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Woz only wants Sport Apple Watch, thinks a car is the ‘perfect territory’ for Apple

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Interviewed in Australia’s Financial Review, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that he will only be buying the entry-level Apple Watch Sport, for now at least.

If you buy the really high-priced ones, the jewellery ones, then you’re not buying a smartwatch that has a bunch of apps … Like a Rolex watch, you’re buying if for prestige and a label and a symbol of who you are […] and for an engineer like me I don’t live in that world, that’s not my world.”

Woz said he’d previously tried and discarded other smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Gear once the novelty had worn off, but might splash out on an Apple Watch Edition later if he found himself using the cheaper model “every single day.”

Wozniak, a big Tesla fan, also said that he didn’t know whether Apple was making a car (although technically still an employee or “Fellow”, he has no active involvement with the company) but he did think the idea made sense.

There are an awful lot of companies right now who are playing with electric cars, and there’s a lot more playing with self-driving cars, this is the future and it might be huge … there are so many openings here and it is perfect territory for a company like Apple.

Woz echoed comments by Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk that computers would eventually supercede humans, saying he was unsure whether people would be viewed as gods, pets or ants, but that Moore’s Law may save us. Transistors cannot keep halving in size because by 2020 they’d be down to the size of a single atom, and quantum computing–theoretically operating at a sub-atomic level–has so far made no real progress.

I hope it does come, and we should pursue it because it is about scientific exploring, but in the end we just may have created the species that is above us.”

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Comments

  1. Daniel Celeste (@dbcel) - 9 years ago

    I hate to be the jerk to point it out, but “will really wants.” (Feel free to delete this comment afterward)

  2. 89p13 - 9 years ago

    I’m with Woz – though I would like the Stainless Steel model.

    Woz – Ever the Engineer! :)

    • dksmidtx - 9 years ago

      What EVERYONE wants is the stainless steel with link band, what 80% of us are going to buy is the sport watch (my bet is more than half of those will be space gray).

      • PMZanetti - 9 years ago

        I was intrigued by the Milanese Loop….and there is nothing stopping me from picking one up at some point for $149 to use with Apple Watch Sport.

        But I have no interest in the Link Bracelet. I’ve had Link Bracelet watches in the past and they are awful. They are not easy to adjust, when you do adjust them its in rather large increments, and for a male with hair on the arm its a nightmare…every time you move your wrist it rips hair of your wrist.

      • o0smoothies0o - 9 years ago

        I don’t want or like the link bracelet. @PMZ concerning easy of adjustment of the link bracelet, I watched a video and Apple’s design is incredibly simple and fast to remove and connect links. It’s impressive.

  3. AeronPeryton - 9 years ago

    I’m genuinely shocked that he’s going to take off his vacuum tube watch. The way he talked, I was convinced he had entered into a holy matrimony with it.

  4. irelandjnr - 9 years ago

    Humans are so clever they outdo themselves? Literally? Is that clever or is not stupid?

  5. drhalftone - 9 years ago

    What everybody really wants is a Devon Tread watch. I’d take that in a second over the gold iWatch.

    • o0smoothies0o - 9 years ago

      Everyone will notice a gold Watch. Hardly anyone notices any other expensive watch. That’s the #1 reason a rich person that likes to show off, should love the Watch Edition. The vast majority of people couof be looking at a really expensive watch, and not pay any attention because they have absolutely no idea that it is an expensive watch. The Watch Edition is a single model in two colors, and anyone that sees it will instantly know that the wearer is rich (also a douche, but that’s not the point), because so many people will know about the Watch.

  6. jkruehne - 9 years ago

    haha, he is so easy to say – “.. maybe a Watch Edition later…” – if i would have his sum of shares :D

  7. I would like an Apple Watch G-Shock edition.

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