Elon Musk tweets against Apple’s tight control on App Store
- ByStartupStory | November 29, 2022
Elon Musk the owner of Twitter went on a rant against Apple over its tight control of what is allowed on the App Store. Musk said that owing to its control saying Apple has threatened to oust his recently acquired social media platform.
Musk didn’t stop there he further said that the tech giant collects a 30 percent fee Apple on transactions via its App Store. The App Store is used by millions of users around the world for downloading and installing applications on their Apple devices.
A series of tweets by Musk included a meme of a car with his first name on it veering onto a highway off-ramp labeled “Go to War,” instead of continuing onwards towards “Pay 30%.”
The billionaire CEO also tweeted that Apple has “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why.” Describing himself as a “free speech absolutist,” Musk believes that all content permitted by law should be allowed on Twitter, and on Monday described his actions as a “revolution against online censorship in America.”
He also tweeted that he planned to publish “Twitter Files on free speech suppression,” but without clarifying what data he had in mind to share with the public. Though Musk says Twitter is seeing record high engagement with him at the helm, his approach has startled the company’s major moneymaker i.e. advertisers.
In recent weeks, half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers have announced they are suspending or have otherwise “seemingly stopped advertising on Twitter,” an analysis conducted by nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters found. Musk on Monday accused Apple of also having “mostly stopped advertising on Twitter.”
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