It hasn’t been a good couple of years for tech companies, as far as public trust. Revelations about NSA spying and increasingly intrusive privacy policies have led customer confidence in their online data to plunge. Most people do not feel secure sharing information online, and many are concerned about companies that give their information to advertisers.
And that, in turn, seems to be leading tech giants to take public swipes at each other. In September, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote regarding his company’s privacy policies, “When an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.”
In an interview with Time magazine, Zuckerberg appears less than amused with that crack. “The shot was probably meant for Google,” Time notes, “but Facebook was definitely in the blast radius.”
Zuckerberg punched back, saying, “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!”
“Our mission is to connect every person in the world,” Zuckerberg said. “You don’t do that by having a service people pay for.”
(h/t SlashGear)
