[marketingtech]

Meta’s request for interoperability is regarding their hardware, not their flagship apps, if you take it at face value.

They want their glasses and headsets to integrate as tightly as an Apple Watch or Vision Pro to show messages and other notifications, connect to WiFi, and share files with an iPhone, but Apple uses private APIs for their own devices. Meta says that is anticompetitive and the APIs should be public.

Apple lays out their rebuttal in detail here and it’s clear Meta asked for everything in the hopes that Apple will settle for some of these things: https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/DMA-Interopera...

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>Meta’s request for interoperability is regarding their hardware, not their flagship apps, if you take it at face value.

>They want their glasses and headsets to integrate as tightly as an Apple Watch or Vision Pro

Not agreeing or disagreeing but that makes much more sense.

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As someone who’s personally worked on dozens of M&A driven vertical integrations and “ecosystems” (lol)…interoperability is inherent to being a first party.

3rd parties aren’t going to get the same access or treatment for a number of reasons…many of which Apple has outlined.

[marketingtech]

There are several reasons for a platform to not want to offer 3p interop, from security to privacy to competition, but the DMA is targeted EU regulation to mandate interop specifically for the big tech cos’ platforms and this is one of the first major tests of the law.