Woz On Apple's Success 294
Frankenbuffer writes "The Globe and Mail today has a short interview with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. Steve muses on spinning off iPod as a separate division. He also questions the move to Intel." From the article: "Microsoft wants to get out of the whole image of the big, black Darth Vader evil guy ... Innovation is probably going on within the company, because any time you put smart engineers in places eventually they wind up talking and innovating no matter how much you try to hold them back. I hope Microsoft improves and becomes more like Apple."
Re:How is he questioning the move to Intel? (Score:2, Informative)
"I still have some questions
Re:IPods are the only reason why Apple still exist (Score:3, Informative)
Industry Comparison: Apple doing better than Dell in terms of operating margin. MS still better 40+% [yahoo.com]
ROE very nice! [yahoo.com]
I mention this because a couple of years ago I was once with a bunch of mgt types and they were saying that Apple should get out of the PC business because they were an industry laggard. It looks like things have changed.
Re:How is he questioning the move to Intel? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How is he questioning the move to Intel? (Score:2, Informative)
I guess it's good he's no longer with the company. We might still be using Performas....
Re:Calling BS (Score:1, Informative)
Yes, performance per watt is exactly what Apple needed to improve. For notebooks this is a crucial factor; it determines how much power the notebook uses to provide a certain performance. This power usage is directly related to battery usage and notebook-heating - which is where Apple's notebooks had issues.
As for performance in general, well that always needs to be improved, this is a given.
Intel's Pentium M (and successor Core) has in just a couple of years become the de facto standard for notebook processors - a testament to the fact that performance per watt is a crucial factor for notebooks. Of course performance as a factor on its own is also important. Create a processor that strikes a good balance between these two factors and you have a winner.
Enter the Core.
Re:How is he questioning the move to Intel? (Score:3, Informative)
Beg to differ. That would be Darwin [apple.com] or OpenDarwin [opendarwin.org] - the resemblence to BSD exists, but is generaly overstated.
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Re:How is he questioning the move to Intel? (Score:3, Informative)