Mark Zuckerberg is risking a Steve Ballmer moment with his Apple Vision Pro takedown

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 Awais11

  • Mark Zuckerberg trashed Apple's Vision Pro this week and called out Apple's "fanboys."
    • But Zuckerberg isn't the first to vocally dismiss an Apple flagship product.
    • Steve Ballmer infamously laughed off the iPhone at first.It was a surprising swipe from the Meta boss at one of his biggest virtual-reality rivals. But if history's any indication, underestimating Apple is a risky play.

      After the iPhone launched in 2007, the outspoken Microsoft founder Steve Ballmer infamously laughed off the product.

      "Five hundred dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan?” Ballmer said at the time. “I said, that is the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard — which makes it not a very good email machine. Now, it may sell very well or not."

      Now Zuckerberg has hit out at Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro, deriding Apple “fanboys” and saying they're hyping a product with inferior specs to Meta’s $500 competitor, the Quest headset. Awais11 

      Zuckerberg said on top of being cheaper, the Quest had a brighter screen and was more comfortable than Apple's divisive device — though he did concede the Vision Pro had “really nice” eye tracking and resolution.Awais11

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