Y’all I think this guy might actually be Steve Wozniak 👀
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Steve Wozniak is our guy.
If you like Android, if you hate Apple, if you don’t like the way things are going in tech… you probably have more in common with Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak than you think.
Co-founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 (-04-01, 50th anniversary coming soon) (plus an investor), Woz wanted Apple to make PCs for tinkerers with open ports, open source, all that good stuff. Jobs on the other hand, wanted a closed system end to end.
Woz is also quoted as saying something like, “they send me the latest and greatest iPhone every year. They’re pretty, but I wish they did half the shit my Android phone does.” He doesn’t open them. He stacks the boxes in his closet, or he used to. He uses an Android phone. I think he’s rocking GrapheneOS on a Pixel. He probably posts on Lemmy under an alias. (No, I’m not him. He probably wouldn’t be on db0. Though, he might be.) (Please don’t say I’m him. I’m nowhere near that cool. And I use an iPhone 16 Pro Max 512GB. My Android phone is 7 years old, though I do like a few things about it more. If I were Woz and I used an iPhone, I wouldn’t still use the 16 Pro Max, I’d be using the 17 Pro Max, and I’d have the 2TB one.)
SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Nice try Steve
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Imagine fanboying over a billionaire like this. Gross.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Woz is not a billionaire. He’s also the closest thing that exists to a single human who invented the personal computer and universal remote control. He gave away almost all of the money he earned.
Mothra@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Never heard of this guy before, he sounds cool, if he was just the co-founder of apple but parted ways I wonder why is he still relevant? I guess he must have been doing something else during all this time and now I have to dig up his Wikipedia to learn, bye
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Woz is a legend.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
He’s relevant because he’s the one most people liked, but Steve Jobs did all the keynotes (until he got too sick to, and then he died) so that’s who people see. The balding windbag in the black turtleneck and jeans who talks like he’s your friend but just wants to own you. Steve Wozniak was his friend (and remained so until he died AFAIK) who was encouraging him to make products for humans, not shareholders.
Wozniak doesn’t have to do a fucking thing. He never wanted to live like a king and he probably still lives in a modest house and drives a beater of a car. He’s also an Apple investor. He had enough shares to comfortably live on for life before he left Apple. He’s probably bought more. He probably has a lot of things that work very well, but he probably doesn’t have flashy things. I’m not saying he drives a 1988 Honda Accord, but he’s not driving a Bugatti or a Lamborghini to the grocery store. He’s you and I but with unlimited money (or at least more money than he’ll ever need). Maybe he’s got a vast Gundam collection or something like that, I dunno (something niche and expensive).
But yeah, look him up if you want. I’m just spitballing. I really don’t know how he lives. He’s just never seemed extravagant.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
He buys (or used to anyway) sheets of $2 bills from the treasury,cuts them himself, and puts them together into a little packet. Then in tipping situations he’ll peel off a wad, just to see peoples reactions for the lolz
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 day ago
You can just… buy sheets of legal currency and cut it yourself?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Not sure if the prices used to be less ridiculous but: www.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 days ago
Behind the Bastards did a great episode on Steve Jobs in case anyone is interested
podcastindex.org/podcast/66646?episode=3370118852…