Steve Wozniak, the former founder of Apple, says the American company that his friend Steve Jobs helped establish long ago should have been dismantled.
Wozniak's vision differs from that of advocates of dismantling technology giants from government regulators or lawmakers, but he speaks of building an environment where engineers like him are free to work alone.
"I hope Apple will break up on its own and separate sections to allow developers to work independently, as HP (Hewlett-Packard) did when I was there," the well-known developer told Bloomberg this week.
Although HP rejected Wozniak's requests for a personal computer at the time, forcing him to leave the company and move forward with his fellow Jobs in founding the giant Apple, now considered much larger than HP, he believes that the freedom he had in HP to work on his ideas Own were bigger than they are now in Apple TV.
Wozniak believes that technology companies "have become a very big force in our lives and have made choices far from what we had hoped for."
He adds to Bloomberg that it is now difficult to escape, but he finds that Apple is "the best among companies" because they at least make money from selling products instead of tracking people, he said.
For Facebook and Google, Wozniak sees no reason not to give users the option of paying for services rather than free services for tracking them.