14 DAY TRIAL // In an interview with the BBC, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak related his thoughts about the future of technology, and how the company he co-created with Steve Jobs decades ago should really be in business with Google.
Apple and Google are fierce enemies in the mobile space (and not only), mostly because Steve Jobs believed Android copied iOS. The tensions increase with the passing of each year, and Steve Wozniak is most upset about it.
“Sometimes I say ‘Go to Joe's Diner’ and [Siri] doesn't know where Joe's Diner is. And very often usually I find out that Android does,” he relays to the BBC in a recent interview. “That is actually the future of intelligence probably for computers getting smarter and getting artificial intelligence. I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future,” he says.
Of course, with so many political reasons at heart, it’s much easier said than done. But Wozniak knows that too. He’s not naive. But that doesn’t mean this merger can’t happen in the future.
“I don't know. If I were there, it would be pretty likely. I'm probably wrong, there's probably an awful lot I don't know about the business concerns and one thing you've got to remember is a company has always got to make money,” says Wozniak.
If one does end up buying the other, I really hope this newly formed entity won't be called AppleGoo, as Eric Schmidt (jokingly) proposed at the 2007 iPhone unveiling.