Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is annoyed with comments made by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook about customers being made into the product if online services are free, according to a profile by Time magazine.
In a lengthy piece on Zuckerberg, writer Lev Grossman says the only time the Facebook boss seemed irritated was when discussing Cook’s comments, which were made in a statement last September.
“A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product,” Cook wrote. “At Apple, we believe a great customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.”
So what did Zuckerberg make of that?
A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers
I think it’s the most ridiculous concept. What, you think because you’re paying Apple that you’re somehow in alignment with them? If you were in alignment with them, then they’d make their products a lot cheaper!
The independent: http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/mark-zuckerberg-has-this-to-say-about-tim-cook--ekQ8sYRTOl
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Looks like the pot calling the kettle to me. Cook is openly fleecing his clients whist Zuckerberg is looking for stealthier ways of fleecing his. He (Zuckerberg) is already doing that by laying claim to all images posted on his platform, one reason it makes no business sense to me to have an account there.
A uniquely American business logic is daily taking firmer hold here. It lacks ethics and it lacks logic. It clearly implies that money is everything, people mean nothing. There is no right or wrong, only money. Therefore only money can be right. It is very worrying.