US-based tech giant metaheld a conference yesterday called “Connect” on virtual reality movement. Operating under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg, the company announced its new forays into the metaverse as it introduced the new VR device Quest Pro.

Zuckerberg also made some key statements during the event. In an interview with The Verge, the 38-year-old billionaire criticized another tech giant Apple, which is expected to get into the virtual reality world soon.

“Apple’s closed ecosystem will be bad for VR users”

Zuckerberg stated in his statement that he is ready to compete with Apple. Entrepreneur says Apple’s still unannounced VR platforma closed ecosystemand therefore for consumers it would be bad expressed. He described Meta’s ecosystem as “open.” As is known, it is sometimes said that Apple has been working on the VR/AR set for a while; however, it was not known when this move would come from the company. Zuckerberg continued in his interview that Apple has just as much control over VR headsets as it does over iPhones and Macs. can cause damage also added.

Zuckerberg has made similar statements to his employees about the Apple Meta competition in recent months. Referring to the rivalry between the two companies in terms of metaverse technologies, the billionaire said:This is a war of ideas and ideology.” While making his statements, he said that Meta’s products will be cheaper than Apple’s and that they have an “open” system.

In his previous statements, the entrepreneur also stated that they not only tried to make more things interoperable with Android, but also built a metaverse that makes it possible to bring virtual products from one world to another, and that in this case they have created an ‘open ecosystem’. way, while Apple didn’t. Now he has expressed his thoughts publicly.

It should be added that Meta CEO is not alone in criticizing Apple on this point. Google also recently called on Apple to adopt RCS (Rich Communications Service), which could significantly improve the messaging experience between Android and iOS users, and criticized the company for this shutdown.

“I believe an open metaverse built by different developers and companies would be better.”

Despite these statements, Meta CEO, who said he still doesn’t know whether the open ecosystem or the closed ecosystem will be widespread in the future of VR systems, spoke at the end of yesterday’s conference on the matter. Zuckerberg said that in the history of information technologies such as Windows and Macos, Android and iOS we have seen many times “open and closed” ecosystems. He also stated that in closed ecosystems, all values ​​and profits go to the platform owner, while more people and businesses can share what comes out in open ecosystems.

Finally, Zuckerberg closed the conference with the following words:An open, interoperable metaverse by many different developers and companies. I believe it will be better” used his statements.