Apple Goes Public With Meta Interoperability Requests, Apple and Interoperability Risk, Zuckerberg’s Master Plan

Today's Above Avalon Daily email contains the following stories:

• Apple Goes Public With Meta Interoperability Requests

• Apple and Interoperability Risk

• Zuckerberg’s Master Plan

There is backstory to Mark Zuckerberg’s complaints about not having better access to Apple’s ecosystem to help sell products like Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Today’s update goes over the Digital Markets Act’s interoperability requirements and Apple’s corresponding white paper on the topic. We also go over my view on Zuckerberg’s master plan in going after Apple on interoperability grounds.

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