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I listened to the interview today and can’t tell you this post doesn’t give much context. Zuckerberg acknowledged the iPhone is probably the most revolutionary product in recent history. But the iPhone is seeing a decline in sales. There hasn’t been much change to the device which many analysts feel is the reason consumers are reluctant to upgrade as often as they used to. All points are fair and market figures back it.  

MY TAKE:
Wearables have been around for decades. Fitbit and Apple Watch simply propelled that area of the market. Same thing with the iPad. The concept of a PDA, such as Newton and Palm Pilot, paved the way for the iPad. So the iPad wasn’t revolutionary. In fact, many people like myself feel iPadOS is holding back the hardware. 

Apple Silicon isn’t revolutionary since its an ARM processor optimized for their products. Although an argument can be made that it pushed the industry to up its game which is what we are seeing with Google’s Tensor chip and Microsoft collaboration with Qualcomm. Heck even Intel is stepping up its game in efficiency.

Zuckerberg continues his criticism of Apple by bringing up their developer fees on the App Store. Or how they block 3rd party developers/companies access to certain APIs. It’s primarily to protect competitive advantage while justifying it by saying they’re protecting user privacy. 

The example he cited was when Meta asked Apple if they could use the AirPods API for their Ray Ban glasses. Mainly for the seamless connection that AirPods are known for. Apple said no and cited privacy concerns. Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that if privacy was an issue, then Apple should clean up the coding and put in guardrails (or something along those lines). He even mentioned the AirPod protocol stores its settings in unencrypted files. So the argument about privacy and security fall on deaf ears and points to the desire to bow guard their position in the market while preventing users from leveraging other technologies.