Tesla’s Musk denies demanding to be Apple CEO, calls App Store fee ‘global tax on the internet’

) CEO during a 2016 phone call in which Apple’s Tim Cook discussed buying the electric vehicle maker. Musk also took a separate swipe at Apple’s App Store fee on Friday, tweeting that it’s a “global tax on the internet.”

That book reported that Cook balked at the idea of Musk being CEO reportedly and said “F*** you” before hanging up on him, according to a Los Angeles Times review.“There was a point where I requested to meet with Cook to talk about Apple buying Tesla. There were no conditions of acquisition proposed whatsoever. He refused to meet. Tesla was worth about 6% of today’s value,” Musk added.Yahoo Finance has reached out to Apple for comment and will update this story with any response we receive.

In a separate tweet, the mercurial CEO said “Apple app store [sic] fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right.”

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