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David Pierce

Editor-at-Large; Co-host of The Vergecast, The Verge

Search every verified David Pierce interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge and co-host of The Vergecast, has been a prominent voice in recent technology discussions, particularly around Apple’s iPhone Duo. In late October 2026, he co-hosted episodes debating the device’s 7/10 review score, describing it as a product that "wants to be an iPad" in a way similar to how an iPad wants to be a Mac. He also participated in a live Q&A about the phone’s review and discussed its potential evolution over time. Beyond the iPhone Duo, Pierce has covered a wide range of topics in his podcast appearances. These include Tesla’s flying Roadster reveal, AI’s impact on mathematics, the rise of creator-built apps, and the proliferation of recording wearables from companies like Meta and Amazon. He expressed interest in app development becoming a core part of being a creator, and commented on the tension between AI’s potential benefits and the ethical concerns surrounding its development. Pierce also noted his personal use of AI assistants like Muse for tasks such as booking movie tickets, while acknowledging the moral and practical trade-offs of such tools. Additionally, he hosted episodes of The Verge’s Version History podcast on the history of overhead projectors, Chromebooks, and graphing calculators, and celebrated multiple Signal Award wins for The Verge’s podcasts.

Recent appearances

  • The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad | The Vergecast

    October 23, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn’t always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing — and assessing — a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay debate whether the Duo deserved the score it got, and try to work through how this device might change over time. After that, the hosts talk about the huge PHP cybersecurity flaw that rocked the web this week, the ongoing increase in AI shopping, an impending reboot inside of Netflix, and some very confusing G…

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  • Why Tesla needs its cars to fly | The Vergecast

    October 22, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Tesla recently showed off a new version of its Roadster. Well, a new version of its old version of the Roadster, anyway. But this one flies! The Verge's Andy Hawkins joins the show to explain the last decade of the Roadster saga, make sense of the flying and kickflipping new vehicle, and cast out into the future of Tesla's cars for humans. If there even is one. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4eLlsF2 0:00 Intro 00:18 90 Seconds on The Verge 02:07 Tesla’s Roadster Event 03:55 Roadster History Recap 07:05 Why it Took So Long 10:04 Inside the Reveal Event 13:44 Is it a Real Roadster? 20:53 What…

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  • How we really feel about the iPhone Duo

    October 21, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    iPhone Duo reviews are out today and... it's complicated. David Pierce, Nilay Patel and senior smart phone reviewer Allison Johnson talk through The Verge's review and answer your questions LIVE. Watch our iPhone Duo review here:    • iPhone Duo review (emotional)   Subscribe to The Verge: https://bit.ly/3FT6n5S Watch The Vergecast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/40RFRkg The Vergecast Podcast: https://bit.ly/3WQDexZ Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly…

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  • AI is dividing the math world in two | The Vergecast

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Over the last several months, the AI industry has set its sights on some of the problems that have stymied mathematicians for years. In some cases, AI models have made huge progress — though exactly how much isn't always obvious. The Verge's Robert Hart explains what OpenAI and others have actually accomplished, the disastrously bad ways the companies have interacted with researchers, and whether there's a future left for human mathematics. Subscribe to The Verge: https://bit.ly/3FT6n5S Watch The Vergecast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/40RFRkg The Vergecast Podcast: https://bit.ly/3WQDexZ Deco…

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  • Why your favorite creator is building an app | The Vergecast

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Creator life involves using a lot of software. Bad software. Stephen Robles is one of the creators who decided to build something better, for himself and for his community. He tells David how he thinks about his responsibility as a developer, how he makes apps, and how AI is changing the way he builds things for his audience. 0:00 Intro 00:18 90 Seconds on The Verge 02:26 Creators Become Developers 05:01 First App Development Experiences 07:59 Shipping Tiny Utilities 11:17 Feedback and Responsibility 15:55 Building Kan Do 21:36 Fixing Bugs With Claude 24:07 Automating App Ops 27:06 Being an A…

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  • How overhead projectors took over your classroom

    October 18, 2026 · 📺 Version History and The Verge

    For decades, practically every classroom in the United States had one thing in common: a big, bright overhead projector at the front of the class. How it got there is a story that takes hundreds of years, and a war or two, to explain. David Pierce is joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes and Stanford professor Antero Garcia to learn about where projectors came from, how they took over education, and why they eventually faded out. 0:00 - Intro & nostalgia for the overhead projector 1:27 - Meet the guests & origins of projection (1650s–1850s) 6:07 - World War II & the rise of mass education 11…

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  • Apple's HomeView has an app problem | The Vergecast

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Well, it's been a couple of days, and David and Nilay have some more information — and a bunch of new questions — about the Apple HomeView. They also talk about the latest Gemini model, and whether building the best model matters if you can't build the best products around them. They then debate the merits of returning to X, why none of the supposed Twitter replacements worked, the latest in Brendan Carr nonsense, and more. 0:00 CarPlay Banter 01:36 HomeView App Confusion 03:40 CarPlay as Home OS 08:31 Apple Hardware Software Bet 13:28 Should It Just Be an iPad? 14:31 Gemini 4 Returns 16:18 M…

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  • Everything's recording everybody. What now? | The Vergecast

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Meta just shipped a pair of smart glasses with no camera — a change that both David and The Verge's Victoria Song are excited about. But these glasses, like the new product from Amazon Bee and seemingly everything else now, are still ready and willing to record the world around you at all times. What do we do in a world where everything, everywhere, might be recording? And can tech companies figure out a way to make us feel better about it? Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Vote Vergecast: Best Technology Podcast - https://bit.ly/3VGqL1T Vote Version History: Best History Podcast - https://…

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  • The $8 million AI music scam | The Vergecast

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    A man named Mike Smith was recently sentenced to 18 months in prison, and a fine in excess of $8 million, for creating an AI system that faked billions of streams and earned him millions in royalties. Wired's Kate Knibbs explains how Smith pulled it off, how he got caught, and what this case means for the internet's growing slop problems. Read Kate's story here: https://bit.ly/4B78Mlu Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Vote Vergecast: Best Technology Podcast - https://bit.ly/3VGqL1T Vote Version History: Best History Podcast - https://bit.ly/4j0ypht Vote Decoder: Best Business Podcast - htt…

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  • The AI is in the computer | The Vergecast

    October 09, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    It's gadget season. More specifically, it's apparently "new computer for your new AI" season. David and Nilay talk through a slew of announcements — Amazon's Alexa Tablets, Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, the new Googlebooks, and Apple's upcoming smart home launch — to figure out if anyone has the right idea about the future of computing, and where the AI is supposed to live. After that, it's time for Brendan Carr is a Dummy, our thoughts on the Paramount / Warner / Skydance merger, and much more. Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Vote Vergecast: Best Technology Podcast - https://bit.ly/3V…

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  • The many pluses and minuses of Alexa Plus | The Vergecast

    October 08, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Amazon is determined to turn Alexa Plus into a do-everything AI assistant that can compete with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and the rest. But after a year of testing, The Verge's Jen Tuohy has mixed feelings on how it's all going. And on whether a new tablet is the right way to fix it. Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Vote Vergecast: Best Technology Podcast - https://bit.ly/3VGqL1T Vote Version History: Best History Podcast - https://bit.ly/4j0ypht Vote Decoder: Best Business Podcast - https://bit.ly/47vDg2W 0:00 Intro 00:39 90 Seconds on The Verge 02:25 One Year With Alexa Plus 07:01 Voice…

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  • It's the best time ever to buy great headphones | The Vergecast

    October 07, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Bose, Sony, Beats, and seemingly every other headphone maker has recently released a new and excellent set of cans. Or buds. Or both. The Verge's John Higgins explains why the headphone market is suddenly so great, how the companies are competing now, and which new pair is the right one for you. Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Vote Vergecast: Best Technology Podcast - https://bit.ly/3VGqL1T Vote Version History: Best History Podcast - https://bit.ly/4j0ypht Vote Decoder: Best Business Podcast - https://bit.ly/47vDg2W Subscribe to The Verge: https://bit.ly/3FT6n5S Watch The Vergecast on…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“To me, the thing I keep thinking about is the difference between listening and recording. And I think people are spooked by things that are listening irrespective of whether they're recording. Just the idea that you are listening to me is a problem, right? And forget video recording. Like that's a whole other can of worms that I think my running theory is that eventually in some meaningful way the market is just goin”

“I categorically do not agree with the people who say it's nerfed by not having a camera. Like, A, we're at a point right now with so many of these AI tools where the visual intelligence stuff they do is not that good. And B, you have a phone. Like, the 'I need you to take a picture of something' problem is solved. We have the technology for taking a picture of something. And actually, that's a much better way to solv”

“I found myself wondering again in the case of Mike Smith if he had gone on a platform where there was sort of a less direct money system, and again, if he's just in it to juice views and appear to be famous and successful, if he'd gone on TikTok, right, and bought himself the same amount of views and the same amount of streams, and then used that to go in some less direct way make money. It doesn't seem to me like Ti”

“I just kept thinking about the fact that Sam Altman in this case and in basically every case is just completely unable to articulate the good thing that AI is going to do. He's like, yes, all this bad stuff is going to happen, but it's going to do so much more good stuff. And it's like, well, what, Sam? It's going to put everybody out of jobs. It might kill all of us. What's the good part? It's going to like do sick ”

“I think that's the hard thing for all of these companies to deal with is the climb is more and more uphill for everybody all the time. Right. As all the technology is starting to work, right? Like that is the strangest piece of this to me is everything we've been waiting for a decade is starting to become real in real ways right as everybody is starting to realize maybe we never wanted this. And I think that tension ”

“I think it's wrong and I don't think it's going to work. And I mean, there's just no evidence that this is actually a thing Amazon is good at, is putting all of those pieces together, particularly in a way that doesn't just involve your Amazon information. But you can see why Amazon can't help itself from trying, which is part of why I find Alexa so fascinating.”

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