Meta CEO mocks Apple for 'sitting on' iPhone 20 years later despite doing the same with Facebook
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Podcast. During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone. Meta has always had a bone to pick with Apple, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is never afraid to discuss the company in interviews. The latest wide swing comes after a perceived lack of innovation, over-reliance on iPhone, and use of proprietary technologies.
The interview itself is covered in detail by 9to5Mac's Chance Miller, breaking down specific segments of the interview. I want to dive into a few of the things Zuckerberg said about Apple. First, he shares how he's happy that the iPhone exists and how Facebook must have been written around the same time Steve Jobs was working on the device in 2004. The success of the iPhone has always been a bit of a sticking point for Facebook, as it thrives on user data and there's nothing more private than what a user has on its device.
The idea was so powerful that Facebook tried to make its own phone via HTC and several Apple engineers it hired. Ever since that flop, Facebook, now Meta, has tried to find new ways to gather the valuable iPhone user data either through manipulating users to install a VPN or via the EU DMA.
Apple has always taken a strong stance against Facebook and its blatant disregard for user privacy to the point that it targets Facebook's entire business model in many of its updates. So when Zuckerberg says that Apple's innovations are frozen in time on a product that came out 20 years ago, it's easy to see where that bitterness is coming from. It seems lost on Zuckerberg that his company also released a product 20 years ago that lacks innovation and stands as the profit center for Meta.
