{"id":1757458,"date":"2022-11-30T17:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757458"},"modified":"2022-11-30T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:34:27","slug":"zuckerberg-joins-musk-in-criticizing-apples-iron-grip-on-its-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerberg-joins-musk-in-criticizing-apples-iron-grip-on-its-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Joins Musk In Criticizing Apple\u2019s Iron Grip On Its App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzuckerberg-joins-musk-in-criticizing-apples-iron-grip-on-its-app-store%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/meta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta<\/a> CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/mark-zuckerberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> joined <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> in his criticism of <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> for the company\u2019s ability to unilaterally control its app store.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/11\/30\/business\/dealbook-summit-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> at the New York Times\u2019 DealBook Summit, Zuckerberg said that Apple is the only platform \u201cwhere one company can control what apps get on the device,\u201d a situation he characterized as neither \u201csustainable\u201d nor \u201cgood.\u201d The founder also noted that other systems such as Windows and Android do not exercise such aggressive gatekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>Meta <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/charts\/iphone\/social-networking-apps\/6005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controls<\/a> three of the top four social networking platforms on the Apple app store, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook. Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/twitter\/id333903271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranks<\/a> first in the app store\u2019s news category.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/go-to-war-musk-targets-apple-claiming-it-canceled-ads-threatened-to-boot-twitter-from-app-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired<\/a> Twitter last month and desires to pivot the social media company\u2019s business plan toward a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-introduces-new-idea-to-twitter-and-kills-it-hours-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscription-based<\/a> model, said that Apple, which levies a 30% fee on in-app purchases, enforces a functional tax on the internet. The entrepreneur previously said that Apple has \u201cthreatened to withhold\u201d Twitter from its app store without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that Apple has \u201cmostly stopped advertising\u201d on Twitter, the world\u2019s richest man asked whether the world\u2019s largest company hates \u201cfree speech in America.\u201d Several advertisers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/extremely-messed-up-elon-musk-blasts-activist-groups-for-pushing-advertisers-to-ditch-twitter-destroy-free-speech-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backed away<\/a> from Twitter at the behest of activist groups claiming that \u201cextremists\u201d consider the Musk takeover \u201ca new opportunity to post the most abusive, harassing, and racist language and imagery,\u201d including \u201cclear threats of violence against people with whom they disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk hinted that he would consider launching a new brand of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/musk-to-start-creating-smartphones-if-apple-google-remove-twitter-from-app-stores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smartphones<\/a> in the event that Apple removes Twitter from the app store. \u201cI certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone,\u201d he told commentator Liz Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/raw-exercise-of-monopolistic-power-desantis-demands-congressional-action-if-apple-dumps-twitter-from-app-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserted<\/a> that a potential move to delist Twitter would constitute a significant abuse of power from Apple. \u201cHe\u2019s providing free speech, and so if Apple responds to that by nuking them from the app store, I think that would be a huge, huge mistake,\u201d the governor said, noting that a response from Congress could be warranted.<\/p>\n<p>Musk recently published a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-reveals-how-twitters-business-is-doing-under-his-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investor slides<\/a> showing that the daily inflow of new users into Twitter has reached two million under his leadership, while \u201cuser active minutes per day\u201d reached eight billion. The company now has more than 250 million monetizable daily active users, with all three metrics surpassing previous company records.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/elon-musk\/less-month-elon-musk-has-driven-away-half-twitters-top-100-advertisers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from left-wing organization Media Matters, one of the groups that signed the letter asking advertisers to sever their relationships with Twitter, as many as 50 of the largest 100 advertisers on the platform have \u201ceither announced or seemingly stopped\u201d their campaigns. The world\u2019s richest man initially <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1585619322239561728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> advertisers that he acquired Twitter in order to foster free speech and noted in the slides that purported hate speech impressions have dwindled under his watch. The hesitant advertisers, however, have spent $2 billion on the platform over the past two years, dealing a salient blow to the company\u2019s bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,\u201d Musk confirmed earlier this month. \u201cExtremely messed up! They\u2019re trying to destroy free speech in America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Twitter CEO Elon Musk in his criticism of Apple for the company\u2019s ability to unilaterally control its app store. During a speech at the New York Times\u2019 DealBook Summit, Zuckerberg said that Apple is the only platform \u201cwhere one company can control what apps get on the device,\u201d a situation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1757461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}