It’s not very often that you get to see Steve Wozniak in a interview. Well the iPhone Dev Team found this gem of an interview and posted it for all to see. Woz speaks up on Steve Jobs, Apple, hackers, and most importantly the iPhone! I’ll stop talking… watch the video if you have not done so already!

[Via blog.iphone-dev.org]

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Woz Speaks About Apple, Steve Jobs, Hackers, and the iPhone

Woz co-founded Apple and pretty much kick-started the personal computer revolution; fair enough. Since then, however, he’s made his bones as a fairly big practical joker. Which Woz was it, then, who told the Telegraph:

“Consumers aren’t getting all they want when companies are very proprietary and lock their products down,” he says when comparing the iPhone’s closed operating system to the new Google phone’s open source system which allows anyone to modify and adapt the way the phone works. “I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you’re allowed,” he laments.

Of course, Woz could probably stroll into Apple, flash his stock certificates, and write any App he wants. So what’s he really saying? That average consumers would be better off with a more open platform from Apple?

That probably better defines the harder core developers, geeks, technophiles, and blogerati than the average consumer — just the type currently salivating over the Google Android.

Apple has made their iPod — and now iPhone — fortune, however, by giving average consumers what they really want: unmatched ease of use wrapped in a drop-dead gorgeous package.

My 2 and a half year old godson could use an iPhone with startling ease. Google Android? He could probably figure out how to throw it (likely at my head in frustration).

Woz is a genius, no doubt about it. He dented the world. But the classic mistake of any genius is seeing multiple problems when all every day people see is a single solution. The iPhone isn’t a kit computer like the Apple II. It’s the ultimate sealed-up Mac. Two different markets, with the second one being better for average consumers (despite geek howls to the contrary).

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Woz’ifications: iPhone Too Closed For Comfort?

If Fake Steve weren’t taking some “vacation” time to allow his alter-ego’s to move from Forbes to take over Steve Levy’s job at Newsweek, he’d no doubt be all over this.

Seems Woz, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in a garage during the age of aquarius (or something), in between Segway Polo matches and paying for hamburgers with uncut sheets of $100 bills, found some alone time with his honey, celebrity funny woman Kathy Griffn, in the back of a limo.

What to do, what to do…

Why, live-vidblog (or whatever the big media equivalent of that is) the jailbreaking of her iPhone! What else?

A combination of Woz’s massive watch and Griffin’s neon-orange case may blind you for life, but if you just gotta see the geekbait, check the video over at Engadget.

O.P. Original Pirate, y’all! JAR!

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