Zuckerberg orders employees to give up iPhones after Apple CEO criticized Facebook

Looks like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might be holding on to a grudge as he has ordered his entire management team to use Android phones after Apple CEO Tim Cook commented regarding Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Social media firm Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently ordered his team to give up iPhones and switch to Android phones. The New York Times reported that Zuckerberg’s decision came after Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook for being a service that traffics ‘in your personal life’.

“We are not going to traffic in your personal life,” Cook said in an MSNBC interview that was taken few months ago. “Privacy to us is a human right. It’s a civil liberty.” These remarks led Zuckerberg to order his employees to stop using iPhones and start using Android phones, since the operating system has far more users than Apple’s.

The interviewer also asked Cook what would he do if he were in Zuckerberg’s shoes following the data breach scandal to which Cook simply replied, “I wouldn’t be in this situation.”

CNET reported, in the interview, Cook also said that Apple deliberately chose privacy over profit by refusing to sell customer data. “The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer - if our customer was our product. We’ve elected not to do that.”

Soon after Zuckerberg replied back in an interview with Recode that he Cook’s comments were ‘extremely glib’. “If you want to build a service which is not just serving rich people, then you need to have something people can afford.

“I think it’s important that we don’t all get Stockholm syndrome and let the companies that work hard to charge you more convince you that they actually care more about you. Because that sounds ridiculous to me,” retorted Zuckerberg.