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3 months ago Steve Wozniak said he is going to buy Facebook shares at "no matter what price"

I mean this guy just happened to be co-founder of Apple. He hasn't been with Apple for like 20+ years and hasn't done anything noteworthy for decades.

Does it really matter what he says?

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To be fair. He didn't just happen to be in the room when other people at Apple where inventing great things. He invented it.

Yes. It matters a lot what this guys says because every self proclaimed journalist want to talk to this guy and he happens to speak for what a lot of people are thinking but not get the exposure he does.

Steve Wozniak's Apple II was a huge milestone in personal computing. It was the foundation of an age of open computing, where everyone could make and distribute software directly to people, without any private regulation/censorship/quality control. This open market enabled many other great achievements, like the world wide web, endless scientific discoveries, Wikipedia, Minecraft or mobile computing.

Nobody at Apple created anything similar revolutionary and magical after Woz made the Apple II.

I have to agree. Woz has done some cool stuff, and seems like a straight-up cool guy, but I'm not sure that confers special status to his opinions on anything and everything tech. Now having said that, I think it's mostly the media's fault for covering anything he says (e.g. http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-co-founder-steve-woz...).

It does. It should matter even if some random guy would say it because he's speaking out on very important matters that stand on their own.

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