Welcome to the Tech Main Ride Home for Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Tim Cook demands a retraction from Bloomberg. Another founder flees Facebook.

Replet gets a murderer's row of VC backers and the iPhone 10-R reviews are in.

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

Today there was more fallout from that blockbuster Bloomberg Business Week report earlier this month. Here's a refresher. Bloomberg claimed the Chinese government planted spy chips on

super micro motherboards that made it into data centers for tech giants including Apple, Amazon Web Services,

and as many as 30 other unnamed companies.

Ever since that report came out, and indeed in that report, Apple, Amazon, plus a variety of government officials have denied the story full stop.

Apple issued a public statement on its website titled

What Business Week got wrong about Apple and detailed step by step what Apple thought about the story

and the reporting process. Amazon Web Services also put up a blog post titled Setting

the Record Straight on Bloomberg Business Week's erroneous article.

Apple CEO Tim Cook did an interview last Friday with BuzzFeed going even further saying

that Bloomberg should retract the story entirely because, quote did not happen cook went on to say I feel

they should retract their story there is no truth in their story about Apple they

need to do the right thing and." That marks the first time Apple has ever publicly called for the retraction of any news story.

And Apple has been the subject of a lot of incorrect reporting over the years, including a high-profile this American life story about Apple and China

that was retracted when reporter Mike Daisy admitted to fabricating key parts of it.

On Monday, Super Micro CEO Charles Lang joined Cook and said,

Bloomberg should act responsibly and retract its unsupported allegations, end quote.

And then Andy Jassie, the CEO of Amazon Web Web Services piped up on Twitter yesterday.

He wrote, quote, Tim Cook is right.

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