Apple Bow’s to Chinese Pressure #1632

Apple has placed restrictions on Apple Airdrop in China to keep activists from openly sharing police brutality and political information against the Chinese Dictator. This is now the first time Apple has bowed to Chinese government pressure in restrictions on Apple devices.

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Show Notes

• • 10:55–Amazon loses $1 trillion in market value
  • 16:53–Amazon is reevaluating Alexa
  • 13:51–NASA leaves its rocket exposed to the winds
  • 29:59–An “overweight” neutron star
  • 29:16–Hubble image captured a supernova

• 18:17–Spotify starts testing its payments on Android
• 19:03–Tumblr will sell useless blue ticks
• 20:01–Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices
• 21:08–Twitter’s chief privacy officer and others resign
• 24:47–Rivian Q3
• 25:36–NASA confirms debris from Challenger explosion
• 26:46–Google expands its test of Google Play Store billing 
• Instagram star gets 11 years in prison
• 24:26–Twitter might get a payment system
• 11:50–Apple puts a cap on AirDrop transfers
• Twitter blocks new accounts from signing up
• Elon Musk bans Twitter employees from working remotely 
• 26:59–Apple will spend $450 million
• 28:04–YouTube Music and Premium has 85 million subscribers
• 08:26–Meta is laying off more than 11,000 employees
• 15:31–KFC blames its bot 
• Gmail’s new look

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