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David Pierce

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2713 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

That's good.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

But there's something to, okay, if we can connect more people more of the time, they'll use our services.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

And I guess you can make the same kind of case with Amazon, both with its Amazon.com, but also all of its other stuff.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

So fine.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

This just feels like

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

a particularly huge bet on a relatively small version of that.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

But maybe I'm wrong.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Maybe there is some big, giant, ambitious thing that we don't know about inside of the Global Star acquisition.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

But a big tie-up with Apple, at the very least, I think goes a long way.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

If you know the truth about satellite internet and you want to tell me what the big idea is here that I'm missing, versecastsattheverse.com.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

I want to hear from you.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Neil, what's your next one?

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

All right.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

This is my Brendan did nothing and it was still stupid.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

So a couple weeks ago, the FCC banned all foreign-made routers from the United States, which is all routers.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

And so routers that were already on sale were allowed to stay on sale, and then you needed to get an exemption from the FCC, which amounted to filing a formal plan committing to build your routers in the United States.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

And so all these companies scrambled.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Sean Hollister and I did a bunch of reporting.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

We called all the router companies.