Zuckerberg has made it very clear to his employees that Meta and Apple are in a philosophical war and only one can be the winner of the AR/VR future. Apple also put a massive dent in their ad business (-$10B yearly income) with the introduction of Do Not Track in iOS.<p>The question becomes, why haven't he banned Apple products in their offices? You can see employees with MacBooks and iPhones everywhere inside Meta and Instagram.
Because even if Meta itself or its employees contributed $50M in revenue through the purchase of apple products in the office the difference is negligible to Apple's bottom line so the associated loss of productivity or even mild annoyance of employees wouldn't be worth it.
Sorry for answering with a question… but it’s an obvious one: how would Meta benefit from banning Apple devices?<p>They would certainly lose a lot of money in the process with no clear win. Other than, perhaps, an authoritarian “Zuck said so” posturing that might make a few disgruntled individuals feel temporarily satisfied.
That would be a great way to upset enough employees to meet their attrition goals.<p>Some employees are going to need to use Apple products because of their job, obviously. Others have strong preferences. Others may not want to deal with a forced migration.
facebook needs employees far more than the employees need facebook, most of them could probably get a job in another megacorp pretty easily. you don't want to get the reputation of being a "petty bullshit" place to work.
Look up the percentage of US cell phones that Apple makes. They're also something of a status symbol, so a higher percentage of high paid Metazoans will own iPhones.<p>He just can't, a lot like some high tech companies can't do drug tests.
Because they aren’t competing in the hardware sector. And as others pointed, it would annoy the many employees who use iProducts. Also it would add to the narrative of Zuckerberg becoming slowly unhinged.
Meta is not a hardware company. They make software for iOS, macOS, Safari (Apple), Android, Chrome (Google) and Windows (Microsoft).<p>I bet you also didn't know that Apple uses Samsung parts in their devices, or that Ukraine is transporting natural gas for Russia and get paid for it. It's a whole new world out there when you are not blindly zealous for no reason.
It's the same problem and fate adobe had. Adobe should have STOPPED all flash/photoshop/reader products to apple early like 2005. Instead they played along and slowly died. You will hear the same reasons "security!".
They still need their apps to run on Apple platforms. The ban you’re thinking of might have some benefit for VR tech, but even then they’d lose insight into their competition. Does Samsung even ban iphones?