Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, everything on the social network has changed. Not only externally with the real features of the social network, but internally with the laying off of thousands of Twitter engineers and workers around the world. However, The real speaker of Elon Musk’s rebellion is his Twitter account. These days, the idea has arisen that the drift that Twitter was heading in could remove the app from the App Store and Play Store. The story continued with this Apple has removed most of the ads it had on the social network. And that produced the wrath of Elon Musk who directly asked Apple CEO Tim Cook what was going on.
Elon Musk (Twitter) to Tim Cook (Apple): ‘What’s going on?’
Elon Musk’s new crusade is now with Apple and its CEO, Tim Cook. It all started a few days ago when the first rumors started coming in that the The App Store allegedly threatened Twitter to remove its app from the App Store. Apparently a notification had been received, or Musk said so in the social redbut without any explanation. The solution of the American tycoon? Make sure that if the iOS and Android apps were removed, he would have no choice but to create his own smartphone.
However, this story was just beginning. Yesterday, Apple got the vast majority of its advertising from Twitter. And that provoked the monumental anger of Elon Musk, who dedicated the following tweet to the Big Apple:
Apple has pretty much stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Minutes later, he caught Tim Cook’s attention with an empowering message: “What’s going on here, Elon Musk? Still far from ending the controversy, it seems that Elon Musk has more cartridges saved for the big apple and has started to dive with the payment policy within the App Store, regulations in force since the beginning of the App Store: 70% for Apple and 30% for the developer.
At the moment there is no response from Apple to this whole chain of events, and there probably won’t be, but at least we know that strings are being pulled from the ranks of Cupertino to mitigate the Elon Musk’s offensive. Finally, the Twitter CEO closed his series of tweets against Apple, assuring that the United States is a free place. And that this crusade he’s leading right now is for the future of civilization. If the freedom of expression that Musk defends ends in the United States, according to him, “Tyranny is all that awaits us.”
