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Podcast: The Vergecast
Episode: App Store chaos, ray tracing, and new Macbook Air rumors
Description: This week on The Vergecast, Paul, Nilay, and Dieter start off the show with the news that Netflix is testing a payment feature to bypass Apple’s App Store fees, which leads into a larger discussion of (as Nilay calls it) “App Store chaos.”
Paul seems pretty excited about “ray tracing” — a term that Nvidia is using for its upcoming graphics cards — so the crew explains what that means and how far ahead Nvidia is compared to its competition.
Competition is a general theme in this week’s episode.
We’ve also got our two recurring segments in the show: deputy edito...