Steve Wozniak: "iPod will die just like the radio and the first players"

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and just a legendary man, in a recent interview with the British newspaper Daily Telegraph expressed his thoughts about the future of the iPod:

“The iPod has already lived a fairly long life as a device number one,” said Woz, “just as if you look back: transistor radios and first players (literally: Walkmans) died off after a while. This is the type of thing that occurs in one person in two or three copies, which inevitably leads to cheaper prices and lower sales. ”

This is really quite an interesting parallel, with which it is equally possible to agree and object. iPod has long been ranked first in terms of sales and popularity, and the latest Nano and Touch upgrade did not look like something out of the ordinary.



Engadget, for example, objects to Steve’s words , arguing that the radio and first players were standalone products and functionally changed little over time, while the iPod is part of Apple’s large multimedia system in general and iTunes in particular, which you can love or hate but one cannot deny the fact that today it is the most popular multimedia content store. And, of course, the history of the iPod can end dramatically: competitors are not sleeping, Zune is getting better every time, and DRM is slowly dying (at least for music content), but it’s hard to believe that iPod will fall out with ringa.

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Boing-Boing just shocked by Wozniak's words.



And Wired wonders why suddenly one of the founders of Apple began to speak about its products not in the best light.