Elon Musk teases launch of iPhone rival if Twitter gets booted from app stores - Daily Star

Elon Musk has teased that helium whitethorn make an "alternative" to the iPhone if Twitter is booted from the Apple App Store and Google Play.

The Twitter CEO made the remark connected Friday (November 25) pursuing speculation that the Twitter app could beryllium removed from app stores if Musk's societal media tract doesn't adhere to their guidelines.

The world's richest antheral was replying to a tweet from blimpish commentator Liz Wheeler. She wrote: “If Apple & Google footwear Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should nutrient his ain smartphone.

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"Half the state would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The antheral builds rockets to Mars, a silly small smartphone should beryllium easy, right?”

Musk replied: "I surely anticipation it does not travel to that, but, yes, if determination is nary different choice, I volition marque an alternate phone."

Wheeler besides created a Twitter canvass asking her followers whether they would power to a "tELONphone". The results were marginal, with 51.2% saying "yes" and 48.8% "no".

It awaits to beryllium seen whether Twitter volition beryllium removed from app stores, but speculation is rife pursuing an op-ed successful the New York Times written by Yoel Roth, the erstwhile caput of spot and information astatine Twitter.

Roth said app stores correspond the "most important cheque connected unrestrained escaped code connected the mainstream internet".

He wrote: "Failure to adhere to Apple’s and Google’s guidelines would beryllium catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it much hard for billions of imaginable users to get Twitter’s services.

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"This gives Apple and Google tremendous powerfulness to signifier the decisions Twitter makes."

There is besides the contented of Phil Schiller, a elder Apple enforcement who runs the company’s App Store.

Prior to Musk's $44billion (£36.4bn) takeover of Twitter, Schiller boasted an relationship with implicit 200,000 followers.

Schiller past deleted his relationship erstwhile Musk took complaint of the societal media site.

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