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It might have been an emailed list of questions, rather than a real-time conversation.

It was pretty obviously a one-way street; likely emailed.

It's not a great interview and it's sad that Raskin passed a month later.

> JW: The original Mac was to be sold for $600. When it finally arrived it cost $2,500 and today the cheapest Mac is $699. Is this a disappointment to you?

> JR: Which? the $2,500, the $699? It was never supposed to be $600.

Like.. terrible question, annoyed interview subject.

Yeah that's a really stiff interview to publish, it reads like the interviewer pulled up to him while he was eating lunch and peppered him with questions.

Sometimes these interviews are done via a single email filled with questions and are not performed in-person, so the answer of a question isn't always carried forward into future questions, which can seem awkward from afar.