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First Click

First Click

Welcome to First Click, an essay written by The Verge staff in which we opine on lives lived in the near future.

Apple was a little behind on Siri privacy, now it’s way ahead

By Dieter Bohn
77 comments / new

We’re still not getting voice assistants right

By Dieter Bohn
34 comments / new

My $2,000 iPhone X

By Thomas Ricker
161 comments / new

The case for Apple to finally just make a TV

By Nilay Patel
82 comments / new

Which food videos pair best with a little whine?

By Dami Lee
4 comments / new

Why I'm not getting a $999 iPhone

By Paul Miller
336 comments / new

My computer can’t work without talking to 21 different countries

By Russell Brandom
38 comments / new

The LG V30 has me more excited than the new iPhone

By Vlad Savov
116 comments / new

The race to the bezel-less bottom is on

By Sam Byford
36 comments / new

Why we secretly love our cords

By Tamara Warren
41 comments / new

Podcasts are getting better faster than audiobooks are getting cheaper

By Casey Newton
60 comments / new

A small defense of the Twitter thread

By Dieter Bohn
3 comments / new

2017 is the year of dual-camera phones, but the best cameras are still single

By Vlad Savov
28 comments / new

Welcome to Radio Garden, free from the internet’s sin

By James Vincent
11 comments / new

A robot delivered my dinner

By Tom Warren
21 comments / new

Autonomous driving will bring forced obsolescence to cars

By Vlad Savov
93 comments / new

My favorite travel logging app is also Google’s most controversial feature

By Natt Garun
41 comments / new

Why I love PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds despite hating online shooters

By Sam Byford
28 comments / new

Android killed Windows Phone, not Apple

By Dieter Bohn
325 comments / new

Binge watching as a way to remember

By Tamara Warren
5 comments / new

Why I’m never signing up for Amazon Prime

By Vlad Savov
193 comments / new

The world’s greatest movies are trapped on a terrible website

By Russell Brandom
66 comments / new

Fast cars and slow internet make for the perfect weekend

By Vlad Savov
1 comment / new

May we never find a perfect smartphone

By Vlad Savov
94 comments / new

Please ignore the robots

By James Vincent
10 comments / new

Car companies have learned little from smartphones

By Thomas Ricker
68 comments / new

The iPhone killed my inner nerd

By Tom Warren
163 comments / new

The iPhone changed the way we communicate with our parents

By Natt Garun
15 comments / new

No one is building the smart speaker we actually want

By Casey Newton
265 comments / new

Apple's AirPods are winning with the critics that matter

By Vlad Savov
282 comments / new

4K is the wrong target for Xbox One X and PS4 Pro

By Sam Byford
174 comments / new

Semi-automatic customer disservice

By Tamara Warren
14 comments / new