Backbone vs Ethos Aether

Backbone turns your iPhone and iPad Mini into the ultimate gaming device. ■ Play any game or service that supports game controllers. The Backbone One controller works with services like PS Remote Play, Xbox Game Pass (xCloud), Apple Arcade, Xbox Remote Play, Google Stadia, and Amazon Luna. It also works with games like Call of Duty: Mobile, Minecraft and Genshin Impact. Press the Backbone Button to bring up the app and launch into your favorite games that support controllers from one place. ■ Record, edit, and share epic gaming clips Backbone One has a built-in Capture button that allows you to easily screen record or screenshot gameplay and share directly to social platforms like Instagram Stories and iMessage, all directly from your mobile device. ■ Never miss a moment Hold the Capture Button to bookmark a moment when recording. Forgot to bookmark? Once a video is captured, Backbone’s app helps you identify your most action-packed moments automatically, allowing you to show off your best moments and highlights with ease. ■ Party with your friends With Backbone’s Rich Presence feature, you can get push notifications when your friends start playing games on Backbone, making it easy to join the action in real-time. Once you see a friend online, you can link up for voice chat inside the app and move from game to game, seamlessly. To learn more, download the app or visit https://backbone.com/ A Backbone+ subscription is required for some features within the app. Any feedback? Use the in-app feedback tool, ping us at support@playbackbone.com or tweet us @backbone Terms of Use: https://backbone.com/terms/

Ethos is a different kind of social space, built on presence rather than performance. Ethos shows you thoughts shared by people in the space immediately around you. Open the app and you'll find a quiet field of thoughts drifting nearby, things people felt moved to put into the world, close to where you are, right now. Share one of your own, and it appears for others nearby. Nothing here is meant to last. Thoughts drift for a while and then fade on their own. There are no permanent profiles, no archives to scroll back through, no record building up over time. What's here is what's near, now. There are no follower counts, no likes, and no algorithmic feed deciding what you see. Nothing to chase, and no audience to perform for. Connection forms slowly and quietly, through presence rather than popularity. It's a space to think out loud in the open, close to home, without the pressure of everything that usually comes with being online. Ethos doesn't sell your data, doesn't show ads, and doesn't try to keep you hooked. It asks for your location so it can show you what's nearby, and little else. You stay in control of your permissions and notifications, and you can delete your account and everything tied to it whenever you choose. Ethos is early and still growing. If you're looking for a calmer, more present way to share, one rooted in where you actually are, step into the field and see what's drifting nearby.