Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is not a fan of the new iPhone X.
Woz criticized the iPhone X when it was unveiled last year. And now that he’s finally spent some quality time with one (thanks to Tim Cook), he says Apple made some really bad design decisions.
Speaking at the Nordic Business Forum in Stockholm last week, Woz lamented that the power button on the iPhone X seems overly complicated to him.
“The power button on the side does different things if you click it quickly, or if you click it twice, and a different thing if you click it a third time,” Wozniak explained. “I like things to be as simple and understandable and direct.”
iPhone X is no Lisa
According to Woz, the Lisa computer was the epitome of an intuitive user experience. Despite being one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface, the Lisa failed to sell well.
In Woz’s eyes, the iPhone X power button is a huge affront to Apple’s core principals. In fact, the iconic computer designer couldn’t stop ranting against the button.
“If you push it with the volume button it does another thing,” he said. “And if you push and hold the volume button it does another thing. Just, ugh!”
Even though Woz isn’t a big fan of the iPhone X, most of the public seems to be. Reports ahead of Apple’s Q1 earnings call (which happens tomorrow) indicate iPhone X probably sold the most units in one quarter ever.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
11 responses to “Steve Wozniak hates the iPhone X’s home button”
And we care because….? Learning 4 or 5 new total button click combinations took all of 5 minutes; maybe a few more for even a trained monkey.
God bless Woz, but he is an old grey beard with a traumatic brain injury.
The dude should keep his opinions about Apple products to himself.
Wait…so we still care about what Woz thinks? I didn’t get the memo.
There’s a reason why Steve Woziank never actually ran Apple. He has no vision what so ever.
Woz is about as relevant as Kanye West. Just a bunch of booooooring hot air. ?
Why does everyone always talk about his opinion is he so old now he has problems learning the what five new gestures for the iPhone X please Woz you are not relevant anymore and haven’t been in 20 years
For God sake let the man pontificate all he wants. To say he’s not relevant anymore is like saying your Mom and Dad aren’t relevant anymore. He’s an engineer not a designer so his point of view is obviously coming from a totally different perspective. Give the man his due and let him prattle on. He’s earned it!
Peak Apple has topped out on invention, integration and innovation. Tim Cook brilliance doesn’t = creative genius, clarity nor vision. Post SteveJobs 10 yrs iPhone has been milked, iMac cannibalized, WebObjects abandoned and an iCloud/iTunes abortion that customers can’t pay to protect their content much less guarantee iDevices will secure data bought and paid for but Apple drops royalty pay to artists and its gone… swoosh.
Apple is a smattering of neglected broken OS’en busted cross-communications, disabled interprocessing, antiquated proprietary services, tools and software that bridge customers to nowhere without a roadmap anywhere in the future.
Instead of ” just works” Apple have rent the future to a members-only cult who willingly pony up the cost of admission buying one or more iDevices. Pride of ownership be damned… no one owns a computer; not the OS, the hardware you can’t fix yourself (it’s a right owned by Apple) and anything you need you must rent by subscription.
This is no SteveJobs personal computer revolution. This is Big Brother placing a yoke around the necks of free men and women. Slaves to a corporation which have gamed them into a pay to play, pay to use and buy-in to enjoy the empty promise of a world that ” just works”!
Steve Wozniak please give me one IphoneX as a give away call my number 00699536509359
Ffs, fix the title. The iPhone X doesn’t have a home button. And Woz doesn’t hate the home button, he hates the power button. Smh
Four things. 1. Malcom X said when you want people to run towards the fox, show them a wolf, which brings to mind Apple’s simultaneous release of the iPhone 8 and X, respectively;
2. The Notch on the X is the new recognisable feature that sets iPhones apart from the garden-variety, just as the decade-old Home Button did, which incidentally is analogous to the stick-shift, the physical four-on-the-floor on the old banger;
3. Granted, Android phones have physical and capacitive buttons for Overview, Task Switching and whatever, but the X has leap-frogged over buttons altogether; and
4. Notwithstanding the X appears to be pushing Mr. Wozniak’s buttons, literally, and/or that it is customisable to be “simple and understandable and direct”, we are now shifting gears with gestures, and to be very polite to our dear legend, get used to it!