The long -term Elon Musk Battle with Openai has a new participant: Apple.
On Tuesday, Apple found itself the last goal of ELON Musk’s legal threats when the CEO of XAI accused the technology giant using unfair means to promote Openai’s Chatgpt on the competitor of his company Grok Chatbot in the application store. Musk It was named “Violation of unambiguous monopoly” and threatened to take legal action. Sam Al -Tamman, CEO of Openai, is part of a continuous conflict with billionaire, and he soon buried the conflict, describing the accusation of Musk as a “wonderful claim.” In turn, Musk was accused of manipulating his own platform, X, “to benefit himself and his private companies and harm his competitors and the people he does not like.”
Apple denied Musk’s claims, saying in a statement that the application store is “designed to be fair and free of bias.
A spokesman said in a A joint statement with news means. “Our goal is to provide a safe discovery for users and valuable opportunities for developers, and cooperate with a lot to increase the application of the application in advanced classes quickly.”
X users, and Musk’s Grok Chatbot, Hurry to point out that the Musk claim was undermined by applications like Deepseek and Perplexity after I took the first hole in the Apple App Store.
The problem may have a larger relationship with the Apple Standing deal with the Chatgpt from Openai. Under the mid -2014 deal, Chatgpt was combined into Siri and system writing tools on the basis of subscription. Siri requests permission before sending inquiries; Openai does not need to be calculated; Apple said it is planning to support additional artificial intelligence providers over time.
However, integration gives Chatgpt a prominent position on the first end to hundreds of millions of Apple devices, making it difficult for competitors like Musk’s Xai winning user attention. With Google Gemini is artificial intelligence In Android, the AI market for a mobile phone can be increasingly formed by virtual integration, which may make it difficult for competitors like Xai competition.
It seems that the Openai and Apple deal entered under the skin of billionaire when it is announced, with the transfer of Musk to X to the complaint: “It is absurd that Apple is not smart enough to make its artificial intelligence, however it somehow is able to ensure that Openai will protect your security and privacy!”
MUSK continues to threaten all Apple devices from his companies if Openai Technology is combined into iOS operating systems.
Apple monopoly issues
Apple is currently in the center of many other anti -monopoly battles.
Apple App Store is one of the few major platforms for the application distribution. Everyone who gets vision is a huge share of new users, which was a point of disagreement for some of its competitors.
In the United States, the Apple App Store practices have been subject to scrutiny since 2020 when the company was prosecuted through EPIC games to remove Fortnite From the application store to exceed its payment system to avoid a 30 % commission. The Federal Appeal Court recently refused to stop an order from its long -term battle with epic games that force Apple to allow developers to direct external users.
Last year, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to combat monopoly to accuse the Apple company of monopolizing the smart phone market, claiming that its application store policies prevent new developers and subject innovation. Apple denied these allegations, saying that its practices promote innovation and the choice of consumer. In June New Jersey denied the proposal of Apple To reject the lawsuit.
In a separate case filed against Google by the Ministry of Justice, the Apple deal that ranges from $ 15 billion to $ 20 billion annually with the search giant at stake after a federal judge announced in August last year that Google has maintained a monopoly in searching on the Internet, partly through exclusive agreements with companies such as Apple. The deal, which has made Google the virtual search engine on its devices, can be disrupted by the treatments currently weighing by a judge, with JPMorgan analysts warning that the worst judgment may cost Apple about $ 12.5 billion annually.
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