Elon Musk slams Apple’s app store fees as ‘de facto global tax on the Internet’


Musk has waded into the Epic Games vs Apple fight and thrown in his lot with Epic. — AP

LOS ANGELES: Tech billionaire Elon Musk took a swing at Apple, siding with Fortnite maker Epic Games in its fight against the tech giant’s App Store policies that take a standard 30% cut of payment transactions.

“Apple app store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right,” Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, wrote on Twitter.

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