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Elon Musk Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Alleged App Store Conspiracy Against X and Grok
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Think you misunderstood what I posted. I’m against turning Apple’s products into public infrastructure, not for it.
Apple's recommendations are editorial content. It's an opinion. Apple should have the right to decide which apps they believe is a must-have using any criteria or reasoning.
Grok is available in the App Store and it does feature in top lists based on downloads if there is enough people who download it. In my country, it's on the 8th place in the productivity category just in front of the Gmail app.
The DMA didn't require Apple to change anything in its editorial app lists.
Grok is available in the App Store and everyone who is 12 and older can download it. It's even featured in top lists based on downloads in the Productivity category in certain countries.
Musk is correct. Apple and ChatGPT can’t do that. This is why Apple really needed their own ai or buy one out. And screwed the pooch. Btw there’s nothing political about this. Strange tag to put at end of article.
It’s strange that people are willing to put up with anti competitive behavior from Apple. First google search. Now this. People are really ignorant or choose to ignore laws when it’s convenient.
It’s strange that people are willing to put up with anti competitive behavior from Apple. First google search. Now this. People are really ignorant or choose to ignore laws when it’s convenient.
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I'm glad Elon got kicked out from the White House.
Imagine two or more than two people who loved conspiracy in charge of the country.
Imagine two or more than two people who loved conspiracy in charge of the country.
1. To be clear, I'm not advocating in support of Elon's side. I just find it odd how people are switching sides.
2. It's not just about the editorial in App Store. Xai is arguing about the exclusive ChatGPT integration. People who advocated for EU DMA should be advocating for giving access to Elon to do the same as ChatGPT. I don't see them advocating for this. It's suddenly "let's not give what Elon wants" which would go against the principles of EU DMA.
Imagine two or more?? It is still the case. Steve Miller is still there. Tulsi Gabber is still sitting in Intelligence (chasing Obama conspiracies). Robert Kennedy Jr is still dragging his fathers name through the mud with a bucketful of conspiracy slop. Hegesth a very sober , solid truth seer ? Only if you are looking in a fun house mirror.
Dive down to the undersecretary level is more than few 'oddballs' down there also.
Trump has put in a number of folks whose main desire is to 'blow up' the agency they have been put in charge of. There is no diet on conspiracy theories going on there.
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The sad thing is, "grok" is a word from Robert Heinlein's book "Stranger in a Strange Land", and it means, roughly, "to completely understand and empathize with", to totally get what someone means and feels. It's sad commentary on the modern day that it's being reused/misused by a guy who has demonstrated that he has no utterly capacity for empathy.
When you've had privileged treatment all your life, equality seems like oppression.
You are either delusional or in deep denial if think these are entirely decoupled issues.
Musk companies bad behavior is not going to get them on the top recommended products list. That list is not a DMA issue. As for Apple looking for partners for AI backend work for their software. Most companies don't sigh up 'bad behavior' folks as partners. Apple kicked Nvidia to the curb on GPU drivers in large part because they did things like good partners don't do ( release 'halt and catch fire drivers'. claim 'too bad , your dime' when some of there parts went bad. , CUDA first and Apple APIs second, etc. )
OpenAI got first crack, but rumblings indicate that Anthropic Claude is getting a slot in bake-offs ( in at least Xcode if not Siri), Gemini has recently surfaced as a bake-off candidate. [ Note rumors also mention the bake-offs involves porting to private cloud compute ... not burn whatever you want datacenters. ]
Grok is facing an environment racial injustice suit in Memphis. You think that is aligned with Apples 100% green powered data center solutions policy? has more gas generators than permits. That is going to get Grok on Apple's favorite partner Christmas card list? Probably not.
Musk moaning about being denied the opportunity to suck maximum data out of the users isn't aligned with EU privacy laws either. Happens also to be in conflict with Apple explicitly stated privacy policies.
Having been the target of a smear compaign and corruption incident that quietly ended with the dismissal of the head role in a major country's AppStore team, I can say that what gets featured in the AppStore is definitely influenced by who is in charge and who they're in bed with.
Whether you like Elon/Grok or not, doesn't change the fact that there's politics at play and it's not purely merit based.
Whether you like Elon/Grok or not, doesn't change the fact that there's politics at play and it's not purely merit based.
Don’t say “Nazi” in your App Store review of Grok. https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...over-app-store-rankings.2463225/post-34064969
But on what grounds would ANY AI company think it has a good case for suing Apple to force it to allow its chatbot to be among those that can be integrated with Siri as a user-selectable choice? That's Apple's curation decision, which wouldn't seem to be subject to a lawsuit. It would be sort of like a company that makes good camera sensors, displays, batteries, etc. for smartphones suing Apple for not buying those parts from them.
The problem is not he addressing the issue, the problem is that we all know he just wants a monopoly as well, he’s not suing apple for fair competition, he just cares about himself and people still think these billionaires are fighting for everyone’s rights.