NEW DELHI: Seems Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is really angry with Apple. According to a report in BuzzFeed News, Zuckerberg dissed Apple during a recent company-wide meeting. While replying to a question on Apple control over what's allowed on iPhones, Facebook CEO reportedly said that the company has this "unique stranglehold" as a gatekeeper on what gets on phones. He added that the Apple's App Store "blocks innovation, blocks competition" and "allows Apple to charge monopoly rents."
He is said to have made the comments in front of over 50,000 Facebook employees via webcast. "That’s innovation that could really improve people’s lives," Zuckerberg said as per the report. "And Apple’s just balking at it," he is said to have added.
The report goes on to add that Zuckerberg also slammed Apple over the privacy changes in the upcoming version of its mobile operating system, iOS14. In fact, in a blog post earlier this week, Facebook warned its advertisers of the potential effects of privacy changes in iOS 14. "We understand that iOS 14 will hurt many of our developers and publishers at an already difficult time for businesses. We work with more than 19,000 developers and publishers from around the globe and in 2019 we paid out billions of dollars. Many of these are small businesses that depend on ads to support their livelihood," said the blog post.
The report adds that Zuckerberg was also specifically asked about the iPhone maker's recent decision to bar certain gaming apps from the App Store, including Microsoft xCloud and Facebook Gaming application. Earlier this month, Facebook's Gaming app finally made it to the App Store after almost six months of rejection. Facebook said it accepted Apple’s demand to change its Gaming app to be able to bring it to iPhone and iPad users. Apple on its part said that App Store rules do not allow third-party apps to distribute games as a separate platform.
Expressing frustration with Apple over the issue, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg had said in a statement, "Unfortunately, we had to remove gameplay functionality entirely in order to get Apple’s approval on the stand-alone Facebook Gaming app."
Coming to the Facebook company-wide meeting, Zuckerberg also commented on Apple's ongoing legal war with Fortnite maker Epic Games. He reportedly termed Apple's threat to block the Epic Game's Unreal Engine as “just an extremely aggressive move" that was "quite problematic."
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