Apple Says The App Store Is 'fair And Free Of Bias' In Response To Musk's Legal Threats

Apple has denied Elon Musk's accusation that it's favoring OpenAI successful its App Store rankings and making it intolerable for different AI companies to scope nan top. In a connection sent to Bloomberg, Apple said nan App Store is "designed to beryllium adjacent and free of bias." The company's spokesperson explained that nan App Store features "thousands of apps done charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts utilizing nonsubjective criteria." They added: "Our extremity is to connection safe find for users and valuable opportunities for developers, collaborating pinch galore to summation app visibility successful quickly evolving categories."

xAI laminitis Elon Musk accused Apple of "unequivocal antitrust violation" by favoring OpenAI successful a station connected X, informing that his institution "will return contiguous ineligible action." In a abstracted station from his threat, he asked Apple why it "[refuses] to put either X aliases Grok successful [its] 'Must Have' section." X, he said, is "the #1 news app successful nan world," while Grok is classed number 5 among each apps. "Are you playing politics? What gives?" he continued.

Musk didn't supply grounds to backmost his accusations. It's besides worthy noting that Chinese AI app DeepSeek reached nan apical of Apple's free app rankings backmost successful January, overtaking moreover ChatGPT. As X's ain Community Notes besides mentioned successful Musk's post, added hours aft it went up, Perplexity reached nan apical of wide rankings successful India's App Store backmost successful July. Both apps were capable to scope nan apical of their respective lists measurement aft Apple and OpenAI announced their partnership past year.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to Musk's accusation, arsenic well. He said it's a "remarkable claim," fixed that he has heard allegations that Musk manipulates "X to use himself and his ain companies and harm his competitors and group he doesn't like." In response, Musk posted: "Scam Altman lies arsenic easy arsenic he breathes."