During an interview on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg poked fun at Apple and appeared to side with Musk on the issue of control over the App Store.
"I think Apple is the only company that is trying to control what apps get on a device, and I don't think that's a sustainable or good place to be," he said. He said it was problematic for one company to be able to control what kind of app experiences got on the device.
Insider asked for comment from Apple and Meta, but they didn't reply.
The New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin asked the Facebook founder his thoughts on Musk's fight with Apple. Musk said on Tuesday that Apple's control over the App Store was a serious problem. The billionaire said that the tech giant had threatened to pull the plug on the app store.
The Meta CEO thinks that Apple is the only company that can control what apps get on the device. The ability to side-load apps, as well as other app stores, can be found on the other side of the Play Store.
He has been critical of Apple's policies for a long time. He accused the company of monopolizing rents in the form of App Store fees. Musk dislikes Apple's app store fee. The tech company takes between 15% and 30% of most in-app purchases on the iPad.
Apple's policies pose a risk to Meta as he sees them as one of the company's big competitors, according to Facebook's founder and CEO.
The conflict of interest makes them not just a kind of governor that is looking out for the best of people's interests. It's very difficult because they have a lot of their own strategic interests.
Apple's privacy policies have been hard on the company according to the Facebook founder. Meta said that Apple's app tracking transparency feature would decrease the company's sales by $10 billion.
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