b"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.\\nSean Hollister joins the show to discuss his time covering the Epic v Google trial, and what we learned from it all.\\nFurther reading:\\n\\nThe year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge\\n\\n\\nBeeper vs. iMessage is a fight about how tech works \\u2014 and who's really in charge\\xa0\\n\\nApple responds to Beeper\\u2019s iMessage for Android: \\u2018We took steps to protect our users\\u2019\\n\\nBeeper says Apple is blocking some iMessages, but there\\u2019s a fix\\n\\nGoogle Messages might let you edit texts after they\\u2019re sent\\xa0\\n\\nThreads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration\\xa0\\n\\nThreads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe\\n\\nAdam Mosseri\\u2019s Threads account is rocketing up the Mastodon followed lists.\\n\\nAn X outage broke all outgoing links, again\\n\\nEpic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight\\xa0\\n\\n\\nEpic CEO Tim Sweeney: the post-trial interview\\xa0\\n\\n20 things we learned from the Epic v. Google trial\\n\\nThe Apple TV app now looks more like an all-purpose streaming hub\\n\\nE3 is officially over forever\\xa0\\n\\nOpera\\u2019s gamer browser now has a \\u2018panic button\\u2019 for when you\\u2019re caught in the act\\n\\n\\nEmail us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"