Not sure where to put this thread. General discussion, here, or in politics and ethics. It's hard with so many overlapping and redundant forums on this site.
...Anyhow!
I've started reading some Apple tech sites since I started considering buying a macbook pro (although now I've decided I'm prolly gonna skip this gen and instead go with the next; those ivy bridge chips look totally kickass, with lower power, much higher performance, more features - on-chip DX11 graphics? Yes please!).
Then today I saw this here newspost, and it just struck me - AGAIN...
The Woz is an unusually open, friendly and level-headed guy for being in the position he is. He's not a semi-antisocial half-sociopath like Jobs or Gates, he appears to be neither selfish, nor self-centered, and his demeanor appears honest, laid-back and downright friendly. Wow.
Woz spoke some time ago now about the lost iPhone prototype and matters related hereto, and then later about the (at the time) MIA white iPhones, and more recently about being willing to go back to Apple again should they ask him to.
With Jobs' health still very much an ongoing concern, who will take up his sword, should he falter, or even fall? That workoholic whatsisname that's 2nd in command over there at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino? He doesn't seem to have the charisma needed for a company like Apple. Jobs certainly has - of a sort anyway, he also has a propensity for arrogance(*) and aloofness(**) unfortunately.
...Woz on the other hand...
Can you guys imagine Apple under the leadership of Steve Wozniak? Could it be an Apple with less of the snobby elitism we're so used to, less of the paranoid, DRM-pumped closed-nature of iOS, iTunes and so on? Would it be a friendlier, happier, less rigid Apple that if not endorses so at least tolerates stuff like jailbreaking and so on?
I dunno. I can't help wondering.
*: "We're not tracking anybody."
**: "You're holding it wrong."
...Anyhow!
I've started reading some Apple tech sites since I started considering buying a macbook pro (although now I've decided I'm prolly gonna skip this gen and instead go with the next; those ivy bridge chips look totally kickass, with lower power, much higher performance, more features - on-chip DX11 graphics? Yes please!).
Then today I saw this here newspost, and it just struck me - AGAIN...
The Woz is an unusually open, friendly and level-headed guy for being in the position he is. He's not a semi-antisocial half-sociopath like Jobs or Gates, he appears to be neither selfish, nor self-centered, and his demeanor appears honest, laid-back and downright friendly. Wow.
Woz spoke some time ago now about the lost iPhone prototype and matters related hereto, and then later about the (at the time) MIA white iPhones, and more recently about being willing to go back to Apple again should they ask him to.
With Jobs' health still very much an ongoing concern, who will take up his sword, should he falter, or even fall? That workoholic whatsisname that's 2nd in command over there at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino? He doesn't seem to have the charisma needed for a company like Apple. Jobs certainly has - of a sort anyway, he also has a propensity for arrogance(*) and aloofness(**) unfortunately.
...Woz on the other hand...
Can you guys imagine Apple under the leadership of Steve Wozniak? Could it be an Apple with less of the snobby elitism we're so used to, less of the paranoid, DRM-pumped closed-nature of iOS, iTunes and so on? Would it be a friendlier, happier, less rigid Apple that if not endorses so at least tolerates stuff like jailbreaking and so on?
I dunno. I can't help wondering.
*: "We're not tracking anybody."
**: "You're holding it wrong."