Musk says he continues Apple so as not to present X and Grok in the “must have” section of App Store

Musk published the comments on X late Monday, saying: “Hey @apple app store, why do you refuse to put X or Grok in your” must have “section when X is the application of new n ° 1 in the world and Grok is # 5 among all the applications? Do you make politics? What gives? Interesting minds want to know.”

Grok belongs to the artificial intelligence startup of Musk Xai.

Musk continued by saying that “Apple behaves in a way that makes an IA company impossible in addition to Openai to reach the No. 1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. XAI will take immediate legal action. ”

He gave no other details.

In a statement sent by e-mail, Apple defended the fairness of its app store.

“The App Store is designed to be fair and free from prejudice,” he said. “We present thousands of applications via graphics, algorithmic recommendations and organized lists selected by experts using objective criteria. Our goal is to offer a safe discovery for users and valuable opportunities for developers, in collaboration with a lot to increase the visibility of applications in rapidly evolving categories. ”

The company has faced various allegations of antitrust violations in recent years.

A federal judge recently concluded that Apple had violated an injunction of the court in an antitrust case deposited by the Fortnite Maker Epic Games.

The regulators of the European Union of 27 countries inflicted a fine of Apple 500 million euros in April to break the rules of competition by preventing the manufacturers of applications from pointing users to cheaper options outside of its app store.

Last year, the EU inflicted a fine of the American technology giant nearly $ 2 billion to unjustly promote its own musical streaming service by prohibiting competitors like Spotify by telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside iPhone applications.

Since early Tuesday, the best application of the Apple App Store was Tiktok, followed by Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube and Bumble. Open AI’s chatgpt was ranked 7th.