Nilay Patel

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1,075 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 5d ago

Nilay Patel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Vergecast · AGI is whatever you want it to be · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

There's been some big swings, some big misses. matched

Apple services exist in a way that like did not exist before Tim Cook dis realized that he was out of people to sell iPhones to and turned on a services business. matched

That reset the entire app economy. matched

AirPods happened on his watch. matched

The removal of the headphone jack happened on Tim Cook's watch. matched

Uh the Apple Watch, which matched

I will never forget that event, which was live and featured Bono and a lengthy uh explanation of how the digital crown would be the next great input device, which was just I to in that moment I was like, are you guys serious about this? matched

There was just like something about Tim where he needed it first to do a Steve Jobs style product introduction and needed to prove that Apple was still had its spirit inside of it. matched

And then it stopped and it became Apple became pretty corporate and became all about scale and like fees. matched

I'm wondering, Joanna, did where would you mark that transition? matched

Or do you think that transition happened? matched

I think so. matched

I think a lot of I think a lot of our readers Oh, a hundred matched

Yeah. matched

It's interesting you bring this up because that maybe isn't Tim Cook's doing, it's more Johnny Ives leaving. matched

this might be the single biggest success for Tim Cook is that he managed Johnny Ive out of the company without a catastrophe. matched

And you could maybe argue that there is a catastrophe, like liquid glass exists and like all like matched

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And that services business is a huge deal. matched

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