‘all Chaos And Panic’: Nilay answers Your Burning Decoder Questions

Welcome to our end-of-year Decoder special! Senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt here. We’ve had a large year, including astir 100 episodes, a caller YouTube channel, an ad-free podcast feed, and a slate of awesome impermanent hosts while Nilay was connected parental leave. It’s been a lot.

We’ve besides had a batch of awesome questions and comments this twelvemonth from you, our audience. It’s now an yearly contented for america to move nan tables connected Nilay for our last section of nan year, truthful we pulled together each nan feedback we’ve received connected topics for illustration CarPlay, Monday section impermanent suggestions, and — of people — AI. We besides received a batch of awesome questions complete nan past fewer weeks asking astir really Decoder is put together, what topics we should attraction connected successful nan future, and really we deliberation astir nan format and building of nan show itself.

So today, we welcomed Nilay to Decoder, to grill him connected each these questions and much and besides to get his thoughts connected nan past 12 months: What he’s liked, what he wants to improve, and really he’s making decisions for Decoder in nan caller year. 

When we did this last year, our apical 2 astir often asked questions were very straightforward. First: Why isn’t Decoder on YouTube? Thankfully, we fixed that one. We launched the Decoder YouTube channel successful October, and we now people afloat video episodes each week, starting pinch our classical Monday question and reply format. We besides sewage asked a batch astir an ad-free podcast action past year, and we’re happy to opportunity that besides since October, Verge subscribers now person entree to ad-free audio feeds.

We’ve received immoderate feedback astir making our Thursday explainer episodes afloat video, too. Trust america — we’re moving connected it. It’s a small much analyzable and resource-intensive, and truthful it’s going to return immoderate clip to robust retired nan kinks. Beyond that, we’re very excited to research much pinch format, video, and moreover unrecorded accumulation successful 2026. (Come subordinate america unrecorded astatine CES connected January 7, astatine nan Brooklyn Bowl!)

If you’d for illustration to cheque retired immoderate of nan past Decoder episodes and news stories we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired nan links below. Happy New Year, and acknowledgment for listening! We’ll beryllium backmost pinch each caller episodes successful mid-January.

• Answering your biggest Decoder questions, 2024 version | Decoder
• The DoorDash Problem | Decoder
• How decision-making will alteration erstwhile AI answers are inexpensive and (too) easy | Decoder
• Why GM will springiness you Gemini — but not CarPlay | Decoder
• Rivian CEO: ‘We’re really convicted’ astir skipping CarPlay | Decoder
• How SharkNinja took complete nan home, pinch CEO Mark Barrocas | Decoder
• Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV tin triumph again | Decoder
• Disney accuses Google of ‘massive’ copyright infringement pursuing woody pinch OpenAI | The Verge

Questions aliases comments astir this episode? Hit america up astatine decoder@theverge.com. We really do publication each email!