Vergecast: Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Unpacked occasion, Microsoft’s open app retailer guidelines, and Peloton’s layoffs

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, the place co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk about the week in tech information with the reporters and editors overlaying the most important tales.

This week’s episode covers these large tech tales: Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Unpacked occasion, the newest updates in tech regulation and antitrust coverage, and the varied troubles at Peloton this week.

Verge editor Chris Welch joins Nilay, Dieter, and Verge managing editor Alex Cranz to debate his hands-on expertise utilizing Samsung’s new telephones — the Galaxy S22 and S22 Plus — and the rebranding of Samsung’s Note line.

Senior reporter Adi Robertson additionally joins the present to elucidate this week in antitrust coverage: the Open App Markets Act passing via the Senate Judiciary Committee, Microsoft following up with its personal open app retailer guidelines, and what this might imply for the way forward for side-loading apps.

And for her first look on The Vergecast, wearables reporter Victoria Song explains what’s going on at Peloton this week — from CEO John Foley stepping down, the firing of two,800 staff, and its monetary troubles that led to hypothesis of acquisition.

You can take heed to the complete dialogue of all these matters right here or in your most well-liked podcast participant.

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