Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Tuesday, July 28th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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And Deadspin, the true Deadspin, lives on to fight another day.

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

As mentioned the big congressional grilling of the Big Four Big Tech

CEOs is tomorrow and things like this might get brought up, you would think.

Sources are telling the New York Times

that Airbnb and Class Pass were two companies

that never had to worry about paying that 30% Apple App Store Commission, but then the pandemic hit and both

companies began offering more online virtual experiences and guess what?

Apple came calling and asked for its cut.

Quote, Class Pass built its business on helping people book exercise classes at local gyms.

So when the pandemic forced gyms across the United States to close the company shifted to

virtual classes. Then Class Pass received a concerning message from Apple because the classes

it sold on its iPhone app were now virtual. Apple said it was entitled to 30% of the sales up from no fee

previously according to a person close to Class Pass who spoke on the

condition of anonymity for fear of upsetting Apple. The iPhone maker said it was merely enforcing a decade old rule.

AirB&B experienced similar demands from Apple after it began an online experiences business that offered virtual cooking classes,

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