- Elon Musk says the Apple App Store is biased against Grok
- Sam Altman answers, accusing Elon of manipulating X in favor of Grok
- Apple did not respond to one or the other complaint
Elon Musk, CEO of XAI, the company behind the Grok Ai Chatbot, accused the Apple App Store of favoritism towards Openai in an article written on X which threatens legal actions for antitrust issues.
In the post, Musk writes: “Apple behaves in a way that makes an IA company impossible in addition to Openai to reach n ° 1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. XAI will take immediate legal action. “
Apple behaves in a way that makes an AI company impossible in addition to OpenAi to reach No. 1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. XAI will take immediate legal action.August 12, 2025
Other articles by Musk clarify its grievances, including an article pinned at the top of its X.com account which is read as follows: “Hey @apple app store, why refuse to put X or Grok in your section ‘` Must have’ ‘When X is application # 1 in the world and Grok is # 5 among all applications? Do you do politics? What gives?
Musk also gave examples of screenshots showing how Grok is not mentioned in the various districts of AI applications found on the App Store, while competitors like Copilot and Google Gemini are mentioned.
Altman is backward
Sam Altman, the CEO of Openai, was quick to Clap in return on X, declaring: “This is a remarkable affirmation given what I heard that Elon is doing to manipulate X for the benefit of itself and its own businesses and affects its competitors and people he does not like.”
This is a remarkable affirmation given what I heard to have alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own businesses and to harm his competitors and people he does not like. https://t.co/hlgzo4c2icAugust 12, 2025
Altman is linked to an article on the platform that alleys that Musk has created a team to modify the X algorithm in favor of its own tweets. This assertion is based on a comparison between his Tweet of the Super Bowl, which expressed his support for the Eagles of Philadelphia, and a similar of the President of the time, Joe Biden.
Apple’s legal problems with the App Store have already caused a very public spit with the Fortnite Epic Games developer in recent years. A large part of the disagreement has focused on the costs that Apple invoices applications to execute on its platforms. Epic Games recently won a legal battle in Australia with the decision that Apple and Google engaged in anti -competitive behavior concerning the domination of the applications market. Epic recently confirmed that Fortnite will soon return to Apple Devices in Australia.
Apple and Openai concluded an agreement in 2024, which saw Apple integrate Chatgpt into Apple Intelligence, allowing Siri to go back to Chatgpt if a request has proven too complex.
The grievance of Musk with Apple is more to do with the way the App Store promotes certain applications on others. In another article on X, Musk says: “Apple is the gateway to the Internet for half America. They prevent any other company from IA from succeeding by relentlessly operating OPENAI in all possible ways! ”
However, as many people underlined on X, in January 2025, the Deepseek application reached No. 1 in total on the App Store, and Perplexity reached N ° 1 in total in the India App Store. These took place after the announcement of the OPENAI and Apple partnership in June 2024.
Techradar has contacted Apple to comment on this story and will update with more information if the company reacts.
