Competition in the charts above: Apple wants to have an action from Xai rejected

Apple defends itself against a lawsuit by the Elon Musk company X and XAI, which accuse the iPhone manufacturer to give preference to other AI applications in the App Store before GRK. The lawsuit, which Apple accuses of violations of competition law, among other things, is based on “speculation about speculation”, according to an input of the company at the US district Court for the Northern District of Texas. Musk thinks that Apple prefers competitors in his Ki app Grok in the App Store-and here in particular Openai with chat. X and XAI have therefore also sued Openai in addition to Apple (X Corp. v. Apple Inc., 25-cv-00914).

Apple: speak to everyone

X, among other things, had brought up that Apple should not enter into a partnership with Openaai “without at the same time entering into a partnership with any other generative AI chat bot-regardless of quality, data protection or safety aspects, technical feasibility, level of development or economic conditions”. Apple’s lawyers argue that the US competition law “does not” require this.

Apple applies to reject the lawsuit. X and XAI are calling for billions of dollars of compensation for alleged favorite economy. Together with Openaai, innovations in the AI ​​industry were slowed down and the customers have been made. Among other things, insiders point out that there have been discussions between Apple and Google about Gemini for a long time. In fact, Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai had already confirmed this public.

Dispute over the app store charts

The legal dispute between Apple and Openai as well as X and Xai began after Elon Musk Apple was accused of manipulating the app store charts. Only Chatgpt could become number one and not a competitor, he said. Interestingly, however, Google’s own Gemini app later managed to push the throne from the throne because of the popular image model Nano Banana Chatgpt.

Musk also bothered in an X-posting that neither GROK nor X appear in the “must have” recommendations of the app store, although both apps have high chart places and thus many downloads on iPhones. “Do you make political games? What’s going on?” he wrote. Among other things, the lawsuit states that the partnership between Openai and Apple is illegal. No other AI app is able to integrate so deeply into iOS. Users already have a chat bot that they can address via Siri-and are therefore less interested in downloading other AI apps.