Apple’s shares have declined by nearly 20% so far in 2025, losing over $ 750 billion in market value and falling from their position as the most precious company in the world, especially as a result of the disappointment of investors about Apple’s Apple Apple Apple Inteligence Acup. This week, Apple has a fresh headache associated with AI, but this time comes from the kindly assistance of the world’s richest man Elon Musk, who threatens “immediate legal action” if the technological giant does not remove Openai chat from the App Store ranking.
Everything unfolded at the end of Monday, when the billionaire CEO Tesla took on the social network, which he bought for $ 44 billion, X, to focus on Apple accusations and his applications practices. Musk claims that the Apple ranking system “makes no company AI impossible to reach # 1 in the application store, claiming that it is a” clear violation of antitrust “and will promise that its startup of artificial intelligence, XAI,” will take immediate legal action. “
Musk’s complaint is Grok, AI Chatbot, launched by his XAI startup as a direct competitor to Chatgpt. As of Tuesday morning, Chatgpt occupies the coveted first place among the free apps of Apple’s App Store in the United States while Grok sits sixth. For context: Google’s Gemini Chatbot is far back, ranked 57th. Musk claims that the wrongful favoritism, especially given Apple’s high-profile partnership with Openai, announced in June 2024, which integrates Chatgpt deeper with iPhone, iPad and Macs.
“Apple works in a way that impedes any AI company other than Openai, from achieving the most arrival position in the application store, which is a clear violation of antitrust laws,” Musk wrote in one post. He also questioned Apple’s editorial decisions: “Why do you refuse to include either X or Grok in your” You Must You “when X has the title of the world’s leading news application and Grco ranks fifth among all applications? Do you participate in political maneuvering? “
Musk’s attack on Apple arrives in the climate of increasing regulatory control. Earlier this year, an American referee found Apple in breach of a court order requiring changes to the competition rules in the application store after an Epic Games Studio Studio. The European Union fined the Apple EUR 500 million in April to block the developers of users from managing users to more expensive external offers, citing anti -competitive behavior. Apple appealed the decision.