In many ways, we’re living in the world that Mark Zuckerberg built. No other person is as responsible for social media ’s rapid ascendance into ubiquity over the last two decade. The platforms he runs — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp — see more than 3 billion users total every day, and create billions in quarterly profit for corporate parent Meta.

During Meta's earnings calls, Mark Zuckerberg intimated that not having smart glasses would put people at a disadvantage compared with those who do.

Mark Zuckerberg didn’t use Apple’s name the other day when laying out his vision for marrying superintelligent AI and his hardware. He might as well have. The Meta Platforms chief is just the latest in Silicon Valley to put a bull’s-eye on the iPhone’s role as gatekeeper to the digital world.