Mark Zuckerberg on Apple limiting Meta's 'creativity to build the best things': 'It's somewhat soul-crushing'

'Our business would be bigger, if we hadn’t gotten all these random taxes or rules that the mobile platforms have put on us,' Mark Zuckerberg said. (File photo)

Mark Zuckerberg has recently said that Apple's mobile platform has limited Meta's "creativity to build the best things" and that is "soul-crushing" to have Apple hinder their plans because they view his company as a rival.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Zuckerberg also opened up about Meta's AI strategy which revolves around open sourcing its artificial intelligence models. In other words, the Meta CEO is working towards providing "the post powerful tech for free".

Zuckerberg believes that this open-source model will position Meta as a counterbalance to companies that lock customers into proprietary software. "I want us to build and have more control over the next set of platforms. So we're making these big investments to control our destiny," he said.

His goal appears to be to control the next generation of technological platforms such as operating systems for virtual reality devices and AI assistants.

"There are all these analyses that we’ve done where we would be a lot more profitable, our business would be bigger, if we hadn’t gotten all these random taxes or rules that the mobile platforms have put on us," Zuckerberg told the publication.

"But honestly, that’s not the big thing that bothered me. It was how it limited our creativity to build the best things that we could imagine,” he continues. “It’s somewhat soul-crushing to go build something that you think is going to be good and then just get told by Apple that you can’t ship it because they want to put us in a box because they view us as competitive."