Steve Wozniak: iPhones Could Have Been so Much Better

During a visit to Bangalore, India last week, beloved geek Steve Wozniak shared a few impressions about smartphones with young entrepreneurs.

Wozniak is a sworn Android fan, but he also loves his iPhone, and he loves Apple as a company. And while some may see the iPhone as the perfect smartphone, Wozniak sees quite the opposite.

He believes that “If the guys at Apple had built the machine that they would love, it would have been successful. It came instead from formulas from Apple executives. Marketing people were in charge and some very bad decisions got made, in my opinion. There were hardware failures.”

Wozniak explained to the crowd of tech people attending the event in India that if you fix a failure one year later, the device is doomed.

Of course, that’s not the case with the iPhone, but Wozniak does make it clear that Apple’s smartphones could have done so much better had they avoided the Antennagate and Batterygate fiascos - both of which can be considered design compromises.