Digital Markets Act? We're firing some quick shots on the Android Police podcast this week to tackle some touchstones that are carrying the conversation in our mobile sphere for the days and weeks ahead.
02:56 | Scatterdroid
Google's March Feature Drop is here, but not for youAndroid 14 QPR3 Beta 2 is here, but you should be careful sideloading
17:03 | Acid Apple
Epic Games just got unbanned by Apple — again - The VergeI tested Apple’s EU-only iOS 17.4, and it doesn't feel any closer to Android (yet)Switching from iPhone to Android will get much easier next year
32:28 | Flash Fry
The Pixel 8a might cost nearly as much as Google's 2022 flagshipAnother Nintendo DS emulator bites the dust following the folding of Yuzu
Will was on the Android Faithful podcast this week if you want more!
Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.
Android Police lives here. Reach out to us at podcast@androidpolice.com
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