Tech Mails

Urgent Issue

Mark Zuckerberg to An Apple executive (name redacted), September 30, 2012

Exhibit
From
Mark Zuckerberg
Sent
Sunday, September 30, 2012
To
An Apple executive (name redacted)
Subject
Urgent Issue

Only part of this email is public. The text below is the portion quoted in the source.

When we said we didn't want a competitor like Google to use Facebook data to build a competitive graph, I interpreted this as including competitors like Line and Kakao, which both now have more active users than Google+. I also interpreted this as meaning that if they used our data -- including through the contacts API -- and this became an issue, that you would help us deal with this . . . This isn't a matter of us not liking some apps; it's a matter of these competitors using this data to do the exact thing we said they shouldn't be able to. [...] [T]he competitive issue we have is that for people who are your distant Facebook friends but you never cared enough to enter into your contacts in the first place and are probably never going to call, the primary thing that this integration enables is that now competitive services like Line and Kakao can easily invite 50% more people and grow faster. This doesn't really make iOS or any of Apple's products better. It just uses data from Facebook to help competitive services build out their graphs. And this isn't apps getting the same data they would have gotten before . . . they now get 50% more additional contacts to invite.
MZX-000022

About this email

Two passages quoted in the FTC's filing from Zuckerberg's September 30, 2012 email to an Apple executive on the same "Urgent Issue" thread.

The whole thread

  1. Sep 25, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg [w]hen we discussed the Facebook / iOS integration, one of the biggest issues we discussed was around how…
  2. Sep 27, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg by pulling all this info into contacts, we're helping our competitors compete against ourselves.
  3. Sep 30, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg When we said we didn't want a competitor like Google to use Facebook data to build a competitive graph, I…