“In an interview late Wednesday night, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told Bloomberg News exactly what he thought about Steve Jobs,” Erica Ho reports for TIME Magazine. “Known as Woz, Wozniak went on to wax poetic about the now-former Apple CEO, calling him the ‘best business leader of our time.'”
He just thinks very much about getting technology out of the picture. You know, from the very start until today, it’s how you make something seem like it’s not really a piece of technology in the way you have to learn all these complicated geek, techy steps to get things done… We’ve gotten closer and closer to treating a computer like it’s a human almost just speaking into our iPhones, touching them, they all have the senses of a human. And the thing is, Steve is going to go down in history as the most important technical leader ever. – Steve Wozniak
Ho reports, “Woz thinks that ‘[Jobs] will watch the company for a while… for a company as large as Apple, corporate culture doesn’t change overnight. The quality of the people doesn’t change.'”
Watch the full video interview via Bloomberg here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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Reminds me of the scene from Star Trek IV when Scotty sat down at the classic Mac, picked up the one-button mouse, and said, “Hello, computer…”
That’s funny, because I thought of that scene too when I read this!
I’m not a computer geek. I’m the first to admit that I know nuts about computers. But the simplicity of the Mac made me fall in love with computers again. My love affair with Apple started with the iPhone. Prior to that I was under the impression that real work got done on Windows machines. Ever since I switched to a Mac I find that I use my computer for more and more things, apart from work related stuff. The amount of thought that went into the design of it makes it a joy to use. Without doubt I was using my Windows machine primarily for writing Word documents and Excel spreadsheets but I’m using my Mac to listen to music, watch videos and do a million other things that I would never dream of using my Windows computer for.
For this I salute Steve Jobs for his attention to detail, to create a computer for “the rest of us.”
Well said, nut!
As a switcher circa 2006/2007, I second nearly everything here, except that after a few days using iWork I fully switched and have never looked back…
You can do Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on the Mac too. Time to drop kick and ditch the tired Windows machine. I have Windows 7 on my iMac and find I never use it anymore. All anyone needs is a Mac.
I hate “computers”. I don’t want a hobby or a past-time, I just want to get things done. Macs are as far away from a “computer” as you can get, while still being a “computer”. Each iteration removes us from the “computer” just a little further.
I love tinkering with my classic cars, but I sure wouldn’t want to have to rely on them for day to day operation. This is what I don’t “get” about the PC world. They seem to want to mess with the guts of their tools rather than let the tools do the job for them and let their brains do what brains are good at.
…….Oh, that may be their problem. 🙂
If you look at what Steve has done, he is at the minimum, comparable to the industrial titans like Ford, Rockefeller, Tesla, Westinghouse, Edison on others.
There are other so-called tech giants out there but none deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Steve Jobs.
LOL…Woz…sort of rambles/says it all/rambles/says it all…. Must have been a very late night call. 🙂
And yes, devising computer/IOS devices that stay in the background is one of SJ’s major contributions to our time. As SJ says “it just works”. Simplicity = Genius.