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

Yep. voice-verified

Uh like there there's a great moment in in David Mel's story where he's talking to Isaac Reynolds about this. voice-verified

And and they land on essentially, we are going to give people so many settings that it made Google uncomfortable. voice-verified

We are just it seriously, I mean he says it in the story very directly that he had to have like an escalation meeting with PMs at Google because they were going to do something that is considered so anathema to software design now, which is you can't expose how things work, you can't give people choices, you have to just make a bunch of decisions on people's behalf and then sort of obfuscate the way that everything actually works. voice-verified

What they said is literally, we are just going to give you the control. voice-verified

We we are going to give make it so that you can actually do all of the things or many of the things at least that you would do on a camera. voice-verified

And we're going to do it at the very beginning of the image process. voice-verified

I have no idea if people will use this. voice-verified

My sense is most people don't even use the photography styles on the iPhone, which are designed to be vastly more approachable. voice-verified

Like I don't even think people use the camera control on the iPhone for voice-verified

God's sake. voice-verified

Like the the it is hard to get people deep in these menus to do things. voice-verified

But just for Google to give you the option that if you are somebody who wants to, uh, and a lot of this is being aimed at creators, particularly sort of small and new creators, and I want to talk about that approach in a second. voice-verified

But the idea that just you can if you want to is so nice and refreshing and rare at this moment in time that like I just love seeing that from the picture. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

V what do you make of all of this? voice-verified

I I I think about you in this context, also as somebody who has spent a lot of time with smart glasses, trying to figure out like, is this the new camera that people want? voice-verified

Is this the camera that I'm gonna start toting around with me? voice-verified

Uh, do you look at things like camera looks and these new tools as as a big win for pixel earners? voice-verified

That's a hard no. voice-verified

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