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Hello! I’m coming from nan future. And I personification immoderate news. 12 months from now, each nan Big Tech CEOs are still successful their jobs, everybody’s utilizing folding phones, Apple made a TV, and Nvidia is nan astir valuable institution successful nan history of nan universe. Wild year, huh? Or perchance not? It’s difficult to remember. Time recreation messes pinch your practice a little.
On this conception of The Vergecast, nan 2nd installment of our two-part 2025 preview, we connection immoderate earnestly iffy storylines from nan extremity of 2025. David, our resident clip traveler, brings america immoderate ample stories that either did aliases didn’t hap successful nan twelvemonth to come, and Nilay Patel and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern personification to thief fig retired what’s existent and what isn’t.
Will personification really bargain Snap? Is GTA VI going to beryllium nan biggest crippled ever? Will Bluesky proceed to ascend and clip disconnected Threads successful its wake? Nobody knows yet, not moreover nan clip traveler, but we personification immoderate thoughts and ideas.
As was nan suit pinch past week’s episode, we’re keeping score. Here’s really it works: each large has to decide, for each 2025 news story, whether it’ll beryllium existent aliases not by nan extremity of nan year. Every correct conjecture earns you a point; each incorrect conjecture costs you one. At nan extremity of nan year, we’ll afloat nan scores, harvester them pinch past week’s guesses, and bargain nan victor nan coolest gadget of 2025, immoderate that turns retired to be. (We’re going to petition your thief deciding, too, but we’ll recreation backmost to that.)
Don’t publication nan beneath until you’ve listened to aliases watched nan episode, but for nan tape, coming are our predictions:
- Tim Cook is still nan CEO of Apple. In fact, each 4 Big Tech CEOs are nan same. (Nilay, Joanna, and David each opportunity yes.)
- Nvidia is nan astir valuable institution successful nan world. (Nilay says no, Joanna and David opportunity yes.)
- Somebody acquired Snap. (All opportunity no.)
- OpenAI is officially a for-profit company. (All opportunity yes.)
- OpenAI is simply a profitable company. (All opportunity no.)
- The authorities is breaking up 1 of nan ample tech companies. (Nilay and David opportunity yes, Joanna says no.)
- We’ve had a huge, society-sized AI scandal. (All opportunity yes.)
- One aliases overmuch of Max, Paramount Plus, and Peacock nary longer exists. (All opportunity yes.)
- Netflix’s unrecorded worldly is working, and it fundamentally killed cablegram already. (All opportunity no.)
- GTA VI is simply a huge, giant, smashing success. (Nilay and David opportunity yes, Joanna refuses.)
- Folding phones are legit mainstream now. (All opportunity no.)
- The Pixel 10 is by acold nan champion and astir successful Android phone. (All opportunity no.)
- The Nintendo Switch came out, and it’s benignant of a dud. (all opportunity no.)
- Apple is really making a TV. (Nilay and Joanna opportunity no, David says yes.)
- The caller Alexa? It’s sick. Everybody’s utilizing it. (Nilay and Joanna opportunity no, David says yes.)
- Waymo’s presently having its ample moment. (Joanna says yes, Nilay and David opportunity no.)
- BlueSky is overmuch applicable than Threads. (All opportunity yes.)
- BlueSky is really arsenic ample arsenic Threads. (All opportunity no.)
- Apple launched a hunt engine. (Nilay and Joanna opportunity yes, David says no.)