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David and Nilay rank the 50 best products Apple has ever made while discussing AI news and other tech topics.
We love a ranking here on The Vergecast, and it’s time for the hardest one yet: David and Nilay compare notes on the 50 best products Apple has ever made, and see how their answers stack up to the many, many voters on The Verge this week. Before that, though, it’s time for a bit of AI news — surprise, it’s enterprise software! — and the comeback of the Hype Desk. After all that, and after the rankings, we do a round of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, talk about the fediverse, and repurpose our old iMacs. Vote for The Vergecast in the Webby Awards! A vote for The Vergecast is a vote that Brendan Carr is a dummy, that buttons are good, and that party speakers rule the world. Voting is open until April 16. https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2026/podcasts/shows/technology Further reading: OpenAI’s big numbers: $122 billion funding round, 900 million weekly ChatGPT users. Why OpenAI killed Sora I think Google is taking a couple digs at OpenAI about Sora. Apple’s third-party Siri Extensions could lead to an AI App Store. Microsoft’s new ‘superintelligence’ game plan is all about business OpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAI Apple turns 50: celebrating five decades of the…
People in this episode
Hosts: David, Nilay
Topics covered
- Apple products
- AI news
- enterprise software
- Hype Desk
- fediverse
- iMacs
Keywords
- Apple
- products
- AI
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
- Webby Awards
- iMac
- MacBook Air
- Brendan Carr
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Organizations: The Verge, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Google
Products: iMac, MacBook Air
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