Mark Zuckerberg once criticised Facebook Camera, the company’s app designed to compete with Instagram, as being so ...

Zuckerberg admits buying Instagram for superior camera technology Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified that he acquired Instagram because its camera app was superior to the one Facebook was developing.

At the time, Facebook was doing a “build vs. buy analysis” on developing a camera for its mobile app, Zuckerberg said, according to Reuters. “I thought that Instagram was better at that ...