Apple co-founder and life-size teddy
bear Steve Wozniak is again chiming in
on Apple matters. What’s on his mind
this time? How about a potential
Apple-Google partnership? In an
interview with BBC’s technology show
Click, Wozniak compliments Google’s
increasingly intelligent search engine—
its speech recognition technology in
particular—saying Apple would benefit
from teaming up with Google to improve
its own Siri personal assistant.
Talking about Android’s voice software,
Wozniak admits Siri is often the
inferior service, and predicts Google’s
own technology is the “future of
intelligence.”
“That is actually the future of
intelligence probably for computers
getting smarter and getting artificial
intelligence,” Wozniak said. “I wish to
God that Apple and Google were
partners in the future.”
Expanding on why he believes a
partnership would be beneficial,
Wozniak said sharing information
“would benefit everyone to develop the
best technology.” It’s a sentiment most
neutrals, and even die-hard fans,
share; a landscape where the smartest
companies share and further push
technology together.
“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,” Wozniak said.
Wishful thinking, but something we can
all agree on. For how quickly the
market moves forward, imagine where
it would be if companies were more
willing to work together.
Over the past few years, Apple has
publicly distanced itself from relying
on Google services, most notably
dropping Google Maps. But if Woz were
in charge, “it would be pretty likely”
there’d be a partnership between Apple
and Google, though he admits there
are possible “business concerns” that
could hold the hypothetical deal back.
“One thing you’ve got to remember is a
company has always got to make
money,” Wozniak said.
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