Traitor! Apple co-founder admits Android phones 'offer more' than iPhone (and he doesn't like Siri much either)
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, has said that Android phones outperform Apple's new iPhone 4S for certain functions - and complained about Apple's much-hyped Siri voice-control system
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has revealed that he prefers Google Android phones - at least for certain functions such as voice command.
'My primary phone is the iPhone,' said Wozniak.
'I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.'
His comments, in an interview with the Daily Beast, are in stark contrast to Steve Jobs' take on Android, which he said was a 'stolen product'.
Apple has conducted high-profile lawsuits around the world against Android phone manufacturers such as Samsung.
Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, and designed machines such as the Apple I while the company was still run from Steve Jobs' garage.
He is no longer an employee of Apple.
Wozniak is often pictured camped out overnight for Apple iPhone launches, and is a very vocal fan of the Apple smartphone, so his 'defection' might come as a surprise to some.
But Wozniak also travelled to Google's Mountain View campus to pick up the company's recent Nexus flagship smartphone, and is known for voicing his own opinions rather than toeing Apple's party line.
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He says that while Android is more complicated, it offers more functions, 'If you’re willing to do the work to understand it a little bit, well I hate to say it, but there’s more available in some ways.'
Apple President John Sculley, flanked by co-founders of Apple, Steve Jobs (left) and Steve Wozniak (right) in 1984: Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, and designed machines such as the Apple I while the company was still run from Steve Jobs' garage
Wozniak was also scathing about Apple's much-hyped Siri voice assistant, complaining that the service was patchy, and that its reliance on an internet connection is irritating.
'With the iPhone 4 I could press a button and call my wife,' he says.
'Now on the 4S I can only do that when Siri can connect over the Internet. But many times it can’t connect. I’ve never had Android come back and say, ‘I can’t connect over the Internet.''
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