There aren’t many tech companies that can claim Sony’s level of influence on the way we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the Trinitron, Sony has been making excellent gadgets across a range of categories for decades, which makes this week’s news a little sad. Sony’s new joint venture with TCL isn’t the end of Sony TVs – and that might even be good news – but it’s certainly the end of an era.
But This episode of The VergecastNilay and David discuss the Sony/TCL deal, Sony’s legacy in television and what it could mean for anyone shopping for a new set. The deal isn’t done, and we don’t know All There’s still so much to know about it, but it’s already clear what’s in it for both parties.
After that, the hosts turned to the week’s AI news, which seems to center on a single question: How is one supposed to make money with all this technology? OpenAI apparently thinks the answer is advertising, because of course it does, because that’s what everyone else does. For these reasons Apple clearly thinks the answer is hardware. The hardware discussion leads us to a bigger question about AI gadgets: what Is Best form factor for AI? We don’t know. Perhaps the answer is none of these. But we still rank some ideas.
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