Add Elon Musk to the list of other people who called Apple for its App Store commission.
In a pair of tweets on Tuesday, Musk sued Apple for keeping 30 percent of developers in paid app downloads and in-app purchases on the App Store.
“The Apple store is like having a 30% tax on the Internet. Definitely disagree,” he said in a tweet. Literally 10 times higher than it is,” he added later.
Musk is the only CEO to criticize the commission.
In August 2020, BuzzFeed News reported that Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg said at a company-wide assembly that Apple has “parental control over what happens on phones” and charges “monopoly rents” that weigh on the festival on the App Store. The comments came after Apple rejected Meta’s request to cut fees by 30 percent on a new paid feature that Facebook said was meant to help small business owners suffering from the pandemic.
A month later, Zuckerberg told Axios that Apple “deserves a look” at how it handles the App Store.
Many developers, in addition to Fortnite author Epic Games, have also demanded Apple’s 30% commission over the years.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment.