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Faith in Apple’s future as Woz becomes an Aussie
Financial Review ^ | Thursday, December 18, 2014 | Paul Smith

Posted on 12/18/2014 2:58:24 PM PST by Star Traveler

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has officially become an Australian resident, is planning to make the Apple Isle his home – appropriately enough – and says one day he’d like it said he lived and died an Australian. The man who formed Apple with Steve Jobs in California back in 1976 has just had ­“permanent residency” stamped in his passport.

He originally applied for Australian citizenship in 2012. He’s since taken steps to move more aspects of his life Down Under; in October he became an adjunct professor at the University of Technology in Sydney. He says he’s thinking about a citizenship ceremony.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Australian Financial Review, ­Wozniak praised current Apple chief executive Tim Cook for breaking free from Steve Jobs’s “dogma” by allowing a big-screen iPhone to be made.

Wozniak says his decision to make Australia home came after he received an email from old friend, Sydney-based barrister Nicholas Baltinos, alerting him to the fact it could be a possibility.

With a son married to an Aussie and resident in Sydney, and a fondness for the local culture, Wozniak says he plunged into the lengthy series of visa applications, medicals and FBI checks before finally being accepted.

(Excerpt) Read more at afr.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: apple; wozniak
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To: Star Traveler

Cool! A very, very hard country to get into.


21 posted on 12/18/2014 4:09:10 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: SaveFerris

Yeah that caught my eye too but I assume since he spent most of his prior life in the US that would be the agency to check up on one’s history so to speak and not Australian agencies.


22 posted on 12/18/2014 4:12:09 PM PST by xp38
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To: Star Traveler

Noted as I start making my list of alternative venues.


23 posted on 12/18/2014 4:23:48 PM PST by 9thLife
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To: SaveFerris
You have to have an FBI check to become a resident of another country?

Australia has their own FBI. . .

24 posted on 12/18/2014 7:14:22 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Star Traveler; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
Steve Wozniak, The Woz, is moving to OZ, Australia. . . becoming an American ex-patriate. — PING!


Apple Founder jumps ship to Australia Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

25 posted on 12/18/2014 7:18:49 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: liberalh8ter; PastorBooks
>> I’ve read that they check their shoes before putting them on. Seriously!

> We have to do that here in Florida. Snakes, scorpions, black widow and brown recluse spiders...

Hell I have to check my shoes before putting them on, and I live in Upstate New York!!

(Of course, that's mainly because my cat might have puked in them overnight... remember Fat Freddie's headphones?)

26 posted on 12/18/2014 7:40:12 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Star Traveler

Confirmed.


27 posted on 12/18/2014 8:07:33 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SaveFerris

Yep.

Almost all countries require a clean bill from the federal government of your citizenship


28 posted on 12/18/2014 8:09:17 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: catfish1957

When he heard about it, Obama asked if Woz spoke Australian.


29 posted on 12/18/2014 8:16:40 PM PST by Defiant (How does a President reverse the actions of a dictator?)
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To: dayglored

Fat Freddie !? Wow ! Dave is that you ?


30 posted on 12/18/2014 8:51:15 PM PST by prov1813man (While the one you despise and ridicule works to protect you, those you embrace work to destroy you)
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To: Star Traveler

Wozniak says he plunged into the lengthy series of visa applications, medicals and FBI checks before finally being accepted.

...

If you’re a criminal coming to America you don’t have to do any of that.


31 posted on 12/18/2014 8:56:02 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: prov1813man
> Fat Freddie !? Wow ! Dave is that you ?

Dave's not here, man....

32 posted on 12/18/2014 9:05:49 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: dayglored

Eeeeeewwwwwwww! LOL


33 posted on 12/18/2014 10:11:22 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: molson209
The only problem with Australia is that every animal/insect there is poisonous and wants to kill you ,ouch

Maye that's why Australia produced IED Hunter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtpUZg4RomU

34 posted on 12/18/2014 10:45:08 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Star Traveler
It’s a criminal background check. Other countries don’t want USA criminals moving into their country ... and ... it’s only the FBI who would give a comprehensive check (across the entire country).

Ask Eddie about that.


35 posted on 12/18/2014 11:00:22 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: SaveFerris
You have to have an FBI check to become a resident of another country?

For a work or permanent visa, many countries require a criminal background check from current (and previous) countries in which you have resided.

I had to get one for a work visa a few years ago.

36 posted on 12/19/2014 4:27:08 AM PST by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: dayglored

(Of course, that’s mainly because my cat might have puked in them overnight... remember Fat Freddie’s headphones?)

Is your cat related to mine? I turn my shoes and slippers upside down so if she is going to puke it’s on the bottom, not inside.

I also put slippers on in the house because we are never quite sure where she has left her little gift. ;-)


37 posted on 12/19/2014 6:26:23 AM PST by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: Star Traveler

I thought Australia was a continent.


38 posted on 12/19/2014 6:49:48 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: molson209
The only problem with Australia is that every animal/insect there is poisonous and wants to kill you ,ouch

Texas and Austrailia are kinda similar then. Yet another reason for me to like Aussies

39 posted on 12/19/2014 7:17:00 AM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Is that somehow related to this article?


40 posted on 12/19/2014 7:53:45 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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