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Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work
chrizbot writes "A friend of mine studying journalism at Google's alma mater interviewed Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer fame. He chimes in on open source, DRM, record companies and how software from big companies suck so bad (including Apple's!). The part my friend doesn't include is how he guessed a trick was performed and won a necklace from him!" From the article: "Sometimes the engineers are true artists and really care what they're doing, doing a really great job. Although, I don't know how much I can even say that because the big companies, Microsoft, Apple and AOL, they tend to turn out the crappiest products, you know, software-wise. The ones that have the most bugs, the most items that are supposedly in there but don't work. The most things that are left out because they aren't finished. The most things that are inconsistent with the way they did their last program. I get the worst, worst software almost always from Apple."
When the 6502 was a hot processor, Woz was a pretty fair hack electrical engineer. Running the video off the CPU was a cute trick. But he hasn't had anything relevant to say about computers in a very long, long time.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Why does slashdot give the software-whingers so much air time? It gets really quite boring after a while to hear for the 10,000th time the badness of the software from Apple/MS/you-name-it/but-not-open-source.
watch as the apple fanboys come out in droves to crucify one of their own for his comments.
I can see why he cant get any work. He is almost clueless about computers. Maybe he would like to use some crappy open source software if he thinks real programs suck so bad.
Preach it brother!
If it's dead, you killed it.
In all seriousness though, it does sound like he's just trolling. Either he's pissed he's not still apart of the titan that is Apple and secretly hates himself for it (motive for this tyrade?), or software's simply ran past him so fast that he's just not been able to keep up and he "misses the old days".
In either case, the Woz's name is enough to keep the attention flowing his way, even if it is fanatical. He's an important piece of computer's history, but unlike Jobs or Gates, he is more focused on being a part of history, than a part of today. (Gates, as much as you hate him, is a HUGE philanthropist, so as much as you hate him for what he did to the computer industry, at least know he's trying..)
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Sorry but you are deluding yourself. You have the Apple goggles on.
I have to work with an extremely broad range of software on a daily basis (everything from mainframes to embedded) and Apple just ain't that great. Even OS X itself sucks pretty bad. Don't get me wrong, almost all software sucks pretty bad, but Apple tends to be a little more funky than most stuff.
Did your friend win the necklace from Woz, or was it the other way around? Perhaps we should all go to Journalism school (or at least take some grammar or writing courses).
American English pffft, now there's an oxymoron if ever there was one. I know many things are tolerated in spoken English, but what sort of a spasmodic creature would tolerate it in written form from a from a journalist no less. The written word should be held to a higher standard. Sheesh, the language isn't evolving. It's disintegrating.
American English pffft, now there's an oxymoron if ever there was one.
True enough, but then "whom" is rarely used in England. It's a bit... well... pretentious.
Hey at least in Win XP it doesn't take too many steps to turn it into something that very closely resembles Win 2000. Sounds like the switches Apple has made go way beyond this.