Steve Wozniak is one of the company's most avid critics Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, but also of his former friend Steve Jobs, and in a recent interview given to an Australian publication, he claimed that the current company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he wouldn't have hired the young versions of himself and his friend. Looking at the high demands that the Apple company has on the people who try to work within it, Steve Wozniak is of the opinion that neither he nor Steve Jobs would have been employed now with the training they had in 1984.
He claims that neither companies like Google or Microsoft he wouldn't have given them a chance at the moment, especially since they had given up college to follow their dream, he argued that this mentality prevent people visionaries like them from reaching positions where they could be successful. Although talented people do not reach the big companies, Wozniak says that there are many small companies that develop great products without much money, but with a lot of talent, Apple and its competitors acquiring them as needed.
I look at the experience and education levels you need to get a job at Apple today and I think. Well, Steve Jobs and I never could've gotten a job at Apple today. Apple had Siri before Google had Google Now and Microsoft had Cortana, but they bought it off someone else. I loved Siri before Apple acquired it, but nobody else would ever use it. So by buying it, Apple showed that they can effectively give the best innovation in the world a huge marketing advantage.
Steve Wozniak is right when he subtly criticizes big companies because they have very strict requirements when hiring, they can "bend" some rules to give really talented people the chance to assert themselves and create great products. Of course, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were lucky to start at a time when what they had was truly revolutionary and they found support in people with vision, the world now being completely different.
