Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
Epic wins for Epic and Threads
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
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