Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems on the Meta Connect 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 this planet has a telephone, and that is form of what permits fairly wonderful issues,” Zuckerberg stated in an episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience.” “But then again … they’ve used that platform to place in place a variety of guidelines that I believe really feel arbitrary and [I] really feel like they have not actually invented something nice shortly. It’s 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 sales were struggling as a result of customers are taking longer to improve their telephones as a result of new fashions aren’t large enhancements from prior iterations.
“So how are they making extra money as an organization? Well, they do it by mainly, 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 stated. “You know, they construct stuff like Air Pods, that are cool, however they’ve simply completely hamstrung the power for anybody else to construct one thing that may connect with the iPhone in the identical means.”
Apple defends itself from pushback from different corporations by saying that it would not need to violate customers’ privateness and safety, in response to Zuckerberg. But he stated that the issue can be solved if Apple fastened its protocol, like constructing higher safety and utilizing encryption.
“It’s insecure since you did not construct any safety into it. And then now you are utilizing that as a justification for why solely your product can join in a simple means,” Zuckerberg stated.
Zuckerberg stated that if Apple stopped making use of its “random guidelines,” Meta’s revenue would double.
He additionally took pictures at Apple’s Vision Pro headset, which had disappointing U.S. gross sales. Meta sells its personal digital headsets referred to as the Meta Quest.
“I believe the Vision Pro is, I believe, one of many greater swings at doing a brand new factor that they tried shortly,” Zuckerberg stated. “And I do not need to give them too laborious of a time on it, as a result of we do a variety of issues the place the primary model is not that good, and also you need to form of decide the third model of it. But I imply, the V1, it positively didn’t hit it out of the park.”
“I heard it is actually good for watching motion pictures,” he added.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from CNBC.
