Confirming our exclusive report back in October, Woz says the white iPhone 4 weas delayed because of light leakage into the camera, ruining photos.
But not to worry, the white iPhone 4 is coming soon Woz told the Engadget Show last night.
Rumors suggest Apple has fixed the light leakage issue with new paint, and the white iPhone 4 has recently been showing up in inventory systems at AT&T and Best Buy.
Via VentureBeat.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak didn’t see Steve Jobs’ sudden leave of absence coming, according to an email he wrote to CNET.
“The news actually frightened me because I did not expect it,” Wozniak said, before trying to look more brightly at the news as perhaps a personal choice on Jobs’ part to downplay his day-to-day involvement with Apple.
“If Steve is tired and wants a bit more normal life, more power to him,” he said.
At the time of writing CNET on Monday, Woz said he had not yet contacted Jobs, but in an email statement to Cult of Mac the Apple co-founder said that he had since reached out to Jobs directly with his best wishes of rapid recovery.
While many tech pundits equivocate over the Verizon iPhone now that it’s finally almost here, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has no qualms about plunking down for another device on a new network.
“I’m definitely going to get one,” Wozniak said. “I always have at least one Verizon phone on me at all times, just in case I’m in one of those bad areas. You can find those areas where Veriozn doesn’t work and AT&T does, but in truth, it’s usually the opposite.”
“And I also love the mobile hotspot,” Wozniak added. “I hope it’s the standard $30 a month. I wish it was free like the Palm Pre, because that made the Pre a cheaper Mi-Fi. Anyway so I’m expecting that it’s no big new iPhone, not even a new color. It’s just going to be on the Verizon network.”
Wozniak is not your average cell phone user, however. Aside from being far more fabulously wealthy than 99% of the people in the US, his Verizon iPhone will bring the number in his phone holster up to four.
“I’ll have three activated AT&T iPhones, so if the battery runs down I have a spare,” Wozniak said. “And I’m in Europe a lot of times, so maybe one of them will be Verizon, one of them will be AT&T. So I’ll have two AT&T, one AT&T with the international plan, and one Verizon if I need it. Although the tethering’s only to a computer. Although maybe I can give one number up and give it to Verizon. And I’ll keep the Droid X. And I’ll probably give up the Palm Pre, because I now have another Mi-Fi.”
It’s nice to be a man with options, eh?
This morning the Federal Communications Commission is voting on the charged issue of net neutrality.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wrote a passionate, funny nearly 1,800-word letter to the FCC about the importance of keeping the internet free.
Perhaps the strongest part of the letter is where he muses about how charging per bits would’ve kept the tinkering he and Steve Jobs did strictly in the garage:
“Imagine that when we started Apple we set things up so that we could charge purchasers of our computers by the number of bits they use.
The personal computer revolution would have been delayed a decade or more. If I had to pay for each bit I used on my 6502 microprocessor, I would not have been able to build my own computers anyway…”
Via The Atlantic
Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, apparently reads the Cult. After we published the recent piece on the Cupertinto, Calif. company buying HP’s old campus in the city, Wozniak offered more historical details on Apple’s connection with the acquisition of the 98-acre parcel. “Apple really is returning home,” Woz said in a comment.
“Actually, almost all of the Apple ][ development occurred in the HP calculator division (APD) which was located in the section acquired earlier. When this HP division moved to Corvallis, Oregon, my wife did not want to move so I transferred to HP’s Data Systems Division (HP-3000) across Pruneridge and I worked there for about one month, at first choosing not to start Apple due to my love for HP,” he said, shedding light on Apple’s early connection with the HP site.
The HP location, for which Apple reportedly paid $300 million, also had a connection to Apple’s earliest computer – the Apple I.
“This is also the division of HP that had the PROM burners I used to burn the 256-byte “monitor” program of the Apple I (took 2 PROM chips – not much memory in those days). I had previously learned how to burn these PROMs to display 4-letter words when you missed the ball on a Pong game I’d built for myself,” Wozniak wrote.
Nuance, maker of Dragon Naturally Speaking, is not a new member of Apple’s acquisitions. That’s the opinion of a writer at TechCrunch, who suggests Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak misspoke during a video interview. Although Nuance has no official comment the company’s stock rose five percent Monday night on the speculation.
Remarking how voice recognition will likely take on more importance by computer makers, Wozniak said: “Apple’s probably thinking the same way; they recently bought Nuance that does a lot of great voice recognition for that program I mentioned, the Siri Assistant.”
Ever mused on why Apple is Apple, and not, well, anything even vaguely computer related? Steve Wozniak’s disembodied head boils it down for you: it apparently comes from Steve Jobs’ days as a migrant fruit picker in the orchards of Oregon, and was chosen simply because it sounded “unique and interesting.”
Clarifying remarks attributed to him by a column in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on Wednesday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said today that, based on things he’s read, he does believe Android will eventually come to dominate the smartphone market — but not because it’s better than or has more features than Apple’s iOS platform.
“I [wasn’t] suggesting [Android is] better than iOS… it can get greater market share and still be crappy,” Wozniak said, pointing out that he merely told the De Telegraaf reporter that voice commands on Android were presently more sophisticated, but that Apple would catch up through its recent acquisitions. He went on to say that almost every app he has is better on the iPhone than it is on Android.
[Engadget]
Steve Wozniak — that wonderful bear of a tech evangelist — may love his iPhone, but he’s not banking on iOS to handily win the smartphone wars: instead, the Apple co-founder says that Google’s Android operating system will be the dominating platform.
Rediscovered from the Geek Archives: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has one of the coolest business cards I’ve ever seen. Made from perforated stainless steel with laser-etched and painted lettering, Woz bragged on The Colbert Report in 2006 that he could cut steak with this thing! I believe it.
This isn’t your Father’s Business Card. Looks like Mr. Jobs isn’t the only Steve with good taste!
[via NetworkWorld]