“The user interface, the way you deal with technology, is the most important thing in the world to me” Woz on Tesla

[Dante]

Woz! This guy is a genius. Unlike Elon, he doesn't pretend to be a genius on everything in sight. HE doesn't really seem to have the kind of ego (but I personally never met him -- met Jobs a few times), we see with famous people who huff, and puff, and expound on everything from on high. So, I pay attention to his critique of Tesla, which he was a YUGE fan of early on.

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak was once bullish on Tesla—a decade ago, the early adopter waxed rhapsodic about loving his Model S “the most of all our cars—ever.”​

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But Wozniak has soured on Tesla and CEO Elon Musk after a series of changes to Tesla’s interiors he said degraded the driving experience.​

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“Coming from Apple, the user interface, the way you deal with technology, is the most important thing in the world to me,” Wozniak said in an interview with CNBC Wednesday. “And Tesla is the worst in the world at that.”​

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“Every step up, where they changed a thing in the car, it got worse and worse and worse. And now it is just miserable for user interface,” he continued.​

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What makes it miserable, according to Wozniak, is the system’s constant changes.​

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“Where to find the time of day changes depending on what [driving] mode you’re in,” he said. “The buttons that go through your six favorite channels don’t work if it’s satellite radio channels. It takes so many tries to hit one button in your jiggly car, and it just doesn’t work.”​

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Tesla did not respond to a request for comment. ​

 

[Dante]

The free speech fraud Elon:

‘On the wrong side of Elon’​

Wozniak said he also suspects he’s been banned from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter after several public rants about the quality of Tesla’s vehicles in TV interviews. Musk is the owner of X.

The Apple co-founder said he had not violated any of the social media platform’s rules and has unsuccessfully taken every step to unfreeze his account, which he says has been blocked for the past two to three months.

“Maybe it’s because I was on the wrong side of Elon,” he added.

X was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.

Wozniak owns several Teslas but says he isn’t a fan of how Musk’s electric vehicles have evolved over time.

“Every step up where they changed things in the car, it got worse and worse and worse, and now it is just miserable for user interface,” he said. “Coming from Apple, user interface, the way you deal with technology, is the most important thing in the world to me. And Tesla is the worst in the world at that.”

Wozniak added that he doesn’t like Tesla’s Full Self Driving or Autopilot driver assistance features, due to concerns over the safety of the systems.

Tesla did not immediately return a CNBC request for comment on Wozniak’s criticisms of the company.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-are-bullies.html