Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a warning for iPhone users: ‘Apple’ is selling you down the river

Tesla CEO Elon Musk seems very unhappy with Apple’s decision to partner with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Musk launched almost a full blown attack on Apple just minutes after the company’s WWDC2024 keynote ended. In a series of posts and replies on X, formerly Twitter, Musk lambasted Apple for partnering with OpenAI.
Musk slammed the integration of ChatGPT in iPhones and other Apple devices, calling it “unacceptable security violation”.Warning iPhone and other Apple device users, Musk said, “Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river.”
Tesla CEO also termed it “patently absurd” that Apple isn’t smart enough to make its own AI, “yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy”.
Musk also threatened to ban iPhones from all his companies. “If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation,” wrote Musk. “And visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,” Musk added in another post.

Elon Musk: May join hands with Samsung to make an X phone

Taking on the Apple-OpenAI collaboration, Musk, while responding to a follower on X, even went on to say that his own X phone is a possibility with Samsung as a potential partner which cannot be ruled out.
Reacting to an X user who claimed that “X will partner with Samsung to manufacture an X phone” which will be optimised for the X app, offer an open-source operating system (OS) and a “direct connection to Starlink”, Musk said “it is not out of the question”.

The big Apple-OpenAI announcement

Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC is Apple’s annual developers event where the company announces the next-generation version of the software that powers iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Macs. This year a key highlight of the WWDC keynote was Apple’s partnership with OpenAI. Apple jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to its devices with a partnership with OpenAI.
To herald the alliance with Apple, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat in the front row of the packed conference. “Together with Apple, we’re making it easier for people to benefit from what AI can offer,” Altman said in a statement.