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Rise of the Whoop dupes

aired Aug 03, 2026 · 32.0m
Signal
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High signal
confidence 0.99
Orig60.8
Actn100.0
Dens74.4
Dpth61.0
Clty80.8
Summary

I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show we're going to talk about wearables. There's this new thing happening, though, where instead of all of that, we're getting devices like Whoop and new things from Fitbit and new things from Garmin that are pointed it in a very different direction.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, want, including: I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show we're going to talk about wearables.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Whoop Doops
  2. 02It looks like the Pixel 11, unfortunately, will be more expensive than last year, starting at $899, and some of the models will have less RAM than before
  3. 03None of this is surprising given the incredible rising price of memory everywhere but it continues to be a bummer We also might have gotten our first look at a Google Book the Gemi
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