Mark Zuckerberg Criticizes Apple, Says It is ‘Squeezing Individuals’ for Cash

• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had a longstanding feud with Apple.
• He as soon as once more took photographs at Apple in a current interview with Joe Rogan.
• The CEO stated Apple hasn’t innovated shortly and criticized the ecosystem the iPhonemaker constructed.

Mark Zuckerberg is taking extra photographs at Apple.

In an interview on the “Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast that was revealed Friday, the Meta CEO shared a number of points he has with Apple, persevering with his decadelong feud with the Cupertino firm.

Zuckerberg stated on the podcast that Apple has been sluggish to innovate for the reason that iPhone. He added that the few methods the corporate has been capable of revenue since then is by imposing builders’ charges and creating an ecosystem that is tough for different corporations to penetrate.

The Fb creator credited Apple for making one of the crucial well-liked smartphones on the planet, however he stated Apple hasn’t “actually invented something nice shortly” for the reason that iPhone.

“It is like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and now they’re simply form of sitting on it 20 years later,” he advised Rogan.

To make up for declining gross sales in iPhones, Zuckerberg stated Apple has been “squeezing folks” by imposing what he known as a “30% tax” on builders and creating an enclosed ecosystem round Apple’s well-liked merchandise.

“They construct stuff like Airpods, that are cool, however they’ve simply totally hamstrung the flexibility for anybody else to construct one thing that may connect with the iPhone in the identical method,” he stated.

Zuckerberg stated Meta skilled this when it was creating the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

The CEO stated Apple declined to let Meta use the identical “protocol” Apple makes use of for Airpods in an effort to enable the Meta glasses to attach seamlessly to iPhones. Zuckerberg stated he believed Apple was utilizing privateness and safety considerations as an excuse to maintain a wall across the Apple ecosystem.

Meta’s chief expertise officer Andrew Bosworth echoed the same sentiment in an October interview with “Stratechery.”

“The factor I fear about with Apple particularly is that they’ve their telephones and gadgets so locked down that they will self-preference a ton,” he stated, pointing to Airpods as one instance.

Spokespeople for Meta and Apple didn’t reply to a request for remark despatched throughout the weekend.

Zuckerberg has been present process his personal model transformation as he preps for a second Trump administration, strolling again on content material moderation and rolling again DEI initiatives at his firm. However his feud with Apple goes again to at the least 2014.

Beforehand, Zuckerberg has criticized Apple’s costs, its app retailer and privateness insurance policies, and, extra lately, the corporate’s Imaginative and prescient Professional VR headsets.

Nonetheless, Zuckerberg stated on the podcast that he stays optimistic.

“I imply, the excellent news in regards to the tech trade is that it is simply tremendous dynamic and issues are continually getting invented,” he stated. “And I believe corporations — should you simply do not do an excellent job for like 10 years, finally you are simply going to get beat by somebody.”