David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

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The Vergecast · Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5: Our first impressions | The Vergecast Livestream · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

And we can get to some of the ways in which they are different. voice-verified

But the the Pixel lineup has always kind of been like this. voice-verified

Their big idea is about software and Gemini and AI and all of the things that they can do without needing bleeding edge hardware. voice-verified

And it is worth saying, nothing about this is bleeding edge hardware. voice-verified

Which is kind of where I want to start on these thoughts, just from a pure like what's in the box here perspective, Neh. voice-verified

I don't think we expected to be like blown away by what Google came out with on the spec sheet of a pixel, but this is pretty milktoast when it comes to pixels. voice-verified

Yeah, I think that's right. voice-verified

And I think that's a mistake, honestly. voice-verified

Like you you look at this and the things that you just said, right? voice-verified

This is for enthusiasts. voice-verified

Like, God, you know who might care about the geekbench results for the Pixel and all of these different devices? voice-verified

Enthusiasts. voice-verified

There was a whole mini kerfuffle around the last run of phones because the last version of the tensor processor. voice-verified

did horribly in benchmarks. voice-verified

Um the the overwhelming feeling was that actually it doesn't really matter. voice-verified

You basically can't find a game on Android that uses all of the available CPU and GPU anyway. voice-verified

So who really cares? voice-verified

But we're also at a moment where it's like, okay, we're we're imagining all of the new things that your phone can do for you. voice-verified

W local AI is the future of everything, according to everybody, including Google in many cases. voice-verified

Shouldn't you be investing in making my hardware as fast and capable as possible at this moment in time? voice-verified

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