Timing not at all due to chance when Mark Zuckerberg, president of Meta, finds himself in an interview with conservative podcaster Joe Rogan only a few days after having fired the fact checkers from his Facebook and Instagram networks, in the name of freedom of expression. A turnaround not unrelated to the return of Donald Trump to power, as everyone knows.
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During this interview of nearly three hours, Zuckerberg notably fired a few bullets at his competitor Apple, starting with the iPhone: "They haven't invented anything incredible in a while. It's like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone, and 20 years later, they're just sitting on it. Year after year, I'm not even sure they're selling more iPhones at this point. Each generation (of iPhone) doesn't really bring a significant improvement. So people are just taking longer to renew their device than before. So the number of sales has, I think, basically stagnated or declined. So how do they make more money as a company? Well, they basically do it by squeezing people, in a way."
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Squeezing people includes the famous 30% that Apple takes from developers on the AppStore, a practice that has hurt Meta, but that's not all. Zuckerberg also talks about Apple's very strict privacy rules that have gradually prevented Facebook from targeting its ads.
If these "arbitrary" rules were not enforced, Zuckerberg explains, Meta would have doubled its profits. During this interview, however, the CEO of Meta does not spend his time raging against his competitor, for example hailing the iPhone as "one of the most important inventions of all time."
