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We highlight phenomenological aspects of Verlinde's recent proposal toaccount for the mass anomalies in galactic systems without dark matter -- inparticular in their relation to MOND. Welcome addition to the MOND lore as itis, this approach have reproduced, so far, only a small fraction of MONDphenomenology, and is still rather tentative, both in its theoreticalfoundations and in its phenomenology. What Verlinde has extracted from thisapproach, so far, is a formula -- of rather limited applicability, and with noroad to generalization in sight -- for the effective gravitational field of aspherical, isolated, static baryonic system. This formula cannot be used tocalculate the gravitational field of disk galaxies, with their rich MONDphenomenology. Notably, it cannot predict their rotation curves, exceptasymptotically. It does not apply to the few-, or many-body problem; so, itcannot give, e.g., the two-body force between two galaxies, or be used toconduct N-body calculations of galaxy formation, evolution, and interactions.The formula cannot be applied to the internal dynamics of a system embedded inan external field, where MOND predicts important consequences. etc. MOND isbacked by full-fledged, Lagrangian theories that can be, and are, routinelyapplied to all the above phenomena, and more. Verlinde's formula, as it nowstands, strongly conflicts with solar-system and possibly earth-surfaceconstraints, and cannot fully account for the mass anomalies in the cores ofgalaxy clusters (a standing conundrum in MOND). The recent weak-lensing test ofthe formula is, in fact, testing a cornerstone prediction of MOND, one that theformula does reproduce, and which has been tested before in the very same way.

Perspective on MOND emergence from Verlinde's "emergent gravity" and its recent test by weak lensing