Emulators are taking over the App Store

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss third-party iPhone app stores, game emulators, Google Android and hardware team restructuring, the latest TikTok news, and more.

Further reading:

• Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
• The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
• A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store
• The first Apple-approved emulator for the iPhone has arrived… and been pulled
• Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
• Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI
• Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
• AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
• Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child
• Big Papa Joe, world's biggest TouchWiz Fan - The Vergecast (clip)
• Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child  
• Sony might have perfected Mini LED TVs with its new 2024 lineup
• Broadcast TV still exists, and now it’s sort of getting a built-in DVR
• TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to Instagram
• TikTok gives users more in-app ways to buy event tickets.
• TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate
• Report: ByteDance still has access to US users’ TikTok data despite Project Texas
• The president could delay a TikTok ban an extra six months under a reported House proposal.
• TikTok to restrict users who repeatedly post problematic topics from ‘For You’ feed
• Twitch’s new TikTok-style Discovery feed is rolling out to everyone soon
• Spotify is developing a remix feature to rival sped-up TikTok tunes
• Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to ‘inject a sense of crisis’
• Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas robot is swiveling nightmare fuel

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