There’s no love misplaced between Apple and Fb (or Meta as it’s recognized now). For years, there was a number of pressure between the 2 corporations. Apple has bene brazenly essential of how Fb manages consumer privateness and made sure modifications which have actually harm the corporate. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that Apple’s insurance policies price Apple near $10 billion in income in 2022. Now Zuckerberg has as soon as once more criticised Apple for its App Retailer insurance policies.
Zuckerberg was talking at The New York Occasions DealBook summit and stated that what Apple is doing with App Retailer insurance policies isn’t sustainable. “Apple has kind of singled themselves out as the one firm that’s making an attempt to manage unilaterally what apps get on a tool. I don’t assume that’s a sustainable or good place to be.”
That didn’t come as a shock as Zuckerberg has typically been essential of Apple and its strategy in the direction of apps and builders. Meta has accused Apple of creating small and huge builders’s life troublesome.
Reward for Google from Zuckerberg
Apple might have been the goal of Zuckerberg’s criticism however he had phrases of reward for Google. He stated that Google has been extra open with Android customers because it permits customers to look past the Play Retailer as nicely.“They’ve at all times made it so you possibly can sideload and produce other app shops and work instantly with cellphone producers,” Zuckerberg stated.He additionally stated that’s how Meta has approached its VR headsets and intends to the identical with its AR headsets. “That’s additionally been our dedication in how we constructed up our VR and what we plan to do with our AR headsets,” he added.
It’s not the primary time — and positively gained’t be the final — when Zuckerberg and Fb would have criticised Apple over one thing or the opposite.
Zuckerberg was talking at The New York Occasions DealBook summit and stated that what Apple is doing with App Retailer insurance policies isn’t sustainable. “Apple has kind of singled themselves out as the one firm that’s making an attempt to manage unilaterally what apps get on a tool. I don’t assume that’s a sustainable or good place to be.”
That didn’t come as a shock as Zuckerberg has typically been essential of Apple and its strategy in the direction of apps and builders. Meta has accused Apple of creating small and huge builders’s life troublesome.
Reward for Google from Zuckerberg
Apple might have been the goal of Zuckerberg’s criticism however he had phrases of reward for Google. He stated that Google has been extra open with Android customers because it permits customers to look past the Play Retailer as nicely.“They’ve at all times made it so you possibly can sideload and produce other app shops and work instantly with cellphone producers,” Zuckerberg stated.He additionally stated that’s how Meta has approached its VR headsets and intends to the identical with its AR headsets. “That’s additionally been our dedication in how we constructed up our VR and what we plan to do with our AR headsets,” he added.
It’s not the primary time — and positively gained’t be the final — when Zuckerberg and Fb would have criticised Apple over one thing or the opposite.
