• Elon Musk said that the misunderstanding about Twitter's possible removal from the App Store has been cleared.
Elon Musk has shared an update saying that he met with Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and cleared up misunderstandings about Twitter's possible removal from the App Store.
Musk said that Apple's CEO "was clear that Apple never considered doing this."
Musk shared a video from Apple's headquarters, writing, "Thanks tim_cook for taking me around the beautiful Apple headquarters. Nice chat. Among other things, we talked about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store." Cleared up the misunderstanding. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing this."
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022
Musk's own claims were contradicted earlier this week, when he accused Apple of threatening to block Twitter from its App Store without explaining why, in a series of tweets he also said that The iPhone maker had stopped advertising on the social media platform. He later tagged Cook's Twitter account in another tweet, asking, "What's going on here?"
The billionaire CEO of Twitter and Tesla had said that Apple was pressuring Twitter over content moderation demands. Apple operates an essential gateway for Twitter users: the App Store. If Musk's company had lost it, it would have been cut off from more than 1.5 billion devices around the world.
Prior to the relaunch of the company's $8-per-month subscription offering, Twitter Blue, Musk also took aim at Apple's revenue share agreement for the App Store. "Did you know that Apple charges a 30% secret tax on everything you buy through their App Store?" Musk wrote.
Musk previously tweeted that if Twitter was removed from the Apple and Google app stores, he would build an alternative phone that could work with the platforms. Fans of the idea -- and its detractors -- have taken to calling it the "Tesla phone".
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