Musk doesn't get to just walk away from his Apple lawsuit
News Musk doesn't get to just walk away from his Apple lawsuit William Gallagher 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Wed Sep 16 2026, 07:13 AM EDT · 1 minute read Elon Musk is not going to be able to dismiss his lawsuit against Apple as easily as he may have hoped. Elon Musk filed to have his App Store dispute with Apple dismissed, but crucially not the simultaneous one with OpenAI. Now the judge is demanding to be told what's going on.
- ▪News Musk doesn't get to just walk away from his Apple lawsuit William Gallagher 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Wed Sep 16 2026, 07:13 AM EDT · 1 minute read Elon Musk is not going to be able to dismiss his lawsuit against Appl
- ▪Elon Musk filed to have his App Store dispute with Apple dismissed, but crucially not the simultaneous one with OpenAI.
- ▪Now the judge is demanding to be told what's going on.
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News Musk doesn't get to just walk away from his Apple lawsuit William Gallagher 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Wed Sep 16 2026, 07:13 AM EDT · 1 minute read Elon Musk is not going to be able to dismiss his lawsuit against Apple as easily as he may have hoped. Elon Musk filed to have his App Store dispute with Apple dismissed, but crucially not the simultaneous one with OpenAI. Now the judge is demanding to be told what's going on. Musk's suit was a nonsense one claiming that Apple basically rigs App Store charts and features to favor its partner OpenAI's ChatGPT, and exclude X's Grok. It was entirely and demonstrably baseless, but Musk persisted, until he didn't. On September 14, 2026, Musk filed to have the case against Apple dismissed.
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