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My guess/hope is it’s altitude related - hopefully just needs some rest and fluids. It apparently happened right after a speech, which I assume exacerbated the symptoms
One of the greatest guys pretty much ever. Hoping for a speedy recovery and wishing his family well. Go volunteer with local youth organizations in his name!
Volunteer in his name? Why?
Woz has been the ultimate nerd, in the best ways possible. He’s always carried a passion for technology that he has freely shared with others, and I will personally be forever grateful for all that he has done for the world. Steve was a personal hero of mine growing up, precisely because he was so kind hearted and such an unabashed nerd that he made me feel relatively comfortable being the same around others as well.
Here’s to hoping for the best for Steve….he’s a true treasure
Never have heard a bad thing about him. Hoping for the best.
Definitely the better of the two Steves
He’s the antithesis of Steve Jobs
He seems like a really good guy, but the Woz U thing really doesn’t sit right with me. I was initially interested based on his name being attached to it, but the high pressure sales, the lack of substance, and the crazy high price really turned me off to it. I would really like to see him make some changes there, because I like the idea of it and think he had good intentions in helping create it. I don’t feel like he’s the type that’s just out for a quick buck.
Unfortunately, having worked for Woz U when it started up, I can tell you it definitely came off as a tactic for a quick buck. Woz wasn’t involved in the curriculum, branding, or anything material to the business - it was basically a licensing deal to use Woz’s likeness. The working conditions at that business were absolutely awful, just the worst sales culture and extremely demanding on the performance side even though we kept calling the same couple hundred people per rep without getting new leads. I felt awful bothering and pressuring people to sign up, but I also really needed the income as I had just gotten laid off prior to the job. The course itself was also quite bad, having several bugs and incomplete lessons ripe with incorrect information. It was really sad, honestly, as I also thought that due to Woz’s “involvement” that the product would actually be decent quality. I was unfortunately very wrong. You dodged a billet by not going with Woz U, friend.
initially interested based on his name being attached to it, but the high pressure sales, the lack of substance, and the crazy high price really turned me off to it.
Honestly this is pretty much any training of any kind for 10+ years now.
He sold his name and promoted a sham technical school that was trash.
I used the toilet stall after him one time and * he didn’t flush!*
Actually I totally made that up. Everything I’ve heard about him makes him sound awesome.
He’s such a wholesome person. It’s hard to put into words because it’s rare to see these days. He really, really loves technology. Super cool to talk to.
When I heard that he carried unperforated sheets of 2 dollar bills and a pair of scissors, cutting the bills out by hand to pay cashiers and that he “collects” phone numbers he finds interesting I knew I found an honest man. I may not be able to hang when it comes to talking tech but I can roll with the best of them at being eccentric.
Last couple years he’s been promoting cryptocurrencies, and started his own. It’s down 99.47% currently.
That’s a shame. He of all people should know they are either scams or greater fool’s theory.
If you learned everything about blockchain tech from social media I can see why you’d think that but man I’ve getting tired of ignorant misinformation posting on reddit all the time.
A quote:
Last year, he revealed the launch of his first new business since Apple in 1976 – Efforce – a new online platform empowered by blockchain technology that allows contributors to benefit from and trade the energy savings generated by energy efficiency projects worldwide in a tokenised fashion with $WOZX.
It also has an associated nft that allows people to fund and invest directly into new energy projects. It’s down because basically everything is down, it’s a bear market and this company is still new and growing.
I’m sure I’ll get downvoted by the circlejerkers anyway but I’m tired of people just posting these misinformed ignorant lies and getting no push back with actual facts and reality-based opinions.
Other than his crypto shilling.
Got to meet him twice - once while filming this short documentary episode
He was the kindest person. And he showed up to the interview riding a Segway.
How he get so white ‘n’ nerdy?
He always seemed like a weird, eccentric guy, and I mean that in the best way possible. Almost like a nerdy sitcom character brought to life
His biography was awesome. Random shit like building a universal remote in the 70’s to screw with people by standing outside their window and changing the channels. Awesome guy.
Yeah, I encourage everyone to read iWoz!
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I met him waiting in line for a concert. He was so incredibly nice. Answered all the geeky questions I had took pics with anyone who wanted. Was super super friendly/nice. I’ve met a ton of celebrities gotta say he was probably the nicest one.
How have you met a ton of celebrities? Assuming it’s occupational
Not occupational. A family member is famous so I’ve met people through him. Plus I used to be really into a band I’d go see and sneak backstage and meet lots of celebrities at their la shows. Plus lots of other random encounters.
Such a kinda and humble genius.
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He’s 73, Steve Jobs would be 68 today.
Hopefully he gets better.
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.
Do you mind sharing what you emailed him about?
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.
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
Nobody has first impressions? Apple doesn’t secure their email domain?
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.
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.
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.
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
Please find it!
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.
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
Some of the whacky meeting stories involving him are way out there.
PR team
Jobs and even Tim Cook famously read and responded to emails. That’s where we got the “you’re holding it wrong” response from!
Omg what did they say?
Apple in the 90s was an open and altruistic and innovative organization.
Not now.
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
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.
He’ll be alright
Really hope he’s OK. He’s one of the good ones.
I hope he’s okay! He always seems so jovial and nice in all his interviews.
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.
I follow him on Twitter. He was always posting about buying his dogs steaks at Outback.
I wish I was one of his dogs
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.
Are steaks from outback any good or are they best fed to dogs?
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?
I wish you hadn’t told me he drove a Hummer, cause I think less of him now
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.
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.
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
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? 😮
He still has the Nixie Tube watch?? That’s sick
That was in 2008, but I gotta assume he has many.
Get well soon Woz
He seems like a genuinely nice dude. Hope it’s not serious.
When I was in the military in the early 90’s, I helped host Woz when he came to Alaska for an F-15 ride (long story).
I was in the small party invited by the brass to a fancy dinner with him. After dinner, the “important people” left. Woz invited myself and three co-workers to his quarters (Air Force has a nice house on base for guests to stay in). We were all young (mid 20’s) and working a computer project together that I had demo’d to him earlier in the day.
He spent 3 hours with us telling us war-stories, founding of Apple, time at HP, what he was doing now, etc. It was a fantiastical experience. He was very generous with his time and we felt special for having such unfettered access to a founder of modern personal computing.
I hope he recovers quickly. The world needs more time with Woz.
He sounds exactly as cool as I always imagined he would be. There seem to be no bad stories about Woz!
One Steve was enough, but two is depressing; especially how important Wozniak was to Apple from the beginning .
Get well soon Woz.
You are one of the great ones!