Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple on its lack of innovation and ‘random rules’ | masr356.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech big 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 cellphone, and that is variety of what allows fairly superb issues,” Zuckerberg mentioned in an episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience.” “However on the opposite hand … 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 variety of sitting on it 20 years later.”

Zuckerberg added that he thought iPhone sales were struggling as a result of shoppers 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? Nicely, they do it by mainly, like, squeezing individuals, 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 hook up with the iPhone in the identical means.”

Apple defends itself from pushback from different corporations by saying that it does not need to violate shoppers’ privateness and safety, in response to 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 means,” 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 Vision Pro 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 the larger swings at doing a brand new factor that they tried shortly,” Zuckerberg mentioned. “And I do not need to give them too onerous of a time on it, as a result of we do loads of issues the place the primary model is not that good, and you need to variety of choose the third model of it. However 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.