Woz gives Apple iPhone thumbs up, Android gets thumbs down

“Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, likes his three iPhones and iPad, but not so much the competitors’ Android phones, he said Thursday in an exclusive interview with The Korea Times’ sister publication, The Seoul Economic Daily,” Kim Da-ye reports for The Korea Times.

“‘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.]