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Woz Is Unimpressed By Apple’s New iPads

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9 pointselie_CH13 comments

I think Woz's statements were pretty innocuous and the article is implying more significance to his statements than are warranted. All he said was they dont meet my specific use case and kept it moving. Realistically apple has been in a slow evolutionary state of advancement for a while.

I think the last few generations have been 'upgrade if my current gen device breaks' but not 'replace my current gen device with new gen device' as far as it goes.

I think that without Steve Jobs Apple will be forever in a slow evolutionary state of advancement. He was the real engine behind the risky innovation in Apple.

I think Apple, Inc. is Jobs's great creation. If I'm right, Over the next decades you – and the stock market – will be convinced of this.

Why do we care what Woz thinks of Apple's current product line? I'm genuinely confused.

I guess to downplay product launch from a former founder doesn't seem to be "entreprise" mind-like.

Because an editor thinks you'll read the article.

Who cares?

I own an iPad 3, the first of the retina devices. It's pretty underpowered, and the size can be frustrating. The new mini may be great for me.

I know tons of people who have been holding out on getting a mini because they wanted a retina display. Now you not only get the retina display, but you get the size you want, it's light, and it's got some power.

I can't think of a single consumer who, before buying an Apple product thinks, "Wait, would Woz buy one of these?"

From the beginning it seems Woz has specific uses in mind, which is far from typical. Woz is a genius and technophile, this is also far from the typical case. Jobs was able to reign in Woz's genius while avoiding Woz's business sense, or lack thereof.

Every time, Apple releases a new project, Woz is there to say it isn't good enough... for Woz. It's apparent to me, Woz was never meant to be in charge of Apple's product line that targets the general public.

The article is generally pointless, but also poorly-checked:

> Apple does offer a 128GB iPad Air, but the iPad mini maxes out at 64GB.

In fact, there is a 128GB iPad mini:

https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/specs/

> I was hoping for more storage so I could put every episode of Big Bang Theory on my iPad.

Can't he use the Time Capsule for this?

What if he's stranded in the Mojave, hundreds of miles from home, with no cell tower around? How's he going to look up the one where Sheldon gets hacked on World of Warcraft then?

Woz: “I don’t have broadband at home"

Why?

> because of his “lousy phone company.”

Highly dependent on where he lives.

There are parts of the country (I'm familiar with central/western MA) where there is no cable service, ADSL requires a short distance from the local POP (and <= 1.5Mbps is arguably not 'broadband'). FTTH rollouts have pretty much stopped, and 4G service is nonexistent.

There is a good talk on telecom monopolies linked in this comment (that thread has other good discussions, as well): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124918

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