Elon Musk’s tumultuous month atop Twitter has already included firing most of the company’s employees, tinkering with key features and restoring banned accounts.
Now he is embarking on what could be his riskiest gambit yet: a war with Apple.
The billionaire attacked the iPhone maker with a flurry of tweets Monday, saying the company had cut its Twitter advertising and threatened to bump the social network from Apple’s app store.
Epic Games chief executive Tim Sweeney has rallied to support the Twitter owner, calling Apple “a menace to freedom”.
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