Mark Zuckerberg’s 1,000-plus words ‘open letter’ shows how single change in iPhone settings announced by Apple continues to hurt Meta even after 5 years

Mark Zuckerberg spent more than a thousand words in The Wall Street Journal this week arguing that superintelligence should belong to everyone rather than a handful of institutions. Published on July 28, the op-ed is dressed up as philosophy. It talks about liberty, open inquiry, invention over automation, and what Zuckerberg calls a balance of power. It name-drops the Wright brothers and Michael Faraday. Read it once and it sounds like a founder thinking about the next century.

Read it twice and it starts to sound like the longest thing Zuckerberg has ever written about a settings toggle. That toggle shipped in April 2021 inside iOS 14.5.