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100 pointsphenom17 comments

Steve Wozniak: too hip for reddit.

More seriously, I love the dude. I often wonder what would have become of Apple if he had played a more central part.

maybe not too hip for Reddit, but still an active Slashdotter to this day..!

I asked myself the same question and came to the following conclusions: Less turtleneck, less hipsters, more user satisfaction, hardware that actually worked properly, more than a 7% market share, less hype, not another unix clone.

More Sony in the 80's and 90's than Lady Gaga meat hat.

I haven't been to Slashdot in years. I'm not sure I ever had an account there. This format for an AMA style post is much worse than reddit's. I had to click to expand nearly every first level comment reply.

This is actually not the usual interview format: usually, people ask questions, the most upvoted get selected, and then there's a new "story" with a block of questions and answers. See, for example, the reply post for the Neal Stephenson interview: http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-r...

What happened here is that Woz is a regular /.er, so he preferred to reply directly.

Same situation here. There's no indication if the reply is from OP or not.

his answers http://slashdot.org/~SteveWoz

I do the same thing with Reddit AMAs, just look at the comment history of the OP. 90% of the time you can infer the question or don't need to know it.

You should use /r/tabled in the future.

You can use the slider at the top of the comments to expand all comments. That's at least a partial solution.

Unfortunately not on touch devices, as far as I have ever been able to tell.

Did you try the new Slashdot mobile app which was also launched today in Beta..? http://slashdot.org/journal/290575/introducing-the-new-slash...

I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.

Here's his answer to how he feels about Apple's ecosystem: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3156271&cid=41...

His answer is what you'd expect Woz to give...but my favorite bit is what he writes at the end:

> I don't have time to get into this far because I'm in the middle of 5 conference calls today and have a ton of engineering submissions to judge for an award and some iPhones to exchange so I'm sorry if things are going slowly here on Slashdot.

The man has five conference calls today and other work to do, but he still takes the time to write detailed answers on Slashdot and he apologizes for not writing even more. Class act, all the way.

Wozniak is actually answering questions in real time, and appears to take his time to get back later today!

I really wish slashdot would add the "4 hours ago" format next to the comment date.

While I agree that the "X units ago" can be useful, it starts to get silly in the "X weeks" to "X years" area, because it stops the granular explanation of time. It also reminds me of transmetropolitan, where no-one knows the actual date, and everything is referred to by the time since an event.

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