Steve Wozniak Says Apple Lost Its Mojo, Tesla Is Boss Now

While the majority of people might remember Steve Jobs as the founder of Apple, the maker of the iPhone, there was actually another who helped prop up the company. This would be Steve Wozniak AKA “The Woz” and according to him, Apple has lost its edge in the innovation game. Instead, Tesla will be taking over from here on out.

Wozniak made the pronouncement in a recent interview with Bloomberg, wherein the Apple co-founder noted how Tesla has been leading the charge in terms of technological innovation for some time now. Of course, it’s easy to dismiss the Cupertino firm as a fading star, but when it comes from the man who literally invented a lot of the company’s early technologies, it’s not so easy to dismiss.

Even now, Apple’s other Steve still owns a significant stake in the company, so it’s safe to say that he is still invested in the iPhone maker’s future. This didn’t stop him from noting how another brand by another tech figure is doing things that Apple used to do.

“I think Tesla is on the best direction right now. They’ve put an awful lot of effort into very risky things,” Wozniak said. “They started with a car—the Tesla Model S—that made little sense in engineering terms in how much you have to build for what price and what the market will be.”

This is the reason for why he is now betting on Elon Musk and his companies to give the world its next biggest innovations. More to the point, The Woz is betting on Tesla precisely because it represents what Apple used to be, Futurism points out.

As Wozniak pointed out, Apple was run by young people when it was first starting out, which is what eventually allowed them to change the world. It did not come from big business. The same can be said about Google, Facebook, and of course, Tesla. They are all run by dreamers.