{"id":927442,"date":"2025-05-02T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927442"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:50:02","slug":"apples-policies-crushed-facebooks-viral-games-like-farmville-says-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/02\/apples-policies-crushed-facebooks-viral-games-like-farmville-says-mark-zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Apple\u2019s policies crushed Facebook\u2019s viral games like FarmVille,\u2019 says Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blamed Apple\u2019s strict App Store policies for the decline of Facebook\u2019s popular games and apps, such as the once-viral FarmVille. In a recent interview with tech writer Ben Thompson fromStratechery, Zuckerberg looked back at how Facebook\u2019s app and game platform thrived on desktop computers in the late 2000s but struggled as people moved to smartphones, reportedMacrumors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original Facebook platform was really built for the web, before mobile became big,\u201d Zuckerberg said. \u201cWhen people started using mobile more, Apple told us, \u2018You can\u2019t have apps inside your app.\u2019 That hurt something that had grown to be an important part of our business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blamed Apple\u2019s strict App Store policies for the decline of Facebook\u2019s popular games and apps, such as the once-viral FarmVille. In a recent interview with tech writer Ben Thompson fromStratechery, Zuckerberg looked back at how Facebook\u2019s app and game platform thrived on desktop computers in the late 2000s but struggled as people moved to smartphones, reportedMacrumors. \u201cThe original Facebook platform was really built for the web, before mobile became big,\u201d Zuckerberg said. \u201cWhen people started using mobile more, Apple told us, \u2018You can\u2019t have apps inside your app.\u2019 That hurt something that had grown to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}