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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 100, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for a big gadget week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
I also have for you a bunch of impressive new Amazon gear, an AI social network, the new mouse to get, a great sequel to a great game, and much more.
And don’t forget, next week, Installer is becoming a subscriber-only newsletter here at The Verge! Starting next weekend, the only way to get Installer will be to subscribe to The Verge, a very good publication that I love and care about and want to be around forever. This is how we do it! Here’s what it means:
If you’re currently getting Installer via email, absolutely nothing will change . Nobody on the list is getting kicked off it, regardless of whether you’re a Verge subscriber.
If you want to subscribe to The Verge , go here . If you just want Installer via email, you have a week left to get on the list for free by If you just want Installer via email, you have a week left to get on the list for free by going here
Installer will still be in inboxes on Saturdays and on our website on Sundays, but the web version will also only be accessible to subscribers. If that’s how you’ve been reading Installer so far, you’ll need to subscribe to The Verge to continue doing so.
I think that’s it! I’m hoping to make this transition as simple as possible, without causing trouble for all of you. This newsletter literally doesn’t exist without you, and I do not take that lightly. So, if you run into any trouble the next few weeks, email me, text me, @ me, we’ll get it sorted.
All right, enough of that. Huge week this week! Can’t believe we’ve done 100 of these — I am enormously grateful for everyone who has read, sent recommendations, and been part of this fun project with me. Here’s to so, so many more. Let’s dig in.
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