If it’s Thursday, that means it’s time for tech talk with Mark Starling and the First News 570 crew. This week, we talk about Apple shaking down its developers and Amazon halting their facial recognition technology programs, Occulus causing eye damage, and Tesla becoming the world’s most valuable car company. You can listen to Mark and I point and laugh while talking about the wild and crazy technology world every Thursday morning, LIVE at 6:43am Eastern.

BASECAMP: APPLE USES GANGSTER RULES IN APP STORE

For real, for real. Apple operating its App Store with strong arm tactics is nothing new. For years developers have tried to skirt Apple’s 30% charge for protection money in exchange for approving and listing apps in the Store. Even I have written apps that use third party services to collect payment for products bought in-app. Basecamp has taken a whole new spin and requires users to sign up for its email filtering service ONLY through its website. Basecamp doesn’t provide for any payment methods inside of its Hey app, but Apple is demanding that they collect their fee. This is an interesting one for the reason that the Hey app DOES NOT offer ANY way for users to subscribe within the app, it must only be done via their website. I’m interested to see what happens.

It’s Thursday, y’all!!! That means it’s time for technology talk and news with Mark Starling on First News 570. You can listen to us LIVE, point, laugh, and talk trash about tech every Thursday morning at 643am Eastern. This week was talk about the Fed snooping in on your browsing history, Apple Glass rumors, and pizza arbitrage. AND, astronauts will be blasting off from Cape Canaveral next week.