Steve Wozniak Doesn’t Have Home Broadband

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he doesn't need the new iPad. He has no interest until it can carry a 256GB file storage. Why does he need to carry so many files? Because it's hard for him to get on the internet. The Woz actually has no broadband service at his home!

According to reporters from Mac World and Techradar who attended the event, Wozniak noted he already carries as many files as possible on a previous iPad model because “I don’t have broadband at home, and you can’t get great broadband connection in hotels”, noting that his lack of high-speed Internet at home is because of his lousy phone company, but that is life.”

Wozniak didn’t elaborate on whether broadband is simply unavailable where he lives, or if there’s another reason he doesn’t have it. He lists his hometown as Los Gatos, California, which is one of the most affluent towns in the US and part of “Silicon Valley”, so it would be ironic if he really can’t get service.

Hey Woz, maybe you could try the cable company. Or maybe he'd rather just carry his files with him than deal with cable. I can't say that I blame him.


I live in the Bay Area and work in Silicon Valley. Many of the wealthier areas are in the hills, real hills, on narrow roads, hidden among trees. I'll drive down a different street during my commute and discover whole new, hidden neighborhoods, or nearly empty rural swatches of land.

A lot of these very nice, expensive areas don't have access to cable yet because of where they're located. Cable runs on cable, and if cable hasn't been installed, you can't get it. That leaves many of these wealthy types with, at best, phone plans from AT&T or Verizon, and they are a lot slower than a high-speed cabled connections.
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I live in a rural area that's about 20 minutes drive from a town of 200,000 people. We don't have cable tv or DSL here, and our ISP choices are limited to AOL dialup, Clearwire from a cellphone tower or Dishnet. The internet is not just a toy anymore. It's as crucial to commerce as an interstate roadway, but damned if we can get anybody to finance it here.
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I grew up in Saratoga and now 2 of my brothers live in the mountains above Los Gatos, actually right on the summit on Skyline Blvd. Water from a well, septic system, backup generator, water storage tanks for fire fighting. Basic phone service available. TV via satellite. And, if you are standing in the right spot, cell service.
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