In an interview with The BBC, Steve Wozniak – confounder of Apple – has expressed his desire for Steve Wozniak to team up.
The brains behind Apple, it is obvious that “Woz” (as he is also known) believes that Apple’s shortcomings could be made up via the use of other technologies. Wozniak was critical of Apple’s Siri, for example, and reserved special praise for Google’s own voice recognition service.
“Sometimes I say ‘Go to Joe’s Diner’ and [Siri] doesn’t know where Joe’s Diner is. And very often usually I find out that Android does.”
Wozniak credited Android’s success in this area to Google’s search engine. “That is actually the future of intelligence probably for computers getting smarter and getting artificial intelligence. I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.”
When asked about the likelihood of an Apple/Google partnership, Wozniak was hesitant: “I don’t know. If I were there, it would be pretty likely. I’m probably wrong, there’s probably an awful lot I don’t know about the business concerns and one thing you’ve got to remember is a company has always got to make money”.
“I believe you should have a world where you’ve got to license something at a fair price. There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don’t know if Samsung would stop us,” he says.
“I wish everybody just did a lot of cross-licensing and sharing the good technology, all our products would be better, we’d go further. I do wish they were more compatible.” Wozniak also posited that a closer working relationship between tech companies would lead to better advances in wearable tech, like smart-watches and augmented reality glasses.
“I want a full smartphone-like capability on my wrist. The trouble is the more I think about it, I don’t want the small size.
“We’re just at the verge of having products that have foldability and flexibility,” he says.
“For about three or four years I’ve been talking about organic LED displays that could be theoretically printed on plastic, wrapped and folded,” he says.
“For about three or four years I’ve been talking about organic LED displays that could be theoretically printed on plastic, wrapped and folded,” he says.
Although Wozniak is no longer an Apple insider, his comments will not doubt be viewed as a challenge to Tim Cook and the new regime.
With iOS 7, Siri Drops Google For Bing, Also Gains Twitter Search
Apple’s new iOS 7 mobile operating system officially rolled out today, and with it, the Siri assistant is finally out of beta. The most significant change to Siri is arguably that it no longer taps into Google for searches. As expected, a deal with Microsoft now makes Bing the default in Siri. Twitter also gets a new place within the tool.
Supporting Role, Not Starring Role, For Bing
After last year’s disaster of iOS 6 switching from Google Maps to Apple’s own maps, Apple might perhaps be downplaying this latest Google swap-out. If you visit the Siri page at Apple, there’s no mention of Bing being used, while Yelp and WolframAlpha, both long-time Siri data partners, get shoutouts:
Of course, one reason Bing doesn’t have a starring role is that Siri has continued to evolve into a tool that tries not to search the web, if it can help it. That same Siri page I’ve noted above also has screenshots about how Siri can be used to do a variety of searches or tasks. An example of using it to search the web is notably absent. This does appear, however, on the help screen within Siri that lists various things it can do.
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