Khaberni - The South Korean government has officially rejected Elon Musk's request to obtain documents from the comprehensive Kakao (Kakao) application in a lawsuit for his artificial intelligence company XAI against Apple.
In recent months, the legal team of XAI has sent letters to several Asian developers of comprehensive applications, to request documents they believe would support their claim that Apple's App Store rules are unfair.
XAI alleges in the lawsuit that Apple's App Store rules illegally restrict comprehensive applications in an attempt to prevent users from switching from iPhones. It also claims that Apple's partnership with OpenAI enhances this restriction against comprehensive applications.
In its effort to force Apple to change its app store rules, XAI resorted to the international Hague Convention to request official documents from comprehensive application companies located in Asian countries, including "Ali Pay" in China and "Kakao" in Korea, according to a report by the technology news site "9to5Mac," reviewed by "Al Arabiya Business."
In the messages sent to these application developers, XAI stated that "Apple's behavior restricts competition illegally against comprehensive applications."
However, the Director of International Affairs at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea rejected XAI's request for documents related to "Kakao," stating that it was too vague.
The decision stated: "We inform you that, according to Article 5 of the Hague Evidence Convention of 1970, the letter of request cannot be executed."
It added: "Under Article 23 of the Convention, the Republic of Korea has declared that it will not execute letters of request (evidence) issued for the purposes of pre-trial discovery. Therefore, requests for evidence must specify the required details instead of generally stating them as all relevant documents."
It continued: "Please let us know if we can provide any additional assistance in this matter."
In other words, this is not a final rejection by the Korean government of the idea of allowing Kakao to decide whether it will send the documents requested by XAI, but XAI will need to be more specific if they want their request to proceed.
