Steve Wozniak: Technology companies should license their patents to each other; Apple and Google sho

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[quote]Back in the 1970s, Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak, and the rest, if you like, is history.

The two became firm friends and although Steve Jobs often gets the credit for Apple's success, it was Woz, as he's known, who was the brains behind the silicon.

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"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."

Wozniak says this is due to Android's access to Google's search engine.

"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."

But how likely would a partnership between the two companies be?

"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.

Encouraging openness and sharing information and methods would benefit everyone to develop the best technology, Wozniak says.

"I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price. There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us," he says.

"I wish everybody just did a lot of cross-licensing and sharing the good technology, all our products would be better, we'd go further. I do wish they were more compatible."[/quote]

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Shame it won't happen any time soon because they're too busy suing each other.

[RockSushi]

[QUOTE=Banned?;42746454]Shame it won't happen any time soon because they're too busy throwing license and patent lawsuits against eachother.[/QUOTE]

FTFY.

[vlad]

imagine a world where every device is compatible with each other, and everything is cross platform... but that's for afterlife

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[QUOTE=The Woz]"Sometimes I say 'Go to Joe's Diner' and [Siri] doesn't know where Joe's Diner is. [B]And very often usually I find out that Android does.[/B]"[/QUOTE]
OH SHIT
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[sir whoopsalot]

Reminds me of Windows Phone and how there's still no good official Youtube app for it because Google is (supposedly) being a bunch of babies about it.
That's not how you create the better product, you assholes.

[BryBreadmin]

[QUOTE=Papytendo;42746499]OH SHIT
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Steve Wozniak has actually been pretty open about his (sometimes) preference for Android in the past.

[CubeManv2]

Apple should stop being dicks and allow a Myglass app so us Iphone users can use Google Glass fully. I'm jumping to the nexus 5 anyway after being an iphone user for 7 years