Apple Founder Says Tesla, Not Apple, Will Create The Next Breakthrough Technology – Futurism

Apples Other Steve

Experts in techand tech enthusiasts alike know that there wasnt just one Steve behind Apple. While Steve Jobs was the popular (and disruptive) face of the company, Steve Wozniak was the genius behind Apples earliest technology most notably, the original Macintosh that was the key to Apples initial successes.

No stranger to innovation himself, Wozniak has made some startling assertions recently, stating that hethinks that the next big thing in tech wont be coming from the company he co-foundedand in whichhe still owns a sizable amount ofstock. In a recent interview with Bloomberg Canada,

Wozniakis betting that Tesla, and its CEO Elon Musk, will be the source of the next, greatinnovation.

I think Tesla is on the best direction right now. Theyve put an awful lot of effort into very risky things, Wozniak said. They started with a carthe Tesla Model Sthat made little sense in engineering terms in how much you have to build for what price and what the market will be.

Its precisely that kind of attitude that won Wozs admiration. Im going to bet on Tesla, he added.

Back in the day, Jobs and Wozniak didnt always see eye to eye, but its not this largely unspoken conflict that made Woz bet on Tesla. More than anything, its the bit of Apple that Woz sees in Tesla now. Look at the companies like Google and Facebook and Apple and Microsoft that changed the worldand Tesla included. They usually came from young people. They didnt spring out of big businesses, he said.

For the most part, its also because Tesla started with a product that Musk liked very much. Again, this is another parallel with how Apple started froma project Woz was building as a hobby. It was really built for Elons own life. What car would he like? And when things come from yourself, knowing what youd like very much and being in control of it .thats when you get the best products, he explained.

Tesla and Musk have gone a long way from that first electric car. For one, Woz admires Musks latest boring project. Apple, on the other hand, seems to be suffering from a lack of innovative spark. This has led some toargue that Apple and Tesla might work better by combining their resources together Apples money and Teslas innovation. However, Musk has alreadycast doubt on the proposal. Alas.

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