Steve Wozniak Has A Problem With The New iPad Air
:< blockquote>Woz has installed Mac OS X on his new iBook, which he says is "the supreme balance" in a portable computer. He has had three bad experiences with the new OS, and his feeling are "negative overall." "I agree with the writer who said that it is not ready for prime time," said Woz. "But, it came out more beautiful than I thought it could."< /blockquote>
Steve Wozniak On Apple
The Huffington Post | By Harry Bradford
Posted: 10/24/2013 10:29 am EDT
The new iPad Air may be thinner, lighter and faster, but for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, that doesn’t mean it’s better for him.
"Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do," Wozniak explained in an email to The Huffington Post. "For example, I also did not get the iPad Retina when it was introduced."
Wozniak, who left Apple back in 1987, explained that he was hoping for an iPad with 256 GB of memory to store TV shows and movies on the go. The new iPad Air and iPad Mini, both introduced by Apple on Tuesday, come with at most 128 GB of storage.
His comments to HuffPost follow a speaking appearance he gave at the Apps World tech conference, during which he said the new "iPads didn't hit [his] needs," according to TechRadar and Macworld.
"I was hoping for more storage so I could put every episode of 'Big Bang Theory' on my iPad," he said on stage in London. Wozniak admitted that part of the problem is that he doesn't have broadband at home so prefers to keep his media saved on a hard drive.
Wozniak told HuffPost that while he eventually planned on upgrading his iPad, he is "not getting one right away." He also said that he was indeed buying one new Apple product.
"I immediately ordered the new MacBook Pro, which is more central to my own computer life," Wozniak said.
Wozniak has a history of critiquing the company he helped launch with Steve Jobs 37 years ago. In the past, he has pooh-poohed Siri and complained about the battery life of the iPhone 4S.
"Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company," Wozniak disclosed in a 2010 interview.
"Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do," Wozniak explained in an email to The Huffington Post. "For example, I also did not get the iPad Retina when it was introduced."
Wozniak, who left Apple back in 1987, explained that he was hoping for an iPad with 256 GB of memory to store TV shows and movies on the go. The new iPad Air and iPad Mini, both introduced by Apple on Tuesday, come with at most 128 GB of storage.
His comments to HuffPost follow a speaking appearance he gave at the Apps World tech conference, during which he said the new "iPads didn't hit [his] needs," according to TechRadar and Macworld.
"I was hoping for more storage so I could put every episode of 'Big Bang Theory' on my iPad," he said on stage in London. Wozniak admitted that part of the problem is that he doesn't have broadband at home so prefers to keep his media saved on a hard drive.
Wozniak told HuffPost that while he eventually planned on upgrading his iPad, he is "not getting one right away." He also said that he was indeed buying one new Apple product.
"I immediately ordered the new MacBook Pro, which is more central to my own computer life," Wozniak said.
Wozniak has a history of critiquing the company he helped launch with Steve Jobs 37 years ago. In the past, he has pooh-poohed Siri and complained about the battery life of the iPhone 4S.
"Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company," Wozniak disclosed in a 2010 interview.
Earlier on HuffPost:
Mac OS X: 'Not Ready For Prime Time'
In a 2001 fireside chat at the MackHack conference in Dearborn, Mich., the Woz criticized Apple's newly-released operating system, Mac OS X.< a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/1018126/woz.html" target="_hplink">From MacworldNo 3G?!
Wozniak was not happy that the first generation iPhone didn't come out with 3G technology. "To tell you the truth, I was disappointed ... half the phones in the AT&T store were 3G already," he said during a March 2008 trip to Australia, according to The Inquirer. Just over a year later, in July 2008, the iPhone 3G was released.Restrictions...
In a 2008 interview with Sky News Australia, Wozniak expressed his dissatisfaction with the restrictions on the iPhone, such as the closed software environment. "...the way Apple has introduced the iPhone with a lot of restrictions what you can and can't do with it ... those sorts of things bother me because it sort of indicates Apple's stepping into that characteristic that we attributed to other bad companies in the past." (This part of the interview comes at 6:48)The Woz Hearts His Droid
In an interview with The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons, Woz expressed his love for the Android. "My primary phone is the iPhone," Wozniak said, according to The Daily Beast. "I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do." He elaborated, saying that Siri as an iPhone 4 app was better than Siri as an iPhone 4s app: "With the iPhone 4 I could press a button and call my wife. Now on the 4S I can only do that when Siri can connect over the Internet. But many times it can't connect. I've never had Android come back and say, 'I can't connect over the Internet.'" Woz also said that he preferred Android's navigation system to the iPhone's.Battery Life!
In the interview with The Daily Beast, Woz complained about the iPhone 4S's battery life. "With the iPhone, something happened with the new OS or the new phone, and it just started running through the battery so fast," he said, according to The Daily Beast. "I've had a lot of issues with things I have to turn off just to save the battery life."
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