Mark Zuckerberg On Home: ‘It’s Not An Operating System. It’s Not Running Code. It’s A Platform.’

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke with Fortune Senior Writer Jessi Hempel last week, one week before the social network’s introduction of its Home overlay for Android phones, saying of Facebook’s earlier mobile efforts, “We were just kind of really behind in terms of the quality level we wanted to be providing.”

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke with Fortune Senior Writer Jessi Hempel last week, one week before the social network’s introduction of its Home overlay for Android phones, saying of Facebook’s earlier mobile efforts, “We were just kind of really behind in terms of the quality level we wanted to be providing.”

Following are more excerpts from Zuckerberg’s conversation with Hempel:

We also had a series of longer-term projects, which was what we thought Facebook should be on mobile.

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