Elon Musk meets Apple CEO Tim Cook, says it was a ‘good conversation’

Days after suggesting that Apple desired in addition out Twitter from the App Store — and that he won’t have a preference however to head to ‘battle’ — Elon Musk has tweeted that he sincerely met Apple CEO Tim Cook. In a tweet, which covered a brief video, Musk thanked Cooked for “taking me across the stunning Apple HQ”. In a follow-up tweet, Musk stated that he had an awesome communication with Cook and that Apple in no way had plans of eliminating Twitter from the App Store. “Good communication. Among different things, we resolved the false impression approximately Twitter probably being eliminated from the App Store. Tim become clean that Apple in no way taken into consideration doing so,” Musk tweeted. Curiously, Apple or Cook haven’t showed something approximately the assembly with Musk. And even extra curiously, Musk has deleted the tweet wherein he advised going to battle with Apple.

Why become Musk ‘unhappy’ with Apple

A few days ago, Musk in a sequence of tweets puzzled approximately extra than multiple things. First, he stated that “Apple has normally stopped marketing and marketing on Twitter,” earlier than questioning if Apple sincerely hated “hate loose speech in America?”. This triggered a journalist to invite Musk on Twitter if Apple become “threatening Twitter’s presence withinside the App Store or in any other case making moderation demands?” Musk answered withinside the affirmative.

It’s now no longer clean what Musk and Cook spoke on the said assembly however the Apple ‘tax’ might also additionally were at the menu. Last week, Musk found out that the function might release on December 2. However, it looks as if that function has in addition been delayed. According to a file via way of means of The Platformer, the predicted release on December 2 has been delayed. A file via way of means of The Verge sees eye to eye and additionally showed that the release has been delayed. The cause for the postpone is reportedly Musk identifying a manner to get out paying Apple a fee of all of the in-app purchases made at the iOS app of Twitter.

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