Re: Woz is back!

[nugundam@netcom.com (Joseph Lee)]

Gareth Jones (gareth@vcn.bc.ca) wrote:
: Rick Hatton (hattonr@aug.com) wrote:
: : Joseph Lee <nugundam@netcom.com> wrote:
: : > Why is Woz back?  What can he do?  Jobs is there because he has a company
: : > and an OS.  What can Woz do?
: : 
: : Do you think Woz has been on ice since he left Apple??? Who do you think
: : designed the first Apples?? Who designed the first II disk drives??

If you couldn't tell, I'm just disgusted with what Woz has done with his
engineering ability lately, especially after the "accident".

: Woz, like Steve Jobs, did what anyone with a lot of money would do -
: _exactly_ what he wanted! He decided that education was important, so he

Not quite the way I understand it.  I read that he had a plane? accident
that totally changed his view of life and so he decided to do something
more with it instead of partying left and right constantly.  I just wish
he didn't totally drop his computer designing connections.

'Course don't take this exactly, just how I understand it.

: got a teaching degree and taught elementary school. But he's also a damn'
: fine engineering mind so he also ran a computer R&D company called CL9
: ("Cloud 9"). 

Which died sometime ago, but he built some powerful remotes (which could be
used on traffic lights ;).

: At the _very_ least, having him back at Apple makes me and many other
: admirers of the Woz think more kindly about the company. His

Just PR.  I'm more interested if they have any power to help Apple go back
to the company it was: somebody that cared about building a cheap-powerful
computer that ordinary people can use and have fun with.  "Hitting the
roots" sort of speak.  It just seems too pricy and not enough games for me
now.

I think the reason why Apple really lost market share is the bad "premium
pricing" idea and moving so far away from a computer that a shmo can just
sit down to use AND also hack away on the side.  PCs seemed to have picked
up on the hacking part with the decent pricing, and now recently, a nice UI.

Just my cynism. ^_^;
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