Apple is no stranger to unasked shots across the bow . The previous come from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg , who used his time on theJoe Rogan Experience podcastto take a few pellet at the iPhone Godhead .
“ I find like they have n’t really invented anything great in a while . It ’s like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and now they ’re just kind of sit on it 20 age afterward , ” he said . Mind you , this come after Apple launched several raw product in 2024 , including :
Apple Vision Pro : A brand unexampled category with several innovational features that prompt Meta to announce the Meta Quest 3 early andtease a pair of AR glassesthat be $ 10,000 to make .
Meta Quest 3 is just like Vision Pro if you ignore all the things Vision Pro does better.
AirPods 4 with ANC : A new pair of mid - range open - capitulum earbuds with active noise cancellation for under $ 200 .
M4 Mac miniskirt : A altogether redesigned desktop computer that ’s small than an Apple television set .
That ’s in addition to the 5.3 mm iPad Pro , 13 - column inch iPad Air , Apple Intelligence , Apple Pencil Pro , and four raw models of the aforementioned iPhone . Now you could argue about whether a thinner iPad Pro or a lowly Mac mini is innovative , but to say Apple has n’t invented anything great in a while is a bit of a stretch .
It ’s so bad , Zuckerberg continues , that Apple is due to get pick apart off its rod any day now : “ I ’m pretty affirmative that just because they ’ve been so off their biz in terms of not really releasing many innovational affair that eventually — I mean the good intelligence about the technical school industriousness is it ’s like , it ’s just super dynamic and thing are constantly getting invented . And I conceive company , if you just do n’t do a good job for like 10 years , eventually you ’re just going to get beat by someone . ”
Meta Quest 3 is just like Vision Pro if you ignore all the things Vision Pro does better .
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That someone , I presume , would be Meta . After all , back when Vision Pro get last February , Zuckerberg musedthat Apple ’s headset was basically a arduous , overpriced , inferior rendering of the Meta Quest 3 despite the latter have deficient passthrough and eye tracking . And lease ’s not blank out that the first - gen Oculus Go had its own growing pains . And it ’s well we do n’t speak of the early daylight ofMeta Horizonsat all .
But the actual reason for Zuckerberg ’s Apple anger is n’t invention at all . It ’s money . Zuckerberg want to exploit into Apple ’s promptly - partner off AirPods system for theRay - Ban Meta Glasses , but Apple was n’t having it : “ We essentially asked them … ‘ Can we basically practice the communications protocol that you apply for AirPods and some of these other thing to just make it so we can as well connect ? So it ’s not like a nuisance in the ass for people who wanna use this ? ’
“ And I think one of the protocols they ’ve used that they built , they basically did n’t encrypt it . So it ’s like patent text . And they ’re like , well , we ca n’t have you plug into it because it would be insecure . ”
Obviously , it would be a Brobdingnagian blessing for the Meta Glasses if they “ just worked ” with the iPhone without ask to dig into Bluetooth setting . But if Zuckerberg really thought Apple was just lead to afford a proprietary connection method for Meta , he ’s more delusional than I guess .
And not for nothing , Zuckerberg ’s call that the communications protocol is n’t cipher is groundless , as is his earlier title that iPhone sales “ might actually be refuse . ” You know what actually is declining?Facebook .
There are plenty of things to criticize Apple about , but a lack of invention is n’t one of them , especially come from someone whose two biggest products were bought rather than developed . In fact , the only new product Meta has released latterly isbasically a Twitter clone .
But hey , I guess I ’d be distressed too if I was responsible forone of the braggart smartphone flops in history .
