Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak stood on the iPad line at Valley Fair Apple Store in San Jose, California and entertained fellow line sitters with a magic trick:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
Woz also somehow got his hands on an iPad 3G model!
Woz ended his full-time employment with Apple on February 6, 1987, 12 years after creating the company. He still remains an Apple employee (and receives a paycheck) and wants to be an Apple employee “forever.” Woz is an AAPL shareholder. He also maintains connections with Steve Jobs.
MacDailyNews Take: We love Woz even as he envy his ability to get his iPad 3G at least 3 weeks early!
[Attribution: Gizmodo. Via FastMac.]
Without Woz, there is no Apple. Maybe Jobs would still be creating the future for us some other way, but Woz was the man in this reality who made Jobs’ vision possible.
Woz is a great entertainer… but a really poor magician.
The only Magic we’ll see is Job’s iPad.
Argh DAMMM IT….ARGH…….. WHY MUST I BE IN AUSTRALIA????????????
WHY????
THE TORMENT OF THE DELAY?????
I think it’s the opposite. He is a bad entertainer and an OK magician. I have seen others kill with that trick, not because they were better at the trick, but they were better at entertaining.
it doesn’t make any difference how the trick turned out, it was woz doing it!
Woz is an icon and hero to all tech geeks, regardless of his magic tricks and other sidekicks.
Hail Woz, hail Woz…
Maybe he’s a good entertainer, but a bad physicist?
Or a good physicist but a bad magician?
A good magician but a bad dancer?
A good dancer but a bad entertainer?
I don’t know. Maybe the iPad will tell us.
Woz did his “great thing” to kick off the personal computer revolution and he gained a lot of wealth as a result. But he didn’t fit into the corporate world – a nerd out of the garage, so to speak – so he left and charted his own path. Woz has been out of the Apple picture for about 25 years and most people probably have little or no idea what Woz has been doing during that time other than riding Segways, but he is a “founding father” of Apple *Computer* and is always welcome, like an affable uncle or grandfather at a family gathering.
Long live Woz!
Woz will always be a part of Apple. Before many of us were born, Woz was “entertaining” people at computer user group meetings with his hand wired personal computer on a piece of plywood.
That little computer hobby helped bring us to this point.
and we don’t have to lock him away… he is a true gem
Can you imagine Steve Jobs standing in line at an Apple Store, going to MUGS to speak, etc.
He’s just an all-around good guy.
Woz is still part of Apple, as employee but not on the payroll. He never resigned.
Make that “the multiple millionaire co founder of the company is waitting in line for the much sought after new product just like everyother Joe and being an entertaining goofball to boot!”
When I see Woz (ESPECIALLY doing stuff like this) I think of my old uncle Bob who I only run into at family weddings and 30th anniversaries and junk like that. I expect him to say things like “Did I ever tell you about the time I met Ethel Kennedy at the DMV? Sit down, lemme tell you a story…” And if you DO sit down, you’ll be “uh-huh, uh-huh”-ing for the next hour and a half. I suppose you have no choice but to love the guy.
Woz in Bling!
Woz: add some lasers to that trick next time.
That looks like a big cock ring. Did one of Kathy’s gays leave it at his house and he found a use for it. I love him, he enjoys his life always has a smile.
In the early days of the Mac I belonged to a Mac User Group in Sunnyvale. Woz attended and directed almost all of our meetings. Somehow I doubt we would see any Apple exec at such a meeting today. Times have changed, but Woz is still pretty much the same. But without Jobs I think Woz would never have been the success he has been.
The trick was ok, I mean we don’t want him dressing up like a character from alice in wonderland now do we… lol
Woz was the great engineering genius at Apple back in the day. Until Apple shipped its last floppy drive a while back they were still using a chip designed by Woz back in the 80s — th SWIM chip — Super Wozniac Intrgrated Machine. Why? Because no one could come up with a better design.
Woz’s problem is that he’ll never be a business shark–never. Thus he’ll never be a business leader.
Some of you think of him as the doddering old grandfatherly type. However, he has the ability to thing farther outside the box than most of us and usually the ability to make it real.
The real problem with Woz the past twenty years has been extremely few technology chalenges have caught his attention.
What I love best about this article is that I was able to view the video on my new iPad, and craft a response on the iPad’s wireless keyboard. I’m already in love with my new toy.
The keyboard is better for typing than I expected. The only issue with the display so far is having to turn it down from being too bright. Plenty fast, too.
I thnk it’s going to be a winner.
Read his book. iWoz.