Wozniak's shift: from worry to recommendation

"I'm really worried about putting everything in the clouds," Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said openly in August last year. "I think it's terrible. Think in the next five years, there will be very scary problems. "

But more than a year later, Wozniak overturned this prediction of more than a year ago at the Silicon Valley Hi-tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit held today, claiming that the cloud highlights the state-of-the-art technology on the Internet.

Wozniak, who was a guest speaker yesterday, accepted an exclusive interview with Tencent before his speech.

Not tall Wozniak, talking and dancing, and the general rigorous technical people are very different. He said it's hard to say what's hottest in the Internet age because there's so much to the Internet now, like mobile devices and cars.

Wozniak believes that the cloud highlights the cutting-edge technology of the Internet, which had to be carried around with the computer, but now no matter where people go, they just have to hold a small screen and the computer will follow. The Internet not only tells users their own information, such as geography, physical activity or nearby friends, but also provides global information. "All the brains have been replaced by the Internet, and search engines are so convenient that you no longer need to ask another person who understands the area," he said.

Not a dead end of innovation

"If you do not innovate, death will find your company, and if you innovate, you're chasing death." The new big companies are looking for innovation at all levels because their mentality is that if you do not Hands-on, others will, rather than let others take the lead, it is better to do it yourself. Wozniak reminds those who want to innovate, do not be trapped in the corporate culture,

When Apple started, many people were not optimistic about it. They thought it was only a group of computer-learning people who knew how to write code and how to connect the wires together. At that time, the industry thought it was an amateur niche market and never imagined Apple Grow to the current size.

He stressed that you do not know what the future market will be, and that innovation is the only way out. Apple, for example, is known as VisiCalc, the first killer application, a spreadsheet that lets small businesses fill in and fill in monthly data, and then see their own future performance projections, On a lot of time computing, this application can see immediately.

He said that the earliest to do the computer hardware, and later become the software world, and now everyone is doing mobile applications, whether it is to set restaurants, check air tickets, inadvertently heard which songs want to download, these everyday things are trivial Can be done through the application. Wozniak stressed that both engineers and students are likely to succeed as long as they have ideas. Although initial business may be stumbled upon, there may be a few days to develop stunning products. "Big companies like Google, Apple and Facebook can predict that they will succeed and, above all, that these young people can ditch their old ideas and lead the world in the other direction."

Talking about Jobs: More contribution after coming back

When it comes to Jobs, Wozniak said Jobs was still young at the time, while Apple II was the only money-making product the company had been in for the first ten years of its existence, and because Jobs succeeded in bringing the product to market, the spotlight for marketing was all Cast on him, but he believes that the product into the average family, should be created with this product has the same importance.

Wozniak criticism of Steve Jobs has no idea there is no way to implement, because he is not a technical background and do not know how much the cost of these things, so before he left Apple, launched the failure of the product. "I think part of the reason he left Apple is also because the Macintosh failed so thoroughly," Wozniak said.

While leaving Apple, Jobs founded computer platform company NeXT, more successful acquisition of computer graphics company Pixar. Wozniak said that Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, "He has become more patient, the latest technology to do the best, but do not seek to rush to defeat Bill Gates, but all the secrets of technology , So we can launch a product that is out of the market, others can only follow behind. "He also said that Jobs has also made a successful CEO, rearrange the company's architecture and product framework, and gradually put Apple into the success of today's situation. Like iTune store smoothly make iPod products more popular; also created Apple outlets.

Wozniak stressed that users sometimes do not care about the speed of the processor, more importantly, the interaction between people, so that they can choose the most suitable for their products, at a time when the number of computer shops in very few circumstances, Jobs's This move also proved to be right.