It is a violent charge. Mark Zuckerberg accuses Apple of parasitizing innovation and financially strangling its competitors.
Mark Zuckerberg’s explosive interview with Joe Rogan continues to get people talking. The boss of Meta did not mince his words towards Apple, accusing the Cupertino giant of stagnating in innovation and stifling competition.
« They haven’t invented anything great in a while“, asserts Mark Zuckerberg bluntly. According to him, Apple would simply capitalize on the legacy of Steve Jobs and the iPhone, “ 20 years later« .
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A criticism which, however, ignores several important innovations from Apple, notably the MacBooks equipped with Apple Silicon chips, the AirPods which dominate the wireless earphone market, or the Apple Watch which reigns over the connected watch sector.
The boss of Meta goes further by mentioning the Vision Pro, Apple’s latest in mixed reality. With a disdainful shrug, he simply concedes that he heard that it was ” really good for watching movies“. A remark that sounds like a barely veiled dig at its direct competitor in the field of the metaverse.
The 30% of discord
But behind these attacks on innovation lies one of the points of friction: money. Mark Zuckerberg particularly denounces the “ tax » of 30% that Apple takes from App Store transactions, which it considers arbitrary. He accuses the Apple company of “bleeding people” by pushing them to buy more and more peripherals.
Meta’s founder says his company could double its profits without Apple’s restrictions. He cites as an example the difficulties encountered in integrating Meta’s Ray-Ban connected glasses with iPhones, pointing out Apple’s “random rules” in terms of hardware integration.
iOS’s anti-tracking features have dealt a major blow to Meta’s business model, based on targeted advertising. Mark Zuckerberg also accuses Apple of using security and confidentiality as a pretext to limit its competitors.
The funniest thing? While Mark Zuckerberg accuses Apple of no longer innovating, some point out that Meta is not doing much better. Threads? A copy of Twitter. The metaverse? Billions invested for not much for the moment
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