Imagine being Mark Zuckerberg: ridiculously wealthy, absurdly famous, outlandishly powerful—plus, you’ve only ever had one job since you were 19, and that job is being CEO of Facebook.
It’s grown under your leadership from a dorm room project to one of the biggest companies in the world (at least according to Wall Street). And it’s grown despite people telling you at every single turn — starting back in the days when you had to go before a disciplinary board at Harvard — that you were doing things wrong.
Now, imagine that there’s a big threat to Facebook. There are only a few forces on Earth powerful enough to take on your company—national governments, maybe (tell that to Australia). But otherwise, we’re talking about the other tech behemoths.
And one of them, Apple, has Facebook clearly in its sights. Short version:
Apple is changing its privacy rules so that app developers (that’s you, if you’re Zuckerberg, since most people use Facebook on their phones) will have to request permission …
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