Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Feb 2006 19:43 UTC
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, made some surprising remarks in an interview. Wozniak says that Apple should spin-off its iPod business to a separate division because it distracts Apple from its core business-- computers. While acknowledging that the switch to Intel was a necessary evil, Wozniak says: "It's like consorting with the enemy. We've had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we're better. All of a sudden we're the same in this hardware regard, so it's a little hard to swallow your words from the past." Update: Wozniak now denies having made the claims. Just like politics, boys and girls!
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2005-09-04
...any old ***hole can do it.
Woz was brilliant with Steve Ciarcia's favorite software -- chips. He lowered chip counts for a living and this made all the difference in the early days. As to the later years, history always shines on the first few companies in a new industry no matter how they stumble years later. Look how long Xerox or Kodak has stumbled yet they remain favorable images in our minds.
Woz would have kept on being brilliant at any point in the evolution of computing but it soon became more than just hardware and really he had shot his wad.
Jobs is all the negatives you have heard, just read the books about him. But Apple continues to get undeserved praise in every quarter and so the quarterback of iMac and iPod will always get the appearance fee.
As to Jobs turning Apple around, this has happened countless times before. ALL that is needed is to ask for full authority and I am quite sure the Zen man (hysterical laughter) asked for that.
On an achievement scale I would rank Jobs with the people who made IOmega or Quicken -- good but not great. The Woz was and is great, on many levels. He was even smart enough to see that it was no longer all about the chips and took his leave on the highest note.
By the way, it can not be ignored how much Microsoft has propped up Apple over the years -- and not just the more obvious things like the $150M loan and providing Office/Mac for years. Apple has survived because investors, and competitors, have wanted it to. Today its assimilation is almost complete.
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