Elon Musk starts another expensive, but probably fruitless, legal challenge against a market opponent, with musk Xai takes on a lawsuit against both Apple and OpenAi About alleged market collusion, which is designed, Xai claims to suppress potential competition.
Earlier in the month, after the launch Of the newest grok 4 -model from Xai, Musk Apple deliberately accused of limiting the promotion of the Grok app, despite the clear popularity.
According to Musk:
‘Apple behaves in a way that makes it impossible for an AI company to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unambiguous violation of antitrust. Xai will immediately take legal action.“
Which is of course incorrect.
So many noted Since Musk made this claim (and even mentioned in one Community Note on Elon’s X Post), Many AI apps have reached the number one place in the App Store ranking list, including Parmexity, Deepseek and Meta AI.
But for some reason Xai has that Legal steps launched on this basis Anyway, claiming both Apple and OpenAi have “locked up markets to retain their monopolies and to prevent innovators such as X and Xai from competing.”
The submission suggests that Apple’s partnership with OpenAI has led the company to feed the market to benefit the company. At the end of last year, Apple reached a deal for Integrate Chatgpt in the operating system for iPhones, iPads and MacsAnd Xai claims that this deal is the reason why Apple is now punishing Xai in its ranking.
“If it is not for his exclusive deal with OpenAi, Apple would have no reason to remember more prominent with the X app and the Grok app in the App Store.”
Or both X and Grok are simply not as popular as Elon thinks. But apart from Logic, it seems that Xai will continue its legal steps on this basis, which seems unlikely that it seems to do something, other than to cost all parties more money.
Although it could also be counterproductive at Musk, by bringing Apple to keep an eye on Elon’s Apps, who may not endure the App Store qualifications on content or protection of children for adults. Indeed, the recent addition of NSFW AI -companions on X can be due to the research of App Store, while Groks recent racist rants Could also be problematic if Apple was inclined to hit Musk’s companies.
I mean, the last time Elon decided to accept Apple, about App -Store costs, he is silent fairly quickly when Apple brought him to such risks.
But he is clearly willing to risk it again, with his blind hatred for OpenAi who still motivates him to seek any retribution he can, against the company that drove him after he offered to be his CEO (and opened open) in the early stages.
So just elon Keep taking OpenAi to courtIt takes time and money to defend himself against his grievances.
Will it work? I would say that it is unlikely, given that the basis for the case seems to be fairly easy to be refuted. But there must be some logic for the Lawfare approach of Musk, which is more and more pressure on its opponents, to get both press releases for his companies and to hinder their growth with legal complications.
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