{"id":207357,"date":"2022-11-29T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=207357"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:17:27","slug":"elon-musk-strikes-back-at-apple-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-strikes-back-at-apple-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk strikes back at the Apple empire with heated tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s all coming to a head now as Elon Musk continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/elon-musk-freedom-of-speech-hate-speech-impressions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"show his plans\">show his plans<\/a> for his <strong>Twitter rebellion<\/strong> against the tech giant empire, Apple. Over the last two days, Musk has revealed that Apple wants to remove the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/elon-musk-twitter-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"social media platform\">social media platform<\/a> from the App store. With those tweets, he\u2019s revealed some secrets we\u2019re sure Apple would wish you rather not know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve been paying attention to our articles over the last year, you\u2019ll know that some bigwigs are trying to stop <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/apple-data-may-not-be-private\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Apple\">Apple<\/a> and Google Play from making a <strong>monopoly on smartphone apps<\/strong>. While the former may not have as many mobile devices as the latter, it sure has more applications in its App store. Should the tech empire have its way, Twitter will be the number one app to be eliminated as an option soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s one specific <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597405399040217088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweet<\/a> that Elon posted that sparked our Star Wars references, making a challenge like a Jedi marking his Sith target (replace civilization with \u2018the galaxy\u2019 just for fun, and America with Naboo):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.<\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597405399040217088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two points that Elon makes that are worth noting. The first is that the App store takes <strong>30% royalties on any payments<\/strong>, including Twitter Blue subscriptions. Another is that Apple wants to remove Twitter for not following the rules of censorship. In other words, Apple is resistant to free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alright, so that may be oversimplifying things. Apple doesn\u2019t want some search terms to appear on the Apple platform. There are some phrases you can search for that will <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/twitter-mass-exodus-spirals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"yield no results\">yield no results<\/a>. Well, when Musk is done with his transformation, that won\u2019t be the case anymore. It looks like <strong>Apple doesn\u2019t like this at all<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/elon-strikes-back-at-apple.jpg\" alt=\"elon strikes back at apple\" class=\"wp-image-207360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/elon-strikes-back-at-apple.jpg 732w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/elon-strikes-back-at-apple-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/elon-strikes-back-at-apple-18x9.jpg 18w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/elon-strikes-back-at-apple-150x74.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, Elon is content to go to war with Apple if that\u2019s what it takes. He definitely isn\u2019t interested in paying the 30% or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-crazy-twitter-show-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"stopping free speech\">stopping free speech<\/a> from proceeding. If you look at the comments on his posts, it also appears like his followers want to know <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/hive-social-twitter-alternative-record-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"what Apple is hiding\">what Apple is hiding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all coming to a head now as Elon Musk continues to show his plans for his Twitter rebellion against the tech giant empire, Apple. Over the last two days, Musk has revealed that Apple wants to remove the social media platform from the App store. With those tweets, he\u2019s revealed some secrets we\u2019re sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-strikes-back-at-apple-empire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elon Musk strikes back at the Apple empire with heated tweets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":207359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1415],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-207357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322811,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207357\/revisions\/322811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207357"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=207357"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=207357"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=207357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}