tweeterwith more or less seriousness.
After having mentioned the idea of taking over Coca-Cola and putting some Coke
the boss of Tesla and SpaceX has once once more attacked Apple, which he definitely does not have in his heart.
“The Apple store, which taxes at 30%, is like taxing the Internet at 30%… It’s clearly not OK! »
Elon Musk
For the little story, Tim Sweeney (Epic Games), also retweeted Musk’s post. This is not the first time that the man has attacked the taxe Apple
: already in July 2021, during the lawsuit with Epic, he had qualified the Cupertino commission as a global tax on the internet
considering that it should be possible to authorize alternative payments.
Ironically, Musk called Apple a Golden prison
even as Tesla jealously protected its Superchargers and also does not allow all third-party apps in its vehicles, starting with Apple Music or CarPlay – preferring Spotify for example. Since then, some charging stations have been opened up to competition, and Tidal has also joined the music apps available on the brand’s models.
At last, Elon Musk was very critical of the batteries used by Apple, which still use Cobalt -a very controversial ore for its extraction. Apple uses I think almost 100% cobalt in its batteries, cell phones and laptops, but Tesla uses no cobalt in LFP packs and almost none in nickel chemicals
Musk’s position seems a bit easy – putting LFP batteries in iPhones would, for example, require losing a little capacity. Also, third-party apps are not central to Tesla’s software business model. That said, Musk is clearly a product man – just like Steve Jobs was – and less of a technocrat, unlike Tim Cook.
