Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, October 26, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Meta and Spotify both call Apple out on their recent App Store aggressiveness, soft earnings from

Microsoft and worrying earnings from Alphabet. Twitter seems to be already

hemorrhaging its power users. LinkedIn fights its own bot war,

and are unicorns back to becoming a rare thing.

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

Remember how yesterday I told you Apple has decided to expand its App Store

Vig into other people's advertising products by specifically requiring in-app

purchases for social media booths.

Well, Meta has responded, quoting the verge.

Company spokesperson Tom Chanick sent the verge the following statement, quote,

Apple continues to evolve its policies

to grow their own business while undercutting others in the digital economy.

Apple previously said it didn't take a share of developer advertising revenue and

now apparently changed its mind.

We remain committed to offering small businesses simple ways to run ads and grow their businesses

on our apps."

Paying to Boost Post is a common feature across not just meta's apps but other

social apps like Twitter and Tik-Tock. The difference for Facebook and

Instagram is that they currently don't use Apple's in-app purchase system for boosting posts.

Well, Twitter, Tik-Tock and others do.

I'm told that several years ago, Apple pressured Facebook to start routing these boosted post payments

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