"I want to be a distinguished part of this country and some day I may say I lived and died an Australian, and that would be a really nice thing to be able to say. No country is perfect, but I like a lot of things about this place."

Although moving from the tech hub of California will be tough, Wozniak said he intends to keep buying all the latest devices and forming views on what he thinks is best. He is still an official employee of Apple and hopes the company will continue to grow in the post-Jobs era as an entity less secretive and more open to outside ideas.

He was particularly critical of smartwatch development and said no tech company had yet hit the mark.

"Everyone expects that Apple is going to have more of these huge new categories of products introduced all the time because that is what they did in the past, but those ideas do not come along very often," he says.

"I bought a few of the early smartwatches, including Samsung's, and they were so disappointing. I took them off because they were so much worse than the phone that's right in my pocket already."