Steve Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs, and while he doesn’t work for the company anymore, he’s still synonymous with all things fruity and Mac-flavoured. Now he says the iPod’s days are numbered, and its only a matter of time until Apple loses its MP3-playing crown.
Interviewed by the Telegraph, 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… You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap and they are not selling as much.”
Ouch. Apple will be feeling hurt by that, except Woz also knows the solution. But it’s still not Apple-friendly.
“Consumers aren’t getting all they want when companies are very proprietary and lock their products down,” he said, making an underhand reference to the iPhone’s software limitations. “I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you’re allowed,” he added.
Out now | From £32 | Apple (via The Telegraph)
