The
iPhone
16
is
great.
But
it’s
great
in
pretty
much
exactly
the
ways
you’d
expect
it
to
be
great
— gone,
it
seems,
are
the
days
of
big
new
ideas
about
these
slabs
of
glass
we
all
use
all
day.
And
that’s
basically
okay!
But
it
does
make
you
wonder:
could
you
just
train
an
AI
to
tell
you
everything
you
need
to
know
about
the
new
iPhone?
On
this
episode
of
The
Vergecast,
we
find
out.
Joanna
Stern,
a
columnist
at
The
Wall
Street
Journal
and
a
forever
friend
of
The
Verge,
comes
on
the
show
to
tell
us
about
her
adventures
building
the
Joannabot,
an
AI
chatbot
that
knows
a
lot
about
iPhones
and
basically
nothing
about
anything
else.
We
ask
Joannabot
some
questions;
we
take
some
of
your
questions
and
present
them
to
the
Joannabot
(and
a
few
to
the
real
Joanna).
The
iPhone
16
may
not
have
much
AI
yet,
but
there’s
plenty
of
AI
about
the
iPhone.
And
as
it
turns
out,
the
Joannabot
thinks
you’re
pretty
great.
After
that,
we
talk
about
some
of
the
other
gadget
news
of
the
week,
most
notably
the
new
Snap
Spectacles.
We
dissect
the
hardware,
the
software,
the
use
cases,
and
the
strategy,
and
try
to
figure
out
whether
these
fifth-generation
AR
glasses
are
a
step
in
the
right
direction
or
just
a
weird-looking
computer
on
your
face.
If
you
want
to
know
more
about
everything
we
discuss
in
this
episode,
here
are
some
links
to
get
you
started,
beginning
with
the
iPhone:
And
on
Snap’s
Spectacles:
And
in
the
YouTube
lightning
round:
And
in
the
other
lightning
round:
(Originally posted by David Pierce)
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