Twitter owner elonmusk said that Apple has threatened to suspend the platform from its app store, threatening “war” against the hardware company in subsequent tweets.
Twitter owner Elon Musk said today that Apple has threatened to suspend the platform from its app store, threatening “war” against the hardware company in subsequent tweets.
“Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why,” said Musk in a tweet posted Monday.— Elon Musk Musk also said that Apple has “mostly” stopped advertising on Twitter, asking if the company simply “hates free speech in America.”There were already rumors that smartphone stores may crack down on Twitter due to Musk’s free speech ambitions.New York TimesIf Twitter were banned from the Apple and Google app stores, it would be a major impediment to users installing the app on their phones., with over 99 percent of phones using either the Android or iOS operating systems.
Theoretically, it would be possible for users to download Twitter onto Android and Apple phones through the use of web apps, which can be added to users’ home screens via their browsers — however, the process is generally more complicated than the app stores, and currently unfamiliar to most smartphone users.
In subsequent tweets, Musk called out Apple for its 30 percent tax on purchases made through apps that use its app store, as well as an image suggesting he would “go to war” against the tech company.
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