Paul Stenhouse: Tech - India is getting its first Apple Store and Twitter's latest fight with Substack

India is getting its first Apple Store 

I'm shocked that they don't already have one! The store will be over 2,000 sqm. It won't be  

The Apple Careers website has given some clues that this will be the first of many stores as Apple is hiring for team members for "various locations".  It's online store opened to India in 2020 and iPhone are manufactured in India. 

Twitter's latest fight is with newsletter platform Substack 

Any tweet that contains a link to a Substack has had its reply, retweet and quote tweet function disabled because it throws as error to the user. This comes after Twitter blocked embeds of Tweets into Substacks. Substack says this is why writers deserve an independent platform which supports their work. Twitter has made changes to their API recently, and Substack has launched a feature to Twitter called "Notes" which are small posts (like Tweets). 

Twitter and NPR (National Public Radio) are also in a dispute about a label on their profile calling NPR "a state affiliated media outlet", which it isn't. NPR has stopped publishing on Twitter. NPR says it gets less than 1% of its finding from federal sources - lots comes from donations. Elon Musk shared a screenshot of the label and commented "seems accurate". 

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