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)

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