Woz Is First In Line For iPhone 4S

An anonymous reader writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is already camped out in front of an Apple store for the new iPhone 4S. From the article: 'Woz and his trusty Segway showed up at his local Apple store in Los Gatos Thursday and said he will stay there overnight. He added he already has two phones coming to his house, but doesn't mind hanging out for one more for his wife.'"

Comments

That son of a bitch

[Anonymous Coward]

No wonder those phones are sold out.

Re:That son of a bitch

[Bill_the_Engineer]

Can a guy have fun?

Quit being a buzz kill

Re:That son of a bitch

[Grygus]

You lost all respect for someone you've never met, based on what you imagine his intentions to be, surrounding actions taken during events at which you were not present.

No offense, but I get the impression that your respect isn't really worth a whole lot in the first place, if you treat it so arbitrarily.

Re:That son of a bitch

[bill_mcgonigle]

Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells?

I know this will sound crazy, but "he enjoys other human beings?" I know, the only reasonable thing for a wealthy man to do is sit home and count his money, but for some reason Woz goes out and interacts with other Apple aficionados.

The last time this story ran, he was helping a woman figure out what was wrong with her Macbook. Afterwards people said to her, "do you know who that was?" Any reasonable rich guy would have told her to pound sand or at least talk to the Genius Bar (despite both of those words being misleading).

Woz - man of mystery.

Re:That son of a bitch

[CapuchinSeven]

Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells?

As you said, for the publicity. Cults being what they are, I'm sure it all helps to perform minor miracles to keep the sheep spending until the day they can revive Zombie Jesus.. i mean Jobs.

Or you know, it could just be that Woz is a pretty fun cool guy and likes to hang out with people in lines and makes new friends. Believe it or not, Woz doesn't need the money and the iPhone doesn't need the publicity to sell out in less than an hour. Frankly Woz is more the engineer, nerd and geek than any of us will likely ever be if the guy wants to stand in a line overnight for shits and giggles, more power to him. But no, it's cool, you twist that into some strange reason to insult a dead man. I'm just surprised you didn't mention Apple users being shee... OH wait, you did. I guess you bought an Android phone, installed someone else's ROM that they made nice and simple for you to understand and told yourself you're a "hacker" and more of a nerd than an Apple user.

Jedi phone

[MrEricSir]

I call it the Jedi phone. Use the 4S, Luke!

I'd buy a 4S but..

[Time_Ngler]

I can't trust purchase advice from somebody who owns a segway.

Re:who gets phone #2 before his wife?

[Princeofcups]

So he has 2 phones being delivered to his home, but he wants a 3rd one for his wife?

Is the second phone for his lover? His wifes lover? A pet? All of the above?

He's an engineer. One to take apart, and one to keep and use. He's waiting in line because his wife reminded him that she would like one too. :-)

Re:Strange

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Yeah, if only they could do something more constructive like spending their evenings criticizing people on the internet.

He's always had my respect

[FyberOptic]

Wow, lots of unexpected harsh comments regarding Woz here.

Woz is just a nice guy. He likes to talk to people, especially when they share similar interests (Apple products in this case). This is the same guy who was so into computers that he regularly attended the Homebrew Computer Club, and sought out people who knew things he didn't (like about the phone system). It's also the same guy who works with young people to get them interested in programming and computers. He's a people person, even if he can seemingly be a bit shy sometimes.

So why do people have to insert some kind of agenda into the guy's actions? He makes like $400 a month from Apple to not do anything, so he isn't exactly working for their marketing department. Whether his appearance makes a 30-second spot on the local evening news (which going by the media's interest in Woz compared to Jobs, maybe not), and if he's lucky sells a few more iPhones in his town to fans who were probably on the fence about buying it anyway, doesn't benefit him personally. And Woz standing in a line simply isn't going to generate any significant sales nationally either to make any noticeable impact on Apple's bottom line. Especially when you consider that the average Apple fan these days quite frankly (and sadly) may have no idea who the guy is.

Jobs wasn't a very nice person. Not only do I understand peoples' dislike of the guy, I share it. But I honestly can just never understand any strong negative feelings about Woz. I personally have no interest in Apple or their products these days, but Woz is still a role model to someone like myself who's interested in programming and electronics. And I love to hear about his pranks, since I've been known to pull one here or there as well. People can blow Steve Jobs up into a visionary or Jesus or whatever other nonsense and I'll still never respect the guy. But Woz will always have my respect.

Seriously, how many respectable role models are even left out there anymore, especially for young people?