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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
I also have for you an impressive new GoPro, an email service worth trying, a couple of exciting new games, and much more. Oh, and send me more info about your lists! I’ve gotten a million great emails about what lists you make and how you make them — we’re going to do something big here next week, and I’d love to feature everybody’s thoughts.
Finally, a big change to tell you about: in a couple of weeks, Installer is becoming one of The Verge’s subscriber-only newsletters! That means going forward, the only way to get Installer will be to subscribe to The Verge. Why? Because building a community of subscribers is the best way forward for The Verge, and making the subscription worth paying for is how we get there. Our list of subscriber perks is full of good stuff, and going forward that includes this newsletter.
If you have any questions, hit me up, I’ll answer them all as best I can. Here are a couple of key things:
If you’re already subscribed to Installer via email, you’ll continue to get it for free whether or not you subscribe to The Verge . That means, if you want to get Installer for free and you haven’t signed up via email yet… . That means, if you want to get Installer for free and you haven’t signed up via email yet… do it now . You have a couple of weeks before we go behind the paywall.
If you subscribe to both Installer and The Verge, nothing will change, except you’ll manage all your subscriptions in one place instead of two. Which, hurray!
If all goes well, this change should go into effect the week after next, with issue 101. But I’ll keep you posted. Anyway, enough housekeeping! Let’s get into the good stuff.
(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you excited about this week? What have you been reading / watching / playing / listening to / building out of Legos? Tell me everything: [email protected]. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.)
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