Apple Legend Woz Blasts iPhone Price Drop

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 23, 2007 @06:19PM from the cuz-the-price-is-crazy dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak Saturday blasted Steve Jobs' decision to drop the price of the iPhone by $200 just two months after the product was launched. Said Woz: 'Everyone expects technology to drop in price. The first adopters always pay a premium. I am one of them. I am used to that. But that one was too soon, too harsh ... A lot of people from Apple, even a lot of people that worked on the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers in the beginning now work at Google. The thinking over at Google is very much like early Apple days. The fact that they give people time off to work on their own ideas is exactly matches some of the things that made Apple great. I wish Apple did that.'" We just discussed the price drop last night.

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Full transcript of the interview by Stony+Stevenson · 2007-09-23 18:29 · Score: 5, Informative

A full transcript of the interview can be read here: Interview: Wozniak slams Apple for iPhone price drop snafu
Woz vs. Gates by JonTurner · 2007-09-23 20:50 · Score: 4, Informative

Let me put this into perspective:

Woz designed the Apple ][ from scratch, invented the A][ hard drive controller, wrote the system monitor in machine code (without the aid of an assember, mind you!) as well as the Integer Basic interpreter and did this at least twice (he lost the source code) and it was several bytes smaller the second time, etc. etc. etc.

Gates, Davidoff and Allen as a team gave us a hacked version of someone else's basic interpreter. Gates gave us donkey.bas

I rest my case.