The Woz Way

February 26, 2006 by Santaduck.

The Woz Way is an actual street back in San Jose, CA, and I thought of it when I read this interview of the other Steve, Steve Wozniak, as he talked about Apple to the Globe and Mail.

Apparently he’s nominally still on their payroll (I hadn’t realized that), but unlike most normal Apple employees, he can speak his mind, and does he.

He isn’t convinced of the need to jump to Intel, and is skeptical there, but might concede the point.

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“It’s like consorting with the enemy. We’ve had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we’re better… All of a sudden we’re the same in this hardware regard, so it’s a little hard to swallow your words from the past.”

However he is deeply suspicious of the iPod, because according to him, that distracts from Apple’s focus as a “computing company.”

On the possibility of Microsoft entering the mp3 player fray, he says:

“If they do it, they better do it excellent, excellent, excellent because the iPod sure is. Doing something weaker and somehow trying to use your size and market power . . . that’s just not good [enough] if you don’t turn out something superior.”

He’s like the company’s anti-mascot, how great is that? I love it. Read the full interview here.

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