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Zuckerberg whines about Apple (daringfireball.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What’s really rich about Meta and Zuckerberg’s incessant complaining about being restricted by Apple’s rules for third party software on Apple’s platforms is that Meta doesn’t allow third parties any sort of access to their successful platforms.

This is a bit of a false equivalency; "Apple's" successful platform is a general-purpose computing device owned by the user while Meta's are hosted services.

These traditionally have different expectations, with game consoles being the exception. Occulus devices seem more like game consoles to me, while iPhones are closer to general-purpose computers with a few weird restrictions. I don't like either, but I see game consoles as less problematic because their use case isn't important.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you go by usage, I'd say the iPhone is primarily an entertainment device.

Meta has been promoting their Quest 3 AR desktop mode for productivity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

By time spent, the iPhone is probably used for media consumption more than anything else, but media consumption is not just entertainment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If there is going be insistence on platforms being open there shouldn't be these distinctions.

All of these devices are capable of general purpose computing at a hardware level, phones, tablets, PCs, headsets are now very similar and generalised in that regard. I don't see why a phone platform should be forced to be open while a games console gets to remain closed, when there is now only a hair's breadth separating an Xbox from a Windows PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Apple should add "console" into their branding to solve all their problems.

The all new iPhone 17+ Console.

There isn't any significant difference between a Switch and an iPhone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp are important. Imagine if Gmail didn’t allow you to use other email clients, you had to use a google made app or the web interface. Would that be a write-off as “not important”?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I did not say that they're not important. I said that they're hosted services, which traditionally don't have the same expectation of user control as computers that users own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh I thought it wasn't that great ? Now it is an amazing general-purpose computing device owned by many.

Huh.