Cofounder Steve Wozniak, who made his mark in this new age of technology, would rather just touch grass.
The breakthrough made PCs more accessible to nontechnical users, opening the doors to a mass audience. Despite the Woz’s contributions to the ubiquity of devices, he does not see the same value in the current big trend in technology.
“I don’t use AI much at all,” he said. “I often read things [AI produces], and they just sound too dry and too perfect, and I want something from a human being, and I’m disappointed a lot.”
And instead of developing an in-house AI, Apple is powering its virtual assistant Siri with Google’s Gemini, taking advantage of another company’s tech.
“I think TikTok is entertainment, but it’s purely entertainment,” Chen said. “It’s just for that moment. Just shorter-form content equates to shorter attention spans.”
These concerns were even shared by Apple execs. When the iPad was released in 2010, then-CEO Steve Jobs, who founded the company alongside Wozniak, said his children had never used the device.
Current Apple CEO Tim Cook said earlier this month he was concerned about how much people use AI. He added that technology is neither positive nor negative and that it’s in the hands of the inventor and user to determine its value.
