Feuds: Twitter-Apple standoff over App Store fees

Elon Musk stepped into an ongoing fight over Apple’s App Store fees, said Kate Conger and Tripp Mickle in The New York Times. In a series of tweets this week, Twitter’s new owner “accused Apple of threatening to withhold Twitter from its App Store,” and promised to “go to war” over the 30 percent commission that Apple demands from app store transactions. Musk’s new business plan for Twitter is “predicated on subscription sales,” and he has “set the stage for a power struggle” with Apple. Musk accused Apple of “censorship,” and said that Apple, Twitter’s biggest single advertiser, had halted ads on the platform.