Musk Threatens 'Immediate' Legal Action Against Apple Over Alleged Antitrust Violations (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/08/12/1412224/musk-threatens-immediate-legal-action-against-apple-over-alleged-antitrust-violations
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/musk-threatens-immediate-legal-action-against-apple-over-alleged-antitrust-violations.html
> "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," Musk wrote in a post on his social media platform X. Apple declined to comment on Musk's threat. "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?" Musk said in another post.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/musk-threatens-immediate-legal-action-against-apple-over-alleged-antitrust-violations.html
He knows because (Score:5, Insightful)
> 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.
He knows because no matter how many five star rankings his bot army gives the app, it never rises above being a gigantic #2.
#1 (Score:3)
so apple's own AI product is not ranked by apple as #1...
"Elon Musk is a tool and a blowhard" (Score:3)
Many headlines could just be replaced with this.
Threaten = lie (Score:5, Insightful)
If someone is breaking the law, you do not threaten to sue them, you actually sue them.
If you dislike what someone is doing even though it is totally legal, you call a press conference and threaten to sue, all the while claiming your product is the best in the world and should be #1 even though it is not.
Re: (Score:1)
> If someone is breaking the law, you do not threaten to sue them, you actually sue them.
When the law is on your side, typically you have your lawyer send them a "cease and desist" letter or a letter demanding prompt payment to avoid a lawsuit. But, as you said, you don't hold a press conference. Being a blowhard before you win in court makes you look like you don't have the law on your side.
Re: Threaten = lie (Score:2)
Who held a press conference?
Re: Threaten = lie (Score:1)
He graduated from TrumpU.
Nerd with app rages at App Store... (Score:4, Insightful)
... a story as old as time.
Lifelong fan of Cory Doctorow (Score:2)
I'm not a fan of billionaire blowhard behavior, nor of big-tech monopoly-by-walled-garden and malicious compliance. I'm looking forward to seeing if we (somehow?) manage to get our well-intended but deeply flawed, elite-controlled systems under control, or if we get some kind of sci-fi dystopia nightmare. The next two decades should be interesting, for those of us aloof enough to observe things without crashing out.
It's bots all the way down... (Score:1)
Twitter/X is 76% bots. So...
Because upranking a chatbot (Score:3)
That channels the spirit of de furher is straight-up bad for Apples business. Free-speech purists can complain all they want. But most businesses dont want their name placed right next to pro-nazi content.
It’s really that simple.
This is on par with (Score:2)
demands from Trump's admin that he be given the Nobel peace prize.
Favoritism (Score:2)
Now the reason comes out for Apple to be making big promises to Trump. Looking for favoritism.
Free speech must be defended /s (Score:1)
So heâ(TM)s going to sue because he doesnâ(TM)t like the *editorial* recommendations?
Iâ(TM)m glad the self proclaimed defender of free speech is defending free speech.
Hmmm. (Score:3)
Is X number 1 in the world got news? No.
Should it be? No.
Is that relevant as to whether Grok is any good? No.
Is Grok any good? No.
Now that's cleared up...
His Little empire is collapsing (Score:2)
Without the government subsidies Trump took away Tesla is not profitable. Musk have plan to gut the company and leave small investors and your 401k holding the bag but that required more time than has.
He tried to use AI to hype his company in stocks long enough to get the money out of them but nobody is buying it because you can't get the engineers there's too much competition for them and he no longer has the mystique that would draw engineers to him automatically.
So what he is doing here is he's t
News App? (Score:2)
'X is the #1 news app in the world' according to people who get their investing advice by listening to the ranting homeless guy on the corner.
Musk is a victim (Score:5, Insightful)
Clearly the richest man in the world is the victim here.
Re: (Score:1)
What does his wealth have to do with Apple's ethics or compliance with antitrust law?
Re:Musk is a victim (Score:4, Informative)
> What does his wealth have to do with Apple's ethics or compliance with antitrust law?
Are you assuming his claim is true? He didn't get rich telling the truth. Three different AI apps have reached #1 this year. Deepseek, Perplexity, and GPT.
Re: (Score:3)
Maybe Apple is downgrading Grok because of its Nazi, misogyny rantings.
Sucks to control a POS AI.
Re: (Score:2)
>> What does his wealth have to do with Apple's ethics or compliance with antitrust law?
> Are you assuming his claim is true? He didn't get rich telling the truth.
We don't need to assume this his claim is true, or assume that his claim is false. His being wealthy, and even his having lied in the past, are both just ad hominem attacks against his person and not against his claim. His claim is either true or false based on facts that we don't have at this juncture- any ruling by us would be nothing more than premature guesswork. He is welcome to try to prove his claim in court, which it sounds like he intends to do.
Re:Musk is a victim (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd ask what does Apple's ethics or compliance with antitrust law have to do with anything? It's only because Elon Musk claims it.
Why does Elon Musk feel entitled to have his products endorsed in a "Must Have" section of another company's store? In what universe is Twitter or Grok a "Must Have"?