Mark Zuckerberg’s recent podcast appearance is causing a stir online, especially after his comments on Apple.
The Meta CEO did not shy away from speaking his mind on yesterday’s Joe Rogan podcast. This is where he was asked to comment on an array of different topics including the upcoming Trump administration and content moderation. However, what really got people’s attention was the discussion on Apple.
Zuckerberg is no fan of Apple’s stringent policies and we’re all quite aware of this. In his latest interview, the Meta CEO shared how 15 to 30% of all the fees that the iPhone maker charges for its App Store is a means to disguise the massive sales it makes for iPhones. If that was not brutal enough, Zuckerberg also limited the Cupertino firm’s success to just iPhones with limited innovation in terms of any new product.
Apple made use of this device to help place several rules on what it feels is arbitrary. They don’t think they’ve really created anything in a long time. It’s almost similar to the likes of Steve Jobs who devised the iPhone and now they are sitting on its success for the past two decades.
Zuckerberg also shared how he was not aware if they were doing great in the iPhone department either as he suspected sales to be on the declining end of the spectrum. Every generation you do get a device but that does not mean it’s better than the one launched previously, he continued. Therefore, so many users don’t feel the need to undergo the upgrade, he continued.
When asked what his perspective was about the company making more money each year, the logic put out by Zuckerberg here was interesting. He mentioned that this might be linked to hiring more people as developers and taking a 30% tax from them.
Another leading issue that seemed to be on his mind was AirPods and how the company refused to give the Facebook parent firm access to iPhones linked to the Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
While AirPods were called out as a great product, what’s the purpose when you cannot enable another archrival to build another great product that links to this device in the same manner.
So AirPods have exclusive capabilities to get linked to iPhones only so only they connect and no one else. It’s like a very seamless connection that gets enabled but not anyone else can use this kind of protocol. If they tried, there would be a lot of great people competing with AirPods in the end.
Meta has been trying long and hard to get Apple to give it some access to better its connectivity for the Meta Ray-Ban glasses but clearly it’s a big no. Apple does not allow this and feels it violates user privacy and safety. Zuckerberg blamed the creators at Apple for the poor design of the device that compromises user safety and therefore blames others for it.
In the end, Zuckerberg showed great optimism about Apple being dethroned from its top position soon because their game in regards to innovation is certainly not top-notch for now.
The next topic of discussion was Google and RCS for iPhones and how Apple failed to approve both security and encryption for messaging instead of designing its own. The RCS Universal Profile is yet to be adopted but they do hope that it’s coming soon.
When asked about the VisionPro, he said Apple failed miserably in that department. A product that pricey had no chance of competing with Meta’s Quest version that came at $300 or $400. He feels that the second and third generations will hopefully be better than the first but only time can tell because right now, it’s just not working.
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The Meta CEO did not shy away from speaking his mind on yesterday’s Joe Rogan podcast. This is where he was asked to comment on an array of different topics including the upcoming Trump administration and content moderation. However, what really got people’s attention was the discussion on Apple.
Zuckerberg is no fan of Apple’s stringent policies and we’re all quite aware of this. In his latest interview, the Meta CEO shared how 15 to 30% of all the fees that the iPhone maker charges for its App Store is a means to disguise the massive sales it makes for iPhones. If that was not brutal enough, Zuckerberg also limited the Cupertino firm’s success to just iPhones with limited innovation in terms of any new product.
Apple made use of this device to help place several rules on what it feels is arbitrary. They don’t think they’ve really created anything in a long time. It’s almost similar to the likes of Steve Jobs who devised the iPhone and now they are sitting on its success for the past two decades.
Zuckerberg also shared how he was not aware if they were doing great in the iPhone department either as he suspected sales to be on the declining end of the spectrum. Every generation you do get a device but that does not mean it’s better than the one launched previously, he continued. Therefore, so many users don’t feel the need to undergo the upgrade, he continued.
When asked what his perspective was about the company making more money each year, the logic put out by Zuckerberg here was interesting. He mentioned that this might be linked to hiring more people as developers and taking a 30% tax from them.
Another leading issue that seemed to be on his mind was AirPods and how the company refused to give the Facebook parent firm access to iPhones linked to the Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
While AirPods were called out as a great product, what’s the purpose when you cannot enable another archrival to build another great product that links to this device in the same manner.
So AirPods have exclusive capabilities to get linked to iPhones only so only they connect and no one else. It’s like a very seamless connection that gets enabled but not anyone else can use this kind of protocol. If they tried, there would be a lot of great people competing with AirPods in the end.
Meta has been trying long and hard to get Apple to give it some access to better its connectivity for the Meta Ray-Ban glasses but clearly it’s a big no. Apple does not allow this and feels it violates user privacy and safety. Zuckerberg blamed the creators at Apple for the poor design of the device that compromises user safety and therefore blames others for it.
In the end, Zuckerberg showed great optimism about Apple being dethroned from its top position soon because their game in regards to innovation is certainly not top-notch for now.
The next topic of discussion was Google and RCS for iPhones and how Apple failed to approve both security and encryption for messaging instead of designing its own. The RCS Universal Profile is yet to be adopted but they do hope that it’s coming soon.
When asked about the VisionPro, he said Apple failed miserably in that department. A product that pricey had no chance of competing with Meta’s Quest version that came at $300 or $400. He feels that the second and third generations will hopefully be better than the first but only time can tell because right now, it’s just not working.
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