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A legendary weather app makes a comeback

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 117, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please send Android tips, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
This week, I've been reading about Eileen Gu and Ozempic and fancy grocery stores, trying out the beautiful Shiori bookmarking app, trying to temper my expectations for the Scrubs reboot, continuing my test of the Pixel 10 Pro, building my dream to-do list app with Claude Code (it's almost done!), enjoying the beginnings of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, recording the next season of Version History, watching a …
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A legendary weather app makes a comeback

Plus, in this week’s Installer: Samsung’s new phones, a beautiful take on RSS, the Red Bull story, and much more.

by David Pierce
Feb 28, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

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David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 117, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please send Android tips, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been reading about Eileen Gu and Ozempic and fancy grocery stores, trying out the beautifulShiori bookmarking app, trying to temper my expectations for the Scrubs reboot, continuing my test of the Pixel 10 Pro, building my dream to-do list app with Claude Code (it’s almost done!), enjoying the beginnings of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, recording the next season of Version History, watching all of The Earliest Show again after it showed up on my YouTube, and eating altogether too many Garden Salsa Sun Chips.

I also have for you the first big phone launch of the year, a new-old weather app, a way to maybe make your YouTube a little cheaper, a bunch of stuff to watch this weekend, and much more. Missed you last week! Let’s get back at it.

(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reading / watching / playing / listening to / turning up to 11 this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.)

The Drop

Acme Weather. Years after it was acquired by Apple and went away, there’s still no good replacement for Dark Sky. (Though I have been pretty happy with Hello Weather!) Super exciting to see the team go back out on their own, and I already like what they’re up to with their new iOS app. The multi-forecast stuff in particular is just fabulous.
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra. A relatively minor upgrade this year, but I think the built-in privacy display is a genuinely great new bit of hardware. Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large. And really cleverly implemented!
Resident Evil Requiem. I have really come to love a game that scares me, because it keeps me engaged like basically nothing else. By all accounts, this game is all that and even more. I will be playing alone, in the dark, terrified, as we are meant to do.
Current. This is from last week, but it feels relevant: This is the RSS app Terry Godier promised a couple of issues ago! It’s clean, it’s quiet, it feels practically meditative next to most RSS readers. It’s not exactly meant for my frenetic newsgathering use case, but wow is it nice to use.
Wispr Flow for Android. The more I use these cross-app, AI-powered dictation apps, the more I enjoy talking instead of typing on all my devices. There are a lot of good apps on iOS (including Monologue, which launched last week!), but Android is woefully underserved. This is a welcome addition to the options.
“The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew.” The title is… a lot, but this Veritasium video is actually a really good primer on a lot of really important security things, and has one of the most delightful hero stories you’ll find.
Notion Custom Agents. Notion is doing a really good job of bringing AI features to the tools you’re already using, and I keep hearing good things about custom agents. They know where your data is, they can build almost anything, they’re totally autonomous... vibe coding, but make it business.
“How Red Bull Built Its Empire.” I have always wondered how an energy drink company managed to fund all the sports teams, stunts, and various shenanigans that Red Bull does. This is a fascinating history of a company that is way more than a beverage company… but is actually very much a beverage company.
The New York Times Midi. Oh, what’s that? Another crossword to do every day instead of working, that won’t be punishingly difficult half the time but also will take more than 34 seconds to complete? Oh okay cool sounds great I will do it every day forever thanks.
YouTube Premium Lite. This is mostly a PSA, because I didn’t know this tier even existed. But now that it includes video downloads and (most importantly) background playback, Premium Lite is about half the price of Premium but has almost all of the best features. I might need to downgrade.

Screen share

Meredith Haggerty is one of those people you meet and you’re immediately like, Oh, you’re much cooler than I am. The more I get to know Meredith, a new(ish) editor here at The Verge, the more I realize how correct my first assumption was. Meredith has written about fashion and culture and brands and TV shows and also recently made a Pride and Prejudice joke that made me laugh so hard I spilled coffee all over my keyboard. Technically, Meredith owes me a keyboard.

I asked Meredith to share her homescreen with us, both because I think it’s a fun way to get to know new people here and because I want her to tell me about cool things but I don’t want to just constantly badger her for TV recs. Here’s her homescreen, plus some info on the apps she uses and why:

The phone: An iPhone 17. Until very recently, I was clinging to an iPhone 12 mini that I’d gotten as a hand-me-down corporate gift from a friend; it was so tiny and good and I had the perfect phone case. (Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette in a mask. A conversation starter!) But the battery became glacial, even after a couple of trips to the Genius Bar, and I had to give it up.

The wallpaper: A screenshot of Roku City, fall edition. I find Roku City very calming, so I decided to keep it with me.

The apps: Spotify, Messages, Mail, Chrome.

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