“Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs in 1976, says he’s a big fan of Android phones. Woz says he still thinks Apple’s iPhone is the best overall smartphone, but he says there are ways in which Android has leapt ahead of Apple,” Dan Lyons reports for The Daily Beast. “‘My primary phone is the iPhone,’ Woz says. ‘I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.'”
Android phones aren’t as simple to use as the iPhone, but they’re not that much more complicated, and ‘if you’re willing to do the work to understand it a little bit, well I hate to say it, but there’s more available in some ways,’ Woz says… ‘There’s not as big a difference [between iOS and Android] as there was between Mac and Windows,'” Lyons reports.
MacDailyNews Take: And, why do you think that is, Woz? Because it’s a stolen product, that’s why. A bastardized iPhone. Shouldn’t an “Apple employee,” even one who hasn’t done a thing for decades, still value his company’s intellectual property at least a little bit? Oh, that’s right, R&D is free, nobody’s work is their own, and everything should just be shared anyway (dripping sarcasm).
Lyons reports, “Woz says he recently spoke to a developer at Foursquare who said Apple’s bureaucratic approval process slows app developers down, whereas on Android, developers can get programs out faster and work on making tweaks and revisions in less time.”
MacDailyNews Take: That’s great, Woz. Here’s what else you get when you settle for a knockoff:
• Insecure: Malicious Android apps double in six months – December 14, 2011
• Android permissions flaw allows eavesdropping, data theft, location tracking – December 2, 2011
• You bank on your pretend iPhone? Are you nuts?! Android malware up 472% since July – November 16, 2011
• Android security threats surge with infected ‘Angry Birds’; iPhone and iPad users unaffected – November 15, 2011
• Apple’s iOS unaffected by malware as Android exploits surge 76% – August 24, 2011
• McAfee: Google’s Android number one in malware – August 23, 2011
• Android malware records phone calls; iPhone users unaffected – August 2, 2011
• Symantec: Apple iOS offers ‘full protection,’ Google Android ‘little protection’ vs. malware attacks – June 29, 2011
• Malware apps spoof Android Market to infect Android phones – June 21, 2011
• Google forced to pull several malware-infested apps from Android market – June 8, 2011
• Android malware sees explosive growth; even faster than with PCs – April 27, 2011
• Virus-laden apps infest Google’s ‘open’ Android platform; iPhone unaffected – March 3, 2011
• Security firm warns of new Android trojan that can steal personal information; iPhone unaffected – December 30, 2010
• Trojan infects Android smartphones; iPhone unaffected – August 10, 2010
• Millions of Android phone users slammed by malicious data theft app – July 29, 2010
• Unlike proactive Apple, reactive Google doesn’t block malware from Android app store – June 4, 2010
• Malware designed to steal bank information pops up in Google’s Android app store – January 11, 2010
“Then there’s Siri, Apple’s new voice-recognition software. Woz says he’s been using Siri for a long time and used to love it when it was an independent application created for the iPhone,” Lyons reports. “But ever since Apple bought Siri and built the software into the iPhone 4S, it doesn’t work as well as it used to. ‘I used to ask Siri, ‘What are the five biggest lakes in California?’ and it would come back with the answer. Now it just misses.'”
MacDailyNews Take: See, Woz, forgets things easily. He has to ask Siri to name the five biggest California lakes daily. Tomorrow, when he asks yet again, Siri should just tell him to fsck off.
Lyons reports, “Worse, a lot of the time Siri says it can’t make a connection to the back-end servers that power the system. ‘With the iPhone 4 I could press a button and call my wife. Now on the 4S I can only do that when Siri can connect over the Internet. But many times it can’t connect. I’ve never had Android come back and say, ‘I can’t connect over the Internet.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Woz doesn’t know how to work his iPhone 4S.
Settings > Siri > OFF.
Now try to call your wife, Woz. See? Voice Control from your iPhone 4 (which debuted with iPhone 3GS back on June 19, 2009) is still right there. As always, Voice Control does not require Internet access. Granted, Apple needs to make Siri automatically only use the network when necessary, but, gee whiz, er… Woz, that’s why they call it a “beta.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Because Woz doesn’t know how to work his iPhone 4S, his opinion on how other smartphones work compared to it is meaningless.
And, Dan Lyons —— who hasn’t yet figured out a reliable way to slam Apple now that Steve’s gone (Lyons will be registering deadsteve.net later today to begin “ghost” blogging – right after he reads this) —— for taking advantage of poor Woz, a kind and trusting soul, Dan Lyons remains a royal asshole.
MacDailyNews…is the best
Would that be Malone, or would that be Bloom? Sure and it ain’t Hatchet.
Woz sucks… shut up and dance.
I am so sick and tired of people bad mouthing Wozzie on this site, I mean C’MON Apple-I, Apple II, co-founder etc etc …anybody?
So he makes a few bad remarks about Siri, so what??? Compare that to what he has meant for Apple as a whole and your statements seem stupid.
Let’s give the man some credit shall we? In my book he will always be the clear runner up (after Steve) ..Cook and Ive is ok, but they will never surpass Wozzie in the big picture with regards to Apple..
Save for a few malcontents on this site, I think it’s safe to say that everyone loves Woz. He’s just such a likable guy.
But here’s the problem: He says really stupid sh*t sometimes. And because this stupid sh*t comes out of the mouth of the beloved co-founder of Apple, it gets taken seriously when it really shouldn’t be.
Woz’s views of the iPhone and Siri are no more valid that those of any average techno-geek you run into on the floor of a trade show. He wasn’t involved with the development of either technology. He doesn’t really know anything about them. He’s just a fan.
So yeah, some MDN readers are bound to get a little touchy when Woz makes comments critical of Apple, because they know those comments are going to be given weight they don’t deserve, just because of who Woz is.
And really, it doesn’t reflect well on Woz, either. He knows his status. He knows he’s “the Other Steve”. And given that he remains on Apple’s payroll, he clearly doesn’t mind the association. So, if you ask me, he ought to think twice about opening his mouth. If he wants to criticize Apple in the press, he should resign from the company and build an identity independent of Apple.
——RM
WOZ isn’t capable of building anything but prototypes and that is Was… He happened to be I the right place at the right time, when Steve jobs had the ideas and push and when just building a personal computer was a huge thing.
INNOVATOR? NO. VISIONARY? NO, he can’t see past his belly.
What has he done except for a capital venture partnership and dance with the stars? Nothing but chase the headlines second guessing and being a ad Monday morning quarterback.
WOZ was was.
message to Woz: step out of line and you are done dude
Just get this fact: Woz is a follower and not a leader. He might be a good engineer but he has no great insight in the greater scheme of things. When a follower is faced with a problem he just crumbles and follow the prevailing wind; but a leader will never say “die” and give up. If Woz were to be a leader he would definitely be in the same league such a Macmillan and Pétain during WW2. He would never be a towering Churchill or a Roosevelt.
A wake up call to Apple. Listen to your cofounder, he has a point.
Yeah, on top of his head.
Why does Woz do these things? He’s still an Apple employee. All he’s doing is bad mouthing the company he created, works for and represent in life. Resign, then you can say all the stuff you don’t like about Apple and their products.
As the owner of both the 64gb iphone 4s and a Galaxy S2…I find you guys a trip! I heard of “fanboys”…but you take it to a whole new level! You talk like Jesus Christ himself came off the cross and made the iphone and all Apple products. Get a grip. The S2 rips the 4s a new asshole in almost anything you could possibly compare it to. Oh, but wait, that’s impossible…its an Apple! LOL…morons…
talk about the pot calling the kettle black… let Google ram more things up your aching-for-more ass you mindless drone.
Woz has attention deficit syndrome !!! He simply loves attention … Pathetic! I lost respect for this guy.
Well, you can’t really expect a stolen product to be that different from the original.
But I respect his opinion. Android is a great OS. But I still prefer iPhones.
I think Mr. Wozniak is talking like a tinker, which he is, would. He is just giving his opinion as a geek/tinker would when they have a toy in there hand. Now if he began to bad mouth the iPhone,Apple, Steve Jobs, etc., then by all means make Woz become WAS and banish him to the Android dimension.