Apple Denies Musk's ChatGPT Favoritism Claims, Says App Store Has No Bias

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Apple today responded to Elon Musk's claims that the App Store favors OpenAI's ChatGPT app, telling Bloomberg's Mark Gurman that the ‌App Store‌ is "fair and free of bias."

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Yesterday, Musk threatened to sue Apple, and claimed that the company was violating antitrust rules by favoring ChatGPT over other AI apps like Grok. "Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the ‌App Store‌, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action," Musk said.

Musk did not provide any evidence or further information on Apple's alleged antitrust violations, but he seems to have missed that AI app DeepSeek hit number one on the ‌App Store‌ charts earlier this year. ChatGPT continues to be in the number one position on the free apps chart, with Grok in the number five spot. X is number 32.

Musk also claimed that Apple "refuses" to put the X or Grok apps in the ‌App Store‌'s "Must Have" section, where ChatGPT is listed. Grok has recently been updated with adult-themed content that includes celebrity deepfakes, and it regularly makes headlines for its questionable Musk-guided responses to queries.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to Musk's claims of Apple favoritism by pointing out that Musk has manipulated X algorithms to benefit himself and his companies.

Apple is already facing an antitrust lawsuit levied by the U.S. Department of Justice, and it is still appealing a recent ruling in the Apple vs. Epic Games lawsuit that required major ‌App Store‌ changes.

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Tags: App Store, Elon Musk, OpenAI

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25 weeks ago

Odd to see so many people who were defending EU and attacking Apple over unfair App Store practices suddenly come to defend Apple's practices when Elon is attacking Apple. It's just so blatantly obvious objectivity went out the window a long time ago LOL.
Well, according to Grok itself on X...
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sniffies
25 weeks ago
He needs a pacifier in his mouth
Score: 42 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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ProbablyDylan
25 weeks ago

Odd to see so many people who were defending EU and attacking Apple over unfair App Store practices suddenly come to defend Apple's practices when Elon is attacking Apple.
I mean, in this specific instance Apple isn't doing anything nefarious. Just sorting by popularity. Elon is complaining he's not winning the popularity contest as if he can do no wrong - it's the chart that's wrong.

It's kinda pathetic innit?
Score: 42 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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q64ceo
25 weeks ago

Odd to see so many people who were defending EU and attacking Apple over unfair App Store practices suddenly come to defend Apple's practices when Elon is attacking Apple. It's just so blatantly obvious objectivity went out the window a long time ago LOL.
It must suck viewing the world thru black and white glasses. There are more colors than that.
Score: 30 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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CapitalIdea
25 weeks ago
Amazing how someone can be so rich and successful, and still come across as a total loser.
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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7thson
25 weeks ago

Hopefully Elon will keep driving this until we get alternative app stores on iOS. Imagine owning a computer where you could only purchase software from one website... it's completely ridiculous, but too many buy into the security garbage that Apple uses as its firewall.
Well don’t buy a Tesla, because it is basically a computer with wheels, but no options for installing apps not supplied by Tesla. Of which there aren’t many.
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