Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hospitalized in Mexico City, source says | CNN Business
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized in Mexico City on Wednesday, a source from the organizers of the World Business Forum (WBF), an event he attended in the country’s capital, told CNN En Español.
  • subliver@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I was obsessed with early Apple in the late 90’s and emailed Woz one night on a whim. He wrote me back a few hours later. Such a wonderful guy.

    I hope this is nothing serious.

    • WatchWorking8640@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      He’s a great guy. Met him at a book signing for his book Woz and genuinely warm and funny. Hope it’s nothing serious.

      • Cybersorcerer1@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        They’re still innovative (kinda) but have shitty pricing sadly.

        They single handedly created the ARM notebooks market, and their iPhone chips are also the most powerful on the market

    • UltraSPARC@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Ha! I used to email Woz and Jobs all the time as a kid. They’d both respond! It was wild!

      Woz is a truly nice guy. I wish him all the best.

        • darth_homer@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Jobs and even Tim Cook famously read and responded to emails. That’s where we got the “you’re holding it wrong” response from!

      • phareous@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I lost the email but I emailed Jobs back when he killed all the Mac clones and he wrote me a great personal email back with his reasons. Might have been a jerk to a lot of people but he had some good qualities

        • HeGotKimbod@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I mean, making a company worth billions pretty much guarantees you have to step on a lot of people on your way up and do some shady shit.

          • bongoissomewhatnifty@alien.topBEnglish
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            11 months ago

            The stories we’re gonna hear about Taylor swift in a few decades are gonna be legendary.

            “She once made me eat a live bat while we were getting set up for a show. Said she would personally ensure every one of my family members would be fired from their jobs if I didn’t. Halfway through, she stopped me and said ‘good job, you can stop now’ and took the now dead bat from me and then consumed it herself by unhinging her jaw and swallowing it whole.” - Taylor Swift backup dancer, 10 years from now probably

      • johnsciarrino@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        If you read Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, both Steves got started in the fledgling industry by doing exactly that; sending letters and showing up at the offices of established people in the industry and just asking them for stuff. I think that’s how Jobs got his first gig at Atari, if i remember correctly.

        Very cool that both of them, who benefitted so much from reaching out personally, decided to pay it forward when they became titans themselves.

        • bdjohn06@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Jobs got an internship at HP by just looking up Bill Hewlett in the phone book, calling him up, and asking for some spare parts for a project he was working on.

      • subliver@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        We both kept it short.

        Just basic questions about what it was like to co-found Apple. How he felt about the current state of the company (Apple was on the brink of collapse) things like that. I had trouble finding his perspective in the many books I read on Apple so I asked him.

        He responded with very loving answers and asked me a few questions about myself. He emailed again and what really stuck out was that he told me how proud he was of his own son who was just a little younger than me, I think he was graduating high school around that time. He also wished me success in life because I told him that I was close to graduating college.

        He was just the kindest, sweetest, and most down-to-earth family man you could imagine.

        Sometimes meeting your heroes is actually a blessing.

        • alien__0G@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          He was just the kindest, sweetest, and most down-to-earth family man you could imagine.

          He very well might be but coming to that conclusion from a couple emails without ever meeting the guy is a bit much, especially when it could’ve been someone impersonating him

    • SeiriusPolaris@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      That really depends on what you consider is special about Apple.

      Wozniak was a genius, but it took a different type of genius to make Apple what it is.

  • Sahellio@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I met woz years ago at a work conference. He was animated and generally excited to meet everyone he encountered. Good guy with a big heart I hope he’s OK.

  • FizzyBeverage@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    When I went to Genius training in Cupertino back in early 2008, Woz came by the retail training labs and took 4 of us to get hamburgers in his Hummer. I remember he bought extra burgers for his dogs and had a machined metal business card. Just a helluva nice guy, shot the breeze about all sorts of stuff. Real nerdy, Nixie tube watch and all =)

    Hope he’s alright.

      • maywellbe@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        That was my first reaction reading about the Hummer but then I remembered that Woz has a childlike interest in the world. His driving a Hummer is more akin to his wanting to know what it’s like to ride in a Tonka truck rather than his showing off a gas-guzzling statement piece. Plus, he likely owned it only for a short while before being curious about a a totally different kind of car.

    • TheAnniCake@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      According to Jobs‘ biography he was the guy who wanted to give out the blueprint for the Apple I for free. He truly is a treasure

      • FizzyBeverage@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Yeah, Woz really is a nerdy engineer with a heart of gold who never wanted to be famous or outrageously rich, he just wanted to make cool stuff for his friends and to challenge himself.

        Best kind of guy. It’s well known he gave away most of his early Apple stock to employees he didn’t feel got enough credit for the work they did. Which… ask yourself how many technology executives would ever consider doing that? 😮

    • Ontheroadtw@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I follow him on Twitter. He was always posting about buying his dogs steaks at Outback.

        • Ontheroadtw@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          They’re not bad for what it is. I like Longhorn steak house. It might’ve just been a proximity thing.

          I have a longhorn 10mins from and then I also have a steakhouse that has been in the area for 60 years from me. LH cost me like $20 and I can call in and pick it up. The other is probably $50-$60 per person and I have to make a reservation.

          Guess which I eat at more?

      • imbutawaveto@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        There’s an outback in Cupertino right down the street from infinite loop. I’ve seen him driving on 280 around that area a few times too. I bet he lives pretty close.

    • panic_kernel_panic@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Met him during Genius training too, on the way to beer bash, super nice guy, he chatted with us about the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” which was hilarious.

  • Andrige3@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I hope he’s okay! He always seems so jovial and nice in all his interviews.