Musk said \u201cApple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action\u201d
\nBillionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in its top recommended apps in its App Store.<\/p>\n
Musk posted the comments on X late Monday, saying, \u201cHey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your \u2018Must Have\u2019 section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grok is owned by Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence startup xAI.<\/p>\n
Musk went on to say that \u201cApple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action.\u201d<\/p>\n
He gave no further details.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate comment from Apple, which has faced various allegations of antitrust violations in recent years.<\/p>\n
A federal judge recently found that Apple violated a court injunction in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite maker Epic Games.<\/p>\n
Regulators of the 27-nation European Union fined Apple 500 million euros in April for breaking competition rules by preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store.<\/p>\n
Last year, the EU fined the US tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps.<\/p>\n
As of early Tuesday, the top app in Apple\u2019s App Store was TikTok, followed by Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube and Bumble. Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT was ranked 7th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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