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From: Chris on 26 Feb 2006 03:50
APPLE co-founder Steve Wozniak said that the company is consorting with
the enemy in its chip pact with Intel and should spin off its iPod
business as fast as possible.

Speaking in New Zealand, where he is taking part in a four-on-four polo
tournament played Segways, Wozniak said that Apple has gone in
surprising directions lately.

He said the move to Intel chips was "like consorting with the enemy".
Apple had a long tradition of saying that the enemy is the "big
black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different,
and by being different we're better".

Now, Apple is just the same as them and it was a "little hard to
swallow your words" from the past. As an engineer he admits the move
was a necessary evil because Apple needed a way to improve performance
per watt, although he was not certain if it was needed. He would have
liked Apple to continue using Motorola processors, but "Intel just did
a very good logic design."

Wozniak also does not really like Apple's flagship iPod either. He
said that while they were good for the company they were distracting
Apple from its focus on computing.

He said that they should be spun off as soon as possible. Apple was, he
said, a computer company which really thinks about computers.

Although Wozniak is still on the payroll he no longer takes an active
role in the company after being shafted in a boardroom battle in the
mid-1980s

You can read the whole interview at the Globe and Mail web site,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060223.wxapple0223/BNStory/Front/home

From: Ian Robinson on 26 Feb 2006 05:28
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:50:57 +0000, Chris wrote
(in article <1140943857.223934.236440(a)i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> Although Wozniak is still on the payroll he no longer takes an active
> role in the company after being shafted in a boardroom battle in the
> mid-1980s

I don't think that's correct.

Ian

--
Ian Robinson, Belfast, UK
<http://www.canicula.com/wp/>

From: Chris on 26 Feb 2006 05:32

Ian Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:50:57 +0000, Chris wrote
> (in article <1140943857.223934.236440(a)i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
>
> > Although Wozniak is still on the payroll he no longer takes an active
> > role in the company after being shafted in a boardroom battle in the
> > mid-1980s
>
> I don't think that's correct.
>
> Ian
>
> --

It is correct.

Well okay, he wasn't actually shafted. It's a figure of speech.

From: Ian McCall on 26 Feb 2006 05:42
On 2006-02-26 10:32:34 +0000, "Chris" <Chris.Holland16(a)gmail.com> said:

> <snip summary>

> Ian Robinson wrote:
>> ...I don't think that's correct.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> --
>
> It is correct.

It's a different slant on things to that reported on Slashdot though.
And Slashdot normally goes for the sensationalism.

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/1620240

Woz seems a lot more at ease with things in that version.


Cheers,
Ian

From: Ian Robinson on 26 Feb 2006 05:47
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:32:34 +0000, Chris wrote
(in article <1140949954.460581.215330(a)j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> It is correct.
>
> Well okay, he wasn't actually shafted. It's a figure of speech.

Jobs was ousted. Wozniak choose to go do other things, like education
stuff. IIRC.

Ian

--
Ian Robinson, Belfast, UK
<http://www.canicula.com/wp/>

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