Tag Archive | "Steve Wozniak"
Stanford’s Apple collection provides a rare glimpse into early days of Apple [Video]
Not being one prone to nostalgia, Steve Jobs, upon taking over Apple in 1997, famously tossed out mountains of Apple historical memorabilia. As the story goes, Jobs explained that it’d be impossible to move the company forward and prepare for the future if they remained hung up on the past. Within a few days, Stanford [...]
Continue reading...Woz cautiously optimistic about Apple’s future
Friday, October 28, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Ahead of the iPhone 4S launch, Steve Wozniak was humbly camping out overnight to be one of the first people to get his hands on Apple’s latest smartphone. While there, Woz was interviewed about a wide range of subjects, from his thoughts on AI to his thoughts on an Apple post-Steve Jobs. [...]
Continue reading...Woz calls Siri on the iPhone 4S a new era in computing [Video]
Friday, October 14, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Woz was first in line outside of the Apple Store in Los Gatos, CA, eagerly anticipating the release of the iPhone 4S. And while some may say the iPhone 4S is only a moderate upgrade from the iPhone 4, Woz wholeheartedly disagrees and thinks Siri will usher in a completely new era [...]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak waiting in line overnight for the iPhone 4S
Thursday, October 13, 2011
By John Hiesler: He may be the co-founder of Apple who helped provide the technical wizadry behind the Apple I and II, but Steve Wozniak is waiting in line overnight at an Apple Store in Los Gatos, California to get his mischevious hands on the iPhone 4S. And it’s not because he has to, it’s [...]
Continue reading...Wozniak – “We’ve lost something we won’t get back”
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, together with Steve Jobs helped change the course of personal computing forever. Though Wozniak’s influence at Apple has been effectively non-existent since the mid 80′s, Woz is forever tied to Apple and is arguably, behind Jobs, the most well-known Apple figure in company history. In an interview with the AP following [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s new campus is on old HP land where Woz used to work and designed the Apple I
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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Pending a vote this coming Fall which looks to be a sure thing, Apple’s proposed new spaceship-esque campus in Cupertino looks to be a sure thing. Large enough to house 12,000 employees, with a cafeteria capable of seating 3,000 people, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs boasted to Cupertino’s City Counsel that the structure, which Jobs [...]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak said he’d consider returning to Apple if asked
Monday, April 11, 2011
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During a recent interview in England, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was asked if he’d ever consider returning to Apple in the event he was asked to. “I’d consider it, yeah,” Woz responded. While Wozniak officially left Apple in 1987, he does remain a stockholder and an employee in name. “There’s just an awful lot I [...]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak: Tablets are PCs for “normal people”
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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Earlier this week, Apple co-founder and all around gadget geek Steve Wozniak delivered a keynote speech at Storage Networking World in California. At one point, someone in the audience asked Woz, who is currently the Chief Scientist at Fusion-io, what his thoughts were on the iPad and how tablets were poised to affect the computer [...]
Continue reading...Woz says the white iPhone 4 is coming soon
Sunday, January 30, 2011
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Earlier this evening, Apple co-founder and prankster enthusiast Steve Wozniak joined Engadget staff members to record an episode of The Engadget Show Live! during which Woz claimed that Apple had fixed the problem at the root of the delayed white iPhone 4 launch. The longstanding delay was rumored to be a result of matching issues [...]
Continue reading...Woz clarifies statement re: Android – “Almost every app I have is better on the iPhone”
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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Earlier today, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak caused a stir when he reportedly claimed that Android was on pace to become the dominant smartphone platform. Apparently, though, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf lost the gist of Woz’s comments in translation. Engadget reports: Woz says he gave the De Telegraaf reporter a lengthy demonstration of voice commands on [...]
Continue reading...Woz: Android will be the dominant smartphone platform
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Speaking to the Dutch-language De Telegraaf newspaper, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak threw his two cents in regarding the ongoing battle for smartphone supremacy between Apple and Android. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, Woz thinks Android is the platform that will ultimately win out, likening the situation to how Windows emerged victorious over the Mac back in [...]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak, your friendly iPhone 4 line chauffeur
Monday, June 28, 2010
Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs couldn’t be more diametrically opposite individuals. Jobs, he of the legendary temper and keen business mind, is not someone you really want to rile up. Woz, meanwhile, is a concert loving, Segway riding, TV Dancing, and Tetris-playing engineer, who despite his illustrious accomplishments, remains a lovable geek and [...]
Continue reading...Apple fires engineer who let Woz play around with 3G iPad
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Remember this Santa Clausian photo of Steve Wozniak holding an iPad 3G a few weeks back? Well it turns out that Apple recently fired the engineer who let Woz play around with the iPad for a few minutes, presumably because he wasn’t allowed to show the device to anyone. Woz recently spoke about what transpired: [...]
Continue reading...Woz scores 3G iPad, says it’s “better than I ever imagined”
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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Ah, it’s good to be king.. or a co-founder of Apple at least. While everyone else is busy unboxing wi-fi only models of their iPad, Apple co-founder and uber geek role model Steve Wozniak is gallivanting around town with a 3G equipped iPad. And his thoughts? “iPad delight…wow this is better than I ever imagined!”
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak brought color to the personal computer [Video]
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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With Apple now over 30 years old, it’s sometimes easy to forget that they were on the vanguard of technological innovation years before the Mac came to be, and decades before the iPod and iPhone took over the world. The Apple II, which was introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1977, helped launch [...]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak, inventor and Tetris Champion?
Monday, January 4, 2010
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is an engineering legend who naturally holds a place in the inventors hall of fame. But there’s a lot more to Woz than his role in designing the personal computer. Not only did he put on 2 massive music festivals in the early 80′s, but he’s also one of the world’s [...]
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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