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Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Ordered All Facebook Executives To Use Android Phones After Tim Cook Criticized Facebook (theverge.com)
A new report from the New York Times sheds some light on what happened inside Facebook last year as the company was fighting numerous scandals, including Russian interference and the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March. In addition to reportedly hiring a public relations firm to write dozens of articles critical of rivals Google and Apple, the social media company ordered Facebook executives to use Android phones, after Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized the company in an MSNBC interview for being a service that traffics "in your personal life." According to the report, the order came from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The Verge reports: In those comments made back in March, Cook dismissed a question asking him what he would do if he were in Zuckerberg's shoes dealing with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal by saying, "I wouldn't be in this situation." Zuckerberg soon after retorted in an interview with Recode that he found Cook's comments to be "extremely glib," and that "I think it's important that we don't all get Stockholm syndrome and let the companies that work hard to charge you more convince you that they actually care more about you. Because that sounds ridiculous to me." While it's not clear how Cook's aggressive comments directly provoked Zuckerberg into issuing his Android-only order, it's still a rational decision to make Americans use Android. Android is the dominant operating system in many regions outside of the U.S., including South America, Europe, Russia, South Asia, and parts of the Middle East.
Which means Facebook employees have to use the Facebook App for Android, right? Maybe this will motivate them to fix it.
"He seems to have the mental age of a two-year-old. Make an irrational decision, then find some vague reason to back it up." (Fixed)
This Slashdot article, and this other one today seem to indicate a mental breakdown:
Facebook Reportedly Hired a PR Firm That Wrote Negative Articles About Rivals, Pushed George Soros Conspiracy Theory
That kind of breakdown indicates a very poor childhood, in my opinion.
Dell was a client of mine and I one visited their Round Rock headquarters. I had my Mac laptop in meetings and one of the directors I worked with mentioned it wasn't a deal breaker for them but if I was up on the C-level floor and they saw an Apple computer, you'd be escorted from the building. Seems a bit strange that they're so hardcore against anything Apple, yet they're perfectly fine with visitors using Toshiba, Sony, Lenovo, and any other brand of Windows laptop, which seems more directly in competition with them.