14 DAY TRIAL // Interviewed at a conference on Wednesday, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak revealed he’d be eager to get his hands on the much-hyped Apple tablet, once it would be rolled out the following year, according to a report by Marisa Taylor, blogging for The Wall Street Journal. Did anyone even have a doubt?
The report cites the Woz as saying, “If there is such a thing [...] I buy everything Apple comes out with.” In what seems a bit confusing to us (in terms of reporting), Taylor writes, “He then added, ‘There is no such thing,’ after which Fusion-io President David Flynn interjected, ‘You’re talking to a guy who has seven [navigation] systems in his car. So he will definitely be buying it.’”
The conference in question saw Wozniak contribute to announcing Fusion-io’s new technology set to be used for a new solid-state storage solution offered by IBM’s servers, called the High IOPS Adapter. The Woz is known to have joined Fusion-io as the company’s chief scientist earlier this year, when he officially stated, “[They] do more with less, which is the key tenet of my own engineering life.”
Fusion-io reportedly said that these technologies were a “new tier of memory.” According to the blog post in question, the company explained the solution was not only faster (in terms of accessing data), but also more cost-effective than the common disk drives employed by most of the computers available on the market today. Fusion-io suggested that data centers and computer architectures would see big changes once the new solution was accepted as standard.
Rick White, a Fusion-io co-founder who moderated the discussion, revealed that Steve Wozniak, contrary to public belief, always stood in line to buy the newest iPhone. “To be fair, Steve stood in line to get his iPhone…three times,” he said. “They said I cut in line, but I didn’t,” Mr. Wozniak added.
The Apple Co-Founder declined to comment on Steve Jobs' health, but did say he'd heard (from an insider) that Apple's CEO was in good shape.