Often described as the Russian Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire and tech visionary Pavel Durov, founder of secure messaging app Telegram, has just burst out with a rant against Apple saying that every time he uses an iPhone he feels “thrown back into the Middle Ages” and criticizes the company for locking down customers and turning them into “digital slaves”.
The strong reaction comes after a New York Times investigation revealed a relationship between Apple and China, and particularly how Apple was allegedly instrumental in “large-scale surveillance and censorship at the behest of China.” Durov published the rant in his own Telegram channel, followed by nearly 600,000 people.
