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Woz on iPhone and Leopard
Laptop Magazine has posted a nice long interview with the Woz about all things Apple from Leopard, to iPhone to, well, laptops. It looks like Woz is looking forward to using Leopard and supports third-party iPhone apps. He says, "[I] am really for the unlockers, the rebels trying to make it free. I'd really like it to be open to new applications. I'd like to install some nice games. Why in the world can I not install a ringtone that I've made?" We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Rock on, Woz.
Thanks to John Coxon
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Kevin said 1:16PM on 10-29-2007
You do not link to the first page of the article. FYI.
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Ryan said 1:34PM on 10-29-2007
Whenever Woz speaks, one has to take his comments with a grain of salt since he is not at all a businessman. He just wants to make cool stuff for people to enjoy. So he, like the rest of us, look at things like the iPhone and don't think about it from a business point of view but from a consumer's point of view.
This isn't a bad thing at all; it's just a bit misleading. Woz is held up on a pedestal for being a founding Apple member, but he's not the reason the company is where it is today. He birthed it and gave it momentum, but he didn't keep it going all these years. It's solid business decisions that kept Apple going, and the iPhone is one of those solid decisions. When Jobs finds that enough people are not buying a product or service, he'll find the reason and fix it. With the ringtones, if people stop buying ringtones through Apple, he'll get the message and change them. Simple as that.
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Jonathan Allen said 1:43PM on 10-29-2007
It's nice to see that Woz hasn't changed all that much. I read his autobiography about a year ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. He just wanted to make stuff that was cool. He was never out to make a buck. SJ on the other hand, did. I like SJ, but there's a huge difference there.
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bryan Webster said 4:04PM on 10-29-2007
Woz is an embarrassing fool who is constantly clinging on to his Apple "status" even though he is nothing to do with the company and has not been for a long time.
He is just the guy Steve Jobs used and took advantage off as a way to make some $$
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Steve Keys said 4:18PM on 10-29-2007
Nowadays it feels like that whole Woz side of Apple's personality is all but dead. Sad.
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rndmnme said 4:43PM on 10-29-2007
Do you think Steve Jobs calls up Woz and goes on a Noah Wyle style Jobesian tear?
YOU STOLE FROM USSSS!
Steve Jobs is such a whiny little kid, and for the record, infinitely more evil than Bill Gates.
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Frank said 4:44PM on 10-29-2007
@ #4 -- woz is still apple employee badge #1, and whether apple likes it or not, he is still one of the go-to faces for the media when anything apple comes up. even though he may not have any direct involvement in the day to day of apple, his opinion still carries a lot of weight in both the industry and the product-consuming apple faithful. steve jobs may be apple's -- uh -- ego & brain, but woz is apple's conscience & heart.
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TigerPants said 5:03PM on 10-29-2007
I find this odd, considering his original Danger device was pretty much locked down like the iPhone. I remember how excited I was once the Color Sidekick could finally install ringtones and software. Hmmm.
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phelim said 6:25PM on 10-29-2007
that photo is great! where on earth is it from!?
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Tom said 7:26PM on 10-29-2007
I don't understand you haters, like @4. Would you say the same about people who mention The Humane Interface (by Jef Raskin)?
And @2: Just because no one buys the ringtones doesn't mean SPJ has to start making them free. He'll just lower the price while the music cartel breathes down his back for not giving them big enough checks.
All the complaints about how amazon is 89 cents per song? That's not universal, I've cruised around and found songs for $3 or so, and many for 99 cents. I am pretty sure (from my limited experience) that 89 cents is the exception, not the rule, at amazon.
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Shawn said 10:16PM on 10-29-2007
From a purely third-party standpoint, Woz is the consciousness of apple. He represents what apple wants everyone to think it is- a great company which makes cool products, the stuff people need and want.He's what every consumer wants apple to be [wants apple to offer], or at least what they thought of it as.
Apple doesn't always follow that, although they definitely advertise it. He may not be involved in day-to-day operations, or make the big business decisions, but Woz definitely lives on in Apple's products. I wish he lived on in their decisions...
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JokerX said 10:57PM on 10-29-2007
I downloaded a shitload of wallpapers and resized them all to 320x480 and created a torrent with 9500 wallpapers if anyone is interested in jumping on the torrent . It has everything from women to cars,nature,space,digital blasphemy,tech and much more this should give you more than enough to choose from for walls on you iPhone more than you will ever use.
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3864493/...one_wallpapers
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1406073/2808714/
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