Steve Wozniak says he didn’t mean #apple should be broken up — but it shouldn’t be a castle

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is wildly outspoken, and he’s never been shy to criticize the company he helped build. This week, he told Bloomberg that Apple should have been split up a long time ago.
But he’s not talking about government regulators stepping in the way Elizabeth Warren wants. Rather, he’s talking about letting Apple spread its divisions across the country and giving them the independence to work on their own ideas rather than concentrating them in centralized, castle-like campuses, he tells The Verge (in our own comments section, no less).
Here’s the full quote from Bloomberg, which we (and others) initially misinterpreted: “I wish Apple on its own has split off a long time ago and spun off independent divisions to far…