Apple Co-Founder Forecasts the Death of the iPod

Steve Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs, and although he no longer works for the company, it's not stopping from weighing in with his opinion. In an interview with the Telegraph, Wozniak said that the iPod's days are now numbered, and it's merely a matter of time before Apple loses the top spot in MP3 industry.

“The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. Things like that, if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after a while… You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap and they are not selling as much," said Wozniak.

While that has certainly got to sting the folks over at Apple, Wozniak does say that there is a solution and a way to prevent this from happening:

“Consumers aren’t getting all they want when companies are very proprietary and lock their products down,” he said, making an underhand reference to the iPhone’s software limitations. “I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you’re allowed,” he said.

Whether Apple will ever do this, however, remains to be seen.

What do you think? Has the iPod become an untouchable superpower, destined to remain the number one MP3 player for all eternity? Or is Steve Wozniak on to something? Could the end of the iPod be near?