Anyone else find it odd that Steve Wozniak has to stand in line to get the latest device from Apple? Is it just that he enjoys the meet & greet, or is he not enough of a living legend for Apple to ship him a complimentary one for free?
Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid'
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#52Anyone else find it odd that Steve Wozniak has to stand in line to get the latest device from Apple? Is it just that he enjoys the meet & greet, or is he not enough of a living legend for Apple to ship him a complimentary one for free?
He does it because he doesn't like the preferential treatment. He loves the whole atmosphere of waiting in line and being a part of the buzz. I think he values fair more than anything; he gave away a sizable part of his money to the early employees because it wasn't fair for him to have so much while they worked hard and got so little.
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#53Re: Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid'
#54Anyone else find it odd that Steve Wozniak has to stand in line to get the latest device from Apple? Is it just that he enjoys the meet & greet, or is he not enough of a living legend for Apple to ship him a complimentary one for free?
He does it because he doesn't like the preferential treatment. He loves the whole atmosphere of waiting in line and being a part of the buzz. I think he values fair more than anything; he gave away a sizable part of his money to the early employees because it wasn't fair for him to have so much while they worked hard and got so little.
Ya, I read about that and I really, really, really respect him for that.
kaffeinecoma - Google "The Woz Plan" for more.
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Thanks for your reply. Like I said, all I have is my suspicions. I don't claim to know the truth. I don't think any of us really does. However, when you say "you couldn't be further from the truth", is that the result of you rewatching the video, while considering the possibility that you might, in part , as I qualified from the beginning, be seeing her differently than you'd see a man? Or is it the result of your im…
Man up and own your words. You went on for several paragraphs calling hkmurakami out for sexism and ageism, yet you now backpedal and claim not to know the truth and that nobody does. If you really believed that you would not have posted your original reply since you wouldn't have known the truth about what hkmurakami was thinking.
"I suspect"
"my hunch"
And I stand by it. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss further (erik@snowedin.net) but I'm backpedaling on nothing. And all three of them of course were thinking totally innocent thoughts. Sexism is rarely conscious these days.
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#56Re: Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid'
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man up and own your words. You went on for several paragraphs calling hkmurakami out for sexism and ageism, yet you now backpedal and claim not to know the truth and that nobody does. If you really believed that you would not have posted your original reply since you wouldn't have known the truth about what hkmurakami was thinking.
"I suspect" "my hunch" And I stand by it. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss further (erik@snowedin.net) but I'm backpedaling on nothing. And all three of them of course were thinking totally innocent thoughts. Sexism is rarely conscious these days.
I suspect that you're an ass, and my hunch is that you're smug and self righteous.
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#58What an annoying reporter doing the interview. Ask an open-ended question and let him talk about it, don't constantly interrupt him and put words into his mouth...
It might interest you to know that this is how women generally talk amongst themselves (not to other men). It's a skill and the Woz seems to be great at it. I feel he actually pushed the interviewer into this mode when he upped the emotional content to a very high level (not sticking to the usual male platitudes) and she was quite caught up by it. It was a moment of human connection. And I thoroughly enjoyed it too. Possibly most women would say this was an exciting interview and that a normal question answer thing would sound dull and boring to them in comparison.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the woman in the video felt a physical attraction to Woz and also felt a need to touch/hold him just to release the pressure of the emotions they were generating. I felt that too.
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#59Personally I use the best products available to me at any given time. Today they are Apples products, but I'm well aware that tomorrow they may not be. And this could have been the case irrespective of Jobs passing.
Graham Bell died. Edison died. But innovation never died.
As Tim OReilly said, there will continue to be revolutions, and revolutionaries.
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Unless that role were an engineering role, I don't think he'd be interested.
Interview suggests that he's equally capable on marketing too.
I'm sure he's quite capable, since he is a generally smart dude, but just the same, everything I've ever read makes me think he only likes building things.