Mark Zuckerberg says Apple's AR/VR headset will suck because it'll be a 'closed ecosystem' - iMore

With Apple rumored to beryllium acceptable to denote its ain mixed world headset successful aboriginal 2023, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is afloat steam up connected its own. And Zuck says Apple's attack is each wrong.

Speaking during Meta's Connect league and past successful an interrogation with The Verge, the Meta CEO said that Apple's strategy volition beryllium a closed one, portion the Meta alternate volition beryllium open.

Open and closed case

Zuck's stance connected unfastened and closed systems is simply a reasonably casual 1 to see. During the Connect conference, we saw him speech astir however computing has historically seen unfastened and closed systems vie — helium talked astir Windows and macOS, Android and iOS. Now, helium sees Meta and Apple arsenic being connected a collision people successful a akin way.

“I powerfully judge that an open, interoperable metaverse built by galore antithetic developers and companies is going to beryllium amended for everyone,” Zuckerberg is quoted arsenic saying. Predictably, helium wants Meta's tech to beryllium the 1 those developers and companies use.

Zuckerberg besides pointed to the power Apple has implicit iPhones and Macs, saying that a repetition show successful the satellite of VR could wounded others, not conscionable Apple itself. He suggested that Apple could take to "hinder" Meta successful the future, adding that "I deliberation 1 happening that’s been beauteous wide is that their motives successful doing the things that they’re doing are not arsenic altruistic arsenic they assertion them to be."

That appears to beryllium a telephone backmost to Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) prevention, thing that is costing Facebook millions of dollars per twelvemonth successful mislaid advertisement revenue. Apple says its stance is astir idiosyncratic privateness — intelligibly Zuckerberg isn't sold connected that.

Apple is present expected to denote its ain mixed world headset successful the archetypal fewer months of 2023 pursuing years of rumors. It's acceptable to beryllium costly, though, with upwards of $2,000 expected to beryllium the terms initially.