Tim Cook's parents also interviewed

Jan 20, 2009 07:52 GMT  ·  By

Steve Wozniak, nicknamed Woz in short by the Apple community, was kind enough to do an interview with the folks at NBC on Steve Jobs' health issues and, implicitly, his medical leave announced recently.

The Apple co-founder explained to the interviewers that people should just trust Steve Jobs. Apple's CEO wrote an open letter to the Apple Community, as well as an e-mail to Apple staffers explaining that, “In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.” Woz believed Apple's CEO meant every word, and that there was nothing to worry about.

“We should just trust him, what he says is what we ought to accept,” he said. Woz, who is also Steve Jobs' friend, noted that, regardless of how much info Jobs would disclose, people would always want more. He went as far as mentioning Jobs' leave as a potentially positive move for the company.

“What do you do when you rest, sometimes your mind floats,” Wozniak explained, suggesting that the break could allow Jobs to develop “better concepts and products and ways that the future could be, the way that we live our lives [...] more than almost any individual could, probably a great great thing for Apple.”

On the other hand, the interviewee was reluctant to provide insight on Apple's long-term plans. He refused to draw Apple's picture without its iconic CEO in the middle of all things making up the company, not because it was impossible, but because it was not the case yet, he suggested. Woz added that Apple had incredible people that were “almost, in a way, followers of the Apple mentality, followers of Steve himself,” hinting that someone was undoubtedly fit for the CEO position there.

As for Tim Cook, Apple's COO, he is currently filling in for Jobs until June, when the CEO is expected to return from his medical leave. In an AppleInsider piece, Cook's parents are cited as saying that many of his experiences as a child have made him become what he is today.

“He's the kinda fella that don't believe on giving up on nothing, he's a go-getter, a workaholic,” his father revealed. “Anything he started, he finished. No matter what it was, if he got in it, he finished it.”