- Zuckerberg is trying put WhatsApp’s privacy and interoperability above Apple’s iMessage.
- He claimed that the Facebook-owned app was actually “far safer and more private” than Apple’s.
- Apple’s privacy changes have been a significant blow to Facebook’s ad-based businesses.
FacebookCEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed Apple’s iMessageMonday was criticized for the inability to interoperate between Android devices and iPhones.
He posted a Facebook billboard ad showing a joke about iMessage limitations. This means that Android messages will appear in green bubbles and iPhone texts in blue bubbles.
Zuckerberg posted Monday that WhatsApp is much more secure and private than iMessage. It uses end-to-end encryption across both iPhones as well as Android. This includes group chats. Instagram
Some users have long lamented this poor cross-device messaging experience, as well as poor-quality compressed videos, the lack of read receipts, group text difficulties, and emojis that don’t send properly.
GoogleApple was attacked on this subject earlier this year. However, Google made a rare online search for the topic. Google claimed that Apple converts text messages between iPhones, Androids into SMS or MMS. These are decades-old methods for sending text-only messages from one device to another. Google is urging Apple to instead use its RCS systems. Tim Cook, Apple CEO, has Resist!iMessage being more compatible with Android phones, because of technical difficulties Sell more iPhones.
Zuckerberg had another reason for criticizing iMessage. Facebook, which changed its corporate name last year to Meta, launched a major campaign for WhatsApp recently, pushing privacy features and security features.
Zuckerberg also posted a photo of the WhatsApp billboard campaign in New York. He said that users can set chats to “disappear” with a tap of a button and that there are “end-to end encrypted backups” that have been available since last. Zuckerberg wrote that iMessage does not have all of these features.
Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014 for $22Billion. As other growth areas slow down, the company is turning to WhatsApp to increase its revenue. Its business, almost entirely digital advertising, has taken a significant share of the company’s revenue growth. A hit of $10 billionApple implemented privacy changes last year. Apple has updated its iOS to allow its more than 1.6 million device users to do the same. opt-outApps can track you. Companies like Facebook have used such tracking to build reliable user targeting and become one of the biggest businesses in the world.
Since Apple introduced its privacy policies, it’s not the first occasion Zuckerberg has tried to help Apple’s business. Last week at Facebook’s Connect developer conference, Zuckerberg and other executives mentioned several times their belief in Oculus headsets. metaverse developmentsCould one day replace the laptop. Andrew Bosworth, CTO, stated that eventually your Oculus would be the only workspace you really need.
Zuckerberg had previously mentioned Apple as a rival, prompting Cook’s last year say he did notFacebook is the same. “If I were to ask our largest competitors, they wouldn’t be listed. We are not in the social network business.”
A clear dislike between the executives Goes backCook made the first public criticism of Facebook’s business model in 2014, at most. Cook asked companies that collect personal data about their customers how they make money and was told that those who do have the right to be concerned.
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