“‘First, I liked a lot of things that were built into Android phones. Voice recognition and noise cancellation on my Nexus One phone were great. I still like to speak things. For instance, ‘navigate to John’s hardware store.’ It gets the wording right – no matter how you say, it works like a good search,’ said Wozniak who founded the darling of the technology industry with Steve Jobs, its current CEO, and Ronald Wayne,” Da-ye reports. “But Wozniak soon found ‘more and more things’ including applications and the operating system crashing.”
“‘It’s difficult to find where things are (on Android phones). More and more, I feel like it is more like (Microsoft’s) Windows in which many different hardware vendors have installed different equipment on the same platform. The (Windows’) platform has to be very neutral and cannot be special. That’s the similar problem Android phones have,’ he said,” Da-ye reports. “‘When you write an app for Android phones, there are so many platforms to consider. That’s the problem Microsoft was facing with its Windows years ago. People like Apple products because they are always predictable and work,’ Wozniak said.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Too many cooks in the kitchen can never concoct something that’s superior to the original. Like Windows is to Mac, Android is an inferior copy; the poor and/or ignorant man’s iOS.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MJM” for the heads up.]
Finally, a breath of fresh air and common sense.
Thanks Steve, you made my day.
Now to change channels to Engadget’s Daily Android JUNKet.
I was able to spend some significant time this past weekend with a relatives Droid. What a huge step down from iPhone. Cheap, clunky, plastic feel, the apps are not as polished, the multitouch is not as responsive, the display is blah, etc. I really tried to take an objective view but I saw nothing at all matching let alone superior to an iPhone. Even my old 3G iPhone blows it away, let alone my vastly improved iPhone 4. If/when iPhone comes to Verizon, it’s gotta be lights out for Android.
I don’t see a single religious advert. Maybe some other pages you go to have left you with cookies that say you love to see religious adverts.
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Android like Windows… youp, sounds right to me.
The only argument I have is droid is set up to be affordable and on reliablenmarkets without being stuck with limited buckets of data I can get all the 4g data I want on sprint for the same price of 2 gigs worth of 3gdata on iPhone AT&T;. So no hate here I love apple but they need to change up or droid will surpass them just as Microsoft has.
Why is Woz relevant anymore to daily Apple news? He reminds me of the scene in Meet the Fockers, where De Niro whips out his “CIA Retired” card to the policeman.
4g is not available in many markets, so that argument really doesn’t work.
iWoz = FTW!!!!
re: aa Ateendee: “Why is Woz relevant anymore to daily Apple news?”
You should hope to have the kind of impact and relevance Woz has had and continues to inspire today even discounting his already legendary contributions. I’ve talked to young engineers even in their early twenties who still consider him a personal hero and who learned much of what they learned on machines he helped create. If that doesn’t make him relevant, I don’t know what does.
And for pathetically trying to paint him as some kind of has been, you, sir, are an ass.
Steve is relevant. He is has a vision that hasn’t gotten lost. But I think we all forgot the maturity of the iPhone. This isn’t years ago with a new product launch. Much more rebuts features are demanded today. And iPhone apps don’t crash?? Puh-leez. iPhone 3G is starving for memory and sluggish. And each version is better and better. Congrats to Apple. But should we all convert to Apple and “death to Android”… Come on, grow up. Appreciate the competition for growth so Apple doesn’t get lazy! (written on my iPhone)
As you have stated so eloquently, the Woz that was is was. My admiration for Geo. Washington continues but the man’s accomplishments have ceased. It’s nice you recognize all the early stuff he did, that and you can curse. What exactly is he doing now besides enjoying his retirement?
@aa Attendee,
“Why is Woz relevant anymore to daily Apple news?”
First of all, Woz has earned the right to be paid attention to for his opinion on a subject like this a million times over.
Besides everything he did to help start *all* of this, he’s still very much active in the community and industry. He’s constantly getting gadgets, reviewing them, and giving *very* credible and accurate feedback. Why would you think any other publishing reviewer would be any better.
PS: I saw him on the 4th of July playing with a gadget that looked extremely retro. It looked like a green-lit LCD gameboy. I couldn’t help but wonder what it was, but didn’t want to disturb him to ask.
He reviews gadgets and he’s trusted…. on that score he beats Rob Enderle 2 to 1!
@chas
No religious ads for me. Are you visiting a lot of religious websites (maybe flaming them?) and the smart ads are seeing all that zealotry?
<i<Appreciate the competition for growth so Apple doesn’t get lazy!</i> —JustTecfan
Totally an old-wives tale. All Apple needs to keep pushing the envelope is Steve Jobs’ leadership. Competition from the also-ran’s has never been what motivates Apple to keep pushing the envelope. They keep pushing because they care about making the best products more than they care about making the most money. This is what makes Apple a rarity in the business world today; and this is why Apple has so many devoted fans. Anyone who thinks Apple needs competition from the likes of Google to keep moving doesn’t understand Apple in the slightest.
Woz speaks the truth. Made my day.
“Why is Woz relevant anymore to daily Apple news?”
My God, man. (ooh, goody, I slipped some religion in there har har). Woz embodies all that is good about classic nerdliness. Slightly socially inept but very nice, a bit overweight, and he can take a design that has 20 parts, reduce it to 14, and improve its performance.
@alansky
Absolutely right.
God bless you. And Woz.
I mean really.
‘Good One Woz’, great to hear from you again.
Woz is still alive, that’s why.
If Jefferson or Washington were still alive, you’d talk to them and listen to them too.
I guess if you’ve moved out of the house, then by aa’s argument, your parents are irrelevant too, since they’re now retired from being your caregivers.
Woz is still a creative force in the tech world – deal with it.
Woz hits the mark…
could it be that Android/Google is making the “same mistake” MS made with windows?
@aa Attendee
“Why is Woz relevant anymore to daily Apple news? He reminds me of the scene in Meet the Fockers, where De Niro whips out his “CIA Retired” card to the policeman.”
Do you know what “relevant” means?
Obviously you don’t by asking the question. If you did you would’t have clicked the article, read the article or commented on the article.
What is not relevant, is you comment. Unfortunately, I read it.
Android, like Windows, has no quality control, simply because it is being pulled and stretched and tainted by all it’s licensees.
Maybe android will get unification and ease of use at 3.0 but until then iOS prevails for me
Android imitates Micro$#!+ because M$ “won,” ruled the computing dark ages and made lots of money. Android thinks that is the right model to imitate. We’ll see how choosing a dino works out.