Apple co-founder Woz thinks Android is better...

Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, admits to being a big fan of Android phones. While confirming that the iPhone is understandably his main device, Woz professed his disappointment that it doesn't do all the things his Android handset can, offering examples of the little green robot's superior GPS integration, and its superior voice command abilities.

In light of the overheated media-generated hype that accompanied the incorporation of Apple's Siri voice tech in its latest iPhone iteration, you'd be forgiven for believing that it's head and shoulders above Android's offering. No so, claims Woz. Confirming that he was a long time user and admirer when the application was still independent of Apple, he believes that since the company bought Siri and folded it into the iPhone 4S, it doesn’t work as well. One can only imagine how that must pain the Apple co-founder to admit.

As he says, “I have a lower success rate with Siri than I do with the voice built into the Android, and that bothers me... I’ll be saying, over and over again in my car, ‘Call the Lark Creek Steak House,’ and I can’t get it done. Then I pick up my Android, say the same thing, and it’s done. Plus I get navigation. Android is way ahead on that.”

While Android has had more than its fair share of battery life controversy at times, the iPhone is certainly not immune. Woz complains that the 4S suffers awful battery performance, the cause unknown, but he has had to resort to turning off his iPhone entirely as a result.

However, in a statement that lends credence for the “iPhone – the smartphone for dumb people” school of thought, Wozniak recommends it for those already immersed in the Apple universe or those folks that “are just scared of computers altogether and don’t want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing... For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here’s a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do.” And there's a lot of people who fit that description.

So given that, you'd expect Apple to be running rings around its biggest competitor. Yet it's not. In fact the converse is true. Whatever Android is doing right, it's working, and guess what?

Woz agrees.

Source: The Daily Beast