Elon Musk thanks Tim Cook dinner for taking him round Apple HQ (Non-public:TWTR)

Twitter (TWTR) CEO Elon Musk thanked Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook dinner for taking him round Apple’s headquarters on Wednesday.

The assembly between the 2 chieftains is notable, provided that Musk has needled Apple (AAPL) in current days.

On Monday, Musk questioned why Apple (AAPL), the world’s largest firm by market cap, had lately lower its promoting on Twitter.

“Apple has largely stopped promoting on Twitter,” Musk tweeted on the time. “Do they hate free speech in America?”

Musk adopted that up with a tweet to Cook dinner, asking “What is going on on right here?”

Along with questioning Apple’s (AAPL) promoting spending, Musk additionally claimed that Apple (AAPL) had threatened to take Twitter off the App Retailer, however that the corporate didn’t give a purpose why.

Musk subsequently posted a meme bemoaning Apple’s (AAPL) 30% fee for sure income generated by way of its App Retailer.

He additionally printed a ballot asking his 119M followers whether or not Apple (AAPL) “ought to publish all censorship actions it has taken that have an effect on its prospects.”

On Tuesday, Musk tweeted “the folks have spoken,” displaying that almost 85% of respondents to the ballot stated that Apple (AAPL) ought to present the censorship actions it has taken.

Over the weekend, Musk stated he would construct his personal smartphone if Twitter was faraway from Apple’s (AAPL) and Google’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) platforms, however added he hoped it might not come to that.

The historical past between the 2 is lengthy and intensive, as Musk claimed in 2020 that he provided to promote Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to Apple (AAPL), however that Cook dinner “refused to take the assembly.”

A ebook printed in 2021 claimed that Cook dinner shouted an expletive at Musk throughout a 2016 assembly when Musk demanded to be made Apple (AAPL) CEO if Apple have been to amass the automobile firm, however Apple (AAPL) denied a gathering ever happened.

A notable analyst stated earlier this week that Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 14 Professional shipments might be as much as 20M models lower than anticipated due to China-related provide chain disruptions.