Woz Fears Stifling of Startups Due to Patent Wars

An anonymous reader writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that Apple and other tech companies' patent hoarding could prevent entrepreneurs doing the same thing that he and Steve Jobs did in starting a computer company in a garage. Woz also says the jury is still out on Tim Cook as the right CEO to lead Apple forward after Steve Jobs." He still gives Apple a bit of a break: "'Apple is the good guy on the block of all of them,' he says. 'It is creating so much and is so successful and it is not just following the formulas of other companies – [Apple is] totally establishing new markets that didn't exist.'"

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Re:Creative energy gone from Apple

[Daniel Phillips]

Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.

I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.

Re:Creative energy gone from Apple

[Daniel Phillips]

Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.

I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.

I do not agree that my post is a troll, Apple mods. Please get this through your koolaid addled skulls: crticism is not trolling. Far from it, I actually complimented Tim Cook for the good work he has done in the aid of ridding us all of the Apple menace.