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[TaraJo]

Maybe, maybe not.  This is Elon Musk we're talking about and he doesn't innovate new things, he buys things from other people and claims he built them.

In this case, maybe he'll talk Bill Gates into selling him the OS for Windows phones and market them as the phone with Twitter.  Or possible he could do something similar with the mobile-phone version of Amazon Fire OS.  Or even blackberry, if he wanted to get REALLY retro.  There are operating systems he could buy instead of just building his own.

The big problem isn't the possibility of Twitter being taken off app stores, it's the possibility that most countries won't allow Twitter with all the "free speech" that Elon is allowing.  Use of "the n-word" jumped 500% after Elon officially purchased Twitter and he brought back people who were banned specifically for making hateful comments.  The American government is very good about protecting free speech, but other countries aren't quite as permissive as we are.  He could find Twitter to be illegal in countries like Germany, France, the UK or many others.  

But, then, that's only a problem if Elon doesn't deal with the fact that he doesn't have the employees he needs to run twitter, the ones he has are currently looking for better jobs, many of his former and current employees are openly mocking him, without the support he needs Twitter could crash quite easily and with all the chaos surrounding Twitter, advertisers are leaving in droves and Twitter, even after firing over half their employees, is hemorrhaging money.

The only way Musk is going to damage Apple is if he buys it.

Boru

Just about.  

I suppose he could hurt Apple some, but that would be like a dirtbike hurting a train when the two collide: sure, the train gets scratched and dirtied a little, but it's gonna keep rolling.  Bike, not so much.