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Mark Zuckerberg Reflects on How Apple's Strict Rules Hurt Facebook
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coming from a patform that freeley allows hate speech , its rich of facebook to complain about anything. disgusting company.
He says Apple contributed to the end of the Farmville era like that was a bad thing. Meanwhile, he's deflecting from the fact that at that time Facebook was experimenting with psychological tricks to keep people scrolling at the expense of their mental health. The current version of Facebook is a hot mess of ads and "suggested" content, with a tiny but of the things you asked for. It's garbage, and so is MZ.
"Bit by bit, the walls surrounding Apple's infamous walled garden are beginning to come down."
Good. Tear it all down. Every bit of the artifice that is the App Store. Every element of its design and function placed solely as a result of Apple's hubris and astonishing greed.
There are no saints, only sinners, in the tech marketplace. I have no desire to support Zuckerberg, Sweeney, or any of their ilk. But nor do I buy a word of Apple's mawkish marketing and false brand identity. They are as greedy and duplicitous as the rest, they've just (up to this point) done a much better job of hiding it.
Good. Tear it all down. Every bit of the artifice that is the App Store. Every element of its design and function placed solely as a result of Apple's hubris and astonishing greed.
There are no saints, only sinners, in the tech marketplace. I have no desire to support Zuckerberg, Sweeney, or any of their ilk. But nor do I buy a word of Apple's mawkish marketing and false brand identity. They are as greedy and duplicitous as the rest, they've just (up to this point) done a much better job of hiding it.
If Apple wants to build a product that almost no one would use and would quietly shut down in a few years, sure thing.
Spot-on and sad. Within a few years from now people will complain about their private and sensitive information that was once secure on their phones will then be routinely compromised by nefarious apps.
We would not have the iPhone and App Store people love to complain about if Apple decided to build their future on top of Nokia’s hardware instead of going their own way. (They actually tried on top of Motorola hardware, ROKR LOL) Historically, the way we get new products and services is that companies would see a large enough group of users that “want something different” and then provide that thing. If they were right, success. If they were wrong, try again (if they have money left) and in the end we get a cool new gadget acceptably different from what existed before.
I'm not even sure there is a market for this sort of thing right now.
People seem to have really soured on the old social network concepts.
I know that for me I have zero interest in it.
I've realized over the years that I don't get much out of random updates from afar.
Relationships need in person time to truly maintain, at least for me.
I don’t see him crying that Facebook contributed to the end of the MySpace era.
Sometimes, things need to die, especially if they’re not adaptive enough to change with the times.
So the people cheering on the walls of Apple’s garden being torn down are notorious bad actors themselves.
News at 11.
News at 11.
Oh, boo hoo! 😭
I read that headline and picture Zuckerberg crying crocodile tears "and that's when the nasty fruit company hurt my Facebook"
Social network (which, today, means a place to share intimate details about yourself, where you live, what you like to do, how you look with strangers for likes and makes money via ads) and privacy (not providing details about yourself like where you live, what you like to do, how you look with strangers for likes and NOT collecting data for ads) are diametrically opposed.
Social apps—Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and others like them—remain the most popular apps in the App Store for Android and iOS, year after year. They represent the primary purpose why many people even own and use a smartphone. That may not be true for you, it certainly isn't for me, but don't think for a second the anti-Facebook white knighting on here or elsewhere represents anything like a majority opinion. People may think Zuckerberg is a sniveling rat-weasel of a human being, but they use his products in spades.
Perhaps that's sad. Perhaps that's the reality of narcissism as a way of life. We all should be responsible for our own choices, however, and not abdicate that responsibility to a multinational corporation to "protect" us from anything.
I believe I hear the world's smallest violin playing for this snowflake.
Apple is not at fault that their product is successful, but they need to move to a more mutually beneficial relationship with developers. This can mean allowing third-party apps that don’t come from the App Store and generally go more lax. Yes, Facebook, Spotify etc. built their houses on Apple’s hill, but for example nobody in Europe would be buying iPhones if it was a widely known fact that Facebook is not available on them.
That’s not true. You could grant access to friends without leaving your data open to all. Also Facebook is able to sell your data, any Apple solution would stop that.
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I'm with ya
I think if there was a type of social network Apple could try, and perhaps should, it would be their take on Instagram and the focus on photos.
I'm with ya
I think if there was a type of social network Apple could try, and perhaps should, it would be their take on Instagram and the focus on photos.
The more Apple hurts Facebook, the better. In fact, if Apple killed it, I wouldn't shed a tear. It's a cesspool reflecting the worst aspects of human nature, surpassed only by X (Twitter) and TruthySocial.
That’s NOT an accurate description of today’s social networks, though. I share images with my family TODAY without leaving my data open to all, via iMessage. I doubt people would consider that a “social network”.
Apple successfully sidestepped the horrors of today’s internet when they sunset .mac. There’s literally no way that Apple would be able to maintain its privacy posture AND keep the toxic content from being hosted on their servers. PLUS it wouldn’t be profitable.
I don't hate this idea! Especially given how Instagram lost the plot by trying to chase TikTok.
I'm curious what Apple could do that was different than Flickr, however. Integrate more of a social aspect? Flickr is more like semi-public photo storage. The social aspects are very Inside Baseball™ for photo nerds. I wonder if Apple could create something like that that was more social at its core.
But then again, they tried that with Music and Ping and... well (burningpileofgarbage.gif)
Do no want and would not use if it was available. Additionally, my friends and family are a mix of Apple and Android, and some (like myself) who only social media on the web via a computer. I doubt Apple would make it cross-platform.
Apple is already too far into services, which they aren't great at. Get back to focusing on the various OS(s) and on Hardware. I don't think Apple is competent enough to build and maintain a social network.
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I’m sure Facebook abuse of customer’s private data, and censorship didn’t have anything to do with the decline of Facebook