Elon Musk, the billionaire who owns SpaceX, Tesla, and X, says he intends to sue Apple for failing to list X and its Grokart artificial intelligence chatbot app among its top Picks in the App Store.
“Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your Must Have section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps?” Musk wrote in his comments on X late Monday. Are you engaging in political activity? What provides? People that are curious desire to know.
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Musk’s artificial intelligence business, xAI, owns Grok.
Musk continued by claiming that Apple is acting in a way that clearly violates antitrust laws by preventing any AI firm other than OpenAI from ranking #1 in the App Store. xAI will file a lawsuit right away.
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He didn’t elaborate.
Hello, @AppleApp Store. Given that Grok is the fifth-best app overall and is the world’s top news app, why do you not include either in your Must Have section?Are you engaging in political activity? What provides? People that are curious desire to know.This link: https://t.co/3wenLZGtwG
Apple, which has been accused of several antitrust infractions in recent years, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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In an antitrust action brought by Fortnite developer Epic Games, a federal judge recently determined that Apple had broken a court order.
In April, 27-nation European Union regulators penalized Apple 500 million euros for violating competition laws by prohibiting software developers from directing consumers to less expensive alternatives outside of the software Store.
The U.S. tech giant was fined close to $2 billion by the European Union last year for unjustly favoring its own music streaming service by prohibiting competitors like Spotify from informing customers about how to pay for less expensive subscriptions outside of iPhone apps.
TikTok was the most popular app in the Apple App Store as of early Tuesday. Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube, and Bumble were next in line. ChatGPT from Open AI came in at number seven.
