Woz remains a good soldier

Although retired from Apple in all but name only, and an engineer at heart, Steve Wozniak significantly underplays the iPhone 4 antenna debacle.

Per this Woz interview, he suggests the antenna issue is no big deal and he has heard no complaints. No, really, that's what he says.

We know this is not true. We know the antenna sucks. We know this is a major Apple fuck-up. We know Steve Jobs is using all his money, all his power and all his Jedi abilities to make us think otherwise. Of course, he has built up enough of all these to grind the complaints down but, and he should remember this, one more fuck-up on this scale and all that goodwill goes away as quickly as a phone call on the AT&T network on our iPhone 4 when we, uh, hold it.

But, so what. Woz has earned the love, the respect, the admiration of Apple faithful and old school engineers. He tells us the iPhone 4 antenna is no big deal, we don't have to believe him. He's earned the suspension of our certainty.

Whatever Apple is still paying him, it's not enough.

And I bet you dollars to donuts, and by the looks of it, Woz loves a good donut, when he turns 70, he'll take some sort of part-time job at a place like Frys. And even the dumb young kids who don't know him when they walk in the door, will leave thinking he's an all right guy.