Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems on the Meta Join occasion in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech large Apple for lackluster innovation efforts and “random guidelines” in a prolonged podcast interview on Friday.
“On the one hand, [the iPhone has] been nice, as a result of now just about everybody on the earth has a cellphone, and that is form of what permits fairly wonderful issues,” Zuckerberg mentioned in an episode of the “Joe Rogan Expertise.” “However alternatively … they’ve used that platform to place in place loads of guidelines that I feel really feel arbitrary and [I] really feel like they have not actually invented something nice shortly. It is like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone, and now they’re simply form of sitting on it 20 years later.”
Zuckerberg added that he thought iPhone gross sales had been struggling as a result of customers are taking longer to improve their telephones as a result of new fashions aren’t huge enhancements from prior iterations.
“So how are they making more cash as an organization? Effectively, they do it by principally, like, squeezing folks, and, such as you’re saying, having this 30% tax on builders by getting you to purchase extra peripherals and issues that plug into it,” Zuckerberg mentioned. “You realize, they construct stuff like Air Pods, that are cool, however they’ve simply totally hamstrung the power for anybody else to construct one thing that may connect with the iPhone in the identical manner.”
Apple defends itself from pushback from different firms by saying that it does not need to violate customers’ privateness and safety, in line with Zuckerberg. However he mentioned that the issue could be solved if Apple mounted its protocol, like constructing higher safety and utilizing encryption.
“It is insecure since you did not construct any safety into it. After which now you are utilizing that as a justification for why solely your product can join in a straightforward manner,” Zuckerberg mentioned.
Zuckerberg mentioned that if Apple stopped making use of its “random guidelines,” Meta’s revenue would double.
He additionally took photographs at Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, which had disappointing U.S. gross sales. Meta sells its personal digital headsets referred to as the Meta Quest.
“I feel the Imaginative and prescient Professional is, I feel, one of many greater swings at doing a brand new factor that they tried shortly,” Zuckerberg mentioned. “And I do not need to give them too arduous of a time on it, as a result of we do loads of issues the place the primary model is not that good, and also you need to form of decide the third model of it. However I imply, the V1, it undoubtedly didn’t hit it out of the park.”
“I heard it is actually good for watching films,” he added.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from CNBC.
