Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 140, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, don’t forget to hydrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
News
The surprise must-see movie of the summer
Plus, in this week’s Installer: Google’s new Pixel, an old controller comes back, the TV Time successor, and much more.
Plus, in this week’s Installer: Google’s new Pixel, an old controller comes back, the TV Time successor, and much more.
Details
This week, I’ve been reading about Will Ferrell and Fabrizio Romano and Heather Cox Richardson, scrolling and scrolling through Ordinary Abundance, watching Avatar Aang (which is as good as you said it was), finally getting proficient in CapCut, obsessing over the latest scandal unearthed by PTFO, rewatching Tires now that the third season is out, trying Spark’s AI tools for solving my inbox (so far… meh), revisiting Reply All after the great Hyperfixed episode about its end, and trying to get a
This is my last Installer before heading out on parental leave! Thanks to everyone who has sent well wishes and sleep tips. I need them all. For the next several weeks, you’ll be in the very good hands of Jay Peters, and I’ll be back in early October. For now, though, I also have for you the new phone hotness from Google, a shockingly good dinosaur movie, a look at the Chinese tech industry, and much more. Let’s do this.
(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / reading / playing / listening to / packing in a cooler this week? 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.)
Analysis
– The End of Oak Street. A little bit Wizard of Oz, a little bit Jurassic Park, a premise that nobody expected to work that apparently completely, totally, 100 percent works! This seems to be everybody’s pick for the surprise hit movie of the summer, and I cannot wait to see it.
– Unforgetful. Marco Arment likes the Apple Reminders system but doesn’t like the Reminders app itself, so he built a better one — and wow is it a better one. With the better notifications and snoozing, plus a design I much prefer, I think this could be all the to-do list a lot of people need.
– The Google Pixel 11. Look, I don’t think this is the most exciting year in Pixel history. (And the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is still the most interesting phone of 2026.) But Google has the best take on Android, the most useful AI tools, and in this case some really thoughtful ideas about smartphone cameras. If you’re going Pixel this year? I’d start with the base model.
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