| Woz predicts iPod’s death, says iPhone should be open |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 09 October 2008 | |
      
The UK’s Daily Telegraph had the chance to interview Apple’s well known co-founder, Steve Wozniak, also known as “Woz”, and amongst other things decided to ask him about the future of the iPod. Woz said: "The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. Things like, that if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after a while. "It's kind of like everyone has got one or two or three. You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap and they are not selling as much." Then Woz speaks on the iPhone, saying: "Consumers aren't getting all they want when companies are very proprietary and lock their products down. I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you're allowed.” During this answer he is quoted as wishing the iPhone was more open like Google’s Android phone and platform, Then when it comes to customer loyalty, Woz said he spoke for himself and Steve Jobs by saying they "don't like the fact that it's a bit of a religion". Woz is then quoted saying: "I would like to have the users influence the next generation. With a religion you're not allowed to challenge anything. I want our customers to challenge us." Woz then says that not even Steve Jobs knows what’s coming next, claiming he’d be as unaware as the next fellow of what “future product launches” would be, although while you’d think the interviewer meant future Apple launches, it could easily be referring to other breakthough, gamechanging technologies, much as the iPhone has been. But then despite Woz saying he had no idea, he suggested an “iWatch” could be possible, something that was dreamt up by a designer called Peter Burns a couple of years ago, although any real iWatch would probably look even better! The Daily Telegraph’s interview has plenty more information, if you’d like to see what else one of the most influential technologists of the 20th century has to say. Meanwhile, I just hope any iWatch has an iPhone in it!
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