(Boursier.com) — Apple is expected to rise on Wall Street ahead of the stock market thanks to a resumption of activities at the Foxconn site in Zhengzhou, China, where some of the iPhones are produced. Symbol of the disorganization of the country and the anti-containment demonstrations of recent days, the production of iPhones in the Foxconn factory had been largely disrupted by the revolt of the employees for nearly 15 days, to the point of raising fears of a fall in production by some 30% in November!
At the same time Elon Musk attacked head-on Apple on the social network Twitter that he has just bought: “Apple has practically stopped advertising on Twitter … Do they hate freedom of expression so much in America?”, tweeted the multi-billionaire businessman.
“Apple also threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why,” Musk tweeted. “What’s going on here Tim Cook?” asked the richest man on the planet, mentioning the general manager of the apple firm. “Who else has Apple censored?” Elon Musk said in response to a tweet from blockchain-based file-sharing and payment network LBRY complaining about Apple’s demands. to include its applications on the App Store.
Apple Twitter App Store, won’t — Elon Musk (@elonmusk), through Twitter
“A very large number of your customers You’re here use iOS to access their cars… If this app is removed, it will have a significant impact on your ability to sell to customers Apple“, worried another participant of the social network, in response to Musk’s attacks against the Californian giant of Cupertino. “Are you suggesting thatApple would use his duopoly powers to harm You’re here ?” replied the billionaire.
Musk also relayed another message recalling the “parody of parody” (parody of an old Apple advertisement targeting IBM and using the codes of ‘1984’) from the publisher of Fortnite, Epic Games, which had “challenge the monopoly of the App Store” and whose game had been banned from the online store…
Accurate https://t.co/1PRfh67nWX — Elon Musk (@elonmusk), through Twitter
“Did you know that Apple imposes a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through its App Store?” Musk also slipped by equating the commission on revenue from app developers earning more than a million dollars on the App Store on an annual basis…
Musk, very fit, also delivered a poll on the theme “Apple should publish all the censorship measures it has taken that affect its customers”. At this stage, out of more than 1.8 million voters, 84.9% judged that “yes” and 15.1% that no…
Apple — Elon Musk (@elonmusk), through Twitter
Apple would threaten the presence of Twitter on the App Store, which seems to have caused this knee-jerk reaction from Musk. The billionaire highlights the defense of free expression, which Apple “should defend”, in the words of another Twitter commenter endorsed by Musk.
“This is a battle for the future of civilization…If freedom of speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that awaits us,” Musk added more bombastic than ever about his ” fight”. “The Twitter files on the suppression of freedom of expression will soon be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened…”, also asserted the boss of You’re here, Twitter and spaceX, which aims to lead “a revolution against online censorship in America”.
Some good connoisseurs of the file evoke a “background file” which would be currently in progress between the lawyers of the Apple group and the management of the firm at the apple, in order to measure the legal consequences and to prevent all the replicas that could lead a potential removal of Twitter fromthe App Store…