Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed Apple's recent innovation efforts, like
its Vision Pro headset, in a podcast interview with Joe Rogan.
He said that Apple hasn't invented anything great in roughly two decades,
since Steve Jobs created the iPhone.
Zuckerberg also said that if Apple stopped applying its "random rules,"
Meta's profit would double.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech giant Apple for lackluster
innovation efforts and "random rules" in a lengthy podcast interview on
Friday.

"On the one hand, [the iPhone has] been great, because now pretty much
everyone in the world has a phone, and that's kind of what enables pretty
amazing things," Zuckerberg said in an episode of the "Joe Rogan
Experience." "But on the other hand ... they have used that platform to
put in place a lot of rules that I think feel arbitrary and [I] feel like
they haven't really invented anything great in a while. It's like Steve
Jobs invented the iPhone, and now they're just kind of sitting on it 20
years later."

Zuckerberg added that he thought iPhone sales were struggling because
consumers are taking longer to upgrade their phones because new models
aren't big improvements from prior iterations.

"So how are they making more money as a company? Well, they do it by
basically, like, squeezing people, and, like you're saying, having this
30% tax on developers by getting you to buy more peripherals and things
that plug into it," Zuckerberg said. "You know, they build stuff like Air
Pods, which are cool, but they've just thoroughly hamstrung the ability
for anyone else to build something that can connect to the iPhone in the
same way."

Apple defends itself from pushback from other companies by saying that it
doesn't want to violate consumers' privacy and security, according to
Zuckerberg. But he said that the problem would be solved if Apple fixed
its protocol, like building better security and using encryption.

"It's insecure because you didn't build any security into it. And then now
you're using that as a justification for why only your product can connect
in an easy way," Zuckerberg said.

Zuckerberg said that if Apple stopped applying its "random rules," Meta's
profit would double.

He also took shots at Apple's Vision Pro headset, which had disappointing
U.S. sales. Meta sells its own virtual headsets called the Meta Quest.

"I think the Vision Pro is, I think, one of the bigger swings at doing a
new thing that they tried in a while," Zuckerberg said. "And I don't want
to give them too hard of a time on it, because we do a lot of things where
the first version isn't that good, and you want to kind of judge the third
version of it. But I mean, the V1, it definitely did not hit it out of the
park."

"I heard it's really good for watching movies," he added.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.

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On 2025-01-12 01:11, useapen wrote:
> Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed Apple's recent innovation efforts, like
> its Vision Pro headset, in a podcast interview with Joe Rogan.
> He said that Apple hasn't invented anything great in roughly two decades,
> since Steve Jobs created the iPhone.
> Zuckerberg also said that if Apple stopped applying its "random rules,"
> Meta's profit would double.
> Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech giant Apple for lackluster
> innovation efforts and "random rules" in a lengthy podcast interview on
> Friday.

He's not wrong. Steve Jobs played the role of filter at Apple. People
came to him with ideas, he vetoed whatever he believed was objectively
garbage and allowed anything which had promise. He might also have mixed
two or three ideas together to make them better. Tim Cook doesn't have
the kind of understanding of the customer that Jobs did.

> "On the one hand, [the iPhone has] been great, because now pretty much
> everyone in the world has a phone, and that's kind of what enables pretty
> amazing things," Zuckerberg said in an episode of the "Joe Rogan
> Experience." "But on the other hand ... they have used that platform to
> put in place a lot of rules that I think feel arbitrary and [I] feel like
> they haven't really invented anything great in a while. It's like Steve
> Jobs invented the iPhone, and now they're just kind of sitting on it 20
> years later."
>
> Zuckerberg added that he thought iPhone sales were struggling because
> consumers are taking longer to upgrade their phones because new models
> aren't big improvements from prior iterations.

That is definitely my case. When the battery on this iPhone 13 wears out
(I believe it's at three years now, still at 86%), I'll just replace it
and use the phone for as long as possible. The two-year upgrade cycle
needs to die.

> "So how are they making more money as a company? Well, they do it by
> basically, like, squeezing people, and, like you're saying, having this
> 30% tax on developers by getting you to buy more peripherals and things
> that plug into it," Zuckerberg said. "You know, they build stuff like Air
> Pods, which are cool, but they've just thoroughly hamstrung the ability
> for anyone else to build something that can connect to the iPhone in the
> same way."
>
> Apple defends itself from pushback from other companies by saying that it
> doesn't want to violate consumers' privacy and security, according to
> Zuckerberg. But he said that the problem would be solved if Apple fixed
> its protocol, like building better security and using encryption.
>
> "It's insecure because you didn't build any security into it. And then now
> you're using that as a justification for why only your product can connect
> in an easy way," Zuckerberg said.
>
> Zuckerberg said that if Apple stopped applying its "random rules," Meta's
> profit would double.
>
> He also took shots at Apple's Vision Pro headset, which had disappointing
> U.S. sales. Meta sells its own virtual headsets called the Meta Quest.
>
> "I think the Vision Pro is, I think, one of the bigger swings at doing a
> new thing that they tried in a while," Zuckerberg said. "And I don't want
> to give them too hard of a time on it, because we do a lot of things where
> the first version isn't that good, and you want to kind of judge the third
> version of it. But I mean, the V1, it definitely did not hit it out of the
> park."
>
> "I heard it's really good for watching movies," he added.
>
> Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
>
> https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/mark-zuckerberg-
> slams-apple-on-its-lack-of-innovation-and-random-rules/3601893/

The problem with their Vision Pro headset is that even if the experience
is great, you end up with little that you can actually do with it. You
can watch movies and enhance your daily life with this gigantic headset
on your face, but what else? Meanwhile, the Meta Quest costs a lot less
and allows you play games in addition to the same things as the Vision Pro.

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