The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple's biggest smartphones ever, are long overdue, according to the tech giant's co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has not worked at the company he created with Steve Jobs for nearly three decades, but his thoughts are still well respected within the tech community. In a recent interview with CNN at Capital One's new Innovation Center in Plano, Texas, he offered up his latest opinion: Apple should have made a larger iPhone three years ago.
"Apple could have had a much bigger share of the smartphone market if it had a larger-screen iPhone for the past three years," Wozniak told CNNMoney from Capital One's new Innovation Center in Plano, Texas. "It could have competed better with Samsung."
Samsung's 24% share of the smartphone market doubled Apple's 12% in the third quarter, according to tech consultancy IDC. Until the much bigger iPhone 6 hit store shelves in September, Apple had kept the iPhone screen relatively small and missed out on the popularity of Android's ever more massive smartphones.
Wozniak also said that while he was initially interested in smart watches, going as far as to strap his iPod Nano to his wrist, he kept going back to his phone because of the larger display.
"I kept saying that I'd like to have a smartphone on my wrist, so I bought a few smart watches when they first came out," Wozniak said. "I got rid of them so quick. I got real negative on smart watches."
Wozniak isn't completely down on Apple. He said his favorite app is Siri, and he uses it constantly. He was even in on Siri before Siri was well-known.
"I bought into the company that made Siri a year before Apple owned it," Wozniak said. "I couldn't talk people into using it -- I told everyone it's the best app ever."
So what would Wozniak be working on now if he could start over? It's hard to say: He doesn't know if there's a place for him.
The new iPhones offer 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays, better battery life, an Apple A8 64-bit chip that allows for 25 percent faster CPU and 50 percent faster GPU performances, new camera features including Optical Image Stabilization and Apple Pay, the mobile payment system that will allow users to pay for products with their iPhone.
The Apple Watch, which starts at $349, will reportedly release in spring 2015. The smart watch will come in two sizes and three collections, allowing users to customize the device to their unique needs for function and style.
