# Steve Wozniak,  Android fan

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 19, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962 "2012-01-19T00:57:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962/1 "2012-01-19T00:57:12Z")

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Interesting comments  
[http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2012/01/17/10175148-wozniak-likes-his-android-phone-a-lot](http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/17/10175148-wozniak-likes-his-android-phone-a-lot)

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**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962/2 "2012-01-19T11:15:19Z")

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Holy crap.

Next we’ll find out Henry Ford drives a Toyota. 😛

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962/3 "2012-01-19T15:55:57Z")

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Hardly surprising. He’s an engineer and a tinkerer, the sort of person Apple (and its fans) don’t care about.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962/4 "2012-01-19T16:55:52Z")

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The Apple Woz created was all about openness, but he has been out of the loop there for ages. Modern Apple stuff is the opposite of his vision.

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962/5 "2012-01-19T17:05:37Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> The Apple Woz created was all about openness, but he has been out of the loop there for ages. Modern Apple stuff is the opposite of his vision.

ain’t that the truth. the Apple II system was open and people made a lot to soup it up. both outside hardware and software made it a well performing system.

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962/6 "2012-01-20T02:47:24Z")

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I’m surprised no Mac fan has said “open system? you can’t improve on perfection!”

I got a big laugh when Jobs complained that Flash was closed.