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July 20, 2007

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Woz being Woz

Posted Jul. 20, ’07, 9:08 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » People

Steve WozniakOur irmãos at IDGNow in Brazil have posted an interview with Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak. The always interesting Woz dishes on meeting Steve Jobs, where he thinks the future of the personal computer is going, and whether Apple should have licensed the Mac OS way back when.

One thing that struck me was Wozniak’s insistence that keyboards are the way computers are going to operate.

Are we going to use our voices, are we going to use our minds to communicate instead of the computer? My answer is: I don’t think so. Computers have a keyboard input for you to write down your message to get the computer to work. And the keyboard is operated by the fingers. Why would that change?
Interesting: I’d have thought he’d be a little more forward-thinking about different interfaces, though it’s true that as of yet, we haven’t seen anything that really competes with a keyboard, at least when it comes to interacting with text.

I was also surprised to see that he chose neither the Apple I nor the Apple II as his most “cherished” inventions:

The one that I loved the most among my designs is the Segway key program, believe it or not.
Oh, Woz, you and your Segways! Bless you.


1 Comments

Fletcher said:

Woz designed the key for the Segway? That kind of sheds a different light on his promotion of them doesn't it?

July 20, 2007 9:17 AM

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