"I would not use Bluetooth … I don't like wireless. I have cars where you can plug in the music, or go through Bluetooth, and Bluetooth just sounds so flat for the same music."

Mr Wozniak co-founded Apple together with Steve Jobs in the mid-1970s, and left Apple in 1985. But he continues to provide Apple with advice, if not directly then at least through the media.

He has previously spoken about his pride at still being officially on the company's payroll.

Mr Wozniak said he would probably use the adaptor to connect his existing earphones to his next iPhone, and said that, like many other users he is attached to the accessories that he uses alongside the phone.

Steve Wozniak together with RocKwiz host Julia Zemiro at the Talent Unleashed awards night in Sydney.

"Mine have custom ear implants, they fit in so comfortably, I can sleep on them and everything. And they only come out with one kind of jack, so I'll have to go through the adaptor," he said.

"If there's a Bluetooth 2 that has higher bandwidth and better quality, that sounds like real music, I would use it. But we'll see. Apple is good at moving towards the future, and I like to follow that."

Though he stopped short of advising Apple not to go with the rumoured magnetic port for the iPhone 7, and to instead follow the lead of Google and Samsung and adopt a USB Type-C port, Mr Wozniak did say he thinks more highly of phones that use USB-C.


"One of my favourite Android phones, the Nexus 5X, uses that connector. It gives it a higher level in my own thinking.

"I think USB-C is going to be the future," he said.

Mr Wozniak also provided Australian technology companies with some free advice. He was in Australia to judge the annual Talent Unleashed technology innovation awards, where many of the winners had products that were based on mobile phones rather than PCs or web apps.

One winner, the Australian company ResApp, developed a phone app that could diagnose respiratory disorders with a high degree of accuracy, when a patient simply coughed into the phone's microphone.

Another winner, ODOCS Eye Care, came up with a lens that can be attached to a mobile phone, to help diagnose eye disease.

"Mobile [is] a good strategy for a country like Australia. When I'm here, it's been a long time coming to get decent broadband even on the wired spectrum. Hotels here, they don't really match up to the rest of the world, especially the United States," he said.