
Elon Musk Challenges Apple's Dominance, Provoking a Conflict
The world's richest man and the most valuable public firm in the world got into a Twitter argument after Elon Musk sent a message to the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO.
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CIO Applications Europe | Thursday, December 01, 2022

Musk accused Apple of threatening to pull Twitter from its App Store and of trying to censor the platform.
FREMONT, CA:The world's richest man and the most valuable public firm in the world got into a Twitter argument after Elon Musk sent a message to the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO.
Musk, the new owner of Twitter, accused Apple of threatening to remove the app from the App Store in a series of tweets that spanned 15 minutes. This would prevent some potential new users from installing the app. Musk claimed that Apple would not explain why Twitter would be disabled, which would amount to censorship. Further stated that Apple had cut back on Twitter advertising.
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Apple has largely stopped running Twitter ads. Cook has enormous sway over other tech firms due to Apple's prominence, and Musk set the scenario for a power war. Due to his ownership of Twitter, which he acquired last month for USD 44 billion, Musk now has a stake in Apple's influence. People with iPhones and iPads use Twitter, which is available through the Apple App Store. Musk hinted in a tweet that he was prepared for war with Apple.
Since taking over Twitter, Musk has been prepared to challenge Apple. Business strategy is based on increasing the reliance on subscription sales over advertising as a source of revenue. But Apple will continue to practise taking up to a 30 per cent cut of any new subscription revenue.
Additionally, Musk's accusations come at a crucial time for Apple. Several antitrust measures are being advanced in Congress during the last few months of the year. The Open App Markets Act, which aims to give developers more control over their programmes and enable them to avoid the fees that Apple and Google demand, is one of the laws being considered.
The managing partner of Loup Ventures, a technology research company, Elon, is the newest chapter to make App Store costs cheaper, and this will resuscitate a topic that's been rather quiet over the past six months. It predicted that app store costs would drop to roughly 20 per cent in the future.
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