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Steve Wozniak has a little bit of fun at Gray Powell’s expense

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Re: Steve Wozniak has a little bit of fun at Gray Powell’s expense

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How about this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os

Or this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0

I actually LOLed when he did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p4j0CODBX8

Re: Steve Wozniak has a little bit of fun at Gray Powell’s expense

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I agree to disagree - I don't have insider knowledge, so I may be utterly wrong. Perhaps we'll find out soon enough. My feeling is this is a bit of social signalling going on. Woz is saying 'Gray is one of us, we can joke around about it, because that's the kind of teasing we can do in our circle'. If the matter were serious, Wozniak would indeed be out of line, and he'd hopefully know better than to do this. There's…

If Wozniak was an Apple spokesperson, that comment would carry a lot of weight. But he isn't. He has no authority here whatsoever. And I think he's wrong.

I imagine he has the ear of more than a handful of important people at Apple, so him saying 'give the kid a break' would have a fair degree of influence.

Re: Steve Wozniak has a little bit of fun at Gray Powell’s expense

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If Wozniak was an Apple spokesperson, that comment would carry a lot of weight. But he isn't. He has no authority here whatsoever. And I think he's wrong.

I imagine he has the ear of more than a handful of important people at Apple, so him saying 'give the kid a break' would have a fair degree of influence.

Why do you imagine this? Apple in 2010 is to my eyes a completely different company than the one Wozniak worked at. Wozniak has publicly criticized it.
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