 |  | | Wednesday, October 09, 2019 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Wednesday China criticizes Apple for approving an app used by Hong Kong protesters, Essential unveils a skinny new phone and Uber is adding a pet mode. Here’s your Daily Crunch for October 9, 2019. | | | |
| Apple's decision to greenlight an app called HKmaps, which is being used by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong to crowdsource information about street closures and police presence, is attracting the ire of the Chinese government. Specifically, an article in Chinese state mouthpiece China Daily attacks the iPhone maker for reversing an earlier decision not to allow the app to be listed on the iOS App Store. Read more | |  | | |
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| Essential CEO Andy Rubin tweeted photos of what he called a “radically different formfactor” — basically, it’s a long, skinny phone. Read more | | | |
| With Uber Pet, riders will pay a “small surcharge” for the privilege of taking their pets with them. And drivers will have the option of avoiding trips with non-service animals by opting out of Uber Pet trips. Read more | |  Image Credits: Angelo Merendino/Corbis / Getty Images | | |
| Twitter finds itself in the same boat as Facebook, which last year was caught using phone numbers and email addresses — given to Facebook to secure users’ accounts — for targeted advertising. Read more | | | |
| A larger screen and access to a keyboard makes learning to code on the desktop significantly easier than on mobile. For example, in the desktop app Google is able to put columns for the instructions, the code editor and the results next to each other. Read more | |  Image Credits: picture alliance / Contributor / Getty Images | | |
| Even India's biggest festive season, featuring blinding marketing blitzkrieg and heavy discounts from Amazon India and Walmart's Flipkart, has failed to escape the pains of a slowing economy. Read more | | | |
| The reMarkable tablet is a strange device in this era of ultra-smart gadgets, with a black and white screen meant for reading, writing and sketching — and nothing more. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | | | |
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