Unlike his longtime pal Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn't hate Android, the mobile operating system that is featured in devices that compete with the iPhone.
In fact, Wozniak believes Android is superior to the iPhone in some respects.
"My primary phone is the iPhone," the rich and famous computer engineer told The Daily Beast. "I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does. I really do."
Wozniak cited as some examples Android's voice commands and a built-in navigation system where the phone acts like a GPS system.
"I have a lower success rate with Siri [the iPhone's voice recognition technology] than I do with the voice built into the Android, and that bothers me," he told The Daily Beast. "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'll pick up my Android, say the same thing, and it's done. Plus I get navigation. Android is way ahead on that."
The late Jobs, who died last year at age 56, probably wouldn't be thrilled with Wozniak's comments. Jobs reportedly detested Android, as chronicled by author Walter Isaacson in his biography of Apple's co-founder. "I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product," Isaacson quoted Jobs as stating after Apple sued Taiwanese handset maker HTC, which had introduced an Android phone that reportedly contained many of the iPhone's popular features.
