Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over App Store Rankings

Elon Musk has threatened ineligible enactment against Apple, claiming that the institution is violating antitrust rules by favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT successful App Store rankings implicit his Grok AI assistant.


"Apple is behaving successful a mode that makes it intolerable for immoderate AI institution too OpenAI to scope #1 successful the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI volition instrumentality contiguous ineligible action," Musk said successful a post connected X (Twitter), which helium besides owns.

Musk failed to supply grounds to enactment his claim. Meanwhile, chap X users noted that DeepSeek reached #1 wide connected the App Store successful January, agelong aft Apple's concern with OpenAI was announced that allows Siri to offload analyzable queries to ChatGPT.

The tech billionaire besides criticized Apple for not featuring X oregon Grok successful the App Store's "Must Have" section. ChatGPT presently holds the apical spot for escaped apps, portion Grok ranks sixth. Google's Gemini chatbot sits astatine 57th.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman deed backmost with his ain station connected X, calling Musk's claims "remarkable" fixed allegations astir Musk manipulating his ain societal media level to payment his companies.

Musk's remarks travel amid increasing unit connected Apple from regulators and competitors implicit its App Store practices. In April, a U.S. justice ruled that Apple violated a tribunal bid to unfastened the App Store to much contention and referred the institution for a criminal contempt probe, pursuing a lawsuit brought by Fortnite shaper Epic Games.

The aforesaid month, the EU fined Apple €500 cardinal ($587 million) for violating the Digital Markets Act, citing restrictions that blocked developers from directing users to cheaper offers extracurricular the App Store. Apple is presently appealing the fine.
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