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| Why Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak lined up for the new iPad Date: March 17, 2012 06:16PM |
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Anyone would feel bad about missing the new Apple iPad preorder period. It's pretty annoying having to stand in line to get your tablet, especially if you're at the end of a long and winding queue. But there was one person who lined up for the new iPad on his own volition when he could've easily got his hands on Apple's newest device — Steve Wozniak, also known as "the other Steve" of Apple.
Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976. While he doesn't work full time for the company anymore, he's still an employee and a stockholder. His lining up outside an Apple Store doesn't mean it's excessively hard to find a device, though — it's a ritual that he's been doing for years. But while he's been first in line for many prior Apple devices, this time, there was someone else who got there before he did — his wife.
"I want to be one of the people lined up and wait[ing] all night," he said in an interview. You can watch the entire chat with Wozniak above, where he also praised the features of the new iPad.
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Anyone would feel bad about missing the new Apple iPad preorder period. It's pretty annoying having to stand in line to get your tablet, especially if you're at the end of a long and winding queue. But there was one person who lined up for the new iPad on his own volition when he could've easily got his hands on Apple's newest device — Steve Wozniak, also known as "the other Steve" of Apple.
Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976. While he doesn't work full time for the company anymore, he's still an employee and a stockholder. His lining up outside an Apple Store doesn't mean it's excessively hard to find a device, though — it's a ritual that he's been doing for years. But while he's been first in line for many prior Apple devices, this time, there was someone else who got there before he did — his wife.
"I want to be one of the people lined up and wait[ing] all night," he said in an interview. You can watch the entire chat with Wozniak above, where he also praised the features of the new iPad.
“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"The quality of Congress is not strained. It droppeth like a fetid cow patty from a bovine cloaca." cbelt
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy
| Re: Why Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak lined up for the new iPad Date: March 17, 2012 09:05PM |
i think he also likes the 'everyman' publicity it generates when he does that. 
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| Re: Why Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak lined up for the new iPad Date: March 18, 2012 10:27AM |
I don't know if its publicity for him. I think he genuinely enjoys being around those people, he feels like he is one of them, or at least was or would have been. Maybe his presence will inspire the next Woz or Jobs.
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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
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