Bosworth: Mobile Gatekeepers, Especially Apple, Stifle Meta's Application Development
Andrew Bosworth · Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth · Oct 4, 2024 · at 9:44
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth explains why Meta is developing its own AR hardware and computing platform rather than remaining solely an app developer.
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“Strategically, we have just been at the mercy of platforms for since the start of the mobile era. And we were a web company, right? We were born of the web, and the web was this, like, amazing, unowned platform that you just, like really had a lot of control over what you built, and you had a direct relationship with consumers. And we absolutely feel That in our application development, we're stifled by the gatekeepers, especially Apple in terms of the policies, what they allow, what they don't allow.”
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