- 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.
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