“A one-hour video interview between Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and original Mac Evangelist Guy Kawasaki is available to view online,” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
“It was filmed at the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley, where Woz showed up to promote his book iWoz,” Evans reports.
“The Apple co-founder talks about his book, his youth and his early days at Apple. He also discusses the best and the worst experiences of his life, what he’s engaged in at present, and offers his notions on product design,” Evans reports.
Full article with link to the video here.
Why didn’t he tell him to shut his mouth and not talk about things which he has no clue about, he knows less about Apple doings than you and I do – Jobs would love this guy to move on and cease the association
Wow zerO, maybe it’s time to switch to decaf.
The complete works of Woz – abridged version:
“I like playing pranks.”
Yawn
Everybody needs to stop hating on Woz. He’s the single most important person in Apple’s history. Without Woz, there is no Jobs.
Yes, he’s a doddering old man now (mentally, anyway) but his thoughts are not without genius, and he HAS EARNED YOUR RESPECT. Give it to him.
The Wozman Cometh – he is genius
Give Woz a break. He deserves it, even if he never produces anything else of value for the rest of his life.
My sister slept with Woz in the ’70s.
Remember my name…FAME!
The 70’s are long gone, just because Woz was a key player then does not make him a genious now – The inventor of the phonograph if he could should not speak with authority on CD technology of companies which he is not involved with.
Woz has a place in history but not in today’s Apple and I think that is what zero is refering to,
More Woz — he was interviewed on WYNC a few days ago:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/11/29 (or just http://audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate112906c.mp3 if you want to download the mp3).
DOH! WNYC. Some sort of member I am. Its astounding.
MW: I wish I could get this “it’s/its” thing right.
Woz has the vision.
More than anyone at Microsoft could ever dream of.
He is the original crazy Apple freak.
And he has my respect.
-c
MW: ‘she’ (loves her Woz)
What has he done in the past three decades since he left? He needs to find something better to do instead of racing with Sagway! He’s gotten fat; at least he can do something about it, like excise. Having lot’s of mula but nothing meaningful to do is plain sad! What happened to his “WOZ”? What vision?
Zero, botox,
What gives you the right to criticize Woz?
As for what he has done in the last couple of decades. Why the hell does that matter and what the hell does it have to do with you guys?
Did you even watch the whole interview?
As far as technology is concerned he has contributed far more to computer innovation than Bill Gates ever will. And he either invented or massively improved every technology he worked on.
I suggest you read the Post Apple Career section of the wikipedia page on him. I will ask you one thing fellas. What have either of you (or any of the other guys that are negatively ctiticising Woz on here) ever done that will make you be remembered by a subset of the world communities or set your name down in history. I guess nothing!!!
Woz is an important cog in the machine of computer innovation history and anything he has done or not done since his last great contribution makes NO difference to that fact.
He is also a very generous man and never really let his genius go to his head.
Well, he admitted that he was burned out in the interview.
I think that speaks of some volume of dignity, but he did
congratulate and boast of his intellect. That seemed a tad
tacky to me.
Woz does have the vision, no question. But he doesn’t appear to have the drive to actualize things anymore. He likes to play, and his heart is most definitely in the right place; but I’m not sure he has much more to contribute besides stories of the good old days. Hey, nothing wrong with a good story!
Well Woz aint no spring chicken any more so why shouldn’t he play?
And as far as boasting is concerned. I know brainiac inventor types and believe me. They always seem like that. However It’s more like an enthusiasm, a pride of their accomplishment and possibly an exclamation of surprise at what they have achieved. And it seems to be what they use to drive them on to invent more cool things. If they believed they were not all that clever or forced themselves to not be enthusiastic about their creations then they would probably not even get out of bed in the morning. It’s not really boasting. I remember when I built my first simple cocoa app in Objective-C. It was a total hack job that allowed you to put a price into a text field and press a button and it would remove tax from a price and display an accurate pre-tax price to 4 decimal places. I could have written it in like 10 minutes in PHP but I wanted to learn xcode so I persevered.
I was blown away and showed all my mates and thought it was way cool. A real Cocoa App.
It was so basic but I was proud of it. I told some guy on a forum (I forget which one) and he told me to “stop bragging as that would be piss easy to do”. He just didn’t get it.
I was proud of my little achievement and I guess so is the Woz…
Only difference is he invented the first true Personal Computer with a keyboard and video output….
British Mac Head,
I understand your point, and you state it well. It’s just the
way he called himself a genius at one point, it rubbed me
the wrong way (oh rub me, rub me). I work with engineers
daily, so I understand your sentiment. But, I more admire
a forward loooking attitude. When Jobs is interviewed, he
shows a little more class and humility. He has the
“don’t stop and congratulate yourself, but move on to
the next great thing” mentality. I like it.
British Mac Head
Ok, let me put it in a way that perhaps you might understand:
Woz has done in the last 30 years as the Brits have done for the development of the computer industry…. not much
What gives me the right to judge him? The fact that he insist on being on the public eye and i on on aligning himself with Apple although by Jobs own admission he has nothing to do with it. Yes he owns stock but so do many people on this forum.
In a sentence;
Woz was a one trick pony. nothing wrong with that just a has been that refuses to go away.
we thank him for his contribution of the hard drive controller in the 70’s now go away.
next…