It is no secret that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and co-founder of Facebook has little love lost for Apple. The two companies have been at loggerheads for many years over user privacy among other things. Zuckerberg seems to have found a new fancy for Apple and threw a few jabs at the folks sitting in that spaceship campus in Cupertino.
A few days back Zuckerberg reviewed the Apple Vision Pro and now he has a few things to say about Apple ‘fanboys’.“I do think that there’s this whole vibe with Apple fanboys, which I find kind of a little funny, where it’s like a lot of people just get upset if you dare to question if Apple is going to lead in a new space,” Zuckerberg said in an interview with Morning Brew Podcast.
Zuckerberg was also asked if his review of the Vision Pro would go down as his Steve Ballmer’s ‘iPhone moment’. Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, made several comments about the iPhone when it was launched in 2007, and they weren’t exactly positive.
Zuckerberg said “I just saw the media coverage around this was just sort of breathlessly assuming that, I think because it’s Apple and because it was such an expensive product, like it must be the better one in quality, even though a lot of people are saying, hey, no, you should go buy Quest 3 because it’s the better price.”
He said that his point was just because something — in this case the Vision Pro — is expensive, doesn’t mean it’s better. “If you actually go use case by use case on this thing, Quest 3 stacks up really well. And I’m just really proud of the work that we did. So I just kind of wanted to put that out there and say that,” Zuckerberg said in the interview.
The Meta CEO also said that Apple has ‘won’ the mobile game. “In mobile, Apple won. There’s technically more Android phones out there, but you know basically Apple, from a business perspective won. And then in all the developed countries, where people could afford their products, people basically prefer the iPhone,” he said.
A few days back Zuckerberg reviewed the Apple Vision Pro and now he has a few things to say about Apple ‘fanboys’.“I do think that there’s this whole vibe with Apple fanboys, which I find kind of a little funny, where it’s like a lot of people just get upset if you dare to question if Apple is going to lead in a new space,” Zuckerberg said in an interview with Morning Brew Podcast.
Zuckerberg was also asked if his review of the Vision Pro would go down as his Steve Ballmer’s ‘iPhone moment’. Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, made several comments about the iPhone when it was launched in 2007, and they weren’t exactly positive.
Zuckerberg said “I just saw the media coverage around this was just sort of breathlessly assuming that, I think because it’s Apple and because it was such an expensive product, like it must be the better one in quality, even though a lot of people are saying, hey, no, you should go buy Quest 3 because it’s the better price.”
He said that his point was just because something — in this case the Vision Pro — is expensive, doesn’t mean it’s better. “If you actually go use case by use case on this thing, Quest 3 stacks up really well. And I’m just really proud of the work that we did. So I just kind of wanted to put that out there and say that,” Zuckerberg said in the interview.
The Meta CEO also said that Apple has ‘won’ the mobile game. “In mobile, Apple won. There’s technically more Android phones out there, but you know basically Apple, from a business perspective won. And then in all the developed countries, where people could afford their products, people basically prefer the iPhone,” he said.