As the rest of the tech industry seems to be moving mostly to over-produced infomercials for their product launches, Samsung is sticking to its love of huge live events in huge arenas. This year at Unpacked in Paris, the company announced a whole host of new gadgets. The new Fold and Flip look good, but the Watch Ultra and Buds 3 also look too familiar, and the Galaxy Ring could be something really cool.

In this episode of The Vergecast, we discuss all of Samsung's announcements and try to see if "Apple products but for Android" is really a winning strategy. possible! Separately, we also discussed Samsung's somewhat lackluster innovation in flip and foldable phones -- perhaps not the shape of the smartphone of the future. Or at least not yet. Then we discuss a strange week in the streaming industry, from the Paramount Skydance deal that finally happened, to the imminent demise of Redbox, to Instagram's somewhat surprising plans not to experiment with long-form video.

Finally, in a flash, we discuss that none of the new phones are particularly cheap, the latest developments in AI copyright litigation, and the sorry state of TUAW.