Steve Wozniak Predicts ‘Horrible Cloud’ Problems

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has voiced his concerns about the cloud, predicting there will be “horrible problems” as adoption increases.

Wozniak , who is now chief scientist at flash focused firm Fusion-io, made the comments after a performance of monologist Mike Daisey’s ‘The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’, which is about the labour conditions in factories run by Apple suppliers in China.

He discussed subjects such as public education – Woz was once a school teacher – and his time on reality TV show Dancing with the Stars, the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, before turning his attention to the cloud.

Steve Wozniak cloud fears

“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” Wozniak was quoted as saying. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”

His chief concern was that by uploading content onto the cloud, it is no longer owned by the user.

“I want to feel that I own things,” Wozniak said. “A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the Web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”

Earlier today it emerged that a former Gizmodo employee had his digital life all but erased after his iCloud account was compromised and used to wipe all of this devices, including his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air.

In previous months, Wozniak has praised Android, criticised Siri and claimed that the user interface of the Windows Phone was prettier than that of iOS.

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