"Apple could succeed with an Android phone" - Five Days

It’s been 42 years since Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, then two young students hairy, met and decided to create the first personal computer in history. 28 years ago Wozniak, the engineer who provided technical expertise for the project, left Apple to devote to other matters. And yet, every word he says even now the Wizard of Woz (and is popularly known) responds with scrupulous reverence on the main floor of the headquarters of the company on the block.

He is perfectly aware of it. “Just say what I think. Apple already has a body of competent executives, led by Tim Cook. I could never do that job. hope that what I say may or may not affect the decisions of Apple . And if it does, I hope when I have any good ideas, “said Wozniak to CincoDías with a smile from ear to ear. He did after speaking at the Fourth Congress of Brilliant Minds, organized by El Ser Creativo. Minutes before Mike Markkula had placed the investor who relied on the draft two twentysomethings, as a key figure in the success of Apple.

He himself is considered one of the first fans of his excompañía: usually one more in the long queues at Apple stores on the company launches a new. “I never criticized any Apple product, because I honestly think they are great . ever have compared to others, but that’s because I like things well done , whether or not Apple “, impacted. He has never hidden that professes respect, for example, the Android operating system.

“In schools memorize increasingly less”

Wozniak

activity did not cease when in 1985 he decided to leave the company he had created with his colleague Steve Jobs. Two years later he founded Cloud9, a company that developed remote control (built the first universal). More recently, in 2001, raised Wheels of Zeus (WOZ), a firm that creates wireless GPS technology aimed at helping people to find things. “I have a device that I found the suitcase in airports. It’s great! “He said during the interview he did the journalist Manuel Campo Vidal in the Congress of Brilliant Minds.

In parallel, since the eighties has given one of his passions: teaching. An activity that still cultivated with great care and pleasure. “Meeting young with fresh ideas is one of the things I enjoy most,” he says. Throughout his life he has donated money to various educational institutions and museums.

Wozniak also has its own ideas about how education will in the not too distant. “Technology will increasingly become more integrated in objects of everyday life: from clothing to the fridge,” he says. “So the trend will be to memorize less and less stuff. Children should focus on how to reason and solve problems, because soon we’ll always have at our disposal huge amounts of information. “

They no longer have responsibility for the company (although an undisclosed amount of shares) does not prevent iWoz (one of his nicknames) circumvents answer how Apple could combat the growing threat Android. At the beginning of the year and shocked the devotees of Apple recognizing that Google’s operating system had some advantages over Apple, such as speech recognition or ease to publish applications.

“I’m not a businessman. But there is something I’ve been wondering lately, “he mused. “What if Apple decided to have two ranges of smartphones, high as we know it today and a low him to use the Android system, a system open to the world and not so protected?” , is questioned .

This idea has substance. This would be an unusual initiative: as you know the users, all mobile devices Cupertino company only works with the iOS operating system (the latest version, 7), which in turn accepts only files compatible.

“Apple has learned a lot about how difficult it is to break into the world market. Would you still having sales the company if entered in the Android market? Of course you do. I think you can be successful in what are now two separate markets, “says the guru of technologies, always eager to learn new devices that will make life easier. “People sometimes not choose your phone for specific characteristics which each operating system , but for what they use their friends, what they saw, what they earn … Honestly, I think that Apple should try to be in the two markets. But it’s only my opinion … “.