Mark Zuckerberg Slams Apple's Lack of Innovation, X Reacts

Mark Zuckerberg told the world how he really feels about Apple as a company and a brand. Spoiler alert: he didn’t have anything nice to say. Engaging in tech bro-talk with Joe Rogan on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience on Friday, Zuckerberg dropped his opinion on Tim Cook’s Apple. The Meta CEO criticized Apple for its lack of innovation and criticized the company for what he described as “random rules.”

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“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. “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.”

Apple’s Lack of Improvements On New iPhone Models Is Hurting Sales According To Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg, who was slammed last week for ending “fact-checking” on Meta and was blessed with a bunch of outrageous fake headlines, continued digging into his rival, sharing he feels customers are no longer rushing to upgrade their iPhones is due to lack new features in new models, resulting in struggling sales of the once mighty smartphone. “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 added. “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.”

Zuckerberg Feels Apple “Traps” Its Customers In Their Ecosystem

He further explained that the company that Jobs built avoided pushback from other companies by claiming its main goal was not to violate its customers’ privacy and security, a problem he feels could be fixed by Apple fixing its protocol and improving security by using better encryption. Zuckerberg continued, “It’s insecure because you didn’t build any security into it. And then you’re using that as a justification for why only your product can connect easily.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s take on Apple. A must watch. I love Apple products. Always have. However, his take on how they haven’t come up with something truly innovative is spot on. A few examples:

1) AirPods Max 2 … they just added a USB-C charger. Other than that, it’s the same thing… pic.twitter.com/h6Z0bO2jCQ — Antonio Reza (@theantonioreza) January 11, 2025

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Mark Zuckerberg Shared His Opinion On The Failed Apple Vision Pro

Zuckerberg had more to say. He also discussed Apple’s current flop, the Apple Vision Pro. He did give them credit for their attempt at entering the VR space with its spatial computing device, but that’s as far as his compliments went. “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.” He continued, “I heard it’s really good for watching movies.” Well, damn. He also added that “they shipped something for $3,500 that I think is worse than the thing that we shipped for $300 or $400.

Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan podcast, said that Apple Vision Pro is worse than the Meta Quest: ‘They shipped something for $3,500 that I think is worse than the thing that we shipped for $300 or $400.’ pic.twitter.com/W0T4G4gqCC

— Nathie (@NathieVR) January 13, 2025

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Users on X, formerly Twitter, have been reacting to Zuckerberg’s comments. Surprisingly, many agree with him but accuse him of not truly being innovative.

Mark Zuckerberg is correct here and I can also add that Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t created anything at all

He bought Instagram and some other app and stole The Facebook He’s just Elon Musk that washes up every day https://t.co/Rd8bhhv6yv — many nigga face god (@brantweezy) January 13, 2025

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1. Hmmmmmmm

2. Oh?

3. Well damn

4. True

5. Some folks agree with Mark Zuckerberg

6. Truth hurts sometimes

7. Uh huh

8. Let Mark know how you really feel

9. Bruh

10. S A L T Y

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