Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X or Grok among top apps
Mr Musk posted the comments on X late on Monday, saying: 'Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your 'Must Have' section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.'
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Grok is owned by Mr Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI.
Hey
@Apple
App Store, why do you refuse to put either 𝕏 or Grok in your 'Must Have' section when 𝕏 is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps?
Are you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.
https://t.co/3wenLZGtwG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
August 11, 2025
Mr Musk went on to say that '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'.
He gave no further details.
There was no immediate comment from Apple, which has faced various allegations of antitrust violations in recent years.
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A judge recently found that Apple violated a court injunction in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite maker Epic Games.
The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone (Rick Rycroft/AP)
Regulators of the European Union fined Apple 500 million euros (£431.8 million) in April for breaking competition rules by preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store.
Last year, the EU fined the US tech giant nearly two billion dollars (£1.4 billion) for unfairly favouring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps.
As of early Tuesday, the top app in Apple's App Store was TikTok, followed by Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube and Bumble.
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Open AI's ChatGPT was ranked 7th.
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