{"id":4765,"date":"2025-08-12T23:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T23:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/apple-says-the-app-store-is-fair-and-free-of-bias-in-response-to-musks-legal-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T23:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T23:59:04","slug":"apple-says-the-app-store-is-fair-and-free-of-bias-in-response-to-musks-legal-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/apple-says-the-app-store-is-fair-and-free-of-bias-in-response-to-musks-legal-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple says the App Store is &#8216;fair and free of bias&#8217; in response to Musk&#8217;s legal threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Apple has denied Elon Musk&rsquo;s accusation that it&rsquo;s favoring OpenAI in its App Store rankings and making it impossible for other AI companies to reach the top. In a statement sent to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>, Apple said the App Store is &ldquo;designed to be fair and free of bias.&rdquo; The company&rsquo;s spokesperson explained that the App Store features &ldquo;thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria.&rdquo; They added: &ldquo;Our goal is to offer safe discovery for users and valuable opportunities for developers, collaborating with many to increase app visibility in rapidly evolving categories.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">xAI founder Elon Musk accused Apple of &ldquo;unequivocal antitrust violation&rdquo; by favoring OpenAI in a post on X, warning that his company &ldquo;will take immediate legal action.&rdquo; In a separate post from his threat, he asked Apple why it &ldquo;[refuses] to put either X or Grok in [its] &lsquo;Must Have&rsquo; section.&rdquo; X, he said, is &ldquo;the #1 news app in the world,&rdquo; while Grok is ranked number five among all apps. &ldquo;Are you playing politics? What gives?&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Musk didn&rsquo;t provide evidence to back his accusations. It&rsquo;s also worth noting that Chinese AI app DeepSeek reached the top of Apple&rsquo;s free app rankings back in January, overtaking even ChatGPT. As X&rsquo;s own Community Notes also mentioned in Musk&rsquo;s post, added hours after it went up, Perplexity reached the top of overall rankings in India&rsquo;s App Store back in July. Both apps were able to reach the top of their respective lists way after Apple and OpenAI announced their partnership last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R1lqpqtiafetulbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R2lqpqtiafetulbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to Musk&rsquo;s accusation, as well. He said it&rsquo;s a &ldquo;remarkable claim,&rdquo; given that he has heard allegations that Musk manipulates &ldquo;X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn&rsquo;t like.&rdquo; In response, Musk posted: &ldquo;Scam Altman lies as easily as he breathes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Apple says the App Store is &lsquo;fair and free of bias&rsquo; in response to Musk&rsquo;s legal threats<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has denied Elon Musk&rsquo;s accusation that it&rsquo;s favoring OpenAI in its App Store rankings and making it impossible for other AI companies to reach the top. In a statement sent to Bloomberg, Apple said the App Store is &ldquo;designed to be fair and free of bias.&rdquo; The company&rsquo;s spokesperson explained that the App Store&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/apple-says-the-app-store-is-fair-and-free-of-bias-in-response-to-musks-legal-threats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Apple says the App Store is &#8216;fair and free of bias&#8217; in response to Musk&#8217;s legal threats&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}