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Musk posted the comments on X late Monday, saying, “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? Are you playing politics? What gives?
Inquiring minds want to know.”
Grok is owned by Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI.
Musk went on to say that “Apple 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.”
He gave no further details.
There was no immediate comment from Apple, which has faced
various allegations of antitrust violations in recent years.
A federal judge recently found that Apple violated a court
injunction in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite maker Epic
Games.
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.
Last year, the EU fined the U.S. 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.
As of early Tuesday, the top app in Apple's App Store was
TikTok, followed by Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube and Bumble. Open
AI's ChatGPT was ranked 7th.
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