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.