Opinion: With Meta’s Threads, Zuck seized an opportunity and took a page from Steve Jobs

Meta Platforms Inc.’s new entry into the social media space, Threads, has seized an opportune moment amid much frustration with Twitter, with Mark Zuckerberg also deploying elements of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’s well-known copycat tactic.

Meta META Chief Executive Zuckerberg is no stranger to mimicking good ideas from other tech competitors. While not everything has succeeded, Instagram Stories, a copy of Snap Inc.’s SNAP chat’s ephemeral Stories on Snapchat, and Reels in the vein of TikTok’s popular short-form videos with…