“Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has posted a statement online in which he denied some of the comments attributed to him in an article I wrote recently,’ Peter Nowak reports for The New Zealand Herald. “In that statement, he suggests that I pushed him to make some of those comments, that I had an agenda in interviewing him, and that he feels used. I find Mr Wozniak’s response shocking as it is a serious attack – not only on my credibility, but also on that of the press in general. My only agenda in interviewing Mr Wozniak was to get his honestly-held thoughts on current events in technology, particularly in respect to the company he helped build.”
“Mr Wozniak did indeed make all the comments attributed to him, and he certainly was not pushed or used to accomplish any agenda, because one did not exist. I asked very open-ended questions – what was his opinion on Apple switching to Intel, what did he think about iPods, and where did he think Microsoft was heading? If anything, Mr. Wozniak steered the interview; any other questions I asked arose from where he took the conversation,” Nowak reports. “We are posting verbatim transcripts of the relevant sections of the interview, as well as an audio recording of the full interview, so that readers and listeners can decide for themselves whether Mr Wozniak was pushed or used. I recommend listening to the audio to hear the full context, flow and nuance of the conversation.”
Full article which includes the interview in MP3 format; duration 27:00; Size 9.27MB (which for some reason is ridiculously disclaimed “Requires Windows Media Player” – it does not require WMA to play) here.
MacDailyNews Take: Poor Woz. He ought to stop giving interviews about current day Apple and concentrate on Segway Polo and blank check companies. It’s nice to see they still have journalists in New Zealand at least.
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Is Woz gay. He speaks with a lisp. He sounds gay to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I also think that iDon’t is a he/she. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
iFart,
Have you been spying on me again? I have not completed the operation’s final cut, I mean stage.
Seriously, it sounded like Nowak the interviewer was trying to get away and end the interview but Woz just would not shut up.
Actually, Woz has a point: He apparently said maybe the iPod should be spun off into its own division, but Nowak translated that to spun off as a separate company. Those are very different things.
(Woz is apparently not up on the latest corporate structure at Apple, which is likely, otherwise he would have known that the iPod already has its own division within Apple.)
Woz said: “I think spinning off a separate division for iPods makes an awful lot of sense.”
Nowak, in his original article, attributes to Woz: “But they are distracting Apple from its focus, and the company may be better served by spinning off the business.”
Woz is correct that he was quoted out-of-context, IMO.
This is a perfect example of why Apple’s policy of secrecy is so important to the future.
Apple has plenty of trouble just keeping expectations in line when they don’t hand out anything to media outlets. Imagine what it would be like if the top execs and product managers had free reign to the US press (meaning; less accurate than our kiwi friends who still write as if journalism had integrity*).
Woz talked as if he (we) still worked at Apple. He’s been gone for over 20 years. He’s a hero, a statesman, a story within the story of Apple, but he doesn’t have much going on these days.
*now, the folks in NZ need to remove that crumb about “needs Windows Media Player” to run the audio interview. Last I checked, my Mac plays MP3 files just fine without WMP.
Tera Patricks
Tera Talks
Who cares?
Woz is god!
So, is the story he tells about me cheating him out of money in question now?
Woz is God spelled sideways.
After hearing the audio, I think Woz was definitely taken out of context….
And I’m not saying that just because it’s Woz.
Listen to the part about the switch to Intel and “consorting with the enemy”. The journalist totaly takes him out of context.
By putting up the audio in his defence, The journalist lost the case.
Woz’s disappointment is justified.
Just keep on interviewing people, you’ll get the hang of it.
No professional jounalist that wants to remain a journalist crys in public like this. That is not professional.
Me thinks thou doth protest to much.
E
O
N is WOZ spelled sideways
He should wear a helmet ALL of the time.
The NZ Herald and its offshoot The Herald on Sunday has had a bit of a problem with one of its reporters recently, when it was discovered that he appeared to use “quite a bit” of poetic license when it came to reporting facts.
http://www.nutterz.com/nutz/index.php?showtopic=34330
MW: pattern (no really it was)
WOZ IS THE REAL WIZ.
LEAVE HIM ALONE.
at list he was.
least!
So I heard the audio and then read the article. Which is the right sequence I think so you can listen to what is being said without actively trying to parse it.
I have to agree with the Woz. The interviewer is a bit terse with Woz, like he’s not really interested in what Woz has to say but what he wants Woz to talk about. He does set up Woz in the sense that he steers the interview to what he wants to write about and then takes it out of context. Kind of like a prosecuter “leads the witness” where he gets the words he wants and then uses them to fit the objective of the questioning. The reporter came into the interview wanting the big story.
For example the question about Intel he asks it from a betrayed user’s point of view and Woz empathisizes with the point of view and answers it in the same voice of the betrayed user, not in his own view. In fact, prior to the comment that was quoted Woz says moving to Intel was the right choice.
Also, about spinning the iPod out, the author yet again takes the statement out of context. Woz says over and over again that it should be a different division, the reporter tries to lead Woz by suggesting a different company and Woz clearly doesn’t take the bait.
I like Woz, he’s a bit of a geek (he’s an engineer not an exec) so he knows more about tech than about people, but I suspect most of us on this forum are the same.
Heaven forbid that a journalist asks a list of questions that are not on those approved by the Apple Press Office. He should be taken out and crucified.
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