Zuckerberg revealed one of his "great regrets" about his stewardship of the company. Facebook, in Zuckerberg's view, did not play enough of a role developing and influencing the mobile technology that's become society's primary means of computing.
"Frankly, we haven't been a hardware company or an operating system company," Zuckerberg said during the call.
Smartphones and other mobile gadgets are designed around apps, instead of people, the Facebook CEO explained. Were Facebook not so busy building its own service at the dawn of the smartphone age a decade ago, it would have been able to show everyone a better way.
"One of my great regrets in how we’ve run the company so far is I feel like we didn’t get to shape the way that mobile platforms developed as much as would have been good," Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg made the comments in response to a question about Facebook's Oculus virtual reality headset — a product that Zuckerberg believes could lay the foundation for a new and improved "people first" computing platform.
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