Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, June 18th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Apple has rejected a Facebook app five times now, so back to that whole debate again.

Twitter lets you add audio to tweets. DoorDash raises a round.

Surprise, surprise, Reliance Geo raises another monster round, and stick around for the last segment

because I've got what I think is the single weirdest tech story that we've ever done on this

podcast. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

The whole controversy surrounding the Hey App being rejected by Apple's App Store continues to swirl online and actually I've been surprised

by how vehement folks have been about this issue on both sides of it.

More on that in a second, but first a lot of the initial discussion around the whole hey thing

centered on App Store policies and focused on things like selective enforcement.

How Apple might be willing to push around a startup

or even a medium-sized player like Bascamp

but if you were a big enough player,

they'd probably let you get away with stuff that they'd never let others do.

Well, I wonder how this story will affect that aspect of the debate, because sources are telling

the New York Times that Apple has rejected at least five versions of Facebook gaming, the new app that Facebook announced

and was hoping to launch soon, centering around casual gaming.

In rejecting the app, Apple cited rules for the app store that prohibit apps that primarily distribute casual games.

Now, of course, you don't get a bigger fish in the tech world than Facebook right right? But then again people have also said

that Apple can be selective about things that compete with their own offerings and

you know funny enough quoting the New York Times. Facebook gaming may also have been hurt by appearing

to compete with Apple's own sales of games, two of the people said.

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