Editor-at-Large
David Pierce is The Verge's Editor-at-Large. In previous lives he worked at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. He owns all the phones.
He’s @imdavidpierce on Threads and davidpierce.11 on Signal.
On The Vergecast: a deep dive into the history of the Roku Netflix Player, how to play music in your car, and much more.
If AI can learn everything about everything, can it tell me what to watch on Netflix tonight?
Paris is a Peacock town this year, but finding the right stuff to watch — and making sure you don’t miss anything — can still be tricky.
Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new space-biz doc on HBO, EA Sports College Football is back, and the silliest Apple Watch accessory ever.
So far, this thing doesn’t seem like a very impressive tablet. But Daylight is more a display company than a tablet company — and the display is pretty great.
I nodded a lot at this Max Read piece about how we perceive the world now, particularly the current “vibe shift” in politics but also just... everything. I feel like we’ve been debating “is Twitter really the world?” for 15 years now, but the answer feels more slippery than ever.
One way of thinking about every American election since 2015 is as a referendum on whether or not Twitter is real. Did the “prevailing vibes” on Twitter reflect the electoral choices of millions of Americans?
[maxread.substack.com]