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But unless it's about Segway polo, lame practical jokes or thirty - year old tech as a (valuable) historical reference or other "I'm a fat old rich white guy who does fuck all besides be a fat old rich white guy", (and that's pretty cool, don't get me wrong), stuff...

I don't fucking care what Steve Wozniak has to say about Apple or Apple products. He doesn't work there. He isn't involved in the decisions. He has lunch with Jobs here and there, according to his own words. He's no more better - informed than anyone else about what's going on there, and is full of shit just as frequently.

Can we please stop asking him wtf he thinks is behind various Apple things? 'Cause you know, if you're going to ask him, you may as well ask Bruce Horn or anyone who actually worked on a fucking Macintosh. Any of them would have the same kind of "insight" as Woz, only with less e-fellating. The dude had one successful company, and no doubt he did literally change the world. But he did it in 1977. A little less sucking of the Woznipenis would not kill anyone.

note: members of the Woz fan club...yes, I know what he did. let it fucking go, he's now just a historical figure enjoying his money. get your head out of his ass and see who's creating new stuff. i'm not saying forget the man exists, but stop hanging on his every word already.

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No way you're right on.

Often I've found Woz's shit obnoxious. There's a story about him buying sheets of two dollar bills then acting like a total choad when the FBI questions him about it, he even misses part of his daughter's dance recital or something along those lines.

Way to go father of the year. Dad missed your recital because he's an attention whore.

Posted by: Thomas Leonard | September 11, 2007 10:10 PM

Yeah, there seems to be an urban legend becoming cast in stone that of the two Steves, the real technological work was all done by Wozniak, and Jobs grabbed all the credit. In reality, I don't remember Jobs ever minimizing Woz's contribution, but there are a lot of chowderheads who hang on his every word like he's the oracle at Delphi. He did great work on the Apple ][, but technology has moved on. Jobs has been surfing the wave (if not driving it) ever since, and Woz wiped out around 1979. Now nothing anyone else does is good enough, and he was robbed of his place in history.

Does anybody even remember who did most of the work on ATARI BASIC, the only original code that Bill Gates ever even contributed to writing? Seems to me I used to, but I've forgotten. I don't think Woz got all that bad a shake, historically speaking.

Posted by: Arvid | September 12, 2007 1:40 AM

I reckon it's because people still see Wozniak as someone like them, with a couple of great ideas and lots of skill. He made a huge difference, almost completely by himself. He more-or-less created Apple's early hardware single-handed. People still hope that they can do something similar.

Since the '70s, he's dabbled with no success and done nothing of note. He was a giant of the early personal computing days, but somewhere along the line the myth overtook the man.

Posted by: GaryP | September 12, 2007 4:13 AM

a-the-fuck-men!

Posted by: d0gc0w | September 13, 2007 11:52 AM