“In a striking report on Thursday, the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper reported Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, had some major differences in vision with Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs. According to the piece written by Peter Nowak, Wozniak asserted that Apple ought to spin off its iPod division and was hesitant in his support of the Cupertino-based company’s switch to Intel processors,” Timothy R. Butler reports for Open for Business. “Wozniak responded in a statement posted today to TheMacintoshGuy.com’s Titanium user list. The man who designed Apple’s first successful computer systems denied that a spin-off was an idea he supported. ‘I heartily deny saying this,’ Wozniak stated, ‘the strength of the iPod came from treating a music device as a ‘satellite’ to a computer, and the intertwining of iTunes and the iPod made this possible. I did NOT say that the iPod division should be spun off and I feel used in that regard.’”
Woz also denies the Intel and Microsoft comments to some dgeree. More in the full article here.
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Woz: spin off iPod, Intel Macs ‘like consorting with enemy,’ Microsoft is ‘Darth Vader’ – February 23, 2006
maczealot,
The point is that most jouranlists are liars. Anyone who’s ever been interviewed knows this. The New York Slimes is one of the worst in this regard. They totally edited my interview to pull out bits and pieces to make a case that was the complete opposite of what I said. I hate those people over there.
So Gary, do you mind sharing with us how NYT misrepresented you, I mean specifically?
First – Thanks to everyone for the help/advice!!! MUCH appreciated.
I want to clarify on the archived web pages I have on my PC.
On a PC they are saved as two files. One is an html document but it is linked to a folder that contains most of the information – graphic images and .css files etc. etc. It doesn’t just save the web page as one file. When you double click on the html icon it opens up the linked folder and uses the info in there. Anyway, I’ll just copy one over an see what happens. If I can’t get it to work, I’ll hit the Apple support forums.
Also, thanks for the info on word processors, I will check into them. At this point I’m leaning toward just getting MS office student/teacher edition (it’s cheaper than getting Word alone!) and then just installing Word. I don’t really need Excel or Outlook so I can do a custom install and just load Word onto my machine. Then I won’t have to worry about Word compatibility because, well, I’ll have Word. I will check out the alternatives mentioned above though.
Again, thanks for all the help!!!!
8-bit
Both from my own experience and that of many other colleagues, they CONSISTENTLY misrepresent their subjects in a very tendentious way. In my own case, here’s just one instance:
NYTimes reporter visited one of the charter schools our company ran. In the kindergarten, where our children were proudly READING (yes, I know it’s rare in most schools), the slime reporter brought a book with him that contained THIRD GRADE irregular words and asked an innocent kindergartner to read it. When they child struggled, the reporter told him he couldn’t really read and then plastered a picture of the poor child’s face in the NYT with a caption claiming that the she couldn’t read. Any parent or educator, or anyone with common sense and even minimal ethics, will understand how deceptive and disgusting the reporter’s behavior was. And this is TYPICAL for the NYTimes in a range of contexts–the rule, not the exception.
That was my post and the child was a he.
Jake
Globe and Mail is a crappy journal reporting crappy false news…not the first time and sadly not the last…
Best quote:
“I feel used.”
Ever take a good look at Woz?
Whoaaaa.