Steve Wozniak's Comments:
Dan Lundmark
This would only be remotely entertaining if the plant was marijuana or opium and when you did certain things like actually work, you killed your crop. Maybe you could make virtual cash and compete online for the best cash crop. In order to grow the weed and heroin you have to browse certain web sites that would require you be smoking weed to start with; like the Microsoft.com Vista developer site.
Farzad Sadjadi
I like Portal! I know there are tremendous challenges here and you’d think Apple would have been able to do a lot of this but it seems that there isn’t an easy way to get multiple machines just to sync the simple stuff… Like my iTunes music library automatically. So when I buy a song on one computer, I’d like to have it on all my AUTHORIZED computers automatically. Why is this so hard? Well, good luck on this one!
Richard Whitelock
Super cool idea but looks like it’s not going to be a hit anytime soon. As an amateur guitarist and someone who can’t carry a tune farther than the first half of the first note, this sounds like a fun way to get little things I hummm down into my computer in a way that I can really play with them. The downside is that everyone I’ve ever met hates their own voice and this may cause rampant whistling and ummm… I can’t whistle. Since I can’t whistle, I definitely can’t whistle in key. This would be horrible around the workplace and will cause ‘going postal’ syndrome.
Michael Yuan
I think Cookbook is the big loser of this space. We all knew in 1981 that recipes were the #1 use for computers. But nowadays email, web browsing, blogging, music and movies are the collective killer apps for real people. When was the last time I pulled up a recipe program? Ummm… 1982?
Kevin Capizzi
Hijack is cool but I think the UI challenges are very large. I also am with some of the other judges here that if this becomes really needed it’ll be built into Safari quickly or, one of my favorite applications, Salling Clicker, will probably do a better job and have it work with your bluetooth cell/mice/keyboard devices also.
Cameron Westland
I love it. It would be very cool to have this tuned to the weather in a specific location, updated automatically. It would be even cooler if the themes were targeted to specific places. I’d also like this as a screen saver and even to display as a widget in dashboard. Integration with weather cameras and live video feeds would be cool also. I want this one for fun and I’d probably have it running all the time! I have to say that it’ll be very boring during a dark evening with no moonlight and complete cloud cover. Does the desktop go black at that point?
Steve Wozniak
AppleCo-founder of Apple and author of the recently released iWoz. Visit his personal site here.