Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes eye-opening remark on Joe Rogan's podcast about $3.58 trillion-worth Apple Inc. allegedly extorting customers

Mark Zuckerberg made his return to The Joe Rogan Experience on episode #2255 of the podcast, during which he made several stunning revelations and claims. Among the claims he made was one about Apple Inc., whose market cap is at around $3.58 trillion.

According to Zuckerberg, Apple Inc. engages in questionable business practices, which have been used against its customers. This, Zuckerberg, asserts is due to an apparent lack of technological innovation on the part of Apple Inc., which finds alternative means of reaching annual financial highs.

Zuckerberg said:

"They haven't really invented anything great in a while. It's like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and now they're just kind of sitting on it 20 years later. And they actually, year over year, I'm not even sure they're selling more iPhones at this point. I think sales might actually be declining. I think part of it is that each generation [of iPhones] doesn't actually get that much better. So people are just taking longer to upgrade than they would before."

This prompted Zuckerberg to share the following thought with the longtime UFC commentator:

"So the number of sales, I think, has generally been flat to declining. So, how are they making more money as a company? Well, they do it by basically squeezing people and, like you're saying, having this 30% tax on developers, by getting you to buy more peripherals and things that plug into it. They build stuff like AirPods, which are cool, but they've just thoroughly hamstrung the ability for anyone else to build something that can connect to the iPhone in the same way."

Check out Mark Zuckerberg's thoughts on Apple Inc.'s business practices (2:22:48):

Zuckerberg is no stranger to rivalries with other tech giants, but his criticism of Apple Inc. has some foundation in popular sentiment regarding the iPhone's technology trajectory.

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Mark Zuckerberg's latest appearance isn't the first time Apple Inc. was criticized on Joe Rogan's podcast

While Mark Zuckerberg is the most recent critic of Apple Inc.'s business practices, Joe Rogan himself took aim at the company on episode #1186 of his podcast.

He said:

"I'm so sour on Apple because of what they did with the batteries. That was such a dirty thing to me because everybody had always suspected, like my friend Byran [Callen] was always like, 'Dude, I'm telling you when new phones come out, your old phone starts moving slower.'"

Check out Joe Rogan's Apple Inc. criticism (14:59):

In short, Apple Inc. was found to have covertly limited the voltage an iPhone's processor receives toward the end of its lifespan. This prevents thermal throttling to preserve battery health at the cost of decreased performance.