Woz: iPad is a PC for “normal people”

Apr 4, 2011 - 6 Comments

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In a recent speech, Steve Wozniak compared tablets and the iPad to TVs, and suggests that the iPad is the culmination of what Steve Jobs has long wanted to create at Apple; a consumer friendly appliance for everyone.

Here are some of the better quotes via MacWorld:

β€œThe tablet is not necessarily for the people in this room,” Wozniak told the audience of enterprise storage engineers. β€œIt’s for the normal people in the world,”

And here’s the quote on Steve Jobs’ long awaited vision of the iPad as a consumer appliance:

β€œI think Steve Jobs had that intention from the day we started Apple, but it was just hard to get there, because we had to go through a lot of steps where you connected to things, and (eventually) computers grew up to where they could do … normal consumer appliance things,”

I definitely agree with the idea of an iPad (or tablet) being the perfect PC for a regular user, but it’s obviously much more than that too. Apple touches on this well in their new iPad 2 “We Believe” commercial, and we’re only at the beginning of the platforms life.

You can read the full text at MacWorld.

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Posted by: Paul Horowitz in iPad

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  1. HJRR says:

    Ask your non-programmer, non-developer, non-graphic-artist friends what they use there computers for…. the answer, “Oh I surf the web, do a little FaceBook time, write some e-mails and sometime write some letters in Word.”
    For those people an iPAD is PERFECT! No need for anything else!!! Rock on Steve Jobs and APPLE for creating a perfect computer device!

  2. Edu says:

    More like the iPad is a PC for people with smaller brains and bigger show-off capabilities.

  3. icebreaker says:

    The iPad is not a pc, no proper file management etc. etc. etc. It is a completely different device then a pc.

    Putting pictures on and viewing them on an iPad: oh, I need an extra cable to connect it, limited storage space, small screen to view it on, viewing it on big screen? Need another cable!

    Fanboy talk from him so I can not take him seriously:
    β€œOn the subject of tablets, I read today that Android tablets are expected to surpass iPads, and I hope that never happens,”

    PS, written on a MacBook by a ‘normal’ person.

  4. Wozimandias says:

    Woz rocks, but that picture of him kind of creeps me out

  5. Alberto says:

    Woz is great…

    Jobs wanted to become the big broz…
    and he did it!

  6. copper says:

    WOZ IS THE MAN

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