hello! I'm here from the future. And I have some news. 12 months from now, all the Big Tech CEOs are still at their jobs, everyone is using folding phones, Apple has made a TV, and Nvidia is the most valuable company in the history of the universe. Wild year, huh? Or maybe not? It's hard to remember. Time travel messes up your memory a bit.
But This episode of The VergecastThe second installment of our two-part 2025 preview, we debunk some seriously iffy storylines from the end of 2025. David, our resident time traveler, brings us some of the biggest stories that either happened or didn't happen in the coming year, and Nilay Patel and wall street journal columnist joanna stern This will help you figure out what is real and what is not.
Will anyone actually buy Snap? Is GTA VI The biggest game ever is going to happen? Will Bluesky continue to move forward and abandon the threads? No one knows yet, not even time travelers, but we have some ideas and hypotheses.
As with last week's episode, we're keeping score. Here's how it works: Each host must decide for each 2025 news story whether it will be real or not by the end of the year. Each correct guess scores you one point; You have to pay the price for every wrong guess. At the end of the year, we will get the total score, Combine them with last week's estimatesAnd buy the winner the coolest gadget of 2025, whatever it is. (We'll also need your help deciding, but we'll come back to that.)
Don't read below unless you've heard or seen the episode, but for the tape, here are our predictions: