Steve Wozniak
 THE MAN WHO HIRED STEVE JOBS

In 1975, Steve ‘The Woz’ Wozniak designed and built the Apple 1, single-handedly creating the hardware and operating system from scratch. It was the first computer ever to output video  to a TV screen, and the patent Wozniak received for it (US Patent No. 4,136,359: ‘Microcomputer for use with video display’) is one of the most important in tech history. The following year Steve Jobs, a friend from the Homebrew Computer Club, persuaded him to form a company. That company, Apple Inc., is now the largest and most profitable publicly traded company in the world. We sat down with Woz to talk screens, smartwatches and sharks

My favourite phone…

Well, I really like the Galaxy Note 3, the S4 and the S3 – I like the way they feel in your hand, the style, the bright screens. For me, the best is still the iPhone, but I won’t say “you have a lousy phone” just because someone has something else. I love that they try a lot of things. It’s called innovation.

 I actually like Windows Phone 8. Some people love to disdain it,  but I like the appearance and how it works with the user. But what  I really like about Android and iOS is voice control, and I found I had to speak to Windows Phone 8 in a certain way. I think Siri’s still the best. If you were a brilliant person on sharks, I’d say “how much do sharks sleep?” and I’d get an answer. I want a machine that  can do that, near me, all the time

haven’t seen any smartwatches that really amaze me But then, I like to carry things around; I like to buy it myself, test it for a couple of weeks and I haven’t done that with a smartwatch yet.  I did get one called the Martian Watch – it doesn’t have a flatpanel display, just a tiny strip for text. And it has normal hands and dials, but what’s great is, I press a button, and I can speak any Siri command to it. I can also take phone calls by pressing the same button, and it has a good speaker that’s plenty loud

If I was to design a smartwatch,
 it would look very different When they first came out  I thought, “I’m sorry, that tiny display works for an iPod, just about. But I want a bigger screen, like I have on my iPhone.” And now that foldable displays with organic LEDs printed on foldable plastic are coming to fruition, I’m thinking you could have a big display that wraps around your wrist, or maybe it even flips open into your hand, so you have this screen that covers your wrist and your palm. And then you whip your hand down, it flips back on to your wrist and grabs it a little. Or maybe it’s on the front of your wrist, and you just pull it, and it slides out