Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has slammed the iPhone maker for its App Store content moderation policies, calling them “a conflict of interest.”
Zuckerberg stated at the New York Times DealBook conference that “it is problematic for one company to be able to control what app experiences end up on a device”.
He said that the “vast majority of profits in the mobile ecosystem go toward Apple”.
On Musk being the new Twitter owner, the Meta CEO said “it’ll be very interesting to see how this plays out”.
Musk said on Thursday that he and Apple CEO Tim Cook “resolved” misunderstandings about the microblogging platform possibly being removed from the App Store.
Apple and Meta (formerly Facebook) are at odds over iOS and App Store privacy changes.
Following Apple’s strict privacy changes in the App Store, Facebook is struggling to patch its ad-tracking systems.
Apple introduced the “Ask App Not to Track” prompt as part of iOS 14.5 in 2021, which had a significant impact on various companies, including Meta, which estimated that Apple iOS privacy changes would cost it $10 billion in 2022.
Apple’s iOS 14.5 update, which was released in April 2021, included an App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature, which has impacted digital advertising for tech giants.
According to the WSJ, Apple’s privacy move resulted in a lawsuit. “sharp business slump that has shaved approximately $600 billion from the company’s (Meta’s) market value in less than a year”.
According to a Meta spokesman, the company has “made significant changes over the past five years to protect people’s data while also allowing businesses of all sizes to grow”.
