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Steve Wozniak asks to cut in line @ Apple Store

why isnt this guy walking into apple factors/buildings and putting as many of these iphones into his pocket and simply walking out? That would not be a crime or anthing...he has every right to just take whatever he likes from apple.

Is he not on good terms with the apple higher ups like steve jobs, now???

He shouldnt be in the store buying an iphone.
Or maybe he really is a nice guy with NO EGO.... the man on the street and all that.....
 
rdowns said:
That's a bit much. If not Jobs/Woz, someone else would have 'stolen' XEROX's PARC. :D
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You're confusing the Apple I with the Mac. Woz didn't work on the Mac, which used ideas *given* to Apple by Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) [and to Microsoft, too].
 
BigJimmyC said:
What research? equalsabracket was offering an opinion. and to be honest, i think it's accurate. if steve balmer or bill gates showed up at the launch of any microsoft product and then proceeded to get in line in front of a bunch of customers, you would say that it was obnoxious. showing up is cool. budding in line is not, especially because it may have meant that some actual customer went home empty handed. he should have entered the back of the line like every other person on the planet. just because you've put him on a pedestal doesn't mean everybody else has.
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First, post #155 (reiterated in #168, only 3 posts above equalsabracket) stated that Woz didn't ask to be fronted, the store management did. And people were asked if they minded. Doesn't sound like an ego trip to th efront of the line to me. Sure, equalsabracket is entitled to an opinion, but if it isn't based on readily available facts, then what good is it?

Secondly, Woz is not Gates, Balmer or even Jobs. Nobody expects those egos would fit through the front door of a store, nor would they have to.

Finally, we're talking launch day of a hyped product. People are there for their dose of Apple geekdom. To anybody familiar withthe history of Apple Computer Inc., Woz would be a very thick layer of icing on that cake.
 
BigJimmyC said:
budding in line is not, especially because it may have meant that some actual customer went home empty handed. he should have entered the back of the line like every other person on the planet. just because you've put him on a pedestal doesn't mean everybody else has.
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I really can't understand why you guys are getting all so worked up about it.
 
BigJimmyC said:
budding in line is not, especially because it may have meant that some actual customer went home empty handed.
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Impossible. I got there at 5:00 and was about number 50 in line. From accounts I've read he was there at 3:30 (or earlier) which would have meant he would have been in the first 20 probably. As long as the person in line where he WOULD have been got a phone nobody beyond that point would have been affected. Even if they only had 49 phones and I did not get one cause I was #50 his movement in line would not have caused that.
 
As one of the founding father's of Apple, why would he even wait in line, I would think Apple would just send him one directly, what's he worth like Billions:eek:
 
why isnt this guy walking into apple factors/buildings and putting as many of these iphones into his pocket and simply walking out? That would not be a crime or anthing...he has every right to just take whatever he likes from apple.

Is he not on good terms with the apple higher ups like steve jobs, now???

He shouldnt be in the store buying an iphone.
 
Tallest Skil said:
Warms my heart. That's just who Woz is.





Get off of our website.

THE MAN INVENTED THE PERSONAL COMPUTER AS WE KNOW IT TODAY.

Because of his contribution, he gets to do virtually anything that he wants to do and lives the ultimate life of happiness; he gets to work with anything and anyone he wants.

I assume you'll retort with, "Oh, I could have done the same."
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Great post. I agree 100%.

Woz shouldn't even have to ask to cut in line. There would be no Apple if it wasn't for him! Cut the man some slack. Be happy that he was there (instead of another Apple Store or just at home). He didn't have to be there if he didn't want to. I'm no fanboy (not even close), but I have the utmost respect for Woz. I've met him, and he is a gentleman and a true class act.
 
This Man Does Not Need To Ask To Push In Front Of Any Line, In Any Store, In Any Country.

He Owns Every Apple Store.

He Can Walk Into Any Apple Store, And Give Anyone A Slap, No Questions Asked.
 
duncyboy said:
Thanks for the pictures!!! :)

What the Hell kind of watch is that he's wearing???
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For gods sake, read the thread before you post in it, and you'd have seen the answer long ago.

Whats wrong with people on here these days :confused:
 
bob2131 said:
then he needs to join this board or apple forum. :rolleyes:
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I would guess that he would love to do that, but he tends to be really busy. He lectures constantly and spends lots of time on other things that gets him out in the public. My view of him is that he actually wants to see and talk to people in person rather than sitting at a desk all day. From what I understand, he is a really busy guy.
 
sushi said:
:D

I bet a book on Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen focused on what they did for both leaders (SJ & BG) would be interesting and a good read.

Both the Woz and Paul are very talented individuals.
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IAWTP

1983 wasn't a vintage year for computer company co-founders.

Paul Allen won a bout with cancer and decided not to continue with Microsoft.

And Woz returned from his 1981 airplane crash injuries to rejoin Apple, but by his choice only as a product development engineer, just to keep his hand in.
 
bob2131 said:
then he needs to join this board or apple forum. :rolleyes:
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Maybe he's posting on this thread right now! >.>

He seems like a really good guy. Really cool that he actually joined the iphone release at a store instead of just getting one delivered. =D
 
Lol @ all those people in here claiming that Woz is a billionaire. Cite your sources or gtfo with your ridiculous speculations.

And to those morons who have been too lazy to read the thread, and then jumped to ridiculous conclusions about Woz having to get to the back of the line:

1) He would have gotten there before most of the line anyway, and out of *politeness* stayed out of the line to talk with the store manager, for whom his presence would have been a very big deal. If you think it's reasonable to ask somebody who arrived at 3:30 to join a queue behind somebody who arrived at 5:30 simply because they were being courteous, then frankly you're either just a troll or a total douchebag. Either way, diagf.

2) The request for him to jump queue was made by the store manager for security and PR purposes, not by him.

3) We have yet to hear of a single solitary person in the crowd objecting to this. If it didn't bother them, then why in the hell is it bothering you?


If anybody in computing has earned the right to be treated with a little respect, it is Woz. If you're really the kind of jerk who would seriously tell a guy who has had an absolutely enormous impact on your life and that of everybody else in the world to go get to the back of a line for a product from a company that he started, then I'm honestly fairly appalled at what a ****** human being you must be.
 
If I were the shop manager and I see him arrive at a reasonable time I would put his box aside and let him talk to the folks in the line. It's kind of normal everybody in that line wants to talk to him and take pictures with him.
 
Anaemik said:
If anybody in computing has earned the right to be treated with a little respect, it is Woz. If you're really the kind of jerk who would seriously tell a guy who has had an absolutely enormous impact on your life and that of everybody else in the world to go get to the back of a line for a product from a company that he started, then I'm honestly fairly appalled at what a ****** human being you must be.
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Amen, brother. Amen.
 
Sad...

I think it's sad that someone uses their celebrity to get to the front of the line. He took advantage of all those star-struck people who had probably been waiting a while.

I understand that this guy co-founded Apple and he is a part of the computer history books, but it's not like he has anything to do with what they are working on now. He just uses he celebrity to get to the head of the line to purchase the same phone everyone else did. He is a person just like everyone else in line.

Go ahead and flame...
 
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