Talking to Woz
An article with the above title appears in the Stanford Cardinal newspaper and it led to a quote in the Mac Observer that appeared to make Woz look somewhat bitter about where software stands today. However, the actual quote is:
Interviewer: "If you could redesign one thing, either today or along the way, what would that be?"
Woz: "I would try to take us back to the early Macintosh, the failed Lisa-type thinking of philosophies that the human is the center of the world and the computer gets designed around that person, with very good understanding of here is how people live their lives. There's a set of rules that we are going to enforce and follow for our software. Everything is going to be very consistent, very simple, and very obvious to that human. I wish we could go back to that, because we had it and we lost it." ...
I find it hard to argue with that, he is complaining about the way software is designed, he isn't really complaining about the usefullness of it, just that it could be better.
He also has some great comments about the music industry and Digital Rights Management.
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