“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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