On the eve of The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, the Meta CEO shared his opinions on Elon Musk’s recent Jab at Apple. Mr. Zuckerberg said, “Google might control what goes on the play store, but they have always made it so you can side-load and have other app stores.” This is a direct statement on Apple’s strict policies regarding in-app permissions, expenses, ad policy, and different brand-oriented controls.
Apple’s Private Policy Problem
Last year’s change in the privacy policy of Apple made it more difficult for ad-revenue organizations to get their businesses fulfilled. This type of monarchical control over a shared platform raises a conflict of interest over organizations that are direct competitors. Comparing Apple’s app store policies to Google’s, Mark Zuckerberg said this type of control is not ‘sustainable or good’. Concerns like these were always in the air of the tech market but they converted to words after Elon Musk’s directed tweet at Apple, “Do they really hate free speech in America?” when Apple stopped advertising on Twitter. Musk’s long beef with Apple is pretty visual but as laid out by Zuckerburg, in most countries the data goes to the government. Apple’s actions were called, “Problematic for one company to be able to control what app experiences end up on a device.” It’ll be interesting to see what future strategy Meta will implement to overcome the company’s falling revenue which Apple’s restrictive policies directly attack.
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