“Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is one of the most likable guys in tech — but that doesn’t mean he always likes everything,” Eric Mack reports for CNET. “That Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs biopic? Woz said it got a lot wrong. Wearables? Woz says they’re a hard sell. But Woz sure likes Apple’s new iPhone 6, so much so that he’s ditching Android.”
“In the below video from entertainment news and gossip site TMZ, Woz allows himself to be stopped in an airport, at least temporarily, to share his excitement for Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Pay,” Mack reports. “‘I got rid of all my Androids,’ Woz said to the off-camera ‘reporter,’ in praise of the bigger screens on the two new iPhones.”
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Hope you shove the Android phones up your ass, in a revered, condescending way.
I feel the same way about Motown. I will never listen to any post-1972 Motown album because they were all recorded in LA. Barry Gordy could have turned Detroit into a music city like Nashvile, or Atlanta, but he didn’t. Thanks to him, Detroit is one of the worst cities in the US for unemployment.
Barry Gordy had so much coke up his nose it is a wonder he found LA on the trip out of Detroit.
Motown is my most used playlist.
Motown, the label, sure went downhill fast when they moved to LA and left the best backup band members on the continent behind in Detroit.
Well, we’re all SO glad to hear how you feel about Motown. Shall I tell you how I feel about broccoli? You do realize, I hope, that this site is called “Mac Daily News”.
You believe Barry Gordon is responsible for the unemployment in Detroit, where people has chosen the drugs and crime’s gang culture and given all support for predatory syndicalism. Not just Barry, but everyone in Detroit is responsable for its decadence.
If you don’t know the man’s name is Berry Gordy, just how much credibility do you think you have? Do your homework!
Woz should have been smart enough to begin with to NOT get insecure and poor quality android phones… Duh…
++1;
i hope the interviewer was very nervous because those where really bad questions to ask the inventor of personal computers
That was the worst interview I have ever seen.
I wonder how he will feel when he finds out that his new iPhone will come with a new U2 album pre-loaded onto it. You gotta love marketing…
I suppose we are doomed to hear about the “unauthorized U2 download” daily for the foreseeable future, just like those daily posts regarding “IMAP”, and the daily reminders that Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs. Some folks need to get a life.
Oh! And don’t forget “glossy screens”.
There is a fairly long list of proposed anti-Apple memes, compiled by a shadowy agency whose affiliation and funding remain mysteries. It resembles in form the ‘talking points’ promoted by political action committees, and both represent the worst instinct of humanity, that of conspiring to defeat the good in order to advance the interests of the ignoble.
Woz is like your crazy uncle who comes to visit during holiday dinners. You can always be sure he is going to say something goofy, but you have to love him anyway.
Woz, you use an Android? Really?
What does religion have to do with it? We come HERE to learn about the competition Mike, we don’t need to actually purchase that Android shit to know that it’s shit. Now go back to playing with your Galaxy like a good little troll.
Who cares if he fell for the allures of Android for a while? Was taken in by the glitz and glamor, the soulless pseudo-style without substance? What matters is he’s back on the winning team! The prodigal son returns!
“For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.” Luke 15:24
Woz is the penultimate tech geek. He got drawn to the openness of Android and the ability to look under the hood.
Which to tech guys feels almost like looking under the skirt…
Next to last? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Anybody want a peanut?
🙂
Methinks a dictionary is in order…….”penultimate” means next-to-last.
Woz has my respect, no matter what crazy thing he does next.
Woz usually gets a freely given pass as a wandering curious tech geek to whom we are heavily in debt.
Woz is the embodiment of all that is good and wonderful about classic nerdliness.
WOW…
WOX…
WOY…
WOZ!
You know what? I still get so pissed off every time people start trashing Woz.
Yeas, Woz has a lot of phones. Android phones as well. He loves to play with whatever gadget is out there. And that’s is because he’s not a technology bigot.
But nobody says that his MAIN phone has been, is, and remains being an iPhone. The first time I met Woz (we had dinner here in my country), his words were:
“When I created the Apple II, I thought it was the coolest gadget ever. Later, when we launched the Mac, it blew away the Apple II, and it was the coolest gadget ever. When the iPhone was released, it blew away the Mac as the coolest gadget. The iPhone is the real personal computer, as we imagined it!”
So, there you go. Woz holds the iPhone in the highest regards. He considers it the best product ever. And, sure, he tries the other phones, acknowledges what he finds cool about them, and what not.
But not, for a second, he trashes the iPhone. He loves Apple as much as when he founded it.
He would say something goofy, like a crazy uncle? Well, I have a couple of crazy fun uncles. And I spent some time with Woz. And I’m telling you, it’s the world of difference.
Woz knows its stuff. Period. He’s a fascinating guy to talk to. He knows so much, and he’s humble and cool.
All the bashing is totally undeserved and unfair. Really pisses me off.
Like he said.
Woz is that you?
Seriously, Woz has lost a few screws since BEFORE Steve passed away. Why do you think Steve had no room for him at Apple? And why do you think there is STILL no room for him at Apple even to this day? Yeah he is still on the payroll, but NOT on the Designroll.
Truth hurts! But what can I say, the truth is the truth.
Woz should have never done that Woz leaving Apple was like how Motown left Detroit in the 70s. Hopefully, Motown will go back the the ‘hood they were born in.
Get your facts straight.
Woz NEVER left Apple.
He never quit.
He took time off.
He remains until today, an Apple employee, received a modest salary, and he’s still a spokesman for Apple.
Yeah, that’s one hell of a spokesman for Apple. But I guess it just proves that Apple DOES hire the handicapped.
Motown! Again! On the same page! Muh – Ah – Cuh. Mmmmac. MAC…. DAILY…. NEWS.
Ugh, that interviewer’s accent is so annoying to listen to, but kudos to him for his passion.
He’s just an amateur.
Stupidest questions I have ever heard.
TMZ is not known for its staff’s interviewing abilities. They’re just more of the same paparazzi, intrusive average humans with cameras and microphones who are obsessed with FAME.
And that is wrong because…?
Because if you don’t get there in 15 minutes, you’ll have wasted precious fuel and that’s bad for the environment.
An ellipsis followed by a question mark indicates a rhetorical question, not requiring a logical or even humourous response, but rather an amused indulgence with the questioner’s vacant complicity with the original indignity. Not to put too fine a point upon it.
You are such a gasbag.
Now, now, no need to be mean. I think I was being correctly corrected.
What I wrote was meant to be descriptive. I supposed a fair judgement from what I wrote is that it sure would be nice to have actual professional quality people wielding the cameras and performing the intrusive interviews. Or maybe they could stop being intrusive and instead be entirely respectful of famous people’s lives. FAME is an abstraction that doesn’t indicate much of anything but having a lot of people’s attention, whatever that’s worth. That FAME attracts paparazzi like flies to doodoo is bizarre from my POV.
Derek, what you wrote was fine. I was merely riffing on the fame & glamour element because of the passing of Joan Rivers, who often used that line. But I oughtn’t expect tech enthusiasts commenting at MDN to be conversant with insider chatter about fashion and celebrity. Lord knows I have learnt the disinterest in (for example) footwear hereabouts. Sometimes I wonder why I try.
My ex used to call the 6″ heeled shoes, which are the current [sadomasochistic] standard, ‘fsck-me’ shoes. From my POV they are another subjugation of women into sexual objects. That women feel obligated to wear those painful horrors greatly bothers me about our current culture. We have so far to go to get out of our primitivism. But I rant.
I’ve watched some of the TMZ stuff, the red carpet stuff, the Kardashian stuff (my eyes! MY EYES! THEY BURN!), a lot of the other nightmares of ‘reality television’. I got enough of a hang of it to find great relief in vowing to myself to never watch them again. I’m welcome! 😉
And yet I feel fully myself in my 3 inch lipstick red Mary Jane pumps.
Six-inch heels are wrong because…?
I believe the interviewer is not a professional from TMZ, or at least, not an experienced one. He was there by chance, saw a celebrity (Woz), made contact by mobile and sold it to TMZ.
I love Woz, I think he’s just a fantastic human being.
I mean he was walking through an airport minding his own business and this guy starts peppering him with questions. He doesn’t tell him to go away, he gives him a lovely 1:50 of footage that we are now all discussing.
A true legend, I can see why Jobs liked him so much.
Honestly, why did he have Android phones in the first place?
I have friends who use Android phones and sooner or later will find themselves in the same situation but I do not have any Android phone to begin with so there is no need to dump them.
Note to all the people who love or hate Woz: I neither like nor dislike him, I just couldn’t care less. He may be a nice guy but usually I find that he talks too much and the media covers it too much. And most of what he disseminates has not a lot of substance anymore – which was different many years ago.
Well, to answer your question, he had Androids for the same reason he gets practically every new gadget that comes out: he is the ultimate tech geek, he loves playing with technology, and he likely loved the ability to tinker with the Android. As a tech geek, he probably had no beef with Android’s shortcomings and problems (inconsistent and unintuitive user interface, etc), and they weren’t enough to overcome the advantage of a larger screen, which was apparently important to him (something one could expect from a tech geek). Now that the single advantage of Android is no longer an issue, nobody, not even Woz, has any reason to stay on Android (except those who can’t afford the iPhone).
If “tinkerability” is the reason it is okay for him to have Android phones, then why is today any different? The iPhone 6 isn’t going to open to his tinkering. It would still be the one reason he would stay on Android.
Apparently not worth that much any more, now that the big screen is there. He did say that the big screen was a big factor, and it is now gone.
Uncle –
If you could afford to buy every single new tech gadget on the market and play with it for a while before going on to the next thing, wouldn’t you? If you’re a tech fan — and Woz is the ULTIMATE tech fan — why not?
Listen, I love the Apple ecosystem, and wouldn’t consider a non-Apple phone. But that’s not to say there are a lot of cool phones out there with a lot of cool features Apple DOESN’T have. Woz is like a kid at the candy counter, only he can buy all the candy in the world.
For him, I would guess, it’s like heaven on earth…
Jay Morrison will not like this!
Off sulking in his troll den somewhere. May he now suffer and feel sorry for himself for the rest of eternity.
Obviously what Woz is really saying is that Tim Cook should be fired!
Microsoft workers who owned iPhones were expected to throw them in a trash box and use Windows phones instead.
Woz, still receiving an Apple cheque, buys Android phones.
What a great model, of a legendary co-innovator, of the personal computer, Woz turned out to be.
I got rid of all my Androids
I personally can’t imagine why Woz bought all his Androids in the first place. The most dangerous OS available today? Seriously Woz? I’m glad that brain aneurism has healed properly. Welcome to actual smartphone security, not to mention best hardware and best OS.
Apologies: Woz explains why he bought his Androids in the TMZ video. ‘To see how they work.’ …Or don’t work.
I’m really sick of Woz. He’s irrelevant, and has been for a long time. I couldn’t care less what kind of phone he buys or doesn’t buy.
Woz was 1/2 of what became Apple Computer. For no other reason he deserves respect. Like saying Ringo is irrelevant. He is reaping the benefits of his early work. He did his thing. Why pick on him now for having android phones. He can by phones like I buy paper plates. He probably gets 1 of every tech toy he is interested in tinkering with. He likes BIG screens and he will not lie. Now that Apple has BIG screen phones…he said he got rid of his Androids…all of them. I am sure that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an large Android tablet, a iPad air and a Surface 3….because he CAN!! I like to flirt with the competitive OSs myself just so I am sure of what I am talking about when I put down Android myself. I wish I had the luxury to try other stuff but have to choose and I am solid Apple…imac/phone/pod/pad….soon Apple watch!! I would have asked Woz if he had played with an Apple watch yet and what he thought about it.
Music to my ears, and you are 3/4 right. Woz weighed in on the Watch concept a fortnight ago, in this article
http://www.mactrast.com/2014/08/woz-weighs-apples-iwatch-hard-sell/