> One of my [Mark Zuckerberg, ed.] formative experiences has been building our services constrained by what Apple will let us build on their platforms. Between the way they tax developers, the arbitrary rules they apply, and all the product innovations they block from shipping, it’s clear that Meta and many other companies would be freed up to build much better services for people if we could build the best versions of our products and competitors were not able to constrain what we could build.
If Zuckerberg had his way, mobile device OSes would let Meta ingest microphone and GPS data 24/7 (just like much of the general public already thinks they do because of the effectiveness of the other sorts of tracking they are able to do).
There are certainly legit innovations that haven't shipped because gatekeepers don't allow them. But there've been lots of harmful "innovations" blocked, too.
This is a bit like saying that free speech is bad, because what bad things might happen if people could talk freely. So glad there is a dictator that forbids it!
This is hard to disagree with.