AI companies are no longer competing to make the most intelligent chat boot – they are fighting for your phone, drawing your attention and of course for your money. Many big names have apps for this: Openi has run the chat GPT app, Google’s Gemini, and Elon Musk’s Grook app. Right now, Chattagpat is sitting above Apple’s “top -free iPhone apps” chart in the United States, while Grook is hanging at the sixth. And apparently, Elon Musk is not very happy about it – not a bit.
Musk claims that Apple is “manipulating” its App Store rating to promote rival AI apps unfairly, and says his company, Z, is ready to take immediate legal action.
In a series of letters on his platform X, he accused Apple of “Politics Play”, leaving the App Store’s proposed app list on Apple – and insists that no case is inevitable.
Hey @apple App Store, why do you refuse to put in your “mandatory” section either or Grook and when the world has a #1 news app and Grook has all apps #5?
Are you playing politics? What gives? The inquiry wants to know the brain. https://t.co/3wenlzgtwg
– Elon Musk (@Elonomsk) August 11, 2025The thing is … Kasturi has shown no evidence to back it. And it is unclear whether he has yet filed a lawsuit or if it is very high in public.
Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company to reach #1 in the App Store other than Openi, which is a violation of an unclear dissent.
Z will take immediate legal action.
– Elon Musk (@Elonomsk) August 12, 2025But maybe Apple may not be completely innocent here. However, the company is also undergoing a serious anti -trust scrutiny for the rules of its App Store. However, past issues are mostly around things like payment systems and how the developer can talk to consumers, not how apps are ranked. Therefore, this entire rating dispute is new and we will see how it will end. Still, irritating here? Earlier, Musk himself has faced similar charges of “interference”. After buying Twitter in 2022 and reposing it to X, a study of 2024 found that the platform algorithm was tweeted to promote his posts.
And Open CEO, Sam Altman, even dug up the report of the 2023 plateframers and responded to Musk’s latest Jubilee, claiming that Musk had a special system to ensure that everyone saw his tweets.
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