Mark Zuckerberg said Apple charges as much as it can for hardware - Business Insider

• Mark Zuckerberg said Apple charges "as overmuch arsenic it can" for hardware successful an interrogation with Stratechery's Ben Thompson.
• He's said his VR headsets are priced astatine the break-even point, oregon adjacent a loss, for Meta.
• He hopes the terms constituent volition promote much radical to bargain into the metaverse. 

Mark Zuckerberg is not acrophobic to telephone retired his large tech competitors, peculiarly Apple. 

Zuckerberg has been successful "deep, philosophical competition" with Apple since helium announced his bid for the metaverse past year. 

On Tuesday, successful a podcast interrogation with Stratechery's Ben Thompson, Zuckerberg took different excavation astatine his company's rival. This time, for profiteering disconnected hardware. 

"It's typically radical physique hardware and they effort to marque a nett disconnected of it, wherever if you're Apple, you physique hardware and you complaint arsenic overmuch arsenic you tin for it," Zuckerberg said.

He said he's taking a antithetic route. 

"I bash deliberation that having idiosyncratic travel into the abstraction and fundamentally say, "We're going to physique the champion hardware successful the abstraction and we're going to fundamentally merchantability it astatine a break-even constituent and successful immoderate cases."

Zuckerberg said that's Meta's newest VR headset, Quest Pro, is priced astatine conscionable $1,500. He said helium yet plans to unveil a Quest 3, priced betwixt $300 and $500. 

Zuckerberg contended that Meta's extremity is to see arsenic galore participants successful the metaverse arsenic possible. 

"That concern strategy I deliberation is aligned with the ngo of fundamentally connecting radical and having radical determination due to the fact that if you privation to physique a societal experience, you person to person the radical there."

Ultimately, helium said bundle and services are the existent places helium expects to marque money.