Why Apple iPhone & iPad Don’t Allow Amazon eBook Purchases
Congress has called leaders of giant tech companies to answer questions in an investigation on antitrust issues, leading to internal documents from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google to be released by the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee. In them is Steve Job’s emails discussing his decision of not allowing iPhone and iPad users to purchase ebooks in Amazon’s apps: “[i]t’s time for Amazon to decide to use our payment mechanism or bow out [of the App Store]”.
Michael Cohen Can Write Tell-All
Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, who was imprisoned after pleading guilty to criminal tax evasion and campaign finance violations, had been released on medical furlough. He was then sent back to prison, but a judge ruled that it had been retaliatory over him writing a tell-all book about Trump and sent him back to home-confinement. Now Cohen has reached a new deal where he is free to speak to the media and write the book, which “he has said includes ‘graphic and unflattering details’ about Trump’s behavior.”
Booker Prize-Longlisted Author Arrested
Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose novel This Mournable Body has just been long listed for the Booker Prize, was arrested in Harare, Zimbabwe at anti-corruption demonstrations. One hour before tweeting that she was being arrested she posted “Friends, here is a principle. If you want your suffering to end, you have to act. Action comes from hope. This the principle of faith and action.”
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