Bald head. Massive muscle tissues. As soon as a famend businessman, now making a sequence of questionable choices to be able to acquire extra political energy. Bizarre aspect hobbies, some involving rockets. Good recipe for a Bond villain! Additionally a good description of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. So possibly it’s applicable that Amazon has struck a deal to offer the corporate full artistic management over the way forward for 007 and the world he inhabits.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we discuss the way forward for Bond. (James Bond.) John Gruber, the writer of Daring Fireball and a preeminent Bond professional, joins the present to speak about Amazon’s acquisition of MGM, its struggles with the Broccoli household over what to do with the Bond franchise, and why so many followers of the sequence are fearful about what may occur when an organization like Amazon takes over a beloved title. Will Bond end up like Marvel, or Star Wars? Or one thing else completely? We’ll see – however historical past suggests we shouldn’t be too optimistic.
Earlier than that, although, there’s some huge gadget information to speak about. Framework, a pc maker with a pointy concentrate on repairability and upgradeability, launched a brand new laptop computer and a brand new desktop final week. Framework CEO Nirav Patel joins David and The Verge’s Sean Hollister to speak in regards to the new units, Framework’s method to new classes, and what it takes to really construct merchandise — and an organization — that lasts lengthy sufficient to meet its guarantees. Framework has delivered on modular devices like few others ever have, however there’s nonetheless lots of work to do.
In any case that, we take a query from the Vergecast Hotline (e-mail vergecast@theverge.com, or name 866-VERGE11!) a few killer app for sensible glasses: a extra ergonomic laptop monitor. There are many choices on the market for this, however just one that actually is smart.
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