Apple`s co-founder Steve Wozniak surprised the hi-tech world, again, when in an interview with the BBC talked about a potential future partnership between tech-giants Apple and Google.
Wozniak talked to BBCs technology show Click, and complimented Googles increasingly intelligent search engine. He particularly spoke about Google`s speech recognition technology and said that Apple could benefit from a potential partnership with Google, helping it to improve its own Siri personal assistant.
Wozniak admits Apple`s Siri is often the inferior service (compared to Android`s offering) and predicts Googles own technology is the future of intelligence.
According to Steve Wozniak That is actually the future of intelligence probably for computers getting smarter and getting artificial intelligence. I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
Wozniak added that sharing information between companies would benefit everyone to develop the best technology. I wish everybody just did a lot of cross-licensing and sharing the good technology, all our products would be better, wed go further, Wozniak said.
Even if a potential sharing of information could benefit the advance of technology, market share and competition is a serious concern for companies and actually we have seen Apple trying to develop its own technology (as for example with the Apple Maps) and take a distance from Google.
And as Wozniak said One thing youve got to remember is a company has always got to make money".
