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Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wish-i-had-his-job dept.

AcidAUS writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting Sydney this morning. Wozniak said he was puzzled by the lack of 3G support on the iPhone and that he didn't believe the MacBook Air would be a hit."

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  1. Re:No questions by slyn · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I do however question the release of the iPhone without g3 support.

    I don't. The reason is so blindingly obvious, it takes a superb amount of fanboyism to ignore:
    Apple released a non-3G iPhone, to ensure that everyone who buys the first iPhone for $500, will buy the iPhone3G for $500, a year later.
    You are right in that the reason is blindingly obvious, but you have your own superb amount of fanboyism, only on the other side of the spectrum.

    Besides issues with battery life, 3G coverage in the US is pretty bad. ATT is supposed to expand their network further to another 80 US markets by the end of 2008, bringing the total up to 350 (so around 270 now). I imagine there was way fewer 3G areas 14 months ago when the iPhone was announced, and probably not many more when the iPhone actually came out 4 months later. For the european and eastern markets 3G would be a no brainer, but Apple apparently wanted one model in two different flash drive sizes (the same way they have the shuffle, nano, and classic), and the US was their greatest and foremost marketplace, so EDGE it was.

    As to the Macbook Air, I agree with Woz that it's an overblown piece of tech. And his criticism about the Apple TV is less about the hardware (which he calls an indicator of the future or something like that) and more about the rental program, which (as the rumors say) Apple resisted against as a business model for some time.