Zuckerberg’s 1,000-plus words open letter shows Apple’s iPhone change still hurts Meta

 Mark Zuckerberg’s 1,000-word Wall Street Journal op-ed on superintelligence reads like philosophy, but its argument against concentrated power traces back to one Apple change. iOS 14.5’s App Tracking Transparency cost Meta roughly $10 billion and triggered a 26.4% stock crash that erased $232 billion. Five years on, Meta’s open-weight Llama strategy and AI spending are shaped by that lesson in platform control. Mark Zuckerberg’s 1,000-word Wall Street Journal op-ed on superintelligence reads like philosophy, but its argument against concentrated power traces back to one Apple change. iOS 14.5’s App Tracking Transparency cost Meta roughly $10 billion and triggered a 26.4% stock crash that erased $232 billion. Five years on, Meta’s open-weight Llama strategy and AI spending are shaped by that lesson in platform control.