The Vergecast

Epic wins for Epic and Threads


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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple responding to Beeper's iMessage for Android and the various other text-based platform news from this week.

Sean Hollister joins the show to discuss his time covering the Epic v Google trial, and what we learned from it all.

Further reading:

  • The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
  • Beeper vs. iMessage is a fight about how tech works — and who's really in charge 
  • Apple responds to Beeper’s iMessage for Android: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
  • Beeper says Apple is blocking some iMessages, but there’s a fix
  • Google Messages might let you edit texts after they’re sent 
  • Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 
  • Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe
  • Adam Mosseri’s Threads account is rocketing up the Mastodon followed lists.
  • An X outage broke all outgoing links, again
  • Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 
  • Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: the post-trial interview 
  • 20 things we learned from the Epic v. Google trial
  • The Apple TV app now looks more like an all-purpose streaming hub
  • E3 is officially over forever 
  • Opera’s gamer browser now has a ‘panic button’ for when you’re caught in the act

  • Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you.

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