Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is coming for Apple’s empire
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If Meta is right that the AI era wants glasses and wearables more than phones, the control point shifts from app stores to identity and assistants. Hardware teams should assume at least a dual-platform future for AI-native UX — iOS plus whatever AR/VR or wearables layer gains real consumer time.
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