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The Woz disarms his "anti-Intel" claims
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (aka: the Woz) is fighting back against an interview that appeared in Toronoto Globe and Mail. In summary, he is denying his negative remarks about Apple's switch to Intel chips and his alleged call on Apple to split off the chipmaking division in an email that he sent to the themacintoshguy mailing list:
I was in New Zealand and am just now back home. I saw a couple of headlines that were way off base.
As for Microsoft's desire to be more like Apple (creative, not the Dark Empire), I have insights into that aspect. It's opinion but why be constantly negative, like saying that bad things from the past mean MS will always be a bad guy. I myself am not known for taking the enemy approach to anything.
As for "spinning off iPod" I heartily deny saying this. The reporter asked some such question and I laughed it off as ludicrous. Why would Apple spin off something so successful. Then the reporter suggested that it could be like a separate division. Well, organizationally, it must be so already and I acknowledged the question I was asked in that way. Then the reporter asked if it made sense to have the iPod division somewhere else and I gave a mixed response, a logical response. I likened it to HP divisions when I worked at HP. There is a nice environmental effect in separate divisions. But then I mentioned that the HP divisions were making very different product lines, whereas the strength of the iPod came from treating a music device as a 'satellite' to a computer, and the intertwining of iTunes and the iPod made this possible. I did NOT say that the iPod division should be spun off and I feel used in that regard.
As for Intel, I have consistently backed that decision. But virtually every issue ever is not black or white. In this case the only thing I've ever said slightly negative, myself, is that I'd hoped for a new low power silicon technology that would extend for future generations, a'la IBM's copper technology back a ways. I said that I had hoped for more than just a good design to keep as much of the chip inactive as possible. The reporter again pushed me to say I was negative on the transition. That's a laugh, as anyone who is close to me can tell you, but I did acknowledge that some might be against it because of our 'big enemy' stance and so much of our Macintosh history riding on being different than the masses. That statement must have been stretched into being one about my own thinking.
I'm extremely short of time, organizing things after a long trip (mostly email requests for my time) so if any of you can spread my comments around, all the better. The problem with thinking is that if you think out a 30 second explanation, it passes over the 5 second sound-byte crowd.
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February 28, 2006 at 02:45 AM | Permalink
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Ironically this this article is about Woz complaining about being mis-characterized in a previous interview, and the headline of THIS article mis-characterizes his comments. Woz does not "dis-arm" his anti-intel claims. That headline implicitly assumes that he originally *made* anti-intel statements. The whole point of his clarification was that he *never* made categorical anti-intel statements.
But isnt it more 'cute' to write headlines about 'disarming' things? Cute, inaccurate, and lazy writing.
Posted-by: dc | 28 Feb 2006 20:37:27
Re: DC.
That's why "anti-Intel" is between quotes. To indicate that anti-Intel shouldn't be taken litterally.
Lazy and uninformed comment.
Posted-by: SV Sleuth | 28 Feb 2006 23:10:44
Still misleading. The headline directly implies he said some 'armed' statements against Intel and now he's 'dis-arming' them. In essence taking back or retracting something he said. No reason not to take that literally.
Truth is that he made no such statement about Intel that requires 'dis-arming' or retraction. All he did was stipulate that he never made any anti-Intel statements in the first place.
This is not splitting hairs. Its about accuracy. True, on a relatively trivial matter. Unfortunately most all reporting today is similarly sloppy. But I just felt like calling this one out.
I stand by my original claim: The headline is inaccurate and misleading. I believe most fair-minded people who knew the facts would agree.
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