In all places you go on the web, it appears like somebody’s attempting to promote you one thing. TikTok is being overrun by gross sales pitches for stuff on the TikTok Store; Instagram is making it simpler to purchase all the pieces you see in a submit; platforms from Pinterest to Prime Video are including ever extra adverts, ever extra hungrily attempting to get you to purchase one thing.
The brand new app Flip, in a way, is simply saying the quiet half out loud: it’s a social media platform that’s completely, unequivocally, unabashedly about purchasing all the best way down. The Verge’s Mia Sato lately threw herself into the Flip ecosystem to determine what life is like as a purchasing influencer and what it says about the way forward for the web that Flip even exists within the first place.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we speak to Mia about her adventures in Flip. (Spoiler alert: she’s not quitting her day job, a minimum of not but.) Then we chat concerning the Fujifilm X100VI, the successor to TikTok’s favourite digital camera, and what’s so particular concerning the X100 line generally — and why no one’s executed a superb job of copying it. Lastly, we reply a query from The Vergecast hotline (1-866-VERGE11) about our latest protection of elements pairing and the right-to-repair motion.
If you wish to be taught extra about all the pieces we mentioned on this episode, listed below are a couple of hyperlinks to get you began, beginning with Flip:
And on the Fujifilm X100VI: